I'm currently doing backup to 2 daily sets of 4 36GB hard drives for just that reason. I looked at realtime (bitlevel) backup to tape autoloader libraries, but that's 10 GRAND, for like 40GIG! F-THAT, I went out and bought 288 GB of hard drive space for about 1/5 that, and it's so smooth. Hard drives are outpacing tapes 3/1 in capacity over time at LEAST, even the latest AIT2 is nowhere near close enough to handle backups at even a small design/hosting shop. what's 40GB uncompressed get me?
I'm convincing our developers to come up with an alternative to the Quickbooks timer. it's just a fancy text file, and quickbooks crashes about 4 machines per week. Anyone have anything?
Why does the father of the "copyleft" decide to put "copyright 2000 Richard Stallman" on his written words, but not on his software? Should we not be able to use his writing as we see fit?
Well...I almost totally agree. People are starting to act like Mars is the corner 7-Eleven. It is an amazing feat that these missions go off at all, people should not be so abrasive when one goes wrong.
BUT
If it was All American Ingenuity (tm), they wouldn't ever have substituted (the world standard) Metric system for the english "standard" and would never have blown this one in the first place.
Stupid post? yeah, but hey, there are so many others most times...
They've had the coolest movies of dustmites on nano-gears and flip-mirrors for at least a year. Funniest thing I've seen come out of nano-tech since mork. Actually, funnier than Mork.
Even though I haven't paid for Linux since RH 4.1, I can see the value in this. Previous posters have said they should be downloading it. But the fact is, they aren't. American schools could be downloading it, but they aren't. But by RedHat PERSUING the schools, and educating them, the kids get a good OS, and the company gets publicity. Kind of like Apple did in the 80's. My school NEVER would have bought Mac Plus's, but since they GAVE them to us, we got (at that time) a superior OS to DOS and Apple got good PR.
Open SW is a two way street, if the people aren't downloading for free, then we have to tell them why they should.
While I don't think it's a good thing that Verisign is trying to corner the market, in fact it kind of scares me. BUT, why do we not generate our own? Good, they're trusted, THEY trust ME because *I* have a DUNS number. But the guy you hand your credit card to at the corner store may or may not, and he may or may not sell that information to some kid for crack money. I wish I could remember the article about why root CA and trusted authorities are going to have to go away eventually, I think it struck me as being Bruce Schneier but I couldn't find it in any Crypto-Gram's right away.
99% uptime is like a day per quarter down. I'm sweating over taking a colo machine down for 13 minutes over the course of a quarter at 1:30 AM to add an additional mirroring drive (Yes I did get a phone call from the customer), so 99% uptime guarantees don't really mean that much, they're still within their guarantee if you take it over the course of the last year. They do sound like a bunch of fools though from the other articles.
Does the MS EULA not have language about not being accountable for "features" (bugs), not intended by the manufacturer? A lot of licenses have been copping out like this, and I don't necessarily think it's a good thing. The GPL is slightly different, because even if the software author doesn't care, you can ask your buddy the programmer to fix it and re-release it. But I don't think MS can be held liable for macros being run by Outlook and Word.
xrayspx
--My magic 8-ball said "Outlook not so good" but they released it anyway...
Might this not be more/equal-parts due to the connection? A cable modem is not a T1. I have used 3/4 of my work T1 over cable, but as someone who serves pages off cable, I can say that availability wise, it's NO T1. Also with bandwidth throttling (I do about 70-120k in and about 40K out), well, you can see the problems. Might not just be Hurd (GNU/Hurd...for RMS). By the way, if anyone knows where to get management tools for Nortel LanCity cablemodems, I can't find it. I wanna be able to MRTG it.
K, what good is the Standard 2x DVD drive doing anyone? I guess you can use software that's in danger of being sued out of existance to watch DVD's with no sound?
I hate to say he's right. Check out SQL 7 licensing sometime and you'll see why many ISP's still use 6.5, Per-PROCESSOR licensing (Dual 450's? Dual licenses), or the Internet Connector License. Pieces of paper to hang on your fridge, but if you don't have 'em, you're breaking the law.
Maybe I DON'T hate MS, maybe it's MS lawyers I hate. Nah, it's both...
Besides, even DATA couldn't quite "get the hair right". Of course this is possible, any movie since T2 will show that it's possible, it's just not at all easy to get away with, highly disputable. Although if you only have to fool a few people for a short time (The men with their fingers on the buttons), it could get ugly.
When they outlaw video toasters, then only outlaws will have video toasters.
I'm running 2 Belkin Omniview 6 PortAT switches in serial to run 10/11 servers at 1152x864. Some of them are dealing better than others, but I think that's do to random video card quality more than the switches. There is a CERTIAN amount of ghosting, but that's hard to avoid and I chalk it up to way too long cable lengths anyway. That's where you'll see your biggest difference, get very good cable, or failing that, just put the ferrite beads around what cable you do have, it does seem to help.
You've obviously never seen 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag or whatever that bad Joe Pesci movie was. Heads CAN be gotten out of Mexico without alerting either the (overly dopey) authorities. As for the rest of your posting, you're right on. But why pick reptiles? It's easy enough to focus on the differences between you and a Chimp, or a Marmot or some other warm blooded mammal.
