That was the reason: I wanted to go AMD this time. I run Ubuntu server 64-bit and I am very happy with the mobo and the PC all in all.
Sensors all work (fan, CPU temp, mobo temp), as well as hddtemp. However, S.M.A.R.T. does not work with that particular disk fr some reason.
I have Cool N Quiet enabled and the system is really quiet and temperature is 23C these days or thereabouts. Goes up to 33C when I intentionally stress the system (try several instances of : dd if=/dev/sda | bzip2 -c >/dev/null)
I settled on the ASUS A8V-MX as a nice inexpensive mobo for my home server.
In it I put a SATA disk. Linux would not see the disk at all, since this mobo uses a newer VIA chipset.
There is a patch for the VIA chipset in question (the forum on forums.viaarena.com has so many pages on that topic).
It was easier for me to exchange the motherboard with an ASUS A8V which works flawlessly, but require an add on video card (irrelevant for a server), 2 less SATA connectors, and a Gigabit ethernet.
Had to pay more for this one, but easier than putting in an IDE disk to build the kernel on, and then boot the SATA drive.
The internet started as dialup, and took too different paths in separate parts of the world.
In North America, local calls are free, and dialing a local number for internet access was one reason why the net became so popular and successful, and why lots of innovation happens in the USA as far as the net is concerned.
In most of the rest of the world, local phone calls are not free, and therefore the internet is metered. People using dialup have to be aware of the time they spend on the net, lest they run up the bill (think BBS's in another area code that you call long distance).
So, did unlimited dialup access spur innovation? I think so. Would the same be true for wireless? You bet!
Look at how cell phones are doing in North America vs. the world. The world has GSM where you are not tied to a provider you buy the handset from, and you do not pay for received calls. The contrary is true in North America.
Microsoft has been buying domains that are hosted on IIS. They give several registrars incentives to put the parked domains on IIS, so the statistics get swayed (reported on Slashdot a while back).
Another fact is that LightTPD (Lighty) is also making inroads as an Apache alternative, specially in Ruby and Ruby On Rails land. It is also being considered by many PHP products using the FastCGI interface. How much of a factor is this? I don't know, but there is a trend going on there.
I ran Kubuntu Breezy (5.10) on 5 home machines (2 servers and 3 workstations) for quite a few months.
In Breezy, the server came on the same CD as the GUI (kubuntu). The servers do not have any GUI on them (and I like that way). The workstations have no local data at all, and use NIS/autofs to mount the home directories from the server.
When the release candidate of Dapper came out, I updated my test server using an edit of the sources.list, two commands, and a reboot.
When Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper came out, I had a new server to replace the old one. This is an AMD 64, with A8V (stay away from A8V-MX by the way). So, I installed it using the amd64/x86_64 version of the server CD, and copied all my old server to it.
Today, I reinstalled one of the workstation (a Pentium II 450 with 768 MB) using Dapper. I tried the kubuntu desktop live CD twice from the GUI, and it would copy packages, but not complete, and have to be hard rebooted.
Then I used the alternate desktop CD, which has the old text based installer, and that worked fine.
All in all I am happy with it, but can't explain why the glitch with the GUI install. I still have 2 workstation to install/upgrade. We will see how those go.
I just did that over the weekend on my test server.
Edit the sources.list file. Put this in it:
## All officially supported packages, including security- and other updates deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted
## All community supported packages, including security- and other updates deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper universe multiverse deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe multiverse deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-updates universe multiverse
This is a very old trick, since the times of the Romans.
It is called panem et circenses (bread and circus games)...
Bread was a major issue in Rome. If there was a famine in Egypt, or the boats bringing the grain were late, there were riots. One of the reasons Rome occupied Egypt was to secure the major source for grain. Cleopatra tried to fend off the Roman occupation by exporting wheat duty free, but in the end it was inevitable...
MTV and all the reality shows serve the second part today...
... with its Debian heritage, you can see what kind of server it could be.
What? I am already using Ubuntu on three servers. Breezy Badger 5.10 already has a server install mode right on the CD (just type "server" at the boot prompt). No GUI at all.
If only we can get them to abolish the stupid and useless TLDs such as.name,.biz,.info, and abandon plans for.tel and that whole other bunch of silliness...
Kosher is acceptable to the vast majority of Muslims, with the exception of alcohol. This is from a verse in the Quran allowing meat from "people of the book" to be consumed by Muslims.
Kosher forbids shellfish, but halal does not. See more details in this comment.
As for your analysis of Christianity vs. other semitic religions, and the role of Europe, this is correct, although it started earlier than that in the Council of Jerusalem, where the debate was : "Are Christians supposed to keep Jewish laws, or not?".
