Plutonium is one of the most deadly substances around. Having 75 pounds of plutonium ash in the atmosphere is not considered a good thing. Not to be alarmist or forget that we have several hunders atomic weapons pointed at the world, but it is a matter not to be taken lightly.
I believe light speed is roughly 3x10^8 m/s or 186,000 miles per sec for you non-metric wanks.:) - Strangely enough that comes to 6.696 billion miles per hour. I suppose the light is trying to escape and is slowly being pulled in???
/var/mail/u/s/user for ours with an Oracle backend for authentication. We tried switching back to/etc/passwd for mail delivery only which immediately shot load up to 12.
3 ultra 2's 512MB RAM each 30GB array by artecon that was NFS mounted.
This was slightly overkill for us. A few this to keep in mind.
1. Have more then on machine running this. I would say use 4 PII's. Use dns round robin for load balancing. If you have the money get a real load balancer. With an NFS disk array and sendmail file locking this isn't hard to administer.
2. Use as much RAM as you can afford. 512MB min. 1GB to 2GB is better.
3. Fast local disks. QPop servers files locally. Have at least 4 gig for mail to be queued. We had at least one user trying to cycle 2 gig attachments through our machines every month, Bastards.
4. Set up qpop (or whatever) in server mode. This will decrease the traffic from you to your raid array. Server mode tels it that it is transfering data across the network, if nothing in the data changes just revert and don't move the extrea traffic.
5. Disk. We were fine with 30, but upgraded to 50GB with the last upgrade. Artecon NFS mounted to the 3 machines. Look at Netapps though. You can cluster them in a failover config. I have heard of some hardware problems with them though. We pushed 16MB/sec across a peak so make sure you are AT LEAST ultra wide if not ultra2. You could set up a server with the disk attached and let it do your NFS instead of a full network disk thingy.
6. I'd suggest sendmail, but qmail is nice, too. Sendmail seems easier to set up to use with pine if you want to hook a shell machine up to it with Pine or use a webmail package, but honestly I haven't played with Qmail much.
Kashani
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I don't think this will make routers simpler. If anything they will become more advanced to keep up with the large amounts of routes and routers on the Internet.
Take for example BGP on a core router. I would not run this on anything with less than 128 MB of RAM today if you want the full routes (I have 256 in my 7206VXR). Imagine once IPv6 starts taking off. I would personally say that routers will get more complicated so as to store routing data in smaller forms in an OSPF kind of way.
Granted you can make a router pretty simple using IPv4 or 6, but if that all anyone ever needed Ascend would only seel their P50's which are about the min I would go with. Also as speeds increase so must the chips and software tricks.
Blah Blah Blah I have Apache doing the same with three Ultra 2's, which are actually a hell of lot cheaper then than the Quad x86 servers even including the load balancing system. Why you have the whole thing on FDDI is a mystery to me though. - kashani
When a computer can beat me at chess, go, pente, poker, and battleship simultaneously while discussing politics... I might get worried. The human brain is not as fast, but remains the king of multipurpose processors.
Does NT actually do this? I think this is the crux of the issue. Linux can take critisism that other systems have journaling file systems. We don't like that we label as inferior to NT. Does NT logging actually allow you to see who edited files, who used programs, etc? I've never seen it under NT, but I'll admit I got my machine at working working reasonably well and tend to stay away from it's guts.
I can't recommend it enough. My parents gave it to me for my birthday (well I did hint pretty heavily). I've already worked through half the book and have actually used Perl in my job now. Definately get it.
>Also, what's wrong with automatic transmission >on a bicycle? The AutoBike has one, and it >appears to work great. I've been considering >getting one when I have enough money to spend on >such things. I hate shifting; it's not as hard >as the AutoBike infomercials make it out to be, >but it isn't the most pleasant part of >bicycling.
Ha. Autobike. What a joke. Sure it's nice for Mom and Dad to ride around the block on nice level surface. Real biking requires sweet XTR Rapid Fire Shimanos with the handy thumb switches. Once you get off the road (or into the city) you'll be wishing for a little extra control.
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Plutonium is one of the most deadly substances around. Having 75 pounds of plutonium ash in the atmosphere is not considered a good thing. Not to be alarmist or forget that we have several hunders atomic weapons pointed at the world, but it is a matter not to be taken lightly.
eek... I mean 696.6 million. My bad.. I spent the week end in Vegas... still hung over.
I believe light speed is roughly 3x10^8 m/s or 186,000 miles per sec for you non-metric wanks. :)
- Strangely enough that comes to 6.696 billion miles per hour. I suppose the light is trying to escape and is slowly being pulled in???
