I bought a noname 2U server at $600 CDN for the company which gave us alotta grief... modems would never work in its PCI slots. So we decided to always go proprietary. All our big servers are ibm xseries.. and we buy ibm xseries 206 ($600 USD) for cheaper stuff. We never go Dell on servers.
I know you can build a superior system thats whitebox. MDG sells machines for cheap with Intel motherboards. You can buy Tyan mobos for whitebox systems.
However keep support in mind. Everytime something breaks on IBM xseries servers, we call tech support. In 4 hours of calling the replacement part arrives, and the techie arrives the same or next day and replaces the part no questions asked. Sure we've had lots of trouble on our tape drives etc, but it gets replaced painlessly, no driver changes, and no financial hits.
Another benefit of name brands is that you can say youve worked on so and so servers in your resume. Smart employers wouldnt or shouldnt count that, but you do see people asking for MCSE and proliant servers, etc. Its even more specific when you get into UNIX... they'll only accept that brand of unix.
Such laptops would ideally use ARM processors and free OSes, unless you can get by with PalmOS or WindowsCE. Intel as a matter of fact makes the highest performing ARM chips out there. Only theyre real expensive compared to others' ($5 in qty) ARM chips. Intel also has access to 90nm and 65nm process technologies, which should make their chips much more powerful for the same price. They CAN benefit from the $100 laptop, maybe taking a good $40 of it considering they also make good flash chips.
But selling Pentium 4s running Windows XPs is far more profitable, regardless of what the end user is getting. Computers as a matter of fact are real cheap items. Only theyre overselling it to us to fatten their profit margins. Sadly the poor are completely left out as a result.
Speaking of die cutters... make capacitors of two metal plates with a layer of ceramic in the middle. Before you put the ceramic in there and glue it all up, dunk the ceramic in water. Charging it quickly should be fun.
In 3-4 years Ive not once needed a reboot. Never touched networking or the redhat kernel, except the port filtering the first time. They did restart the server twice in 3-4 years for 2 minor outages. But with that uptime, I pay $30. 200GB transfers, and I barely use 3GB in a year. I was hoping for something between JVDS and serverpronto for a full system hosting server, but theres nothing and JVDS to serverpronto is $12 to $30 anyway.
I've test run lotus domino, some databases, halflife server and some other heavy stuff on that server, and it runs smooth. I know miscellaneous stuff costs more with them, but theyre awesome when you dont need tech support or reboots.
[root@hazara root]# telnet www.photosparks.com 80 Trying 64.202.167.129... Connected to www.photosparks.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Content-Length: 0 Location:/?ABCDEFGH Connection closed by foreign host. [root@hazara root]#
Secondly, it displays rather well on my opera and firefox and ie, so someone fixed something. Why does it fail i my telnet session? Or are we testing the wrong thing?
Heres more logs including the date...
[root@hazara root]# date Thu Dec 8 23:05:09 EST 2005 [root@hazara root]# telnet www.photosparks.com 80 Trying 64.202.167.129... Connected to www.photosparks.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.1 HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Content-Length: 0 Location:/?ABCDEFGH Connection closed by foreign host. [root@hazara root]# telnet www.photosparks.com 80 Trying 64.202.167.129... Connected to www.photosparks.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.0 HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Content-Length: 0 Location:/?ABCDEFGH Connection closed by foreign host. [root@hazara root]# telnet www.photosparks.com 80 Trying 64.202.167.129... Connected to www.photosparks.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET/?ABCDEFGH http/1.0 HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Content-Length: 0 Location: / Connection closed by foreign host. [root@hazara root]#
I did a great deal of research before buying domains and a hosting server, and I cant find another DNS vendor competing with godaddy, or another server colocation competing with serverpronto. Not even close by 20% in each case. I've domains hosted on godaddy, and have NEVER had problems. The reason why they can give good service even with a large user base is because NOTHING ever craps out, and the small tech team gets bored by the phones/computers. For a short while I used yahoo domains to get new domains because they were $3.95 a year, but I prefer godaddy.
Most of their customers have done their homework, and slander alone cant reduce their market share.