Europe had a profound effect on the development of Christianity, and even Judaism. As an example, all semitic traditions allowed polygamy, and it was practiced by Jews up to the 11th century. Ashkenazi Jews forbid the practice at that time (Rabbi Gershom). Jews living in Muslim lands continued to practice it (e.g. in Yemen and Iran).
Christianity on the other hand kept with Roman customs in marriage and forbade polygamy (St. Augustine mentioned that keeping with Roman custom was one reason not to continue the otherwise biblical practice).
Of the Abrahamic Faiths, the amount of similarities Jews and Muslims share is astounding. Too bad that the political situation in the past decades have clouded this. Christianity was supposed to be close too, but took its own theological path that is different from the faith that preceded and followed it, as well as relaxing the Jewish laws as well (not only food, but polygamy, divorce,...etc.)
Kosher is similar to Halal, but far more restrictive.
They both forbid eating of dead animals (road kill is out!), or those killed by suffocation or any other means than that is prescribed, animals killed in the name of other Gods, pork, and blood.
Given the shared heritage, they both share some exotic food, such as locusts, which is only practiced today in the heartlands of Arabia.
Kosher forbids mixing of dairy and meat, and orthodox Jews would keep separate fridges and china sets for each of those. Halal does not have this restriction (so cheesburgers are OK, hold the bacon though).
Kosher calls for a qualified butcher (Schohet?) to use one pass of the knife across the animal's neck to kill it, while halal does not prescribe a number.
Kosher forbids any seafood that does not have scales and fins, so basically shrimp, lobster, clams, mussels, squid,...etc are out. Halal allows basically anything from the sea.
Kosher prescribes a certain method to extract the sciatic nerve from the hindquarters of the animal, which is a very labor intestive process, as well as certain fat in certain areas. Halal does not have these restrictions.
The short form of the rule is that Kosher is a subset of halal, with the exception of alcohol.
As a side note, neither Kosher nor Halal are proper names for the dietary laws and rules. Halal simply means 'permissible' in Arabic, and is not used in the context of dietary law in the Arabic speaking countries. It became a special term in non-Arabic speaking countries (mainly Indian subcontinent), and spread into the West. Also, Muslims from India/Pakistan and more restrictive than Arab Muslims in certain aspects of halal (e.g. a Pakistani would never eat a burger in the USA at McDonalds but an Egyptian would most likely do so).
A few years ago, there was an ad on TV here (Ontario, Canada) that featured what is says to be Hippopotamus domesticus, the House Hippo. It lives in homes across North America, in people's houses.
The ad shows a very small hippopotamus (3-4 inches long) in various scenes in a normal house.
The following claims are made in the ad, in a voice that looks like Attenbourough on BBC nature programs:
- house hippos are friendly, but will defend their territory if necessary - house hippos live in bedroom closets, where they make nests - house hippos sleep 16 hours a day - house hippos come out at night when they search for food - house hippos like to eat chips, raisins, and crumbs
The ad then says something like : "Do not believe everything you see on TV. Ask questions".
Slashdotted! Can't check the site contents or the wiki.
From the summary : "the software splits every file you backup into small slices, any majority of which can be used to perfectly recreate all the original data."
he was an amazing businessman (he told stories about his job before Sun... at a dog food company) but simply had no connection to the tech.
Some of the lousiest managers and executives are techies. This is not to say that every techie is lousy manager/executive, but rather that it does not go automatically that a good engineer would be a good manager.
Some of the best executives for tech companies were non techies. Look at who turned around IBM from another dinosaur to be to what it is today: a tech capable respected company that is kinder and gentler: Lou Gerstner came from non other than Nabisco...
Some truly believe that if the story is right and the mantra is being told often enough, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." -- Joseph Goebbels, chief propagandist for the Nazi Third Reich.
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That was the reason: I wanted to go AMD this time. I run Ubuntu server 64-bit and I am very happy with the mobo and the PC all in all.
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Sensors all work (fan, CPU temp, mobo temp), as well as hddtemp. However, S.M.A.R.T. does not work with that particular disk fr some reason.
I have Cool N Quiet enabled and the system is really quiet and temperature is 23C these days or thereabouts. Goes up to 33C when I intentionally stress the system (try several instances of : dd if=/dev/sda | bzip2 -c >
I settled on the ASUS A8V-MX as a nice inexpensive mobo for my home server.
In it I put a SATA disk. Linux would not see the disk at all, since this mobo uses a newer VIA chipset.
There is a patch for the VIA chipset in question (the forum on forums.viaarena.com has so many pages on that topic).
It was easier for me to exchange the motherboard with an ASUS A8V which works flawlessly, but require an add on video card (irrelevant for a server), 2 less SATA connectors, and a Gigabit ethernet.
