Seriously though, Macs and Apple products in general don't have LEDs. Or at most they have one LED that is off when the product is on. And just like you ask, products like the Airport base-stations have config options for turning off the LED.
Actually I wrote my own implementation of the mysqlhotcopy script that uses several passes of rsync to prime a snapshot of the database to minimize the time you are under the read-lock gun to a matter of seconds. But that is really only a worst-case-scenario because if you (as I do) make your snapshots off of a slave (that is already read-only), there is no interruption in service whatsoever. This is possible thanks to the flexibility of MySQL's replication scheme allowing you to make a snapshot off of slave and still point the the master for live replication. Easy-peazy.
It's called "hotcopy." This allows you to make the snapshot without taking the database offline. And given the fact that you can do circular and multi-master replication, I've never had a problem bringing a master up and failing back over to it after it caught up to the changes on the slave. And really there is no reason to go back if the hardware is the same on your master and slaves (as it should be.) Any of the boxes can be the master. In fact I use this simple fact to do planned failovers in order to perform maintenance on the masters. It's flawless as far as I'm concerned.
MySQL is purposely designed to support multiple table handlers. It just makes good design sense. Not every problem is a screw and therefore having only a screwdriver when a hammer makes better sense... well you get the idea. So having a couple table type that support transactions, one table type that is bloody fast as possible, in-memory only table types, one table type designed for archival, one table type to do... well the list goes on and it's hardly an after-thought or "third-party" hack. This is by design. And they all support replication as well. Of the 20 or so different Postgres replication projects, none of them support every feature of Postgres at once. They all have tradeoffs. Most don't support schema changes. And if they do at all, it generally involves a song-and-dance requiring you to stop replication (WHAT?!), make the change to the slave first, make the change to the master, and then start replication again. Certainly the best replication schemes are the ones that tell you to stop replication to do anything (un)normal. Most don't support big objects without a similar song and dance, if at all. It's just lame. Period. Without a legitimate replication solution, Postgres will never be used any where that a 24/7/365 rock-solid high-availability high-volume high-performace database is required.
H.264 video: up to 768 Kbps, 320 x 240, 30 frames per sec., Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3 with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in.m4v,.mp4 and.mov file formats
MPEG-4 video: up to 2.5 mbps, 480 x 480, 30 frames per sec., Simple Profile with AAC-LC up to 160 Kbps, 48 Khz, stereo audio in.m4v,.mp4 and.mov file formats
I've seen you in IF, CmdrTaco. I never would have suspected it was actually you. I just figured it was someone who stole your nickname. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what a lot of people thought when they came across your name in WoW and more people recognized you than the five you think. It's a small world afterall I guess.
I think it says a lot that I used the word "stole" above to describe someone else using the name CmdrTaco in an online community. I think most everyone is possessive of their online handle or nickname. I know when I sign up to a site and "pbaker" is taken I feel like someone has stolen my identity. I won't be the same if I'm not "pbaker".
Maybe the decrease was because this was the week of July 4th. You know...people are outside setting off fireworks and having BBQ parties, instead sitting inside downloading music. It would be interesting to see if traffic also dropped on the week of July 4th, 2002.
Have you been to an Apple store? Actually you have pretty free reign over any machines on display in the store. I have opened PowerMac G4's to look inside. I have inserted CD's. I have inserted DVD's and even watched them for long periods of time. I have downloaded programs from the internet and installed them. I have even rebooted them into safe mode. I have never once been stopped from doing any of these things. All the machines are set to NetBoot and are fresh and clean upon boot. No harm done.
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If someone turned you down saying you were too old, they are very foolish and you can now sue them. It is illegal to ask an applicant his or her age. This law is designed to protect applicants over the age of forty. You may ask the applicant if he or she is over the age of eighteen-if the applicant is not, you may need to know the applicant's age to ascertain the applicability of federal, state, and local child labor laws.
