He wants a server distro. I don't know Arch but from what I know it uses platform specific binaries and other voodoo stuff to increase performance.
The best recomendation I can pass is Debian (and I don't even like Linux but I admit Debian is pretty fine). It has a nice minimal installation very suitable for servers, easy package management and its pretty stable. I used to run a farm of Xen Dom0's operating on top of Debian 5.0 (Lenny). You can't go wrong with that. Plus, some corporate vendors are starting to support Debian and often offer.deb driver and software packages with their products.
Here: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Venus_Express/SEM0G373R8F_0.html
I think the lameness filter detected my first reply but wathever heh. I watched on a short video called "The Asteroid that Flattened Mars" (I think you can easily google it) about similar effects on Mars triggered not by geological conditions of course but by an impact catastrophe.
Thats what I'm trying to say. Without a magnetosphere the solar wind would disassociate the planet's liquid water and cause all its hydrogen to escape into space. That is one of the reasons we can't say that there is life on a certain planet without taking into consideration various elements from its star (i.e. some red dwarfs tend to be very unstable), planetary mass etc.
Yeah Its a start but living on a system with 3 "earth-like" planets where only 1 of them attained a stable echosystem shows us that there is more to it than just check if its on the goldilocks zone.
Yeah what I know is along the lines of that theory. Its lack of plate tectonics destabilized the dynamo thingie that on the case of earth, generates the magnetosphere that deflects the solar wind. I'm not an expert on the field. Quoting from wikipedia:
"On Venus, a global resurfacing event may have shut down plate tectonics and led to a reduced heat flux through the crust. This caused the mantle temperature to increase, thereby reducing the heat flux out of the core. As a result, there is not an internal geodynamo that can drive a magnetic field. Instead the heat energy from the core is being used to reheat the crust"
Yeah but correct me If I'm wrong. The point is that Venus can't have water because: it doesn't have a magnetic field (can't hold hydrogen) and its extreme greenhouse effect that its atmosphere produces. Life as we know on a planet does not depend entirely of its distance from its parent star.
Agreed. Venus is an Earth-sized planet in a relatively good distance from its parent star. It doesn't have a decent magnetic shield to deflect radiation from its parent star and its atmosphere is a greenhouse hell.
I've played wow for a long time as a high-end pver to say that anyone will hardly kill that game. Just imagine the time they had balancing things, creating and testing content (yeah because an online game ins't just about graphics and bikini-plates). Now add this to the fact that WoW has more than one "enviroment" (satisfies pvp, pve and even casuals) and you have a tough task ahead.
Dont mistake me as a Blizzard fanboy. After raiding Icecrown Citadel for almost 10 months and killing LK on heroic mode I just cant stand that game anymore.
Bioware should just focus on producing awesome games like Mass Effect and KotoR.
Agreed. I think a movie _must_ have a simple plot and storyline. You must be able to explain the whole movie in one single phrase like "the heroes travel in time to rescue his stolen silver pantaloons and become the full metal unit". Of course we have wonderful movies that don't apply to that rule like say Donny Darko but those are considered cult by a minority of above-the-average-joe-intellects and therefore are not attractive to movie makers that wants to make money (and fantastic FX that a Planescape movie should require).
The series permit side quests and gives time to explain and develop the complexity of the enviroment. So in said series TNO would awake in the dusties' morgue, explore the slums, solve the problems of the Dead Nations, confront or ally with the Many-as-one, escape from the Modron maze, meet Trias in Carceri and much much more... something that obviously cant just fit into a movie.
Sorry for bad english btw. It is not my native language.
I'm not a big fan of Solaris or even OpenSolaris, but recently I've been involved in a project to implement a storage system for the medium-small size company I work for. The storage would hold virtual machine disks over a 1g dedicated switch connection to Xen virtual machines that would be available via iSCSI. Naturally, ZFS comes in mind with the hability to just snapshot the machine and keep multiple backups of it without having to turn off the virtual machine.
We chosed FreeBSD-8.0 implementation of ZFS with istgt as the iscsi target software. FreeBSD ZFS seemed pretty ok, but the iscsi connection was deadly slow with 4mb/s write speeds. I thought the reason was the ZIL thingie with sync write operations. I did some research here, asked a question there and a guy from #zfs @ freenode told me to use OpenSolaris.
I dont really know if I was doing something wrong with FreeBSD+istgt. All I know is that the OpenSolaris COMSTAR is really, really amazing. I got it working pretty fast with no hassle and no problems looking for documentation. It is also very fast and my tests with disk speed reach the maximum speed allowed by the network. I have 12 virtual machine disks there (both hvm and paravirt) with daily snapshots and live migration between dom0's.
