Your comments are generally obnoxious and don't further the discussion. I too had a problem with compiling my first kernel over three years ago and I had read the HOWTO and consulted helpful web pages. It's the little things (and old documentation) that trip most people up. I still don't know what I did wrong the first time, but I luckily did it on a test machine. You seem to have little patience for people without your wealth of experience in all things. Please stay in your ivory tower and continue your post-doc studies until you can be nice and play with the rest of us.
Hey Rob and Co, I remember at one point you decided to use a xBSD server for images. You said it was an experiment to see how you liked the performance. How did it go and it it still in use?
I agree. The are some strange names coming about lately. However, "Anal Intruder" would have been funnier as it is in reference to "Top Secret: The Movie".
Does anyone know of a good site for info on maximum lengths of SCSI, ethernet, Fibre Channel? I am personally interested in the effective length of TOSlink. I want to use one of my 'puters as a input on Living Room stereo using optical fibre. I don't want to go through all the trouble of setting up an Xterm and cabling if the fibre won't extend all the way to the other room.
Sorry if this is a little (or a lot) off topic. Moderate this as you wish.
Err... I work at Sun and I'll agree the Solaris scales well. It scales to 64 processors very well right now. However, Irix scales to much larger CPU numbers presently. I don't know about HP-UX, AIX, or Tru-64. Somebody have experience with those? The biggest problem I've seen so far with WinNT scalability is the programs. Few of them are written with scalability in mind. More Unix apps seem to be coded with massive machines in mind. Is that M$ fault? I don't know.
I agree with what you say. In San Jose (silicon valley) I just give recruiters an outrageous salary requirement (2x my current) and they still manage to get me interviews that I don't want. My favorite thing about HR requirements comes from about four years ago. One wanted someone with 3-5 years experience with linux (that's a pretty elite group) and another wanted at least 5 years experience with NT in a production environment! I still have the clips from my fishwrap around here somewhere.
I have a 18.1" LCD and couldn't be more pleased. Mine has two connectors (one for Sun monitors and one for VGA). This saves space for me. I suppose the most important visual aspect is dead pixels and how well it looks when not in it's native resolution. I have seen some LCDs that look horrible when not using the native resolution of the screen (vs CRTs which seem to look good at nearly any supported resolution.)
In a datacenter environment, you don't want to go lugging a monitor around. Besides, if you don't know what's wrong with a machine, you don't go turning the thing off just so you can plug a keyboard into it! And yes you could have a keyboard attached to each machine but that gets a little annoying when you've got a few hundred or thousand machines.
Intel has something of this sort on their "server" motherboards. They call it the Emergency Management Port. Here's their description:
The built-in Emergency Management Port (EMP) provides remote emergency access via modem or direct serial connection from the COM2 port regardless of the server's current state or network availability. The EMP console offers the following operating system-independent basic management features: system power up/down control, system reset, access to the chassis FRU inventory.
This does not appear to be as simply cool as a "real server's" console port, but it's better than monitor and keyboard.
Does anyone know if Intel will start supporting Forth toolkits (Open Boot in Sun world) with Itanium? If not, what do they plan on using?
If my post is screwed up, sorry./. doesn't seem to be interpreting allowed HTML tags.
I see and replace a lot of drives in my line of work and I have a preference for (in order): IBM, Fujitsu, Seagate. The others are much worse in terms of real MTF, especially Maxtor.
Ahh.. I remember the days before naked statues were all the rage and Natalie Portman was still just a high school student. In those days, MEEPT would bless us with words of wisdom regarding cheese or somesuch. Those were the good old days. Anyways, I'm done reminiscing. Let the stone buttocks remarks fly again.
For anyone who cares, my friend is alive and well. Here's his report via email to us in the US:
The damage from the mudslide is horrible. Words cannot describe. The word is that a
minimum of 20,000 people buried alive. Not to mention the terror of the ones that did survive. Whole cities getting swallowed by the mud. This just goes beyond imagination. Just wanted to let you all know at least that everybody we know are safe. Well take care of yourselves and your families. The life is precious.
Everyone please remember that there are more important things going on in the world than kernel releases. Enjoy your families this holiday season.
The world could end, the moon is bright, Clinton asks crackers to play nice... jeez, what a strange way to end a year. (I omit mention of the millenium to avoid dumb flames about the milleniums true end next year.) My real worry is my co-worker who decided to spend the Holidays in Venezuela with his wife's family. I haven't heard from him yet. I'm not too worried yet as net access has to be pretty bad down there (especially during a disaster). Well, I'll pray to the extra bright moon or whatever.
