We currently have a 570 and it's awesome. We can allocate resources on the fly to any of our AIX partitions and we can also run Linux on a LPAR and AIX on a LPAR and even OS/400 (or what ever they call it now as AS/400's are now basically Power Machines). DLPARing let's you allocate memory, processors and disk from one partition to another with out need to take it down. IBM makes THE BEST hardware around...BAR NONE when it comes to reliability and availablity. It is GREAT stuff.
A UPS is only supposed to give you either enough time to turn everything off safely, or to give you enough power to keep everything up while the generator starts. If you value every single minute of up time, you have at least a UPS and a generator for cutting over. They UPS's are not supposed to last a long time. On the otherhand if you don't have a service contract and you do not do maintenance like checking the batteries and what not, then you have noone but yourself to blame. UPS's are not designed to be carefree. They need care and handling.
First, I realize you want to help, but I want ot say this now....don't go. Donate the money to the Red Cross or to a agency already there. Try to find the local churches or other people who are already there because they live there. Also, if the church members going do not have the types of training needed (Radio Amateur, First Aid, Medical Training, Carpentry, Building, HAZMAT....etc), they will only get in the way. There's hundreds of National Guard already in the area as well as volunteer amateurs (so many volunteered they had lots of back ups....BUT they will always need more). My point is if you have no idea WHAT to bring at this point, then you will definitely not bring what is needed. You will also get in the way. Find a way to hook up with resources that are already in the area. That's the best way to help out down there, IMHO.
We have ALWAYS had a while room UPS. Call Liebert or whoever your vendor or electrician is and have them fix it. We have in our center a UPS to cover the interim time it takes for the generator to kick on. Our Generator is across the street. While we had issues after we first moved in, they have been resolved and we have lost power since and our room stayed up and so did our website. God pless the power fairies....
A space elevator will be made of carbon fiber nanotubes correct?? What would be the effect on a hurricane hitting the elevator? Can the string be realed in from one end?? Would it be more prudent to build this in a place far away from a coastline??
I will agree with you on that. The FOSS objective is to provide software. BUT enterprise level support can be available too and companies don't mind paying for it. On the other hand, some projects I have seen refuse to accept anything from anyone except diffs and a bug report only the programmer would understand. Saying it should look like this or do this is not good enough for them. The fact is if you want me or my company to use FOSS, it must be:
Well documented
Not take a programmer to install...no hidden options
Developer must be open to suggestions (from regular users as well as developers/geeks)
Possible support contract available (we'll accept SuSE or IBM support if it's available).
Multiple Tab Selection...I'll explain....in Excel, one can select multiple tabs....I would like to etiher via a ctrl click or shift click to select multiple tabs and either bookmark via context menu, or close all of the selected tabs.
Also, to avoid the same kind of issue you get with any taskbar in any OS, I would like the option that once there are so many tabs open (user defineable) that the next new tab command opens another window. This May sound confusing at first, but I think it would help maintain meaningful tab titles.
A master tab list.....somewhere, have a complete list of all tabs....in every window. Also, via context menu, have it so you can move the tab from one window to another.
But honestly, if I never get any of these, I am completely satisfied. Firsfox has been so great. I remember trying Mozilla from time to time and always going back to IE, but firsfox has spoiled me of that habit. Also, it may be me, but I have noticed that I less and less have to switch to IE for a website. It seems, to me, people are GETTING that if you code to have it work for all browsers, your traffic goes up AND also will have a better website. Sometimes you can code just for Firefox and you don't have to make ANY changes for it to work elsewhere (depending on what you are doing). Hopefully, IE bringing improvements won't stop the Mozilla team....but will encourage them to make it even better.
I dunno. Maybe I would like it to use some gtk widgets or something a little nicer to look at then the current look. You CAN use gtk and not have to be tied to Gnome. It's nice that the fruit salad theme is gone, but I still think it's a bit harder to use then some of the pro tools like Final Cut Pro.
Ok, I can understand seeing this on digg.....maybe on Reuters, but Slashdot? This is NOT news. There's no malfunction in the iPod that makes you go deaf. TURNING UP YOUR MUSIC SO LOUD I CAN HEAR IT SITTING BESIDE YOU ON THE BUS DOES! Grr! It's not iPods, it's not Walkmans....it's simple physics. Please god don't let politicians hear this because the next thing you know they will ban ear buds and headphones.
I would love to edit video in cinelerra, but I will be damned if I can figure out how to do the things I want to do in it. Give me a Mac and Final Cut Pro. along with DVD studio pro.
