You should consider using a Cloud CDN like Rackspace CloudFiles or Amazon S3. They're designed purely for cheap, efficient and fast storage and delivery. While you can't SSH into one, you can certainly set up rsync without incident and the data can be called from a site hosted anywhere.
CentOS and RHEL have become the industry standard for LAMP setups, for whatever its worth. Given that you probably don't need a support contract, CentOS 6 would fit the bill nicely.
A free control panel like Webmin would probably make your life a bit easier in the configuration department.
The company I work for keeps a pool of aircards for employees who travel (mostly sprint, but we also have two verizon and two at&t). I took one from all three providers on a trip to run my own speed test about a year ago - tested them on a drive up from Las Vegas through Los Angeles, Monterey, San Francisco to Sacramento. The Sprint was consistently the fastest (I'd usually get download rates around 1.2-1.4mbps - did not test for upload) and seemed to get the best reception in most places (particularly while on the move and not in a major city, it would still remain on their 3g network). The AT&T was the true speed king, topping out around 1.8mbps downstream as I recall, but only in the middle of Los Angeles and San Francisco - anywhere else, it had spotty connectivity and would frequently drop down to the EDGE network. I never got past 900kbps on the Verizon and it also seemed to drop to "2.5g" quite often. I now carry one of the Sprint aircards with me at all times, and you'd have to pry it from my cold dead hands.
One other thing I found - not all aircards are alike. I tested through 4 of the Sprint aircards from the same location and found that two of them were consistently much faster than the other two to the tune of around 250kbps on average. All were the same model (Novotel EX720).
One of our offices needed a couple of PC's and I ordered two through Alienware - everything went through fine and they were set to arrive two weeks later.
Three weeks after I placed the order, Alienware informed me that they hadn't built or shipped the computers because I had asked that they be shipped to an address other than the CC billing address.
Perfect Control actually comes into play drastically when you look at a large portion of professional gamers - this test was done by an FPS-centric pro gaming site, after all. Conventional wisdom for gamers - High Sens players want a higher DPI, Low-Sens players want control at high speeds.
A good number of fps gamers will opt for a low mouse speed with no acceleration and a large mousing surface - this allows for a good deal of movement precision since the turning rate is fixed no matter how fast you go, and you can move more precisely by simply slowing down. The disadvantage, however, is the fact that you need to move VERY quickly to achieve 90 and 180 degree turns. This is why the emphasis on "Perfect Control" is relevant.
Errors can be common on voting machines - they are, in fact, machines and therefore are prone to malfunction. It's rather irresponsible of the Miami Herald to only report on errors that favored Republicans over Democrats when the rate of failure for the opposite circumstance is likely the same.
I've hosted a number of various machines with ThePlanet through Servermatrix - they have some of the best pricing on the market and their backbone speed, network stability and uptime are comparable to a lot of the more expensive providers like Rackspace. They have managed solutions available for their windows servers last I checked.
but I don't think W3C qualifies as a "standard" - it's simply a guideline at this point, and as much as we all might like it to evolve into a true standard, it doesn't qualify when only one or two obscure browsers properly support it. Granted, IE's marketshare has fallen in recent years, but it still boasts a claim to well over 80% of the browser market, and as long as it maintains such a vast lead, IE compliance IS the standard whether we like it or not.
Flame on, but remember that I am on your side here - just more of a realist;).
Wrong.. even when they give us foreign aid, they still don't like us.. but that's no reason for us to be a bunch of pussies and give away control of something that we built..
I don't know about doubling the cost; yeah, it'll cost more, but considering the fact that the show is SciFi's biggest hit, they could probably afford an increase in production cost to keep the actor that turned the concept from a crappy movie into the best sci-fi show since the original star trek..
Jerry Rice's Catches and the Niners' games where they scored at least once among many others.. I think this could be another one of those streaks coming to an end very soon..
My Dell Inspiron 8600 (with the centrino 1.7, 1920x1200 wuxga display, 80gb hdd) gets a good 7 hours of usage for things like surfing the internet/typing with the second battery installed in the modular bay and the display contrast all the way down.. not bad for such a monster of a laptop, considering its faster than most desktops.. with the dvd drive installed in place of the secondary battery, it'll play through a full movie and still have about an hour left..
