I was hoping to see him as well, and exhausted many ears while lambasting that particular failure of the movie, while they had all the other stuff going on with the Ents. However, I would also like to have seen many of the Ent songs in the movies as well, along with all the other songs that JRRT took the time to compose/construct.
I'll grant you about the signage. My word, I had forgotten that little quirk. And to the other ChildPoster on this thread, I've never been to Oregon, so no knowledge.
However, you mention the luxury of Turn Signals. I capitalize them because I'm sure they're trademarked by someone in Atlanta based on the usage in Houston. Houstonians don't only _not use their turn signals_, and _not only will they block you if you use a turn signal_, but they'll actively go to the trouble of using the turn signal on the left to go to the right, and vice versa, and they'll use their turn signals to tell you what they've done.
But to use it to signal a turn, or to identify their intentions? Surely not. In Houston, you see a spot open in traffic, then you had best just muscle in, because otherwise you won't be able to advance. And forget about attempting to merge with any sort of forewarning. Unless you've driven in Houston for at least two years, you'ld do best to just hang out on the right, and get off when you get to your exit. What's that? You need to make a left exit? Best invest in that new UPS software and figure out how to get to your destination by going some other way.
NOTICE: the above post only references the rush hours in Houston, which begin at 05:00, take a siesta at 14:15, then resume at 14:45 until around 21:00. Outside of those times, and presuming the way you're trying to go is not blocked due to road construction, then at that time, and only then, driving in Houston is like driving anywhere else. I think.
It's really been too long. But for fairness sake, I should mention that I am going to Atlanta on the 19th of December, so I can verify then which is truly worse. And I'll be in my car, so I won't have any prejudice as far as which vehicle I'm in.
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So, a NJ transplant in ATL? Business or family as a reason for the move? Which industry are you in (presumably Comp related)? I hear NJ is the king of the toll-booth, which I didn't have any experience with till I moved to Houston; here there is the lovely Beltway, which is almost the only way to get around town. How's the tollbooth experience in Atlanta coming along? Last I was there, 400 was toll, but that was it.
Otherwise, how's Atlanta compared to back home? I've always felt that it was a little to home-towny and not enough Metro.
As an Atlanta native who transplanted to Houston, I can tell you that no matter what you think of Atlanta drivers not being able to follow road designs, I can assure you that they are much better drivers than out here in Houston. Now, some may blame the fact that there are just more people in the Houston metro area, but I disagree.
And to make matters worse, Houston actually has frontage roads that are used. Imagine I-285 6-lanes across at the narrowest, all around town (at a further distance from downtown no less) and with an additional 2-3 lanes on each side of the freeway, with on and off ramps everytime there is a underpass. Now imagine that for 75, 85 and 20 as well. All of Houston is laid out like that. Then, as I said imagine 285 further out, that is because there is a second loop just outside of the downtown area, that is 610, which has more construction than any I have seen. Imagine Spaghetti Junction with 365/24/7 construction for three years. That kind of busy, with new construction. Houston has that on 610 in two places.
Now, as far as having a larger population causes more drivers, sure, but that many more dumb-arsen does not follow the laws of averages when increasing a population. It's been a disproportionate increase in my view, or else ATL really does have better drivers overall.
Lastly, I just thought I might add about the HOV's, my favorite annoyance now. In Atlanta, there are HOV lanes on each side, one {north|east}bound and one {south|west}bound. Houston uses that time honored approach (yeah right) of A SINGLE ELEVATED HOV LANE, that changes direction based on the time of day, and THAT IS NOT AVAILABLE ON THE WEEKENDS generally speaking. Gated and seperated and usually elevated. Not like how Atlanta has central lane exits (of course, Houston has those as well, as the HOV is in the middle of the interstate) but the entire thing is segregated. You have to exit the freeway to get on the HOV (except in one small part of town, but it's still gated).
So be happy that Atlanta has some concept of driver congestion and how to relieve it.
Everything that you could possibly think of is probably on the internet already
or maybe
There are no new ideas, just old ones repackaged in new ways
ah well, back to me drawing board... or to visit freenet and become familiar with something...
