Digital river will sell you a legit upgrade copy of Windows 7 for $30 if you are a student at a qualifying university. Their authentication of said is that you have a *@*.edu email address.
I bought a copy of windows 7 for my wife to go along with the new macbook pro I got her for xmas. I installed it before this update came out and found it unusable, so I backed off to a copy of windows XP that i can justify using legally because it's the key from her old laptop, which was soon to be reinstalled with Fedora. I'll probably upgrade now.
Case in point: me. I work for Rackspace. We are NOT the cheapest in the business. But - we hire better, more knowledgeable people (largest private sector employer of RHCE's), and we support and treat our customers better.
If you want a server, you can go anywhere. We know that. We know that we have to come through for the end user in order to stay relevant. It's what makes this a great job, that atmosphere, that dedication to the customer.
I know it's late replying. There are lots of independent labels, and the cost of recording and producing music is dropping significantly every year. 20 years ago, digital recording used to take $500,000 worth of equipment (racks full of DATs), 10 years ago it took $5000 (several echo laylas with preamps, hardware compressor, mixing board/preamp), now it takes $500 (two M-Audio Delta 1010LT and CEPro will give you simultaneous 20 track recording).
The problem is distribution. A lot of indie labels still have distribution deals with the big guys, which, to me, just perpetuates the system. Bands jump ship from indie to major label in order to get their records into walmart/bestbuy.
Don't worry. The internet is changing that. Soon that piece of the puzzle will fall off of the map, and at that point, there won't be any need for a record label. Bands will pay a recording studio to perform work, take the masters to a producer to perform the mix, get the album, sell it online. They'll have a management staff to coordinate merchandise and touring.
After recording, touring support, merch support, and distribution, the only reason labels exist is to loan a band money. As the price comes down, this will continue to fall away.
30 years, and we will have witnessed the death of the Major record label. We live in exciting times.
This is why we should care. I know that it's clichéd, but these companies care nothing about you, or about music, or about the well-being of the world in which they operate. They are wholly evil, in a way that almost no other business is.
I read Ringworld for the first time a couple of months ago, and to be honest, I was entirely underwhelmed. The premise was silly in the first place, the characters might have looked good once but now seemed to be simple caricatures of silly stereotypes from the dawn of modern sci-fi, and the writing was not very good.
There was nothing at all resolved - why was this ring built? Who built it? Why did they build it? What happened to it? Where did they go? How long ago did they leave? What has happened in the mean time? What else is on the ring? Are there any civilizations that are modern remaining on it?
And on top of that, the author has NO concept of falling action. Literally, the main plot point (how do we get off this thing?) was resolved (maybe, kind of), and three paragraphs later, the book was over.
I was completely underwhelmed. My wife tells me there are sequels, but without the first book actually being finished, I think that they've got to be just finishing up the story that was essentially abandoned.
Now, I guess I would have to concede that if you are talking about making a show about the whole series, including all the information in the sequels (which is substantial, according to what I'm reading on Wikipedia), then maybe. But the book its self left me extremely unsatisfied.
Receiving the signal is not illegal. In fact, if you go get a satellite and a receiver, and plug them up correctly, you will get the DirecTV information channel.
The signal, however, is encrypted and locked out based on your access. Decrypting the signal (getting free pay per view and free porn and free movies/tv etc) is illegal.
They've cracked down on people buying card readers and people downloading the software to program them.
Anyway, yeah, Titans are huge, and the rest of the ships there are dreadnoughts mostly (they're also huge). Check the chart - in my opinion, most of the fun combat is in cruiser sized ships. Find the Caracal or the Rupture or the Vexor to see a size comparison. There's lots of maneuvering with those kind of ships.
Something like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aeyt-T_U2Vg gives you a better idea, but even that ship is more of an up-close slug fest kind of ship. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUDLQEZf9J8 is another idea of combat. Keep in mind, if you zoom in you get great visuals but after a while, you stay zoomed out to get an idea of the arena of combat. It's strategical, not twitch, so much.
CCP's favoritism of BoB is something that gets trotted out every time they accomplish anything. It's years in the past.
In this engagement, BoB (IT) won. The people who jumped in were dumb. They knew this might happen.
