Yup. I agree. I'm doing all of that and it does run wonderfully, especially now that I have the redundant power supply in the server. (Stradling two UPS with RAID5 for storage.) I do have tightVNC installed on all the systems I've reinstall/ghosted, but I have the server disabled to keep people from getting paranoid. I hadn't realized tightVNC supported IP limiting, I might have to do that.
I've plotted a squid proxy, mostly because the boss would like to know what sort of sites people are going to while they're supposed to be working. That's also why I havn't actually implemented it. It's technically trivial(hell, squid is allready running so I can manually set it for windows updates) but I'm not comfortable with 'Da Boz having that information (No more/. at lunch:). And he hasn't actually requested it, so it's all good.
Once a week, I burn to a CD from *both locations*, which goes to a 3rd location. No tapes, no mess.
A CD once a week? Damn. Try again when you have some real to worry about. My current backup scheme (home-grown shell script with tar & find) runs diffs Monday-Thursday from the full backup that runs over the weekend. Monday's tend to be around 600M of changed data growing up to 1G to 1.5G on Thursday night.
This isn't a large company either. 50 people, maybe 30 really using their computers on a give day. And that doesn't include the user who's got over 20G of his own data on a single 40G harddrive. He cheats because he takes almost all of the digital photos of things that end up in reports, at 5Mpixel each, keeping all the pictures regardless of if they are any good.
CDRs are OK for personal use, but for important business data I'd rather have something that can survive a car ride across town without read errors. Oh, and 20G on tape that's thicker, but not as wide as a CD is nice too. DLTs are expensive for several reasons, but worth it.
It is a clear example of Apple making something non-standard just to be perverse
So simplifing setup is now "perverse"? Let me think about this. G'ma gets a brand new G4 system and goes to plug it in. Which would she like better:
Plug in the normal power cable; the phone line into the jack with the Phone icon by it; Match the panel cable's icon with the one on the back of the case; Plug the KBD & mouse into the USB ports on the easily reached LCD base; Hit the power button
or, plug in the power; plug in the phone; DVI video, USB to the panel; audio out to the panel (which port); MIC in from the panel (again, which 1/8" jack); Power to the panel; keyboard & mouse?
Of course, all the pretty calucation and massive data sets might want to get VISUALIZED at some point. I donno, maybe the viewers who you're supposed to be attracting to keep the advertisers happy might want to see what the weather will look like tomarrow.
That's just me though.
Uh, clueball. POSIX-ish apps have NOTHING to do with kernel guts. The Linux kernel(any version) bears no resembalence to any BSD kernel internally (where this binary crap needs to live).
I've also has similar experiances, though all with one server. Of course, it's the server in co-lo which is dificult to get to. Over the last year or two that server's been mostly happiliy camped out in co-lo (it was put in with 2.4.0-testsomething) using reiserfs for/home. Now on three separate occations I've come across files that cannot be access, cannot be deleted, and some times, cannot be seen even by root.
Actually, I lied. It's been two separate servers as the hardware was complely swaped out once because of random crashing and other instabilities. Now in a last couple months it started randomly crashing again. This time I was noticing occations "access beyond end of device" in the syslog. After the last crash and hard reboot I ran "find/home -exec cat \{\} \; >/dev/null" (read every file in/home and discard the data to the uninitiated) to find it spitting IO errors on one file. I inspect it as root, and sure enough I can't read it, or even delete it. AND, when I try to access the file the "access beyond end of device" messages show up in the syslog.
There are no IDE drive errors. lm_sensors shows everything within reasonable ranges, and I'm told the system passes a trivial visual inspection.
So I pulled out a nice fresh chunk of space from the LVM pool and made a spiffy new/home ext3 and copied everything over. 5 days so far with no problems, which is sadly an improvement. I'll give it another couple weeks before I invest in a Hans Reiser voodoo doll.
To be fair to the "it works for me, so it's perfect" crowd. I have been running it at home too,/home and/media, and havn't run into this problem. Guess I must not be rubbing it the right way.
Why do you think Master Kenobi went to get a drink and sent his padawan off to wander the crowd? Do you think it might have had something with the advice he'd give 15 seconds previous? "Relax, use the force, he went in there to hide, not to run."
So while the padawan cools his head wandering aimlessly the Master overtly draw attention to himself as a Jedi (of which the bounty hunter knows she is being chased by) then "uses for force" to find and subdue her.
In closing (as this looks like it will work)...
<HANDWAVING>You do not want to troll hear</HANDWAVING>
<HANDWAVING>You want to log off and reconsider your life</HANDWAVING>
My iBook's fan has *never* turned on since I bought it about a year ago.
Is that a toilet seat model? The 2001/2001 "IceBook"'s don't have any fans. The only parts that move are the HD and DVD, if/when you spin them up.
