I suppose it's just a coincidence that the reiser benchmarks page doesn't compare it to XFS... or maybe they were too embarassed to show the results? ---
Please quit being a total twit. XFS has its' place, but for now, we are discussing ReiserFS. Just for the record, ReiserFS has been around for years, and does a great job with mixing loads of little to medium files. While XFS does an ok job, it really excells with the large files, in particular, very large sparse files.
I just wanted to add my two cents to this: We had done internal benchmarks at our company, and found XFS to be the fastest filesystem, and seemed to have a good track record with the community. (We didn't consider reiserfs because of its lack of bad block handling). Either way, we converted ONE of our 2 Terabyte mount points to XFS. Whenever a file would be created on that mount point that exceeded 4G, bdflush would peg the cpu at 100%, commits to the disk would cease, and file system corruption ensured.
This was with kernel 2.4.23.. The problem was fixed in 2.4.25 (maybe 2.4.24, but we never tested that kernel). When we had this issue, and linked it to XFS (through another test system), we quickly migrated away from XFS, back to ext3.
We never had a problem like that was the ext's. We've lost data with both reiserfs and XFS. And if you grep the changelog for the kernels on XFS, you'll see tons of fixes for "deadlocks, race conditions, oopses", etc. These were all fixes AFTER 2.4.23..
Lesson: Stop playing with something that works, and be happy your servers serve. We never made it to testing JFS, and we probably won't. Ext3 might not be the fastest kid on the street, but it has been the most reliable for us.
But you're right. Any terrorist would have to be an idiot to try that again right now. If nothing else, the passengers would fight back this time.
Are you so sure about that? Heck, on a flight of 200 people, I'd be willing to bet less than 20 think about doing something, and less than 5 take action.
We need Red Foreman telling the American people, "You wussie!" Mabye with enough harrassment we'd stand up and have a backbone again. But for now, we're content with the Democrats telling us we need their protection because we can't think for ourselves.
I would like to point out that a lot of Americans are quite in favour of the U.S. government doing this in the name of protecting them.
Thats because our "society" is all for the "its not my fault" mantra. We've been brain washed by the media to believe we need someone to hold our hand, we need someone to make sure we don't hurt ourselves, and yes, even when you picked up that knife and killed your sister, it was really the bottled up rage of a repressed memory of being touched by your priest.
Our society has been led to believe it is not capable of doing anything for itself, and taking its own responibility. Our forefathers are rolling over in their graves; what they did has been thrown to the wind, in the name of government protection.
Nothing in this def says a documentary can't have a point view. Also, dictionary.com, while convenient, is the Reader's Digest of dictionaries. If there are any subtleties in a definition, you won't find them there.
I think what you meant to say was, "you won't find any perversions there". Lets look at a few definitions of the word Marriage:
From Dictionary.com: The legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife.
The state of being married; wedlock.
A common-law marriage.
A union between two persons having the customary but usually not the legal force of marriage: a same-sex marriage.
Note: they define same sex marriage as a seperate form of the word - not the same thing as Marriage (n).
Encarta's definition: marriage (plural marriages)
noun
1. legal relationship between spouses: a legally recognized relationship, established by a civil or religious ceremony, between two people who intend to live together as sexual and domestic partners
2. particular marriage relationship: a married relationship between two particular people, or an individuals relationship with an individual spouse
3. joining in wedlock: the joining together in wedlock of two people
Gee, what do we see here? NO mention of opposite sex.Think that is surpising? Go to google and do a define:marriage and see what comes up. Most of the definitions are very similar.
Just because people are re-writing the dictionary or re-inventing laws (take the 1st and 2nd amendment wording and "define" it - for some reason its horrendously difficult to do correctly), does not make it right. All that proves is that that the liberals in our country are trying to bend society towards their morally questionable will, any way they can. Get enough people "educated" on the new definitons, and whadda know? Now its the established culture.