What's to stop a local law enforcement from shutting down a freenet node? If I have spare bandwidth (and I doubt I do, just a thought experiment), and I setup a freenet node, what's to keep me from getting shut down as hosting _potentially detrimental_ services? Presumably someone can find which other nodes are on the freenet backbone? Therefore it doesn't take a rocket scientist to lookup the owner of a public IP addy, and to track them down.
So, I have a solution, albeit a baby solution. Let's nurture it and develop it.
If you SSL into my box, you and I have a, presumably, secure connection, such that noone knows what we are sending back and forth. For all they know, we could be exchanging Oracle and SAP db's, in dd of=nnnnn.img format, such that the requirement of sending that data is that we send the data in chunks of approximately 4MB to ensure proper reception, and such that with the proper queueing software, could send GB's of data in continous chunks. But since it's SSL, we've established that we have a baseline relationship, or else you are sucking everything off my system.
But they don't know if you're a bloodsucking leech or a qualified field location. Right?
So therefore, I foresee invitation-only BBS's as it were, with SSL or better connections, with no bandwidth throttling pipes inbound. What, they're going to show that nobody has the reasonable right to connect over SSL to transmit large amounts of data back and forth?
So they think they can prove that we are transmitting movies or something over SSL? Why? How large is an Ubuntu DVD image? What about any of the other distro's on LiveCD? And for us to say that we are transmitting back and forth amongst known peers, isn't that what the internet was all about? Trusted "peer" computing? Not DRM computing?
I only ask that I be allowed to lay claim to Drachenstern on future BBS's of this nature. And I defy my ISP to tell me that I can not allow my peers to connect to my system over SSL for true and honest reasons.
Of course, I am only looking at the issue of Packet Inspection with this post, not the issue of bandwidth throttling at the other end. I would be willing to pay for T1 or other business services to maintain my non-throttled bandwidth. And may all holy entities help the Telco's if they decide to throttle all business plans.
That's what I ran XP on for four or five years before I got my laptop (NOT OLPC - regular ole HP) and with less than 3GB of HD space for userspace and WinXP and apps. I probably could have cut most of that HD space. (case in point, the system is still running, and doesn't use 80% of the full 13 GB that I have installed, and most of that space is MP3 [60%+])
I don't see why it's impossible that people would run it on that, and I did some devel work amongst other things on it, so I say it would be entirely plausible. And the other things that I did with that comp involved 3D models in AutoCAD. I don't mean you're average little 3D ball or anything, but whole facilities layouts (I'm a dork) with all electrical, plumbing, HVAC, furniture, doors, windows, bricks on the side of the building (I said I'm a dork) and all done in 3D wireframing in Acad2K.
So I would say that it (XP + 400MHZ + 128MB + ~5GB*) is plenty fast enough and with enough room, and solely based off experience.
For the record: I've never met the man, just looked at the addy on account of you pointed it out. Now you've gone and done him a favor, and you were trying to beat on him a little.
I think this backfired, you might look for a different approach in the future
Whats that? To visit space, I don't have to fly on VirginSpaceLines, I can just goto SoCal? (if you don't get the joke, leave the site now)
Alternate humorous statement:
So can we send some of the excess "stars" we have here into space to help fill that interstellar void? I think we have way more than we need now. (Bonus points are credited for this option too, as many in SoCal are just waiting for the spaceship to take them away anyways)
IalsoANAP, but wouldn't that imply that light cannot travel through a vacuum? since light is predominantly viewed as electro-magnetic waves, not purely particles. And if you have light in a vacuum (since we don't speak of singular lights, "light" would imply vastly many "light(singular)"), then don't you now have a mechanism that allows for vacuum to transmit vibration?
It seems like the current definition of physicists is flawed, as you and I understand it (presumably we understand the same thing).** If vacuum cannot transmit vibration, then how does light pass through it? If vacuum is the absence of matter, then how does a light particle travel through it? These are two questions that pre-suppose the other question has been answered with the subject of the question. In other words, the general retorts are as follows: If vacuum cannot transmit vibration, then how does light pass through it? - Light is a particle, and can therefore move through where vibrations cannot. If vacuum is the absence of matter, then how does a light particle travel through it? - The absence of particles does not imply the inability to transmit vibration.
