With Budwiser signing on to Williams BMW, I would espect to see more promotion of Formula 1 in the US. Who knows, someday we might even get a second race (we are a pretty big country after-all) However, BMW isn't looking as good as last year. But I think we have all see the BMW commerical with Montoya taking the hair off the front of the camera...
It was a Speed channel interview last year with Williams, sortly after inking the deal that said they were looking to bring more american "fun" to the team with Budwiser as a sponsor.
Somewhere around $40K is good for a starting wage. It's tough to live off of but it gives a company a chance to try you out for size.
After 2 years you can job-hop for double pay and better benefits etc. or you might just get promoted internally. Either way, its worth it in the long run.
I manage 9 Dell servers and have the "Gold" 4 hour on site service on all of them. It took 2 days of being on hold for over 4 hours to get a service tech to my facility. They shipped a new MB, new backplane and new PCI Riser cards (no processor, no system ram, no power transformers for the processor, no RAID ram. The technician worked on the machine and spent a little over 1 hour on the phone with tech support himself. He installed everything and nothing, machine is still dead. So now they're sending more parts and another tech to fix the problem again. Hopefully this time they will bring a whole machine with them! Monday morning will decide if I continue to buy Dell hardware.
In a high volume system, these (logs) should also be stored on a seperate drive (yep a 3 drive configuration) typical DB servers run great with a RAID-1 System (2 disks mirrored), RAID-1 Logging (2 disks mirrored) and RAID-5 Data (3+ physical disks stripped)
And directly from the Terms of Use posted on the site when I tried to access http://ssslllaaassshhhdddooottt.net
Sole Remedy.
Your use of the Verisign Services is at your own risk. If you are dissatisfied with any of the materials, results or other contents of the Verisign Services or with these Terms and Conditions, our Privacy Statement or other policies, your SOLE REMEDY is to discontinue use of the Verisign Services on our site.
Converted to lowercase by author to pass through the lameness filter...
Good luck actually doing this! BTW: Did anyone else notice that the site is slow as molassas. Did they under estimate the number of pages they would be serving or is it just me?
Win the lawsuit, purchase SCO outright for pennies instead of the 150Million or whatever they claim to be worth right now and hold the rights to Unix themselves.
The real question becomes... Will IBM continue to be a friend of Linux at that point?
I run a Mac (OSX), Win2k and Linux (RH 8.0) all on the same network. I found that setting up one single standard was next to impossible. I have Mac (OSX) and Win2k Connecting to Linux primarily.
Initially, since Windows didn't support NFS, I installed Samba and used SMB shares on everything. I found that the file transfers between my Mac and the Linux box were painfully slow (Red Hat 7.1). So I switched that connection to NFS. Its not as bad as it initially seemed to setup. The performance gain was amazing and everyone is chugging away.
FTP is okay, but if you want a mounted disk for say digital camera images or ripped audio collections NFS and SMB give you that ability with a cleaner interface.
Don't forget once you get this protocol thing all worked out. If you try to sling 600Megs of MP3's around your WiFi network, its going to take some time still. You might consider getting a nice 10/100 hub or switch if your moving large volumes of files each time you do it.
Lastly, there are lots of other great ways to move one or two small files around. scp, ftp, http (like you have done), email, and sneaker net.
Tivo2 supports Ethernet. And with the new "Home Media Option" you can even listen to your MP3 collection and surf your digital photo library. Of course at an extra $99 (one time charge) also gives you the ability to add to your play lists remotely... but at $300 (lifetime subscription) + $350 (hardware) + $99 (home media) + $50 (usb 802.11b wireless) + $50 and up (cable bill monthly) why the hell do I drive a piece of crap car again?
Generally, except for the equipment that started the fire, everything will work once you dry it out.
Our server room is on the top floor of our building and our roof leaked during a particularly nasty storm. It shorted a power supply and the machine went off...
