My experience with realtor.com (which has a very good site, BTW) is that a lot of times, the houses aren't taken down until well after the house is off the market. This could be the fault of lazy realtors (probably) or it could be the site or it's admin.
If I were to host a realtor I would require that houses be actively relisted after a period of 2-4 weeks. Having done work for a realtor on the web before, I can tell you that they're not interested in doing that, but if you make it a requirement they get a little more interested!
See their upcoming protein folder, which should be able to do petaflops. Finally, chip manufacturers are starting to put some memory on the die (in the case of Blue Gene, quite a bit).
Will game box manufacturers do the same? And how would it affect price if each chip had direct access to, say, 4-8MB on teh die? My guess is that price is what's holding it back...it's cheaper and easier to produce memory that's 4 inches wide than 4mm wide.
It seems that companies are starting to realize that people with an MBA don't neccesarily have what it takes to run a technical company. A pure MBA has no idea how to estimate programming timelines and costs, hardware deployment, so they woul dhave no idea where to cut costs and where to put extra time/money. Bad products result, adn companies go under.
Walker knew he wanted to go into space; he also knew he didn't have the "right stuff." No one with dyslexia and attention deficit disorder gets picked to be an astronaut.
Because they want/need the ability to remote control their hardware. OK, you're doing rolling blackouts, youcan
1) man a staff to sit b each of the switches and hope they do theri jobs properly, and don't, say, blackout their ex-units neighborhood all day
2) Use computers, but string up your -own- pipe. Wait for the project to complete. Explain to taxpayers why this is a multi-million dollar project.
They probably have leased lines and/or use tunneling and encryption for their MC apps, if not their entire network. If not, we'd know about it sooner;)
"That's really amazing on two counts: that there were computers not behind a firewall and it took 17 days to discover," said state Sen. Debra Bowen (D-Marina del Rey), who chairs her chamber's Energy Committee.
Not condiering it was a new system. They got victimized, and it sounds like it wsa a cae of lucky best hacker finding a machine open during a portscan. Id bet the OS was fresh out of the box and configuring for security...they probably were 'gonna do it soon'. So they got busted.
17 days: these things can go unnoticed for lots longer thean that. Sounds like they were doing a monthy security audit, and when 'Uh-oh, we gotta big mes to clean up." That, or they wondered who wsa runnning make:P
I wouldn't overclock the processor, but some OC tricks will be useful...
Consider watercooling this machine. I would have picked a CPU that won't heat your house, but that's irrelevant at this point.
Consider getting a peltier if you've got a beefy powersupply, it's not your electricity!
Seal the case and the enclosure well! I had a box crap otu on me because mice got inside. They pissed all over the motherboard. I got the sucker, found him trapped under the HD enclosure.
Consider setting up a cam pointed right at the enclosure.
Definately get MBM so you can remotely monitor the temperature.
Good luck!
(me: 433@487 Celeryo. CPU temp: 59C. Ambient: 82F)
What do you think happens to the money, it get flushed down the toilet? Lost in the shuffle? They're spending it on people to develop Linux applications. They're funding outside projects, and they're also commiting themselves to protect their investment. It's the infrastructure, stupid!
The way I see it, OSS underlies business. It enables it, it provides tools, but not (buzzword coming) solutions, which is what the software business is all about. If we had to rely on Microsoft networking, or Lotus Notes to commuicate, I don't think we would have gotten as far as we have. Look at HTML, TCP/IP networking. While they're not something you can get from the FSF website, they're an open standard that users. industry, and pretty much the whole world has agreed on.
Where I work we're also buying some Linux products to handle security. Why not just download the stuff? We save the time it would take to administer it, we get expert code, and I still have the ability to monitor the goings-on of my software. That's worth the money right there, especially since it's not mine;-) It's a service, really. Rather than pay me, an admitted non-expert, overtime, take me away from other projects (I don't mean/.), and generally hit the brakes for other aspects of the business, we'll get it done for us. It's quick and easy.
