Currently Listening To:
Jethro Tull : Witches Promise (Living In The Past)
Mersenne Prime Search Status
Type : Overall
Rank : 205
OF : 7392
GHz Days : 4134.9052
Count : 9235
finally..solidly into the top 250...on the way to top 100......and I'm beginning to notice
that the quad Opteron box keeping this moving right along-- with a dozen VM's running
various proof of concept instances for software deployments, there's still plenty of grunt to
churn through a few hopeful primes..
Click this link: Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
if you're not sure what I'm referring to.
MariaDB 5.1.42 binaries for Debian Linux on Sparc download available
The 5.1.42 binaries for MariaDB on Debian Sparc are now tuned and finished.
These seem to perform very well indeed, allowing even a tiny Netra T1 105
to benchmark very well, given the scale of the hardware.
On larger, later machines, performance is excellent.
I've still not written a linux specific how-to, but the Quick and Dirty Install
Guide for the Solaris binaries in this blog, is accurate, and will work for this
distribution. Just be sure to be aware of the filename change, reflecting the
5.1.41rc / 5.1.42 difference, and it should all go well.
Make sure your Debian install is fully up to date before deploy..
Post install configuration: follow the same exact steps that you'd follow from
the MySQL documentation, just remember to modify them for the /usr/local/mariadb
location. I'm including the INSTALL-SOURCE file in the /usr/local/mariadb.../
directory
Download Link: MariaDB_5.1.42-Sparc-Debian.tar.gz
Email me from the 'Contact' page, if you have any questions or difficulties..
Another book:
Picked up what I hope to be quite an interesting read this afternoon.
The Restored New Testament, by Willis Barnstone.
.."A New Translation with Commentary, Including the Gnostic Gospels:
Thomas, Mary, and Judas"...
With the amount of upset that Dan Brown was create, with a bit of fiction writing,
by doing no more than inteleaving a few snippets from these Gnostic Gospels, then
surely, in context, they have to be worth a read.
Currently Listening To:
Cirque Du Soleil : Algeria (Algeria)
Currently Listening To:
Sander Van Doorn : Riff (Supernaturalistic)
Currently Listening To:
Puscifer : Momma Sed (V is for Vagina)
VirtualBox 3.1.4
Both personally and professionally, I've used several types of virtualization. I really
do feel that virtualization is the future of computing, without question.
Of the programs out there which allow you to virtualize, one in particular stands out to
me as being an exceptionally well written piece of software : VirtualBox.
I've been using it since Innotek days, and in my experience, it's incredibly stable, very
flexible, works with pretty much anything you'd want to use for either a host or guest
OS and ..strikingly, it's free.
I'm sure there's reams of information about running it on Windows, or with Windows guests,
but since I neither use, nor have use for Windows, I can't comment on the experience. I
can however say that with Solaris/OpenSolaris, Free/Net BSD, Linux variants, and even a few
less known oddities, it tends to work very very well indeed.
A mature web interface is really all that's missing, and currently I know of two being
worked on. VBoxWeb works for the basic tasks, I'm looking forward to the rest of the base
functionality being expanded a bit.
On Sunday afternoon, I deployed 6 VM's.. 3 Linux, and 3 Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris. The process
is so quick that within a couple of hours, I could set up to check the performance of a
web interfaced application we're deploying as proof-of-concept to clients, with different
databases, different application servers, and on 3 different operating systems, all being
done from my little netbook, from which I run the network remotely. At one point, all 6
were running simultaneously, all running MySQL and an app server, yet the resources which
were actually being consumed were but a fraction of what you'd expect. Unless I was running
a benchmark on a specific VM, you'd hardly see them at all whilst running 'top' on the host
server.
If you're a developer, looking to test across multiple platforms, an administrator looking
to get the most out of your hardware, or a home user who's curious. Give it a try, it's a
free download.. and in my experience, is very easy to install / use
Give me a shout with any questions, if I can help, I will.
