Interesting Snippets from 2012-06-25

• Ahead of the Pack: the Pacemaker High-Availability Stack | Linux Journal

  A high-availability stack serves one purpose: through a redundant setup of two or more nodes, ensure service availability and recover services automatically in case of a problem. Florian Haas explores Pacemaker, the state-of-the-art high-availability stack on Linux.

• Stuxnet Will Come Back to Haunt Us - NYTimes.com

  It is one thing to write viruses and lock them away safely for future use should circumstances dictate it. It is quite another to deploy them in peacetime. Stuxnet has effectively fired the starting gun in a new arms race that is very likely to lead to the spread of similar and still more powerful offensive cyberweaponry across the Internet. Unlike nuclear or chemical weapons, however, countries are developing cyberweapons outside any regulatory framework.

• Why health IT systems integrate poorly today, and what future EHRs can do about it - O'Reilly Radar

  The problem is not that engineers don't know how to create the right technology solutions or that we're facing a big governance problem. Rather, the real cross-industry issue is much bigger: Our approach and the methods we have chosen for integration are opaque, decades old, and they reward closed systems. Drs. Mandl and Kohane summarize it well in their NEJM article by saying "a few companies controlling much of the market remain entrenched in 'legacy' approaches, threatening other vendors' viability."

• Secret corpse flights, pizza boy delivery routes and the daily commute: Stunning aerial images reveal never-before-seen side of America | Mail Online

  The art of GPS: Secret corpse flights, pizza boy delivery routes and the daily commute revealed in never-before-seen side of America

• An update on Ubuntu and Secure Boot « Canonical Blog

  The Secure Boot portion of the UEFI spec defines how computers boot. In a nutshell, Secure Boot requires a digital key to boot a computer in order to reduce the possibility of an attack in which malware tries to control the boot process of your computer. Secure Boot will be widespread on new computers bought in the coming year.

• The Linux Graphics Stack | Clean Rinse

  This is an introductory overview post for the Linux Graphics Stack, and how it currently all fits together. I initially wrote it for myself after having conversations with people like Owen Taylor, Ray Strode and Adam Jackson about this stack.

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