Everyone wants to play amateur sysadmin these days. I have to admit, I've been tempted too. It's fun to mess with Your Very Own Server (TM). But when you do the math, it just isn't worth it.
A much better value is virtual hosting, which is getting very cheap these days. By virtual hosting I mean your very own server -- an instance of Linux, BSD or whatever running on a big box via MWare. To you it's exactly the same as running your own box at home, but better. First of all, it's much better connected -- usually with at least 2-3 T1 or better connections to a major backbone -- not some silly upload-capped 128k DSL or cable line. Second, no more hardware worries -- everything is kept running by the hosting company, and all you do is admin your own software. You can even get Microsoft-compatible stuff. Finally, the cost ($20-30/month) is often less than the extra cost of a static IP on your home DSL or cable, and that's not even considering the savings on hardware.
I don't know why anyone messes with home servers anymore, except to satisfy a gearhead fetish.
Few people know this, but Rolls Royce automobiles have had fairly strict EULAs in the past (I don't know if they still do). If you violate your EULA, Rolls can come take your car! Most of what's in the agreement has to do with protecting the RR brand and image. For example, you're not allowed to paint your Rolls gaudy colors, or stick "dub-deuces" on it, or have it upholstered in leopard skin. A Rolls must always be towed by a Rolls-approved towing company -- ostensibly to avoid damage, but the real reason is that a Rolls must always be covered while being towed -- so no one sees it! After all, a Rolls is the finest car in the world, and presumably never breaks down...
AOL has a long history of this kind of thing -- their proprietary dialers and IP stacks, for example, break all other dialer/network software. I've spent countless hours "undoing" dozens of AOL installations, for people trying to switch to other ISPs.
Surface tension is indeed the important factor, but what you're missing is this: although gravity is not needed for the pen to write, in space it's not working against you when you try to write upside down.
In fact, Starbucks stores are non-comfortable and unaesthetic by design. Notice I didn't say *un*-comfortable -- they certainly don't want to repel you, but they don't want you to make yourself at home, either. They want you to drop your 4 bucks, drink up and leave.
Of course photo.net is the ultimate photography website, but there are several good beginners' articles at Megapixel.net. It's more than just a camera review site.
At least in the UK the caller pays. In the US, the recipient pays, or it comes out of his monthly minutes. We (Americans) pay for all calls, coming and going.
Just do what I do -- run Knoppix, a Linux distribution that runs from a CD. Then you can run Kivio, Dia, or whatever. Knoppix lets you save files and settings to your hard drive with the "persistent home" option, which shows up on yor Windows system as a regular folder. Other than that, it doesn't mess with your system at all -- it boots and runs completely from the CD. I use Knoppix a lot, for those Linux programs that have no Windows equivalent.
I do still blame developers for this one. What's this crap about "compromizing stylesheets and markup?" Where's the compromise? Exactly what brilliant thing are you forced to deprive your users of, because of browser compliance issues? This is a load of crap. Maybe you ought to look at your over-reliance on window dressing and geegaws, and pay more attention to good basic information design.
Most people are completely ignorant of the security issues. What really bugs them are popups. Once you show them Mozilla's popup supression, they're hooked for good.
I've turned dozens of people onto Mozilla this way.
Another thing they really like, when they get used to it, is the password/form manager.
Believe it or not, this actually works. These days most harvester programs still don't read Unicode. Once I started doing this, I saw a great reduction in spam. It won't work forever, of course -- eventually the spambots will read Unicode, and the game will be over for this technique. But in the meantime, it's easy enough to do a search and replace of every "@" symbol.
If you want to convert your whole address, E-cloaker is a neat little free program for converting text to Unicode.
I've been surrounded by dictionaries, encyclopedias and similar books for most of my life. I still read fiction in book form, but if I'm trying to look up something and can't find it online in a couple minutes I generally just blow it off, as if there's no other place to look.
This has nothing to do with the internet. You're just getting lazy.
I know it can take longer to find something on the net than on my bookshelf, so the dead trees still get plenty of mileage in my house. But even then, why should you expect to always be able to find something in a few minutes, before blowing it off? Some things take time and always did. That's what research is all about.
It strikes me that national power systems often have dangerous reliance on a small number of big power-providers - large coal/gas/oil/nuclear stations, with electricity imported/transported down a few very large critical power lines.
This is true, and it's the essence of the problem. For the last 50-70 years, the power industry's trend has been toward bigger and bigger power plants, and fewer and fewer of them -- a more centralized model. No matter how well the grid is designed to deal with failures, such a centralized model is inherently less stable.
