The contractor might rip it out if you sneak it in on him, but if it passes inspection, it's fine.
Key things to watch for are not slowing down the sheetrockers (don't leave it in their way).
Keep it a foot or so from AC if running parallel.
MAKE SURE THE CONTRACTOR IS OK WITH IT.
Terminate it LATER (ends - leave it raw).
Me? I'd run a pair of CAT5 to opposite corners of each room. CAT5 is fine for phone (4 lines) or 2 ethernets, or 1 RS-232 or...
My bedroom has one coax and one phone. Of course, they're on the wrong sides of the room. So you do opposite corners so you can rearrange.
A woman I know of, a VP at a large 'merican financial trading firm, was traveling to australia. As she went through customs, they asked the usual questions - why she was there, how long she expected to be there, where she was born, had she every been convicted of a felony.
Without missing a beat, she said: "Oh! I didn't know that was still required..."
All of us over 5 years old know that McDonalds food is all crap. Buy using a fair amount of SUGAR in the freezing of the "fries", they make children like them. And fat Americans (I'm just 12 stone and 18 hands tall (to top of head, not horsey shoulder) so I don't include myself there).
But only those who learned to cook in england (and optionally thrown out of england) would cook a fine potato in beef fat.
It's what WE make it.
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I still have my NeXTSlab and ColorCube - both working thank you. And running NeXTStep 3.3 thanks to their Y2K free OS CD to keep my machine ticking into the new millenium.
Yeah baby: 33 and 40Mhz of pure power. With that "mainframe on a chip" Digital Signal Processor.
Ok, one of the NeXTs has booted open source, but then I figured why run NeXT if not for the OS?
So lets all show up with our NeXT slabs under our arms and start a commotion!
I showed up to work in the UK for a few months in a worker exchange program (filling in for someone being trained in NYC).
While a pint of beer in America *IS* smaller than a pint in the UK, that's usually alright. Because the beer in the UK *also* had more alcohol and flavor.
And chatting with a coworker about managing to drink two pints at lunch (do as the romans do, and all that), he asked me how many stones I weighed. WTF. I guess that would depend on the stone. I knew I was 18 hands tall (grew up around horses), but stones? (I now know I was 12 stones).
So, it's about 25 here in the Bay Area today. Nice to not need a coat.
Gee, I just learned that if you take a sheet of A3 and cut it in half, that's A4.
Need a couple sheets of A5? Fine, grab paper from the printer and cut come A4's in half. (or A3's into 4).
But geez, about making a really simple system sound complex...
Me? I've just personally given up Fahrenheit. The GirlF is coping with "wow, it must have dropped 5 degrees in the last half hour."
I'll be ready, cause I saw the movie in school, 'splaining that we'd be all metric by 1976.
Great. Now in that little bit of spectrum I'll have the 7 WiFi nets I can see when I wander around my house. The phones (my and a neighbors) that eat a channel at random. The microwave. Some mystery device that's killed the 'hood's WiFi at random times.
Please Mr Frederic Cee Cee (FCC for short)
Can we have another chunk of spectrum?
WiFi has changed how people use computers at work and at home. The experiment was a success. Can we have a bigger cup to sip from now?
If it's
1) voluntary
2) works
then fine. I'd wonder how you'd power and maintain electronics in areas I know where it can be 110 in the sun or -50F in winter.
It might be something as simple as giving hikers (for a $10 deposit) an iButton that they touch to a box. It records the number and time and that's all. No invasion. Now, if the bottom camp knows that $THIS 64bit number is associated with that party, then they know that they passed and tagged this box. And it's all voluntary.
My experience is that you'd have better luck(?) or results(?) by simply making sure hikers have a MAP and a COMPASS.
A cellphone and a GPS is nice, but too many search and rescues are for the stupid. "My, um, GPSs batteries ran out" or better:
idiot: "I'm precisely HERE."
forest servce: "And do you know where the trail is from THERE?"
idiot: "Um, I (don't have|can't read) a map."
On the plus side, at least some states are charging idiots. If you don't have basics, and need to get your ass rescued, you're liable for 10s of thousands of dollars of rescue. (ever fly a helicopter at night in the rain/snow to find someone in shorts, without a map who's calling on the cell phone? It happens.)
In short, technology will not solve the problem where the basics are missing. I say: Let them evolve.
stop using a fax machine.
