I would much prefer to see them improve the ease of browsing their cache. Specifically, if a cached site is 404, then present a cached version of the site where all clicks within the site simply link to the cached version, unlike today where all clicks are native (and therefore lead to more 404's). Granted that wouldn't be of any use for links to dynamic pages, but anything is better than what they have today.
Just FYI, the mem option does not correct the problem. I tried it on the stock RH71 kernel both in lilo.conf and at the lilo: prompt and it failed both times. Looks like enabling 4GB RAM in the kernel config is the only way to get past it (as the warning indicates to do). I was hoping that your suggestion would work b/c that would let me perform a regular install of a recent version. Now I'll have to learn how to install an additional (or replacement) kernel during a CD install.
Aim higher. You don't typically come to IBM to become a sysadmin. I strongly suggest making yourself known to the e-Business Infrastructure group. Come here if you want to always be at the forefront of "professional grade Linux".
but how can I get an entry-level job in a Linux intensive environment like IBM?
I was not a college hire, but we get a fresh new batch every year. I had 7 years of varied IT experience (6 of Linux; most of it personal). Even then it took 3 years to get hired. In '97, e-biz was not ready to embrace Linux, but by 2000 they knew it was the future and were grabbing up as many practitioners as they could find. Now the market is coming at us full bore and it feels a lot like the moments leading up to the first time Jodie Foster heard the transmissions in Contact.
In e-Business we use the most appropriate tool for the job, so it helps to understand the 3-tier application infrastructure model, and why IBM releases Linux versions of nearly all of its software on all hardware platforms.
Thanks for your offer of help. Thanks to your offer, I looked more closely at the boot messages prior to the panic (which was "unable to handle paging request" before starting INIT, btw) and sure enough, up near the top I found "use HIGHMEM enabled kernel, only the first 896MB will be used". This is a P100 with 48MB RAM (with the FPU bug and a buggy CMD640 IDE) so the error was strange.
So I built a 2.4.18 kernel today with 4GB RAM enabled, and voila, it worked first try. Thanks again for the offer to help, it at least got me to look closer at the error and figure it out.
2.2.21 is out (for those who refuse/can't upgrade)
Funny you should mention that. I actually have a box that kernel panics on boot on all 2.4 kernels. Is there any way I can capture anything useful from the dump to send off somewhere? I suppose I could put the console on serial and capture it with minicom on another box, but are there extended diagnostics I can turn on to maximize the dumpage? It fails pretty early in the boot process.
I can't think of a single CD I've ever bought where I liked all the songs
New Order - Technique Wedding Present - Bizarro Big Black - Rich Man's Eight Track Tape Big Black - Songs About F*cking Peter Murphy - Hysteria Alien Sex Fiend - Here Cum Germs Alien Sex Fiend - Open Head Surgery Joy Division - Closer
I always sing all the lyrics to every single song on all those CDs from start to finish, never skipping past a song, especially Technique and Bizarro (I'll sit in the car after I've arrived and keep listening to them!) While I would support a try-and-buy or preview-and-purchase (and not the 5 second crap you get today, maybe a 96k version of the song) system, I'm thoroughly convinced that the big 3 record companies will never put out anything I'm even halfway interested in. Unless they own Beggars Banquet and Touch n' Go Records now.
Offering an mp3 of a track is like selling photographs of a Picasso. Yes, technically it looks nearly identical, but once you get closer, you notice that it just doesn't have the appeal that the original does.
Yet many people still spend the 99c in the museum gift shop for the Picasso postcard and hang it on their fridge. Just like not getting the original Picasso, you don't expect to get the 32- or 64-track studio reels for $25 at Tower. Hell, even a new, regular CD is a 5th, 6th, or 7th generation copy.
Drexel University wireless-enabled their entire campus and completely bailed on WEP, opting instead to use a Cisco 3060 VPN with individually-registered MAC addresses of wireless cards. That could easily cause problems for Linux users unless a Linux client exists, but it is possible to do easy, large scale, secure wireless. MAC spoofing is not enough to get by this.
"We are now at takeoff". This is indeed a common phrase, generally meaning that the aircraft is sitting at the takeoff point and awaiting clearance
Thanks for the description. This story may be behind why I've never once heard "We're at takeoff" at major airports in many years. I've always heard the tower instruction as "taxi into position and hold" with the instruction repeated by the pilot. I guess because of this incident, they like to stay away from the word "takeoff" unless its an instruction to actually head down the runway. Interesting.
Hysterical dude. I absolutely did, too. I was thinking about music being distributed on one of Verizon's pages. I figured that they would never carry my kind of music (Alien Sex Fiend, Big Black, Wedding Present) so I left the page. Came back and I *swore* the word changed to licensing.
