Agreed; basically Nagios a mess, but it's pretty-much the standard unfortunately, as it kinda-sorta gets the job done.
My main problem with the current crop of monitoring tools is that they are all either about availablility (Nagios, et al) or performance (MRTG, Cacti). Currently I'm using Nagios+Cacti, which kinda-sorta works for me, but it would be nice to have a single coherent interface to my systems. Zenoss also looks interesting, although I haven't tried it yet, but I'd like to hear of any other possibilities.
Add to that the fact that Java is rapidly gaining first-class support in mono via IKVM. From the IKVM blog:
The next Mono release will contain the C half of the IKVM JNI provider and the next IKVM snapshot will contain the C# half of the Mono JNI provider. This means that JNI will work out of the box on Mono (for the parts of JNI that are actually implemented).
This will hopefully attract developers who want want to go the Mono route but can't afford to lose their existing codebase/knowledge.
It'll be interesting to look back on
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Every now and then I have a look around me and wonder what will look really dated in a few years; you know, those little things that mark a particular time and look completely daft to look back on.
It's got a pretty-good 'wow'-factor, and is one of those things that people instantly want at their own site. The coolest thing is that it scales; it runs on hardware ranging from a laptop with a webcam to a custom-build facility.
That in itself is the problem in many ways. There is no provision in Australian law for fair-use. You are not explicitly allowed to use any copyrighted material; there are implied uses of purchased material, but when it comes to the crunch there is nothing in Australian copyright law that says you are allowed to use something you have purchased for *anything*.
The problem with trying to change these sort of laws at the moment is that no-one outside of the software industry understands the ridiculousness of this situation. Until now. The next time you want to explain this to the average bloke in the street there is the perfect real-world example: "Imagine you've just bought a wood-working tool, but when you open the packet you discover you've already agreed to these terms...."
Given Sun's history of squabbling with MS, frequently just for spite, there's a possibility that as a last parting blow they may completely free Java, marginalising.NET and paving the way for a merging of the best parts of.NET and Java.
If you're having problems playing the.mov under xine or mplayer (keeps skipping/freezing) mencoder can re-encode it to DivX. The following commandline gives good quality that'll play on my 700 athlon and is a third of the size too:
Self-serving though the article is, it does make one good point: that the internet can lower the costs for candidates, potentially opening the doors to some who would not run. However, spamming is not the answer.
An alternative would be for the government should create opt-in mailing lists (or web forums) in the spirit of equal-time laws, that allow posting by all registered candidates, that anybody may subscribe to. This would enhance public debate on issues (as candidates would be able to counter their opponents claims in the same forum), without forcing those debates upon those who have no interest.
This sounds CPU intensive. You need to hammer the IO subsystem to really see the effects of latency.
It's not a question of the CPU being overloaded as a case of the the scheduler denying access to the CPU at critical times.
Once again it's worth mentioning the preemptible kernel patch. I've been running this for the last couple of releases, and for a developer's desktop system it give noticable results.
Case in point from yesterday: Running gnome desktop, with a kernel build going in the background, while ripping a CD, running mozilla and netscape 4.x, and running and testing a mod_perl/mysql system, all on the same machine, xmms didn't miss a beat.
No, I'm not exaggerating. This was all on a 700MHz Athlon, 256M, IDE.
I've never understood why these things have to be pink. I mean, it's not as if it's going fool anybody. I'd rather have one in black, or medical blue, or just bare.
Better to get "You have a bionic hand? Cool!" than "Your hand.. erm.. it's very realistic. No really, I couldn't tell."
All these people crying "It's a hoax!". No it's not, it's satire! Right at the bottom of the article :
Note: This article is a piece of satire meant to brighten your day.
Yet right after that are comments from readers about it being a hoax. Astounding. At times like this the terms "A new order" and "Swept clean by fire" spring to mind.
My girlfriend and I had a discussion about this last week. It got a bit heated (wine was involved:), but in the end there was one main thing we agreed on: while men and women may be capable of the same things, men often go further because of focus.
