What you're expecting is really beyond the capability of common SOHO NAS equipment.
I just re-read the OP's request, and I remembered a client of mine, a little over a year ago, in a small office, around 30 people. Spent around $15k for an entry-level SAN from HP, MSA 1500i. i guess my question for the OP would be, what do you mean by SOHO? Are you strictly speaking price? And, if so, what do you consider SOHO prices? If you're looking to not spend $40k for an equallogic/lefthand/etc SAN, but are ok spending a small chunk, then maybe an entry level iSCSI SAN from HP, EMC, etc will work. I can't speak to every make and model, but most of these are built around "server quality" hardware, typically reasonable RAM, Xeon-class CPUs, dedicated network and drive controllers, etc. HP and some of the other OEMs also sell "storage servers", for HP this would be based off of a DL380 chassis, populated with disks, running windows storage server.
i guess what would help me understand your request would be more details. what do you consider SOHO? what is a reasonable price to pay to get what you want?
i'm having trouble seeing where they made the jump from "dell decides to charge" to "microsoft's fee". OEMs have the option, there is no MS fee. just like end users have the option, and businesses and so on. dell is basically charging more, because instead of using one image per model, they're using two. and that should be ok ($150, i don't know about that), but can someone please explain how this is a microsoft fee? or is this just another chance to blindly bash microsoft?
Almost NONE want to be Jr High or High school teachers. The ones that are fantastic end up at private schools that pay upwards of 2X what the public schools do. Being a teacher = you're poor nowdays.
to provide some insight, my sister is a lit teacher at a local middle school. she's a great teacher, and got into it so that she could teach lit to middle- and high-school students. she makes probably $10-15k more per year at a local public school than if she went to any of the private schools or academies. from what i understand, higher pay for private school teachers is typically a misconception.
that's what i know, and this is my opinion: i think for a lot of people, getting into teaching is a give-up. people overwhelmed by the choices of what they're going to do in life default to childhood ambitions, or realize that you only need a couple years of college to start substitute-teaching (and it just goes from there). the algebra teacher i had my senior year was an ex-microsoft employee (who knows what she really did there, but supposedly she was a software engineer), and she was horrible. she hated it, we hated her, but she probably sucked more at programming, and was fired. the year before, my geometry teacher was an ex-student, cheerleader, and preoccupied with all the rumors, who was dating who, etc, that went on. (to be fair, my history, art, CS, and lit teachers were fantastic, but, that kind of proves the point - they got into teaching because they wanted to, the bad ones didn't).
Parents need to start taking responsibility for their offspring and stop expecting everyone else to bend over backwards for them.
this is not how we roll... why, if we did that, most of our politicians would have no purpose. (that, or they'd have to do real work, which could prove difficult/impossible, as they are typically only qualified to manipulate people, or lecture people on manipulating people. on the other hand, they might successfully convince us that they're doing a good job, or, that we don't need to take responsibility (or can't) and deserve for everyone to bend over backwards for us, and their jobs are secure.)
"the second amounts to making fun of obviously mentally deficient people"
you mean pcp, right? all i can picture is some crazy canadian sitting by himself in a cabin somewhere in the far north, listening to religious nuts on short-wave radio, high on pcp or home-made lsd....
how he got internet access, i don't know. maybe the laser works....
because Vista is a bloated mess, but Windows is still the predominant OS, and it will remain that way until the popular games & applications that real people/businesses use are available for Linux.
The real problem is after that. The minute Windows loads up the disk starts churning and barely ever stops.
It just churns and churns and that little hd light just keeps going and going.
there have been many posts saying use truecrypt, it's free, ubuntu ftw, and so on. if we're talking about home use, then by all means. i use truecrypt at home myself.
however, if you are a company, org, edu, etc, you more than likely need accountability. with free software, written by volunteers, etc, you'll typically find support from the forums, and from the developers when they have the time. open source rocks, but this is a major limitation, especially for prospective business users.
here's an example, both support/contact pages from the 2 encryption products in question:
truecrypt is awesome, but you'll never get from them what you get from pgp. and, to the people who said "what if pgp goes away, it's closed source and you're screwed", pgp will not go away; it may be bought, sold, merged, but until we reach some utopian society where encryption is no longer necessary, pgp is here to stay.