Yet current physics theories (as I understand them) don't tackle both of these questions at the same time.
The other thing I'm a little hazy on, how do you measure speed when there is no friction coefficient to measure against? Isn't that rather how speed is measured in the conventional sense? I realize that speed is a simple mathematical quantification of the amount of energy a unit has expended to move in a given direction, while overcoming friction (or not, if speed = 0).
Ah well, that's just me $.02
**Now, given that I am playing Devils Advocate doesn't mean that we understand two different things.
okay, but I already have that setup, I was wanting to setup a native windows boot, so that is partially solved. I'm more worried about business apps that the boss wants me to show that virtualization is not causing issues with, for devel purposes.
As a matter of fact, I have several VMs I run, all based off one "default" that I just copy as needed to spawn a new machine (as config needs change), so I know exactly how many benefits using VMWare Server/etc offers. I love that I can spend all my time doing install once (here all-my-time equates to about 15-20 mins with an iso ondisk instead of using a cd through vmware) and then replicate readily. I'm considering rolling the office to a vmware/ubuntu hybrid solution, except the girls probably wouldn't understand why this is more beneficial (ie, I can roll out updates quite rapidly if need be, and they can keep their profiles on the server as roaming)
I still feel that I'm fairly new here, but I've really been active I suppose since around just after the time of E. I remember many E oriented articles from long before/. decided to do a 10-yr article
I understand that it is possible to setup something similar to what Windows Home Sever (WHS) offers, but you almost have to have a degree in Computer Science to do it. I don't know about that, I am at uni and most of my classmates don't know the major distros of linux (or anything other than RH). When they see Ubuntu running on my laptop, they think I'm some sort of uber-gott. I quickly quash that theory, but suggest they check it out, as I hand them a livecd. So no, most of the guys who suggest that theory here are not only not CS degree holders, but many don't even have degrees [or in many cases, not yet] Yet remarkably, they manage to get it running, so I suppose your mum could as well, with a little guidance
I would be very comfortable telling my mom how to install Windows WHS because it is so easy. It really takes only 2 steps:
Put in the server install disk and answer very basic questions, the questions are so easy to answer that the recommended choices are already chosen and you could just hit next. You this step completely if you purchase a pre-built system, which most people will do.
Put the connector disk into each client computer and answer the questions.
Sorry chap, don't trust me mum to not call me on every screen and ask questions. Perhaps your mum is a bit more technically inclined?
She would now have a fully functional and automatic backup solution. If one of her computers ever crashed she just needs to boot to the supplied recovery CD and select which backup she wants to restore and in about 20 minutes her computer is up and running.
Getting your files online is also a piece of cake. If your router supports UPnP Windows Home Server will automatically configure it. All you have to do is choose the subdomain you want to use with the Microsoft provided homeserver.com TLD, everything is served right off your server.
Another cool feature of Windows Home Server is the way it handles storage. No matter how many physical drives you have in the server they all show up as one drive, even external storage functions the same way. This means you don't have to worry about managing multiple drives, where the data is stored, and you never have to worry about running out of space, just pop in another drive or add an external drive and WHS takes care of everything else. You can also choose to have your files duplicated, which puts them on more than one physical drive so that if one drive fails you don't loose your data. Also, the backups will never backup the same file twice, even if it is on more than one computer. If there are differences it only backs up the differences and on the cluster level so it is extremely efficient with storage space.
There is a ton more and you can read my review to see it all.
Otherwise, sounds quite spiffy. Thanks for the heads up.
PS. not trying to troll, just pointing out that, as always on the net, YMMV
If I had a quarter for every time that I said it and that was how long it took, I'd be able to afford a hamburger. And not a very appetizing hamburger at that.
If I had to give anyone a quarter everytime I've said it, I probably couldn't pay rent.
I've just taken to saying, "meh, I can make it work, later"
So do you (or anyone else listening) have any good ideas or suggestions or warnings of pitfalls if I need to install W2K to a HD which already has Ubuntu?
