Re:Debian support for modern CPUs
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Debian 3.0r6 Released
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· Score: 3, Informative
There is Debian support for AMD64; it's currently waiting to be included into the official Debian archive once Sarge has been released (probably next week). Currently, the AMD64 port consists of an unofficial archive containing a complete 64bit binary port of both unstable and testing distributions. The AMD64 Debian site has even netinstall iso's. See http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/
We'd like to, but we don't have the budget any more.
Re:Solaris Zones vs User Mode Linux
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Solaris 10 Released
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· Score: 5, Informative
Solaris 10 zones have much better performance than UML, more comparable to Xen or FreeBSD jails. However, Xen runs only on IA32, where Solaris also does AM64 and Sparc. Xen and UML also don't support multiprocessor machines, if I'm not mistaken, and FreeBSD jails do not support things like resource managers, in case of a jail process bringing the whole machine (and other jails) down. Sun has its Fair Share Scheduler, where you can bind a container to one or more processors.
Emminent computer scientist, author, painter, and dot-com millionaire, Paul Graham has written down the things he wishes somebody had told him when he was in high school in What You'll Wish You'd Known, suggesting, among other things, that students treat school like a day job, working on interesting projects to avoid what he has found to be the most common regret among adults of their high school days: reading Slashdot."
I usually buy my xmas presents myself, and let my wife/family sponsor it. It has the downside of already knowing what you're going to get, but at least you know you're not getting all that junk, *and* you have to wait till Christmas eve untill you can open the package...
And you have to admit, which geek wouldn't want the Alien Quadrology ?
Lots of cool sounding projects names, but I still don't see a lot of exciting features. I'm under the impression that Sun is still playing catch up with other major Unix players. Dtrace, a new monitoring tool ? Sheesh, these things are already implemented by most sysadmins. Oh, and we can now dynamically create soft partitions? God, LVM had this for years. Just try increasing a partition size under Solaris8 (or 9) with Disksuite, without switching to single user mode. In HP/UX or Linux, that's just 3 or 4 commands.
I've been using APT for Conectiva, and I can tell you it's really not as good as the original.
I had a chance to run apt-rpm on Redhat, and found it quite resource hungry too : the machine had 64 Meg ram (no swap), but would not let me do the upgrade from RH 7.1 to 7.2. I have used apt on Debian for years on a machine with 12 Meg ram and 32 Meg swap, without any problems.
"Darl McBride, I'm pleased to have you as my new employee. Mr. McBride, could you please move two feet to the left. Yes, there. Perfect. No, you don't have to do anything else, just stand there."
Linus : Hi Darl, what's up. Hmmmm. Yeah. We need you to move your desk more to the back. Some more people joining us and so. So, hmmm. Yeah. Oh, and I see you have my stapler.
Speaking about gravity, what impact does earth's gravity have on the trajectory of that asteroid ? 1.2 times the distance to the moon is in astronomical terms _very_ close, so one would expact a significant influence on the asteroid's direction.
It has been widely accepted that the Tunguska explosion was created by the impact of a comet. And in fact, a comet is nothing but an asteroid built out of dirty snow.
I believe this was also a topic in the excellent 'Cosmos' series with Carl Sagan.
We use Olicom around here too. Works reasonable. I did not managed to get the card working at full speed, though. Some drivers have sometimes soft errors.
The biggest problem however with Olicom is that only drivers for 2.2 are supported. I tried to contact the maintainer about that, but didn't get any reply:(
Aside from the "Symphonie of the Planets" CD set, there are some artists who use these sounds in teir work. I remember Lustmord of having a side project called "Arecibo" which uses the sounds gathered by the Arecibo telescope (what a coincidence !) resulting in a sort of minimalistic music - I guessed it was called deep space ambient at that time.
The Arecibo album was called "Trans Plutonian Transmissions" IIRC... Very trancy stuff.
There are already tons of -free- Suitware apps available. StarOffice is nice, but quite heavy (takes hours to startup, and I don't like 150 Megs installs on my tiny 600 Meg equipped laptop); KOffice is moving in the right direction. And some apps like KOrganizer are very impressive. And wasn't Corel's beta Office suite free to download ?
Only one thing am I missing : I have not yet found a decent project management tool. KProject has not moved along since almost 2 years, and Xopps is too leightweighted. If you happen to know one, please let me know.
Kristof
Re:"Long uptime is evil" or "gee isnt my system op
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Server Uptimes Ranked
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>Think about this. Some person is amazingly proud of the fact they are running kernel 2.0.18.
Correctomundo. An uptime of > 1000 days is roughly 3 years. Using such an old kernel makes your machine vulnarable to any script kiddie being able to blast your server away.
There are other things in this summary that pose me problems :
1. Comparing uptimes between different OSes is one thing, but you should mention also the different hardware of these systems. Comparing a i386 and a RS6K both running Linux will give you quite different results.
2. Besides, as the Linux kernel works with jiffies, on a 32 bit arch, your uptime is limited to 497 days, not ? (A 64 bit system would give you an uptime of 5.84 billion years - now, that's the stuff you can run universes on:)
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There is Debian support for AMD64; it's currently waiting to be included into the official Debian archive once Sarge has been released (probably next week). Currently, the AMD64 port consists of an unofficial archive containing a complete 64bit binary port of both unstable and testing distributions. The AMD64 Debian site has even netinstall iso's. See http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/
> --- Please hire me.