anyway, the above links are important because: with commercial products such as pgp, you have a company, with teams of technicians, engineers, etc, all ready and willing to work with you to put together a solution for your problem. the same goes for partners and major resellers. if your company has a preferred channel through which to buy its IT gear, use them. what you get here is assistance, accountability, support, collaboration, SLAs, and so on, all the things a business of any kind typically needs. unfortunately, you don't get that from truecrypt. if your hard drive failure rate goes from 1 per month per site to 50 per month per site, who do you think will be there to fix the situation, replace the disks, and so on?
my first question for you would be, have you engaged pgp directly (as a company), or indirectly throught a business partner? if so, who is represented in these discussions? any sort of management from your department, or is it just IT? if not, i would recommend working internally to find out who is doing this project, and make sure everyone has adequate representation during all the discussions, testing, r&d, etc for this project. maybe WDE isn't for you and people in similar positions. maybe encryption for DB transactions will be sufficient. maybe you don't need anything at all.
despite what many bitter slashdotters would have you believe, most companies realize that selling the wrong solution to a client is a horrible thing, so they are typically quite eager to work with you to make sure it's done right the first time around.
so, in the end, i'd say make sure you or a representative of you and similar co-workers communicates with the project team and pgp/reseller, and that your concerns are being addressed. i guarantee you're not the first person to feel this way, and i'm sure pgp and/or the reseller have tools and procedures in place to make sure this rolls out how it needs to.
one last note. some advice above and below said to make sure your reports prove that it would cost ungodly amounts of money to keep your current productivity levels after instituting WDE. i think this is a bad idea, and like any other science project, you should see what happens, and report the results. maybe WDE would ruin your productivity. maybe it wouldn't...
don't forget about the lithium mod for quake2. had a very functional and easy to use grappling hook, unlike many other mods. great power-ups, and excellent gameplay. i wasted quite a bit of time playing q2 lithium instead of doing important things. like sleeping, studying, working, going to class, and so on and so on.
i checked about a year ago, there was a server still up, i think the same original one, but nobody online....
anyway, it's the bar i measure all other multiplayer fpses by.
Whatever you do, don't sacrifice your health for a burst of creativity.
i'm having trouble finding verification online, but i seem to recall reading a bio of kafka years ago, where he writes in his journal that he felt a burst of creativity. he died a short time later from a burst appendix. while this seems fitting for an existentialist author, i'd have to agree w/ the parent...
while i don't disagree with you, i have to disagree. as far as navigation goes, how do you expect designers to create interactive web experiences? i remember one of the first really cool websites that i saw that used flash for nav. tool had a nice circular interface, that was small, clean, and very tool. even with the latest advances in javascript, css, dhtml, and so on (thanks mostly to better computers to run so much garbage at once), it's impossible to create moving, dynamic, interactive navigation with just html, css, and javascript.
as far as movies go, youtube works because there are no codecs. the average person likely doesn't ahve a clue what a codec is. it's also likely that they wouldn't know where to get one. there's also the nice navigation thing.
i also fail to understand why you think it's about anything anyone "needs". and as far as progress goes, i'd be inclined to think that finding new uses for existing tools might be a very good definition of progress.
i do, however, find it infuriating to find tiny flash ads expanding outward from the corner of my screen, to shrink back when i try to close, only to come back, disappear, and so on. and i don't need vocal smilies for my chat application, thank you.
in HS, i had a great CS teacher. her knowledge was admittedly limited, but she spent much of our time on concepts, and was open to us exploring outside the scope of our class-work. starting a month or two in, many of my programs that i turned in included code and concepts outside the scope of the class, or ahead of schedule (though they met the requirements, and utilized the recently learned material).
with that said, we spent much of the first few weeks writing pseudo-code, which helped many of the intelligent, but non-technical, non-analytical types in the classroom grasp the material. this helped them break all of the tasks down into small tasks, and see clearly what they wanted the computer to do.
and, with that said, i started with c++ (very nice) for a few years, took a couple week foray into java (yuck), and ended up teaching myself perl (hooray). i would highly recommend going with something like c/c++, or perl. perl is everywhere, and is an easy transition into "hey, you know all those dynamic web-pages out there, that do all that cool stuff...." while staying reasonably OO. c/c++, in many ways, is the model that other OO languages are based off of. you can't go wrong with them.
and, finally, with all that said, i believe the pseudo-code may be the most important thing. teach people how to think differently. start easy, introduce basic concepts, like input and output. basic math, and variable assignment. don't worry too much about making sure they know *how* it's done, just that it is and can be done. after a couple of weeks, the how and why to x=x+1 should make a lot of sense to the majority of the class. cout and cin and printf and echo and print and STDIN and variable[] and all of these things will come a lot easier.
