Well, living in Germany I can tell you that there are people who shake their heads about current US foreign politics but that doesn't make us "hate" you.
How could we hate the country that helped to remove Hitler? How could we hate the country that spent a lot of money rebuilding the German economy after the war? There has been a history of friendship between the US and Germany until less than 4 years ago and this will not change so fast.
Please try to ignore the occassional strong german leftist trying to get into the press / some of the statements german press (like "Der Spiegel") are printing just to sell their newspaper. We should also try to ignore the same stuff on the US side - there has been a lot of europe bashing too.
IMHO the current administration of the US and germany are an unfortunate combination - they don't get along very well and that's a real pitty. From my point of view both nations did not behave very nice in some points. Especially chancellor Schroeder's abuse of the war against Iraq for his campaign ("We will never help them under an circumstances") has been more than embarassing. Mr Rumsfelds comments about "old europe" were on a embarassing level too.
But this really does not mean that the citizens of the countries should now hate each other. I have been to the US many times and always been happy about the friendly people. Also I coached some US citizens visiting Germany and they seemed to like it here too.
(These are my feelings and perceptions, of course I can't speak for all german citizens)
Some advice for rebuilding your LDAP-DB: Rebuild your directory on a RAMDISK, speeds things up by factor 5 for us. We are rebuilding our db on a daily basis. It has about 300k entrys and is 500MB in size and takes less than 60min to rebuild.
OpenLDAP dies a lot over here too. Replication works quite well for us, the only "problem" ist that slurd opens lots of processes for every replication target - our main ldap-machine is running about 750 processes at all times.
Don't even dare to try any 2.XX version of openldap - they have a lot of features you probably don't need and are even more buggy.
I was quite delighted to see that about 25% of the slashdot-readers are not from the US - maybe its time to start reporting about stuff like CeBit (bigger computer exhibition of the world) although it does not take place in the US;-)
It looks as if I (as a European;) have no idea about how bad the public peering points in the U.S. are.
Sorry but in.de we have one public every-net-peers-with-every-othernet-that-is-connec ted-to-this-peering-point called "decix" and this seems to work very well - nearly all big Networds (well, except for UUNet and the German Telecom) are connected to it, they mention how good their connection to "decix" is in their advertisements etc. and are proud of it.
I didn't see "bigger" (well, thats big for Germany) peering points as a disadvantage so far.
I don't get it: they claim that they invented something much better than peering and what they do is connect all big backbone providers with their "superior" network, effectively peering among them.
Why does traffic now "directly" go to its destination ? Lets say you have a packet originating from sprintnet going to abovenet. The packet goes through the sprintlink net to InterNap, InterNap sends it to abovenet and voila, the packet gets to its destination. I can't see what makes this thing different from a pretty normal, expensive and highly commercial peering-point.
If you would like to get statistics how much time the average american spends on which things I can recommend reading "Faster" by James Gleick. This book has been reviewed by slashdot.
It's an interesting fact that Gleick quotes statistics that say that Americans actually have a whole lot more freetime than they did have in the past...
IMHO this is an issue of what you consider leisure time and what you consider work: As a cs student in Germany I consider my study-stuff to be "work" and stuff related to the company I am running (not THAT big but still about 5k customers) to be "fun". However I do not know what will happen if I will go on with spending every awake minute either on studys or my job... I don't think I will "burn out" soon (hey I'm 21 I do barely know that word;) - we'll see what happens.
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Well, living in Germany I can tell you that there are people who shake their heads about current US foreign politics but that doesn't make us "hate" you.
How could we hate the country that helped to remove Hitler? How could we hate the country that spent a lot of money rebuilding the German economy after the war? There has been a history of friendship between the US and Germany until less than 4 years ago and this will not change so fast.
Please try to ignore the occassional strong german leftist trying to get into the press / some of the statements german press (like "Der Spiegel") are printing just to sell their newspaper. We should also try to ignore the same stuff on the US side - there has been a lot of europe bashing too.
IMHO the current administration of the US and germany are an unfortunate combination - they don't get along very well and that's a real pitty. From my point of view both nations did not behave very nice in some points. Especially chancellor Schroeder's abuse of the war against Iraq for his campaign ("We will never help them under an circumstances") has been more than embarassing. Mr Rumsfelds comments about "old europe" were on a embarassing level too.
But this really does not mean that the citizens of the countries should now hate each other. I have been to the US many times and always been happy about the friendly people. Also I coached some US citizens visiting Germany and they seemed to like it here too.
(These are my feelings and perceptions, of course I can't speak for all german citizens)
Let's see how many "oh my god he is sooooooo dumb" comment this yields this time.
If I ever hear the OpenBSD guys say "Linux wackos" again I now finally know what to answer.
A f*cking SONG *BWAAAH*
A bunch of people have taken the ideas of isolating programs or users into jails even further. Take a look at this site.
Some advice for rebuilding your LDAP-DB: Rebuild your directory on a RAMDISK, speeds things up by factor 5 for us. We are rebuilding our db on a daily basis. It has about 300k entrys and is 500MB in size and takes less than 60min to rebuild.
OpenLDAP dies a lot over here too. Replication works quite well for us, the only "problem" ist that slurd opens lots of processes for every replication target - our main ldap-machine is running about 750 processes at all times.
Don't even dare to try any 2.XX version of openldap - they have a lot of features you probably don't need and are even more buggy.
Well this has already been on slashdot (twice I think - can only find one old article though), so why not post it again ?
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*goes on cursing and flaming wildly*
Jochen
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/01/232
Hi,
;-)
I was quite delighted to see that about 25% of the slashdot-readers are not from the US - maybe its time to start reporting about stuff like CeBit (bigger computer exhibition of the world) although it does not take place in the US
It looks as if I (as a European ;) have no idea about how bad the public peering points in the U.S. are.
.de we have one public every-net-peers-with-every-othernet-that-is-connec ted-to-this-peering-point called "decix" and this seems to work very well - nearly all big Networds (well, except for UUNet and the German Telecom) are connected to it, they mention how good their connection to "decix" is in their advertisements etc. and are proud of it.
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I didn't see "bigger" (well, thats big for Germany) peering points as a disadvantage so far.
I guess I learned something today
I don't get it: they claim that they invented something much better than peering and what they do is connect all big backbone providers with their "superior" network, effectively peering among them.
:-(
Why does traffic now "directly" go to its destination ? Lets say you have a packet originating from sprintnet going to abovenet. The packet goes through the sprintlink net to InterNap, InterNap sends it to abovenet and voila, the packet gets to its destination. I can't see what makes this thing different from a pretty normal, expensive and highly commercial peering-point.
This looks like pure hype to me
If you would like to get statistics how much time the average american spends on which things I can recommend reading "Faster" by James Gleick. This book has been reviewed by slashdot.
... I don't think I will "burn out" soon (hey I'm 21 I do barely know that word ;) - we'll see what happens.
It's an interesting fact that Gleick quotes statistics that say that Americans actually have a whole lot more freetime than they did have in the past...
IMHO this is an issue of what you consider leisure time and what you consider work: As a cs student in Germany I consider my study-stuff to be "work" and stuff related to the company I am running (not THAT big but still about 5k customers) to be "fun". However I do not know what will happen if I will go on with spending every awake minute either on studys or my job