The only big disadvantage I experienced at the time was the lack of docs on the serial controller, so I only had the audio buzzer signal to go on when a drive failed.
This specification defines a set of SCSI commands for setting drive status information, including status for RAID arrays, into a disk drive array enclosure. The drive array enclosure may be a separate enclosure, or the same enclosure. The specification also defines commands for managing hot-swap drive slots and returning environmental health information for a drive enclosure.
Most (good!) SCSI RAID enclosures will speak SAF-TE, but not many people make use of it. Try it out with your own enclosures - you may be surprised!
Considering it's $1k per port(!), I don't think it's a good solution. You can connect its single port to a KVM so you can control more machines, but that's just too much money.
It's not $1k per port - it's $1k to IP enable your existing 8/16/32-way KVM.
Most setups already have KVMs in place - this is way cheaper than ditching your existing KVMs for an IP-enabled one, and has quite a few bonus features, judging from the manual.
How many times do I have to tell the computer that Firefox is my default browser?
Once, if Firefox is registered as the default browser correctly. My machine gets it right, why doesn't yours?
Did you read what he said? : Installing today's updates, it asked me if I wanted more information about a vulnerability- and proceeded to open a page with Internet Explorer.
He did set Firefox to be the windows default browser. Many windows applications (especially MS's own) bypass the proper API call to open using the default browser and call IE directly. Now unless you've tried installing the same update, clicked on the link and had it open in Firefox, I suggest you STFU.
... and now that he has proven to the world that he's the King of All Media,
Sheesh, Stern couldn't get arrested outside of the US! Absolutley nobody cares about or for him, so please don't give us "proven to the world... King of All Media".
5TB ? that's like 18 of those 400G Hitachi drives, that go for 411 USD a piece these days. if you include the bi-opteron box, and a couple of 3ware Sata cards, that's a total investment of 20 grand or so...
...come back when you've worked in the real world (or looked at an EMC price list...!)
The system isn't 800TB, but will scale to 800TB, according to this EDS press release. In fact, given that they've spent a mere $2.5M (powerpoint!) there's not a hope in hell that they've got 800TB! The powerpoint says it's a 5TB EMC SAN & an ADIC tape library for backup.
An interesting point is that they're delivering the documents using DjVu by Lizardtech, which is GPLd, and developed by the creators of DjVu in conjuction with LizardTech (after a period of LT not-getting-it). The DjVuLibre home page is here. LizardTech still have the best encoders for the format.
I'm not trolling, but I don't think anybody's holding up the iPod to be a good audio source. It regularly gets poor ratings for sound quality in the MP3 player comparative reviews.
In defense of George Clinton, he lost a pile of money on people sampling his stuff in early rap. This was a time when he was barely making it week to week because he had someone else stealing his royalties.
Huh? You mean if the rappers sampling Clinton hadn't been allowed to, all the people who have bought their records would have gone and bought a GC album? Can I have some of that when you're done smoking it?
Let's face it, if George hadn't been sampled and elevated by the rediscovery of his work through sampling, he's still be "barely making it week to week". And now he wants to turn around and sting 'em? Funk that.
Either you live in some alternate universe in which vendors work on bugs for individual users, or you've been smoking some exceptionally strong weed. Or, possibly, you don't have a clue.
WTF do you think bugzilla.redhat.com is full of?? We use RHAS and have always had a reply to bug reports that we've submitted, and a fix has followed. You obviously don't have a clue about Red Hat. Yes, they're an exception, but you tried to flame somebody who gave them as the specific case.
To paraphrase Wittgenstein: "if you don't know what you're talking about, STFU".
Personal ownership of fire arms is a much easier and, in my opinion, much more effective way of preventing crime. Violent crime in Britian as risen greatly since the fire arm ban. Bobbies are now being issued guns. If you want crime to go away, get guns in the hands of the citizens.
Since nobody in UK (apart from weird tabloid-speak and people attempting to be ironic) use the word 'bobbies', I'm assuming you're not from the UK. This would explain your frankly bizzare linking of the firearm ban (which was ridiculous, IMHO) and the rise in violent crime. Absolutley nobody carried (legitimately) a handgun as a crime deterrent and anybody waving a legally-held handgun at a mugger would find themselves locked up pretty quickly.
