I would blame a really large portion of Slashdot's downtime, and the recent downtime with Freshmeat, on those controllers. Outside of a Megadrive that I used at the Virtual Hospital, those are probably some of the worst pieces of Hardware I have ever ran into.
I would never recommend that anyone ever use those cards. Flaky hardware is one issue, but those cards have consistently been the root of a lot of sleepless nights for me fixing the mess that they have caused.
That is very true. I worked for one company that got the Java bug. Last I had heard they had spent 15 million on the code conversion and had very little to show for it. They basically burned all the capital they had to stay as a public company.
It was a real waste and someone should have been shot for it.
Netscape screwed itself out of the browser market. It did something really stupid, it decided that it should rewrite its browser. What happened? It blew years worth of new features and lost any sort of lead it might have had.
Here is an idea. I am not sure if you have a valid point or not but you are definetly off topic. If you have something that is important, go create a discussion topic so you have a place to talk about it?
That way you won't have to worry about the offtopic moderations to your post.
While I was in the University I would see faculty do work that consultants would normally do and just call it "grant getting". So here we are with someone who has their salary already paid and has a bunch of state and/or federally bought equipment and they can under bit the consultant.
Universities really push faculty to get grants. You don't get rants you won't get tenure. A class can always be pushed off on a grad student if research money can be gained (keep in mind that the University racket beats the mob racket; most Universities take at least 40% of the grant money for overhead).
Since government research oney has dried up, Universities are now going after private contracts which make all of this even worse. Toss in IP rights and you have billion dollar companies that don't pay taxes and are state funded.
Billion dollar companies... this needs to get into people's heads. Universites have huge operating budgets, and despite a lot of complaining about how poor they are, they have a lot of cash.
Its now in the TODO. I have thought about it a bit and have a couple of ideas about it. Use default content type to determine what is played and allow file directives to get you to the other stream.
Ok, I think I can sum up what you wrote into the following. mod_mp3 assumes that a file is an MP3 unless you tell it that the file if ogg. If you tell it that its reading ogg, it assumes all files are ogg.
Solution is to add a directive saying "mixed is ok", setting the default op to "send playlist" and then add code to load.c to tell the difference between ogg and mp3.
Once the "this is this type of file is written" the rest is trivial.
Now mod_mp3 can produce output like that... aka dump its contents out in a couple of different playlit formats. The only one issue at the moment is that I am not sure what would happen with the different content types as they were recieved.
I introduced static mode I think close to a year ago. Its used when the DB is down or a site update is occuring (like we put in bug features and such). We do the bug/feature additions probably twice a week now, and they normally happen around 1AM Eastern time as of late.
During static mode you can only reach pages that are.shtml, everything else is disabled.
Its certainly better then the old way which was to just to dish out zero content:)
After getting mugged for the third time, two by knife and another by gun, and surviving happening in on a gang turf war while trying to make a single delivery, I realized that I bet I could get a safer job where I could wear t-shirts and jeans too. I had been dinking with UNIX boxen up to that point and saw and ad at the local library to administer a small system they had (the thing is while it was UNIX getting a shell on it was impossible).
I bullshitted the entire interview including my age.
That is somewhere with one of the next couple of items I will toss in. Expect it sometime in the next couple of weeks (I have other changes that I want to go in at the same time).
Right. And the cool part (which makes them a bit different then the typical solution) is the loopback ethernet on them.
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Actually hardware wise we are pretty trivial (and currently we have capacity for twice what we are doing on an average day). So 9 2U 2ways, plus 3 Intel based 4ways.
For a site of our size that is not a lot of Hardware at all. Looks at sites even smaller then us and they will normally run on more hardware then what we do.
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To date we had one bug in Innodb that I have found (and we found one other in replication, but no one would have noticed that other then the fellow who has to keep this stuff running...). We have had some growing pains that we have went to. In our first week of operation we had a number of hardware problems bring us down (we have since moved hardware) which was only related to the DB's because MySQL was running on that Hardware. This http://www.tangent.org/~brian/talks/dbsummit_scali ng/ take you to some slides that I did for a talk I gave on Slashdot's DB.
Right, which is more then a little tricky since MySQL lacks two phase commit support. Its still going to require a human to do the work. But it will be possible at least. We have backups but no way to switch to those on the fly.
I added the static page option about half a year ago so that folks can at least see the front page when we loose the DB.
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I would blame a really large portion of Slashdot's downtime, and the recent downtime with Freshmeat, on those controllers. Outside of a Megadrive that I used at the Virtual Hospital, those are probably some of the worst pieces of Hardware I have ever ran into.