The internet, OTOH, is a highly decentralized "super grid," where any point of faliure is easily routed around, without incident. It was designed this way from the outset, to survive a nuclear war or other major disaster.
While this was the original idea of the power grid system, power generation has become too centralized for it to work anymore. Futhermore, as power plant technology has improved, the grid has not kept up. Originally, power plants had lower reliability. The grid was designed to deal with individual power plants being offline for repairs or maintenance. But nowadays, the plants themselves are extremely reliable. Most failures take place in the grid itself.
A "Pentium" ("penta"=5)came after a 486, which came after a 386, which came after a 286, which came after a plain old "86"... So this one is the "Five-five"... Such wit, those marketeers...
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This virus has been out for a few days now. I don't understand why the major ISPs haven't caught it. The messages could be easily filtered without affecting other mail. It seems most ISPs do little or nothing about spam anyway...
Pay no mind to the reply about heavy lead acid batteries. It's a load of crap. I worked for the company that produced the NiMH batteries for both the Prius and the Insight.
The Hondas are better highway cars, while the Prius shines in the city. The Hondas are more conventional, and take less getting used to. The Prius probably gets better city mileage than the Hondas (which do better on the highway). The Prius runs out of oomph on long highway grades, and doesn't ride quite as well at highway speeds. However, it's roomy and comfortable inside, and very compact on the outside, so it's very easy to park. Of course, the Insight is a snap to park too, if you don't need the room, and it gets amazing mileage on the highway (I've seen over 70 MPG). They all have their strengths and weaknesses. Take your pick.
But my pick for a high-mileage car? A Jetta TDI... Great torque for easy HWY motoring in top gear, German road feel and dynamics, and better seats for tall people.
Look into the tax breaks being offered to hybrid drivers. I think the IRS is offering a $2000 deduction or something like that. Similar breaks are being offered in Canada. This should help offset the higher cost of the vehicle (the difference in fuel cost might not quite do it).
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Especially with Redhat's latest retreat into their proprietary turtle shell, I'd love to have Debian certified for apps like Oracle, etc. This issue has also come up recently among OpenACS developers.
...in 2012...
Everyone wants to play amateur sysadmin these days. I have to admit, I've been tempted too. It's fun to mess with Your Very Own Server (TM). But when you do the math, it just isn't worth it.
A much better value is virtual hosting, which is getting very cheap these days. By virtual hosting I mean your very own server -- an instance of Linux, BSD or whatever running on a big box via MWare. To you it's exactly the same as running your own box at home, but better. First of all, it's much better connected -- usually with at least 2-3 T1 or better connections to a major backbone -- not some silly upload-capped 128k DSL or cable line. Second, no more hardware worries -- everything is kept running by the hosting company, and all you do is admin your own software. You can even get Microsoft-compatible stuff. Finally, the cost ($20-30/month) is often less than the extra cost of a static IP on your home DSL or cable, and that's not even considering the savings on hardware.
I don't know why anyone messes with home servers anymore, except to satisfy a gearhead fetish.
Few people know this, but Rolls Royce automobiles have had fairly strict EULAs in the past (I don't know if they still do). If you violate your EULA, Rolls can come take your car! Most of what's in the agreement has to do with protecting the RR brand and image. For example, you're not allowed to paint your Rolls gaudy colors, or stick "dub-deuces" on it, or have it upholstered in leopard skin. A Rolls must always be towed by a Rolls-approved towing company -- ostensibly to avoid damage, but the real reason is that a Rolls must always be covered while being towed -- so no one sees it! After all, a Rolls is the finest car in the world, and presumably never breaks down...
Dunno about Gray Poupon in the glovebox...
AOL has a long history of this kind of thing -- their proprietary dialers and IP stacks, for example, break all other dialer/network software. I've spent countless hours "undoing" dozens of AOL installations, for people trying to switch to other ISPs.
Surface tension is indeed the important factor, but what you're missing is this: although gravity is not needed for the pen to write, in space it's not working against you when you try to write upside down.
Maybe they "can" (as you put it) achieve under 2% loss in certain situations, but the US national average is about 14%.
This is one of the main arguments for distributed power.
In fact, Starbucks stores are non-comfortable and unaesthetic by design. Notice I didn't say *un*-comfortable -- they certainly don't want to repel you, but they don't want you to make yourself at home, either. They want you to drop your 4 bucks, drink up and leave.