ReiserFS 3 had bugs in the early versions just as all software will. That is why reiserFS was not used for productions systems for a while. It will probably be the same with ReiserFS 4
Lets not forget that ReiserFS has POOR BAD BLOCK CHECKING and little support for bad blocks. Their "hack" was to unmount the filesystem, run badblocks on the drive, and then allocate the bad areas that badblocks found as "in use". Thats crap. That needs to be a filesystem freature, not something I have to do manually, with an UNMOUNTED filesystem. Heck, FAT16 has bad block support. Where's ReiserFS?
I can't see running a production box on a FS without bad block handling.
let's not overlook the obvious. People put modchips in their consoles so they can play stolen (ie, burned) games.
People use cars to get away from cops.
People use fertilizer to blow up buildings.
People use gasoline for arsen.
People use (insert item here) for (insert action here).
By your reasoning, everything should be illegal, because you plainly state: If people did NOT use modchips for that purpose, this law wouldn't be necessary.
So, because everything can be used illegally, everything should be illegal, right?
I'm sick and tired of mankind's willingness to say, "This doesn't affect me, so I'm going to roll over and take it". Pretty soon, you roll over enough, there's no more room to roll over, because all of your rights are gone.
Until telnetd is totally removed (not just turned off) from Linux, Linux will not be secure. There are just too many exploits involving telnet to take Linux seriously.
Bad example. There's a telnet service in Windows too.
When was the last time telnet was exploitable? telnet is sniffable. Big deal, so is imap, pop3, smtp, http, you name it. Sniffing should not count against an OS - its a problem with the protocol, which is inherint to all internet based OSes. Heck, lets just say anything that uses TCP/IP is too insecure for internet access.
Here's an example:
RHSA-2004:174-09 Fix: utempter local exploit.
Ok. A local exploit. Granted, an exploit, but still, its a local exploit. This is what these so called "secuity" groups need to realize - webservers on the DMZ typically don't have local access for joebob to login to. Typically, they have ports 80,443, and maybe 22 open. So now, all of those 60+ exploits attributed to Red Hat become 0 (thats Zero, with a 0). True, Red Hat had more published advisories than Windows did in the same time period, but Windows didn't ship with nearly the amount of software Red Hat did, and no "sysadmin" is going to put a box on the DMZ, running every service on the box, with no firewall. It just doesn't happen.
So all of these so called security groups can shove it, because thats not real world security. Why don't they do a study on how many linux/unix sys admins patch their boxes diligently vs how many windows admins bothered to patch their boxes with patches available months before code red and other internet problems plagued the internet?
PS: On Windows, it'd be port 3389 (remote desktop), not port 22... And BOTH services (ssh and rdp) have had remote exploits available, so you can't retort with the "ssh is insecure" BS.
seems to be the American way of doing buisness thesedays
How old are you? One?
I just saw a History Channel show about the gold rush and copper rush in the 1800s. Seems that the smog and toxic fumes produced from smelting was passed off to the town's people as "good for the complexion" of young women.
Yeah, what a load of crap.
"Mommy, my eyes are watering and its hard to breathe!"
The state--by which I mean "all the rest of us"--have an interest in keeping you alive and well. If you don't wear a seat belt, your immediate family mourns, the healthcare system gets yet another avoidable strain, and the rest of us wind up paying more in taxes and insurance fees.
So, you're a communist huh? Did Columbus have a seat belt on when he discovered the new world? NO. Why the hell do I need the government to make these desisions for me? I don't. Its assholes like you that roll over and tell the government "Oh, woe is me. Its so hard to live in this society. Please government, tax me to death, but give me security, healthcare, and protection from myself because I'm too fucking stupid to think."
THAT is the reason our rights are slowly eroding - assholes like you who can't live without some hand holding. Grow up. The government is not "dear old dad". You, hopefully, aren't still falling off your bike and need your owies kissed...
Or maybe the government should step in and make falling off of your bike illegal too?
You inslut the memory of every person who ever died for daring to try and find a better life away from tyranny by comparing the mere need to identify yourself to a police officer with the controls that the tyrannical regimes of the 20th century used to keep their population from seeking freedom.