In 1993, we used Hylafax. We sent things out THROUGH it (and a row of modems) and we received faxes through it. It never needs to hit paper.
We had a machine to send stuff OUT of on occasion (like a filled out form), but didn't take IN on that line.
In days of yore, we just showed the first page and someone could route it by that. Privacy issues were pretty moot as it was replacing a pile of paper that the administrators (secretaries) piled through).
Junk Fax? Delete.
Need to have it on paper? Fine, print it. About 20% ever needed to become paper.
A Friend ordered some new modem (28.8kb). Needed it the next day. Coached them on how to send it international (he was in canada for 2 weeks on a job site with no access). "Sir, we do this all the time." And yet they screwed it up. Nothing in the promised AM. Noon. PM. The next morning, he's written a long 4 page screed. In large print, 3 thrice a page, he has in 100 pt font, "Call me: My number is..."
Prints it on a trusty dotmatrix as one sheet.
He "dials around" the tech supports local(ish) direct number until he gets a fax squeal.
Feeds the fax. Tapes the ends together.
After 90 minutes, the phone rings. "Are you.....?"
Yes, did you get my fax?... really? wow, my machine must be screwed up. But not like your shipping dept is. Where's my damn modem you charged me for a swore up and down would be here yesterday?
Faxing them back won't make a difference. It will cost you. Perhaps a smart fax modem program with caller ID set with an access list (ala sendmail: Block THESE countries).
If you'd ax anyone, you'd find that it limits you. I'm sorry, even if I know the guy is smart, when he starts talking about something irregardless of his education, in the back of my mind I knock him down a notch. It also includes expressions like: "Do you know where $something is at?"
Stop at the is. Really.
These things make you appear uneducated and take away from the message your trying to say.
I have a $950 2.5GB barracuda I bought.
I hooked it up to the home SPARC 2 and moved 4 535MB
disks onto it. And turned off those disks. External with a little soft gasket work between the disk and the frame, it was pretty quiet. AT least from the next room over (bed).
$1k for bus speed disk is GREAT.
The M-Systems (disk on chip) and CF disks and those are nice for, say, storing configs, but not live data. A CF is typically faster than a floppy, but can be slower that a CD (and is much slower than a disk drive).
Now, can we get a file system that journals onto a big bit of NVRAM disk?
If I have a 1GB NVRAM card let reiserfs cache meta data and even files to it. And in the background (after the fsync()), move the data from that to the drive as time allows).
PCI @ 150MHz * 64bits is still 1200MB/s (that handwaves away any sort of overhead a bus might impose). So how are they getting 3036MB/s into a machine? Certainly not FCAL or SCSI. magic?
When offered SSDs to work with for a project that needed lots of writes/reads of short lived files, I found them expensive, but good. I'm sorry to hear that Platypus ate it, I liked them and the idea of RAM on a PCI card - and they had linux and freebsd drivers. But SSDs COST a BUTTLOAD.
I've used these guys' disks for years because they have tested to be as fast as SSDs. But with a half terrabyte behind them.
With a battery backed cache of mirrored RAM, we found that for quick read/write stuff, the disks never got hit. If the data stayed, they ended up on the drives. If power was lost, the battery kept the cache alive for well over a day (I got bored and it met the "30 minutes" criteria we were looking at).
The cache isn't huge (512? 256MB?) but it never filled. Basic elevator algorithms (we all did CS classes, right?) let the RAID side take data out of the cache in DISK order and write it out.
And, not being Computer Vendor RAID, we found that it was fast and not expensive (given professional RAID). 15KRPM disks and dual controllers and dual PS and all that. Not for home use, but certainly for pro use. Oh and it gives great stats. Find stripe usage and cache hits on a Sun T3 that performs at half the speed for a good bit more money.
I don't work for them, I just like their stuff. They're a small(ish) company that just does raid with lots of Wall St and corporate clients.
so I can stand on it? Maybe jump a bit? Drop it from a desk?
Or is it the flexibility that I can have it server SMB and NFS and NFS4 over TCP and perhaps AFS?
Oh I know,it's that I can easily upgrade it to be able to do these things.
If you're going to toss defs at us, don't take parts out of context. I used
this and got:
Full of health and strength; vigorous.
Powerfully built; sturdy. See Synonyms at
healthy.
Requiring or suited to physical strength or endurance: robust labor.
Rough or crude; boisterous: a robust tale.
