- support for booting off various medium such as floppy, cd, hd, usb fobs, and smartmedia if equipped.
- ability to have everything from the moment I power up redirected to a serial port (our Dells do this and it is great) similar to the way the big boys like HP's, Suns, etc... do. Of course this means ditch the GUI boots.
- FAST booting. Don't scan to see if every piece of hardware that has been there for the last 6 months is still there unless I ask you to. Unless I hit some keysequence to go into diags, take only the time to read the boot rom image then go right to whatever the first boot device is and start booting.
- tons and tons of little config options with a manual written in English, not Engrish.
At my school students have to pay for their internet access. This makes the school an ISP. As a business providing a service and can't just "do whatever they want".
Oh come on now. You are paying and making a decision to go to that school. No one is forcing you. It is their network - they don't even have to give you access.
Do you have to pay to park on campus? If so, should you be able to do so wherever you want however you want? So what if I parked sideways and took three spots, or parked in the common area - I'm paying you for a service and you can't do just whatever you want and tow my car????
I hate to tell you, but it is their network, and just because you pay a fee doesn't change a thing.
Are you gonna sue the university because they found out you were sharing tons of files on the winmx 6699 port and shut you down? Claim they violated your privacy?
Then again, we thought ahead, and our network usage policy says "Do not expect privacy." If you want privacy, encrypt it as you suggested. To expect anyone to let you just run wild on their network is dumb.
Guess if you wanted privacy you shouldn't have hooked up to someone elses network.
I am in charge of the network/server department at our college.
We have a limited connection to the internet, which is usually being eaten up by P2P traffic. Today, over an hour period, we had three students that used a total of 4G of traffic in an hour.
I don't care what the traffic is, but when legit work can't get done, such as our payroll system which uses SQL*Net across the WAN (bad idea to begin with, but that's a state bueracracy for you.) and their processes just aren't working, shit is gonna have to happen.
We blocked port 1214 (kaaza) and a week later the port switching version came out.
Right now we are facing the choice of either doing some severe draconian network policies or buyin a packeteer.
And how long will that work before the next fileswapping act runs with ssl over 443?
I feel for the students - it's something fun to do...hell, I remember downloading.au files when I was in college thinking how cool it was that my box could play the james bond theme.
Makes my life a pain in the ass - how to be nice and let legit stuff go on, allow some fun and experimenting to go on, at the same time "protect" the network and make sure it is available when need be.
Unless VMWare is planning on stagnating their product, branching out into tons of marginally related ventures, and fucking up standards implementations, I don't see them becoming a netscape.
While MS may have the foot-in-the-door advantage, I'm wondering if the fact that VMWare also supports Linux may help or not.
I know that personally, even though I run XP on my desktop, MSDN subscription, yadda yadda, I would only do something like GSX/ESX on a Linux box.
It will be interesting to see how this goes...I wish them the best of luck.
The hardware failover goes away in this configuration.
True...but failover is not the only reason. We were looking into maybe getting the more advanced VMWare version.
The reason is that we have a handful of small machines that don't do very much intensive work (DNS, mailing lists, Remedy (Help Desk), etc...) For various reasons (OS, software versions, just don't wanna put too many eggs in one basket) each of these is running on it's own machine. Some of the above are running on older desktop systems. We'd like to move them to RAID5, redundant power supply, etc... server machines, but then we're just wasting $$$ buying WAY more machine than is needed.
Getting one slightly-larger-than-mininal machine and putting virtual servers on it would be the best of both worlds. As long as the base OS doesn't go down (why would it...just install the bare minimum and VMWare) I'm actually more worried about VMWare itself bombing than the OS or hardware.
Just can't convince people that a) the cost is worth it and b) it's not that dangerous putting all the eggs in this basket.
Thinking back to my nerdy high school days
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Hmmm...the article made me think some, but the posts made me think more (a first for/. ?:)
Yeah...I wasn't the most handsome, well-dressed, social person. I liked D&D, Sci-fi, computers, Broadway musicals, Heavy Metal and books. I didn't care about fashion (once I got out of the 8th grade - parachute pants, camo, etc...:) I didn't care about who talked to who. I was in the Band. The sport I did was Fencing - not exactly mainstream. But I had my group of friends - mostly people from Fencing and Band...like types.