Interesting story, however I did get a bit well pissed! I don't have one yet and some idiot is destroying the one he got. I don't know about you, but I don't feel like throwing 250 bucks away.
Here's something I thought of....remember not too long ao (ok, last week) they announced that it would take 80 days or longer to drain New Orleans of water from the lake and river however just this weekend I saw several stories that stated it will be drained by the end of this month. I am thinking this is a case of people WITHOUT A CLUE pushing for an answer so the Engineers gave them one off the top of thier head. This is like asking a SysAdmin when a system will be back up after a horrendous crash. When it's up is not a good answer and this is what the journalists do to scientists all the time. They always want to know how soon and then they hit scientists hard when it comes late. Science ISN'T perfect. We CAN'T say how long it will be til X happens. Sometimes, the scientist not knowing is not good enough for the journalists and the scientist is pressured into giving a best guess answer or worse, the journalist comes up with his own answer.
I think it's too early to tell whether the phone is a failure or not. Personally, I have to see it in person to judge it. I can't go on anecdotes. The idea is good and the idea is feasible....however I think apple just needs to do one thing.....make a version of iTunes for Pocket PC. Pocket PC's are pretty good at playing music and while the battery life sucks, a Pocket PC is a good backup for when the iPod or iRiver is dead or when you forget to take it out of the dock/USB hub. PPC phones can do all of what Apple wants and Apple would have way more control of things. So I think Apple can get this right. I mean the first iPod was called lame by our CmdrTaco. I bet he has a third gen one or better now....I have a shuffle....and love it. Sure, there's iRivers and Creative Zen Nano's that are better then my shuffle at the same capacity, however my shuffle does one thing well....play music. That's it. This is why I got it.
First, the first time my boss bitches about me surfing the web I will remind him of that the next time I catch him checking stocks and other items not work related.
Second, after that first time, he will find my cell keeps taking baths in the toilet or getting dropped til it doesn't work. The last 3 vacations I have had I was PAGED for, well, what amounts to a pile of crap. We don't have enough staff that knows all that I do to let me actually turn the frackin cellphone off. It's not that I mind being called (well I do, but I realize that money is tight...), but it's I mind when they don't thank me for interrupting my vacation or my day off. In any case, things are getting better as I have a jr sysadmin under me that I am teaching as much as I can, but sometimes it's hard to get schedules to mesh plus I can't always teach things without being able to actually being able to do it. How do you teach/document systems patches without having to go through it? How do you teach/document what to do when things go on and you go into patch debug mode?? I find you can't. In any case, I don't feel bad at all when I take off early or call the dr or a company looking for something for my house as it all really balances out. Since I do frequently check work e-mail and do work via remote, I don't think they have much room to complain. Plus, they DO have me patch at odd hours (middle of the frackin night) AND have me do emergency patches when they realize they meant to tell me to install X patch they day after I already patched the system (sigh...). I see ALOT of companies letting people like sysadmins stay and work from home as the cost of gas keeps going up and they are not willing to pay us more. Eventually, companies who can't pay enough will have to offer an intangible or extra benefit like a free bus pass or working from home otherwise they won't be able to keep people. Moral of story, you want us a large part of the day and sometimes you want us when we're not normally scheduled. If you value us and we get the work done yet spend a hour or so with personal web surfing, then you best leave us alone. Otherwise you may find us doing things during business hours that we probably should not do during business hours(yeah I wanted to get these patches in before I left at my scheduled time so I decided to take the live box down at 2 in the afternoon....saves me from overtime....).
You know, your 100 percent absoloutly correct. WHY SA decided they needed credit for donations is beyond me. I'd have just had a big giant link to the Red Cross. Your right, it IS easier and IS the place one should go. IN fact, if I was paypal, I would contact someone at the Red Cross and setup a account for this purpose. That way you can donate without a credit or debit card. Then, if others want to setup an account for it, paypal can automagically funnel the money to the red cross. That way SA could tell it's members how much they gave (if they wanted, or cared) and the money WOULD get to the red cross.
The ARRL is also asking for volunteers on thier website. Thier are hams operationg from Slidell, and there was also a active station on top of LSU hospital. There has not been a bigger effort because it's incredibly HARD to get around in New Orleans right now. The hams ARE there, have been there and are proceeding to setup operations. Remember, it even took the military sometime to assemble staff and supplies necessary for the effort.
