I've had good luck with 3ware's 4 channel RAID card - it's hardware RAID so the drivers are lightweight. It's plunking away in a FreeBSD box and is really fast with FreeBSD soft updates.
I can understand not cacheing a hot story - especially if the web site in question get add revenue from being slashdotted. But a story like this one, could wait a few *days* and still be interesting.
As cool as it is, it's hardware like this that will make it impossible to control our own computers - It will make content controll almost unbeatable, and turn personal computers into unfathomable black boxes. Into black boxes that are not beholden to us, the purchasers, but to others who wish to controll the use of our computers. Hardware will increasingly become an inscaleable wall, and we will have lost controll.
Motorola was working on a chipset for the cell phone market that was highly programmable - it could simulate differing standards on the fly. What killed the project was horrible battery drain - hopefull these people have figgured it out.
Don't forget, Linux the Operating System is seperate than the user interface that you use with it. One could have a dumbed down UI for the typical Windows user, and still have Linux. Unlike Windows NT, where the user interface is intertwined with the kernel so completly that the two are inseperatable, Linux and Unix keey the UI at arms-length. So much so, that differing versions of Linux and Unix can share the same UI (KDE, Gnome and Bash for example.)
Good idea, Borris staying in mother Russia. Hearing reports of Gulag anal penetration of comrade Dimitry, makes Borris happy to being home on computer.
I'm a small contractor that makes custom software for small business, I used Access and Delphi a lot due to the fact that I can quickly create software. Recently I've been deploying Borland's Linux version of Delphi (Kylix) and MySQL - It's kinda cool because I can have the client computers VNC into the server that stores the database and also serves the applications. I don't have to worry about the clinet computers crashing or having odd Windows bugs. Plus, there are VNC clients for Mac, Solaris, Windows 95 through 2000. All of my new projects are Kylix on Linux. My switch would not be ecconomically feasable if it wer not for KDE, MySQL, VNC and finally - Kylix.
Yeah, the lameness filter bites. Anthing that limits a normal post but lets all that garbage through...
Taco,
Your lameness filter can't deal with html like emebbed non-braking spaces. All you need to do is pipe the comments though Lynx *then* examine the output to determine if it's ASCII art.
...which basically says that any conspiracy theory about the so-called "NSAkey" is bunk.
But believe whatever you like, dude. (not that you needed me to tell you that)
I was joking darnit...
It was my fault though - my original post was moded as a Troll and you obviously thought I was serious. The whole NSA/Linux was a parody of the GNU/Linux fiasco, and the NSA dosen't need any backdoors to get into a Windows box - just a copy of Code Red.
A lot of us don't use NTSC/PAL TV for output, we just use a VGA for our viewing. DVD's look great on a projector swiped from the office, as most DVD software does line doubling quite well now days.
I know you were talking 'bout the old Model I/II/III CoCo etc..
Did you know that the Tandy 1000 had most of MS-DOS burned into ROM - the dumb things could get you to a DOS prompt in about ten seconds from a hard boot and about 5 seconds in a soft boot. They were great for programming odd little assembly programs, cause if your program locked, you could be back to work in fifteen seconds.
The Spooks have been shopping at the Thrift-Stores and gobbleing up thos old mid-90's Gateway keyboards with those darned 'Program' and 'Macro' keys. Then they sneek them into your house while you are in the pantry making a cheese fondu.
See http://www.firmware.com/support/bios/anykey.htm if you don't know what I'm yammering about
It's true that college level football isen't quite the money-sink one might think it is, but if you consider the fact that most states don't charge property/income/sales tax on the venture - we, as taxpayers, arn't getting our fare share. There is the argument that Football et al, help keep Alumnai/e involved, so it is a an interesting issue.
On a presonal level, I don't like the focus and energy that shcools put into team sports with all it's pomp and stuff. It's not good for our culture to make people look outside of themselvs and into sports for feelings of accomplishment and entertainment. It just doesen't seem healthy to me. Here in Seattle, our local Baseball team is drawing 40,000 people per game. The time it takes for those people to earn the money to buy the tickets and watch the game is the same amount of time in one persons whole life. Just to watch a bunch of grown men hit a ball with a stick.
