[BLUG] Re: [rescue] Stuff for sale, trade, and free! (Bloomington, IN)

Pretty much everything is spoken for. I'll get things
gathered and boxed in the next few days and contact everyone with
instructions.

Thanks to all! Below is all that's left, and I'll ship it if you pay for
shipping.

Brian

On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 14:55 -0500, Brian Wheeler wrote:

> I'm located in Bloomington, IN 47408
>

>
> For Sale
> ==========

> Sun DDS2 DAT Drive in 611 Enclosure $10
> 599-2072-01
>
> OkiData 184 Turbo $20
> New in box
> Freebies
> ========
> 2x HP 715/64
> Unknown condition
> One has 64M(?) and a disk. One has neither.
> Both show "Memory error" (leds -76-43--)
>
> SS20 Chassis
> No disks or ram. Didn't see a processor in there either.

> Toshiba Satellite 400CS/810
> P75 / 700M Disk / 16M RAM
> Battery seems to work, but no promises.
>
> External DAT, Centronics connectors. Unknown capacity
>
> 2x Ext SCSI enclosure w/centronics connectors. sun 411 enclosure size

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[BLUG] Xen is stable

If anyone needs a testiment that Xen is stable, here it is:

# uptime
05:33:15 up 509 days, 7:45, 4 users, load average: 0.06, 0.23, 0.11

That's the uptime for the Xen host machine, the virtual machines have
been running for a while too, but some of them have been rebooted for
various reasons. That's on a machine that is running about 6 virtual
machines that are running webservers, mail servers, databases, etc. I
also have another Xen host running about 14 VMs that has been up for 419
days. Unfortunately I had to reboot both servers over the weekend for
hardware upgrades.

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[BLUG] Stuff for sale, trade, and free! (Bloomington, IN)

Its time to clean up things a bit...mostly stuff I've not had the time
or desire to play with :)

If I'm too high (or too low) make an offer!

I'm not going to ship the complete NeXT box or but I can be persuaded
with everything else: buyer pays shipping

I'm located in Bloomington, IN 47408

Things I'm looking for:
* Playstation 2
* Amiga Stuff: A1200, A600
* CoCo stuff: Coco3 + disk controller
* Commodore stuff: C128, 1571, 1581, C65 (hahaha)

Get this stuff out of my house!
Brian

For Sale
==========
NeXTstation (Mono) $50
32M RAM
no HD
Mono Monitor
Mouse
Keyboard
Floppy Drive

DECserver 200/MC $5

Sun DDS2 DAT Drive in 611 Enclosure $10
599-2072-01

OkiData 184 Turbo $20
New in box

Freebies
========
2x HP 715/64
Unknown condition
One has 64M(?) and a disk. One has neither.
Both show "Memory error" (leds -76-43--)

SS20 Chassis
No disks or ram. Didn't see a processor in there either.

Toshiba Satellite 400CS/810
P75 / 700M Disk / 16M RAM
Battery seems to work, but no promises.

External DAT, Centronics connectors. Unknown capacity

2x Ext SCSI enclosure w/centronics connectors. sun 411 enclosure size

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Re: [BLUG] Anyone encountered GPT yet?

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:58:28AM GMT, Steven Black [blacks@indiana.edu] said the following:
>
> I've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of EFI based systems on the mass
> market. I know they're in use among certain high-end Intel servers, and
> they're also used by the Intel Macs. It is just a matter of time before
> everything else follows suit. (Or that's what I've been telling myself
> for the past five years.)

If there is one thing I've learned in 26 years of computing, its that
change follows demand, not wishful thinking.

Don't let that stand in the way of wishful thinking though. After
all, we all use Linux with good reason. And fortunately open source
software survival doesn't depend on mass acceptance.

