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nil is not null october 2008 nil is not null random osity about computers and games and politics and life and stuff monday october 27 2008 gaming lab file server so i spent a few hours at school on saturday to assemble the file server for the johns hopkins gaming lab it s the first piece of hardware for the lab and while it won t be impressive to some of the real geeks out there it sure was lots of fun for me to spec out and almost build i still have to actually put the motherboard in and test it tomorrow but i hope that won t really be a problem here are some shots of the whole thing first the case with the power supply and the six 640 gb sata drives mounted yes there s also a dvd writer at the top who cares a shot from the front showing the cooling fans for those drives in their little fold out cages and finally the assembled motherboard waiting to be popped into the case and wired up tomorrow this thing will have 2 5 tb capacity as a raid 6 array and the only thing that could stop it from being really cool is one of the sata drives freaking out sad fact the more drives you have the more likely a failure becomes wish me luck update 2008 11 06 i finished assembling the server a few days after the original post and until 2008 11 04 i was still trying to get it to run using a huge variety of operating systems i mean i tried everything short of windoze and plan 9 but nothing worked right for my setup now i finally settled on something that does work openbsd once again about 10 years after i established the infamous nil ics uci edu server using openbsd i am using this conservative piece of secure low tech ness and i am loving it i had really started to hate on theo a while ago when all the childish craziness between him and the bcm43xx guys went down i sort of swore never to touch openbsd again because of it but now i have to admit theo you are sitting on one hell of a stable os there i still don t like what you pulled off with the linux driver guys but i can admit when i make a mistake regardless of your behavior openbsd still rocks the only two things you guys desperately need is a better software raid solution and something like lvm i miss those things sorely yeah i am stuck running raid 10 now no raid 6 in sight and static partitions all over oh well at least it works update 2009 04 17 actually i take that back openbsd does suck what happened was that i tried to install a web application that needed php and in the process openbsd hosed itself so much that it wouldn t boot anymore yes i used the standard openbsd package system i did nothing directly with the install wow so i ended up putting gentoo on it right before the semester started that was a little hectic but the server has been up for a while now gaming uptime 17 41 41 up 72 days 5 23 1 user load average 0 00 0 00 0 00 i have raid 1 with spares for the boot root and swap paritions and raid 6 for the rest lvm2 makes sure that i can resize the various pieces of that raid 6 to whatever the students need another gentoo success seems like my bsd days are numbered update 2009 09 08 i rebooted for the first time in a long while and almost everything worked on reboot i was afraid it may not before the reboot i had this phf gaming uptime 12 25 32 up 216 days 6 min 2 users load average 0 00 0 00 0 00 phf gaming date tue sep 8 12 25 33 edt 2009 pretty impressive no complaints ever from students about the performance of the thing either so yeah gentoo ftw d update 2011 10 09 sorry for the broken images i am not sure i can recover those anytime soon but the same setup is still running perfectly i ve had a few disk failures in the meantime but i never lost any data thanks to the raid 6 setup one of these days i may want to re install everything from scratch just because some crud has accumulated in all these years but it s really not too bad and the fun thing is now i can buy a single disk to backup the whole machine on if i decide to re install it at least the human race is making progress in one dimension the size of cheap sata disks d posted by peter fröhlich at 6 03 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday october 14 2008 the business of generals the carey business school just announced its leaders and legends lecture series i ll refrain from commenting on the title itself what s really interesting is the first speaker they chose general james e cartwright i assume very few people see anything wrong with this but of course i do i ll quote what one of the more honest generals smedley darlington butler had to say about the intersection of business and war i spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period i spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for big business for wall street and the bankers in short i was a racketeer a gangster for capitalism i helped make mexico and especially tampico safe for american oil interests in 1914 i helped make haiti and cuba a decent place for the national city bank boys to collect revenues in i helped in the raping of half a dozen central american republics for the benefit of wall street i helped purify nicaragua for the international banking house of brown brothers in 1902 1912 i brought light to the dominican republic for the american sugar interests in 1916 i helped make honduras right for the american fruit companies in 1903 in china in 1927 i helped see to it that standard oil went on its way unmolested looking back on it i might have given al capone a few hints the best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts i operated on three continents i am sure hoss would be quick to claim that smedley was a pinko commie or that the modern military does not do any such thing anymore i won t spend 35 to hear his talk only to get thrown out during the q a session when i ask something inconvenient i hope nobody else goes either and empty hall is probably the easiest way of commenting clearly on the choice of speaker not sure yet just try to think through what a general knows about business he knows that funding never runs out he knows that employees will do what they are told or else and he knows that laws can be broken without consequence whenever that is convenient still not sure why don t you read smedley s war is a racket for some historical perspective and then follow it up with naomi klein s risky business in iraq for some more recent examples i wonder how long it ll take them to invite naomi to speak posted by peter fröhlich at 4 17 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom who blogs here peter fröhlich munich germany i like old games and old computers i dig free software and free culture and i believe that people not organizations have inalienable rights view my complete profile complete works 2021 2 june 2 2020 3 november 1 august 1 july 1 2018 2 may 1 january 1 2017 3 october 2 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