The only possible reason I can think of why someone would want to run an OSX server is if they were going to be remote-accessing it to run Xcode for iOS development. What else can you do on OSX that you can't do on Windows or Linux?
Beside iOS and OSX development, I don't see clear advantages of using a Mini as a server when you already have a good Linux setup and provisioning for other services. At my company, we use them to run continuous integration for iOS and OSX software. We've got like 10 of them for this purpose and they work quite well. I think the oldest one even out-survived the oldest Linux server used for CI. We don't need all the fancy server features for them (ECC, redundant power, serial console, hardware RAID). If one dies, well, we shut it down and replace it with another. They are inexpensive, and just build servers anyway, not critical for the company.
They're not always easy to work with though, we had them in a DC, but our remote hands wouldn't touch them. Since we couldn't find any IPMI or KVM suited for them either, we decided to move them in a secured room in our office. We never needed to do anything of them anyway, but it's still handy to have them close by. If anybody has a solution for remote KVM or IPMI on a Mini, that'd be great!
Seems quite silly to have such an old CPU (dual core 3GHz) with a (back then) top of the line GPU but it's working great! Note that I'm also using 6GB of ram at 800Mhz dual channel (1+1 + 2+2 GB). I am able to play LOTS (if not all?) games with high / very high graphic detail since then. There are a few options that are tightly coupled with the CPU sometimes and I avoid these, but the rest works great at 1920*1200 (24" screen), even with new games.
My next upgrade will probably be a CPU upgrade, probably with the new Intel Haswell this time when it's released, but I'm not expecting a big boost in games, mostly a faster system overall (dual core is still a bit limited when you have so many programs launched in the background).
What if, in addition to the flagging software, they also had another software that answered to DMCA takedowns with a "No, it's not illegitimate". Would it create an infinite loop of takedowns and restores?
It's up to the customs and airport security to check there's no illegal device boarding the plane. And by illegal, I mean that don't comply with regulations on safety, radio signal power or frequency.
They do it all the time for toys that are unsafe for children, why couldn't they do it for adult gadgets too?
Humble[hmbl] adj 1. conscious of one's failings 2. unpretentious; lowly "a humble cottage" "my humble opinion" 3. deferential or servile
So how is letting your pay what you want not humble? If they were pretentious, they would sell it for at least $50, they would deserve it. But no, it's up to you.
Somehow, I think that the people who deserve the title "humble" the least are all the people complaining about this operation. Being humble is accepting what you're given and not asking more. And you're all whining about every little detail, trashing a company on the verge of the bankruptcy (with lots of jobs at stage) and totally ignoring the charities the Humble Bundle have supported for quite some time. Humble? No. Quite selfish, indeed.
It's actually more like buying drinks, and only getting milk. Now you assume you'll always have milk. So when you get some orange juice in the box too, you start a drama. Well, to be honest, it isn't bad, milk and orange juice go well together sometimes.
So in order to make money for the Child's play charity or Red cross, they have to port to games to as many platform as possible and spend lots of money. Just to be sure everybody has access to it, I suggest they consider a port to Linux, OSX, Xbox, PS3, Amiga, BSD, Snes, Atari, Gameboy, Hurd and various models of coffee machines with integrated LED display.
If you want to raise money and you can do it efficiently as the games have already been made, there's no shame about it.
It's not a crime to express yourself. When you're just a few people saying you just don't like, it's quite ridiculous compared to all the other people who endorsed it or paid for it and all the rest who didn't think of a drama. Speech is silver, but silence is golden. Especially true when you're a nobody trying to create a drama out of nothing.
The economy here isn't bad at all and it's quite peaceful, even in the capital Stockholm. Sweden's definitely a great place to start a family as the society do a lot for the parents (compared to many countries). I moved there a year ago and I have no regret at all:)
Oh, and Swedish isn't that difficult to learn at all, you'll be just fine speaking English until you learn it!
Bonus: if you haven't found a spouse yet, I can say that there are some really beautiful girls here too;)
Make an encrypted archive and upload them on some newsgroup server. It's probably the most reliable and cheapest solution there is. Retention is also really good.
AMD may not have the best drivers, but I dont recall any AMD drivers that allowed me to play games and fry eggs with the same piece of hardware like Nvidia.
That's exactly what's happening in Iceland ! After the 2008 crisis, the people didn't want to pay for the banks to be saved. Then they forced the government to leave and ditch the current consittution. Now, they are not just writing laws, they are writing a whole new crowdsourced constitution !