Had to pay more for this one, but easier than putting in an IDE disk to build the kernel on, and then boot the SATA drive.
The patch will make it by 2.6.18.
Actually, let us look at a parallel here.
The internet started as dialup, and took too different paths in separate parts of the world.
In North America, local calls are free, and dialing a local number for internet access was one reason why the net became so popular and successful, and why lots of innovation happens in the USA as far as the net is concerned.
In most of the rest of the world, local phone calls are not free, and therefore the internet is metered. People using dialup have to be aware of the time they spend on the net, lest they run up the bill (think BBS's in another area code that you call long distance).
So, did unlimited dialup access spur innovation? I think so. Would the same be true for wireless? You bet!
Look at how cell phones are doing in North America vs. the world. The world has GSM where you are not tied to a provider you buy the handset from, and you do not pay for received calls. The contrary is true in North America.
Greed is the barrier to innovation.
Microsoft has been buying domains that are hosted on IIS. They give several registrars incentives to put the parked domains on IIS, so the statistics get swayed (reported on Slashdot a while back).
Another fact is that LightTPD (Lighty) is also making inroads as an Apache alternative, specially in Ruby and Ruby On Rails land. It is also being considered by many PHP products using the FastCGI interface. How much of a factor is this? I don't know, but there is a trend going on there.
OpenVZ, which is a subset of the commercial Virtuozzo product, is being lobbyed for inclusion in the kernel.
Although Xen requires patching of the kernel, it is the best performing open source virtualization layer at present.
I ran Kubuntu Breezy (5.10) on 5 home machines (2 servers and 3 workstations) for quite a few months.
In Breezy, the server came on the same CD as the GUI (kubuntu). The servers do not have any GUI on them (and I like that way). The workstations have no local data at all, and use NIS/autofs to mount the home directories from the server.
When the release candidate of Dapper came out, I updated my test server using an edit of the sources.list, two commands, and a reboot.
When Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper came out, I had a new server to replace the old one. This is an AMD 64, with A8V (stay away from A8V-MX by the way). So, I installed it using the amd64/x86_64 version of the server CD, and copied all my old server to it.
Today, I reinstalled one of the workstation (a Pentium II 450 with 768 MB) using Dapper. I tried the kubuntu desktop live CD twice from the GUI, and it would copy packages, but not complete, and have to be hard rebooted.
Then I used the alternate desktop CD, which has the old text based installer, and that worked fine.
All in all I am happy with it, but can't explain why the glitch with the GUI install. I still have 2 workstation to install/upgrade. We will see how those go.
1: make sure you look at what dist-upgrade is planning to do before you say yes
Good advice.
2: i'm not sure if doing that will upgrade the kernel.
Yes, it upgrades the kernel for you, and modifies grub's menu.lst as well, keeping the entries for the old kernel in there as well.
The reboot is needed to bring the new kernel in effect.
Yes, you are right.
However this machine is a SERVER.
It does not have any GUI stuff on it at all (no Gnome, no KDE). Plain old ssh and command line.
I also don't use sudo on it, and reenabled the root account.
Edit the sources.list file. Put this in it:Run the following commands:
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade
Then reboot
Done!
Hey Chris ...
Please tell the powers that be to port more Google apps, for example Gtalk, which can be a Skype replacement.
This is a very old trick, since the times of the Romans.
...
...
...
It is called panem et circenses (bread and circus games)
Bread was a major issue in Rome. If there was a famine in Egypt, or the boats bringing the grain were late, there were riots. One of the reasons Rome occupied Egypt was to secure the major source for grain. Cleopatra tried to fend off the Roman occupation by exporting wheat duty free, but in the end it was inevitable
MTV and all the reality shows serve the second part today
Voice: forceps please ...
...
Background: blip blip blip
Voice: Good
Background: blip blip blip
4#@@#*()(*&&^^
NO CARRIER
Background: bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep
... with its Debian heritage, you can see what kind of server it could be.
...
What? I am already using Ubuntu on three servers. Breezy Badger 5.10 already has a server install mode right on the CD (just type "server" at the boot prompt). No GUI at all.
Runs like a charm
Oh this is great...
.name, .biz, .info, and abandon plans for .tel and that whole other bunch of silliness ...
If only we can get them to abolish the stupid and useless TLDs such as
If Slashdotted, the link from the US site of Toms Hardware for this article is here (yup, got that one from digg. They seem to be faster ...)
Multipage reviews are becoming increasingly common. While 5 pages is two much, this review has a whopping 45 pages.
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THAT IS WAY TOO MUCH
It is a dupe from February.
Kosher is acceptable to the vast majority of Muslims, with the exception of alcohol. This is from a verse in the Quran allowing meat from "people of the book" to be consumed by Muslims.
...etc.)
