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dunhamda··on Distributed Systems: Take Responsibility for Failover
You can achieve seamless failover in RabbitMQ by running a clustered rabbitmq node on each of your clients, and configure the client to connect to its local rabbitmq. The cluster will take care of routing the messages to the active mirrored queue. (Note that on the consumer side your code must still properly handle consumer cancel notifications, but that's not too much to ask.)

This is architecturally similar to the mongodb/mongos solution described in the article.

dunhamda··on RethinkDigg.com
http://RethinkRethinkDigg.com
dunhamda··on Poll: Do you use Google Reader on a daily basis?
I use Google Reader daily, but I probably would not have participated in this poll if I didn't.
dunhamda··on What a fig is.
Fascinating. Here is a video showing the wasps collecting the pollen inside a male fig flower (as described in the first paragraph): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZCYoEdavDk
dunhamda··on Ask HN: WebEx alternatives?
We also have had good luck using Acrobat Connect for screen sharing between 3-8 parties. It was a unstable on Mac a couple years ago, but they seem to have ironed those problems out.
dunhamda··on Beta Flash Player 'Gala' supports H264 video hardware decoding on Mac OSX 10.6.3
From the release notes: "This framework is only supported by Apple on Mac computers equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, GeForce 320M or GeForce GT 330M graphics chips."

Unfortunately my three year old MBP is too old :( If someone with a newer Mac wants to report back on how well this works, here is a good test video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N2YWRJ-ppo

dunhamda··on That's why I will never invest any money in your company
I don't know, but I'd like to know how I can invest in your URL embiggener startup
dunhamda··on Ask HN: how do you backup your servers?
We've been using Bacula: weekly fulls and daily incrementals to disk, and weekly fulls to tape for offsite storage. As our data size grows, tapes are going to run out of steam. I've recently began experimenting with http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity to do encrypted backups to S3. So far it has been working great.
dunhamda··on Former gang member turns entrepreneur... by giving tours of LA gangs
It seems to be checking the referrer (probably to avoid hotlinking). Copy and paste the link.
dunhamda··on SpamAssassin 2010 Bug
This affects Zimbra as well: http://bugzilla.zimbra.com/show_bug.cgi?id=43766