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		<title>Ahead of IT.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 02:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pascal.charest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haven&#8217;t been writing much. Not everything get inked easily. You have some great news and you refrain because your light might shine a bit to bright for some of your entourage. Your news are bad and you wonder if Internet really is the medium to tell / distribute them. Well I&#8217;ve been blessed with good, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Haven&#8217;t been writing much. Not everything get inked easily.</p>
<p>You have some great news and you refrain because your light might shine a bit to bright for some of your entourage. Your news are bad and you wonder if Internet really is the medium to tell / distribute them. </p>
<p>Well I&#8217;ve been blessed with good, bad and neutral news in such quantities for the last few weeks that it doesn&#8217;t matter much anymore. </p>
<p>From the farthest to the nearest of IT : I&#8217;ve sold my condo, bought an home, got very sick then got better. I now have an employee for Les LabsPhoenix and a second one in about a month. I&#8217;ve been selected to give a tutorial at Linux Symposium about LabsPhoenix theater system (Puppet + mCollective + DNSMasq + DHCP + tftpd + netboot + drbd + &#8230;)  &#8211; and it should be pretty interesting. I&#8217;ve been offered 2 jobs at the same time, one as CTO, on as an Infrastructure Specialist at Nokia in Montreal. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be here way more often.</p>
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		<title>breathing space</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pascal.charest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last couples of weeks been pretty crazy. The number of drafts I&#8217;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&#8217;ve done my share of &#8216;This blog will get the time it deserve&#8217; quite enough to know not to do that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Last couples of weeks been pretty crazy.</strong> The number of drafts I&#8217;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&#8217;ve done my share of &#8216;This blog will get the time it deserve&#8217; quite enough to know not to do that anymore. I won&#8217;t apologize for having a full schedule, I&#8217;ll just outline why I got one so full:</p>
<p> &#8211; 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).<br />
 &#8211; I&#8217;ll be giving a talk at <a href="http://www.confoo.ca/en">ConFoo</a>, March 12th, called &#8216;Massive Scalability&#8217;. Be there, its going to be a pretty good one.<br />
 &#8211; I&#8217;ve been mandated to write another article for the European edition of <a href="http://lpmagazine.org/">Linux+DVD</a>. Deadline is in a couples days.<br />
 &#8211; I&#8217;ve started dancing classes. (No comments please ;-))<br />
 &#8211; 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&#8230; 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.  </p>
<p>At least, this morning, I&#8217;ve got a 20 minutes break, waiting for the bus thats going to take me to Montreal &#8211; on yet another &#8216;business trip&#8217;.</p>
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		<title>Libre Planet 2009 = little road trip</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudweavers.org/2009/03/libre_planet_2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pascal.charest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kind of missed this one earlier, FSF annual meeting (Libre Planet 2009 Conference) will be held at Harvard Science Center, Cambridge, MA &#8211; in 2 weeks! (21-22 March 2009). Since I&#8217;ve been working in the free software domain for quite a few years, I&#8217;ll be going to the &#8220;conference&#8221;. Right now, we got a driver [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kind of missed this one earlier,<br />
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<a href="http://www.fsf.org/">FSF</a> annual meeting (<a href="http://www.fsf.org/associate/meetings/2009/">Libre Planet 2009 Conference</a>) will be held at Harvard Science Center, Cambridge, MA &#8211; in 2 weeks! (21-22 March 2009).<br />
<br />
Since I&#8217;ve been working in the free software domain for quite a few years, I&#8217;ll be going to the &#8220;conference&#8221;. Right now, we got a driver (my girlfriend), a geek (Yannick Gingras) and maybe a tech&#8230; Sound like a nice little road trip&#8230;<br />
<br />
Evidently, I&#8217;ll be live blogging from there. Some pretty interesting presentations are lined-up &#8211; one from our local &#8220;Evan&#8221;, of Identi.ca fame. </p>
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		<title>Linux Symposium 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.cloudweavers.org/2008/07/linux-symposium-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pascal.charest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oups ! J&#8217;ai oublié de mentioner que le Linux Symposium d&#8217;Ottawa arrive à grand pas. Je vais y être présent, du 22 au 26 Juillet 2008, pour blogger sur les différents acteurs du milieu de l&#8217;OpenSource. Compte tenu mon &#8220;background&#8221; en storage / virtualisation / cloud computing ; j&#8217;ai un intéret particulier pour les discussions [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oups !<br />
<br />
J&#8217;ai oublié de mentioner que le<a href="http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2008/"> Linux Symposium d&#8217;Ottawa</a> arrive à grand pas. Je vais y être présent, du 22 au 26 Juillet 2008, pour blogger sur les différents acteurs du milieu de l&#8217;OpenSource. Compte tenu mon &#8220;background&#8221; en storage / virtualisation / cloud computing ; j&#8217;ai un intéret particulier pour les discussions suivantes:<br />
<br />
&#8220;<em>Tux meets Radar O&#8217;reilly &#8211; Linux in military telecom</em>&#8221; : Il est toujours intéressant de voir un déploiement dans une optique militaire. Dans le militaire, tout comme pour le bancaire et medical, l&#8217;erreur est beaucoup moins tolérée et peut être source de répercussions incroyables&#8230; Pour prévenir les bourdes, les systèmes sont testés très précisement &#8211; le commun des mortels a surement beaucoup à apprendre de cet état d&#8217;esprit. Investir pour la stabilité &#8211; ce n&#8217;est pas fou comme idée!<br />
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&#8220;<em>A Survey of Virtualization Workloads</em>&#8221; : Simple, mais si la présentation &#8211; et les recherches! &#8211; est bien effectuée, il peut y avoir correlation avec des use-case que je rencontre lors de mes consultations. Elle est suivie d&#8217;une deuxième présentation qui lui semble quasi identique &#8211; worst case : j&#8217;irai voir les deux.<br />
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<em>Applying Green Computing to clusters and the data center</em>&#8221; : Je ne connais que très superficiellement ce domaine, si nous excluons le &#8220;tu configures du wake-on-lan associé avec un control de charge&#8221;. Étant particulièrement biasé vers la solution &#8220;tu ajoutes des systèmes&#8221; &#8211; autant au niveau création d&#8217;actif financier et réduction de coûts &#8211; J&#8217;imagine que je vais pouvoir briser le voile de mon ignorance et changer ma position.<br />
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&#8220;SynergyFS: A Stackable File System Creating Synergies Between Heterogeneous Storage Devices&#8221; : Les discussions sur le stockage sur des environnements hybrides m&#8217;acrochent toujours. Le storage est un problème avec plus de 50 solutions dans le monde GNU/Linux (50+ fs supportés par le noyau) &#8211; chacune d&#8217;entre elle avec des forces et faiblesses. Voyons voir comment profiter des forces en &#8220;patchant les faiblesses avec d&#8217;autre système de fichiers&#8221;.<br />
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&#8220;If I turn this knob&#8230; what happens?&#8221; :<br />
Dernière présentation qui à le mérite de mon intéret &#8211; et pas la moindre. Il est question de la prise de métrique (io, scheduler, lock_wait, sys/proc fs,&#8230;) et d&#8217;agir sur les résultats.  En résumé, elle calque exactement ce que je fais en capacity planning pour les clouds/clusters que je déploie. J&#8217;aime toujours voir et dialoguer sur les processus utilisés par d&#8217;autres consultants.<br />
<br />
See you there!</p>
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