In terms of ease-of-use, software library size, and compatibility with other products/devices. Currently, Linux does not compare to Windows in these aspects.
Excuse me.. Linux plays well with others, to wit Things that a typical Linux $50 Distribution Can do That $250 MS Windows Dosen't do:
Kerberos - (MS Kerberos is broken)
NFS
Full TCP/IP Stack
NAT (Unlimited Internet Shareing)
Firewall
PPP Server for mutiple clients
SSH and SSH Tunneling
Unlimited Windows Sytle File Server with permissions
I caved in an purchased an Iridium phone. I love to backpack, and knowing that my clinets can get a hold of me in an emergency lets me relax and not have to worry about them. Thankfully, it costs them around $2.50 a minuit to call me, so my mini vacations are supprisingly call free. It's a good ballance for me, as I'm a one man shop and can't have my customers looking elsewhere:)
Back in the the late 80's Radio Shack made this pocket computer called the PC-2 that looked like a large calculator - it was great for most science test as you could get it to regurgetate formulae by programming it in a whacked out version of Basic. No teacher ever though that a calculator could store text, so I was free to cheat for about 4 years. It was a pisser trying to convince the French tracher that I should be able to use a "calculator" during tests:) Here a link to the PC-4, a better version of the PC-2.
Your misrepresentation makes my blood boil - we overspend on education by a huge quantity.
30 kids in a classroom at $7000 a spent per student each year is over $210,000.00 dollers per classroom. The money is there. It's just being wasted on administrators, unions, fancy football stadiums, unnessesary travel, and leather chairs for the high mucky-mucks.
Japan spends $4500 and europe spends $5000 per student-year. The problem isn't money.
Another thing I have heard about is mailing it to yourself, and not opening the package. This passes it through a government agency (the USPS) and gives it an official date (the postmark). This would probably be better than nothing, but I wouldn't trust it like I would trust an official registration with the copyright office.
The whole mail yourself a copy is an urban myth - it's really dangerous because people think they have covered themsleves. Copright registration is only a small fee and a bit of paperwork. It's really worth it.
The fisrt batches was made by IBM and the later ones by Comptronix.
Atari Press Release:
ATARI AND IBM ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC MANUFACTURING CONTRACT FOR MULTIMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- June 28, 1993 -- Atari Corp. announced today that it has contracted with the IBM Corp.'s Charlotte, N.C., facility to manufacture the Atari Jaguar, Atari's new 64-bit multimedia entertainment system.
IBM's multi-year contract is valued at $500 million.
The Atari Jaguar, to be made in the United States, is an interactive multimedia entertainment system which features over 16 million colors in 24-bit true color graphics and produces shaded 3-D polygons for manipulation in a "real world" in real time. A 32-bit expansion port will allow for future connection into cable and telephone networks, a digital signal processing port for modem usage and connection to digital audio peripherals. The Jaguar will also feature a double-speed compact disc peripheral.
"This system is clearly the wave of the future," said Sam Tramiel, president of Atari. "Because the Jaguar will feature such an array of visual and audio special effects, we wanted to work with a premier company that we are confident can manufacture the quality product we have developed."
The Charlotte-based IBM plant, which for 15 years has manufactured and developed products only for other IBM businesses, just recently began working with outside companies to meet their production needs. The Atari Jaguar project represents one of IBM's first entries into manufacturing for the mass consumer electronics market.
"This is a wonderful opportunity to work with Atari and their new system," said Herbert L. Watkins, director of Application Solutions manufacturing at IBM Charlotte. "Everyone expects IBM to manufacture complex information technology products, and with this, we'll show that we can competitively build a sophisticated consumer product."