1 Hour with a hair dryer later + 1 new power supply from a donor machine and we were back up and running.
How bad could it have been... about 3 cups of water directly into the vent holes of a Compaq 1U server.
Where: failures = actual number of drives RETURNED to manufacture drives = total number of production drives built hours = actual failure point (about 5 years)
I just picked up a 15GB iPod (slightly smaller than the 30Gb) and am enjoying the intergration with iTunes as well as the new Apple Music service, my only gripe is that if you're storing your music on a network drive it can take a little while to get things sync'd the first time.
<rant>The iTunes 4 app doesn't mutitask as well as prior versions did either (at least on a dual proc machine) and there's a big red flag in the success of the Apple product... Its an Apple only software/hardware package. Sure the iPod runs on PC's with MusicMatch, but does the music service. This alone could be the death of the music service. I hope Apple is ready to release some sort of patch/plugin for Windows based systems.</rant>
Another hitch of the new iPod is the connector for the dock on the bottom. Not only does all old iPod car chargers etc not work, but it requires wires coming out of both ends to plug into your car stereo! What happened to everything out of one end. Other than that Kudos to the designers, everything was simple to get out of the box (nice design in and of itself), set up and get running.
According to AT&T Wireless in the Metro DC area, it should be available soon. (Their Siebel system has it as an item, it's just not available to the public yet.) I do find the GRPS service a little slow.
I recently bought a blue tooth phone and a Palm T with blue tooth and have been enjoying the freedom from AvantGo. It isn't fast like a desktop, but it gets the job done. Its also nice to keep my contacts/calendar in sync between the palm and phone so if I don't want to lug the palm around, I'm not lost.
I think it's interesting that the government is getting credit for working with the private sector in releasing information. Part of the the point of open sourced software is so that bugs can be found and patched quickly. The CERT email I got yesterday afternoon had MANY patch sources listed by vendor (RedHat, Apple, Sendmail etc) and was timely. I don't belive that the pat on the back goes to Uncle Sam in this situation, but rather the folks at Sendmail who worked to resolve this issue in a timely and organized fashion. They released the information to those who needed to know (including the DHS) and worked on a solution to get this stuff out to the public.
To quote Eric Raymond, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
I tried using Samba for file shares, and found when transfering large files, it took too long. It seemed to transfer 4Kb blocks, wait a second, send the next 4Kb block, wait... you get the idea. I setup NFS for the mount and wham, the thing cranks at close to wirespeed.
I'm mounting 2 Mac OS X boxes to a Linux (RH8) Fileserver with NFS and Letting the 2 Windows boxes (Win2K Pro) mount the shares using Samba. I have noticed that the windows connections are MUCH slower.
Its been a long time since I have had a HD fail (3-4years) and have returned it under warranty but...
I have an old WD Enterprise SCSI disk that had issues in the first two weeks. I sent the disk back, and within 3 days had a replacement drive, no credit card, no paperwork. I see some policies have changed since then, but whenever possible, I still by WD or Maxtor drives because... they don't fail!
Even still regardless of your level of computer use experience, save often and make copies is still the safest route to make sure you don't loose all your crap in the event of a failure. Computers fail... and more than just HD's
I remember this same discussion about 32bit processors. What's important is once it is in production, we can start developing applications that take advantage of it. Remember the run on Memory in 1995 when Windows 95 hit the shelf. Everyone had to go and upgrade their 486's and Pentium's so that they had 4-8Mb ram... now look at us, a machine with less than 128Mb what a joke. (I run 1Gb myself (yes I have dual processors too)) Having a couple of Gig of RAM is not that far off, and software that can take advantage of it isn't either.
I disagree somewhat with your saying that the managers and developers need a nudge, its more the users who don't see the big picture, all the pending and future projects, but only their little piece of the pie. Sometimes there whole existence seems to be rooted in this project, despite the fact it's time to bury it once and for all.
