I currently use an Xserve hooked up to a Xserve raid, when a drive fails, it is striped, so the data can be recreated from the other drives. If a drive fails, i replace it immediatly, and send the faulty one back to Apple.
Currently i have over 3,000 GB of DV film stored. Besides that, i have over 800 GB of standard pictures from digital SLR. I do amateur photography (Mostly nude). There is also around 400 GB of songs on it.
It has been good to me. Only one drive has failed so far, and the data has been safe. It is connected over Fiber to my G5. Dual 2.7 Ghz water cooled.
Okay, so the above was all made up. It is what the school i work for has though, and they use it as a backup solution, and it works perfectly. They use it for student files though, not nude photography. They do have a ton fo DV stuff though, as we have a Video Production class.
FreeBSD 5.x certainly does not shine when it comes to I/O intensive stuff. Especially if you have multiple procs, so i am happy to see it move away from the singe lock, to something that is more useful.
5.x however was still more SMP friendly, in the fact that most of the other kernel code could be run on the other CPU's if available, while the IO code was run on a single CPU. So the trade off was not that bad. As FreeBSD still performed better with 5.x on servers with multiple CPU's vs 4.x. Just IO was still lacking.
They use sh standard for user accounts, csh for root. bash is in the ports tree. Same with GNU coreutils. Not that it really matters much at all, as they act the same.
There where it matters most is where FreeBSD and Solaris come out ahead. Solaris for it's ability to work on systems with 64 CPU's, and gigs of memory. Also it's debugging tools, virtualization (better than jails).
FreeBSD used to be the poor mans unix, now Solaris is a viable choice as well, so you can pick. FreeBSD is strong in memory management, as well as speed on any random box you throw at it. It also contains jails, and some standard desktop stuff that might be important to people.
No, not true. I love my country, but i still believe it can be better. I also believe that combined with certain parts of other countries it would be the best country.
I like the US, i live in the US, always wanted to, but since they have started adding stupid laws, and have allowed secret searches, and now you have to be fingerprinted and mugshot at the border, i feel more like i am losing my privacy, and everything around it.
I can still go to germany and walk in with my passport without having to get a mugshot, without having to be fingerprinted. I also feel a lot more secure in Germany at any time than in the US. Gun related deaths are extremely high in the US, whereas in germany there are a few incidents in a year. I am from the Netherlands. I believe that there could be changes, but over all, the laws make a lot more sense. There is no such thing as the Patriot act, we don't have to stand up and say a pledge to some flag (Which BTW, I as a foreign citizen, under law, do not have to say), there are also no laws saying that we can't talk out against the government, so we have freedom of speech. And we don't have the bloody DMCA which basically makes anything illegal except jacking off.
Full disclosure: I am a dutch citizen living in American under a visa, so i am a resident alien. I am 17, and am going to the Montville Township Highschool.
When we have history class, that attitude is seen most often, as if America is the only country in the world that is that good, or is the only country in the world where there is peace and democracy and that everyone should switch to it.
They mostly believe they are a higher form of life, just because they have this magic constitution to protect them. What they don't see is all the laws that have been put up around it, letting the FBI, CIA, and the government to do what they want. There are other countries that don't allow the same things in the constitution, and they are upheld in court, rather than having another law that goes around it.
American pride in themselves is killing them slowly, because of their pride, they are going to have a major problem when they lose out in something. Currently most the of the stuff is made outside of the US. For example, a while ago the US had stopped trade on steel from europe, because it felt that manufacturers in the US should supply it, for a higher price, as American companies are behind in manufacturing. Since the government will just put a trade stop on whatever industry needs it, there is no incentive to get new machinery, and be a better performer, whereas in Europe there is all the incentive you can get (more trade, means more cash).
US pride also means that what gets taught in history class is a crippled version of history. Instead of reporting everything that really did happen (Fact that they lost the vietnam war) they try to sugar coat it to make it look like the US is always right. In Vietnam they were doing the same thing Hitler did in WWII. They were carpet bombing cities, and killing innocent people. Mass genocide. It was a war that the US should never have gotten involved in, as they lied about what happened (Sound familiar with Bush and Iraq?). The US has too much pride to say they lost, and were defeated, and to pull the army out sooner. In chicago several kids lost their lives as the army shot at students from a college because they were protesting what the government was doing.