They selected a few people who are in charge of making the new constitution, and then everybody can comment on what they propose on FB, Twitter, on their website... When it makes sense, they merge the suggestions into the draft and iterate again.
And in the end, the new constitution will have to be accepted in a referendum and the "government" won't be able to change it. This is really "for the people, by the people" ! And it's not a surprise that our leaders (in any country you could live in) don't talk about it...
So if they mostly blocked porn websites, it would be nice if they shared it with me so I can... ahem... train my parental control software ? Yeah, right...
Your operator should make about the same amount of money from a contract with or without a phone. But here's what really happen in your case:
If you've bought a phone from them, they will get : $contract_price - $contract_real_cost - $phone_credit
If you've bought an unlocked phone, they will get : $contract_price - $contract_real_cost
The difference is that you still pay a phone credit even if you've bought your phone separately, which is highly abusive.
Due to the pressure from another new operator soon on the french market, some french operators are trying to be more competitive as the new one will probably slash the price (as they did when they entered the ISP market). For the french operator SFR for example:
If you buy the phone unlocked from them or use an unlocked phone you already have, you'll get a low contract price each month that can be lowered by signing for a year or two.
If you buy a locked phone from them, you'll pay a high price each month. But when your initial contract ends, you'll pay the same price as if you had an unlocked phone in the first place. The cumulated price per month is a little higher (not too much) than what was deducted from the price of the phone. You can see it as a credit that lasts over the contract duration with a small interest for the operator.
And this is the fairest that it can be. The phone and the contract each have a cost and you know what you pay.
Also, due to the french law, anybody can ask to have his phone unlocked. It's free after 6 months, you have to pay if you want to do it before (I've seen up to 100 euros for an iPhone). And if you had terminated the contract for some good reason before the due date or did not unlocked the phone and switched to another operator, you can still call the customer support and have it unlocked.
It's not as great as it is in Chile, but it's kind of reasonable, don't you think ?
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Plants emit CO2 at night, let's have a tax on people who have plants too!
The only possible reason I can think of why someone would want to run an OSX server is if they were going to be remote-accessing it to run Xcode for iOS development. What else can you do on OSX that you can't do on Windows or Linux?
Beside iOS and OSX development, I don't see clear advantages of using a Mini as a server when you already have a good Linux setup and provisioning for other services.
At my company, we use them to run continuous integration for iOS and OSX software. We've got like 10 of them for this purpose and they work quite well. I think the oldest one even out-survived the oldest Linux server used for CI. We don't need all the fancy server features for them (ECC, redundant power, serial console, hardware RAID). If one dies, well, we shut it down and replace it with another. They are inexpensive, and just build servers anyway, not critical for the company.
They're not always easy to work with though, we had them in a DC, but our remote hands wouldn't touch them. Since we couldn't find any IPMI or KVM suited for them either, we decided to move them in a secured room in our office. We never needed to do anything of them anyway, but it's still handy to have them close by.
If anybody has a solution for remote KVM or IPMI on a Mini, that'd be great!
Seems quite silly to have such an old CPU (dual core 3GHz) with a (back then) top of the line GPU but it's working great! Note that I'm also using 6GB of ram at 800Mhz dual channel (1+1 + 2+2 GB).
I am able to play LOTS (if not all?) games with high / very high graphic detail since then. There are a few options that are tightly coupled with the CPU sometimes and I avoid these, but the rest works great at 1920*1200 (24" screen), even with new games.
My next upgrade will probably be a CPU upgrade, probably with the new Intel Haswell this time when it's released, but I'm not expecting a big boost in games, mostly a faster system overall (dual core is still a bit limited when you have so many programs launched in the background).
What if, in addition to the flagging software, they also had another software that answered to DMCA takedowns with a "No, it's not illegitimate".
Would it create an infinite loop of takedowns and restores?
Users don't need a VPN, just a different DNS server.
Or just go to the management interface and disable the *feature* if they don't want it.
It's up to the customs and airport security to check there's no illegal device boarding the plane.
And by illegal, I mean that don't comply with regulations on safety, radio signal power or frequency.
They do it all the time for toys that are unsafe for children, why couldn't they do it for adult gadgets too?
I vote for banning hard cover books too. I think they hurt far more than a kindle when thrown at you.
Humble[hmbl]
adj
1. conscious of one's failings
2. unpretentious; lowly "a humble cottage" "my humble opinion"
3. deferential or servile
So how is letting your pay what you want not humble? If they were pretentious, they would sell it for at least $50, they would deserve it. But no, it's up to you.
Somehow, I think that the people who deserve the title "humble" the least are all the people complaining about this operation.
