We've built two 2-TB NASs with this Skyhawk case and are working on a third right now. The case is a 5u, 10 bay, industrial strength one that's damn sturdy.
Throw in a decent power supply, a 3ware 8506 8 or 12 port SATA RAID card (or the equiv. for standard IDE), 8 data and 2 system drives (7200 rpm SATA or IDE), some Kingwin BK-81 drive bays, an inexpensive motherboard and chip (Biostar M7VIZ w/ an Athlon XP 2800), and a gig or two of value RAM (make sure it's compatible), and maybe gigabit eternet, and you've got a nice little RAID or backup system for 3K or less.
Offers 1 TB of storage at RAID 10, 1.75 TB with RAID 5, or 1.5 TB with RAID 5 and a hot standby.
Simple, easy, effective -- if I had the capital, I'd probably just re-sell these...
Looks great, but prefer Ash for scripts
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Looks like a nice Unicode-savvy release that should help with dealing with international languages at the command line. And yay to Apple for giving back (again). When will people finally accept that Apple is indeed helping out the OSS community through GCC, bash, and other tools...?
Kind of off-topic, but for speed purposes in scripts that have to run fast, I find nothing better or more convenient than Ash, especially on systems where/bin/sh is a symlink to/bin/bash.
Does anyone know any history on this shell? Is it a clone of the original bourne shell or of bash? I can't seem to find anything useful on Google...
So if all versions were known, what would be the #1 distro for hosting?
Probably still RedHat/Fedora. It's quick, easy to set up, well supported, has decent-to-good administration tools, and gives good Karma to both you and your boss.
We use Fedora for both our dedicated servers (to be leased/rented to clients) and for internal use. We theoretically offer FreeBSD installs as well, but no one has ever taken us up on that offer (I wonder why)...
RH's kickstart and anaconda features are godsends, the text-only and curses utilities are more than adequate when needed, and with Yum I know longer have to care about RPM dependancy hell.
Gentoo? Give me my three days back, please.
Debian? I suppose... but something smells "stagnant" to me and it's not just the water.
*BSD? Too complex for most customers, and a headache I'd rather not have to deal with on our production machines. There's very little that the BSDs can offer me (for the time invested in learning all the "oddities" (from my perspective)) that's worth it for me to move over.
Your mileage may vary, but mine stays pretty constant.
If using a Mac means servers in Russia are less likely to harvest my passwords and offer my identity to the highest bidder, I think that's an offer I'd like to hear more about.
No, not the car... the computer. The fact that a system like this (while not exactly thin-client X-term material, nor a WYSE text box) would get produced indicates that when the going gets tough, the thin(er) client model makes sense. How soon until someone expands this to 8 terminals? (All you'd need is a PCI-expansion slot and a higher bus speed.)
With this, you can still have the decently-performing graphics of a direct VGA connection, while enjoying to cost benefits of reduced CPU-boxes. w00t.
Did anyone else view the Dashboard previews and have a flashback to the old System X Desk Accessories? Calculator, Puzzle, Alarm Clock,... they're all there:)
Off-topic, and feeding a flaming troll, but I can't resist...
No public healthcare yet defense contracts like this aren't a big deal?
If you break your arm and walk into any Emergency Room in the country, you'll be provided with medical care, regardless of whether you can pay or not. That's the law.
And if your medical system serves your citizens so well, why do many of the wealthier ones come down here when they need to get the best treatment? It's not just Canada, though... from all over the world people fly in from their wonderfully "progressive" state-run health care systems at home to be treated by our "horrible" and "broken" health care system or specialists here in the States. Actions like these speak louder than words and posturing.
The (some would say, overpriced) $120/month that I (or my employer) pays for my Calif. Blue Cross PPO plan helps pay for R&D for everyone else (in the US and abroad). And you know what?... I'm okay with that.
In upholding his conviction and the mandatory identity-disclosure law, the majority justices also said the law only requires that a suspect disclose his or her name, rather than requiring production of a driver's license or other document.
This bodes well -- it would seem to put the kibosh on any effort to turn this into a "must produce your National ID card on demand" ruling.
