Size your filesystems to match the predominant size among your drives, and use them for offline FS backup. IE: I have a stack of 80GB drives here... So at my latest rebuild, I grew my/home to 80GB, and I use the drives to take a backup of my user data every month.
A USB-> Ide adapter that I got off of ebay saves me the trouble of cracking the case.
Fire Away. You'd have to launch 100 into my neighborhood before you'd even hit my block.
Your reply indicates that you really don't appreciate the inaccuracy or inefficacy of these pitiful weapons. They are garage-macgyvered munitions by a people used to doing a lot with a little. They are pitiful and futile statements of resistance and defiance.
- The beduoin are better off in Israel than in the Negev, where they've been ethnically cleansed from.
- Arabs are better off in Israel where they're treated worse than Jim-Crow blacks, because it's better than living in the archipeligo of concentration camps known as the West Bank. They aren't happy - They're just better off.
- Palestinians in other countries are, in general, better off than Palestinians in the occupied territories, except in cases when the Israelis send in their allies to clean house (See: Marionite Christians).
You're a liar. Come back when you're not reading from and Israeli PR pamphlet.
Most of the Rockets coming out of Gaza are Qassams - Glorified fireworks.
I've heard that the Palestinians now have Katyushas, but I'm fairly sketpical of the claim - It smacks of Isreali fearmongering. If it's even true, I doubt it if they have many at all. I personally find it hard to imagine how they could even get into Gaza.
What a load of grandstanding dreck. Qassams are low-yeild, and low accuracy. They land in empty fields more often than not. This is just more Israeli victim-mongering.
These same invasive procedures have been in place in Israel for years. If you're "Flagged" by Airport security, they confiscate your Laptop, Phone, and Camera, and proceed to copy all of the media. It's invasive and unjustified - Just an excuse to feed their intelligence machine.
I guess that's just the cost of "democracy" in the Middle East.
A lot of people confuse the two. It's very easy to get repetitive strain from using a computer. Wrist pain/weakness need not come in the form of carpal tunnel syndrome.
Computer work decreases blood flow to the wrist. In the absence of complementary activities that increase blood flow to the wrist, computer users are at risk of RSI.
Another Canadian startup sold to the yanks.
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This is just another instance of a Canadian selling off bit of Canada to the yanks. It makes me SICK.
I've tried Naslite for NFS backup disk, but was not really happy with the 4 IDE drive limitation.
Ideally, I'd like to have a linux live CD on SCSI CDrom, 4 IDE drives over two onboard channels, and another 2 drives over an add-on PCI drive - All of it booted from CDrom, configured with LVM, shared with either NFS or Samba, and a config saved to USB hard drive. Although Naslite has somewhat the right idea, it only allows 4 drives, and doesn't support IDE PCI cards.
Can anyone recomment a Live distribtion that contains drivers for IDE controllers, and in addition, will save a config on a USB key?
Naslite comes close, except for its limit upon the # of IDE drives, and lack of IDE card support.
The "Middle East" Isn't a dangerous place, although parts of it are. Two years ago, I did humanitarian work in Palestine, and the Palestinians, were so utterly thankful for my presence that I suspect some of them would have taken a bullet for me. On top of that, many of them assumed I was Jewish, but were grateful no less.
The Israelis on the OTOH, were far less hospitable.
Attempting to lump the middle east into one bucket is shortsighted and narrow minded. It is a place politically and ethnically diverse as Europe.
"You can reboot a server and the client won't crash. It won't be able to access files on the server's export while the server is down, but once it returns, you'll pick up right where things left off. Other network file sharing systems are not so resilient."
From regular personal experience, I can state that NFS is hardly so robust under HPUX.... Is BSD really this foolproof?
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I met a fellow a while ago who demonstrated this technology to me (and on me!)... He was an acoustics/electronics buff.
His main use for it was to keep cats and dogs out of his yard... if they came close, he'd "zap" them with sound.
