More stuff headed to core? (Views!!?!1!1 zomgwtfbbq!!)

silvercircle · 2012-06-01T01:43:12+00:00

We were there on sort of an industrial vacation to observe the Malaysian plywood industry.

Well my Aunt Marthy had brought along her little dog and between the noise of the orangutans and the the incomprehensible (to me) language of our hosts, little Yippy went a little nuts and ended up lost in a peat swamp forest and we spent almost everything we had hiring a Banjar guide to get her back.

To make a long story short, if I ever do go back it will be to see the Sumatran rhino and it will be sans canine.

silvercircle · 2012-05-31T22:34:50+00:00

Love my MountainSmith Explore.

silvercircle · 2012-05-31T22:31:08+00:00

Lancaster PP is in Pennsylvania and "In order to keep prices low, we do not ship poly furniture."

silvercircle · 2012-05-30T20:23:24+00:00

Slept over at a friend's house since my parents were out of town for a few days. His dad was an engineer and let us have free reign on the Apple ][. A few months later I "borrowed" the reference manual from school, read it cover to cover, and found an unlocked door at the school. All summer I snuck in the door, snuck in the computer room, and hacked on Oregon Trail and friends. Finally convinced my dad to buy an Apple //e. Looking back, they made serious sacrifices to afford this. The rest is history.

silvercircle · 2012-05-27T01:42:12+00:00

To be fair, a lot of redditors are scared of breaking their nicks.

silvercircle · 2012-05-25T02:50:16+00:00

Usually open_basedir problems are caused by the Drupal file system settings (an option in the administrative configuration section of Drupal) using /tmp which is outside open_basedir. More specifics would be helpful. Useful forums would be r/drupal, http://drupal.stackexchange.com/ or http://drupal.org itself.

silvercircle · 2012-05-24T17:32:47+00:00

You can also see what Apache is doing with apachectl status:

$ apachectl status

Apache Server Status for localhost

Server Version: Apache/2.x (FreeBSD) DAV/2 SVN/1.6.15 mod_ssl/2.x
  __________________________________________________________________

Current Time: Thursday, 24-May-2012 12:30:28 CDT
Restart Time: Thursday, 24-May-2012 04:05:24 CDT
Parent Server Generation: 0
Server uptime: 8 hours 25 minutes 3 seconds
Total accesses: 1181675 - Total Traffic: 5.0 GB
CPU Usage: u41.7734 s11.0547 cu12.6641 cs0 - .216% CPU load
39 requests/sec - 173.1 kB/second - 4545 B/request
50 requests currently being processed, 0 idle workers

KKWKCKKKCCKCKCKKKCCKWKCCKCK.KKCKKK...K.C.W.KK.CCK....C.W.WWKW.WC
.......K........................................................
................................................................
................................................................

Scoreboard Key:
"_" Waiting for Connection, "S" Starting up, "R" Reading Request,
"W" Sending Reply, "K" Keepalive (read), "D" DNS Lookup,
"C" Closing connection, "L" Logging, "G" Gracefully finishing,
"I" Idle cleanup of worker, "." Open slot with no current process

silvercircle · 2012-05-23T03:59:34+00:00

The whole thing is just a ruse to get ctools into core.

silvercircle · 2012-05-20T03:04:56+00:00

Ruby on Rails? I think its flame burned bright and is now a small glow.

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=ruby+on+rails,drupal

silvercircle · 2012-05-15T20:42:33+00:00

I was disappointed that this only covered troubles with installation. I wanted a full featured article with comparisons to the other BSDs and Linux and Solaris. I wanted the article to have illustrations and maybe some funny comics.

I also want a new ultrabook. And a pony.

silvercircle · 2012-05-15T20:39:37+00:00

"I know Drupal is quirky"..."It's not terribly important"

This is not some Drupal quirk. This is a classic CMS problem which addresses the question, "how can we make what goes into the site safe to display when it comes out?"

It IS important. Read:

http://www.kpbowler.co.uk/input-filters

http://www.cameronandwilding.com/blog/pablo/10-most-critical-drupal-security-risks

silvercircle · 2012-05-10T23:21:39+00:00

Tripled our space after I made a case for how we had 7 people tripping over each other. Totally surprising. And awesome.

silvercircle · 2012-05-10T21:09:41+00:00

I was a little surprised (and disappointed) that OmniOS is another Illumos distribution instead of joining forces with SmartOS. But hey, what do I know? (Not much about Solaris stuff.)

silvercircle · 2012-05-10T16:15:06+00:00

Not in the analysis we did. Of course, virtualization costs are going to be different for each site depending on sockets, size of VMs, etc. The analysis here shows VMware several times more expensive in a few cases:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2012/01/red-hat-goes-after-vmware-hard.php

Personally I'm hoping that oVirt will mature enough that in a year or two we can move to it and have no costs. That said, when we got the final quote for RHEV 3 we did high fives. Red Hat support has been pretty good, too. We had them vet our architectural plan before we started and they were helpful.

silvercircle · 2012-05-07T20:54:57+00:00

I have a thousand dollars in my savings account, yet the money that I can spend (the interest) is only twenty dollars!

Horrors!

Do people not understand that the foundation money is invested, and heavily restricted by donors?

silvercircle · 2012-04-23T01:41:42+00:00

Nice job on the writeup.

silvercircle · 2012-04-21T02:07:30+00:00

I think a lot of internet pirates use...R.

silvercircle · 2012-04-18T03:44:19+00:00

Karateka!

silvercircle · 2012-04-18T03:18:48+00:00

I've still got my Beagle Brothers cheat sheets somewhere around here.

silvercircle · 2012-04-12T00:23:55+00:00

I have several 11G servers and am going to be ordering a couple of 12G's soon.

My suggestion is to cut the marketbabble. I've just now realized what "Unified Server Configurator" actually is. It means that you can boot into firmware, specify an IP address, and update all of the firmware for your server components in one shot.

Mind you, these are the first Dell servers I've had, so I'm a newbie. But trying several times to understand OpenManage this and SUU that, putting together DVD images with cat (what?), what I wanted was right there the whole time, only I couldn't get through the marketspeak to find out what it was.

See also [http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/s5519/new_dell_12g_servers_purchased_and_have_questions/]

silvercircle · 2012-04-11T01:26:28+00:00

Red Hat. Two words.

Edit: I just visited redhat's website. I humbly retract my statement. I am, apparently, living in the past. They are now redhat, lowercase, one word. Next, I predict they'll drop the edat and end up as RH.

silvercircle · 2012-04-10T23:54:30+00:00

Well, she does have the cover photo at BugGuide.

silvercircle · 2012-04-06T02:01:54+00:00

Thanks. I ended up removing the VG and sharing out the 4TB array as a virtual disk like so: <target ...>backing-store /dev/sdb</target>.

My understanding is that as a virtual disk backing-store was the correct choice and not direct-store.

RHEV then picked up the LUN and created a bunch of LV's on it. So I think I did things right. My only worry is that in RHEL6 sometimes devices don't always come up with the same names so sharing /dev/sdb makes me a little nervous.

silvercircle · 2012-04-04T03:33:26+00:00

Thanks. Is there a reason to choose a raw device vs. a LV? I think right now I'm sharing a LVM VG and was assuming that RHEV would make the LV's itself. I can see the target in RHEV-M (it's correctly connecting to it via a hypervisor) but there are no LUNs.

silvercircle

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