Marked by richness and fullness; full-bodied: a robust wine.
So your machine is healthy. No, I think you whipped out a word you heard from marketing. And you don't even knowit. I'm going to go our on a limb and suggest that you don't sit around at your Windows Users Group meetings as say: "Gosh, I really found this application to be robust."
Now using the marketing term, I'd suggest that it's a handy little closed box (eg, I can't get to a shell that I know of) that can be used for low performance file service. This is fine for a small network. They have a great niche.
AS for "being portable to carry files" I'd suggest that the 40GB firewire drive I can put in my pocket and attach to the Mac is equaly useful. If less costly. And more "robust" in that, attached to a Mac or any firewire computer, it's as flexible as all un*x boxes.
Romano has to show up. Shoot for a week per episode for each show.
Voice actors will spend a day or day and a half per episode.
More: voice actors will do most of their work in a bit over a month with some callbacks and be available for other work.
And when the voices are done, you don't have an episode. You've paid a lot to animators (the folks who design and plan the details of what you see and do key frames), a lot less to outsourced artists in Bangladesh or something making all the other art.
Now, I love the simpsons. My GirlF 20 years ago bought all the Life In Hell books and we were delighted when Matt got together with Tracy Ullman's group and did the shorts. I like the voice actors. But lets keep some perspective:
The show would suffer FAR FAR FAR more from losing the real "talent" of the show which are the writers and artists doing the design. The voiceovers are not the folks who do the 2001 Tip Of the Hat when Homer gets in the massage chair, the guys who came up with the little Chase-Across-The-Country sequence last week, the guys who hit week after week with a depth of visual humor and layers upon layers. Watch an old episode and you'll notice all sorts of details that you missed the first time.
If only Fox had one other show that had subtly and depth like this. They cancel Wonderfalls; they give us drech like ALL of their "reality TV" crap (low cost, high spectacle).
One of my rules on a new TV was that if it cost more than $1000, then half that money (over $1k) must be used for a fund to do a Tanya Harding on TV Executives.
"You're the guy who came up with 'The Bachelor'?"
er, yeah. Bang Ow! My knees!
I dunno who's worse: Spammers or TV Execs. maybe the movie execs who have that 1969 TV Guide and are using that for inspiration (lets make a josie and the pussie cats movie!).
recall that important mantra:
The cost of acquiring the machine is a fraction of the cost of owning it.
And lets not forget the overhead of 2 networks per machine and all the patch panels, wiring, switches. Toss in console management (which may not be on all machines at all time), monitoring and management of said machines. Oh, and one really tired guy running around.
Disks are going to fail at a rate of several hundred or thousand PER DAY, just statistically. (along with power supplies etc)
Toss in that in three years, ALL of those machines are obsolete.
That's huge.
I've got ~300 racks in a half full data center upstairs from me. All network cables run to a room below it to patch panels. Around 50% the size of the DC is cable management. Next to that is a room FILLED with chest high batteries - these are used during outages until the generators need to be kicked on. And a NOC takes up about 1/5th the space of the DC (monitoring systems worldwide, but it's got seating for maybe 40 people - tight and usually filled with 10 folks, but in a crunch we live up there).
So that $3159 is only a bit of it. And in 3 years, all those machines will likely be replaced for whatever $3k buys then. That's about to be a 2 CPU Athlon64 box. If Sun can pull a rabbit out of its ass, we'll have 8 and 16CPU Athlon64 boxes. At least with that, some of the CPUs can talk to each other really really really fast.
Right, becauses there's just WAY too many certified and qualified people lining up to make $20k/year to teach/parent undisciplined little monsters.
A friends' fiance spent FOREVER being in school while not working schlub jobs to get her teaching cert. Finally, she was done with it and had the cert and got a job. Did it for 1 year. The huge disfunctional bureacracy, no supplies - she looted my home office for that misc crap that builds up (whiteboard markers, post-its, a stapler for her use). Oh, and less money that she was making with her schlub work waitressing and doing office temp stuff.
She's now using her degree at an edumucational toy company in design and testing.
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Back to you're logic:
Maybe we should stop paying these CEOs enormous salaries for mediocre work. By my math, Michael Eisner owes his stock holders lifetime free passes to D-Land and he should be making a sane $200k/year. He all ready has Minnie living at his house as a sex slave...
