Until someone decides to retire mx2, move functionality from nas1 to a new server named nas2, and make use of the old mx2 as the mail server.
When we retire a server, the name goes with it (and the IP, for at least 12 months. The machine stays in nagios for 12 months too to ensure it doesn't return).
If we reuse hardware, we rebuild the machine -- which takes about 30 minutes.
gnome provides grip, as well as "gnome-power-cmd.sh", which I link to from fluxbox, and gnome-display-settings when I plug my laptop into a strangemonitor (I have a script for work and home which uses xrandr)
No, the important development here is that now, you don't need an email client. Ever. again. Install Gears, and you can access GMail even when you're on a train or a flight. Moreover, you can set it up as a launchable application from your desktop using Prism, install GMail Notifier, and have the Notifier use Prism as the default "browser" to launch for:mailto links.
So: Option 1) Install Thunderbird on every PC, set up connection to gmail
Option 2) Install Gears, Prism, Gmail notifier and/or whatever, set up connection to gmail
Odds are that you don't commute by rail. Commuting by rail has its advantages, and the magazine format coincides nicely with a hard day's use of the laptop. Especially given boot times, logins, possibly a connecting train. You get the idea.
I usually take two trains, and two 10 minute bike rides, on the way to work (sometimes It's one train and a 40 minute ride).
I use my laptop every day, usually to work (means I can leave earlier), but sometimes to waste time on the internet with a 3g dongle.
I have this nifty command called "suspend" for the bike rides and changing train. If the train gets cancelled/delays etc I've got a book in my bag.
As for the content.... more does not mean better. Having millions sending vids and pics shot with crappy cellphone lenses was hardy of benefit. A few real camera crews with real cameras provided all the really useful (ie worth viewing) material.
No, but had there been an assassination if might be interesting.
I wonder what it would have been like if there'd been modern cellphones in November 1963. Assuming that the millions of photos and frames of video could be sifted through.
The really crazy part of this is the argument that doubling the kinetic energy available to accidents makes things safer.
Doubling mass doesn't increase the kinetic energy, kinetic energy is.5*mass*velocity*velocity. Dropping the speed reduces energy a lot more.
Having said that, you're right that momentum is an important part of many collisions. If you knock me off my bike (or more likely pull out infront of me), your car won't reduce speed much (in a side impact you won't reduce at all), and the energy imparted won't be a great deal. The energy imparted by me as I eventually come to a stop on the pavement (hopefully), lamppost, or front of a lorry coming the other way, is more important.
Two years ago, you got gnome-look.org or kde-look.org sites for Gnome and KDE. Now you have more stuff to Ubuntu and Kubuntu. You are more easily finding a wallpapers or even the icon packs or themes to be build as Ubuntu DEB package than standard tar.gz package what could be used on Gnome desktop what ever Linux-distribution or other than Linux OS is used with Gnome.
If there's any chance I'll ever deploy something to more than one ubuntu box, I'll wrap it in a.deb. Even with an "exit 0" pre/postinst/rm. I've got a script which handles the md5sums, and signing to upload to my central repository.
Anything I don't wrap, as it's changing constantly, is the nagios config and libexec (libexec is spread over a dozen boxes, the config doubles as a backup). The nagios install is a custom-compiled one of ours, in/usr/local. It's distributed as a myorg-nagios-2.deb
It means we can easily see what version of a program, or even bunch of files, is installed on a given machine. If we need to upgrade something -- say the legal text on ssh login, we update our "defaultserver".deb, and the updates are pushed out.
Indeed, I've used Linux for 10 years, but moved from Debian to Ubuntu about mid 2006 -- more friendly on my laptop, less hassle with getting hardware to work.
On top of that, we needed to get a standard distribution at work. Ubuntu, being the most popular choice for home users at the time, and being backed by a company to keep management quiet, was an obvious candidate. We've had great success with the server version, and have centralised configuration, monitoring, and managment of dozens of the boxes all over the world. It installs from PXE (in London), or USB/CD boot, in about 20 minutes, fully uptodate, and integrated with our monitoring system. Hell it even sticks on an antivirus placebo to keep InfoSec happy, and the dat files are updated every night.
We've got about 100 tech staff that will need to deal with it, if they are going to have any linux experience, it's likely to be ubuntu. If they want to know more, I'll give them an ubuntu disk to try at home -- a live cd/dvd.