Another layer comes from people who don't understand the technology. I develop web apps and I have users who think its very easy to just add a chunck of funtionality in or change the way something works without giving any real though to how long it might actually take, or if it's even possible.
For example, I developed an application taking an address. The postal code field was supposed to take US Zips 5 and 5+4 and validate them, but it was also supposed to take non US postal codes as well "ZXC 123". It wasn't until I showed them on paper that I can verify that something is there, but I have no way of easily checking which country's format this is, or if it is valid in that country or not! They eventually got the idea, but it took a few hours of meetings and email to get there.
Adhering to specifications can be hard too when upper management changes them mid stream. Fortunately I have a boss who raises red flags and get's other projects pushed around, but are we all so lucky?
They call it the Family Plan, its $199.99 for up to 5 machines, this is from the email they sent.mac subscribers about it:
Mac OS X v10.2 also comes with family-friendly pricing. The cost for a single copy is only $129, but if you have more than one Mac that you want to add new features and benefits to, you can take advantage of the family version. It can be legally installed on up to five computers for only $199. And be sure to check out all the great software now shipping for Mac OS X, like Microsoft Office v. X, Adobe Photoshop 7.0, Photoshop Elements 2.0, and the newest arrival--Quicken 2003.
You can get more of course when you visit the product page on their site. I personally am a little peeved since I bought my mac just 6 months ago, and already I need to invest more money into it.
Apple isn't strangling the adoption, they are coining a term to describe a technology... they did it with the "AirPort" too for wireless networks.
This is a similar concept as what Intel did with Pentium (the original one) rather than using 80586 to describe the generation of processors following the 80486 (the 80 usually dropped) they coined the term "Pentium" which left the "cheap chip" companies like AMD and Cyrix to come up with names of their own to describe the same technology.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. Even Sony tried to capture a market share with "iLink" which is again, IEEE 1394 with a different name.
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With Budwiser signing on to Williams BMW, I would espect to see more promotion of Formula 1 in the US. Who knows, someday we might even get a second race (we are a pretty big country after-all) However, BMW isn't looking as good as last year. But I think we have all see the BMW commerical with Montoya taking the hair off the front of the camera...
It was a Speed channel interview last year with Williams, sortly after inking the deal that said they were looking to bring more american "fun" to the team with Budwiser as a sponsor.
Additionally Formula 1 pushes the envelope in Saftey, which is something CART does not.
The F1 site has some nice general information regarding the engineering etc here.
While I would agree with you most of these sites are running on $8.95/month hosting and so don't have that kind of customization.
Somewhere around $40K is good for a starting wage. It's tough to live off of but it gives a company a chance to try you out for size.
After 2 years you can job-hop for double pay and better benefits etc. or you might just get promoted internally. Either way, its worth it in the long run.
I manage 9 Dell servers and have the "Gold" 4 hour on site service on all of them. It took 2 days of being on hold for over 4 hours to get a service tech to my facility. They shipped a new MB, new backplane and new PCI Riser cards (no processor, no system ram, no power transformers for the processor, no RAID ram. The technician worked on the machine and spent a little over 1 hour on the phone with tech support himself. He installed everything and nothing, machine is still dead. So now they're sending more parts and another tech to fix the problem again. Hopefully this time they will bring a whole machine with them! Monday morning will decide if I continue to buy Dell hardware.
In a high volume system, these (logs) should also be stored on a seperate drive (yep a 3 drive configuration) typical DB servers run great with a RAID-1 System (2 disks mirrored), RAID-1 Logging (2 disks mirrored) and RAID-5 Data (3+ physical disks stripped)
And directly from the Terms of Use posted on the site when I tried to access http://ssslllaaassshhhdddooottt.net
See the whole thing at Verisign yourself.Converted to lowercase by author to pass through the lameness filter...
Good luck actually doing this! BTW: Did anyone else notice that the site is slow as molassas. Did they under estimate the number of pages they would be serving or is it just me?