Kosher forbids shellfish, but halal does not. See more details in this comment.
As for your analysis of Christianity vs. other semitic religions, and the role of Europe, this is correct, although it started earlier than that in the Council of Jerusalem, where the debate was : "Are Christians supposed to keep Jewish laws, or not?".
Europe had a profound effect on the development of Christianity, and even Judaism. As an example, all semitic traditions allowed polygamy, and it was practiced by Jews up to the 11th century. Ashkenazi Jews forbid the practice at that time (Rabbi Gershom). Jews living in Muslim lands continued to practice it (e.g. in Yemen and Iran).
Christianity on the other hand kept with Roman customs in marriage and forbade polygamy (St. Augustine mentioned that keeping with Roman custom was one reason not to continue the otherwise biblical practice).
Of the Abrahamic Faiths, the amount of similarities Jews and Muslims share is astounding. Too bad that the political situation in the past decades have clouded this. Christianity was supposed to be close too, but took its own theological path that is different from the faith that preceded and followed it, as well as relaxing the Jewish laws as well (not only food, but polygamy, divorce,
Kosher is similar to Halal, but far more restrictive.
...etc are out. Halal allows basically anything from the sea.
They both forbid eating of dead animals (road kill is out!), or those killed by suffocation or any other means than that is prescribed, animals killed in the name of other Gods, pork, and blood.
Given the shared heritage, they both share some exotic food, such as locusts, which is only practiced today in the heartlands of Arabia.
Kosher forbids mixing of dairy and meat, and orthodox Jews would keep separate fridges and china sets for each of those. Halal does not have this restriction (so cheesburgers are OK, hold the bacon though).
Kosher calls for a qualified butcher (Schohet?) to use one pass of the knife across the animal's neck to kill it, while halal does not prescribe a number.
Kosher forbids any seafood that does not have scales and fins, so basically shrimp, lobster, clams, mussels, squid,
Kosher prescribes a certain method to extract the sciatic nerve from the hindquarters of the animal, which is a very labor intestive process, as well as certain fat in certain areas. Halal does not have these restrictions.
Kosher allows alcoholic beverages, Halal forbids them.
The short form of the rule is that Kosher is a subset of halal, with the exception of alcohol.
As a side note, neither Kosher nor Halal are proper names for the dietary laws and rules. Halal simply means 'permissible' in Arabic, and is not used in the context of dietary law in the Arabic speaking countries. It became a special term in non-Arabic speaking countries (mainly Indian subcontinent), and spread into the West. Also, Muslims from India/Pakistan and more restrictive than Arab Muslims in certain aspects of halal (e.g. a Pakistani would never eat a burger in the USA at McDonalds but an Egyptian would most likely do so).
These people should go to Egypt, Syria or Turkey. Only then would they know what "too sweet" means.
Just to give a hint, many desserts there (Baklava, Konafa, Kadayef) are soaked in syrup. The syrup is made out of 66.6% sugar and 33.3% water.
A few years ago, there was an ad on TV here (Ontario, Canada) that featured what is says to be Hippopotamus domesticus, the House Hippo. It lives in homes across North America, in people's houses.
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The ad shows a very small hippopotamus (3-4 inches long) in various scenes in a normal house.
The following claims are made in the ad, in a voice that looks like Attenbourough on BBC nature programs:
- house hippos are friendly, but will defend their territory if necessary
- house hippos live in bedroom closets, where they make nests
- house hippos sleep 16 hours a day
- house hippos come out at night when they search for food
- house hippos like to eat chips, raisins, and crumbs
The ad then says something like : "Do not believe everything you see on TV. Ask questions".
Read the Wikipedia article, or see the UK version of it here
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The Baheyeldin Dynasty.
Slashdotted! Can't check the site contents or the wiki.
From the summary : "the software splits every file you backup into small slices, any majority of which can be used to perfectly recreate all the original data."
So, basically it is like RAID 5 striping and parity applied to the file level.
Neat concept.
he was an amazing businessman (he told stories about his job before Sun... at a dog food company) but simply had no connection to the tech.
Some of the lousiest managers and executives are techies. This is not to say that every techie is lousy manager/executive, but rather that it does not go automatically that a good engineer would be a good manager.
Some of the best executives for tech companies were non techies. Look at who turned around IBM from another dinosaur to be to what it is today: a tech capable respected company that is kinder and gentler: Lou Gerstner came from non other than Nabisco...
I am surprised the editors did not link to this rumor that McNealy is stepping down from a few days ago on Slashdot.
Funny McNealy dismissed this as a 22 year old rumor only a few days ago.
Some truly believe that if the story is right and the mantra is being told often enough, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." -- Joseph Goebbels, chief propagandist for the Nazi Third Reich.