And yet Florida is lowering their standards for graduation (you don't need algebra. good - a MORE innumerate society). This reduces class sizes as 11th graders graduate into being, well, Floridians.
My Intel proxy ballot doesn't allow me to vote to outsource executives. A small group (well under 0.05% of the company) get around 2% of the stock options. Which they tout as being good. Put this this way: you get 50 shares like thousands of your peers, the #3 guy gets 50,000.
Perhaps schools might be better if these companies paid current property tax rates (business properties rarely "turn over" and are, therefore, more likely (at least in Calif) to be paying at rates when the properties were at 1970's valuations.). That schools in Silicon valley just SUCK is kind of pathetic and a warning.
But we all know that teachers, who rake in 100s of thousands of dollars and drive around in Limo's just look down their noses at CEOs - scraping by on $20-$40k/year.
Because it's FREE to use for single processor SPARCs and x86? Did that part slow you down?
/me looks at the sub-$200 Ultra 60 with Solaris A
["A" comes after "8" then "9" - though word is that Sun is mulling calling it something like "solaris nextgen" or something pathetic. Recalling the hyperbolic chip names, they date really poorly. Here's a quiz. Put these in order:
ultra
turbo
super
mondo
hyper
Now kids, can we diffential between Code is available to see which is easy for Sun to do, and Code is available to use, modify, share?
This would be far more useful for Java. Solaris is just not really a big advantage when we have Linux and BSD and thousands of people already intimate with that code.
This big questions is will Sun redistribute code that gets userland tools from after 1988? (a modern vi, moving executables out of/usr/lib/, moving logs out of/var/adm/ and links to binaries in/etc!??)
A review of 3.5 (release announced at midnight GMT - 4PM PST today) would have been more useful. And since we've known for 5 years that 3.5 would be coming out around now (3.9 will be 5/1/2006) a review of a recent snapshot would seem actually useful.
I'm so upset, I'm going back in time to stop running X, KDE, GNOME and the festival of apps I've used on BSD since 1994. Did Linux have a network stack yet then?/me forgets.
Not ISPs. Not them. You! Just each of us personally. Of course this is slashdot. Where most of y'all are running Windows. (Me? I count 12 working boxes in sight, with 4 Intel now (none 4 years ago). And no MS software in the house.)
Mom? Bro? MacOS thank you. OSX means I can fix mom's machine from 3000 miles away.
So yeah, my boxes that serve and relay mail (80% spam) can just block SMTP connections with Windows fingerprints. Perhaps just bump it up to port 26 and a listener with much more rigourous anti-spam.
Nah, just segregate the dangerous windows folks off. Like to AOL or CompuServe. I'll never get back the happy days when you had to be tall enough to be on the Internet.
And yeah, 2 people on IPv6. Heard about the same thing in 1990 about the Internet. Just a couple geeks. Nobody over here. You guys just stay on your boxes and keep your CompuServe accounts and stay on IPv4.
RE: terrorism
When important services are brought down by DDOS and viruses (east coast blackouts anyone?), it's terrorism. The
U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act notwithstanding, being able to buy and run hundreds of thousands of compromised Windows machines (and cable/DSL providers and MS stand by with no action) means that we ain't seen the least of it.
So how long before companies/gov't are taken "hostage" by rented DOS machines?
Now, if we just BLOCK connections from windows boxes to our machines except for (say) WWW or DNS, then our lives are better. pf (in openbsd and now freebsd 5) can do it.
Me? I'm pulling IPv4 stakes up. Only been spammed once by someone with an IPv6 address.
vi ALWAYS has just one undo level. perhaps you should look into a vi replacement such as vim or elvis?
Yes. nvi (vi's DIRECT successor - from Joy to Bostic) is a lovely replacement.
The context you skipped put it in:
Can I have a vi [WITH SOLARIS] that has more than 1 undo level?
From Sun. As much as I enjoy trying to get through (thick) clients that adding 3rd party packages won't make their support contracts end and won't kill their machines.
Home and Small Office is one thing, a server upon which a BILLION dollar business relies is another. Given druthers, I'd replace most of userland with one from after 1995.
Given preference, SUN would do that. Solaris 9 (finally) supports "df -h" and 8 introduced open source things (like perl! - heavens. DEC gave me a tape with perl in 1992).
I've had several boxes running for Solaris for 1000 days without any problem.
That's good. I don't find that stability unless running minimal services.
