Good luck finding one. There's a reason why searches are free, and search companies are most often tied with advertising.
If you don't want to be logged, use Tor
The problem with the current surveillance is it's illegal to talk about it. If you work at a company and the government comes in and requests information or wants to monitor someone, it is against the law for anyone to talk about it or alert the user.
How is there supposed to be any oversight or public outrage if it's illegal to talk about it?
What's the point in buying overpriced, specialized hardware only to delete the operating system?
Just because?
I can guarantee you for the price you paid for that MacIntel (Intelitosh?), you'd be much better off spending half of the cash and buying from another retailer. It's like buying a Porsche and taking out the engine and putting in a Chevy 350 and replacing the tires with big rockcrawlers.
I use motion with WinTV cards. WinTV cards are very nicely supported by windows and linux. I use cheap composite cameras from Sams Club ($40 for 640x480 color with infrared night vision, also comes with cabling) and they seem to work fine. For the price of a comparable USB "webcam", a $40 Wintv card and a $40 camera isn't too bad of a price. With motion, I have built-in motion detection that saves jpgs when it detects motion. I also have it encode xvid through ffmpeg. It's pretty easy to set up and just runs.
Either way, most UPSes will clean the power coming in to the electronics. In a typical house, turn on a vacuum cleaner and the lights dim slightly. This may not cause an outage in your computers, but it does cause the power supply to work harder delivering it's DC power. Over time, this will decrease the life of your power supply.
I fail to see how EMC has ANYTHING to do with the home user.
The home user will look at their requirements, and then choose the path of least cost in almost all cases. Bringing up EMC when the original thread was about a guy trying to build a new disk system is like buying B-52 bomber to swat a fly.
RAID1 CAN be used as an offsite store. It's as simple as waiting till the mirror is synced, taking out a drive, and taking that drive to a remote location.
If you use your solution with external drives, keep a good RAID1 on external usb drives using 3 drives, two at the location in a RAID1 and a 3rd offsite. When you want to make a new mirror, unplug one of the usb cables and take it to the offsite location, pick up the 3rd drive, and plug it into the usb and let it sync back up.
if you have 1/2 TB, backing up to tape is almost impossible for a home user with a home-user budget.
I don't think you've administrated windows before. It's easier and more cost effective to have the user reboot. If the machine doesn't boot correctly, then you have other problems. If a reboot fixes the problem, the user knows what to do next time something isn't working correctly. The more a user does on his/her own, the less time and money the support guy will spend fixing their problems for them.
Oh, and don't forget. Not all users are local. Sometimes, "just send a guy down there" means a car trip.
if you think any retailer would take a loss on a product, you are sorely mistaken.
I worked at a Wal-Mart about 15 years ago, and I got to see the sales sheet by accident one day. It had the wal-mart cost, the markup, and the final price. Each item on the list was marked up between 50% and 80%. Yep, that's right, most of the stuff was so over priced, you wonder how they get away with it.
The secret is the other places, like k-mart (at the time) were marking stuff up 80%-150%.
even with rebates, if you send in the rebate, I bet the stores are still making 40% profit.
What wifi card was it? Doesn't sound like one that uses ndiswan for the windows drivers. Using different distros will do you absolutely no good, since you are using a third party installed app to load the driver. I'd say you wasted your time, at least "hours and hours and days." It took me about 30 minutes with a Ubuntu cd and the cd that was shipped with the few usb wifi cards I used. I had an advantage though, in that I actually read the ndiswrapper HOWTO and followed it. Hey, guess what. It worked for me![TM]
If you want to use windows, that's great. The article was about running linux on old laptops, though, so I don't see where your reply is valid. If you wanted to talk about how windows 2000 worked great for you, you might either try to get an "old laptop running windows 2000 is the best" article posted. Good luck on that.
nowdays, you can pretty much pick up any card and use ndiswrapper and the windows drivers. Some don't work, but usually the generics use the cheapest chipset with almost standard drivers. ndiswrapper works in most of those cases. Companies like D-link and Linksys have the technical know-how and financial initiative (vendor lock-in and brand loyalty) to write custom drivers for custom chipsets, so they are less supported.
I picked up a few cheap, no-name 802.11g usb wireless NICs from Fry's a few months ago. I did not plan ahead to get one that was known to be linux compatible. Well, they both work fine in linux, as does any other card i've ever thrown at it, except for the d-link pcmcia 802.11b with their speedboost crap.
I think your problem is more of a "I clicked on it and it didn't work. I give up" problem.
Sounds more like a distribution problem and less of a linux problem.
If a distribution packages insecure scripts in their packages, they should be the ones getting pointed at.
It would probably be pretty easy to modify the worm to use a bash script or something that would be common on all unixes, bsds, and linux distributions. Then it might become a problem, but until then, it's pretty weak.
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Good luck finding one. There's a reason why searches are free, and search companies are most often tied with advertising. If you don't want to be logged, use Tor
The problem with the current surveillance is it's illegal to talk about it. If you work at a company and the government comes in and requests information or wants to monitor someone, it is against the law for anyone to talk about it or alert the user.
How is there supposed to be any oversight or public outrage if it's illegal to talk about it?
No. It didn't have to be said.
Yeah, I saw store.apple.com. I also read how it's not available yet.
So where exactly can you buy an Intel MacBook Pro?
Nowhere?
What's your point?
What's the point in buying overpriced, specialized hardware only to delete the operating system?
Just because?