Yep. I don't use Winzip any more. On windows, all I need to do is zip and unzip files (and I have no need to schedule zip files to archive.....my jpg's and mp3's are not going to get any smaller by zipping them all up).
The writing is on the wall.....Winzip isn't making any money and they have to bloat to take^H^H^H^Hget more money from thier users.
Raised floors are definitely something you need. What we did was run the backbone cable to patch panels in the server rows. The cabling to the servers are overhead racks with troughs for fiber. This was a huge improvement to the old room. We pretty much bought a switch and prewired every panel. Now when we need to add a server, we have out cisco guy add it to the switch config(we also give him the MAC address at this time too), they tell us which jack to use and we get our wire expert to run the cable from the patch panel to the server. It takes far less time to get new equipment wired becasue we don't run a cable from the equipment to the switch. The only hard part is power, and even that isn't hard. Our Pseries racks all take the same power supply so we had twist locks placed at strategic locations. When we get a new server, if we need another power supply, we order it to and plug it into a empty twist lock receptical. Standardization of Data Centers is sorely needed. The types of standard don't mean every center will look the same, but it will mean that all equipment in the future will have the same or similar requirements for network drops and power. This makes data center planning MUCH easier.
Make sure you don't have an animated background. I had the same issue when I tried rasters kick ass animated background (the one that looks like cracked mud with the e logo at the bottom and pulsing bars). Switched to a still one and it was much better. I still have that animated background and even with the high cpu usage my system is still responsive. Nice to have to show someone what Linux can do that Windows can't....yet.
I wish I remembered....there was a link somewhere where without deleting the universe entry you can install e17 (16.999 or whatever goofy numbering there is). Basically, I think you edited the apt preferences and told it what enlightenment version you preferred. That way it ignored the universe packages and went with the nooms. I will look and see when I get home what changes I made and post them here.
Slashdot Mirror
We currently have a 570 and it's awesome. We can allocate resources on the fly to any of our AIX partitions and we can also run Linux on a LPAR and AIX on a LPAR and even OS/400 (or what ever they call it now as AS/400's are now basically Power Machines). DLPARing let's you allocate memory, processors and disk from one partition to another with out need to take it down. IBM makes THE BEST hardware around...BAR NONE when it comes to reliability and availablity. It is GREAT stuff.
A UPS is only supposed to give you either enough time to turn everything off safely, or to give you enough power to keep everything up while the generator starts. If you value every single minute of up time, you have at least a UPS and a generator for cutting over. They UPS's are not supposed to last a long time. On the otherhand if you don't have a service contract and you do not do maintenance like checking the batteries and what not, then you have noone but yourself to blame. UPS's are not designed to be carefree. They need care and handling.
First, I realize you want to help, but I want ot say this now....don't go. Donate the money to the Red Cross or to a agency already there. Try to find the local churches or other people who are already there because they live there. Also, if the church members going do not have the types of training needed (Radio Amateur, First Aid, Medical Training, Carpentry, Building, HAZMAT....etc), they will only get in the way. There's hundreds of National Guard already in the area as well as volunteer amateurs (so many volunteered they had lots of back ups....BUT they will always need more). My point is if you have no idea WHAT to bring at this point, then you will definitely not bring what is needed. You will also get in the way. Find a way to hook up with resources that are already in the area. That's the best way to help out down there, IMHO.
It's moderated funny, but I seriously question this investment. Are the VC's getting wacky again? Are we going to see the return of the sock puppet??
So true. People always ask me how many songs my 1 GB iPod Shuffle holds and I say it depends. Why? Well it DOES depend on:
How long the song is
What bitrate it is stored at
At that point thier eyes glaze over and I usually say about 200.
I ain't talking rocket science or hell even computer science.
And that is crap.....
We have ALWAYS had a while room UPS. Call Liebert or whoever your vendor or electrician is and have them fix it. We have in our center a UPS to cover the interim time it takes for the generator to kick on. Our Generator is across the street. While we had issues after we first moved in, they have been resolved and we have lost power since and our room stayed up and so did our website. God pless the power fairies....
A space elevator will be made of carbon fiber nanotubes correct?? What would be the effect on a hurricane hitting the elevator? Can the string be realed in from one end?? Would it be more prudent to build this in a place far away from a coastline??
