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Who is Jon Giffard?
Martin Buckley, a.k.a the Evil Zen Scientist, rightly pointed out that I'd posted my first coolblog without introducing myself.
Let me put right this breach of etiquette with my 2nd post
I'll avoid listing interests, hobbies and pets although if anyone has any advice on how to stop one of my cats bringing live frogs into the house , I'd appreciate it.
My involvement with Novell started off as an user, all the way back to Netware 3.11 and a bit of v2.2. This moved onto a consultancy role for a medical software company who used Netware 3.12 for its traditional role providing file and print services, but also hosted a virtualized operating system known as BOS.
That's right. Virtual OS on Netware 3.12 back in the mid 90s.
As time progressed I moved onto various positions, including working with EZS experiencing the delights of SFT III running on multiple CPU servers. Most of the latter part of my career has been involved with service desks and systems management before joining Novell in July of this year in the SRM division.
Well that's me.
One question for the audience. Who can recall the different colours used by the Netware snake screen saver when running on multiple CPUs? The first was red, but for the life of me I can't recall what the others were for a 4 CPU server.
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For 2 processors, you had
Submitted by JJT (not verified) on 7 December 2007 - 6:36am.
For 2 processors, you had red and blue. I believe for 4 processors, you had red, blue, green, and yellow.
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I'm pretty sure JJT is
Submitted by Jim henderson (not verified) on 7 December 2007 - 8:20am.
I'm pretty sure JJT is correct - those were the first four colours that came to mind for me.
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Looks like red, blue, cyan,
Submitted by Mike Richichi (not verified) on 7 December 2007 - 9:35am.
Looks like red, blue, cyan, and green to me. (don't know the order of cyan and green.) Verified by running scrsaver.nlm on a dual core, dual proc box.
Anyone have a dual quad-core running NetWare to see what the next 4 colors are?
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The next four are all black..
Submitted by Evil ZEN Scientist (not verified) on 7 December 2007 - 10:41am.
The next four are all black..
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In all seriousness - this is
Submitted by Evil ZEN Scientist (not verified) on 7 December 2007 - 10:43am.
In all seriousness - this is an 8 bit additive colour space; the missing ones would be magenta, yellow and white.
I've no idea if anyone ever considered an eight core box :)
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This is sounding very much
Submitted by Martin Irwin (not verified) on 7 December 2007 - 11:12am.
This is sounding very much like an old Monty Python skit from the 60s era. Grin
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Well I will all let you know
Submitted by Flyingguy (not verified) on 7 December 2007 - 11:52pm.
Well I will all let you know the mystery answer soon as I will be loading NETWARE 6.5 SP7 on a dell with dual quad-core Zeons. Should be interesting.
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At BS 1999, Compaq had a box
Submitted by Mike Faris (not verified) on 9 December 2007 - 5:14am.
At BS 1999, Compaq had a box that had eight snakes on it. It was a POC server so they wouldn't let us "look under the hood".
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Now I have a new task!
Submitted by JohnD(CNE) (not verified) on 10 December 2007 - 10:36am.
Now I have a new task! Re-create the snake screensaver in Linux.
Maybe I'll do that before I work on re-creating Monitor.....
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Want to bet I could
Submitted by Patrick Farrell (not verified) on 10 December 2007 - 5:26pm.
Want to bet I could substitute a dual core xeon for that box and you wouldn't notice the performance difference? :) Ok seriously, what in the world are you running on netware that will make use of more than 2 cores?
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I would like to see someone
Submitted by Tim Edmonds (not verified) on 11 December 2007 - 9:23am.
I would like to see someone port DSBROWSE to Linux.
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Actually nothing I am going
Submitted by Flyingguy (not verified) on 12 December 2007 - 12:14am.
Actually nothing I am going to do it just because I have the box laying around for a little while.
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It is actually running SLES 10 at the moment, and to SLES it just looks like an 8 way.
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Hey great! I never run the
Submitted by Flyingguy (not verified) on 12 December 2007 - 12:16am.
Hey great! I never run the freaking GUI if I can avoid it. I would LOVE to have the snakes running on my SLES box. It is so nice to just be able to look across the server room and in one brief glance be able to see the server load.
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Better Yet, just put the
Submitted by Flyingguy (not verified) on 12 December 2007 - 12:30am.
Better Yet, just put the snakes back into Monitor.nlm and give the ability to lock down the console.
There is no Linux counterpart to Monitor.NLM - seriously, show me the utility in Linux where I can ( monitor all connections, their open files, kill connections in a single keystroke, see the IP address of the connection, see the current server performance ( PER PROCESSOR, Per Thread, Per User, Per Application, volume usuage, All loaded Modules, Cache Utilization, State of my lan/wan drivers and all the data points therein ).
There is no Linux counterpart to TCPCON.NLM - Not even Netstat unless someone knows how to use netstat to kill a specific socket connection.
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SDIDIAG is nice too... But
Submitted by Eric (not verified) on 13 December 2007 - 3:09pm.
SDIDIAG is nice too...
But yeah, scrsaver was nice. Were the colors different for physical versus logical (hyper-threading) cpu's?
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Each core is seen as a
Submitted by flyingGuy (not verified) on 13 December 2007 - 7:26pm.
Each core is seen as a completely seperate CPU, so with a dual core you get two, with a quad core you get 4, and in a few days I will let you all know what a dual-quad-core machine shows as.
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--- HERE IT IS --- THE
Submitted by flyingguy (not verified) on 17 January 2008 - 5:15pm.
--- HERE IT IS --- THE ANSWER YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR (HEHE)
The colors of the snames on a server with two, quad core xeon processors are as follows:
Gray
Green
Red
Blue
orange
cyan
magenta
light blue ??
Ohh well, there are 8 colorfull snakes..
Display Processors shows processor 0 through 7
So there you have it! All the news thats fit to print.
I will now be installing SLED onto the machine to be an Oracle server.
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