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/. has a link to a Microsoft RIF rumor.

And I heard from a number of sources about a big blue RIF.
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Ok … I had gone off on the OFED build/installation scripts for v1.3 and before, noting that it required that I do lots of patching, as the build environment … basically wrappers around rpmbuild, made distro specific assumptions.

I don’t have a problem with using rpmbuild. RPMs annoy me in general, as they have been little more than a moving target, and sadly rendered effectively incompatible across distros. Not just the binary ones, but the source RPMs are very hard to build on any but the target distro. Which makes software portability… at least as packaged in RPM format, a challenge.
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Saw this mentioned all over the web …

Quite a few of them are good. I like the “not so much” phrase though … sad to see it in need of banning.

I liked the carbon footprint explanation. What a business model …
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(for my fortran bretheren, != -> .ne. )

On /. is an object lesson in what not to do for valuable data.

Backups are important. This cannot be stressed enough.
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This presentation on diversity in HPC. Diversity of HPC … machines, OSes, architectures … and comments from the author.

Very good read. Did I mention it was good?

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Previously I had told you about octobonnie. 8 simultaneous bonnies run locally to beat the heck out of our servers. If we are going to catch a machine based problem, it will likely show up under this wilting load.

But while that is a heavy load, it is nothing like what we have going on now.
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Ok, a little early for those in NA, but late for those in Oz and about past it for India, but as you can see from WorldTimeZone, its coming to europe/mid-africa as I write this….

happy new years to you all!

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The ruins of Detroit.

Look for the Michigan Central Rail Road station, and see if you recognize this from the recent Transformers movie. The building is near Mexican Town, south-ish of the old Tiger Stadium.

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… a weak dollar is a good dollar. Makes our exports more desireable.

From Yahoo, linked back to the page.

Really, we need that dollar lower. Makes exporters happy.

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Ok. I read something while I was semi-concious during my recent defeat at the hands of a 72 hour bug (that positively whupped me upside the head, stomach and other parts).

I read Cisco is coming out with blade servers.

Ok. Here is the 2 + 2 = 3 moment. Yeah, assume I am off the mark. Pure speculation. Shai, feel free to tell me here that I am full of it.
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