Re: Lighttpd wedged and ignoring SIGKILL

2009-06-08 Thread L Campbell
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:06 PM, L Campbell wrote: > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Mel > Flynn wrote: >> Change the write-backend. Look in google for lighttpd and sendfile to see >> why. > > I was under the impression that that bug was fixed[1]. In any case, > I've switched from freebsd-sendfile

Re: Reproduce previous stdout output without running previous command

2009-06-08 Thread LoH
Daniel Underwood wrote: I read up on tee, but I'm not sure it does the trick. From what I understand, tee simply enters a mode where what you type gets put into a text file. What actually happens is when you pipe it to tee, it shows up in a text file and on the screen. That lets you make the

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread LoH
Daniel Underwood wrote: A partial solution would also to do a search on someone else's index (google scholar, IEEEXplore, etc) to get the title of what you're looking for. True, but in this situation, I want to find something within a local collection of literature. E.g., find a table of d

Re: Reproduce previous stdout output without running previous command

2009-06-08 Thread Norbert Papke
On June 8, 2009, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Further suppose that after running the command, I decide I want to > save the output to a text file, so I can analyze the results outside > of the terminal. What can I do? Well, I can do a traditional > "copy-and-paste", or I could re-enter the previous c

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
We have three SuperMicro blade servers. One's worked like a champ, and the other two died. The vendor we used tanked, so no warranty support. I got two IBM X3400 boxes to replace the SuperMicros; the drives were OK, so I got empty enclosures plus some rails, stuffed the drives in, and

Re: Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes

2009-06-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What UFS-like filesystem has unlimited inodes, but is a drop-in replacement for ext3, and is fairly easy to configure? Is UFS2 no longer considered the "best" general-use filesystem? at least for be it's the best. High performance, minimal hardware resource usage, perfect recovery from failure

Re: Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes

2009-06-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
At this point you're sort of out of the general-use category :) You want ZFS. Or rather, you don't want to try and fsck a UFS filesystem with 200M inodes. The three drawbacks I can think of to ZFS are it's hard to boot ZFS is very trendy now, but isn't it allocating space in 4KB chunks? _

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Christopher Illies
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:17:29PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research > articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, > keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) > downloaded onto my local dr

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