CD Singles that you buy at the store usually run about $3.20 or so plus tax. They usually come with the one track you want, plus maybe a B side and different mix of that main song. So that is already more than $1 per song and since you may not even like the other 2, you are really getting one song for $3.20. So how does that make Apple's $1 per song so expensive? Since they have the $9.99 per Album option, it is always cheaper than buying music from the store. Coupled with the convenience (something you usually have to pay for--think TicketMaster) it more than makes up for the indiscernible loss of quality.
- Since it isn't free, and of course requires client licenses, (different types, for different OS's too), if you exceed your client license limit, the backup won't run at all. This is expected, but the kicker is anyone on your network can install Arkeia, point it to backup.domain.com and use up one of your licenses without you even knowing!!
It hasn't behaved this way in my experience. I have installed the client on more machines than I have licenses for and they show up in the navigator, you just can't navigate their file system or add them to your savepacks. Existing backups are unaffected.
- You can't give arbitrary names to clients, and Arkeia defaults to not using a FQDN when naming the clients itself. So you often end up with two or more "www" clients. Renaming these requires changing Arkeia's plain text (more on this later) database, and often results in losing the data for that host. It also defaults to whichever IP address the client decides to send, which is often ends up being 127.0.0.1.
It would seem to me that you have poorly configured machines. Every machine on your network should report something unique when you run hostname. If they don't, I would blame your network administrator, not Arkeia for the problem.
- Plain text database! This is absolutely pathetic. If you need to backup any amount of files, you have to use ReiserFS for the database partition or else you run out of inodes 30mins in to a backup. Arkeia creates approx. 2 files per directory it backs up. Our Arkeia database has about 10 million files in it
I am backing up 3 machines making up over 60GB of data and I don't run into any inode problems on the ext2 partition which happens to be the / partition for the machine. Perhaps you allocated too few number of inodes when you formatted your partition.
Also I don't seem to have the speed problems you complain of. We have several machines acting as backup servers ranging in power from P2-500 to Dual P3-866 all backing up between 40-60GB. None take more than 3 hours to do a full backup. What media are you backup up too and how much data are you backing up?
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I captured the audio of the first strike, the air raid sirens 8 minutes before, and also chanting over the loudspeakers in Baghdad that were broadcast 50 minutes before then. You can listen to them from my blog.
Okay looking into this further, it appears that you are in luck. It does not convert your fonts automatically, but the fondu program does indeed work. To get my Apple fonts into OOo all I had to do was open up Terminal and execute these commands:
I'm not really very experienced with fonts, I tend to stick with just Arial or Times. But this version of OOo comes with a program called fondu (sp?) that runs during install to apparently convert all your Apple installed fonts into a format that can be used by OOo. I can't really test this as I probably couldn't tell the difference between the fonts that are part of X11/OOo and fonts that are installed with Mac OS X.
Sent this as a story submission. Guess WizardOfFoo beat me too it, or perhaps it's just because his was shorter.:-) Anyway here goes my review:
So OpenOffice.orgreleased the final beta version of OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 X11 for Mac OS X yesterday at MWSF. I'm surprised to have not read about it on any sites yet. I managed to download it pretty quickly off of one of the mirrors (probably because the downloading frenzy hasn't begun yet). My first impression is that it does appear to be very stable, but it's not quite polished enough to replace Office X for the everyday Mac user.
Yesterday Apple also quietly released a beta version of X11 for Mac OS X which is an optimized version Xfree86's X server that also includes a speedy quartz based window manager. It works much like Orobourosx but much faster thanks to Apple's optimizations. I bring this up because it looks like the new OpenOffice build was unfortunately built before anyone know about Apple's new X11. After installing OpenOffice.org, a nice "Start OpenOffice.org" icon is created in your Applications folder. Double clicking it the first time asks you what program to use as your X11 server. I choose Apple's X11, but after a minute or tool, Console is nice enough to report that soffice.bin has crashed. So no go with a nice double click to start up OOo. I'm sure this will be fixed by the time it is finally released though. Fortunately, I had no problems starting it from within an xterm or adding it to the X11 Applications menu by entering the command "/Applications/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/program/soffice "
On from there it looks to be very stable. The few Word and Excel documents I opened loaded perfectly and printed without a hitch. I didn't have to do anything special to make this happen. Just open and print and done. So the basics are definitely there.
