I received the following errors in my LogWatch report this morning:
- Kernel Begin
WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
Buffer I/O error on device fd0p10...: 17 Time(s)
Buffer I/O error on device fd0p11...: 17 Time(s)
Buffer I/O error on
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 06:40:58AM -0700, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
I received the following errors in my LogWatch report this morning:
- Kernel Begin
WARNING: Kernel Errors Present
Buffer I/O error on device fd0p10...: 17 Time(s)
That's your floppy drive. Something tried to read a defective or
non-existent floppy diskette. Judging by the sector numbers, I'd say
non-existent. What were you doing at 13:39:36 yesterday?
Weird. I was cleaning up mailboxes inside of user accounts.
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: RIPEMD160
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 06:40:58AM -0700, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
Nov 7 13:39:36 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
Nov 7 13:39:36 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 8
Nov 7 13:39:36 end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 11:23:19PM -0700, Levi Pearson wrote:
I don't really think this is going to change anything for the
foreseeable future. Java will still very much be run by Sun.
No doubt, but if ALL the linux distros start shipping gcj with, say,
JPP, or groovy, and major FOSS
Hey all,
At work here we're looking at whether to adopt Postgres or stay with
MS SQL. We've already got MS SQL working and all that, so switching
would mean throwing out our licenses with MS and porting the DBs (more
than one) over. On the other hand, we're looking at growing soon, and
I'm
On 11/7/06, Sasha Pachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I confess - I am not smart enough to get it. I think a functional language is
somewhat similar to a GUI interface - something that goes against the sequential
nature of the current CPU architecture that were are still stuck with. Yes, we
pipeline
My company is moving offices this weekend. We have one email server at the
old office. I'd like to move it this Friday night. It would be cool if we
didn't lose any email.
Our DNS holds an MX record for our domain with a TTL of 1800 seconds (30
mins) and an MX level of 10
Choice 1:
1-change the
Ryan asked:
Is anyone likely to ignore the 1800 TTL and continue sending email to
the old ip address for longer than 30 mins? during the downtime, will
sending email attempts fail or simply keep trying?
Unless your TTL is below 600 (ten minutes), most ISP's will honor it. I
think you'll be
Daniel C. wrote:
I'm worried that MS won't scale very well. (Plus I like Postgres
better. But our DBA likes MS SQL better.)
In my experience, whatever the dba wants to use, you'll end up using it.
On the other hand, if the dba is good enough it won't really make a
difference. Just demand
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 09:58:35 -0700, Daniel C. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
At work here we're looking at whether to adopt Postgres or stay with
MS SQL. We've already got MS SQL working and all that, so switching
would mean throwing out our licenses with MS and porting the DBs (more
than one) over.
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 09:58 -0700, Daniel C. wrote:
At work here we're looking at whether to adopt Postgres or stay with
MS SQL. We've already got MS SQL working and all that, so switching
would mean throwing out our licenses with MS and porting the DBs (more
than one) over. On the other
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 09:58 -0700, Daniel C. wrote:
Hey all,
At work here we're looking at whether to adopt Postgres or stay with
MS SQL. We've already got MS SQL working and all that, so switching
would mean throwing out our licenses with MS and porting the DBs (more
than one) over. On
Michael:
At work here we're looking at whether to adopt Postgres or stay with
MS SQL. We've already got MS SQL working and all that, so switching
would mean throwing out our licenses with MS and porting the DBs (more
than one) over. On the other hand, we're looking at growing soon,
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 10:49 -0700, Michael L Torrie wrote:
I have a friend (famous last words I know) who does large-scale
database programming for a living and tells me MS SQL is based on the
old Sybase engine, which has serious locking issues. He claims to
have code that can, with just a
On 11/8/06, Michael L Torrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Clearly your company's decision will not be made on technical grounds.
We can always pretend.
But if you want to base it soley on technical grounds, there is no
contest, according to what I've been told. Postgres is better hands
down. I
On Nov 8, 2006, at 10:49 AM, Michael L Torrie wrote:
If I recall correctly,
PostgreSQL and Oracle do not use locks at all to enforce integrity.
Maybe someone more knowledgeable can explain to me why this might be.
This sounded very much like some lock-free concurrency models I'm
interested
On 11/8/06, Dr. Scott S. Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a database newbie, I am curious which to use. I want to set up a customer
database for my wife's company. The db will store customer demographic
information, to be used for contacting them, but also to tie into order
fulfillment and
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 10:59 -0700, Daniel C. wrote:
Is it possible to get more information from your friend about this?
I think the information posted in response to my post probably will tell
you the technical details. Here is what he had to say to me:
(10:16:25) Mark Lewis: PostgreSQL is
On 11/8/06, Michael L Torrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 10:59 -0700, Daniel C. wrote:
Is it possible to get more information from your friend about this?
I think the information posted in response to my post probably will tell
you the technical details. Here is what he had
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 17:08, Hill, Greg wrote:
Btw, Perl is an acronym (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language),
so you should put PERL, not Perl :)
Actually, once again, this is application of acronym's after the name. It was
not an acronym at first, and the correct way is Perl.
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:36:22AM -0700, Daniel C. wrote:
As for the cost of switching languages - I learned PHP in about a
week. I can't imagine it would take significantly longer to learn
Python, and the productivity gains from Django would be pretty
significant. Are there good PHP
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:59:49AM -0700, Daniel C. wrote:
PHP can, Django doesn't have it (except foreign key constraints)
natively. But since we'll be running reports and things from outside
of Django, those things do come into play.