A name is a name (Jack Brown), and gives the officer something to call you besides "Hey You", but as long as we're not required to produce some sort of definitive, unique-identity-signifying number of the beast, I'm not too worried.
The answer is "yes". ESC, v, move cursor over area you wish to re-wrap until it's all highlighted, g, q. This re-wraps all the lines you've highlighted so that all of them wrap at or before textwidth. I forget where I learned this, but it's extremely useful and one of the many reasons why I like vim.
The privacy statement on Northwest's website did not constitute a unilateral contract. The language used vests discretion in Northwest to determine when the information is "relevant" and which "third parties" might need that information. See Grenier v. Air Express Int'l Corp., 132 F. Supp. 2d 1198, 1201 (D. Minn. 2001) (Doty, J.). Moreover, absent an allegation that Plaintiffs actually read the privacy policy, not merely the general allegation that Plaintiffs "relied on" the policy, Plaintiffs have failed to allege an essential element of a contract claim: that the alleged "offer" was accepted by Plaintiffs. Id. at 1200. Plaintiffs' 12 contract and warranty claims fail as a matter of law.
Even if the privacy policy was sufficiently definite and Plaintiffs had alleged that they read the policy before giving their information to Northwest, it is likely that Plaintiffs' contract and warranty claims would fail as a matter of law. Defendants point out that Plaintiffs have failed to allege any contractual damages arising out of the alleged breach. As Defendants note, the damages Plaintiffs claim are damages arising out of the torts alleged in the Amended Complaint, not damages arising out of the alleged contract. Damages are an essential element of a breach of contract claim, and the failure to allege damages would be fatal to Plaintiffs' contract claims. Sloggy v. Crescent Creamery Co., 75 N.W. 225, 226 (Minn. 1898).
Their lawyers forgot to claim breach of contract! If they had, they would have had a lot more to stand on... as it was, relying on the ECMA and FCRA (shakey at best) did not help their case much in the eyes of the judge because they weren't relevent.
When you piss off a judge with clearly irrelevant arguments, they're less likely to give you the benefit of the doubt later.
Next time you're complaining about a Privacy Policy, spend some time studying what that policy was and don't forget contract damages.
For that reason, I'm not sure if this is relevent to the EULA debate or not, sadly.
A Brazillian Professor has a pretty informative site about this where he talks about his research. Since they added a forum, it seems that more other people than I realized have been following this as well.
How does this work, you say? Well, if you consider the mediterranian philosophy of flat earths and rings going out, they considered the "Atlantic Ocean" to be a sort of "world ocean", not the specific ocean we call it today. Plus, there are a whole other number of Atlantis "checklist items" that the area has in its favor that really don't exist in the Mediterranian or South America (ie, lots of elephants, dual rice harvests, etc...)
Anyway, now that it's posted... I'd be interesting in seeing some other Slashdotters' opinions about it.
That's exactly what I was going to post:) So.... I'll post some useful links instead! For those that don't know, Open Firmware is a FORTH-based boottime environment that handles all Sun and Mac machines recently produced, and also was used in the PReP/CHRP boards. IBM may still use it in some areas, I'm not sure...
The Firmworks stuff with Linux and OF looks particularly neat...
Lots of people out there seem to have had connectivity issues with them, but I have to say I've been very impressed with the speed/reliability here in San Diego. I've had Cox now at four different locations (two apartments and two houses) since 1997 (@Home) and haven't had any major problems.
I'm currently peaking at around 3Mbps downstream (256k up -- boo) and haven't had any downtime at all in the last year (that I've been aware of). My last apartment had about 3 days of downtime in 15 months.
Their email, on the other hand, has never been particularly wonderful. I'm forced to use their SMTP server due to port 25 blocking (they really don't have a choice in implimenting blocking, after all the abusive users and WinDrones out there), and it's been OK. I've never used their incoming email simply because I've never needed to -- I have too many email addresses as it is. To you guys that do, I'm sorry. (I gladly accepted their $20 Amazon GC mea culpa though!)
The impression I get is that connectivity service varies dramatically by city, but in 3 different areas of Greater San Diego (SD, La Mesa, El Cajon), I've been quite pleased. And for the record, I work for two of their competitor ISPs in the city.
