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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
Lucky it was the linux kernel, had it been Windows the fate of the plane may well have been sealed.
Matthew Grint Midnight Artists
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?
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.
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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Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
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.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
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.
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.
www.kernel.org != master.kernel.org
www.kernel.org is comprised of two insanely beefy boxes (see www.kernel.org for the specs). master.k.o is just a 2U 3Ware box where things are built and shoved at the front-end "beefy boxes".
master.k.o should be connected via I2 and www.kernel.org should not (as far as I know they don't have a path to Internet2 out of the ISC facilities).
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.
already done
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 have to say I'd be happy as a schoolgirl if schoolgirls brought me a server.
1) Clever Sig 2) ????? 3) Profit!
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.