photo: Business open as usual, by Pascal Charest
Re-launch of blog.pacharest.com under a new name (cloudweaver.org) & new url. Lots of reasons. Main one? I wanted it to be so – but also :
– because I have contractual engagement that the change of domain name will help to clear up.
– because I want to focus on network infrastructure (mainly dynamic and virtualized ones) from now on.
– because I wanted to integrate twitter somewhere on my blog (now directly in my feed/post page).
Last couples of weeks been pretty crazy. The number of drafts I’ve got prepared for this blog keep growing while my time to edit/publish them seem to strangely dissolve in the event around me. I’ve done my share of ‘This blog will get the time it deserve’ quite enough to know not to do that anymore. I won’t apologize for having a full schedule, I’ll just outline why I got one so full:
– Les Laboratoires Phoenix welcomes a new managed client, at the same time as I got my two first contractual employee (with enough job to drive them for years).
– I’ll be giving a talk at ConFoo, March 12th, called ‘Massive Scalability’. Be there, its going to be a pretty good one.
– I’ve been mandated to write another article for the European edition of Linux+DVD. Deadline is in a couples days.
– I’ve started dancing classes. (No comments please ;-))
– With the wedding happening soon, we are totally swamped with stuff to do. From food tasting to getting whatever I will wear, going through hotel reservation, decoration choices… By themself, each task is quite easy to manage, but add to that the fact we are doing most of it remotely and that Catherine schedule is just crazy.
At least, this morning, I’ve got a 20 minutes break, waiting for the bus thats going to take me to Montreal – on yet another ‘business trip’.
Nice! Was about time I started moving again!
Great hiking yesterday, went for a variation of the Wolf Trail near the Blanchet Beach (@Lac Meech). About 350m of elevation gain and 7.5km walk in the forest.
Should be able to post one or two pictures today.
Wolf Trail – 8.3km return, expert, 400m elevation gain – The trail starts at parking lot P13 at Blanchet Beach and continues to a fork where you should keep left. You will shortly pass a beaver pond on your right. Further on the trial intersects with #38 and you should keep right at this point. You’ll next encounter the intersection with trail #1, the Fire Tower Road. The trail at this point is no longer numbered but keep going and you’ll reach you’re objective in no time, the very short spur to the Tawadina Lookout and an excellent overview of the Ottawa Valley. A little further on the trail swings back towards the start passing three more lookouts along the way before the final steep descent to the parking lot. The trail takes about 4 hours to complete.
Source: http://www.out-there.com/gatineau.htm
I know it is so much of a cliché to write a blog post about why you haven’t update in quite some times – but I can’t stand not writing anything.
Putting so much time in my enterprise (Les Laboratoires Phoenix) also took me away from some very interesting project ; such as DRBD-8.3 releases. It now allows stacked resources – meaning that you can have 3 (maybe more?) nodes in your setup. This is a very good news and make this release the next thing that goes through my labs.
There is so much to do! Got at least 3 big projects for cloudweavers, the social/community aspect of my corp. Haven’t had any time to draft some press release but just yesterday, 2 lucky dev. got free access to brand new servers – for their apps, sites, and codes. I am now hosting around 6 projects on those servers and it will be growing very fast next month.
Btw, there’s going to be a new photos posted today. Garanti ou argent remis!
Je suis maintenant libre de presques toutes les ententes contractuelles de non-competition qui m’affligeaient depuis 1 ans.
En relation direct avec ce fait, cette semaine, j’ai signé quelques contrats de maintenance reseau, de developpement de sites internet et de consultation en technologie de pointe (don’t ask! ;-)). Les Laboratoires Phoenix sont donc maintenant une entitée réelle (enregistrer depuis +1 ans) et ma premiere source de revenue. La vie est belle.
Si la croissance continue sur ce rythme, je vais être en mesure de me batir une (petite) équipe (1 ou 2 sysadmin) dans quelques mois et commencer à fournir des contrats “autour de moi” (graphiste, programmeur). Si vous connaissez du monde qui désire out-sourcer la gestion de leurs serveurs informatiques, avisez moi!
Note.1: d’ici la fin de semaine, je vais avoir une petite constellation de serveurs Zabbix de mis en production, de même qu’un setup OSSEC (que je recommande FORTEMENT!). Je devrais aussi avoir mes nouveaux systèmes informatiques au cours du weekend, je vous en redonne donc des nouvelles lorsque tout est installé.
Note.2: J’ai recu deux messages (faut croire que le monde suivent mon feed rss) me demandant des precisions sur les logiciels/infrastructures que je supporte. Voici une liste non exhaustive, dans un ordre aléatoire, des applications que j’utilise régulièrement: drbd, ha, mysql, mysql-cluster, apache, nginx, lighttpd, postfix, sendmail, xen, vmware, iSCSI, AoE, nagios, openldap … Je suis aussi certifié pour Zabbix, Zimbra… en d’autre mots, j’ai toucher à beaucoup de technologies et mon profil linkedin risque de vous en apprendre beaucoup plus.