Og jeg som trodde vi var vant til litt snø her i landet!
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Monday, February 27, 2006
Ekspertene slakter Norge - Aftenposten.no
Ekspertene slakter Norge - Aftenposten.no
Hallo, liksom. Norge er et lite, bitte lite, land. Vi kan ikke forvente at vi skal ta en haug med gull hver gang det er vinter-ol.
Jeg synes vi har gjort en grei innsats jeg, og de som har flydd på ski og hoppa og kosta, de har gjort en hederlig innsats.
Dessuten har jeg fått vite at min dr.grads avhandlig er funnet "worthy of defending for the dr. scient degree". Så nå er det nesten bare tut og kjør igjen...
Take care,
Hallo, liksom. Norge er et lite, bitte lite, land. Vi kan ikke forvente at vi skal ta en haug med gull hver gang det er vinter-ol.
Jeg synes vi har gjort en grei innsats jeg, og de som har flydd på ski og hoppa og kosta, de har gjort en hederlig innsats.
Dessuten har jeg fått vite at min dr.grads avhandlig er funnet "worthy of defending for the dr. scient degree". Så nå er det nesten bare tut og kjør igjen...
Take care,
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
digi.no - Rapport hevder Linux-servere er billigst
digi.no - Rapport hevder Linux-servere er billigst
Som man roper i skogen får man svar vil nå jeg si. Som ihuga linux tilhenger er jeg seff enig, men det er nå en gang sånn at Linux og Windows er to helt forskjellige systemer, så jeg skjønner ikke hvorfor man på død og liv skal sammenlikne.
Dersom du har sys.admins som kan både Windows og Linux, vil som regel Linux bli valgt på serversiden dersom applikasjonen man skal implementere tillater valg. Grunnen er opplagt - fra sys.admin siden er som regel Linux et langt mer behagelig valg.
Dersom du har sys.admins som bare kan Windows har du ikke noe valg. Bortsett fra å sparke staben og ansette nye da. Og dersom de bare kan Linux har du heller ikke noe valg.
På desktop siden er systemene såpass forskjellige, at dersom ikke ledelse og sys.admins ønsker å overkjøre sine brukere, og dermed få lite produktive, fiendlige innstilte medarbeidere, så har man heller ikke noe valg i særlig grad. Da snakker jeg om avanserte, oppgående brukere selvsagt - kveget får bruke det de får. Men de andre må altså få velge, og da vil hver enkelt bruker velge det saom passer best for seg, enten det er Linux, Mac OSX, Windows, eller et av de andre OS som finnes.
Omtrent sånn ser nå jeg det.
Som man roper i skogen får man svar vil nå jeg si. Som ihuga linux tilhenger er jeg seff enig, men det er nå en gang sånn at Linux og Windows er to helt forskjellige systemer, så jeg skjønner ikke hvorfor man på død og liv skal sammenlikne.
Dersom du har sys.admins som kan både Windows og Linux, vil som regel Linux bli valgt på serversiden dersom applikasjonen man skal implementere tillater valg. Grunnen er opplagt - fra sys.admin siden er som regel Linux et langt mer behagelig valg.
Dersom du har sys.admins som bare kan Windows har du ikke noe valg. Bortsett fra å sparke staben og ansette nye da. Og dersom de bare kan Linux har du heller ikke noe valg.
På desktop siden er systemene såpass forskjellige, at dersom ikke ledelse og sys.admins ønsker å overkjøre sine brukere, og dermed få lite produktive, fiendlige innstilte medarbeidere, så har man heller ikke noe valg i særlig grad. Da snakker jeg om avanserte, oppgående brukere selvsagt - kveget får bruke det de får. Men de andre må altså få velge, og da vil hver enkelt bruker velge det saom passer best for seg, enten det er Linux, Mac OSX, Windows, eller et av de andre OS som finnes.
Omtrent sånn ser nå jeg det.
Gratulerer Sverige!!!
Som noen vet pågår det et OL for tiden. I dag var det sprint-stafett, en langrennsøvelse hvor ihvertfall de fleste normenn nok hadde forventet norske gullmedaljer. Men idag vant Sverige, både herre og dame stafetten. Derfor vil jeg gjerne få lov til å gratulere våre gode naboer på det hjerteligste!
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
I will soon be a doctor!
Just a short notice to inform my faithful crowd of readers that I soon will be a Dr.Scient. All the required documents are now accepted. The only thing left is that the committee must accept my thesis, and then the defense of the thesis, of course. But that should be walk in the park. not...
Anyway, wish me good luck on the last mile.
And as always, take care out there. There's lot of snow, and the roads are slippy. At least in my area in Norway. Just have a look out of my window:
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
A silly post. Mostly.
Ok, sorry folks, this post isn't very interesting. I am testing out a program called gnome-blog, running on linux, which can be used for posting directly to the blog from my desktop. As this is a gtk/gnome program, as should be evident from the name, it is not optimal for me. The optimal solution will be something I can run directly from the shell, or maybe even from a macro in the editor vim, but I will just test this program for now.
By the way, I have to report on an extraordinary service from our regular hardware-pusher, pc-express. As reported yesterday, the NIC on my desktop computer at work broke down. As the manufacturer in question, Shuttle, are known by our dealer to not exactly handle guarantee matters in a prompt fashion, I was told today that the just ordered a new box for me, and will handle the return of the old one without bothering me. In effect, I will get a computer back very soon, which is important to me. I think this is more than I could expect, so I am really satisfied.