If you can build a company that makes a profit from OSS tools, do it! You can't sell them, that's the catch. I think that the computer service industry is really in it's infancy right now. Will Capitalist Pigs provide services for x and y? You bet they will.
I leave other business applications of OSS as an exercise to the readers;)
Well, touche. But IMO a one year comparison at this point of a company that went public at he end of 99, during the height of the dot-com craze and the "internet dollar" isn't valid. Lot's of internet stocks went to shit this last year, that's why I picked the 3 month mark. They didn't even exist on the market 2 years ago. I hadn't even looked at the one year spread, I know it lookd dismal but put it in relative terms. There's a rebound phase that companies are doing, or going bust, which showed up nicely in that graph.
OK let's do a six month comparison. But wait, that's a software company...we'll try another server vendor, or or another, if you think it's fair to compare VA Linux with the likes of Intel, Microsoft, adn Compaq. In a sense, it is...
Because business is business.
I enjoyed the days before the internet boom, when the internet wasn't such a sprawling metropolis. The same is happening to the OSS community, as is inevitable. Will the dollar dilute the OSS concept? Maybe. Will it destroy it? I really don't think it will
Indeed, look at the stock price. If you had been followign it for the past few weeks/months/whatever, you'd know that it hasn't been a dying stock
What's their main revenue stream? It's hardware, isn't it? Trying to battle the likes of Dell and Compaq. Hardware with packaged software added...they're a small player in a huge market and they're doing quite well given the circumstances. It's a tough market right now, and they've been pretty steady the past few months. They're not just another dot-com, but they do have to play some hardball to survive, and getting 0wn3d doesn't help.
And it really upsets me to have to do as I recently did, and recommend a $30,000 accounting package that only ran on the M$ platform. We had to pay the Win2K tax for it...I'd like to be able to have an actual choice in the future, and maybe the next time we have to upgrade, there will be some more business software out there we could use.
Suddenly, it's a *NIX vs. M$ world, and lots of business see the inherent problems of lashing themselves to a closed-standards (yet popular) environment that's noted for it's security and stability problems. They're starting to figure out how much time they're wasting (and goign to waste in the future) by rebooting their machines, performing illegal operations, reinstalling the OS when it "goes bad", and the like. It's slow in coming, but the dawn is here, IMO.
Drangel mused that the new use of the company's top brand might actually benefit Hormel. The theory is that having more people talk and think about spam will cause more people to buy and eat SPAM.
So this a case of accidental marketing.
Works on me. I had never had any SPAM before, but sometime in 1996, something changed in me. I tried it, and thought it was OK. Time passed, and I kept buying the stuff, and started trying out the recipes on the sides of the cans. Those folks at Hormel (tm) come up with some pretty tasty recipes! Let's face in, SPAM-n-eggs is pretty nasty, but Chicken SPAM-on-Bleu is fabulous! So is SPAM-a-roni and cheese, and SPAM and mushroom pizzas.
They are the 800 pound gorilla of ISPs, and they really have no incentive to improve their service.
Service?!? I never got any service from Earthlink. Gotta bill, though, for 2 months worth of it. Our ISP (coollink, not sorry to see them go, really) got bought by EarthFink, we had one month left on our long term contract, which we had paid in advance.
I just came back from a camping trip where I brought my old Thinkpad 760XL with me as an mp3 player. Here's the breakdown:
-- Laptop (64MB RAM, 2GB HD, 24x CD) with Red Hat 6.1, xmms, gnome cd player (ebay price ~$150-$200)
-- 1 power inverter ($50)
-- 1 lime green power strip from Wally World ($2.00)
-- 1 pair standup speakers ($20)
Insert power inverter into stereo cavity. Plug in power strip. Place speakers behind truck seat on each side, routing wires through middle of seat armrest hole. Plug speakers into laptop, laptop adn speakers into power strip. Boot jukebox and enjoy.