Currently Listening To:
Bang Tango : Shotgun Man (Psycho Cafe)
Currently Listening To:
Vasco Rossi : Liberi Liberi (Platinum)
*Even if you cannot understand Italian, this album/artist is very much
worth a listen.
New Home Server HP DL585
I broke protocol this last weekend, and installed an HP server into my home network. By
nature I'm usually a 'Sun' guy.. every branded piece of iron I have here is Sun kit, but
this was offered to me.. it has great specs for what I needed.. so, now it has a home in
my rack. 4x multi-core Opterons, 32G of ram should certainly keep things moving along.
There's a bit of noise, but it's within a couple of dB of the Sun blade server, sitting
above it. I have to give HP credit, internally, the layout is excellent, nearly wireless,
and quite logical. I stand by not being a great fan of HP's desktop boxen, though they're
still a definite notch up the food chain from Dell, but this server is very well done.
It's already got Ubuntu Server 9.10 in it, a couple of Solaris 10 VM's, a couple of Ubuntu
VM's.. and it's going to have more as time goes on. It's also joining the ranks of the
boxes which number crunch for my Mersenne Prime effort.., thus, it will always have a
bit to do...
One interesting artifact I noticed, and would be happy to hear from anyone who's seen
the same thing: The server has 2x eth ports, and had an additional 2 on a PCI added in card.
On top of these, I added a 4port Gb card.. for a total of 8 ports.
For some reason, Ubuntu decided to start the naming at eth4..
I've ended up with:
eth4
eth5
eth6
eth7
Then:
eth16
eth17
eth18
eth19
Seems an obvious question, but what about eth0,1,2, and 3? Not to mention the whole eth8~~
eth15 range? How / why this has happened, I have no idea. It's not caused any problems..
my networking is all working perfectly, but I've never seen a Linux dist, use such a bizzare
naming sequence for ethernet ports. Anyone else seen this? did it cause any problems long term?
18 19 24 28 50 54 Countries
In the last 4 weeks, this sites had hits from 18 19 24 28 50 54 countries around the world.
Given how non-mainstream the site is.. and how non-cross linked anywhere, this is
kind of amazing really.
The countries are:
Albania, Australia, Austria, Brazil, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Columbia, Croatia,
Czech Republic, El Salvador, Finland, France, Gibraltar, Germany, Great Britain, Greece,
Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Latvia, Macedonia,
Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Panama, Poland, Romania,
Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka,
Sweden, Tunesia, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Venezuela, Wales, Zimbabwe
What can I say? Thanks to everyone for stopping by .....
I've got to hunt out one of those globes with the red dots, to show where the hits
are coming from. If anyone knows of one which I can incorporate into the site, send
me a message from the 'Contact' page please.
Thanks.
Another thanks to Tom Carlson for the little globe with the red dots which displays
where everyone's from :)
MariaDB 5.1.42 Binaries
I'm working on tuning the compiles of 5.1.42 for the Spar architecture, for both Debian Linux
and Solaris 10. I hope to have these done very shortly. Where this is an official release, I'm
spending a bit more time experimenting and tuning, seeing just how much performance can be had.
Will let you all know, and post them for download, as soon as they're done.
Let me know if you have any specific needs, or unusual requests....
A Few More Books for the Collection:
The Chemical Choir - The History of Alchemy, by P. G. Maxwell-Stuart
Dante - La Divina Comemdia (The Devine Comedy) by European Book Milano
Full Size, Illustrated, in Italian
--since I've been trying to learn Italian for a while, I'll consider
myself to have sufficiently mastered the language when I can correctly
read and comprehend this book - a new goal is set.
Leonardo da Vinci - The Tragic Persuit of Perfection, by Antonina Vallentin (1941)
Looking forward, as always to these.. should be interesting reads.. mini-review to
follow in time..
Currently Listening To:
The Verve : Lucky Man (Urban Hymns)