I will agree with you on that. The FOSS objective is to provide software. BUT enterprise level support can be available too and companies don't mind paying for it. On the other hand, some projects I have seen refuse to accept anything from anyone except diffs and a bug report only the programmer would understand. Saying it should look like this or do this is not good enough for them. The fact is if you want me or my company to use FOSS, it must be:
Well documented
Not take a programmer to install...no hidden options
Developer must be open to suggestions (from regular users as well as developers/geeks)
Possible support contract available (we'll accept SuSE or IBM support if it's available).
Tab reordering(coming in 1.5)
Multiple Tab Selection...I'll explain....in Excel, one can select multiple tabs....I would like to etiher via a ctrl click or shift click to select multiple tabs and either bookmark via context menu, or close all of the selected tabs.
Also, to avoid the same kind of issue you get with any taskbar in any OS, I would like the option that once there are so many tabs open (user defineable) that the next new tab command opens another window. This May sound confusing at first, but I think it would help maintain meaningful tab titles.
A master tab list.....somewhere, have a complete list of all tabs....in every window. Also, via context menu, have it so you can move the tab from one window to another.
But honestly, if I never get any of these, I am completely satisfied. Firsfox has been so great. I remember trying Mozilla from time to time and always going back to IE, but firsfox has spoiled me of that habit. Also, it may be me, but I have noticed that I less and less have to switch to IE for a website. It seems, to me, people are GETTING that if you code to have it work for all browsers, your traffic goes up AND also will have a better website. Sometimes you can code just for Firefox and you don't have to make ANY changes for it to work elsewhere (depending on what you are doing). Hopefully, IE bringing improvements won't stop the Mozilla team....but will encourage them to make it even better.
I dunno. Maybe I would like it to use some gtk widgets or something a little nicer to look at then the current look. You CAN use gtk and not have to be tied to Gnome. It's nice that the fruit salad theme is gone, but I still think it's a bit harder to use then some of the pro tools like Final Cut Pro.
Ok, I can understand seeing this on digg.....maybe on Reuters, but Slashdot? This is NOT news. There's no malfunction in the iPod that makes you go deaf. TURNING UP YOUR MUSIC SO LOUD I CAN HEAR IT SITTING BESIDE YOU ON THE BUS DOES! Grr! It's not iPods, it's not Walkmans....it's simple physics. Please god don't let politicians hear this because the next thing you know they will ban ear buds and headphones.
I would love to edit video in cinelerra, but I will be damned if I can figure out how to do the things I want to do in it. Give me a Mac and Final Cut Pro. along with DVD studio pro.
Interesting story, however I did get a bit well pissed! I don't have one yet and some idiot is destroying the one he got. I don't know about you, but I don't feel like throwing 250 bucks away.
Here's something I thought of....remember not too long ao (ok, last week) they announced that it would take 80 days or longer to drain New Orleans of water from the lake and river however just this weekend I saw several stories that stated it will be drained by the end of this month. I am thinking this is a case of people WITHOUT A CLUE pushing for an answer so the Engineers gave them one off the top of thier head. This is like asking a SysAdmin when a system will be back up after a horrendous crash. When it's up is not a good answer and this is what the journalists do to scientists all the time. They always want to know how soon and then they hit scientists hard when it comes late. Science ISN'T perfect. We CAN'T say how long it will be til X happens. Sometimes, the scientist not knowing is not good enough for the journalists and the scientist is pressured into giving a best guess answer or worse, the journalist comes up with his own answer.
I think it's too early to tell whether the phone is a failure or not. Personally, I have to see it in person to judge it. I can't go on anecdotes. The idea is good and the idea is feasible....however I think apple just needs to do one thing.....make a version of iTunes for Pocket PC. Pocket PC's are pretty good at playing music and while the battery life sucks, a Pocket PC is a good backup for when the iPod or iRiver is dead or when you forget to take it out of the dock/USB hub. PPC phones can do all of what Apple wants and Apple would have way more control of things. So I think Apple can get this right. I mean the first iPod was called lame by our CmdrTaco. I bet he has a third gen one or better now....I have a shuffle....and love it. Sure, there's iRivers and Creative Zen Nano's that are better then my shuffle at the same capacity, however my shuffle does one thing well....play music. That's it. This is why I got it.
$250 is enough to sneak under the tax rule (gift has to be 500 or more).
First, the first time my boss bitches about me surfing the web I will remind him of that the next time I catch him checking stocks and other items not work related.