Thanks for speaking up! Guess I'm not entirely nuts..
Closest I could find was ringmysite.com. Apparently, they would let visitors enter your phone number at their site and be autoforwarded to yours. Not a bad idea to me, really, reusing your own phone number that is.
What I *thought* you were referring to was the spam that has web URLs shown as long numeric sequences. I once read about a business that offered phone number forwarders specifically because its easier for WAP phone users to enter phone numbers than alpha URLs. Well, a little research has shown that those purely numeric domains are simply an exploit against DNS resolvers. Those "domain names" are calculated by converting the dotted quad IP addresses to hex, concatenating the four fields, and converting the now 8-digit hex value into base 10. From the linked google hit, try pinging 1078106110. It works, and is the same length as a North American phone numbers (but is technically not valid).
I say "exploit" because the freakish domain names fail in reverse lookups, which makes them popular with spammers. Granted, a ping reveals the calculated IP which may or may not complete a reverse lookup, but I'm *still* teaching someone "ping" at least once a week.
kazaa has a good amount of files and reasonable performance, gnutella lacks both
Never having used Kazaa, I have regularly seen over 2TB available on Gnutella using Phex. Is that really "lacking" compared to Kazaa? Amazing.
I can agree that the Gnutella network performance is severely lacking. Even on cable, its annoyingly slow. I often wonder if smaller networks using alternate network names would improve performance. It also seems that a GetRight feature stapled on top of Gnutella might improve gets. Phex is halfway there, identifying identical hits on multiple servers.
And finally, if Linux update tools were modified to optionally search gnutella for updates (available only if GPG is installed for verification) that would save tons of work on the standard, albeit short list of mirrors and bring an enormous amount of legitimacy to the network.
I always thought HTTP traffic was much easier on servers than FTP traffic, yet 95% of the mirrors are FTP servers. Am I correct in that thinking? Maybe the thought comes from the relative apparent ease of load balancing web traffic vs FTP traffic.
And as far as maxing out the connection on just one download, many mirror-oriented servers limit transfer rates. I often find that multiple downloads each get the same rate as just one download from the same server.
Webmin still works very hard to be very usable under Lynx. Just ssh into the box and point Lynx to localhost:10000. You can firewall off port 10000 if you don't want to admin from a remote browser. Works great for me.
Most people buy new PCs as replacements for, not supplements to, their old one
You really think most people just throw away their aging computers? (not asking in a snobby voice, just pondering.) I would have thought differently, really. As the kids start growing up, I would think the oldest kid would always get the newest hand-me-down, and so on down the line. It's just the geeky few who actually network the house and firewall it off. The rest of them just share a 2nd phone line.
I seriously think AOL will consider releasing a Linux distro targetted at recently-replaced machines.. great to give to Grandma and your average ten year old. That whole idea relies on families keeping older PCs around that have been replaced.
Advertise for customers to order the PCs up to a week or two in advance to allow for delivery. Then have them return to the store on the selected Saturday & Sunday to pick up their new PC and have Linux installed on site for free by local geeks. They could sell books and distros near the install area. I'd do it at the local Walmart, no problem.
And I bet RH would supply tons of free CD kits. Hell, use one of the machines to burn CDs for the customers! That'll freak 'em out for sure.
It just 'feels' like you are doing something dirty
I absolutely 100% do not feel dirty copying Linux CDs. When I copy Linux CDs for people, I try to give them the "30 second sale" (or more like 10 seconds!) with something along the lines of, "Microsoft expects you to pay a couple hundred dollars every few years for the most basic functionality you use on your PC, including surfing the web and exchanging email. Some people have written software that replaces Windows and offers the same functionality. But these people released their software in such a way that no one will ever be required to pay anyone else for a copy of it." I usually carry a set of CDs with me so that when someone says, "yeah, I really have to get a copy of that some day" I can reach into my bag, and reply, "here you go! I could legally charge you for this, but I'm not going to:)"
Just make it a slashbox so readers can turn it off..
maybe someone will even publish a [cough] web service that will take your zip code and return all your representatives at the state and federal level.. then, on political issues, someone will write form letters that we can each print, sign, and mail.
Funny you should mention it, as I'm waiting for a thought-controlled wearable pc with 802.11.. pair it up with X10 for lights/appliances and IR converters, and now just thinking about changing the channel on your tv will make it happen! You'll send email by thinking it out, and hearing it read to you by festival in an earphone. You'll get small stimuli to indicate when your Internet connection goes up and down. Of course in the early versions, I can see having to snap wires onto the back of my head like the cochlear implants (or are they magnetized?)
