Powerbooks are now shipping with a 5400 rpm drive option availbale (as opposed to the painfully slow 4500 rpm drives standard). Hitachi has begun shipping a 7200 rpm (standard desktop rpm) drive for notebooks. My new PowerBook is being ordered, but the first thing I'm doing with it is putting in a new 7200 rpm drive to remove this limitation. slow drives have hampered Powerbooks for a long time, but the 5400 option and the ability to put in a 7200 rpm drive shuold make things "much better now". I'm looking forward to drooling after the disaster that was the TiBooks is finally over.
Call me a Karma whore, but the parent is right, this is exactly the kind of legitimate use BT was made for. (Plus hey, I'm running my orn tracker and made the torrent, so I should get something for my trouble and Karma is about all I'm likely to get. Be sure to checksum it against the kernel.org checksum
They have failed to say which RAID controller is installed in the PowerEdge 2650, but I'm assuming it's the default Adaptec ROMB PERC 3/Di card. Following development of this driver on linux, there are issues with Linux and this driver. While I'm for a fair benchmark, this will most likely effect the Linux results.
A controller card agreeable to all OSs/Distros would be a good idea (if such a thing is even possible).
There are lies, damn lies, and benchmarks. I'm sure different configurations would produce similar complaints from other OSs/Distros.
Or, if you know that it's say just Apache being updated. force quit the Software Update app, then restart Apache by hand. This is unix afterall. If it's not a core part of the OS, then you don't *need* a restart, but this is a consumer driven OS company (X Server is still based on the concept of a consumer server OS) they keep it simple with a reboot. If you know what to issue the kill command to, you're all set. I've avoided a number of reboots this way. Become Zen with your OS, no matter what it is. (yes, that includes Windows as well). Zen multi-platform? What crack am I smoking at this hour? Become one with the universe of operating systems! OK, time to go to bed now.
This poor soul who occasionally has to spend a few hours in the machine room with THE SOUND OF THE 3RD FASTEST CLUSTER IN THE WORLD would like them to be quiet, but I'll just get some better head phones and leave them on my poor little rack in there if I need to. It's worth bragging rights. Heck, I can call my friends on my cell phone and let them listen just to make them jealous. To answer your question, it seemes to me that the cooling system is the loudest part of the whole cluster, and it's not much louder than the rest of the machines in the room anyway. Luckily, I'm yards away in the same big room, in another group of loud machines, so I don't hear the cluster that much.
Once the research grants start coming in, I wouldn't be suprised if that is what they do. Makes a nice way to *stay* in the top rungs of the list - keep adding 1000 new nodes for a grant here, a grant there. With the infrascructure built (they're not getting rid of that), it can stay up top on the list, and have a pay as you go program. Since it's been stated that they got no volume discount on the G5s, there's no reason not to go for the upgrade-as-you-go program.
A few grants and a few nodes at a time is my guess. Who knows how far they can take that strategy. Fill a rack a grant,and before you know it you're staying high on the list and not being obseleted by the next wad of money burning a hole in someone's pocket.
Oh hell, let's have some fun with this here on/.! Anyone want to do the math to see what happens if they replace all the rack space of the G5s with XServs out have as a throretical TFlop rating? Surely someone on/. can BS some numbers real fast:
The height for the racks can be had by counting the CPUs in each rack from the commercials, divide that by the height of the XServ = so many XServs per rack, multiply by the number of racks (count the number of G5 in a rack and divide it into 1100), multiply by the number of processors... figure in the scaling issues for each processor....
Come all you number crunchers! Take up this/. challenge to calculate the world's next Top Super computer here!
A small icon in the bottom of the start bar (which is what the auto-update gives you using the settings you describe) is a far cry from an e-mail that lets me know from my workstation. I really have no desire to log in to each server to check this. Plus, the small icon doesn't show up when you log in to a Windows Server via RDP connection, and yes I am aware of Timbuktu, VNC, radmin, etc. RDP is how I'm connecting to one of my windows servers right now from home since work is snowed in (bandwith isn't limitless). Big difference between one desktop and a number of servers. Windows Auto-update just doesn't cut it for this. It's fine for my notebook. Just not for my servers.
