Dear Site Owner: There's this thing. It's called the Web. If you put things up on it, and they're interesting, people will share the link with other people. If you're putting up huge, interesting media files, at some point in your site's life, you can expect the traffic to start to rise, perhaps uncontrollably. That's why you should: 1) Get a hosting agreement at a place with a cap on your bandwidth/monthly transfer so they can't surprise you with 4 digit bills. 2) Think long and hard about the total size of anything you put up, particularily with a bent toward thinking "what if 1000 people decide to see this at some point?", especially since the only reason you're posting it is so that others can see it. 3) If only your selected pals are supposed to see it, put it in a restricted area. 4) Quit acting surprised when this type of thing happens. We've all seen the Slashdot Effect for years now, and considering the unlikely meme success of the Hamster Dance, Mahir, the Tourist Guy, AYB and more, we know that large flocks of people can descend on the most unlikely thing mercilessly.
If the federal NDP has anything more in common with the BC NDP than their name, I hope they never come to power. The Liberals may have a suck up to industry policy, but the NDPers I've seen in action have a "What's a budget, ooooh... How did that happen?" approach to fiscal management. Which is to say they have none at all. And they really knew how to deal with those bastards who dare to set up businesses and expect to make a profit, too. It's a wonder BC had any businesses left by the time they got slaughtered in the last election here (from a majority government down to 3 seats. They didn't even have enough seats to gain official Opposition party status).
He's entitled to his own opinion of course, and can present it with as much vitriol as he likes. What I personally object to is where he tries to force his opinion on others. The whole sentence:
Needless to say, I do not like David Weber, nor do I like the Honor Harrington books. I am deeply distrustful of anyone who does.
In other words, my opinion is right, and if you disagree with me, there must be something wrong with you.
That's where CrankyFool crossed the line from reviewing to preaching. In my opinion, of course.
Oh I don't know about that. I'll admit Weber's not my favorite author, but the first couple of books were fine. The Basilisk Station book in particular. It was the first book from the Baen free library I tried. But after the first couple, he seemed to develop Robert Jordan-itis, where what could easily be said in a hundred pages took three hundred instead. King is much the same way as well. I think the problem is these folks get popular, sell a bunch of books, and then their editors get scared to cut anything, so the books get longer and longer with less meat per page...
Spending the entire first paragraph bashing another book series than the subject of the review, and also anyone who does like said books. That's an *excellent* way to build credibility.
Are you trying to point out the Treyonics site, or is that your sig? Because it sure looks like your.sig, and you know, bashing your competitor is not scoring you any crdibility...
If you want to bring lawyers into it, it's their damn fault that they're no longer called "Palm Pilots". Oops. Hope Pilot Pen Corporation doesn't want to send me a C&D letter.
I've used every series of Palm since the Pilot 1000 days. Currently I've got a Zire 71, and honestly, the battery doesn't concern me in the least. I only recharge it once a week and still use it to play a bit of music each day, use it as an alarm clock and a book reader. True I don't have the same longevity that I did when I had a Palm 1000 or my III (2 months between battery changes), or even when I had the Sony SJ20 (about 3 weeks to a charge, niiice backlight paperwhite) but I think the color screen, MP3 capability, and the ability to run stuff like Frodo (which I tried and it works like a hot damn) is more than a fair tradeoff. I also discovered a really cool use for that somewhat useless camera built into it. At the place I work, the previous sysadmin was a worthless twit and never bothered to make a map of all the phone/data jacks for each person before a lot of them moved heavy desks *right in front of them*. Even though the info's written on the plates, no human can see them without emptying the desk and moving it. Unless I slip the Palm down there with a flashlight and take a pic. That alone makes it worth its weight in gold.
Why do people always equate "Stock price" with how much money a company has? If SCOX goes to $100 tomorrow, they still don't have any more money than they had yesterday. They're losing existing customers, in part because of the media coverage, and that is choking their continuing sources of revenue off. The one-time investments they have received are just that: One time.
