That's nothing, I used up almost all of a 100Mb link on a bittorrent the day the last fedora came out.
Yeah, the 100Mb was almost all outbound. I forgot about it and left it open all weekend and no one really noticed. i don't remember how much bandwidth I used up, but it was lots and lots.
I used a Sun E3500 with 8 processors and 8GB of ram to run a GwebCache. It didn't really perform as well as I had hoped, so I moved it back to it's normal cluster of 3 intel machines.
50C might be within the specs, but a cooler running drive is a happier drive. that 50C is just having the drive running, not necessarily putting it under any load. under load, it climbs to around 70F depending on the type of load.
I've seen quite a few drives die totally because they were on for 3 or 4 years straight, then were turned off. The platters cooled and then warped. one in particular used to run all the time and cooling it basically destroyed the drive. That was on an old scsi drive though.
Either way, the server I mentioned is in a closet with zero air flow. The ambient temp in that closet is around 85-90F anytime of the year. Adding one fan's noise to a closet isn't that big of a deal compared with a burnt up drive. Also having 4 drives means each drive heats up it's neighbors, and ultimately burns the one in the middle. I do have them spaced out, but they are all attached relatively close to the same case. Having some sort of air flow is always a good idea.
better to put the fan on the side. then you can use one fan to cool more than one drive.
I have a 80mm fan right now cooling 4 ide drives and it brings the temps down about 10-15 degrees C. They run about 35-37 degrees C as opposed to almost 50 degrees C without it.
pretty basic hack really. I don't see the point in making a WHOLE slashdot article about it. Maybe someone out there just went, "Hey, what a GREAT idea." but I bet that person already tried to dunk their drives in ice water.
So true. I recently did up2date on RHEL and it kept erroring out on openoffice updates. I was using Advanced Server 3, and it had openoffice installed.
You'd think a company like RedHat would have their shit together enough to be able to take a stock install of any of their shipping products, and at least get it to do a proper update. Now i'm not trying to say anything dispariaging about them, but to me, getting a fatal up2date error on packaged RHEL AS3 seems like someone should get fired.
Oh, and to fix the problem, I had to manually remove openoffice, and then run up2date again. After running, i noticed up2date REINSTALLED openoffice even though I had rpm -e'ed it.
I wish someone would make a normal APT-based distribution and provide commercial support. It would be so easy to take ubuntu-style cd and make it a bootable server. If only someone would provide support....
...don't care what operating system is on their computer. If they can:
1. get their mail 2. browse the web 3. fileshare 4. listen to music/watch videos 5. play games (purchased, or web-based) 6. maybe light use of an office suite 7. do taxes
of all of those, number 5 and 7 are almost impossible. Some games come with linux support, but they are slower than the windows versions. Web-based games are gaining ground, but some still require ActiveX plugins. Last time I checked (yeah, i already did my taxes this year), there were NO way to do your taxes on a linux computer, unless you use a web-based tax solution. I've used one before, and it was nice, but didn't seem to have all of the features that I would have expected.
oh yeah, and 99% of people will never try to re-install their operating system. Of the 1% that will try, most of those will use their windows reinstall disk they got with their computer.
Note: these stats are made up, but look around you when you are at work. Count how many people have even the most basic computer hardware knowledge. Then count how many have the free time to spend to reinstall a whole operating system and update all of the patches.
I remember being in high school, oh, 10 years ago, and there was this computer in my english teacher's room. I had her for english my freshman year and my senior year, and that computer was never turned on the whole time. yeah, it got moved around her room on a cart, but the cart was just so she could push it out of the way to get some "REAL" english learning dun.
yeah, we had "computers in the classroom" but with idiot teachers that wouldn't let anyone use them. I remember turning it on one day and i thought she was going to have a heart attack.
Are you telling us you're a lousy admin? I know if I was your manager and I called you to fix a problem, and you didn't answer, you'd probably be close to fired the next day. I can't see trying to compare a lazy, half-assed admin to the people I was originally talking about. There are superheroes in every field, and there are also guys that should be clearing carts off of the Wal-Mart parking lot. I think you told us which one you are.
If you wanna be an idiot and ignore your responsibilities, go work for your local ILEC.
I beg to differ. What is an IT job? It's a 24/7/365 job. Now go think of other 24/7/365 jobs, police, firemen, doctors, etc.