Second, after that first time, he will find my cell keeps taking baths in the toilet or getting dropped til it doesn't work. The last 3 vacations I have had I was PAGED for, well, what amounts to a pile of crap. We don't have enough staff that knows all that I do to let me actually turn the frackin cellphone off. It's not that I mind being called (well I do, but I realize that money is tight...), but it's I mind when they don't thank me for interrupting my vacation or my day off. In any case, things are getting better as I have a jr sysadmin under me that I am teaching as much as I can, but sometimes it's hard to get schedules to mesh plus I can't always teach things without being able to actually being able to do it. How do you teach/document systems patches without having to go through it? How do you teach/document what to do when things go on and you go into patch debug mode?? I find you can't. In any case, I don't feel bad at all when I take off early or call the dr or a company looking for something for my house as it all really balances out. Since I do frequently check work e-mail and do work via remote, I don't think they have much room to complain. Plus, they DO have me patch at odd hours (middle of the frackin night) AND have me do emergency patches when they realize they meant to tell me to install X patch they day after I already patched the system (sigh...). I see ALOT of companies letting people like sysadmins stay and work from home as the cost of gas keeps going up and they are not willing to pay us more. Eventually, companies who can't pay enough will have to offer an intangible or extra benefit like a free bus pass or working from home otherwise they won't be able to keep people. Moral of story, you want us a large part of the day and sometimes you want us when we're not normally scheduled. If you value us and we get the work done yet spend a hour or so with personal web surfing, then you best leave us alone. Otherwise you may find us doing things during business hours that we probably should not do during business hours(yeah I wanted to get these patches in before I left at my scheduled time so I decided to take the live box down at 2 in the afternoon....saves me from overtime....).
This weekend (until end of tomorrow) there's the annual Greek Festival in Columbus with lots of greek food and ouzo....OPAAAA!
You know, your 100 percent absoloutly correct. WHY SA decided they needed credit for donations is beyond me. I'd have just had a big giant link to the Red Cross. Your right, it IS easier and IS the place one should go. IN fact, if I was paypal, I would contact someone at the Red Cross and setup a account for this purpose. That way you can donate without a credit or debit card. Then, if others want to setup an account for it, paypal can automagically funnel the money to the red cross. That way SA could tell it's members how much they gave (if they wanted, or cared) and the money WOULD get to the red cross.
Try doing a little research:
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http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2005/08/30/1/?nc
The ARRL is also asking for volunteers on thier website. Thier are hams operationg from Slidell, and there was also a active station on top of LSU hospital. There has not been a bigger effort because it's incredibly HARD to get around in New Orleans right now. The hams ARE there, have been there and are proceeding to setup operations. Remember, it even took the military sometime to assemble staff and supplies necessary for the effort.
Yep. I don't use Winzip any more. On windows, all I need to do is zip and unzip files (and I have no need to schedule zip files to archive.....my jpg's and mp3's are not going to get any smaller by zipping them all up).
The writing is on the wall.....Winzip isn't making any money and they have to bloat to take^H^H^H^Hget more money from thier users.
Raised floors are definitely something you need. What we did was run the backbone cable to patch panels in the server rows. The cabling to the servers are overhead racks with troughs for fiber. This was a huge improvement to the old room. We pretty much bought a switch and prewired every panel. Now when we need to add a server, we have out cisco guy add it to the switch config(we also give him the MAC address at this time too), they tell us which jack to use and we get our wire expert to run the cable from the patch panel to the server. It takes far less time to get new equipment wired becasue we don't run a cable from the equipment to the switch. The only hard part is power, and even that isn't hard. Our Pseries racks all take the same power supply so we had twist locks placed at strategic locations. When we get a new server, if we need another power supply, we order it to and plug it into a empty twist lock receptical. Standardization of Data Centers is sorely needed. The types of standard don't mean every center will look the same, but it will mean that all equipment in the future will have the same or similar requirements for network drops and power. This makes data center planning MUCH easier.
Silly question....do you have dma turned on ALL of your drives including the hard drive? I would definitely try that.
/dev/hda
hdparm -d 1
Make sure you don't have an animated background. I had the same issue when I tried rasters kick ass animated background (the one that looks like cracked mud with the e logo at the bottom and pulsing bars). Switched to a still one and it was much better. I still have that animated background and even with the high cpu usage my system is still responsive. Nice to have to show someone what Linux can do that Windows can't....yet.
I wish I remembered....there was a link somewhere where without deleting the universe entry you can install e17 (16.999 or whatever goofy numbering there is). Basically, I think you edited the apt preferences and told it what enlightenment version you preferred. That way it ignored the universe packages and went with the nooms. I will look and see when I get home what changes I made and post them here.