In a previous engagement (check the corporation alliance and org forum for post by SK Rooster), BoB/IT jumped in to someone else and lost 40 dreadnoughts. Favoritism? Not so much. Whenever BoB loses, it's cause they suck, whenever they win, it's because they are getting help from the Developers and GM's. Right?
Yeah, my son was classified as "mild aspergers'", which means he has a near photographic memory, and can repeat things from commercials on TV with near pitch perfect inflection. He's ahead of his class in academics, and behind in social interaction (but that's getting better). Oddly, he seems to interact better with the adults and older kids like 6th graders than he does with his kindergarten peers.
He was acting out a lot last year and the beginning of this year, but he's really calmed down and been a model kid the last couple of months - more interactive, more listening to parents, less hitting friends and teachers when he's upset. The school has a great program for this kind of stuff - they've given him safe environments that he can retreat to if he gets freaked out, and he meets with some of the special ed folks a couple of times a week to work on things that other kids pick up naturally but that he misses.
Hey, thanks for replying. I don't know if you go back and check your slashdot messages.
But, just real quick - the Aspergers' thing, with my son - it scares me sometimes. Even though it's mild, and even though if we don't tell someone, they just sort of assume he's "a little weird". But, all in all, it's cool, right?
I keep thinking that, once he's a bit older and it becomes possible for him to move in circles that respect intellect rather than social graces, he'll be fine. But it breaks my heart to see him at a birthday party with other kids his age - almost completely non-interactive with them.
I know that your parent poster was a bit obnoxious, but you are also being a bit dense here.
I am the parent of a 5 year old boy with Asperger's. It is a disorder classified within the autism spectrum. You may be behind the times. The Autism Spectrum Disorders include classic Autism, Aspergers', and Atypical Autism (PPD-NOS); it is a "spectrum of several disorders with related causes and symptoms".
As for Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, I agree that it is extremely immature to be diagnosing people whom who haven't met and when you don't have the medical qualifications to do so. However, being "masters of social interaction" isn't necessarily ruling them out. Aspergers folks can be good at social interaction the way you or I may be good at writing code - because they study and seek to understand it.
My wife and I coach my son about how to interact in social situations, because he literally doesn't understand them. Aspergers means that you'll never understand why the band nerd doesn't sit next to the prom queen at lunch, or why you can't say what's on your mind if it's true, or correct other people if they're incorrect. But a good way to hide all that is for a reporter to ask someone to describe their life's work - which, trust me, Aspergers folks could do for hours with passion.
So, don't be so quick to dismiss. Autism Spectrum Disorders are common, more so than you'd think.
But, my experience with RHEL has been that a Major Number release won't honestly change that much from point release to point release; moving to grub2/parted/GPT seems to be a drastic, disruptive change, compared to many of the point-release changes in 4.x and 5.x (moving from 2.6.24-128.123456 to 2.6.24-128.123456-1 seems to be the M.O.).
My concern is that if it doesn't make it into 6.0, it won't make it into 6.* - If we were saying "Oh, fedora 12 is going to be the base for RHEL5.5", then I wouldn't be worried, I would say there's plenty of time to vet the hardware and roll it into some future 6.0 release. But the fact that 6.0 is ComingSoon(tm) and potentially based on this Fedora release makes me a bit nervous about the likelihood that it'll be in any 6.x release.
I agree with you. We've done well keeping costs down with commodity hardware - if you put 6 big drives in a rackmount, it gives you a lot of space and IO, and that's done us just fine for a long time. But, when we move to bigger drives (750GB x6 + raid10) we hit that 2TB limit. Doing 2 small drives in raid1 for the OS and 4 drives in raid10 for the data really limits our space. And keep in mind, that's 1300 servers total; of which probably only 400 are for storage.
We've been testing SAN / DAS for a long time, we use it for many things already and it's where we're moving for our general cloudy storage anyway. Since all of our storage servers have a hot standby, it's a hard sell to jump into DAS / SAN when you can buy two cheap boxes that have equal total space for less than the cost of 1 box + SAN + all the associated stuff - especially when cheap is "good enough" when you have a hot spare box ready to take over in the event of failure. You can spend and spend in pursuit of better hardware that can attain more "9's" of uptime.
