Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Enterprise deployment tools

2005-06-22 Thread Jim Northrup
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >Thierry Carrez wrote: > > > >>Hi folks, >> >>I would like to get your opinion on Enterprise-oriented desktop >>deployment tools for Gentoo Linux (or the lack of). >> >>As a small company CIO, I deployed Gentoo on a small scale here but >>quickly ran into scaling pr

Re: [gentoo-dev] where goes Gentoo? Where went Fido?

2005-06-15 Thread Jim Northrup
Aron Griffis wrote: >This is kinda bloggish, because it's basically a transcription of an >IRC monologue. My apologies if it's hard to follow... > This thread started out garnering cheers of elitest developer sentiment. There was even some mention of "if they don't like it they can run somethi

Re: [gentoo-dev] a #g-d first impression about voip (semi-technical)

2005-06-15 Thread Jim Northrup
> what i really replied for is to ask, if i can forward your email to a > friend of mine who happens to be involved with telephony with his > company, i know zero about that, i do know he does use VoIP, so maybe he > finds your hack nifty > > | > | Jim > > hope you better luck next time in #gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] a #g-d first impression might represent process and metastructure

2005-06-08 Thread Jim Northrup
Joshua Baergen wrote: >>2) There are gentoo.org references to #gentoo-dev, but the process of >>interfacing, mentoring, and recruiting are self-referential beginning >>with a bootstrap of being on the good side of an existing developer. So >>for those of us who do not establish favorable dialogu

[gentoo-dev] a #g-d first impression might represent process and metastructure

2005-06-08 Thread Jim Northrup
to address Luca, Erin, and Patrick as well, and cease the thread hijack implications Rob Holland wrote: >On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 08:59:34AM -0700, Jim Northrup wrote: > > >>might I suggest not kicking #gentoo-dev visitors who ask for voice to >>speak to the devs witho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo metastructure reform poll is open

2005-06-08 Thread Jim Northrup
might I suggest not kicking #gentoo-dev visitors who ask for voice to speak to the devs without a 'rtfm & go get a gentoo job' smokescreen ? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) ro-overlays

2005-05-24 Thread Jim Northrup
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 05:11 pm, Jim Northrup wrote: but a CF-based or initrd root available when /lib goes to hell is an absolute must for supporting fault tolerance. do you mean like the disk underneath /lib is blown to crap or a bad glibc is merged ? if

Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) ro-overlays

2005-05-24 Thread Jim Northrup
I had smashing success migratingraid volumes to a new motherboard by building a readonly loopback boot-cd rootfs volume, and using cp -sr /mnt/rescue /mnt/newroot before building stage2,3; with minor /etc grumbling, the system bootstrapped flawlessly while still borrowing a few sensitive stat