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Re: [BLUG] internal DVD drive

On Monday 24 November 2008 5:09:36 am Steven Black wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:22:13AM -0500, Andrew Dabrowski wrote:
> > I was over at Best Buy last night checking out the internal DVD-R
> > drives. I saw Pioneer, Sony, and LG (?). Does anyone have advice about
> > which will work best with Ubuntu Intrepid? Thanks.
>
> Just follow the usual precautions:
> 1. Make sure the drive you get fits your available drive bay
> 2. Make sure the drive you get connects to the proper interface
> 3. Make sure a proper cable is included, or get a new one
>
> These things can cause issues, however if you have those covered then
> you should be fine. They're all using the same protocols these days, so
> there is no reason to have separate drivers for them.
>
> It is nothing like the early days of the CD-Rom drives, if that's the
> sort of thing you're worried about. Also, the DVD format improved
> significantly upon the CD-Audio format. There's always a real
> filesystem, and the data is always transferred in data mode.
>
> If you're an old-timer like me, you'd have every reason to be concerned.
> If you're used to the Windows "every stinking device needs a separate
> driver" mantra, then you'd also have reason to be concerned. However I
> can tell you none of that is a concern. Things really are quite easy.
>
> Cheers,

One thing I have heard and this could be fixed by now is if your buying a sata
dvd burner that it can be hit or miss. I know someone who had some issue
with it but I think that got fixed in kernel update.

Re: [BLUG] internal DVD drive

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:22:13AM -0500, Andrew Dabrowski wrote:
> I was over at Best Buy last night checking out the internal DVD-R
> drives. I saw Pioneer, Sony, and LG (?). Does anyone have advice about
> which will work best with Ubuntu Intrepid? Thanks.

Just follow the usual precautions:
1. Make sure the drive you get fits your available drive bay
2. Make sure the drive you get connects to the proper interface
3. Make sure a proper cable is included, or get a new one

These things can cause issues, however if you have those covered then
you should be fine. They're all using the same protocols these days, so
there is no reason to have separate drivers for them.

It is nothing like the early days of the CD-Rom drives, if that's the
sort of thing you're worried about. Also, the DVD format improved
significantly upon the CD-Audio format. There's always a real
filesystem, and the data is always transferred in data mode.

If you're an old-timer like me, you'd have every reason to be concerned.
If you're used to the Windows "every stinking device needs a separate
driver" mantra, then you'd also have reason to be concerned. However I
can tell you none of that is a concern. Things really are quite easy.

Cheers,

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Re: [BLUG] Anyone encountered GPT yet?

It's the standard for EFI-based systems. I've not yet had the pleasure
of encountering it. I'm looking forward to the day when I don't have to
deal with the old legacy BIOS crap, so I'm really looking forward to it.

Besides, as anyone who has looked at it will tell you, the whole MBR
scheme has, well, significantly lived past any sort of usefulness. It
has a Cylinder/Head/Sector scheme that needed to be worked-around when
the SCSI drives were invented, then again when IDE drives got more than
1024 cylinders. (What, 15 years ago now?) Linux, for one, just totally
ignores at this point. Then there's the fact that it only holds four
entries (thus the need for the "extended" partition table, though you
can not normally boot to "extended" partitions)...

I've been eagerly awaiting the arrival of EFI based systems on the mass
market. I know they're in use among certain high-end Intel servers, and
they're also used by the Intel Macs. It is just a matter of time before
everything else follows suit. (Or that's what I've been telling myself
for the past five years.)

Cheers,
Steven Black

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 03:14:46AM +0000, Mark Krenz wrote:
>
> I'm setting up a new backup server with a large disk arrray (4 x 1TB
> drives in RAID-5). When I loaded CentOS 5.2 and went through the
> partition editor, I decided to switch over to the console and run fdisk,
> at which point it told me that fdisk doesn't support GPT partitions.
> This is the first time I've encountered one and had to look it up.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
>
> It looks like my 3ware RAID controller set it up to use GPT for me
> since the volume is 2.8TB in size, which is over the 2TB limit that an
> MBR supports.
>
> I actually couldn't use the GPT format across the whole
> disk array because CentOS complained that the PC BIOS doesn't support
> booting to that type of partition table. So in the RAID controller I
> had to make one smaller volume to boot from and a second volume with the
> GPT table.
>
> Its a good thing to know about if you haven't encountered it yet
> because its coming our way. Especially once we start having 2TB+
> single drives.
>
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