You mean they didn't lobby congress to extend patent terms by fifty years retroactively? Jeez, don't they know how to do business in the modern world?!
I'm sure Tolkien would have been very proud to see his creation f-ing and blinding on television. He'd think his efforts were all worthwhile. Well done, New Line.
I haven't been able to read the article due to slashdotting but I used gramofile over a year ago to rip some cassette audio, based on the info in James Tappin's article.
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Hey, they solved the accessibility problem!
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Minitel Hits Twenty
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> "...all of it determinedly low-graphics and designed for speed."
So when will the Internet be upgraded to support the same features?
Boycotting Amazon or music companies is hard work and a great personal loss, but boycotting SCO? Sure, can do!! Done it my whole life and honestly, it hasn't degraded my quality of living at all!
Unfortunately, as you might guess by the wide varity of recommendations here, you need a combination of packages to create a complete solution. There isn't one program that will satisfy all requirements (monitoring, notification, performance stats, reporting, trending, etc.).
As an example, we use the following:
Nagios Notifications and real-time monitoring. Logcheck Daily syslog reports. cfengine Configuration and limited problem correction. SAR Performance data. Well, it was free with the OS. Unfortunately, we don't have a good solution to collate and analyse this data. WebSphere Resource Analyser Actually, we just fire this up for a laugh and to impress management. Ghod forbid we ever took anything it said seriously. Avoid proprietary crack!
There are other tools we run on an adhoc basis, like nmap. I think snort is an excellent security tool, but our network isn't set up to support it yet. If you bite the bullet, you can probably achieve a lot by installing NET-SNMP everywhere, with a decent SNMP monitoring package.
Remember this: syslog is your friend. If you have a lot of locally-developed scripts that run regularly, you can make a big gain by inserting commands to log important events at a single, reserved syslog priority level, which is directed to a monitored file on a central loghost. E.g.:
Be prepared to spend several weeks or months configuring and tuning this stuff to give you what you want. If you want something integrated or complex, be prepared to write the code for gluing it all together.
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Re:My main reason for keeping 2.2 around...
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Kernel 2.2 - It Lives!
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I have a Classic running RHL 6.2 because that was the last supported release on SPARC. It's been extremely stable (KDE/GNOME apps run like dying dogs though). However, my new SS5 will run Aurora Linux 1.0, which is based on RHL 7.3 and has a 2.4 kernel.
Not to mention that in a web cluster, the CA will charge you for a cert for each server in the cluster that serves that particular site. (Check your license agreement/TOS.)
"Oh, so I'm 'for fun', am I?! This is just a fling to you, is that it?! You've never taken this relationship seriously! Why won't you make any commitment?? Let me tell you, mister..." etc.
You've never discovered the full startling impact of that phrase until you've been presented with a diagram of a box and an arrow that... ghod help me, the horror, the horror... leads to a point outside it! This pulls off the seemingly impossible trick of being a totally literal interpretation that simultaneously fails to explain anything at all.
I know. I was presented with said diagram within two weeks of joining my employer.
...People who divine the future and interpret industry news by gazing up their own asses.
"Sun's single operating system, single chipset design, is getting a little old now," said keen MTV viewer and Sageza Group analyst Charles King.
At least Sun is making steps in the right direction, analysts say. Its new blades are compatible with Intel systems, as if this is fucking news to anyone who has ever put a PCI card in an E450.
"That means customers can connect Sun's products with all types of different blades and use them together," said Jim Garden, a deluded inmate in the special care wing of the local happy house. Unless "use them together" means "plug them into the same electric supply".
"Now they've got to go out and win more customers." Doh! That's where they've been going wrong! Although come to think of it, I can recall several companies that seem to be on the opposite tack.
Telsa makes a point of mentioning Tim Tams (the Antipodean equivalent of Penguins, but much nicer), which are almost worth going to Australia for alone. (You can get them in NZ too - try the caramel ones.) Also, Cadburys chocolate tastes different, and much better, than the same brand in the UK.
Ignore the people in this thread who are talking out of their asses and saying multi-host scsi doesn't work well. They just didn't know how to set it up right or have never actually tried it.
As someone who once worked for an also-ran in the Linux HA field, I can back this up. My impression is that the MCLinux people know what they're doing (although I haven't tried the product). I believe they recommend using remotely controllable power switches so that one server can kill the power to the other in the event of failover, ensuring that a dual-mounted filesystem cannot occur; this is a sign that they've thought about the overall solution.
If you're going to implement a manual solution (and you're careful) then you don't need to worry about this (but HA vendor manuals are still useful for the hardware setup details). If you decide to employ failover software, get a good book on HA (Marcus/Stern is recommended) because there certainly used to be a lot of FUD amongst vendors.
Yes, you want a journalling filesystem, otherwise recovery times could be horrendous.
