Heh, if i had that problem, I'd be happy to have it. Instead, I have the problem where the company refuses to train me if I do find something I need to learn, and they won't allow me to learn while on company time.
I've got a system with about 900 meg in/var/spool/mail right now, 80 users or so. load average sits at about 1.3, with dnetc running. Handles it fine, long as i amputate anyone's mailbox that grows over about 90 meg. single Celeron 333, 128 meg ram, 13.6 gig quantum kx hard drive. I'd love to replace it with a faster drive, but budget prevails.
I'm trying to get PC World to stop mailing me about this subscription that showed up at work for me one day. I've written cancel on three of their "please pay" things and mailed it back so far, and they're still looking for money.
Problem is, you might be replaced, by the time you get back. Never underestimate the power of a company that doesn't know what they're doing, but thinks you can be replaced on a moments notice.
My DVP-C600D(which sounds like an older model than yours), plays CD-R just fine. Had to bring in a VCD, and play that on every machine in the store, till i found the one that would play it. I originally bought a lower end sony, and it wouldn't play cd-r, so i had to return it, and get the 5 cd/dvd changer, similar to yours.
Even if you use the full FastTrak card, you can't do "hardware" raid under linux as of this date. Promise is paranoid about their IP. So just use a stock Promise Ultra/100, the ide patches at http://www.linux-ide.org, and the raid patches at http://www.linuxraid.org, and andrea's vm patches available somewhere or another on kernel.org.
I get problems opening a slashdot story when i have mod points. i browse -1, nested. and most of the time, there's mod boxes randomly spread out oall over the page.. in both ie 5.5, and netscape 4.76:/
It's likely your bios revision. It shipped with version 1.6-something, and my update to 1.9-something fixed it. It's even documented in the latest bios notes.
I had one lady at work, refused to let me replace a 1.2 and 1.0 gig drive, even when i told her she was going to lose data on them, within a year or two. She's the plant manager, so it's very hard to override her(short of sneaking in when she's not in the building, and doing it anyways, she wouldn't notice the difference). I'm pretty much forced to VNC my way in at midnight or so from home, for any routine maintenance that has to be done.
Anyways, hard drive died. She loses data, bigtime. Claims I never told her i wanted to replace the drives, and furthermore, claims I tried to replace the drive, but couldn't(???) Then on top of that, tries to send the drive away for data recovery, when I told her it wouldn't do any good(bits were randomly flipped throughout the filesystem)
I just spent 17 hours rebuilding the CEO's machine at the office, bad hard drive. Due to bad backup procedures, and to pre-existing hardware issues, it took longer than it should have.
<RANT>
(THANKS MATROX FOR THE BUG IN THE G400 BIOS THAT PREVENTS THE DAMN MACHINE FROM SHUTTING DOWN WITHOUT A BSOD, I ALWAYS WANTED TO RUN SCANDISK EVERYTIME I REBOOT!)
</RANT>
It's not fun. Takes less time to rebuild from scratch, than to try and salvage data off a dying hard drive. With a proper smbtar, i can have the machine back up and running within 20-30 minutes.
Yet, we're not likely to do anything about it. Frustrating how upper management will refuse to do anything, until something happens, and then it's a half-assed measure, implemented badly.
Spend the money now, get something that works, instead of spending even more money on the overtime for your overworked tech's. It's less stressful on them. <grin> And that's not even counting the value of the data...
good luck getting a user at the site to do so:P
i have enough trouble getting them to send me the monthly tapes. environmental concerns is a major thing to consider
What happens when a group of angry *insert political party* people gets upset that *insert another political party* won the election and rampages through *insert your town* and sets your building on fire in the fun? Onsite backups work, till you don't have a site.
Maybe i'm lucky then, because i've got a 12/24 at home, a 12/24 in operation at one of our plants, and a 12/24 in the main server at the office. They get cleaned every 3 months or so with a cleaning tape(yes, not until the stupid light blinks, i'm that lazy). I'll have to do some research into the Sony's. Our HP's are up around 2 years now, far as long term goes. How does the Sony load the tapes? The Hp's just pull it in a bit, leaving the door open, so if you leave the tape in there all the time, you're FUBAR if you have a dust problem. Does the sony pull the tape all the way in and close the door?