Thanks for your opinion, really. If you were spending OPM (other people's money) at $30 to $100 million at a clip even after the dot bomb, you'd see it in an entirely different light. Until then, well, you're just you.
I'm glad that IM hasn't caught on at my employer. I would find it incredibly annoying to be distracted by IM popups every few minutes
Depending on your level of responsibility, it really doesn't work out to "every few minutes". I, too, use Sametime at work and it, like MSN and Jabber (I never tried any others) allows you to set your online status. So each employee has their contact list up with a little status indicator right next to the name. Green means available, Red means Away (which can be set to not auto-return), and there's a little "international NO symbol" which means "Do Not Disturb".
I most recently used it to "feed lines" to my project manager while he was presenting to some big wigs in a meeting. He doesn't have time to know all the minutiae, so he would tread water on questions while I fed him better details. Luckily, I looked ahead into a presentation and saw some numbers were way off. I was able to warn him before he got to the page.
Being a mobile employee means I have to go to many different customer sites (or work at home) all the time. For coworkers with whom I'd occasionally have conversations of a personal nature, I always "take it outside", and off Samtime onto MSN or AIM. The chances of ALL of the customer sites recording IM sessions will always be less than the 100% guarantee that my IM's will be recorded if I use the company Sametime server.
Also, HP & Compaq seem to support Linux as much as IBM does. I'm sure there is a good reason why people here admire IBM but think HPaq is doomed
/me ejects coffee through nose
Take a look at this for starters. Be sure to visit all the links in the left navigation pane. You'll find tons of stuff in there. In particular, "projects and patches" contains IBM-developed code.
People will say IBM supports Linux so much only because it lets us sell more hardware. I'm happy because it lets me architect solutions on any platform from Intel to S/390, where the only difference to the support personnel is the number of virtual servers running in each box.
I don't really know why people hate HPaq so much around here. I prefer to focus on promoting IBM than bashing the others.
Slashdot Mirror
Shouldn't Google automatically check results
I would much prefer to see them improve the ease of browsing their cache. Specifically, if a cached site is 404, then present a cached version of the site where all clicks within the site simply link to the cached version, unlike today where all clicks are native (and therefore lead to more 404's). Granted that wouldn't be of any use for links to dynamic pages, but anything is better than what they have today.
Just FYI, the mem option does not correct the problem. I tried it on the stock RH71 kernel both in lilo.conf and at the lilo: prompt and it failed both times. Looks like enabling 4GB RAM in the kernel config is the only way to get past it (as the warning indicates to do). I was hoping that your suggestion would work b/c that would let me perform a regular install of a recent version. Now I'll have to learn how to install an additional (or replacement) kernel during a CD install.
Again, thanks for driving me to look into it.
My goal is to become a Linux sys admin
Aim higher. You don't typically come to IBM to become a sysadmin. I strongly suggest making yourself known to the e-Business Infrastructure group. Come here if you want to always be at the forefront of "professional grade Linux".
but how can I get an entry-level job in a Linux intensive environment like IBM?
I was not a college hire, but we get a fresh new batch every year. I had 7 years of varied IT experience (6 of Linux; most of it personal). Even then it took 3 years to get hired. In '97, e-biz was not ready to embrace Linux, but by 2000 they knew it was the future and were grabbing up as many practitioners as they could find. Now the market is coming at us full bore and it feels a lot like the moments leading up to the first time Jodie Foster heard the transmissions in Contact.
In e-Business we use the most appropriate tool for the job, so it helps to understand the 3-tier application infrastructure model, and why IBM releases Linux versions of nearly all of its software on all hardware platforms.
Thanks for your offer of help. Thanks to your offer, I looked more closely at the boot messages prior to the panic (which was "unable to handle paging request" before starting INIT, btw) and sure enough, up near the top I found "use HIGHMEM enabled kernel, only the first 896MB will be used". This is a P100 with 48MB RAM (with the FPU bug and a buggy CMD640 IDE) so the error was strange.
So I built a 2.4.18 kernel today with 4GB RAM enabled, and voila, it worked first try. Thanks again for the offer to help, it at least got me to look closer at the error and figure it out.
2.2.21 is out (for those who refuse/can't upgrade)
Funny you should mention that. I actually have a box that kernel panics on boot on all 2.4 kernels. Is there any way I can capture anything useful from the dump to send off somewhere? I suppose I could put the console on serial and capture it with minicom on another box, but are there extended diagnostics I can turn on to maximize the dumpage? It fails pretty early in the boot process.