Printing is a little confusing though from a user feedback standpoint though, as it does not go through Print Center. And it prints so fast through CUPS (on a TiBook 667) that I wasn't even sure anything had been printed until I went to the other end of the office to check the printer. Maybe if we are lucky it will use Printer Center in the final release.
My last gripes are that as far as being a Macintosh program it's just not there yet. I don't fault anyone for this as this release based on the X11 version does not attempt to be a full fledged Mac program anyway. No attempt has been made with this version to follow the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines of course. And since it uses X11 instead of Aqua, menu bars are of course within each window instead of in the standard menu bar (as with any X11 program running on Mac OS X). All the shortcut key combinations use Ctrl instead of Cmd. This means that you hit Ctrl+S to save and Ctrl+P to print instead of Cmd+S and Cmd+P respectively. I was also not able to hit some of the key combinations such as Ctrl+F7 to bring up the Thesaurus. These problems should of course be addressed when OpenOffice.org completes their native Aqua port which is currently under development.
All and all it looks like OpenOffice.org has built a very solid application that anyone coming from Unix/Linux should feel very comfortable using and save them from having to fork over cash to Microsoft in order to edit Word documents on a Mac. For people that are used to the beauty and consistency of Macs and Mac apps, they are probably still better off spending the money to purchase Microsoft Office X if they need to work with these documents everyday. But for anyone that doesn't spend much of their time in a word processor, perhaps less than once a week, this is definitely a great alternative to spending $500.
VoiceStream already is nationwide 3G and has been for quite some time. I have been enjoying nationwide GSM/GPRS service on my ericsson T68 for quite some time. Couple my T68 with the D-link USB Bluetooth adapter, and I am able to put my Titanium Powerbook on the internet--anytime and anywhere. So yeah, Sprint is NOT the first nationwide 3G network.
Did you try Microsoft Media Player for Mac? I bet it does MPEG2. I'm not sure though since I don't have any plans of installing Microsoft software on my tibook, and Media Player is no exception.
If you are using the tcp wrappers support built in to OpenSSH, will it be exploitable by ips that are currently already blocked? Or could it only come from allowed ips?
I'm fearing the upgrade, but since I only allow ssh access from certain machines (who also only allow ssh from certain machines), should I assume I am safe until a version of OpenSSH comes out that actually fixes the problem instead of just covering it up?
Would these 350 machines in your network be workstations or servers?
If they are servers and you want some form of security, you shouldn't have some outside source knowing what insecure packages are on your servers. I'm not sure how RHN works, but it sounds like in order for RHN to be able to "manage" all the machines in your network, that RedHat's servers would have to make some kind of active connection to your machines to install the software. This sounds very dangerous too me. What if someone reverse engineers the protocol and starts installing hacked packages onto the server. If all RHN does is notify you of security alerts you can get this similar service from Debian by subscribing to the debian-security mailing list. Of course the alerts won't be tailored to exactly what packages are on your servers, but I don't think that is too hard to keep track of. If you want automated security updates? put apt-get update && apt-get upgrade in cron and there you have it. Security updates will be automatically installed every night.
If these are workstations and you have 350 or 3500 of them I would hope they are running identical hardware and identical software. Or at least within each department or something. Obviously developers need different hardware and software than the sales staff. What do then is have a "master" (for lack of a better term) workstation for each class of machine you have in your network. No one actually uses these workstations. They are clean systems with only the software installed that should be installed for those particular workstations. Then you have a cron that runs on all your other 350 workstations that rsync each night against the masters. Anything extra that was put on the workstations some how by an employee is removed. Anything added or updated on the master image (such as security updates) gets copied over to all the workstations. Go so far as putting the cron on the master machines to install security updates each night and you have a fully self updating network that you hardly would ever need to touch.
All thanks to the power of Debian and all totally free.
We tried this on my friends G3 Pismo with MacOS X 10.1 and MacOS 9.2.1 installed. Clicking on the danger link from the site, IE downloaded the file. It then was automatically extracted. Classic then started up and tried to run the program. This locked up Classic but we were able to force quit the danger app and shutdown Classic.