Caveats: My truck (92 Isuzu) just happens to perfectly fit a flattened (opened all the way) laptop under the seat without the keys being touched. Your vehicle probably can't do this.
Power inverters do not like to be on when the car is started. So you'll have to switch the inverter off for a second, start the car, adn switch the inverter back on.
Don't forget to run the vehicle every hour or so if your parked and listening...or you'll find yourself with no battery power
This setup worked pretty well, you can reach down and use the keys to switch tracks, etc. You don't neccesarily want to be scrolling through a menu while driving 70, though. I had a very few problems with skipping, even on rocky mountain roads. Have fun!
Yep, this is the sales blurb for the virtual servers. Head over to Dedicated > VA Linux and have a look there:
"The VA Linux 1000 server appliance is a 1U rackmountable chassis which supports up to dual Intel Pentium III processors, one gigabyte of RAM, and 2 internal hard drives.
Intel Processor 500MHz to 700MHz
64MB to 1,024MB PC100 SDRAM
Up to 2 IBM SCSI Hard Drives (4.5GB to 18.4GB)
If you have any questions, or would like to order your Cobalt RaQ dedicated server right now, call our sales team at 1-800-WEBHOST. If you would like to order a Cobalt RaQ server on-line, click here."
Uh, guys? RaQ != VA Linux.
And why the hell are they trying to scare you away from the $200+/month service to sell you the $30/month service ?!?
Sure...here's how you make one:
1) Acquire 2 (or more) Athlon rigs with ethernet cards
2) Run Beowulf.
Wasn't there a dual-Athlon board shown at CeBit?
Well, sure. The obsolescence is partially in the software, but we're constantly finding new ways to use computers.
Remember the article in The Onion about the $5000 computer that downloads video, displays on monitor? Now there's TV/FM tuners, video editing, 3-D graphics because we *can*. Oh, and multitasking...
People used to (slowly) back away from me because I used my computer to listen to music
uh, what's wrong with your stereo?
It's stupid, I can't make a playlist that it won't forget or is longer than 2 hours...
Now I've got a digital VCR. Silly? Hey, they sell them for about the same price, but they won't play (insert your favorite game) nor can you sw*p mp*'s on it either.
It's like roads...build them and they'll get used. FWIW I still use a P166 laptop, and my office machine is a K6/2. I could upgrade them, but I'll wait. I'd probably still be usign my Quadra 700 (25 mHz 68040) if some rodent hadn't shat all over the MB. They can get in through an empty PCI slot...
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I overclocked my CPU and now it reboots 25% faster!
Bah. That's the risk you take by hoarding information, eventually someone's going to get at it.
I'm a member of an ecomerce site, and I'm glad that I don't have to go through the cleanup panic. Our company keeps the credit card numbers only as long as it takes to charge them, then we throw them out, and we pack the databases on a regular basis.
It's a funny thing to explain to a customer that relly digs that one-click convenience.
It's a terrible thing to happen, especially to a pioneer in the field, but that's business.
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Keep all of you eggs in one basket, and WATCH THAT BASKET -- Mark Twain
I've just been given the call to set up a Red Hat distro here at w*rk. It seems like 6.2 would be the obvious choice since that's what our webserver is, and we want to mirror it (or at least the content) for development/testing/backup purposes.
But this box has an ass-full of devices hooked up to it, including 2 (!) USB scanners, a CDR, IDE zip. If I had the plugs I'd bring my USB trackball in also.
So should I put up 6.2, or get 7.0? It's my first Linux install and I'll probably do a twin boot system. Note: it's a K6-2/475 Compaq.
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My experience with realtor.com (which has a very good site, BTW) is that a lot of times, the houses aren't taken down until well after the house is off the market. This could be the fault of lazy realtors (probably) or it could be the site or it's admin.