I started to think about the different groups of people and who I didn't get along with, etc... From what comes to mind there were
jocks - got along with them for the most part. Was on track and x-country for a year. Sure...there were insults, but nothing worse than what my office mate and I exchange in good humor. Not the kinda people I'd normally hang out with, but not advesaries
burnouts/dirtbags - The people who wore flannel, smoked, drove old cars that were always being worked on, pissed off at the world, long hair, short skirts, etc... Didn't know that many of them, of the ones I knew, didn't have a problem with them...I liked metal and Led Zeppelin, so I had some common ground. Not to sound condescending, but seems more of them had severe family issues at home - I did not (we lived in a mountain town about an hour out of NYC) so their issues were not mine.
Freaks - (thinking of Freaks and Geeks) Here are the people that liked the Cure and Depeche Mode before it was cool to. The early adopters of piercings, punk haircuts, etc. Different - usually the more artsy type. Knew quite abit of them (hell...small mountain town - not many to begin with - half were on the fencing team) Cool smart people - just sometimes tried too had to be different just to be different.
Preps - These were usually the more popular ones, and as another post mentioned, there was a reason...they tended to try to be nice to other people. Sure...they didn't call you on a friday night to come hang out with them, but they were at least nice enough. Usually the ones more involved with things like yearbooks and stuff. Knew my fair share of them - no problems there.
"The Others" - I don't know what to call these. They are the people who weren't quite gone enough or whatever to be a burnout. They weren't quite ambitious enough to be a prep and be involved. They weren't unique enough to be a freak and geek. These are the ones that were full of themselves...usually didn't do that good in class, didn't play sports, didn't do anything extracurricular, seemed to almost be the ones that couldn't be placed into any other group. Always talking about who was gonna kick whose ass, one of the ones I know in this group kept stealling the neighboors car to go joyriding. Grown up bullies? Rotten apples? I don't know quite how to describe them.
This is the only group I can think back that gave me grief in high school The ones as others mentioned would be the first to try and tear you down if you knew the answer to something in class, if they gave you a smart ass remark and you responded they would then launch into more "oh yeah..fucking dork." as their most advanced retort.
These are the ones that as best as I can tell are some still working the same jobs they had in high school or in management positions at a fast food chain, etc... Basically out of the limited sampling of people from all the groups that I know what they are doing now, this is usually the group that has done the least with their life.
To summarize: As a geek there was only a small subset of the students in the various groups that made my life somewhat of a hell...and it wasn't that bad now that I think of it (depressing back then though!) I'm sure others have had it better or worse, but as someone else said, it's what you make of it. After high school, all that bullshit didn't matter - I think that's what seperated the freaks and geeks from the rest - they kinda knew that even though they may take some crap, all the stuff the others worry over doesn't matter. Get to college and there are small cliques like high school - but most of them seemed to be those trying to hang on to their glory days and by the end of freshmen year, most of them are gone anyway.
Now I'm married, own a house, have two kids, friends with all the neighboors from all walks of life, make a shitload of money and people sometimes envy the fact that I work with computers...go figure.
And out of all those years, I have just one regret - that one girl I was good friends with that I never asked out. Talking to her years later, turns out I should have, etc... Cest la vie.
A few years back, someone charged $500 to my card - to a phone # in california. The kicker was about a week before (being near xmas) the company called to verify a charge at a local Cracker Barrel that we go to on a regular basis.
I thought the game was fun, then again, I remember pumping quarters into the original one as well. If not for that, I may not have played it to the end.
There are big bugs in the game, it can be awkward to control, and the sword fighting was easy, just boring after the first couple times.
But in all, it was a fun game - if not just to see Dirk die all sorts of ways!
Tons of Dell's with the PERC (aacraid/megaraid) controllers.
The nice thing about hardware raid is other than the driver for the scsi card, the OS thinks there is just one drive sitting there. No configuration on the OS side.
Also, RAID is going before the OS even starts booting. If a disk dies, so what.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if you have software raid and the disk the os/boot/raidconfig files are on goes, you have a dead box.
