He is completely asking about protection from hardware failure. He is writing differently named shows to storage and never deleting or altering. Why would he need incremental backups?
one gotcha with RAID 5 is that you can have data loss due to the time it takes for the system to calculate parity after an application does a write. If you go with RAID 5, you need to make sure you have a battery backup that can allow the machine to write out and shut down normally.
Personally my storage needs have not yet gone beyond 2 Tb and I have four terabyte drives set up in a raid 10 (two mirrors of stripes across two drives). Another problem with raid 5 is there is apparently a performance hit on writes when not done with hardware, and hardware is expensive.
Finally, it is a good idea when mirroring to use two different brands of drives across the mirror if possible. Drives of the same brand manufactured at the same time with the same activity have a slightly increased chance of breaking down at the same time or close to it.
Ok that's what I understood twitter to be for, but why? Are people that lonely and bored with their own lives that they need constant updates of others? Are people that egotistical that they think other people care? I don't even care where my WIFE is all minutes of the day, never mind some friend and or stranger...
I dunno, personally I think if people need to be that attached to others, then there are serious psychological issues happening.
Sorry I wish I could alter my original post. The charge I refer to is the 'stand by charge' Basically you (personally) need to pay 2% of the value of the vehicle calculated by the PERCENTAGE OF TIME in each thirty day period that vehicle is sitting in your driveway or being used by you.
Also, on top of that it is a taxable benefit and you must pay income tax on the amount that you are saving by not having a vehicle (including an estimate of maintenance charges that you are saving).
Maybe still worth it, I don't know. I looked into it when I started my business and the accountant I was talking to told me not to even bother considering it, so I just use my personal vehicle and write off everything by percentage of KM driven for business.
Actually there is a percentage penalty if at least 70% of the kilometers of a company owned vehicle don't get used for company purposes that I don't see you mentioning here. You should probably look into that.
You say this like it's a novel point but it is exactly true. ~99% of the market out there is uninformed and does not want to be informed. I believe this is what the previous poster was referring to. As much as this makes every slashdotter wince with blinding pain, it's true. People just want to be told what to use. Microsoft knows that, and now it's obvious that Google knows that. I wish Linux would come to terms with that but that's another post.
I dare say people will start blindly following this advertising and maybe fall back to pre-installed IE8 when Chrome does not work.
The problem with this reasoning is that I am not buying new PCs at the rate that Windows is being slowed down. Even if you consider the time between Windows XP release and Windows 7 release I have PCs/laptops around from the beginning and I still would like there to be an OS available for them.
At one time I was very interested in buying a faster PC. Between Windows 95 and Windows XP came the ability to burn a CD and not risk making a coaster, DVDs, ability to play real time video, etc. What has come to computing between Windows XP and Windows 7? Maybe the games look better but I don't play games, and other then that it is a lot of bloat in my opinion. There is no functional need for me to buy a faster PC right now and therefore I will not be. I want an OS that can support my choice. Fortunately I am a sysadmin so I am comfortable with Linux, but what does the average user do? By a PC that they don't really need?
I have to second your LOL.. I don't think this guy has even had experience with a web hosting environment; never mind being across the chasm at a real corporate datacenter.
It seems to me there are three groups of people when it comes to this kind of thing:
a) people who have used/developed applications
b) people who have experience in web hosting environments
c) people who have experience in large corporate environments
groups a) and b) are almost all windows and linux fans. In group c) Windows is almost always despised and Linux is an amusing toy.
It could be interesting if they established a model whereby a person could develop and market a video or series of videos on their own. Allow the individual to set the price within certain guidelines and youtube would take a piece and the person would take the rest. Then just sit back and let market forces do the work.
I dunno.. You know what.. I am all about using the tool that gets the job done but if I'm spending the time to develop something I'm not going to take a chance. If I'm going to build a house am I going to build on a cracked foundation because it's convenient and cheap. I'm going to spend money on a sound foundation. If I am going to go into months of development I'm going to use something fundamentally sound like a relational. Besides you don't really need to know SQL inside and out anymore anyway. That's what ORMs are for.
At the risk of using the same analogy twice in the same thread.. A person copying software and music is like J-walking.. sure it's illegal, heck sometimes it costs people their lives, but usually it's just a tiny little indiscretion that makes people's lives easier. On the other hand, actually PROFITING from copied music or software is like driving your car against traffic. It could end up a terrible mess.
That's like comparing whether it's ok to J-walk across the street to whether it's ok to drive your car against traffic. One of them is a tiny little indiscretion in the grand scheme of things that just makes life a little more pleasant. The other could be a bloody terrible mess.
Sheesh, if I had to purchase some of these systems to 'dabble at home' I'd be so paralyzed by cost restrictions I wouldn't have learned anything.
I am a dabbler like you.
