I think I was the last human being above the age of 16 to get a smart
phone. Android, of course. I think the people who claim that they are
"life changing" are using more than a bit of hyperbole. As I think about
it, it really isn't a "phone" so much as a wireless personal computer
that happens
Does anyone know of a free SMTP server that isn't in a black hole?
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On 01/24/2013 01:17 PM, Jonathan M. Prigot wrote:
Any GUI is going to abstract you from the underlying system. (For a good
treatise on this, check out "In the Beginning Was the Command Line" by
Neal Stephenson.) I prefer the use of the CLI because it gets me close
to the subsystems. The price is
On 01/24/2013 12:32 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Mark Woodward
Has anyone used it? Are there better options? How's the security?
General opinions?
Webmin is to linux as
I am setting up a server for a fairly technical guy, not a admin level
guy, but a smart kid that can do/figure out most tasks, and I also trust
that he has the temperament to recognize and call me before he does
anything *bad*. Generally speaking, of course.
The webmin package seems to be a ve
On 01/15/2013 09:08 AM, Kent Borg wrote:
A trio of late-in-the-thread observations:
- There is a trade-off between simple and powerful, but one can
always make both worse by adding a serving of "stupid", conversely,
one can always make something both simpler *and* more powerful by
removing s
A couple conversations have touched upon this, tangentially perhaps, but
I think it is important.
When I was a kid, my dad said to me, as I imagine many working class
fathers said to their sons of this particular generation, "You have to
be rich enough to pay someone or smart enough to do it y
On 01/14/2013 08:47 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 06:21:59PM -0500, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 17:39:10 -0500
Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
The catch is that this may cause a severe performance drop in an
engine designed for high octane fuel, not the mere 10HP tha
On 01/14/2013 05:39 PM, Shirley Márquez Dúlcey wrote:
On modern cars there is no timing that a mechanic can adjust; that's a
throwback to the days of carburetors and camshafts. Nowadays cars have
electronic fuel injection and electronically controlled valves and the
timing is all done by the engi
On 01/14/2013 04:00 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:35:02 -0500
Mark Woodward wrote:
It should be noted that "knock sensors" detect a gas detonation and
cause the control system to retard the engine timing. Two things
about this: The detonation damages the engine
On 01/14/2013 03:50 PM, Daniel C. wrote:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
This is exactly why you can't help users. User's do not know what they do
not know and somehow expect the world to take care of them.
Even Apple is getting spanked for being too simple. M
On 01/14/2013 03:09 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 13:47:24 -0600
Derek Martin wrote:
Only the base (V6) does. Every other model of Mustang (GT, Boss,
Shelby) require premium gas.
Even the Shelby will run fine with 87 octane. It won't knock if the
engine sensors are working proper
On 01/14/2013 11:47 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:41:26 -0500
Matthew Gillen wrote:
I don't think that's quite right. It's not that people don't want
choices, it's that they don't want to make choices where they don't
understand the options, and there is a high learning curve (
On 01/13/2013 12:52 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:55:26 -0500
Mark Woodward wrote:
Problems with computers are mostly over at this point. It isn't about
computers at all. It is about the tasks the users want to accomplish.
You can't make them easier without changing
I have always been the tech guru. Running the film projector in the
early 1970s in school because the teachers never understood how. Many of
us have an innate ability to understand mechanisms. We see things and
they make sense to us.
So, I have used Windows, Macintosh, Linux, FreeBSD, SunOS, C
On 01/09/2013 07:39 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
From: Mark Woodward [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com]
The freedom to deny freedom is NOT a freedom. By combining the FREE
software with NON-FREE software you can create NON-FREE software. This
does not protect FREE software.
This is not a
On 01/09/2013 12:09 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 11:57:37 -0500
Mark Woodward wrote:
That largely depends on your view of society as a whole. Totally
unrestrained "freedom" is not possible in populations greater than
1. Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr quipped "The ri
On 01/09/2013 11:43 AM, Rich Pieri wrote:
Freedom is the state of being without restrictions.
That largely depends on your view of society as a whole. Totally
unrestrained "freedom" is not possible in populations greater than 1.
Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr quipped "The right to swing my fists e
On 01/09/2013 07:13 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of John Abreau
Under democracy, citizens are prohibited from seizing power by force and
imposing a military dictatorship on their f
On 01/07/2013 02:19 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 10:36:36AM -0500, Mark Woodward wrote:
On 01/07/2013 10:15 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
Let's get this clear, it is not "less restrictive" in the long term
view.
Yes it is, but it depends on your perspect
On 01/07/2013 10:15 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
From: Mark Woodward [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com]
I acknowledge and understand that there are pros and cons of both
licenses, philosophically and materially. I'm not saying one license is better
than another, as a generalization; alt
On 01/03/2013 03:35 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 14:40:31 -0500
Mark Woodward wrote:
"Now, some of Spider's code (possibly all of it) was based on the
TCP/IP stack in the BSD flavors of Unix.
I've seen that article. It is mistaken. Spider couldn't have taken
On 01/03/2013 01:56 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:10:27 -0500
Mark Woodward wrote:
Well, the DOS version of Windows, windows 1.x through Windows ME,
didn't have TCP until Windows 3.1(1) (as winsock). The 386 enhanced
version, I'm not sure where that was implemented
On 01/03/2013 12:38 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
I know what I wrote but I do need to correct two of your factual errors.
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:42:12 -0500
Mark Woodward wrote:
I'm pretty sure that almost everyone used the original 'BSD TCP/IP
stack as a reference. I know Windows'
GPL software. The
GPL requires such derivative software to be licensed under the GPL.
I don't see a point here. That is the intention of the licenses. So?
On Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:34:24 -0500
Mark Woodward wrote:
Well, very little has been "borrowed" from the BSD kernel. I thi
On 01/03/2013 10:44 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
From time to time, we have had speakers on various OpenSource licensing
speak at the BLU. The GPL was born because developers were contributing
their stuff to the public domain, and some people were grabbing those
and copyrighting that code. The origi
On 01/02/2013 07:59 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:57:39 -0500
Mark Woodward wrote:
The BSD license has allowed a great deal of software to be subverted
to the detriment of the various BSD projects. This is a perfect
example of how the BSD license does not protect your freedom
On 01/02/2013 04:25 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:33:30 -0500
Mark Woodward wrote:
If you want to use GPL code, you can do *anything* *you* want with
it.
No, I cannot. The GPL binds software to itself. It is in this way that
GPL projects like the Linux kernel have taken from
On 01/02/2013 02:42 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:42:42 -0500
Mark Woodward wrote:
The GPL is more free than other licenses because it keeps you from
denying the freedom that allows you to succeed from others. The
freedom to deny freedom is not a freedom.
The GPL is more
On 01/02/2013 07:30 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
From: Mark Woodward [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com]
(talking about CDDL)
Well, I personally dislike the lack of freedom in the license and the
fact that I can't, according to the license, create a proper kernel
module. It has to be used
On 01/01/2013 08:23 AM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote:
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Mark Woodward
I do not wish to use zfs for license issues.
This just means you haven't thought about it. There is no pos
On 12/31/2012 10:43 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Mark Woodward wrote:
I sort of like having a web interface to the DLINK-321, are there any
similar projects for Linux?
Not a lot of choices:
Openfiler (CentOS based) http://www.openfiler.com/
NASLite (commercial) http://www.serverelements.com/
though
I have a D-Link DNS-321, its OK as a backup system. Its small and energy
efficient, all that nice stuff, but with drive mirroring, it is SLOW as
a dog, and a slow dog at that. 5~10 megabyte per second over 1gb
ethernet is painful.
I'm considering software raid 5, 3x2TB disks to put me at 4TB o
On 12/31/2012 12:03 PM, Matt Shields wrote:
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Mark Woodward <mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com>> wrote:
What am I missing? Why can't you FedEx it?
On 12/31/2012 10:36 AM, Matt Shields wrote:
I have buildout a datacenter in London in Ja
What am I missing? Why can't you FedEx it?
