WTF is a n00bish question like this doing here? We are not men, we are techies. Er.. aren't we?!
For the past 6 months I've been the proud owner of a nice 30Mb/s fiber line at my place. Do you actually think I see those speeds very often? Of course not. Even, no *especially*, speed tests don't show my full power, since it depends heavily on where their server is located. There's one in Maryland that shows I get ~28Mb/s, but pretty much everything else caps at 15Mb/s (with a line faster than 15Mb/s it's real easy to see who's got a T1 when you're the one maxing it out).
And don't tell me that after you get that brand new OC768 line installed at home that you'll expect your favorite Japanese sites to come down a lot faster. How is this not obvious?
The only time I see max capacity on my line is when I'm grabbing something large and distributed. I managed to get the Dapper x86 ISO yesterday in approx. 5 minutes.
Hell, here in the US you have to get a credit check, and we're not in the midst of a civil war.
Where have you been? I can walk into a store and buy a Tracfone with cash, activate it on their site or with the phone itself (I think), and buy prepaid minutes at any on the billions of 7-11s that are all over the place (4 within walking distance of my house).
This model is only $19.99 and comes with 60 minutes.
And for a good number of people, try doing it on a standard NTSC or PAL television that doesn't even go that high. But now that leads to something interesting...
In the good-ol-days, it used to be a simple arguement of having to support a small range of resolutions when doing site design, most notably 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768. These days 6x4 has pretty much been kicked to the curb and we're starting to see many more people with monitors capable of resolutions greater than 10x7. In fact, there was an article here recently calling for high DPI website rendering, stating "that with screens getting more and more pixels, it is imperative website design takes the next step".
Now we've got this whole convergance thing happening. Yeah, there are web enabled cellphones, but their screen format is so different that they mostly demand a completely seperate design process. Then there's the Nintendo DS getting a browser, which has two screens. Now coming are the consoles that will be able to browse the web on your tele, something that has has a screen format much closer to your desktop PC, but still not the resolution.
Not only that, but look at your human interfaces. Cellphones have one way of entering in text and navigation, or maybe you're lucky and have a Blackberry with a full keyboard, but niether has a mouse-like pointing device. The DS has two screens and no keyboard, but it's touchscreen so you can at least do some pointing. The 360 and PS3 have controllers meant for gaming, not web surfing. I don't want to enter in URLs the way I put my name into Zelda. Both have USB though, so that could be easy enough to solve with a third-party keyboard. And the Wiimote... well... I guess we'll light saber our way through the web.
So, to sum up, let's say you're designing a high profile gaming site that wants as much exposure as possible. You'll need to support:
Our organization has ~13 locations on the east coast. Given any internal IP, I can tell you the site and room number that host is in. And in most cases I can do the same with our external IPs. Each location is standardized on IP block->function assignment, so when a new VPN goes up we already know how to build our tunnels.
This is something that's bugged me about the music (and movie) industries for a while now.
Just because you were making a certain amount of money before, doesn't mean you're entitled to make the same amount in the future. Along the same lines, you can't expect your business model to permenantly exist in it's original form.
They're a bunch of cry-babies who are just not savy enough to see the social change and find smart ways to take advantage of it. Instead, they're attempting to graft what they already know on top of an incompatible market. Yeah, it may be working now, but it won't work forever.
Bowie hit it on the head in the article when he said "Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity". There are people who see that change and accept it, and there are people who see that change and try to prevent it. Either way, it's fairly undeniable that it's changing.
Using that screenshot as an example, look at all the wasted space on the desktop. There are complete sections of windows that go unused just to display a single, overly large icon or piece of information. The first thing I did with XP was turn off that Luna business that just got in the way. Even the people I support at work (400+ machines) were complaining about the old 2000 look so it's switched back on all their boxes.
Every screenshot of Vista I see has more and more wasted space.
"..as businesses hate spending money to train people to work with new software."
Wasn't your original post about switching to Virtual Server just because it was a Microsoft product, even though you have a current VMWare setup? And somehow, whoever it is you work for is willing to see that as enough reason to cover the labor of switching?
VMWare Server does the same thing when installing on Windows based systems. If you're not running IIS you can still continue the install, but you won't have the web-based administration available.
Besides, if you're installing Virtual Server onto a version of Windows that doesn't ship with IIS available, then I'm willing to bet it's not going to be the most important server in the NOC.
Why? I don't understand the motivation to switch just for switching's sake. VMWare Server was announced as a free product before Virtual Server. If you're running ESX and plan on moving to Virtual Server because it's free then you also plan on losing a lot of functionality.
If you've already got an infrastructure built in VMWare, how does it make sense to spend the labor leaving it for no good reason?
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In other news, Ryder and U-Haul report a huge influx in demand for van rentals in locations near airports.
Link?
In other news, eBay reports a huge influx in for sale listings of nearly laptop computers.
Uh.. Link?
"I got showered with lumps of concrete"
Yes, there are Linux and OSX applications available.
The linux app pretty much looks and works just like the Windows app, but it does have a raw output util that you can do some interesting things with.
I haven't used the OSX app, but the screenshots on their site look very good.
And worst of all:
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!
Why would I subscribe when chances are I already read the upcoming story three posts ago?
WTF is a n00bish question like this doing here? We are not men, we are techies. Er.. aren't we?!
