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winscape 2327
It should; I was too optimistic by many, many decimal places. Stop right here for a second. Since you only did some flavor of software, you never saw what work had to be done by...
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snip Not at that company, no. Correct. So, you're telling me that experience developing (or maintaining) application-level...
winscape 2329
Yes. Especially applications. App people have absolutely no idea about how to solve a computing problem for...
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snip That may be, and I'm not claiming otherwise. What I'm talking about here is not specific technical knowledge, but .... It's two things. One is...
winscape 2331
Don't blame the hardware. I would look at the MSDOS file system first. A file system that has no fsck (or fixdisk or dskrat ) nor a shutdown-sync command should blow up from...
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trashed. right. for A few years ago I had a program that would make a "ding" when someone viewed my webcam (remember webcams...
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I'm sticking with 98, the devil I know, its still leaking memory, but 512 meg usually lasts for as long as...
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sprachen: It's just a tickbox in Windows 98, which I'm still happy with. It's the minimum to run most games, so it does me, and it runs...
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Belatedly following up .... Yeah, this is one of the great things about the traditional Unix way of doing things. I say "traditional" because it seems like...
winscape 2336
XML is a lousy format for that sort of thing. It solves the easy problems and on the strength of that it butterts that...
winscape 2337
Mess" is not a bad description, AFAICT: Looking at the dot-something files and directories in my home directory...
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The taskbar shows what you usually need to know faster and in less screen realestate than top. Top is a waste unless you really need to know all that it displays. Of course, there...
winscape 2339
Um .... With all due respect, then, what you use "top" for and what I *think* most people use a taskbar for seem to be somewhat...
winscape 2340
I'm flabbergasted by the absence of mind... The 'file' utility that's been with Unix for decades is much smarter...
winscape 2341
Amen. This is to bring you a view from this side of things. I have had a harrowing week of hardware problems. It seems there is...
winscape 2342
I run all my important stuff on a Sun Solaris system wvolume manager to set up the raid 5- everything goes onto it; email archives, dvd images, mp3's...
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I use such raids extensively on servers. My present POE has raids on all servers, and personally I...
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De-fragging is the equivalent to dusting as a housekeeping chore. What it does is rearrange the "furniture" such that a sequential read of a file can be done optimally. How often and...
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the science center had done a lot of work on performance monitoring ... and created some performance monitoring tools that accumulated data 7x24 ... first on the...
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How versatile was this configuration base? Let me ask this in a different way. How did you evaluate a system...
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for a little topic drift ... there was an industry service that collected erep data (ras and error recording data) from large number of customer installations .... somewhat removed customer identifying information...
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I don't know whether this is a good sign or a bad sign, but what you describe above sounds a lot like what I might have produced if...
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Sure. However, there were different stages of booting. Some had to be done "by hand". Some could "start off" at step 3 or 4 or 5. As we learned how to "can...
winscape 2350
snip Well, your original description of "cold start" (which I've left in, above) sure sounded to me like a description of a complete installation, which...
winscape 2351
No, we are not going in circles. I think you are missing the equivalent of an instruction in your code :-). Once you get that, you'll figure it all out. But my head isn't working...
winscape 2352
Very likely. Well .... My understanding of what Lynn wrote is that there are several flavors of boot-IPL for the old IBM mainframe...
Various kinds of System reloads
A sysgen (installation of the operating system) was required for every major version upgrade, and sometimes in the case of major reconfiguration triggered by - installation of new peripherals of types for which device drivers were...
Various kinds of System reloads 2354
A sysgen is a build, not an installation. The output of a sysgen is an executable that then can be booted up and run. IBM was unique...
Various kinds of System reloads 2355
My recollection (of installing versions of MVS about 20 years ago) was that - as Peter says - sysgen was an early...
Various kinds of System reloads 2356
This would have not been acceptable on PDP-10 sites. In the TOPS-10 monitor group we built at least 10 monitors every Tuesday after the edit. They had to be complete by the...
Various kinds of System reloads 2357
at least in the release 9.5-18 time-frame ... stage2 was more than a box (2000) but would fit in a tray (card trays held more than a box, but less than two boxes of...
Various kinds of System reloads 2358
Peter Flbutt cp67 (and vm370) was even simpler. the txt decks (output from the buttembler) were bundled together and booted from cards...
Various kinds of System reloads 2359
This was correct of Linux in pre 1.3 times, 1995 or so. Linux nowadays have hundreds...
Various kinds of System reloads 2360
Not really. This "kernel linking ritual" that all mundane sysadmins had to go through was a hbuttle. One of those things that needs to be...
Various kinds of System reloads 2361
No. A SYSGEN is never required to restart the system in the same configuration it had the last time it was running. But on a large OS-370 system with remote job entry...
Various kinds of System reloads 2362
for cp67 & vm370 the "spool file system" .... basically emulated unit record information was subject to cold and warm start ... and then...
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For *n*x; not really. It now seems the x86 architecture has run out of steam in terms of speed. The...
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I think this is a little imprecise. In terms of instruction types, x86 has been usably extended to 64 bits by AMD64. In...
winscape 2365
It is more a hybrid of the paths Cray and the Transputer has taken. The heavy graphics tasks are pretty well parallizable, like 3D manipulation, rendering, vector analysis for...
winscape 2366
This is exactly what I am erferring to. It is stage two in a development that first outbid all the other architectures in terms of throwing process improvements on the...
winscape 2367
Back in the early Windows days they had a weak form of it- although the OS was still...
winscape 2368
1) Memory Debt Management is implemented by the programmer. The programmer is responsible for all memory management. A blue screen of rest is caused by possibly...
winscape 2369
Should... I won't tell you how many times I crashed OS's because of either bad driver code...
winscape 2370
Of course it's a "should" :-). But TOPS-10 was seriously way ahead making that "should" a reality. That is one of the...
winscape 2371
This may be the next big thing in open source. Although it may be easier to address it at a protocol-service layer instead. OpenBSD has seen some of this lately, where a separate box...
winscape 2372
Yes. If it doesn't happen, the open source isn't working. Aw, hell, TOPS-10 bias alert! I think both are needed. I'm not sure this top-down monitoring will work well...
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Morten Reistad I've got 2 and 3. The programmers need to be more helpful with 1. Sometimes the load distribution gets tricky when there's n boxes running and one...
winscape 2374
Not necessarily reliability..definitely agility. The reason schedulers were invented was so that two tasks could be handled on the same machine. Once you've...
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Reliability in that one application can wedge the whole system requiring a reboot. Everything stops. Work in progress has to be re-done. Scheduler decides which task to run next...
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All desirable when all you care about is bootstrapping a bios flash program or fiddling registers on a lan board. All undesirable when you're talking about general application...
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Greg Menke I am pretty sure that there are certain configurations where that is possible. XP is released...
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Greg Menke When the client logs in to the server, a virtual desktop from the...
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Not if it was declared to be an accounting or computer error. Think about it. All they have to do is correct a declared oops. Meanwhile there's all that lovely money...
winscape 2380
As I say, you need better legislation. If you do an oops, here you have three days grace time, and then you...
winscape 2381
Back to the customers. You and me. It it goes as far as Enron there is just jailtime to dole out to the perpetrators. But the problem...
winscape 2382
But only if you fill out a form and the offenders can find you. And they do not try very hard to find you. The money to be distributed to those that can't...
winscape 2383
Dropped news connections happen all the time. I just don't see them; I let leafnode+ handle it for me with a retry. I did bite the bullet and subscribe to...
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