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
kicks
not me. raid is too important to be trusted to hardware - have you
tried MD's check/scrub features? though afaik it doesn't have a way
to switch on verification during normal reads (or, for that matter,
verify-after-write.)
Any pointers to more information on this?
apparently, recent enough
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 02:48:58AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Perhaps you are refering to the TRIPS Polymorphic Processor from U
> of Texas which can be configured to favor ILP, DLP, or TLP
> application types. I think I sent out this reference a while back.
> It should be in the archives.
Robert G. Brown wrote:
[...]
If I had my druthers, we (the Linux community) would work towards a
unified packaging scheme, a nice binary standard, a common /etc layout
(ideally one that converts a lot of /etc files from flat to xml, since
flatfiles suck for the specification for slowly varying ex
Mark Hahn wrote:
not me. raid is too important to be trusted to hardware - have you
tried MD's check/scrub features? though afaik it doesn't have a way
to switch on verification during normal reads (or, for that matter,
verify-after-write.)
Any pointers to more information on this?
--
Orion
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 02:47:00PM -0400, Chris Dagdigian wrote:
>
...
> You might also want to check out the DRMAA stuff (http://drmaa.org/
> wiki/) -- it is supposed to be a DRM-neutral way of submitting jobs
> to a queuing system. I'm not very familiar with DRMAA so I can't tell
> you offh
Hi Sean:
On 10/16/07, Sean Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've started work on a web service which contains several potentially
> long running processing steps (molecular dynamics), which are perfect to
> farm out to the fairly large (90 node) Beowulf I have access to. The
> primary issue is t
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 rela
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 w
I think of it as "ed (as 'ex') is still critical as a part of vi (as
'gvim')".
Peter
On 10/16/07, Dale Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 2007-10-16 at 10:39, Joe Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> elucidated:
> >
> > I have heard (or am spreading) the rumor that the 1-18-08 movie is not
> > rea
Sean,
For what it's worth, Grid Engine (SGE) has a utility binary called
"qevent" that is not part of the official binary distribution but can
be built from the source distribution (http://
gridengine.sunsource.net). Do a google search for "sge + qevent" and
you'll at least hit a few SGE
Well, you could make a mail recipient that belongs to your web service. Then
use the existing email notification to cc your service, with appropriate
keywords in subject line, then use the "you have mail" event to trigger
parsing the keyword and matching against a current user connection.
It could
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
up
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
automag
Yes indeed it's fascinating, and I could write all day about what I **did**
do (in 92 ish?) but which was already obseleted by porting to a platform
with a better ("vetted by randomness geeks") library.
But I think the idea ("hmmm") was that the bit of paper fluttering down from
the keypunch to th
On 2007-10-16 at 10:39, Joe Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> elucidated:
>
> 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 ...
>
An old coworker of mine would probably like me to put in good and
sarcast
Drifting off a bit further, but as I see it, the biggest advantage of FC
over debien/ubuntu is kickstart. Or???
/jon
Robert G. Brown wrote:
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, andrew holway wrote:
Apt-cache with a bit of grep is a powerful tool indeed.
$apt-cache search foo | grep bar
everyone I work wit
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 pu
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 ...
>
> (
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*
impro
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, an
Hallo Herbert,
Mittwoch, 17. Oktober 2007, meintest Du:
HF> We are planning to extend an existing cluster (dual-core Opterons) with
HF> some Barcelona nodes. What the salesman tells me is that you can get
HF> 1.9GHz chips now, up to 2.3GHz in December and 2.4/2.6GHz in January.
HF> Does this soun
I've started work on a web service which contains several potentially
long running processing steps (molecular dynamics), which are perfect to
farm out to the fairly large (90 node) Beowulf I have access to. The
primary issue is translating requests from the event driven web service,
to job que
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Peter St. John wrote:
If someone had thought of a way to queue up and read tiny bits of paper
science would have advanced a decade :-)
Ahh, but but but...
Let us grant that a bucket full of such dots can be shaken to where the
order that they are drawn is unpredictable
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, 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 don't know if Debian is backward, but I will affirm that yum is pretty
fa
I implemented "Chomp" (a nim-like game from Martin Gardner's description) in
basic with paper-punch around '74. At that time I had no concepts for "OS"
or "development environment" but I learned "acoustic coupler" and
"teletype" and was confused by "duplex". Later I briefly used a keypunch to
learn
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Tim Cutts wrote:
If you want a good introduction to debian packages and how they work, then I
recommend Martin Krafft's book "The Debian System". I've been a Debian
Developer for ten years, and that book still teaches me useful stuff about
Debian on a regular basis.
V
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 univer
We are planning to extend an existing cluster (dual-core Opterons) with
some Barcelona nodes. What the salesman tells me is that you can get
1.9GHz chips now, up to 2.3GHz in December and 2.4/2.6GHz in January.
Does this sound realistic? Have faster Barcelonas been seen in the
channel? Are ther
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
>>>
>>> everyon
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 had...
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 prefe
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, ap
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.
On 17/10/2007, Tim Cutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 16 Oct 2007, at 10:19 pm, Robert G. Brown wrote:
>
> > On Tue,
On 16 Oct 2007, at 10:19 pm, Robert G. Brown wrote:
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'
Peter St. John wrote:
**real** programmers somehow get large numbers of thralls to hoist huge
boulders into precise positions.
s/boulders/19 inch racks/
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