There is some improvement to this situation thanks to a program written by someone here at Virginia Tech called Daisy that helps to check for updates to more than just the OS, but this is still a far cry from an update notification in one central location (central meaning my e-mail where I get the messages from all my other systems). You can run Daisy scripted. It's a great package.
However, updating an OS is efficiently should be the responsibility of the OS distributor, not the responsibility of third party developers.
(I highly recommend Daisy. Best thing to hit Windows server administration ever.)
I don't know weather to write this as troll, astroturfing or just ignorance. I rather update my box more frequently, if it fixes the bugs and security problems. My Fedora boxes run "yum update-check" nightly, my RedHat boxes run up2date nightly, my OS X boxes check software update daily, and I have no complaints when they find an update. I like having notices sent to my mail box, so I can check them all in one place. (you can do this with scripting the OS X command line softwareupdate).
I wish I could automate the checking for updates form Microsoft. Launching a web page and clicking through daily is no way to check for updates (and MS's security announcements are typically not sent when the updates are made available, but can be a day or two later).
MS's "monthly" policy scares me. There is more to an OS than uptime. I'd rather know my boxes are secure than know that it's been a while since I rebooted them (and I run a number Linux, OS X and Windows boxes).
ripit.pl combined with fink should give you everything you need to rip to MP3 or OGG using your preferred libraries, and you can run multiple copies with the simple command line of --device to do multiple rips. If the rip is CPU bound (not likely), it just keeps chugging along and catches up eventually, all the while allowing you to keep ripping. Disclaimer: I've only done this on linux, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work with OS X.
I've already posted in this thread, or I'd mod this one up myself. This answers a debate we were having at work about an errata being released after the EOL date.
Possibly due to the fact that the last kernel fix was a week ago, or just that the patch is minoor, or because RH is being kind to those of us who still have reasons to run RH 7.3 just yet, but look to RH for a kernel update if you need one for 7.x and 8 which are unsupported in 2004. Thanks RedHat. Saved me a panicked kernel decision. I desperately didn't want to return from a vacation to a timetable jump of a few weeks.
Let me look at the Game Soundtracks I have on my computer right now and see what my selections prior to this discussion say is best:
Doom Music, Bobby Prince (original, separate OST) - another mp3.com users bites it. Mechwarrior II (original, ripped from the game CD) Mechwarrior II:Mercenaries (original, ripped from the game CD) various Final fantasy MIDIs (original, from the 'net) Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy S Generation (oringal, pseudo OST) Nobuo Uematsu, Junya Nakano, Masashi Hamauzu - Final Fantasy X OST (original, OST) Wipeout (licensed, ripped from the game CD) Wip3out (licensed, ripped from the game CD) Halo - waiting to buy after/asking for Christmas (original OST)
I don't seem to see many non-originals in there. I believe that tells my opinion. Also, Wip3out's rip is 6/14 by the same artist: DJ Sasha so it's really a combination of licensed and original music). I wish vendors went back to using audio tracks on their CDs, but with DVDs in consoles becoming more common, I'm not surprised. I was disappointed not to find any audio tracks on the PC version of Halo, but at least there is a soundtrack available.
It's the CD-RW logic I was thinking of. Or maybe a combination of both CD-R and CD-RW thinking. If it can hold another session, then do it. If not, then blank it. Most of the CD writing software I've seen these days (commercially) have a feature that lets you write to the CD as if it were a local drive (in the user sense). I have users who use CDs as floppies, and this can be applied to other media as well. The mechanics of it are usually just adding to the session, as you mention.
OK, so we format it in ISO 9660 and the drivers are written to treat it like a CD-RW. Microsoft just makes companies move to standards. (Or they ship it unformatted, and the users choose how to format it according to their OS of choice.) Put the driver on the device (small ISO 9660 file system) set to auto install, and you're set.
Talk about submarine patents. Floppies have been shipping FAT for *decades*!
I cant recally the actual quote, or who to correctly attribute it to. It's something like: "90% of Science fiction is crap. Come to think of it, 90% of everything is crap." This applies to user suggestions.