For the past 6 months I've been the proud owner of a nice 30Mb/s fiber line at my place. Do you actually think I see those speeds very often? Of course not. Even, no *especially*, speed tests don't show my full power, since it depends heavily on where their server is located. There's one in Maryland that shows I get ~28Mb/s, but pretty much everything else caps at 15Mb/s (with a line faster than 15Mb/s it's real easy to see who's got a T1 when you're the one maxing it out).
And don't tell me that after you get that brand new OC768 line installed at home that you'll expect your favorite Japanese sites to come down a lot faster. How is this not obvious?
The only time I see max capacity on my line is when I'm grabbing something large and distributed. I managed to get the Dapper x86 ISO yesterday in approx. 5 minutes.
I wonder where Richard Stallman comes up with such creative titles?
Just read it a couple months ago, else I don't think I would have recognised it.
Hell, here in the US you have to get a credit check, and we're not in the midst of a civil war.
Where have you been? I can walk into a store and buy a Tracfone with cash, activate it on their site or with the phone itself (I think), and buy prepaid minutes at any on the billions of 7-11s that are all over the place (4 within walking distance of my house).
This model is only $19.99 and comes with 60 minutes.
And for a good number of people, try doing it on a standard NTSC or PAL television that doesn't even go that high. But now that leads to something interesting...
In the good-ol-days, it used to be a simple arguement of having to support a small range of resolutions when doing site design, most notably 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768. These days 6x4 has pretty much been kicked to the curb and we're starting to see many more people with monitors capable of resolutions greater than 10x7. In fact, there was an article here recently calling for high DPI website rendering, stating "that with screens getting more and more pixels, it is imperative website design takes the next step".
Now we've got this whole convergance thing happening. Yeah, there are web enabled cellphones, but their screen format is so different that they mostly demand a completely seperate design process. Then there's the Nintendo DS getting a browser, which has two screens. Now coming are the consoles that will be able to browse the web on your tele, something that has has a screen format much closer to your desktop PC, but still not the resolution.
Not only that, but look at your human interfaces. Cellphones have one way of entering in text and navigation, or maybe you're lucky and have a Blackberry with a full keyboard, but niether has a mouse-like pointing device. The DS has two screens and no keyboard, but it's touchscreen so you can at least do some pointing. The 360 and PS3 have controllers meant for gaming, not web surfing. I don't want to enter in URLs the way I put my name into Zelda. Both have USB though, so that could be easy enough to solve with a third-party keyboard. And the Wiimote... well... I guess we'll light saber our way through the web.
So, to sum up, let's say you're designing a high profile gaming site that wants as much exposure as possible. You'll need to support:
Oh, and don't forget:
This just in:
Come on. Tell us something we didn't know.
In this age of AJAX hypeness, can't OSDir come up with a better way to display screenshots? I'm getting a little tired of their...
Scroll down, scroll right, click... scroll down, scroll right, click...
And, yes, I'm running beyond 1024x768.
then i submit..
Also..
"GUIs + Keyboard Shortcuts are your friend"
The ammount of keyboard shortcuts in VI will eat your fucking GUI editor for lunch.
Draw your own conclusions.
They announced earnings for the quarter and missed expectations.
"I can't wait to get home and play with my Wii!"
"Want to come over and play with my Wii?"
"Will this run on my Wii?"
I'm sorry, but I can't find the right way to incorprate the Wii into conversation.
Our organization has ~13 locations on the east coast. Given any internal IP, I can tell you the site and room number that host is in. And in most cases I can do the same with our external IPs. Each location is standardized on IP block->function assignment, so when a new VPN goes up we already know how to build our tunnels.
Fix the problem, not the symptom. Plan well.
This is something that's bugged me about the music (and movie) industries for a while now.
Just because you were making a certain amount of money before, doesn't mean you're entitled to make the same amount in the future. Along the same lines, you can't expect your business model to permenantly exist in it's original form.
They're a bunch of cry-babies who are just not savy enough to see the social change and find smart ways to take advantage of it. Instead, they're attempting to graft what they already know on top of an incompatible market. Yeah, it may be working now, but it won't work forever.
Bowie hit it on the head in the article when he said "Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity". There are people who see that change and accept it, and there are people who see that change and try to prevent it. Either way, it's fairly undeniable that it's changing.
Currently supporting ~300 Dell desktops at this office and ~250 at a second location. No problems whatsoever. There is a trick to it though...
Know what you're doing.
I couldn't agree more.
Using that screenshot as an example, look at all the wasted space on the desktop. There are complete sections of windows that go unused just to display a single, overly large icon or piece of information. The first thing I did with XP was turn off that Luna business that just got in the way. Even the people I support at work (400+ machines) were complaining about the old 2000 look so it's switched back on all their boxes.
Every screenshot of Vista I see has more and more wasted space.
Why not use Wink?
"..as businesses hate spending money to train people to work with new software."
Wasn't your original post about switching to Virtual Server just because it was a Microsoft product, even though you have a current VMWare setup? And somehow, whoever it is you work for is willing to see that as enough reason to cover the labor of switching?
Go home and stop acting like a ho!
You got served!
VMWare Server does the same thing when installing on Windows based systems. If you're not running IIS you can still continue the install, but you won't have the web-based administration available.
Besides, if you're installing Virtual Server onto a version of Windows that doesn't ship with IIS available, then I'm willing to bet it's not going to be the most important server in the NOC.
Why? I don't understand the motivation to switch just for switching's sake. VMWare Server was announced as a free product before Virtual Server. If you're running ESX and plan on moving to Virtual Server because it's free then you also plan on losing a lot of functionality.
If you've already got an infrastructure built in VMWare, how does it make sense to spend the labor leaving it for no good reason?