I run 3 pcs, 2 19" CRTs, and a stack of add on stuff, and when all powered up, it pulls around 430watts. power supply ratings have nothing to do with power consumption.
note: with the monitors off, everything pulls about 280 watts
if it's just for testing, probably nothing more than a few DS3's at the most. If it's set to go live on the internet, probably many, many fibers linked up to their other servers.
Google is probably quickly becoming their own backbone provider. Soon, they should start charging the telecoms for access to the google network. Talk about net neutratlity aside.
You want your IPod cheap, reliable, and with as few scratches on the screen as possible. You don't care about the labor behind it.
The same labor problems exist for just about anything that has "Made in China" on it.
It's just a smear campaign.
Note: This message types on a microsoft keyboard made in Mexico.
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A shining example of this is video on cell phones. Sure, sounds like a great idea in theory; get CNN or BBC on your phone while sitting on a train.
In reality, at least in the USA, just about the only content available is movie trailers. Advertisements. So, you are supposed to pay to download (at unbelievable prices) an advertisement? Doesn't sound like much of a benefit to the early adopters.
USA is just sitting around and waiting until a cell phone provider comes out with a cheap, reliable, "no extra charges" plan. They have them now, but it'll kill your pocketbook. They want to overcharge in just about every case. Wanna send an e-mail on your phone? Ok, that'll be $.10 per kB. Wanna send that picture you just snapped of your kids to grandma? Ok, that'll be $1.
Come on. No one wants to pay for those services when they are already paying for the service.
I couldn't find a link that had a good number for win98's marketshare, but you'd really be suprised how many 5-8 year old dell/hp/e-machines/gateway/etc. spyware-infested dust collectors there are still running.
Just ask anyone that does any kind of technical support for computers. At least with Windows ME, the operating system became so unusabe so fast, it's market share was self-limiting.
I wouldn't be suprised in 5 years to see people still running win98.
I bet there are win2k servers running in 20 years.
Every site I have been to has a few WinNT4.0 servers sitting in the corner running one stupid application.
I don't think anyone in their right mind would pay $799 (or something like that) for RedHat enterprise and then delete it, and install a pirate copy of windows. Businesses are always on the BSA radar.
Comparing petrol and batteries isn't exactly fair. petrol has had thousands and millions of years to perfect their energy storage, and NiMH has only been around a minute fraction of that.
"A car that could only go 20 miles between recharges would not be a hit, not even if the recharge was done in a minute."
what if you recharge by a really small diesel generator that is onboard to the car? that's the new, hot hybrid technology. Run the driving motors on electricity, and have a small generator that charges the batteries.
you might be able to get zonealarm to do that, but i would NOT trust anything but open source. Any commercial product probably wouldn't log their own phone homes.
You could make a linux box act as your firewall and run snort or a packet logger on it. That's a lot of trouble though.
Then how will the PAYOLA system they have in place work? Being an artist has nothing to do with the amount of airplay you get, and your "favorite" artists are usually only the ones that you hear 100 times a day.
reminds me of installing just about any other operating system. Even the big players in the OS market are rather lousy at detecting and installing proper video drivers.
IDE and now SATA have been given bad press since scsi became somewhat affordable. Sure they are a little less reliable, but you get what you pay for. I've had scsi disks fail also. There's nothing worse than having to restore your scsi hardware raid5 from tape because your scsi controller decided to die. That's happened to me twice in the last year. Having to sit there and watch a tape autoloader flip through tapes looking for files is painful. Combine that with customer downtime and you end up with a horrible disaster recovery system.
Backing up to disk may not seem like a good idea, until you realise that using something like rsync will protect you from fat fingering an rm command, and will allow you to restore either a single file or the whole filesystem almost instantly. Tape backups had their place, but they are slow, impractical, expensive, and unreliable compared to a simple, large IDE drive.
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I run 3 pcs, 2 19" CRTs, and a stack of add on stuff, and when all powered up, it pulls around 430watts. power supply ratings have nothing to do with power consumption.
note: with the monitors off, everything pulls about 280 watts
I'd rather one perfect line of code, and 4999 lines of comments explaining what the line of code does and why it is perfect.
At least they didn't name it Duke Nukem Eventually.
The "forever" part gives you a timeline.
I would guess Microsoft would be the Pakleds.
if it's just for testing, probably nothing more than a few DS3's at the most. If it's set to go live on the internet, probably many, many fibers linked up to their other servers.
