Actually, I was trying to watch Cheers last night and was told the channel was in use - damn neighboors:)
Seriously - you cable TV signal is put in at the local office from their satellite feeds. They wanna add a channel for all their customers, the setup the feed and send it down the pipe. If you and your neighboor are watching the same show or different show, it doesn't affect anything - the signal is still coming down the pipe to every house the same.
With you internet data, you and your neighboor could go to the same site and that data comes down from their limited internet connection twice (disregarding proxies). And if you and your neighboor go to different sites, that is still 2x the data coming down.
So, watching the latest tripe on HBO all day = 1 HBO feed coming down from satellite and being distrubted to all their customers.
1000 people watching the latest tripe on HBO all day = 1 HBO feed coming down from satellite and being distrubted to all their customers.
1 person downloading divx all day = ~650MB per movie over their pipe
1000 people downloading divx all day = ~650MB per movie over their pipe x 1000 or 650GB!!!
When I was in college they wanted to use our campus to film something that I think ended up on PBS. It was a lolita kinda story where a professor was torn between his love for some poets work and one of his students.
Some of the deans read the script and gave the approval to do the shoot - under the condition that you could not recognize the campus - something about the script being utter tripe.
All I remember seeing them do was a) setup an awning and some tables outside one of the snack bars, and a camera on a crane to shoot into a classroom from outside.
I looked at my first solar eclipse years ago through my telescope. It was bright and spetacular - but since then, non of them have looked nearly as good as that first one:)
You're jumping here. At first the argument was all you needed was a can and a couple shirts to have a make-shift soccer field. But then you jump to enrolling a child in a football league.
Am I to understand that there are soccer leagues out there playing with a can and a couple of shirts? Lets compare apples to apples.
A bunch of kids just playing could as easilly play football as soccer.
If you are talking about league play, then while each player will need all the pads for football, generally you see people buying new shoes, shin guards, outfits, and minivans/suv's for Soccer:)
We have Linux and HPUX (used to also have Irix and Solaris). No real problem for the most part.
Usually what I find myself thinking is "why can't I do this/that on HPUX". Until we went to HPUX 11, the only thing HPUX used PAM for was CDE - now the whole system uses it. They've added something called cifsclient, which does the same as smbmount. You can even install ipfilter's into the OS now.
So using the actual OS isn't that bad - a few differences in the way some things are done here and there. Hardware can be night and day though.
Bad marketting - should make what is on the page correct - not having to click for details:)
As for throwing in a Linux CD - well, that is an extra cost (albiet minimal) and some documentation would need to accompany it, otherwise it may as well be trash thrown in there.
I don't know that much about what the various distrubtutions offer anymore - but what seems to be needed is one that can be mass pre-installed via Ghost and then the first time the consumer boots it up, starts asking them questions:
- what do you want your machine named
- lets create a user
- blah blah blah
Something well written like that could be cheaply added on, with a lot of online documentation, and make the machine a Linux box that joe consumer could easily get up on their broadband connection (or dialup) in no time.
I think that while production value has increased this has somewhat hurt things as well. Bands used to sound different and have distinct sounds. As the production values increased, even bands that actually play instruments - as opposed to the pop stuff - started to sound too polished.
Iron Maiden's "Piece of Mind" has a wonderful raw feel to it. Listen to Somewhere in Time, from 1986 - right around when the polished sound was perfected - and it just sounds too perfect. Same thing with Def Leppards Pyromania compared to Hysteria.
It's not something easy to put into words. I don't know if it's the tone or the overdubs or what. Perhaps it is that they were established bands and could afford the studio time to get it right and perfect.
As much as I love that old stuff, I've been finding myself seeking out bands that don't have the industry hooks in them yet. So far my fave is FreezePop (http://www.freezepop.net).
On a linux box: man strfry (prnounced stirfry) man memfrob
find/usr/src/linux -type f -exec grep -A 1 -B 1 fuck {} \;
/* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface
* like this. Good job guys...
* Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up:-)
* irixioctl.c: A fucking mess...
/* Binary compatibility is good American knowhow fuckin' up. */
/* Why the fuck did they have to change this? */
If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code.
/* These are here for sake of fucking lusercode living in the fucking believe
having to fuck around with the syscall interface themselfes. */
/* 2,191 lines of complete and utter shit coming up... */
/* Sun, you just can't beat me, you just can't. Stop trying,
* give up. I'm serious, I am going to kick the living shit
* out of you, game over, lights out.
Huh? Okay...so they took a hardened os and put Apache on it. They put it on something other than port 80. If you are setting up a server that serves pages (possibly internal info) this is a good way to hide it from script kiddies.
No mail? You don't need to have sendmail running as a daemon listening on port 25 for mail to work. I have two HP's that don't accept mail, but send me mail on a regular basis.
As for no ftp/ssh - so? You can go to the console and update files. Perhaps they have another machine with ssh and a serial link? Perhaps ssh is firewalled off? perhaps they have something that watches for an attempt to connect to a certain port that will then launch sshd for 5 minutes?
Perhaps the static pages it was serving were generated every 5 minutes by a perl script?
Just because a server isn't running the default RedHat install or something doesn't mean that it isn't real world.
And the plutonium came from the Savannah River plant.
I didn't think DaFoe was that bad - the character was written bad. Anyway, the movie had Ryan 10 years younger because they thought that people would be very confused if Ryan went from Baldwin->Ford->Affleck - his age would have dropped back down. Now all I hear is "why was the movie in the future, but Ryan got younger".
It's not like people had a problem when Bond kept getting younger - hell, half the people I know that saw it were probably about 10-12 when Clear and Present Danger came out anyway.
Then again, we know how hollywood thinks about us people with minds:)
Somewhere at home I have the original star wars novel, as written by George Lucas, and in there somewhere I swear that 3po mentions that he used to belong to Darth Vader.
I remember when I read it going "huh???" but now it all makes sense - except the memory erasure.
We have 2GB ram, right now it as 600M avail and 726K in system cache and has peaked at 1.3G of RAM used. That is with about 70 active users out of our total.
Dell PE2550 2x1.13 w/2GB RAM - $7k Supporting about 800 people just fine.
I will agree on the "hidden" costs though - Ex2k requires active directory, so you need an NT server w/ however many licenses and that'll hurt you, in addition to the exchange license.
You can run anti-virus right on the exchange server intergrated into exchange, and with exchange you can set it to retain deleted mailboxes for a period of time before they are purged - removing the tape restore altogether. If you backup individual mailboxes, then it's just as easy for tape restore.
The logging and scripting is true, though I don't agree with the IT admin attention - our exchange and Unix mail machines are both pretty problem free. As for security - uh...how many times has sendmail been the root of problems?;)
Now that I'm done with that: To quote our exchange person when upgrading to Ex2000 "Why don't we just go ahead and put all the e-mail on Linux?"
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Actually, I was trying to watch Cheers last night and was told the channel was in use - damn neighboors :)
Seriously - you cable TV signal is put in at the local office from their satellite feeds. They wanna add a channel for all their customers, the setup the feed and send it down the pipe. If you and your neighboor are watching the same show or different show, it doesn't affect anything - the signal is still coming down the pipe to every house the same.
With you internet data, you and your neighboor could go to the same site and that data comes down from their limited internet connection twice (disregarding proxies). And if you and your neighboor go to different sites, that is still 2x the data coming down.
So, watching the latest tripe on HBO all day = 1 HBO feed coming down from satellite and being distrubted to all their customers.
1000 people watching the latest tripe on HBO all day = 1 HBO feed coming down from satellite and being distrubted to all their customers.
1 person downloading divx all day = ~650MB per movie over their pipe
1000 people downloading divx all day = ~650MB per movie over their pipe x 1000 or 650GB!!!