I am dutch, and do not like the American way of doing things. Use force first, ask questions later. I don't like the way americans have so much pride in their country that everyone else is below them, and is not of the same species so to say. Americans need to get off their high horse, and start watching what their government is doing, as it is starting to look a lot more like Sadam Hussein's form of government than that "free" country they think they are.
[Posted as myself rather than AC in the hope of not getting labeled a troll]
OS X looks a lot better than that grey POS that you can turn windows back into. It's elegant, and it works. No need to go tweaking how my windows look to get a more professional look back. Goddamn toys r' us look.
3 users? The site is already at a crawl, and i doubt that many slashdotters are online, as it is midnight in the most of the US. Maybe california or Washington.
We have servers with two power supplies, both running from different UPS's and both running from different fuse breakers. So the only time the thing ever goes down is when the entire city we are located in gets no energy anymore, AND the other city that we are also connected to.
It has not happened yet. Running FreeBSD 5.4, was rebooted and freshly reinstalled after running FreeBSD 4.2 for almost 4 years straight. Now it runs FreeBSD 5.4 and we are hoping to have the same sort of uptime. We have not had any complaints at the IT department yet because of downtime (Upgrade services during the night:D).
Shoulda posted it as your self rather than an anonymous coward, i would have given you a few mod points for funny.
Holland means exactly that what it means translated:
Low lying country. Hol = hole. Land = Land. The thing is that we are 75% - 85% below the sea level, so only our dikes are holding the water away.
Besides the point, the windmills you talk about are not the ones that generate energy. The ones on then postcards are there to either make flour out of grain, or to pump water out of de farming land into the nearby lake, or the other way around, if the farming land needs water again.
These wind turbines they are talking about are big things stuck on huge long pipes, and they don't really make a sound.
"Woosh woosh woosh" That rocks me to sleep while I am anchored off the coast somewhere in the middle of The Netherlands.
Take a picture of a turning fan, and let's see if you can see that it is turning.
Thing is, if you do this yourself, you will notice that it looks as if the fan is not moving at all. So it might be moving, without us knowing it, or he just turned them off.
Yes, it is called SEC, i believe. And the offense is called insider trade information. This is what happened to that cooking lady on TV, whatever the fuck her name is.
She got caught, who knows what Mr. Dell is going to do.
"Show me another distro where "stable" means stable and that achieves this goal in shorter time and I'll switch, gladly."
I have been using FreeBSD 5.x, which is currently at 5.3-p10, It is a stable operating system, which contains the ports tree to do what you want it to do. The base system is a rock, only security patches every so often, but when a release is stamped, it is good for production use.
The ports tree is a blessing, it lets you update what you want, when you want, and handles dependencies. FreeBSD also has a sane cycle of updates, and does not wait 3 years between releases, rather 6 - 7 months, which means that you have more up to date base if you follow that pattern. That being said, some of the even older versions like 4.8 still run perfectly at the latest patch level. No stability problems, and if any new bugs are found they get fixed. And guess what? Ports tree exists there as well, so you can use the latest and greatest and enjoy a rock solid OS.
"In the life of a sysadmin it's worth quite a bit to know that there's a place where you can say "apt-get install apache" and it *will* work."
cd/usr/ports/www/apache[13|2] make install
If it fails, wait a few hours, and cvsup your ports tree, and try again, it is almost guaranteed to be fixed, and it is almost guaranteed to work.
Don't like waiting for it to build?
pkg_add -r apache
The packages are all working packages, and i have never had a problem with them at all. Now please, tell me why you still wait 3 years for a new release which comes with old software?
Slashdot Mirror
If i look at the school where i am going, the images are over 4 years old.
I currently use an Xserve hooked up to a Xserve raid, when a drive fails, it is striped, so the data can be recreated from the other drives. If a drive fails, i replace it immediatly, and send the faulty one back to Apple.
Currently i have over 3,000 GB of DV film stored. Besides that, i have over 800 GB of standard pictures from digital SLR. I do amateur photography (Mostly nude). There is also around 400 GB of songs on it.
It has been good to me. Only one drive has failed so far, and the data has been safe. It is connected over Fiber to my G5. Dual 2.7 Ghz water cooled.
Okay, so the above was all made up. It is what the school i work for has though, and they use it as a backup solution, and it works perfectly. They use it for student files though, not nude photography. They do have a ton fo DV stuff though, as we have a Video Production class.
