I used to work at a small 2 year college. We had about 30 classrooms, a few thousand FTE students. (12 credits = 1 FTE).. We got complements when we went from 2 to 4 Mb/s. The compliments were all about how much faster it was than their cable modems. (in our area, 5MB cable was the norm). But we had much, much lower latency, and a squid proxy server. I think the most I ever saw online at one time was about 80 people. However, most are reading something, or just have the internet connection open in the background. I think myspace was about half our bandwidth, from all the streaming music video's. I'm sure things are busier now (they moved to 8MB recently) but even the heaviest Facebook page is pretty small when you consider that the kids are reading stuff at the same time. The streaming stuff that caused issues from time to time had nothing to do with education, and we would ask students nicely to stop.
If you have an ethernet jack per unit (or two) you can have the tennants themselves put up their own AP's if they want. This can be much preferred, you don't have to worry about creating guest accounts for all their friends.. Since its coming in to a port on a controlled switch, you can do QOS, and then, if the tennant is running an open wireless that is being abused, it really only affects them.
I know there are all sorts of craziness for bills, but wouldn't something like a Git repository be ideal? that way, you can have the hash of the exact version of the bill your voting on, so the people know stuff wasn't 'slipped in' before it becomes law. Oh, wait, that is probably a 'feature'
I know.. I sound like a open source geek.. but really.. check it.
For instance, you can run Oracle Standard Edition on up to 2 physical CPU's. However, according to Oracle, you must count EACH physical CPU in the server its running on (unless, of course, you are using Oracle VM, which is the only exception they allow, I know.. surprising).
If you put Your oracle DB on a VMWare server running with 4 CPUs'... congratulations, you now need to upgrade to enterprise edition. (and easily at least one more zero in the price, since now you also have to license every core, and feature)
I have yet to see an 'enterprise' project that does not have significant cost overruns. At any larger company I have worked at.
Heck, my buddies company is in the 3rd iteration of trying to 'modernize' their core software. last time, some salesman convinced them to buy big sparc servers (as in many of them), and convert to java.. lots of $200/hour contractors..
Didn't work like they wanted. director got 'moved' and new one brought in. Was going to move everything to.NET since it would apparently save a fortune. (salespeople promised).. He apparently was going to save a fortune, by not replacing millions in hardware. He was figuring they would just install Server 2008 R2 on the sparc's..... hmmmmm That threw the 3rd iteration off a bit...
Geothermal does not cause earthquakes. Geothermal where you don't put the water back underground when your done causes them. My old town was heated in large part by geothermal, and in fact, this year, My old University (www.oit.edu) is scheduled to finish a brand new 1.2MW power station (they already have a 256Kw one).
Geothermal is actually growing fairly fast. The oil industry has pioneered tech to drill much deeper, so you don't have to be restricted to where the sites are near the surface.
Your forgetting when Apple appeared at the house of someone who 'found' an unreleased iphone, with actual police officers and their own security.. searched the house.. no record of a call, or report being filed.. Took a long time, and a lot of attention about it from some media for those officers to get into trouble..
I just moved a smaller business (about 40 people) to zentyal. http://www.zentyal.org/ includes all sorts of features, like a PDC if you want one, ldap for user management, vpn, groupware (uses zarafa, which is excellent) and many, many other features.
Wow! you must be a professional troll.. I work in a dual shop, and deal with Linux and Windows on a daily basis.. My Linux servers take 15 min to deploy. One reboot, and they are fully updated. My windows machines take several hours.. Countless updates, reboots, etc.. (wtf do I have to install 4 updates, reboot, find 12 more, reboot, then 3, reboot, then 17, wash, lather, repeat). If its a laptop, I get to deal with either taking the factory image, and removing all the crapware (dear god, why does MS let hp put so much slow crap on their machines!) Or, I can spend hours building a master windows image. At least with windows 7, the hardware drivers are getting better, and a single image can work on more computer..Not as good as Linux, but getting closer. I still have to update every single freaking application, because for some reason, they all have separate update tools... so each time I update the master image, we have to test like crazy. Then, maintaining these tools, if its windows, and we need to remove/upgrade drivers, its kind of a crapshoot.. from my experience, (and my business doesn't buy cheap hardware, or the stuff that just came out today) Linux actually provides more drivers that work better than windows. Does your 4 year old scanner have 64 bit windows 7 drivers? Doubt it.. most of them just work with Linux.