This was with a default install of Internet Explorer on 10.1. NO PREFERENCES were changed.
I do think however, that it would be nice in a mail client to know whether a message was:
Sent directly to you, CC'd, or as part of a mass-mail before actually reading it. Outlook can't do it, so that's me stuffed;-)
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Seriously though, Macs and Apple products in general don't have LEDs. Or at most they have one LED that is off when the product is on. And just like you ask, products like the Airport base-stations have config options for turning off the LED.
Two words why not Postgresql: repli cation
Actually I wrote my own implementation of the mysqlhotcopy script that uses several passes of rsync to prime a snapshot of the database to minimize the time you are under the read-lock gun to a matter of seconds. But that is really only a worst-case-scenario because if you (as I do) make your snapshots off of a slave (that is already read-only), there is no interruption in service whatsoever. This is possible thanks to the flexibility of MySQL's replication scheme allowing you to make a snapshot off of slave and still point the the master for live replication. Easy-peazy.
It's called "hotcopy." This allows you to make the snapshot without taking the database offline. And given the fact that you can do circular and multi-master replication, I've never had a problem bringing a master up and failing back over to it after it caught up to the changes on the slave. And really there is no reason to go back if the hardware is the same on your master and slaves (as it should be.) Any of the boxes can be the master. In fact I use this simple fact to do planned failovers in order to perform maintenance on the masters. It's flawless as far as I'm concerned.
MySQL is purposely designed to support multiple table handlers. It just makes good design sense. Not every problem is a screw and therefore having only a screwdriver when a hammer makes better sense... well you get the idea. So having a couple table type that support transactions, one table type that is bloody fast as possible, in-memory only table types, one table type designed for archival, one table type to do... well the list goes on and it's hardly an after-thought or "third-party" hack. This is by design. And they all support replication as well. Of the 20 or so different Postgres replication projects, none of them support every feature of Postgres at once. They all have tradeoffs. Most don't support schema changes. And if they do at all, it generally involves a song-and-dance requiring you to stop replication (WHAT?!), make the change to the slave first, make the change to the master, and then start replication again. Certainly the best replication schemes are the ones that tell you to stop replication to do anything (un)normal. Most don't support big objects without a similar song and dance, if at all. It's just lame. Period. Without a legitimate replication solution, Postgres will never be used any where that a 24/7/365 rock-solid high-availability high-volume high-performace database is required.
I've seen you in IF, CmdrTaco. I never would have suspected it was actually you. I just figured it was someone who stole your nickname. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what a lot of people thought when they came across your name in WoW and more people recognized you than the five you think. It's a small world afterall I guess.
I think it says a lot that I used the word "stole" above to describe someone else using the name CmdrTaco in an online community. I think most everyone is possessive of their online handle or nickname. I know when I sign up to a site and "pbaker" is taken I feel like someone has stolen my identity. I won't be the same if I'm not "pbaker".
mysql> select count(*) from segment_poi;
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| 95563114 |
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1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Maybe the decrease was because this was the week of July 4th. You know...people are outside setting off fireworks and having BBQ parties, instead sitting inside downloading music. It would be interesting to see if traffic also dropped on the week of July 4th, 2002.
Have you been to an Apple store? Actually you have pretty free reign over any machines on display in the store. I have opened PowerMac G4's to look inside. I have inserted CD's. I have inserted DVD's and even watched them for long periods of time. I have downloaded programs from the internet and installed them. I have even rebooted them into safe mode. I have never once been stopped from doing any of these things. All the machines are set to NetBoot and are fresh and clean upon boot. No harm done.
If someone turned you down saying you were too old, they are very foolish and you can now sue them.
It is illegal to ask an applicant his or her age. This law is designed to protect applicants over the age of forty. You may ask the applicant if he or
she is over the age of eighteen-if the applicant is not, you may need to know the applicant's age to ascertain the applicability of federal, state, and local child labor laws.
