And what answer did he give his own question? Storage. I.e. to hold files. Not for scratch space, virtual ram, page files, swap space, however you want to put it.
Didn't you read the post? Use the harddrive for storage, not for virtual ram.
Or, put another way, instead of reading 128 kb of the MP3, and whilst playing that bit, reading the next bit, just read the whole thing into ram and play it. That takes the hard drive's seek time right out of the equasion, assuming you defrag often enough.
And at that point, I'm surprised nobody sells a 5.25 inch form factor thingy that has several microdrives in a RAID 0 stripe set, but presents itself as a single drive. mmmmm RAID 0.
Go check out the avsforum.com site; it's like slashdot. If you can get past the trolls, you can glean some nuggets of truth.
Even better, though with a different emphasis, is hometheaterforum.com.
I just don't understand it...do that many people use their computer DVD to watch movies on, instead of a dedicated DVD player attached to their TV and stereo?
Yes, actually, because even a P2 500 with a decent video card, and a sound card with digital out, blows away the high end progressive scan DVD set tops.
Run your backups on a system capable of actually understanding the semantics of other machines, or run the backup from the machine with the content and pipe the data to the tape on the backup server.
Or just don't lie to your backup software; use the UNIX agent, instead of pointing it at an "NT file share..really!"
yep..but they didnt provide you the software so YOU could have fixed the bug while vixie cron provided you the software so that if you were motivated enough you coulda fixed it.
Any by extention, if I was motivated enough, I could simply write my own cron daemon, right? I mean, at that point, if you can't write your own software, you shouldn't be using it, right?
You assume we had C programmers who had nothing better to do with their time and effort than learn and fix a basic UNIX daemon that was working fine thirty years ago. Dangerous assumption.
Response from Microsoft Professional Services when I told them about a bug in Exchange 2000's DNS, and how it wouldn't fail over to secondary MX records if the primary didn't respond:
We've never seen that. You must be doing something wrong.
Response from various Linux sources when I told them that Vixie Cron as ships with Mandrake 7.1 was running scripts at random times, sometimes never, sometimes three or four times a night, but never when it was supposed to:
We've never seen that. You must be doing something wrong.
I'll note here that Microsoft DID eventually find their bug, and refunded our money.
You ever read slashdot lately, you go to the home page, and you're not logged in? So you read a story, and you try to change the threshold and sort order, and it either goes to main page, or to a 'recent topics' page, or back to the default view of the story?
That's mySQL having fallen over.
Slashdot, who's admins "reboot the MySQL server" *shudder* to fix things.
Yeah, but Toronto's built to be taken out. A friend and I were discussing it one day, after a cop got shot in the face on the 401. You could drop somewhere between 5 to 7 bridges that happen to go over the major access points in and around Toronto (lots of three digit numbers starting with '4'; two on the 401, two on the 407, one or two on the 410, 427 and 403) and Toronto would be shut off from the outside world.
We figured a week, at MOST, before the city decended into food riots, looting, and old men with shotguns on the porch.
I'll bet you could apply that to pretty much any major city and get teh same result.
Their population centers are clustered ridiculously close to one another! These primitives are completely ignorant of space-war tactics!
Bell Canada has a neat feature called 'call privacy.' What happens is that anybody with 'unknown name/unknown number' or private, or blocked, gets a prompt. "This number does not accept unknown calls. Speak your name at the beep." If they same something for the beep, your phone rings, and the computer says 'you have a call, from, *blah*. Press 1 to accept, press 2 to decline, press 3 to direct them to voice mail.'
Take a few hours out of your life to record a tape/mp3/cd/medium of choice of yourself going 'yeah....uh huh.....yeah....oh yeah? Cool.....ok.......could you explain that a bit more? Ok....sure......yup.....pardon me? Oh, ok.....would I need anything else for that? Oh....ahhhh......ok, sure.....' You know; good listening noises.
It seems that a lot of Americans just pay up when faced with this type of fraud - which is why the stores can offer 'no interest' credit I guess.
Scott Adams described this as 'buying time.' It's the same concept as parking tickets; it costs less in terms of time and effort than it does in terms of cash to just pay up. Otherwise you have to go through hell to get your credit record cleared, show up for court, whatever.
Yup. Backs up 'system state,' system files (which includes drivers), programs that are 'system restore aware' and so on. Requires a few gigs of disk space to hold it all.
which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or
communication;
Let me bold the words that are important:
which
is used in interstate or foreign commerce or
communication;
In other words, is hooked up to the Internet. Because you can reasonably assume that to get to an Internet backbone, you're going to cross state lines.
Does this give you the right to crack RIAA systems to make sure no one there is selling copies of your term paper?
Yes. Write something down. Under American law, you now have an implicit copyright on that thing you just wrote down. Ratify it, and open the door for criminal charges should somebody copy it, by mailing a copy to the Library of Congress.
It's called 'system restore' and it's a feature of Windows ME and possibly XP. It's a wonderful wonderful thing, and has saved me from quite a few driver conflicts and "supported" (note the quotes) hardware installs.
See, the problem with that philosophy, as with so many other 'group behaviour' philosophies, is that they only work if absolutly everybody can abide fully.
Such a society would be conquered before you could say 'share and enjoy!'
The average person, you see, can't even be bothered to think about the logical consequences of leaving their clothes strewn about on the floor, as opposed to putting them in a laundry hamper when they're removed; the average herd of sheep..I mean, group of people, need somebody to do their thinking for them.
The problem with that, obviously, is that it works until somebody without the public good in mind gets into that leadership role. As Douglas Adams posited, anybody who actually wants to be in a leadership role is the least qualified person to be there.