I love FreeBSD but I think OpenSolaris is still years ahead with this storage thingie.
My mail filtering gateway runs on a FreeBSD 8.0 jail with ClamAV 0.95.3 installed from Ports. It relays the messages to our real mail server, still running Debian (Lenny, but the Squeeze repositiores are still providing 0.94). Since I've moved all the mail checking software to the FreeBSD mailgw (amavis, spamassassin, clamav etc), my mail services are alive and kicking.
I do however keep some other Clamavs running in Debian Squid servers with HAVP and that worries me a bit.
Password on GRUB will not protect against physical access to a machine. Maybe the best thing you can do is to encrypt the disks. And for now on try to get servers with Drac http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_DRAC or something similar installed. Through Drac's remote console you can remotely access the computer during boot process as if you were sitting at the local console.
Overall, the operating system and its out-of-the-box contents work fine with case sensitiveness. There are however, a ton of applications that refuse to work with it or run with some problems. World of Warcraft is an example of that. I had to create a disk image formated as HFS+ case insensitive and install it unto it to make it work.
Maybe OS X programmers are a bunch of lazy bitches without self respect.
Call me as clueless but from what I know Mac OS X binaries are much bigger than the Windows and Linux format because they contain multiple instruction set architectures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach-O
I know everyone hates Novell but they got a product called ZLM which aims to control servers and workstations during all their life cycle (including network installation of OS, deployment and some cool management tools) and its not restricted to RPM based Linux. You can separate hosts by groups and apply stuff per group or folder.
Check it:
http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/linuxmanagement/
Of course, posted that way, it makes it rather clear what a self-centered individual you are. Why would they refrain from posting things some people do find funny, just because you don't? And why can't you just skip over content that doesn't interest you, rather than complain anytime anything is posted that you didn't care to see? Does it really bother you that much that you're not the center of the universe?
I laughted a lot. For the irony AND the fact that it looks just like A.L.I.C.E.
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Err... freebsd-update should be just fine: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html
He wants a server distro. I don't know Arch but from what I know it uses platform specific binaries and other voodoo stuff to increase performance.
.deb driver and software packages with their products.
The best recomendation I can pass is Debian (and I don't even like Linux but I admit Debian is pretty fine). It has a nice minimal installation very suitable for servers, easy package management and its pretty stable. I used to run a farm of Xen Dom0's operating on top of Debian 5.0 (Lenny). You can't go wrong with that. Plus, some corporate vendors are starting to support Debian and often offer
Version 15 of ZFS seems to have a better support for quotas and other accounting stuff: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+zfs/15
Damn you and your case-sensitive file systems!
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/stardust/news/stardust20110214d.html if you can't stand those damn add-infested pages. Also has better images.
Here: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Venus_Express/SEM0G373R8F_0.html I think the lameness filter detected my first reply but wathever heh. I watched on a short video called "The Asteroid that Flattened Mars" (I think you can easily google it) about similar effects on Mars triggered not by geological conditions of course but by an impact catastrophe.
Thats what I'm trying to say. Without a magnetosphere the solar wind would disassociate the planet's liquid water and cause all its hydrogen to escape into space. That is one of the reasons we can't say that there is life on a certain planet without taking into consideration various elements from its star (i.e. some red dwarfs tend to be very unstable), planetary mass etc.
Yeah Its a start but living on a system with 3 "earth-like" planets where only 1 of them attained a stable echosystem shows us that there is more to it than just check if its on the goldilocks zone.
Yeah what I know is along the lines of that theory. Its lack of plate tectonics destabilized the dynamo thingie that on the case of earth, generates the magnetosphere that deflects the solar wind. I'm not an expert on the field. Quoting from wikipedia:
"On Venus, a global resurfacing event may have shut down plate tectonics and led to a reduced heat flux through the crust. This caused the mantle temperature to increase, thereby reducing the heat flux out of the core. As a result, there is not an internal geodynamo that can drive a magnetic field. Instead the heat energy from the core is being used to reheat the crust"
Yeah but correct me If I'm wrong. The point is that Venus can't have water because: it doesn't have a magnetic field (can't hold hydrogen) and its extreme greenhouse effect that its atmosphere produces. Life as we know on a planet does not depend entirely of its distance from its parent star.
Agreed. Venus is an Earth-sized planet in a relatively good distance from its parent star. It doesn't have a decent magnetic shield to deflect radiation from its parent star and its atmosphere is a greenhouse hell.