Is this some sort of scheme to fool people into installing development kernels to make themselves feel 'cool'??
It's a scheme to get half a million more people to test the new code to see if they can break it.
I could just restart X (CTRL+ALT+DEL)
That's Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
I can't think of a single CD I've ever bought where I liked all the songs
New Order - Technique
Wedding Present - Bizarro
Big Black - Rich Man's Eight Track Tape
Big Black - Songs About F*cking
Peter Murphy - Hysteria
Alien Sex Fiend - Here Cum Germs
Alien Sex Fiend - Open Head Surgery
Joy Division - Closer
I always sing all the lyrics to every single song on all those CDs from start to finish, never skipping past a song, especially Technique and Bizarro (I'll sit in the car after I've arrived and keep listening to them!) While I would support a try-and-buy or preview-and-purchase (and not the 5 second crap you get today, maybe a 96k version of the song) system, I'm thoroughly convinced that the big 3 record companies will never put out anything I'm even halfway interested in. Unless they own Beggars Banquet and Touch n' Go Records now.
Offering an mp3 of a track is like selling photographs of a Picasso. Yes, technically it looks nearly identical, but once you get closer, you notice that it just doesn't have the appeal that the original does.
Yet many people still spend the 99c in the museum gift shop for the Picasso postcard and hang it on their fridge. Just like not getting the original Picasso, you don't expect to get the 32- or 64-track studio reels for $25 at Tower. Hell, even a new, regular CD is a 5th, 6th, or 7th generation copy.
Drexel University wireless-enabled their entire campus and completely bailed on WEP, opting instead to use a Cisco 3060 VPN with individually-registered MAC addresses of wireless cards. That could easily cause problems for Linux users unless a Linux client exists, but it is possible to do easy, large scale, secure wireless. MAC spoofing is not enough to get by this.
Check it out.
"We are now at takeoff". This is indeed a common phrase, generally meaning that the aircraft is sitting at the takeoff point and awaiting clearance
Thanks for the description. This story may be behind why I've never once heard "We're at takeoff" at major airports in many years. I've always heard the tower instruction as "taxi into position and hold" with the instruction repeated by the pilot. I guess because of this incident, they like to stay away from the word "takeoff" unless its an instruction to actually head down the runway. Interesting.
Hysterical dude. I absolutely did, too. I was thinking about music being distributed on one of Verizon's pages. I figured that they would never carry my kind of music (Alien Sex Fiend, Big Black, Wedding Present) so I left the page. Came back and I *swore* the word changed to licensing.
Thanks for speaking up! Guess I'm not entirely nuts..
Closest I could find was ringmysite.com. Apparently, they would let visitors enter your phone number at their site and be autoforwarded to yours. Not a bad idea to me, really, reusing your own phone number that is.
What I *thought* you were referring to was the spam that has web URLs shown as long numeric sequences. I once read about a business that offered phone number forwarders specifically because its easier for WAP phone users to enter phone numbers than alpha URLs. Well, a little research has shown that those purely numeric domains are simply an exploit against DNS resolvers. Those "domain names" are calculated by converting the dotted quad IP addresses to hex, concatenating the four fields, and converting the now 8-digit hex value into base 10. From the linked google hit, try pinging 1078106110. It works, and is the same length as a North American phone numbers (but is technically not valid).
I say "exploit" because the freakish domain names fail in reverse lookups, which makes them popular with spammers. Granted, a ping reveals the calculated IP which may or may not complete a reverse lookup, but I'm *still* teaching someone "ping" at least once a week.
kazaa has a good amount of files and reasonable performance, gnutella lacks both
Never having used Kazaa, I have regularly seen over 2TB available on Gnutella using Phex. Is that really "lacking" compared to Kazaa? Amazing.
I can agree that the Gnutella network performance is severely lacking. Even on cable, its annoyingly slow. I often wonder if smaller networks using alternate network names would improve performance. It also seems that a GetRight feature stapled on top of Gnutella might improve gets. Phex is halfway there, identifying identical hits on multiple servers.
And finally, if Linux update tools were modified to optionally search gnutella for updates (available only if GPG is installed for verification) that would save tons of work on the standard, albeit short list of mirrors and bring an enormous amount of legitimacy to the network.
Speaking of which..
I always thought HTTP traffic was much easier on servers than FTP traffic, yet 95% of the mirrors are FTP servers. Am I correct in that thinking? Maybe the thought comes from the relative apparent ease of load balancing web traffic vs FTP traffic.
And as far as maxing out the connection on just one download, many mirror-oriented servers limit transfer rates. I often find that multiple downloads each get the same rate as just one download from the same server.
