I love CentOS and thank god it ramped up when it did. RH9 support was over and I was concerned about an upgrade path. I looked at a bunch of distros but honestly, as an admin/programmer I don't want to deal with learning all the details about another distro since I've been using Redhat for years. So CentOS picked up speed (and users) and have been releasing a solid product for years (based off the hard work from Redhat and the OSS developers of course).
Also, don't forget to donate. While my company didn't pay for RH9, I was able to get them to fork out some cash for the CentOS team. I would have to do A LOT more work if it weren't for those guys.
Slipstreaming is great. The windows guy at work does it for a bunch of our servers and he also rolls in his own device drivers into the system as well so there's no searching for floppy disks to install the RAID/SCSI drivers. He got the idea from this Maximum PC article:
The guy that OK'd Lost's very expensive pilot episode was sacked for it. And then the network made a fortune. As far as I know, they didn't hire him back.
You're talking about Lloyd Braun. From the bio: "During his tenure with the ABC Entertainment Television Group, Braun initiated and oversaw the development of such successful programs as "Alias", "Lost", "Desperate Housewives", "Grey's Anatomy", "Extreme Makeover", "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and "Boston Legal".
ABC fired him before his shows were aired and put the network in the #1 slot. He's now at Yahoo.
1) take a snapshot of the database 2) turn on the query log for the server and run it for a day 3) install the snapshot on your test servers 4) play back the query log and see which one goes the fastest.
There's no reason to complicate it by trying to stress certain functions. I'm looking for real application performance, and I have no control over the queries that the programmers are throwing at the box (unless I see it bogging down the server and I go and hit them over the head).
What did Maximum PC do that makes you think they sold out? Just curious because I really like their magazine and enjoy it when they trash hardware even though it's advertised in the magazine. A few years ago Iomega had a two page spread for some new removable hard drive POS and in the reviews section they gave it a 2 out of 10.
Check out the High Performance MySQL book for info on how to speed it up. Most of it's probably obvious for the hardcore DBA guy, but I found it useful:
I posted about how much gentoo config handling sucks in the last slashdot story about gentoo, and I'll keep doing so until they do something to fix it.
I used to be one of the main programmers of phpSlash (phpslash.sf.net) back in 2001. In 2002 I was unemployed for pretty much the entire year. There was a small company in LA where the programmer knew me from the phpslash mailing lists. He thought I was helpful and nice so even though they didn't have enough work for a full-time programmer, they threw several freelance progjects my way. Later they offered me a full-time job but I was already employed out in Riverside.
Cable Modem: 60 Local Phone: 40 Long Dist: 30 --------------------- Total: 130
After VOIP:
Cable Modem: 60 Vonage: 20 (15 dollar plan + taxes) ----------------- Total: 80
I'm saving about 50 bucks a month using Vonage. Everyone in the house also has cell phones but when making long distance calls during the day, nothing beats using Vonage.
Over the last couple of years I've been slowly migrating away from Windows. The only thing that keeps me dual-booting is DVD Shrink. I finally got that working in Wine (thanks to this guide on the Gentoo Forums...
Windows XP is the last version of Windows that I will ever use.
I did this in our server room after the A/C's kept "randomly" shutting off. We use nagios and the Esensor. It's kinda pricey but it's way worth it. There are scripts that will make it integrate directly with Nagios so there's a TON of ways it can alert you via email/SMS/etc...
I dropped out of school in '96 (with a decent job, who needs stinkin' school!).
Then I was laid off in 2001 ("sorry, we don't hire non-college graduates")
So now I'm going back to the local Community College and will transfer to complete a Computer Information Systems degree at Cal State San Bernardino. From all the advice that I'm getting, everyone is saying that you should get an AA degree before leaving community college. The requirements change at the universities all the time so once you complete your AA degree they can't take away any of those classes that you completed.
We bought a server here at the office and when the guy mentioned that it'll have an Adaptec RAID controller I didn't even think to check compability since Adaptec SCSI cards have always been well supported. When the server arrived I had a couple of problems getting CentOS4 loaded on there.
Needless to say, I returned the controller, replaced it with a LSI Megaraid card and now all is well. They lost a sale because of their poor driver support.
Back in the day, I helped out bring PHPSlash out of a funk and cobble up a couple of releases for the team. I eventually became one of the project leaders for a few years and was nice to most of the people on the lists.
Then I was laid off, got depressed, and lost all my drive to code. After about a year of no work the first break I got was from a guy who I helped install phpslash on the phpslash-users list years prior.
