I agree with your case recomendations but would add 3U to the list for a compromise on size/expandability. Also 1U is 1.75". I realize you used 2" generally.
Try checking audio equipment stores for the rack. You can get a 12U rack that rolls under a lot of desks that is a little bigger than a lot of server cases. My brother-in-law and I are planning on using one of these for his 3d animation setup. We are going to use a 5U case for the graphic workstation and 7-1U dual 1Ghz boxes for the batch rendering. This whole setup will roll right under his desk. It isn't much bigger than the Chenbro Net cube case he is currently using.
I know a lot of people don't like Win32 but I'm glad it is there to use. I recently moved my home setup from Apache, MySQL, PHP 4 on NT over to Linux and am testing a FreeBSD box too. I wasn't able to test Apache 2.0a until I got moved over (no MS compiler) and I love it so far. I'm glad there are resources like this webcast to get up to speed on what's going on.
Now I'm trying to pitch Apache to replace my company's IIS setup for our small (10-20 hits/day)intranet site. First we put in Apache, then we make NT go away. Linux is already taking care of our proxy and DNS needs. Samba will help me replace the NT file servers which leaves me with an Exchange server and a proprietary NT archive server to deal with. Of course those 2 machines will take more of my time than they should but what else are you going to do?
Nothing's preventing the "little guy" from having a web-streaming radio station
If they don't pay the ascap fees then they are doing it it illegally in the first place and then they can be procescuted and stopped. I guess the little guy will have to be a talk station or sing their own copyrighted music. There is no way to follow all the rules they have put in place if you use music with any kind of copyright on it.
You don't have USB 2.0 ports on your system because it isn't really out yet. This is a hardware change, not a protocol change. USB is CPU intensive and Firewire is not. It's easy to see why Intel backs USB. There are some hardware kludges in USB that will make you upgrade a lot of current products or suffer with performance degradations. Condsidering USB is soldered to the MB and Firewire cards are $50~, it seems you will have to upgrade a lot more for USB 2.0.
Like it or not, Windows still has a good chunk of the market and manufactures will make products that will sell for Windows. This can mean the difference in the Widget Corporation in releasing a USB 2.0 or a Firewire device. Maybe you don't want to run Windows but they will have an influence on the hardware that is available.
I really want to try out some IP over 1394. You can pick up a decent 3 port Firewire card for under $50.00. 3 port 400/Mbit network card sounds good to me. Anyone tried it yet??
They are not supporting a new standard that doesn't have hardware released yet. USB 2.0 is still being worked on and MS with probably add it later through a service pack or have you buy a XP Second Edition. There will be support for your current USB 1.1 devices.
You don't have USB 2.0 though because the hardware is still being worked on. You probably have USB 1.1 or 1.0 if you have an older system. They aren't supporting it because the hardware isn't there yet. This is a change of pace for them.
I was thinking along the same lines. Get an Intel 815 with onboard sound and lan and throw it in a 1U case. You could mount a flat-panel monitor and straps to turn into a backpack. Fasten a pouch or 2 for the cables, keyboard and mouse and head off to the LAN party.
You could do something similar building your own. I would use an AGP riser card from out a 2U rackmount so I could have any video card I want.
The RF-12 was the high speed interceptor/fighter version of the SR-71. Very few were made and you would have to wonder how well the would work for that.
The B-70 was a mach 3+ bomber that never went past prototype. I believe there are 3 of them left. One crashed and I don't remember if was 3 left after that or if it was only 3 to start with.
Someone already tried to sell me a block of wood with a Tux sticker on it. He told me that it had the same functionality as Linux. I wasn't fooled for second, I bought the block of plastic with a Tux sticker instead.
Does the Mandrake Sparc release work with the hardware you want or is it more along the lines of the NetBSD port?
They don't seem to have any news about it either. They have 7.1 but it is beta and Corporate Server. Corporate Server is based on 7.1 but doesn't say anything about being beta.
Do a little comparison on the 10.4 HP drive and the Sony 9.1GB-14X magneto optical drive. Try to see which one has more mind-share so you know which one you will be able to get media for in the future. Of course it may be too soon to tell or perhaps they are on even footing. The upside for the Sony is that is supposed to be available now so it has a head-start.
You don't have to hack audio hardware together. There are several "CD Jukeboxes" that are designed for data archiving. I've seen DVD towers that hold 1.23TB of data. Techware also has up to 5.8TB WORM jukebox with the new Sony 9.1GB-14X magneto optical drive. Up to 638 slots and 12 drives. You could try Computer Upgrade Corporation. They have solutions up over 5TB. There are many more. None of these are hacks.
I'm not going to call this Ask Google because I think there can be a lot added by discussion that you wouldn't otherwise get.
A) It takes a lot of work to make it secure because it isn't by default. Trust me, I've done it but it wasn't easy and takes a lot of time to keep on top of it.