I'm not trying to equate IT work to those other jobs. Heck, sometimes, IT work is MORE important than those jobs. If you work IT in a hospital, you know what I'm talking about.
it shouldn't matter, since the light is still focused at the same point. It wouldn't be easy to make, but a convexed lense should do what I described. It would bend the light and direct it in a focused manner back toward the source, or where every it's aimed.
The incoming light kinda like this crappy drawing: http://kmr.nada.kth.se/math/pointfocus/N aive-Cross -technology/Cross-wavy-strips-1.jpg You should be able to craft a lense to bend the incoming light on the bottom of the lense and send it in a single beam out the top of the lense.
I know nothing of light dynamics though, so I could be wrong.
Windows Media Player is just that, the player. It's not themes, it's not codecs, it's not DirectShow/ActiveMovie.
Just about any other media player that you can install in windows will play all the same media formats as WMP, usually using the same exact codecs. Uninstalling WMP (if that's possible) should not touch those codecs. I didn't RTFA, but it sounds like Microsoft choose to also not include the codecs to play media. If that's the case, it sounds like Microsoft just told the EU that old schoolyard saying, "Fine then, if you don't wanna play MY game, I'm going to take my ball and go home."
The themes are a non-argument, since they are just bitmaps taped together with some MSXML.
DirectShow and the DirectX suite is the software layer that talks directly to the hardware. That just makes WMP work fast. It gives an avenue for WMP to be able to display media using the real hardware resources on the computer. Other programs have access to this layer also, independently of WMP.
if you refracted the light at the focal point, with the correct refraction you could make a directed beam, and then shoot that beam at other things. It could end up being powerful enough to cook hot dogs or cement.
disclaimer: don't shoot directed light beams at airplanes.
1. bring up some other hero to make the topic of this story seem insignificant? CHECK 2. act unimpressed by his hack? CHECK 3. try to make a metaphor relating computer software to killing people? CHECK
and finally... 4. try to impose your rules on others based on wild assumptions? priceless/cliche
How many of these users are switching because everytime they open IE, a ton of porn banner ads open too?
Probably quite a few of them.
just guessing. I use firefox because I don't want to have a problem going to a website and then my computer becoming unusable. It still happens sometimes with firefox and opening PDFs, but I am content to blame that on the Adobe PDF viewer.
The problem with "decent home at a reasonable price" mean you are willing to buy up an old house in a typically under populated area and fix it up. Most people aren't willing to do that, so they crowd around the same areas until the job markets dry up, then they move on to a different area.
If land/house prices were cheap to begin with, you'd see lots more people buying houses, or you'd see just a few people buying everything up, and then becoming slum lords.
oh, and you don't "BUY" a house, you get the bank to buy it for you, and then you lease it from them. I only know of a few people that actually buy a house (stay in it until their mortgage is up, or pay for it outright) and those people are the rare exception.
I wouldn't be so quick to compare linux to a family sedan. Linux is more of a late 60's muscle car that you can endlessly upgrade. MacOS is more like an expensive BMW engine or something, leaving windows to be the KIA engine.
buying a BMW and putting a bigblock 454 is more like buying a Mac and loading linux on it.
That's why a non-technical manager should have the rest (or some) of the group in the interview also. If the interview-ee can BS his way around in front of the manager, good for him, but there is no way he would be able to do that with potential peers in the room. This doesn't happen though, as the manager's ego gets in the way usually.
I've been a hiring manager before, and there's lots of people out there that just BS their way through everything.
"I remember using the community phone in the dorm hallway 16 years ago. I'm shocked that practice went on for another 11 years!!"
HA....
I remmeber standing out in the cold because we didn't have halls. Our dorms opened up to the outside. $5 worth of quarters would get me about 10 minutes on the phone, and the call was barely going 200 miles. What a luxury it would have been to stay inside my warm dorm room talking as long as I want.
Oh, and this was the mid-90s, right before cell phones became popular and relatively cheap.
Also, since most people don't use most of the Office features, they'll be more reluctant to upgrade. If there's no benefit of an upgrade, enterprises won't spend the time, effort, and money.
books have a limited number of pages on them. once they are read, their knowledge ends. A laptop, however, can have it's knowledge replenished.
Also, education is much more than just reading what's in a book. Being able to view pictures, videos, up-to-date maps, and other media is a large educational benefit.
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That's nothing, I used up almost all of a 100Mb link on a bittorrent the day the last fedora came out.
Yeah, the 100Mb was almost all outbound. I forgot about it and left it open all weekend and no one really noticed. i don't remember how much bandwidth I used up, but it was lots and lots.
