Unmm, that cluster is in a machine room of a building designed to house a lot of IT/network resources. Of course they don't let anybody just stroll in. It's not like every IT building you've been into was designed as a zoo.
If you have the power to hire an IT admin, you also have the power to fire this person. You do, right? If so, what's the problem? Hire somebody who will do the job as you would like them to. If not, then you can safely drop the 'I will not hire you' song. Nobody cares, seriously.
I agree with the sony crap. We will never support any new purchase of a sony laptop, thanks to our last experience with their tech support and their policy on drivers: we had to pay money to get new set of drivers, because the old media broke. Instead of allowing for the drivers to be downloaded, like any decent vendor on the market, they want to gain extra few bucks by forcing you to purchase driver cds. Well sony, here's a nice fat 'screw you'. You got the fee for drivers, and you won't see again another purchase from us. How's that for kicks? [by the way, the drivers, as I recall, were essential to have the laptop working with windows. Pretty much the laptop was useless without those]
Yeah, I've been trying to find the slashdot story on that. I remember reading yoper's own web pages, where the developer/developers were basically trashing their [potential] users. Like you said: thanks, but no thanks.
Not sure if this can help you, but tsm clients work like a charm even on slackware. The tsm server we have is of course AIX, but when it comes to clients, redhat/slackware/w2k, all of them just work. I have not experienced any problems.
Definitely, apachectl graceful is very useful. I was only talking about apache upgrades. By the way, if you add more ssl vhosts, you also have to do restart rather than graceful.
I'm wondering where you got that '8 hours per day' maintenance idea. Seriously, do you adjust your configuration for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, year round, or what? What exactly requires your interaction with the system, once it's been set up? Occasional patching does not take 8 hours per day, every day. Ohh, and you do know that on unix you can remove a binary of a program that's running, put a new one in, and do a quick kill/start? Almost no downtime in that case, and there are tons of other ways to do it without any downtime whatsoever. Overall, I say troll.
I'll have to dig through our ticketing system and my desk to find the ticket numbers, so you may have to wait until Monday. None of them were 'bugs', simply hardware failing. Both myrinet cards in computational nodes, and switch cards. Hardware did get replaced, and I'm about to call in for a replacement of 10+ cards plus probably half of the cards in the switch. For a two year old cluster to have 20% of the myrinet hardware replaced, I find that not acceptable.
on a side note, have you worked much with myrinet? personally, i find it to be the most buggy thing i've ever seen. their hardware seems to fail more than an antique chevette. i just wonder if anybody else has a similar experience with myricom's products, since at this moment i doubt i'll ever again invest in their hardware.
I haven't played doom3, that's why I wonder: can you actually use the flashlight as a weapon? And I mean it literally, can you smack the bad guys with it, LAPD style?
I got my RHCE last year [thanks to my employer, big.edu]. In my current job I manage almost 200 slackware machines. Guess what, I've learned some new things at the RHCE training, and during the exam I didn't use almost any redhat specific tools. In fact, RHCE training was one of the better courses I've had in a long time.
nope, imagine the idea: even the topic of the slashdot article clearly states "RC". sorry to spoil your little adventure with rsync, but overall it's good to get more testers before releasing final 10.0.
I don't think the mirrors sites have ever had them. Visit #slackware on irc.oftc.net or freenode.org, and we'll provide you with smaller unofficial mirrors, where you can get official 9.1 isos or even -current/10rc1 unoffficial ones.
this new release has a couple of things that will help with 2.6.x kernel more than 9.1 release did. first udev packages have been added, second, updated hotplug packages seem to work better with 2.6.x
Yeah, and if I was serious enough about making a $100k sale, I'd spend 5 extra minutes with a dictionary and a spellchecker. Not to mention, that if I was serious about spending minimum of $100k, I'd run as fast as I could from a person who can't spell. This is ebay, you can't trust anybody, and things like poor spelling further make you look more like a scammer kiddie.
Slashdot Mirror
except you missed today's big thread on spyware: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=130557&thre shold=0&commentsort=3&tid=172&mode=thread&cid=1089 6915
Unmm, that cluster is in a machine room of a building designed to house a lot of IT/network resources. Of course they don't let anybody just stroll in. It's not like every IT building you've been into was designed as a zoo.
If you have the power to hire an IT admin, you also have the power to fire this person. You do, right? If so, what's the problem? Hire somebody who will do the job as you would like them to. If not, then you can safely drop the 'I will not hire you' song. Nobody cares, seriously.