I meant to do it at the beginning when I bought my new HD, but didn't have my W2K CD on hand when I started the process, and wanted to go ahead and get it loaded. So I've got a 5GB part set aside for the W2K part (and no, I don't need any data size on the partition, just enough for windows to feel happy with itself and run) but from what I'm reading here, W2K is not likely to install since NTFS isn't on #1?
If it should run no prob, then that's fine too. I hear I've gotta go back to my live and re-run GRUB to let it reinstall, and that I can do that from a term off my HDA1/boot once I've got the live running.
Surely you jest. Most of us would just as soon put a little extra oomph into the system, and use the RAID to store most of our stuff, and then stream it back when you need it, so use it for both live data and backups.
Jehan Shuman was used to dealing with the men in authority on long-embattled earth. He was only a civilian but he originated programming patterns that resulted in self-directing war computers of the highest sort. Generals, consequently listened to him. Heads of congressional committees too.
There was one of each in the special lounge of New Pentagon. General Weider was space-burned and had a small mouth puckered almost into a cipher. He smoked Denebian tobacco with the air of one whose patriotism was so notorious, he could be allowed such liberties.
Shuman, tall, distinguished, and Programmer-first-class, faced them fearlessly.
He said, "This, gentlemen, is Myron Aub."
"The one with the unusual gift that you discovered quite by accident," said Congressman Brant placidly. "Ah." He inspected the little man with the egg-bald head with amiable curiosity.
The little man, in return, twisted the fingers of his hands anxiously. He had never been near such great men before. He was only an aging low-grade technician who had long ago failed all tests designed to smoke out the gifted ones among mankind and had settled into the rut of unskilled labor. There was just this hobby of his that the great Programmer had found out about and was now making such a frightening fuss over.
General Weider said, "I find this atmosphere of mystery childish."
"You won't in a moment," said Shuman. "This is not something we can leak to the firstcomer. Aub!" There was something imperative about his manner of biting off that one-syllable name, but then he was a great Programmer speaking to a mere technician. "Aub! How much is nine times seven?"
Aub hesitated a moment. His pale eyes glimmered with a feeble anxiety.
"Sixty-three," he said.
Congressman Brant lifted his eyebrows. "Is that right?"
"Check it for yourself, Congressman."
The congressman took out his pocket computer, nudged the milled edges twice, looked at its face as it lay there in the palm of his hand, and put it back. He said, "Is this the gift you brought us here to demonstrate. An illusionist?"
"More than that, sir. Aub has memorized a few operations and with them he computes on paper."
"A paper computer?" said the general. He looked pained.
"No, sir," said Shuman patiently. "Not a paper computer. Simply a piece of paper. General, would you be so kind as to suggest a number?"
"Seventeen," said the general.
"And you, Congressman?"
"Twenty-three."
"Good! Aub, multiply those numbers, and please show the gentlemen your manner of doing it."
"Yes, Programmer," said Aub, ducking his head. He fished a small pad out of one shirt pocket and an artist's hairline stylus out of the other. His forehead corrugated as he made painstaking marks on the paper.
General Weider interrupted him sharply. "Let's see that."
Aub passed him the paper, and Weider said, "Well, it looks like the figure seventeen."
Congressman Brant nodded and said, "So it does, but I suppose anyone can copy figures off a computer. I think I could make a passable seventeen myself, even without practice."
"If you will let Aub continue, gentlemen," said Shuman without heat.
Aub continued, his hand trembling a little. Finally he said in a low voice, "The answer is three hundred and ninety-one."
Congressman Brant took out his computer a second time and flicked it. "By Godfrey, so it is. How did he guess?"
"No guess, Congressman," said Shuman. "He computed that result. He did it on this sheet of paper."
"Humbug," said the general impatiently. "A computer is one thing and marks on a paper are another."
"Explain, Aub," said Shuman.
"Yes, Programmer. Well, gentlemen, I write down seventeen, and just undernea
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I was hoping to see him as well, and exhausted many ears while lambasting that particular failure of the movie, while they had all the other stuff going on with the Ents. However, I would also like to have seen many of the Ent songs in the movies as well, along with all the other songs that JRRT took the time to compose/construct.
Or did I just miss something?
I'll grant you about the signage. My word, I had forgotten that little quirk. And to the other ChildPoster on this thread, I've never been to Oregon, so no knowledge.