But the point being, we've got somewhat of a unique situation where we are always squeezing the limits out of cheaper commodity hardware and have done fine. However, the small business is going to be hit by this. RHEL6 is going to be the defacto base version from 2010 (?) 'till probably 2014, and by then, 2TiB will seem commonplace. You'll be able to buy a 4TB disk from newegg for $199, but won't be able to boot RHEL from it. That's annoying.
It seems very... lazy? head in the sand? of RHEL to not address this issue.
Blah blah legal disclaimers about forward looking statements, nothing is in stone, all this is speculative, etc.
My major complaint du jour (as a sysadmin working with over 1300 RHEL systems) is that Fedora (and thus future RHELs) haven't moved to grub2 and GPT yet.
This isn't a major problem with Fedora, but the scuttlebutt is that RHEL6 is going to be based on Fedora 12; and we're going to be using RHEL6.x for probably 5 years into the future.
Without moving to GPT, we won't be able to boot off of logical (or physical) disks that are greater than 2TiB. This is a limitation of using an MBR. For the home user, this most likely isn't going to be a problem for a while - even the 2TB disks that are out there are smaller than 2 TiB, so they're fine for MBR's. But, for enterprise solutions, if you put 6 or 8 500GB disks in a rackmount and raid5 them, or 1TB disks and raid10 them, you're going to need a separate logical disk that you can install the MBR to.
There are a couple of work arounds - rumor has it that the Perc6e command line configuration utility can manually specify the logical disk size and truncate at (2TiB - 1k), but I've never gotten it to work. You can hex edit the MBR and chop it off at the 32 bit limit. Or, you can hack anaconda to support grub2, since it already uses parted (i think), but that's a bit of a kludge. Or, you can stick the MBR and/boot/ on a USB key, but that's kludgey too.
Other distros use GPT at this point, and supposedly it's completely backwards compatible. Windows 2008 can do it. But, last I checked (and I've been looking into this a lot lately), Fedora 12's repo still lists grub2 as ***this is experimental don't use unless you're a sadist*** etc.
I find that better than just saying tough tooties to the family.
Not that I disagree with you (I don't) but someone should point out that, if I die, nothing that I do will go on to feed my family. That's why I have *life insurance*.
You need to invest in power switching equipment and generators; probably a couple of 1MWatt generators. They're big 16 cyl. diesel engines sitting on top of multi-hundred gallon fuel tanks that can be refueled while in operation.
Your UPS cluster should be able to take the load of the building for 20-30 seconds, long enough for the generator to spin up for load. Good generators can spin up in 5-7 seconds.
Good Grief, I can't imagine a UPS cluster capable of sustaining a datacenter for 40 minutes. Not that 16 cyl diesel engines are that eco-friendly, but think of all the lead-acid and bad chemicals in 40 minutes x 1MW of UPS?
And that's a solution that solves the grandparent's problems, specifically that cable modems really aren't that fast - not when compared to enterprise bandwidth. But there's still huge demand for off-site storage for enterprise in the cloud.
At Rackspace Email, we use Amazon S3 for data backup (link to blog). Depending on what step you're at in an email's life, and whether or not you count raid, we've got between "a few" and "a bunch" of copies of your email in our datacenters; but just in case, we also ship it off to Amazon (with an eventual consistency model) so that if something happens to our stuff, or you delete it accidentally, or whatever, we can pull it from S3. It takes a while to pull a 5GB mailbox from Amazon, but it's not that long - not when you've got enterprise pipes.
I think it's really a question of a ratio of data to bandwidth. The internet, you see, is not a big truck, it's a series of tubes. If you dump data onto it over time, expecting to be able to retrieve it instantly, you're going to have a bad day when you find out those tubes aren't big enough for your horse racing bets. Where was I going with this?
I dunno, there should be some sort of maxim; something along the lines of "you shouldn't store more information in the cloud than you can pull down in 24h given your current bandwidth". Or else, you're going to have an unsatisfactory experience.
On the other hand, there are plenty of times that even end-user consumers should investigate cloud storage. Jungle Disk (full disclosure: rackspace acquired JD) is a little piece of software that interfaces between an end user and either S3 or rackspace cloud files, and in windows, just adds a drive letter to your "My Computer" where you can dump files to the Cloud. For a couple of bucks, you can store (for example) a reasonable MP3 collection.