CD Singles that you buy at the store usually run about $3.20 or so plus tax. They usually come with the one track you want, plus maybe a B side and different mix of that main song. So that is already more than $1 per song and since you may not even like the other 2, you are really getting one song for $3.20. So how does that make Apple's $1 per song so expensive? Since they have the $9.99 per Album option, it is always cheaper than buying music from the store. Coupled with the convenience (something you usually have to pay for--think TicketMaster) it more than makes up for the indiscernible loss of quality.
It hasn't behaved this way in my experience. I have installed the client on more machines than I have licenses for and they show up in the navigator, you just can't navigate their file system or add them to your savepacks. Existing backups are unaffected.
It would seem to me that you have poorly configured machines. Every machine on your network should report something unique when you run hostname. If they don't, I would blame your network administrator, not Arkeia for the problem.
I am backing up 3 machines making up over 60GB of data and I don't run into any inode problems on the ext2 partition which happens to be the / partition for the machine. Perhaps you allocated too few number of inodes when you formatted your partition.
Also I don't seem to have the speed problems you complain of. We have several machines acting as backup servers ranging in power from P2-500 to Dual P3-866 all backing up between 40-60GB. None take more than 3 hours to do a full backup. What media are you backup up too and how much data are you backing up?
I captured the audio of the first strike, the air raid sirens 8 minutes before, and also chanting over the loudspeakers in Baghdad that were broadcast 50 minutes before then. You can listen to them from my blog.
Execute these commands in Terminal: If you get an "Can't find an appropriate resource fork in
Okay looking into this further, it appears that you are in luck. It does not convert your fonts automatically, but the fondu program does indeed work. To get my Apple fonts into OOo all I had to do was open up Terminal and execute these commands:
/Applications/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/share/fonts /usr/local/bin/fondu /Library/Fonts/*
cd
Starting up OOo now has many new fonts and they are even anti-aliased. Very beautiful!
I'm not really very experienced with fonts, I tend to stick with just Arial or Times. But this version of OOo comes with a program called fondu (sp?) that runs during install to apparently convert all your Apple installed fonts into a format that can be used by OOo. I can't really test this as I probably couldn't tell the difference between the fonts that are part of X11/OOo and fonts that are installed with Mac OS X.
I think the old beta used to include X11, but this new beta does not include it. It did not overwrite my Apple X11 Beta install.
Sent this as a story submission. Guess WizardOfFoo beat me too it, or perhaps it's just because his was shorter. :-) Anyway here goes my review:
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So OpenOffice.org released the final beta version of OpenOffice.org 1.0.1 X11 for Mac OS X yesterday at MWSF. I'm surprised to have not read about it on any sites yet. I managed to download it pretty quickly off of one of the mirrors (probably because the downloading frenzy hasn't begun yet). My first impression is that it does appear to be very stable, but it's not quite polished enough to replace Office X for the everyday Mac user.
Yesterday Apple also quietly released a beta version of X11 for Mac OS X which is an optimized version Xfree86's X server that also includes a speedy quartz based window manager. It works much like Orobourosx but much faster thanks to Apple's optimizations. I bring this up because it looks like the new OpenOffice build was unfortunately built before anyone know about Apple's new X11. After installing OpenOffice.org, a nice "Start OpenOffice.org" icon is created in your Applications folder. Double clicking it the first time asks you what program to use as your X11 server. I choose Apple's X11, but after a minute or tool, Console is nice enough to report that soffice.bin has crashed. So no go with a nice double click to start up OOo. I'm sure this will be fixed by the time it is finally released though. Fortunately, I had no problems starting it from within an xterm or adding it to the X11 Applications menu by entering the command "/Applications/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/program/soffic
On from there it looks to be very stable. The few Word and Excel documents I opened loaded perfectly and printed without a hitch. I didn't have to do anything special to make this happen. Just open and print and done. So the basics are definitely there.
Printing is a little confusing though from a user feedback standpoint though, as it does not go through Print Center. And it prints so fast through CUPS (on a TiBook 667) that I wasn't even sure anything had been printed until I went to the other end of the office to check the printer. Maybe if we are lucky it will use Printer Center in the final release.
