I don't know if devfs is gone yet, but it's gonna be replaced by sysfs sooner or later. Lvm on the other hand is gone, replaced by device mapper, on which both lvm2 and evms2 are built. Evms2 looks extremely well for a nice gui volume management.
This is common in any dynammicaly evolving system. As it grows, it's becoming more and more complex, which leads it into being more and more conservative.
So this 'inner circle' thing is a natural way of developement...
We still run some redhat 5.x boxen in our datacenter. Many 6.x too. Recently, 7.2 and 7.3 prooved to be pretty reliable, too.
Then came the Advanced Server thingie. I've had more problems with it than with any RedHat before, even had to fix kernel bugs to get my hardware to work properly. RedHat was aware of this particular probelm, but even with paid support, we only got 'fix in the nex errata' reply. So much for a support.
It does not matter if you have rh AS, 7.3, debian, *bsd... as long as you know a lot about it and you feel comfortable with it. Since i deployed AS on some critical servers, i find myself looking at debian and *bsd more and more...
Sure it does, i've just downloaded all three isos and they all failed md5 check. Hmm... will try again, but either there are foo images being served into the p2p network or BitTorrent developers should add a better chunk checking.
I'm running 2.5.65-mm4 on my home box because i wanted to find out whats all the excitement and nice numbers about the new scheduler. After i got all the modules right, i did some tests... and was a bit dissapointed. You see, it's not all that faster... it just feels different. Yes, programs do load somewhat faster, but at the same time doing a ls -l in my home dir was kinda slower that with excellent WOLK patchset for 2.4.18. On the other side, i was completely able to browse my large inbox (~20k mails in maildir) while checking md5 of the latest knoppix iso on the same disk.
I have a lot of expectations of the Alan/Andre team with their ide work... i just can't wait to test the 'fixed up' promise driver and ide tcq code! Right now ide tcq on promise is somewhat borken. If ide tcq shows some numbers, that would be the last argument down for scsi vs. ide in our servers...
we use Cisco Catalysts all over the place and maintain a central VMPS database of which MAC addresses are allowed to get a network connection. See http://vmps.sourceforge.net/ for more info.
So if someone plugs some networking device into a wall, it's gonna be as good as unplugged until someone inspects it and enters it into the vmps database. I think the additional work caused by this is well worth the additional security you get by implementing it.
If just someone would start making & selling these... i'd buy some just because i can. Remember those beowulf clusters made with transmeta that require *no* active cooling?
Just where the hell can i get it? At my company, i can only find nt4 cds and i can't expect my local warez dealer to have a 0day copy of something like nt3.51. So please, if someone can at least *hint* me where to get it... now if that would be a copy for some other than x86 architecture, it would be even more l33t. I have the hardware;) Um, nt3.51 are unmaintained now, right? Does that give them the 'abandonware' status?:)
Bandaids like lsm, grsecurity & co will only help you cover to some extent the holes already there. I don't feel like this is the ideal solution... The ideal solution is to write clean and bugfree code and use that. OpenBSD will probably get you there in the quickest way.
But on the other hand, you know what idealism is...
Ugh, yeah, NeXT had this too back then... and when i had to fsck a 180gb server full of next homes, it took close to a day to reassemble all those directories together... sigh... Altough this is a nice solution, it requires a file system that is capable of dealing with it.
I was just ready to order a non-agp dualhead card in order to attach more screens to this machine, but now this card shows up and I will deffinately buy it as soon as it comes out.
WHICH ONE?!
I'm looking for such thing for a while now... would like to get a pile of them, too:)
I was shocked a few days ago when i found sites that offer mass mailing utilites for free. Jeez, these guys must be _at_least_ dDoSsed, altough i'd rather rip their heads off...
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He should find (or build) some adequately sized speakers and attach them to the box. That would be really something:) Anyway, nice idea. Might try to build one myself...
Just browse over to http://www.freenetproject.org and see what they offer. All this gnutella/kazaa/morpheous/whatever stuff is a thing of the past. Evenmore so when they start to fight like that.
