http://lethargy.org/~jesus/ Esoteric Curio - Theo's Contributions to Technological Surreality en Serendipity 1.4.1 - http://www.s9y.org/ Tue, 22 May 2012 22:18:40 GMT http://lethargy.org/~jesus/templates/default/img/s9y_banner_small.png http://lethargy.org/~jesus/ 100 21 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-desktop-and-server-oil-and-water#c25576 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-desktop-and-server-oil-and-water#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=207 nospam@example.com (septic) It is the second entry I read tonight. Thank you. Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:35:38 -0400 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/207#c25576 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-desktop-and-server-oil-and-water#c25575 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-desktop-and-server-oil-and-water#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=207 nospam@example.com (Dave Drager) Theo, can't wait to see what you all are working on. So your post is tagged OpenSolaris. You going to fork that? Would love to test whatever you have going on, email me! Tue, 27 Mar 2012 12:00:31 -0400 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/207#c25575 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-desktop-and-server-oil-and-water#c25566 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-desktop-and-server-oil-and-water#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=207 nospam@example.com (Ben) I could not disagree more. I'm not sure if this post was somehow provoked by recent trends in Linux development, but in any case the Linux kernel developers' history of recurring desktop vs. server flamewars over the last decade should serve to illustrate how wrongheaded this "oil and water" idea is. In the early aughts, desktop Linux proponents were hammering on Linus and his lieutenants for focusing so much on SCSI, SMP, and large memory systems. Desktop PCs were all uniprocessor, small memory, IDE systems, and didn't see any benefits from such server-focused developments. Linus replied that desktop systems would soon evolve, but desktop proponents dismissed this as wild-eyed optimism. We all know how that turned out. Years later, there was another big flap about real-time scheduling. Many server-oriented developers and sysadmins felt that tuning the scheduler for lower latency and greater reliability at the expense of throughput was a huge mistake, and would cost Linux dearly in the data center. Linus chose to ignore them. This dismayed the server people, but fortunately they many of them found jobs at Youtube clones and high-frequency trading shops, who benefited greatly from the scheduler improvements. See also RAID, power management, SSDs, etc., etc. OTOH I sympathize with your dislike of GNOME on servers, and Bob's comments about minimal installs. My habit for the last several years has been to install any OS on any computer -- desktop, server, or otherwise -- as minimally as possible, and build to suit from there. If you're in a constant struggle to keep GNOME off of your server, or Apache off of your desktop, then you don't need to radically change or fork the OS; you need a better packaging system. (Unfortunately, if your favorite OSes are Solaris, FreeBSD, and/or OSX, then your world is comprised entirely of terrible packaging systems.) Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:24:40 -0400 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/207#c25566 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-desktop-and-server-oil-and-water#c25565 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/the-desktop-and-server-oil-and-water#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=207 nospam@example.com (Bob) I've felt the same way as far back as I can remember. For my home servers where I like to play around I have always went with a very basic FreeBSD install to get basically a bare metal install with no extra junk "for the most part". This is also why I don't normally like Windows Servers. A server has no right needing a GUI unless some edge case requirement calls for it by those paying me money. Be interesting to see what you folks have up your sleeves. Sat, 24 Mar 2012 14:29:54 -0400 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/207#c25565 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-bacon-spin-on-sushi-ikura-baciri#c25310 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/a-bacon-spin-on-sushi-ikura-baciri#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=206 nospam@example.com (what is forex) Thank you for this valuable post. It changed my approach Wed, 09 Nov 2011 13:38:09 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/206#c25310 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/surge-is-gonna-kick-ass#c24815 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/surge-is-gonna-kick-ass#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=205 nospam@example.com (Darrell) Your point is valueble for me. Thanks! My site: rachat de credit lille www.rachatdecredit.net Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:17:45 -0400 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/205#c24815 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/everyone-is-to-blame-for-this-continued-expectation-that-such-magic-is-possible#c23712 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/everyone-is-to-blame-for-this-continued-expectation-that-such-magic-is-possible#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=204 nospam@example.com (Robert Hodges) Hi Theo! Thanks for the link to Mark's article. It is quite thought-provoking. Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:35:48 -0400 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/204#c23712 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/everyone-is-to-blame-for-this-continued-expectation-that-such-magic-is-possible#c23710 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/everyone-is-to-blame-for-this-continued-expectation-that-such-magic-is-possible#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=204 nospam@example.com (Jeff Wasilko) Love the blog, but the cursive font has to go! Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:49:16 -0400 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/204#c23710 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/everyone-is-to-blame-for-this-continued-expectation-that-such-magic-is-possible#c23698 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/everyone-is-to-blame-for-this-continued-expectation-that-such-magic-is-possible#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=204 nospam@example.com (Vick Khera) Your link to the full article is busted. "Domain not found" Mon, 25 Apr 2011 09:17:48 -0400 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/204#c23698 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/ywahusty#c23207 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/ywahusty#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=200 nospam@example.com (Wez Furlong) (best viewed pre-formatted in monospace!) 14:40:50 /tmp/2025> \debug .pQQQQQp ffpQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQpp QQQQQQQp. .QQQQQQQQpp ppQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQpp. pPQQQQQQQQ. 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Regards, David, Sweden Sun, 13 Feb 2011 07:47:23 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/181#c23177 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/partitioning-vs-federation-vs-sharding#c23063 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/partitioning-vs-federation-vs-sharding#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=95 nospam@example.com (Andrew) I like this post and I agree with you that the components of federated systems are autonomous. Autonomy does seem to be a key part of the difference. But I think a federated system can have overlapping regions and so isn't necessarily a partitioned system. Also, I think there's a slight difference between partitioning and sharding. Sharding (it seems to me) implies that the pieces play the same role or are homogenous. Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:25:08 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/95#c23063 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/capacity-planning#c23050 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/capacity-planning#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=197 nospam@example.com (Theo Schlossnagle) Indeed it does not mean that, it "goes something like that." It is an example of a linear relationship between two sets and as such they linearly correlate. Linear correlation is more complicated and I encourage interested readers to read the wikipedia article: Correlation and Dependence as it does a decent job of discussing the ins and outs of the problem. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:18:26 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/197#c23050 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/capacity-planning#c23049 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/capacity-planning#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=197 nospam@example.com (Robert Young) -- The reason is that things are always linearly correlated. What's that mean? Linear correlation goes something like this: if A depends upon B and I want twice as much A, I'll need twice as much B. That's not what linear correlation means. Thu, 06 Jan 2011 16:05:10 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/197#c23049 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/theo-seeks-aspiring-database-administrator#c23042 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/theo-seeks-aspiring-database-administrator#comments http://lethargy.org/~jesus/wfwcomment.php?cid=196 nospam@example.com (Theo Schlossnagle) Actually, the SA and Dev "stick posts" were so successful that I felt compelled to publish this DBA one. I'm not sure I follow the "get along" question. I suppose if database folk are smart enough, they get along just fine. Sure is hard to find people smart enough though... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:40:20 -0500 http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/196#c23042