HP leads worldwide Linux server market

Since my job description contains the words Linux and ProLiant Servers, this makes me pretty happy -- HP leads worldwide Linux server market. The news has been going round
internally at HP, along with selling the 10 Millionth ProLiant server

HP has set an industry-first milestone by shipping more than 1 million Linux servers to customers since 1998, 45 percent more than any other major hardware vendor.

HP has led the worldwide Linux server market for 29 consecutive quarters. In the first quarter of 2005, HP grew 2.5 percentage points faster than the market in units on a year-over-year basis, shipped nearly 10 times as many Linux servers as Sun, led IBM by almost 8 percentage points in quarterly revenue share and outpaced Dell in both units and revenue.

The Chrinitoid has been found!

In this current Renesselaer (still RPI to me!) Alumni magazine, the current location of the George Rickey Chrinitoid has been found!

Tom Payne ('86) tracked it down to Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) found it is on public display in Zurich. It was so cool to watch on windy days. Those huge slabs were the size of a small car and could really get whipping around. Check out the animation on Tom's site.

I wonder how much it would cost to buy it back? Any rich RPI'ers out there?

Hit google for more info on the wonderous Chrinitoid

Be nice to me today

I gave blood at work.



Some kind of personal best -- from signing in to heading back to the office -- a total of 1:15m.

And I got a free t-shirt out of the deal.

Alpha RIP

[

Hewlett-Packard Co. will release the final processor upgrade for its AlphaServer line of Unix servers on Monday.

](http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/16/HNendofalpha_1.html)

Goodbye old friend.



[Check out the tombstone generator](http://tombstone.dogcrap.net/tombstone.php)

My office is now officially a Windows Free Zone

My office has been declared a Windows Free Zone


Office
Archaeologists will notice the 'Digital is a Software Company' coffee mug, the 'Compaq Solutions Alliance Test Drive Linux license plate' and the various 'hp invent penguins'

Office Archeology

My group is moving offices soon and everyone is tossing out stuff so
it doesn't have to be moved.

Treasures uncovered so far:



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* "VMS Forever" and "I (heart) My VAX" bumperstickers (watch for it on ebay.com
)
* Desktop-VMS 1.0 and 1.1 CDs -- Circa 1989 'ease of use' VMS distro. Just pop
the CD in the drive and it leads you through creating a VAX cluster of VAXstat
ion 3100s. Included of number of DECwindows-based (X11 with DECW$ toolkit) sys
tem management apps designed for the VMS newbie.
* Compaq 1998 project plan for "Linux Investigation" -- Mostly produce install
docs for ProLiant 1850R & AlphaServer 800 for the Linux 2.2 kernel.
* Andy Goldstein's 5-May-1988 memo to VMS V5 Development Team about the Kevin M
itnick breakin and the procedures on how we were going to verify 100% of the co
de.
* LaTeX-generated printout of "Real Programmers write in Fortran" about Mel the
programmer
* LaTeX-generated printout of "Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL"
* Bunch of Perl Journals (RIP)
* Marketing glossies for MailWorks for UNIX (aka OSF/1, aka Tru64)
* Christmas holiday card from the Microsoft MCIS Product Team
* Christmas holiday card from Red Hat
* Unopened(!) Microsoft Internet Explorer V2.0 Beta Internet Bro
wser for Windows 95 (required 386DX, 8MiB memory, 1-3MiB disk, 14.4 bps or fast
er modem)
* Bunch of 2400b Scholar Modems
* External 100MiB SCSI disk (MAC connectors)
* Addy's birth announcement web page (April 1998) printed out in color on high
gloss

Can't wait to see what gets uncovered today!

Mini-travelog of SF -- pictures from my business trip

I had (still here -- Sippin' Starbucks and surfin' wirelessly) some
free time during the Intel Developers Forum and took some walks about
the city with Bob, the Guatemalan worry doll that href=http://www.nozell.com/griffin">Griffin made for me.

Tuesday I walked over to city hall to see all the folks waiting to get
married before the court ruling baring same-sex marriages. Quite a
lot of people queued up and a bunch of press. Alex Chiu (?) was there
getting his word out too. Lunch was at the excellent Cha-Am on Folsom
and 3rd.

