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LAX Outage due to Windows Crash
by Jonathan Hutchins 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

According to TechWorld (http://www.techworld.com/), recent outages at LAX are due to poor integration of an "upgrade" from Unix to Windows: http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2275 They report that "The servers are timed to shut down after 49.7 days of use in order to prevent a data overload, a union official told the LA Times. To avoid this automatic shutdown, technicians are required to restart the system manually every 30 days. An improperly trained employee failed to reset the system, leading it to shut down without warning...". I dunno about the rest of you, but I can schedule a Windows server to reboot once a week if it's running software suspected of not releasing resources when it should. Wonder why they can't? Wasn't it Microsoft itself that said that Windows should NOT be use for "Mission Critical Applications"?

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RE: Linux Support position
by Brian Densmore 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Clinton > > On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 09:41, Brian Densmore wrote: > > Not a problem, OO saves in Word format. I generally send my > resumes in > > PDF exported from OO. That way I know it gets formatted the way I > > intended and not the way some user has configured his/her > office suite. > > Isn't that precisely the issue? If I get one page to tell > someone about > my entire professional career, it better look exactly as I intended > it... PDF wasn't in the list. > Details, details. Don't bother me with details. The Devil is in the details and my church always told me to stay away from the Devil. ;') But he did say text, and well what is PDF if not formatted text. ;')) But, I agree with you. Mandating a format that applicants aren't likely to actually use is bad manners. I was just being a smart-alec. Brian

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RE: Linux Support position
by Brian Densmore 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Clinton > > Not to mention that they're asking for Linux administrators' resumes > in /MS Word/ or text format. Clearly "someone doesn't get it"^TM. > Not a problem, OO saves in Word format. I generally send my resumes in PDF exported from OO. That way I know it gets formatted the way I intended and not the way some user has configured his/her office suite.

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RE: Anyone seen the new Sun FileSystem
by Brian Densmore 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

I have just one question on your new filesystem. How do you compensate for the Hawkings blackhole radiation leak constant in folded space to ensure data integrity? i haven't been able to overcome that yet and keep getting kernel panics. > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Kelsay > > I will use a technique I learned in Boy > Scouts to fold space using a paperclip and a ball of twine > and then pass the requested file information through the > folded space to the quantum API.

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[OT] [politics] Rumsfeld's amazing twist of irony
by Jason Clinton 22 Sep '04

22 Sep '04

Secretary Rumsfeld's Speech at the National Press Club, Friday http://www.dod.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20040910-secdef1286.html Search for the word "Saddam" in Rumsfeld's speech. In an amazing twist of irony, while addressing the nation's journalists on Friday, there are two points at which Rumsfeld confuses Saddam Hussein with Osama bin Laden one of which a member of the audience has to point out. Anyone remember these poll results? http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32862-2003Sep5

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Re: Anyone seen the new Sun FileSystem
by Brian Kelsay 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

With my quantum discombobulator all things will become possible. Using my Heisenberg Compensator I will be able to store anything anywhere. Coming soon to a filesystem near you 1024-bit and after that, 64823408-bit. The scaling is amazing. And my new filesystem, 42FS, will move at incredible speed. I will use a technique I learned in Boy Scouts to fold space using a paperclip and a ball of twine and then pass the requested file information through the folded space to the quantum API. The information will move so fast at times, it will arrive before you ask for it. That's where the quantum discombobulator comes into play. I will actually have to slow some data down. Be careful if you use MS SQL Server, it will assume it has the right to take control of all memory space, have full access to all system resources and attempt mind control, even if you are only using it to store addresses and/or recipes. Next stop, storing your personal data files in the spaces within your DNA. Talk about portability. It may make your back hurt and you could grow a third arm, but who hasn't thought that would be handy sometime? ------ There is a time for peace and talk and reason; and then, at long last, and only with sadness of heart and mournful admission that all your wisdom and words have failed, you must go kill you some motherf*ckers and set some of their sh*t on fire. Brian Kelsay Brian Kelsay Brian Kelsay >>> Oren Beck <oren_beck@hotmail> 09/21/04 10:20AM >>> Interesting possibilities- if physical and logical locations need not coincide for pool elements then some implications for scaling arise . I am not a filesystem guru by any stretch however to a reasonably versed layman this seems to have potential . Question is will it be OS or ? Last take is that the line closing the piece where engineer Jeff Bonwick makes an IMHO dangerous statement . Logically, the next question is if ZFS' 128 bits is enough. According to Bonwick, it has to be. "Populating 128-bit file systems would exceed the quantum limits of earth-based storage. You couldn't fill a 128-bit storage pool without boiling the oceans." Any takers for a bet that Jeff Bonwick's assessment soon joins that of Wm Gates - "640 k is enough ." >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Which he never actually said. See here: http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=9&threadID=150999&star… and Here: http://tinyurl.com/2zhpr >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Oren Beck www.campdownunderthecovers.com " FileSize DOES matter "

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Anyone seen the new Sun FileSystem
by hanasaki 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/ Any thoughts?

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RE: New to the but not linux
by Brian Densmore 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

Two things I would like to add. You might consider making the next filesystem ext3 rather than ext2. Ext3 can usually deal with system crashes *****much***** better than plain vanilla ext2. you can even convert ext2 filesystems to ext3 without any data loss, provided of course you do it *before* the filesystem becomes corrupted. There are FOSS utilities that may be able to pull the data off of your drive even in the state it is in. The down side is you would have to pretty much pick through the resulting data manually as the filenames will be something totally meaningless. I did this with a system of mine that was cracked and traced the activities of the cracker and recovered some files he created and some of my own files. It's a lot of work and it takes hours for the utility to recover the data and of course you need a spare harddrive. Brian > -----Original Message----- > From: docv > > No, would not be worth it. Mainly just my personal stuff that can be > replaced, although it will be time consuming. Only had a few dir's of > business stuff that I'll need to re-create and some backup dir's. > > lowell wrote: > > Is it worth the cost a data recovery company would charge > you; they can do > > just about anything, I've heard... > > >

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RE: Help!!! my box has had a stroke
by Brian Densmore 21 Sep '04

21 Sep '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Hildebrand > > FYI system here is SuSE 7.2 and I have the CD's. I'm wondering if I > could configure the Ethernet card and simply transfer files that way, > burn CD's and then go on from there??? It took a power bump just one > too many times and fsck just ate up the inodes. I am concerned by your statement about your inodes getting eaten up. If the files you need are still intact with the inodes you should be able to copy them over to: another machine using something like scp or sftp (you will need to start a ssh daemon to do this), or to another drive by hooking it up to your machine as a slave drive, or make CDs if you have a CDR drive in there or can add a CDR drive. you can make CDs from any terminal (aka CLI). I could walk you through any of these procedures if you need and give me enough information. Brian

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Downloading Mac Stuff in Linux?
by webgiant＠juno.com 20 Sep '04

20 Sep '04

I'd like to be downloading some legacy Mac software (pre-OS 8.6) for my brother-in-law's older PowerMac. The problem is that the applications are only available through bittorrent (the author doesn't have much bandwidth), and there are no pre-OS 8.6 BitTorrent clients to download it on his PowerMac or my equally old PowerMac (OS 8.1). Every time I've copied a Mac file onto a PC floppy, there's extra files which aren't mentioned in the Mac directory listing. If I just get the torrent file and start downloading, will the torrent file create the extra files, or will the resulting file be unreadable by Macs? ________________________________________________________________ Get your name as your email address. Includes spam protection, 1GB storage, no ads and more Only $1.99/ month - visit http://www.mysite.com/name today!

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