| 2008/12/10-16 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:52220 Activity:moderate | 12/9 Another idea for the CSUA that lets you spend money and maybe get some
cool toys. Instead of buying a beefy server (like say, a massive server
with 20 386DX processors), buy a few cheap machines (like the ones
mentioned below) that have good disks and work on failover / load
balancing. A netscaler or other piece of hardware is complete overkill,
but maybe hacking an OpenBSD box could do the trick. The idea is that
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| 2007/7/17 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus] UID:47312 Activity:nil | 7/13 CSUA Life Roster
1 point each for: key:
significant other (out of county rule applies) G
car (Chevy Novas do count) C
housing (dorms DO NOT count) H
own computer running reasonable multi-tasking OS U
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| 2007/7/13-16 [Computer/Networking] UID:47279 Activity:nil | 7/13 I'm thinking about getting a Soekris 4501 to replace my the P2-400
that is currently acting as my home firewall. Has anyone used a
Soekris system for this purpose? If so, how well does it work? Also,
if there are any alternatives (similar power/form factor), I would
appreciate links to those as well. tia.
\_ John got me to use a WRAP box similar to Soekris. I use this one:
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| 2006/8/16-18 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:44024 Activity:nil | 8/16 Greatest piece of software ever written is 4.3 BSD:
http://tinyurl.com/go7lv (informationweek.com)
\_ Windows is run by more computers than all other OS combined.
\_ that only makes it common, not great.
\_ If it wasn't great people wouldn't use it. They'd use 4.3
BSD.
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| 2010/2/8-18 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media, Computer/SW/Apps] UID:53695 Activity:kinda low | 2/5 I like Adobe Flash. When written correctly, it scales along
with your browser size. It looks consistent on every single
browser. It is predictable. On the other hand, I'm not a big
fan of CSS/HTML, which for the most part, look wildly different
between browsers, and don't even work consistently or
correctly at times. So why do so many people (like Steve Jobs)
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| 2009/4/20-23 [Computer/SW/Database] UID:52876 Activity:nil | 4/19 ORCL u SUNW = ORCL.
What is Larry Ellison thinking? What is he going to do with a bunch of
legacy Sun hardware that no one uses anymore, its fading workstation
customer base, and open source Sun MySQL that doesn't even generate
revenue? I really don't get all this acquisition business.
\_ A lot of big companies still use big, fat Sun hardware. Or use
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| 2009/1/15-23 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:52398 Activity:nil | 1/15 can any serious development be done on OSX that is not *for OSX*.
i'll grant that ruby on rails has excellent tutorials for the mac.
discuss:
\_ What kind of serious development? If you want to use the standard
OSX ui then your ui code will be pretty much useless elsewhere,
but that's why concepts like MVC are so important. Otherwise
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| 2008/11/29-12/6 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD, Computer/SW/OS/VM] UID:52129 Activity:moderate | 11/29 I'm experimenting with virtualization, and as a poor college student
I'm wondering what the best alternatives for virtualization are, and
how best to cut my teeth on messing with non-linux platforms (or I
guess interesting stuff on Linux would work too). Right now I've got
FreeBSD7 running on KVM on my home computer (on a Core 2 Quad), and am
somewhat at a loss as to how to use it. (More details: bridged
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| 2008/11/14-26 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:51989 Activity:moderate | 11/14 lulz why doesn't GOOG buy JAVA i mean SUN i mean whatever the hell they
are these days.
\_ Even GOOG isn't THAT stupid
\_ Sorry, but WHY would Google do something like that? They
run 99.2% Linux servers on the backend. They don't use
Solaris for development. I mean, what does Sun have to
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| 2008/9/24-29 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows, Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:51283 Activity:nil | 9/24 Why is nscd going crazy? DoS?
\- back in the solaris say 2.5-2.6 era, it had both some bugs
(some malformed nis maps made it go crazy) and architectural
flaws in the IPC/door+threading mechanism. if you are running
OS-recent, dunno, but you can trace it.
\_ Yeah, I think it's just buggy. I've restarted it, and it seems
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| 2008/3/30-4/6 [Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:49614 Activity:nil | 3/30 Question: I just deleted 60 GB of files from an 80 GB disk. The
disk activity lights were blinking like crazy and I could hear the
drive crunch while the data was deleted. This is under Solaris.
Anyway, I think UNIX uses unlink() when files are deleted. Shouldn't
it just update the free list on the superblock and call it a day?
What is all the crunching about?
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| 2007/11/27-30 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus, Computer/SW/OS/Solaris] UID:48701 Activity:high | 11/27 I'm using select to do a nonblocking check to see if a single socket
has anything to read off it. Problem is, I can have up to 12228
file descriptors, and Linux fd_set only supports up to 4096. Any idea
what I can do about this? (Or a better solution?) -jrleek
\- 1. who are you
2. i am busy this week and you didnt mention language
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