gparted, dd, and ghex2 – Oh My! To The Rescue!

So, I was messing around with an XP virtual machine that was out of disk space. For some dumb reason, I thought 4GB of hard disk space was plenty for XP when I built it. Well here we are a few years later, and M$ has release so many service packs and updates that the [...]

Hbase 0.20: Low Memory Performance Tuning

Hey Everybody!

As promised, though a little later than I’d originally hoped, here is a quick blurb on what I’ve done to make my fully distributed Hbase instance run with a little bit more stability.

hbase.hregion.max.filesize � Default: 268435456

This setting is the maximum file size [...]

Adding Hbase 0.20 to Our Hadoop Cluster

OK, OK, I know what you’re thinking. “Where has this guy been with some more of this hadoop goodness that we just can’t get enough of?” Well, I am (finally) back, and you’ll be happy to learn what I brought with me: A whole mess more Hadoop and Hbase knowledge that I can’t wait to [...]

Hadoop 0.20 on Ubuntu Server 9.04 Jaunty

In the last few weeks, I have become completely fascinated by clustered computing, and solving very large complex problems with a somewhat large number of cheap computers. While researching more efficient ways to store and search through my employers internal resume database, I stumbled onto this software called Hbase, which is a column-oriented database, modeled [...]

Authoritative DNS

As much as I love exploring and learning the newer protocols and technologies like SIP, and Enterprise Virtualization, there is something to be said for those standards and protocols that the internet is built from on and designed around. It is quite refreshing to work with a protocol that is not under constant revision and [...]