> Easy to blame the application; Tough to blame the installer, I'm sure. RTFM?
Now explain this: i mentioned we have openldap in three different setups; these were all set up by three different expirienced sysadmins; hardly that all three would make same mistakes to cause poor performance, no?
And i'd sure want to RTFM if there were some usefull FM avaialble at all. Would you contribute some, if it really works for you?
> OpenLDAP works great when configuredc orrectly, even under heavy load.
I can only say WOW. Now if it really works for you, would you be so kind to write it down and post it somewhere on the web for the others to see? I'd say i'm not the only one who feels the lack of such documents.
I dont know about commercial LDAP offers, but openldap led me to the conclusion to NOT use ldap anywhere. I still have it installed in three locations and am actively working in porting it to mysql or unix flatfiles, because it's so unreliable. nss library from padl.com for some reason doesnt always closes its connections, so you hit 1024 file descriptors limit within a week or so. yes, you can compile with -DFD_SETSIZE, but this only gives you more time until restart is needed. Second, replication never worked reliably, so trying to avoid fd problem with more replicas only casued more pain and sleepless nights rebuilding and reindexing databases (125k user entries, it takes 7 hours on 4way xeon). And if only the slapd itself would work! It stops responding every now and then, for no reason. OK, i can catch these with a trivial script... but recently, i got more and more examples where connection is accepted, but result never comes... so ldapsearch just sits there without answer, huh. I've also seen examples where some slapd threads would occupy one or more cpu in the box, slowing things down noticeably.
GNUStep, all nice and shiny, but one most missing feature fron {Open|Next}Step is the terminal with the search capability! When are we going to get it?
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I don't know if devfs is gone yet, but it's gonna be replaced by sysfs sooner or later. Lvm on the other hand is gone, replaced by device mapper, on which both lvm2 and evms2 are built. Evms2 looks extremely well for a nice gui volume management.
Get the facts right: the first was a Pathfinder, that was streched with another middle section to Pathfinder Plus while Helios was being built.
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Looks like they'll just use Pathfinder Plus for test flights now untill another Helios or equivalent plane is finished
This is common in any dynammicaly evolving system. As it grows, it's becoming more and more complex, which leads it into being more and more conservative.
...
So this 'inner circle' thing is a natural way of developement
We still run some redhat 5.x boxen in our datacenter. Many 6.x too. Recently, 7.2 and 7.3 prooved to be pretty reliable, too.
... as long as you know a lot about it and you feel comfortable with it. Since i deployed AS on some critical servers, i find myself looking at debian and *bsd more and more...
Then came the Advanced Server thingie. I've had more problems with it than with any RedHat before, even had to fix kernel bugs to get my hardware to work properly. RedHat was aware of this particular probelm, but even with paid support, we only got 'fix in the nex errata' reply. So much for a support.
It does not matter if you have rh AS, 7.3, debian, *bsd
Sure it does, i've just downloaded all three isos and they all failed md5 check. Hmm ... will try again, but either there are foo images being served into the p2p network or BitTorrent developers should add a better chunk checking.
I'm running 2.5.65-mm4 on my home box because i wanted to find out whats all the excitement and nice numbers about the new scheduler. After i got all the modules right, i did some tests ... and was a bit dissapointed. You see, it's not all that faster ... it just feels different. Yes, programs do load somewhat faster, but at the same time doing a ls -l in my home dir was kinda slower that with excellent WOLK patchset for 2.4.18. On the other side, i was completely able to browse my large inbox (~20k mails in maildir) while checking md5 of the latest knoppix iso on the same disk.
... i just can't wait to test the 'fixed up' promise driver and ide tcq code! Right now ide tcq on promise is somewhat borken. If ide tcq shows some numbers, that would be the last argument down for scsi vs. ide in our servers...