And how the HELL do you think it started? We HAVE to defend our freedoms, and we HAVE to defend our liberties, or assholes like you that say "It doesn't affect me" will let the government do what it will - with the slow errosion of our basic rights.
Why sir, do you wear a seatbelt? Is not your life YOUR responsibility? Oh, but wait, some asshole like you said, "I don't mind", and BOOM, its now a law. Your ability to think for yourself is taken away. SLOWLY taken away, and it will continue to be taken away each time some asshole like you says, "it doesn't affect me." and doesn't speak to stop the government.
I spit at your feet for having the audacity to say this is meaningless.
I know of people who use 3ware cards for large RAID-5 servers, but only use the 3ware cards as "dumb" IDE controllers, and leave the RAID-5 handling to SW-RAID. The reason? Their benchmarks indicate that this is significantly faster.
First off, 3Ware cards cannot be used as "dumb" IDE controllers - they only support logical drives - creating single drives is not possible, nor is leaving unassigned drives.
Second, Software raid will always suck for one big reason: A drive fails, your system locks up.
I have not seen any software based controller (promise, Silicon Image, High Point) or complete software based solution (Windows 2000/2k3 server's RAID, or Linux's md raid) on standard IDE controllers stay alive after a drive fails. It always takes the box down with it.
When you buy a hardware based RAID solution, the controller handles the drive failure gracefully, which keeps the machine running. "Dumb" IDE controllers don't know they're raided (they are dumb after all), so when a drive fails, they freak out.
3Ware makes a TRUE hardware based RAID solution that is intelligent enough to email you when a drive fails. Their 2 channel cards (SATA and PATA) are roughly $100, and their 4 Channel cards (RAID-5-able) are $250 and $350. Its well worth the money.
I've not used the LSI Megaraid SATA controller yet (I plan to); I've had good luck with their cards for SCSI RAID, and they carry a slightly cheaper price tag than the 3Ware cards.
No, I do not work for 3Ware - I think suggesting software RAID to anyone is a bad idea. I've seen people loose data with promise controllers, which are nothing more than glorified IDE controllers with software doing the RAID functionality. Software RAID is BAD.
After all, being forced to type in paragraphs of complete gibberish is better than being able to click a checkbox. Your penis size, er, sysadmin skills depend on how many words you type a minute when you administer a network.
I'm sorry. What version of IOS were you using that allowed you to completley formulate all of your routing rules with a checkbox?
There are not many high end routers that allow a GUI to configure them. And the ones that do have GUIs have such limited GUI functionality that you may as well never go through the trouble to set it up and just stick with the command prompt.
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Gee, none of those have a true fully functional GUI. And don't even get me started on using Linux as a router or traffic shaper - that isn't GUI configurable either.
And rebuking me with "Look what Microsoft IAS can do" is not proof that a fully functional GUI can exists for routing.
For many of us, its not penis size or words per minute that make us want to use the command prompt. Its the only place to get real work done.
When you've spent so much money on getting those certs to be a MCSE, its easy to loose track on how to actually operate a network.
...Windows users!? I hear those savages aren't even circumcized!
The solution is to politely but firmly ask that they stop, and tell them that you will have no problem going to get an usher if they continue.
Lets have a show of hands. How many of us here have polite parents or grand parents?
Our parents and grandparents, guaranteed, got spanked, hit, and did manual labor when they got in trouble. They had to work when they were bad. When they tried to sit and it hurt, they thought about that spanking. When they tried to eat dinner at the table and their arms are sore, they thought about the work in the garden.
Kids don't need a talking to. Kids need to be punished. That is what taught generations of polite citizens.
I had a friend who was a pharmacist at a hospital in northern Michigan (UP, Keweenaw area). He ordered some medical supplies from a place, and said "ship them UPS overnight. *DO* *NOT* ship them FedEx." Well, they shipped them FedEx overnight.