I'm sorry about your experience. However, I support Sun's internal hardware and I have not seen abnormal failure rates on the beasts. Sure, disks go bad - they have moving parts. I support loads of A1000s and they work great. As to diagnostics, that is a sore point for me as well. There's nothing really at the OBP level to test the array. They do come with software that is minimally useful however.
It may be overkill, but I much prefer the A5x00s. All around though the hardware from Sun is VERY good.
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This is NOT true. I called and was told it would take 2-3 weeks before it was entered in their system and they could take the order. Now, I like the idea of their distro and I plan to try it out, but this is a bad start.
NT saves it in swap as long as the swap partition is on the same drive as the boot partition. Again, RTFM. The serial port option is only an option and is NOT the default or usual manner for memory dumps. As someone else in this thread commented, the dump is of the entire contents of memory. This changes in Win2000, but I have not personally seen this.
" Memory dump files are created when a STOP error occurs, and the system is set to save debug information in the 'Startup/Shutdown' tab of the 'System' Control Panel." source: support.microsoft.com
" Memory dump files are created when a STOP error occurs, and the system is set to save debug information in the 'Startup/Shutdown' tab of the 'System' Control Panel." source: support.microsoft.com
This is a real easy one to setup. The feature's not usually used on small workgroup servers because there's usually no one around who can do anything with a 256MB binary. I was going to say a lot of nasty things about dumb NT admins, but I thought I'd be nice as I was one (and will be again if the money's right). It's better to be uninformed than misinformed.
You were referring to this product. I happen to think it is fscking cool. The Smart card is optional, but that is what enables the "hot desking" that appeals to you and I. Oh well, incorporate the cards into your school or work ID and don't worry to much about it. The other cool thing is:
"In addition, the Sun Ray 1 enterprise appliance also allows access to applications running on Microsoft NT 4.0 TSE via Citrix MetaFrame technology, other UNIX® platforms, and 3270/5250 environments."
I need widescreen just so they can put their f*cking logos in a corner far enough from the action that they don't bother me anymore. If it wasn't bad enough that ABC puts their "transparent" logo in the lower right corner, now my local affiliate in SF tacks a cute 7 onto it. I can't even tell who's lined up in the slot sometimes on Monday Night Football. Sheesh!!!
IANAL but strangely enough you can't photograph some buildings because they're copyrighted works of art. So if you're really paranoid, stay near "pretty" buildings!
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Your comments are generally obnoxious and don't further the discussion. I too had a problem with compiling my first kernel over three years ago and I had read the HOWTO and consulted helpful web pages. It's the little things (and old documentation) that trip most people up. I still don't know what I did wrong the first time, but I luckily did it on a test machine. You seem to have little patience for people without your wealth of experience in all things. Please stay in your ivory tower and continue your post-doc studies until you can be nice and play with the rest of us.
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Hey Rob and Co,
I remember at one point you decided to use a xBSD server for images. You said it was an experiment to see how you liked the performance. How did it go and it it still in use?
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What drink, commonly found on Earth, best approximates the effects of a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster?
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I agree. The are some strange names coming about lately. However, "Anal Intruder" would have been funnier as it is in reference to "Top Secret: The Movie".
_damnit_
Does anyone know of a good site for info on maximum lengths of SCSI, ethernet, Fibre Channel? I am personally interested in the effective length of TOSlink. I want to use one of my 'puters as a input on Living Room stereo using optical fibre. I don't want to go through all the trouble of setting up an Xterm and cabling if the fibre won't extend all the way to the other room.
Sorry if this is a little (or a lot) off topic. Moderate this as you wish.
_damnit_
Err... I work at Sun and I'll agree the Solaris scales well. It scales to 64 processors very well right now. However, Irix scales to much larger CPU numbers presently. I don't know about HP-UX, AIX, or Tru-64. Somebody have experience with those?
The biggest problem I've seen so far with WinNT scalability is the programs. Few of them are written with scalability in mind. More Unix apps seem to be coded with massive machines in mind. Is that M$ fault? I don't know.
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This post addresses your complaint. He claims to have SMP working. I cannot verify this as my multiprocessor machines are sparcs.
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I agree with what you say. In San Jose (silicon valley) I just give recruiters an outrageous salary requirement (2x my current) and they still manage to get me interviews that I don't want.
