Nope, it was Burt Reynolds (and Farrah Fawcett) in the ambulance alright.

Your thousands of servers sound like a way to boast your own ego, no more.

Thousands of server run by a pro do not run Fedora, they run either RHEL or CentOS, depending on how cheap you are.

And of course, for updates to thousands of systems a real admin knows how to use either Spacewalk or Red Hat Satellite, again depending on how cheap you are.

That said, yum update works fine on this machine.

What again was your point?

I have never fully switched to KDE4 because of many of its limitations, the most annoying being the network, memory and CPU load panel displays. In KDE3 one had the option of displaying absolute values in a pre-defined range. Gone in KDE4; all you can see are wobbly displays with relative values that have, err, relatively low value for their actual purpose.

These days I am really happy for the KDE3 fork http://www.trinitydesktop.org/ and ever since it works on Fedora 19 I can now go back to a functional desktop both at work and at home.

And, yes, the middle click works fine ;-)

Is it not?

In the long run this is really going to suck for the Sony engineers, maintaining a fork with a different system compiler.

I had a good laugh when I read this.

Red Hat employs hundreds of software engineers, contributing a lot to the entire Linux ecosystem. Canonical's resources in terms of code contribution are laughable in comparison and being a streamlined business Cacnonical has few, if any, resources to review third party code. They are happy to ride along, but the number of people at Canonical who actually write and read code outside the shiny UI field are hardly those with the expertise to review low level kernel code.

That is actually incorrect. The CentOS part of your installation invalidates your support contract/subscription for the RHEL part of the cluster.

Red Hat does not offer you the option of a mixed anvironment. It's either all Red Hat, supported, or mixed and completely unsupported.

I am with Red Hat on this one, actually.

I believe you are.

With Red Hat having jumped on board, Open Stack is going into a new direction that will not lead to fragmentation, but to consolidation. Red Hat's is one really good player in terms of Open Source. They throw resources at projects and they always do this upstream, delivering patches, enhancements, integration bits right where they belong and where they help the community best.

Red Hat is a guarantee that Open Stack will evolve into the next generation enterprise platform and VMware's CEO is either scared to death or simply a moron.

If the British used all the available computing and storage power of its secret data snorkeling, they might actually put the equipment to a more promising use than illegally spying on the rest of Europe.

We are seriously considering sponsoring github with a free platinum support and maintenance contract for the Linux cluster stack, i.e. DRBD, Heartbeat, Pacemaker, Corosync.

Would that help?

http://blogs.linbit.com/p/406/raspberry-tau-cluster/

I want that screen in a shiny, non-Apple laptop and load it with Linux.

<quote>Sad time? alt.tastless vs. rec.pets.cats? And when AOL users got on IRC... that was so much fun.</quote>

Oh, the memories.

Believe it or not, but we have just adopted two cats and named them "Sootikin" and "Choad" (I have vaccination documents to prove this). And just this summer I have had a great Steak in Cleveland with the Canadian guy who initiated the original war.

Yeah, most of you don't know what I am talking about, but a.t. in its original form was the best invention since the wheel was invented. I just wonder: Where do people openly talk about bodily fluids, politically incorrect rants these days?

<quote>You can't have that reliably in any phone connecting anywhere no matter the technology. The carries do not have the capacity to give you speeds in that level, you will end with a tenth of that in average if you are lucky.</quote>

Rubbish.

For the past 3 months my internet has come from wireless LTE with 100MBit down, 10MBit up at consistent speeds that put my previous cable connection to shame.

All this in a European capital with dense population and one of the highest rates of smartphones per inhabitant in the world. All this at 49 EUR a month with no data limit. And no restriction whatsoever; no URLs blocked, no services disallowed, streaming via p2p, VPN and ssh tunnels.

Austria has unlimited data plans.

I have a SIM card from drei.at that you can use without a contract and recharge on a monthly basis. It comes at 15 EUR a month and gives you high speed HSDPA+ without a cap. Also, my regular internet comes wireless these days: I have an LTE contract at 49 EUR a month that gives me unlimited 100MBit down and 10MBit up. I live in central Vienna and I actually get the advertised speeds.

There you go Sweden, plus we have better weather and better food (and we don't extradite ;-))

Use DRBD Proxy:

http://www.linbit.com/products-services/drbd-proxy/

Yes, it's a shameless plug; I work for the company, but for this specific purpose it's a unique and great tool and it gives you a lot more flexibility than using a commercial provider.