I'm not saying that gun crime isn't up, I'm not saying that the ban was stupid, but to connect the two is a non-sequitur of pretty big proportions.
I have been using Knoppix off the CD-ROM for a while, while I looked in vain for a popular, non-KDE-needing distribution which can play multimedia files (not RH-9 or Fedora.)
Install Fedora Core 2. Go to: apt.freshrpms.net and copy the yum.conf file over your/etc/yum.conf
su & type 'yum install mplayer', 'yum install xine', 'yum install [myfavouritemultimediaapp]' and it'll resolve all deps and install the whole lot. No fuss, no muss.
Yes, Red Hat have made the decision to keep some software to keep patent-cloudy s/w off their distros, but seeing as adding them is as easy as it possibly could be, there's no excuse to avoid the distros.
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I was lucky enough to get my office to pay for a LaCie Bigger Disk. It's one terabyte of space, and we don't have to worry about losing my shares or work.
Erm, how do you figure that you don't have to worry about losing your work? The BiggerDisk is 4x250GB drives RAID 0'd together, so instead of risking your work on one drive going bad, you're going to lose your work if any of the 4 drives go bad (somebody else can to the MTBF calculation - it's not 4x more fragile, but it's not far off).
That's a pretty awesome trick the Republicans pulled, getting Democrat precinct officials to deliberately remove potential Democrat voters from the rolls. Those Republican operatives definitely need a raise and a promotion.
And just in case you don't get it: Voter registration rolls are handled by the local precinct officials.
Yes, it was the precinct officals who received the list, prepared by Database Technologies (on a $4M contract - nice money for shoddy work) of people to be excluded from the roll. What's their political inclinations got to do with this? The felon list contract was awarded by Katherine Harris, a republican. What were the county supervisors to do, throw it away? (well, one did: - Emogene Stegall).
Explain to me what the precinct officals (Democrat or not) should have done with the list given to them.
The Florida voter registration records fiasco before the last US presidential election was because of the same reason; removing people from the voter registration list based on names (and not even the whole name, but a few of the first letters, dumber than dumb), and some other criteria that practically ensured multiple people would match the criteria, when only one should.
Stupidity or design? You don't have to be a signed up member of the tinfoil brigade to suspect that removing a whole lot of black (highly likely to vote democrat, if they vote) electors from the list could have been the motive.
Nine months after every major blackout, ice/snow storm, there's a mini baby-boom. People don't get nookie when they're watching Survivor and sitcom reruns
Might have a look at Mitel (formerly e-smith) SME Server. I've been using it for my file server at home, email, and to host a few domains for a couple of years now. Good stuff, pretty secure, can also be your router/gateway.
Here's another vote for Mitel SME Server. Download an iso from here and off you go. *Really* simple web interface, DHCP, NAT gateway, Email server, DNS, print server, samba server, web server, appletalk server, VPN server... etc all ready to go. Easy backups, easy administration. I'd recommend it for any SOHO all-in-one server job for non-experts. I have no connection with e-smith (or Mitel) other than having fortuitously picked it for an office I didn't want to have to spend time administrating. They can do it all themselves and they've never had a moment's problem with it.
Nah. The drives spin up as soon as they get power, which they will all get at the same time, when the 12V line goes up.
Nope, 'fraid not. See this Atlas IV Jumper definitions for example. SCSI disks default to spinning up on 12V, but every one I've seen has a jumper for either delaying, or waiting for a spinup 'START UNIT' scsi command.
This is not a troll: What happens when you unplug the camera, plug in a USB key, and then plug the camera in again? Isn't the camera now/dev/sdb? And the usb key is now linked to/dev/camera? Or has there been work done to stop this?
Yup, try devlabel. As used in RHEL (see RH's documentation). Works for me, and I'm surprised it isn't more widely known.
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I'm probably too late for anybody to read this, but Tuesday's Independent has a story on Alan Moore's new project, reviving old UK comic heroes from the vaults of IPC.
There's a power company in Italy (maybe it's the main one, I don't know) called PowerGenItalia;
Just FYI - that was a hoax, mainly to sucker the UK press where the original PowerGen are based. Google the word!
