But.. but.. A standard user would buy an off the shelf netgear box and let that do the rest. Not build a PC, chuck in HDs, and then configure the hellish OS called Windows Home Server.
There are cheaper, more efficient, and better products out there. Just type in Windows Home Server Raid into Google, and see what horror stories come up. Corruption of data, complete loss of data due to proprietary Microsoft bullshit. Don't get sucked into the marketing.
Like when the OS becomes corrupt, you can't restore the RAID set again? Or because it's running a Windows OS you have to have virus protection or else you open yourself up to all sorts of vulnerabilities. In many many respects, it is not better than proper standardized RAID.
You're better off building something decent. I built my media server using UnRAID. It offers full expandability, one Parity disk with no parity striping, and no striping of data.
OS X doesn't come with root enabled by default. Giving your password can give said application su privileges, but won't be able to edit system files owned by root. They have to be well engineered daemons themselves to do something like this. And it all starts with the person using the computer typing in their password to install something dodgy.
Bad analogy if your car is under warranty. But let me explain why your concept is slightly flawed.
If you wanted to make a free application to all, you would probably go the cheapest route. Unless you have lots of money, which in that case you don't mind putting down a couple of grand for a decent computer running a decent OS plus having a decent phone.
If you wanted to make money, what better ways to promote your application to masses are there? They pay for the bandwidth, they give you a top quality environment to code in, and they market your application. It's not all that bad..
I can see your point, but at least Apple is controlling the iPhone and its development in a good way. It's win win in almost all circumstances.
lol at "the world could save up to $500 million each year".
They wouldn't save money..!! You'd see more principals with the words PIMP in crystal with gold chains hanging around their necks. And happy admins after they move to linux. Ahh... Bliss.
This thing just shouldn't happen in the first place. What sysadmin would trust an employee when you've told them not to do something? I configure all of our lists with permissions, so only certain people can post to large mailing lists. I also set the default "reply to" field to send only to the list admins.
This is appalling. The fact that general users are being processed as guilty before any kind of court action is disgusting. No chance to defend yourself with actual facts. If this law gets bought into play, we may as well bring in burn the witch while we're at it.
Well it really all depends on your budget. I was basing that on our backup solution, so didn't delve into details. Not everyone can afford expensive tape arrays, and we have a single HP drive, which is slow.
We have roaming homes, which are all stored locally on each machine as well as the server. We have those backing up to a RAID 5 array, which is backed up nightly to a JBOD array. Each user machine is also backed up incrementally every 5 hours to another RAID 5 array. We have two JBOD arrays which get recycled. The archives are stored in a firesafe, both offsite and onsite.
The most we would lose is a days worth of data if anything silly happened, or if there was a fire in the server room. If a major fire broke out and we lost absolutely everything, a months worth of data lost is the least of anyones worries;)
Might not be best solution at all for a database. Depending on the size of it, it would be quite a pain for time machine backing up 50+Gbs of a "modified file" every hour.
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Like Steve Jobs dying without Apple hyping up someone new and exciting to lead the company beforehand? I could see that happening.
Of course we need a new internet. Someone in the IT crowd obliterated it! I've been living in a bunker ever since.
But.. but.. A standard user would buy an off the shelf netgear box and let that do the rest. Not build a PC, chuck in HDs, and then configure the hellish OS called Windows Home Server.
There are cheaper, more efficient, and better products out there. Just type in Windows Home Server Raid into Google, and see what horror stories come up. Corruption of data, complete loss of data due to proprietary Microsoft bullshit. Don't get sucked into the marketing.
*Unplugs TV from teh internets and puts on tin foil hat* You'll never get me with your personlised ads you fuckers!!!!
He left.
Like when the OS becomes corrupt, you can't restore the RAID set again? Or because it's running a Windows OS you have to have virus protection or else you open yourself up to all sorts of vulnerabilities. In many many respects, it is not better than proper standardized RAID.
You're better off building something decent. I built my media server using UnRAID. It offers full expandability, one Parity disk with no parity striping, and no striping of data.
I'd like to see a death report from you to proof it, thanks.
It isn't proper RAID.
*Click*
They're advertising it to dudes who like to impress their bosses! Hardly a toy, it's a career advancing machine of doom!
Nearly defeats the purpose of having a root account... :p
OS X doesn't come with root enabled by default. Giving your password can give said application su privileges, but won't be able to edit system files owned by root. They have to be well engineered daemons themselves to do something like this. And it all starts with the person using the computer typing in their password to install something dodgy.
Bad analogy if your car is under warranty. But let me explain why your concept is slightly flawed.
If you wanted to make a free application to all, you would probably go the cheapest route. Unless you have lots of money, which in that case you don't mind putting down a couple of grand for a decent computer running a decent OS plus having a decent phone.
If you wanted to make money, what better ways to promote your application to masses are there? They pay for the bandwidth, they give you a top quality environment to code in, and they market your application. It's not all that bad..
I can see your point, but at least Apple is controlling the iPhone and its development in a good way. It's win win in almost all circumstances.
But software is useless if it's useless.
lol at "the world could save up to $500 million each year".
They wouldn't save money..!! You'd see more principals with the words PIMP in crystal with gold chains hanging around their necks. And happy admins after they move to linux. Ahh... Bliss.
require a credit card number just to talk to them
That's what my girlfriend said last night
There, fixed that for you.
That's still no substitute to having a properly setup mail server, unfortunately. You're right though.
Which in some peoples case could be thousands.. Not exactly well spent time?
This thing just shouldn't happen in the first place. What sysadmin would trust an employee when you've told them not to do something? I configure all of our lists with permissions, so only certain people can post to large mailing lists. I also set the default "reply to" field to send only to the list admins.
Seriously, it's not that hard..
If they are Apple Mittensâ, absolutely.
and some idiot with a mac.
Hey! I take offence. And I have a right to do so!
This is appalling. The fact that general users are being processed as guilty before any kind of court action is disgusting. No chance to defend yourself with actual facts. If this law gets bought into play, we may as well bring in burn the witch while we're at it.
Well it really all depends on your budget. I was basing that on our backup solution, so didn't delve into details. Not everyone can afford expensive tape arrays, and we have a single HP drive, which is slow.
We have roaming homes, which are all stored locally on each machine as well as the server. We have those backing up to a RAID 5 array, which is backed up nightly to a JBOD array. Each user machine is also backed up incrementally every 5 hours to another RAID 5 array. We have two JBOD arrays which get recycled. The archives are stored in a firesafe, both offsite and onsite.
The most we would lose is a days worth of data if anything silly happened, or if there was a fire in the server room. If a major fire broke out and we lost absolutely everything, a months worth of data lost is the least of anyones worries ;)
Tapes are old news if you're looking at a shit load of data. I recycle JBOD arrays, and archive monthly to tape. Tapes are slow.
Might not be best solution at all for a database. Depending on the size of it, it would be quite a pain for time machine backing up 50+Gbs of a "modified file" every hour.