My laptop runs fluxbox, which is pretty quick post-login (I think, I don't login much). It's a pain starting up though, 85 seconds according to boot chart. Most of that's disk activity at 30MBytes/second, it kicks in at T+12.5 (just after "resume" finishes), and stays at 100% until T+75.
Looing at the boot-time, it appears that "flumotion" is responsible for blocking the process for about 20 seconds in iowait. apt-cache is another bottleneck
Now, the appropriate tool to beat said people over the head with is a turn-key Linux distribution that integrates into an Active Directory domain, right out of the box. One that includes an image-casting process that allows 100s of computers to be managed (deployed, updated, etc.) from a central console (PXE boot, the works). If I had that (turn-key), I might make some progress around here... though it would still take a while.
Turnkey isn't there yet -- but it isn't with the windows ecosystem either. The above is pretty much what we have with about 60 ubuntu server boxes across the country. PXE boot for local ones, USB/CD boot for remote ones which lack DHCP networks.
You have to manually reboot each box to install, but I guess if you set up PXE as the first device in the bios it would be possible.
The preseed installation includes lots of useful gubbins, including antivirus (with dat download). Our nagios install ssh's in and runs an apt-get update check every day. We still manually upgrade the packages, for the same reason we do so with windows -- we test updates and roll out security ones once we're happy.
We can login via a local account (essential for when AD or the network plays up), but for most purposes it's active directory -- ubuntu 8.04 comes with likewise-open which makes that simpler.
How so? The majority of businesses don't pay VAT - they collect the difference between what they recieve on sales & what they spend on supplies and pass it onto the government.
Small businesses that don't reduce their prices by ~2% will get to keep that difference. Most small shops I've been to in the last month haven't adjusted their price, if it was £9.99, it still is.
Knocking 2% of NI (the rise Tony made shortly after he got in to avoid "raising income tax" would have more help
In case you think I'm singling out the US for criticism - while on the subject of VAT I will say that the United Kingdom are stark raving mad for cutting their VAT to 15%
Saves me £2 a month on average, assuming the cut is passed on. On the other hand it will help small businesses when it comes to paying their vat bill. A 3% cut in employer-contribution NI would have been better, or even a 1.5% cut to employee and employer.
This is straight up terrible analogy. As a guitar player, I can play a Fender and then switch to a Gibson without having to learn anything or adjust my playing style in anyway.
Peraps the OP was talking about a car fender/bumper?
It'd be like me comparing the zero to sixty time as the sole metric to judge a vehicle's fitness for use by, say, a college student. Perhaps Miles per Gallon might be better? Or even the number of cup holders
This is where you need Clarkson's Fiesta Road Test
Can you park it (yes, it has windows and a reverse gear) Is it any good driving arround a mall while being chased by a corvette (yes, it has just the right hose power for driving on marble) Is it green (yes, although his model had a tinge of yellow too) Can you use it in an amphibious invasion? (Yes, and it doesn't show up any mud from the marines on the carpets) Can you afford it (If you have £12,000, yes. If you have 50p, no)
I miss the Aweseome Bar's learning when I use Chrome. GMail's URL does not start with G, but Firefox learned that when I typed G I wanted GMail. In Chrome I have to remember to type "M" for GMail, becuase no matter how many times I type "GMail", then scroll down and select https://mail.google.com/mail/, it won't remember.
I use Firefox3, but I type "gmail", which takes me to gmail.com, which redirects to https://mail.google.com/ quicker than awesomebar renders.
This is got to be the STUPIDEST thing I have ever heard. Perhaps you haven't heard of this thing called RAM?? Well, in case you haven't, it's cheap enough to easily put 16-64GB in a webserver, and if you run a decent OS on it, such as Linux
200GB of ram might be fine, but 2TB is a little on the pricey side.
You should also setup weekly or bi-weekly scrubs (once a month for enterprise grade drives)
ZFS scrubs are run as a background process, behind everything else. Why not just continuously scrub, and have a "time since last file scrubbed" report?
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Until someone decides to retire mx2, move functionality from nas1 to a new server named nas2, and make use of the old mx2 as the mail server.
When we retire a server, the name goes with it (and the IP, for at least 12 months. The machine stays in nagios for 12 months too to ensure it doesn't return).
If we reuse hardware, we rebuild the machine -- which takes about 30 minutes.