Easier to use and more logical? That's debatable.. Easier to use and more logical in scientific calculation - sure.. easier to use and more logical in practical applications? I would disagree.. The imperial system is far more practical for everyday tasks; having steps based on fourths, etc, instead of tenths allows for quick division into thirds, for example.. and the system itself revolves around standards that are far more easily estimated and/or derived (say you wanted to recreate farenheit, all you would need to do was measure 64 intervals between something frozen and body temperature)..
I've actually made a concerted effort to submit whatever science work I can in the Imperial system.. I personally just don't like the metric system.. to me, it represents a startling problem with society; people are getting so dumb that they can't even divide things in their head by a base other than 10. I'm proud that the good old USA still uses the Imperial system, and I hope it stays that way during my lifetime.
I work for a short run multimedia replication company and we've recently invested in a number of duplicators using Pioneer -R drives.. there seems to be a consensus in the industry that the -R drives come back with far less compatibility complaints from customers, and that has manifested itself as no companies are even selling +r duplicators anymore.. I can tell you from personal experience that we havent had a -R dvd come back yet, but we did have a couple of +r's come back when we started authoring..
ogg = format people are demanding? I don't think there are many people who are demanding ogg who won't actually see this post on slashdot.. I know ogg is good, but seriously, no one outside of the tech community has any idea what it is..
I hate microsoft as much as the next guy, but as long as we're letting the BSD guys take such a huge part in the show, we can't complain when Microsoft comes in.. it stopped being "Linux"world a while ago..
This is just an excuse that these guys make up because of the low-rate material they put out.. rather than admitting that he needs to spend some more time in the studio, he ends up blaming the advent of file swapping (which is almost dead these days, mind you).. pathetic..
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Are they like regular dollars with superpowers?
You should consider using a Cloud CDN like Rackspace CloudFiles or Amazon S3. They're designed purely for cheap, efficient and fast storage and delivery. While you can't SSH into one, you can certainly set up rsync without incident and the data can be called from a site hosted anywhere.
CentOS and RHEL have become the industry standard for LAMP setups, for whatever its worth. Given that you probably don't need a support contract, CentOS 6 would fit the bill nicely. A free control panel like Webmin would probably make your life a bit easier in the configuration department.
The company I work for keeps a pool of aircards for employees who travel (mostly sprint, but we also have two verizon and two at&t). I took one from all three providers on a trip to run my own speed test about a year ago - tested them on a drive up from Las Vegas through Los Angeles, Monterey, San Francisco to Sacramento. The Sprint was consistently the fastest (I'd usually get download rates around 1.2-1.4mbps - did not test for upload) and seemed to get the best reception in most places (particularly while on the move and not in a major city, it would still remain on their 3g network). The AT&T was the true speed king, topping out around 1.8mbps downstream as I recall, but only in the middle of Los Angeles and San Francisco - anywhere else, it had spotty connectivity and would frequently drop down to the EDGE network. I never got past 900kbps on the Verizon and it also seemed to drop to "2.5g" quite often. I now carry one of the Sprint aircards with me at all times, and you'd have to pry it from my cold dead hands.
One other thing I found - not all aircards are alike. I tested through 4 of the Sprint aircards from the same location and found that two of them were consistently much faster than the other two to the tune of around 250kbps on average. All were the same model (Novotel EX720).
Testing was all done on my Macbook Pro.
For whatever its worth, it's never been an issue with Apple, CDW or Lenovo, all of which we do far more business with.
And either way, I'm not as concerned with their policy as I am with the fact that they took three weeks to notify us.
One of our offices needed a couple of PC's and I ordered two through Alienware - everything went through fine and they were set to arrive two weeks later.
Three weeks after I placed the order, Alienware informed me that they hadn't built or shipped the computers because I had asked that they be shipped to an address other than the CC billing address.
I'll never do business with that company again.
Perfect Control actually comes into play drastically when you look at a large portion of professional gamers - this test was done by an FPS-centric pro gaming site, after all. Conventional wisdom for gamers - High Sens players want a higher DPI, Low-Sens players want control at high speeds.
