easy enough. hell of a lot easier to remember a named system that a "resource" system.
IE, try to remember "DCRM_VPNT1_03" vs. "BORG3"
I have a tendency to name servers after who they remind me of. Kind of like personification.
For instance, my home media server is "Goku," because i built it in 2000, and ever few years it just keeps getting more power-ups. Never dies.
I have both a Dell d830 and d620 which have non-reflective screens.
The D830's native resolution is 1920x1200.
I think you haven't been looking around enough, there are plenty of options. However, you typically have to look towards the business-class models for non-reflective (corporate cubical farm) models.
seconded. my model-M HP multimedia keyboard is still kicking it with my ubuntu. PS/2 connectors FTW.
Although, i think that both the model-m and gameboy use the same bakelit shell so it isn't really surprising that they both are still working wonders./keep my old gameboy in the downstairs bathroom at home. preloaded (lol) with the original tetris, which happens to be the best video game ever made.
I remember that i had a buroughs computer that my dad brought home in mid 1982 (born in 79). No one in the house could get the damn thing to work. It was supposed to have all this stuff already loaded on it. Word processing, games, graphics, but it had some weird proprietary OS or something on it (maybe an early early unix, i honestly can't remember).
Low and behold, who is the only person who is able to figure out how the damned thing worked. me, muggin's here. loved it. loved it to insane amounts. I would spend hours looking at the screen, typing in various different commands, playing with the shell, running the programs. I was hooked. Especially with Choplifter. The game was awesome. The levels were awesome. It was intense, and got me hooked.
In many respects, my first gaming experience was also my first computer experience.
after that, my parents graduated me to an atari 2600. That lasted for years, until I finally got a NES, then a Gameboy, then a SNES, then a playstation, then N64, then Dreamcast, then Xbox. Haven't moved up to the wii or 360 yet, just out of personal protest of the costs of online subscriptions on the 360 and the lack of supply of the Wii (getting one in march for the bday).
There was something about the 4bit graphics that we used to play with that is totally different from todays gaming. We were able to get deeper into a game, play for hours and hours, because there was no way to save. It never seemed repetative, just a challenge. 20$ for a game, and once you beat it, you would move on to the next game. Modern games, with their episodic content and world-replacing reality have lost some of the connection we early mid late 30 year olds had with our games of youth.
Who didn't spend hundreds in quarters on Tron or Star Wars Arcade as a youth. You ever regretted it? doubt it.
Last week, i did a data recovery on a client that had multiple disk head crash from a power outage, or a kick or something. The drives were resulting in a click-seek, which for the most parts is unrecoverable.
Popped in a Helix disk, and checked what the MFT was doing. Low and behold, no MFT, no boot sector, and a huge list of bad sectors. Basically, the crash had resulted in a bad sector in the bad sector table, and all over the first portion of the disk.
These were 200GB disks, but eventually I was able to get a sector repair program to read through and do a non-destructive repair. Data was safe, but was now corrupt. Next step was to repair the data, and I was finally able to just use chdisk to repair.
Eventually, it was back to real data, and was able to push the data over to a new replacement hard drive.
Told the client to invest in RAID 1, but seriously doubt they would be willing to spend that $100 for the RAID. Instead, they prefer to pay $1000 for a repair.
BACKUPS. make lots of BACKUPS. RAID your stuff, and get those backups offsite. Do them regularly. Seriously, it would save your ass if something happens. For example, I have a LAN HD that is parked out in a shed in my backyard. Total cost $200, and has already saved my ass 2x.
Good response. However, why on earth would a corner office think that the contents of ANY email were secure. email is basically just plain text. it sits in the spool as basically plain text. it prints on your screen as plain text. there is typically no encoding, no decoding, and anyone who has an email client can read it.
I guess it is a problem with assumption. Corners assume communication is privileged, and private. Well, it isn't. It's like using a megaphone to talk through the wall to the office next door. Yeah, no one outside your office might hear you, but you don't know how many people are in the next office listening.
Corners can't assume that email is private. It doesn't work that way.