We won't ship via UPS anymore, period. We had to send a server in for repair, shipped it via UPS. The server (a 1U rack) - in the original manufacturer's packaging - arrived folded over about 2 inches in the middle. This was a steel case. UPS claimed that they would not reimburse us for the equipment because the packaging was insufficient. We fought and fought this with UPS, and they would not back down.
Has no place in this world anymore. We can scream, we can rally, and we can vote, but it doesn't do a damn thing to the outcome. All that matters to those in power is the money changing hands.
It is rare that public outcry ever changes laws, especially when money is the primary motivating factor for congressmen.
Just recently the US Supreme Court *upheld* a law that is essentially a gag-order on the NRA during election time. Free Speech is prevented, and the NRA cannot speak out again any person running for office for 2 months prior to the election. The opposite is not true however - the candidate is provided full free speech against the NRA during that time.
Get out and vote! HA! What a crock of shit anymore. Better that you just give large cash donations if you want your opinion heard.
People keep talking about storage clusters done with PC's using 3Ware or other multi-channel SATA RAID cards. I've got nothing against 3Ware - They run several of my "low end" servers at our office, but what we really love are Infortrend boxes.
You're not running a full blown OS on each box, the box is a self contained RAID system. We've deployed several of these boxes to clients, typically using the SCSI-to-SATA boxes (shows as a large SCSI device to the HBA, but is running 16 250G SATA drives (4TB RAW!)).
Its a very inexpensive way to store massive amounts of data and have it directly attached.
We've just started to look at moving to Fibre. They have a Fibre-to-SATA JBOD getting ready to ship, and with the Fibre head unit, we could expand quite a bit. We've got 12T online now, and are growing at a rate of 2.2G per week. With traditional SCSI based SANs, that would be impossibly expensive.
Moreover, it raises questions of responsibility: if the worm writer is caught, can he be held at least partially responsible for any deaths that occured during this outage?"
Hopefully he gets caught and charged with him crimes in a county where they still believe in cruel and unusual punishment. You kill someone here in the states, and you're a good boy in prision - you're back out in 4 years.
Proof that our legal system is too weak. We implimented tourture, strecth racks, and iron maidens again, we'd have a lot less crime.
Have you ever had this machine running Windows? I have that same board, and a certain revision of that board WILL NOT run an NVidia card higher than a GeForce2 GTS/PRO. There was a problem delivering enough current to the AGP slot, which the higher GeForce cards required. I happen to be the lucky guy who had the board with the bad revision. The dual system is now my fileserver, as no one wanted it for anything else (certianly not good for gaming).
I believe the PHB term is synergizing core energies
Or just say you're a devout believer in Sigma Seven, and all those PHBs who heard how great Sigma Seven is, but are too lazy to read the book will promote you to management to make it happen!
To quote from the article: While exactly copying a processor's microarchitecture would be illegal, creating a compatible product through the use of an original "clean room" design is legally protected.
So, if what Halfhill says is true, how did Intel make it illegal for VIA to make a chipset for the P4? How did Intel prevent AMD from making chips that would fit in Socket 370 and Slot 1? That was the reason for the "socket wars" - to prevent AMD from making compatible products.
Thats complete BS if Intel can get away with this and AMD had to suffer for it.
I've had a serious lack of luck trying to find anything on the sub $3000 market that supports Jumbo Frames. It appears that only Cisco, Nortel and some high end HP switches supported Jumbo Framing. I have the Netgear 4 port GigE which does not support Jumbo Frames. I looked at Netgear's Managed Layer 3 24port switch, which also doesn't appear to support it. Two network cards doing a crossover cable had no problem with it, but the switch sure didn't like it. Linksys is the same way with their GigE switches. Only the 'big boys' get to have Jumbo Frames
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I suppose it's just a coincidence that the reiser benchmarks page doesn't compare it to XFS... or maybe they were too embarassed to show the results?
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Please quit being a total twit. XFS has its' place, but for now, we are discussing ReiserFS. Just for the record, ReiserFS has been around for years, and does a great job with mixing loads of little to medium files. While XFS does an ok job, it really excells with the large files, in particular, very large sparse files.