According to him, this technology was already in use by the Govt in some areas for crowd control.
He had created a commercially viable product, but was paralyzed by legal and ethical concerns.
He was willing to sell me a handheld unit, provided I promised not to use on people... but having no other use for it, I declined his offer.
Like many other Unix sysadmins, it's been a long, improbable road. 10 years ago, I never would have believed I'd end up in a professional career.
In 1993, I was a military reservist killing time at university until I could get a tour with UNPROFOR in the former Jugoslavia. Unfortunately, over time, repeated re-injuries of a previous steroid-related injury left me almost a cripple, and unable to pursue this goal.
Unable to pursue the athletics, martial arts, or my peacekeeping aspirations, I became depressed, and segregated myself from people.
Eventually I found a deserted hallway on campus populated by some VT100's to keep me company. I got a unix book from the library, and started to read up on my "email account".
Soon, I learned how to print to the line printer... then I learned how to to "pipe", but the best command to help me learn was "man -k". In a stroke of (What I thought was) genius, I sent all of the man pages to the line printer with "man -k a |lpr". The operator was not at all happy when I arrived at the print office to pick up my 6" thick printout of man pages. I spent the weekend reading them all, despite the fact that not all of it made sense to me at the time.
In time, computers became an obsession, and I started to realized that I knew tons of things that others around me didn't. One day I casually joked to a local sysadmin I had gotten to know: "If this keeps up, I'll end up working here!".... he then told me to start the next day. That's how I got my first job as a lab monitor, which in itself was great for learning, and great for resume padding.
The whole time, I read lots and played lots and tried lots, with curiosity being the greatest driving force.
During this period, I realized that I had no working knowledge of hardware... so I put out a usenet ad: "Student wants old dead hardware for learning". I was deluged with tons of legacy PC/non-pc crap which I used to teach myself networking and hardware. Thankfully I had a large place and no girlfriend at the time. To this day, I cannot help but feel a bit of contempt when I hear someone insist they need the "latest and greatest" in order to learn.
Eventually I got this roomate who introduced me to Linux. Although I loved unix, I never thought I'd actually get to try my hand at being a (gasp) sysadmin, but Linux made it possible for me to explore the many corners of unix that had previous been unavailable to me! So I dove into Linux, and learned all of the aspects of administration. Having him around to pick his brain was also invaluable.
I graduated University (With a degree in military history) just before Y2K, and was hired on to a Y2K team who needed a junior sysadmin to write backup scripts, and free up a senior, better paid, admin from what they saw as "grunt work".
It was a perfect match... I was thrown in with a bunch of old-school unix sysadmins, and downloaded their knowledge as fast as they could endure. Not only that, I had root access to all the servers, including development servers.
There were only a few "mishaps":-)
That contract was my first foot in the unix door... once you cross that initial hurdle, many more doors open.
So, that's my tale. If I can give advice:
-There's a lot you can teach yourself, but there's also a lot to be learned from others. If you're bright, and a eager learner, you'll never have trouble finding people happy to mentor you.
-Practice self sufficiency. Don't waste a gurus time asking them for info that can be found in a man page, save them for that which ISN'T in the man page.
-Don't let lack of a linear, tangible plan daunt you. Love Unix, learn Unix, and the rest will eventually fall into place. As shakespeare said: "No profit grows where there's no pleasure taken".
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Size your filesystems to match the predominant size among your drives, and use them for offline FS backup. IE: I have a stack of 80GB drives here... So at my latest rebuild, I grew my /home to 80GB, and I use the drives to take a backup of my user data every month.
A USB-> Ide adapter that I got off of ebay saves me the trouble of cracking the case.
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Fire Away. You'd have to launch 100 into my neighborhood before you'd even hit my block.
Your reply indicates that you really don't appreciate the inaccuracy or inefficacy of these pitiful weapons. They are garage-macgyvered munitions by a people used to doing a lot with a little. They are pitiful and futile statements of resistance and defiance.
