Really. The best way to enjoy the true taste of coffee is to roast your own. Check out http://www.coffeeproject.com/ - they used to have a starter kit for about a hundred bucks. Even if they don't offer it any more, buy a cheap roaster and some green beans. It's worth *every* penny. You'll NEVER go to Charbucks again.
This is a ridiculous piece of 'news.' This is purely an opinion piece mentioning the (questionable) results of a Garner report, without even linking to the report or its findings.
The report counts the revenue of servers which sell with either Windows or commercially supported versions of Linux (Redhat, SuSE). This has nothing to do with actual, real world usage patterns. Many, many people who buy new servers download and install Linux, FreeBSD, etc. often even when they 'own' a MS Server license for the system. Any reasonable person would understand that if the revenue of Linux servers are only 5% below that of Windows, MS should in fact be worried. Very worried.
And that's just the first paragraph. It really is a slow news day when garbage like this gets posted. What's next? Another 'Dvorak predicts' article?
Excuse the potential flame-bait, but hasn't there been an inordinate number of Dvorak articles posted in the last few months? Most of us wrote him off as a puffed up windbag years ago, why has he popped into relevance at this point?
Dvorak has a long long history (see post circa '95 above) of writing asinine articles that are just plain wrong. And I'm not talking about 'hindsight 20/20' wrong - I mean predictions which make me wonder if he's in the same industry that we all are in.
Anyway, it seems like the/. crowd is giving this guy FAR too much credit and FAR too many page views. Which leads me to the inevitable question - why has this article been posted by an AC?
With online advertising spending at an all time high (and growing at absurd rates), maybe it's time for the editors to be a little more discriminating before rewarding mediocrity with tens of thousands of impressions.
HP 4LP with Ubuntu Warty (Hedgehog? whichever is newer). I should have been more specific though - Configuring a printer share was the problem - not the printer driver.
Still, sharing and SMB functionality are standard functions which most people I know use on a daily basis.
The question remains, if the Linux distro doesn't live up to basic user expectations, will it lead to backlash? People tend to hate to hear "It'll be in the next version" when they know it works in Windows.
I agree - this is a Good Thing. However, isn't there a potential backlash when new users bring their shiny new Ubuntu laptops home and figure out that there's no easy way to install a printer?
I'm all for Linux on the desktop, but confusing new users by having no GUI for Printer configuration (among other omissions and inconsistancies) can't help the cause.
A funny but true fact is that he met all of their requirements (PHD, experience, laid back, etc.) but had also gone to Burning Man. The felt that any 'suit' who had gone to and loved Burning Man would understand and respect their unorthodox approaches to various aspects of running and growing the business.
The most important thing you can do is keep your eyes wet with saline for quite some time after treatment. I did, and my vision is 20/20 even after 5 years and staring at my monitors 10+ hours a day. Keep saline by your desk. Get the little packets and keep them in your pocket. You'll be happy you did.
I have a programmer friend who did not hydrate and now has 'scratchy' eyes. Your doctor will tell you more, but TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY!
Congratulations, you're about to improve your quality of life like you wouldn't believe!
Craig's List is where we post our our jobs. The response is amazing. Many of our clients also post with great results. It's a great way to pick up gigs if they have it in your city.
Eric
geektek.com - hosting, dedicated servers and co-lo
"It will take at least 60 days to figure out how the merger will work," said Messman.
Is it a self-fullfilling prophesy waiting to happen or something silly noticed by a guy with too much time on his hands while Gentoo compiles?
You decide.
Stop bitching about anyone making new programming, because if the execs smell backlash, then we are getting NOTHING NEW, and they are putting all of their money into TRADING SPACES. Got it?
Actually, they're putting VERY LITTLE money into Trading Spaces. Speaking from the perspective of someone in the 'Industry' and works with the production companies that create these shows, I can tell you that its some of the most economically sound programming ever made. That's (obviously) the reason there is so much reality programming in the summer. Networks can create cheap programming to retain viewers during the difficult months of summer while not increasing their budgets significantly. The problem of cable and nice weather stealing viewers all summer long because of the barriers to entry for new programming is no longer as drastic as it once was because of America's seemingly insatiable lust for voyeurism. A million dollar prize at the end of the season is recouped within the first few episodes in saved production costs. The execs are happier than pigs in shit. But I digress.
Point being that, in general, production values are going up (special effects getting cheaper, etc), production costs are going down (the increasing use of less experienced and cheaper labor, cheap cameras, more 'reality', product placements, etc), and the networks love it. Granted, advertising is way down, tivo (and derivitives) are gaining eyeballs, and the balance hasn't been reached. However, they're adding more product placement, banners and such to battle these factors. IMHO, it's a no-brainer decision to drive production costs down as far as possible for most networks. Give the people what they want, spend less and make more money.
Sci-Fi deserves kudos for spending real money on original programming, but it bucks the trend of most of the other networks. Even production companies working for the 4 network shows are seeing their budgets shrink with new productions. Let's hope their gamble pays off.
Wouldn't trackable warranties imply that the tags will not be deactivated on store exit?
