My Gateway / Webserver / Fileserver is a Dual Pentium Pro running FreeBSD. I recently bought another of these machines (Compaq Proliant 2500r) for spare parts, because the voltage converter (VRM Modul Spare Part 225529-001) gave up. Again.
I have no clue how old these systems are, but they sure look old. And big.
I'll probably replace it with something more powerful, this year. Like a EeePC 700 or so...
could someone with experiance in such matters shed a little insight into the logistics of backing up such a vast system
The secrets of backups in a datacenter that big is: You don't. Backup, that is.
A simple calulation shows, that a full backup would basically never end, and incremental backups only help you if you if you had something to increment from. And a restore would never end as well.
Instead you make damn sure, you have redundancy in everything. DRBD is your friend. RAID controllers are, too.
If you have the money, integrate with the big ones (EMC, HP, SUN). If you don't, use a clever solution (Caringo).
Poor bat. Can we come up with a better name for him (or her) than 119V-0080? We're talking about the highest- and fastest-flying bat of all time, probably. A real name is definitely in order.
The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica want to publish an addendum with corrections to Wikipedia. The problem is, that there ar not enough trees in Canada and Brazil to print the first volume...
I am currently deciding if I want to accept the offer for a job that would have me work from home (Europe) completely, for a company in the US. The decision is not easy, because of the reasons mentioned in the articles. Another point to keep in mind is, that with me at home it will maybe put more stress on the relationship to my SO. I'm still undecided...
...has someone got a link to a list of the ccTLDs to be deleted? I'm just asking because I'm getting nervous, because I have my own site on a "dead" ccTLD, but it makes for a very geeky domain: serial.io
(...and.io is the british indian ocean territories, before someone asks...)
I mean, if he has leave, he's just going to come up with something bright and new (not "NeXT" this time, I vote for "TheOneAfter"), which is then going to be bought by Apple after a few years...:-)
But the code was his. The proof of this is that he messed the design up. MINIX is a nice, modular microkernel system...
Here we go again!
I can still remember that from the thread (Linux is obsolete) in comp.os.minix and reading it again today as a proof for Linus being the author of Linux mad me laugh so hard I am actually still cherry red and short of breath.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey, I just retrieved my ICQ UIN from my settings here! ;)
I must admint that it's been a while since i logged in. I usually only read, and you can do that without.
Back in the days /. was my home as now is reddit.
What I love about ./ is the tech focus.
Happy Birthday! Keep up the work!
Someone enlighten me: Have we just cracked quantum cryptography?
My Gateway / Webserver / Fileserver is a Dual Pentium Pro running FreeBSD. I recently bought another of these machines (Compaq Proliant 2500r) for spare parts, because the voltage converter (VRM Modul Spare Part 225529-001) gave up. Again.
I have no clue how old these systems are, but they sure look old. And big.
I'll probably replace it with something more powerful, this year. Like a EeePC 700 or so...
could someone with experiance in such matters shed a little insight into the logistics of backing up such a vast system
The secrets of backups in a datacenter that big is: You don't. Backup, that is.
A simple calulation shows, that a full backup would basically never end, and incremental backups only help you if you if you had something to increment from. And a restore would never end as well.
Instead you make damn sure, you have redundancy in everything. DRBD is your friend. RAID controllers are, too.
If you have the money, integrate with the big ones (EMC, HP, SUN). If you don't, use a clever solution (Caringo).
They could always ask Google. Thanks to Google, whatever is in the Internet, stays in the Internet.
Really?! Does that mean I have to remove all my mail from GMail?!
Poor bat. Can we come up with a better name for him (or her) than 119V-0080? We're talking about the highest- and fastest-flying bat of all time, probably. A real name is definitely in order.
Bruce Wayne?!
I wish that mobile- and micropayments would gain bigger focus in the intustry. There are first pilots going on here in Europe.
OTOH: some countries (South Asia, mostly) already have problems with malware on their phone "stealing" money by sending text messages...
Wow. It's unrelated, but how many of us first-registerers are still around?
same goes for solaris. killall does not take arguments, simply kills all processes. it's the cleanup process run directly before shutdown.
you can easily tell the linux guy, when he issues "killall apache" or something...
Come on, let's nuke our moon into a ring. A ring is way cooler than a moon.
And the tides are overrated anyway, I guess.
Founded by: Steven Jobs
Death by: bought by Apple
What I miss: The NeXT Cube was ahead of its time in so many ways you can't begin to list it.
The Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica want to publish an addendum with corrections to Wikipedia. The problem is, that there ar not enough trees in Canada and Brazil to print the first volume...
I am currently deciding if I want to accept the offer for a job that would have me work from home (Europe) completely, for a company in the US. The decision is not easy, because of the reasons mentioned in the articles. Another point to keep in mind is, that with me at home it will maybe put more stress on the relationship to my SO. I'm still undecided...
I read Slashdot mainly though RSS and initially came here to read about another school shooting...
Well, what do you expect, when you have the words "death" "CS" (which can or can not stand for CounterStrike) and "education" in one line...
...has someone got a link to a list of the ccTLDs to be deleted? I'm just asking because I'm getting nervous, because I have my own site on a "dead" ccTLD, but it makes for a very geeky domain: serial.io
.io is the british indian ocean territories, before someone asks...)
(...and
Search the code. I was always joking you could hide a corpse in the ReiserFS code, but jeez...
I mean, if he has leave, he's just going to come up with something bright and new (not "NeXT" this time, I vote for "TheOneAfter"), which is then going to be bought by Apple after a few years... :-)
Only if it's done by Mike Mignola. It's not art otherwise.
Seems to be not that easy stuff, if it takes a world full of Mathematicians two years to check a single proof...
Here we go again!
I can still remember that from the thread (Linux is obsolete) in comp.os.minix and reading it again today as a proof for Linus being the author of Linux mad me laugh so hard I am actually still cherry red and short of breath.
You rule, Andrew!
ok, that was easy. now try it the other way.
Damn, its US-centric again. I was so happy when I first read this.
Ok, somebody create a site to get the guys from europe back together.
Oh, please dont mention it on slashdot, or it may be getting crowded in there...
...ang give hime the (also cloned) brain of Richard M. Stallman.
And then swap those two.