Turn off the PC, open the front door and walk outside: there it is, the world. But really, it's overrated. Go back in where it's warm and log on again.
(In The Art Of Travel, Alain de Botton mentions a writer who wrote a travelogue based on a journey around his bedroom.)
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Re:here's what browser needs to me to use it
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Phoenix 0.3 Is Out
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Few companies, no matter how well-funded, seem to have the nous to keep a stock of spare cables. And the concept of crossover cables (e.g. "null modem" RS232, cascade UTP)? Well, that just blows their little minds. I told those guys that Sun boxes need a null modem serial link for the console port. I mailed them a link to the wiring diagram. I said it at every opportunity before the machines arrived. And when they came, they still tried to plug in every combination of serial lead and adaptor they could find bar a fucking null modem cable!
Get hold of these cables, keep 'em with your laptop and never let anyone borrow them.
I also second the tools CD idea, particularly if you're visiting a lot of different client sites. Burn pre-built GNU binaries (for Solaris, the Sun Freeware site is a good source of pkgs) of things like gzip, bash, perl and less because most corporates who haven't got the open source religion won't even have heard of these tools. (But don't leave them installed after you've left if it's not standard policy.)
There are no "must-haves" outside of broad topics like scripting & TCP/IP, because the required skills vary from job to job depending on what a particular site is using. Hence the main soft skill you "must have" is adaptability - the key to which is the ability to locate, read and understand documentation (RTFM). The lack of this ability is the main failing I find in weaker admins.
On a more practical level, learning how to configure and run the following applications, which you can do at home on a small Linux network, will give you a solid grounding in many Unix admin principles & relevant protocols even if you then take a job where some or all of them are irrelevant:
DNS
Firewalling (iptables) w/ NAT
NFS & autofs
Apache
Sendmail
MySQL or similar RDBMS
Optionally: NIS (popular in the Sun world, but LDAP may be more forward-looking); NTP; Samba; INN
(Note: You will make many mistakes while setting these up. The methods and means by which you debug these errors will be the measure of you as a sysadmin. Research and use the tools you have well. Do not give in to the dark side, Luke... wait, wrong movie.)
Yeah, an' if we all go out and KILL someone we don't like - Hilary Rosen maybe - then They'll make murder legal to save the hassle of ten million criminal trials! Plus, it will be hard to identify an actual murderer anyway when Hilary has ten million bullets in her.
...Wait, aren't you guys already planning to do something like this with the Iraqis?
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You mean they didn't lobby congress to extend patent terms by fifty years retroactively? Jeez, don't they know how to do business in the modern world?!
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I'm sure Tolkien would have been very proud to see his creation f-ing and blinding on television. He'd think his efforts were all worthwhile. Well done, New Line.
(+1 Sarcastic)
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I haven't been able to read the article due to slashdotting but I used gramofile over a year ago to rip some cassette audio, based on the info in James Tappin's article.
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So when will the Internet be upgraded to support the same features?
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Boycotting Amazon or music companies is hard work and a great personal loss, but boycotting SCO? Sure, can do!! Done it my whole life and honestly, it hasn't degraded my quality of living at all!
Ade_
/
Unfortunately, as you might guess by the wide varity of recommendations here, you need a combination of packages to create a complete solution. There isn't one program that will satisfy all requirements (monitoring, notification, performance stats, reporting, trending, etc.).
As an example, we use the following:
Nagios
Notifications and real-time monitoring.
Logcheck
Daily syslog reports.
cfengine
Configuration and limited problem correction.
SAR
Performance data. Well, it was free with the OS. Unfortunately, we don't have a good solution to collate and analyse this data.
WebSphere Resource Analyser
Actually, we just fire this up for a laugh and to impress management. Ghod forbid we ever took anything it said seriously. Avoid proprietary crack!
There are other tools we run on an adhoc basis, like nmap. I think snort is an excellent security tool, but our network isn't set up to support it yet. If you bite the bullet, you can probably achieve a lot by installing NET-SNMP everywhere, with a decent SNMP monitoring package.
Remember this: syslog is your friend. If you have a lot of locally-developed scripts that run regularly, you can make a big gain by inserting commands to log important events at a single, reserved syslog priority level, which is directed to a monitored file on a central loghost. E.g.:
logger -p local1.info -t $0 "ran OK"
logger -p local1.warning -t $0 "failed"
etc.
Be prepared to spend several weeks or months configuring and tuning this stuff to give you what you want. If you want something integrated or complex, be prepared to write the code for gluing it all together.
Ade_
/
I have a Classic running RHL 6.2 because that was the last supported release on SPARC. It's been extremely stable (KDE/GNOME apps run like dying dogs though). However, my new SS5 will run Aurora Linux 1.0, which is based on RHL 7.3 and has a 2.4 kernel.