Whatever, this whole article seems to be a troll. There's definitely a huge demand for Cloud services, and SaaS in general. It's growing (industry-wide) by leaps and bounds. See the state of the cloud for more info.
Well, technically Voyager 1 isn't dead. The Nuclear generator should provide enough power to keep it talking until 2025, by which point, it should be well beyond the known boundary of the solar system, and able to return the first true measurements of interstellar space.
But, yeah, there's a huge distance problem. Voyager 1 is travelling at about 17km/sec, and according to Wikipedia, if it were headed straight for the nearest star, would get there in about 75,000 years.
FYI, I have no problem with Fusemail; I support any company that is customer focused simply on face value. Fusemail sounds like they "get it", and I think that it's a good thing all around for customers when there are multiple companies willing to give excellent service.
However, since I work for Rackspace Email, I guess I should point out that with us:
$1/mo per mailbox gets you - * 10G storage (mail + attachments) * attachments limited to 50M * 24x7 phone support * Privacy (we don't read your mail and don't show you ads) * webmail(ssl)/pop(s)/imap(s)/smtp/mobile access * no GB transfer quotas
Also, we use Dovecot for IMAP, and Timo, the author, is working for us currently. So, you know, celebrity developer!
We don't currently have integrated file storage, however, the corporate overload (rackspace) owns Jungledisk, which is an easy interface to Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloud storage. We do have split-domain homegrown/Exchange, so you can have your PHBs on Exchange and your employees on the less expensive system.
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Digital river will sell you a legit upgrade copy of Windows 7 for $30 if you are a student at a qualifying university. Their authentication of said is that you have a *@*.edu email address.
I bought a copy of windows 7 for my wife to go along with the new macbook pro I got her for xmas. I installed it before this update came out and found it unusable, so I backed off to a copy of windows XP that i can justify using legally because it's the key from her old laptop, which was soon to be reinstalled with Fedora. I'll probably upgrade now.
Great find, thanks.
Service companies. Value-added resellers.
Case in point: me. I work for Rackspace. We are NOT the cheapest in the business. But - we hire better, more knowledgeable people (largest private sector employer of RHCE's), and we support and treat our customers better.
If you want a server, you can go anywhere. We know that. We know that we have to come through for the end user in order to stay relevant. It's what makes this a great job, that atmosphere, that dedication to the customer.
I know it's late replying. There are lots of independent labels, and the cost of recording and producing music is dropping significantly every year. 20 years ago, digital recording used to take $500,000 worth of equipment (racks full of DATs), 10 years ago it took $5000 (several echo laylas with preamps, hardware compressor, mixing board/preamp), now it takes $500 (two M-Audio Delta 1010LT and CEPro will give you simultaneous 20 track recording).
The problem is distribution. A lot of indie labels still have distribution deals with the big guys, which, to me, just perpetuates the system. Bands jump ship from indie to major label in order to get their records into walmart/bestbuy.
Don't worry. The internet is changing that. Soon that piece of the puzzle will fall off of the map, and at that point, there won't be any need for a record label. Bands will pay a recording studio to perform work, take the masters to a producer to perform the mix, get the album, sell it online. They'll have a management staff to coordinate merchandise and touring.
After recording, touring support, merch support, and distribution, the only reason labels exist is to loan a band money. As the price comes down, this will continue to fall away.
30 years, and we will have witnessed the death of the Major record label. We live in exciting times.
~X
I love you.
Thanks for keeping us in the loop NYCL.
These seem to be serious allegations. I hope there's action taken this time.
These deserve to be kept in mind:
http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/ (Courtney Love Does the Math, from 2000 - looking at it now, oddly prophetic)
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html (The Problem with Music, by Producer Steve Albini - great insight into the process of Major Label music)
This is why we should care. I know that it's clichéd, but these companies care nothing about you, or about music, or about the well-being of the world in which they operate. They are wholly evil, in a way that almost no other business is.
I'm sorry, but no.
I read Ringworld for the first time a couple of months ago, and to be honest, I was entirely underwhelmed. The premise was silly in the first place, the characters might have looked good once but now seemed to be simple caricatures of silly stereotypes from the dawn of modern sci-fi, and the writing was not very good.