Or to plagerize Abraham Lincon: "You can please some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time; but you can't please all the people all the time"
Anyone remember Robocop 2?
In other words, developers should not give up their vision, but should be open to that rare suggestion that might improve their vision. If not, it's design by committee.
I don't seem to recall mentioning RH 9 specifically in my post, and since I have no 9 boxes left (all of those have Fedora by now) and am only concerned about 7.3, I checked the src.rpm of the latest 7.3 kernel. This is why I say to check for yourself. IANAProgrammer, I just play one at work, and not in C, so it could be taking about dead cows for all I know. I do know how to grep, and the patches I mentioned come from the 7.3 kernel and grep spots matches with do_brk. If they don't fix it in 7.3, I'd take that for an answer, but debunking me for something I didn't say is kind of pointless.
7.3's current kernel (released 8.20.2003) has a patch called "linux-2.4.18-mmap-sem-debug.patch" which appears to address this. Similar releases were made for the new RH Advanced 3.0 series on the same date. The only current RH release that did not have a release on this date was for the RH Advanced 2.1 series, which was just updated today. Sounds like it's been patched already. Don't forget RH's history of back-porting security patches so as not to release bugs. A grep of the SOURCES dir after installing kernel-2.4.20-20.7.src.rpm game the above file and 2 more results: linux-2.4.22-security.patch and linux-2.4.22-security-nptl.patch. Sounds like it's covered. Don't trust me. Check for yourself.
For those interested in keeping up with RH 7.3 next month (only one month left!): Look and help with Fedora Legacy
You could boot (you could do the same with single user mode w/o NetInfo), but without backups you'd be fubar, You could only grab the data that's left and reinstall. If this machine had backups NetInfo's database would be backed up as well, and so this would be a non-issue. Comes back up to the great rule of sysadmin - you can never have too many backups.
If you've locked yourself out of root, you can boot from the System install CD. In the menu, IIRC, as son as you start the install process, you can select "Reset Password" utility. This is assuming that your NetInfo database is not corrupted. If it *is* corrupted, you can still get to data on the drives via single user mode (Command-S) on startup, to backup your data.
You can also re-install with the option of creating a new NetInfo database, or follow the instructions indicated in the linked articles you cite for similar results.
The fact that you have options already cited makes me think this article sounds more like a troll than anything else. If this were Windows and the Registry was gone, you'd be FUBAR as well. If your/etc/ directory was gone in *nix, you'd be FUBAR. The possibility for recovering from such a corruption is a matter of good backups and system administration and not the fault of the OS in this case. A corrupted NetInfo database is merely the way that Darwin shows this as a problem that you keep backups to avoid.
Also, there is a manner (I forget what it is now) to get Jaguar (and I assume Panther) to read the/etc flat files instead of NetInfo. It was implimented as a complaint who preferr flat files to NetInfo (I'm one of them).
Poor backups is not a reason for you to examine if this is a OS up to par. If there were no way to backup the NetInfo database, then you'd have a great case for this argument. There is, and you should be restoring from that database if you need it for server info.
Since I'm up too late, and interested in a pure 2.6 distro to see if the 32 groups limit is really gone, I've gone Karma Whoring (and this is a pain in the @#$% way to do it).
It appears that "IBM's motion to compel is scheduled for oral arguments on Dec. 5." (stolen from Groklaw). Hopefully after that, things will tank and we can get back to normal.
The day UNIX came to BBEdit I cried. If BBEdit were to ever come to Linux (or anything close), I'd probably not bother to touch a Mac again. As it is now, I use the latest version to even write my shell scripts for my Linux servers. It slices...It dices...Look at that tomato! Screw the hype, BBEdit just plain doesn't suck, and *all* editors compared to it do. Flame on vi and emacs users - you just like the torture.
Here is a newly created torrent that has all the episodes. This means that it includes the earlier files, and all of the extras except the original trailer. This is is one.zip and weighs in at 254.9MB.
You should watch the trailer before you abuse everyone's bandwith.