B) 9x, NT, 2000 are just as different and from the same company. There used to be a time you could run Windows with IBM OS/2 or Microsoft. And yes I am a bot. beep, beep, whirp.
C) You obviously have run into the Office 97/2000 issues yet. Where so you think the term "DLL Hell" comes from?? You must not have much installed on this machine. You have other people install and troubleshoot for you. It seems that you are a bot too!
D) Are you sure that's what they installed at the factory?? I've worked with enough computers to know that default installs are rarely the same and a lot people where installing the old version for compatability and so they wouldn't have to get a lot of support calls.
I use Microsoft more than I use *nix but that is changing. I realize that they all have their strengths and weaknesses. You should use the right tool for the job. Anyone who only uses one thing and thinks what everyone else does about it is bot whether it is Linux or Microsoft.
I'm a network administrator on an NT network. We have 95,98,ME,2000 pro,2000 server, linux, unixware, netware, etc. and you better be worried about dependencies file versions if you want to keep it running. I'm currently dealing with some semaphore timeouts thanks to a service pack update. I did an uninstall and it is still there and thanks to a backup tape screw up no reliable backups on 2 of the servers. Now I get to rebuild these servers but I know how to do it myself because I don't rely on the factory to do it for me. You assume they are alike but if you had to support them you would quickly realize they aren't and even service packs make a big difference. SP1 was a huge improvement for 2000.
I learned most of my testing techniques from an old manager of mine that was huge into AS/400 and went overboard on redundancies and testing every possible solution even if it seems a little out there. We tested and hammered R&D servers for months before they went into production. The benefit of this is that we only had to reboot those servers for service pack updates and they were rock solid. I realize that this isn't the norm for NT and it is the only way to keep NT from like most people complain about.
I doubt there is a provider out there that doesn't fall into that same category. I've called in plenty downed T1's to US West. We tried a 3rd party Broadwing and it was as bad or worse because more people involved to point fingers at each other. We are going back to US West(now Qwest) because less fingers in the pie and some local people to kick in the butt.
My cable at home went down and I called in and got a trouble ticket ran through all the hoops and never got a response back after being cut off and talking to tech support a couple different times. They had some bad equipment and didn't bother to let anyone know when they fixed it or even admit they had a problem. All of a sudden I was back up and found out from a local tech who accidently let it slip. I'm used to this kind of abuse working with T1s regularly but how many home cable/dsl users will put up will it??
Try the book then. I read 2010 first then when back and read 2001. I then watched the movies after that. The books were definitely better. I was going to watch Battlefield Earth after I finshed the book. The good news is the movie was released before I finished and I heard the horror stories so I didn't go. I really liked the book and thought there is no way a 1,000 page novel would make a good 2 hour movie from Hollywood. Even if they didn't take any creative license, they would have to chop so much to make it difficult to even figure out what is going on.
You are right. Nobody is going to ask you if it is secure or trusted because it isn't.
Are you running Professional, Server, Advanced Server, DataCenter??
Did you upgrade from 98, ME, NT or is it a clean install?
Are you running FAT16, FAT32, NTFS (NT 4 version) or the new version of NTFS?
I bet you are glad you didn't have to answer the other questions though.
How about plugging in a USB keyboard you carry with you? Of course, make sure it plugs directly into the back of the computer and not into a duct-taped USB hub(nothing suspicious here). Lock up the box and you are set for the physical security.
Does anyone have info on licensing for.NET? Perhaps they are trying to force people over to.NET so they can milk us. This much squeezing will make people consider other options if they are anywhere near to sitting on the fence.
I was watching a program the other night about a small town way out in the middle of nowhere in the Nebraska panhandle. The town decided that they needed to keep up with technology because they were so remote. They put in fiber everywhere to within 3 miles of everyone in the county. There are farmers out their with fast DSL connections. I just got my cable installed a couple weeks ago in the 3rd largest town in NE so I didn't cry about it.
I work at a bank so I'm stuck with a commercial firewall product to protect our online banking setup. It has been constant research for the last 18 months and I have learned some scary things about what other banks are doing. Several banks are running without firewalls or if they do have a firewall, the person responsible for it is new to internet security. We had been using the built-in firewalling on Cisco routers for our internet surfing and email access and running all our computers through a Linux proxy/firewall. The administration took a year of hearing about internet security before they decided that we needed more protection.
We now have a Nokia firewall with CheckPoint Firewall 1 and an intrusion detection system in a locked box (thanks to Al Gore for inventing the Internet and lockboxes) that is monitored 24/7 by a security center with a dedicated encrypted connection. The Nokia is a little more than a PC, with extra software. There is quite a bit of OS hardening, management capabilities, etc. in the box itself. Obviously this did set us back a little bit but it doesn't compare to what is at stake for us. We are competing for the same people as the other area banks and if people lose confidence then we are going to be hurting.