However, you mention the luxury of Turn Signals. I capitalize them because I'm sure they're trademarked by someone in Atlanta based on the usage in Houston. Houstonians don't only _not use their turn signals_, and _not only will they block you if you use a turn signal_, but they'll actively go to the trouble of using the turn signal on the left to go to the right, and vice versa, and they'll use their turn signals to tell you what they've done.
But to use it to signal a turn, or to identify their intentions? Surely not. In Houston, you see a spot open in traffic, then you had best just muscle in, because otherwise you won't be able to advance. And forget about attempting to merge with any sort of forewarning. Unless you've driven in Houston for at least two years, you'ld do best to just hang out on the right, and get off when you get to your exit. What's that? You need to make a left exit? Best invest in that new UPS software and figure out how to get to your destination by going some other way.
NOTICE: the above post only references the rush hours in Houston, which begin at 05:00, take a siesta at 14:15, then resume at 14:45 until around 21:00. Outside of those times, and presuming the way you're trying to go is not blocked due to road construction, then at that time, and only then, driving in Houston is like driving anywhere else. I think.
It's really been too long. But for fairness sake, I should mention that I am going to Atlanta on the 19th of December, so I can verify then which is truly worse. And I'll be in my car, so I won't have any prejudice as far as which vehicle I'm in.
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So, a NJ transplant in ATL? Business or family as a reason for the move? Which industry are you in (presumably Comp related)? I hear NJ is the king of the toll-booth, which I didn't have any experience with till I moved to Houston; here there is the lovely Beltway, which is almost the only way to get around town. How's the tollbooth experience in Atlanta coming along? Last I was there, 400 was toll, but that was it.
Otherwise, how's Atlanta compared to back home? I've always felt that it was a little to home-towny and not enough Metro.
I would only deduce that if there were a tram track in the road at the location where the blinking red light was.
Else, I would have deduced as you did, and presumed that there was a malfunctioning stop-light control.
As an Atlanta native who transplanted to Houston, I can tell you that no matter what you think of Atlanta drivers not being able to follow road designs, I can assure you that they are much better drivers than out here in Houston. Now, some may blame the fact that there are just more people in the Houston metro area, but I disagree.
And to make matters worse, Houston actually has frontage roads that are used. Imagine I-285 6-lanes across at the narrowest, all around town (at a further distance from downtown no less) and with an additional 2-3 lanes on each side of the freeway, with on and off ramps everytime there is a underpass. Now imagine that for 75, 85 and 20 as well. All of Houston is laid out like that. Then, as I said imagine 285 further out, that is because there is a second loop just outside of the downtown area, that is 610, which has more construction than any I have seen. Imagine Spaghetti Junction with 365/24/7 construction for three years. That kind of busy, with new construction. Houston has that on 610 in two places.
Now, as far as having a larger population causes more drivers, sure, but that many more dumb-arsen does not follow the laws of averages when increasing a population. It's been a disproportionate increase in my view, or else ATL really does have better drivers overall.
Lastly, I just thought I might add about the HOV's, my favorite annoyance now. In Atlanta, there are HOV lanes on each side, one {north|east}bound and one {south|west}bound. Houston uses that time honored approach (yeah right) of A SINGLE ELEVATED HOV LANE, that changes direction based on the time of day, and THAT IS NOT AVAILABLE ON THE WEEKENDS generally speaking. Gated and seperated and usually elevated. Not like how Atlanta has central lane exits (of course, Houston has those as well, as the HOV is in the middle of the interstate) but the entire thing is segregated. You have to exit the freeway to get on the HOV (except in one small part of town, but it's still gated).
So be happy that Atlanta has some concept of driver congestion and how to relieve it.
Cheers
What's to stop a local law enforcement from shutting down a freenet node? If I have spare bandwidth (and I doubt I do, just a thought experiment), and I setup a freenet node, what's to keep me from getting shut down as hosting _potentially detrimental_ services? Presumably someone can find which other nodes are on the freenet backbone? Therefore it doesn't take a rocket scientist to lookup the owner of a public IP addy, and to track them down.
So, I have a solution, albeit a baby solution. Let's nurture it and develop it.