I would never recommend that anyone ever use those cards. Flaky hardware is one issue, but those cards have consistently been the root of a lot of sleepless nights for me fixing the mess that they have caused.
And I had nothing to do with it :)
That is very true. I worked for one company that got the Java bug. Last I had heard they had spent 15 million on the code conversion and had very little to show for it. They basically burned all the capital they had to stay as a public company.
It was a real waste and someone should have been shot for it.
Netscape screwed itself out of the browser market. It did something really stupid, it decided that it should rewrite its browser. What happened? It blew years worth of new features and lost any sort of lead it might have had.
It happens :)
Here is an idea. I am not sure if you have a valid point or not but you are definetly off topic. If you have something that is important, go create a discussion topic so you have a place to talk about it?
That way you won't have to worry about the offtopic moderations to your post.
When I think of a "mini-computer" I think MicroVAX II. The class of computers that was not as large as a mainframe.
Funny how these things change.
While I was in the University I would see faculty do work that consultants would normally do and just call it "grant getting". So here we are with someone who has their salary already paid and has a bunch of state and/or federally bought equipment and they can under bit the consultant.
Universities really push faculty to get grants. You don't get rants you won't get tenure. A class can always be pushed off on a grad student if research money can be gained (keep in mind that the University racket beats the mob racket; most Universities take at least 40% of the grant money for overhead).
Since government research oney has dried up, Universities are now going after private contracts which make all of this even worse. Toss in IP rights and you have billion dollar companies that don't pay taxes and are state funded.
Billion dollar companies... this needs to get into people's heads. Universites have huge operating budgets, and despite a lot of complaining about how poor they are, they have a lot of cash.
Actually I saw stuff like that happening while I was at the University of Iowa. Its one of the big reasons that I left academia.
Committing that fix in just a little while.
Not a bad idea actually.
Its now in the TODO. I have thought about it a bit and have a couple of ideas about it. Use default content type to determine what is played and allow file directives to get you to the other stream.
New protocol requires support in players. Sure, we could get a plugin done for XMMS, but that still leaves the majority :(
Ok, I think I can sum up what you wrote into the following. mod_mp3 assumes that a file is an MP3 unless you tell it that the file if ogg. If you tell it that its reading ogg, it assumes all files are ogg.
Solution is to add a directive saying "mixed is ok", setting the default op to "send playlist" and then add code to load.c to tell the difference between ogg and mp3.
Once the "this is this type of file is written" the rest is trivial.
Now mod_mp3 can produce output like that... aka dump its contents out in a couple of different playlit formats. The only one issue at the moment is that I am not sure what would happen with the different content types as they were recieved.
Right... just ignore the time travel option. Everyone always forgets about the time travel option.
I introduced static mode I think close to a year ago. Its used when the DB is down or a site update is occuring (like we put in bug features and such). We do the bug/feature additions probably twice a week now, and they normally happen around 1AM Eastern time as of late.
.shtml, everything else is disabled.
:)
During static mode you can only reach pages that are
Its certainly better then the old way which was to just to dish out zero content
After getting mugged for the third time, two by knife and another by gun, and surviving happening in on a gang turf war while trying to make a single delivery, I realized that I bet I could get a safer job where I could wear t-shirts and jeans too. I had been dinking with UNIX boxen up to that point and saw and ad at the local library to administer a small system they had (the thing is while it was UNIX getting a shell on it was impossible).
I bullshitted the entire interview including my age.
That is somewhere with one of the next couple of items I will toss in. Expect it sometime in the next couple of weeks (I have other changes that I want to go in at the same time).
Right. And the cool part (which makes them a bit different then the typical solution) is the loopback ethernet on them.
Actually hardware wise we are pretty trivial (and currently we have capacity for twice what we are doing on an average day). So 9 2U 2ways, plus 3 Intel based 4ways.
For a site of our size that is not a lot of Hardware at all. Looks at sites even smaller then us and they will normally run on more hardware then what we do.
http://www.osdn.com/jobs.com.shtml
#cough# Troll #cough#
To date we had one bug in Innodb that I have found (and we found one other in replication, but no one would have noticed that other then the fellow who has to keep this stuff running...). We have had some growing pains that we have went to. In our first week of operation we had a number of hardware problems bring us down (we have since moved hardware) which was only related to the DB's because MySQL was running on that Hardware. This http://www.tangent.org/~brian/talks/dbsummit_scali ng/ take you to some slides that I did for a talk I gave on Slashdot's DB.
Right, which is more then a little tricky since MySQL lacks two phase commit support. Its still going to require a human to do the work. But it will be possible at least. We have backups but no way to switch to those on the fly.
I added the static page option about half a year ago so that folks can at least see the front page when we loose the DB.