[Discuss] Student Cluster Team OS and Libraries presentation

2013-10-21 Thread Kurt Keville
tomorrow night at NERD... we are mostly a CentOS shop this year... http://www.meetup.com/HPC-GPU-Supercomputing-Group-of-Boston/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] Linaro CEO to speak Thursday

2013-10-07 Thread Kurt Keville
at MIT Room 56-114 at 7PM... http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=15007483 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

[Discuss] EEHPC@MIT Workshop Friday

2013-01-29 Thread Kurt Keville
with some hardware Show & Tell to go along with it... http://meegs.mit.edu ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Getting OS/HW details?

2012-11-03 Thread Kurt Keville
It is the rare install indeed that won't be well-described by the command line calls you have identified... on the remote chance you don't have an /etc/issue you should be able to grep dmesg for some keyword like "version" ... and if lspci doesn't tell you the exact motherboard you have, you ca

Re: [Discuss] Fighting UEFI

2012-07-30 Thread Kurt Keville
I know the Coreboot (formerly LinuxBIOS) folks looked into recreating this functionality quite a bit with mixed results... no open source implementation yet. http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/category/uefi/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http:

Re: [Discuss] How can I resume from S1 (STR) mode in Ubuntu?

2012-05-17 Thread Kurt Keville
owitz=rcn@blu.org (on behalf of Kurt Keville ) >Subject: [Discuss] How can I resume from S1 (STR) mode in Ubuntu? >To: discuss@blu.org > >on a headless server node; i.e. no K, V, or M and no reset button... >is there some old weird trick discovered by a housewife in Cambridge &g

[Discuss] How can I resume from S1 (STR) mode in Ubuntu?

2012-05-17 Thread Kurt Keville
on a headless server node; i.e. no K, V, or M and no reset button... is there some old weird trick discovered by a housewife in Cambridge that will allow me to wake up via LAN, USB or serial or something? Note that WOL is specifically not supported by my NIC... suggestions? __

[Discuss] Happy Pi Day

2012-03-14 Thread Kurt Keville
It would be a lot happier if I actually had my Pi but they appear to have bumped shipping back a couple more weeks... grr... speaking of the Pi... does anyone have any experience with compiling for hard-float? I would like to get as much of an armhf distro onto my Pi (when it comes in) as I ca

[Discuss] AMD acquires SeaMicro

2012-03-01 Thread Kurt Keville
see http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401008,00.asp ... not really sure what to make of this. It looks as if there will be no changes to the SeaMicro product line, which was going in a direction counter to AMDs if I remember the presentation from the EEHPC Workshop right... _

[Discuss] Raspberry Pi launch imminent

2012-02-27 Thread Kurt Keville
if you want to DL your distro of choice before the R.Pi store goes live, you can find most of them at http://elinux.org/R-Pi_Hub ... it appears Fedora F14 remix will ship with it if you buy the pre-loaded SD card with it... They are printing 10,000 of these in the first batch, and if I was a

[Discuss] Can you help the FSF get colocated hosting?

2012-01-19 Thread Kurt Keville
Looks like they are losing their Quincy location... http://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/can-you-help-the-fsf-get-colocated-hosting ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

Re: [Discuss] Server Room Power

2011-10-11 Thread Kurt Keville
I have a similar arrangement in one of my rooms but we haven't exercised the switchover to 208V because we implemented a number of "power saving" features on the 120V circuits that resulted in us never needing (or more accurately never getting) additional power to the servers. We have various S

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

2011-07-28 Thread Kurt Keville
, July 28, 2011 4:40 pm, Kurt Keville wrote: > I have been following this dialogue at various locations... like > http://openstoragepod.org/ ... it is remarkable how cheap DIY NAS is > getting... > > I think 2TB is the biggest we will see a desktop drive; I wonder if > this approach

Re: [Discuss] D-I-Y NAS enclosures

2011-07-28 Thread Kurt Keville
I have been following this dialogue at various locations... like http://openstoragepod.org/ ... it is remarkable how cheap DIY NAS is getting... I think 2TB is the biggest we will see a desktop drive; I wonder if this approach would scale up and down to laptop drives? It may be that you get hi

Re: Old school DNS question

2011-04-01 Thread Kurt Keville
Ah, I had not thought about packet inspection. Thank you. Written using Google Motion Beta. http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html - Original Message - From: Rob Hasselbaum To: Kurt Keville Cc: discuss@blu.org Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 3:24 PM Subject: Re: Old

Old school DNS question

2011-04-01 Thread Kurt Keville
We have a bunch of nodes that hit a particular DNS server and while we can see that name service is running on that server, our queries do not resolve. Is there some remote way to find out if they are blocking addresses or something like that? We don't have access to the server so checking their

Re: Jeopardy / Watson Lecture at MIT

2011-02-15 Thread Kurt Keville
Here is Denison's spin on it... http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2011/02/15/computer_holds_its_own_in_1st_jeopardy_contest/ considering the Bieber / Wikipedia tainting affair happened a mere 24 hours before the Jeopardy episode, I have to wonder if people will start a knowledg

Re: Re:Jeopardy / Watson Lecture at MIT

2011-02-13 Thread Kurt Keville
There is now hope on this front... additional lectures lined up for the Watson completist; Tuesday : http://bit.ly/gFMSsf Wednesday : http://bit.ly/hPHc6Q - Original Message - From: "Mark Woodward" To: "Kurt Keville" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 2:04 PM

Re: Jeopardy / Watson Lecture at MIT

2011-02-11 Thread Kurt Keville
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Re: Re:Jeopardy / Watson Lecture at MIT

2011-02-08 Thread Kurt Keville
s-jeopardy-champs-in-practice-round/6546 - Original Message - From: "Mark Woodward" To: "Kurt Keville" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 2:04 PM Subject: Re:Jeopardy / Watson Lecture at MIT >I think I speak for everyone who has a significant other, that February

Jeopardy / Watson Lecture at MIT

2011-02-07 Thread Kurt Keville
will be the night of the 14th with a viewing party to follow... http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=13574220 right now it is listed as the second of 2 events but it looks like they are getting merged. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://l