A good number of fps gamers will opt for a low mouse speed with no acceleration and a large mousing surface - this allows for a good deal of movement precision since the turning rate is fixed no matter how fast you go, and you can move more precisely by simply slowing down. The disadvantage, however, is the fact that you need to move VERY quickly to achieve 90 and 180 degree turns. This is why the emphasis on "Perfect Control" is relevant.
Errors can be common on voting machines - they are, in fact, machines and therefore are prone to malfunction. It's rather irresponsible of the Miami Herald to only report on errors that favored Republicans over Democrats when the rate of failure for the opposite circumstance is likely the same.
I've hosted a number of various machines with ThePlanet through Servermatrix - they have some of the best pricing on the market and their backbone speed, network stability and uptime are comparable to a lot of the more expensive providers like Rackspace. They have managed solutions available for their windows servers last I checked.
but I don't think W3C qualifies as a "standard" - it's simply a guideline at this point, and as much as we all might like it to evolve into a true standard, it doesn't qualify when only one or two obscure browsers properly support it. Granted, IE's marketshare has fallen in recent years, but it still boasts a claim to well over 80% of the browser market, and as long as it maintains such a vast lead, IE compliance IS the standard whether we like it or not.
;).
Flame on, but remember that I am on your side here - just more of a realist
...if they added a second mouse button
Wrong.. even when they give us foreign aid, they still don't like us.. but that's no reason for us to be a bunch of pussies and give away control of something that we built..
I don't know about doubling the cost; yeah, it'll cost more, but considering the fact that the show is SciFi's biggest hit, they could probably afford an increase in production cost to keep the actor that turned the concept from a crappy movie into the best sci-fi show since the original star trek..
Richard Dean Anderson wants to be in California and the show films in Toronto
Quick Solution: Move the show to California!
(That show will die quickly without the O'Neal character)
Jerry Rice's Catches and the Niners' games where they scored at least once among many others.. I think this could be another one of those streaks coming to an end very soon..
My Dell Inspiron 8600 (with the centrino 1.7, 1920x1200 wuxga display, 80gb hdd) gets a good 7 hours of usage for things like surfing the internet/typing with the second battery installed in the modular bay and the display contrast all the way down.. not bad for such a monster of a laptop, considering its faster than most desktops.. with the dvd drive installed in place of the secondary battery, it'll play through a full movie and still have about an hour left..
Easier to use and more logical? That's debatable.. Easier to use and more logical in scientific calculation - sure.. easier to use and more logical in practical applications? I would disagree.. The imperial system is far more practical for everyday tasks; having steps based on fourths, etc, instead of tenths allows for quick division into thirds, for example.. and the system itself revolves around standards that are far more easily estimated and/or derived (say you wanted to recreate farenheit, all you would need to do was measure 64 intervals between something frozen and body temperature)..
I've actually made a concerted effort to submit whatever science work I can in the Imperial system.. I personally just don't like the metric system.. to me, it represents a startling problem with society; people are getting so dumb that they can't even divide things in their head by a base other than 10. I'm proud that the good old USA still uses the Imperial system, and I hope it stays that way during my lifetime.
I work for a short run multimedia replication company and we've recently invested in a number of duplicators using Pioneer -R drives.. there seems to be a consensus in the industry that the -R drives come back with far less compatibility complaints from customers, and that has manifested itself as no companies are even selling +r duplicators anymore.. I can tell you from personal experience that we havent had a -R dvd come back yet, but we did have a couple of +r's come back when we started authoring..
ogg = format people are demanding? I don't think there are many people who are demanding ogg who won't actually see this post on slashdot.. I know ogg is good, but seriously, no one outside of the tech community has any idea what it is..
it's being aired live at 2am EST, and then a recorded version will be aired at 8pm..
Metric measurement is for weenies who are too dumb to divide by anything other than 10..
I hate microsoft as much as the next guy, but as long as we're letting the BSD guys take such a huge part in the show, we can't complain when Microsoft comes in.. it stopped being "Linux"world a while ago..
This is just an excuse that these guys make up because of the low-rate material they put out.. rather than admitting that he needs to spend some more time in the studio, he ends up blaming the advent of file swapping (which is almost dead these days, mind you).. pathetic..