AppleScript had the concept of "dialects" which were AppleScript terms written in different languages (they had French, Japanese, Japanese (romanji), German, and Italian working). It was intriguing, I remember actually submitting an AppleScript in French for an assignment in French class in high school circa 1995.
English: the first character of every word whose style is bold
French: le premier caractère de tous les mots dont style est gras
Aside from this, the most linguistically extendable language would probably be Perl (especially Perl 6). Having been written by a linguist, I imagine the most awareness of the linguistic aspects of coding in a different lanugage would be.
I mean really, "coding in another language" doesn't mean replacing "for" loops with "pour" loops, it means taking advantage of concepts (like word genders and verb conjugation) that are specific to that language. Programming "in a French way" could lead to constructs, algorithms, and phrasing very different from "standard C".
Haven't used apt-get myself, but I did an upgrade via yum a few weeks ago and things went pretty well. Of course, I'd been installing things via RPM so I didn't have to deal with sources colliding, so YMMV.
Overall, I was worried going into it, but everything Just Worked.
Both have their advantages and when your talking high enough volume perl is no longer than option, the interpreter consumes too much memory per instance.
That's why I use SpeedyCGI to keep things around persistently. Think of it as mod_perl, without the heartache. If you're writing your perl to use strict, you can probably replace/usr/bin/perl with/usr/bin/speedy and solve most of your problems right there.
I think a point could be made that that was the goal of AppleScript (above and beyond MS's COM/OLE layers): to allow text commands to control GUI-based applications by dealing with concepts at a semantic level rather than a) manipulating the GUI or b) resorting to 1-dimensional "streams" of pipes.
And the coding style was lousy (compounded by the fact that I was still fairly new to perl, although I still think using something like "(a==b) && a=3;" rather than an if statement is unnecessary...
Someone wasn't writing idiomatically (or came from a shell-scripting background). The generally-accepted most Perl-ish way of doing that is:
$a=3 if $a == $b;
No curlies for one-liners when if/unless/while/for/foreach is used in a postfix manner like this.
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Linux!!! (Be careful with fedora core2, it doesnt support nativelly the 3Ware cards - you'll need to compile your own)
Hmm.. we've been using the 8506-8 and 8506-12 over here and they're recognized fine by FC2 -- no drivers needed.
Only $150 at CableMart, Inc, with free shipping.
We've built two 2-TB NASs with this Skyhawk case and are working on a third right now. The case is a 5u, 10 bay, industrial strength one that's damn sturdy.
Throw in a decent power supply, a 3ware 8506 8 or 12 port SATA RAID card (or the equiv. for standard IDE), 8 data and 2 system drives (7200 rpm SATA or IDE), some Kingwin BK-81 drive bays, an inexpensive motherboard and chip (Biostar M7VIZ w/ an Athlon XP 2800), and a gig or two of value RAM (make sure it's compatible), and maybe gigabit eternet, and you've got a nice little RAID or backup system for 3K or less.
Offers 1 TB of storage at RAID 10, 1.75 TB with RAID 5, or 1.5 TB with RAID 5 and a hot standby.
Simple, easy, effective -- if I had the capital, I'd probably just re-sell these...
Looks like a nice Unicode-savvy release that should help with dealing with international languages at the command line. And yay to Apple for giving back (again). When will people finally accept that Apple is indeed helping out the OSS community through GCC, bash, and other tools...?
Kind of off-topic, but for speed purposes in scripts that have to run fast, I find nothing better or more convenient than Ash, especially on systems where
Does anyone know any history on this shell? Is it a clone of the original bourne shell or of bash? I can't seem to find anything useful on Google
So if all versions were known, what would be the #1 distro for hosting?
Probably still RedHat/Fedora. It's quick, easy to set up, well supported, has decent-to-good administration tools, and gives good Karma to both you and your boss.
We use Fedora for both our dedicated servers (to be leased/rented to clients) and for internal use. We theoretically offer FreeBSD installs as well, but no one has ever taken us up on that offer (I wonder why)...
RH's kickstart and anaconda features are godsends, the text-only and curses utilities are more than adequate when needed, and with Yum I know longer have to care about RPM dependancy hell.
Gentoo? Give me my three days back, please.
