Re: [PLUG] Surprise: PLUG will have a booth at OSCON on Wednesday and Thursday - Volunteers Needed

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Dexter
> I will be available Wednesday and Thursday. I will arrive Wednesday > morning about 9 am with 50 PLUG flyers, banners, my computer, and > myself. Assuming they let me in the door I should have the booth set up > and reasonably presentable by 10. Great! Tell them you are with the PLUG booth but

Re: [PLUG] KVM

2010-07-20 Thread Daniel Herrington
The server is a quad amd opteron 64. When I look for svm in cpuinfo: d...@arrakis:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep svm flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow rep_good extd_

Re: [PLUG] Can't get Java plugin...

2010-07-20 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/20/2010 01:18 AM, Someone wrote: > Can't get Java plugin... > > and firefox 3.6.4 on CentOS 5.5 to work together. > > Where is the global plugins directory anyway? > On my system, Firefox installs to /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.6/ and I just add a

Re: [PLUG] Surprise: PLUG will have a booth at OSCON on Wednesday and Thursday - Volunteers Needed

2010-07-20 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:25:05 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >I am more than willing to help. I think I have some PLUG banners and >fliers in my computer and can print up what we need. I think Keith has >our business cards, and maybe he can show up with them. I will be available Wednesday and Thur

Re: [PLUG] Calling all editors; final site draft

2010-07-20 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > > I only recently learned that there are two schools of thought on links > to other sites: open in a new window, or open in the current window. > I've always been a fan of open in a new window. I bow to the collective > wisdom of the re

Re: [PLUG] Calling all editors; final site draft

2010-07-20 Thread Richard C. Steffens
nat...@nathanewilliams.com wrote: > At this point, a semi-final review is requested for the proposed new PLUG > website; i'm taking all critiques, be it spelling, technique, aesthetics, > broken links, etc. Overall the site looks great. Thanks for all the work on it. Here are the things my editor

Re: [PLUG] KVM

2010-07-20 Thread Dwight Hubbard
I've seen a lot higher and more dependable performance using LVM LVs for KVM storage than using files on the filesystem. - Original Message - From: "Paul Heinlein" To: dherring...@robertmarktech.com, "General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic" Sent: Tuesday, July

Re: [PLUG] KVM

2010-07-20 Thread Dwight Hubbard
If the install took 10 hours I would check to make sure you're running KVM on a processor with hardware virtualization. What you describe sounds like what I'd expect if it was falling back to using Qemu emulation instead of KVM. - Original Message - From: "Daniel Herrington" To: "Gen

Re: [PLUG] KVM

2010-07-20 Thread Daniel Herrington
I'll be running enterprise schedulers, web application front end, and various databases at the backend (Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL). Other than the db, the rest of the applications shouldn't be too heavy on disk I/O. If you haven't seen any performance issues with file based, I think I'll go that

Re: [PLUG] KVM

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Daniel Herrington wrote: > I'm trying KVM out as a replacement for Vmware ESX. I have installed > Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 on an HP DL360. Setting up a CentOs 5.4 image, > the install took 10 hours. I'm guessing the problem lies in the way > I've get storage pools and volumes se

[PLUG] KVM

2010-07-20 Thread Daniel Herrington
All, I'm trying KVM out as a replacement for Vmware ESX. I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 on an HP DL360. Setting up a CentOs 5.4 image, the install took 10 hours. I'm guessing the problem lies in the way I've get storage pools and volumes setup? I originally tried to do a storage pool o

Re: [PLUG] Surprise: PLUG will have a booth at OSCON on Wednesday and Thursday - Volunteers Needed

2010-07-20 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:03:53 -0700 David Mandel dijo: >Contrary to what I said at the last PLUG meeting; PLUG will have a >booth at OSCON. This is a very last minute thing. We were not >scheduled to have a booth due to lack of space, but at the last minute >space opened up. So we have a booth,

Re: [PLUG] OSCON Expo Reminder

2010-07-20 Thread Aaron Jorbin
To be fair, Microsoft does open source a decent amount of stuff and contributes to plenty of large open source projects. Not that I use any of there actual products, but they aren't always the bad guy. aaron.jor...@gmail.com http://aaron.jorb.in Twitter: @aaronjorbin On Tue, Jul 20,

Re: [PLUG] OSCON Expo Reminder

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Michael Dexter wrote: > >> As you may or may not know, the expo hall plus many, many other >> things are available free at OSCON this week: > > Isn't it rather ironic that Microsoft is a diamond sponsor? It > doesn't sit well with m

Re: [PLUG] OSCON Expo Reminder

2010-07-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Michael Dexter wrote: > As you may or may not know, the expo hall plus many, many other things are > available free at OSCON this week: Isn't it rather ironic that Microsoft is a diamond sponsor? It doesn't sit well with me. Rich __

[PLUG] OSCON Expo Reminder

2010-07-20 Thread Michael Dexter
Hello all, As you may or may not know, the expo hall plus many, many other things are available free at OSCON this week: The expo hall is open: Wednesday: 10:00am - 4:30pm Expo Hall Reception: 6:00pm - 7:00pm Thursday: 10:00am - 5:00pm The free stuff: http://www.oscon.com/oscon2010/public/con

Re: [PLUG] Can't get Java plugin...

2010-07-20 Thread Larry Brigman
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Someone wrote: > and firefox 3.6.4 on CentOS 5.5 to work together. > > Where is the global plugins directory anyway? > > Firefox should have a way to tell you. > > An annoyance of mine is that automatic install never seems to work in a > Linux environment, but it a

[PLUG] Surprise: PLUG will have a booth at OSCON on Wednesday and Thursday - Volunteers Needed

2010-07-20 Thread David Mandel
Contrary to what I said at the last PLUG meeting; PLUG will have a booth at OSCON. This is a very last minute thing. We were not scheduled to have a booth due to lack of space, but at the last minute space opened up. So we have a booth, but are totally unprepared. I left our booth banner in Cor

Re: [PLUG] Calling all editors; final site draft

2010-07-20 Thread David Mandel
Thank you Nathan. I'm at OSCON and won't have much time to look at the web site this week, but intend to look at it in detail. However, overall it looks wonderful. So much better than the old site. (That isn't to say anything bad about the old site. It was created around 2001 or 2002 and hasn't

[PLUG] Can't get Java plugin...

2010-07-20 Thread Someone
and firefox 3.6.4 on CentOS 5.5 to work together. Where is the global plugins directory anyway? Firefox should have a way to tell you. An annoyance of mine is that automatic install never seems to work in a Linux environment, but it always seems to work under Windows. The firefox developers rea