Slashdot Mirror
Powerbooks are now shipping with a 5400 rpm drive option availbale (as opposed to the painfully slow 4500 rpm drives standard). Hitachi has begun shipping a 7200 rpm (standard desktop rpm) drive for notebooks. My new PowerBook is being ordered, but the first thing I'm doing with it is putting in a new 7200 rpm drive to remove this limitation. slow drives have hampered Powerbooks for a long time, but the 5400 option and the ability to put in a 7200 rpm drive shuold make things "much better now". I'm looking forward to drooling after the disaster that was the TiBooks is finally over.
Here's my torrent
Call me a Karma whore, but the parent is right, this is exactly the kind of legitimate use BT was made for. (Plus hey, I'm running my orn tracker and made the torrent, so I should get something for my trouble and Karma is about all I'm likely to get.
Be sure to checksum it against the kernel.org checksum
They have failed to say which RAID controller is installed in the PowerEdge 2650, but I'm assuming it's the default Adaptec ROMB PERC 3/Di card. Following development of this driver on linux, there are issues with Linux and this driver. While I'm for a fair benchmark, this will most likely effect the Linux results.
A controller card agreeable to all OSs/Distros would be a good idea (if such a thing is even possible).
There are lies, damn lies, and benchmarks. I'm sure different configurations would produce similar complaints from other OSs/Distros.
Or, if you know that it's say just Apache being updated. force quit the Software Update app, then restart Apache by hand. This is unix afterall. If it's not a core part of the OS, then you don't *need* a restart, but this is a consumer driven OS company (X Server is still based on the concept of a consumer server OS) they keep it simple with a reboot. If you know what to issue the kill command to, you're all set. I've avoided a number of reboots this way. Become Zen with your OS, no matter what it is. (yes, that includes Windows as well). Zen multi-platform? What crack am I smoking at this hour? Become one with the universe of operating systems! OK, time to go to bed now.
This poor soul who occasionally has to spend a few hours in the machine room with THE SOUND OF THE 3RD FASTEST CLUSTER IN THE WORLD would like them to be quiet, but I'll just get some better head phones and leave them on my poor little rack in there if I need to. It's worth bragging rights. Heck, I can call my friends on my cell phone and let them listen just to make them jealous. To answer your question, it seemes to me that the cooling system is the loudest part of the whole cluster, and it's not much louder than the rest of the machines in the room anyway. Luckily, I'm yards away in the same big room, in another group of loud machines, so I don't hear the cluster that much.
Once the research grants start coming in, I wouldn't be suprised if that is what they do. Makes a nice way to *stay* in the top rungs of the list - keep adding 1000 new nodes for a grant here, a grant there. With the infrascructure built (they're not getting rid of that), it can stay up top on the list, and have a pay as you go program. Since it's been stated that they got no volume discount on the G5s, there's no reason not to go for the upgrade-as-you-go program.
/.! Anyone want to do the math to see what happens if they replace all the rack space of the G5s with XServs out have as a throretical TFlop rating? Surely someone on /. can BS some numbers real fast:
/. challenge to calculate the world's next Top Super computer here!
A few grants and a few nodes at a time is my guess. Who knows how far they can take that strategy. Fill a rack a grant,and before you know it you're staying high on the list and not being obseleted by the next wad of money burning a hole in someone's pocket.
Oh hell, let's have some fun with this here on
The height for the racks can be had by counting the CPUs in each rack from the commercials, divide that by the height of the XServ = so many XServs per rack, multiply by the number of racks (count the number of G5 in a rack and divide it into 1100), multiply by the number of processors... figure in the scaling issues for each processor....
Come all you number crunchers! Take up this
A small icon in the bottom of the start bar (which is what the auto-update gives you using the settings you describe) is a far cry from an e-mail that lets me know from my workstation. I really have no desire to log in to each server to check this. Plus, the small icon doesn't show up when you log in to a Windows Server via RDP connection, and yes I am aware of Timbuktu, VNC, radmin, etc. RDP is how I'm connecting to one of my windows servers right now from home since work is snowed in (bandwith isn't limitless). Big difference between one desktop and a number of servers. Windows Auto-update just doesn't cut it for this. It's fine for my notebook. Just not for my servers.