We use cnames a fair bit too.
gnome provides grip, as well as "gnome-power-cmd.sh", which I link to from fluxbox, and gnome-display-settings when I plug my laptop into a strangemonitor (I have a script for work and home which uses xrandr)
kde provide amarok and kdesvn
But fluxbox is my windowmanager
No, the important development here is that now, you don't need an email client. Ever. again. Install Gears, and you can access GMail even when you're on a train or a flight. Moreover, you can set it up as a launchable application from your desktop using Prism, install GMail Notifier, and have the Notifier use Prism as the default "browser" to launch for :mailto links.
So:
Option 1) Install Thunderbird on every PC, set up connection to gmail
Option 2) Install Gears, Prism, Gmail notifier and/or whatever, set up connection to gmail
why do people still try to attach GNU/ to Linux? It makes no sense.
Me? I run Gnu/KDE/Xorg/Gnome/vim/perl/rxvt/Fluxbox/Firefox/Java/Linux
Odds are that you don't commute by rail. Commuting by rail has its advantages, and the magazine format coincides nicely with a hard day's use of the laptop. Especially given boot times, logins, possibly a connecting train. You get the idea.
I usually take two trains, and two 10 minute bike rides, on the way to work (sometimes It's one train and a 40 minute ride).
I use my laptop every day, usually to work (means I can leave earlier), but sometimes to waste time on the internet with a 3g dongle.
I have this nifty command called "suspend" for the bike rides and changing train. If the train gets cancelled/delays etc I've got a book in my bag.
As for the content.... more does not mean better. Having millions sending vids and pics shot with crappy cellphone lenses was hardy of benefit. A few real camera crews with real cameras provided all the really useful (ie worth viewing) material.
No, but had there been an assassination if might be interesting.
I wonder what it would have been like if there'd been modern cellphones in November 1963. Assuming that the millions of photos and frames of video could be sifted through.
those powers didn't work for Hoover, but nobody wants to talk about him.
Only because he was a transvestite
Here's a novel idea: why don't they just use a STANDARD VIDEO FORMAT?
Because the majority of the browser market doesn't support the <video> tag
She doesn't have a cellphone, and I can't afford to get her a better car. Being able to get even the lowest valued voucher would be a godsend.
In the UK you can get a PAYG cell-phone with some credit for emergency use (leave in the glovebox), for about £20 ($35). Surely you can afford that
The really crazy part of this is the argument that doubling the kinetic energy available to accidents makes things safer.
Doubling mass doesn't increase the kinetic energy, kinetic energy is .5*mass*velocity*velocity. Dropping the speed reduces energy a lot more.
Having said that, you're right that momentum is an important part of many collisions. If you knock me off my bike (or more likely pull out infront of me), your car won't reduce speed much (in a side impact you won't reduce at all), and the energy imparted won't be a great deal. The energy imparted by me as I eventually come to a stop on the pavement (hopefully), lamppost, or front of a lorry coming the other way, is more important.
Two years ago, you got gnome-look.org or kde-look.org sites for Gnome and KDE. Now you have more stuff to Ubuntu and Kubuntu. You are more easily finding a wallpapers or even the icon packs or themes to be build as Ubuntu DEB package than standard tar.gz package what could be used on Gnome desktop what ever Linux-distribution or other than Linux OS is used with Gnome.
If there's any chance I'll ever deploy something to more than one ubuntu box, I'll wrap it in a .deb. Even with an "exit 0" pre/postinst/rm. I've got a script which handles the md5sums, and signing to upload to my central repository.
Anything I don't wrap, as it's changing constantly, is the nagios config and libexec (libexec is spread over a dozen boxes, the config doubles as a backup). The nagios install is a custom-compiled one of ours, in /usr/local. It's distributed as a myorg-nagios-2 .deb
It means we can easily see what version of a program, or even bunch of files, is installed on a given machine. If we need to upgrade something -- say the legal text on ssh login, we update our "defaultserver" .deb, and the updates are pushed out.
Indeed, I've used Linux for 10 years, but moved from Debian to Ubuntu about mid 2006 -- more friendly on my laptop, less hassle with getting hardware to work.
On top of that, we needed to get a standard distribution at work. Ubuntu, being the most popular choice for home users at the time, and being backed by a company to keep management quiet, was an obvious candidate. We've had great success with the server version, and have centralised configuration, monitoring, and managment of dozens of the boxes all over the world. It installs from PXE (in London), or USB/CD boot, in about 20 minutes, fully uptodate, and integrated with our monitoring system. Hell it even sticks on an antivirus placebo to keep InfoSec happy, and the dat files are updated every night.
We've got about 100 tech staff that will need to deal with it, if they are going to have any linux experience, it's likely to be ubuntu. If they want to know more, I'll give them an ubuntu disk to try at home -- a live cd/dvd.