I used a Sun E3500 with 8 processors and 8GB of ram to run a GwebCache. It didn't really perform as well as I had hoped, so I moved it back to it's normal cluster of 3 intel machines.
50C might be within the specs, but a cooler running drive is a happier drive. that 50C is just having the drive running, not necessarily putting it under any load. under load, it climbs to around 70F depending on the type of load.
I've seen quite a few drives die totally because they were on for 3 or 4 years straight, then were turned off. The platters cooled and then warped. one in particular used to run all the time and cooling it basically destroyed the drive. That was on an old scsi drive though.
Either way, the server I mentioned is in a closet with zero air flow. The ambient temp in that closet is around 85-90F anytime of the year. Adding one fan's noise to a closet isn't that big of a deal compared with a burnt up drive. Also having 4 drives means each drive heats up it's neighbors, and ultimately burns the one in the middle. I do have them spaced out, but they are all attached relatively close to the same case. Having some sort of air flow is always a good idea.
better to put the fan on the side. then you can use one fan to cool more than one drive.
I have a 80mm fan right now cooling 4 ide drives and it brings the temps down about 10-15 degrees C. They run about 35-37 degrees C as opposed to almost 50 degrees C without it.
pretty basic hack really. I don't see the point in making a WHOLE slashdot article about it. Maybe someone out there just went, "Hey, what a GREAT idea." but I bet that person already tried to dunk their drives in ice water.
fat finger something like:
/var/log/*.gz
rm -rf
and turn it into:
rm -rf / var/log/*.gz
and you'll quickly find out why root is not to be used all the time.
So true. I recently did up2date on RHEL and it kept erroring out on openoffice updates. I was using Advanced Server 3, and it had openoffice installed.
You'd think a company like RedHat would have their shit together enough to be able to take a stock install of any of their shipping products, and at least get it to do a proper update. Now i'm not trying to say anything dispariaging about them, but to me, getting a fatal up2date error on packaged RHEL AS3 seems like someone should get fired.
Oh, and to fix the problem, I had to manually remove openoffice, and then run up2date again. After running, i noticed up2date REINSTALLED openoffice even though I had rpm -e'ed it.
I wish someone would make a normal APT-based distribution and provide commercial support. It would be so easy to take ubuntu-style cd and make it a bootable server. If only someone would provide support....
...don't care what operating system is on their computer. If they can:
1. get their mail
2. browse the web
3. fileshare
4. listen to music/watch videos
5. play games (purchased, or web-based)
6. maybe light use of an office suite
7. do taxes
of all of those, number 5 and 7 are almost impossible. Some games come with linux support, but they are slower than the windows versions. Web-based games are gaining ground, but some still require ActiveX plugins. Last time I checked (yeah, i already did my taxes this year), there were NO way to do your taxes on a linux computer, unless you use a web-based tax solution. I've used one before, and it was nice, but didn't seem to have all of the features that I would have expected.
oh yeah, and 99% of people will never try to re-install their operating system. Of the 1% that will try, most of those will use their windows reinstall disk they got with their computer.
Note: these stats are made up, but look around you when you are at work. Count how many people have even the most basic computer hardware knowledge. Then count how many have the free time to spend to reinstall a whole operating system and update all of the patches.
I remember being in high school, oh, 10 years ago, and there was this computer in my english teacher's room. I had her for english my freshman year and my senior year, and that computer was never turned on the whole time. yeah, it got moved around her room on a cart, but the cart was just so she could push it out of the way to get some "REAL" english learning dun.
yeah, we had "computers in the classroom" but with idiot teachers that wouldn't let anyone use them. I remember turning it on one day and i thought she was going to have a heart attack.
That's may sound like it would work, but a mom -n- pop isp that barely scrapes by will probably take a $50k "payment" from the RIAA.
Are you telling us you're a lousy admin? I know if I was your manager and I called you to fix a problem, and you didn't answer, you'd probably be close to fired the next day. I can't see trying to compare a lazy, half-assed admin to the people I was originally talking about. There are superheroes in every field, and there are also guys that should be clearing carts off of the Wal-Mart parking lot. I think you told us which one you are.
If you wanna be an idiot and ignore your responsibilities, go work for your local ILEC.
I beg to differ. What is an IT job? It's a 24/7/365 job. Now go think of other 24/7/365 jobs, police, firemen, doctors, etc.
I'm not trying to equate IT work to those other jobs. Heck, sometimes, IT work is MORE important than those jobs. If you work IT in a hospital, you know what I'm talking about.
