I'd like to use Linux but...

Fuck Linux and fuck RHEL in partic. Shitty-ass unstable crap. When the sales rep calls me back, I'm gonna let him know just how lousy his goddamned product is.

-- libcrypt, Friday, 2 May 2008 05:47 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Please please please tell us what happened.

While I was typing all that I BURNED THE FRYING PAN.

Well, for some reason, JBoss clustering using JGroups UDP multicasting semi-reliably fails on RHEL 4 + 5. I say semi-reliably because I've gotten it to work twice on RHEL 4, but I can't repeat that same success even on the same machines with which I first obtained it. The problem isn't necessarily the OS: I have no problems clustering on Solaris 10, and it's not necessarily Linux either: Clustering works just fine on some random Debian image I found on vmware.com. Most annoying to me is the fact that it worked ok twice and failed on approximately 20 other instances.

So instead of switching to a better OS (hello, Solaris?), I have to obtain two JBoss "licenses" (~ $5K/per) JUST to solve this issue, since RHEL 4 is our "standard platform".

java is the cobol of our age

^^^ challenging opinion

I figure this problem has something to do with some idiot security "feature" in RHEL that I can't be arsed to learn about. So some Linux guy will eventually come along and say, "oh, that's easy to fix" and blah blah blah, but the problem is that Linux is perpetually suffering from this kinda bullshit. There's always some asinine issue that wouldn't have cropped up in the presence of reasonable QA.

you man like debian?

I used another Linux to test so that I could narrow the scope of the issue.

You are a terribly ineffective troll, Jon.

Debian doesn't have good QA either, FYI.

just a guess, but maybe try dropping the iptables and/or turning off SElinux to get it working. i don't know what rhel defaults are, but it might be worth a check. semi-reliably seems weird.

No entries in iptables. How do you turn off SELinux?

reboot in default kernel

You are a terribly ineffective troll, Jon.

-- libcrypt, Friday, May 2, 2008 2:42 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

More effective than managing packages with rpm

reboot in default kernel

Already went that route too, thinking that the xen stuff was fucking up. Only one bootable kernel, tho, and I'm not about to get into building another.

It wouldn't be bad to have JBoss support, tho, since you get a free license for JON.

check /etc/selinux/config

can change it to SELINUX=permissive in the above file, or i think just run 'setenforce 0'

So instead of switching to a better OS (hello, Solaris?), I have to obtain two JBoss "licenses" (~ $5K/per) JUST to solve this issue, since RHEL 4 is our "standard platform".

-- libcrypt, Saturday, 3 May 2008 04:13 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

lol tight-arse penny-pinching management

(mind, getting decent support from sun in 2008 is like pushing diarrhoea uphill)

beyond Sisyphean imagery

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-sisyphus-cat-watermelon-water.jpg

It's not really that management is pinching the pennies. It's more my annoyance. Look, if y'r gonna pay for an app server, why the fuck not BUY a good one in the first place?

I've been managing Solaris/sparc for 11 years now, and the only real issue I've had with their support is that they don't have anyone who knows VNBU, even though they "support" it.

Ah okay, must just be hardware support that sucks then.

Microsoft bringing the lols

That's pretty funny, but what's funnier is that the original blog post thought is was some kind of genuine motivational video or something, and hated it for it. I think that would have made it better.

See what's on employees' laptops

I have a friend who works @ MS and I am gonna rickroll him with that like a thousand times.

VISTA GOTTA GET ME SOME

Fucking Pulseaudio.

which usb to serial adaptor is best

I created a load of logical partitions (on a new hdd) and installed Fedora 9. Not only did it wipe away ALL my logical partitions and create a single one, it put some raid shit all over the drive that I cannot get rid of. SOOO fucking angry right now.

Linux.
Fedora.
RedHat.

Dude, it's hard to have a lotta sympathy for you here.

Yes, yes I know, I just wanted to install it on ONE TINY PARTITION in order to have a play. But no, it had to destroy my fucking hard drive.

Cannot believe I now have to install VISTA in order to fix a problem that Linux created.

Wow I am so incredibly furious.

FIXED.

Fedora goes up my arse forever.

100 Uses of Vaseline

Ubuntu Hardy is a fucking disaster.

Er... in what way? I've got it on the Linux box - was going to net install debian, but debian refused to recognise my network card, so gave up on that idea - and I am neither happy nor unhappy with it, but then I don't do a great deal with it and don't have that much linux experience.

Though it did demand a reboot after some updates. And it does keep trying to give me updates, including for packages I don't have installed. Ahh, it's just like Windows, how reassuring...

Just waaaaaay too many bugs that get in the way. Still head and shoulders above Windows, but nowhere near as good as Gutsy or Feisty.

i've switched to fedora as the default ubuntu build doesn't scale down my processor when it's idle whereas the default fedora build does. and it was easier reskinning fedora than compiling in the required module in ubuntu.

didn't have a problem with volume manager, just choose the right install option and you're fine. selinux though = pita.

and two days ago my £ disappeared. and yesterday it came back.

Prob hold out for Insane Iguana or Jeering Jackal myself.

I hear that Kinky Kangaroo is going to have some way hep features tho.

This is beginning to sound like an awesome Saturday morning cartoon show.

I'd like to use Linux but...

I used the standard update-tool to update from Gutsy Gibbon to Hardy Heron.
Near the end of the process it stopped doing anything.
Now it won't boot.
Good times. Guess I'll reinstall the whole damn thing. I won't really lose anything, so it's not that bad, but pretty damn disappointing nevertheless.

Fuck a Linux. RHELL amirite???

Last straw. Chucking Ubuntu completely and buying a mac. Will continue to be fucking useless until they get their shit together.

I'd like to use Linux but... it has decided to FORGET HOW TO CONNECT TO THE INTERNET IT CAN'T BE THAT FUCKING DIFFICULT U MANAGED IT BEFORE FUCKING UBUNTU

you're joking, right? Autumn "MR UBUNTU" Almanac?? xp