It all boils down to what you are protecting. If you are even considering PIX, Checkpoint, etc then maybe you have something worth protecting. If you are only saving a few thousand dollars then you should really reconsider the advantages of support, maintenence, time, etc. and focus on the other areas of security.
It sounds like you are determined to continue with this so I would suggest that you build a second machine with a differeent OS to protect yourself. There's a good article using OpenBSD as transparent bridging firewall. The article suggests using it as a firewall it front of a router but it would work as well as a firewall in front of another firewall. Using different OSs will make it harder to get through both even if they both BSD (Open, Free, Net) or even Linux. I'm looking at using OpenBSD bridge firewalls between all my branch connections and between the network and the modem pool. Using a commercial firewall that is managed gives me the time to lock the rest of the network down and jump on users for doing stupid things. Never underestimate the ability of a user to circumvent your security whenever they get a chance.
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Try checking audio equipment stores for the rack. You can get a 12U rack that rolls under a lot of desks that is a little bigger than a lot of server cases. My brother-in-law and I are planning on using one of these for his 3d animation setup. We are going to use a 5U case for the graphic workstation and 7-1U dual 1Ghz boxes for the batch rendering. This whole setup will roll right under his desk. It isn't much bigger than the Chenbro Net cube case he is currently using.
Now I'm trying to pitch Apache to replace my company's IIS setup for our small (10-20 hits/day)intranet site. First we put in Apache, then we make NT go away. Linux is already taking care of our proxy and DNS needs. Samba will help me replace the NT file servers which leaves me with an Exchange server and a proprietary NT archive server to deal with. Of course those 2 machines will take more of my time than they should but what else are you going to do?
If they don't pay the ascap fees then they are doing it it illegally in the first place and then they can be procescuted and stopped. I guess the little guy will have to be a talk station or sing their own copyrighted music. There is no way to follow all the rules they have put in place if you use music with any kind of copyright on it.
You don't have USB 2.0 ports on your system because it isn't really out yet. This is a hardware change, not a protocol change. USB is CPU intensive and Firewire is not. It's easy to see why Intel backs USB. There are some hardware kludges in USB that will make you upgrade a lot of current products or suffer with performance degradations. Condsidering USB is soldered to the MB and Firewire cards are $50~, it seems you will have to upgrade a lot more for USB 2.0.
Like it or not, Windows still has a good chunk of the market and manufactures will make products that will sell for Windows. This can mean the difference in the Widget Corporation in releasing a USB 2.0 or a Firewire device. Maybe you don't want to run Windows but they will have an influence on the hardware that is available.
I really want to try out some IP over 1394. You can pick up a decent 3 port Firewire card for under $50.00. 3 port 400/Mbit network card sounds good to me. Anyone tried it yet??
They are not supporting a new standard that doesn't have hardware released yet. USB 2.0 is still being worked on and MS with probably add it later through a service pack or have you buy a XP Second Edition. There will be support for your current USB 1.1 devices.
You don't have USB 2.0 though because the hardware is still being worked on. You probably have USB 1.1 or 1.0 if you have an older system. They aren't supporting it because the hardware isn't there yet. This is a change of pace for them.
You could do something similar building your own. I would use an AGP riser card from out a 2U rackmount so I could have any video card I want.
The B-70 was a mach 3+ bomber that never went past prototype. I believe there are 3 of them left. One crashed and I don't remember if was 3 left after that or if it was only 3 to start with.
The highest "official" speed released was Mach 3.31 or 2000 miles and hour. I have the info somewhere and I'll see if I can dig it up.
Someone already tried to sell me a block of wood with a Tux sticker on it. He told me that it had the same functionality as Linux. I wasn't fooled for second, I bought the block of plastic with a Tux sticker instead.
Does the Mandrake Sparc release work with the hardware you want or is it more along the lines of the NetBSD port?
They don't seem to have any news about it either. They have 7.1 but it is beta and Corporate Server. Corporate Server is based on 7.1 but doesn't say anything about being beta.
Do a little comparison on the 10.4 HP drive and the Sony 9.1GB-14X magneto optical drive. Try to see which one has more mind-share so you know which one you will be able to get media for in the future. Of course it may be too soon to tell or perhaps they are on even footing. The upside for the Sony is that is supposed to be available now so it has a head-start.
I'm not going to call this Ask Google because I think there can be a lot added by discussion that you wouldn't otherwise get.
A) It takes a lot of work to make it secure because it isn't by default. Trust me, I've done it but it wasn't easy and takes a lot of time to keep on top of it.
B) 9x, NT, 2000 are just as different and from the same company. There used to be a time you could run Windows with IBM OS/2 or Microsoft. And yes I am a bot. beep, beep, whirp.