I'm sure this going to get lost in the flurry of praise for Postfix but it has to be said.
I started out using sendmail on redhat and hosestly, not knowing much about how email works. When I switched to postfix, I learned A LOT about how email works and how a dozen programs all fit together to make it work. And at the center, is Postfix.
It truely is one of the reasons that UNIX is so great. It's just an MTA but it provides the glue to make a full mail system that rivals some of the best proprietary systems out there.
I heard he was on the Factor, alas I could not see it because I do not have the odious Fox Network in my country. Is there a torrent for that interview?
all the songs are great, just like in the south park movie. I really liked the song about how the Pearl Harbor movie sucked and of course the Montage song that's similar to the South Park Montage Song
Watch out for cheap hardware. We had a *brand* new XP install and upgraded it to SP2, then it locked up during the boot up. We tried a few times but couldn't get the machine to install XP. So it's still on SP1. The Windows Tech guy says XP2 blows, but I think it was just the cheap hardware that was in the box.
24 hours to install on a shiny new Pentium 4 is NOT progress.
I'm not rushing to Gentoo's defense on their poor install times, but I had a server up and running in about an hour on a P3 box. Granted it was a *server* so there's no X-windows or KDE, just the kernel, some utilities and apache/mysql/php. Nice and lean box...
Listen to your boss and do what you do best, web programming. But convince him to get an outside security consultant to scan your network for problems and then listen to their advice.
My company has an outside security company run quarterly checks against our network, and they sometimes catch stuff that I miss. Just don't let them talk you into buying a over-priced checkpoint firewall when all you need is a Linux box and Iptables.
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Ricoh has developed a laser that can read both formats too. I'm sure we'll see hybrid players sometime next year.
--Ajay
I love CentOS and thank god it ramped up when it did. RH9 support was over and I was concerned about an upgrade path. I looked at a bunch of distros but honestly, as an admin/programmer I don't want to deal with learning all the details about another distro since I've been using Redhat for years. So CentOS picked up speed (and users) and have been releasing a solid product for years (based off the hard work from Redhat and the OSS developers of course).
Also, don't forget to donate. While my company didn't pay for RH9, I was able to get them to fork out some cash for the CentOS team. I would have to do A LOT more work if it weren't for those guys.
--Ajay
Slipstreaming is great. The windows guy at work does it for a bunch of our servers and he also rolls in his own device drivers into the system as well so there's no searching for floppy disks to install the RAID/SCSI drivers. He got the idea from this Maximum PC article:
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http://www.maximumpc.com/2005/01/how_to_slipstre.
--Ajay
Everyone knows that the odd numbers are under active development. Linus is just waiting until the next stable release, GPLv4.
--Ajay
The guy that OK'd Lost's very expensive pilot episode was sacked for it.
And then the network made a fortune. As far as I know, they didn't hire him back.
You're talking about Lloyd Braun. From the bio: "During his tenure with the ABC Entertainment Television Group, Braun initiated and oversaw the development of such successful programs as "Alias", "Lost", "Desperate Housewives", "Grey's Anatomy", "Extreme Makeover", "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and "Boston Legal".
ABC fired him before his shows were aired and put the network in the #1 slot. He's now at Yahoo.
--Ajay
How I would do it:
1) take a snapshot of the database
2) turn on the query log for the server and run it for a day
3) install the snapshot on your test servers
4) play back the query log and see which one goes the fastest.
There's no reason to complicate it by trying to stress certain functions. I'm looking for real application performance, and I have no control over the queries that the programmers are throwing at the box (unless I see it bogging down the server and I go and hit them over the head).
--Ajay
What did Maximum PC do that makes you think they sold out? Just curious because I really like their magazine and enjoy it when they trash hardware even though it's advertised in the magazine. A few years ago Iomega had a two page spread for some new removable hard drive POS and in the reviews section they gave it a 2 out of 10.
--Ajay
Check out the High Performance MySQL book for info on how to speed it up. Most of it's probably obvious for the hardcore DBA guy, but I found it useful:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hpmysql/
I posted about how much gentoo config handling sucks in the last slashdot story about gentoo, and I'll keep doing so until they do something to fix it.
Thanks for doing your part.
I used to be one of the main programmers of phpSlash (phpslash.sf.net) back in 2001. In 2002 I was unemployed for pretty much the entire year. There was a small company in LA where the programmer knew me from the phpslash mailing lists. He thought I was helpful and nice so even though they didn't have enough work for a full-time programmer, they threw several freelance progjects my way. Later they offered me a full-time job but I was already employed out in Riverside.