There was nothing at all resolved - why was this ring built? Who built it? Why did they build it? What happened to it? Where did they go? How long ago did they leave? What has happened in the mean time? What else is on the ring? Are there any civilizations that are modern remaining on it?
And on top of that, the author has NO concept of falling action. Literally, the main plot point (how do we get off this thing?) was resolved (maybe, kind of), and three paragraphs later, the book was over.
I was completely underwhelmed. My wife tells me there are sequels, but without the first book actually being finished, I think that they've got to be just finishing up the story that was essentially abandoned.
Now, I guess I would have to concede that if you are talking about making a show about the whole series, including all the information in the sequels (which is substantial, according to what I'm reading on Wikipedia), then maybe. But the book its self left me extremely unsatisfied.
~W
Receiving the signal is not illegal. In fact, if you go get a satellite and a receiver, and plug them up correctly, you will get the DirecTV information channel.
The signal, however, is encrypted and locked out based on your access. Decrypting the signal (getting free pay per view and free porn and free movies/tv etc) is illegal.
They've cracked down on people buying card readers and people downloading the software to program them.
This gives you an idea of the size of the ships involved:
http://www.gossipgamers.com/images/eve1.jpg
Anyway, yeah, Titans are huge, and the rest of the ships there are dreadnoughts mostly (they're also huge). Check the chart - in my opinion, most of the fun combat is in cruiser sized ships. Find the Caracal or the Rupture or the Vexor to see a size comparison. There's lots of maneuvering with those kind of ships.
Something like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aeyt-T_U2Vg gives you a better idea, but even that ship is more of an up-close slug fest kind of ship. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUDLQEZf9J8 is another idea of combat. Keep in mind, if you zoom in you get great visuals but after a while, you stay zoomed out to get an idea of the arena of combat. It's strategical, not twitch, so much.
~X
CCP's favoritism of BoB is something that gets trotted out every time they accomplish anything. It's years in the past.
In this engagement, BoB (IT) won. The people who jumped in were dumb. They knew this might happen.
In a previous engagement (check the corporation alliance and org forum for post by SK Rooster), BoB/IT jumped in to someone else and lost 40 dreadnoughts. Favoritism? Not so much. Whenever BoB loses, it's cause they suck, whenever they win, it's because they are getting help from the Developers and GM's. Right?
Fair enough.
Yeah, my son was classified as "mild aspergers'", which means he has a near photographic memory, and can repeat things from commercials on TV with near pitch perfect inflection. He's ahead of his class in academics, and behind in social interaction (but that's getting better). Oddly, he seems to interact better with the adults and older kids like 6th graders than he does with his kindergarten peers.
He was acting out a lot last year and the beginning of this year, but he's really calmed down and been a model kid the last couple of months - more interactive, more listening to parents, less hitting friends and teachers when he's upset. The school has a great program for this kind of stuff - they've given him safe environments that he can retreat to if he gets freaked out, and he meets with some of the special ed folks a couple of times a week to work on things that other kids pick up naturally but that he misses.
Thanks for your input. =)
Hey, thanks for replying. I don't know if you go back and check your slashdot messages.
But, just real quick - the Aspergers' thing, with my son - it scares me sometimes. Even though it's mild, and even though if we don't tell someone, they just sort of assume he's "a little weird". But, all in all, it's cool, right?
I keep thinking that, once he's a bit older and it becomes possible for him to move in circles that respect intellect rather than social graces, he'll be fine. But it breaks my heart to see him at a birthday party with other kids his age - almost completely non-interactive with them.
So, in your experience, does this get easier?
I know that your parent poster was a bit obnoxious, but you are also being a bit dense here.
I am the parent of a 5 year old boy with Asperger's. It is a disorder classified within the autism spectrum. You may be behind the times. The Autism Spectrum Disorders include classic Autism, Aspergers', and Atypical Autism (PPD-NOS); it is a "spectrum of several disorders with related causes and symptoms".
As for Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, I agree that it is extremely immature to be diagnosing people whom who haven't met and when you don't have the medical qualifications to do so. However, being "masters of social interaction" isn't necessarily ruling them out. Aspergers folks can be good at social interaction the way you or I may be good at writing code - because they study and seek to understand it.