PE2 2:10-11: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
Take care,
Monday, February 06, 2006
Me and my computers
The regular reader knows that I have right now 3 computers that I use regulary. With two of them there has been some events recently that I can mention here, and for the last one, the P1510, I have promised you some comments on the linux installation.
First, the AMD64 computer that I regularly use at work. The Ubuntu for AMD64 is working flawlessly on that computer. Everything that I need is running just fine. But on friday the NIC fell apart. Usually, that is not a big deal, you just pull the card out and slip a new one in to the box. Problem is that this is a Shuttle SN25p, with the excelent NIC built right into the mainboard. Combined with noe free PCI slot on the mainboard, I do not have any other option but sending the whole box in for service. So, I am happy with the box, it works quite well, and performance is more than adequate for my work (which includes some really heavy simulations of partial differential equations), but no free slot for a emergency NIC can easily be a showstopper in the future. I am thinking on finding other use for the computer within our lab, and get another one for myself.
The PowerMac at home is also doing fine these days. As you know, I ended up installing gentoo on that computer, because the installers of both debian and ubuntu for powerpc failed to work, due to problem with disk partitioning. The installer is just unable to detect the geometry of my partitions, and give me only the option to wipe out the entire disk, including my MacOSX installation, and put in linux. Not what I want, as I use MacOSX for different purposes.
The problem was that I never used the gentoo installed. It just take to much time to compile everything, and a whole lot of packages is masked out for powerpc64, as I guess not very many gentoo users play with these animals. But then I figured out that I already have a working disk geometry and working yaboot for booting the operating system I want, so I just tried to install ubuntu for powerpc64 into or on top of the gentoo installation. For this purpose I chosed the pre-release of the next ubuntu (Dapper Drake), and run the installer in expert modus. In stead of working through the partitioning and mounting step in the installer, I switched to another console, mounted what I wanted as '/target', run the necessary swapon command, and wiped out the original gentoo stuff from /target. Most of the installer worked just fine from that point, except making the installation bootable and writing a correct fstab. The fstab I could easily handle by hand, and the configuration for the 'yaboot' boot-loader I have been clever enough to back up to a USB drive. So, after copying in the yaboot config, running 'ybin -v' and doing some editing of fstab using vim, I have a working ubuntu. Now with most of what I need available in binary form. There are some issues with the airport extreme wireless card, my firewire soundcard and the built in soundcard, but I can live with this.
With the Fujitsu P1510, the history is not very interesting. I booted from Debian sarge net-install cd, performed a regular installation, upgraded to etch. Everything is just fine. Bluetooth, sound, WiFi, Xorg - everything works. There are only a few minior things. Suspend/resume is not working out of the box, so I patched the kernel with software suspend 2. Using this I can hibernate the computer using the swap partition to store the state, and bring it back up and running in a matter of a few seconds. I also have some issues with cpu throttling, I have not manage to get neither cupfreqd nor powernowd to run, this is something I have to look a bit more into.
Take care, folks!
First, the AMD64 computer that I regularly use at work. The Ubuntu for AMD64 is working flawlessly on that computer. Everything that I need is running just fine. But on friday the NIC fell apart. Usually, that is not a big deal, you just pull the card out and slip a new one in to the box. Problem is that this is a Shuttle SN25p, with the excelent NIC built right into the mainboard. Combined with noe free PCI slot on the mainboard, I do not have any other option but sending the whole box in for service. So, I am happy with the box, it works quite well, and performance is more than adequate for my work (which includes some really heavy simulations of partial differential equations), but no free slot for a emergency NIC can easily be a showstopper in the future. I am thinking on finding other use for the computer within our lab, and get another one for myself.
The PowerMac at home is also doing fine these days. As you know, I ended up installing gentoo on that computer, because the installers of both debian and ubuntu for powerpc failed to work, due to problem with disk partitioning. The installer is just unable to detect the geometry of my partitions, and give me only the option to wipe out the entire disk, including my MacOSX installation, and put in linux. Not what I want, as I use MacOSX for different purposes.
The problem was that I never used the gentoo installed. It just take to much time to compile everything, and a whole lot of packages is masked out for powerpc64, as I guess not very many gentoo users play with these animals. But then I figured out that I already have a working disk geometry and working yaboot for booting the operating system I want, so I just tried to install ubuntu for powerpc64 into or on top of the gentoo installation. For this purpose I chosed the pre-release of the next ubuntu (Dapper Drake), and run the installer in expert modus. In stead of working through the partitioning and mounting step in the installer, I switched to another console, mounted what I wanted as '/target', run the necessary swapon command, and wiped out the original gentoo stuff from /target. Most of the installer worked just fine from that point, except making the installation bootable and writing a correct fstab. The fstab I could easily handle by hand, and the configuration for the 'yaboot' boot-loader I have been clever enough to back up to a USB drive. So, after copying in the yaboot config, running 'ybin -v' and doing some editing of fstab using vim, I have a working ubuntu. Now with most of what I need available in binary form. There are some issues with the airport extreme wireless card, my firewire soundcard and the built in soundcard, but I can live with this.
With the Fujitsu P1510, the history is not very interesting. I booted from Debian sarge net-install cd, performed a regular installation, upgraded to etch. Everything is just fine. Bluetooth, sound, WiFi, Xorg - everything works. There are only a few minior things. Suspend/resume is not working out of the box, so I patched the kernel with software suspend 2. Using this I can hibernate the computer using the swap partition to store the state, and bring it back up and running in a matter of a few seconds. I also have some issues with cpu throttling, I have not manage to get neither cupfreqd nor powernowd to run, this is something I have to look a bit more into.
Take care, folks!
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