If you SSL into my box, you and I have a, presumably, secure connection, such that noone knows what we are sending back and forth. For all they know, we could be exchanging Oracle and SAP db's, in dd of=nnnnn.img format, such that the requirement of sending that data is that we send the data in chunks of approximately 4MB to ensure proper reception, and such that with the proper queueing software, could send GB's of data in continous chunks. But since it's SSL, we've established that we have a baseline relationship, or else you are sucking everything off my system.
But they don't know if you're a bloodsucking leech or a qualified field location. Right?
So therefore, I foresee invitation-only BBS's as it were, with SSL or better connections, with no bandwidth throttling pipes inbound. What, they're going to show that nobody has the reasonable right to connect over SSL to transmit large amounts of data back and forth?
So they think they can prove that we are transmitting movies or something over SSL? Why? How large is an Ubuntu DVD image? What about any of the other distro's on LiveCD? And for us to say that we are transmitting back and forth amongst known peers, isn't that what the internet was all about? Trusted "peer" computing? Not DRM computing?
I only ask that I be allowed to lay claim to Drachenstern on future BBS's of this nature. And I defy my ISP to tell me that I can not allow my peers to connect to my system over SSL for true and honest reasons.
Of course, I am only looking at the issue of Packet Inspection with this post, not the issue of bandwidth throttling at the other end. I would be willing to pay for T1 or other business services to maintain my non-throttled bandwidth. And may all holy entities help the Telco's if they decide to throttle all business plans.
Ah'll jus' go ahead and put yer' name down as the originator foh' that foh' posterity sake, yeah? ~ (cockney'd accent no less)
That's what I ran XP on for four or five years before I got my laptop (NOT OLPC - regular ole HP) and with less than 3GB of HD space for userspace and WinXP and apps. I probably could have cut most of that HD space. (case in point, the system is still running, and doesn't use 80% of the full 13 GB that I have installed, and most of that space is MP3 [60%+])
I don't see why it's impossible that people would run it on that, and I did some devel work amongst other things on it, so I say it would be entirely plausible. And the other things that I did with that comp involved 3D models in AutoCAD. I don't mean you're average little 3D ball or anything, but whole facilities layouts (I'm a dork) with all electrical, plumbing, HVAC, furniture, doors, windows, bricks on the side of the building (I said I'm a dork) and all done in 3D wireframing in Acad2K.
So I would say that it (XP + 400MHZ + 128MB + ~5GB*) is plenty fast enough and with enough room, and solely based off experience.
Now, the question still remains, would they?
*what's the storage spec on the OLPC?
I dunno, I think it looks quite nice
For the record: I've never met the man, just looked at the addy on account of you pointed it out. Now you've gone and done him a favor, and you were trying to beat on him a little.
I think this backfired, you might look for a different approach in the future
I don't get it, what's the diff? I mean, yeah, the windows are layed out differently and all, but still.
Ooooh, is it because one's on an Apple, and the other's on a wintel? No...
Hrm...
Whats that? To visit space, I don't have to fly on VirginSpaceLines, I can just goto SoCal? (if you don't get the joke, leave the site now)
Alternate humorous statement:
So can we send some of the excess "stars" we have here into space to help fill that interstellar void? I think we have way more than we need now. (Bonus points are credited for this option too, as many in SoCal are just waiting for the spaceship to take them away anyways)
IalsoANAP, but wouldn't that imply that light cannot travel through a vacuum? since light is predominantly viewed as electro-magnetic waves, not purely particles. And if you have light in a vacuum (since we don't speak of singular lights, "light" would imply vastly many "light(singular)"), then don't you now have a mechanism that allows for vacuum to transmit vibration?
It seems like the current definition of physicists is flawed, as you and I understand it (presumably we understand the same thing).** If vacuum cannot transmit vibration, then how does light pass through it? If vacuum is the absence of matter, then how does a light particle travel through it? These are two questions that pre-suppose the other question has been answered with the subject of the question. In other words, the general retorts are as follows:
If vacuum cannot transmit vibration, then how does light pass through it? - Light is a particle, and can therefore move through where vibrations cannot.
