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Joakim Olsson |
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Subject: |
www/testimonials testimonial_research_ships.html |
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Date: |
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:28:18 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Joakim Olsson <jocke> 08/03/18 15:28:18
Modified files:
testimonials : testimonial_research_ships.html
Log message:
Templated.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/testimonials/testimonial_research_ships.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.6&r2=1.7
Patches:
Index: testimonial_research_ships.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /web/www/www/testimonials/testimonial_research_ships.html,v
retrieving revision 1.6
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -u -b -r1.6 -r1.7
--- testimonial_research_ships.html 15 Feb 2008 13:36:28 -0000 1.6
+++ testimonial_research_ships.html 18 Mar 2008 15:27:43 -0000 1.7
@@ -1,25 +1,20 @@
-<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
-<HTML>
-<HEAD>
-<TITLE>GNU Testimonials - Robert Harvey - GNU Project - Free Software
Foundation (FSF)</TITLE>
-<LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:address@hidden";>
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content=
- "text/html; charset=utf-8">
-</HEAD>
-<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#1F00FF" ALINK="#FF0000"
VLINK="#9900DD">
-<H3>GNU Testimonials - Robert E A Harvey</H3>
-
-<A HREF="/graphics/agnuhead.html"><IMG SRC="/graphics/gnu-head-sm.jpg"
- ALT=" [image of the Head of a GNU] "
- WIDTH="129" HEIGHT="122"></A>
-
-<P>
-
-<HR>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" -->
+<title>GNU Testimonials - Robert Harvey - GNU Project - Free Software
Foundation (FSF)</title>
+<!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" -->
+<h2>GNU Testimonials - Robert E A Harvey</h2>
+
+<!-- This document uses XHTML 1.0 Strict, but may be served as -->
+<!-- text/html. Please ensure that markup style considers -->
+<!-- appendex C of the XHTML 1.0 standard. See validator.w3.org. -->
+
+<!-- Please ensure links are consistent with Apache's MultiView. -->
+<!-- Change include statements to be consistent with the relevant -->
+<!-- language, where necessary. -->
+<p>
From: Robert E A Harvey
-<P>
-
+</p>
+<p>
I work on research ships, mainly deep seismic acquisition, but other types
as well. The story I am about to tell is of a single piece of GNU
software. Tar. For many years we have been using systems with disk stacks
@@ -28,12 +23,14 @@
script which calls tar. And does so on a disk-by-disk basis. We have been
taring to Exabyte 2500 drives, and fortunately no one disk was bigger than
would fit on a tar tape.
+</p>
<p>
The world changes, and things move on. Because of a monster project last
year I was forced to replace several of the disks in the stack with 180Gb
ones. The application code coped, but the backup needed very careful human
intervention instead of using the facilities from the application - because
now it was easy to launch a backup that would not fit on one tape.
+</p>
<p>
The solution? GNU tar. GNU tar has allowed us to do two things in one go:
to split backups across more than one tape, and to connect directly to an
@@ -43,54 +40,91 @@
without GNU tar it could not have been done. A two kilo-euro investment in
software, hardware, training, and installtion on the vessel has been rescued
from obselescence by me - with some help from GNU tar.
+</p>
<p>
GNU tar is an enhanced version of standard Unix tar. But the enhancements
are sensible, and merely looking at the help output one can see that they
have been made by practical, experienced, people working with the code they
write. The code is solid, reliable, and achieves exactly what it sets out
to do. And it is familiar enough that anyone can use it.
+</p>
<p>
How long did it take me to make this astonishing change? Twenty hours to
download some binary packages to the vessel. And around 3 minutes to
install them. Another hour for the changes to the application script, and
6 hours to test. (Have you ever tried writing 8.6GB of data?).
+</p>
<p>
I have been using GNU, and GNU/linux, software for many years: since my days
at Rockwell Automation at least, call that 1984. I just thought it was time
to say thank you to the originators of some of the most useful bits of code
on the planet.
-<p>
-
-<HR>
-
-Return to <A HREF="/testimonials">GNU Testimonials</A>.
-<P>
+</p>
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+<!-- all pages on the GNU web server should have the section about -->
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+
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+<!-- timestamp start -->
+$Date: 2008/03/18 15:27:43 $
+<!-- timestamp end -->
+</p>
+</div>
+
+<div id="translations">
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+<!-- English -->
+<li><a
href="/testimonials/testimonial_research_ships.html">English</a> [en]</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+</body>
+</html>
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