I just wanted to add my two cents to this: We had done internal benchmarks at our company, and found XFS to be the fastest filesystem, and seemed to have a good track record with the community. (We didn't consider reiserfs because of its lack of bad block handling).
Either way, we converted ONE of our 2 Terabyte mount points to XFS. Whenever a file would be created on that mount point that exceeded 4G, bdflush would peg the cpu at 100%, commits to the disk would cease, and file system corruption ensured.
This was with kernel 2.4.23.. The problem was fixed in 2.4.25 (maybe 2.4.24, but we never tested that kernel). When we had this issue, and linked it to XFS (through another test system), we quickly migrated away from XFS, back to ext3.
We never had a problem like that was the ext's. We've lost data with both reiserfs and XFS. And if you grep the changelog for the kernels on XFS, you'll see tons of fixes for "deadlocks, race conditions, oopses", etc. These were all fixes AFTER 2.4.23..
Lesson: Stop playing with something that works, and be happy your servers serve. We never made it to testing JFS, and we probably won't. Ext3 might not be the fastest kid on the street, but it has been the most reliable for us.
But you're right. Any terrorist would have to be an idiot to try that again right now. If nothing else, the passengers would fight back this time.
Are you so sure about that? Heck, on a flight of 200 people, I'd be willing to bet less than 20 think about doing something, and less than 5 take action.
We need Red Foreman telling the American people, "You wussie!" Mabye with enough harrassment we'd stand up and have a backbone again. But for now, we're content with the Democrats telling us we need their protection because we can't think for ourselves.
If you want fat-powered vehicles to work on a large scale and sustainably in America, put Americans on bicycles.
Or start offering free liposuction. After all, we are the fattest country on earth.
I would like to point out that a lot of Americans are quite in favour of the U.S. government doing this in the name of protecting them.
Thats because our "society" is all for the "its not my fault" mantra. We've been brain washed by the media to believe we need someone to hold our hand, we need someone to make sure we don't hurt ourselves, and yes, even when you picked up that knife and killed your sister, it was really the bottled up rage of a repressed memory of being touched by your priest.
Our society has been led to believe it is not capable of doing anything for itself, and taking its own responibility. Our forefathers are rolling over in their graves; what they did has been thrown to the wind, in the name of government protection.
What is this I see? Someone actually posting a non-selfish post on slashdot? ..... (looking up) I KNEW IT.. "RUN!!! THE SKY IS FALLING!"
Keep up the good fight. I liked what you said!
Nothing in this def says a documentary can't have a point view. Also, dictionary.com, while convenient, is the Reader's Digest of dictionaries. If there are any subtleties in a definition, you won't find them there.
I think what you meant to say was, "you won't find any perversions there". Lets look at a few definitions of the word Marriage:
From Dictionary.com:
The legal union of a man and woman as husband and wife.
The state of being married; wedlock.
A common-law marriage.
A union between two persons having the customary but usually not the legal force of marriage: a same-sex marriage.
Note: they define same sex marriage as a seperate form of the word - not the same thing as Marriage (n).
Encarta's definition:
marriage (plural marriages)
noun
1. legal relationship between spouses: a legally recognized relationship, established by a civil or religious ceremony, between two people who intend to live together as sexual and domestic partners
2. particular marriage relationship: a married relationship between two particular people, or an individuals relationship with an individual spouse
3. joining in wedlock: the joining together in wedlock of two people
Gee, what do we see here? NO mention of opposite sex.Think that is surpising? Go to google and do a define:marriage and see what comes up. Most of the definitions are very similar.
Just because people are re-writing the dictionary or re-inventing laws (take the 1st and 2nd amendment wording and "define" it - for some reason its horrendously difficult to do correctly), does not make it right. All that proves is that that the liberals in our country are trying to bend society towards their morally questionable will, any way they can. Get enough people "educated" on the new definitons, and whadda know? Now its the established culture.