PostgreSQL is under the BSD license. They can take it and do with it what they want.
This is the best troll i have read in a while. Something new. Wonder how often we are going to see it pop up.
FreeBSD 5.x certainly does not shine when it comes to I/O intensive stuff. Especially if you have multiple procs, so i am happy to see it move away from the singe lock, to something that is more useful.
5.x however was still more SMP friendly, in the fact that most of the other kernel code could be run on the other CPU's if available, while the IO code was run on a single CPU. So the trade off was not that bad. As FreeBSD still performed better with 5.x on servers with multiple CPU's vs 4.x. Just IO was still lacking.
They use sh standard for user accounts, csh for root. bash is in the ports tree. Same with GNU coreutils. Not that it really matters much at all, as they act the same.
There where it matters most is where FreeBSD and Solaris come out ahead. Solaris for it's ability to work on systems with 64 CPU's, and gigs of memory. Also it's debugging tools, virtualization (better than jails).
FreeBSD used to be the poor mans unix, now Solaris is a viable choice as well, so you can pick. FreeBSD is strong in memory management, as well as speed on any random box you throw at it. It also contains jails, and some standard desktop stuff that might be important to people.
It is seriously sad if the parent was not trolling. I am guessing it is a troll, or a funny joke that noone is getting. Either way, it still is wrong.
Proof?
No, not true. I love my country, but i still believe it can be better. I also believe that combined with certain parts of other countries it would be the best country.
I like the US, i live in the US, always wanted to, but since they have started adding stupid laws, and have allowed secret searches, and now you have to be fingerprinted and mugshot at the border, i feel more like i am losing my privacy, and everything around it.
I can still go to germany and walk in with my passport without having to get a mugshot, without having to be fingerprinted. I also feel a lot more secure in Germany at any time than in the US. Gun related deaths are extremely high in the US, whereas in germany there are a few incidents in a year. I am from the Netherlands. I believe that there could be changes, but over all, the laws make a lot more sense. There is no such thing as the Patriot act, we don't have to stand up and say a pledge to some flag (Which BTW, I as a foreign citizen, under law, do not have to say), there are also no laws saying that we can't talk out against the government, so we have freedom of speech. And we don't have the bloody DMCA which basically makes anything illegal except jacking off.
Full disclosure: I am a dutch citizen living in American under a visa, so i am a resident alien. I am 17, and am going to the Montville Township Highschool.
When we have history class, that attitude is seen most often, as if America is the only country in the world that is that good, or is the only country in the world where there is peace and democracy and that everyone should switch to it.
They mostly believe they are a higher form of life, just because they have this magic constitution to protect them. What they don't see is all the laws that have been put up around it, letting the FBI, CIA, and the government to do what they want. There are other countries that don't allow the same things in the constitution, and they are upheld in court, rather than having another law that goes around it.
American pride in themselves is killing them slowly, because of their pride, they are going to have a major problem when they lose out in something. Currently most the of the stuff is made outside of the US. For example, a while ago the US had stopped trade on steel from europe, because it felt that manufacturers in the US should supply it, for a higher price, as American companies are behind in manufacturing. Since the government will just put a trade stop on whatever industry needs it, there is no incentive to get new machinery, and be a better performer, whereas in Europe there is all the incentive you can get (more trade, means more cash).
US pride also means that what gets taught in history class is a crippled version of history. Instead of reporting everything that really did happen (Fact that they lost the vietnam war) they try to sugar coat it to make it look like the US is always right. In Vietnam they were doing the same thing Hitler did in WWII. They were carpet bombing cities, and killing innocent people. Mass genocide. It was a war that the US should never have gotten involved in, as they lied about what happened (Sound familiar with Bush and Iraq?). The US has too much pride to say they lost, and were defeated, and to pull the army out sooner. In chicago several kids lost their lives as the army shot at students from a college because they were protesting what the government was doing.
I am dutch, and do not like the American way of doing things. Use force first, ask questions later. I don't like the way americans have so much pride in their country that everyone else is below them, and is not of the same species so to say. Americans need to get off their high horse, and start watching what their government is doing, as it is starting to look a lot more like Sadam Hussein's form of government than that "free" country they think they are.
[Posted as myself rather than AC in the hope of not getting labeled a troll]
YHBT
I wish i had mod points. -1, flamebait.
