Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Parallel Development Tools
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:59:41PM +0200, Jon Tegner wrote:
Robert G. Brown wrote:
Fedora installs in the future will be done by yum. Yum enables
something that is truly marvelous for people who have to install through
thin pipes (e.g. DSL
On 17 Oct 2007, at 6:50 pm, Jon Tegner wrote:
Drifting off a bit further, but as I see it, the biggest advantage
of FC over debien/ubuntu is kickstart. Or???
Debian/Ubuntu both have automated install methods. There's the
'preseeding' method, which is pretty similar in principle to
Debian/Ubuntu both have automated install methods. There's the
'preseeding' method, which is pretty similar in principle to
kickstart; you just tell the installer where to find all the answers
to the questions it would have asked.
There's also the more flexible FAI, which is what we tend to
On 18-Oct-07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, didn't know about the preseeding method. Also, there seems to be a
kickstart, at least for ubuntu. Has anyone compared FAI to kickstart (for
ubuntu/debian)?
The fundamental approach is rather different. As I understand it,
kickstart basically
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Tim Cutts wrote:
The real killer advantages of FAI, for me, are the SSH server so I can
monitor the install remotely, and the detailed logging. Both of these
are invaluable for diagnosing installation problems.
With kickstart, you can start a VNC connection, check out:
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Robert G. Brown wrote:
but on highly INhomogeneous hardware, slow and undependable
networks, and the like -- if it dies
This discussion being on the beowulf list, I can agree with kickstart
being used on INhomogenous hardware, but not on slow and undependable
networks;
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Robert G. Brown wrote:
but on highly INhomogeneous hardware, slow and undependable networks, and
the like -- if it dies
This discussion being on the beowulf list, I can agree with kickstart being
used on INhomogenous
On 17 Oct 2007, at 10:30 am, andrew holway wrote:
Apt-cache with a bit of grep is a powerful tool indeed.
$apt-cache search foo | grep bar
everyone I work with however prefers yum. They regard Debian as being
a bit backward.
I'm not familiar with yum, so I can't really comment. However,
On 17 Oct 2007, at 1:02 pm, stephen mulcahy wrote:
Tim Cutts wrote:
I've been reading the aptitude documentation this morning, as it
happens, and there's all sorts of useful stuff it can do above
what apt-cache could manage, and it's solved a number of long-
standing problems I've
andrew holway wrote:
Not a fan of aptitude, Like command line me :)
On 17/10/2007, Tim Cutts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 17 Oct 2007, at 10:30 am, andrew holway wrote:
Apt-cache with a bit of grep is a powerful tool indeed.
$apt-cache search foo | grep bar
everyone I work with however
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Gerry Creager wrote:
Quote...
Three things in life a man must do,
Before his days are done.
Write two lines of APL...
And make the sucker run.
OK, so it's not PL-I but APL was another interesting beast. A friend had
written an entire StarTrek game, including a 3d
You should switch to a .deb-system, to save you some trouble:
$ apt-cache search jove
jove - Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful editor
Sorry, couldn't resist ;-)
/jon
Robert G. Brown wrote:
I do realize (*ahem*) that I'm one of three living humans that still use
jove,
Tim Cutts wrote:
I've been reading the aptitude documentation this morning, as it
happens, and there's all sorts of useful stuff it can do above what
apt-cache could manage, and it's solved a number of long-standing
problems I've had... in particular its search functionality is *much*
Of course, this is valid given so many people use the kernel build time
as a benchmark ;) Heck! It's even used as a filesystem performance
benchmark!
Eric
Joe Landman wrote:
andrew holway wrote:
And the winner of the 2007 Parallel Development Tools Award is...
make -j16 ...
(ducks
Wow, PL-I, I'm learning about that in my language design class. While it
brought a bunch of new items to the computing field, can't say I'm upset I
didn't code in it :).
Sorry guys, I came into existence just about the time the internet was opened
up from just NSF to commercial interest, so
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Jon Tegner wrote:
Drifting off a bit further, but as I see it, the biggest advantage of FC over
debien/ubuntu is kickstart. Or???