Wednesday I took a cable car over to Fisherman's warf and had a crab
sandwich for breakfast. Yum! Bob also saw Alcatraz. Last night I
saw Matrix:Revolutions at the IMAX at the Metreon. They have a cool
kiosk that beams to your palm pilot info about all the stores in the
mall.

Today IDF is closing and it is unclear when I'll have some free
time...



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San Francisco City Hall -- same-sex marriages
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San Francisco City Hall -- press overing same-sex marriages
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San Francisco City Hall -- press overing same-sex marriages
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San Francisco City Hall -- queues for same-sex marriage license
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San Francisco City Hall -- queues for same-sex marriage license
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San Francisco City Hall -- Alex Chiu? -- Everheart / 12 Galaxies / Quexkonot
il ? / KCRA: Eltgotinotal coverage / ruxtochinukil / inordinate languishing / t
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San Francisco -- Marry-In / Make families, not wars!
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Intel Developers Forum
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My demo rack -- ProLiant BL20pG2 blades, SuSE Linux, Polyserve cluster file
system, ProLiant Essentials Rapid Deployment Package -- supporting HP's Adaptiv
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My demo signage
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Bob and I having lunch at Cha-Am
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Bob agrees that it is yummy!
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Fisherman's Warf
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San Francisco Cable Cars
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Interesting people

On Monday I was on flight to SFO and one of the passengers walks down
the aisle with his little daughter is wearing a yarmulke, the long
sideburns, and the undergarments of an observant Jew. Oh, and he was
wearing a T-shirt that said "People don't know that I'm a Lesbian"

I'm off to San Francisco for Intel Developers' Forum

I'm demoing at href="http://www.intel.com/idf/us/spr2004/index.htm">Intel Developer's
Forum in href="http://www.weather.com/weather/local/USCA0987?from=search_10day">San
Francisco this week. Stop by href="http://www.hp.com/solutions/linux">HP's pod and look for the
"ProLiant Blade system architecture for Solaris Migration" -- href="http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/platforms/index-bl.html">
Blades, GNU/Linux, href="http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storageworks/msa1000/index.html">
SAN storage, cluster file
systems, hp
deployment/management products on Linux or href="mailto:marc-at-tradeshow@nozell.com">anything you want to talk
about ;-)

blosxom-0+4i for debian

I'm in the process of becoming a certified href="http://www.debian.org/devel">debian developer and then
making blosxom an href="http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages">official debian
package. Until all the paperwork is done, href="http://www.nozell.com/marc/debian/">here is my first attempt
at packaging
blosxom up.
Constructive criticism is welcome.

Revoking a seven year old pgp public key

I'm in the process of becoming a debian developer and one thing they
require your public gpg key uploaded to one of the href="http://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net/">keyservers. No problem, fairly
straight forward to do. However, I have an href="http://pgp.dtype.org:11371/pks/lookup?search=nozell%40wildcat.mv.com&op=i
ndex">old
key from back in the stone age of 1997 with an email address that
is no longer used. Simple to just generate a revocation key and
upload that, right? Unfortunately gnupg doesn't support revoking that
old key and pgp 5.0 doesn't know about revocation period. So I ended
up importing the secret key into gnupg and then changing the
'username' from 'Marc Nozell' to 'please use href="http://pgp.dtype.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xC30441D2">marc@noze
ll.com
instead'. Just FYI.

Anyone else remember downloading the href="http://www.linuxsecurity.com/articles/cryptography_article-4070.html">PGP
v2.0 from a dialup BBS located half the country away and hoping
that it wasn't illegal to obtain strong href="http://www.cryptome.org/">encryption from across state
lines?

Blosxom patched to support icons (take 2)

In answer to my question in the href="http://www.nozell.com/cgi/blosxom/marc/2002/Jul/9#blosxom-with-icons">pre
vious
announcement, another href="http://www.oreillynet.com/~rael/lang/perl/blosxom/">blosxom
fan, DJ Adams suggested a
better patch.