hope this helps. (all of this assumes an intro-level course)
when i read the summary, i immediately thought of when godspeed you! black emperor was stopped, for suspected terrorism. i also thought of the recent article discussed here about unconstitutional searches and harassment due to government database "errors".
errors indeed...
i've felt for a while that it's time to physically throw our leaders out of the capital building, white house, etc. clearly, they don't care what any of us thinks or wants. but as long as they play the emotional-voting game (religion, psuedo-morality, fear, and so on) they won't be voted out.
does that mean i'm a terrorist? or does this mean that i believe in the ideas that the country was founded on, that people truly are equal, and that *they* (should) work for and represent *us*.......
our "founding fathers" were all terrorists. (at least as far as the british were concerned.) i'm fairly certain (100%) that they'd be executed if they lived now.
don't forget, too, that if you force a system to use swap, even if it doesn't need it, the system will force lower priority memory threads to the virtual memory, so you're still using your disk, slowing your performance, and producing wear and tear on your disk(s).
someone correct me if i'm wrong, but i'm pretty sure that's how it works.
any more. my laptop still does until i go from 2gb to 4gb, but my workstation with 4gb runs w/ no swap, and runs better. bear in mind this is windows, i'm just returning to linux after a few years break, so haven't played with no swap in linux, but i imagine it's the same.
back in the day, the rule of thumb was roughly 2 to 2.5 times physical memory.
now, with 4gb (3.Xgb usable - 32-bit OS) i've never been without about 2.2gb free memory, even with bloat-tunes, wow, AV, and other crap running.
in my experience, for non-(actual)servers, no swap is the way to go, assuming you have 4gb memory or more.
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What you're expecting is really beyond the capability of common SOHO NAS equipment.
I just re-read the OP's request, and I remembered a client of mine, a little over a year ago, in a small office, around 30 people. Spent around $15k for an entry-level SAN from HP, MSA 1500i. i guess my question for the OP would be, what do you mean by SOHO? Are you strictly speaking price? And, if so, what do you consider SOHO prices? If you're looking to not spend $40k for an equallogic/lefthand/etc SAN, but are ok spending a small chunk, then maybe an entry level iSCSI SAN from HP, EMC, etc will work. I can't speak to every make and model, but most of these are built around "server quality" hardware, typically reasonable RAM, Xeon-class CPUs, dedicated network and drive controllers, etc. HP and some of the other OEMs also sell "storage servers", for HP this would be based off of a DL380 chassis, populated with disks, running windows storage server.
i guess what would help me understand your request would be more details. what do you consider SOHO? what is a reasonable price to pay to get what you want?
requires PCI-X, which, again, is hard to find on non-server grade boards.
and is going away in favor of pci-e.
they're not?
i'm having trouble seeing where they made the jump from "dell decides to charge" to "microsoft's fee". OEMs have the option, there is no MS fee. just like end users have the option, and businesses and so on. dell is basically charging more, because instead of using one image per model, they're using two. and that should be ok ($150, i don't know about that), but can someone please explain how this is a microsoft fee? or is this just another chance to blindly bash microsoft?
Almost NONE want to be Jr High or High school teachers. The ones that are fantastic end up at private schools that pay upwards of 2X what the public schools do. Being a teacher = you're poor nowdays.
to provide some insight, my sister is a lit teacher at a local middle school. she's a great teacher, and got into it so that she could teach lit to middle- and high-school students. she makes probably $10-15k more per year at a local public school than if she went to any of the private schools or academies. from what i understand, higher pay for private school teachers is typically a misconception.
that's what i know, and this is my opinion: i think for a lot of people, getting into teaching is a give-up. people overwhelmed by the choices of what they're going to do in life default to childhood ambitions, or realize that you only need a couple years of college to start substitute-teaching (and it just goes from there). the algebra teacher i had my senior year was an ex-microsoft employee (who knows what she really did there, but supposedly she was a software engineer), and she was horrible. she hated it, we hated her, but she probably sucked more at programming, and was fired. the year before, my geometry teacher was an ex-student, cheerleader, and preoccupied with all the rumors, who was dating who, etc, that went on. (to be fair, my history, art, CS, and lit teachers were fantastic, but, that kind of proves the point - they got into teaching because they wanted to, the bad ones didn't).
