Author Archives: Huw Lynes

If you are lucky enough to run your flexlm servers on a tightly controlled corporate network then you probably just turn the firewall off on those servers and get on with your life. Everyone else goes through a certain amount … Continue reading →

All the usual suspects were visible in Portland this year. Including Panasas, Data Direct, Isilon, Lustre and IBM/GPFS. But we’ve all seen those all before. Two storage related technologies caught my eye at SC09 because I’d never seen them before. … Continue reading →

We are beginning to approach the end of the conference formally known as SuperComputing, so I thought it was about time that I started to write up some of the copious volumes of notes that have begun to clutter up … Continue reading →

As Europython got more hectic and my 3G connection got more erratic, my daily blogging ceased. So this roundup is mostly the result of notes I wrote on the train journey through the picturesque Welsh Borders back home to Cardiff. … Continue reading →

Today’s notable achievements were that I managed to stay on power and network for most of the day. Mostly due to the fact that I lucked out to get a seat next to a power bar in the lecture theatre … Continue reading →

I have to admit to a certain amount of trepidation when I signed up for EuroPython 2009. As primarily a sysadmin rather than a developer I was worried that I might not have the requisite knowledge to get the benefit … Continue reading →