We'd like to, but we don't have the budget any more.
Solaris 10 zones have much better performance than UML, more comparable to Xen or FreeBSD jails. However, Xen runs only on IA32, where Solaris also does AM64 and Sparc. Xen and UML also don't support multiprocessor machines, if I'm not mistaken, and FreeBSD jails do not support things like resource managers, in case of a jail process bringing the whole machine (and other jails) down. Sun has its Fair Share Scheduler, where you can bind a container to one or more processors.
Maybe we should read this as :
Emminent computer scientist, author, painter, and dot-com millionaire, Paul Graham has written down the things he wishes somebody had told him when he was in high school in What You'll Wish You'd Known, suggesting, among other things, that students treat school like a day job, working on interesting projects to avoid what he has found to be the most common regret among adults of their high school days: reading Slashdot."
I usually buy my xmas presents myself, and let my wife/family sponsor it. It has the downside of already knowing what you're going to get, but at least you know you're not getting all that junk, *and* you have to wait till Christmas eve untill you can open the package...
And you have to admit, which geek wouldn't want the Alien Quadrology ?
Lots of cool sounding projects names, but I still don't see a lot of exciting features. I'm under the impression that Sun is still playing catch up with other major Unix players. Dtrace, a new monitoring tool ? Sheesh, these things are already implemented by most sysadmins. Oh, and we can now dynamically create soft partitions? God, LVM had this for years. Just try increasing a partition size under Solaris8 (or 9) with Disksuite, without switching to single user mode. In HP/UX or Linux, that's just 3 or 4 commands.
I've been using APT for Conectiva, and I can tell you it's really not as good as the original.
I had a chance to run apt-rpm on Redhat, and found it quite resource hungry too : the machine had 64 Meg ram (no swap), but would not let me do the upgrade from RH 7.1 to 7.2. I have used apt on Debian for years on a machine with 12 Meg ram and 32 Meg swap, without any problems.
"Darl McBride, I'm pleased to have you as my new employee. Mr. McBride, could you please move two feet to the left. Yes, there. Perfect. No, you don't have to do anything else, just stand there."
Linus : Hi Darl, what's up. Hmmmm. Yeah. We need you to move your desk more to the back. Some more people joining us and so. So, hmmm. Yeah. Oh, and I see you have my stapler.
Darl : (mumbles) on day I set this place on fire.
Then we communicate.
Then...
We can finally ask them to stop making crop circles.
it's like putting Bambi in a Terminator movie.
me thinks it would be more like putting a Terminator in a Bambi movie.
All I can say is : what a monstrosity...
Speaking about gravity, what impact does earth's gravity have on the trajectory of that asteroid ? 1.2 times the distance to the moon is in astronomical terms _very_ close, so one would expact a significant influence on the asteroid's direction.
It has been widely accepted that the Tunguska explosion was created by the impact of a comet. And in fact, a comet is nothing but an asteroid built out of dirty snow.
I believe this was also a topic in the excellent 'Cosmos' series with Carl Sagan.
Yoda
HP calculator
used
probably.
We use Olicom around here too. Works reasonable. I did not managed to get the card working at full speed, though. Some drivers have sometimes soft errors.
:(
The biggest problem however with Olicom is that only drivers for 2.2 are supported. I tried to contact the maintainer about that, but didn't get any reply
Oh well, we're switching to eth anyway...
You forgot :
/usr/src/linux/* |wc -l /usr/src/linux/* |wc -l
$ grep -rw blue
702
$ grep -rw red
784
Red: 4, Blue: 2
Can someone quickly build me a S/390 version of Seti@Home ?
Aside from the "Symphonie of the Planets" CD set, there are some artists who use these sounds in teir work. I remember Lustmord of having a side project called "Arecibo" which uses the sounds gathered by the Arecibo telescope (what a coincidence !) resulting in a sort of minimalistic music - I guessed it was called deep space ambient at that time.
The Arecibo album was called "Trans Plutonian Transmissions" IIRC... Very trancy stuff.
There are already tons of -free- Suitware apps available. StarOffice is nice, but quite heavy (takes hours to startup, and I don't like 150 Megs installs on my tiny 600 Meg equipped laptop); KOffice is moving in the right direction. And some apps like KOrganizer are very impressive. And wasn't Corel's beta Office suite free to download ?
Only one thing am I missing : I have not yet found a decent project management tool. KProject has not moved along since almost 2 years, and Xopps is too leightweighted. If you happen to know one, please let me know.
Kristof
>Think about this. Some person is amazingly proud of the fact they are running kernel 2.0.18.
:)
Correctomundo. An uptime of > 1000 days is roughly 3 years. Using such an old kernel makes your machine vulnarable to any script kiddie being able to blast your server away.
There are other things in this summary that pose me problems :
1. Comparing uptimes between different OSes is one thing, but you should mention also the different hardware of these systems. Comparing a i386 and a RS6K both running Linux will give you quite different results.
2. Besides, as the Linux kernel works with jiffies, on a 32 bit arch, your uptime is limited to 497 days, not ?
(A 64 bit system would give you an uptime of 5.84 billion years - now, that's the stuff you can run universes on
Kristof
> I wonder.. why is Windows 9x also in this list? it's a desktop OS
because you would be amazed how many "servers" out there are running Win~9X.
Kristof