Some five years back I didn't have much of a budget and I bought a 3Ghz Pentium 3 on a micro-ATX Asus board with a 146 Gb drive. I installed Ubuntu on it and VMWare player, later switching to VMWare server. My main OS is the native Ubuntu but I run a LinuxMCE VM, a Windows VM, and a Ubuntu webserver VM just fine. Mind you, I had to add 2 1Tb drives mirred but that's huge storage for my needs.
Soon I will be purchasing an AMD Phenom 940 quad processor on an asus board with 8Gb of RAM. The system came in around $800 (canadian!) and I'll be installing XenServer on it. I expect it will take me through many more years.
People who are good a business, particularly in the US, are good because they are dicks and have no problem with that. Why is this a surprise to anyone? Businesses have been doing everything and anything they can to make a profit regardless of ethics for a long time and this is no different. The problem is not even the bailing out, the problem is a system that allowed and even encouraged people to be like this and reap benefits from it.
Sorry this may be an inflammatory comment but my humble opinion is, if profit is going to make or break your creativity and your desire to create a work with it then you're no better then the big corporations out there. People should do what they love to do. Teachers should teach because they love to teach, doctors should be doctors because they want to heal people.
I realize this is all very 'pie in the sky'. The capitalist system wrecks it all, I agree. But if someone wants their art to be pure, should not they of all people strive to free themselves of the binds of the system? This is why the 'best' art in history is created by people that came from seedy bars, or the street corner. This is why much of the best art came before the big corporations and why we hate them so today. They take a pure work, wrap it in blisto-pack, and mangle it so that it can be heard by the ignorant masses and not speak volumes to the few to which it was first intended.
This seems like a really great service. But remember that Google is public about the fact that they crawl through your data so that they can profit from it. Email is bad enough, but why anyone would send their whole life streaming through Google is beyond me. It continues to surprise me how comfortable and trusting people are getting with the cloud.
I'd love to try Plone but my web host won't allow me to run it due to the steep demands of the Zope framework. I wish there was something lighter weight in Python. It seems the only way you can run Plone is with a dedicated server.
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Er, why not just stop using Facebook, as I have? Facebook is a total mess. You've pretty much denounced all that Facebook has come to be about.
He is completely asking about protection from hardware failure. He is writing differently named shows to storage and never deleting or altering. Why would he need incremental backups?
one gotcha with RAID 5 is that you can have data loss due to the time it takes for the system to calculate parity after an application does a write. If you go with RAID 5, you need to make sure you have a battery backup that can allow the machine to write out and shut down normally.
Personally my storage needs have not yet gone beyond 2 Tb and I have four terabyte drives set up in a raid 10 (two mirrors of stripes across two drives). Another problem with raid 5 is there is apparently a performance hit on writes when not done with hardware, and hardware is expensive.
Finally, it is a good idea when mirroring to use two different brands of drives across the mirror if possible. Drives of the same brand manufactured at the same time with the same activity have a slightly increased chance of breaking down at the same time or close to it.
Ok that's what I understood twitter to be for, but why? Are people that lonely and bored with their own lives that they need constant updates of others? Are people that egotistical that they think other people care? I don't even care where my WIFE is all minutes of the day, never mind some friend and or stranger...
I dunno, personally I think if people need to be that attached to others, then there are serious psychological issues happening.
..have nothing better to do but to broadcast their every move to others via Twitter? I just don't get it. Can someone explain it to me?
Do people really feel a need to be hyperconnected at all times? And what I really want to know is, do they broadcast when they take a crap??
Sorry I wish I could alter my original post. The charge I refer to is the 'stand by charge' Basically you (personally) need to pay 2% of the value of the vehicle calculated by the PERCENTAGE OF TIME in each thirty day period that vehicle is sitting in your driveway or being used by you.
Also, on top of that it is a taxable benefit and you must pay income tax on the amount that you are saving by not having a vehicle (including an estimate of maintenance charges that you are saving).
Maybe still worth it, I don't know. I looked into it when I started my business and the accountant I was talking to told me not to even bother considering it, so I just use my personal vehicle and write off everything by percentage of KM driven for business.
I found good information here
Hope they don't mind getting slashdotted.
Actually there is a percentage penalty if at least 70% of the kilometers of a company owned vehicle don't get used for company purposes that I don't see you mentioning here. You should probably look into that.
What is a 'mac' ?
You say this like it's a novel point but it is exactly true. ~99% of the market out there is uninformed and does not want to be informed. I believe this is what the previous poster was referring to. As much as this makes every slashdotter wince with blinding pain, it's true. People just want to be told what to use. Microsoft knows that, and now it's obvious that Google knows that. I wish Linux would come to terms with that but that's another post.
I dare say people will start blindly following this advertising and maybe fall back to pre-installed IE8 when Chrome does not work.
NT means 'no text'! move along, nothing to see here
Any clauses in there about how far to bend over and if/how long to hold onto one's own ankles?