Is this to say that the second "i" in "mini" is a long "i"? Min-eye?
Not that this whole thing isn't off-topic anyway. I'm a "linnucks" (short "i") man myself. Maybe we should all go FreeBSD since it's easier to pronounce?
This is how Slashdot has been run since I can remember. In fact, seems like the new release of software posting has been slowing down if anything over the last year, even as posting in general has gone way up. It has not increased under Andover. I'm actually surprised at how little has changed. (availability/speed aside)
I have not seen the MTV show, sorry to say, although after this they'll probably just pull it out of embarassment. But I have seen several episodes of ParseTV, those surrounding DefCon. These guys seemed not to know much about actual tech details, but were really really into the 'culture'. They made a mistake in allowing phone in callers asking technical questions. I'm in NO way saying the show doesn't have value, it does, as like, and Entertainment Tonight of the scene. I thought it was sort of alright, just overlooked the technical mistakes. They all did seem to drop right out of Hackers (r)(tm) though. Actually, maybe if they did RTM it would be a more valuable show.
I admin both Linux and NT, and SP5 is the absolute first thing installed, before video drivers. Maybe I'm the exception to the rule, but I doubt this. The story was wrong in one big way though, RedHat does have a patch repository, but has anyone actually had to LOOK for a particular security patch on Microsoft's site (ex. not followed a link directly to a particular patch)? Good luck.
Done it. They'll give you info WHEN something comes to fruition. I was just saying, it might be good if they had like, a demo site, or compilable source, or anything to prove that they had something aside from a pretty clean looking and decent albeit sketchy web-site.
Anyone notice that there doesn't seem to be a link to either BUY or download the stuff. My company is currently running OpenSite on NT for one of our customers, it dies often enough that I had to set a monitor to page me every time it went down so I could stop the IIS service and restart it, sometimes quite often. Totally closed source auction, actual.exe files. My boss doesn't seem to trust open source, even though the Linux box I built "for fun" has run for months without an unplanned reboot. OpenSite is for auctions, but I'm sure that with source, we could modify this for our own means. Just show me where to get it!
This is exactly what we have at my company. Better to have 3 web-servers OUTSIDE the firewall system, than to have to protect EVERY system inside it. I'm even (quickly) winning my boss over to Linux, I guess I live in a decent world after all.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm currently doing backup to 2 daily sets of 4 36GB hard drives for just that reason. I looked at realtime (bitlevel) backup to tape autoloader libraries, but that's 10 GRAND, for like 40GIG! F-THAT, I went out and bought 288 GB of hard drive space for about 1/5 that, and it's so smooth. Hard drives are outpacing tapes 3/1 in capacity over time at LEAST, even the latest AIT2 is nowhere near close enough to handle backups at even a small design/hosting shop. what's 40GB uncompressed get me?
I'm convincing our developers to come up with an alternative to the Quickbooks timer. it's just a fancy text file, and quickbooks crashes about 4 machines per week. Anyone have anything?
Why does the father of the "copyleft" decide to put "copyright 2000 Richard Stallman" on his written words, but not on his software? Should we not be able to use his writing as we see fit?
Well...I almost totally agree. People are starting to act like Mars is the corner 7-Eleven. It is an amazing feat that these missions go off at all, people should not be so abrasive when one goes wrong.
BUT
If it was All American Ingenuity (tm), they wouldn't ever have substituted (the world standard) Metric system for the english "standard" and would never have blown this one in the first place.
Stupid post? yeah, but hey, there are so many others most times...
They've had the coolest movies of dustmites on nano-gears and flip-mirrors for at least a year. Funniest thing I've seen come out of nano-tech since mork. Actually, funnier than Mork.
Even though I haven't paid for Linux since RH 4.1, I can see the value in this. Previous posters have said they should be downloading it. But the fact is, they aren't. American schools could be downloading it, but they aren't. But by RedHat PERSUING the schools, and educating them, the kids get a good OS, and the company gets publicity. Kind of like Apple did in the 80's. My school NEVER would have bought Mac Plus's, but since they GAVE them to us, we got (at that time) a superior OS to DOS and Apple got good PR.
Open SW is a two way street, if the people aren't downloading for free, then we have to tell them why they should.
xrayspx
While I don't think it's a good thing that Verisign is trying to corner the market, in fact it kind of scares me. BUT, why do we not generate our own? Good, they're trusted, THEY trust ME because *I* have a DUNS number. But the guy you hand your credit card to at the corner store may or may not, and he may or may not sell that information to some kid for crack money. I wish I could remember the article about why root CA and trusted authorities are going to have to go away eventually, I think it struck me as being Bruce Schneier but I couldn't find it in any Crypto-Gram's right away.
Yeong Yang Cube. Black
I'm buying one, and stack it on top of one of them there little beer fridges, they're like exactly perfect.