My last gripes are that as far as being a Macintosh program it's just not there yet. I don't fault anyone for this as this release based on the X11 version does not attempt to be a full fledged Mac program anyway. No attempt has been made with this version to follow the Aqua Human Interface Guidelines of course. And since it uses X11 instead of Aqua, menu bars are of course within each window instead of in the standard menu bar (as with any X11 program running on Mac OS X). All the shortcut key combinations use Ctrl instead of Cmd. This means that you hit Ctrl+S to save and Ctrl+P to print instead of Cmd+S and Cmd+P respectively. I was also not able to hit some of the key combinations such as Ctrl+F7 to bring up the Thesaurus. These problems should of course be addressed when OpenOffice.org completes their native Aqua port which is currently under development.
All and all it looks like OpenOffice.org has built a very solid application that anyone coming from Unix/Linux should feel very comfortable using and save them from having to fork over cash to Microsoft in order to edit Word documents on a Mac. For people that are used to the beauty and consistency of Macs and Mac apps, they are probably still better off spending the money to purchase Microsoft Office X if they need to work with these documents everyday. But for anyone that doesn't spend much of their time in a word processor, perhaps less than once a week, this is definitely a great alternative to spending $500.
VoiceStream already is nationwide 3G and has been for quite some time. I have been enjoying nationwide GSM/GPRS service on my ericsson T68 for quite some time. Couple my T68 with the D-link USB Bluetooth adapter, and I am able to put my Titanium Powerbook on the internet--anytime and anywhere. So yeah, Sprint is NOT the first nationwide 3G network.
Did you try Microsoft Media Player for Mac? I bet it does MPEG2. I'm not sure though since I don't have any plans of installing Microsoft software on my tibook, and Media Player is no exception.
If you are using the tcp wrappers support built in to OpenSSH, will it be exploitable by ips that are currently already blocked? Or could it only come from allowed ips?
I'm fearing the upgrade, but since I only allow ssh access from certain machines (who also only allow ssh from certain machines), should I assume I am safe until a version of OpenSSH comes out that actually fixes the problem instead of just covering it up?
Would these 350 machines in your network be workstations or servers?
If they are servers and you want some form of security, you shouldn't have some outside source knowing what insecure packages are on your servers. I'm not sure how RHN works, but it sounds like in order for RHN to be able to "manage" all the machines in your network, that RedHat's servers would have to make some kind of active connection to your machines to install the software. This sounds very dangerous too me. What if someone reverse engineers the protocol and starts installing hacked packages onto the server. If all RHN does is notify you of security alerts you can get this similar service from Debian by subscribing to the debian-security mailing list. Of course the alerts won't be tailored to exactly what packages are on your servers, but I don't think that is too hard to keep track of. If you want automated security updates? put apt-get update && apt-get upgrade in cron and there you have it. Security updates will be automatically installed every night.
If these are workstations and you have 350 or 3500 of them I would hope they are running identical hardware and identical software. Or at least within each department or something. Obviously developers need different hardware and software than the sales staff. What do then is have a "master" (for lack of a better term) workstation for each class of machine you have in your network. No one actually uses these workstations. They are clean systems with only the software installed that should be installed for those particular workstations. Then you have a cron that runs on all your other 350 workstations that rsync each night against the masters. Anything extra that was put on the workstations some how by an employee is removed. Anything added or updated on the master image (such as security updates) gets copied over to all the workstations. Go so far as putting the cron on the master machines to install security updates each night and you have a fully self updating network that you hardly would ever need to touch.
All thanks to the power of Debian and all totally free.
We tried this on my friends G3 Pismo with MacOS X 10.1 and MacOS 9.2.1 installed. Clicking on the danger link from the site, IE downloaded the file. It then was automatically extracted. Classic then started up and tried to run the program. This locked up Classic but we were able to force quit the danger app and shutdown Classic.
This was with a default install of Internet Explorer on 10.1. NO PREFERENCES were changed.
This is very scary indeed!!
I do think however, that it would be nice in a mail client to know whether a message was: ;-)
Sent directly to you, CC'd, or as part of a mass-mail before actually reading it. Outlook can't do it, so that's me stuffed
PINE has done this for years.