And yes, i've heard ArcServe is evil =)
I'm still using the backup that comes with NT, mainly cause every company wants far too much money for their NT Server backup software.
Obviously with DLT and the VXA's, you're quite a bit upscale from what i'm fighting with at the office, but add HP 7/14, and Seagate 10/20gb travans to the Stuff That Sucks(tm) list.
Drives die within about 6-12 months, and tapes die in a few months. I'm praying i can get better life with some 12/24 DDS-3 HP drives. Seems to work pretty good on the main fileserver, but then again, that's a bit better controlled environment than what the Travan's are mis-operating in.
I'd have to check, but i think i'm paying around 8 cents a KWh. That's 140 bucks a year.
And that's only 200 watts. My 20" and 17" monitors on my main system, suck around 250 watts just by themselves. Then the main case adds more. And in the summer, i have to pay to run my air conditioner, to get rid of that heat(winter is easier, leave the window open)
Although, I'm now thinking maybe not every slashdot'er will leave their computer on 24/7 =)
I'm assuming German's use KPH here, unless you're going for a ride in a McLaren.
Yes, 230 is _fun_. I ran out of road, the last time i was speed testing my Firebird. Too many cops even out in the county, and if one takes a dislike to your 3x the speed limit exploits, it's a bitch to outrun them. Sure, a Crown Vic tops out at about 220, but you can't outrun a radio. =)
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Heh, if i had that problem, I'd be happy to have it. Instead, I have the problem where the company refuses to train me if I do find something I need to learn, and they won't allow me to learn while on company time.
I've got a system with about 900 meg in /var/spool/mail right now, 80 users or so. load average sits at about 1.3, with dnetc running. Handles it fine, long as i amputate anyone's mailbox that grows over about 90 meg. single Celeron 333, 128 meg ram, 13.6 gig quantum kx hard drive. I'd love to replace it with a faster drive, but budget prevails.
Box is always responsive.
Re: Point #2
;)
Here we go. Pulled out the monthly spam from Bell ExpressVu.
City - Channels, Cost/month $CDN (1.5CDN = 1US)
Thunder Bay - 54, 36.46
Ajax - 64, 39.39
Oakville - 64, 41.99
London (North) - 65, 38.84
Toronto - 65, 39.88
Ottawa(East) - 67, 35.92
Richmond Hill - 69, 43.26
One of expressvu's packages claims to have 106 channels, for 36.95 a month, by comparision.
9 movie channels is another 16 bucks a month.
Or you can pay nothing, and get them all
and your 2000 dollar computer, will either be better, or cheaper, after 3 months. Or the way the industry is going now, both.
I'm trying to get PC World to stop mailing me about this subscription that showed up at work for me one day. I've written cancel on three of their "please pay" things and mailed it back so far, and they're still looking for money.
Problem is, you might be replaced, by the time you get back. Never underestimate the power of a company that doesn't know what they're doing, but thinks you can be replaced on a moments notice.
My DVP-C600D(which sounds like an older model than yours), plays CD-R just fine. Had to bring in a VCD, and play that on every machine in the store, till i found the one that would play it. I originally bought a lower end sony, and it wouldn't play cd-r, so i had to return it, and get the 5 cd/dvd changer, similar to yours.
And notice the _$1000_ dollar penalty for your first spamming.
Erm. USB is 12mbit. How are you going to get video down that? Even USB 2.0 is only something like 480 mbit, that still seems low for video.
You'd have to talk to Andre Hedrick, because I'm going by what he's said. He's the IDE guy of linux.
Even if you use the full FastTrak card, you can't do "hardware" raid under linux as of this date. Promise is paranoid about their IP. So just use a stock Promise Ultra/100, the ide patches at http://www.linux-ide.org, and the raid patches at http://www.linuxraid.org, and andrea's vm patches available somewhere or another on kernel.org.
Or just run 2.4.x =)
ironically enough, i remember td2 playing just fine on a p200 or so. guess they changed the speed controls
I get problems opening a slashdot story when i have mod points. i browse -1, nested. and most of the time, there's mod boxes randomly spread out oall over the page.. in both ie 5.5, and netscape 4.76 :/
It's likely your bios revision. It shipped with version 1.6-something, and my update to 1.9-something fixed it. It's even documented in the latest bios notes.