In addition to assembling the Jaguar, IBM will be responsible for the component sourcing, quality testing, packaging and distribution. The Jaguar, announced on June 3, is based on an Atari-designed proprietary 64-bit RISC processor that features four times the technology currently seen in the marketplace today. The sound system is based on Atari's proprietary, high-speed, Digital Signal Processor dedicated to audio which can produce CD-quality sound. The Atari Jaguar will be available on a limited basis in the fall, focusing on the New York market. A national roll-out is expected next year, and the Jaguar will retail for approximately $200.
NOTE: Atari Corp. manufactures and markets personal computers and video games for the home, office and educational marketplaces throughout the world. Atari headquarters are located at 1196 Borregas Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94089.
The IBM Corp.'s Charlotte facility manufactures and develops for IBM and other companies a wide variety of products, such as banking systems, automotive diagnostic systems and electronic circuit boards. The site includes 2.3 million square feet of work space on a 1,200-acre site. Its address is 1001 W.T. Harris Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28257. Telephone: 704-594-1000
I'm a Qwest customer and have and old version of the operating system and havent had a lock up. The secret is to have it forward port 80 into an internal ip address. You have around 10 slots in the system for use for forwarding, or you can have all packets forwarded to a particular ip - kinda like bridging mode, but you get a non routable ip address.
I needed storage for a bunch of files, and I evaluated all the DVD formats and came to the conclusion that, unless you have a huge storage needs or specifically need the DVD format - good old hard-drives make better sense. You don't have to break your data up in ~4 gig chunks, they are fast and cheap, and no special software/drivers are needed:
I needed one half a Terabyte of storage:
DVD-Drive @ $600 + 100 DVD Disks at $10 each = $1600
7 IDE Drives and Drive Caddies @ $140 + $20 = $1120
Considering my time is valuable (well not too valuable, otherwise I wouldent be here at Slashdot), babysitting the DVD drive seemed like a pain.
Of course we DVD will scale better, and your needs may vary. I already have backups of the files, so the fact that IDE drives can be flaky diden't bother me.
At one Terabyte, the story changes and DVD's look better, but start to look silly compaired to tape drives.
There is some great info in the parent post, but it's hard to see because of the new safty-link feture that reiterates the domain name of any link. Perhaps when a post is moderated to and above +3 then perhaps the safty-link things should come off.
Also - it looks like you still could put a goatse.cx link without the safty-link, by putting it in a.sig .
Slashdot Mirror
I've had good luck with 3ware's 4 channel RAID card - it's hardware RAID so the drivers are lightweight. It's plunking away in a FreeBSD box and is really fast with FreeBSD soft updates.
I can understand not cacheing a hot story - especially if the web site in question get add revenue from being slashdotted. But a story like this one, could wait a few *days* and still be interesting.
I wanna be like the Army, they get to play Altima Online with their Invidia graphics cards. Or somthing.
As cool as it is, it's hardware like this that will make it impossible to control our own computers - It will make content controll almost unbeatable, and turn personal computers into unfathomable black boxes. Into black boxes that are not beholden to us, the purchasers, but to others who wish to controll the use of our computers. Hardware will increasingly become an inscaleable wall, and we will have lost controll.
bleah..
Motorola was working on a chipset for the cell phone market that was highly programmable - it could simulate differing standards on the fly. What killed the project was horrible battery drain - hopefull these people have figgured it out.
Don't forget, Linux the Operating System is seperate than the user interface that you use with it. One could have a dumbed down UI for the typical Windows user, and still have Linux. Unlike Windows NT, where the user interface is intertwined with the kernel so completly that the two are inseperatable, Linux and Unix keey the UI at arms-length. So much so, that differing versions of Linux and Unix can share the same UI (KDE, Gnome and Bash for example.)
Good idea, Borris staying in mother Russia. Hearing reports of Gulag anal penetration of comrade Dimitry, makes Borris happy to being home on computer.
I'm a small contractor that makes custom software for small business, I used Access and Delphi a lot due to the fact that I can quickly create software. Recently I've been deploying Borland's Linux version of Delphi (Kylix) and MySQL - It's kinda cool because I can have the client computers VNC into the server that stores the database and also serves the applications. I don't have to worry about the clinet computers crashing or having odd Windows bugs. Plus, there are VNC clients for Mac, Solaris, Windows 95 through 2000. All of my new projects are Kylix on Linux. My switch would not be ecconomically feasable if it wer not for KDE, MySQL, VNC and finally - Kylix.