Sorry if I'm bitter, but I ran early versions of Solaris 2.0. Favorite quote: "Solaris 2.5.1 is just about as fast as 4.1.3 was!" (3 years later).
Machines on my site are built from a jumpserver meaning they are built in a couple of hours (probably less but I don't sit there watching them). After that they are plug and play
About like my Athena machines in 1990-93. SunOS, Ultrix and others. "Boot net" and they build themselves from a server. Replace login with a trojan, they reboot themselves and rebuild. Repeat for many binaries.
We can mumble about kerberos and kerberized NFS (mount someone else's home dir? Go ahead. You still can't read it. su to someone? fine, but you still can't do much without his credentials.)
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Key things to watch for are not slowing down the sheetrockers (don't leave it in their way).
Keep it a foot or so from AC if running parallel.
MAKE SURE THE CONTRACTOR IS OK WITH IT.
Terminate it LATER (ends - leave it raw).
Me? I'd run a pair of CAT5 to opposite corners of each room. CAT5 is fine for phone (4 lines) or 2 ethernets, or 1 RS-232 or...
My bedroom has one coax and one phone. Of course, they're on the wrong sides of the room. So you do opposite corners so you can rearrange.
Without missing a beat, she said: "Oh! I didn't know that was still required..."
All of us over 5 years old know that McDonalds food is all crap. Buy using a fair amount of SUGAR in the freezing of the "fries", they make children like them. And fat Americans (I'm just 12 stone and 18 hands tall (to top of head, not horsey shoulder) so I don't include myself there).
But only those who learned to cook in england (and optionally thrown out of england) would cook a fine potato in beef fat.
Yeah baby: 33 and 40Mhz of pure power . With that "mainframe on a chip" Digital Signal Processor.
Ok, one of the NeXTs has booted open source, but then I figured why run NeXT if not for the OS?
So lets all show up with our NeXT slabs under our arms and start a commotion!
While a pint of beer in America *IS* smaller than a pint in the UK, that's usually alright. Because the beer in the UK *also* had more alcohol and flavor.
And chatting with a coworker about managing to drink two pints at lunch (do as the romans do, and all that), he asked me how many stones I weighed. WTF. I guess that would depend on the stone. I knew I was 18 hands tall (grew up around horses), but stones? (I now know I was 12 stones).
So, it's about 25 here in the Bay Area today. Nice to not need a coat.
Gee, I just learned that if you take a sheet of A3 and cut it in half, that's A4.
Need a couple sheets of A5? Fine, grab paper from the printer and cut come A4's in half. (or A3's into 4).
But geez, about making a really simple system sound complex...
Me? I've just personally given up Fahrenheit. The GirlF is coping with "wow, it must have dropped 5 degrees in the last half hour."
I'll be ready, cause I saw the movie in school, 'splaining that we'd be all metric by 1976.
Please Mr Frederic Cee Cee (FCC for short)
Can we have another chunk of spectrum?
WiFi has changed how people use computers at work and at home. The experiment was a success. Can we have a bigger cup to sip from now?
If the police could shoot the badly injured non-helmet wearers, rather than having them use, in the first 48 hrs, $100,000 of health care, then fine.
If guns without trigger guards blew up the person HOLDING It, then fine.
So sure, we'll go rescue the folks who went out with the aforementioned $idiot. But $idiot has to hike out on his own.
If it's
1) voluntary
2) works
then fine. I'd wonder how you'd power and maintain electronics in areas I know where it can be 110 in the sun or -50F in winter.
It might be something as simple as giving hikers (for a $10 deposit) an iButton that they touch to a box. It records the number and time and that's all. No invasion. Now, if the bottom camp knows that $THIS 64bit number is associated with that party, then they know that they passed and tagged this box. And it's all voluntary.
My experience is that you'd have better luck(?) or results(?) by simply making sure hikers have a MAP and a COMPASS.
A cellphone and a GPS is nice, but too many search and rescues are for the stupid. "My, um, GPSs batteries ran out" or better:
idiot: "I'm precisely HERE."
forest servce: "And do you know where the trail is from THERE?"
idiot: "Um, I (don't have|can't read) a map."
On the plus side, at least some states are charging idiots. If you don't have basics, and need to get your ass rescued, you're liable for 10s of thousands of dollars of rescue. (ever fly a helicopter at night in the rain/snow to find someone in shorts, without a map who's calling on the cell phone? It happens.)