I've played wow for a long time as a high-end pver to say that anyone will hardly kill that game. Just imagine the time they had balancing things, creating and testing content (yeah because an online game ins't just about graphics and bikini-plates). Now add this to the fact that WoW has more than one "enviroment" (satisfies pvp, pve and even casuals) and you have a tough task ahead.
Dont mistake me as a Blizzard fanboy. After raiding Icecrown Citadel for almost 10 months and killing LK on heroic mode I just cant stand that game anymore.
Bioware should just focus on producing awesome games like Mass Effect and KotoR.
Sorry for poor english. Not my native language.
Agreed. I think a movie _must_ have a simple plot and storyline. You must be able to explain the whole movie in one single phrase like "the heroes travel in time to rescue his stolen silver pantaloons and become the full metal unit". Of course we have wonderful movies that don't apply to that rule like say Donny Darko but those are considered cult by a minority of above-the-average-joe-intellects and therefore are not attractive to movie makers that wants to make money (and fantastic FX that a Planescape movie should require).
The series permit side quests and gives time to explain and develop the complexity of the enviroment. So in said series TNO would awake in the dusties' morgue, explore the slums, solve the problems of the Dead Nations, confront or ally with the Many-as-one, escape from the Modron maze, meet Trias in Carceri and much much more... something that obviously cant just fit into a movie.
Sorry for bad english btw. It is not my native language.
" Not only does it "have" it, but you're able to trivially export an iSCSI device, " zfs shareiscsi isnt working. You have to set up COMSTAR for that.
I'm not a big fan of Solaris or even OpenSolaris, but recently I've been involved in a project to implement a storage system for the medium-small size company I work for. The storage would hold virtual machine disks over a 1g dedicated switch connection to Xen virtual machines that would be available via iSCSI. Naturally, ZFS comes in mind with the hability to just snapshot the machine and keep multiple backups of it without having to turn off the virtual machine. We chosed FreeBSD-8.0 implementation of ZFS with istgt as the iscsi target software. FreeBSD ZFS seemed pretty ok, but the iscsi connection was deadly slow with 4mb/s write speeds. I thought the reason was the ZIL thingie with sync write operations. I did some research here, asked a question there and a guy from #zfs @ freenode told me to use OpenSolaris. I dont really know if I was doing something wrong with FreeBSD+istgt. All I know is that the OpenSolaris COMSTAR is really, really amazing. I got it working pretty fast with no hassle and no problems looking for documentation. It is also very fast and my tests with disk speed reach the maximum speed allowed by the network. I have 12 virtual machine disks there (both hvm and paravirt) with daily snapshots and live migration between dom0's. I love FreeBSD but I think OpenSolaris is still years ahead with this storage thingie.
So, you really think that when the first signs of life developed here on earth, this planet was confy and cozy?
Interesting to see mmo-champion.com as 10th most accessed http host on a MIT class.
My mail filtering gateway runs on a FreeBSD 8.0 jail with ClamAV 0.95.3 installed from Ports. It relays the messages to our real mail server, still running Debian (Lenny, but the Squeeze repositiores are still providing 0.94). Since I've moved all the mail checking software to the FreeBSD mailgw (amavis, spamassassin, clamav etc), my mail services are alive and kicking. I do however keep some other Clamavs running in Debian Squid servers with HAVP and that worries me a bit.
We call them South Koreans.
Password on GRUB will not protect against physical access to a machine. Maybe the best thing you can do is to encrypt the disks. And for now on try to get servers with Drac http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_DRAC or something similar installed. Through Drac's remote console you can remotely access the computer during boot process as if you were sitting at the local console.
Overall, the operating system and its out-of-the-box contents work fine with case sensitiveness. There are however, a ton of applications that refuse to work with it or run with some problems. World of Warcraft is an example of that. I had to create a disk image formated as HFS+ case insensitive and install it unto it to make it work. Maybe OS X programmers are a bunch of lazy bitches without self respect.
Call me as clueless but from what I know Mac OS X binaries are much bigger than the Windows and Linux format because they contain multiple instruction set architectures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach-O
Obligatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/434/
I know everyone hates Novell but they got a product called ZLM which aims to control servers and workstations during all their life cycle (including network installation of OS, deployment and some cool management tools) and its not restricted to RPM based Linux. You can separate hosts by groups and apply stuff per group or folder. Check it: http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/linuxmanagement/
cant wait until they implement this on sharks
Of course, posted that way, it makes it rather clear what a self-centered individual you are. Why would they refrain from posting things some people do find funny, just because you don't? And why can't you just skip over content that doesn't interest you, rather than complain anytime anything is posted that you didn't care to see? Does it really bother you that much that you're not the center of the universe?
I laughted a lot. For the irony AND the fact that it looks just like A.L.I.C.E.