It's one thing to have a talent for something. But to to truly master a field requires a certain amount of mono-mania. This is what makes true masters of their art what they are. It's also what makes many geeks insufferable people to deal with.
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Agreed; basically Nagios a mess, but it's pretty-much the standard unfortunately, as it kinda-sorta gets the job done.
My main problem with the current crop of monitoring tools is that they are all either about availablility (Nagios, et al) or performance (MRTG, Cacti). Currently I'm using Nagios+Cacti, which kinda-sorta works for me, but it would be nice to have a single coherent interface to my systems. Zenoss also looks interesting, although I haven't tried it yet, but I'd like to hear of any other possibilities.
Yes, a silly mistake, but ultimately it doesn't make any difference as any host on the internet is scanned and attacked all the time.
Still, gives me an incentive to re-check my configuration.
... And obviously replace your hostname with mine
Add the following to your ~/.ssh/config:
Then ssh into the machine to create the tunnel. You then connect to the remote VNC session with "xvncviewer localhost:1".
This will hopefully attract developers who want want to go the Mono route but can't afford to lose their existing codebase/knowledge.
Things from today:
Care to add?
You could set up an access-grid node:
http://www.accessgrid.org/
It's got a pretty-good 'wow'-factor, and is one of those things that people instantly want at their own site. The coolest thing is that it scales; it runs on hardware ranging from a laptop with a webcam to a custom-build facility.
That in itself is the problem in many ways. There is no provision in Australian law for fair-use. You are not explicitly allowed to use any copyrighted material; there are implied uses of purchased material, but when it comes to the crunch there is nothing in Australian copyright law that says you are allowed to use something you have purchased for *anything*.
The problem with trying to change these sort of laws at the moment is that no-one outside of the software industry understands the ridiculousness of this situation. Until now. The next time you want to explain this to the average bloke in the street there is the perfect real-world example: "Imagine you've just bought a wood-working tool, but when you open the packet you discover you've already agreed to these terms ...."
Given Sun's history of squabbling with MS, frequently just for spite, there's a possibility that as a last parting blow they may completely free Java, marginalising .NET and paving the way for a merging of the best parts of .NET and Java.
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I'm such a dreamer
Ahha, gotcha! You are Philip Ruddock and I claim my autographed
Pauline Hanson mug!
mencoder -v trailer_final_1000_dl.mov -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=128 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vbitrate=1800
HTH
An alternative would be for the government should create opt-in mailing lists (or web forums) in the spirit of equal-time laws, that allow posting by all registered candidates, that anybody may subscribe to. This would enhance public debate on issues (as candidates would be able to counter their opponents claims in the same forum), without forcing those debates upon those who have no interest.
What has the People's Front of Judea have to do with the Technical Commitee?
(Splitters!)
It's not a question of the CPU being overloaded as a case of the the scheduler denying access to the CPU at critical times.
Of course, I'm not a kernel hacker, so YMMV.
It does if you try and rip a CD at the same time :)
Admittedly, I hadn't tried under the 2.4 series without preempt patch, but under 2.2 a CD rip caused an occasional audio dropout.
Take a look at the results of the audio latency benchmark at the project page. That states that you'll start seeing dropouts at 5.8ms latency.
Case in point from yesterday: Running gnome desktop, with a kernel build going in the background, while ripping a CD, running mozilla and netscape 4.x, and running and testing a mod_perl/mysql system, all on the same machine, xmms didn't miss a beat.
No, I'm not exaggerating. This was all on a 700MHz Athlon, 256M, IDE.
The .11-pre6 patch applies and builds. I'm running on it now.
Basically, he says they are a dangerous thing ...
The comforts you demanded are now mandatory -- Jello Biafra
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Better to get "You have a bionic hand? Cool!" than "Your hand .. erm .. it's very realistic. No really, I couldn't tell."
Right at the bottom of the article : Yet right after that are comments from readers about it being a hoax. Astounding. At times like this the terms "A new order" and "Swept clean by fire" spring to mind.
It's one thing to have a talent for something. But to to truly master a field requires a certain amount of mono-mania. This is what makes true masters of their art what they are. It's also what makes many geeks insufferable people to deal with.