Being humble is accepting what you're given and not asking more. And you're all whining about every little detail, trashing a company on the verge of the bankruptcy (with lots of jobs at stage) and totally ignoring the charities the Humble Bundle have supported for quite some time. Humble? No. Quite selfish, indeed.
It's actually more like buying drinks, and only getting milk. Now you assume you'll always have milk. So when you get some orange juice in the box too, you start a drama.
Well, to be honest, it isn't bad, milk and orange juice go well together sometimes.
So in order to make money for the Child's play charity or Red cross, they have to port to games to as many platform as possible and spend lots of money. Just to be sure everybody has access to it, I suggest they consider a port to Linux, OSX, Xbox, PS3, Amiga, BSD, Snes, Atari, Gameboy, Hurd and various models of coffee machines with integrated LED display.
If you want to raise money and you can do it efficiently as the games have already been made, there's no shame about it.
It's not a crime to express yourself. When you're just a few people saying you just don't like, it's quite ridiculous compared to all the other people who endorsed it or paid for it and all the rest who didn't think of a drama.
Speech is silver, but silence is golden. Especially true when you're a nobody trying to create a drama out of nothing.
Oops, I didn't notice I wasn't logged in when I replied.
It is actually possible to sign up on Spotify without a Facebook account if you are in Germany and some other countries: http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2012/120904spotify
If it's already open, they won't look into how to break in and lose interest!
A good way for women then to check if men are using the pill or just don't care!
The economy here isn't bad at all and it's quite peaceful, even in the capital Stockholm. :)
Sweden's definitely a great place to start a family as the society do a lot for the parents (compared to many countries).
I moved there a year ago and I have no regret at all
Oh, and Swedish isn't that difficult to learn at all, you'll be just fine speaking English until you learn it!
Bonus: if you haven't found a spouse yet, I can say that there are some really beautiful girls here too ;)
Make an encrypted archive and upload them on some newsgroup server.
It's probably the most reliable and cheapest solution there is. Retention is also really good.
AMD may not have the best drivers, but I dont recall any AMD drivers that allowed me to play games and fry eggs with the same piece of hardware like Nvidia.
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
Here's a recent console emulated in Java. Have fun reading the code !
http://code.google.com/p/jpcsp/
That's exactly what's happening in Iceland ! After the 2008 crisis, the people didn't want to pay for the banks to be saved. Then they forced the government to leave and ditch the current consittution. Now, they are not just writing laws, they are writing a whole new crowdsourced constitution !
They selected a few people who are in charge of making the new constitution, and then everybody can comment on what they propose on FB, Twitter, on their website... When it makes sense, they merge the suggestions into the draft and iterate again.
And in the end, the new constitution will have to be accepted in a referendum and the "government" won't be able to change it. This is really "for the people, by the people" !
And it's not a surprise that our leaders (in any country you could live in) don't talk about it...
So if they mostly blocked porn websites, it would be nice if they shared it with me so I can... ahem... train my parental control software ?
Yeah, right...
Your operator should make about the same amount of money from a contract with or without a phone. But here's what really happen in your case: If you've bought a phone from them, they will get : $contract_price - $contract_real_cost - $phone_credit If you've bought an unlocked phone, they will get : $contract_price - $contract_real_cost The difference is that you still pay a phone credit even if you've bought your phone separately, which is highly abusive. Due to the pressure from another new operator soon on the french market, some french operators are trying to be more competitive as the new one will probably slash the price (as they did when they entered the ISP market). For the french operator SFR for example: If you buy the phone unlocked from them or use an unlocked phone you already have, you'll get a low contract price each month that can be lowered by signing for a year or two. If you buy a locked phone from them, you'll pay a high price each month. But when your initial contract ends, you'll pay the same price as if you had an unlocked phone in the first place. The cumulated price per month is a little higher (not too much) than what was deducted from the price of the phone. You can see it as a credit that lasts over the contract duration with a small interest for the operator. And this is the fairest that it can be. The phone and the contract each have a cost and you know what you pay. Also, due to the french law, anybody can ask to have his phone unlocked. It's free after 6 months, you have to pay if you want to do it before (I've seen up to 100 euros for an iPhone). And if you had terminated the contract for some good reason before the due date or did not unlocked the phone and switched to another operator, you can still call the customer support and have it unlocked. It's not as great as it is in Chile, but it's kind of reasonable, don't you think ?
He's saying that game game is way too dark.
You have to enable the "High quality streaming" option in the preferences panel to have a better quality.
And you can also use alien to convert the deb into rpm. It works great on Fedora if you don't mind the volume control.