Would you be upset if your alergist (doctor) had access to your blood work? No. It is his job. Trust is a huge component of system administration, and any company, or corporation, who doesn't understand that the administrator has the keys to the system, needs to take a better look at their corporate layout.
Admins have access to everything. Or at least they should have access to virtually everything. Because who would you call if it was broken? certainly not the corner office.
Trust is necessary. You have to trust your admins. And if you have an admin that leaves under suspicious or grievious circumstances, you protect your corporations ass with a dismissal agreement.
No matter what happens, Rockstar will win. They have gotten so much publicity in recent years, that even if they released a tame title, it would probably be a hit, just cause people want to see what all the hype is about.
If the game gets held back, they can sue for censorship.
If the game gets released, everyone wants to see what the hype is about.
If the game gets held back, they can re-release with "special adults only product" purchasing, where you buy a special license via a credit card (online for legal-age verification).
Again. Rockstar can't loose.
It is a simple equation; we get ourselves into the role. A sequel represents a way in which we are reincarnated is it were. I am a quake god again. I am an awp whore again. I am a wizard-warlock-gremlin again.
When we play games, we are the persona or the avatar, we develop skills based around our experience. Unlike a movie, if we don't like the game, we aren't likely to finish playing it. When we love a game, we play it over and over and over, and experience it in different roles. That is something that movies can't replicate. Imagine, the Star Wars trilogy (Han shot first) seen THROUGH the eyes of Luke. Then imagine seeing it again THROUGH the eyes of Han. Same story, but completely different angles. We are our avatar for the short while that we play.
I loved Half-Life. Still do love HL. When the mods started to roll in, I was in love with them too. You are Gordan. You are a soilder trying to stop Gordan. You are a security guard, just trying to get out alive.
HL2 comes along. We are taken back to what we were. 3-people. New story, but an infinate way to experience it. I don't have to move along a linear track like I would in a movie. I can move side to side, I can cheat if I want. It doesn't matter, to the game. I am god.
The new episodial game sequences are going to completely revolutionize the gaming genre. Planning so that a story is incomplete, and given feedback along the path of development. So many twists, and so many opportunities.
Image. Episode 2: Omega Watch. Episode 2: Head Crab.
2c. And damn glad I still play counter-strike./life long fan now. Quickly approaching 10 years, actually (beta.4)
1) Stop making good products 2) Whine that it is everyone elses fault 3) File frivoulous lawsuits that are difficult to defend against. 4) Profit 5) Whine, rinse, repeat. 5b) loose all your money to the gaming industry, and try to sue them also. 6) whine, rinse, repeat.
While I might suck, you might suck, someone else might be good. The 40-hour estimate is often based around the time it would take a character to move the distance required during game play. Think of it like a video tape. There are around 40-hours of video in this tape. Or if the character can move at 1 mile per hour in the game, it would take 40 hours to walk the total distance covered by the game play.
Why be disappointed in getting more game play than you paid for. Better to get 100hrs out of a 40hr game, than 10hrs out of 40.
actually, we don't even use the full spec size of HD now. The real spec is for 1920x1080. We haven't even been using anything close to that. "Ultra", huh? What's next "Super-Duper" "Magnum" "mega-uber"
I typically will use no less that 2g for swaps, however, as the more memory is added to the system, the less swap I use.
It is never less than 1 - 1.5x the ram size. You NEED to have enough space to dump the entire contents of memory out in the event of a panic (for tracing) and then anything else that is still resident in swap at the time. Start with 2GB and add 1GB per 512MB of memory. You should be sitting safe in most situations.
I just figured that my email from 1992, just like magazines from 1900, would be worth something to someone someday.
Just because I have a lot of email, doesn't mean I am a pack rat. I can tell you from many experiences that having certain emails come in handy, such as legal conversations, bank conversations, business consulting conversations. But just because you have alot of email, doesn't mean you are unorganized. I would say that a pack rat, is closer to an unorganized person that an organized one.
For example, 14gb of email in my archive. Most are just straight text. A new message comes in, filters catch the category, mark it as read if so desired, and file it under the right folder. Same way that most people do it. Those folders are archived based on month and year, and again archived into a compressed file. So what if it is a large quantity, its the quality that is important./pointless discussion, and has more to do with Organization habits that archiving habits.