Its courageous partly because it isnt a 1982 winchester.
Open any new drive and the static, moisture and oxygen will kill the sensitive surface permanently. It turns brown in a few hours. I agree its still not so newsworthy.
Now if I saw someone as much as open and close a new 1/2TB drive for 5 minutes, and still get all the data, I'd say WOW. That would be newsworthy.
Most drives since 2000 do not have vent holes. They in fact dont have any oxygen in them at all.
Open a drive, the platters are a shiny silvery color. Wait a few hours and theyre brown. They oxidize when they see oxygen, a filter couldnt filter oxygen and moisture.
Most drives have a thin flexible barrier that compensates in the atmosphere pressure difference between the factory and place of use. Its usually a thin aluminum sticker that says DO NOT REMOVE with enough play to bulge or dip a little. I'll bet its just argon or helium inside.
I used to have a 5.25" 8GB Quantum HDD.... with a CLEAR PLASTIC WINDOW on it. You could see the head initialize, and see it park. You could see if its working in the Linux partition or the Windows partition. With some programming you could make it dance.
Heck I put Linux on a USB key last weekend. Maybe if I put it up as news, the moderators will post it. "Linux on USB Keys finally!!".
Whenever I read logic like that, I enjoy the game of switching sides. It makes things so clear, and with Christianity and Islam's (and the American Constitution's) rule that all men are equal; the game is more fun.
Osama to suicide bomber: Anyone who is willing to go get shot at so that I can sit on my ass and read..... all day long is deserving of my respect.
Another thing I read quite often is 'our soldiers place themselves in danger for our freedom'. This can come from Al Qaeda or Bush, you couldnt tell.
Theyre both fighting for righteousness. Theyre both supporting their soldiers because theyre SUPPOSED to. They both have the mentality of 'my country right or wrong' And hard to believe, but soliders on BOTH sides insist on being on the right side and fighting for freedom.
Terrorist saying he'll give the people freedom is utter BS Bush saying he'll give the people freedom is utter BS They both use torture in the most inhuman and painful ways they can come up with. They both use religion. They both use nationalism. Tolerance threatens both camps. Both had blood of innocent civilians on their hands before the war. Both targetted innocent civilians during the war. Both used chemical weapons. Both used the lives of their soldiers for benefit.
Armies on both sides are among the victims list. And you cant tell a suicide bomber terrorist that he's right.
I on the other hand have trouble wishing that soldier the 'best'. I DO hope he gets back to his family in one piece though.
See, I'm not American, so theres none of the 'my country right or wrong' thing. Its more like 'right, not wrong' for me.
I admire the courage of the American soldiers going into a difficult place and for the job they do. I also happen to admire the courage of the Iraqi soldiers (the ones under Saddam) going to war against a far stronger enemy in the same thinking of 'my country right or wrong'. Now I cannot wish both of them the best, since wishing one the best is like wishing the other the worst.
I'm not Middle Eastern either BTW, not that it should matter.
So I dont wish you the best, and I dont support the war at all. Even more, I think your leadership is morally in a worse position than the Saddam leadership was during their last years.
However, I know youre there for 'good', have good intentions, and will not profit anywhere near from all this as others will. Youre there offering your life for 'freedom'. I'm not. For that alone you have my respect. And for being a human alone, you have my wish that you'll get home safe and alive.
There have been wars in history where I've wished one side the absolute best, and have demonized the other side so much I didnt care if they lost a generation of men. Perhaps the world is becoming a better place since noone can support one side in a war so absolutely to reduce the other side to cannon fodder.
I wish you good health and spirit, wish your family happiness, and wisdom in your voting.
I first came to the conclusion that theyre overacting and were rude. But procedures have to be in place to 'protect protect protect', and these are procedures in effect. Smaller joints trust the employee more, and only delete accounts when theyre fired. Larger places dehumanize and serialize people, and therefore understandably distrusts them. Between the time you decide to leave and the time they kill your accounts, you have them by the balls.... kinda.