Webmin still works very hard to be very usable under Lynx. Just ssh into the box and point Lynx to localhost:10000. You can firewall off port 10000 if you don't want to admin from a remote browser. Works great for me.
Most people buy new PCs as replacements for, not supplements to, their old one
You really think most people just throw away their aging computers? (not asking in a snobby voice, just pondering.) I would have thought differently, really. As the kids start growing up, I would think the oldest kid would always get the newest hand-me-down, and so on down the line. It's just the geeky few who actually network the house and firewall it off. The rest of them just share a 2nd phone line.
I seriously think AOL will consider releasing a Linux distro targetted at recently-replaced machines.. great to give to Grandma and your average ten year old. That whole idea relies on families keeping older PCs around that have been replaced.
or what if Walmart hosted install days?
Advertise for customers to order the PCs up to a week or two in advance to allow for delivery. Then have them return to the store on the selected Saturday & Sunday to pick up their new PC and have Linux installed on site for free by local geeks. They could sell books and distros near the install area. I'd do it at the local Walmart, no problem.
And I bet RH would supply tons of free CD kits. Hell, use one of the machines to burn CDs for the customers! That'll freak 'em out for sure.
It just 'feels' like you are doing something dirty
:)"
I absolutely 100% do not feel dirty copying Linux CDs. When I copy Linux CDs for people, I try to give them the "30 second sale" (or more like 10 seconds!) with something along the lines of, "Microsoft expects you to pay a couple hundred dollars every few years for the most basic functionality you use on your PC, including surfing the web and exchanging email. Some people have written software that replaces Windows and offers the same functionality. But these people released their software in such a way that no one will ever be required to pay anyone else for a copy of it." I usually carry a set of CDs with me so that when someone says, "yeah, I really have to get a copy of that some day" I can reach into my bag, and reply, "here you go! I could legally charge you for this, but I'm not going to
Just make it a slashbox so readers can turn it off..
maybe someone will even publish a [cough] web service that will take your zip code and return all your representatives at the state and federal level.. then, on political issues, someone will write form letters that we can each print, sign, and mail.
Sounds like something someone here could whip up.
Funny you should mention it, as I'm waiting for a thought-controlled wearable pc with 802.11.. pair it up with X10 for lights/appliances and IR converters, and now just thinking about changing the channel on your tv will make it happen! You'll send email by thinking it out, and hearing it read to you by festival in an earphone. You'll get small stimuli to indicate when your Internet connection goes up and down. Of course in the early versions, I can see having to snap wires onto the back of my head like the cochlear implants (or are they magnetized?)
Check it out.
Thanks for your opinion, really. If you were spending OPM (other people's money) at $30 to $100 million at a clip even after the dot bomb, you'd see it in an entirely different light. Until then, well, you're just you.
You caught me in a good mood tonight.
Check this out to see what IBM has going on..
I'm glad that IM hasn't caught on at my employer. I would find it incredibly annoying to be distracted by IM popups every few minutes
Depending on your level of responsibility, it really doesn't work out to "every few minutes". I, too, use Sametime at work and it, like MSN and Jabber (I never tried any others) allows you to set your online status. So each employee has their contact list up with a little status indicator right next to the name. Green means available, Red means Away (which can be set to not auto-return), and there's a little "international NO symbol" which means "Do Not Disturb".
I most recently used it to "feed lines" to my project manager while he was presenting to some big wigs in a meeting. He doesn't have time to know all the minutiae, so he would tread water on questions while I fed him better details. Luckily, I looked ahead into a presentation and saw some numbers were way off. I was able to warn him before he got to the page.
Being a mobile employee means I have to go to many different customer sites (or work at home) all the time. For coworkers with whom I'd occasionally have conversations of a personal nature, I always "take it outside", and off Samtime onto MSN or AIM. The chances of ALL of the customer sites recording IM sessions will always be less than the 100% guarantee that my IM's will be recorded if I use the company Sametime server.
Also, HP & Compaq seem to support Linux as much as IBM does. I'm sure there is a good reason why people here admire IBM but think HPaq is doomed
/me ejects coffee through nose
Take a look at this for starters. Be sure to visit all the links in the left navigation pane. You'll find tons of stuff in there. In particular, "projects and patches" contains IBM-developed code.
People will say IBM supports Linux so much only because it lets us sell more hardware. I'm happy because it lets me architect solutions on any platform from Intel to S/390, where the only difference to the support personnel is the number of virtual servers running in each box.
I don't really know why people hate HPaq so much around here. I prefer to focus on promoting IBM than bashing the others.