Wait, hold up, dude. Today's Friday. On Fridays, we support the government, intellectual property, copyright laws, licensure of software, the MPAA for the great DVD releases they have, and the music industry for the great music they put out.
Tuesday and Thursday, however, we are anti-establishment, we support the opening of all software, the bypass of all copyrights, we're anti-.NET software licencing, we hate the MPAA for Johansen/DeCSS, and screw the "copy protected CD's".
read the slashdot bylaws before you post next time =)
Perhaps FOX should switch the timeslots of Futurama and Malcolm in the Middle for, say, a month.
I don't really mind Malcom. What I could really do without is the freaking King of the Hill. And don't flame me, I'm a southern boy (born and raised in Tennessee) - my dad *is* Hank Hill. I thought it was the greatest show ever the frist, say, 6 episodes, but lately it's painful to watch.
Move Family Guy and Futurama to Sunday nite, and watch your ratings SOAR. Show FG eps after simpsons on weekdays (there's enough of them for a month or 2), and see how many people watch.
I know this is also a far fetched idea, but, how about if they *advertise* it??? I mean, I saw so many ads for that 80's show during the superbowl that it made me sick, and those were the 3rd generation ads for that show. Fox refuses to advertise The Family Guy, and they wonder why no one watches it.
In fact, if someone out there is interested in mirroring about 40 gigabytes worth of video content from this server I believe that there is still a need for additional storage space.
...it's MUCH more than that - addresses, buying habits, banking practices, assets, etc.
This is another thing to consider. Do you know how they get your information regarding shopping practices and preferences? Well, they start with the Food Lion MVP card / Giant Bonus card / Kroger Plus card / Ukrops Valued Customer card.
Seriously, they have analysis done on what you buy and how much you spend that more or less accurately tells them what demagraphic you're in.
~z
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Put to scale, the head of a disk drive is like a 747 jumbo jet flying at mach 4 at an altitude of 1/4" over the rocky mountains.
It's not that I don't agree with what you're saying in general, that hard drives are very fragile, but you could really use a better similie. The engineering structure of a hard drive would be more like an F16 flying over Oklahoma. To say the rocky mountains would imply that your platters had bumps and ridges in them, which i would hope they don't (I have 2 maxtor HDD's), and to say a 747 would imply that the read head is bulky and has little practical precision. An F-16 would be more accurate, being smaller and much more manuverable.
eh, it's not new. I mean, we bought it used, and it's a couple of years old. However, we did pay like $1560 for it, plus shipping. I'm not sure where from, and i can find out if you'd like, but I'm still amazed by the price. Which is why i wanted to post it. People looking for high end systems(64 bit) w/ quad procs can get them for a reasonable price.
besides with the speed advantages shared memory brings to multiprocessing a quad xenon would probably outpreform this.. deffinately a quad proc ultrasparc but those are pricey even used...
First, I'm guessing you meant quad-Xeon and not quad-Xenon, cause why would you want to have 4 instances of Xenon text editor running on your desktop, or 4 atoms of the element Xenon.
Second, there is the misnomer that Ultra-sparc boxen are rediculously expensive. It's just not true. The place where I work recently purchased a new shared solaris server - quad-proc Ultra2 4x300mhz w/ 1 Gig of ram and 2x18 gig scsi drives. It only set us back about $1500. That is NOT MUCH in the world of shared website hosting. Plus, it compiles things a lot faster than, say, our P4-1.5 Ghz, despite the 300 Mhz advantage. High end hardware is doable, and most people don't need much, especially considering that a Sparc IPC (25-ish mhz w/ 24 megs of ram) runnig solaris 7 can host 200 web pages easily, and handle 3 million hits a month. Web serving is *not* difficult, and it doesn't take a lot of power, just a proc that can switch between processes quickly and efficiently. It's poorly-written CGI that takes power.
The fact remains that this got posted today, not because the news was released today, but because its Tuesday. On Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and alternating Sundays, we're pro bigbusiness, pro-DVD, pro patent, for stricter internet law, and pro linux takeover. On Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and alternating Sundays, we are anti-internet-law, anti-patent, anti-DVD, pro-freedom of speach, and anti-linux buyout.
Actually, i don't know if you're going to check this post or what, since its anonymous, but I do go to a lot of shows. In the past year, i've seen the dave brockie expierence twice, rawg once, less than jake/ teen idols/ anti-flag 3 times, new found glory 5 times, weezer/ get up kids once, the living end/ american hi-fi once, and i've been to and seen a dozen or so local shows in fredrock, va, and even played in a few. And tonite, i'm driving from blacksburg, va, 6 hours to see GWAR in norfolk/va beach, and then tomorrow i'm driving 2.5 to see GWAR in Winston Salem N.C.
And you're right, there is absolutely no comparason between a CD and a show. If i can, i tend to buy CD's at shows - it's like LTJ says: "Well I really don't know if it matters at all so, but we try to keep our prices low for records and our shows"
The only solution is to structure the network by using "super clients" or "servants" or "super nodes", call them what you want, the later is what KaZaa and Morphus have accomplished...
