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Kernel.org Moves to Oregon
Bryce writes "Looks like the main kernel.org machine has
moved
to the Oregon State University Open Source Lab.
"Last night, Peter Anvin took master.kernel.org (hera) down and handed it off to his friend, Javier. This morning, Javier flew it up here to Corvallis in his Cessna Skylane. This is the first time the OSL has had a server hand-delivered by plane, and so we were giddy as schoolgirls." Kees Cook, the senior IT guy at OSDL helped them get it installed and configured."
Penguins CAN fly afterall
Well I have to say I'd be happy as a schoolgirl if someone brought me a server, too. Why was it moved?
Lucky it was the linux kernel, had it been Windows the fate of the plane may well have been sealed.
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Big deal, a computer moved.
Possibly because flying a personal plane is a recreational activity for many people, and if you're building up hours for a commerical license, you have to go flying some place anyway?
Stunning news. Somebody moved. Stop the world, I want to get off.
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Wouldn't you just love to see the news stories that CmdrTaco reject this morning in favor of this one?
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...did anyone die of dysentery? Or maybe typhoid fever? For me it was always dysentery though.
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I moved to Austin late last year. It was a big deal, but there is STILL no story about it on Slashdot. Alas.
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...that formerly unexplained bulge that was reported earlier.
Was this all of kernel.org that was moved over? I noticed no interruption in service.
However, kernel.org mentions that, as of April, it was being served from "quad Opteron servers, each with 24 GB of RAM and 10 TB of disk." Bandwidth shows that they're routinely pushing almost 300Mbps of traffic.
The photos show a single, unimpressive 2U machine. Can someone clarify exactly what was moved over, and why?
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I hope TUX is easy on the BEAV (OSU beavers that is)
you *are* schoolgirls!
Why is it that some people must try to find negatives in EVERYTHING?
A. Not everyone is so much of an environmentalist that they worry about wasting a little bit of gas.
B. A courier would take longer. There is no faster way of getting something less than a few thousand miles than flying it yourself.
C. Train? This is the United States. You can't just hop on a train and go somewhere. I don't know about Oregon, but I am over a hundred miles from the nearest Amtrack terminal.
D. Flying is fun. Maybe they just WANTED to fly it there.
E. Don't be an ass.
Linus has dysentery.
I love the caption to this pic, yea . . safe and snug if you drive 10 mph the whole way and take no corners.
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B. A courier would take longer. There is no faster way of getting something less than a few thousand miles than flying it yourself.
I don't know about that. 10 metres is less than a few thousand miles, and I know full well that it'd be faster to walk.
Just did a quick calculation for a Turbo Skylane gph into mpg (assume static weather etc) and it works out around 14MPG.
Now, I'm pretty sure there are a good few SUVs / pickups etc on the US market that do that sort of economy.
The economy of the Cessna looks even better when you consider it can take the shortest route (staying VFR and barring airspace restrictions) whereas the SUV has to 'dog-leg' around the road network to get where it wants to be. Plus the Skylane consumption is more or less constant. An SUV's consumption can be expected to spike when starting/stopping in traffic.
Sure, you could give it to a courier but I honestly can't think of a single one I would trust with an important server.
Ripping an new rectum in the fabric of spacetime.
A. Not everyone is so much of an environmentalist that they worry about wasting a little bit of gas.
Good luck fitting in, in Oregon.
B. A courier would take longer. There is no faster way of getting something less than a few thousand miles than flying it yourself.
UPS. $210. 10:00AM next morning.
C. Train? This is the United States. You can't just hop on a train and go somewhere. I don't know about Oregon, but I am over a hundred miles from the nearest Amtrack terminal.
Union Station, heart of downtown Portland.
I used to laugh at Microsoft's amateur network topology. They always made the mistake of clustering everything in to one place, where single points of failure would take out 3/4th of their net.
So, we've got master.kernel.org along with what looks like an impressive part of mozilla.org... what else is going in there?
Wouldn't you just love to see the news stories that CmdrTaco reject this morning in favor of this one?
I would love to see the rejected stories. Slashdot should publish rejected stories via a voluntary feed, and let us (the readership) choose what is important and interesting or not. Obviously it would be vulnerable to spamming and trolling, but both could largely be taken care of with a half decent bayesian filter.
Come on Taco - do it.
Don't know about you, but something as important as the actual linux kernel server I wouldn't trust to any random hired courier service to carry. When you think about all the other BS ways people waste gas on, something that critical is perfectly OK.
Being a hetero guy, I will never be as happy as a school girl.
Interesting....
I work at an Internet2 connected organization.
www.kernel.org still get's routed over our regular commercial internet backbone. I expected it to go through I2.
But when I tracerouted master.kernel.org it went over I2.
How many interfaces with different IP addresses does this thing have?
C. Train? This is the United States. You can't just hop on a train and go somewhere. I don't know about Oregon, but I am over a hundred miles from the nearest Amtrack terminal.
Union Station, heart of downtown Portland.
Actually, there's an Amtrack station in Albany, which is some 12-20 miles from Corvallis (depending on which highway you take). Or you can take the Greyhound Bus, which stops -in- Corvallis.
That could give new meaning to "server crash"...
many news submissions died to bring us this information...
We don't need an "overrated" so much as we need a "you completely missed the parent's point, dumbass..."
Not to troll or anything, but it seems to me that there ought to be something more interesting than the kernel.org server moving.