Google is probably quickly becoming their own backbone provider. Soon, they should start charging the telecoms for access to the google network. Talk about net neutratlity aside.
Exactly!
You want your IPod cheap, reliable, and with as few scratches on the screen as possible. You don't care about the labor behind it.
The same labor problems exist for just about anything that has "Made in China" on it.
It's just a smear campaign.
Note: This message types on a microsoft keyboard made in Mexico.
A shining example of this is video on cell phones. Sure, sounds like a great idea in theory; get CNN or BBC on your phone while sitting on a train.
In reality, at least in the USA, just about the only content available is movie trailers. Advertisements. So, you are supposed to pay to download (at unbelievable prices) an advertisement? Doesn't sound like much of a benefit to the early adopters.
USA is just sitting around and waiting until a cell phone provider comes out with a cheap, reliable, "no extra charges" plan. They have them now, but it'll kill your pocketbook. They want to overcharge in just about every case. Wanna send an e-mail on your phone? Ok, that'll be $.10 per kB. Wanna send that picture you just snapped of your kids to grandma? Ok, that'll be $1.
Come on. No one wants to pay for those services when they are already paying for the service.
I couldn't find a link that had a good number for win98's marketshare, but you'd really be suprised how many 5-8 year old dell/hp/e-machines/gateway/etc. spyware-infested dust collectors there are still running.
Just ask anyone that does any kind of technical support for computers. At least with Windows ME, the operating system became so unusabe so fast, it's market share was self-limiting.
I wouldn't be suprised in 5 years to see people still running win98.
I bet there are win2k servers running in 20 years.
Every site I have been to has a few WinNT4.0 servers sitting in the corner running one stupid application.
tired argument.
I don't think anyone in their right mind would pay $799 (or something like that) for RedHat enterprise and then delete it, and install a pirate copy of windows. Businesses are always on the BSA radar.
Comparing petrol and batteries isn't exactly fair. petrol has had thousands and millions of years to perfect their energy storage, and NiMH has only been around a minute fraction of that.
"A car that could only go 20 miles between recharges would not be a hit, not even if the recharge was done in a minute."
what if you recharge by a really small diesel generator that is onboard to the car? that's the new, hot hybrid technology. Run the driving motors on electricity, and have a small generator that charges the batteries.
good luck running a P2P program. your snmp trap receiver will explode.
oh, and peerguardian will do it. http://peerguardian.sourceforge.net/
you might be able to get zonealarm to do that, but i would NOT trust anything but open source. Any commercial product probably wouldn't log their own phone homes.
You could make a linux box act as your firewall and run snort or a packet logger on it. That's a lot of trouble though.
What is it with Bush and all of his man dates?
it's acceptable because it's a web browser, and not the whole operating system. IE does not have an option for automatic updates, Windows does.
Firefox DOES ask you if you want to install it or not, mine did at least.
except that $50 to a normal person is 50 beers, or a whole week supply.
Enter google.gov
i'm scared.
Please at least try to pretend that Slashdot is a credible news source.
Who said anything about "credible" news? Get your facts straight before you blow a gasket. Hey, it's just the internet.
not yet.
but they did bring you Windows ME!
If you're not going to use any non-open software,
Also, good luck functioning in normal society.
almost everything electronic uses non-open software, so good luck avoiding them.
Use what works.
Bacteria can not be resistant to everything.
Fatal last words.
Payola is technically illegal, so no one will admit to it without paying the little fine.
RIAA, the labels....it's all the same group of people.
Riiiiiight.
Then how will the PAYOLA system they have in place work? Being an artist has nothing to do with the amount of airplay you get, and your "favorite" artists are usually only the ones that you hear 100 times a day.
reminds me of installing just about any other operating system. Even the big players in the OS market are rather lousy at detecting and installing proper video drivers.
IDE and now SATA have been given bad press since scsi became somewhat affordable. Sure they are a little less reliable, but you get what you pay for. I've had scsi disks fail also. There's nothing worse than having to restore your scsi hardware raid5 from tape because your scsi controller decided to die. That's happened to me twice in the last year. Having to sit there and watch a tape autoloader flip through tapes looking for files is painful. Combine that with customer downtime and you end up with a horrible disaster recovery system.
Backing up to disk may not seem like a good idea, until you realise that using something like rsync will protect you from fat fingering an rm command, and will allow you to restore either a single file or the whole filesystem almost instantly. Tape backups had their place, but they are slow, impractical, expensive, and unreliable compared to a simple, large IDE drive.