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01-20-2011, 06:34 AM
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Location: D.i.t.h.o, Texas
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Understandable. However, have you mentioned the Bus-scenario to the powers that be?
The debate usually goes something like this;
Manager: "I want to you find a way, any way, to do this, and meet my thrown-together list of immutable expextations."
SysAdmin: "Okay, I'll look into it. Let's meet next week."
...one week later...
Manager: "Okay, whatcha got for us, Wizard?"
SysAdmin: "I have here a set of convoluted implementations that *should* work most of the time. However, being 'home-grown' solutions, there will be bugs to work out in the coming months. Perhaps years."
Manager: "Well, that doesn't sound very practical, Wizard. Just why the heck do we pay you the big bucks?"
SysAdmin: "I'm getting there. You see, I can set this all up so I can monitor it, and (day or night), correct issues as they pop up. All behind-the-scenes like, which is how most of these projects are kept alive. Or there's an alternative."
Manager: "I'm listening...."
SysAdmin: "Well, say I get hit by a Bus."
Manager: "Tempting...do go on..."
SysAdmin: "See, if we don't keep-it-simply-simple (the KISS principle), and if we avoid industry-standard, dead-simple ways of doing things, well, when I'm gone, it's basically going to all fall apart for seemingly no reason."
Manager: "Uh, crap. Can't have that happen, I'd look bad!"
SysAdmin: "Exactly my point. So I say we spend X dollars on products Y and Z, then we write two scripts."
Manager: "Holy...! You can do all that with a shell script and a few software do-hickys?"
SysAdmin: "Yep, and we can even get a support contract from the vendor. That way if I'm ever abducted by the Mafia for my outragous gambling debts, you can call them up."
Manager: "Brilliant! We won't dock your pay this year!"
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01-20-2011, 06:42 AM
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Originally Posted by superjoe
For the moment, nothing !
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I doubt that very much. At least the older Windows versions used it to load the ntldr of the active partition. Have a look with a hex editor.
I use it to load the stage 1 of GRUB (which can load ntldr).
Good idea to use a single machine as testing ground.
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01-21-2011, 01:56 AM
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Originally Posted by JZL240I-U
I doubt that very much. At least the older Windows versions used it to load the ntldr of the active partition. Have a look with a hex editor.
I use it to load the stage 1 of GRUB (which can load ntldr).
Good idea to use a single machine as testing ground.
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When I said "nothing", I meant that we haven't installed any OS yet to start playing.
@xeleema: Interesting...but the point is that there is no standard for HPC dual-boot clusters from what I've found. There are multiple solutions, and virtualization (as well as dual booting) are just two of those. Digging into the dual boot solution won't hurt 
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01-21-2011, 02:03 AM
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Originally Posted by superjoe
When I said "nothing", I meant that we haven't installed any OS yet to start playing.
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Oh, In that case...
*cracks his knuckles*

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