99% uptime is like a day per quarter down. I'm sweating over taking a colo machine down for 13 minutes over the course of a quarter at 1:30 AM to add an additional mirroring drive (Yes I did get a phone call from the customer), so 99% uptime guarantees don't really mean that much, they're still within their guarantee if you take it over the course of the last year. They do sound like a bunch of fools though from the other articles.
Does the MS EULA not have language about not being accountable for "features" (bugs), not intended by the manufacturer? A lot of licenses have been copping out like this, and I don't necessarily think it's a good thing. The GPL is slightly different, because even if the software author doesn't care, you can ask your buddy the programmer to fix it and re-release it. But I don't think MS can be held liable for macros being run by Outlook and Word.
xrayspx
--My magic 8-ball said "Outlook not so good" but they released it anyway...
Might this not be more/equal-parts due to the connection? A cable modem is not a T1. I have used 3/4 of my work T1 over cable, but as someone who serves pages off cable, I can say that availability wise, it's NO T1. Also with bandwidth throttling (I do about 70-120k in and about 40K out), well, you can see the problems. Might not just be Hurd (GNU/Hurd...for RMS). By the way, if anyone knows where to get management tools for Nortel LanCity cablemodems, I can't find it. I wanna be able to MRTG it.
Chris
K, what good is the Standard 2x DVD drive doing anyone? I guess you can use software that's in danger of being sued out of existance to watch DVD's with no sound?
If this isn't a hoax, I'll eat a bug.
I hate to say he's right. Check out SQL 7 licensing sometime and you'll see why many ISP's still use 6.5, Per-PROCESSOR licensing (Dual 450's? Dual licenses), or the Internet Connector License. Pieces of paper to hang on your fridge, but if you don't have 'em, you're breaking the law.
Maybe I DON'T hate MS, maybe it's MS lawyers I hate. Nah, it's both...
You win.
Besides, even DATA couldn't quite "get the hair right". Of course this is possible, any movie since T2 will show that it's possible, it's just not at all easy to get away with, highly disputable. Although if you only have to fool a few people for a short time (The men with their fingers on the buttons), it could get ugly.
When they outlaw video toasters, then only outlaws will have video toasters.
I'm running 2 Belkin Omniview 6 PortAT switches in serial to run 10/11 servers at 1152x864. Some of them are dealing better than others, but I think that's do to random video card quality more than the switches. There is a CERTIAN amount of ghosting, but that's hard to avoid and I chalk it up to way too long cable lengths anyway. That's where you'll see your biggest difference, get very good cable, or failing that, just put the ferrite beads around what cable you do have, it does seem to help.
You've obviously never seen 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag or whatever that bad Joe Pesci movie was. Heads CAN be gotten out of Mexico without alerting either the (overly dopey) authorities. As for the rest of your posting, you're right on. But why pick reptiles? It's easy enough to focus on the differences between you and a Chimp, or a Marmot or some other warm blooded mammal.
Is this to say that the second "i" in "mini" is a long "i"? Min-eye?
Not that this whole thing isn't off-topic anyway. I'm a "linnucks" (short "i") man myself. Maybe we should all go FreeBSD since it's easier to pronounce?
This is how Slashdot has been run since I can remember. In fact, seems like the new release of software posting has been slowing down if anything over the last year, even as posting in general has gone way up. It has not increased under Andover. I'm actually surprised at how little has changed. (availability/speed aside)
I have not seen the MTV show, sorry to say, although after this they'll probably just pull it out of embarassment. But I have seen several episodes of ParseTV, those surrounding DefCon. These guys seemed not to know much about actual tech details, but were really really into the 'culture'. They made a mistake in allowing phone in callers asking technical questions. I'm in NO way saying the show doesn't have value, it does, as like, and Entertainment Tonight of the scene. I thought it was sort of alright, just overlooked the technical mistakes. They all did seem to drop right out of Hackers (r)(tm) though. Actually, maybe if they did RTM it would be a more valuable show.
I admin both Linux and NT, and SP5 is the absolute first thing installed, before video drivers. Maybe I'm the exception to the rule, but I doubt this. The story was wrong in one big way though, RedHat does have a patch repository, but has anyone actually had to LOOK for a particular security patch on Microsoft's site (ex. not followed a link directly to a particular patch)? Good luck.
Helllllooo...Newman!
Done it. They'll give you info WHEN something comes to fruition. I was just saying, it might be good if they had like, a demo site, or compilable source, or anything to prove that they had something aside from a pretty clean looking and decent albeit sketchy web-site.
Anyone notice that there doesn't seem to be a link to either BUY or download the stuff. My company is currently running OpenSite on NT for one of our customers, it dies often enough that I had to set a monitor to page me every time it went down so I could stop the IIS service and restart it, sometimes quite often. Totally closed source auction, actual .exe files. My boss doesn't seem to trust open source, even though the Linux box I built "for fun" has run for months without an unplanned reboot. OpenSite is for auctions, but I'm sure that with source, we could modify this for our own means. Just show me where to get it!
This is exactly what we have at my company. Better to have 3 web-servers OUTSIDE the firewall system, than to have to protect EVERY system inside it. I'm even (quickly) winning my boss over to Linux, I guess I live in a decent world after all.