Ade_
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Not to mention that in a web cluster, the CA will charge you for a cert for each server in the cluster that serves that particular site. (Check your license agreement/TOS.)
Ade_
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> I have a girlfriend for fun.
"Oh, so I'm 'for fun', am I?! This is just a fling to you, is that it?! You've never taken this relationship seriously! Why won't you make any commitment?? Let me tell you, mister..."
etc.
Not forgetting of course: "We're the dot in
Ade_
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You've never discovered the full startling impact of that phrase until you've been presented with a diagram of a box and an arrow that ... ghod help me, the horror, the horror ... leads to a point outside it! This pulls off the seemingly impossible trick of being a totally literal interpretation that simultaneously fails to explain anything at all.
I know. I was presented with said diagram within two weeks of joining my employer.
Ade_
/
...People who divine the future and interpret industry news by gazing up their own asses.
"Sun's single operating system, single chipset design, is getting a little old now," said keen MTV viewer and Sageza Group analyst Charles King.
At least Sun is making steps in the right direction, analysts say. Its new blades are compatible with Intel systems, as if this is fucking news to anyone who has ever put a PCI card in an E450.
"That means customers can connect Sun's products with all types of different blades and use them together," said Jim Garden, a deluded inmate in the special care wing of the local happy house. Unless "use them together" means "plug them into the same electric supply".
"Now they've got to go out and win more customers." Doh! That's where they've been going wrong! Although come to think of it, I can recall several companies that seem to be on the opposite tack.
Ade_
/
Telsa makes a point of mentioning Tim Tams (the Antipodean equivalent of Penguins, but much nicer), which are almost worth going to Australia for alone. (You can get them in NZ too - try the caramel ones.) Also, Cadburys chocolate tastes different, and much better, than the same brand in the UK.
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On the other hand, Wales has Tregroes Waffles...
Ade_
(Professor of Chocology)
Ignore the people in this thread who are talking out of their asses and saying multi-host scsi doesn't work well. They just didn't know how to set it up right or have never actually tried it.
As someone who once worked for an also-ran in the Linux HA field, I can back this up. My impression is that the MCLinux people know what they're doing (although I haven't tried the product). I believe they recommend using remotely controllable power switches so that one server can kill the power to the other in the event of failover, ensuring that a dual-mounted filesystem cannot occur; this is a sign that they've thought about the overall solution.
If you're going to implement a manual solution (and you're careful) then you don't need to worry about this (but HA vendor manuals are still useful for the hardware setup details). If you decide to employ failover software, get a good book on HA (Marcus/Stern is recommended) because there certainly used to be a lot of FUD amongst vendors.
Yes, you want a journalling filesystem, otherwise recovery times could be horrendous.
Ade_
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Been there, done that.
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Other fun messages:
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Turn off the PC, open the front door and walk outside: there it is, the world. But really, it's overrated. Go back in where it's warm and log on again.
(In The Art Of Travel, Alain de Botton mentions a writer who wrote a travelogue based on a journey around his bedroom.)
Ade_
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...And you wonder where code bloat comes from.
Ade_
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Few companies, no matter how well-funded, seem to have the nous to keep a stock of spare cables. And the concept of crossover cables (e.g. "null modem" RS232, cascade UTP)? Well, that just blows their little minds. I told those guys that Sun boxes need a null modem serial link for the console port. I mailed them a link to the wiring diagram. I said it at every opportunity before the machines arrived. And when they came, they still tried to plug in every combination of serial lead and adaptor they could find bar a fucking null modem cable!
Get hold of these cables, keep 'em with your laptop and never let anyone borrow them.
I also second the tools CD idea, particularly if you're visiting a lot of different client sites. Burn pre-built GNU binaries (for Solaris, the Sun Freeware site is a good source of pkgs) of things like gzip, bash, perl and less because most corporates who haven't got the open source religion won't even have heard of these tools. (But don't leave them installed after you've left if it's not standard policy.)
Ade_
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If so, I may have to buy it so I can be down with the kids on the street. Yo.
Ade_
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On a more practical level, learning how to configure and run the following applications, which you can do at home on a small Linux network, will give you a solid grounding in many Unix admin principles & relevant protocols even if you then take a job where some or all of them are irrelevant:
(Note: You will make many mistakes while setting these up. The methods and means by which you debug these errors will be the measure of you as a sysadmin. Research and use the tools you have well. Do not give in to the dark side, Luke... wait, wrong movie.)
Good luck with your well-chosen career.
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Maybe they should glue Tori's mouth shut so she can't sing outside her contract. 'Course, her husband will lose out...
Or glue her mouth to a microphone glued to the console of a soundboard nailed down in a recording studio owned by Epic.
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That prefs bar is hot sex on a stick. Cheers for the link.
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