I'm dealing with pretty much the same issue right now as you. I've set aside a dedicated backup server (cheap K6/2 400) with a lot of disk space which uses rsync to backup the other servers in the office. Then I'm using rsync on an offsite server to keep a backup of the backup. Seems to work well. Having some sort of a raid setup on this box would be even more insurance I suppose.
I'm not using tape because the office I'm doing this for doesn't have a dedicated IT staff, and I'm not going there nightly/weekly to rotate tapes.
IE 6 (perversely, in my opinion) is moving away from document.all towards the W3C standard document.getElementByID. It's possible to use document.all to perform the same function, but it's unnecessary.
Can you take the same leap in logic when it comes to Noah and the 40 days of rain? Which days? God's days or "regular days"? What about how people lived 900+ years? Who's years? God's years or "regular years"? How do you differentiate between the two consistently?
What about all of the other specific measurements mentioned throughout the book? Do you rationalize some to fit into your perceptions, while others are presumed to be "one of God's" measurements? What about real life measurements?
Can God change an inch into a foot at will? No, well then what about a day into a millenium?
Actually no, I don't usually download mp3's. I can honestly say that I don't have an "illegal" mp3 anywhere on my system. If I do download an mp3, it's to see if I'll like the cd. If the mp3 sucks, why would I keep it around in the first place? If it doesn't suck, I buy the cd. I've only bought 1 cd over the past year, and that was about 2 weeks ago.
Like I said, I make my own ogg's from my own collection of cd's which I paid for. If 10 years from now, there is a shiny new audio format that I want to re-encode my music to, I have the original cd to do it from. I don't have to re-encode a lossy version of a song to another lossy version.
It's kind of like someone making a bad copy of a recorded video tape, and then selling the copy to me. No matter how many times I copy the tape, I'm always going to end up with another bad copy.
The biggest thing I do with mp3's or ogg's is that I rip my personal collection of cd's to them. Yes, I can tell a difference between a 128kbps mp3 and a 256kbps mp3. I currently rip my ogg's at -q8 because I'm anal. If I were more anal, I'd use FLAC or SHM.
Anyways...that really wasn't my point. If I buy even a 256kbps mp3, re-encoding it with the latest and greatest format of the current time (say 10 years from now) is just going to transfer the original imperfections when re-encoded with a lossless codec. Worse yet, a lossy codec is going to do nothing but highlight the imperfections that were created by the first lossy codec. Either way, my point of buying something encoded with a lossy compression algorithm still stands.
I knew the CD vs Vinyl debate would eventually come up as an argument, but that is the entire reason I stated that I'm not an audiophile in the beginning of my original post. I buy CD's primarily for the quality of the sound that comes from them(*). Now whether that sound is "perfect" to my "god given ears" or not, I come from the "you get what you pay for" school, and I want something that will still sound as good as it does today 10 years from now when re-encoded to 20 different formats.
Tell me a 128kbps mp3 will, and I'll happily buy every one I can find.
One more thing...yes, I realize it's only a dollar:)
(*) I'm also paying for the portability of CD's and the fact(?) that they aren't degraded by play...ie, there isn't a needle scraping across the surface. Go ahead, play a record in your car:)
Personally, I would never pay for an mp3'd version of any song. I wouldn't even pay for an ogg'd version of any song. When I buy a cd, I am paying for the quality of the music that comes from the cd. If I were to ever pay for a song online, it would have to be in a lossless format that I could convert to format X without any problems. 10 years down the road, there will not be mp3's. The mp3's you buy online now, will not be convertable to other formats without a reduction in quality (kind of like why you can't go from mp3 to ogg's without the result sounding like shit).
So refresh my memory...why would I buy a "lossfull" (is that a word?) mp3 again? I've got the bandwidth to download whatever I want at home. I don't care if it's 1/5th it's original size. Give me a wav or whatever, and I'll happily pay.
The Wachovia online banking site doesn't support Netscape 6 or Mozilla. The site is frames based and uses javascript for quite a bit of it's functionality.
I've yelled at them myself in the past, but they've only written back stating that since both browsers are considered BETA, they weren't going to support them.
Another voice wouldn't hurt. It would help if you had an account of course.
What is wrong with putting computer games under the GPL? You GPL the code, not the content. There is no reason to give away your graphics and story line along with the code...that's what makes the game unique.
An open sourced gaming engine would get all of the benefits that open source gives, and you could still pay your developers because people would still buy your game for the content.