If I were to host a realtor I would require that houses be actively relisted after a period of 2-4 weeks. Having done work for a realtor on the web before, I can tell you that they're not interested in doing that, but if you make it a requirement they get a little more interested!
See their upcoming protein folder, which should be able to do petaflops. Finally, chip manufacturers are starting to put some memory on the die (in the case of Blue Gene, quite a bit).
Will game box manufacturers do the same? And how would it affect price if each chip had direct access to, say, 4-8MB on teh die? My guess is that price is what's holding it back...it's cheaper and easier to produce memory that's 4 inches wide than 4mm wide.
It seems that companies are starting to realize that people with an MBA don't neccesarily have what it takes to run a technical company. A pure MBA has no idea how to estimate programming timelines and costs, hardware deployment, so they woul dhave no idea where to cut costs and where to put extra time/money. Bad products result, adn companies go under.
So should he be building rockets then?!?
Because they want/need the ability to remote control their hardware. OK, you're doing rolling blackouts, youcan
;)
1) man a staff to sit b each of the switches and hope they do theri jobs properly, and don't, say, blackout their ex-units neighborhood all day
2) Use computers, but string up your -own- pipe. Wait for the project to complete. Explain to taxpayers why this is a multi-million dollar project.
They probably have leased lines and/or use tunneling and encryption for their MC apps, if not their entire network. If not, we'd know about it sooner
"That's really amazing on two counts: that there were computers not behind a firewall and it took 17 days to discover," said state Sen. Debra Bowen (D-Marina del Rey), who chairs her chamber's Energy Committee.
:P
Not condiering it was a new system. They got victimized, and it sounds like it wsa a cae of lucky best hacker finding a machine open during a portscan. Id bet the OS was fresh out of the box and configuring for security...they probably were 'gonna do it soon'. So they got busted.
17 days: these things can go unnoticed for lots longer thean that. Sounds like they were doing a monthy security audit, and when 'Uh-oh, we gotta big mes to clean up." That, or they wondered who wsa runnning make
What's to prevent someone from cutting power to the whoel store (or just the supply room) and doing dastardly deeds? Do you have backup power?
Can anyone unplug the power strip it's plugged into?
What's the case made of? Wood? Sheet metal? Is it a commercial box or something you/someone else fabricated?
3x3x3 should be OK, but if you have problems I would consider some sort of heat exchanger unit.
I wouldn't overclock the processor, but some OC tricks will be useful...
Consider watercooling this machine. I would have picked a CPU that won't heat your house, but that's irrelevant at this point.
Consider getting a peltier if you've got a beefy powersupply, it's not your electricity!
Seal the case and the enclosure well! I had a box crap otu on me because mice got inside. They pissed all over the motherboard. I got the sucker, found him trapped under the HD enclosure.
Consider setting up a cam pointed right at the enclosure.
Definately get MBM so you can remotely monitor the temperature.
Good luck!
(me: 433@487 Celeryo. CPU temp: 59C. Ambient: 82F)
What do you think happens to the money, it get flushed down the toilet? Lost in the shuffle? They're spending it on people to develop Linux applications. They're funding outside projects, and they're also commiting themselves to protect their investment. It's the infrastructure, stupid!
The way I see it, OSS underlies business. It enables it, it provides tools, but not (buzzword coming) solutions, which is what the software business is all about. If we had to rely on Microsoft networking, or Lotus Notes to commuicate, I don't think we would have gotten as far as we have. Look at HTML, TCP/IP networking. While they're not something you can get from the FSF website, they're an open standard that users. industry, and pretty much the whole world has agreed on.
;-) It's a service, really. Rather than pay me, an admitted non-expert, overtime, take me away from other projects (I don't mean /.), and generally hit the brakes for other aspects of the business, we'll get it done for us. It's quick and easy.