A few points of crap.
- The beduoin are better off in Israel than in the Negev, where they've been ethnically cleansed from.
- Arabs are better off in Israel where they're treated worse than Jim-Crow blacks, because it's better than living in the archipeligo of concentration camps known as the West Bank. They aren't happy - They're just better off.
- Palestinians in other countries are, in general, better off than Palestinians in the occupied territories, except in cases when the Israelis send in their allies to clean house (See: Marionite Christians).
You're a liar. Come back when you're not reading from and Israeli PR pamphlet.
Most of the Rockets coming out of Gaza are Qassams - Glorified fireworks.
I've heard that the Palestinians now have Katyushas, but I'm fairly sketpical of the claim - It smacks of Isreali fearmongering. If it's even true, I doubt it if they have many at all. I personally find it hard to imagine how they could even get into Gaza.
More Israeli fearmongering...
Of that 7000, how many have have died because of them?
A handful.
Show me the threat.
What a load of grandstanding dreck. Qassams are low-yeild, and low accuracy. They land in empty fields more often than not. This is just more Israeli victim-mongering.
These same invasive procedures have been in place in Israel for years. If you're "Flagged" by Airport security, they confiscate your Laptop, Phone, and Camera, and proceed to copy all of the media. It's invasive and unjustified - Just an excuse to feed their intelligence machine.
I guess that's just the cost of "democracy" in the Middle East.
A lot of people confuse the two. It's very easy to get repetitive strain from using a computer. Wrist pain/weakness need not come in the form of carpal tunnel syndrome.
Computer work decreases blood flow to the wrist. In the absence of complementary activities that increase blood flow to the wrist, computer users are at risk of RSI.
This is just another instance of a Canadian selling off bit of Canada to the yanks. It makes me SICK.
I've tried Naslite for NFS backup disk, but was not really happy with the 4 IDE drive limitation.
Ideally, I'd like to have a linux live CD on SCSI CDrom, 4 IDE drives over two onboard channels, and another 2 drives over an add-on PCI drive - All of it booted from CDrom, configured with LVM, shared with either NFS or Samba, and a config saved to USB hard drive. Although Naslite has somewhat the right idea, it only allows 4 drives, and doesn't support IDE PCI cards.
Can anyone recomment a Live distribtion that contains drivers for IDE controllers, and in addition, will save a config on a USB key?
Naslite comes close, except for its limit upon the # of IDE drives, and lack of IDE card support.
Seeking any recommendations.
They are essential to the continued well being of the American military/industrial complex.
More war is good business.
Isn't it for the homeowner to decide when to demolish hiw own house?
I totally agree with you.
BTW, I'm on my way over to destroy your house with a bulldoze. Being the nice guy I am, however, I'll stick around to help you rebuild it for $20/hour
The "Middle East" Isn't a dangerous place, although parts of it are. Two years ago, I did humanitarian work in Palestine, and the Palestinians, were so utterly thankful for my presence that I suspect some of them would have taken a bullet for me. On top of that, many of them assumed I was Jewish, but were grateful no less.
The Israelis on the OTOH, were far less hospitable.
Attempting to lump the middle east into one bucket is shortsighted and narrow minded. It is a place politically and ethnically diverse as Europe.
Those who hope to profit from the spoils of war deserve death.
Do yourself (And the people in the beaten nation) a favor, and stay at home.
You're incorrect. You may want to try your hand at a little php and mysql before you get all condescending.
> Keep trying though, you'll get it eventually.
"Those who know, do not say... Those who say..."
Just because we specialize in very linear concepts, it doesn't absolve us of the requirement to communicate clearly and civilly.
Just think of the $$$$, and you can tolerate any user situation (well, almost...)
Well, excellent for the United Snakes, although I'd hate to see it implemented in my own country.
I AM POSTING USING MY SX 64
You can always stay at the sunny Peurto Rican resort of Vieques.