I have done it several times, although never to also include a diagnostic station, but i would strongly recommend that you think above the ground. In a 45' room, you would barely be able to fit one rack mount system. But if you are concerned primarily with desktop systems, then you can do 3 ties of shelving just large enough to hold a tower securely. Adjustable shelving might be a godsend.
Also, a small adjustable angle table (drafting table) might make it so that you can acomplish work when necessary, and also fold away when not in use. Use LCD monitors, flat mounted against the wall to conserve desktop space. Place the KVM on a shelf right next to the monitor, and run the cables (pre-wired) to the positions where you would be putting the servers. Run the cables through conduit to decrease clutter. Keep switches and networking gear closer to the ceiling, than to the floor. Ladders and step stools can be folded away when not needed to access those points. Keep all clutter put away, filing cabinets are a good double for extra space when needed.
As far as accessories, it really depends on what type of test equipment you need. I keep a gutted Athlon XP box on the floor around my server room, just for plugging in drives and accessories for testing. The KVM is probably the most important extra little bit though, get one that has atleast 5 attachments.
Keep everything neat and tidy, and you will be surprised at how much space a 45sqft room can provide.
As an example, we just purchased a server for a client. Dell 2950, with dual, dual-core, xeons 3.2ghz. Well, each of those core also has a hyper thread. So, in-essence, we got a system which is seen as an 8 processor box, running on 2 physical processors.
So, 8 threads of execution at the same time. You are totally right, clock speed is not the future, but parallelism is. Eventually, it will get to the point where we are using geometric processing, with core stacks, instead of core-sides. Pretty nifty, and I am totally with it.
However, if Intel believes now that 8 cores won't be needed, I can promise they have 16 and 32 core processors in the works. Keep em guessing. But new licensing is needed. Do they even make a quad-processor license for windows xp?
speaking of which... ubuntu on 8 processors.... oh man. Aircrack in 20 minutes on 128bit WEP.
Yeah, but be prepared for a lot of hunting on devel packages. Just barely getting it to install on Ubuntu, after over 250MB of devel downloads./Kinda rediculus. But wanted to try it out.
I totally agree. If this is actually a RAID-5 setup, then it requires at minimum 3 drives. Most onboard (intel) RAID controllers are only setup for 0,1,0+1, or 10. And not RAID 5. I don't see how it could possibly be correlated to the CPU. It seems much more likely that if it is a new North/South bridge, that the problem is the with IO controller.
CPU utilization in RAID5 configurations is almost entirely offloaded to the RAID controller.
The article (including spelling errors) fails to mention a lick about the RAID controller. Only that "it's a cpu problem."
It isn't really Google's fault. It still lies with the user, no matter what. Google is practicing something called "Open Beta Testing" as opposed to "Closed Beta Testing."
By providing OBT people are exposed to beta, but because it isn't release product, there is no support provided. Hence, the company conducting OBT saves money while increasing exposure.
CBT is totally different, as anyone who works in software knows. Once it is production, its all about support. Don't BLAME google, just understand that people need more education about the in's and out's of software development. Alpha, Beta, RC, release, Support, update, support, update, support, update, support.......replace.
they actually produce 15% of the countries copper annually. But I have been hearing that the mine is basically tapped (at least the current mine) And that they will be starting a new mine a little futher back in the Oquirr mountains in order the meet the needs of the country.
Interestingly enough, they also produce a significant portion of the countries Uranium, Iron, and other precious metals. But i can see how we could eventually run out of resources. Hence them being natural resources. Luckily, since copper is a natually occuring element, it should be more abundant at deeper sub-terrain.
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easy enough. hell of a lot easier to remember a named system that a "resource" system. IE, try to remember "DCRM_VPNT1_03" vs. "BORG3" I have a tendency to name servers after who they remind me of. Kind of like personification. For instance, my home media server is "Goku," because i built it in 2000, and ever few years it just keeps getting more power-ups. Never dies.