--Ajay
Bills before VOIP:
Cable Modem: 60
Local Phone: 40
Long Dist: 30
---------------------
Total: 130
After VOIP:
Cable Modem: 60
Vonage: 20 (15 dollar plan + taxes)
-----------------
Total: 80
I'm saving about 50 bucks a month using Vonage. Everyone in the house also has cell phones but when making long distance calls during the day, nothing beats using Vonage.
--Ajay
am I the only one that read, "BSc" as "Bronze Swimming Certificate'?
Over the last couple of years I've been slowly migrating away from Windows. The only thing that keeps me dual-booting is DVD Shrink. I finally got that working in Wine (thanks to this guide on the Gentoo Forums...
Windows XP is the last version of Windows that I will ever use.
--Ajay
I have nothing to add other then it's 1:45am, I'm tired, and you're joke is crackin' me up.
--ajay
I did this in our server room after the A/C's kept "randomly" shutting off. We use nagios and the Esensor. It's kinda pricey but it's way worth it. There are scripts that will make it integrate directly with Nagios so there's a TON of ways it can alert you via email/SMS/etc...
--Ajay
I dropped out of school in '96 (with a decent job, who needs stinkin' school!).
Then I was laid off in 2001 ("sorry, we don't hire non-college graduates")
So now I'm going back to the local Community College and will transfer to complete a Computer Information Systems degree at Cal State San Bernardino. From all the advice that I'm getting, everyone is saying that you should get an AA degree before leaving community college. The requirements change at the universities all the time so once you complete your AA degree they can't take away any of those classes that you completed.
--Ajay
We bought a server here at the office and when the guy mentioned that it'll have an Adaptec RAID controller I didn't even think to check compability since Adaptec SCSI cards have always been well supported. When the server arrived I had a couple of problems getting CentOS4 loaded on there.
Needless to say, I returned the controller, replaced it with a LSI Megaraid card and now all is well. They lost a sale because of their poor driver support.
--Ajay
Back in the day, I helped out bring PHPSlash out of a funk and cobble up a couple of releases for the team. I eventually became one of the project leaders for a few years and was nice to most of the people on the lists.
Then I was laid off, got depressed, and lost all my drive to code. After about a year of no work the first break I got was from a guy who I helped install phpslash on the phpslash-users list years prior.
--Ajay
I'm sure this going to get lost in the flurry of praise for Postfix but it has to be said.
I started out using sendmail on redhat and hosestly, not knowing much about how email works. When I switched to postfix, I learned A LOT about how email works and how a dozen programs all fit together to make it work. And at the center, is Postfix.
It truely is one of the reasons that UNIX is so great. It's just an MTA but it provides the glue to make a full mail system that rivals some of the best proprietary systems out there.
--Ajay
I heard he was on the Factor, alas I could not see it because I do not have the odious Fox Network in my country. Is there a torrent for that interview?
You can find it at Shun TV.
--ajay
Team America's theme song
all the songs are great, just like in the south park movie. I really liked the song about how the Pearl Harbor movie sucked and of course the Montage song that's similar to the South Park Montage Song
--Ajay
Watch out for cheap hardware. We had a *brand* new XP install and upgraded it to SP2, then it locked up during the boot up. We tried a few times but couldn't get the machine to install XP. So it's still on SP1. The Windows Tech guy says XP2 blows, but I think it was just the cheap hardware that was in the box.
--Ajay
24 hours to install on a shiny new Pentium 4 is NOT progress.
I'm not rushing to Gentoo's defense on their poor install times, but I had a server up and running in about an hour on a P3 box. Granted it was a *server* so there's no X-windows or KDE, just the kernel, some utilities and apache/mysql/php. Nice and lean box...
--Ajay
I'm helping out with the Mozilla Keyword Repository. Right now it's a Wiki where you can add your own keywords:s
http://wormus.com/leakytap/Internet/CustomKeyword
There's also a version of the list that you can import directly into your bookmarks.
--Ajay
Listen to your boss and do what you do best, web programming. But convince him to get an outside security consultant to scan your network for problems and then listen to their advice.
My company has an outside security company run quarterly checks against our network, and they sometimes catch stuff that I miss. Just don't let them talk you into buying a over-priced checkpoint firewall when all you need is a Linux box and Iptables.
--Ajay