The problem with this reasoning is that I am not buying new PCs at the rate that Windows is being slowed down. Even if you consider the time between Windows XP release and Windows 7 release I have PCs/laptops around from the beginning and I still would like there to be an OS available for them.
At one time I was very interested in buying a faster PC. Between Windows 95 and Windows XP came the ability to burn a CD and not risk making a coaster, DVDs, ability to play real time video, etc. What has come to computing between Windows XP and Windows 7? Maybe the games look better but I don't play games, and other then that it is a lot of bloat in my opinion. There is no functional need for me to buy a faster PC right now and therefore I will not be. I want an OS that can support my choice. Fortunately I am a sysadmin so I am comfortable with Linux, but what does the average user do? By a PC that they don't really need?
I have to second your LOL.. I don't think this guy has even had experience with a web hosting environment; never mind being across the chasm at a real corporate datacenter. It seems to me there are three groups of people when it comes to this kind of thing: a) people who have used/developed applications b) people who have experience in web hosting environments c) people who have experience in large corporate environments groups a) and b) are almost all windows and linux fans. In group c) Windows is almost always despised and Linux is an amusing toy.
It could be interesting if they established a model whereby a person could develop and market a video or series of videos on their own. Allow the individual to set the price within certain guidelines and youtube would take a piece and the person would take the rest. Then just sit back and let market forces do the work.
Now I get to watch amateur Sarah Palin impersonations and five minute clips of Flinstones episodes on my big screen TV? I can't wait!!
Why are you working as a developer if you don't get paid for it? If you do get paid for it, then what's the problem?
What's the point of buying RAM and CPU if you're only using it to download torrents??
I dunno.. You know what.. I am all about using the tool that gets the job done but if I'm spending the time to develop something I'm not going to take a chance. If I'm going to build a house am I going to build on a cracked foundation because it's convenient and cheap. I'm going to spend money on a sound foundation. If I am going to go into months of development I'm going to use something fundamentally sound like a relational. Besides you don't really need to know SQL inside and out anymore anyway. That's what ORMs are for.
At the risk of using the same analogy twice in the same thread.. A person copying software and music is like J-walking.. sure it's illegal, heck sometimes it costs people their lives, but usually it's just a tiny little indiscretion that makes people's lives easier. On the other hand, actually PROFITING from copied music or software is like driving your car against traffic. It could end up a terrible mess.
That's like comparing whether it's ok to J-walk across the street to whether it's ok to drive your car against traffic. One of them is a tiny little indiscretion in the grand scheme of things that just makes life a little more pleasant. The other could be a bloody terrible mess.
Sheesh, if I had to purchase some of these systems to 'dabble at home' I'd be so paralyzed by cost restrictions I wouldn't have learned anything.
I am a dabbler like you.
Some five years back I didn't have much of a budget and I bought a 3Ghz Pentium 3 on a micro-ATX Asus board with a 146 Gb drive. I installed Ubuntu on it and VMWare player, later switching to VMWare server. My main OS is the native Ubuntu but I run a LinuxMCE VM, a Windows VM, and a Ubuntu webserver VM just fine. Mind you, I had to add 2 1Tb drives mirred but that's huge storage for my needs.
Soon I will be purchasing an AMD Phenom 940 quad processor on an asus board with 8Gb of RAM. The system came in around $800 (canadian!) and I'll be installing XenServer on it. I expect it will take me through many more years.
People who are good a business, particularly in the US, are good because they are dicks and have no problem with that. Why is this a surprise to anyone? Businesses have been doing everything and anything they can to make a profit regardless of ethics for a long time and this is no different. The problem is not even the bailing out, the problem is a system that allowed and even encouraged people to be like this and reap benefits from it.
Sorry this may be an inflammatory comment but my humble opinion is, if profit is going to make or break your creativity and your desire to create a work with it then you're no better then the big corporations out there. People should do what they love to do. Teachers should teach because they love to teach, doctors should be doctors because they want to heal people.
I realize this is all very 'pie in the sky'. The capitalist system wrecks it all, I agree. But if someone wants their art to be pure, should not they of all people strive to free themselves of the binds of the system? This is why the 'best' art in history is created by people that came from seedy bars, or the street corner. This is why much of the best art came before the big corporations and why we hate them so today. They take a pure work, wrap it in blisto-pack, and mangle it so that it can be heard by the ignorant masses and not speak volumes to the few to which it was first intended.
This seems like a really great service. But remember that Google is public about the fact that they crawl through your data so that they can profit from it. Email is bad enough, but why anyone would send their whole life streaming through Google is beyond me. It continues to surprise me how comfortable and trusting people are getting with the cloud.
Ignorance is bliss.. Sorry to wreck it for you.
I'd love to try Plone but my web host won't allow me to run it due to the steep demands of the Zope framework. I wish there was something lighter weight in Python. It seems the only way you can run Plone is with a dedicated server.