If vacuum is the absence of matter, then how does a light particle travel through it? - The absence of particles does not imply the inability to transmit vibration.
Yet current physics theories (as I understand them) don't tackle both of these questions at the same time.
The other thing I'm a little hazy on, how do you measure speed when there is no friction coefficient to measure against? Isn't that rather how speed is measured in the conventional sense? I realize that speed is a simple mathematical quantification of the amount of energy a unit has expended to move in a given direction, while overcoming friction (or not, if speed = 0).
Ah well, that's just me $.02
**Now, given that I am playing Devils Advocate doesn't mean that we understand two different things.
Ah-ha,
I have enlightenment now. Thank you
okay, but I already have that setup, I was wanting to setup a native windows boot, so that is partially solved. I'm more worried about business apps that the boss wants me to show that virtualization is not causing issues with, for devel purposes.
As a matter of fact, I have several VMs I run, all based off one "default" that I just copy as needed to spawn a new machine (as config needs change), so I know exactly how many benefits using VMWare Server/etc offers. I love that I can spend all my time doing install once (here all-my-time equates to about 15-20 mins with an iso ondisk instead of using a cd through vmware) and then replicate readily. I'm considering rolling the office to a vmware/ubuntu hybrid solution, except the girls probably wouldn't understand why this is more beneficial (ie, I can roll out updates quite rapidly if need be, and they can keep their profiles on the server as roaming)
Actually I am not new around here.
I still feel that I'm fairly new here, but I've really been active I suppose since around just after the time of E. I remember many E oriented articles from long before- Put in the server install disk and answer very basic questions, the questions are so easy to answer that the recommended choices are already chosen and you could just hit next. You this step completely if you purchase a pre-built system, which most people will do.
- Put the connector disk into each client computer and answer the questions.
Sorry chap, don't trust me mum to not call me on every screen and ask questions. Perhaps your mum is a bit more technically inclined?She would now have a fully functional and automatic backup solution. If one of her computers ever crashed she just needs to boot to the supplied recovery CD and select which backup she wants to restore and in about 20 minutes her computer is up and running.
Getting your files online is also a piece of cake. If your router supports UPnP Windows Home Server will automatically configure it. All you have to do is choose the subdomain you want to use with the Microsoft provided homeserver.com TLD, everything is served right off your server.
Another cool feature of Windows Home Server is the way it handles storage. No matter how many physical drives you have in the server they all show up as one drive, even external storage functions the same way. This means you don't have to worry about managing multiple drives, where the data is stored, and you never have to worry about running out of space, just pop in another drive or add an external drive and WHS takes care of everything else. You can also choose to have your files duplicated, which puts them on more than one physical drive so that if one drive fails you don't loose your data. Also, the backups will never backup the same file twice, even if it is on more than one computer. If there are differences it only backs up the differences and on the cluster level so it is extremely efficient with storage space.
There is a ton more and you can read my review to see it all.
Otherwise, sounds quite spiffy. Thanks for the heads up.PS. not trying to troll, just pointing out that, as always on the net, YMMV
If I had a quarter for every time that I said it and that was how long it took, I'd be able to afford a hamburger. And not a very appetizing hamburger at that.
If I had to give anyone a quarter everytime I've said it, I probably couldn't pay rent.
I've just taken to saying, "meh, I can make it work, later"
With your handle, that just became a helluva lot funnier joke
How would you make the USB-RO system work? What about syslogs? /var? I get /home etc, but would you put the other to the raid as well?
So do you (or anyone else listening) have any good ideas or suggestions or warnings of pitfalls if I need to install W2K to a HD which already has Ubuntu?
I meant to do it at the beginning when I bought my new HD, but didn't have my W2K CD on hand when I started the process, and wanted to go ahead and get it loaded. So I've got a 5GB part set aside for the W2K part (and no, I don't need any data size on the partition, just enough for windows to feel happy with itself and run) but from what I'm reading here, W2K is not likely to install since NTFS isn't on #1?
If it should run no prob, then that's fine too. I hear I've gotta go back to my live and re-run GRUB to let it reinstall, and that I can do that from a term off my HDA1/boot once I've got the live running.
