Linux Journal Contents #187, November 2009
Linux Journal Issue #187/November 2009
It doesn't matter how big your infrastructure is, even if it's planetary sized, Linux can handle it. Got massive amounts of data to analyze? Check out our article on IBM's InfoSphere Streams. Need a SAN on a budget, use Linux to provide it. Messaging problems, try AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol). In addition to our feature articles, don't miss our articles on RSpec, DEFCON, Ext3 vs XFS, Virtualization, HIPL, Pokerth, X-Moto and more.
Features
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IBM InfoSphere Streams and the Uppsala
University Space Weather Project
by Shawn Powers
Dealing with massive amounts of real-time data.
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Use Linux as a SAN Provider
by Michael Nugent
Linux: the Swiss-Army knife of technologies.
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Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP)
by Joshua Kramer
Enterprise messaging with Python and AMQP.
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IPv4 Anycast with Linux and Quagga
by Philip Martin
Improve availability with anycast!
Indepth
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Host Identity Protocol for Linux
by Abhinav Pathak, Andrei Gurtov and Miika Komu
HIPL gives your Linux box a name.
Columns
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Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge
RSpec for Controllers
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Dave Taylor's Work the Shell
Exploring Lat/Lon with Shell Scripts
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Mick Bauer's Paranoid Penguin
DEFCON: One Penguin's Annual Odyssey
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Kyle Rankin's Hack and /
Dr hjkl and Mr Hack
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Kyle Rankin and Bill Childers'
Point/Counterpoint
Ext3 vs. XFS
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Doc Searls' EOF
The Hacking of Infrastructure. And Vice Versa.
Review
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Virtualization Shootout: VMware Server vs. VirutalBox vs. KVM
by Bill Childers
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Comments
Typo on page 42
Just got the digital download of Issue 187 (Nov 2009).
There's a typo in the title of the virtualization article.
VirtualBox is rendered as VirutalBox....
Thanks for a great issue in all other respects!