This is exactly the point. This is the only way to properly distribute querys, as anyone who has set up a multi-homed ISP knows. It works on the same principle as BGP routing, i.e. there are routers (super-nodes, or whatever) that have a specific number (an ASN - or in P2P, the supernode address) but there are thousands of computers (casual modem users - p2p) on the internet that these routers have information about. If BGP routing worked this way, nothing would go anywhere. However, by having several nodes giving out information on who has what and how to get it, while the majority of users just download and give out their own info, not pass along info of others, things work much smoother. And with a correct implementation, everyone could have a route to everyone's file list at a minimal bandwidth useage.
Unless you want obscure stuff. If i hear that XYZ indie punk band has a great album (Self, or The Proms, for example) I want to hear what they sound like before i buy it, because I don't want to order something from CDNnow or whatever and pay $20/cd and $7/shipping or whatever to get a crappy CD (the juliana theory - emotion is dead: thanks for nothin). But i do want to support indie music if it doesn't suck. So for me, it's morpheus, old-skool napster, gnutella, whatever, as long as it is big, i'll check it out.
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That would be Chiana if you're into sex with aliens who don't look like us, or Aeyrn if you're into sex with aliens who do look like us.
Re:Which one (Score:4, Informative)
Only on slashdot would this be moderated as informative and not funny. Only here are we so serious about sex with aliens.
~z
Wait, hold up, dude. Today's Friday. On Fridays, we support the government, intellectual property, copyright laws, licensure of software, the MPAA for the great DVD releases they have, and the music industry for the great music they put out.
.NET software licencing, we hate the MPAA for Johansen/DeCSS, and screw the "copy protected CD's".
Tuesday and Thursday, however, we are anti-establishment, we support the opening of all software, the bypass of all copyrights, we're anti-
read the slashdot bylaws before you post next time =)
!z
dude, he implimented the ascii character representation of ESC, not the idea of an escape from a situation.
The alternative is to make Opera your default Web browser.
Why would you suggest that opera is the only alternative to IE? Try K-Meleon for a change. I've been using it for months and it rocks my world.
Yeah, what's the deal with Catcher in the Rye or something? Everyone who is a serial killer is supposed to have had a copy? I never got that.
~z
Perhaps FOX should switch the timeslots of Futurama and Malcolm in the Middle for, say, a month.
I don't really mind Malcom. What I could really do without is the freaking King of the Hill. And don't flame me, I'm a southern boy (born and raised in Tennessee) - my dad *is* Hank Hill. I thought it was the greatest show ever the frist, say, 6 episodes, but lately it's painful to watch.
Move Family Guy and Futurama to Sunday nite, and watch your ratings SOAR. Show FG eps after simpsons on weekdays (there's enough of them for a month or 2), and see how many people watch.
~!
I know this is also a far fetched idea, but, how about if they *advertise* it??? I mean, I saw so many ads for that 80's show during the superbowl that it made me sick, and those were the 3rd generation ads for that show. Fox refuses to advertise The Family Guy, and they wonder why no one watches it.
In fact, if someone out there is interested in mirroring about 40 gigabytes worth of video content from this server I believe that there is still a need for additional storage space.
Morpheus, dude.... Morpheus.
This is another thing to consider. Do you know how they get your information regarding shopping practices and preferences? Well, they start with the Food Lion MVP card / Giant Bonus card / Kroger Plus card / Ukrops Valued Customer card.
Seriously, they have analysis done on what you buy and how much you spend that more or less accurately tells them what demagraphic you're in.
~z
Put to scale, the head of a disk drive is like a 747 jumbo jet flying at mach 4 at an altitude of 1/4" over the rocky mountains.
It's not that I don't agree with what you're saying in general, that hard drives are very fragile, but you could really use a better similie. The engineering structure of a hard drive would be more like an F16 flying over Oklahoma. To say the rocky mountains would imply that your platters had bumps and ridges in them, which i would hope they don't (I have 2 maxtor HDD's), and to say a 747 would imply that the read head is bulky and has little practical precision. An F-16 would be more accurate, being smaller and much more manuverable.
~z
Mod parent up- v. funny.
The only problem
with Tom's hardware is
the ammount of information
that they display
per page, in order
to get as many
advertisment
views as possible
.
From avi freedman's homepage: the Freedman doc - info on multihoming and BGP.
BR~z
Hrm...
So this is why SDRAM prices have been going up and not down lately...
Bastards...
~z
Wu-ftpd: providing remote root access since 1996.
~z
eh, it's not new. I mean, we bought it used, and it's a couple of years old. However, we did pay like $1560 for it, plus shipping. I'm not sure where from, and i can find out if you'd like, but I'm still amazed by the price. Which is why i wanted to post it. People looking for high end systems(64 bit) w/ quad procs can get them for a reasonable price.
~z
Hey, how's this?