I can guarantee you for the price you paid for that MacIntel (Intelitosh?), you'd be much better off spending half of the cash and buying from another retailer. It's like buying a Porsche and taking out the engine and putting in a Chevy 350 and replacing the tires with big rockcrawlers.
I think they should ship him off to India to be a tech support lackey for a few years. At least then, he indirectly gets to clean up his own mess.
I use motion with WinTV cards. WinTV cards are very nicely supported by windows and linux. I use cheap composite cameras from Sams Club ($40 for 640x480 color with infrared night vision, also comes with cabling) and they seem to work fine. For the price of a comparable USB "webcam", a $40 Wintv card and a $40 camera isn't too bad of a price. With motion, I have built-in motion detection that saves jpgs when it detects motion. I also have it encode xvid through ffmpeg. It's pretty easy to set up and just runs.
I highly recommend it.
Either way, most UPSes will clean the power coming in to the electronics. In a typical house, turn on a vacuum cleaner and the lights dim slightly. This may not cause an outage in your computers, but it does cause the power supply to work harder delivering it's DC power. Over time, this will decrease the life of your power supply.
I fail to see how EMC has ANYTHING to do with the home user.
The home user will look at their requirements, and then choose the path of least cost in almost all cases. Bringing up EMC when the original thread was about a guy trying to build a new disk system is like buying B-52 bomber to swat a fly.
*golf clap*
I applaud your post because of the part about the UPS. Having a UPS makes everything run better and longer.
Also, take your computer off of the carpet. Carpet holds static electricity and that causes lots of problems with anything electrical.
too bad 1/2 TB backups aren't monetarily available for a home user.
also, the question was about large storage, not backing up that storage.
liar!
RAID1 CAN be used as an offsite store. It's as simple as waiting till the mirror is synced, taking out a drive, and taking that drive to a remote location.
If you use your solution with external drives, keep a good RAID1 on external usb drives using 3 drives, two at the location in a RAID1 and a 3rd offsite. When you want to make a new mirror, unplug one of the usb cables and take it to the offsite location, pick up the 3rd drive, and plug it into the usb and let it sync back up.
if you have 1/2 TB, backing up to tape is almost impossible for a home user with a home-user budget.
95% bragging, 5% actual content.
That's what happened to HP and Compaq.
And the TW/AOL deal.
The government doesn't care about small business!
Find me a small business with lobbying cash.
No one "writes" e-mails, silly. They type them. :P
I think Mythbusters is the modern-day Mr Wizard. I grew up on Mr Wizard (and Bill Nye to a lesser extent) and it is what sparked my science interest.
Great show guys.
I dunno. Seagate has the 5 year warranty. Hopefully, this will mean they will keep that 5 year warranty, and also have it for Maxtor's drives.
I bet they make Maxtor their cheap brand though and keep them with a 1 year warranty.
I don't think you've administrated windows before. It's easier and more cost effective to have the user reboot. If the machine doesn't boot correctly, then you have other problems. If a reboot fixes the problem, the user knows what to do next time something isn't working correctly. The more a user does on his/her own, the less time and money the support guy will spend fixing their problems for them.
Oh, and don't forget. Not all users are local. Sometimes, "just send a guy down there" means a car trip.
if you think any retailer would take a loss on a product, you are sorely mistaken.
I worked at a Wal-Mart about 15 years ago, and I got to see the sales sheet by accident one day. It had the wal-mart cost, the markup, and the final price. Each item on the list was marked up between 50% and 80%. Yep, that's right, most of the stuff was so over priced, you wonder how they get away with it.
The secret is the other places, like k-mart (at the time) were marking stuff up 80%-150%.
even with rebates, if you send in the rebate, I bet the stores are still making 40% profit.
What a crybaby.
What wifi card was it? Doesn't sound like one that uses ndiswan for the windows drivers. Using different distros will do you absolutely no good, since you are using a third party installed app to load the driver. I'd say you wasted your time, at least "hours and hours and days." It took me about 30 minutes with a Ubuntu cd and the cd that was shipped with the few usb wifi cards I used. I had an advantage though, in that I actually read the ndiswrapper HOWTO and followed it. Hey, guess what. It worked for me![TM]
If you want to use windows, that's great. The article was about running linux on old laptops, though, so I don't see where your reply is valid. If you wanted to talk about how windows 2000 worked great for you, you might either try to get an "old laptop running windows 2000 is the best" article posted. Good luck on that.
nowdays, you can pretty much pick up any card and use ndiswrapper and the windows drivers. Some don't work, but usually the generics use the cheapest chipset with almost standard drivers. ndiswrapper works in most of those cases. Companies like D-link and Linksys have the technical know-how and financial initiative (vendor lock-in and brand loyalty) to write custom drivers for custom chipsets, so they are less supported.
I picked up a few cheap, no-name 802.11g usb wireless NICs from Fry's a few months ago. I did not plan ahead to get one that was known to be linux compatible. Well, they both work fine in linux, as does any other card i've ever thrown at it, except for the d-link pcmcia 802.11b with their speedboost crap.
I think your problem is more of a "I clicked on it and it didn't work. I give up" problem.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Sounds more like a distribution problem and less of a linux problem.
If a distribution packages insecure scripts in their packages, they should be the ones getting pointed at.
It would probably be pretty easy to modify the worm to use a bash script or something that would be common on all unixes, bsds, and linux distributions. Then it might become a problem, but until then, it's pretty weak.