--This is sad news for me, I have Crunchbang installed on a couple of older boxes at home. Really liked the distro; I hope it can survive on in some way, as a set of apt-gettable scripts or something.
> The only area where it's let me down in the past was with trying to mess with iPhone firmware (such as for jailbreaking) from a Windows VM on a Linux host...don't know if it was something weird Apple was doing with USB or something else.
--Trust me - you really, REALLY do *NOT* want to be messing with firmware over a virtualized USB connection. It's not sane. Use bare-metal hardware and OS access for that!
--I'm pretty sure my Vmware Workstation VMs can't see my Nexus 7 over virtualized USB for the same reason. You're dealing with virtual hardware, it may be 98-99% comparable to the host but it's not 100%. Stuff like USB drives and printers generally work fine but some devices are different (and may not be properly tested to work over virtual links.)
> In the time I've not run a/v, I've never had an infection.
--If you haven't scanned your PC *at all* in that whole amount of time, you actually have NO IDEA whether you have an infection or not!! Your PC could be part of a botnet or doing something insidious deep in the background, for all you know.
--Do us all a favor and at least try scanning it once with a couple of different free utilities - you may be surprised at what you might find.
--I'm with you 99% as far as ZFS. The thing is, I *don't need* a 100TB hard drive, that's a single point of failure with WAY too much data on it to try and copy off before it dies.
--I'd like to see a drive that stores multiple copies of files like ZFS natively, so in the event of $badthings, the end-user has some way to recover files. (It might be nice to have RAID1 on the same drive, with independent heads between the platters.) I'd like to see a drive that goes beyond SMART diagnostics and gives you a really good indicator that it will fail soon. And all of this needs to work well / transparently with Linux and other OS's.
--A 5-year HD lifetime should also be a *given* anymore by default, but WD Black drives are about the only ones I trust for that. (I'm open to others tho, but WD's warranty/RMA process is really good as well.) Hitachi looks promising according to the Backblaze report*, but I'm not sure about the prices and their RMA process.
--The "cloud" is no substitute for decent IT admin. Even with hypothetical 100% cloud usage, the company should be keeping *at least* 2 decent admins on staff for planning (resource usage, disaster recovery, rollouts, etc), which-holiday-are-you-working swaps, and vacation coverage (not to mention sick time and accidental death-type stuff) as well as you know, daily work...
--And that's the bare minimum! Any less than that and the poor soul will burn out and eventually quit, or get sick.
--Technical question that I just thought of: Can this TRIM issue be worked around just by installing Linux as a secondary OS (or booting a liveCD) and just running TRIM against the drive from there?
It's impressive on one level, but then you realize:
o The kid has no pressing social-life responsibilities
o The kid doesn't -need- to pass the exam to put food on the table
o The kid hasn't been dragged down by the general pain,angst,disappointment everyone goes through in life yet, so he can think clearly without being worried and still sees it as a great opportunity.
Yeah he's bright I'll give him that, but the above factors make it easier for him to pass as well.
" Do something for us " (from the article) >...it's tricky to imagine how you could make the job more attractive...
--I have a couple of ideas.
First is to keep the mind occupied. How about starting a radio station for the silos (run by the on-duty guys) where the DJ duty gets rotated every day to a different silo?
Second, how about inviting the on-duty guys to a couple of prestigious events (2x/month or so, all expenses paid) where they can stand guard for a while and then enjoy the party? It would give them something to look forward to.
Third, these are trained military people with time on their hands. Set them to solving problems in their spare time. Maybe they can contribute to SETI, or otherwise help with observing things?
--Amazon does this sometimes if you put things on your Wishlist. Much of the time though, they coupon/discount something you've already bought one of - which is kind of useless for high-dollar items, since you're not likely to buy another one any time soon unless it's a gift for someone else.
--That will get you a very loud AMEN. We don't necessarily *need* a unified input method for tablets, phones and desktops - but they keep trying to force it on us. Desktop is an entirely different beast, one that most people are more familiar with - and *have* to be productive on.
> Issuing "service restart" strikes most people as much more natural. That will send the signal for you.
--Actually, ' service blah restart ' does not just send a kill -1, it *shuts the service down* and restarts it with a new PID. The whole point of kill -1 is to tell a running process to reread its config without having to bounce it.
--I would love to have Scientific Linux do something like this, it would give them more of a distinction from Centos. There have been times when SL was a "better" distro than Centos because they were faster with updates.