;)
Where I work we're also buying some Linux products to handle security. Why not just download the stuff? We save the time it would take to administer it, we get expert code, and I still have the ability to monitor the goings-on of my software. That's worth the money right there, especially since it's not mine
If you can build a company that makes a profit from OSS tools, do it! You can't sell them, that's the catch. I think that the computer service industry is really in it's infancy right now. Will Capitalist Pigs provide services for x and y? You bet they will.
I leave other business applications of OSS as an exercise to the readers
OK let's do a six month comparison. But wait, that's a software company...we'll try another server vendor, or or another, if you think it's fair to compare VA Linux with the likes of Intel, Microsoft, adn Compaq. In a sense, it is...
Because business is business.
I enjoyed the days before the internet boom, when the internet wasn't such a sprawling metropolis. The same is happening to the OSS community, as is inevitable. Will the dollar dilute the OSS concept? Maybe. Will it destroy it? I really don't think it will
What's their main revenue stream? It's hardware, isn't it? Trying to battle the likes of Dell and Compaq. Hardware with packaged software added...they're a small player in a huge market and they're doing quite well given the circumstances. It's a tough market right now, and they've been pretty steady the past few months. They're not just another dot-com, but they do have to play some hardball to survive, and getting 0wn3d doesn't help.
But look at IBM's recent software development and their Linux budget. Those are real dollars, not dot-com, VC bux.
And it really upsets me to have to do as I recently did, and recommend a $30,000 accounting package that only ran on the M$ platform. We had to pay the Win2K tax for it...I'd like to be able to have an actual choice in the future, and maybe the next time we have to upgrade, there will be some more business software out there we could use.
Suddenly, it's a *NIX vs. M$ world, and lots of business see the inherent problems of lashing themselves to a closed-standards (yet popular) environment that's noted for it's security and stability problems. They're starting to figure out how much time they're wasting (and goign to waste in the future) by rebooting their machines, performing illegal operations, reinstalling the OS when it "goes bad", and the like. It's slow in coming, but the dawn is here, IMO.
Guess what site I'm making my new Netscape start page? Maybe my Konqueror, too...
Now we have to change our spam-proof email addresses from bob@NOSPAM.myisp.net to bob@NOspam.myisp.net, for Hormel's sake.
or NOsPaM.
or NOSP4M.
&c...
[pointy-haired boss]: How much is that gonna cost?
[me] Lots, with a good team, we should have it done on about a week
So this a case of accidental marketing.
Works on me. I had never had any SPAM before, but sometime in 1996, something changed in me. I tried it, and thought it was OK. Time passed, and I kept buying the stuff, and started trying out the recipes on the sides of the cans. Those folks at Hormel (tm) come up with some pretty tasty recipes! Let's face in, SPAM-n-eggs is pretty nasty, but Chicken SPAM-on-Bleu is fabulous! So is SPAM-a-roni and cheese, and SPAM and mushroom pizzas.
But take it from me, don't make SPAM cupcakes!
Service?!? I never got any service from Earthlink. Gotta bill, though, for 2 months worth of it. Our ISP (coollink, not sorry to see them go, really) got bought by EarthFink, we had one month left on our long term contract, which we had paid in advance.
We got a notice saying welcome to Earthlink.
We stopped being able to connect.
We got this bill.
It's a EULA!
I'm fully aware of my sig:text ratio...
I just came back from a camping trip where I brought my old Thinkpad 760XL with me as an mp3 player. Here's the breakdown:
-- Laptop (64MB RAM, 2GB HD, 24x CD) with Red Hat 6.1, xmms, gnome cd player (ebay price ~$150-$200)
-- 1 power inverter ($50)
-- 1 lime green power strip from Wally World ($2.00)
-- 1 pair standup speakers ($20)
Insert power inverter into stereo cavity. Plug in power strip. Place speakers behind truck seat on each side, routing wires through middle of seat armrest hole. Plug speakers into laptop, laptop adn speakers into power strip. Boot jukebox and enjoy.
Caveats: My truck (92 Isuzu) just happens to perfectly fit a flattened (opened all the way) laptop under the seat without the keys being touched. Your vehicle probably can't do this.
