First of all, I couldn't agree more that DRBD is not at all suited for the task.
But I thought I'd point out a slightly newer source of information about it. drbd.org is the home of DRBD. You might be able to pick out the age of the linked howto by the mention of support only being for the 2.2 kernel.:)
Not to belittle the otherwise decent point, but Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace, not Ted Turner. I wouldn't mention it, but they are like, mortal enemies. I bet Rupert would be in to the brainwashing idea, though.
We have an as-yet-unamed solution that I funded and co-wrote back when I was making phat-cash in the dot-com days. It's GPL'd, written using OmniOrb/C++ and Python/GTK. It uses a PCI DMX card from soundlight.de and is fairly much rock-solid. I've used it for multiple shows, some of them fairly complex. Give me a shout if you're interested. We haven't spend any real resources on packaging it. We have a web page for us http://inaugust.com -- but you won't find links there. So just contact me directly and I'll hook you up with info.
You can use mysql or ldap as a user information source and log people in against that without 'actual' account on each machine. If you really want to get exciting, you can do the same with Kerberos and Hesiod. You can also use NFS or (my preference) AFS to hold the user directories so they actually have home dirs. MIT has been doing it since the 80's with their Athena Project... I keep wondering why Windows has such an issue with single sign on.
So AFS is the oldest and probably the most robust of the choices. (Ok, so AFS is, but you probably don't want to buy AFS from Transarc, so just use OpenAFS) It is a distributed file system that allows for replication of data across servers and all of that. It is in use at MIT, NCSU, CMU and other good CS places. And you can use it on *nix and W32. It isn't the easiest choice to get running, but if you actually want the thing closest to Raid-5 across machines, this is definitely the choice for you.
I designed a wedding ring for my wife when we were living in Seattle. I found a custom jewelry place, and they used the gold and diamond from her engagement ring. I came in with pictures/sketches of *sorta* what I wanted (I'm not a jewelry designer) and then they had their designer make a mock up in wax, which they used to make the mold for the gold ring. My wife loved the ring, and it is much more special for the time and attention... we are also guaranteed that no one else has one just like it.:)
We have a GPL'd (although we haven't bothered releasing it yet) solution based on Zope called QDS. It is perfect for Science departments, and is in use currently by the NC State University Chemistry department (and has been for a couple of years). I'd be more than happy to help you out with this. Contact me at mordred at inaugust dot com. If there's enough interest, we could figure out what we need to do to release it in a useful package.
My high school english teacher told us that back in the 80's. And high school english teachers aren't exactly the first people to find things out. So I'm sure they knew that before then. Why is the NYTimes running this now?
Just as a warning, most turntables do not output the same signal stength as a line-in is expecting. If you can, connect the turntable to a tuner or pre-amp that has an input jack labled "Phono" (which is probably wired to accept the lower phono signal) and then use one of the Rec outputs from the tuner to go into your computer. Otherwise, your recordings are going to sound even worse.
My brother-in-law can see it driving through the Ozark's about 50 miles south of Harrison, Arkansas. Says it covers much of the sky with orange and purple light.
The article says that nothing out there is as good as Microsoft Office. The unspoken assumption to that line is: "Nothing is as good as Microsoft Office at being Microsoft Office."
And probably nothing ever will be. Linux is fine as a desktop, or an Office Tool, when judged on its own terms. MSOffice doesn't always make sense, be people are used to it. Things that are essentially text documents are stored as Microsoft Word documents. No we don't have a program that readlily lends itself to destop-publishing every tiny little note you want to write, but I think we can edit text with the best of them.
We also don't read MS Office documents as well as MS Office. Actually, neither does MS Office - a fact that people are sure to start complaining about with the upcoming release of Office XP.
Agreed. To a certain extent, process can compensate for lack of talent. Free will certainly assumes/requires ability. With no exceptions.
We almost get into a chicken and egg discussion, though, because by allowing non-competent people easier access to success, we perpetuate the influx of people who think "oh yeah, that doesn't look to tough."
Of course, without them, we'd be doing so much drudgery everyday that we'd never have time for anything fun ourselves.
Incompentent people - you can really use them, but you can't fire them either.
Good luck, BTW. I just got done with a similar project. The end result was letting them wrap themselves in process until they turned blue. It seemed to be a self-feeding monster. The more process they created, the more they needed.
It's already been mentioned that the alternative to methodologies is letting everyone do their own thing. I'd like to point out that this is the same fear people tend to have about Open Source. "How are you ever going to manage people who each have independence of thought and action?"
The real problem underlying suspicions about Open Source and working with a lack of prescribed methodologies is an inherent lack of trust by the management for the people doing the work. This could come from an underlying knowledge that, as corporate managers, they typically have no real value added themselves. They know that their jobs are inherently deceitful at some level, and therefore project that world view onto other people. People without purpose must be managed.
But guess what? Even in a methodology, you're only going to achieve anything at all by the willing cooperation of the managed. You have no choice but to trust them, even though you may put structures in place to hide that fact from yourself. Take away the methodologies, and you have to look the fact straight in the face: you can't make it happen without them, but they sure as hell can make it happen without you.
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First of all, I couldn't agree more that DRBD is not at all suited for the task.