There is some improvement to this situation thanks to a program written by someone here at Virginia Tech called Daisy that helps to check for updates to more than just the OS, but this is still a far cry from an update notification in one central location (central meaning my e-mail where I get the messages from all my other systems). You can run Daisy scripted. It's a great package.
However, updating an OS is efficiently should be the responsibility of the OS distributor, not the responsibility of third party developers.
(I highly recommend Daisy. Best thing to hit Windows server administration ever.)
I don't know weather to write this as troll, astroturfing or just ignorance. I rather update my box more frequently, if it fixes the bugs and security problems. My Fedora boxes run "yum update-check" nightly, my RedHat boxes run up2date nightly, my OS X boxes check software update daily, and I have no complaints when they find an update. I like having notices sent to my mail box, so I can check them all in one place. (you can do this with scripting the OS X command line softwareupdate).
I wish I could automate the checking for updates form Microsoft. Launching a web page and clicking through daily is no way to check for updates (and MS's security announcements are typically not sent when the updates are made available, but can be a day or two later).
MS's "monthly" policy scares me. There is more to an OS than uptime. I'd rather know my boxes are secure than know that it's been a while since I rebooted them (and I run a number Linux, OS X and Windows boxes).
ripit.pl combined with fink should give you everything you need to rip to MP3 or OGG using your preferred libraries, and you can run multiple copies with the simple command line of --device to do multiple rips. If the rip is CPU bound (not likely), it just keeps chugging along and catches up eventually, all the while allowing you to keep ripping. Disclaimer: I've only done this on linux, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work with OS X.
I've already posted in this thread, or I'd mod this one up myself. This answers a debate we were having at work about an errata being released after the EOL date.
Possibly due to the fact that the last kernel fix was a week ago, or just that the patch is minoor, or because RH is being kind to those of us who still have reasons to run RH 7.3 just yet, but look to RH for a kernel update if you need one for 7.x and 8 which are unsupported in 2004. Thanks RedHat. Saved me a panicked kernel decision. I desperately didn't want to return from a vacation to a timetable jump of a few weeks.
Dr. Kimble. Paging Dr. Kimble. This was bigger before the movie came out.
Let me look at the Game Soundtracks I have on my computer right now and see what my selections prior to this discussion say is best:
Doom Music, Bobby Prince (original, separate OST) - another mp3.com users bites it.
Mechwarrior II (original, ripped from the game CD)
Mechwarrior II:Mercenaries (original, ripped from the game CD)
various Final fantasy MIDIs (original, from the 'net)
Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy S Generation (oringal, pseudo OST)
Nobuo Uematsu, Junya Nakano, Masashi Hamauzu - Final Fantasy X OST (original, OST)
Wipeout (licensed, ripped from the game CD)
Wip3out (licensed, ripped from the game CD)
Halo - waiting to buy after/asking for Christmas (original OST)
I don't seem to see many non-originals in there. I believe that tells my opinion. Also, Wip3out's rip is 6/14 by the same artist: DJ Sasha so it's really a combination of licensed and original music). I wish vendors went back to using audio tracks on their CDs, but with DVDs in consoles becoming more common, I'm not surprised. I was disappointed not to find any audio tracks on the PC version of Halo, but at least there is a soundtrack available.
Time to send my office mate into gaming land....
It's the CD-RW logic I was thinking of. Or maybe a combination of both CD-R and CD-RW thinking. If it can hold another session, then do it. If not, then blank it. Most of the CD writing software I've seen these days (commercially) have a feature that lets you write to the CD as if it were a local drive (in the user sense). I have users who use CDs as floppies, and this can be applied to other media as well. The mechanics of it are usually just adding to the session, as you mention.
OK, so we format it in ISO 9660 and the drivers are written to treat it like a CD-RW. Microsoft just makes companies move to standards. (Or they ship it unformatted, and the users choose how to format it according to their OS of choice.) Put the driver on the device (small ISO 9660 file system) set to auto install, and you're set.
Talk about submarine patents. Floppies have been shipping FAT for *decades*!
I cant recally the actual quote, or who to correctly attribute it to. It's something like:
"90% of Science fiction is crap. Come to think of it, 90% of everything is crap." This applies to user suggestions.
