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...I've used most of the "fast" systems that I'm not using for "real work". I've found some of the older systems can be put to good use too. They may not make a lot of points, but being multi-proc, they do add up! -J Wow! No kidding! As of today you blew me away in the team stats!  I can't wait to see where you top out. |
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I can't wait to see where you top out. Ah..uh... hmm... uh... ya know.... I just shouldn't say what I was thinking about what I thought you said. It has been a long day. Anyway.... Other than the old slow 8-way, I just had two little PIII's setup today. 1.2 and 1.4 GHz.. and both single proc.  Eh.... they help. I left during an install on what I finally got setup as a 4-way 700 MHz. I'll finish the install tomorrow since I couldn't find a NIC that'd boot to PXE. Grrr.  I "found" 4 more 700 MHz procs (production quality that is) to make it an 8-way... only problem... they are on the wrong heat sinks. Daaaang that thermal paste is strong. I may have to get rough with them tomorrow.Other than that, I did "find" some faster procs to update another system from dual 2.8 to 3.4 Xeons. I should do that tomorrow. I really need to go though my cabinets more often. Geez I'm a geek sometimes. Scrounging parts and getting old systems to work is actually "fun" for me. It's definately been a walk down memory lane for me. I just wish I had more time to have fun at work. -j |
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Yes and they like NASCAR.  On my last trip to Charlotte NC to see the All Star Race, I stopped off at a gay bar (ok, it was an "exotic entertainment establishment") for a few drinks. The place was full of NASCAR officials and crew members from various teams. I realized then that not only do some of us like NASCAR, but some of us are NASCAR!  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Feb 22, 2006 10:38:19 AM] |
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...Ah..uh... hmm... uh... ya know.... I just shouldn't say what I was thinking about what I thought you said. It has been a long day. Hey! I hardly know you...yet  ...Geez I'm a geek sometimes. Scrounging parts and getting old systems to work is actually "fun" for me. It's definately been a walk down memory lane for me. I just wish I had more time to have fun at work. -j I know what you mean. I have six production servers (all single core HT P4's) in two states that I will be moving from classic NetWare to Linux in the next few months and I am wondering if I can get away with running boinc on them. |
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I will be moving from classic NetWare to Linux in the next few months NetWare? NetWare? AAAAAHHHHGGGGGGG!!!! Why is it taking that beast so long to die? We move that OS out of my group about the time 6.5 was released. Linux is a pain for me. I don't run it (often).... but the people that work for me do. Ahh.. tis good to be the boss-man. If we only had 1 Linux distro to worry about it wouldn't be a big deal, but I have to keep up with both X86 and X86_64 flavors of RHEL3, RHEL4, and SLES9... and soon to be SLES10. Not to mention the errata kernels. I'm glad I've moved the older versions of RH and SLES off my plate. I hope that most production environments pick one distro and stick to it. Being in a lab environment, we are always having to switch versions. Each one is... not like the others.That reminds me... I do need to get back to installing CentOS on my old Alpha EV6. And W2K3 on the IA64 box someone was about to throw away (not because it's IA64, but because it is pre-production hardware). Too bad I can't get those on WCG. Yep... some days, I do love my job. Other days.....  no so much..... -j |
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NetWare? NetWare? AAAAAHHHHGGGGGGG!!!! Why is it taking that beast so long to die? It's not dying anytime soon- Suse Linux Open Enterprise Server just ports the NetWare services to a new core OS. NW 6.5 SP 5 is what I'm upgrading from.  |
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Suse Linux Open Enterprise Server just ports the NetWare services to a new core OS. Yeah... I'd heard that. Funny thing... Last week I'd gotten a system running with 6 550 MHz Xeons. I had a heck of a time getting W2K3 to install. It wouldn't get past the initial text screen. I finally checked the APIC settings. The system was set to run NetWare 4.12. Yeeeahhh..... that system hadn't been powered on in a few years. I changed the setting and it's crunching away.... slowly. - j |
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I will be moving from classic NetWare to Linux in the next few months NetWare? NetWare? AAAAAHHHHGGGGGGG!!!! Why is it taking that beast so long to die? At least Novell understood file permissions and had a model that actually worked! |
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At least Novell understood file permissions and had a model that actually worked! Ok, true.  It just caused great pains in doing driver development and test for it. I never had to do actual administration of it. -j |
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At least Novell understood file permissions and had a model that actually worked! Ok, true. It just caused great pains in doing driver development and test for it. I never had to do actual administration of it. -j Admin is a snap using NDS. It's one of the netware services that is still at the top of it's game. I have also never had a NetWare server compromised (no script kiddies or root kits gunning for it). I neglected the updates on a RH 9 distro and was compromised in three months. Anyone wanna talk windoze vulnerabilities? |
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