"You can reboot a server and the client won't crash. It won't be able to access files on the server's export while the server is down, but once it returns, you'll pick up right where things left off. Other network file sharing systems are not so resilient."
From regular personal experience, I can state that NFS is hardly so robust under HPUX.... Is BSD really this foolproof?
I met a fellow a while ago who demonstrated this technology to me (and on me!)... He was an acoustics/electronics buff.
His main use for it was to keep cats and dogs out of his yard... if they came close, he'd "zap" them with sound.
According to him, this technology was already in use by the Govt in some areas for crowd control.
He had created a commercially viable product, but was paralyzed by legal and ethical concerns.
He was willing to sell me a handheld unit, provided I promised not to use on people... but having no other use for it, I declined his offer.
I have rather stong feelings on UPS.
I think it's best for all that I not get started...
Like many other Unix sysadmins, it's been a long, improbable road. 10 years ago, I never would have believed I'd end up in a professional career.
In 1993, I was a military reservist killing time at university until I could get a tour with UNPROFOR in the former Jugoslavia. Unfortunately, over time, repeated re-injuries of a previous steroid-related injury left me almost a cripple, and unable to pursue this goal.
Unable to pursue the athletics, martial arts, or my peacekeeping aspirations, I became depressed, and segregated myself from people.
Eventually I found a deserted hallway on campus populated by some VT100's to keep me company. I got a unix book from the library, and started to read up on my "email account".
Soon, I learned how to print to the line printer... then I learned how to to "pipe", but the best command to help me learn was "man -k". In a stroke of (What I thought was) genius, I sent all of the man pages to the line printer with "man -k a |lpr". The operator was not at all happy when I arrived at the print office to pick up my 6" thick printout of man pages. I spent the weekend reading them all, despite the fact that not all of it made sense to me at the time.
In time, computers became an obsession, and I started to realized that I knew tons of things that others around me didn't. One day I casually joked to a local sysadmin I had gotten to know: "If this keeps up, I'll end up working here!".... he then told me to start the next day. That's how I got my first job as a lab monitor, which in itself was great for learning, and great for resume padding.
The whole time, I read lots and played lots and tried lots, with curiosity being the greatest driving force.
During this period, I realized that I had no working knowledge of hardware... so I put out a usenet ad: "Student wants old dead hardware for learning". I was deluged with tons of legacy PC/non-pc crap which I used to teach myself networking and hardware. Thankfully I had a large place and no girlfriend at the time. To this day, I cannot help but feel a bit of contempt when I hear someone insist they need the "latest and greatest" in order to learn.
Eventually I got this roomate who introduced me to Linux. Although I loved unix, I never thought I'd actually get to try my hand at being a (gasp) sysadmin, but Linux made it possible for me to explore the many corners of unix that had previous been unavailable to me! So I dove into Linux, and learned all of the aspects of administration. Having him around to pick his brain was also invaluable.
I graduated University (With a degree in military history) just before Y2K, and was hired on to a Y2K team who needed a junior sysadmin to write backup scripts, and free up a senior, better paid, admin from what they saw as "grunt work".
It was a perfect match... I was thrown in with a bunch of old-school unix sysadmins, and downloaded their knowledge as fast as they could endure. Not only that, I had root access to all the servers, including development servers.
There were only a few "mishaps"
That contract was my first foot in the unix door... once you cross that initial hurdle, many more doors open.
So, that's my tale. If I can give advice:
-There's a lot you can teach yourself, but there's also a lot to be learned from others. If you're bright, and a eager learner, you'll never have trouble finding people happy to mentor you.
-Practice self sufficiency. Don't waste a gurus time asking them for info that can be found in a man page, save them for that which ISN'T in the man page.
-Don't let lack of a linear, tangible plan daunt you. Love Unix, learn Unix, and the rest will eventually fall into place. As shakespeare said: "No profit grows where there's no pleasure taken".
Hope that helps.