This is where open licenses take over. If Linus were killing Linux, what's to stop Red Hat or someone from starting their own non-Linus blessed version of Linux? Nothing except name recognition and the use of the name Linux...which Linus would have already run any notoriety into the ground. So they take the last known stable kernel and run with the ball.
So my neighbor comes in a borrows some sugar from me. What about my neighbors neighbor? And so on and so forth?
What if I only have 1 cup of sugar left, was planning on baking my own cookies that same day, and my neighbor borrows it? Now I have to go to the store and buy my own...AGAIN.
Do I make a list of things my neighbor can and cannot take? If so, then what is the point of leaving my house open? I don't want my neighbor to take just anything.
And lastly, what about privacy? I certainly don't want my neighbor coming in to get sugar for her baking at 3am, when I'm hacking naked, or in the shower, or sleeping or whatever.
How many people leave their client/server running when they aren't using it? How about a new option to automatically serve files when they're not downloading/searching for something? If someone is already downloading something from you, their connection gets slowed down by X until your done, and no new connections to your server can be made.
OTOH, M$oft "innovations" are evil, not part of the standards process, and should be shunned by all right thinking web developers. If M$oft want to use them on their own site, then that's their privilege and their problem if it goes wrong. No-one else should touch them with the proverbial bargepole.
That's the problem. There aren't many "right thinking web developers" in the world left. Publishing web documents is becoming easier and easier using MS Office and Frontpage, so more and more people are making pages. They don't have to think about them AT ALL, much less think about them the right way. Making it easy for grandma to create a web page is good. Making it easy for grandma to go against standards is bad. She doesn't know or even care about the standards. Now I'm not going to be able to see the pictures of her grandkids.
Junkbuster is a very good web spam filter. Can someone enlighten me as to why this can't be modified in some way to be used for porn? Maybe have a public blockfile somewhere that people can add to as they find porn sites. Then parents/whoever can just download it periodically, maybe run it through diff to see if the changes are ok, and then install the new version. Voila, instant porn filter with the ability to customize the blockfile to suit each persons needs.
Sure there are the problems of being able to change the proxy settings in Netscape/IE, but if I'm not mistaken, that can be turned off.
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I'm dealing with pretty much the same issue right now as you. I've set aside a dedicated backup server (cheap K6/2 400) with a lot of disk space which uses rsync to backup the other servers in the office. Then I'm using rsync on an offsite server to keep a backup of the backup. Seems to work well. Having some sort of a raid setup on this box would be even more insurance I suppose.
I'm not using tape because the office I'm doing this for doesn't have a dedicated IT staff, and I'm not going there nightly/weekly to rotate tapes.
IE 6 (perversely, in my opinion) is moving away from document.all towards the W3C standard document.getElementByID. It's possible to use document.all to perform the same function, but it's unnecessary.
Can you take the same leap in logic when it comes to Noah and the 40 days of rain? Which days? God's days or "regular days"? What about how people lived 900+ years? Who's years? God's years or "regular years"? How do you differentiate between the two consistently?
What about all of the other specific measurements mentioned throughout the book? Do you rationalize some to fit into your perceptions, while others are presumed to be "one of God's" measurements? What about real life measurements?
Can God change an inch into a foot at will? No, well then what about a day into a millenium?
Actually no, I don't usually download mp3's. I can honestly say that I don't have an "illegal" mp3 anywhere on my system. If I do download an mp3, it's to see if I'll like the cd. If the mp3 sucks, why would I keep it around in the first place? If it doesn't suck, I buy the cd. I've only bought 1 cd over the past year, and that was about 2 weeks ago.
Like I said, I make my own ogg's from my own collection of cd's which I paid for. If 10 years from now, there is a shiny new audio format that I want to re-encode my music to, I have the original cd to do it from. I don't have to re-encode a lossy version of a song to another lossy version.
It's kind of like someone making a bad copy of a recorded video tape, and then selling the copy to me. No matter how many times I copy the tape, I'm always going to end up with another bad copy.
The biggest thing I do with mp3's or ogg's is that I rip my personal collection of cd's to them. Yes, I can tell a difference between a 128kbps mp3 and a 256kbps mp3. I currently rip my ogg's at -q8 because I'm anal. If I were more anal, I'd use FLAC or SHM.
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Anyways...that really wasn't my point. If I buy even a 256kbps mp3, re-encoding it with the latest and greatest format of the current time (say 10 years from now) is just going to transfer the original imperfections when re-encoded with a lossless codec. Worse yet, a lossy codec is going to do nothing but highlight the imperfections that were created by the first lossy codec. Either way, my point of buying something encoded with a lossy compression algorithm still stands.