Paid $350 for my wife's new laptop.. She loves it.. 4GB of ram, 500G hard drive.. Awesome little light, and very cool running laptop. No, it would not play many games.. she is not a gamer..
Answered below.. sorry, it was an AMD C-60.. and 11.6 inch.. Acer Aspire one.. I don't use it, so don't pay attention to the specs.. I just needed to replace her old, old laptop that was heavy (17") with something small and faster/newer.. and with two little kids in the house, I am kind of figuring its going to be amazing if it lasts two years, so dirt cheap is best.
If I remember right, Oracle enterprise edition and Standard edition have much different pricing on how the CPU's work.. (but standard is locked to two physical processors).. i'm not our DBA, and don't ever have to deal with oracle or the contracts.. so I might be wrong on that..
Sorry, i lied a bit.. its an 11.6" screen and it has a C-60 CPU, not an e-350.. looking at the specs, it looks like its half the power, and a bit slower than the "E" class. but still perfect for what she does.
Why do people keep saying AMD can't keep up? because they don't compete in a market you care about?
My wife's laptop has an AMD E-350.. its got an ATI video card built onto the cpu.. it sucks down a whopping 9 watts, making her super light 10.6" laptop last about 7 hours.. 4GB of ram, 500GB hard drive, can stream HD video without a hiccup, and it was $350.. about what you would pay for a nice video card.. I would say AMD is competing rather well..
In the server space, were ditching Intel as fast as we can.. because for our loads, a 16 core Opteron runs oracle at the same speed as a 12 core Intel (CPU usage is not our limiting factor, disk IO is for our databases) and the difference in price last time we looked was about $7k for a Dell R815 spec'd the same as a Dell R810 with dual CPU's.. That difference is a Fusion IO card, or almost another tray of drives.. which would really help IO.
I got my wife an acer 10.6 inch thing somewhere between a nettop and a laptop.. She loves it.. that little AMD 350 CPU pulls 9 watts of power, so this little thing has great battery life (about 7 hours for our usage). Plays video fine, since it has a decent video chip (not great) built into the CPU. No heat.. no loud fans that kick on all the time.. she really digs it.. NOt bad for a $350 laptop at costco.
I worked at a large company. EVERY office had two 3800 routers.. (got to have redundancy). Most offices were around 50 people, with two T1 lines. There were actually 5-6 offices that were pretty darn big, and needed them.. (3 offices had a 2.4GB fiber ring, and some other big ones used DS3's) But the guy that was in charge of negotiating the deal was so proud of the fact that he "negotiated Cisco down $4k per router" that he just told upper management how he saved the company $4k per router, times 2 per office. I'm sure he got a nice bonus for saving the company so much money.
Heh.. I never hear that cisco is the best from anyone except complete cisco shops. Keep in mind, the ASA 5505 is not a router, its is a firewall.. Trying to route with it is an excersise in frustration. we are replacing our very, very expensive ASA's with a couple of $800 Junipers running in a cluster, with tons of failover redundancy. Costs less than what we pay on our annual maintenance for the ASA's..
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I used to work at a small 2 year college. We had about 30 classrooms, a few thousand FTE students. (12 credits = 1 FTE).. We got complements when we went from 2 to 4 Mb/s. The compliments were all about how much faster it was than their cable modems. (in our area, 5MB cable was the norm). But we had much, much lower latency, and a squid proxy server. I think the most I ever saw online at one time was about 80 people. However, most are reading something, or just have the internet connection open in the background. I think myspace was about half our bandwidth, from all the streaming music video's. I'm sure things are busier now (they moved to 8MB recently) but even the heaviest Facebook page is pretty small when you consider that the kids are reading stuff at the same time. The streaming stuff that caused issues from time to time had nothing to do with education, and we would ask students nicely to stop.