ReiserFS 3 had bugs in the early versions just as all software will. That is why reiserFS was not used for productions systems for a while. It will probably be the same with ReiserFS 4
Lets not forget that ReiserFS has POOR BAD BLOCK CHECKING and little support for bad blocks. Their "hack" was to unmount the filesystem, run badblocks on the drive, and then allocate the bad areas that badblocks found as "in use". Thats crap. That needs to be a filesystem freature, not something I have to do manually, with an UNMOUNTED filesystem. Heck, FAT16 has bad block support. Where's ReiserFS?
I can't see running a production box on a FS without bad block handling.
let's not overlook the obvious. People put modchips in their consoles so they can play stolen (ie, burned) games.
People use cars to get away from cops.
People use fertilizer to blow up buildings.
People use gasoline for arsen.
People use (insert item here) for (insert action here).
By your reasoning, everything should be illegal, because you plainly state: If people did NOT use modchips for that purpose, this law wouldn't be necessary.
So, because everything can be used illegally, everything should be illegal, right?
I'm sick and tired of mankind's willingness to say, "This doesn't affect me, so I'm going to roll over and take it". Pretty soon, you roll over enough, there's no more room to roll over, because all of your rights are gone.
Until telnetd is totally removed (not just turned off) from Linux, Linux will not be secure. There are just too many exploits involving telnet to take Linux seriously.
Bad example. There's a telnet service in Windows too.
When was the last time telnet was exploitable? telnet is sniffable. Big deal, so is imap, pop3, smtp, http, you name it. Sniffing should not count against an OS - its a problem with the protocol, which is inherint to all internet based OSes. Heck, lets just say anything that uses TCP/IP is too insecure for internet access.
Here's an example:
RHSA-2004:174-09
Fix: utempter local exploit.
Ok. A local exploit. Granted, an exploit, but still, its a local exploit. This is what these so called "secuity" groups need to realize - webservers on the DMZ typically don't have local access for joebob to login to. Typically, they have ports 80,443, and maybe 22 open. So now, all of those 60+ exploits attributed to Red Hat become 0 (thats Zero, with a 0). True, Red Hat had more published advisories than Windows did in the same time period, but Windows didn't ship with nearly the amount of software Red Hat did, and no "sysadmin" is going to put a box on the DMZ, running every service on the box, with no firewall. It just doesn't happen.
So all of these so called security groups can shove it, because thats not real world security. Why don't they do a study on how many linux/unix sys admins patch their boxes diligently vs how many windows admins bothered to patch their boxes with patches available months before code red and other internet problems plagued the internet?
PS: On Windows, it'd be port 3389 (remote desktop), not port 22... And BOTH services (ssh and rdp) have had remote exploits available, so you can't retort with the "ssh is insecure" BS.
seems to be the American way of doing buisness thesedays
How old are you? One?
I just saw a History Channel show about the gold rush and copper rush in the 1800s. Seems that the smog and toxic fumes produced from smelting was passed off to the town's people as "good for the complexion" of young women.
Yeah, what a load of crap.
"Mommy, my eyes are watering and its hard to breathe!"
"Quiet Johnny, its good for mommy's skin."
The state--by which I mean "all the rest of us"--have an interest in keeping you alive and well. If you don't wear a seat belt, your immediate family mourns, the healthcare system gets yet another avoidable strain, and the rest of us wind up paying more in taxes and insurance fees.
So, you're a communist huh? Did Columbus have a seat belt on when he discovered the new world? NO. Why the hell do I need the government to make these desisions for me? I don't. Its assholes like you that roll over and tell the government "Oh, woe is me. Its so hard to live in this society. Please government, tax me to death, but give me security, healthcare, and protection from myself because I'm too fucking stupid to think."
THAT is the reason our rights are slowly eroding - assholes like you who can't live without some hand holding. Grow up. The government is not "dear old dad". You, hopefully, aren't still falling off your bike and need your owies kissed...
Or maybe the government should step in and make falling off of your bike illegal too?
I have lost touch with many people because they changed email addresses and never told anyone.
Sounds to me like your friends needed to spend $15 a year and buy their own domain name.