Don't know bout phone.
Oh...I didn't read the license - it doesn't apply.
When I was in college they wanted to use our campus to film something that I think ended up on PBS. It was a lolita kinda story where a professor was torn between his love for some poets work and one of his students.
Some of the deans read the script and gave the approval to do the shoot - under the condition that you could not recognize the campus - something about the script being utter tripe.
All I remember seeing them do was a) setup an awning and some tables outside one of the snack bars, and a camera on a crane to shoot into a classroom from outside.
I always wondered how the tagged animals look at and are looked upon by the other animals?
Is it a "Ha ha...you got your ass tagged" or a "wow...that's so cool that you were selected" kinda mentality.
I looked at my first solar eclipse years ago through my telescope. It was bright and spetacular - but since then, non of them have looked nearly as good as that first one :)
King Diamond as well :)
Used to be Metal Blade was good brand to try things from, or Century a few years ago.
You're jumping here. At first the argument was all you needed was a can and a couple shirts to have a make-shift soccer field. But then you jump to enrolling a child in a football league.
:)
Am I to understand that there are soccer leagues out there playing with a can and a couple of shirts? Lets compare apples to apples.
A bunch of kids just playing could as easilly play football as soccer.
If you are talking about league play, then while each player will need all the pads for football, generally you see people buying new shoes, shin guards, outfits, and minivans/suv's for Soccer
We have Linux and HPUX (used to also have Irix and Solaris). No real problem for the most part.
Usually what I find myself thinking is "why can't I do this/that on HPUX". Until we went to HPUX 11, the only thing HPUX used PAM for was CDE - now the whole system uses it. They've added something called cifsclient, which does the same as smbmount. You can even install ipfilter's into the OS now.
So using the actual OS isn't that bad - a few differences in the way some things are done here and there. Hardware can be night and day though.
One thing in the article said that a handful of the engineers volunteered to stay while buyers/solutions to their problem are sought.
So it doesn't sound like they locked the doors and kept the pipe going as much as they believe in their company and want to keep working there.
Hang in there guys
True...but the same people would probably buy it without the OS and try to install Quicken on it as well - and get the neighboors kid to come over.
I loved the sig - hilarious
Bad marketting - should make what is on the page correct - not having to click for details :)
As for throwing in a Linux CD - well, that is an extra cost (albiet minimal) and some documentation would need to accompany it, otherwise it may as well be trash thrown in there.
I don't know that much about what the various distrubtutions offer anymore - but what seems to be needed is one that can be mass pre-installed via Ghost and then the first time the consumer boots it up, starts asking them questions:
- what do you want your machine named
- lets create a user
- blah blah blah
Something well written like that could be cheaply added on, with a lot of online documentation, and make the machine a Linux box that joe consumer could easily get up on their broadband connection (or dialup) in no time.
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product_listing.gsp ?path=0%3A3944%3A3951%3A41937%3A86796%3A86798&dept =3944&cat=86798&sb=61&bti=0 is the
Microtel PCs Without Windows category and the first PC there boasts Windows XP Home Edition.
I think that while production value has increased this has somewhat hurt things as well. Bands used to sound different and have distinct sounds. As the production values increased, even bands that actually play instruments - as opposed to the pop stuff - started to sound too polished.
Iron Maiden's "Piece of Mind" has a wonderful raw feel to it. Listen to Somewhere in Time, from 1986 - right around when the polished sound was perfected - and it just sounds too perfect. Same thing with Def Leppards Pyromania compared to Hysteria.
It's not something easy to put into words. I don't know if it's the tone or the overdubs or what. Perhaps it is that they were established bands and could afford the studio time to get it right and perfect.
As much as I love that old stuff, I've been finding myself seeking out bands that don't have the industry hooks in them yet. So far my fave is FreezePop (http://www.freezepop.net).
Living on the approach path to ATL, it was very errie on 9/11 being outside and not seeing all the planes lined up and hearing them.