In short, technology will not solve the problem where the basics are missing. I say: Let them evolve.
In 1993, we used Hylafax. We sent things out THROUGH it (and a row of modems) and we received faxes through it. It never needs to hit paper.
We had a machine to send stuff OUT of on occasion (like a filled out form), but didn't take IN on that line.
In days of yore, we just showed the first page and someone could route it by that. Privacy issues were pretty moot as it was replacing a pile of paper that the administrators (secretaries) piled through).
Junk Fax? Delete.
Need to have it on paper? Fine, print it. About 20% ever needed to become paper.
A Friend ordered some new modem (28.8kb). Needed it the next day. Coached them on how to send it international (he was in canada for 2 weeks on a job site with no access). "Sir, we do this all the time." And yet they screwed it up. Nothing in the promised AM. Noon. PM. The next morning, he's written a long 4 page screed. In large print, 3 thrice a page, he has in 100 pt font, "Call me: My number is..."
Prints it on a trusty dotmatrix as one sheet.
He "dials around" the tech supports local(ish) direct number until he gets a fax squeal.
Feeds the fax. Tapes the ends together.
After 90 minutes, the phone rings. "Are you .....?"
Yes, did you get my fax? ... really? wow, my machine must be screwed up. But not like your shipping dept is. Where's my damn modem you charged me for a swore up and down would be here yesterday?
Faxing them back won't make a difference. It will cost you. Perhaps a smart fax modem program with caller ID set with an access list (ala sendmail: Block THESE countries).
Anyway, I'd read this article last sunday (near the bottom a couple pages) and was gonna go see it.
Perhaps the theaters will be slashdotted - 30,000 people show up for the first show, lose interest and never come back or discuss it again.
If you'd ax anyone, you'd find that it limits you. I'm sorry, even if I know the guy is smart, when he starts talking about something irregardless of his education, in the back of my mind I knock him down a notch. It also includes expressions like: "Do you know where $something is at?"
Stop at the is. Really.
These things make you appear uneducated and take away from the message your trying to say.
Now: Flammable or inflammible. discuss.
I have a $950 2.5GB barracuda I bought. I hooked it up to the home SPARC 2 and moved 4 535MB disks onto it. And turned off those disks. External with a little soft gasket work between the disk and the frame, it was pretty quiet. AT least from the next room over (bed).
$1k for bus speed disk is GREAT.
The M-Systems (disk on chip) and CF disks and those are nice for, say, storing configs, but not live data. A CF is typically faster than a floppy, but can be slower that a CD (and is much slower than a disk drive).
Now, can we get a file system that journals onto a big bit of NVRAM disk? If I have a 1GB NVRAM card let reiserfs cache meta data and even files to it. And in the background (after the fsync()), move the data from that to the drive as time allows).
If you don't fall occasionally, you're not doing it hard enough.
You clearly need to push those drives more.
- PCI @ 150MHz * 64bits is still 1200MB/s (that handwaves away any sort of overhead a bus might impose). So how are they getting 3036MB/s into a machine? Certainly not FCAL or SCSI. magic?
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When offered SSDs to work with for a project that needed lots of writes/reads of short lived files, I found them expensive, but good. I'm sorry to hear that Platypus ate it, I liked them and the idea of RAM on a PCI card - and they had linux and freebsd drivers. But SSDs COST a BUTTLOAD.
- I've used these guys' disks for years because they have tested to be as fast as SSDs. But with a half terrabyte behind them.
I don't work for them, I just like their stuff. They're a small(ish) company that just does raid with lots of Wall St and corporate clients.With a battery backed cache of mirrored RAM, we found that for quick read/write stuff, the disks never got hit. If the data stayed, they ended up on the drives. If power was lost, the battery kept the cache alive for well over a day (I got bored and it met the "30 minutes" criteria we were looking at).
The cache isn't huge (512? 256MB?) but it never filled. Basic elevator algorithms (we all did CS classes, right?) let the RAID side take data out of the cache in DISK order and write it out.
And, not being Computer Vendor RAID, we found that it was fast and not expensive (given professional RAID). 15KRPM disks and dual controllers and dual PS and all that. Not for home use, but certainly for pro use. Oh and it gives great stats. Find stripe usage and cache hits on a Sun T3 that performs at half the speed for a good bit more money.