Win the lawsuit, purchase SCO outright for pennies instead of the 150Million or whatever they claim to be worth right now and hold the rights to Unix themselves.
The real question becomes... Will IBM continue to be a friend of Linux at that point?
I run a Mac (OSX), Win2k and Linux (RH 8.0) all on the same network. I found that setting up one single standard was next to impossible. I have Mac (OSX) and Win2k Connecting to Linux primarily.
Initially, since Windows didn't support NFS, I installed Samba and used SMB shares on everything. I found that the file transfers between my Mac and the Linux box were painfully slow (Red Hat 7.1). So I switched that connection to NFS. Its not as bad as it initially seemed to setup. The performance gain was amazing and everyone is chugging away.
FTP is okay, but if you want a mounted disk for say digital camera images or ripped audio collections NFS and SMB give you that ability with a cleaner interface.
Don't forget once you get this protocol thing all worked out. If you try to sling 600Megs of MP3's around your WiFi network, its going to take some time still. You might consider getting a nice 10/100 hub or switch if your moving large volumes of files each time you do it.
Lastly, there are lots of other great ways to move one or two small files around. scp, ftp, http (like you have done), email, and sneaker net.
Tivo2 supports Ethernet. And with the new "Home Media Option" you can even listen to your MP3 collection and surf your digital photo library. Of course at an extra $99 (one time charge) also gives you the ability to add to your play lists remotely... but at $300 (lifetime subscription) + $350 (hardware) + $99 (home media) + $50 (usb 802.11b wireless) + $50 and up (cable bill monthly) why the hell do I drive a piece of crap car again?
To add a little validity to the last item:
Generally, except for the equipment that started the fire, everything will work once you dry it out.
Our server room is on the top floor of our building and our roof leaked during a particularly nasty storm. It shorted a power supply and the machine went off...
1 Hour with a hair dryer later + 1 new power supply from a donor machine and we were back up and running.
How bad could it have been... about 3 cups of water directly into the vent holes of a Compaq 1U server.
failures / (drives * hoursrun) = MTBF
Where:
failures = actual number of drives RETURNED to manufacture
drives = total number of production drives built
hours = actual failure point (about 5 years)
I just picked up a 15GB iPod (slightly smaller than the 30Gb) and am enjoying the intergration with iTunes as well as the new Apple Music service, my only gripe is that if you're storing your music on a network drive it can take a little while to get things sync'd the first time.
<rant>The iTunes 4 app doesn't mutitask as well as prior versions did either (at least on a dual proc machine) and there's a big red flag in the success of the Apple product... Its an Apple only software/hardware package. Sure the iPod runs on PC's with MusicMatch, but does the music service. This alone could be the death of the music service. I hope Apple is ready to release some sort of patch/plugin for Windows based systems.</rant>
Another hitch of the new iPod is the connector for the dock on the bottom. Not only does all old iPod car chargers etc not work, but it requires wires coming out of both ends to plug into your car stereo! What happened to everything out of one end. Other than that Kudos to the designers, everything was simple to get out of the box (nice design in and of itself), set up and get running.
According to AT&T Wireless in the Metro DC area, it should be available soon. (Their Siebel system has it as an item, it's just not available to the public yet.) I do find the GRPS service a little slow.
I recently bought a blue tooth phone and a Palm T with blue tooth and have been enjoying the freedom from AvantGo. It isn't fast like a desktop, but it gets the job done. Its also nice to keep my contacts/calendar in sync between the palm and phone so if I don't want to lug the palm around, I'm not lost.
And line of site is a pain with IR.
I think it's interesting that the government is getting credit for working with the private sector in releasing information. Part of the the point of open sourced software is so that bugs can be found and patched quickly. The CERT email I got yesterday afternoon had MANY patch sources listed by vendor (RedHat, Apple, Sendmail etc) and was timely. I don't belive that the pat on the back goes to Uncle Sam in this situation, but rather the folks at Sendmail who worked to resolve this issue in a timely and organized fashion. They released the information to those who needed to know (including the DHS) and worked on a solution to get this stuff out to the public.