I think its more for the "rent per year" charging for access..
Why would anyone want a laptop with a 10 hour battery, that weighs almost nothing.. your right..
I would kill for one to come out, at a decent price point, to be my new Ubuntu powered laptop.
What is AV software? Audio Visual? I guess I have used Linux a bit too long now :)
If you have an ethernet jack per unit (or two) you can have the tennants themselves put up their own AP's if they want. This can be much preferred, you don't have to worry about creating guest accounts for all their friends.. Since its coming in to a port on a controlled switch, you can do QOS, and then, if the tennant is running an open wireless that is being abused, it really only affects them.
I know there are all sorts of craziness for bills, but wouldn't something like a Git repository be ideal? that way, you can have the hash of the exact version of the bill your voting on, so the people know stuff wasn't 'slipped in' before it becomes law. Oh, wait, that is probably a 'feature'
I know.. I sound like a open source geek.. but really.. check it.
For instance, you can run Oracle Standard Edition on up to 2 physical CPU's. However, according to Oracle, you must count EACH physical CPU in the server its running on (unless, of course, you are using Oracle VM, which is the only exception they allow, I know.. surprising).
If you put Your oracle DB on a VMWare server running with 4 CPUs'... congratulations, you now need to upgrade to enterprise edition. (and easily at least one more zero in the price, since now you also have to license every core, and feature)
I have yet to see an 'enterprise' project that does not have significant cost overruns. At any larger company I have worked at.
Heck, my buddies company is in the 3rd iteration of trying to 'modernize' their core software. last time, some salesman convinced them to buy big sparc servers (as in many of them), and convert to java.. lots of $200/hour contractors..
Didn't work like they wanted. director got 'moved' and new one brought in. Was going to move everything to .NET since it would apparently save a fortune. (salespeople promised).. He apparently was going to save a fortune, by not replacing millions in hardware. He was figuring they would just install Server 2008 R2 on the sparc's..... hmmmmm That threw the 3rd iteration off a bit...
Are you going to explain that to my Grandma? or is the email that has the link to a .bank site going to?
And of course, nobody will EVER print anything with the cloud. Printers are from hell.. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers
Geothermal does not cause earthquakes. Geothermal where you don't put the water back underground when your done causes them. My old town was heated in large part by geothermal, and in fact, this year, My old University (www.oit.edu) is scheduled to finish a brand new 1.2MW power station (they already have a 256Kw one).
Geothermal is actually growing fairly fast. The oil industry has pioneered tech to drill much deeper, so you don't have to be restricted to where the sites are near the surface.
So Friday? two weeks? Or maybe the "middle of the second half?"
You would think, if it was coming out soon, you would hear more about it..
Your forgetting when Apple appeared at the house of someone who 'found' an unreleased iphone, with actual police officers and their own security.. searched the house.. no record of a call, or report being filed.. Took a long time, and a lot of attention about it from some media for those officers to get into trouble..
I just moved a smaller business (about 40 people) to zentyal. http://www.zentyal.org/ includes all sorts of features, like a PDC if you want one, ldap for user management, vpn, groupware (uses zarafa, which is excellent) and many, many other features.
Average joe doesn't rip his blu-rays.