OS X looks a lot better than that grey POS that you can turn windows back into. It's elegant, and it works. No need to go tweaking how my windows look to get a more professional look back. Goddamn toys r' us look.
cd /usr/ports/www/apache[13|2]
make install
Never fails. FreeBSD is still stable as well.
For your number 1, webcore DOES contain JavaScript.
3 users? The site is already at a crawl, and i doubt that many slashdotters are online, as it is midnight in the most of the US. Maybe california or Washington.
What the hell was i thinking? 300 feet? I am from freaking europe and i don't even read the submission properly, let alone the article?
Someone punish me. 300 meters it is. I get 50 feet with my Bluetooth though, so that still holds.
I have a bluetooth headset, i just paired it with my iBook, and now i can walk anywhere within approx. 50 feet and hear my music, or talk in Skype.
Next up, get Bluetooth 2.0 which has a further reach.
The greasy old popcorn taht has been sitting there since two weeks ago? And nasty extremely sugarry pepsi? :puke: They don't get my money anyways.
This movie stunk in all regards, it was not even worth watching. I wish i could get my cash back.
Then you need to look at more redundant systems.
:D).
We have servers with two power supplies, both running from different UPS's and both running from different fuse breakers. So the only time the thing ever goes down is when the entire city we are located in gets no energy anymore, AND the other city that we are also connected to.
It has not happened yet. Running FreeBSD 5.4, was rebooted and freshly reinstalled after running FreeBSD 4.2 for almost 4 years straight. Now it runs FreeBSD 5.4 and we are hoping to have the same sort of uptime. We have not had any complaints at the IT department yet because of downtime (Upgrade services during the night
Shoulda posted it as your self rather than an anonymous coward, i would have given you a few mod points for funny.
Holland means exactly that what it means translated:
Low lying country. Hol = hole. Land = Land. The thing is that we are 75% - 85% below the sea level, so only our dikes are holding the water away.
Besides the point, the windmills you talk about are not the ones that generate energy. The ones on then postcards are there to either make flour out of grain, or to pump water out of de farming land into the nearby lake, or the other way around, if the farming land needs water again.
These wind turbines they are talking about are big things stuck on huge long pipes, and they don't really make a sound.
"Woosh woosh woosh" That rocks me to sleep while I am anchored off the coast somewhere in the middle of The Netherlands.
Or get one of the newer 1.2 Ghz iBook's. If you set the screen brightness at half way, and have best energy saver mode, it can last 8 hours.
Take a picture of a turning fan, and let's see if you can see that it is turning.
Thing is, if you do this yourself, you will notice that it looks as if the fan is not moving at all. So it might be moving, without us knowing it, or he just turned them off.
Yes, it is called SEC, i believe. And the offense is called insider trade information. This is what happened to that cooking lady on TV, whatever the fuck her name is.
She got caught, who knows what Mr. Dell is going to do.
"Show me another distro where "stable" means stable and that achieves this goal in shorter time and I'll switch, gladly."
/usr/ports/www/apache[13|2]
I have been using FreeBSD 5.x, which is currently at 5.3-p10, It is a stable operating system, which contains the ports tree to do what you want it to do. The base system is a rock, only security patches every so often, but when a release is stamped, it is good for production use.
The ports tree is a blessing, it lets you update what you want, when you want, and handles dependencies. FreeBSD also has a sane cycle of updates, and does not wait 3 years between releases, rather 6 - 7 months, which means that you have more up to date base if you follow that pattern. That being said, some of the even older versions like 4.8 still run perfectly at the latest patch level. No stability problems, and if any new bugs are found they get fixed. And guess what? Ports tree exists there as well, so you can use the latest and greatest and enjoy a rock solid OS.
"In the life of a sysadmin it's worth quite a bit to know that there's a place where you can say "apt-get install apache" and it *will* work."
cd
make install
If it fails, wait a few hours, and cvsup your ports tree, and try again, it is almost guaranteed to be fixed, and it is almost guaranteed to work.
Don't like waiting for it to build?
pkg_add -r apache
The packages are all working packages, and i have never had a problem with them at all. Now please, tell me why you still wait 3 years for a new release which comes with old software?
T'is a lie. With some blood from Clark Kent, we can resurrect BSD. It will have some liver problems, but a transplant will help that. :P
(Yes, i watch Smallville every so often)