On 12/31/2012 10:36 AM, Matt Shields wrote:
I have buildout a datacenter in London in January and I've ordered
everything I need directly to the datacenter because of everything I've
heard about dealing with customs. The only exception of a single piec
Backing up Windows has gotten more and more problematic over time.
(1) The OS keys itself to the physical system
(2) The "system" software maintains too much information about the
application software.
(3) Software can not be generally be run on a system in which it was not
explicitly installed
A little humor
Q: How do Linux guys back up Windows?
A: Real Linux guys install Linux over Windows.
On 12/26/2012 07:43 PM, David Kramer wrote:
I am now in the odd situation of having two computers that are dual
boot, and that I use under Windows more than I have in the past (which
is to sa
I started programming back in the 1970s. When I learned C, C was a new
language. ANSI C was a big thing and we had to "port" to ANSI C because
various vendors implemented vagueness in the C syntax differently. Those
of us who understood portability between C compilers fared better.
Anyway, when
I'm looking for a robotic arm that can be controlled via Linux or
Arduino. Cheap but not a tow. There is one out there that litters my
google results but it is not really usable as anything but a toy. It
costs about $50 and sold under a few different names.
Anyone have know of any?
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I just did a presentation at my daughters 1st grade class. It was about
my career in computer science and technology. I brought the robot,
because lets face it, all performances are improved by props.
The kids were REALLY excited about it. Most questions were kiddish, of
course, but there were
We need some good people.
(1) We need a Linux configuration guru to build and test kernels,
package software in RPMS (or debs), work with PAM modules, code in perl,
python, and C. You would really really need to be able to roll your own
system upgrade. The interview process is tough, and you n
I just got a Dell Inspiron i15R with an Intel i7, 8g RAM, 1T disk, usb3,
wirelesss-N, HDMI, USB3, WebCam, and DVD+/-RW at Microcenter, I haven't
plugged in the HDMI jack yet (I should do that soon), the install went
flawless. No drivers, no weirdness, just worked with Ubuntu 12.04
On 09/29/201
On 08/13/2012 10:30 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
Hi All,
Making code GPL is easy. Putting it on an open version control (github,
sourceforge, etc)is easy. In short the "mechanics" of what you want to
do is easy and well documented.
Two things in your email suggest it won't get a lot of follow
An interesting move over at Gnome. They've announced "GnomeOS"
Ubuntu is going to drop Gnome as the primary desktop, as is Debian, and
a couple others I believe. Because of this there was a lot of
speculation as to whether Gnome was even relevant.
Does this help or hurt Gnome? (Does it matter
On 08/04/2012 01:50 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
Mark Woodward observed:
My favorite example is facebook. Yes, they are a big data show case.
OMFG they have a lot of data and a lot of computational requirements.
They did not start out dreaming of big data. It started small and grew.
I believe that
In our drawn out discussion about databases, and most discussions about
databases this happens as well, the subject of HUGE scalability was
trotted out. Now I am by no means dismissing "big data" as a real
problem. Seriously, I worked on some pretty large systems -- hundreds of
servers. It is a
On 08/03/2012 01:45 PM, Doug wrote:
Once there is 1) money and 2) more than one person, things would
appear to get so much more complicated. Say one guy contributed one
little block of code one time and leaves. Said code is then part of
every subsequent release. Along with README and changelog
On 08/02/2012 08:44 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
On 8/2/2012 4:36 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
Not to be snide, but 8 million is not a big number.
That's 8 million patients. Multiply that by everything that the VA
has on each and every one of them and you get a very large data set.
It'
On 08/02/2012 03:46 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
On 8/2/2012 12:50 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
This is incorrect. No system with more than one of anything can
consistently get O(1). There has to be some way of getting a
specific
I'll touch on this point down below.
That is your opinion, yo
On 08/02/2012 12:02 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
On 8/1/2012 11:33 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
This is quite wrong. Seriously. If it is a simple "select * from
table where val = 'foo;" Then, if there is no index, it will be a
table scan. If you execute "create index table_val on t
On 08/01/2012 11:09 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
On 8/1/2012 9:12 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
Oh no! Don't buy in to the No-SQL nonsense.
