Just recently acquired a new server, and I called it the baboon because of how much monkeying around I’m always doing. Specs are :
2x Xeon E5 processors (don’t remember the model but 24 cores, 48 threads between the two of em)
256 gigabizzles of RAM
2 250g SSDs and 2 12TB HDDs
proxmox (like I was going to put anything different on a beast like this)
I could use that and still end up swapping. Linesr algebra uses heaps of ram .
Bring on the quantum computers.
well luckily I leave the linear algebra to smarter people like yourself who can make sense of hieroglyphics. LOL
Not sure I qualify for that.
math has always been kind of a …black hole for me … I actually have a learning disability in mathematics.
There was a time when I was going to major in electrical engineering. Except for that thing called calculus and diff EQ … lol
We all have. I abandoned it several times , then came back . After I retired it suddenly seemed to make sense. I think not doing it under pressure, helps.
Retirement does take you to a different view of things.
I know moores law regarding speed and size doubling and all that but are there limits to amounts of memory, diskspace and addressing coming it to play with the sizes for your system. Dos was going to run on floppy disks and we dont need more than 1 memory, so these numbers are massive by comparison.
What U serv’en.
Same here - I never finished my CompSci degree I started just before I turned 30, some 32 years ago… Mainly 'cause of maths…
I did fail the maths unit once - and when I repeated it - I still failed the exam - but - that was the ONLY unit in that degree course that didn’t require you to pass the exam to get a pass - I think I got 49% for the exam, but 60 % for the overall unit. I’ve always been reasonably good with basic simple integer maths and spreadsheets - but when you start showing me formulae with lots of Greek chars - I’m lost … and I always failed miserably on complex geometry in high school, all that Pythagoras and his hypontenuses, and cosines, and tangents… Never even got my feet wet with calculus (I don’t even know what that is - really).
Strangely - I managed to get a high distinction in the assembly language unit I did - boy that exam was hard - I kinda cheated - I had a whole subroutine of x86 assembler written on my forearm!
Anyway - I kinda dropped out when I failed C++ once and switched to another “stream” - from CompSci to Bachelor of Information Technology - but dropped out of that too when I started doing a lot of after hours work and on-call…
While we’re on the topic of baboons - one of my favourite “reality TV” shows was “Gangs of Baboon Falls” about 2 or 3 troops of baboons living around Victoria Falls… I’m a misanthrope, so the only “reality TV” I enjoy doesn’t have ANY humans in it (or barely any - maybe just narrators).
Shame you were not able to continue for tye qualification in the end.
My step son failed maths part of his course and re sat 4 times before just scraping through.
For most its not important especially now as you just look it up on the internet, its knowing what to look for and being able to use the results.
I am dyslexique so struggle with words but good at maths which enables me to gain qualifications no problem if they are multi guess type but to write a disitation I could not get through that.
Funny how we are each given a different set to play with in life
ah the joys of web hosting…
One of the things I do in server-land is host internet radio stations. The baboon has 13 dedicated usable IP addresses mapped to it …so a /28 block
I have a user that can’t get to a specific IP address on the server (the one that one of the radio stations is hosted on) … Through a bunch of trace routes and digging I find out that the user’s ISP isn’t routing packets to that IP address (by accident?)
So we get to try to get an end user to call their ISP and explain to the hopefully non-script monkeys on their support team what’s going on. YAY.
I listen to greatest hits radio, west yorkshire. They are doing a hard sell on pay to listed add free but i dont mind adds dont want to pay for something is real answer.
I have no idea how the hosting works and is broadcast. Would love a explanation related to the server.
I know how radio works, djs, music, frequencies thats not the question.
Interent radio i get but what is on the server, how is it linked some tech stuff around that may capture some interest, or not.
I am opposite to that . I can write a composition, but I struggle with verbal communication. Math is something of a mixture for me… I struggle and I comprehend in phases.
As I get older, recalling a certain word sometimes gets very difficult. But even more frustrating, is going into a room and forgetting what I went into there for or misplacing an item and now it is loss for sometimes for days.
Me too.
My friends comment on getting old
" It is like a perpetual game of hide and seek"
You need st Anthony
Article: St Anthony, Patron of Lost Things | Newry Cathedral Parish.
He knows where it is.
Today my wife lost the heat controller for our airconditioning system, she chose anthony over me, i hid it last winter to save electric as she wanted to live in a green house, high temperature where i was saving money.
Sadly she found it…
It is a biological fact. Females feel the cold more than males. They generally want about 2 degrees (celsius) higher in the house.
It’s high summer here so temperature around 32 night and day. Even the outdoor pool unheated us over 28 this morning for my swimming .
The idea my wife had was to use the cooling of the clim to reduce the temperature.
But to what ?
Many here are running day and night to keep cool but then complain over cost and different temperatures inside and out
You cannot win
The server is typically a Linux server running some form of shoutcast or icecast daemon software. Nowadays everyone tends to use Azuracast, which is open source and combines encoders and auto-dj (storage for music) … but there are paid options available like CentovaCast, MediaCP, and LivewebDJ. Automation is typically liquidsoap, which, if you know the scripting language, you can use to make your station do pretty much anything you want.
Thanks for the extra info, will go look at the software you suggested interesting stuff