Thanks, you made my day.
Yeah, the lameness filter bites. Anthing that limits a normal post but lets all that garbage through...
Taco,
Your lameness filter can't deal with html like emebbed non-braking spaces. All you need to do is pipe the comments though Lynx *then* examine the output to determine if it's ASCII art.
But believe whatever you like, dude. (not that you needed me to tell you that)
I was joking darnit...
It was my fault though - my original post was moded as a Troll and you obviously thought I was serious. The whole NSA/Linux was a parody of the GNU/Linux fiasco, and the NSA dosen't need any backdoors to get into a Windows box - just a copy of Code Red.
Search google for NSAKey if you don't know what I'm yammering about
A lot of us don't use NTSC/PAL TV for output, we just use a VGA for our viewing. DVD's look great on a projector swiped from the office, as most DVD software does line doubling quite well now days.
Did you know that the Tandy 1000 had most of MS-DOS burned into ROM - the dumb things could get you to a DOS prompt in about ten seconds from a hard boot and about 5 seconds in a soft boot. They were great for programming odd little assembly programs, cause if your program locked, you could be back to work in fifteen seconds.
See http://www.firmware.com/support/bios/anykey.htm if you don't know what I'm yammering about
On a presonal level, I don't like the focus and energy that shcools put into team sports with all it's pomp and stuff. It's not good for our culture to make people look outside of themselvs and into sports for feelings of accomplishment and entertainment. It just doesen't seem healthy to me. Here in Seattle, our local Baseball team is drawing 40,000 people per game. The time it takes for those people to earn the money to buy the tickets and watch the game is the same amount of time in one persons whole life. Just to watch a bunch of grown men hit a ball with a stick.
Excuse me.. Linux plays well with others, to wit Things that a typical Linux $50 Distribution Can do That $250 MS Windows Dosen't do:
Kerberos - (MS Kerberos is broken)
NFS
Full TCP/IP Stack
NAT (Unlimited Internet Shareing)
Firewall
PPP Server for mutiple clients
SSH and SSH Tunneling
Unlimited Windows Sytle File Server with permissions
DCHP Server
Unlimited Web Server
Application Server in X or VNC
SQL Server
Office Suite
Emulate another OS (Wine)
To get Windows up to speed you need
MS Windows Server Upgrade and CAL Upgrades
MS Sql Server and CAL Upgrades
MS Terminal Server and CAL Upgrades
MS IIS and CAL Upgrades
MS Proxy Server and CAL Upgrades
MS Office and CAL Upgrades
MS Firewall (I forget the name) and CAL Upgrades
Service Pack 2
Lots of Secutity Updates
Cygwin
Although the MS Soletare is pretty good..
I caved in an purchased an Iridium phone. I love to backpack, and knowing that my clinets can get a hold of me in an emergency lets me relax and not have to worry about them. Thankfully, it costs them around $2.50 a minuit to call me, so my mini vacations are supprisingly call free. It's a good ballance for me, as I'm a one man shop and can't have my customers looking elsewhere :)
http://www.geocities.com/~compcloset/TRS80PC-4.
Your misrepresentation makes my blood boil - we overspend on education by a huge quantity.
30 kids in a classroom at $7000 a spent per student each year is over $210,000.00 dollers per classroom. The money is there. It's just being wasted on administrators, unions, fancy football stadiums, unnessesary travel, and leather chairs for the high mucky-mucks.
Japan spends $4500 and europe spends $5000 per student-year. The problem isn't money.
Sorry. I diden't meen to make it look like you were saying otherwise. My fault.
The whole mail yourself a copy is an urban myth - it's really dangerous because people think they have covered themsleves. Copright registration is only a small fee and a bit of paperwork. It's really worth it.
wait for it.....
the Atari Jaguar!
