Re: [LUAU] Good Linux movie - Revolution OS

2004-07-07 Thread Vince Hoang
On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 08:46:24 -1000, Matthew John Darnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.revolution-os.com/ Anyone know of any other movies like this? None on open-source, but.. Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires is the closest thing I can think of. This is great high

Re: [LUAU] SATA hot swap - off topic

2004-07-07 Thread Jeff Mings
Thanks for the suggestion. What I'd really like to be able to do is just switch out backup hard drives once a month. The goal is simple data redundancy, not hardware fail-over. I'm planning on colocating a server, and I was hoping I could just umount /dev/whichever , unlock a drive tray,

Re: [LUAU] SATA hot swap - off topic

2004-07-07 Thread R. Scott Belford
Jeff Mings wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. What I'd really like to be able to do is just switch out backup hard drives once a month. The goal is simple data redundancy, not hardware fail-over. I'm planning on colocating a server, and I was hoping I could just umount /dev/whichever ,

Re: [LUAU] SATA hot swap - off topic

2004-07-07 Thread Vince Hoang
On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 00:19:54 -1000, Jeff Mings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. What I'd really like to be able to do is just switch out backup hard drives once a month. The goal is simple data redundancy, not hardware fail-over. I'm planning on colocating a server, and I

Re: [LUAU] SATA hot swap - off topic

2004-07-07 Thread Tom_Gordon/RISE/HIDOE
can't you just use raidtools or mdadm? Vince Hoang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/07/2004 12:34 PM Please respond to Linux/Unix Advocates/Users Hawaiian community discussion list To: Linux/Unix Advocates/Users Hawaiian community discussion list

Re: [LUAU] SATA hot swap - off topic

2004-07-07 Thread MonMotha
Vince Hoang wrote: MonMotha wrote: This is mostly useful on RAID arrays though. See the raidhotadd and raidhotremove (or is it raidhotdel?) commands. I believe this only tickles the md driver and not the bus. Indeed it does. I was mostly giving an example of a practical use for all

Re: [LUAU] SATA hot swap - off topic

2004-07-07 Thread Brian Chee
Take a hard look at the hotswap cages from supermicroinexpensive and they have the special connectors where the ground lines are longer and mate first and demate last...this makes sure that the drives dont' get hit by a capacitance charge during the hotswap processthis is the major reason

Re: [LUAU] Good Linux movie - Revolution OS

2004-07-07 Thread Wayne Maeda
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 08:46 am, Matthew John Darnell wrote: http://www.revolution-os.com/ This is a good movie that chronicles the free software movement, it is an interview style documentary. I thought the tension between Linus Torvalds Richard Stallman was interesting. Linus also

[LUAU] Does this shock you?

2004-07-07 Thread R. Scott Belford
I have been meaning to email LUAU and our announce list for some time to make sure that we all knew the recent news about HOSEF. We have a permanent home at UH thanks to many unthanked people, and luau and monmotha have a permanent home with HOSEF. We have set up a lab this year at Kuhio

Re: [LUAU] Does this shock you?

2004-07-07 Thread Jeff Mings
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