Can you elaborate on how LVM gets volume offsets "wrong" and it's impact on RAID performance? I've never heard of that before. Not saying you're wrong, it's just news to me.

Also, IIRC Solaris still has a 2 in front of it. Ie, Solaris 10 is really Solaris 2.10, and is simultaneously SunOS 5.10. They have retarded naming conventions. Oh well, Oracle can only fsck it up further...

ZFS does rock btw, we've got about 80-90TB (guesstimate) spinning with ZFS right now. Our thumper has 32.5GB alone, and another HP box running x86 Solaris has 45.3TB. There's others, but not as big as those two. ZFS really does make it a breeze to manage that much storage.

I was picturing bash/sed/awk/whatever scripts replacing his current batch scripts. Distributing several unmodified GPL binaries, so long as the source is also available, is perfectly acceptable as I understand it...

Also, if this is software that is not going outside your organization, then I don't think you have to worry about it at all...

must be nostalgic for you or something...

If it were me, I would put together what you need to work with Cygwin, then it could be cross platform. You could even ship a copy of cygwin.dll and any binaries you need, like bash, netcat, or what have you. I prefer Unix apparently.

is slashdotted.

BitterOak's Sig:
"If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?"

No, You can be modded up for being a Unix Sysadmin, Unix Developer, or M$ hater. All of the others you mention are downward.

IP != TCP

Man, I cannot wait for IPv6 already. I'm ready for the pain. It'll be worth it.

You may not be worth this reply, however, I will try to overcome my Unixism.

"It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience." - Albert Einstein

I don't mean to quote and sound all guru-ish, however, this particular quote has a deep meaning with regard to this discussion.

"Shits tough, you have to be tough too." - I think I invented that one.

Basically, if you can't swim then get out of the water, or learn to swim; those are your only choices.

Stuff like networking is zen, it's just bits on a wire. On the other hand, it can be hard. Waah.

I think this is it. They are in control NOW.

Dear Timothy, You should try rummaging through some /.ers' trash, you might get lucky and inherit a real computer for you to complain about... Regards, Linux

First, they didn't break 911, they somewhat broke E911. Subtle but important difference. there's 52 LMUs down, which means they can't trilaterate the position of 911 callers from Cell phones on the AT&T network in that area. It's probably a much bigger deal that several cell sites are unavailable. Lets just hope no ones life depends on it.

Elizabethtown College - about 7 miles from TMI as the crow flies (or the wind blows).

My sister went to school there, and after two and a half semesters there she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

Lets rewind... The morning of the accident people reported a metallic taste in the air. Turns out that of the gas released, radioactive iodine accounted for an estimated "8 - 12% of the total gases released, implying a minimum of 1 million iodine curies". See: TMI Accident.

I don't believe that people were not harmed by the radioactive release. In fact, stating that it "had little to no effect on the health of people" is a lie. Any arguments based on that lie are faulty.


I am for nuclear power, and I agree that letting bean counters manage a project like that is the wrong way. I'm in agreement with all of the other people here who think that engineers should be listened to. They are the ones with the knowledge after all...

On the other hand, MikroTik devices do suck.

Ever had the pleasure of dealing with one of these pieces of garbage?

Not that Cisco doesn't have problems (FWIW, I admin a fair sized Cisco network), but MikroTik routers give me a feeling in my gut that it's just about to break, any minute now... I could build a better router out of a PC and some NICs (and have - love OpenBSD)...

Disclaimer: my experience with MikroTik is from dealing with a particular Indian Contracting firm that uses them, and they also happen to have incompetent admins (willing to give me admin on their boxes to fix their problems - told 'em to deal with their own gear)... Maybe that's a commonality between MicroTik users?

Sounds like STP was configured poorly and you had a switching loop. I've seen it happen where one switch is configured wrong and make another switch's CPU peg, especially if the other switch decided to advertise itself as the root bridge and it didn't make sense.

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