/pci@1f,4000
/pci@1f,2000
(censored):root> dmesg
Jan 22 21:47
cpu0: SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (upaid 0 impl 0x11 ver 0x20 clock 296 MHz)
cpu1: SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (upaid 1 impl 0x11 ver 0x20 clock 296 MHz)
cpu2: SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (upaid 2 impl 0x11 ver 0x20 clock 296 MHz)
cpu3: SUNW,UltraSPARC-II (upaid 3 impl 0x11 ver 0x20 clock 296 MHz)
SunOS Release 5.7 Version Generic 64-bit [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
Copyright (c) 1983-1998, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
mem = 1048576K (0x40000000)
avail mem = 1029668864
Ethernet address = (censored)
root nexus = SPARCengine(tm)Ultra(tm) CycleQUAD (4 X UltraSPARC-II 296MHz)
pci0 at root: UPA 0x1f 0x4000
pci0 is
pci1 at root: UPA 0x1f 0x2000
pci1 is
etc.etc.
I rest my case. BAM.
~z
(censored)> su -
Password:
Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.7 Generic October 1998
You have new mail.
(censored):root> mpstat
CPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw syscl usr sys wt idl
0 16 0 86 45 44 70 0 1 2 0 98 1 1 1 97
1 16 0 88 1 0 72 0 1 2 0 102 1 1 1 96
2 16 0 115 213 13 67 0 1 2 0 100 2 1 1 96
3 16 0 95 67 67 64 0 1 2 0 97 2 2 1 96
Tell me how to get more detailed system info and i will, i don't know how to just print out exactly what the procs are and speed ratings
besides with the speed advantages shared memory brings to multiprocessing a quad xenon would probably outpreform this.. deffinately a quad proc ultrasparc but those are pricey even used...
First, I'm guessing you meant quad-Xeon and not quad-Xenon, cause why would you want to have 4 instances of Xenon text editor running on your desktop, or 4 atoms of the element Xenon.
Second, there is the misnomer that Ultra-sparc boxen are rediculously expensive. It's just not true. The place where I work recently purchased a new shared solaris server - quad-proc Ultra2 4x300mhz w/ 1 Gig of ram and 2x18 gig scsi drives. It only set us back about $1500. That is NOT MUCH in the world of shared website hosting. Plus, it compiles things a lot faster than, say, our P4-1.5 Ghz, despite the 300 Mhz advantage.
High end hardware is doable, and most people don't need much, especially considering that a Sparc IPC (25-ish mhz w/ 24 megs of ram) runnig solaris 7 can host 200 web pages easily, and handle 3 million hits a month. Web serving is *not* difficult, and it doesn't take a lot of power, just a proc that can switch between processes quickly and efficiently. It's poorly-written CGI that takes power.
~z
The fact remains that this got posted today, not because the news was released today, but because its Tuesday. On Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, and alternating Sundays, we're pro bigbusiness, pro-DVD, pro patent, for stricter internet law, and pro linux takeover. On Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and alternating Sundays, we are anti-internet-law, anti-patent, anti-DVD, pro-freedom of speach, and anti-linux buyout.
~z
While you at it add a dictionary
Did you mean: "While you're at it..."
Actually, i don't know if you're going to check this post or what, since its anonymous, but I do go to a lot of shows. In the past year, i've seen the dave brockie expierence twice, rawg once, less than jake/ teen idols/ anti-flag 3 times, new found glory 5 times, weezer/ get up kids once, the living end/ american hi-fi once, and i've been to and seen a dozen or so local shows in fredrock, va, and even played in a few. And tonite, i'm driving from blacksburg, va, 6 hours to see GWAR in norfolk/va beach, and then tomorrow i'm driving 2.5 to see GWAR in Winston Salem N.C.
And you're right, there is absolutely no comparason between a CD and a show. If i can, i tend to buy CD's at shows - it's like LTJ says: "Well I really don't know if it matters at all so, but we try to keep our prices low for records and our shows"
The only solution is to structure the network by using "super clients" or "servants" or "super nodes", call them what you want, the later is what KaZaa and Morphus have accomplished...
This is exactly the point. This is the only way to properly distribute querys, as anyone who has set up a multi-homed ISP knows. It works on the same principle as BGP routing, i.e. there are routers (super-nodes, or whatever) that have a specific number (an ASN - or in P2P, the supernode address) but there are thousands of computers (casual modem users - p2p) on the internet that these routers have information about. If BGP routing worked this way, nothing would go anywhere. However, by having several nodes giving out information on who has what and how to get it, while the majority of users just download and give out their own info, not pass along info of others, things work much smoother. And with a correct implementation, everyone could have a route to everyone's file list at a minimal bandwidth useage.
Smaller is better in my opinion!
Unless you want obscure stuff. If i hear that XYZ indie punk band has a great album (Self, or The Proms, for example) I want to hear what they sound like before i buy it, because I don't want to order something from CDNnow or whatever and pay $20/cd and $7/shipping or whatever to get a crappy CD (the juliana theory - emotion is dead: thanks for nothin). But i do want to support indie music if it doesn't suck. So for me, it's morpheus, old-skool napster, gnutella, whatever, as long as it is big, i'll check it out.
~z
actually i think it may be the BBB where NSI is located, which would be the BBB link on the parent post, and put in zip code 94043.