Debian? I suppose... but something smells "stagnant" to me and it's not just the water.
*BSD? Too complex for most customers, and a headache I'd rather not have to deal with on our production machines. There's very little that the BSDs can offer me (for the time invested in learning all the "oddities" (from my perspective)) that's worth it for me to move over.
Your mileage may vary, but mine stays pretty constant.
If using a Mac means servers in Russia are less likely to harvest my passwords and offer my identity to the highest bidder, I think that's an offer I'd like to hear more about.
What about the servers in PANAMA???
No, not the car... the computer. The fact that a system like this (while not exactly thin-client X-term material, nor a WYSE text box) would get produced indicates that when the going gets tough, the thin(er) client model makes sense. How soon until someone expands this to 8 terminals? (All you'd need is a PCI-expansion slot and a higher bus speed.)
With this, you can still have the decently-performing graphics of a direct VGA connection, while enjoying to cost benefits of reduced CPU-boxes. w00t.
Did anyone else view the Dashboard previews and have a flashback to the old System X Desk Accessories? Calculator, Puzzle, Alarm Clock,... they're all there
And it's Hollywood too. The contact card/info displayed has a name of "Alan Smithee"
Freud claimed that people normally develop oedipal feelings, but people can normally resolve them themselves.
Nitpick: "People" is unnecessarily vague. Men (can) have oedipal feelings... women (can) have electra complexes.
Here's a brief overview
Off-topic, and feeding a flaming troll, but I can't resist...
No public healthcare yet defense contracts like this aren't a big deal?
If you break your arm and walk into any Emergency Room in the country, you'll be provided with medical care, regardless of whether you can pay or not. That's the law.
And if your medical system serves your citizens so well, why do many of the wealthier ones come down here when they need to get the best treatment? It's not just Canada, though... from all over the world people fly in from their wonderfully "progressive" state-run health care systems at home to be treated by our "horrible" and "broken" health care system or specialists here in the States. Actions like these speak louder than words and posturing.
The (some would say, overpriced) $120/month that I (or my employer) pays for my Calif. Blue Cross PPO plan helps pay for R&D for everyone else (in the US and abroad). And you know what?... I'm okay with that.
From a link:
In upholding his conviction and the mandatory identity-disclosure law, the majority justices also said the law only requires that a suspect disclose his or her name, rather than requiring production of a driver's license or other document.
This bodes well -- it would seem to put the kibosh on any effort to turn this into a "must produce your National ID card on demand" ruling.
A name is a name (Jack Brown), and gives the officer something to call you besides "Hey You", but as long as we're not required to produce some sort of definitive, unique-identity-signifying number of the beast, I'm not too worried.
I can't get over how many Slashdotters don't know the simple physics of satellite orbits.
Yeah, that bugs me too... I mean, come on people, it's not rocket science!
The answer is "yes". ESC, v, move cursor over area you wish to re-wrap until it's all highlighted, g, q. This re-wraps all the lines you've highlighted so that all of them wrap at or before textwidth. I forget where I learned this, but it's extremely useful and one of the many reasons why I like vim.
Or, in Pico/Nano, you just hit Ctrl-J =)
Their lawyers forgot to claim breach of contract! If they had, they would have had a lot more to stand on... as it was, relying on the ECMA and FCRA (shakey at best) did not help their case much in the eyes of the judge because they weren't relevent.
When you piss off a judge with clearly irrelevant arguments, they're less likely to give you the benefit of the doubt later.
Next time you're complaining about a Privacy Policy, spend some time studying what that policy was and don't forget contract damages.
For that reason, I'm not sure if this is relevent to the EULA debate or not, sadly.
That "Atlantis" referred to most of Indonesia, under the South China Sea, since it was a full continent rather than a bunch of islands during the last ice age. It's pretty novel, and I can't recall any other work putting forth this theory (ie, anything on TLC - heh).
A Brazillian Professor has a pretty informative site about this where he talks about his research. Since they added a forum, it seems that more other people than I realized have been following this as well.
