I would like to point out that cables as such have no speed associated with them
Really? Well, then, I'll tell you what. I'll send you some Cat-3 network cable for your ethernet network at work, and you can send me the Cat-5 that you're probably using. If you're using Cat-6 or Gigabyte ethernet, even better.
No, actually it's a fact that unless your a direct and active part of the community, you're already behind the curve.
As was said in the 'Linux and the Meaning of Life' thread the other day, if you write a TCP/IP driver to the RFCs, you can't even make a connection. Well, if you install Linux according to the books, you won't get a fully functional system.
The other thing to remember is, I don't know an applicable term, but fourth party stuff.
The guiding rule is 'figure out what you need, then use the tools so required.' Well, if the suits want a Customer Relationship Management system that drops things into exchange mailboxes, there you go. Or an Avaya style phone system, that will read you your email or email you your voice mail...Exchange.
Exchange itself is pretty solid, if you know what you're doing. Add an Anti-Virus solution, one that lets you block attachments by extention, or just write an event sink and do it yourself. To make full use of exchange, outlook. Outlook, windows or mac. Other cool windows stuff, like SMS to allow for package distribution and imaged desktops, windows. And there you are.
Actually, it's because Rogers isn't doing it. Rogers gave a lot of money to Compaq's professional services people, the last week of October or so, and said 'make this happen.'
Yes, that would be the problem. But it would be wonderful for implementing specific subsystems.
Say you wanted to build the fastest web server, being defined as being able to serve the most documents of random size between 1 byte and, say, 2 megabytes, within a given amount of time. Build a farm of a few hundred webservers with a few thousand client boxes, and let the genetic algos go wild.
Exactly. And the problem isn't how many strings, it's how many requests in a given amount of time.
And once again, it's not only finding strings, it's also inserts, updates and deletes. That mucks things up quite a bit.
Way back when, when Bell Canada started rolling out their "High Speed Edition" phone service; i.e. DSL, the war with Rogers@Home was vicious.
A series of biting commercials went back and fourth, with Bell pointing out that a cable modem runs off a shared trunk, while a DSL modem is a 'dedicated connection.'
One day, Rogers comes out with a simple commercial. A man walks out onto a stage, just a simple white backdrop. He says 'Our competition would have you believe that when you're on a cable modem, the Internet is slow because the cable modem is shared.' Slight pause, cocks his head. 'The Internet is slow because the Internet is shared.' Shakes his head a bit, walks off.
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Actually, and in other words, if somebody ever creates a robot which can read a blueprint and construct the device in question, all such blueprints become, retroactively, unprotected speech.
Now do it several thousand times a minute, while also doing inserts, updates, and deletes.
It's not size, it's processing power. I'd take multi-processor routers before I'd take ones with gigs of RAM.
It is, indeed, much better. What Robert Wise was forced to release in the 70s was infact a rough cut. Now he's had a chance to go back and finish it, and it really shows.
And what other movie these days has the guts to have a several minute musical overture before even the title card comes up?
Ok. As long as you've thought about it, and obviously you have, and as long as you have a disaster preparedness plan, which in your case seems to be 'suffer' then I have absolutely no beef.:-)
Proxy, MRTG, better monitoring then Event Viewer, syslog, www/ftp: all on one box, at zero software cost. Since it's Linux I know I can trust it to keep up.
So, in other words, as soon as a piece of hardware fails, half of your MIS structure falls over dead. Great.
Or, put another way, it brings the 'reasonable person' rule of thumb back into play.
Would a reasonable person believe that the executive officers of LNUX fly to china to sodomize pandas? No.
However, would a reasonable person believe that they might be using corporate funds to fly to Thailand to partake in it's legendary child sex industry? Sure, THAT'S possible.
Yup, I've got the lancity one as well, and the transition site for that modem went through FOUR seperate and complete revisions. The one up now has proper instructions.
You need state for things like login models, shopping carts, and the like. And it can be efficient to keep it server side, not to mention more secure. But if you're that worried, then you're blowing the money to store state info in the database anyway, so it doesn't matter which server in the farm you wind up at. Either that, or you have a really intelligent load balancer, that will send new sessions to low-load servers and existing sessions to their original server.
Yup. And you'd be horrified to learn how many enterprise websites run with MS Access as the back end. As I used to tell clients, "Would you use Excel to do corporate accounting? No? Then why Access for corporate databases? They come in the same package....."
Here's an example, real basic. You've got a table with a list of states. You have a dropdown on your webpage which lists those states. You'd be frightened (yet again) to know how many 'application programmers' will hit the database every time they want that dropdown to build. Do something more efficent. Depends on your app server of choice, but one example is to read the thing from a global variable. If the variable is a) empty or b) too old then you load the variable from the database. And that's just a real basic example.
That only works when computer programs come with guarenteed bandwidth ratings.