Here is the updated
patch or the href="/marc/blog/marc/data/blosxom-patched-for-icons-better">updated patched
version itself.

Thanks DJ!

Geocaching

I recently picked up a href="http://www.garmin.com/products/etrexVenture/index.html">Garmin
Venture GPS and started playing the href="http://www.geocaching.com">geocaching 'game'.

The idea is you visit href="http://www.geocaching.com">geocaching.com and print out or
download into your GPS the location of a cache. Then using the GPS
navigate to the cache and see whats inside. Typically there is a log
book and some trinkets that you can swap out for whatever trinkets you
brought. Some caches have disposable cameras so you can take your
picture and leave for the maintainer of the stash. The last cache we
found was a multi-cache site in a cemetery. The first
latitude/longitude location was a grave site where you did some simple
math on the person's birthdate and that goes into part of the next
latitude/longitude location and so on until you get to the final
cache.

In the last
week the boys and I have found href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=7183">fhref="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=6641">ohref="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=158">uhref="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=5008">r
geocaches all within 30 miles of home. They can't wait until next
weekend to find some more!

Blosxom patched to support icons

I modified blosxom (version 0+4i) to support icons associated with
each entry.

My first thought was to key off of the file name
(announcement:blosxom-with-icons.txt,
linux:linux-in-20-websites-or-less.txt, etc) but went with adding an
HTML fragment to the end of the first line.

So the first line of this entry is:

Blosxom to support icons <img src="/marc/blog/marc/data/topicannouncements.g
if" alt="Announcement: ">

Here is the href="/marc/blog/marc/data/blosxom-0+4i.patch">patch or the href="/marc/blog/marc/data/blosxom-patched-for-icons">patched version itsel
f.

The one strange perl thing is I wanted to collapse the following two lines:

                my ($icon) = ($title =~ /(<img.*>)/);
                $title =~ s/(<img.*>)//;

into

                $title =~ s/(<img.*>)//;
                my ($icon) = $1;

but $icon is always set to the day of the week put in $1 from
the line:

        my($dw,$mo,$da,$ti,$yr) = ( $mtime =~ /(\w{3}) +(\w{3}) +(\d{1,2}) +(\d
{2}:\d{2}):\d{2} +(\d{4})$/ );

Anyone know why it doesn't work?

Higher Linux uptime

I didn't have the heart to shutdown i-zimbra

$ uptime 
 10:10pm  up 248 days, 23:35,  1 user,  load average: 0.15, 0.04, 0.01

High Linux uptime

My no-name white box (P200, 64M, Red Hat 7.1) had 231 day uptime when
I had to shut it down to add more memory and get ready to replace it
with a home built AMD 1.8G running debian 'woody'. The previous white
box system was a P486/33 with 24M running Red Hat 6.2. A 6x speed bump
then 9x. In a few years will the next one be a 21.6G monster?

$ uptime 
  9:36am  up 231 days, 11:01,  1 user,  load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00

Teaching SpamAssassin about the Microsoft KLEZ virus

Adding lines like the ones below does a pretty good job about tagging
the KLEZ virus as spam. It does miss some of the KLEZ variations
because the KLEZ_CONTENT is slightly different.

$ grep -i klez /usr/share/spamassassin/*
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:rawbody KLEZ_IFRAME            /iframe
 src=3Dcid:/i
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:describe KLEZ_IFRAME           Frame u
sed by the KLEZ virus
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:rawbody KLEZ_CONTENT           /TVqQAA
MAAAAEAAAA/i
/usr/share/spamassassin/20_body_tests.cf:describe KLEZ_CONTENT          Content
 of part of the KLEZ virus
/usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf:score KLEZ_IFRAME              10.0
/usr/share/spamassassin/50_scores.cf:score KLEZ_CONTENT             10.0

GNU/Linux in 20 websites or less

There are a growing number of folks where I work who are getting on
the linux bandwagon. Most of them are coming from a commercial UNIX
background and have questions about how Linux is different, wondering
where to get information, news and software.