You want to really cost SCO money? Start a class action lawsuit against them.
Easy fix: Get an old microwave, and build an EMF gun with it, then drive around and "stress test" some of your neighbors' antennas until your signal improves. Rinse, repeat as needed.
Or, for something that won't get people upset, start a neighborhood committee and try to work out an effective way to turn this ad-hoc madness into something with structure yourselves. If it turns out you can get everyone going through 2 or 3 antennas instead and everyone is subconnected with wifi or even cable runs, and everyone's sharing the costs of the connections, everyone's connectivity will improve, and access costs will drop.
But the big trick is getting everyone on board. Though nothing is a motivator like "Hey! Want your Intar-web to work better and cost less at the same time?"
But, the second half of my proposal would allow a large company to "lay claim" to a resource in space, if they could prove (ie put forth plans and such) that they can get to the asteroid to do whatever they need to do with it.
What?!!? By that logic, all the land in North America should belong to bigasscorpco, since they can obviously turn a bigger profit on it, Wal-mart style, than any single homeowner could.
I just hope nobody shows up claiming they need a hyperspace bypass.....
Although you're really not supposed to sit 18 inches from these things, which is one of the reasons there's not much of a market for 60" computer monitors.
Well, not any more. But let's presume that's the case. Even if it was only $8 US, us Canucks get paid in Canadian dollars, so how does that help us? Unless of course you wanted to contribute $10 US to the "buy the Canucks some music" fund....
I don't watch too much TV either, but of the TV I do watch, almost none of it is what would be "network" shows. I watch stuff on TLC, Discovery, and even HGTV (Love the woodworking shows for some reason...) And Enterprise (yeah, it sucks, but it's still better than almost everything else on "prime time"). And SG1. And that's about it.
The issue isn't access to the source, the issue is that they're starting to falter and inadvertantly let it slip that they themselves have no idea what is infringing, if anything, nor do they have the resources to determine it, so they're hoping IBM will do their jobs for them. When they're getting to the point that they're supposed to serve up the meat and potatoes, they're finding their larder's empty and are now begging the dinner guests for food.
It's not the storage capacity that matters in a lot of cases, it's the throughput.
I have a similar potential need. I run Squirrelmail on my Red Hat box at home hosting my mail, and for the longest time I was using an IDE drive to hold it, because IDE's cheap, and was even more so 3 years ago when I first put the box together. My mailbox is taking 20-30 seconds to refresh after an operation, since it's admittely huge. The mainboard I used in building the server was a cheap QDI dual processor board that I got for $130 and slapped two celeron 466s on it, good deal! It also has an Adaptec 7880 controller built into it that I never used since the cost of SCSI drives was even more than it is today.
In light of this test, I am really curious to see whether or not I would get a boost in performance by moving my mail onto a small (18GB) SCSI drive instead. I don't need a huge amount of storage for the mail, and I can use IDE drives for the main stuff I do with the server, but having faster mail performance is something I've been trying to do for a while. I had planned a whole new box, but I think I'll give this a go first and see what happens....
Maybe I'm just really bitter. Haven't given software RAID a go for a couple of years now. For good hardware IDE RAID 5 under Linux (or other OSs), go with 3Ware's cards.
