I could not agree more. We have a fairly large projects where the devs do the deployments and I can tell you its all a big mess. Since the devs have the right to do deployments, naturally they can make small changes to the production environment invisible to the operation team. Since there are quite some incidents occuring on the production environment, the dev team tends to fix the problems on the production environment on the spot because "oh, its just a matter of fixing this and that", therefore the acceptance environment is not used for testing as it should be.
Although I know it would put considerabe workload on operation team to take over deployments, I'm sure there would be less incidents and more stability on the production system. sure the deployment process would slow down updates, but would give a chance for a more transparent and controllable process with clear ownership of responsibility, etc.
Now that the project is for more than half a year in production, I see no real chance to change the deployment ownership, but still I wish it could be done.
Sometimes I even find faster to "copy and paste" by re-typing sentences instead of finding the mouse, selecting the text copy, paste, then return my hand to the keyboard. The same happens when typing in a fill-in form and saved text pops under the current line.
Somewhat OT, but recently I gave up on tabbed browsing. It was very helpful back in the modem days, but now on broadband I rather put my favorites on the Firefox bookmark toolbar. Now I get up to date pages every time with a single click, instead of Ctrl-tab + reload.
One of the big insights in the last few years, through work by the internet search engines but also tools like Udi Manber's glimpse, is that data with no meaningful structure can still be very powerful if the tools to help you search the data are good. In fact, structure can be bad if the structure you have doesn't fit the problem you're trying to solve today, regardless of how well it fit the problem you were solving yesterday. So I don't much care any more how my data is stored; what matters is how to retrieve the relevant pieces when I need them.
I had one about 5 years ago. I was a happy hacker for about a year when the keyboard broke. For the price of about USD 120 it was just too much money for a short time of geekiness. I still love the design though. And oh, its still sitting in the middle of my old hardware pile, probly one day i'll try to fix it myself.
As another side note most Sun, DEC and IBM keyboards serve well even after 10-15 years of use.
Older Sun keyboards even have the caps lock at the right position.
"The purpose of this site is to allow you to send mail to yourself or others at a specified date and time.. in the future!
It's a really simple idea. Other sites provide similar services, along with lots of other stuff. This site is simpler, it's not a portal or a content aggregator, that's why it can be so simple. It sends mail to the future and that's all it does."
rcsvi is a simple wrapper for vi that puts edited files under revision control. It does not support any vi flags. It only takes one file argument and an optional revision number for reverting to previous versions. A few examples:
# alias vi=rcsvi # vi/etc/passwd [ remove Agent Smith's account ] :wq /etc/passwd: 12 lines, 94 characters. enter log message, terminated with single '.' or end of file: >> Agent Smith's account removed. .
Voila. You now have your passwd file under revision control. More examples:
# vi -r1.2/etc/passwd # rlog/etc/passwd # rcsdiff -r1.2 -r1.3/etc/passwd
To make a complete backup of
your system configuration:
# tar fc/tmp/RCS.tar $(find / -type d -name RCS)
Now you may ask "ok i want to edit multiple files and/or do some other trickery". Don't. It's a simple tool, that i'm using for years now with great satisfaction.
Note that the difference between the ext2 and jfs results are close to nothing, so i would say jfs is the overall winner, as ext2 and jfs don't really compare featurewise.
I have checked putty on the P800, and it works nicely. Now if it could be rotated 90 degrees so I could use it with an external (preferable foldable) keyboard and widescreen, that would be really neat.
Another nice feature would be line-oriented mode, so i dont have to pay for every keystroke plus headers travelling thru my GPRS provider.
I am a bit disappointed that it does not work on monochrome devices like the good old Palm Vx, which I'm happily using for a long while now. The original HP48 display was monochrome and would perfectly look on my Palm. Now only if those keys weren't color:)
Have you ever tried network install with Suse? All you have to do is to download the boot ISO image from a Suse mirror, and install Suse over network (current/boot/boot.iso, approx 18MB). It took about an hour and a half on my ~400kbps DSL connection to get a minimal system with core X running.
The smallest configuration with X gives you a nice desktop with all the GUI configuration tools. Then all you have to do is start up YAST and install KDE to have the default configuration. While the download goes on, you can already configure the rest of your OS. I did this with Suse 8.1, should work with this version as well.
If I pay for the support only, why aren't the ISO images publicly available? Why do I have to obtain a "warez" copy of it and not download it directly from RedHat, if it contains GPLed software anyway? Or did I miss something?