It seems pretty obvious that they have to deactivate tags on the way out or face a backlash al la Benneton, however intriguing trackable warranties are.
Perhaps Sony encouraged this setup to learn clustering techniques utilizing every inch of their hardware for the upcoming PS3 "cell" boxen? They're under pressure to release the console before its original time (2005-6 now 2004?), so maybe they're squeezing performance out any way they can. I seem to remember there being rumblings of distributed computing, could this benefit that? Regardless, I'm sure they're watching closely.
Just a thought. I'm not an engineer so please don't bother flaming if its not a realistic idea:)
I'd love to do that, but a lot of our money is made selling domain names and hosting tiny sites. It would get very expensive relitive to our hosting rates to go with zoneedit, ultradns and other such services.
Excellent hints. The devil tends to be in the details. Laying out priorities is key. In this situation, my main concern is dns. I have the server/service (http, mysql, etc) transitioning worked out pretty well and will have the plan completed when I get some answers from vendors.
What others have recommened works for me. What I'm not planning is:
1. Test new location and put in a box 2. Turn it into ns1 (import records,etc), turn off ns1 at old location 3. Update host records for ns1 with Tucows and Internic 4. Start decreasing ttl
Wait a day or two to shake things out
5. mirror sites/put on temp servers, etc. (planned accordingly) 6. Transition sites to temp servers 7. Go to old co-lo, with pre-configured redirect server 8. dismantle (label) equipment, bring up to new co-lo, set back up 8. Have some well deserved coffee 9. Transition sites back to regular servers 10. Shut down and move ns0 & redirect server
I'm REALLY nervous about running on one name server for the few hours between moving. I also have an irrational fear that when I transition ns1 to its temporary home, it will cause a rift in the time-space continuum making all of my site inaccessable.
Is it advisable to bring ns0 up with the rest of the equipment and skip the redirect?
BTW, thank you guys, I'm pressed for time so have to respond to several postings at once.
- Eric (who is looking for a coffee bitch as he types)
Good points. I'm actually considering using this opportunity to switch Bind 9.x or DJBDNS. I've been very happy with qmail in the past, but the two most cited factors (complicated for beginers and grumpy DJB) weigh in against DJBDNS. How has your experience been with it?
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Really. The best way to enjoy the true taste of coffee is to roast your own. Check out http://www.coffeeproject.com/ - they used to have a starter kit for about a hundred bucks. Even if they don't offer it any more, buy a cheap roaster and some green beans. It's worth *every* penny. You'll NEVER go to Charbucks again.
Wasn't this an episode of Battle Star Galactica this season?!?
the Plutonian terrorists are stealing our colding!
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This is a ridiculous piece of 'news.' This is purely an opinion piece mentioning the (questionable) results of a Garner report, without even linking to the report or its findings.
The report counts the revenue of servers which sell with either Windows or commercially supported versions of Linux (Redhat, SuSE). This has nothing to do with actual, real world usage patterns. Many, many people who buy new servers download and install Linux, FreeBSD, etc. often even when they 'own' a MS Server license for the system. Any reasonable person would understand that if the revenue of Linux servers are only 5% below that of Windows, MS should in fact be worried. Very worried.
And that's just the first paragraph. It really is a slow news day when garbage like this gets posted. What's next? Another 'Dvorak predicts' article?
E
Excuse the potential flame-bait, but hasn't there been an inordinate number of Dvorak articles posted in the last few months? Most of us wrote him off as a puffed up windbag years ago, why has he popped into relevance at this point?
/. crowd is giving this guy FAR too much credit and FAR too many page views. Which leads me to the inevitable question - why has this article been posted by an AC?
Dvorak has a long long history (see post circa '95 above) of writing asinine articles that are just plain wrong. And I'm not talking about 'hindsight 20/20' wrong - I mean predictions which make me wonder if he's in the same industry that we all are in.
Anyway, it seems like the
With online advertising spending at an all time high (and growing at absurd rates), maybe it's time for the editors to be a little more discriminating before rewarding mediocrity with tens of thousands of impressions.
HP 4LP with Ubuntu Warty (Hedgehog? whichever is newer). I should have been more specific though - Configuring a printer share was the problem - not the printer driver.
Still, sharing and SMB functionality are standard functions which most people I know use on a daily basis.
The question remains, if the Linux distro doesn't live up to basic user expectations, will it lead to backlash? People tend to hate to hear "It'll be in the next version" when they know it works in Windows.
I agree - this is a Good Thing. However, isn't there a potential backlash when new users bring their shiny new Ubuntu laptops home and figure out that there's no easy way to install a printer?
I'm all for Linux on the desktop, but confusing new users by having no GUI for Printer configuration (among other omissions and inconsistancies) can't help the cause.
I'm also evaluating platforms, thanks for the post. Why do you choose Tyan over Supermicro?
Which El Segundo firm? This is 7th grade book report level editing. Come ON.
A million geeks cheering in joy and were suddenly silenced. By a million lawyers.
A funny but true fact is that he met all of their requirements (PHD, experience, laid back, etc.) but had also gone to Burning Man. The felt that any 'suit' who had gone to and loved Burning Man would understand and respect their unorthodox approaches to various aspects of running and growing the business.
when we have http://www.hotolympians.com/?