Sounds like a new advertisement channel... ...AND NOTHING ELSE!
it shouldn't matter, since the light is still focused at the same point. It wouldn't be easy to make, but a convexed lense should do what I described. It would bend the light and direct it in a focused manner back toward the source, or where every it's aimed.
N aive-Cross -technology/Cross-wavy-strips-1.jpg
The incoming light kinda like this crappy drawing:
http://kmr.nada.kth.se/math/pointfocus/
You should be able to craft a lense to bend the incoming light on the bottom of the lense and send it in a single beam out the top of the lense.
I know nothing of light dynamics though, so I could be wrong.
WRONG.
Windows Media Player is just that, the player. It's not themes, it's not codecs, it's not DirectShow/ActiveMovie.
Just about any other media player that you can install in windows will play all the same media formats as WMP, usually using the same exact codecs. Uninstalling WMP (if that's possible) should not touch those codecs. I didn't RTFA, but it sounds like Microsoft choose to also not include the codecs to play media. If that's the case, it sounds like Microsoft just told the EU that old schoolyard saying, "Fine then, if you don't wanna play MY game, I'm going to take my ball and go home."
The themes are a non-argument, since they are just bitmaps taped together with some MSXML.
DirectShow and the DirectX suite is the software layer that talks directly to the hardware. That just makes WMP work fast. It gives an avenue for WMP to be able to display media using the real hardware resources on the computer. Other programs have access to this layer also, independently of WMP.
if you refracted the light at the focal point, with the correct refraction you could make a directed beam, and then shoot that beam at other things. It could end up being powerful enough to cook hot dogs or cement.
/run-on sentence
disclaimer: don't shoot directed light beams at airplanes.
let's see:
/cliche
1. bring up some other hero to make the topic of this story seem insignificant? CHECK
2. act unimpressed by his hack? CHECK
3. try to make a metaphor relating computer software to killing people? CHECK
and finally...
4. try to impose your rules on others based on wild assumptions? priceless
How many of these users are switching because everytime they open IE, a ton of porn banner ads open too?
Probably quite a few of them.
just guessing. I use firefox because I don't want to have a problem going to a website and then my computer becoming unusable. It still happens sometimes with firefox and opening PDFs, but I am content to blame that on the Adobe PDF viewer.
The problem with "decent home at a reasonable price" mean you are willing to buy up an old house in a typically under populated area and fix it up. Most people aren't willing to do that, so they crowd around the same areas until the job markets dry up, then they move on to a different area.
If land/house prices were cheap to begin with, you'd see lots more people buying houses, or you'd see just a few people buying everything up, and then becoming slum lords.
oh, and you don't "BUY" a house, you get the bank to buy it for you, and then you lease it from them. I only know of a few people that actually buy a house (stay in it until their mortgage is up, or pay for it outright) and those people are the rare exception.
I wouldn't be so quick to compare linux to a family sedan. Linux is more of a late 60's muscle car that you can endlessly upgrade. MacOS is more like an expensive BMW engine or something, leaving windows to be the KIA engine.
buying a BMW and putting a bigblock 454 is more like buying a Mac and loading linux on it.
That's why a non-technical manager should have the rest (or some) of the group in the interview also. If the interview-ee can BS his way around in front of the manager, good for him, but there is no way he would be able to do that with potential peers in the room. This doesn't happen though, as the manager's ego gets in the way usually.
I've been a hiring manager before, and there's lots of people out there that just BS their way through everything.
no one EVER recovers anything from tapes anyways.
"I remember using the community phone in the dorm hallway 16 years ago. I'm shocked that practice went on for another 11 years!!"
HA....
I remmeber standing out in the cold because we didn't have halls. Our dorms opened up to the outside. $5 worth of quarters would get me about 10 minutes on the phone, and the call was barely going 200 miles. What a luxury it would have been to stay inside my warm dorm room talking as long as I want.
Oh, and this was the mid-90s, right before cell phones became popular and relatively cheap.
Also, since most people don't use most of the Office features, they'll be more reluctant to upgrade. If there's no benefit of an upgrade, enterprises won't spend the time, effort, and money.
books have a limited number of pages on them. once they are read, their knowledge ends. A laptop, however, can have it's knowledge replenished.
Also, education is much more than just reading what's in a book. Being able to view pictures, videos, up-to-date maps, and other media is a large educational benefit.
Did you search for Vice City or San Andreas?
Those cities are gangland.