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"You keep hangin round me
And Im not so glad you found me
Youre still doing things that I gave up years ago"
-Lou Reed
Ahhh facebook, what a great way to get in touch with old "friends"...
Plan 9 is awesome, I have no idea why people aren't using it to play with clustering:
% syslist=(brak zorak thundercles mrtickles)
% echo $syslist
brak zorak thundercles mrtickles
The cpu command lets you work on other Plan9 systems:
% for (i in $syslist) {
cpu -h $i -c command&
}
Where "command" is some plan9 command, like hostname, for example
% for (i in $syslist) {
cpu -h $i -c hostname&
}
Say you want to manage or debug processes on all of the nodes in your cluster from your terminal, from the same prompt:
% for (i in $syslist) {
import -a $i .com /proc /proc
}
... and that is just scratching the surface..
Everyone is running around buying up guns for fear that Obama will ban. Remember that its not just black guns that are at risk, but high capacity magazines,flash hiders, muzzle brakes, pistol grips, fore grips, collapsible stocks, and I am willing to be rail mounted lights and lasers... That's the stuff that I would worry about. I am eyeing up some complete LMT lowers, a couple of free float tubes, a couple of collapsible stocks (I more or less only use Magpul CTRs, tho the LMTs will have their SOPMOD stock, which is fine by me), a Surefire TL3 light/laser, and probably an Insight ISM-V co-aligned laser/red dot sight. I prefer the venerable old 1911 type 45 caliber pistol, which has a magazine capacity of 7 or 8, so I am not too worried about those getting banned. What will get banned for sure are 5.7x28mm and various 50cal guns...
I resigned from my current job and gave my final day as Jan 28, 2009. This may move forward or back depending on a number of factors. The fact of the matter is, however, that I am coming home within three months and I can't wait. There is nothing to make you appreciate what you have as a resident/citizen of the United States like moving to Riyadh for a year.... Whew I have a couple potential gigs in NJ and Austin, but I am really wanting to find a cozy UNIX guruship at a local university or some such... That would be swell.
The blanket ennui that envelopes you here in Riyadh is thick and heavy, but it does help inspire creativity (at least in me, it does). I have been sketching out a number of designs for an immersion cooled PC. I would almost certainly use transformer oil (very refined mineral spirits) and something like a zalman reserator as a heat exchanger. In a perfect world I would use perflurocarbon, but in a perfect world I would also weigh 165lbs, shoot like Larry Vickers, ride like Ruben Alcantara, and have a luxuriant/full head of hair. :)
I have been toying with a couple of case configurations, Right now I am favoring a cube shaped main tank big enough to hold 4 ATX motherboards inserted connector edge up, a "waterfall" of cooled oil dumps into this from a tank on one side and a waterfall of presumably heated oil on the other side will drain into a third reservoir into which the power supplies sit. A scavenging pump then pushes the heated oil to the reserator, which then puts it back in the first tank. I am doing this because at some point I would like to play around with immersion coolers in the first tank to get the boards down below room temperature.
Another configuration has a side-mounted single system board in a very tight fitting case, it would again be mounted connector edge up with sealed pass-through connectors for vga and usb. Cold oil is drawed in the bottom edge and hot oil is pumped from the top (past the connector edge) and dumped into a sump where the power supplies sit, the reserator then draws the hot oil from this and returns it to the bottom of the system tank. There is a commercial immersion case that does something like this.
I also need to come up to speed with overclocking, since this is obviously where all of this is headed. It turns out that working with plexiglass is pretty easy, and I am sure that I'll have a lot of failures and stupid mistakes to share with the world. My goal is to have a working and artfully constructed immersion cooled pc by June of 2009.
OS? FreeBSD, obviously.
I got one of those neat little ASUS eee PC's, a model 900, about a week before the Atom based eee PC made it to Saudi Arabia... Oh well.. Anyway these things are awesome! The keys are a bit small and the arabic/english layout is a little different, but all in all I am very happy with the hardware.
Complaints:
The drive is slow (30gb pata)
The wlan device (atheros) wasn't running out of the box with any OS.
I am having a hard time getting X11 to run in 1024x600 mode. Right now its in 800x600 and stretched. This is not a problem since I use Motif or xmonad.
I don't know why everyone bitches about the batter life, mine works fine. Maybe the battery sucks if you run an OS that soaks up all the memory and CPU (linux, windows).
I am currently running NetBSD 4.0.1 and thinking about moving to 5.0 b2 this weekend. I think that with a faster drive (ssd?) this will be a pretty good system. Its PERFECT for mobile penetration and scanning work.
I like the eeePC/NetBSD thing. It reminds me of my old Sun 3/50 from back in the day but 56 times the clock speed, 85 times the memory, and 213 times the disk space; it also weighs 75 times less and doesn't require a special grid-etched mirrored mousepad.. So though the lens of nostalgia its a frigging miracle machine. :)
Of course all of this didn't prevent a build of the GHC Haskell environment taking THREE HOURS.
MBC started playing The A-Team at 5:30, which fucking rocks my tacos.
I have been quite depressed, lately, but I am trying to fight through it..
No Joy Division for me until I get home.
This is a big blog entry, I guess I had a lot on my mind.
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