Ah hem. Excuse the title.
The most important thing you can do is keep your eyes wet with saline for quite some time after treatment. I did, and my vision is 20/20 even after 5 years and staring at my monitors 10+ hours a day. Keep saline by your desk. Get the little packets and keep them in your pocket. You'll be happy you did.
I have a programmer friend who did not hydrate and now has 'scratchy' eyes. Your doctor will tell you more, but TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY!
Congratulations, you're about to improve your quality of life like you wouldn't believe!
craigslist.org in a way.
Beyond being a great place to sell off my accumulation of computer crap, I found my car and my girlfriend on there. Thanks Craig!
Craig's List is where we post our our jobs. The response is amazing. Many of our clients also post with great results. It's a great way to pick up gigs if they have it in your city.
Eric
geektek.com - hosting, dedicated servers and co-lo
"It will take at least 60 days to figure out how the merger will work," said Messman. Is it a self-fullfilling prophesy waiting to happen or something silly noticed by a guy with too much time on his hands while Gentoo compiles? You decide.
Stop bitching about anyone making new programming, because if the execs smell backlash, then we are getting NOTHING NEW, and they are putting all of their money into TRADING SPACES. Got it?
Actually, they're putting VERY LITTLE money into Trading Spaces. Speaking from the perspective of someone in the 'Industry' and works with the production companies that create these shows, I can tell you that its some of the most economically sound programming ever made. That's (obviously) the reason there is so much reality programming in the summer. Networks can create cheap programming to retain viewers during the difficult months of summer while not increasing their budgets significantly. The problem of cable and nice weather stealing viewers all summer long because of the barriers to entry for new programming is no longer as drastic as it once was because of America's seemingly insatiable lust for voyeurism. A million dollar prize at the end of the season is recouped within the first few episodes in saved production costs. The execs are happier than pigs in shit. But I digress.
Point being that, in general, production values are going up (special effects getting cheaper, etc), production costs are going down (the increasing use of less experienced and cheaper labor, cheap cameras, more 'reality', product placements, etc), and the networks love it. Granted, advertising is way down, tivo (and derivitives) are gaining eyeballs, and the balance hasn't been reached. However, they're adding more product placement, banners and such to battle these factors. IMHO, it's a no-brainer decision to drive production costs down as far as possible for most networks. Give the people what they want, spend less and make more money.
Sci-Fi deserves kudos for spending real money on original programming, but it bucks the trend of most of the other networks. Even production companies working for the 4 network shows are seeing their budgets shrink with new productions. Let's hope their gamble pays off.
Wouldn't trackable warranties imply that the tags will not be deactivated on store exit?
It seems pretty obvious that they have to deactivate tags on the way out or face a backlash al la Benneton, however intriguing trackable warranties are.
Perhaps Sony encouraged this setup to learn clustering techniques utilizing every inch of their hardware for the upcoming PS3 "cell" boxen? They're under pressure to release the console before its original time (2005-6 now 2004?), so maybe they're squeezing performance out any way they can. I seem to remember there being rumblings of distributed computing, could this benefit that? Regardless, I'm sure they're watching closely.
:)
Just a thought. I'm not an engineer so please don't bother flaming if its not a realistic idea
I'd love to do that, but a lot of our money is made selling domain names and hosting tiny sites. It would get very expensive relitive to our hosting rates to go with zoneedit, ultradns and other such services.
I wish we could do it though.. dns is a pita
Excellent hints. The devil tends to be in the details. Laying out priorities is key. In this situation, my main concern is dns. I have the server/service (http, mysql, etc) transitioning worked out pretty well and will have the plan completed when I get some answers from vendors.
What others have recommened works for me. What I'm not planning is:
1. Test new location and put in a box
2. Turn it into ns1 (import records,etc), turn off ns1 at old location
3. Update host records for ns1 with Tucows and Internic
4. Start decreasing ttl
Wait a day or two to shake things out
5. mirror sites/put on temp servers, etc. (planned accordingly)
6. Transition sites to temp servers
7. Go to old co-lo, with pre-configured redirect server
8. dismantle (label) equipment, bring up to new co-lo, set back up
8. Have some well deserved coffee
9. Transition sites back to regular servers
10. Shut down and move ns0 & redirect server
I'm REALLY nervous about running on one name server for the few hours between moving. I also have an irrational fear that when I transition ns1 to its temporary home, it will cause a rift in the time-space continuum making all of my site inaccessable.
Is it advisable to bring ns0 up with the rest of the equipment and skip the redirect?
BTW, thank you guys, I'm pressed for time so have to respond to several postings at once.
- Eric (who is looking for a coffee bitch as he types)
Good points. I'm actually considering using this opportunity to switch Bind 9.x or DJBDNS. I've been very happy with qmail in the past, but the two most cited factors (complicated for beginers and grumpy DJB) weigh in against DJBDNS. How has your experience been with it?
Yes. That's the type of application SBCs are used for, beyond CTI and other such uses.