:)
But I thought I'd point out a slightly newer source of information about it. drbd.org is the home of DRBD. You might be able to pick out the age of the linked howto by the mention of support only being for the 2.2 kernel.
Not to belittle the otherwise decent point, but Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace, not Ted Turner. I wouldn't mention it, but they are like, mortal enemies. I bet Rupert would be in to the brainwashing idea, though.
We have an as-yet-unamed solution that I funded and co-wrote back when I was making phat-cash in the dot-com days. It's GPL'd, written using OmniOrb/C++ and Python/GTK. It uses a PCI DMX card from soundlight.de and is fairly much rock-solid. I've used it for multiple shows, some of them fairly complex. Give me a shout if you're interested. We haven't spend any real resources on packaging it. We have a web page for us http://inaugust.com -- but you won't find links there. So just contact me directly and I'll hook you up with info.
You can use mysql or ldap as a user information source and log people in against that without 'actual' account on each machine. If you really want to get exciting, you can do the same with Kerberos and Hesiod. You can also use NFS or (my preference) AFS to hold the user directories so they actually have home dirs. MIT has been doing it since the 80's with their Athena Project... I keep wondering why Windows has such an issue with single sign on.
So AFS is the oldest and probably the most robust of the choices. (Ok, so AFS is, but you probably don't want to buy AFS from Transarc, so just use OpenAFS) It is a distributed file system that allows for replication of data across servers and all of that. It is in use at MIT, NCSU, CMU and other good CS places. And you can use it on *nix and W32. It isn't the easiest choice to get running, but if you actually want the thing closest to Raid-5 across machines, this is definitely the choice for you.
I designed a wedding ring for my wife when we were living in Seattle. I found a custom jewelry place, and they used the gold and diamond from her engagement ring. I came in with pictures/sketches of *sorta* what I wanted (I'm not a jewelry designer) and then they had their designer make a mock up in wax, which they used to make the mold for the gold ring. My wife loved the ring, and it is much more special for the time and attention... we are also guaranteed that no one else has one just like it. :)
We have a GPL'd (although we haven't bothered releasing it yet) solution based on Zope called QDS. It is perfect for Science departments, and is in use currently by the NC State University Chemistry department (and has been for a couple of years). I'd be more than happy to help you out with this. Contact me at mordred at inaugust dot com. If there's enough interest, we could figure out what we need to do to release it in a useful package.
My high school english teacher told us that back in the 80's. And high school english teachers aren't exactly the first people to find things out. So I'm sure they knew that before then. Why is the NYTimes running this now?
Just as a warning, most turntables do not output the same signal stength as a line-in is expecting. If you can, connect the turntable to a tuner or pre-amp that has an input jack labled "Phono" (which is probably wired to accept the lower phono signal) and then use one of the Rec outputs from the tuner to go into your computer. Otherwise, your recordings are going to sound even worse.
My brother-in-law can see it driving through the Ozark's about 50 miles south of Harrison, Arkansas. Says it covers much of the sky with orange and purple light.
Purty cool stuff.
The article says that nothing out there is as good as Microsoft Office. The unspoken assumption to that line is:
"Nothing is as good as Microsoft Office at being Microsoft Office."
And probably nothing ever will be. Linux is fine as a desktop, or an Office Tool, when judged on its own terms. MSOffice doesn't always make sense, be people are used to it. Things that are essentially text documents are stored as Microsoft Word documents. No we don't have a program that readlily lends itself to destop-publishing every tiny little note you want to write, but I think we can edit text with the best of them.
We also don't read MS Office documents as well as MS Office. Actually, neither does MS Office - a fact that people are sure to start complaining about with the upcoming release of Office XP.
Am I the only one out the still using Zephyr-grams? Ok, I know all of you guys at NC State and MIT are, but what about in the workplace?
Agreed. To a certain extent, process can compensate for lack of talent. Free will certainly assumes/requires ability. With no exceptions.
We almost get into a chicken and egg discussion, though, because by allowing non-competent people easier access to success, we perpetuate the influx of people who think "oh yeah, that doesn't look to tough."
Of course, without them, we'd be doing so much drudgery everyday that we'd never have time for anything fun ourselves.
Incompentent people - you can really use them, but you can't fire them either.
Good luck, BTW. I just got done with a similar project. The end result was letting them wrap themselves in process until they turned blue. It seemed to be a self-feeding monster. The more process they created, the more they needed.
It's already been mentioned that the alternative to methodologies is letting everyone do their own thing. I'd like to point out that this is the same fear people tend to have about Open Source. "How are you ever going to manage people who each have independence of thought and action?"
The real problem underlying suspicions about Open Source and working with a lack of prescribed methodologies is an inherent lack of trust by the management for the people doing the work. This could come from an underlying knowledge that, as corporate managers, they typically have no real value added themselves. They know that their jobs are inherently deceitful at some level, and therefore project that world view onto other people. People without purpose must be managed.
But guess what? Even in a methodology, you're only going to achieve anything at all by the willing cooperation of the managed. You have no choice but to trust them, even though you may put structures in place to hide that fact from yourself. Take away the methodologies, and you have to look the fact straight in the face: you can't make it happen without them, but they sure as hell can make it happen without you.
God save the Queen^H^H^H^H^Hmanagement!