We just put a network security policy in place - a rather boring and draconian document.
It was approved at the President's cabinet level, meaning that each area of the campus was represented.
I'm guessing there is a 10% chance that anyone other than our CIO read it.
Of course, once it was released, some of the users read it, which led to them seeing the part about "no generic logins" which led to them requesting "After reading the policy, I need to request two generic logins for...."
Oh well...fortunatly in that area the president is clued in enought that it can be explained in terms such as "if this is not done, we could end up on the front page of the paper showing how our data was compromised/posted, etc..."
I've been almost the opposite. I bought a $1200 miniDV camera from a store in Ohio. No sales tax (save me $72 using my local sales tax) and shipping was not that much.
My telescope (10 inch dob) had a larger shipping cost, but I could not have just gone down the road to get that. I did have to pay $69 in shipping, which I would have had to do anyway...the only local store that would have possibly carried ads the shipping cost into their price. But again, saved $36 in sales tax.
These are the two big items I've bought online because of the sales tax thing. For the most part, I'm not gonna sweat a buck in tax.
Amazon was nice when they had a warehouse about 12 miles from my house. Preorder something and it was shipped when they got it in the day before release and was at my house when I got home the day it was released.
Plus, anything that means I don't need to go into Best Buy is fine by me.
I have a server that does web, ftp, samba and a few others yet am not violating their terms, even when sharing files around the house.
Because none of these servers are hooked to their network...they all only run on my internal network adapter. At no point has a server been hooked up to their network - well, logically at least. Hate to see what tech support would say - most likely "have you reinstalled your NIC drivers?"
One machine could suck as much bandwidth as 10 machines doing next to nothing.
Also, the idea behind NAT is that it only uses one IP address.
Here at home, I have an army of computers (most junk). My cable modem hooks to a NAT/firewall (Linux). Behind that is my desktop. I also have a wireless access point so when I'm sitting outside in the hammock I can get on from there, or the wired bedroom or living room, or my wireless iPaq.
And regardless of how many machines I have, I am still capped at 512k for all of them. While it is true I could use all of them to saturate that 512k, I could easily do it with just one machine as well.
Sounds like you need to get some equipment that can do rate limiting and just sell bandwidth instead of hasseling customers.
This is the first Trek movie that I have not seen in the theater. I really like TNG, and will flip to TNN and have about a 80% chance of catching a rerun.
I've been a Star Trek fan (not a rabid one) since I first watched ToS with my dad in the 70s.
I think that I am a good rep of most of the people who would see this movie - grew up watching TNG (late teen years), have watched Voyager (grudgingly) and Enterprise (not bad). Never really took to DS9.
Anyway, the common disposable income argument is true, though I make enough money I could squeeze a few movies in a month.
However, I have two kids. Finding someone trustworthy to babysit so my wife and I can go to the movies, dinner or anything is sometimes hard to do. So, we have to pick and choose what movies we go to see.
When we were able to go, there were three choices, Bond (first one since View to a Kill I've missed), Nemesis and Two Towers.
Two Towers was good...one day I'll find out about the others.
Welcome to higher ed. Professor is teaching some class that involves using SQL server and the univeristy is all about remote/distance/tele-learning.
So you end up with a SQL server that can be hit from anywhere.
I feel sorry for anyone who ever comes from corporate america into an edu environment and tries to make sense or do anything that affects faculty and their prescious rights.
Good time to mention the book "The Great Stink of London" (Amazon) which is about the development of the London sewer system.
The above was one of the problems - the futher down the Thames you got, the more crap (litterally) there was in the water. Though, since the Thames is a tidal river it went both ways.
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- support for booting off various medium such as floppy, cd, hd, usb fobs, and smartmedia if equipped.
- ability to have everything from the moment I power up redirected to a serial port (our Dells do this and it is great) similar to the way the big boys like HP's, Suns, etc... do. Of course this means ditch the GUI boots.
- FAST booting. Don't scan to see if every piece of hardware that has been there for the last 6 months is still there unless I ask you to. Unless I hit some keysequence to go into diags, take only the time to read the boot rom image then go right to whatever the first boot device is and start booting.