How does this work, you say? Well, if you consider the mediterranian philosophy of flat earths and rings going out, they considered the "Atlantic Ocean" to be a sort of "world ocean", not the specific ocean we call it today. Plus, there are a whole other number of Atlantis "checklist items" that the area has in its favor that really don't exist in the Mediterranian or South America (ie, lots of elephants, dual rice harvests, etc...)
Anyway, now that it's posted... I'd be interesting in seeing some other Slashdotters' opinions about it.
=)
That's exactly what I was going to post
The Firmworks stuff with Linux and OF looks particularly neat...
And here's a cool example of things you can do with OF. Two-machine mode boot debugging
(Linked via the Drudge Report -- hopefully more articles like this will further add to the drumbeat of realization... by the public at large):
Single mom overwhelmed by recording industry suit
Lots of people out there seem to have had connectivity issues with them, but I have to say I've been very impressed with the speed/reliability here in San Diego. I've had Cox now at four different locations (two apartments and two houses) since 1997 (@Home) and haven't had any major problems.
I'm currently peaking at around 3Mbps downstream (256k up -- boo) and haven't had any downtime at all in the last year (that I've been aware of). My last apartment had about 3 days of downtime in 15 months.
Their email, on the other hand, has never been particularly wonderful. I'm forced to use their SMTP server due to port 25 blocking (they really don't have a choice in implimenting blocking, after all the abusive users and WinDrones out there), and it's been OK. I've never used their incoming email simply because I've never needed to -- I have too many email addresses as it is. To you guys that do, I'm sorry. (I gladly accepted their $20 Amazon GC mea culpa though!)
The impression I get is that connectivity service varies dramatically by city, but in 3 different areas of Greater San Diego (SD, La Mesa, El Cajon), I've been quite pleased. And for the record, I work for two of their competitor ISPs in the city.
My two cents.
AppleScript had the concept of "dialects" which were AppleScript terms written in different languages (they had French, Japanese, Japanese (romanji), German, and Italian working). It was intriguing, I remember actually submitting an AppleScript in French for an assignment in French class in high school circa 1995.
English:
the first character of every word whose style is bold
French:
le premier caractère de tous les mots dont style est gras
Above in PDF
Sample of an AppleScript in English and Japanese
WikiPedia
Current Apple info
Some discussion on it circa 1994
Note, this should not be confused with OSA (Open Scripting Architecture) dialects, like JavascriptOSA, which are different.
Aside from this, the most linguistically extendable language would probably be Perl (especially Perl 6). Having been written by a linguist, I imagine the most awareness of the linguistic aspects of coding in a different lanugage would be.
I mean really, "coding in another language" doesn't mean replacing "for" loops with "pour" loops, it means taking advantage of concepts (like word genders and verb conjugation) that are specific to that language. Programming "in a French way" could lead to constructs, algorithms, and phrasing very different from "standard C".
Here's a video link from a link from the article. It's described as what "must be the first operational V8 monowheel."
Nifty! Though I do like the RIOTWheel too...
Haven't used apt-get myself, but I did an upgrade via yum a few weeks ago and things went pretty well. Of course, I'd been installing things via RPM so I didn't have to deal with sources colliding, so YMMV.
Overall, I was worried going into it, but everything Just Worked.
More info here and here.
Both have their advantages and when your talking high enough volume perl is no longer than option, the interpreter consumes too much memory per instance.
That's why I use SpeedyCGI to keep things around persistently. Think of it as mod_perl, without the heartache. If you're writing your perl to use strict, you can probably replace
I think a point could be made that that was the goal of AppleScript (above and beyond MS's COM/OLE layers): to allow text commands to control GUI-based applications by dealing with concepts at a semantic level rather than a) manipulating the GUI or b) resorting to 1-dimensional "streams" of pipes.
Now, 20 years later - introducing... the WAREZ TRUCK - driving from neighbourhood to neighbourhood...
Sounds like the Homeboys Shopping Network to me...
And the coding style was lousy (compounded by the fact that I was still fairly new to perl, although I still think using something like "(a==b) && a=3;" rather than an if statement is unnecessary...
Someone wasn't writing idiomatically (or came from a shell-scripting background). The generally-accepted most Perl-ish way of doing that is:
$a=3 if $a == $b;
No curlies for one-liners when if/unless/while/for/foreach is used in a postfix manner like this.