Nah, a Palm makes a great ebook reader. And Palms are cheap like borscht, you can pick up a used Zire or Palm III/V for under $50. Hell, you can get a new Zire 21 for $99. Cost of the unit hasn't been an issue for a long time unless you're talking about one of those stupid only-reads-ebooks-and-costs-$300 devices like the Franklin Ebook reader. Here's the problem I have had with the e-books as presented by the industry since day one. Cost of the books themselves. Why the hell does the ebook version cost only a buck less than the paperback version? It only costs a buck to print and ship to distributors? That's friggin news to me! If the Ebooks were reasonably priced for the lack of a physical thing that you can hold in your hands, like say around $2.50 per instead of $7 per, then there would have been a lot more interest than there has been so far. In fact, there's been so little interest in Ebooks, I find the title of the article laughable. The bubble burst? What bubble? It was never there to begin with. The publishing industry is terrified of ebooks and never wanted them to succeed to begin with, which probably explains the asinine pricing model. A lot of the bigger publishers refused to even consider ebooks at all. A lot of the books I read on my palm come from either public domain sources like Project Gutenberg, or one of the few tree publishers that does seem to "get it", Baen Books. They even have a free library of a lot of their published stuff, a download from which of a book by David Weber eventually saw me going out and buying several of his books. They also have an interesting "webscription" system, which I am thinking about trying for a few months. Could be good. Unfortunately, they seem the exception rather than the rule when it comes to publishers and ebooks.
We get a lot of meat-heads going out to the bars in Vancouver, but lately it seems we're having shootings, some of them pretty bad. It seems to me this is an attempt to stop this sort of thing from happening. That and the fights, stabbings, etc.
One thing to note, this is not all bars, only those who want in on the system and are willing to shell out for it. There will be a lot of bars in the Vancouver area that don't want in on the system, or can't afford to do it, so it won't happen for them. Largely the ones doing this will be the uber-hip trendy bars anyway. I could care less.
I have to argue that most people do not care in the slightest about art
Great. Make sure you delete all those MP3s on your hard drive. Wouldn't want that art to get to you or anything.
Unless of course it's that dreck the labels shovel to the masses. That is *NOT* art, so you can keep it.
While you're at it, what color is your car? If it's not white (cheap paint and reflects most solar heating) then it's not a paint chosen for function. Make sure you only buy white cars in the future. And no radios. Those waste power.
Same goes for your house. No paintings on the wall, all white walls and carpets. Efficiency, not aesthetics!
And, you're not one of those casemodding people are you? That's a waste of resources!
And ultimately, I think the point everyone who DIDN'T READ THE ARTICLE is missing is that this is a PRIVATE foundation giving these grants out. It's their money. If they want to give a grant for a blacksmith to study the expressiveness of metal, it's THEIR MONEY to give. If they wanted to give a grant to study the number of cats that walk by a given house in a year, same deal.
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Dear Site Owner:
There's this thing. It's called the Web. If you put things up on it, and they're interesting, people will share the link with other people. If you're putting up huge, interesting media files, at some point in your site's life, you can expect the traffic to start to rise, perhaps uncontrollably. That's why you should:
1) Get a hosting agreement at a place with a cap on your bandwidth/monthly transfer so they can't surprise you with 4 digit bills.
2) Think long and hard about the total size of anything you put up, particularily with a bent toward thinking "what if 1000 people decide to see this at some point?", especially since the only reason you're posting it is so that others can see it.
3) If only your selected pals are supposed to see it, put it in a restricted area.
4) Quit acting surprised when this type of thing happens. We've all seen the Slashdot Effect for years now, and considering the unlikely meme success of the Hamster Dance, Mahir, the Tourist Guy, AYB and more, we know that large flocks of people can descend on the most unlikely thing mercilessly.
If the federal NDP has anything more in common with the BC NDP than their name, I hope they never come to power.
The Liberals may have a suck up to industry policy, but the NDPers I've seen in action have a "What's a budget, ooooh... How did that happen?" approach to fiscal management. Which is to say they have none at all. And they really knew how to deal with those bastards who dare to set up businesses and expect to make a profit, too. It's a wonder BC had any businesses left by the time they got slaughtered in the last election here (from a majority government down to 3 seats. They didn't even have enough seats to gain official Opposition party status).
Use IPCop instead. I do. I tried both, but I prefer IPCop. And it's free
He's entitled to his own opinion of course, and can present it with as much vitriol as he likes. What I personally object to is where he tries to force his opinion on others. The whole sentence:
Needless to say, I do not like David Weber, nor do I like the Honor Harrington books. I am deeply distrustful of anyone who does.