Or is it the flexibility that I can have it server SMB and NFS and NFS4 over TCP and perhaps AFS?
Oh I know,it's that I can easily upgrade it to be able to do these things.
If you're going to toss defs at us, don't take parts out of context. I used this and got:
- Full of health and strength; vigorous.
- Powerfully built; sturdy. See Synonyms at
healthy.
- Requiring or suited to physical strength or endurance: robust labor.
- Rough or crude; boisterous: a robust tale.
- Marked by richness and fullness; full-bodied: a robust wine.
So your machine is healthy. No, I think you whipped out a word you heard from marketing. And you don't even knowit. I'm going to go our on a limb and suggest that you don't sit around at your Windows Users Group meetings as say: "Gosh, I really found this application to be robust."Now using the marketing term, I'd suggest that it's a handy little closed box (eg, I can't get to a shell that I know of) that can be used for low performance file service. This is fine for a small network. They have a great niche.
AS for "being portable to carry files" I'd suggest that the 40GB firewire drive I can put in my pocket and attach to the Mac is equaly useful. If less costly. And more "robust" in that, attached to a Mac or any firewire computer, it's as flexible as all un*x boxes.
Romano has to show up. Shoot for a week per episode for each show.
Voice actors will spend a day or day and a half per episode.
More: voice actors will do most of their work in a bit over a month with some callbacks and be available for other work.
And when the voices are done, you don't have an episode. You've paid a lot to animators (the folks who design and plan the details of what you see and do key frames), a lot less to outsourced artists in Bangladesh or something making all the other art.
Now, I love the simpsons. My GirlF 20 years ago bought all the Life In Hell books and we were delighted when Matt got together with Tracy Ullman's group and did the shorts. I like the voice actors. But lets keep some perspective:
The show would suffer FAR FAR FAR more from losing the real "talent" of the show which are the writers and artists doing the design. The voiceovers are not the folks who do the 2001 Tip Of the Hat when Homer gets in the massage chair, the guys who came up with the little Chase-Across-The-Country sequence last week, the guys who hit week after week with a depth of visual humor and layers upon layers. Watch an old episode and you'll notice all sorts of details that you missed the first time.
If only Fox had one other show that had subtly and depth like this. They cancel Wonderfalls; they give us drech like ALL of their "reality TV" crap (low cost, high spectacle).
One of my rules on a new TV was that if it cost more than $1000, then half that money (over $1k) must be used for a fund to do a Tanya Harding on TV Executives.
"You're the guy who came up with 'The Bachelor'?"
er, yeah.
Bang Ow! My knees!
I dunno who's worse: Spammers or TV Execs. maybe the movie execs who have that 1969 TV Guide and are using that for inspiration (lets make a josie and the pussie cats movie!).
The cost of acquiring the machine is a fraction of the cost of owning it.
And lets not forget the overhead of 2 networks per machine and all the patch panels, wiring, switches. Toss in console management (which may not be on all machines at all time), monitoring and management of said machines. Oh, and one really tired guy running around.
Disks are going to fail at a rate of several hundred or thousand PER DAY, just statistically. (along with power supplies etc)
Toss in that in three years, ALL of those machines are obsolete.
That's huge.
I've got ~300 racks in a half full data center upstairs from me. All network cables run to a room below it to patch panels. Around 50% the size of the DC is cable management. Next to that is a room FILLED with chest high batteries - these are used during outages until the generators need to be kicked on. And a NOC takes up about 1/5th the space of the DC (monitoring systems worldwide, but it's got seating for maybe 40 people - tight and usually filled with 10 folks, but in a crunch we live up there).
So that $3159 is only a bit of it. And in 3 years, all those machines will likely be replaced for whatever $3k buys then. That's about to be a 2 CPU Athlon64 box. If Sun can pull a rabbit out of its ass, we'll have 8 and 16CPU Athlon64 boxes. At least with that, some of the CPUs can talk to each other really really really fast.
A friends' fiance spent FOREVER being in school while not working schlub jobs to get her teaching cert. Finally, she was done with it and had the cert and got a job. Did it for 1 year. The huge disfunctional bureacracy, no supplies - she looted my home office for that misc crap that builds up (whiteboard markers, post-its, a stapler for her use). Oh, and less money that she was making with her schlub work waitressing and doing office temp stuff.
She's now using her degree at an edumucational toy company in design and testing.