- tons and tons of little config options with a manual written in English, not Engrish.
True...the car is your property...the network isn't.
At my school students have to pay for their internet access. This makes the school an ISP. As a business providing a service and can't just "do whatever they want".
Oh come on now. You are paying and making a decision to go to that school. No one is forcing you. It is their network - they don't even have to give you access.
Do you have to pay to park on campus? If so, should you be able to do so wherever you want however you want? So what if I parked sideways and took three spots, or parked in the common area - I'm paying you for a service and you can't do just whatever you want and tow my car????
I hate to tell you, but it is their network, and just because you pay a fee doesn't change a thing.
Are you gonna sue the university because they found out you were sharing tons of files on the winmx 6699 port and shut you down? Claim they violated your privacy?
Then again, we thought ahead, and our network usage policy says "Do not expect privacy." If you want privacy, encrypt it as you suggested. To expect anyone to let you just run wild on their network is dumb.
Guess if you wanted privacy you shouldn't have hooked up to someone elses network.
I am in charge of the network/server department at our college.
.au files when I was in college thinking how cool it was that my box could play the james bond theme.
We have a limited connection to the internet, which is usually being eaten up by P2P traffic. Today, over an hour period, we had three students that used a total of 4G of traffic in an hour.
I don't care what the traffic is, but when legit work can't get done, such as our payroll system which uses SQL*Net across the WAN (bad idea to begin with, but that's a state bueracracy for you.) and their processes just aren't working, shit is gonna have to happen.
We blocked port 1214 (kaaza) and a week later the port switching version came out.
Right now we are facing the choice of either doing some severe draconian network policies or buyin a packeteer.
And how long will that work before the next fileswapping act runs with ssl over 443?
I feel for the students - it's something fun to do...hell, I remember downloading
Makes my life a pain in the ass - how to be nice and let legit stuff go on, allow some fun and experimenting to go on, at the same time "protect" the network and make sure it is available when need be.
Unless VMWare is planning on stagnating their product, branching out into tons of marginally related ventures, and fucking up standards implementations, I don't see them becoming a netscape.
While MS may have the foot-in-the-door advantage, I'm wondering if the fact that VMWare also supports Linux may help or not.
I know that personally, even though I run XP on my desktop, MSDN subscription, yadda yadda, I would only do something like GSX/ESX on a Linux box.
It will be interesting to see how this goes...I wish them the best of luck.
The hardware failover goes away in this configuration.
True...but failover is not the only reason. We were looking into maybe getting the more advanced VMWare version.
The reason is that we have a handful of small machines that don't do very much intensive work (DNS, mailing lists, Remedy (Help Desk), etc...) For various reasons (OS, software versions, just don't wanna put too many eggs in one basket) each of these is running on it's own machine. Some of the above are running on older desktop systems. We'd like to move them to RAID5, redundant power supply, etc... server machines, but then we're just wasting $$$ buying WAY more machine than is needed.
Getting one slightly-larger-than-mininal machine and putting virtual servers on it would be the best of both worlds. As long as the base OS doesn't go down (why would it...just install the bare minimum and VMWare) I'm actually more worried about VMWare itself bombing than the OS or hardware.
Just can't convince people that a) the cost is worth it and b) it's not that dangerous putting all the eggs in this basket.
Yeah...I wasn't the most handsome, well-dressed, social person. I liked D&D, Sci-fi, computers, Broadway musicals, Heavy Metal and books. I didn't care about fashion (once I got out of the 8th grade - parachute pants, camo, etc...
I started to think about the different groups of people and who I didn't get along with, etc... From what comes to mind there were
jocks - got along with them for the most part. Was on track and x-country for a year. Sure...there were insults, but nothing worse than what my office mate and I exchange in good humor. Not the kinda people I'd normally hang out with, but not advesaries
burnouts/dirtbags - The people who wore flannel, smoked, drove old cars that were always being worked on, pissed off at the world, long hair, short skirts, etc... Didn't know that many of them, of the ones I knew, didn't have a problem with them...I liked metal and Led Zeppelin, so I had some common ground. Not to sound condescending, but seems more of them had severe family issues at home - I did not (we lived in a mountain town about an hour out of NYC) so their issues were not mine.