Of course they can prosecute you and give you bad reference... but the damage you can cause can be much bigger in dollar values, and in affecting the other hired employees. Do understand the reasoning behind why they do all that before being too offended about it.
A disgruntled employee seeking to have some revenge can simply NOT tell anyone of resigning and cause enough damage to get fired. Alternatively he could put in enough hidden accounts, rootkits or even a small cheap wireless router. Hey hey dont get any ideas!!!
Youre an employee there. Youre part of the company. You should be working to SAVE them money.
So just asking for $$$ for bandwidth is failing them, in a way. If things arent working out AT ALL right now and you have to fix it, they might pay. But if youre making do with things, they wont slap down another $100K.
So try other ideas like giving them quotas. They'll learn to fit their browsing in the quotas. Cache the pages, try to disable some things like maybe.exe files, flash, jar files etc. I wouldnt say you NEED more bandwidth, I say you COULD USE more bandwidth. I could always use more bandwidth. Actually a T3 right here now wouldnt be so bad.. I wouldnt have to WAIT for the damn DVD ISOs to download.
Hey I dont mind paying the Russians for the space programs. I dont care if it isnt my country building the spaceship, and us Canadians have been involved in others' spaceships anyway. Might as well be Russia so the money doesnt go down the drain so much.
Heck if I see the Ruskis build and launch the ship, I'd be proud my tax dollars were partly responsible for it.
I dont always understand why someone would buy something like Linksys, especially the tech-inclined. I have pc-based firewalls at home and work. The home version is a machine that crashes when you exec the HLT instruction. Thus anything above windows 95 dies. I just run knoppix with 'nohlt' parameter. The work version does openbsd with lots of fancy packet filtering and is quite bulletproof.
So why should I spend $70 on lower sized hardware? Because its smaller? Or because its not x86? Or because someone brands it 'firewall'. I'd sooner spend a little more and get a 2600 cisco off ebay and use THAT.
Bluetooth has a class 3 that is specified at 1mW for upto a meter. I havent seen anything like that in zigbee, the atmel chip has 12mW receiving power, although I'm not sure if the bluetooth spec is while busy or average.
I've model airplanes and am hoping to get my flying license soon. I have (www.zenithair.com) airplane kits in mind for later. Up here in Canada, you have huge expanses of wilderness to fly about and thousands of lakes to land in, if you can land in water.
I'm selling my face on eBay, in exchange for a quad-Opteron 16GB ram system and a T3 connection for a year. I'll add the ears for an all-game steam subscription too.
The way I understand it, they transplanted the skin of the face. Thats not a face transplant. Thats a face skin transplant. The patient will probably look like her original self more than the donor. Thats because the face structure is created more by the skull shape than the skin. Now the patient will have a different face skin color, and hair features (shes not getting it from Mullah Omar is she?). But will be recognized as herself in the end. This should really be called face skin transplant.
A real face transplant would be incredibly difficult, and might as well be a head transplant minus the brain and eyes.
We're using Windows 2000 Pentium-III machines for the most part in the company. We just have no real motivation to start using Windows XP or 2003 server anytime soon. (Apart from the fact that some of our apps will in time force us to upgrade).
Most applications require Windows NT/2000/XP, which means they can still run on the older Windows NT 4.0 machines. So why upgrade?
I think microsoft dug themselves in a hole with Windows 2000. Its everything companies need, and Windows XP offers not a whole lot more.. (prettier screens? faster bootup? DirectX 9.0c?) Most app vendors have standardized on Windows 2000, and Microsoft will have a tough time to force them to Windows XP alone, or Longhorn, which will force customers to get new hardware as well. In doing so, they'll also force some app vendors to more to Linux, which will happily and freely run on older hardware. Time to sell that Microsoft stock.
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I bought a noname 2U server at $600 CDN for the company which gave us alotta grief... modems would never work in its PCI slots. So we decided to always go proprietary. All our big servers are ibm xseries.. and we buy ibm xseries 206 ($600 USD) for cheaper stuff. We never go Dell on servers.
I know you can build a superior system thats whitebox. MDG sells machines for cheap with Intel motherboards. You can buy Tyan mobos for whitebox systems.