To quote Eric Raymond, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
Kudos to Sendmail for getting this taken care of.
I tried using Samba for file shares, and found when transfering large files, it took too long. It seemed to transfer 4Kb blocks, wait a second, send the next 4Kb block, wait... you get the idea. I setup NFS for the mount and wham, the thing cranks at close to wirespeed.
I'm mounting 2 Mac OS X boxes to a Linux (RH8) Fileserver with NFS and Letting the 2 Windows boxes (Win2K Pro) mount the shares using Samba. I have noticed that the windows connections are MUCH slower.
Its been a long time since I have had a HD fail (3-4years) and have returned it under warranty but...
I have an old WD Enterprise SCSI disk that had issues in the first two weeks. I sent the disk back, and within 3 days had a replacement drive, no credit card, no paperwork. I see some policies have changed since then, but whenever possible, I still by WD or Maxtor drives because... they don't fail!
Even still regardless of your level of computer use experience, save often and make copies is still the safest route to make sure you don't loose all your crap in the event of a failure. Computers fail... and more than just HD's
I remember this same discussion about 32bit processors. What's important is once it is in production, we can start developing applications that take advantage of it. Remember the run on Memory in 1995 when Windows 95 hit the shelf. Everyone had to go and upgrade their 486's and Pentium's so that they had 4-8Mb ram... now look at us, a machine with less than 128Mb what a joke. (I run 1Gb myself (yes I have dual processors too)) Having a couple of Gig of RAM is not that far off, and software that can take advantage of it isn't either.
The poster didn't ask for OCR, they asked how they could make some copys of text. So I think the digital camera solution will work for this user.
Well, almost $99/yr, looks like inflation struck here...
Pricing Info states US$118 each, but still a nice agressive price.
I disagree somewhat with your saying that the managers and developers need a nudge, its more the users who don't see the big picture, all the pending and future projects, but only their little piece of the pie. Sometimes there whole existence seems to be rooted in this project, despite the fact it's time to bury it once and for all.
Another layer comes from people who don't understand the technology. I develop web apps and I have users who think its very easy to just add a chunck of funtionality in or change the way something works without giving any real though to how long it might actually take, or if it's even possible.
For example, I developed an application taking an address. The postal code field was supposed to take US Zips 5 and 5+4 and validate them, but it was also supposed to take non US postal codes as well "ZXC 123". It wasn't until I showed them on paper that I can verify that something is there, but I have no way of easily checking which country's format this is, or if it is valid in that country or not! They eventually got the idea, but it took a few hours of meetings and email to get there.
Adhering to specifications can be hard too when upper management changes them mid stream. Fortunately I have a boss who raises red flags and get's other projects pushed around, but are we all so lucky?
They call it the Family Plan, its $199.99 for up to 5 machines, this is from the email they sent .mac subscribers about it:
You can get more of course when you visit the product page on their site. I personally am a little peeved since I bought my mac just 6 months ago, and already I need to invest more money into it.
Apple isn't strangling the adoption, they are coining a term to describe a technology... they did it with the "AirPort" too for wireless networks.
This is a similar concept as what Intel did with Pentium (the original one) rather than using 80586 to describe the generation of processors following the 80486 (the 80 usually dropped) they coined the term "Pentium" which left the "cheap chip" companies like AMD and Cyrix to come up with names of their own to describe the same technology.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. Even Sony tried to capture a market share with "iLink" which is again, IEEE 1394 with a different name.
Start spamming the media relations department...
Forgent Media Relations:
Hedy Baker, 512/437-2789
hedy_baker@forgent.com
Of course this could just be to get some press coverage, cause bad press is better than no press.