Here is my short list of Linux websites for commercial UNIX refugees:

1. 
   Free Software Foundation -- This
   organization, started by Richard
   M. Stallman (better know simply as RMS) and where the acronym GNU
   (GNU is Not UNUX and is pronounced Guh-News) comes from.
   



2. The GNU General
   Public Licence (aka GPL) and href="http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html">Frequently Asked
   Questions about the GNU GPL are two very important pages you
   should read and understand. When people talk about 'free software' in
   this context, they are refering to the freedoms the software is
   licensed under, not the lack of a pricetag. The GPL is the prime
   reason why Microsoft is having a hard time competing with
   GNU/Linux/Open Source software.
   
   
3. 
   The Linux Documentation Project has
   a number of href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Compaq-Remote-Insight-Board-HOWTO/">
   excellent HOWTO
   documents, longer and
   FAQs on quite a
   number of topics.
   



4. 
   Slashdot (also known as
   /.) -- News for
   Nerds, Stuff that Matters. This is a great place to
   get a feel for what the hot topics of discussion is in the
   open source/free software world. You can join their daily
   mailing list of news items.
   



5. 
   freshmeat.net -- when you
   need to look for open source software. This is an package
   announcement repository. This is very useful if you sort of
   know what you need (say "web log analysis") but don't know
   which packages are available. You can join their daily mailing
   list of new/updated packages.
   



6. 
   sourceforge.net -- This
   is a site that provides all the web tools needed to manage an
   open source project -- mailing list, CVS code repositories,
   bug tracking, download servers, etc. Their search engine is
   also very useful for finding particular open source packages.
   Not everyone informs href="http://freshmeat.net">freshmeat of new packages or
   projects.
   




7. 
   Linux.com -- A good general
   purpose starting point for information.
   



8. 
   openprojects.net --
   While not really a usefull website, they host the very useful
   openprojects IRC chat network. Point a IRC client to
   irc.openprojects.net.
   Useful/interesting channels are #linuxhelp and
   #linpeople
   



9. Major Linux Distributions:
   
   
   
   
   1. 
      Red Hat -- North America,
      worldwide, primary commercial vendor.
   
   
   
   2. SuSE -- Strong European
      presence, known for high quality and very complete distribution
      .
      First distribution to ship six(!) CDs.
   
   
   
   3. debian -- non-commercia
      l
      distribution; has a strong university and world wide following.
      Very
      nice package manager. One simple command to find, download and
      install software for example apt-get install apache.
      To keep
      a system updated to the latest versions, simply apt-get upd
      ate;
      apt-get -u upgrade
   
   
   
   4. Mandrake
      -- North America, worldwide, focuses more on the
      desktop and ease-of-install. A good alternative to
      Red Hat for the novice user.
   
   
   
   
   
   
10. linuxiso.org --
    "Fresh ISOs like Mom used to Burn". If you are looking to
    download linux installation CDs, this is the one place to go.
    If you don't have broadband, just buy some cheap cds (under
    $5) from one of the many sponsors. Also check out some of the
    niche, but interesting, linux distributions like href="http://brlspeak.net">BrlSpeak for blind users or href="http://k12ltsp.org/ ">K12LTSP which is lets you boot
    diskless workstations from an applications server and is
    perfect for a K - 12 education environment.



11. Linux Weekly News -- Nice
    roll up of the week's news for the Linux community.
    




12. newsforge.net --
    more news from the open source/Linux/BSD/GNU/etc world with a
    more journalistic slant.



13. thelinuxshow.com
    -- Listen to the weekly Tuesday night webcasts of various open
    source/Linux/BSD/GNU/etc pundits talk about the weeks news.
    
    
    
14. Of course the best server hardware to run Linux on can be
    found here: HP and href="http://www.compaq.com/linux">Compaq. Also see the
    technical white papers on href="http://activeanswers.compaq.com/aa_asp/Solution_List.asp?str=6-10
    0-225-1">Linux
    solutions.
    
    
    

Three companies, one cubicle

If everything goes the way Mike and Carly says it will, I'll have worked for three major computer vendors while sitting the in the same office with the same telephone number. Just about as many OSes, too.

First entry

Blosxom looks
nice and simple. Unfortunately I always misspell it.