User:ArdentPerf

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This user is an author of the RAC Attack - Oracle Cluster Database at Home Wikibook.

I signed up here to start the RAC Attack - Oracle Cluster Database at Home book.

I occasionally hang out on FreeNode as the user cheboygan. In addition to the Yahoo ID in my userbox, I'm also available for chat on AIM, GTalk, MSN and ICQ.

Books edit

I steal good ideas from these wikibooks.

Blender 3D: Noob to Pro - great organization for collaborative project
Using SPSS and PASW - lots of fair use screenshots
Engineering Acoustics - nice cover
European History - nice navigation
LaTeX

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Book Tool
Collection Extension Wishlist
mwlib.rl git repo
PediaPress Bug Tracking (Trac)
User:Derbeth/javaLatex - might have to use this if I can't get the built-in PDF rendering to work satisfactorily

Notes edit

RAC Attack on EC2

Research
- XEN/KVM virt doesn't seem possible on EC2 (which is xen-based)
- LXC/VServer/OpenVZ containers don't support some kernel-level operations (modules, etc) - not sure if this would be a problem, but so much of clusterware runs as root... seems risky to me. also i think we lose a little of the teaching value since the setup becomes less and less like any possible real-life scenario.
- QEMU is way slow - i don't think it's feasable
Currently I think UML is best bet
- SCAS patches are not yet included in any kernels (ubuntu or vanilla)
  - Will try without patching host first, for simplicity. I think performance with guest-only SCAS will be sufficient for educational uses. (When I first started doing RAC on VMs it was before x86 instruction set even had virt extensions.)
- Will use vnc more for graphical network install/kickstart
- Thinking vncserver (not xhost) for graphical environment after startup
- Include instructions for putty with port forwarding

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