My favorite thing about HR requirements comes from about four years ago. One wanted someone with 3-5 years experience with linux (that's a pretty elite group) and another wanted at least 5 years experience with NT in a production environment! I still have the clips from my fishwrap around here somewhere.
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I'm pretty sure tux likes scooby snacks. That belly of his tells me he likes them a lot!
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I have a 18.1" LCD and couldn't be more pleased. Mine has two connectors (one for Sun monitors and one for VGA). This saves space for me. I suppose the most important visual aspect is dead pixels and how well it looks when not in it's native resolution. I have seen some LCDs that look horrible when not using the native resolution of the screen (vs CRTs which seem to look good at nearly any supported resolution.)
_damnit_
In a datacenter environment, you don't want to go lugging a monitor around. Besides, if you don't know what's wrong with a machine, you don't go turning the thing off just so you can plug a keyboard into it! And yes you could have a keyboard attached to each machine but that gets a little annoying when you've got a few hundred or thousand machines.
_damnit_
Does anyone know if Intel will start supporting Forth toolkits (Open Boot in Sun world) with Itanium? If not, what do they plan on using?
If my post is screwed up, sorry.
_damnit_
I see and replace a lot of drives in my line of work and I have a preference for (in order): IBM, Fujitsu, Seagate. The others are much worse in terms of real MTF, especially Maxtor.
_damnit_
Ahh.. I remember the days before naked statues were all the rage and Natalie Portman was still just a high school student. In those days, MEEPT would bless us with words of wisdom regarding cheese or somesuch. Those were the good old days.
Anyways, I'm done reminiscing. Let the stone buttocks remarks fly again.
_damnit_
Everyone please remember that there are more important things going on in the world than kernel releases. Enjoy your families this holiday season.
Merry Christmas and Happy Chanakah
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The world could end, the moon is bright, Clinton asks crackers to play nice...
jeez, what a strange way to end a year. (I omit mention of the millenium to avoid dumb flames about the milleniums true end next year.)
My real worry is my co-worker who decided to spend the Holidays in Venezuela with his wife's family. I haven't heard from him yet. I'm not too worried yet as net access has to be pretty bad down there (especially during a disaster). Well, I'll pray to the extra bright moon or whatever.
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There's a big difference. (Sparc vs UltraSparc, 32 vs 64 bit, etc)
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DANGER! Conflict of interest. Sun is my employer
I'm sorry about your experience. However, I support Sun's internal hardware and I have not seen abnormal failure rates on the beasts. Sure, disks go bad - they have moving parts. I support loads of A1000s and they work great. As to diagnostics, that is a sore point for me as well. There's nothing really at the OBP level to test the array. They do come with software that is minimally useful however.
It may be overkill, but I much prefer the A5x00s. All around though the hardware from Sun is VERY good.
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NT saves it in swap as long as the swap partition is on the same drive as the boot partition. Again, RTFM. The serial port option is only an option and is NOT the default or usual manner for memory dumps.
As someone else in this thread commented, the dump is of the entire contents of memory. This changes in Win2000, but I have not personally seen this.
_damnit_
" Memory dump files are created when a STOP error occurs, and the system is set to save debug information in the 'Startup/Shutdown' tab of the 'System' Control Panel."
source: support.microsoft.com
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" Memory dump files are created when a STOP error occurs, and the system is set to save debug information in the 'Startup/Shutdown' tab of the 'System' Control Panel."
source: support.microsoft.com
This is a real easy one to setup. The feature's not usually used on small workgroup servers because there's usually no one around who can do anything with a 256MB binary. I was going to say a lot of nasty things about dumb NT admins, but I thought I'd be nice as I was one (and will be again if the money's right).
It's better to be uninformed than misinformed.
_damnit_
You were referring to this product. I happen to think it is fscking cool. The Smart card is optional, but that is what enables the "hot desking" that appeals to you and I. Oh well, incorporate the cards into your school or work ID and don't worry to much about it. The other cool thing is:
_damnit_
I need widescreen just so they can put their f*cking logos in a corner far enough from the action that they don't bother me anymore. If it wasn't bad enough that ABC puts their "transparent" logo in the lower right corner, now my local affiliate in SF tacks a cute 7 onto it. I can't even tell who's lined up in the slot sometimes on Monday Night Football. Sheesh!!!
_damnit_
IANAL but strangely enough you can't photograph some buildings because they're copyrighted works of art. So if you're really paranoid, stay near "pretty" buildings!
_damnit_