I have both a Dell d830 and d620 which have non-reflective screens. The D830's native resolution is 1920x1200. I think you haven't been looking around enough, there are plenty of options. However, you typically have to look towards the business-class models for non-reflective (corporate cubical farm) models.
seconded. my model-M HP multimedia keyboard is still kicking it with my ubuntu. PS/2 connectors FTW.
/keep my old gameboy in the downstairs bathroom at home. preloaded (lol) with the original tetris, which happens to be the best video game ever made.
Although, i think that both the model-m and gameboy use the same bakelit shell so it isn't really surprising that they both are still working wonders.
I remember that i had a buroughs computer that my dad brought home in mid 1982 (born in 79). No one in the house could get the damn thing to work. It was supposed to have all this stuff already loaded on it. Word processing, games, graphics, but it had some weird proprietary OS or something on it (maybe an early early unix, i honestly can't remember).
Low and behold, who is the only person who is able to figure out how the damned thing worked. me, muggin's here. loved it. loved it to insane amounts. I would spend hours looking at the screen, typing in various different commands, playing with the shell, running the programs. I was hooked. Especially with Choplifter. The game was awesome. The levels were awesome. It was intense, and got me hooked.
In many respects, my first gaming experience was also my first computer experience.
after that, my parents graduated me to an atari 2600. That lasted for years, until I finally got a NES, then a Gameboy, then a SNES, then a playstation, then N64, then Dreamcast, then Xbox. Haven't moved up to the wii or 360 yet, just out of personal protest of the costs of online subscriptions on the 360 and the lack of supply of the Wii (getting one in march for the bday).
There was something about the 4bit graphics that we used to play with that is totally different from todays gaming. We were able to get deeper into a game, play for hours and hours, because there was no way to save. It never seemed repetative, just a challenge. 20$ for a game, and once you beat it, you would move on to the next game. Modern games, with their episodic content and world-replacing reality have lost some of the connection we early mid late 30 year olds had with our games of youth.
Who didn't spend hundreds in quarters on Tron or Star Wars Arcade as a youth. You ever regretted it? doubt it.
Last week, i did a data recovery on a client that had multiple disk head crash from a power outage, or a kick or something. The drives were resulting in a click-seek, which for the most parts is unrecoverable.
Popped in a Helix disk, and checked what the MFT was doing. Low and behold, no MFT, no boot sector, and a huge list of bad sectors. Basically, the crash had resulted in a bad sector in the bad sector table, and all over the first portion of the disk.
These were 200GB disks, but eventually I was able to get a sector repair program to read through and do a non-destructive repair. Data was safe, but was now corrupt. Next step was to repair the data, and I was finally able to just use chdisk to repair.
Eventually, it was back to real data, and was able to push the data over to a new replacement hard drive.
Told the client to invest in RAID 1, but seriously doubt they would be willing to spend that $100 for the RAID. Instead, they prefer to pay $1000 for a repair.
BACKUPS. make lots of BACKUPS. RAID your stuff, and get those backups offsite. Do them regularly. Seriously, it would save your ass if something happens. For example, I have a LAN HD that is parked out in a shed in my backyard. Total cost $200, and has already saved my ass 2x.
4) IM client (is there a good linux IM client that interacts with windows messenger?)
GAIM, works well with just about everything, including AIM, MSN, Yahoo, IRC, ICQ, Jabber, etc.
Good response. However, why on earth would a corner office think that the contents of ANY email were secure. email is basically just plain text. it sits in the spool as basically plain text. it prints on your screen as plain text. there is typically no encoding, no decoding, and anyone who has an email client can read it.
I guess it is a problem with assumption. Corners assume communication is privileged, and private. Well, it isn't. It's like using a megaphone to talk through the wall to the office next door. Yeah, no one outside your office might hear you, but you don't know how many people are in the next office listening.
Corners can't assume that email is private. It doesn't work that way.
Would you be upset if your alergist (doctor) had access to your blood work? No. It is his job. Trust is a huge component of system administration, and any company, or corporation, who doesn't understand that the administrator has the keys to the system, needs to take a better look at their corporate layout.