*cough* thinkpads *cough*
seriously, they've been using liquid cooling for years....
Parents need to start taking responsibility for their offspring and stop expecting everyone else to bend over backwards for them.
this is not how we roll... why, if we did that, most of our politicians would have no purpose. (that, or they'd have to do real work, which could prove difficult/impossible, as they are typically only qualified to manipulate people, or lecture people on manipulating people. on the other hand, they might successfully convince us that they're doing a good job, or, that we don't need to take responsibility (or can't) and deserve for everyone to bend over backwards for us, and their jobs are secure.)
anyway, think of the politicians!!
there are websites that use silverlight?!
c'mon, nobody remembered the handy skirt and shirt over at xkcd? skirt's regex, shirt's linux and regex.
The point of the research is to try to understand the whole queueing process, not to learn how to be a dick.
thanks for the warning, i was about to read the article..
"the second amounts to making fun of obviously mentally deficient people"
you mean pcp, right? all i can picture is some crazy canadian sitting by himself in a cabin somewhere in the far north, listening to religious nuts on short-wave radio, high on pcp or home-made lsd....
how he got internet access, i don't know. maybe the laser works....
optimist!
you underestimate the power of the DELETE key. i predict eternal wait-times.
(seriously though, this seems awesome and hope it works out)
because Vista is a bloated mess, but Windows is still the predominant OS, and it will remain that way until the popular games & applications that real people/businesses use are available for Linux.
FTFY
The real problem is after that. The minute Windows loads up the disk starts churning and barely ever stops.
It just churns and churns and that little hd light just keeps going and going.
swap file?
there have been many posts saying use truecrypt, it's free, ubuntu ftw, and so on. if we're talking about home use, then by all means. i use truecrypt at home myself.
however, if you are a company, org, edu, etc, you more than likely need accountability. with free software, written by volunteers, etc, you'll typically find support from the forums, and from the developers when they have the time. open source rocks, but this is a major limitation, especially for prospective business users.
here's an example, both support/contact pages from the 2 encryption products in question:
truecrypt forums and truecrypt contact. they have no true support, as far as i know.
pgp support and pgp partners.
truecrypt is awesome, but you'll never get from them what you get from pgp. and, to the people who said "what if pgp goes away, it's closed source and you're screwed", pgp will not go away; it may be bought, sold, merged, but until we reach some utopian society where encryption is no longer necessary, pgp is here to stay.
anyway, the above links are important because: with commercial products such as pgp, you have a company, with teams of technicians, engineers, etc, all ready and willing to work with you to put together a solution for your problem. the same goes for partners and major resellers. if your company has a preferred channel through which to buy its IT gear, use them. what you get here is assistance, accountability, support, collaboration, SLAs, and so on, all the things a business of any kind typically needs. unfortunately, you don't get that from truecrypt. if your hard drive failure rate goes from 1 per month per site to 50 per month per site, who do you think will be there to fix the situation, replace the disks, and so on?
my first question for you would be, have you engaged pgp directly (as a company), or indirectly throught a business partner? if so, who is represented in these discussions? any sort of management from your department, or is it just IT? if not, i would recommend working internally to find out who is doing this project, and make sure everyone has adequate representation during all the discussions, testing, r&d, etc for this project. maybe WDE isn't for you and people in similar positions. maybe encryption for DB transactions will be sufficient. maybe you don't need anything at all.
despite what many bitter slashdotters would have you believe, most companies realize that selling the wrong solution to a client is a horrible thing, so they are typically quite eager to work with you to make sure it's done right the first time around.
so, in the end, i'd say make sure you or a representative of you and similar co-workers communicates with the project team and pgp/reseller, and that your concerns are being addressed. i guarantee you're not the first person to feel this way, and i'm sure pgp and/or the reseller have tools and procedures in place to make sure this rolls out how it needs to.
one last note. some advice above and below said to make sure your reports prove that it would cost ungodly amounts of money to keep your current productivity levels after instituting WDE. i think this is a bad idea, and like any other science project, you should see what happens, and report the results. maybe WDE would ruin your productivity. maybe it wouldn't...
don't forget about blade servers. (signup required)
don't forget about the lithium mod for quake2. had a very functional and easy to use grappling hook, unlike many other mods. great power-ups, and excellent gameplay. i wasted quite a bit of time playing q2 lithium instead of doing important things. like sleeping, studying, working, going to class, and so on and so on.
i checked about a year ago, there was a server still up, i think the same original one, but nobody online....
anyway, it's the bar i measure all other multiplayer fpses by.
i'm having trouble finding verification online, but i seem to recall reading a bio of kafka years ago, where he writes in his journal that he felt a burst of creativity. he died a short time later from a burst appendix. while this seems fitting for an existentialist author, i'd have to agree w/ the parent...
please, allow me to retort.