I have a lot of expectations of the Alan/Andre team with their ide work
Here's how we do it:
we use Cisco Catalysts all over the place and maintain a central VMPS database of which MAC addresses are allowed to get a network connection. See http://vmps.sourceforge.net/ for more info.
So if someone plugs some networking device into a wall, it's gonna be as good as unplugged until someone inspects it and enters it into the vmps database. I think the additional work caused by this is well worth the additional security you get by implementing it.
Color balance was tuned for 9300K white temperature. So if you go watch it on your computer monitor or decent recent TV, it should look properly.
If just someone would start making & selling these ... i'd buy some just because i can. Remember those beowulf clusters made with transmeta that require *no* active cooling?
Just where the hell can i get it? At my company, i can only find nt4 cds and i can't expect my local warez dealer to have a 0day copy of something like nt3.51. ... now if that would be a copy for some other than x86 architecture, it would be even more l33t. I have the hardware ;) :)
So please, if someone can at least *hint* me where to get it
Um, nt3.51 are unmaintained now, right? Does that give them the 'abandonware' status?
try to find anyone. ESD may mean death there. i know for at least one example at the local fireworks factory ...
But on the other hand, you know what idealism is ...
Ugh, yeah, NeXT had this too back then ... and when i had to fsck a 180gb server full of next homes, it took close to a day to reassemble all those directories together ... sigh ... Altough this is a nice solution, it requires a file system that is capable of dealing with it.
WHICH ONE?!
I'm looking for such thing for a while now ... would like to get a pile of them, too :)
I was shocked a few days ago when i found sites that offer mass mailing utilites for free. Jeez, these guys must be _at_least_ dDoSsed, altough i'd rather rip their heads off ...
He should find (or build) some adequately sized speakers and attach them to the box. That would be really something :) ...
Anyway, nice idea. Might try to build one myself
Just browse over to http://www.freenetproject.org and see what they offer. All this gnutella/kazaa/morpheous/whatever stuff is a thing of the past. Evenmore so when they start to fight like that.
From the screenshots i'd say that someone figured out that hentai can be a well selling stuff :)
> This should *really* be modded as flame-bait!
:) I'm just in a mood ...
Agree
> Easy to blame the application; Tough to blame the installer, I'm sure. RTFM?
Now explain this: i mentioned we have openldap in three different setups; these were all set up by three different expirienced sysadmins; hardly that all three would make same mistakes to cause poor performance, no?
And i'd sure want to RTFM if there were some usefull FM avaialble at all. Would you contribute some, if it really works for you?
Ok, so what's the magic to make it work? Could you write your expiriences to some web page?
Reading this makes me wonder ... If it really works for you, could you write about it down and post it on some web page?
> OpenLDAP works great when configuredc orrectly, even under heavy load.
I can only say WOW. Now if it really works for you, would you be so kind to write it down and post it somewhere on the web for the others to see? I'd say i'm not the only one who feels the lack of such documents.
really ... i'll do that right away.
I dont know about commercial LDAP offers, but openldap led me to the conclusion to NOT use ldap anywhere. I still have it installed in three locations and am actively working in porting it to mysql or unix flatfiles, because it's so unreliable. nss library from padl.com for some reason doesnt always closes its connections, so you hit 1024 file descriptors limit within a week or so. yes, you can compile with -DFD_SETSIZE, but this only gives you more time until restart is needed. Second, replication never worked reliably, so trying to avoid fd problem with more replicas only casued more pain and sleepless nights rebuilding and reindexing databases (125k user entries, it takes 7 hours on 4way xeon). And if only the slapd itself would work! It stops responding every now and then, for no reason. OK, i can catch these with a trivial script ... but recently, i got more and more examples where connection is accepted, but result never comes ... so ldapsearch just sits there without answer, huh. I've also seen examples where some slapd threads would occupy one or more cpu in the box, slowing things down noticeably.
So, whatever you do, AVOID OpenLDAP.
GNUStep, all nice and shiny, but one most missing feature fron {Open|Next}Step is the terminal with the search capability! When are we going to get it?