Thanks! I have and love the Nemeth et al book, but it's nowhere near specific
or advanced enough. For example, just to name a few things I've had to look up
recenytly: there's only about a paragraph on grub.conf, nothing about setting
up different types of network bonding on ports, and almost
Betsy Schwartz wrote:
Also wondering if you have any book recommendations.
"UNIX System Administration Handbook" by Evi Nemeth, et.al., in its
various editions are the best general sysadmin texts out there,
especially for those who find themselves dealing with or migrating
between different
Does anyone know if there's a System Administration Guide, System
Administrator's Guide, System Administration Reference guide or
similar for RHEL6? The Red Hat docs page has them for RHEL7beta and
RHEL4 but not in between
Also wondering if you have any book recommendations. I spent 20+ years
doi
Joe Polcari wrote:
Really - which linux does this?
My HP40L with vanilla Debian 6 and 7. Five disks, four on one SATA
controller, one on another. The lone disk sometimes is sda, sometimes is
sde. Debian uses the UUID hack so it boots, but this makes it more
difficult for me to replace that d
As I wrote earlier, Micky's a personal friend, and we're both involved
in the local Drupal community here in Boston. I did not intend for her
to include in her presentation everything I wrote in my email. I was
making points to her that I thought she should be aware of if she were
going to ac
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Joe Polcari wrote:
> Really - which linux does this?
> I've built numerous servers with 24 SSDs and on the servers with no raid
> controllers, the disks are always enumerated in the order of what sata
> controller port they are plugged into for RH, Cent and Debian
Really - which linux does this?
I've built numerous servers with 24 SSDs and on the servers with no raid
controllers, the disks are always enumerated in the order of what sata
controller port they are plugged into for RH, Cent and Debian variants.
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Joe Polcari wrote:
This should help for your last point.
I have a %pre script that runs in my kickstarts that fixes the enumeration
problem of disks if you need it.
This is appreciated. It's something to add to my bag of tricks. Still,
this punctuates the point. Why do we need so many workarou
This should help for your last point.
I have a %pre script that runs in my kickstarts that fixes the enumeration
problem of disks if you need it.
The same could be done for the Ethernet. I have the same problem when you
don't want to use the onboard ports and you need the PCI ports to be first.
Wha
John Abreau wrote:
Mark:
> Not really supported by the qemu guys. How's the version updates?
Richard:
> Dunnow, I don't use it. Never saw the need
While I can't speak for everyone, it sure came across to me that you
dismissed Mark's experience, then acknowledged that you hadn't actually
tried
Martin Owens wrote:
I disagree with with the poisonous gentleman. This is just yet more
deliberately negative opinion dressed up as fact.
Read this:
I used to be upset when gnome developers decided it was "too
complicated" for the user to remap some mouse buttons. In gnome3,
the developers ha
Granted, I was paraphrasing from memory. Here are the actual words:
Mark:
> The shear number of tools available on Linux is just simply amazing.
> Screen, ssh, PAM, qemu, libvirt, virt-manager, X, and yes, I said it,
> The X Window Manager.
Richard:
> QEMU: OS X doesn't ship with it but it's inst
Eric Chadbourne wrote:
I feel the same. As a developer / user I think it protects my
freedoms. Anything I write will always be under the GPL or something
very similar or I won't do it. How many of us have written something
that we can
Point: rights and freedoms are not the same thing. When Ma
On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 10:07 -0500, Richard Pieri wrote:
> The state of desktops on Linux is terrible.
I disagree with with the poisonous gentleman. This is just yet more
deliberately negative opinion dressed up as fact.
Richard, you obviously don't like Linux or Free Software; what are you
doing
Stephen Adler wrote:
This was kind of an odd one off question. Sorry..
None needed. Migrating VMs from one hypervisor to another can get pretty
hairy. Take the fortunate victories when you can.
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As it turns out... I figured it out... I plugged away at the device
manager updating drivers to what looked like generic windows drivers for
various devices and then had to configure the VMWare disk as an IDE
disk, and not a SCSI disk as it does by default.
This was kind of an odd one off ques
On 02/12/2014 02:24 AM, ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> Yes, developers give away some rights if they develop under GPL,
>
> This is simply not true. If I develop my software and publish it under the
> GPL, I give away NONE of my freedoms.
I feel the same. As a developer / user I think it protect
John Abreau wrote:
Actually, I was paraphrasing, and combining statements across multiple
days, and not in the order that they were posted. As I recall, Richard
responded to claims that MacOS was lacking in several regards, including
QEMU, by claiming that MacOS worked fine, then later backed up
Actually, I was paraphrasing, and combining statements across multiple
days, and not in the order that they were posted. As I recall, Richard
responded to claims that MacOS was lacking in several regards, including
QEMU, by claiming that MacOS worked fine, then later backed up his claim by
stating
ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
"I've never needed to use QEMU on Macintosh. Therefore QEMU works great on
Macintosh, and anyone whose experience says differently is wrong."
Interesting logic.
Whom are you quoting?
That's something I'd like to know, too.