BDSM is not killing, maiming, or torturing.
BDSM is dying...
IIRC, the skunk has really bad eyesight - since everything leaves it alone and it only eats plants it had no reason to evolve better eyesight.
Skunks are carnivores. Look it up! Dunno about the rest.
Take a look at safte-monitor.
SAF-TE is an open spec from Intel. Quote:
SAF-TE: SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosures Interface Specification
This specification defines a set of SCSI commands for setting drive status information, including status for RAID arrays, into a disk drive array enclosure. The drive array enclosure may be a separate enclosure, or the same enclosure. The specification also defines commands for managing hot-swap drive slots and returning environmental health information for a drive enclosure.
Most (good!) SCSI RAID enclosures will speak SAF-TE, but not many people make use of it. Try it out with your own enclosures - you may be surprised!
Considering it's $1k per port(!), I don't think it's a good solution. You can connect its single port to a KVM so you can control more machines, but that's just too much money.
It's not $1k per port - it's $1k to IP enable your existing 8/16/32-way KVM.
Most setups already have KVMs in place - this is way cheaper than ditching your existing KVMs for an IP-enabled one, and has quite a few bonus features, judging from the manual.
How many times do I have to tell the computer that Firefox is my default browser?
Once, if Firefox is registered as the default browser correctly. My machine gets it right, why doesn't yours?
Did you read what he said? : Installing today's updates, it asked me if I wanted more information about a vulnerability- and proceeded to open a page with Internet Explorer.
He did set Firefox to be the windows default browser. Many windows applications (especially MS's own) bypass the proper API call to open using the default browser and call IE directly. Now unless you've tried installing the same update, clicked on the link and had it open in Firefox, I suggest you STFU.
Sheesh, Stern couldn't get arrested outside of the US! Absolutley nobody cares about or for him, so please don't give us "proven to the world... King of All Media".
And don't get me started on the "World" Series...
The system isn't 800TB, but will scale to 800TB, according to this EDS press release. In fact, given that they've spent a mere $2.5M (powerpoint!) there's not a hope in hell that they've got 800TB! The powerpoint says it's a 5TB EMC SAN & an ADIC tape library for backup.
An interesting point is that they're delivering the documents using DjVu by Lizardtech, which is GPLd, and developed by the creators of DjVu in conjuction with LizardTech (after a period of LT not-getting-it). The DjVuLibre home page is here. LizardTech still have the best encoders for the format.
Good sources (such as the iPod)
I'm not trolling, but I don't think anybody's holding up the iPod to be a good audio source. It regularly gets poor ratings for sound quality in the MP3 player comparative reviews.
In defense of George Clinton, he lost a pile of money on people sampling his stuff in early rap. This was a time when he was barely making it week to week because he had someone else stealing his royalties.
Huh? You mean if the rappers sampling Clinton hadn't been allowed to, all the people who have bought their records would have gone and bought a GC album? Can I have some of that when you're done smoking it?
Let's face it, if George hadn't been sampled and elevated by the rediscovery of his work through sampling, he's still be "barely making it week to week". And now he wants to turn around and sting 'em? Funk that.
Either you live in some alternate universe in which vendors work on bugs for individual users, or you've been smoking some exceptionally strong weed. Or, possibly, you don't have a clue.
WTF do you think bugzilla.redhat.com is full of?? We use RHAS and have always had a reply to bug reports that we've submitted, and a fix has followed. You obviously don't have a clue about Red Hat. Yes, they're an exception, but you tried to flame somebody who gave them as the specific case.
To paraphrase Wittgenstein: "if you don't know what you're talking about, STFU".
Personal ownership of fire arms is a much easier and, in my opinion, much more effective way of preventing crime. Violent crime in Britian as risen greatly since the fire arm ban. Bobbies are now being issued guns. If you want crime to go away, get guns in the hands of the citizens.
Since nobody in UK (apart from weird tabloid-speak and people attempting to be ironic) use the word 'bobbies', I'm assuming you're not from the UK. This would explain your frankly bizzare linking of the firearm ban (which was ridiculous, IMHO) and the rise in violent crime. Absolutley nobody carried (legitimately) a handgun as a crime deterrent and anybody waving a legally-held handgun at a mugger would find themselves locked up pretty quickly.