Of course photo.net is the ultimate photography website, but there are several good beginners' articles at Megapixel.net. It's more than just a camera review site.
At least in the UK the caller pays. In the US, the recipient pays, or it comes out of his monthly minutes. We (Americans) pay for all calls, coming and going.
I bet it will work.
Just do what I do -- run Knoppix, a Linux distribution that runs from a CD. Then you can run Kivio, Dia, or whatever. Knoppix lets you save files and settings to your hard drive with the "persistent home" option, which shows up on yor Windows system as a regular folder. Other than that, it doesn't mess with your system at all -- it boots and runs completely from the CD. I use Knoppix a lot, for those Linux programs that have no Windows equivalent.
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I do still blame developers for this one. What's this crap about "compromizing stylesheets and markup?" Where's the compromise? Exactly what brilliant thing are you forced to deprive your users of, because of browser compliance issues? This is a load of crap. Maybe you ought to look at your over-reliance on window dressing and geegaws, and pay more attention to good basic information design.
Most people are completely ignorant of the security issues. What really bugs them are popups. Once you show them Mozilla's popup supression, they're hooked for good.
I've turned dozens of people onto Mozilla this way.
Another thing they really like, when they get used to it, is the password/form manager.
Believe it or not, this actually works. These days most harvester programs still don't read Unicode. Once I started doing this, I saw a great reduction in spam. It won't work forever, of course -- eventually the spambots will read Unicode, and the game will be over for this technique. But in the meantime, it's easy enough to do a search and replace of every "@" symbol.
If you want to convert your whole address, E-cloaker is a neat little free program for converting text to Unicode.
I've been surrounded by dictionaries, encyclopedias and similar books for most of my life. I still read fiction in book form, but if I'm trying to look up something and can't find it online in a couple minutes I generally just blow it off, as if there's no other place to look.
This has nothing to do with the internet. You're just getting lazy.
I know it can take longer to find something on the net than on my bookshelf, so the dead trees still get plenty of mileage in my house. But even then, why should you expect to always be able to find something in a few minutes, before blowing it off? Some things take time and always did. That's what research is all about.
...a better Windows than Windows, IMO.
It strikes me that national power systems often have dangerous reliance on a small number of big power-providers - large coal/gas/oil/nuclear stations, with electricity imported/transported down a few very large critical power lines.
This is true, and it's the essence of the problem. For the last 50-70 years, the power industry's trend has been toward bigger and bigger power plants, and fewer and fewer of them -- a more centralized model. No matter how well the grid is designed to deal with failures, such a centralized model is inherently less stable.
The internet, OTOH, is a highly decentralized "super grid," where any point of faliure is easily routed around, without incident. It was designed this way from the outset, to survive a nuclear war or other major disaster.
While this was the original idea of the power grid system, power generation has become too centralized for it to work anymore. Futhermore, as power plant technology has improved, the grid has not kept up. Originally, power plants had lower reliability. The grid was designed to deal with individual power plants being offline for repairs or maintenance. But nowadays, the plants themselves are extremely reliable. Most failures take place in the grid itself.
A "Pentium" ("penta"=5)came after a 486, which came after a 386, which came after a 286, which came after a plain old "86"... So this one is the "Five-five"... Such wit, those marketeers...
...which is why we can afford to pay you less.
This virus has been out for a few days now. I don't understand why the major ISPs haven't caught it. The messages could be easily filtered without affecting other mail. It seems most ISPs do little or nothing about spam anyway...
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Pay no mind to the reply about heavy lead acid batteries. It's a load of crap. I worked for the company that produced the NiMH batteries for both the Prius and the Insight.
The Hondas are better highway cars, while the Prius shines in the city. The Hondas are more conventional, and take less getting used to. The Prius probably gets better city mileage than the Hondas (which do better on the highway). The Prius runs out of oomph on long highway grades, and doesn't ride quite as well at highway speeds. However, it's roomy and comfortable inside, and very compact on the outside, so it's very easy to park. Of course, the Insight is a snap to park too, if you don't need the room, and it gets amazing mileage on the highway (I've seen over 70 MPG). They all have their strengths and weaknesses. Take your pick.
But my pick for a high-mileage car? A Jetta TDI... Great torque for easy HWY motoring in top gear, German road feel and dynamics, and better seats for tall people.
Look into the tax breaks being offered to hybrid drivers. I think the IRS is offering a $2000 deduction or something like that. Similar breaks are being offered in Canada. This should help offset the higher cost of the vehicle (the difference in fuel cost might not quite do it).