My wife and I coach my son about how to interact in social situations, because he literally doesn't understand them. Aspergers means that you'll never understand why the band nerd doesn't sit next to the prom queen at lunch, or why you can't say what's on your mind if it's true, or correct other people if they're incorrect. But a good way to hide all that is for a reporter to ask someone to describe their life's work - which, trust me, Aspergers folks could do for hours with passion.
So, don't be so quick to dismiss. Autism Spectrum Disorders are common, more so than you'd think.
Maybe.
But, my experience with RHEL has been that a Major Number release won't honestly change that much from point release to point release; moving to grub2/parted/GPT seems to be a drastic, disruptive change, compared to many of the point-release changes in 4.x and 5.x (moving from 2.6.24-128.123456 to 2.6.24-128.123456-1 seems to be the M.O.).
My concern is that if it doesn't make it into 6.0, it won't make it into 6.* - If we were saying "Oh, fedora 12 is going to be the base for RHEL5.5", then I wouldn't be worried, I would say there's plenty of time to vet the hardware and roll it into some future 6.0 release. But the fact that 6.0 is ComingSoon(tm) and potentially based on this Fedora release makes me a bit nervous about the likelihood that it'll be in any 6.x release.
I agree with you. We've done well keeping costs down with commodity hardware - if you put 6 big drives in a rackmount, it gives you a lot of space and IO, and that's done us just fine for a long time. But, when we move to bigger drives (750GB x6 + raid10) we hit that 2TB limit. Doing 2 small drives in raid1 for the OS and 4 drives in raid10 for the data really limits our space. And keep in mind, that's 1300 servers total; of which probably only 400 are for storage.
We've been testing SAN / DAS for a long time, we use it for many things already and it's where we're moving for our general cloudy storage anyway. Since all of our storage servers have a hot standby, it's a hard sell to jump into DAS / SAN when you can buy two cheap boxes that have equal total space for less than the cost of 1 box + SAN + all the associated stuff - especially when cheap is "good enough" when you have a hot spare box ready to take over in the event of failure. You can spend and spend in pursuit of better hardware that can attain more "9's" of uptime.
But the point being, we've got somewhat of a unique situation where we are always squeezing the limits out of cheaper commodity hardware and have done fine. However, the small business is going to be hit by this. RHEL6 is going to be the defacto base version from 2010 (?) 'till probably 2014, and by then, 2TiB will seem commonplace. You'll be able to buy a 4TB disk from newegg for $199, but won't be able to boot RHEL from it. That's annoying.
It seems very ... lazy? head in the sand? of RHEL to not address this issue.
Blah blah legal disclaimers about forward looking statements, nothing is in stone, all this is speculative, etc.
My major complaint du jour (as a sysadmin working with over 1300 RHEL systems) is that Fedora (and thus future RHELs) haven't moved to grub2 and GPT yet.
This isn't a major problem with Fedora, but the scuttlebutt is that RHEL6 is going to be based on Fedora 12; and we're going to be using RHEL6.x for probably 5 years into the future.
Without moving to GPT, we won't be able to boot off of logical (or physical) disks that are greater than 2TiB. This is a limitation of using an MBR. For the home user, this most likely isn't going to be a problem for a while - even the 2TB disks that are out there are smaller than 2 TiB, so they're fine for MBR's. But, for enterprise solutions, if you put 6 or 8 500GB disks in a rackmount and raid5 them, or 1TB disks and raid10 them, you're going to need a separate logical disk that you can install the MBR to.
There are a couple of work arounds - rumor has it that the Perc6e command line configuration utility can manually specify the logical disk size and truncate at (2TiB - 1k), but I've never gotten it to work. You can hex edit the MBR and chop it off at the 32 bit limit. Or, you can hack anaconda to support grub2, since it already uses parted (i think), but that's a bit of a kludge. Or, you can stick the MBR and /boot/ on a USB key, but that's kludgey too.
Other distros use GPT at this point, and supposedly it's completely backwards compatible. Windows 2008 can do it. But, last I checked (and I've been looking into this a lot lately), Fedora 12's repo still lists grub2 as ***this is experimental don't use unless you're a sadist*** etc.
~X
Not that I disagree with you (I don't) but someone should point out that, if I die, nothing that I do will go on to feed my family. That's why I have *life insurance*.
Why do artists deserve more?