The Rule Project is what you are looking for. It is based on standard Red Hat installation media. It uses a modified installer (anaconda) to install Red Hat on low end hardware. The project members are already in discussion with Red Hat to get support for their project (ie to integrate their changes into standard Red Hat). It was quite a few months a last saw the project, but that time they were very active.
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I could not agree more. We have a fairly large projects where the devs do the deployments and I can tell you its all a big mess. Since the devs have the right to do deployments, naturally they can make small changes to the production environment invisible to the operation team. Since there are quite some incidents occuring on the production environment, the dev team tends to fix the problems on the production environment on the spot because "oh, its just a matter of fixing this and that", therefore the acceptance environment is not used for testing as it should be.
Although I know it would put considerabe workload on operation team to take over deployments, I'm sure there would be less incidents and more stability on the production system. sure the deployment process would slow down updates, but would give a chance for a more transparent and controllable process with clear ownership of responsibility, etc.
Now that the project is for more than half a year in production, I see no real chance to change the deployment ownership, but still I wish it could be done.
The firefox crop circle in oregon? Was it big enough to be visible from space?
"while date; do sleep 10; done" does a much less resource intensive job for the keepalive.
Sometimes I even find faster to "copy and paste" by re-typing sentences instead of finding the mouse, selecting the text copy, paste, then return my hand to the keyboard. The same happens when typing in a fill-in form and saved text pops under the current line.
Somewhat OT, but recently I gave up on tabbed browsing. It was very helpful back in the modem days, but now on broadband I rather put my favorites on the Firefox bookmark toolbar. Now I get up to date pages every time with a single click, instead of Ctrl-tab + reload.
My apologies. I should have RTFA.
One of the big insights in the last few years, through work by the internet search engines but also tools like Udi Manber's glimpse, is that data with no meaningful structure can still be very powerful if the tools to help you search the data are good. In fact, structure can be bad if the structure you have doesn't fit the problem you're trying to solve today, regardless of how well it fit the problem you were solving yesterday. So I don't much care any more how my data is stored; what matters is how to retrieve the relevant pieces when I need them.
Actually it solves the overlap problem, but does not solve the other annoyance, where you see no text, but horizontal green lines in the window
The Slashfix extension does not work as advertised. Still the same rendering error. Ctrl-mousewheel works though.
As another side note most Sun, DEC and IBM keyboards serve well even after 10-15 years of use.
Older Sun keyboards even have the caps lock at the right position.
Its kind of alarming how german influence creeps into english language. See also: insightfull, usefull.
Since Red Hat is open source, you have at least the following choises: Cent OS, and Tao Linux. Both being clones of RHEL.
See also the spectacular example of Bob Sapp K1 fighter, former soccer player.
From the site info:
"The purpose of this site is to allow you to send mail to yourself or others at a specified date and time.. in the future!
It's a really simple idea. Other sites provide similar services, along with lots of other stuff. This site is simpler, it's not a portal or a content aggregator, that's why it can be so simple. It sends mail to the future and that's all it does."
rcsvi is a simple wrapper for vi that puts edited files under revision control. It does not support any vi flags. It only takes one file argument and an optional revision number for reverting to previous versions. A few examples:
Voila. You now have your passwd file under revision control. More examples:To make a complete backup of your system configuration:Now you may ask "ok i want to edit multiple files and/or do some other trickery". Don't. It's a simple tool, that i'm using for years now with great satisfaction.Check it out here
Another nice feature would be line-oriented mode, so i dont have to pay for every keystroke plus headers travelling thru my GPRS provider.
I am a bit disappointed that it does not work on monochrome devices like the good old Palm Vx, which I'm happily using for a long while now. The original HP48 display was monochrome and would perfectly look on my Palm. Now only if those keys weren't color :)
The smallest configuration with X gives you a nice desktop with all the GUI configuration tools. Then all you have to do is start up YAST and install KDE to have the default configuration. While the download goes on, you can already configure the rest of your OS. I did this with Suse 8.1, should work with this version as well.
If I pay for the support only, why aren't the ISO images publicly available? Why do I have to obtain a "warez" copy of it and not download it directly from RedHat, if it contains GPLed software anyway? Or did I miss something?
The Rule Project is what you are looking for. It is based on standard Red Hat installation media. It uses a modified installer (anaconda) to install Red Hat on low end hardware. The project members are already in discussion with Red Hat to get support for their project (ie to integrate their changes into standard Red Hat). It was quite a few months a last saw the project, but that time they were very active.