I'm not. NoSQL is a buzzword for a class of high-performance
non-relational database designs. It's not the only non-relational
philosophy out
On 08/01/2012 08:36 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
Mark,
In my opinion, the problem with MySQL is not that it locks tables.
It's that it has tables.
Oh no! Don't buy in to the No-SQL nonsense.
A table is nothing more than a naming convention of the technique of
storing related data in the same lo
On 07/31/2012 01:34 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
Mark Woodward wrote:
Well, with MySQL, "create
index" and "drop index" LOCK the tables as they are operating. LOCK THE
TABLES. Think about that. In PostgreSQL, Oracle, and any "real"
database, "create index" and
On 07/31/2012 02:03 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
Mark Woodward writes:
On 07/30/2012 05:28 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
Sure, and there's a lot to be said for using tools with which you
are comfortable. Like everything, it's a tool. The key is using the
right tool for the job. Just because y
On 07/30/2012 05:28 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
Sure, and there's a lot to be said for using tools with which you are
comfortable. Like everything, it's a tool. The key is using the right
tool for the job. Just because you need an RDBMS does NOT imply that
PG is *the* right tool. It is *a* right to
On 07/30/2012 05:28 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
Mark Woodward writes:
That being said, my personal opinion is that *anyone* who chooses
MySQL without a clear and present "Only MySQL will with our apps"
requirement, is not much of a DBA and a terrible engineer.
This sounds like a
rs don't amount to much and the
"loss" would be negligible. If we make increase their costs and create
the perception that a larger segment of customers find this
unacceptable, they will question their policies. Nothing makes a point
better than the bottom line.
On Sat, Jul 28,
As you may or may not know, UEFI is a new boot loader that will make a
common PC more like a game console when it comes to freedom of choice.
Hardware has very thin margins, if enough people buy UEFI, open it, and
try to install Ubuntu, and fail, and return it. It will increase their
cost. t w
On 07/24/2012 10:01 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
Oracle killing Red Hat makes even less sense than Oracle buying Red
Hat. Seriously, what would Larry Ellison gain from it? Nothing. He
already has a software stack. He already has RHEL with the trademarks
rasped away. A strong Red Hat makes for
On 07/24/2012 11:46 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
On 7/24/2012 10:08 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
They're not really building their own distro. They are doing what
CentOS does, namely distributing a rebranded RHEL.
Oracle is selling support for a rebranded RHEL.
Everything Oracle does has one purpos
On 07/23/2012 01:07 PM, Guy Gold wrote:
They don't really leave much room for questions :)
http://linux.oracle.com/switch/centos/
(I am , in no way, affiliated with Oracle)
I *always* disregard claims when no effort is attempted at
substantiating them.
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On 07/22/2012 12:44 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
For those of us lacking a 57-minute attention span to watch a full-length
talk, what's the gist of Rob Conery's argument? For many, I suppose
PostgreSQL is a "default choice" but that isn't the case for most of the
open-source tools I've used in the past
On 07/22/2012 02:34 PM, Rich Braun wrote:
Greg Rundelett wrote:
A default installation of MySQL is dangerously too
flexible to be trusted with enterprise data.
At #185 on the Fortune 500 list, I'm thinking that my current employer's
systems probably contain what can be called "enterprise data".
While I am currently employed at a pretty good company, I am constantly
getting recruitment emails. And they are all the same basic things, java
web sites or internet security. Isn't *anyone* doing anything
interesting anymore?
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PostgreSQL is one of the greatest open source projects. As a database,
it is my default choice. In fact, unless there is a really strong reason
to choose something else, PostgreSQL is what you use.
My choices typically are this:
small zero configuration, sqlite.
shared database postgresql.
Or
We sort of had a little dust-up about agile programming techniques.
Ruffled feathers and I hope no hurt feelings. Hop on over to Slashdot
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/07/14/1242237/new-analyst-report-calls-agile-a-scam-says-its-an-easy-out-for-lazy-devs
Ignore the article, but the use
On 07/12/2012 09:52 PM, David Kramer wrote:
Mark, we've had had this conversation before, and you have met me, so
I can safely say you're lying.