I have almost no experience with the advanced database
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Michael Torrie wrote:
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 23:48 -0700, Michael Torrie wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 06:14 +, Jason Holt wrote:
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Michael Torrie wrote:
Of course the Java class libraries are of necessity not under the GPL.
(Neither are the GNU Class
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:43:28 -0700, Andrew McNabb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:59:49AM -0700, Daniel C. wrote:
PHP can, Django doesn't have it (except foreign key constraints)
natively. But since we'll be running reports and things from outside
of Django, those
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:36:22 -0700, Daniel C. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
On 11/8/06, Jonathan Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That could mean anything from Our DBA has looked into things and knows
X and Y would be hellish to port to he's just scared of something
new.
He's been trained
My last few linux distros have shipped with the option to install sun
java w/o any more headache and overhead than for instance BlackDown.
I was mildly impressesed. In fact it's because of these recent
changes I've decided to one and for all put Java on my list of
proficiencies, by going full
On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:49:28 -0700, Michael L Torrie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
But if you want to base it soley on technical grounds, there is no
contest, according to what I've been told. Postgres is better hands
down. I have a friend (famous last words I know) who does large-scale
database
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:07:50 -0700, Daniel C. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I'd recommend using MySQL for your first database.
I wouldn't. MySQL is still full of non-standard weirdisms, and a lot of
the examples you find on the web are by people who really have no
business touching a database.
On 11/8/06, Jonathan Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wouldn't. MySQL is still full of non-standard weirdisms, and a lot of
the examples you find on the web are by people who really have no
business touching a database.
PostgreSQL _used_ to be more complicated to set up and install... back
in
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:48:21PM -0700, Daniel C. wrote:
I just meant that MySQL has less stuff to learn than Postgres.
Like what?
I agree with Jonathan. PostgreSQL is easier to setup and maintain, just as
easy to use, and very well supported, although not as many off-the-street
hosting
On 11/7/06, Michael Torrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because if the class libraries were GPL then you could only produce GPL
programs in Java, as all Java programs have to link against the class
libraries at runtime. The GNU Classpath libraries are produced under
the GPL with a special
This is a follow-up to an earlier thread on a crashed hard drive. I now
have the model and part numbers. It's a IBM Deskstar DTLA-307045. More
info and a picture can be found here:
http://gundy.org/2006/11/08/bad-hard-drive-parts-needed/
If anyone has one of these (and can part with it),
On AD 2006 November 08 Wednesday 03:33:42 PM -0700, Bryan Sant wrote:
Not necessarily. The Linux kernel is GPL, but people produce non-GPL
kernel modules. How is this possible? Sun will have a similar
Non-GPL kernel modules violate the GPL. Non-GPL user space programs do
not.
Justin
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Eek. An IBM Deathstar.
On Wed, November 8, 2006 3:48 pm, Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
This is a follow-up to an earlier thread on a crashed hard drive. I now
have the model and part numbers. It's a IBM Deskstar DTLA-307045. More
info and a picture can be found here:
On 11/7/06, Michael Torrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I doubt it's something earth shattering. But it is an insurance policy
for Sun. In order to compete with the Microsoft/Novell conspiracy (umm
did I say that?), by GPLing Java, Sun can bring IBM and other community-
based resources, such as
On 11/8/06, Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Non-GPL kernel modules violate the GPL. Non-GPL user space programs do
not.
Quick, tell NVidia and ATI that they need to release their code!
Linus altered the GPL so that kernel modules are not forced to be GPL.
He would prefer that -- the
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 16:01 -0700, Bryan Sant wrote:
On 11/8/06, Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Non-GPL kernel modules violate the GPL. Non-GPL user space programs do
not.
Quick, tell NVidia and ATI that they need to release their code!
Linus altered the GPL so that kernel
Jonathan Ellis wrote:
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:07:50 -0700, Daniel C. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I'd recommend using MySQL for your first database.
I wouldn't. MySQL is still full of non-standard weirdisms, and a lot of
the examples you find on the web are by people who really have no
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 15:49 -0700, Matthew Walker wrote:
Eek. An IBM Deathstar.
Wow! I guess I'm not the only one...
Results 1 - 100 of about 325,000 English pages for IBM Deathstar.
This looks bad. Anyway, knowing that I should be using the keyword
deathstar when searching is helpful.
--- Justin Findlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Non-GPL kernel modules violate the GPL. Non-GPL user space
programs do not.
There's even some gray area regarding kernel modules. In fact,
you can even produce a non-GPL patch to the kernel code without
violating the GPL, as long as you don't
For linux/redhat boxes, the sysreport command can give you all the
information you want.
-mtm
On 11/6/06, Chad Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking for a way to automate the documentation of a hand full of
Linux/Windows servers. Ideally, I would like to find a script that
can be run
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 14:30:36 -0700, Daniel C. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
On 11/8/06, Roberto Mello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Like what?
Just list everything Postgres has that MySQL doesn't and there's your
answer.
I agree with Jonathan. PostgreSQL is easier to setup and maintain, just as
When you first posted about the problems I was expecting an IBM
Deathstar as well. I just got home from work I can't check my e-mail
unless I'm at home.
Gabriel Gunderson wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 15:49 -0700, Matthew Walker wrote:
Eek. An IBM Deathstar.
Wow! I guess I'm not the only
We are seting up asterisk now.
all I can try is softphone under linux.
Do you know if there is any free softphone that works great under windows?
thanks alot!
_
Get FREE company branded e-mail accounts and business Web site from
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 05:51 +, Hongyi Gao wrote:
Do you know if there is any free softphone that works great under
windows?
Try this:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-VOIP+Phones#SoftPhones
Kind Regards,
Provo (Utah USA) Linux Users Group
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