Freaks - (thinking of Freaks and Geeks) Here are the people that liked the Cure and Depeche Mode before it was cool to. The early adopters of piercings, punk haircuts, etc. Different - usually the more artsy type. Knew quite abit of them (hell...small mountain town - not many to begin with - half were on the fencing team) Cool smart people - just sometimes tried too had to be different just to be different.
Preps - These were usually the more popular ones, and as another post mentioned, there was a reason...they tended to try to be nice to other people. Sure...they didn't call you on a friday night to come hang out with them, but they were at least nice enough. Usually the ones more involved with things like yearbooks and stuff. Knew my fair share of them - no problems there.
"The Others" - I don't know what to call these. They are the people who weren't quite gone enough or whatever to be a burnout. They weren't quite ambitious enough to be a prep and be involved. They weren't unique enough to be a freak and geek. These are the ones that were full of themselves...usually didn't do that good in class, didn't play sports, didn't do anything extracurricular, seemed to almost be the ones that couldn't be placed into any other group. Always talking about who was gonna kick whose ass, one of the ones I know in this group kept stealling the neighboors car to go joyriding. Grown up bullies? Rotten apples? I don't know quite how to describe them.
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This is the only group I can think back that gave me grief in high school The ones as others mentioned would be the first to try and tear you down if you knew the answer to something in class, if they gave you a smart ass remark and you responded they would then launch into more "oh yeah..fucking dork." as their most advanced retort.
These are the ones that as best as I can tell are some still working the same jobs they had in high school or in management positions at a fast food chain, etc... Basically out of the limited sampling of people from all the groups that I know what they are doing now, this is usually the group that has done the least with their life.
To summarize
As a geek there was only a small subset of the students in the various groups that made my life somewhat of a hell...and it wasn't that bad now that I think of it (depressing back then though!) I'm sure others have had it better or worse, but as someone else said, it's what you make of it. After high school, all that bullshit didn't matter - I think that's what seperated the freaks and geeks from the rest - they kinda knew that even though they may take some crap, all the stuff the others worry over doesn't matter. Get to college and there are small cliques like high school - but most of them seemed to be those trying to hang on to their glory days and by the end of freshmen year, most of them are gone anyway.
Now I'm married, own a house, have two kids, friends with all the neighboors from all walks of life, make a shitload of money and people sometimes envy the fact that I work with computers...go figure.
And out of all those years, I have just one regret - that one girl I was good friends with that I never asked out. Talking to her years later, turns out I should have, etc... Cest la vie.
I remember programming in BASIC and was all excited that there was a TRON (TRace ON) command.
It just blew my mind.
I dunno.
A few years back, someone charged $500 to my card - to a phone # in california. The kicker was about a week before (being near xmas) the company called to verify a charge at a local Cracker Barrel that we go to on a regular basis.
Go figure.
I thought the game was fun, then again, I remember pumping quarters into the original one as well. If not for that, I may not have played it to the end.
There are big bugs in the game, it can be awkward to control, and the sword fighting was easy, just boring after the first couple times.
But in all, it was a fun game - if not just to see Dirk die all sorts of ways!
Yeah...this may possibly come close to the standard VMWare. (Though does VMware require a kernel driver to run? This says it does)
But will it be able to do what the VMWare ESX server stuff can do - basically act as a mainframe on a PC?
So, if hard drive A fails, will it automatically boot off B as if A never even existed?
I suppose the bios could be a problem if using software raid on IDE's.
Tons of Dell's with the PERC (aacraid/megaraid) controllers.
The nice thing about hardware raid is other than the driver for the scsi card, the OS thinks there is just one drive sitting there. No configuration on the OS side.
Also, RAID is going before the OS even starts booting. If a disk dies, so what.
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if you have software raid and the disk the os/boot/raidconfig files are on goes, you have a dead box.
if each of these was running and unpatched version of SQL server :)
Probably because the GPL zealots would then be all over then for not using GPL ;)
If I buy a copy of The Hobbit, rip out every 5th page and then read it, have I created a derivative work and broken a law?