Welcome to the problem of all law enforcement in the US (some states *cough*virginia*cough* worse than others).
The police at some point in the last 60 years or so moved from a philosophy of "keeping the peace" to "enforcing the law".
distribute copyright, not physical media.
once you own the media, it's yours.
Generators, man.
You need to invest in power switching equipment and generators; probably a couple of 1MWatt generators. They're big 16 cyl. diesel engines sitting on top of multi-hundred gallon fuel tanks that can be refueled while in operation.
Your UPS cluster should be able to take the load of the building for 20-30 seconds, long enough for the generator to spin up for load. Good generators can spin up in 5-7 seconds.
Good Grief, I can't imagine a UPS cluster capable of sustaining a datacenter for 40 minutes. Not that 16 cyl diesel engines are that eco-friendly, but think of all the lead-acid and bad chemicals in 40 minutes x 1MW of UPS?
however no one should have to put up with an organized intimidation process ...
To paraphrase Franken, these people must be really insecure if they're intimidated by the Terrible Pink Menace, rapidly sashaying their way.
Over $500 in the last 5 years.
I have a bumper sticker. But, seriously, this is one of the only groups fighting the good fight.
And that's a solution that solves the grandparent's problems, specifically that cable modems really aren't that fast - not when compared to enterprise bandwidth. But there's still huge demand for off-site storage for enterprise in the cloud.
At Rackspace Email, we use Amazon S3 for data backup (link to blog). Depending on what step you're at in an email's life, and whether or not you count raid, we've got between "a few" and "a bunch" of copies of your email in our datacenters; but just in case, we also ship it off to Amazon (with an eventual consistency model) so that if something happens to our stuff, or you delete it accidentally, or whatever, we can pull it from S3. It takes a while to pull a 5GB mailbox from Amazon, but it's not that long - not when you've got enterprise pipes.
I think it's really a question of a ratio of data to bandwidth. The internet, you see, is not a big truck, it's a series of tubes. If you dump data onto it over time, expecting to be able to retrieve it instantly, you're going to have a bad day when you find out those tubes aren't big enough for your horse racing bets. Where was I going with this?
I dunno, there should be some sort of maxim; something along the lines of "you shouldn't store more information in the cloud than you can pull down in 24h given your current bandwidth". Or else, you're going to have an unsatisfactory experience.
On the other hand, there are plenty of times that even end-user consumers should investigate cloud storage. Jungle Disk (full disclosure: rackspace acquired JD) is a little piece of software that interfaces between an end user and either S3 or rackspace cloud files, and in windows, just adds a drive letter to your "My Computer" where you can dump files to the Cloud. For a couple of bucks, you can store (for example) a reasonable MP3 collection.
Whatever, this whole article seems to be a troll. There's definitely a huge demand for Cloud services, and SaaS in general. It's growing (industry-wide) by leaps and bounds. See the state of the cloud for more info.
Well, technically Voyager 1 isn't dead. The Nuclear generator should provide enough power to keep it talking until 2025, by which point, it should be well beyond the known boundary of the solar system, and able to return the first true measurements of interstellar space.
But, yeah, there's a huge distance problem. Voyager 1 is travelling at about 17km/sec, and according to Wikipedia, if it were headed straight for the nearest star, would get there in about 75,000 years.
FYI, I have no problem with Fusemail; I support any company that is customer focused simply on face value. Fusemail sounds like they "get it", and I think that it's a good thing all around for customers when there are multiple companies willing to give excellent service.
However, since I work for Rackspace Email, I guess I should point out that with us:
$1/mo per mailbox gets you -
* 10G storage (mail + attachments)
* attachments limited to 50M
* 24x7 phone support
* Privacy (we don't read your mail and don't show you ads)
* webmail(ssl)/pop(s)/imap(s)/smtp/mobile access
* no GB transfer quotas
Also, we use Dovecot for IMAP, and Timo, the author, is working for us currently. So, you know, celebrity developer!
We don't currently have integrated file storage, however, the corporate overload (rackspace) owns Jungledisk, which is an easy interface to Amazon S3 or Rackspace Cloud storage. We do have split-domain homegrown/Exchange, so you can have your PHBs on Exchange and your employees on the less expensive system.
Anyway, that's all.