I knew the CD vs Vinyl debate would eventually come up as an argument, but that is the entire reason I stated that I'm not an audiophile in the beginning of my original post. I buy CD's primarily for the quality of the sound that comes from them(*). Now whether that sound is "perfect" to my "god given ears" or not, I come from the "you get what you pay for" school, and I want something that will still sound as good as it does today 10 years from now when re-encoded to 20 different formats.
Tell me a 128kbps mp3 will, and I'll happily buy every one I can find.
One more thing...yes, I realize it's only a dollar
(*) I'm also paying for the portability of CD's and the fact(?) that they aren't degraded by play...ie, there isn't a needle scraping across the surface. Go ahead, play a record in your car
I am not an audiophile.
Personally, I would never pay for an mp3'd version of any song. I wouldn't even pay for an ogg'd version of any song. When I buy a cd, I am paying for the quality of the music that comes from the cd. If I were to ever pay for a song online, it would have to be in a lossless format that I could convert to format X without any problems. 10 years down the road, there will not be mp3's. The mp3's you buy online now, will not be convertable to other formats without a reduction in quality (kind of like why you can't go from mp3 to ogg's without the result sounding like shit).
So refresh my memory...why would I buy a "lossfull" (is that a word?) mp3 again? I've got the bandwidth to download whatever I want at home. I don't care if it's 1/5th it's original size. Give me a wav or whatever, and I'll happily pay.
The Wachovia online banking site doesn't support Netscape 6 or Mozilla. The site is frames based and uses javascript for quite a bit of it's functionality.
I've yelled at them myself in the past, but they've only written back stating that since both browsers are considered BETA, they weren't going to support them.
Another voice wouldn't hurt. It would help if you had an account of course.
https://myaccounts.wachovia.com/
What is wrong with putting computer games under the GPL? You GPL the code, not the content. There is no reason to give away your graphics and story line along with the code...that's what makes the game unique.
An open sourced gaming engine would get all of the benefits that open source gives, and you could still pay your developers because people would still buy your game for the content.
What is the lack of traditional Christian morals? Are there any morals that are non-Christian? Can an Atheist have morals? How about a Muslim?
I do agree with you on your other points, but I fail to see the why morals can only come from the "wholesome teachings of Jesus Christ".
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This is where open licenses take over. If Linus were killing Linux, what's to stop Red Hat or someone from starting their own non-Linus blessed version of Linux? Nothing except name recognition and the use of the name Linux...which Linus would have already run any notoriety into the ground. So they take the last known stable kernel and run with the ball.
What???
So my neighbor comes in a borrows some sugar from me. What about my neighbors neighbor? And so on and so forth?
What if I only have 1 cup of sugar left, was planning on baking my own cookies that same day, and my neighbor borrows it? Now I have to go to the store and buy my own...AGAIN.
Do I make a list of things my neighbor can and cannot take? If so, then what is the point of leaving my house open? I don't want my neighbor to take just anything.
And lastly, what about privacy? I certainly don't want my neighbor coming in to get sugar for her baking at 3am, when I'm hacking naked, or in the shower, or sleeping or whatever.
I can't believe this got modded up....
Lerxst
I guess I don't have to post my picks now!! :)
How many people leave their client/server running when they aren't using it? How about a new option to automatically serve files when they're not downloading/searching for something? If someone is already downloading something from you, their connection gets slowed down by X until your done, and no new connections to your server can be made.
That's the problem. There aren't many "right thinking web developers" in the world left. Publishing web documents is becoming easier and easier using MS Office and Frontpage, so more and more people are making pages. They don't have to think about them AT ALL, much less think about them the right way. Making it easy for grandma to create a web page is good. Making it easy for grandma to go against standards is bad. She doesn't know or even care about the standards. Now I'm not going to be able to see the pictures of her grandkids.
So is the unlinked text pointing to the DeCSS code in your post legal or illegal?
What about a page full of unlinked URL's to cracks/warez?
Junkbuster is a very good web spam filter. Can someone enlighten me as to why this can't be modified in some way to be used for porn? Maybe have a public blockfile somewhere that people can add to as they find porn sites. Then parents/whoever can just download it periodically, maybe run it through diff to see if the changes are ok, and then install the new version. Voila, instant porn filter with the ability to customize the blockfile to suit each persons needs.
Sure there are the problems of being able to change the proxy settings in Netscape/IE, but if I'm not mistaken, that can be turned off.
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