--Keeping upstart in SL would be a great move, IMHO.
> a beefier laptop running ESXi to replace the servers
--Mind if I ask what the brand + model is? I've been wanting to do an ESXi box for the last few years on the cheap and just haven't found the right equipment yet. If I could do it used for ~$400 it would be a done deal...
> I agree. I've been running a similar set up on a PIII-100 (remember those?) with 96MB RAM and a 200MB disk for almost twenty years.
--Dude, how high is your electric bill? o_O
--If you hook up a kill-a-watt to that beast, you might want to consider replacing that ancient machine with something like a Raspberry Pi / Cubietruck / Atom box - it will likely pay for itself within a year due to the power savings...
--I agree with you there. Having Prime is really good, but adding a streaming video to your Q on amazon and then getting "Please go to amazon.com to pay more $$ for this movie" when you try to watch it, is bogus. Netflix is much more straightforward - and has a better video library, for the most part.
--The only movie I've actually paid the extra $2 for was "The Raven" with Vincent Price, because it was rare and I hadn't watched it for decades. Everything else I just look for on Netflix and add it there if they have it.
--I would dispute you on this. I was running my main backup RAIDZ2 server on PCBSD, and had to break a ports upgrade compile. Ports was irrecoverably broken after that. After about a year I switched to Linux + ZFS, and it runs with BETTER speed on the same hardware. And on top of that, Linux has a better disk-naming system -- as well as a functional fdisk -l.
> The shell still sort of sucks (powershell). I wish someone would write a 'native' shell for windows that was cool. I'd event settle for a dos prompt you can resize like an xterm.
Slashdot Mirror
--Try Pale Moon. It's a fork of Firefox before Australis - and in my experience, uses less RAM. There is a build for Linux available as well.
--This is sad news for me, I have Crunchbang installed on a couple of older boxes at home. Really liked the distro; I hope it can survive on in some way, as a set of apt-gettable scripts or something.
> The only area where it's let me down in the past was with trying to mess with iPhone firmware (such as for jailbreaking) from a Windows VM on a Linux host...don't know if it was something weird Apple was doing with USB or something else.
--Trust me - you really, REALLY do *NOT* want to be messing with firmware over a virtualized USB connection. It's not sane. Use bare-metal hardware and OS access for that!
--I'm pretty sure my Vmware Workstation VMs can't see my Nexus 7 over virtualized USB for the same reason. You're dealing with virtual hardware, it may be 98-99% comparable to the host but it's not 100%. Stuff like USB drives and printers generally work fine but some devices are different (and may not be properly tested to work over virtual links.)
> In the time I've not run a/v, I've never had an infection.
--If you haven't scanned your PC *at all* in that whole amount of time, you actually have NO IDEA whether you have an infection or not!! Your PC could be part of a botnet or doing something insidious deep in the background, for all you know.
--Do us all a favor and at least try scanning it once with a couple of different free utilities - you may be surprised at what you might find.
--I'm with you 99% as far as ZFS. The thing is, I *don't need* a 100TB hard drive, that's a single point of failure with WAY too much data on it to try and copy off before it dies.
--I'd like to see a drive that stores multiple copies of files like ZFS natively, so in the event of $badthings, the end-user has some way to recover files. (It might be nice to have RAID1 on the same drive, with independent heads between the platters.) I'd like to see a drive that goes beyond SMART diagnostics and gives you a really good indicator that it will fail soon. And all of this needs to work well / transparently with Linux and other OS's.
--A 5-year HD lifetime should also be a *given* anymore by default, but WD Black drives are about the only ones I trust for that. (I'm open to others tho, but WD's warranty/RMA process is really good as well.) Hitachi looks promising according to the Backblaze report*, but I'm not sure about the prices and their RMA process.
* https://www.backblaze.com/blog...
--The "cloud" is no substitute for decent IT admin. Even with hypothetical 100% cloud usage, the company should be keeping *at least* 2 decent admins on staff for planning (resource usage, disaster recovery, rollouts, etc), which-holiday-are-you-working swaps, and vacation coverage (not to mention sick time and accidental death-type stuff) as well as you know, daily work...
--And that's the bare minimum! Any less than that and the poor soul will burn out and eventually quit, or get sick.
--Technical question that I just thought of: Can this TRIM issue be worked around just by installing Linux as a secondary OS (or booting a liveCD) and just running TRIM against the drive from there?