You inslut the memory of every person who ever died for daring to try and find a better life away from tyranny by comparing the mere need to identify yourself to a police officer with the controls that the tyrannical regimes of the 20th century used to keep their population from seeking freedom.
And how the HELL do you think it started? We HAVE to defend our freedoms, and we HAVE to defend our liberties, or assholes like you that say "It doesn't affect me" will let the government do what it will - with the slow errosion of our basic rights.
Why sir, do you wear a seatbelt? Is not your life YOUR responsibility? Oh, but wait, some asshole like you said, "I don't mind", and BOOM, its now a law. Your ability to think for yourself is taken away. SLOWLY taken away, and it will continue to be taken away each time some asshole like you says, "it doesn't affect me." and doesn't speak to stop the government.
I spit at your feet for having the audacity to say this is meaningless.
I know of people who use 3ware cards for large RAID-5 servers, but only use the 3ware cards as "dumb" IDE controllers, and leave the RAID-5 handling to SW-RAID. The reason? Their benchmarks indicate that this is significantly faster.
First off, 3Ware cards cannot be used as "dumb" IDE controllers - they only support logical drives - creating single drives is not possible, nor is leaving unassigned drives.
Second, Software raid will always suck for one big reason: A drive fails, your system locks up.
I have not seen any software based controller (promise, Silicon Image, High Point) or complete software based solution (Windows 2000/2k3 server's RAID, or Linux's md raid) on standard IDE controllers stay alive after a drive fails. It always takes the box down with it.
When you buy a hardware based RAID solution, the controller handles the drive failure gracefully, which keeps the machine running. "Dumb" IDE controllers don't know they're raided (they are dumb after all), so when a drive fails, they freak out.
3Ware makes a TRUE hardware based RAID solution that is intelligent enough to email you when a drive fails. Their 2 channel cards (SATA and PATA) are roughly $100, and their 4 Channel cards (RAID-5-able) are $250 and $350. Its well worth the money.
I've not used the LSI Megaraid SATA controller yet (I plan to); I've had good luck with their cards for SCSI RAID, and they carry a slightly cheaper price tag than the 3Ware cards.
No, I do not work for 3Ware - I think suggesting software RAID to anyone is a bad idea. I've seen people loose data with promise controllers, which are nothing more than glorified IDE controllers with software doing the RAID functionality. Software RAID is BAD.
After all, being forced to type in paragraphs of complete gibberish is better than being able to click a checkbox. Your penis size, er, sysadmin skills depend on how many words you type a minute when you administer a network.
I'm sorry. What version of IOS were you using that allowed you to completley formulate all of your routing rules with a checkbox?
There are not many high end routers that allow a GUI to configure them. And the ones that do have GUIs have such limited GUI functionality that you may as well never go through the trouble to set it up and just stick with the command prompt.
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Gee, none of those have a true fully functional GUI. And don't even get me started on using Linux as a router or traffic shaper - that isn't GUI configurable either.
And rebuking me with "Look what Microsoft IAS can do" is not proof that a fully functional GUI can exists for routing.
For many of us, its not penis size or words per minute that make us want to use the command prompt. Its the only place to get real work done.
When you've spent so much money on getting those certs to be a MCSE, its easy to loose track on how to actually operate a network.
...Windows users!? I hear those savages aren't even circumcized!
The solution is to politely but firmly ask that they stop, and tell them that you will have no problem going to get an usher if they continue.
Lets have a show of hands. How many of us here have polite parents or grand parents?
Our parents and grandparents, guaranteed, got spanked, hit, and did manual labor when they got in trouble. They had to work when they were bad. When they tried to sit and it hurt, they thought about that spanking. When they tried to eat dinner at the table and their arms are sore, they thought about the work in the garden.
Kids don't need a talking to. Kids need to be punished. That is what taught generations of polite citizens.
I had a friend who was a pharmacist at a hospital in northern Michigan (UP, Keweenaw area). He ordered some medical supplies from a place, and said "ship them UPS overnight. *DO* *NOT* ship them FedEx." Well, they shipped them FedEx overnight.