Power inverters do not like to be on when the car is started. So you'll have to switch the inverter off for a second, start the car, adn switch the inverter back on.
Don't forget to run the vehicle every hour or so if your parked and listening...or you'll find yourself with no battery power
This setup worked pretty well, you can reach down and use the keys to switch tracks, etc. You don't neccesarily want to be scrolling through a menu while driving 70, though. I had a very few problems with skipping, even on rocky mountain roads. Have fun!
-- 2 front mountain bike Bowgo (tm) kits
-- 2 back mountain bike Bowgo (tm) kits
-- 4 truck mount Bowgo (tm) kits
Oh, hell, throw in a kit for my sweet little old neighbor lady's walker
Yep, this is the sales blurb for the virtual servers. Head over to Dedicated > VA Linux and have a look there:
"The VA Linux 1000 server appliance is a 1U rackmountable chassis which supports up to dual Intel Pentium III processors, one gigabyte of RAM, and 2 internal hard drives.
Intel Processor 500MHz to 700MHz
64MB to 1,024MB PC100 SDRAM
Up to 2 IBM SCSI Hard Drives (4.5GB to 18.4GB)
If you have any questions, or would like to order your Cobalt RaQ dedicated server right now, call our sales team at 1-800-WEBHOST. If you would like to order a Cobalt RaQ server on-line, click here."
Uh, guys? RaQ != VA Linux.
And why the hell are they trying to scare you away from the $200+/month service to sell you the $30/month service ?!?
Sure...here's how you make one: 1) Acquire 2 (or more) Athlon rigs with ethernet cards 2) Run Beowulf. Wasn't there a dual-Athlon board shown at CeBit?
Remember the article in The Onion about the $5000 computer that downloads video, displays on monitor? Now there's TV/FM tuners, video editing, 3-D graphics because we *can*. Oh, and multitasking...
People used to (slowly) back away from me because I used my computer to listen to music
uh, what's wrong with your stereo?
It's stupid, I can't make a playlist that it won't forget or is longer than 2 hours...
Now I've got a digital VCR. Silly? Hey, they sell them for about the same price, but they won't play (insert your favorite game) nor can you sw*p mp*'s on it either.
It's like roads...build them and they'll get used. FWIW I still use a P166 laptop, and my office machine is a K6/2. I could upgrade them, but I'll wait. I'd probably still be usign my Quadra 700 (25 mHz 68040) if some rodent hadn't shat all over the MB. They can get in through an empty PCI slot...
---
I overclocked my CPU and now it reboots 25% faster!
Bah. That's the risk you take by hoarding information, eventually someone's going to get at it.
I'm a member of an ecomerce site, and I'm glad that I don't have to go through the cleanup panic. Our company keeps the credit card numbers only as long as it takes to charge them, then we throw them out, and we pack the databases on a regular basis.
It's a funny thing to explain to a customer that relly digs that one-click convenience.
It's a terrible thing to happen, especially to a pioneer in the field, but that's business.
--
Keep all of you eggs in one basket, and WATCH THAT BASKET -- Mark Twain
I've just been given the call to set up a Red Hat distro here at w*rk. It seems like 6.2 would be the obvious choice since that's what our webserver is, and we want to mirror it (or at least the content) for development/testing/backup purposes.
But this box has an ass-full of devices hooked up to it, including 2 (!) USB scanners, a CDR, IDE zip. If I had the plugs I'd bring my USB trackball in also.
So should I put up 6.2, or get 7.0? It's my first Linux install and I'll probably do a twin boot system. Note: it's a K6-2/475 Compaq.
Recommendations?
I've got the same kind at home. Here's what I do:
1. Start vacuum and place business end facing up in the air
2. Overturn keyboard directly above said business end
3. Hit keyboard with hammer.
I'm eyeing up a used paintshaker that the local hardware store has put up for sale
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