C) You obviously have run into the Office 97/2000 issues yet. Where so you think the term "DLL Hell" comes from?? You must not have much installed on this machine. You have other people install and troubleshoot for you. It seems that you are a bot too!
D) Are you sure that's what they installed at the factory?? I've worked with enough computers to know that default installs are rarely the same and a lot people where installing the old version for compatability and so they wouldn't have to get a lot of support calls.
I use Microsoft more than I use *nix but that is changing. I realize that they all have their strengths and weaknesses. You should use the right tool for the job. Anyone who only uses one thing and thinks what everyone else does about it is bot whether it is Linux or Microsoft.
Since I'm already offtopic.
I'm a network administrator on an NT network. We have 95,98,ME,2000 pro,2000 server, linux, unixware, netware, etc. and you better be worried about dependencies file versions if you want to keep it running. I'm currently dealing with some semaphore timeouts thanks to a service pack update. I did an uninstall and it is still there and thanks to a backup tape screw up no reliable backups on 2 of the servers. Now I get to rebuild these servers but I know how to do it myself because I don't rely on the factory to do it for me. You assume they are alike but if you had to support them you would quickly realize they aren't and even service packs make a big difference. SP1 was a huge improvement for 2000.
I learned most of my testing techniques from an old manager of mine that was huge into AS/400 and went overboard on redundancies and testing every possible solution even if it seems a little out there. We tested and hammered R&D servers for months before they went into production. The benefit of this is that we only had to reboot those servers for service pack updates and they were rock solid. I realize that this isn't the norm for NT and it is the only way to keep NT from like most people complain about.
My cable at home went down and I called in and got a trouble ticket ran through all the hoops and never got a response back after being cut off and talking to tech support a couple different times. They had some bad equipment and didn't bother to let anyone know when they fixed it or even admit they had a problem. All of a sudden I was back up and found out from a local tech who accidently let it slip. I'm used to this kind of abuse working with T1s regularly but how many home cable/dsl users will put up will it??
Try the book then. I read 2010 first then when back and read 2001. I then watched the movies after that. The books were definitely better. I was going to watch Battlefield Earth after I finshed the book. The good news is the movie was released before I finished and I heard the horror stories so I didn't go. I really liked the book and thought there is no way a 1,000 page novel would make a good 2 hour movie from Hollywood. Even if they didn't take any creative license, they would have to chop so much to make it difficult to even figure out what is going on.
Are you running Professional, Server, Advanced Server, DataCenter??
Did you upgrade from 98, ME, NT or is it a clean install?
Are you running FAT16, FAT32, NTFS (NT 4 version) or the new version of NTFS?
I bet you are glad you didn't have to answer the other questions though.
Unless you want SMP or a piece of hardware that Free supports that Open doesn't.
How about plugging in a USB keyboard you carry with you? Of course, make sure it plugs directly into the back of the computer and not into a duct-taped USB hub(nothing suspicious here). Lock up the box and you are set for the physical security.
Does anyone have info on licensing for .NET? Perhaps they are trying to force people over to .NET so they can milk us. This much squeezing will make people consider other options if they are anywhere near to sitting on the fence.
I was watching a program the other night about a small town way out in the middle of nowhere in the Nebraska panhandle. The town decided that they needed to keep up with technology because they were so remote. They put in fiber everywhere to within 3 miles of everyone in the county. There are farmers out their with fast DSL connections. I just got my cable installed a couple weeks ago in the 3rd largest town in NE so I didn't cry about it.
We now have a Nokia firewall with CheckPoint Firewall 1 and an intrusion detection system in a locked box (thanks to Al Gore for inventing the Internet and lockboxes) that is monitored 24/7 by a security center with a dedicated encrypted connection. The Nokia is a little more than a PC, with extra software. There is quite a bit of OS hardening, management capabilities, etc. in the box itself. Obviously this did set us back a little bit but it doesn't compare to what is at stake for us. We are competing for the same people as the other area banks and if people lose confidence then we are going to be hurting.
It all boils down to what you are protecting. If you are even considering PIX, Checkpoint, etc then maybe you have something worth protecting. If you are only saving a few thousand dollars then you should really reconsider the advantages of support, maintenence, time, etc. and focus on the other areas of security.
It sounds like you are determined to continue with this so I would suggest that you build a second machine with a differeent OS to protect yourself. There's a good article using OpenBSD as transparent bridging firewall. The article suggests using it as a firewall it front of a router but it would work as well as a firewall in front of another firewall. Using different OSs will make it harder to get through both even if they both BSD (Open, Free, Net) or even Linux. I'm looking at using OpenBSD bridge firewalls between all my branch connections and between the network and the modem pool. Using a commercial firewall that is managed gives me the time to lock the rest of the network down and jump on users for doing stupid things. Never underestimate the ability of a user to circumvent your security whenever they get a chance.