Kashani
we user
/etc/passwd for mail delivery only which immediately shot load up to 12.
/var/mail/u/s/user for ours with an Oracle backend for authentication. We tried switching back to
Kashani
Setup at the old ISP was this
3 ultra 2's
512MB RAM each
30GB array by artecon that was NFS mounted.
This was slightly overkill for us. A few this to keep in mind.
1. Have more then on machine running this. I would say use 4 PII's. Use dns round robin for load balancing. If you have the money get a real load balancer. With an NFS disk array and sendmail file locking this isn't hard to administer.
2. Use as much RAM as you can afford. 512MB min. 1GB to 2GB is better.
3. Fast local disks. QPop servers files locally. Have at least 4 gig for mail to be queued. We had at least one user trying to cycle 2 gig attachments through our machines every month, Bastards.
4. Set up qpop (or whatever) in server mode. This will decrease the traffic from you to your raid array. Server mode tels it that it is transfering data across the network, if nothing in the data changes just revert and don't move the extrea traffic.
5. Disk. We were fine with 30, but upgraded to 50GB with the last upgrade. Artecon NFS mounted to the 3 machines. Look at Netapps though. You can cluster them in a failover config. I have heard of some hardware problems with them though. We pushed 16MB/sec across a peak so make sure you are AT LEAST ultra wide if not ultra2. You could set up a server with the disk attached and let it do your NFS instead of a full network disk thingy.
6. I'd suggest sendmail, but qmail is nice, too. Sendmail seems easier to set up to use with pine if you want to hook a shell machine up to it with Pine or use a webmail package, but honestly I haven't played with Qmail much.
Kashani
I don't think this will make routers simpler. If anything they will become more advanced to keep up with the large amounts of routes and routers on the Internet.
Take for example BGP on a core router. I would not run this on anything with less than 128 MB of RAM today if you want the full routes (I have 256 in my 7206VXR). Imagine once IPv6 starts taking off. I would personally say that routers will get more complicated so as to store routing data in smaller forms in an OSPF kind of way.
Granted you can make a router pretty simple using IPv4 or 6, but if that all anyone ever needed Ascend would only seel their P50's which are about the min I would go with. Also as speeds increase so must the chips and software tricks.
Kashani
Blah Blah Blah
I have Apache doing the same with three Ultra 2's, which are actually a hell of lot cheaper then than the Quad x86 servers even including the load balancing system. Why you have the whole thing on FDDI is a mystery to me though.
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kashani
When a computer can beat me at chess, go, pente, poker, and battleship simultaneously while discussing politics... I might get worried. The human brain is not as fast, but remains the king of multipurpose processors.
Please please take me.
I have a Sparc 2 with Linux. Can I still be a hacker.
Please don't tell me I have to run Solaris on that little bitty box. I sooooo slooooowwwwww.
Kashani
Does NT actually do this? I think this is the crux of the issue. Linux can take critisism that other systems have journaling file systems. We don't like that we label as inferior to NT. Does NT logging actually allow you to see who edited files, who used programs, etc? I've never seen it under NT, but I'll admit I got my machine at working working reasonably well and tend to stay away from it's guts.
Kashani
You've seen that happen too. Ha Ha Too funny.
And here I thought it was only our company.
kashani
Actually Linux users should change their underwear everytime they recompile the kernel.
Windows users should change them everytime they reboot.
heh heh
Kashani
Can we get a number on how many times the word geek will appear in the book? Maybe just a percentage if you don't have a number.
I refuse to read anything by Katz that doesn't have a 2.5% geek usage quotient. Oh wait. That's everything he's written.
I can't recommend it enough.
My parents gave it to me for my birthday (well I did hint pretty heavily).
I've already worked through half the book and have actually used Perl in my job now.
Definately get it.
Kashani
>Also, what's wrong with automatic transmission >on a bicycle? The AutoBike has one, and it >appears to work great. I've been considering >getting one when I have enough money to spend on >such things. I hate shifting; it's not as hard >as the AutoBike infomercials make it out to be, >but it isn't the most pleasant part of >bicycling.
Ha. Autobike. What a joke. Sure it's nice for Mom and Dad to ride around the block on nice level surface. Real biking requires sweet XTR Rapid Fire Shimanos with the handy thumb switches. Once you get off the road (or into the city) you'll be wishing for a little extra control.
Kashani
I'm running the 550 viper and it seems fine as a PCI on a regular socket 7 board. I haven't talked to anyone running one on a super7 though.
Kashani