Then again, I've never had good luck with Maxtor, but WD - sweet sailing all the way.
As always on the net, YMMV.
Surely you jest. Most of us would just as soon put a little extra oomph into the system, and use the RAID to store most of our stuff, and then stream it back when you need it, so use it for both live data and backups.
How has no one mentioned this yet? - Don't blame me too much, I just copied and pasted from: http://downlode.org/Etext/power.html
The Feeling Of Power
by Isaac Asimov
Jehan Shuman was used to dealing with the men in authority on long-embattled earth. He was only a civilian but he originated programming patterns that resulted in self-directing war computers of the highest sort. Generals, consequently listened to him. Heads of congressional committees too.
There was one of each in the special lounge of New Pentagon. General Weider was space-burned and had a small mouth puckered almost into a cipher. He smoked Denebian tobacco with the air of one whose patriotism was so notorious, he could be allowed such liberties.
Shuman, tall, distinguished, and Programmer-first-class, faced them fearlessly.
He said, "This, gentlemen, is Myron Aub."
"The one with the unusual gift that you discovered quite by accident," said Congressman Brant placidly. "Ah." He inspected the little man with the egg-bald head with amiable curiosity.
The little man, in return, twisted the fingers of his hands anxiously. He had never been near such great men before. He was only an aging low-grade technician who had long ago failed all tests designed to smoke out the gifted ones among mankind and had settled into the rut of unskilled labor. There was just this hobby of his that the great Programmer had found out about and was now making such a frightening fuss over.
General Weider said, "I find this atmosphere of mystery childish."
"You won't in a moment," said Shuman. "This is not something we can leak to the firstcomer. Aub!" There was something imperative about his manner of biting off that one-syllable name, but then he was a great Programmer speaking to a mere technician. "Aub! How much is nine times seven?"
Aub hesitated a moment. His pale eyes glimmered with a feeble anxiety.
"Sixty-three," he said.
Congressman Brant lifted his eyebrows. "Is that right?"
"Check it for yourself, Congressman."
The congressman took out his pocket computer, nudged the milled edges twice, looked at its face as it lay there in the palm of his hand, and put it back. He said, "Is this the gift you brought us here to demonstrate. An illusionist?"
"More than that, sir. Aub has memorized a few operations and with them he computes on paper."
"A paper computer?" said the general. He looked pained.
"No, sir," said Shuman patiently. "Not a paper computer. Simply a piece of paper. General, would you be so kind as to suggest a number?"
"Seventeen," said the general.
"And you, Congressman?"
"Twenty-three."
"Good! Aub, multiply those numbers, and please show the gentlemen your manner of doing it."
"Yes, Programmer," said Aub, ducking his head. He fished a small pad out of one shirt pocket and an artist's hairline stylus out of the other. His forehead corrugated as he made painstaking marks on the paper.
General Weider interrupted him sharply. "Let's see that."
Aub passed him the paper, and Weider said, "Well, it looks like the figure seventeen."
Congressman Brant nodded and said, "So it does, but I suppose anyone can copy figures off a computer. I think I could make a passable seventeen myself, even without practice."
"If you will let Aub continue, gentlemen," said Shuman without heat.
Aub continued, his hand trembling a little. Finally he said in a low voice, "The answer is three hundred and ninety-one."
Congressman Brant took out his computer a second time and flicked it. "By Godfrey, so it is. How did he guess?"
"No guess, Congressman," said Shuman. "He computed that result. He did it on this sheet of paper."
"Humbug," said the general impatiently. "A computer is one thing and marks on a paper are another."
"Explain, Aub," said Shuman.
"Yes, Programmer. Well, gentlemen, I write down seventeen, and just undernea
presumably you clicked the link?
then you did just what he wanted you to, which was this:
1) confuse you
2) get you to click the link
3) ???*
4) PROFIT!
*presumably something involving using that page to sell ads, but since I haven't clicked the link...
If that's not the funniest thing I've read on slashdot in just about ever, then I don't know what it is I've forgotten.
MOD PARENT UP!!!
The saddest part is that if I am reading both* Wik and yours in the same language, then that sounds about right
* it really is time for bed
I think you have to get through grad school to start to get a handle on it...