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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."
Sounds like a horrific waste of fossil fuels. Why didn't they send it be courier (which would have been shared with other shipments) or by train?
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.
CmdrTaco had a loose bowel movement this morning after ingesting too much Mexican food last night. He thought that everyone should know.
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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?
I'm a big tall mofo.
Gates: You know Ballmer, I think I'll donate a million dollars to the local orphange . . . When a pengiun fly.
*Both laugh as an airborne pengiun suddenly "flies" by*
Ballmer: Will you be donating that million dollars now sir?
...did anyone die of dysentery? Or maybe typhoid fever? For me it was always dysentery though.
This sig rocks the casbah.
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!
Linux.org is now run by giddy schoolgirls. How appropriate for Linsux.
Linux sucks. It is an underground OS that is completely unstandardized. Linux geeks, get the fuck over yourselves.
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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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.
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?
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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To get message, take amount of carrier pigeons at each stage mod 2. Then decode binary.
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Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
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.
...and so we were giddy as schoolgirls.
You were also giddy when I came in your eye, you cocksucking faggot.
Q: How many Oregonians does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: One. But the one can't be you.
Man, how fucking lame is this "story".
already done
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
Were that I say, pancakes?
I think that was the joke. :-)
Nobody's gay for Mole-Man.
How long has it been since you have fallen in a creek? Maybe you need to again?
"...I put on women's clothing, and hang around in bars..."
I'm a virgo and on Slashdot. Coincidence? Yes.
Wow, only 10 blocks away. I'll have to pay a visit to the OSL sometime as there is no excuse ;-)
Right, I gotta save the rainforest by flying over it in my private jet and dropping leaflets over the loggers... cos my cause is SO IMPORTANT I can't leave it to any other method!!!
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.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
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.
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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If that is what you want... maybe you need to check out http://digg.com/
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.