The fisrt batches was made by IBM and the later ones by Comptronix.
Atari Press Release:
ATARI AND IBM ANNOUNCE STRATEGIC MANUFACTURING CONTRACT FOR MULTIMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- June 28, 1993 -- Atari Corp. announced today that it has contracted with the IBM Corp.'s Charlotte, N.C., facility to manufacture the Atari Jaguar, Atari's new 64-bit multimedia entertainment system.
IBM's multi-year contract is valued at $500 million.
The Atari Jaguar, to be made in the United States, is an interactive multimedia entertainment system which features over 16 million colors in 24-bit true color graphics and produces shaded 3-D polygons for manipulation in a "real world" in real time. A 32-bit expansion port will allow for future connection into cable and telephone networks, a digital signal processing port for modem usage and connection to digital audio peripherals. The Jaguar will also feature a double-speed compact disc peripheral.
"This system is clearly the wave of the future," said Sam Tramiel, president of Atari. "Because the Jaguar will feature such an array of visual and audio special effects, we wanted to work with a premier company that we are confident can manufacture the quality product we have developed."
The Charlotte-based IBM plant, which for 15 years has manufactured and developed products only for other IBM businesses, just recently began working with outside companies to meet their production needs. The Atari Jaguar project represents one of IBM's first entries into manufacturing for the mass consumer electronics market.
"This is a wonderful opportunity to work with Atari and their new system," said Herbert L. Watkins, director of Application Solutions manufacturing at IBM Charlotte. "Everyone expects IBM to manufacture complex information technology products, and with this, we'll show that we can competitively build a sophisticated consumer product."
In addition to assembling the Jaguar, IBM will be responsible for the component sourcing, quality testing, packaging and distribution. The Jaguar, announced on June 3, is based on an Atari-designed proprietary 64-bit RISC processor that features four times the technology currently seen in the marketplace today. The sound system is based on Atari's proprietary, high-speed, Digital Signal Processor dedicated to audio which can produce CD-quality sound. The Atari Jaguar will be available on a limited basis in the fall, focusing on the New York market. A national roll-out is expected next year, and the Jaguar will retail for approximately $200.
NOTE: Atari Corp. manufactures and markets personal computers and video games for the home, office and educational marketplaces throughout the world. Atari headquarters are located at 1196 Borregas Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94089.
The IBM Corp.'s Charlotte facility manufactures and develops for IBM and other companies a wide variety of products, such as banking systems, automotive diagnostic systems and electronic circuit boards. The site includes 2.3 million square feet of work space on a 1,200-acre site. Its address is 1001 W.T. Harris Blvd., Charlotte, NC 28257. Telephone: 704-594-1000
I'm a Qwest customer and have and old version of the operating system and havent had a lock up. The secret is to have it forward port 80 into an internal ip address. You have around 10 slots in the system for use for forwarding, or you can have all packets forwarded to a particular ip - kinda like bridging mode, but you get a non routable ip address.
I needed storage for a bunch of files, and I evaluated all the DVD formats and came to the conclusion that, unless you have a huge storage needs or specifically need the DVD format - good old hard-drives make better sense. You don't have to break your data up in ~4 gig chunks, they are fast and cheap, and no special software/drivers are needed:
I needed one half a Terabyte of storage:
DVD-Drive @ $600 + 100 DVD Disks at $10 each = $1600
7 IDE Drives and Drive Caddies @ $140 + $20 = $1120
Considering my time is valuable (well not too valuable, otherwise I wouldent be here at Slashdot), babysitting the DVD drive seemed like a pain.
Of course we DVD will scale better, and your needs may vary. I already have backups of the files, so the fact that IDE drives can be flaky diden't bother me.
At one Terabyte, the story changes and DVD's look better, but start to look silly compaired to tape drives.
There is some great info in the parent post, but it's hard to see because of the new safty-link feture that reiterates the domain name of any link. Perhaps when a post is moderated to and above +3 then perhaps the safty-link things should come off.
Also - it looks like you still could put a goatse.cx link without the safty-link, by putting it in a
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