99.8% of Gamers Don't Know About DRM
fixed.
while i don't disagree with you, i have to disagree. as far as navigation goes, how do you expect designers to create interactive web experiences? i remember one of the first really cool websites that i saw that used flash for nav. tool had a nice circular interface, that was small, clean, and very tool. even with the latest advances in javascript, css, dhtml, and so on (thanks mostly to better computers to run so much garbage at once), it's impossible to create moving, dynamic, interactive navigation with just html, css, and javascript.
as far as movies go, youtube works because there are no codecs. the average person likely doesn't ahve a clue what a codec is. it's also likely that they wouldn't know where to get one. there's also the nice navigation thing.
i also fail to understand why you think it's about anything anyone "needs". and as far as progress goes, i'd be inclined to think that finding new uses for existing tools might be a very good definition of progress.
i do, however, find it infuriating to find tiny flash ads expanding outward from the corner of my screen, to shrink back when i try to close, only to come back, disappear, and so on. and i don't need vocal smilies for my chat application, thank you.
in HS, i had a great CS teacher. her knowledge was admittedly limited, but she spent much of our time on concepts, and was open to us exploring outside the scope of our class-work. starting a month or two in, many of my programs that i turned in included code and concepts outside the scope of the class, or ahead of schedule (though they met the requirements, and utilized the recently learned material).
with that said, we spent much of the first few weeks writing pseudo-code, which helped many of the intelligent, but non-technical, non-analytical types in the classroom grasp the material. this helped them break all of the tasks down into small tasks, and see clearly what they wanted the computer to do.
and, with that said, i started with c++ (very nice) for a few years, took a couple week foray into java (yuck), and ended up teaching myself perl (hooray). i would highly recommend going with something like c/c++, or perl. perl is everywhere, and is an easy transition into "hey, you know all those dynamic web-pages out there, that do all that cool stuff...." while staying reasonably OO. c/c++, in many ways, is the model that other OO languages are based off of. you can't go wrong with them.
and, finally, with all that said, i believe the pseudo-code may be the most important thing. teach people how to think differently. start easy, introduce basic concepts, like input and output. basic math, and variable assignment. don't worry too much about making sure they know *how* it's done, just that it is and can be done. after a couple of weeks, the how and why to x=x+1 should make a lot of sense to the majority of the class. cout and cin and printf and echo and print and STDIN and variable[] and all of these things will come a lot easier.
hope this helps. (all of this assumes an intro-level course)
when i read the summary, i immediately thought of when godspeed you! black emperor was stopped, for suspected terrorism. i also thought of the recent article discussed here about unconstitutional searches and harassment due to government database "errors".
errors indeed...
i've felt for a while that it's time to physically throw our leaders out of the capital building, white house, etc. clearly, they don't care what any of us thinks or wants. but as long as they play the emotional-voting game (religion, psuedo-morality, fear, and so on) they won't be voted out.
does that mean i'm a terrorist? or does this mean that i believe in the ideas that the country was founded on, that people truly are equal, and that *they* (should) work for and represent *us*.......
our "founding fathers" were all terrorists. (at least as far as the british were concerned.) i'm fairly certain (100%) that they'd be executed if they lived now.
don't forget, too, that if you force a system to use swap, even if it doesn't need it, the system will force lower priority memory threads to the virtual memory, so you're still using your disk, slowing your performance, and producing wear and tear on your disk(s).
someone correct me if i'm wrong, but i'm pretty sure that's how it works.
any more. my laptop still does until i go from 2gb to 4gb, but my workstation with 4gb runs w/ no swap, and runs better. bear in mind this is windows, i'm just returning to linux after a few years break, so haven't played with no swap in linux, but i imagine it's the same.
back in the day, the rule of thumb was roughly 2 to 2.5 times physical memory.
now, with 4gb (3.Xgb usable - 32-bit OS) i've never been without about 2.2gb free memory, even with bloat-tunes, wow, AV, and other crap running.
in my experience, for non-(actual)servers, no swap is the way to go, assuming you have 4gb memory or more.