In other words, when I plug in a fridge, I know how much power it's going to use. But when I install Reader Rabbit for my kid, which includes spyware, I wind up paying for something that I don't even realize is going over my line.
If Internet access is going to be treated like a utility, then it has to be treated like a utility in every respect.
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The GPL doesn't say you can't sell the software, it just says that you have to provide the source and that it can be copied.
In other words, you might as well give it away for free, and ask for donations.
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No, actually it's a fact that unless your a direct and active part of the community, you're already behind the curve. As was said in the 'Linux and the Meaning of Life' thread the other day, if you write a TCP/IP driver to the RFCs, you can't even make a connection. Well, if you install Linux according to the books, you won't get a fully functional system.
The other thing to remember is, I don't know an applicable term, but fourth party stuff. The guiding rule is 'figure out what you need, then use the tools so required.' Well, if the suits want a Customer Relationship Management system that drops things into exchange mailboxes, there you go. Or an Avaya style phone system, that will read you your email or email you your voice mail...Exchange. Exchange itself is pretty solid, if you know what you're doing. Add an Anti-Virus solution, one that lets you block attachments by extention, or just write an event sink and do it yourself. To make full use of exchange, outlook. Outlook, windows or mac. Other cool windows stuff, like SMS to allow for package distribution and imaged desktops, windows. And there you are.
Actually, it's because Rogers isn't doing it. Rogers gave a lot of money to Compaq's professional services people, the last week of October or so, and said 'make this happen.'
Yes, that would be the problem. But it would be wonderful for implementing specific subsystems. Say you wanted to build the fastest web server, being defined as being able to serve the most documents of random size between 1 byte and, say, 2 megabytes, within a given amount of time. Build a farm of a few hundred webservers with a few thousand client boxes, and let the genetic algos go wild.
Well, you'd better email Cisco and tell them you've got their problems figured out. They'll be glad to hear from you.
Exactly. And the problem isn't how many strings, it's how many requests in a given amount of time. And once again, it's not only finding strings, it's also inserts, updates and deletes. That mucks things up quite a bit.
Way back when, when Bell Canada started rolling out their "High Speed Edition" phone service; i.e. DSL, the war with Rogers@Home was vicious. A series of biting commercials went back and fourth, with Bell pointing out that a cable modem runs off a shared trunk, while a DSL modem is a 'dedicated connection.' One day, Rogers comes out with a simple commercial. A man walks out onto a stage, just a simple white backdrop. He says 'Our competition would have you believe that when you're on a cable modem, the Internet is slow because the cable modem is shared.' Slight pause, cocks his head. 'The Internet is slow because the Internet is shared.' Shakes his head a bit, walks off.
Actually, and in other words, if somebody ever creates a robot which can read a blueprint and construct the device in question, all such blueprints become, retroactively, unprotected speech.
Now do it several thousand times a minute, while also doing inserts, updates, and deletes. It's not size, it's processing power. I'd take multi-processor routers before I'd take ones with gigs of RAM.
In other words, a VIRUTAL virtual actor.
It is, indeed, much better. What Robert Wise was forced to release in the 70s was infact a rough cut. Now he's had a chance to go back and finish it, and it really shows. And what other movie these days has the guts to have a several minute musical overture before even the title card comes up?
I was SO pissed when they shitcanned that game, it's not funny.
Ok. As long as you've thought about it, and obviously you have, and as long as you have a disaster preparedness plan, which in your case seems to be 'suffer' then I have absolutely no beef. :-)
Yes, but if it's important you get an SLA.
Or, put another way, it brings the 'reasonable person' rule of thumb back into play. Would a reasonable person believe that the executive officers of LNUX fly to china to sodomize pandas? No. However, would a reasonable person believe that they might be using corporate funds to fly to Thailand to partake in it's legendary child sex industry? Sure, THAT'S possible.
Yup, I've got the lancity one as well, and the transition site for that modem went through FOUR seperate and complete revisions. The one up now has proper instructions.
You need state for things like login models, shopping carts, and the like. And it can be efficient to keep it server side, not to mention more secure. But if you're that worried, then you're blowing the money to store state info in the database anyway, so it doesn't matter which server in the farm you wind up at. Either that, or you have a really intelligent load balancer, that will send new sessions to low-load servers and existing sessions to their original server.
Yeah, and putting one in yourself, be it internal or external, just isn't worth it. ;-)
Yup. And you'd be horrified to learn how many enterprise websites run with MS Access as the back end. As I used to tell clients, "Would you use Excel to do corporate accounting? No? Then why Access for corporate databases? They come in the same package....." Here's an example, real basic. You've got a table with a list of states. You have a dropdown on your webpage which lists those states. You'd be frightened (yet again) to know how many 'application programmers' will hit the database every time they want that dropdown to build. Do something more efficent. Depends on your app server of choice, but one example is to read the thing from a global variable. If the variable is a) empty or b) too old then you load the variable from the database. And that's just a real basic example.