Of course, the impression I got after all of this, was that if I couldn't vote against them in an upcoming election, they didn't care about my opinion.
Elected by the people, for the people, and of the people. If you're not the people they're elected by, you're not the people they're elected for. So what's the problem? This is your governmental system, after all.
Apache cannot even be compared to IIS; they're not the same product, and don't do the same thing.
Apache is designed to be a reference HTTP server, and so long as you don't put any modules into it, it's stable, fast enough, and pretty hardened.
IIS, on the other hand, is like all of Microsoft's stuff; they throw in the kitchen sink, and don't tell anybody about it. A lot of the Windows 2000 featureset was available in NT4, or NT4/SP3, they just didn't tell anybody about it. My favourite easy example is disk quotas.
Point being, IIS does a lot more than apache does, and thus has more potential points of failure.
And I'll point out that where I used to work, the only NT boxes that were ever hacked, were the publically accessable ones that wern't controlled by my department. Once they were (after sadmind rolled through) they were inviolate.
Oh, and Microsoft reintroduces bugs? How about the symlink bug that Linux just introduced? Same shit, different philosophy. Programming has simply gotten too complex for our current tools and methodologies.
And when you go on call to a hardcore AIX or Solaris shop, where they use sh, and you don't even know what !! means, you're kinda screwed.
Don't handicap yourself.
Linux 'host' security is just as bad, if not worse. As is Solaris, IRIX, and so on. By definition, the OS that does a little bit of everything does nothing well.
That's why we have dedicated proxying firewalls.
Also means you're screwed when you try to use anything else.
Honestly, pick up a generic UNIX book and learn the basic commands. Don't learn VIM, learn vi. That sort of thing.
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And what answer did he give his own question? Storage. I.e. to hold files. Not for scratch space, virtual ram, page files, swap space, however you want to put it.
Do a google search for 'holographic memory.'
Didn't you read the post? Use the harddrive for storage, not for virtual ram. Or, put another way, instead of reading 128 kb of the MP3, and whilst playing that bit, reading the next bit, just read the whole thing into ram and play it. That takes the hard drive's seek time right out of the equasion, assuming you defrag often enough. And at that point, I'm surprised nobody sells a 5.25 inch form factor thingy that has several microdrives in a RAID 0 stripe set, but presents itself as a single drive. mmmmm RAID 0.
Go check out the avsforum.com site; it's like slashdot. If you can get past the trolls, you can glean some nuggets of truth. Even better, though with a different emphasis, is hometheaterforum.com.
You ever read slashdot lately, you go to the home page, and you're not logged in? So you read a story, and you try to change the threshold and sort order, and it either goes to main page, or to a 'recent topics' page, or back to the default view of the story? That's mySQL having fallen over. Slashdot, who's admins "reboot the MySQL server" *shudder* to fix things.
Not if you do it during afternoon rush hour. Or during a good winter snow storm.
Bell Canada has a neat feature called 'call privacy.' What happens is that anybody with 'unknown name/unknown number' or private, or blocked, gets a prompt. "This number does not accept unknown calls. Speak your name at the beep." If they same something for the beep, your phone rings, and the computer says 'you have a call, from, *blah*. Press 1 to accept, press 2 to decline, press 3 to direct them to voice mail.'
Take a few hours out of your life to record a tape/mp3/cd/medium of choice of yourself going 'yeah....uh huh.....yeah....oh yeah? Cool.....ok.......could you explain that a bit more? Ok....sure......yup.....pardon me? Oh, ok.....would I need anything else for that? Oh....ahhhh......ok, sure.....' You know; good listening noises.
It's called 'system restore' and it's a feature of Windows ME and possibly XP. It's a wonderful wonderful thing, and has saved me from quite a few driver conflicts and "supported" (note the quotes) hardware installs.
See, the problem with that philosophy, as with so many other 'group behaviour' philosophies, is that they only work if absolutly everybody can abide fully. Such a society would be conquered before you could say 'share and enjoy!' The average person, you see, can't even be bothered to think about the logical consequences of leaving their clothes strewn about on the floor, as opposed to putting them in a laundry hamper when they're removed; the average herd of sheep..I mean, group of people, need somebody to do their thinking for them. The problem with that, obviously, is that it works until somebody without the public good in mind gets into that leadership role. As Douglas Adams posited, anybody who actually wants to be in a leadership role is the least qualified person to be there.
Apache cannot even be compared to IIS; they're not the same product, and don't do the same thing. Apache is designed to be a reference HTTP server, and so long as you don't put any modules into it, it's stable, fast enough, and pretty hardened. IIS, on the other hand, is like all of Microsoft's stuff; they throw in the kitchen sink, and don't tell anybody about it. A lot of the Windows 2000 featureset was available in NT4, or NT4/SP3, they just didn't tell anybody about it. My favourite easy example is disk quotas. Point being, IIS does a lot more than apache does, and thus has more potential points of failure. And I'll point out that where I used to work, the only NT boxes that were ever hacked, were the publically accessable ones that wern't controlled by my department. Once they were (after sadmind rolled through) they were inviolate. Oh, and Microsoft reintroduces bugs? How about the symlink bug that Linux just introduced? Same shit, different philosophy. Programming has simply gotten too complex for our current tools and methodologies.
And when you go on call to a hardcore AIX or Solaris shop, where they use sh, and you don't even know what !! means, you're kinda screwed. Don't handicap yourself.
Linux 'host' security is just as bad, if not worse. As is Solaris, IRIX, and so on. By definition, the OS that does a little bit of everything does nothing well. That's why we have dedicated proxying firewalls.
Also means you're screwed when you try to use anything else. Honestly, pick up a generic UNIX book and learn the basic commands. Don't learn VIM, learn vi. That sort of thing.