/hope so
It's impressive on one level, but then you realize:
o The kid has no pressing social-life responsibilities
o The kid doesn't -need- to pass the exam to put food on the table
o The kid hasn't been dragged down by the general pain,angst,disappointment everyone goes through in life yet, so he can think clearly without being worried and still sees it as a great opportunity.
Yeah he's bright I'll give him that, but the above factors make it easier for him to pass as well.
/Wolfrider
--You say what now?
" Do something for us " (from the article) ...it's tricky to imagine how you could make the job more attractive...
>
--I have a couple of ideas.
First is to keep the mind occupied. How about starting a radio station for the silos (run by the on-duty guys) where the DJ duty gets rotated every day to a different silo?
Second, how about inviting the on-duty guys to a couple of prestigious events (2x/month or so, all expenses paid) where they can stand guard for a while and then enjoy the party? It would give them something to look forward to.
Third, these are trained military people with time on their hands. Set them to solving problems in their spare time. Maybe they can contribute to SETI, or otherwise help with observing things?
Any other creative ideas are welcome...
--Amazon does this sometimes if you put things on your Wishlist. Much of the time though, they coupon/discount something you've already bought one of - which is kind of useless for high-dollar items, since you're not likely to buy another one any time soon unless it's a gift for someone else.
--I wish I had mod points; you deserve that +5 Informative / Insightful ;-)
--Bloody Stupid Johnson, is that you?? :b
--That will get you a very loud AMEN. We don't necessarily *need* a unified input method for tablets, phones and desktops - but they keep trying to force it on us. Desktop is an entirely different beast, one that most people are more familiar with - and *have* to be productive on.
" I solemnly swear that I am up to no good... "
> Issuing "service restart" strikes most people as much more natural. That will send the signal for you.
--Actually, ' service blah restart ' does not just send a kill -1, it *shuts the service down* and restarts it with a new PID. The whole point of kill -1 is to tell a running process to reread its config without having to bounce it.
--I would love to have Scientific Linux do something like this, it would give them more of a distinction from Centos. There have been times when SL was a "better" distro than Centos because they were faster with updates.
--Keeping upstart in SL would be a great move, IMHO.
> a beefier laptop running ESXi to replace the servers
--Mind if I ask what the brand + model is? I've been wanting to do an ESXi box for the last few years on the cheap and just haven't found the right equipment yet. If I could do it used for ~$400 it would be a done deal...
> Kind of unscientific, n'est pas?
...I'm sorry sir, we only have Hershey's.
/ couldn't resist
// should not be obscure
> I agree. I've been running a similar set up on a PIII-100 (remember those?) with 96MB RAM and a 200MB disk for almost twenty years.
--Dude, how high is your electric bill? o_O
--If you hook up a kill-a-watt to that beast, you might want to consider replacing that ancient machine with something like a Raspberry Pi / Cubietruck / Atom box - it will likely pay for itself within a year due to the power savings...
TS-836A Plug Power Meter = ~$16 on Amazon
...and the smart(er) ones will only pay ~$50 more for the Android equivalent...
--I agree with you there. Having Prime is really good, but adding a streaming video to your Q on amazon and then getting "Please go to amazon.com to pay more $$ for this movie" when you try to watch it, is bogus. Netflix is much more straightforward - and has a better video library, for the most part.
--The only movie I've actually paid the extra $2 for was "The Raven" with Vincent Price, because it was rare and I hadn't watched it for decades. Everything else I just look for on Netflix and add it there if they have it.
--I would dispute you on this. I was running my main backup RAIDZ2 server on PCBSD, and had to break a ports upgrade compile. Ports was irrecoverably broken after that. After about a year I switched to Linux + ZFS, and it runs with BETTER speed on the same hardware. And on top of that, Linux has a better disk-naming system -- as well as a functional fdisk -l.
> The shell still sort of sucks (powershell). I wish someone would write a 'native' shell for windows that was cool. I'd event settle for a dos prompt you can resize like an xterm.
--Ever heard of 4dos? Check this one out:
http://jpsoft.com/
--No affiliation, just satisfied user. 1st ran into it back in the 90's when Norton Utilities bundled Ndos. The TCC/LE version is free.
> ...my advice will be to switch to something else unless Red Hat gets their heads out of their asses, and gets rid of systemd
--You might want to look into SuSE; a bit of googling found me this:
https://en.opensuse.org/openSU... ;-)
^ Tells you how to get rid of it