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Skriven 2008-03-25 04:08:56 av Maurice Kinal (1:261/38)
     Kommentar till en text av James Bradley
Ärende: you don't send me flowers anymore
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Hey James!

> I would have sent you Valentine kisses, if I knew you felt that way.

I don't think either of us is the others type for that sort of activity. Can't
we just be friends?

> Extra obnoxious, extra large, extra dirty, or extra f-f-filthy?

Depends on the circumstances but in this case just extra, extra special.

> On the Linux front, I tried a couple of glossy distributions, and went
> back to Slack on my communications machine.

Yeah Slack is the best out of the lot.  However in my circumstance I prefer a
blend between Linux From Scratch, Cross Compiled Linux From Scratch, modified
Slackish type build scripts with pkgtools onboard, and my own special
configurations and development enviroment.  This is especially true on the
EM64T quad core Xeon guy but I now have a P4 system I've been testing i386
builds following the same scheme except pure 32-bit instead of pure 64-bit.  I
had to alter some versions of development tools just to make it work for both
as there were some linking issues, especially with heavy-duty, industrial
strength math libs.  What a hassel but it is really starting to take shape.  I
may switch back to the purely Slack way with these modifications as I think
that would be the ultimate. Still not quite there yet but close.

> I recalled too late about the issues with the LSI RAID card I had last
> time. I think I'll be pulling the card, or looking up the command line
> switches to run without panics.

I recall that but offhand don't remember what the kernel said about that
particuar card at the time.  I do recall something about the particular module
being "experimental" or something like that.  Also I've had issues with udev
and the way it handles some hardware initiallizations. mga_vid comes to mind
although at the moment things are up to snuff in that particular department
after an edit of one of the /etc/udev/rules/ files to suit my purpose for it.

> On the 'puter front, Two Dell servers are being a bit of prima-donas.
> Firmware this, and BIOS update that, backplane revisions,

What model?  Stinkin' firmware.  I am not a big fan of firmware. BIOS upgrades?
 I avoid those like the plague although I have run across a few machines that
should have been but never were.  The neighbour totally screwed up a brand new
Intel board doing that and to be honest I thought it was perfectly okay the way
it was before.  Live and learn.

> and even an issue with Seagate SCSI drives...

I've heard some nasty rumours about certain Seagate drives.  Some of the sata
controllers have issues with Seagates.  Haven't heard anything about Seagate
SCSI drives and controllers.

> One slipped Slack in so smoothly into a RAID 5 <?> array, I
> should have *known* it wouldn't last.

Ouch!  That hurts.  I've been avoiding RAID for whatever reason.  I can't think
of a good reason for me to need RAID is mostly why.  Same with kernel
virtualization but there I know why, which is I am totally out of sync wrt an
acceptable gcc version for the user applications and cannot get a gcc-3.x.x
working in pure 64-bit so it will have to wait. I hate to downgrade after
having such great success with the stuff that REALLY matters using gcc-4.x.x. 
Playing with gcc-4.3.0 as we speak.

> The bus is almost empty enough to pick up 860^2' of hardwood, but
> that's as far as I'll say about that.

I am still waiting patiently to see that.

Life is good,
Maurice

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