However keep support in mind. Everytime something breaks on IBM xseries servers, we call tech support. In 4 hours of calling the replacement part arrives, and the techie arrives the same or next day and replaces the part no questions asked. Sure we've had lots of trouble on our tape drives etc, but it gets replaced painlessly, no driver changes, and no financial hits.
Another benefit of name brands is that you can say youve worked on so and so servers in your resume. Smart employers wouldnt or shouldnt count that, but you do see people asking for MCSE and proliant servers, etc. Its even more specific when you get into UNIX... they'll only accept that brand of unix.
Such laptops would ideally use ARM processors and free OSes, unless you can get by with PalmOS or WindowsCE. Intel as a matter of fact makes the highest performing ARM chips out there. Only theyre real expensive compared to others' ($5 in qty) ARM chips. Intel also has access to 90nm and 65nm process technologies, which should make their chips much more powerful for the same price. They CAN benefit from the $100 laptop, maybe taking a good $40 of it considering they also make good flash chips.
But selling Pentium 4s running Windows XPs is far more profitable, regardless of what the end user is getting. Computers as a matter of fact are real cheap items. Only theyre overselling it to us to fatten their profit margins. Sadly the poor are completely left out as a result.
Take a long list of capacitors.
Put them all in parallel.
Charge them up.
Quickly put them all in serial.
The results can be interesting...
Speaking of die cutters... make capacitors of two metal plates with a layer of ceramic in the middle. Before you put the ceramic in there and glue it all up, dunk the ceramic in water. Charging it quickly should be fun.
Something like that. I'm not 'Afghan' since thats mutually exclusive with Hazara, but yeah I'm from the country.
Who is your hosting provider?
In 3-4 years Ive not once needed a reboot. Never touched networking or the redhat kernel, except the port filtering the first time. They did restart the server twice in 3-4 years for 2 minor outages. But with that uptime, I pay $30. 200GB transfers, and I barely use 3GB in a year. I was hoping for something between JVDS and serverpronto for a full system hosting server, but theres nothing and JVDS to serverpronto is $12 to $30 anyway.
I've test run lotus domino, some databases, halflife server and some other heavy stuff on that server, and it runs smooth. I know miscellaneous stuff costs more with them, but theyre awesome when you dont need tech support or reboots.
I've been a happy customer for years... for domains.
Apparently people arent happy about the HOSTING deal there.
I dont care, I use serverpronto
And apache 1.3 no less. This must be a plan to force us all to upgrade to apache 2.0 !!!
Must be a module in apache or something else down the line. Apache 1.3 was rock solid for me for years. With domains from godaddy no less.
Two things....
/?ABCDEFGH
/?ABCDEFGH /?ABCDEFGH /?ABCDEFGH http/1.0
First, I lied too, it didnt work:
[root@hazara root]# telnet www.photosparks.com 80
Trying 64.202.167.129...
Connected to www.photosparks.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Content-Length: 0
Location:
Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@hazara root]#
Secondly, it displays rather well on my opera and firefox and ie, so someone fixed something. Why does it fail i my telnet session? Or are we testing the wrong thing?
Heres more logs including the date...
[root@hazara root]# date
Thu Dec 8 23:05:09 EST 2005
[root@hazara root]# telnet www.photosparks.com 80
Trying 64.202.167.129...
Connected to www.photosparks.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Content-Length: 0
Location:
Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@hazara root]# telnet www.photosparks.com 80
Trying 64.202.167.129...
Connected to www.photosparks.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Content-Length: 0
Location:
Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@hazara root]# telnet www.photosparks.com 80
Trying 64.202.167.129...
Connected to www.photosparks.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Content-Length: 0
Location: /
Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@hazara root]#
I did a great deal of research before buying domains and a hosting server, and I cant find another DNS vendor competing with godaddy, or another server colocation competing with serverpronto. Not even close by 20% in each case. I've domains hosted on godaddy, and have NEVER had problems. The reason why they can give good service even with a large user base is because NOTHING ever craps out, and the small tech team gets bored by the phones/computers. For a short while I used yahoo domains to get new domains because they were $3.95 a year, but I prefer godaddy.