Heh. =)
I had one lady at work, refused to let me replace a 1.2 and 1.0 gig drive, even when i told her she was going to lose data on them, within a year or two. She's the plant manager, so it's very hard to override her(short of sneaking in when she's not in the building, and doing it anyways, she wouldn't notice the difference). I'm pretty much forced to VNC my way in at midnight or so from home, for any routine maintenance that has to be done.
Anyways, hard drive died. She loses data, bigtime. Claims I never told her i wanted to replace the drives, and furthermore, claims I tried to replace the drive, but couldn't(???) Then on top of that, tries to send the drive away for data recovery, when I told her it wouldn't do any good(bits were randomly flipped throughout the filesystem)
I just spent 17 hours rebuilding the CEO's machine at the office, bad hard drive. Due to bad backup procedures, and to pre-existing hardware issues, it took longer than it should have.
<RANT>
(THANKS MATROX FOR THE BUG IN THE G400 BIOS THAT PREVENTS THE DAMN MACHINE FROM SHUTTING DOWN WITHOUT A BSOD, I ALWAYS WANTED TO RUN SCANDISK EVERYTIME I REBOOT!)
</RANT>
It's not fun. Takes less time to rebuild from scratch, than to try and salvage data off a dying hard drive. With a proper smbtar, i can have the machine back up and running within 20-30 minutes.
Yet, we're not likely to do anything about it. Frustrating how upper management will refuse to do anything, until something happens, and then it's a half-assed measure, implemented badly.
Spend the money now, get something that works, instead of spending even more money on the overtime for your overworked tech's. It's less stressful on them. <grin> And that's not even counting the value of the data...
good luck getting a user at the site to do so :P
i have enough trouble getting them to send me the monthly tapes. environmental concerns is a major thing to consider
What happens when a group of angry *insert political party* people gets upset that *insert another political party* won the election and rampages through *insert your town* and sets your building on fire in the fun? Onsite backups work, till you don't have a site.
Maybe i'm lucky then, because i've got a 12/24 at home, a 12/24 in operation at one of our plants, and a 12/24 in the main server at the office. They get cleaned every 3 months or so with a cleaning tape(yes, not until the stupid light blinks, i'm that lazy). I'll have to do some research into the Sony's. Our HP's are up around 2 years now, far as long term goes. How does the Sony load the tapes? The Hp's just pull it in a bit, leaving the door open, so if you leave the tape in there all the time, you're FUBAR if you have a dust problem. Does the sony pull the tape all the way in and close the door?
And yes, i've heard ArcServe is evil =)
I'm still using the backup that comes with NT, mainly cause every company wants far too much money for their NT Server backup software.
Obviously with DLT and the VXA's, you're quite a bit upscale from what i'm fighting with at the office, but add HP 7/14, and Seagate 10/20gb travans to the Stuff That Sucks(tm) list.
Drives die within about 6-12 months, and tapes die in a few months. I'm praying i can get better life with some 12/24 DDS-3 HP drives. Seems to work pretty good on the main fileserver, but then again, that's a bit better controlled environment than what the Travan's are mis-operating in.
up up down down , left right left right, b, a, select, start, and it cheats on your tax return for you!
I don't think you want APM turned on, on a server :P
True. Assuming we have the power saving turned on. :P
First thing i do when i get a computer to play with at work or home, is shut the APM off.
And yes, for normal users, normal usage, your figures are quite right.
Where are you buying power from so cheap?
.2 KW * 24 * 365 = 1752 KWh per year
I'd have to check, but i think i'm paying around 8 cents a KWh. That's 140 bucks a year.
And that's only 200 watts. My 20" and 17" monitors on my main system, suck around 250 watts just by themselves. Then the main case adds more. And in the summer, i have to pay to run my air conditioner, to get rid of that heat(winter is easier, leave the window open)
Although, I'm now thinking maybe not every slashdot'er will leave their computer on 24/7 =)
I'm assuming German's use KPH here, unless you're going for a ride in a McLaren.
Yes, 230 is _fun_. I ran out of road, the last time i was speed testing my Firebird. Too many cops even out in the county, and if one takes a dislike to your 3x the speed limit exploits, it's a bitch to outrun them. Sure, a Crown Vic tops out at about 220, but you can't outrun a radio. =)
There's a very lightly mod'd corvette LS1 in the Firebird and Camaro.
sorry, had to feed a troll =)