I want to add another note. There are a lot of companies in this
industry and a number of them are genuinely good places to work. The
majority of co
On 07/12/2012 09:52 PM, David Kramer wrote:
On 07/12/2012 12:53 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
I think "agile" development is probably the most abusive management
technique ever devised. Sure, aspects of it are good software
development processes, but the implementation is pretty exploit
On 07/12/2012 12:16 PM, Doug wrote:
I think "agile" development is probably the most abusive management
technique ever devised. Sure, aspects of it are good software
development processes, but the implementation is pretty exploitive, in
my opinion. Every "agile" environment I have seen works t
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Mark Woodward <mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com>> wrote:
We've heard the ads on the radio for and against the "Right to
Repair" law. This is a law that is intended to require automobile
manufacturers to p
We've heard the ads on the radio for and against the "Right to Repair"
law. This is a law that is intended to require automobile manufacturers
to publish the technical specifications and the codes that the computers
in your car produce for troubleshooting and repair.
I was thinking, what about
I just had one of those experiences
I wanted to buy a computer/HDMI projector. I kind of wanted it today
because I'm on vacation and want to toy around with it. Needless to say,
I looked around. I looked at staples, best buy and Microcenter. My son
and I went to Best Buy first, saw one "on
I was thinking, if Microsoft gets its way, it will use what's left of
its monopoly power to restrict access to the PC boot infrastructure. In
principal I have no problem with a secure boot system, as long as I have
control over what *I* allow to boot. The problem is when *I* have to ask
or pay
On 06/11/2012 07:40 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On 06/10/2012 09:59 PM, Jack Coats wrote:
Somehow I don't think you are very off base.
They need a 'standard OS' that they can have some
belief that they can understand, without 'hidden source',
and unknown, un-reviewed (by outside eyes), updates,
On 05/16/2012 04:41 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
Richard, I read this and say to myself, this sounds more like you want
to solve a problem with ZFS instead of wanting to solve a problem the
best way possible. If you want to do it with ZFS because you think you
can, then cool, have fun.
If you wa
On 04/30/2012 11:22 PM, Matthew Kowalski wrote:
I'm playing with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and iscsitarget with a Windows 7 initiator.
I was able to create a 20GB file with:
dd if=/dev/zero of=lun1.img bs=1024k count=2
I can then mount that iSCSI target on my Windows 7 machine and see an
unallocate
On 04/25/2012 07:41 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On 04/24/2012 08:13 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
On Apr 24, 2012, at 6:15 PM, Derek Martin wrote:
I'm not sure what's left that could possibly prevent the GPL from
saving the day.
Google claims that Dalvik is a clean-room implementation, not GPL.
But,
uickcams.
On 04/24/2012 06:43 AM, Mark Woodward wrote:
I am looking for a very low latency simple webcam program. I want to be
able to see the video from my laptop on my android fairly snappy. Most of
the things I've seen introduce about 1/2 to a full second latency. So when I
move my hand
ms.
On 04/24/2012 06:43 AM, Mark Woodward wrote:
I am looking for a very low latency simple webcam program. I want to
be able to see the video from my laptop on my android fairly snappy.
Most of the things I've seen introduce about 1/2 to a full second
latency. So when I move my hand, I s
I am looking for a very low latency simple webcam program. I want to be
able to see the video from my laptop on my android fairly snappy. Most
of the things I've seen introduce about 1/2 to a full second latency. So
when I move my hand, I see the delay. I want to get rid of that I need
it to be
I think the dead give away is the swap numbers. If the hard disk light
is basically "on" it means that you are using far more memory than you
have RAM. The programs are all now basically idle waiting on swap. You
should use top and sort by memory usage. Microcenter has very cheap
laptop memory,
On 04/20/2012 08:29 AM, Matt Shields wrote:
That's not Walmart's only problem. Walmart has been known for questionable
purchasing practices. Let's say you make product X and you're the only one
who makes that product. You sell around 100,000 units per month for $10
each throughout the US from
I have read a lot of the responses to a software engineering union. I
have to say I'm pretty discouraged at the attitudes. Like I began, no
organization of humans is without fault. Unions can be no different,
obviously. That being said, I believe there is a HUGE big picture here
that is missed.