My laptop runs fluxbox, which is pretty quick post-login (I think, I don't login much). It's a pain starting up though, 85 seconds according to boot chart. Most of that's disk activity at 30MBytes/second, it kicks in at T+12.5 (just after "resume" finishes), and stays at 100% until T+75.
Looing at the boot-time, it appears that "flumotion" is responsible for blocking the process for about 20 seconds in iowait. apt-cache is another bottleneck
ruby -e 'foo = [[3]]'
perl -e '$foo = [[3]]'
See -- ruby is superior, equivalent code is 8% shorter!
There is life outside the internet.
Citation needed
Now, the appropriate tool to beat said people over the head with is a turn-key Linux distribution that integrates into an Active Directory domain, right out of the box. One that includes an image-casting process that allows 100s of computers to be managed (deployed, updated, etc.) from a central console (PXE boot, the works). If I had that (turn-key), I might make some progress around here... though it would still take a while.
Turnkey isn't there yet -- but it isn't with the windows ecosystem either. The above is pretty much what we have with about 60 ubuntu server boxes across the country. PXE boot for local ones, USB/CD boot for remote ones which lack DHCP networks.
You have to manually reboot each box to install, but I guess if you set up PXE as the first device in the bios it would be possible.
The preseed installation includes lots of useful gubbins, including antivirus (with dat download). Our nagios install ssh's in and runs an apt-get update check every day. We still manually upgrade the packages, for the same reason we do so with windows -- we test updates and roll out security ones once we're happy.
We can login via a local account (essential for when AD or the network plays up), but for most purposes it's active directory -- ubuntu 8.04 comes with likewise-open which makes that simpler.
How so? The majority of businesses don't pay VAT - they collect the difference between what they recieve on sales & what they spend on supplies and pass it onto the government.
Small businesses that don't reduce their prices by ~2% will get to keep that difference. Most small shops I've been to in the last month haven't adjusted their price, if it was £9.99, it still is.
Knocking 2% of NI (the rise Tony made shortly after he got in to avoid "raising income tax" would have more help
In case you think I'm singling out the US for criticism - while on the subject of VAT I will say that the United Kingdom are stark raving mad for cutting their VAT to 15%
Saves me £2 a month on average, assuming the cut is passed on. On the other hand it will help small businesses when it comes to paying their vat bill. A 3% cut in employer-contribution NI would have been better, or even a 1.5% cut to employee and employer.
As you mention BitTorrent, I'm assuming there were no commercials in the version you received.
Commercials in Dr Who? Sure, the BBC puts on massive adverts between programs, squishes credits, and voice over the last few words, but commercials?
This is straight up terrible analogy. As a guitar player, I can play a Fender and then switch to a Gibson without having to learn anything or adjust my playing style in anyway.
Peraps the OP was talking about a car fender/bumper?
It'd be like me comparing the zero to sixty time as the sole metric to judge a vehicle's fitness for use by, say, a college student. Perhaps Miles per Gallon might be better? Or even the number of cup holders
This is where you need Clarkson's Fiesta Road Test
Can you park it (yes, it has windows and a reverse gear)
Is it any good driving arround a mall while being chased by a corvette (yes, it has just the right hose power for driving on marble)
Is it green (yes, although his model had a tinge of yellow too)
Can you use it in an amphibious invasion? (Yes, and it doesn't show up any mud from the marines on the carpets)
Can you afford it (If you have £12,000, yes. If you have 50p, no)
What, This one?
I miss the Aweseome Bar's learning when I use Chrome. GMail's URL does not start with G, but Firefox learned that when I typed G I wanted GMail. In Chrome I have to remember to type "M" for GMail, becuase no matter how many times I type "GMail", then scroll down and select https://mail.google.com/mail/, it won't remember.
I use Firefox3, but I type "gmail", which takes me to gmail.com, which redirects to https://mail.google.com/ quicker than awesomebar renders.
This is got to be the STUPIDEST thing I have ever heard. Perhaps you haven't heard of this thing called RAM?? Well, in case you haven't, it's cheap enough to easily put 16-64GB in a webserver, and if you run a decent OS on it, such as Linux
200GB of ram might be fine, but 2TB is a little on the pricey side.
And every kernel caches files, not just linux.
You should also setup weekly or bi-weekly scrubs (once a month for enterprise grade drives)
ZFS scrubs are run as a background process, behind everything else. Why not just continuously scrub, and have a "time since last file scrubbed" report?