Anyway.
Yes, I'm aware that there are
> "I've never needed to use QEMU on Macintosh. Therefore QEMU works great on
> Macintosh, and anyone whose experience says differently is wrong."
>
> Interesting logic.
Whom are you quoting?
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:58 AM, wrote:
>
>> > ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> >> SSH does not do th
"I've never needed to use QEMU on Macintosh. Therefore QEMU works great on
Macintosh, and anyone whose experience says differently is wrong."
Interesting logic.
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:58 AM, wrote:
> > ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
> >> SSH does not do this on Mac easily. Yes, if you configur
First, what version of VMware are you using? Are you trying to boot the
same guest image in VirtualBox and VMware. Richards advice to use the
converter will help.
On 02/13/2014 11:20 AM, Stephen Adler wrote:
> Guys,
>
> So I'm trying to do something rather complicated and contorted.
> Basically I
To be honest, I've found it easier and less time-consuming to reinstall.
Alternatively, if VMware is the target then you can use the VMware
converter tool to clone the running VM. I used this method the last time
I needed to migrate a VM. It works, but it may take a few tries to get
the settin
Guys,
So I'm trying to do something rather complicated and contorted.
Basically I have a virtual box windows 7 guest environment which is
running fine using virtual box, but if I boot it using VMware, the
vmware guest causes a windows blue screen to happen at boot up time.
So, without reinst
ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
have is atrocious. This makes it difficult to use Macs remotely. Apple
abandoned the UNIX X11 layer for their applications.
Ah, I see where you're going. I still maintain that Apple never
abandoned X11. To the contrary, Apple never embraced it. Originally,
Apple us
On 02/13/2014 10:07 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> My top three:
>
> The state of desktops on Linux is terrible.
Granted I'm picking just one sentence out of several paragraphs but this
one got to me.
I have been running gnu/linux for my main desktop at home and at work
for many years and I am very
ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
This is a subjective comment. People at work have Macs, my wife has
Agreed. Usability is subjective. My experience with the various Linux
desktops, from the Caldera Network Desktop to the present, is that
they've been getting worse, not better.
Its funny, backu
> ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> So, by abandoning X11 in Apple,
>
> Mark,
> Would you KINDLY stop with the FUD? Apple didn't abandon XQuartz.
It is not FUD. It is fact. Yes, Apple Mac supplies an X11 server that runs
on their platform, but this is different than supporting X11. I can not,
for ins
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> Ted Roche wrote:
>> And if you're presenting a Pro/Con argument for Linux, clearly we've
>> provided you with material for that, too. Why NOT use Linux?
>
> My top three:
>
> The state of desktops on Linux is terrible. Of the three leaders we have
> KDE which is a disaster, Unity which is a table
ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
So, by abandoning X11 in Apple,
Mark,
Would you KINDLY stop with the FUD? Apple didn't abandon XQuartz.
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Ted Roche wrote:
And if you're presenting a Pro/Con argument for Linux, clearly we've
provided you with material for that, too. Why NOT use Linux?
My top three:
The state of desktops on Linux is terrible. Of the three leaders we have
KDE which is a disaster, Unity which is a tablet UI despera
> ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
>> SSH does not do this on Mac easily. Yes, if you configure the
>> bastardized
>> X server that you can get for Mac, you might be able to get it to work,
>> but not with all programs.
>
> XQuartz is genuine X.Org. There's nothing bastardized about it, and all
> X11 ap
ma...@mohawksoft.com wrote:
SSH does not do this on Mac easily. Yes, if you configure the bastardized
X server that you can get for Mac, you might be able to get it to work,
but not with all programs.
XQuartz is genuine X.Org. There's nothing bastardized about it, and all
X11 applications work
>> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
>> bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of
>> ma...@mohawksoft.com
>>
>> OK, so, I can ssh to a linux box from another linux box, and run an X
>> program and use it, transparently, as if it were any other application
>> on
> From: ma...@mohawksoft.com [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com]
>
> This is a very important capability that is essential for most enterprise
> level software. You can create multiple TB sized files on a much smalled
> volume and grow as needed. So no, you went from Apple supports that, to it
> doesn't
> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of
> ma...@mohawksoft.com
>
> OK, so, I can ssh to a linux box from another linux box, and run an X
> program and use it, transparently, as if it were any other application on
> my des
And if you're presenting a Pro/Con argument for Linux, clearly we've
provided you with material for that, too. Why NOT use Linux?
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>> From: ma...@mohawksoft.com [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com]
>>
>> > And you're wrong about sparse files. All of the above support sparse
>> > files.
>>
>> Yes, with enough work, you can put a V8 in a motorcycle, but that is a
>> strawman argument. The Mac file system HFS does not support sparse fi
> From: ma...@mohawksoft.com [mailto:ma...@mohawksoft.com]
>
> > And you're wrong about sparse files. All of the above support sparse
> > files.
>
> Yes, with enough work, you can put a V8 in a motorcycle, but that is a
> strawman argument. The Mac file system HFS does not support sparse files
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