Most of their customers have done their homework, and slander alone cant reduce their market share.
Its courageous partly because it isnt a 1982 winchester.
Open any new drive and the static, moisture and oxygen will kill the sensitive surface permanently. It turns brown in a few hours. I agree its still not so newsworthy.
Now if I saw someone as much as open and close a new 1/2TB drive for 5 minutes, and still get all the data, I'd say WOW. That would be newsworthy.
Most drives since 2000 do not have vent holes. They in fact dont have any oxygen in them at all.
Open a drive, the platters are a shiny silvery color. Wait a few hours and theyre brown. They oxidize when they see oxygen, a filter couldnt filter oxygen and moisture.
Most drives have a thin flexible barrier that compensates in the atmosphere pressure difference between the factory and place of use. Its usually a thin aluminum sticker that says DO NOT REMOVE with enough play to bulge or dip a little. I'll bet its just argon or helium inside.
I used to have a 5.25" 8GB Quantum HDD.... with a CLEAR PLASTIC WINDOW on it. You could see the head initialize, and see it park. You could see if its working in the Linux partition or the Windows partition. With some programming you could make it dance.
Heck I put Linux on a USB key last weekend. Maybe if I put it up as news, the moderators will post it. "Linux on USB Keys finally!!".
Whenever I read logic like that, I enjoy the game of switching sides. It makes things so clear, and with Christianity and Islam's (and the American Constitution's) rule that all men are equal; the game is more fun.
..... all day long is deserving of my respect.
Osama to suicide bomber: Anyone who is willing to go get shot at so that I can sit on my ass and read
Another thing I read quite often is 'our soldiers place themselves in danger for our freedom'. This can come from Al Qaeda or Bush, you couldnt tell.
Theyre both fighting for righteousness.
Theyre both supporting their soldiers because theyre SUPPOSED to.
They both have the mentality of 'my country right or wrong'
And hard to believe, but soliders on BOTH sides insist on being on the right side and fighting for freedom.
Terrorist saying he'll give the people freedom is utter BS
Bush saying he'll give the people freedom is utter BS
They both use torture in the most inhuman and painful ways they can come up with.
They both use religion.
They both use nationalism.
Tolerance threatens both camps.
Both had blood of innocent civilians on their hands before the war.
Both targetted innocent civilians during the war.
Both used chemical weapons.
Both used the lives of their soldiers for benefit.
Armies on both sides are among the victims list.
And you cant tell a suicide bomber terrorist that he's right.
I on the other hand have trouble wishing that soldier the 'best'. I DO hope he gets back to his family in one piece though.
See, I'm not American, so theres none of the 'my country right or wrong' thing. Its more like 'right, not wrong' for me.
I admire the courage of the American soldiers going into a difficult place and for the job they do. I also happen to admire the courage of the Iraqi soldiers (the ones under Saddam) going to war against a far stronger enemy in the same thinking of 'my country right or wrong'. Now I cannot wish both of them the best, since wishing one the best is like wishing the other the worst.
I'm not Middle Eastern either BTW, not that it should matter.
So I dont wish you the best, and I dont support the war at all. Even more, I think your leadership is morally in a worse position than the Saddam leadership was during their last years.
However, I know youre there for 'good', have good intentions, and will not profit anywhere near from all this as others will. Youre there offering your life for 'freedom'. I'm not. For that alone you have my respect. And for being a human alone, you have my wish that you'll get home safe and alive.
There have been wars in history where I've wished one side the absolute best, and have demonized the other side so much I didnt care if they lost a generation of men. Perhaps the world is becoming a better place since noone can support one side in a war so absolutely to reduce the other side to cannon fodder.
I wish you good health and spirit, wish your family happiness, and wisdom in your voting.
Agreed.
I first came to the conclusion that theyre overacting and were rude. But procedures have to be in place to 'protect protect protect', and these are procedures in effect. Smaller joints trust the employee more, and only delete accounts when theyre fired. Larger places dehumanize and serialize people, and therefore understandably distrusts them. Between the time you decide to leave and the time they kill your accounts, you have them by the balls.... kinda.