I don't know if that question has an easy answer. Kickstart is
certainly AN advantage in certain environments, but Debian will install
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Ellis Wilson wrote:
Wow, PL-I, I'm learning about that in my language design class. While it
brought a bunch of new items to the computing field, can't say I'm upset I
didn't code in it :).
Sorry guys, I came into existence just about the time the internet was opened
On 17 Oct 2007, at 16:20, Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Gerry Creager wrote:
Quote...
Three things in life a man must do,
Before his days are done.
Write two lines of APL...
And make the sucker run.
OK, so it's not PL-I but APL was another interesting beast. A
friend had
Robert G. Brown wrote:
Fedora installs in the future will be done by yum. Yum enables
something that is truly marvelous for people who have to install through
thin pipes (e.g. DSL links): a two stage interruptable install. It is
possible to install a barebones system in the first pass in a
And the winner of the 2007 Parallel Development Tools Award is...
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Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, John Leidel wrote:
`vi`
:-P
Yeah, you'd BETTER duck and run away right after Joe after that one.
;-)
I have heard (or am spreading) the rumor that the 1-18-08 movie is not
really a monster movie, but the final epic battle between vi and emacs
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, John Leidel wrote:
`vi`
:-P
Yeah, you'd BETTER duck and run away right after Joe after that one.
;-)
rgb
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 09:48 -0400, Joe Landman wrote:
andrew holway wrote:
And the winner of the 2007 Parallel Development Tools Award is...
At 07:39 AM 10/16/2007, Joe Landman wrote:
Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, John Leidel wrote:
`vi`
:-P
Yeah, you'd BETTER duck and run away right after Joe after that one.
;-)
I have heard (or am spreading) the rumor that the 1-18-08 movie is
not really a monster movie, but
Jim Lux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
and, as we all know, real developers
use paper: tape, tab cards, or, if they must, teletype rolls.
You forgot paper tape. (Most people who used it probably wish they
could forget it too!)
Anyway, all of the tools you mentioned are for wimps - real
programmers
Friends don't let friends play tic-tac-toe using punchcards :-)
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:20 -0700, David Mathog wrote:
Jim Lux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
and, as we all know, real developers
use paper: tape, tab cards, or, if they must, teletype rolls.
You forgot paper tape. (Most people
**real** programmers somehow get large numbers of thralls to hoist huge
boulders into precise positions.
Poor GFLOPS/$, though.
Peter
...
Anyway, all of the tools you mentioned are for wimps - real
programmers load code directly into memory using the toggle
switches on the front of the
Jim Lux wrote:
Why not TECO?
Indeed. One of the great features of TECO is that no matter
what your name was, you could always enter it as a TECO command,
and it would do something. Of course, as other people recognized
long ago, most complicated TECO macros closely resembled
transmission
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Jon Tegner wrote:
You should switch to a .deb-system, to save you some trouble:
$ apt-cache search jove
jove - Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs - a compact, powerful editor
Sorry, couldn't resist ;-)
Hey, it's ok. I'm actually trisystemal. FC 6 on top (soon to jump to
On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, David Mathog wrote:
Jim Lux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
and, as we all know, real developers
use paper: tape, tab cards, or, if they must, teletype rolls.
You forgot paper tape. (Most people who used it probably wish they
could forget it too!)
Anyway, all of the tools you
Didn't you have a tic-tac-toe game on punch cards written in PL-1?
John Leidel wrote:
Friends don't let friends play tic-tac-toe using punchcards :-)
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 11:20 -0700, David Mathog wrote:
Jim Lux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
and, as we all know, real developers
use paper: tape,
Quote...
Three things in life a man must do,
Before his days are done.
Write two lines of APL...
And make the sucker run.
OK, so it's not PL-I but APL was another interesting beast. A friend
had written an entire StarTrek game, including a 3d universe, in APL and
we wasted cycles waiting for
At 05:34 PM 10/16/2007, Gerry Creager wrote:
Quote...
Three things in life a man must do,
Before his days are done.
Write two lines of APL...
And make the sucker run.
OK, so it's not PL-I but APL was another interesting beast. A
friend had written an entire StarTrek game, including a 3d
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