Admins have access to everything. Or at least they should have access to virtually everything. Because who would you call if it was broken? certainly not the corner office.
Trust is necessary. You have to trust your admins. And if you have an admin that leaves under suspicious or grievious circumstances, you protect your corporations ass with a dismissal agreement.
No matter what happens, Rockstar will win. They have gotten so much publicity in recent years, that even if they released a tame title, it would probably be a hit, just cause people want to see what all the hype is about. If the game gets held back, they can sue for censorship. If the game gets released, everyone wants to see what the hype is about. If the game gets held back, they can re-release with "special adults only product" purchasing, where you buy a special license via a credit card (online for legal-age verification). Again. Rockstar can't loose.
It is a simple equation; we get ourselves into the role. A sequel represents a way in which we are reincarnated is it were. I am a quake god again. I am an awp whore again. I am a wizard-warlock-gremlin again.
/life long fan now. Quickly approaching 10 years, actually (beta .4)
When we play games, we are the persona or the avatar, we develop skills based around our experience. Unlike a movie, if we don't like the game, we aren't likely to finish playing it. When we love a game, we play it over and over and over, and experience it in different roles. That is something that movies can't replicate. Imagine, the Star Wars trilogy (Han shot first) seen THROUGH the eyes of Luke. Then imagine seeing it again THROUGH the eyes of Han. Same story, but completely different angles. We are our avatar for the short while that we play.
I loved Half-Life. Still do love HL. When the mods started to roll in, I was in love with them too. You are Gordan. You are a soilder trying to stop Gordan. You are a security guard, just trying to get out alive.
HL2 comes along. We are taken back to what we were. 3-people. New story, but an infinate way to experience it. I don't have to move along a linear track like I would in a movie. I can move side to side, I can cheat if I want. It doesn't matter, to the game. I am god.
The new episodial game sequences are going to completely revolutionize the gaming genre. Planning so that a story is incomplete, and given feedback along the path of development. So many twists, and so many opportunities.
Image. Episode 2: Omega Watch. Episode 2: Head Crab.
2c. And damn glad I still play counter-strike.
SCO.
1) Stop making good products
2) Whine that it is everyone elses fault
3) File frivoulous lawsuits that are difficult to defend against.
4) Profit
5) Whine, rinse, repeat.
5b) loose all your money to the gaming industry, and try to sue them also.
6) whine, rinse, repeat.
While I might suck, you might suck, someone else might be good. The 40-hour estimate is often based around the time it would take a character to move the distance required during game play. Think of it like a video tape. There are around 40-hours of video in this tape. Or if the character can move at 1 mile per hour in the game, it would take 40 hours to walk the total distance covered by the game play.
Why be disappointed in getting more game play than you paid for. Better to get 100hrs out of a 40hr game, than 10hrs out of 40.
actually, we don't even use the full spec size of HD now. The real spec is for 1920x1080. We haven't even been using anything close to that. "Ultra", huh? What's next "Super-Duper" "Magnum" "mega-uber"
enough said.
Straight to DVD, spanning, compression and encryption when wanted.
Works really well. But like most backup programs, the failure of one media in the set nukes the whole set.
I typically will use no less that 2g for swaps, however, as the more memory is added to the system, the less swap I use.
It is never less than 1 - 1.5x the ram size. You NEED to have enough space to dump the entire contents of memory out in the event of a panic (for tracing) and then anything else that is still resident in swap at the time. Start with 2GB and add 1GB per 512MB of memory. You should be sitting safe in most situations.
I just figured that my email from 1992, just like magazines from 1900, would be worth something to someone someday.
/pointless discussion, and has more to do with Organization habits that archiving habits.
Just because I have a lot of email, doesn't mean I am a pack rat. I can tell you from many experiences that having certain emails come in handy, such as legal conversations, bank conversations, business consulting conversations. But just because you have alot of email, doesn't mean you are unorganized. I would say that a pack rat, is closer to an unorganized person that an organized one.