I'm not saying that gun crime isn't up, I'm not saying that the ban was stupid, but to connect the two is a non-sequitur of pretty big proportions.
I have been using Knoppix off the CD-ROM for a while, while I looked in vain for a popular, non-KDE-needing distribution which can play multimedia files (not RH-9 or Fedora.)
/etc/yum.conf
Install Fedora Core 2. Go to: apt.freshrpms.net and copy the yum.conf file over your
su & type 'yum install mplayer', 'yum install xine', 'yum install [myfavouritemultimediaapp]' and it'll resolve all deps and install the whole lot. No fuss, no muss.
Yes, Red Hat have made the decision to keep some software to keep patent-cloudy s/w off their distros, but seeing as adding them is as easy as it possibly could be, there's no excuse to avoid the distros.
I was lucky enough to get my office to pay for a LaCie Bigger Disk. It's one terabyte of space, and we don't have to worry about losing my shares or work.
Erm, how do you figure that you don't have to worry about losing your work? The BiggerDisk is 4x250GB drives RAID 0'd together, so instead of risking your work on one drive going bad, you're going to lose your work if any of the 4 drives go bad (somebody else can to the MTBF calculation - it's not 4x more fragile, but it's not far off).
...I'd love to tell you, but I'm trying to fix my $CLASSPATH
That's a pretty awesome trick the Republicans pulled, getting Democrat precinct officials to deliberately remove potential Democrat voters from the rolls. Those Republican operatives definitely need a raise and a promotion.
And just in case you don't get it: Voter registration rolls are handled by the local precinct officials.
Yes, it was the precinct officals who received the list, prepared by Database Technologies (on a $4M contract - nice money for shoddy work) of people to be excluded from the roll. What's their political inclinations got to do with this? The felon list contract was awarded by Katherine Harris, a republican. What were the county supervisors to do, throw it away? (well, one did: - Emogene Stegall).
Explain to me what the precinct officals (Democrat or not) should have done with the list given to them.
The Florida voter registration records fiasco before the last US presidential election was because of the same reason; removing people from the voter registration list based on names (and not even the whole name, but a few of the first letters, dumber than dumb), and some other criteria that practically ensured multiple people would match the criteria, when only one should.
Stupidity or design? You don't have to be a signed up member of the tinfoil brigade to suspect that removing a whole lot of black (highly likely to vote democrat, if they vote) electors from the list could have been the motive.
Nine months after every major blackout, ice/snow storm, there's a mini baby-boom. People don't get nookie when they're watching Survivor and sitcom reruns
That's an Urban myth: http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/blackout.htm
Might have a look at Mitel (formerly e-smith) SME Server. I've been using it for my file server at home, email, and to host a few domains for a couple of years now. Good stuff, pretty secure, can also be your router/gateway.
Here's another vote for Mitel SME Server. Download an iso from here and off you go. *Really* simple web interface, DHCP, NAT gateway, Email server, DNS, print server, samba server, web server, appletalk server, VPN server... etc all ready to go. Easy backups, easy administration. I'd recommend it for any SOHO all-in-one server job for non-experts. I have no connection with e-smith (or Mitel) other than having fortuitously picked it for an office I didn't want to have to spend time administrating. They can do it all themselves and they've never had a moment's problem with it.
Nah. The drives spin up as soon as they get power, which they will all get at the same time, when the 12V line goes up.
Nope, 'fraid not. See this Atlas IV Jumper definitions for example. SCSI disks default to spinning up on 12V, but every one I've seen has a jumper for either delaying, or waiting for a spinup 'START UNIT' scsi command.
This is not a troll: What happens when you unplug the camera, plug in a USB key, and then plug the camera in again? Isn't the camera now /dev/sdb? And the usb key is now linked to /dev/camera? Or has there been work done to stop this?
Yup, try devlabel. As used in RHEL (see RH's documentation). Works for me, and I'm surprised it isn't more widely known.
In Britain they would say "who I dated"
Erm, no they wouldn't, not if they wanted to be correct. "Whom I dated" is the correct form in British English as well.