On 04/19/2012 11:03 AM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
On 4/19/2012 7:28 AM, Mark Woodward wrote:
I think, in our society, business has been bashing unions for decades
and their message has taken hold. Yes, I grant you there are many
examples of absurdity where the unions aren't helping themselve
I think, in our society, business has been bashing unions for decades
and their message has taken hold. Yes, I grant you there are many
examples of absurdity where the unions aren't helping themselves. On the
whole, however, the amount of good that unions do far outweigh the few
Monty pythonesq
On 04/18/2012 10:26 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
On 4/18/2012 8:36 AM, Mark Woodward wrote:
I wrote this on slashdot, and was wondering if you guys have an opinion.
Several. The first of which is that this is off topic for the general
BLU discussion list.
I can certainly see that is is not
more good than bad.
On 04/18/2012 09:47 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Mark Woodward
I come from a blue-collar background, my dad was a union iron worker.
I recognize that sometimes
I wrote this on slashdot, and was wondering if you guys have an opinion.
I come from a blue-collar background, my dad was a union iron worker.
Trust me, there is a valuable skill set there. Strong guys who can weld,
lift heavy equipment, and aren't afraid of extreme hights is, in itself,
a fai
On 04/08/2012 02:39 PM, Matthew Kowalski wrote:
Greetings,
I've had success with the Synology DS1511+ units in the past, which to
my knowledge run busybox, but I was considering building my own to
reduce the cost. Has anyone had any success building their own 4-5
bay NAS units? I've looked at
On 04/07/2012 07:28 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
Not personally. What I would try:
* Start as emulated IDE, remove the existing virtio drivers, reboot, and try to
install the new virtio drivers.
* If that doesn't work then go back to the original VM, restart it as emulated
IDE and remove the old
I have a Windows XP SP3 virtual machine that is running on Ubuntu 10.04
with KVM with virtio paravirtualizion enabled.
I copy that machine and its definition over to my 12.04 system, and it
crashes on startup. If I make the disks IDE it works.
I did the obligatory google searches and couldn't
On 03/29/2012 01:59 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
I see very little, if any, argument in favor of using the file. I suppose,
if you wanted to run your virtual head on some other machine, then you could
export your file via NFS instead of iscsi, and that gives you one extra
degree of freedom if y
On 01/21/2012 09:05 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
Case in point, this article that just came down through Slashdot:
http://www.digitalbond.com/2012/01/19/project-basecamp-at-s4/
Imagine a highway or building or train or airliner being designed and
constructed to the same standards that these SCADA s
Original Message
Subject:Re: [Discuss] Programming vs Engineering
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:13:24 -0500
From: Mark Woodward
To: Richard Pieri
On 01/21/2012 04:37 PM, Richard Pieri wrote:
On Jan 21, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Mark Woodward wrote:
Does anyone
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Does anyone have any comment?
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Why would they be missing? Sure, any storage system can be corrupted and you
would loose data. Loss of data is a risk in every system. Even if you did a
full backup every night, there is no guarantee you won't lose data. The system
I describe reduces the amount of data that must be saved. This a
I'll take the blame for not explaining it well. You aren't getting what I'm
saying. The idea of "incremental" is dead. you look at your volume as a catalog
of blocks. You create a storage system of compressed blocks and create a system
for storing block lists. Even after so called incremental ba
In your example, a duplicate reducing backup would ignore most of the changes.
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> From: ma...@mohawksoft.com [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com]
>> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 2:48 PM
>>
>> I will argue that an rsync will NEVER be more effective unless you
>> actively w
A while back I was talking about using LVM, on the whole it seemed like
a productive discussion. Anyway, I started a project about a year ago,
but shelved it. I recently dusted it off and cleaned it up a bit.
What it does is read one or more files, split them up into chunks,
compress them, opt
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