Mine is also wonderfully quiet with good battery life. The only time ever gets warm enough to bother me is when it's on AC power AND is left sitting on a soft surface like a bed, or my leg. Actually, I've since tweaked the power management settings so that the HD is allowed to spin down while on AC power, which fixes that too.
Why can we have a moduler windows of sort, you plug in a device, those device drivers that are stored within the device automatically get loaded into the system (okay that could push the price of devices up abit). and similairly, when the device is removed or unpluged, said drivers are removed from the system.
You mean like Apple (and Sun) have been doing with OpenFirmware for years? Why yes, that is a hell of an idea. I wonder why nobody has thought of this before.
IEEE1394's speed is a little limited for serious NAS uses. That's not a big problem though, the BIG problem is consistancy. Each and every system you plug in to that hub will assume it has full control over the drive and doesn't have to worry about somebody else changing things. This would quickly mangle any data you might want to keep if it were allows(It isn't on most ATA-1394 bridges).
Now using IP over 1394 and some disks might get you something.
Nope; NetApp implements snapshots using copy-on-write, so they consume less disk space, take effectively no time to create, and are atomic with respect to filesystem operations
You mean like the Linux LVM's snapshots? They are at the block level, not the filesystem level, but with a little care and a filesystem driver that doesn't try to write to the snapshot even though it's read-only(ext3, probably reiser) then you're just a small shell script away from that functionality.
I've actually been meaning to set this up as a cron job at work so I can have 2-5days of "live" backups.
For example, if you have a service that needs to interact with the desktop -- ie the VNC service itself --
<cough>bull</cough>
That reason is exactly why you need to use VNC in a lot(not all) situations instead of the builtin term services. VNC runs as a service, started a system boot, not as an app in your startup folder. Well, ok, it can do either, but the later doesn't really help.
The "normal" use of VNC on NT/2k is to login/unlock the "real" console on the server to get at always-running monitors and important applications that need to interact with a desktop. Yes, most of MS's own tools are smart enough that you can start a new monitors in a new Term session and it'll work just fine, but they are the exception. In the real world such (gasp) well written apps are rares, especially when you move away from the ones with a 30million system installed based.
You think so? Well, OK, the Mac has a USB keyboard and mouse, but assume he's not using them, and there's no other USB device operational. USB is 11Mb/sec, assume after overhead that we're talking one Megabyte a second. Say that Office for OS X is 500M --- that's 500 seconds. 500 / 60 = 50 / 6 = 8 minutes 20 seconds.
You assume wrong. USB 1 "high-speed" mode is 12Mbps. That is on the wire, NOT anywhere near useable throughput. On a good day, with the wind at it's back a USB device can push 800KBytes/second.
Not as fast as FireWire, to be sure, but fast enough when all you have to do is outthink CompUSA employees.
I think this is more like buying the keg, and while you are drinking the beer(after you've paid for it, mind you), the guy who sold you the keg tells you that you can't drink the entire keg, or else he'll charge you more.
Actually, it's more like chiping in the "normal" amount for booze at a party. You get your cup, drink what you want. But then you descide you "deserve" the whole keg to yourself because you chiped in.
Now you're just being an ass.
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A Sony "EmotionEngine". It's a custom MIPS(I think) implementation. Custom chip that adhears to an international standard. That's a hell of a lot more "standard" the you'll get from Intel.
i see, so there's no capability for X itself to render the fonts to the screen
No. If that were the case then anti-alising would be pretty easy to do(thought not the ideal quality).
X can render the fonts itself just fine, but only as bitmaps. So again, no antialising from the X-core font code.
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Yup. I agree. I'm doing all of that and it does run wonderfully, especially now that I have the redundant power supply in the server. (Stradling two UPS with RAID5 for storage.) I do have tightVNC installed on all the systems I've reinstall/ghosted, but I have the server disabled to keep people from getting paranoid. I hadn't realized tightVNC supported IP limiting, I might have to do that. /. at lunch :). And he hasn't actually requested it, so it's all good.
I've plotted a squid proxy, mostly because the boss would like to know what sort of sites people are going to while they're supposed to be working. That's also why I havn't actually implemented it. It's technically trivial(hell, squid is allready running so I can manually set it for windows updates) but I'm not comfortable with 'Da Boz having that information (No more
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This isn't a large company either. 50 people, maybe 30 really using their computers on a give day. And that doesn't include the user who's got over 20G of his own data on a single 40G harddrive. He cheats because he takes almost all of the digital photos of things that end up in reports, at 5Mpixel each, keeping all the pictures regardless of if they are any good.
CDRs are OK for personal use, but for important business data I'd rather have something that can survive a car ride across town without read errors. Oh, and 20G on tape that's thicker, but not as wide as a CD is nice too. DLTs are expensive for several reasons, but worth it.
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Where is G'ma getting hurt here?