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There is a station in salem as well.. I know that I've seen amtrak trains going thru corvalis as well.
Looks like Oregon is slowly becoming the opensource capitol.. yay!
Good thing I'm majoying in programming with all my electives being unix and linux based..
Jimi
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I think the light went on in their mind!
Q: How many Californians does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Six. One to turn the bulb, one for support, and four to relate to the experience.
Q: How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Five. One to change the bulb and four more to chase off the Californians who have come up to relate to the experience.
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So what it's lame? At least it's on topic -- sort of. Shut up.
There are exactly 42,935,718 letter sized sheets in a square mile.
I get a 20 ms ping now!
Illegal? Samir, This is America.
I moved to Austin late last year. It was a big deal, but there is STILL no story about it on Slashdot. Alas.
;)
I'm surprised you missed it! Not to mention the dupe a week later.
Q: How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: One. But the one can't be you.
already done
Hey, breaking news: you're an idiot!
Can penguins coexist with beavers?
Will the beavers knaw on the the cables?
What will happen at the bottom of the beaver pond when penguin meets beaver?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A678576
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I think that was the joke. :-)
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How long has it been since you have fallen in a creek? Maybe you need to again?
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Wow, only 10 blocks away. I'll have to pay a visit to the OSL sometime as there is no excuse ;-)
UPS. $210. 10:00AM next morning.
UPS?! UPS?!!
There's no way I would every trust something that important to UPS - I'd expect to find the thing with a switchblade in it, as someone had to use the package in 'self-defense' or the box would otherwise be bashed and beaten. If I absolutely had to ship it, I'd use DHL (formerly Airborne Express).
I've had more problems with FEDEX than UPS. I shipped my $5,000 1U Rackmount server from Portland to San Jose for $210 and it arrived for installation by 10:00AM the next morning.
On the other hand, I've had Fedex deliver things (typically anything larger than a shoebox is a bad idea) with terrible results. Like the time they delivered a $1,200 200lb portable air conditioner that was labeled as clearly having to be delivered up three flights of stairs and all they had was a scrawny teenage girl who couldn't even get the package out of the vehicle, much less up the curb and three flights of stairs.
UPS, on the other hand, delivered my 500lbs of steel (power-rack for olympic barbell lifting) - and arranged to have two people in the UPS truck who carried every package and all 500lbs of it up three flights of stairs and into my living room without so much as a scratch on any of the parts.
Yeah, life is a waste of fossil fuel. Why don't we all just sit in our apartments all day and practice shallow breathing? Your use of a computer to write your post was a waste of fossil fuels, too, wasn't it? Next time leave your computer off, Mr. Gore.
Erm, digg is even worse than slashdot from what I can see.
The problem with digg is that it presumes that the people voting are half way intelligent.
Oooh, but there's the rub.
Isn't that the problem *anytime* *anything* is decided by letting everyone vote?
Be it "Us the readership" or "We the people", you're gonna run into that one. It's either worth it or not. Pick one.
Uh, you mean kinda like Kuro5hin does?
Because that system works soooo well.
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No, I said nothing about any sort of user voting or promotion to the main site.
I would just like the ability to see all of the rejected submissions, with or without the ability for user comments. I have a general feeling that a lot of useful tech news is passed through Slashdot every day, but of course much of it gets rejected.
I guess my question is, if you're doing Olympic barbell lifting, was carrying a 200lb air conditioner up the stairs a big deal? Seems like that ought to be a good warmup or something. :)
Just messing with you. I've actually never had a real problem with either, although UPS did drive over a package of mine once. However they were totally upfront with me and called immediately after it happened, and got my insurance check on the way quickly. (Actually as a result of the shipper overvaluing the merchandise, I made a profit at the end of the day.)
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
Recently, a project I contribute to moved to OSL as well (Drupal.org).
While free bandwidth is always good, I find that more and more projects being concentrated in a single site is not good.
I think they have Debian there too.
Suppose this place got hit by a volcano or an earthquake, then what?
Anyone knows what disaster recovery plan they have?
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The problem with digg is that it presumes that the people voting are half way intelligent.
Isn't that the problem *anytime* *anything* is decided by letting everyone vote?
No.
In the case of the elections in republics (and to some extent in other democratic governmental forms) the purpose of elections is NOT to "tap the wisdom" of the population. It makes NO assumptions that the people are smart.
The purpose of the election is to find out how the civil war would come out, so you don't have to fight it.
It doesn't have to be perfect - and can call an election wrong if it is close (provided it also calls the election as close). But if it does a good enough job, and it is BELIEVED to have done so, it stabilizes the country's governance and reduces or elimintaes internal warfare. The losing side realizes that it can't reverse the elction by violence (which would bring a bunch of people out who don't care about the issue but DO care about not reversing elections by warfare.)
Regardless of his intelligence level you can assume one thing about a voter: Nobody else in the world has a stronger incentive to vote in his interest.
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That's a pretty generous definition of "portable"...
UPS, on the other hand, delivered my 500lbs of steel (power-rack for olympic barbell lifting) - and arranged to have two people in the UPS truck who carried every package and all 500lbs of it up three flights of stairs and into my living room without so much as a scratch on any of the parts.
Ah, now I understand. You probably call 700L refrigerators "portable" as well ;).
If that is what you want... maybe you need to check out http://digg.com/
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
I'm not sure exactly why you take this so hard, but if you can articulate your objection in a slightly more coherent way, I'd be happy to address it more specifically.