We won't ship via UPS anymore, period. We had to send a server in for repair, shipped it via UPS. The server (a 1U rack) - in the original manufacturer's packaging - arrived folded over about 2 inches in the middle. This was a steel case. UPS claimed that they would not reimburse us for the equipment because the packaging was insufficient. We fought and fought this with UPS, and they would not back down.
So, we will never give business again to UPS.
Has no place in this world anymore. We can scream, we can rally, and we can vote, but it doesn't do a damn thing to the outcome. All that matters to those in power is the money changing hands.
It is rare that public outcry ever changes laws, especially when money is the primary motivating factor for congressmen.
Just recently the US Supreme Court *upheld* a law that is essentially a gag-order on the NRA during election time. Free Speech is prevented, and the NRA cannot speak out again any person running for office for 2 months prior to the election. The opposite is not true however - the candidate is provided full free speech against the NRA during that time.
Get out and vote! HA! What a crock of shit anymore. Better that you just give large cash donations if you want your opinion heard.
People keep talking about storage clusters done with PC's using 3Ware or other multi-channel SATA RAID cards. I've got nothing against 3Ware - They run several of my "low end" servers at our office, but what we really love are Infortrend boxes.
You're not running a full blown OS on each box, the box is a self contained RAID system. We've deployed several of these boxes to clients, typically using the SCSI-to-SATA boxes (shows as a large SCSI device to the HBA, but is running 16 250G SATA drives (4TB RAW!)).
Its a very inexpensive way to store massive amounts of data and have it directly attached.
We've just started to look at moving to Fibre. They have a Fibre-to-SATA JBOD getting ready to ship, and with the Fibre head unit, we could expand quite a bit. We've got 12T online now, and are growing at a rate of 2.2G per week. With traditional SCSI based SANs, that would be impossibly expensive.
Moreover, it raises questions of responsibility: if the worm writer is caught, can he be held at least partially responsible for any deaths that occured during this outage?"
Hopefully he gets caught and charged with him crimes in a county where they still believe in cruel and unusual punishment. You kill someone here in the states, and you're a good boy in prision - you're back out in 4 years.
Proof that our legal system is too weak. We implimented tourture, strecth racks, and iron maidens again, we'd have a lot less crime.
This is on a dual athlon Tyan s2460 system.
Have you ever had this machine running Windows? I have that same board, and a certain revision of that board WILL NOT run an NVidia card higher than a GeForce2 GTS/PRO. There was a problem delivering enough current to the AGP slot, which the higher GeForce cards required. I happen to be the lucky guy who had the board with the bad revision. The dual system is now my fileserver, as no one wanted it for anything else (certianly not good for gaming).
It takes time to hone this particular craft? be patient.
OR you can just wait for Microsoft to get version 1.0 of their WYSIWYG Developing platform released. "What code do you wish to drag-and-drop today?"
I believe the PHB term is synergizing core energies
Or just say you're a devout believer in Sigma Seven, and all those PHBs who heard how great Sigma Seven is, but are too lazy to read the book will promote you to management to make it happen!
To quote from the article: While exactly copying a processor's microarchitecture would be illegal, creating a compatible product through the use of an original "clean room" design is legally protected.
So, if what Halfhill says is true, how did Intel make it illegal for VIA to make a chipset for the P4? How did Intel prevent AMD from making chips that would fit in Socket 370 and Slot 1? That was the reason for the "socket wars" - to prevent AMD from making compatible products.
Thats complete BS if Intel can get away with this and AMD had to suffer for it.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
I've had a serious lack of luck trying to find anything on the sub $3000 market that supports Jumbo Frames. It appears that only Cisco, Nortel and some high end HP switches supported Jumbo Framing. I have the Netgear 4 port GigE which does not support Jumbo Frames. I looked at Netgear's Managed Layer 3 24port switch, which also doesn't appear to support it. Two network cards doing a crossover cable had no problem with it, but the switch sure didn't like it. Linksys is the same way with their GigE switches. Only the 'big boys' get to have Jumbo Frames