I agree with the sony crap. We will never support any new purchase of a sony laptop, thanks to our last experience with their tech support and their policy on drivers: we had to pay money to get new set of drivers, because the old media broke. Instead of allowing for the drivers to be downloaded, like any decent vendor on the market, they want to gain extra few bucks by forcing you to purchase driver cds. Well sony, here's a nice fat 'screw you'. You got the fee for drivers, and you won't see again another purchase from us. How's that for kicks? [by the way, the drivers, as I recall, were essential to have the laptop working with windows. Pretty much the laptop was useless without those]
Yeah, I've been trying to find the slashdot story on that. I remember reading yoper's own web pages, where the developer/developers were basically trashing their [potential] users. Like you said: thanks, but no thanks.
Not sure if this can help you, but tsm clients work like a charm even on slackware. The tsm server we have is of course AIX, but when it comes to clients, redhat/slackware/w2k, all of them just work. I have not experienced any problems.
Definitely, apachectl graceful is very useful. I was only talking about apache upgrades. By the way, if you add more ssl vhosts, you also have to do restart rather than graceful.
I'm wondering where you got that '8 hours per day' maintenance idea. Seriously, do you adjust your configuration for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, year round, or what? What exactly requires your interaction with the system, once it's been set up? Occasional patching does not take 8 hours per day, every day. Ohh, and you do know that on unix you can remove a binary of a program that's running, put a new one in, and do a quick kill/start? Almost no downtime in that case, and there are tons of other ways to do it without any downtime whatsoever. Overall, I say troll.
I'll have to dig through our ticketing system and my desk to find the ticket numbers, so you may have to wait until Monday. None of them were 'bugs', simply hardware failing. Both myrinet cards in computational nodes, and switch cards. Hardware did get replaced, and I'm about to call in for a replacement of 10+ cards plus probably half of the cards in the switch. For a two year old cluster to have 20% of the myrinet hardware replaced, I find that not acceptable.
on a side note, have you worked much with myrinet? personally, i find it to be the most buggy thing i've ever seen. their hardware seems to fail more than an antique chevette. i just wonder if anybody else has a similar experience with myricom's products, since at this moment i doubt i'll ever again invest in their hardware.
I haven't played doom3, that's why I wonder: can you actually use the flashlight as a weapon? And I mean it literally, can you smack the bad guys with it, LAPD style?
uhmm, sorry to confuse you some more, but that thing was running on wine, not windows. BIG difference.
Simplicity and elegance. It's a great starting point for many purposes.
How does ability to spell differ from an 'informal web message board' and 'letterhead'? If a person can't spell, they can't spell.
I got my RHCE last year [thanks to my employer, big .edu]. In my current job I manage almost 200 slackware machines. Guess what, I've learned some new things at the RHCE training, and during the exam I didn't use almost any redhat specific tools. In fact, RHCE training was one of the better courses I've had in a long time.
gee, let's go back to the hand to hand combat, because the enemy wouldn't dare to use guns.
well, considering that somebody already posted my small unofficial mirror, mind as well i post it in this comment:
ftp://inferno.bioinformatics.vt.edu/slackware
nope, imagine the idea: even the topic of the slashdot article clearly states "RC". sorry to spoil your little adventure with rsync, but overall it's good to get more testers before releasing final 10.0.
The best was to make sure it was addressed, is to report it: support@slackware.com
I don't think the mirrors sites have ever had them. Visit #slackware on irc.oftc.net or freenode.org, and we'll provide you with smaller unofficial mirrors, where you can get official 9.1 isos or even -current/10rc1 unoffficial ones.
Uhmm, I have no clue what you're talking about. removepkg installs cleanly packages that you installed via installpkg.
this new release has a couple of things that will help with 2.6.x kernel more than 9.1 release did. first udev packages have been added, second, updated hotplug packages seem to work better with 2.6.x
uhmm, genius, slackware comes with both, so YOU can PICK one you like. or use both. or use neither.
more like grandfather. slackware predates gentoo by ages :)
Yeah, and if I was serious enough about making a $100k sale, I'd spend 5 extra minutes with a dictionary and a spellchecker. Not to mention, that if I was serious about spending minimum of $100k, I'd run as fast as I could from a person who can't spell. This is ebay, you can't trust anybody, and things like poor spelling further make you look more like a scammer kiddie.