• Woo! Kernel dump!

    20 Nov | 05
    • in Computers • 
    • by FozzTexx

    Found a copy of ClusterKnoppix that appeared to have the same kernel version of the copy of CHAOS I have. Fired it up and was able to get the CHAOS computers to join by giving them the j2 option. Also got that one with the dead PS repaired and so now I have 4 computers in my cluster. Figured a good test would be a linux compile so I started one up. One by one as the load went out to the other computers, they kernel dumped! Woo! Wait, that's not a good thing. I think I can get one of them to...

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  • First cluster try

    19 Nov | 05
    • in Computers • 
    • by FozzTexx

    I went around and counted up all the PCs I had sitting around that are complete but aren't powered on. There's no less than 14 of them. I also have a couple of motherboards and cases and could probably build 2 more Pentium class, and maybe even a couple of 486s. Cleared my entire table off and gathered up 5 computers and downloaded CHAOS and BCCD isos and burned them. CHAOS wouldn't boot on 2. BCCD wouldn't let me "runinram" and I didn't want to burn a second...

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  • OpenMosix on heterogeneous junk?

    17 Nov | 05
    • in Computers • 
    • by FozzTexx

    For the last few weeks the spam load on one of my servers has gotten way way out of hand. The computer is averaging a load of 4-7 constantly. The number of sendmail processes that are running just drag the machine to a crawl. Over a year ago or more I changed sendmail around so that it has 4 queues and installed re-mqueue from Paul Pomes. This helped dramatically . Stuff that was sticking in the queue and dragging everything else down now gets automatically moved to queues that run far less...

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  • Fancy dog door

    16 Nov | 05
    • in Woodworking • 
    • by FozzTexx

    Well, it's "fancy" because I tried to make it a "sealed" door that swung both directions. There's an outer frame which is hinged, and then the inner panel. Of course it hasn't worked quite right. The outer frame won't close by itself. I tried adding a rubberband but it doesn't seem to help much. Why is there no window? Because a 1/8th inch thick sheet of acrylic just big enough was $35!! For that I might as well buy a dog door. All I spent on this was...

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  • Tic-tac-toe, what else?

    15 Nov | 05
    • in Computers • 
    • by FozzTexx

    Ok, this is sort of old but I just started this blog and thought this was still interesting. A while ago I built an automated phone answering system that runs on Linux and uses a standard modem. The software supports caller ID and can email messages that are recorded. But what's really cool is it is Tcl based. That means I can make it do just about anything I want. One of the things I set up is Auto-blacklisting. In the old days whenever a telemarketer called and I got sick of them I had...

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