From what I remember, they were used to render the ocean and water.
Didn't you see "The X-Men"???
:)
The hot dog vendor on the beach had one, the crummy bar in the middle of nowhere Canada had one, everyone had one
On a linux box:
/usr/src/linux -type f -exec grep -A 1 -B 1 fuck {} \;
:-)
/* Binary compatibility is good American knowhow fuckin' up. */
/* Why the fuck did they have to change this? */
/* Sun, you just can't beat me, you just can't. Stop trying,
man strfry (prnounced stirfry)
man memfrob
find
/* Only Sun can take such nice parts and fuck up the programming interface
* like this. Good job guys...
* Wirzenius wrote this portably, Torvalds fucked it up
* irixioctl.c: A fucking mess...
If you don't see why, please stay the fuck away from my code.
/* These are here for sake of fucking lusercode living in the fucking believe
having to fuck around with the syscall interface themselfes. */
/* 2,191 lines of complete and utter shit coming up... */
* give up. I'm serious, I am going to kick the living shit
* out of you, game over, lights out.
Huh? Okay...so they took a hardened os and put Apache on it. They put it on something other than port 80. If you are setting up a server that serves pages (possibly internal info) this is a good way to hide it from script kiddies.
No mail? You don't need to have sendmail running as a daemon listening on port 25 for mail to work. I have two HP's that don't accept mail, but send me mail on a regular basis.
As for no ftp/ssh - so? You can go to the console and update files. Perhaps they have another machine with ssh and a serial link? Perhaps ssh is firewalled off? perhaps they have something that watches for an attempt to connect to a certain port that will then launch sshd for 5 minutes?
Perhaps the static pages it was serving were generated every 5 minutes by a perl script?
Just because a server isn't running the default RedHat install or something doesn't mean that it isn't real world.
And the plutonium came from the Savannah River plant.
:)
I didn't think DaFoe was that bad - the character was written bad. Anyway, the movie had Ryan 10 years younger because they thought that people would be very confused if Ryan went from Baldwin->Ford->Affleck - his age would have dropped back down. Now all I hear is "why was the movie in the future, but Ryan got younger".
It's not like people had a problem when Bond kept getting younger - hell, half the people I know that saw it were probably about 10-12 when Clear and Present Danger came out anyway.
Then again, we know how hollywood thinks about us people with minds
Probably the Microsoft Campus Agreement.
I don't remember the details, but we have it and it costs about $8 per student per term.
We buy almost all of our servers the same specs - that way they are pretty much interchangable and can handle extra load if they ever need it.
Somewhere at home I have the original star wars novel, as written by George Lucas, and in there somewhere I swear that 3po mentions that he used to belong to Darth Vader.
I remember when I read it going "huh???" but now it all makes sense - except the memory erasure.
Oh like this one:
http://www.sithvixen.com
How many times has exchange been the root?
Now outlook is a different story!
We have 2GB ram, right now it as 600M avail and 726K in system cache and has peaked at 1.3G of RAM used. That is with about 70 active users out of our total.
Uh...
;)
:
Dell PE2550 2x1.13 w/2GB RAM - $7k
Supporting about 800 people just fine.
I will agree on the "hidden" costs though - Ex2k requires active directory, so you need an NT server w/ however many licenses and that'll hurt you, in addition to the exchange license.
You can run anti-virus right on the exchange server intergrated into exchange, and with exchange you can set it to retain deleted mailboxes for a period of time before they are purged - removing the tape restore altogether. If you backup individual mailboxes, then it's just as easy for tape restore.
The logging and scripting is true, though I don't agree with the IT admin attention - our exchange and Unix mail machines are both pretty problem free. As for security - uh...how many times has sendmail been the root of problems?
Now that I'm done with that
To quote our exchange person when upgrading to Ex2000 "Why don't we just go ahead and put all the e-mail on Linux?"