Mostly, because it takes up too much room on a drive, and too slow to download from the internet :)
Wow! you must be a professional troll.. I work in a dual shop, and deal with Linux and Windows on a daily basis.. My Linux servers take 15 min to deploy. One reboot, and they are fully updated. My windows machines take several hours.. Countless updates, reboots, etc.. (wtf do I have to install 4 updates, reboot, find 12 more, reboot, then 3, reboot, then 17, wash, lather, repeat). If its a laptop, I get to deal with either taking the factory image, and removing all the crapware (dear god, why does MS let hp put so much slow crap on their machines!) Or, I can spend hours building a master windows image. At least with windows 7, the hardware drivers are getting better, and a single image can work on more computer..Not as good as Linux, but getting closer. I still have to update every single freaking application, because for some reason, they all have separate update tools... so each time I update the master image, we have to test like crazy. Then, maintaining these tools, if its windows, and we need to remove/upgrade drivers, its kind of a crapshoot.. from my experience, (and my business doesn't buy cheap hardware, or the stuff that just came out today) Linux actually provides more drivers that work better than windows. Does your 4 year old scanner have 64 bit windows 7 drivers? Doubt it.. most of them just work with Linux.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215174
Paid $350 for my wife's new laptop.. She loves it.. 4GB of ram, 500G hard drive.. Awesome little light, and very cool running laptop. No, it would not play many games.. she is not a gamer..
But could be ideal for a wireless back-haul, where you are currently using microwave with line of site..
Answered below.. sorry, it was an AMD C-60.. and 11.6 inch.. Acer Aspire one.. I don't use it, so don't pay attention to the specs.. I just needed to replace her old, old laptop that was heavy (17") with something small and faster/newer.. and with two little kids in the house, I am kind of figuring its going to be amazing if it lasts two years, so dirt cheap is best.
If I remember right, Oracle enterprise edition and Standard edition have much different pricing on how the CPU's work.. (but standard is locked to two physical processors).. i'm not our DBA, and don't ever have to deal with oracle or the contracts.. so I might be wrong on that..
Sorry, i lied a bit.. its an 11.6" screen and it has a C-60 CPU, not an e-350.. looking at the specs, it looks like its half the power, and a bit slower than the "E" class. but still perfect for what she does.
there are several models of the Acer Aspire One that carry them, think the one I picked up was this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215172
I picked hers up at costco for $350..
Why do people keep saying AMD can't keep up? because they don't compete in a market you care about?
My wife's laptop has an AMD E-350.. its got an ATI video card built onto the cpu.. it sucks down a whopping 9 watts, making her super light 10.6" laptop last about 7 hours.. 4GB of ram, 500GB hard drive, can stream HD video without a hiccup, and it was $350.. about what you would pay for a nice video card.. I would say AMD is competing rather well..
In the server space, were ditching Intel as fast as we can.. because for our loads, a 16 core Opteron runs oracle at the same speed as a 12 core Intel (CPU usage is not our limiting factor, disk IO is for our databases) and the difference in price last time we looked was about $7k for a Dell R815 spec'd the same as a Dell R810 with dual CPU's.. That difference is a Fusion IO card, or almost another tray of drives.. which would really help IO.
I got my wife an acer 10.6 inch thing somewhere between a nettop and a laptop.. She loves it.. that little AMD 350 CPU pulls 9 watts of power, so this little thing has great battery life (about 7 hours for our usage). Plays video fine, since it has a decent video chip (not great) built into the CPU. No heat.. no loud fans that kick on all the time.. she really digs it.. NOt bad for a $350 laptop at costco.
I worked at a large company. EVERY office had two 3800 routers.. (got to have redundancy). Most offices were around 50 people, with two T1 lines. There were actually 5-6 offices that were pretty darn big, and needed them.. (3 offices had a 2.4GB fiber ring, and some other big ones used DS3's) But the guy that was in charge of negotiating the deal was so proud of the fact that he "negotiated Cisco down $4k per router" that he just told upper management how he saved the company $4k per router, times 2 per office. I'm sure he got a nice bonus for saving the company so much money.
Heh.. I never hear that cisco is the best from anyone except complete cisco shops. Keep in mind, the ASA 5505 is not a router, its is a firewall.. Trying to route with it is an excersise in frustration. we are replacing our very, very expensive ASA's with a couple of $800 Junipers running in a cluster, with tons of failover redundancy. Costs less than what we pay on our annual maintenance for the ASA's..