Of course they can prosecute you and give you bad reference... but the damage you can cause can be much bigger in dollar values, and in affecting the other hired employees. Do understand the reasoning behind why they do all that before being too offended about it.
A disgruntled employee seeking to have some revenge can simply NOT tell anyone of resigning and cause enough damage to get fired. Alternatively he could put in enough hidden accounts, rootkits or even a small cheap wireless router. Hey hey dont get any ideas!!!
Youre an employee there. Youre part of the company. You should be working to SAVE them money.
.exe files, flash, jar files etc. I wouldnt say you NEED more bandwidth, I say you COULD USE more bandwidth. I could always use more bandwidth. Actually a T3 right here now wouldnt be so bad.. I wouldnt have to WAIT for the damn DVD ISOs to download.
So just asking for $$$ for bandwidth is failing them, in a way. If things arent working out AT ALL right now and you have to fix it, they might pay. But if youre making do with things, they wont slap down another $100K.
So try other ideas like giving them quotas. They'll learn to fit their browsing in the quotas. Cache the pages, try to disable some things like maybe
That explains those Mand Space Stations we have up there. Old News. Dupe.
Hey I dont mind paying the Russians for the space programs. I dont care if it isnt my country building the spaceship, and us Canadians have been involved in others' spaceships anyway. Might as well be Russia so the money doesnt go down the drain so much.
Heck if I see the Ruskis build and launch the ship, I'd be proud my tax dollars were partly responsible for it.
Sure it will help.
Imagine ALL Nigerians with laptops and Internet connections!!
Oh wait theyre not all like that..
I dont always understand why someone would buy something like Linksys, especially the tech-inclined. I have pc-based firewalls at home and work. The home version is a machine that crashes when you exec the HLT instruction. Thus anything above windows 95 dies. I just run knoppix with 'nohlt' parameter. The work version does openbsd with lots of fancy packet filtering and is quite bulletproof.
So why should I spend $70 on lower sized hardware? Because its smaller? Or because its not x86? Or because someone brands it 'firewall'. I'd sooner spend a little more and get a 2600 cisco off ebay and use THAT.
Bluetooth has a class 3 that is specified at 1mW for upto a meter. I havent seen anything like that in zigbee, the atmel chip has 12mW receiving power, although I'm not sure if the bluetooth spec is while busy or average.
I've model airplanes and am hoping to get my flying license soon. I have (www.zenithair.com) airplane kits in mind for later. Up here in Canada, you have huge expanses of wilderness to fly about and thousands of lakes to land in, if you can land in water.
OSS and flying... nothing like it.
Hi,
:)
I'm selling my face on eBay, in exchange for a quad-Opteron 16GB ram system and a T3 connection for a year. I'll add the ears for an all-game steam subscription too.
And no you cant see what I look like.
The way I understand it, they transplanted the skin of the face. Thats not a face transplant. Thats a face skin transplant. The patient will probably look like her original self more than the donor. Thats because the face structure is created more by the skull shape than the skin. Now the patient will have a different face skin color, and hair features (shes not getting it from Mullah Omar is she?). But will be recognized as herself in the end. This should really be called face skin transplant.
A real face transplant would be incredibly difficult, and might as well be a head transplant minus the brain and eyes.
We're using Windows 2000 Pentium-III machines for the most part in the company. We just have no real motivation to start using Windows XP or 2003 server anytime soon. (Apart from the fact that some of our apps will in time force us to upgrade).
Most applications require Windows NT/2000/XP, which means they can still run on the older Windows NT 4.0 machines. So why upgrade?
I think microsoft dug themselves in a hole with Windows 2000. Its everything companies need, and Windows XP offers not a whole lot more.. (prettier screens? faster bootup? DirectX 9.0c?) Most app vendors have standardized on Windows 2000, and Microsoft will have a tough time to force them to Windows XP alone, or Longhorn, which will force customers to get new hardware as well. In doing so, they'll also force some app vendors to more to Linux, which will happily and freely run on older hardware. Time to sell that Microsoft stock.