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Back to you're logic:
Maybe we should stop paying these CEOs enormous salaries for mediocre work. By my math, Michael Eisner owes his stock holders lifetime free passes to D-Land and he should be making a sane $200k/year. He all ready has Minnie living at his house as a sex slave...
My Intel proxy ballot doesn't allow me to vote to outsource executives. A small group (well under 0.05% of the company) get around 2% of the stock options. Which they tout as being good. Put this this way: you get 50 shares like thousands of your peers, the #3 guy gets 50,000.
Perhaps schools might be better if these companies paid current property tax rates (business properties rarely "turn over" and are, therefore, more likely (at least in Calif) to be paying at rates when the properties were at 1970's valuations.). That schools in Silicon valley just SUCK is kind of pathetic and a warning.
But we all know that teachers, who rake in 100s of thousands of dollars and drive around in Limo's just look down their noses at CEOs - scraping by on $20-$40k/year.
["A" comes after "8" then "9" - though word is that Sun is mulling calling it something like "solaris nextgen" or something pathetic. Recalling the hyperbolic chip names, they date really poorly. Here's a quiz. Put these in order:
Now kids, can we diffential between Code is available to see which is easy for Sun to do, and Code is available to use, modify, share?
This would be far more useful for Java. Solaris is just not really a big advantage when we have Linux and BSD and thousands of people already intimate with that code.
This big questions is will Sun redistribute code that gets userland tools from after 1988? (a modern vi, moving executables out of /usr/lib/, moving logs out of /var/adm/ and links to binaries in /etc!??)
I'm so upset, I'm going back in time to stop running X, KDE, GNOME and the festival of apps I've used on BSD since 1994. Did Linux have a network stack yet then? /me forgets.
Mom? Bro? MacOS thank you. OSX means I can fix mom's machine from 3000 miles away.
So yeah, my boxes that serve and relay mail (80% spam) can just block SMTP connections with Windows fingerprints. Perhaps just bump it up to port 26 and a listener with much more rigourous anti-spam.
Nah, just segregate the dangerous windows folks off. Like to AOL or CompuServe. I'll never get back the happy days when you had to be tall enough to be on the Internet.
And yeah, 2 people on IPv6. Heard about the same thing in 1990 about the Internet. Just a couple geeks. Nobody over here. You guys just stay on your boxes and keep your CompuServe accounts and stay on IPv4.
RE: terrorism
When important services are brought down by DDOS and viruses (east coast blackouts anyone?), it's terrorism. The U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act notwithstanding, being able to buy and run hundreds of thousands of compromised Windows machines (and cable/DSL providers and MS stand by with no action) means that we ain't seen the least of it.
Now, if we just BLOCK connections from windows boxes to our machines except for (say) WWW or DNS, then our lives are better. pf (in openbsd and now freebsd 5) can do it.
Me? I'm pulling IPv4 stakes up. Only been spammed once by someone with an IPv6 address.
Yes. nvi (vi's DIRECT successor - from Joy to Bostic) is a lovely replacement. The context you skipped put it in:
Can I have a vi [WITH SOLARIS] that has more than 1 undo level?
From Sun. As much as I enjoy trying to get through (thick) clients that adding 3rd party packages won't make their support contracts end and won't kill their machines.
Home and Small Office is one thing, a server upon which a BILLION dollar business relies is another. Given druthers, I'd replace most of userland with one from after 1995.
Given preference, SUN would do that. Solaris 9 (finally) supports "df -h" and 8 introduced open source things (like perl! - heavens. DEC gave me a tape with perl in 1992).
Irrelevancy doesn't become Sun's stock price.
That's good. I don't find that stability unless running minimal services.
Sorry if I'm bitter, but I ran early versions of Solaris 2.0. Favorite quote: "Solaris 2.5.1 is just about as fast as 4.1.3 was!" (3 years later).
Machines on my site are built from a jumpserver meaning they are built in a couple of hours (probably less but I don't sit there watching them). After that they are plug and play
About like my Athena machines in 1990-93. SunOS, Ultrix and others. "Boot net" and they build themselves from a server. Replace login with a trojan, they reboot themselves and rebuild. Repeat for many binaries.
We can mumble about kerberos and kerberized NFS (mount someone else's home dir? Go ahead. You still can't read it. su to someone? fine, but you still can't do much without his credentials.)