For example, 14gb of email in my archive. Most are just straight text. A new message comes in, filters catch the category, mark it as read if so desired, and file it under the right folder. Same way that most people do it. Those folders are archived based on month and year, and again archived into a compressed file. So what if it is a large quantity, its the quality that is important.
I have done it several times, although never to also include a diagnostic station, but i would strongly recommend that you think above the ground. In a 45' room, you would barely be able to fit one rack mount system. But if you are concerned primarily with desktop systems, then you can do 3 ties of shelving just large enough to hold a tower securely. Adjustable shelving might be a godsend.
Also, a small adjustable angle table (drafting table) might make it so that you can acomplish work when necessary, and also fold away when not in use. Use LCD monitors, flat mounted against the wall to conserve desktop space. Place the KVM on a shelf right next to the monitor, and run the cables (pre-wired) to the positions where you would be putting the servers. Run the cables through conduit to decrease clutter. Keep switches and networking gear closer to the ceiling, than to the floor. Ladders and step stools can be folded away when not needed to access those points. Keep all clutter put away, filing cabinets are a good double for extra space when needed.
As far as accessories, it really depends on what type of test equipment you need. I keep a gutted Athlon XP box on the floor around my server room, just for plugging in drives and accessories for testing. The KVM is probably the most important extra little bit though, get one that has atleast 5 attachments.
Keep everything neat and tidy, and you will be surprised at how much space a 45sqft room can provide.
And water as a fire suppression system.
As an example, we just purchased a server for a client. Dell 2950, with dual, dual-core, xeons 3.2ghz. Well, each of those core also has a hyper thread. So, in-essence, we got a system which is seen as an 8 processor box, running on 2 physical processors.
So, 8 threads of execution at the same time. You are totally right, clock speed is not the future, but parallelism is. Eventually, it will get to the point where we are using geometric processing, with core stacks, instead of core-sides. Pretty nifty, and I am totally with it.
However, if Intel believes now that 8 cores won't be needed, I can promise they have 16 and 32 core processors in the works. Keep em guessing. But new licensing is needed. Do they even make a quad-processor license for windows xp?
speaking of which... ubuntu on 8 processors.... oh man. Aircrack in 20 minutes on 128bit WEP.
58 F. not C.
and they are especially showing off the low power usage in that kind of space..
48 Hds, 2CPUs, and still less than 1200 Watts.
Oh many. Datafarm in a single rack.
Yeah, but be prepared for a lot of hunting on devel packages. Just barely getting it to install on Ubuntu, after over 250MB of devel downloads. /Kinda rediculus. But wanted to try it out.
I totally agree. If this is actually a RAID-5 setup, then it requires at minimum 3 drives. Most onboard (intel) RAID controllers are only setup for 0,1,0+1, or 10. And not RAID 5. I don't see how it could possibly be correlated to the CPU. It seems much more likely that if it is a new North/South bridge, that the problem is the with IO controller.
CPU utilization in RAID5 configurations is almost entirely offloaded to the RAID controller.
The article (including spelling errors) fails to mention a lick about the RAID controller. Only that "it's a cpu problem."
It isn't really Google's fault. It still lies with the user, no matter what. Google is practicing something called "Open Beta Testing" as opposed to "Closed Beta Testing."
By providing OBT people are exposed to beta, but because it isn't release product, there is no support provided. Hence, the company conducting OBT saves money while increasing exposure.
CBT is totally different, as anyone who works in software knows. Once it is production, its all about support. Don't BLAME google, just understand that people need more education about the in's and out's of software development. Alpha, Beta, RC, release, Support, update, support, update, support, update, support.......replace.
It is the worlds largest man made hole in the ground, and one of the few man made wonders that is visible from space.
http://www.utah.com/attractions/kennecott.htm
they actually produce 15% of the countries copper annually. But I have been hearing that the mine is basically tapped (at least the current mine) And that they will be starting a new mine a little futher back in the Oquirr mountains in order the meet the needs of the country.
Interestingly enough, they also produce a significant portion of the countries Uranium, Iron, and other precious metals. But i can see how we could eventually run out of resources. Hence them being natural resources. Luckily, since copper is a natually occuring element, it should be more abundant at deeper sub-terrain.