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Of course, all the pretty calucation and massive data sets might want to get VISUALIZED at some point. I donno, maybe the viewers who you're supposed to be attracting to keep the advertisers happy might want to see what the weather will look like tomarrow.
That's just me though.
- RustyTaco
Uh, clueball. POSIX-ish apps have NOTHING to do with kernel guts. The Linux kernel(any version) bears no resembalence to any BSD kernel internally (where this binary crap needs to live).
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Uh, they get up and move closer together. That's the whole point.
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I've also has similar experiances, though all with one server. Of course, it's the server in co-lo which is dificult to get to. Over the last year or two that server's been mostly happiliy camped out in co-lo (it was put in with 2.4.0-testsomething) using reiserfs for /home. Now on three separate occations I've come across files that cannot be access, cannot be deleted, and some times, cannot be seen even by root. /home -exec cat \{\} \; > /dev/null" (read every file in /home and discard the data to the uninitiated) to find it spitting IO errors on one file. I inspect it as root, and sure enough I can't read it, or even delete it. AND, when I try to access the file the "access beyond end of device" messages show up in the syslog. /home ext3 and copied everything over. 5 days so far with no problems, which is sadly an improvement. I'll give it another couple weeks before I invest in a Hans Reiser voodoo doll. /home and /media, and havn't run into this problem. Guess I must not be rubbing it the right way.
Actually, I lied. It's been two separate servers as the hardware was complely swaped out once because of random crashing and other instabilities. Now in a last couple months it started randomly crashing again. This time I was noticing occations "access beyond end of device" in the syslog. After the last crash and hard reboot I ran "find
There are no IDE drive errors. lm_sensors shows everything within reasonable ranges, and I'm told the system passes a trivial visual inspection.
So I pulled out a nice fresh chunk of space from the LVM pool and made a spiffy new
To be fair to the "it works for me, so it's perfect" crowd. I have been running it at home too,
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Uh, yes they did. MyParty had no HTML, just text. - RustyTaco
The force is weak with this one.
Why do you think Master Kenobi went to get a drink and sent his padawan off to wander the crowd? Do you think it might have had something with the advice he'd give 15 seconds previous? "Relax, use the force, he went in there to hide, not to run."
So while the padawan cools his head wandering aimlessly the Master overtly draw attention to himself as a Jedi (of which the bounty hunter knows she is being chased by) then "uses for force" to find and subdue her.
In closing (as this looks like it will work)...
<HANDWAVING>You do not want to troll hear</HANDWAVING>
<HANDWAVING>You want to log off and reconsider your life</HANDWAVING>
- RustyTaco
Is that a toilet seat model? The 2001/2001 "IceBook"'s don't have any fans. The only parts that move are the HD and DVD, if/when you spin them up.
Mine is also wonderfully quiet with good battery life. The only time ever gets warm enough to bother me is when it's on AC power AND is left sitting on a soft surface like a bed, or my leg. Actually, I've since tweaked the power management settings so that the HD is allowed to spin down while on AC power, which fixes that too.
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No, Microsoft does. It's an IE "feature" that doesn't effect recient Mozilla version, nor Konqueror.
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telnet is feature creap too. With all those login, transport, and feature negotiations.
Netcat is the only way to go!
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IEEE1394's speed is a little limited for serious NAS uses. That's not a big problem though, the BIG problem is consistancy. Each and every system you plug in to that hub will assume it has full control over the drive and doesn't have to worry about somebody else changing things. This would quickly mangle any data you might want to keep if it were allows(It isn't on most ATA-1394 bridges).
Now using IP over 1394 and some disks might get you something.
- RustyTaco
I've actually been meaning to set this up as a cron job at work so I can have 2-5days of "live" backups.
- RustyTaco
That reason is exactly why you need to use VNC in a lot(not all) situations instead of the builtin term services. VNC runs as a service, started a system boot, not as an app in your startup folder. Well, ok, it can do either, but the later doesn't really help.
The "normal" use of VNC on NT/2k is to login/unlock the "real" console on the server to get at always-running monitors and important applications that need to interact with a desktop. Yes, most of MS's own tools are smart enough that you can start a new monitors in a new Term session and it'll work just fine, but they are the exception. In the real world such (gasp) well written apps are rares, especially when you move away from the ones with a 30million system installed based.
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I'll have to grant you that.
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security = domain
password server = *
smbpasswd -j DOMAIN
Am I missing something incredibly mindboggling here?
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Nice use of a sloppy web redirector. Kudos.
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Now you're just being an ass.
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A Sony "EmotionEngine". It's a custom MIPS(I think) implementation. Custom chip that adhears to an international standard. That's a hell of a lot more "standard" the you'll get from Intel.
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X can render the fonts itself just fine, but only as bitmaps. So again, no antialising from the X-core font code.
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