If I don't distribute it, can't I do whatever I want with the content?
If I was to then repost this on the web, yes...I could see where that would be a problem, but not what I do for myself.
We just put a network security policy in place - a rather boring and draconian document.
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It was approved at the President's cabinet level, meaning that each area of the campus was represented.
I'm guessing there is a 10% chance that anyone other than our CIO read it.
Of course, once it was released, some of the users read it, which led to them seeing the part about "no generic logins" which led to them requesting "After reading the policy, I need to request two generic logins for
Oh well...fortunatly in that area the president is clued in enought that it can be explained in terms such as "if this is not done, we could end up on the front page of the paper showing how our data was compromised/posted, etc..."
true...NAT doesn't always mean 1 IP, but for most of the cable modem users the companies would be going after it would.
I've been almost the opposite. I bought a $1200 miniDV camera from a store in Ohio. No sales tax (save me $72 using my local sales tax) and shipping was not that much.
My telescope (10 inch dob) had a larger shipping cost, but I could not have just gone down the road to get that. I did have to pay $69 in shipping, which I would have had to do anyway...the only local store that would have possibly carried ads the shipping cost into their price. But again, saved $36 in sales tax.
These are the two big items I've bought online because of the sales tax thing. For the most part, I'm not gonna sweat a buck in tax.
Amazon was nice when they had a warehouse about 12 miles from my house. Preorder something and it was shipped when they got it in the day before release and was at my house when I got home the day it was released.
Plus, anything that means I don't need to go into Best Buy is fine by me.
I have a server that does web, ftp, samba and a few others yet am not violating their terms, even when sharing files around the house.
Because none of these servers are hooked to their network...they all only run on my internal network adapter. At no point has a server been hooked up to their network - well, logically at least. Hate to see what tech support would say - most likely "have you reinstalled your NIC drivers?"
This is apples and oranges.
One machine could suck as much bandwidth as 10 machines doing next to nothing.
Also, the idea behind NAT is that it only uses one IP address.
Here at home, I have an army of computers (most junk). My cable modem hooks to a NAT/firewall (Linux). Behind that is my desktop. I also have a wireless access point so when I'm sitting outside in the hammock I can get on from there, or the wired bedroom or living room, or my wireless iPaq.
And regardless of how many machines I have, I am still capped at 512k for all of them. While it is true I could use all of them to saturate that 512k, I could easily do it with just one machine as well.
Sounds like you need to get some equipment that can do rate limiting and just sell bandwidth instead of hasseling customers.
And if the student sitting in middle-of-nowhere taking a course in the middle-of-somewhere is supposed to develop the app-server or front end?
I agree on the VPN...assuming $$$ is there...which in higher ed it usually isn't.
This is the first Trek movie that I have not seen in the theater. I really like TNG, and will flip to TNN and have about a 80% chance of catching a rerun.
I've been a Star Trek fan (not a rabid one) since I first watched ToS with my dad in the 70s.
I think that I am a good rep of most of the people who would see this movie - grew up watching TNG (late teen years), have watched Voyager (grudgingly) and Enterprise (not bad). Never really took to DS9.
Anyway, the common disposable income argument is true, though I make enough money I could squeeze a few movies in a month.
However, I have two kids. Finding someone trustworthy to babysit so my wife and I can go to the movies, dinner or anything is sometimes hard to do. So, we have to pick and choose what movies we go to see.
When we were able to go, there were three choices, Bond (first one since View to a Kill I've missed), Nemesis and Two Towers.
Two Towers was good...one day I'll find out about the others.
Welcome to higher ed. Professor is teaching some class that involves using SQL server and the univeristy is all about remote/distance/tele-learning.
So you end up with a SQL server that can be hit from anywhere.
I feel sorry for anyone who ever comes from corporate america into an edu environment and tries to make sense or do anything that affects faculty and their prescious rights.
Good time to mention the book "The Great Stink of London" (Amazon) which is about the development of the London sewer system.
The above was one of the problems - the futher down the Thames you got, the more crap (litterally) there was in the water. Though, since the Thames is a tidal river it went both ways.
An interesting read.