Or to plagerize Abraham Lincon: "You can please some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time; but you can't please all the people all the time"
Anyone remember Robocop 2?
In other words, developers should not give up their vision, but should be open to that rare suggestion that might improve their vision. If not, it's design by committee.
updates for 7.3,8.0,9.0 & Fedora are all available now from RH and some mirrors.
I don't seem to recall mentioning RH 9 specifically in my post, and since I have no 9 boxes left (all of those have Fedora by now) and am only concerned about 7.3, I checked the src.rpm of the latest 7.3 kernel. This is why I say to check for yourself. IANAProgrammer, I just play one at work, and not in C, so it could be taking about dead cows for all I know. I do know how to grep, and the patches I mentioned come from the 7.3 kernel and grep spots matches with do_brk. If they don't fix it in 7.3, I'd take that for an answer, but debunking me for something I didn't say is kind of pointless.
7.3's current kernel (released 8.20.2003) has a patch called "linux-2.4.18-mmap-sem-debug.patch" which appears to address this. Similar releases were made for the new RH Advanced 3.0 series on the same date. The only current RH release that did not have a release on this date was for the RH Advanced 2.1 series, which was just updated today. Sounds like it's been patched already. Don't forget RH's history of back-porting security patches so as not to release bugs. A grep of the SOURCES dir after installing kernel-2.4.20-20.7.src.rpm game the above file and 2 more results: linux-2.4.22-security.patch and linux-2.4.22-security-nptl.patch. Sounds like it's covered. Don't trust me. Check for yourself.
For those interested in keeping up with RH 7.3 next month (only one month left!): Look and help with Fedora Legacy
You could boot (you could do the same with single user mode w/o NetInfo), but without backups you'd be fubar, You could only grab the data that's left and reinstall. If this machine had backups NetInfo's database would be backed up as well, and so this would be a non-issue. Comes back up to the great rule of sysadmin - you can never have too many backups.
If you've locked yourself out of root, you can boot from the System install CD. In the menu, IIRC, as son as you start the install process, you can select "Reset Password" utility. This is assuming that your NetInfo database is not corrupted. If it *is* corrupted, you can still get to data on the drives via single user mode (Command-S) on startup, to backup your data.
/etc/ directory was gone in *nix, you'd be FUBAR. The possibility for recovering from such a corruption is a matter of good backups and system administration and not the fault of the OS in this case. A corrupted NetInfo database is merely the way that Darwin shows this as a problem that you keep backups to avoid.
/etc flat files instead of NetInfo. It was implimented as a complaint who preferr flat files to NetInfo (I'm one of them).
You can also re-install with the option of creating a new NetInfo database, or follow the instructions indicated in the linked articles you cite for similar results.
The fact that you have options already cited makes me think this article sounds more like a troll than anything else. If this were Windows and the Registry was gone, you'd be FUBAR as well. If your
Also, there is a manner (I forget what it is now) to get Jaguar (and I assume Panther) to read the
Poor backups is not a reason for you to examine if this is a OS up to par. If there were no way to backup the NetInfo database, then you'd have a great case for this argument. There is, and you should be restoring from that database if you need it for server info.
Since I'm up too late, and interested in a pure 2.6 distro to see if the 32 groups limit is really gone, I've gone Karma Whoring (and this is a pain in the @#$% way to do it).
Here is a torrent.
It appears that "IBM's motion to compel is scheduled for oral arguments on Dec. 5." (stolen from Groklaw). Hopefully after that, things will tank and we can get back to normal.
The day UNIX came to BBEdit I cried. If BBEdit were to ever come to Linux (or anything close), I'd probably not bother to touch a Mac again. As it is now, I use the latest version to even write my shell scripts for my Linux servers. It slices...It dices...Look at that tomato! Screw the hype, BBEdit just plain doesn't suck, and *all* editors compared to it do. Flame on vi and emacs users - you just like the torture.
Here is a newly created torrent that has all the episodes. This means that it includes the earlier files, and all of the extras except the original trailer. This is is one .zip and weighs in at 254.9MB.
You should watch the trailer before you abuse everyone's bandwith.