In other words, my opinion is right, and if you disagree with me, there must be something wrong with you.
That's where CrankyFool crossed the line from reviewing to preaching. In my opinion, of course.
Oh I don't know about that. I'll admit Weber's not my favorite author, but the first couple of books were fine. The Basilisk Station book in particular. It was the first book from the Baen free library I tried. But after the first couple, he seemed to develop Robert Jordan-itis, where what could easily be said in a hundred pages took three hundred instead. King is much the same way as well.
I think the problem is these folks get popular, sell a bunch of books, and then their editors get scared to cut anything, so the books get longer and longer with less meat per page...
Spending the entire first paragraph bashing another book series than the subject of the review, and also anyone who does like said books. That's an *excellent* way to build credibility.
Are you trying to point out the Treyonics site, or is that your sig? Because it sure looks like your .sig, and you know, bashing your competitor is not scoring you any crdibility...
If you want to bring lawyers into it, it's their damn fault that they're no longer called "Palm Pilots". Oops. Hope Pilot Pen Corporation doesn't want to send me a C&D letter.
I've used every series of Palm since the Pilot 1000 days. Currently I've got a Zire 71, and honestly, the battery doesn't concern me in the least. I only recharge it once a week and still use it to play a bit of music each day, use it as an alarm clock and a book reader. True I don't have the same longevity that I did when I had a Palm 1000 or my III (2 months between battery changes), or even when I had the Sony SJ20 (about 3 weeks to a charge, niiice backlight paperwhite) but I think the color screen, MP3 capability, and the ability to run stuff like Frodo (which I tried and it works like a hot damn) is more than a fair tradeoff.
I also discovered a really cool use for that somewhat useless camera built into it. At the place I work, the previous sysadmin was a worthless twit and never bothered to make a map of all the phone/data jacks for each person before a lot of them moved heavy desks *right in front of them*. Even though the info's written on the plates, no human can see them without emptying the desk and moving it. Unless I slip the Palm down there with a flashlight and take a pic.
That alone makes it worth its weight in gold.
Nice strawman.
At what point in history were there millions of people using HAM radios?
Why do people always equate "Stock price" with how much money a company has? If SCOX goes to $100 tomorrow, they still don't have any more money than they had yesterday. They're losing existing customers, in part because of the media coverage, and that is choking their continuing sources of revenue off. The one-time investments they have received are just that: One time.
You want to really cost SCO money? Start a class action lawsuit against them.
No, no, no. They'll just have to switch to SCSI, and pay twice as much. That'll learn them!
Easy fix: Get an old microwave, and build an EMF gun with it, then drive around and "stress test" some of your neighbors' antennas until your signal improves.
Rinse, repeat as needed.
Or, for something that won't get people upset, start a neighborhood committee and try to work out an effective way to turn this ad-hoc madness into something with structure yourselves. If it turns out you can get everyone going through 2 or 3 antennas instead and everyone is subconnected with wifi or even cable runs, and everyone's sharing the costs of the connections, everyone's connectivity will improve, and access costs will drop.
But the big trick is getting everyone on board. Though nothing is a motivator like "Hey! Want your Intar-web to work better and cost less at the same time?"
But, the second half of my proposal would allow a large company to "lay claim" to a resource in space, if they could prove (ie put forth plans and such) that they can get to the asteroid to do whatever they need to do with it.
What?!!? By that logic, all the land in North America should belong to bigasscorpco, since they can obviously turn a bigger profit on it, Wal-mart style, than any single homeowner could.
I just hope nobody shows up claiming they need a hyperspace bypass.....
What's the cost of a 60" 16:9 LCD? Oh yeah, they don't make them.
What cave have you been living in?
Although you're really not supposed to sit 18 inches from these things, which is one of the reasons there's not much of a market for 60" computer monitors.
Well, not any more. But let's presume that's the case. Even if it was only $8 US, us Canucks get paid in Canadian dollars, so how does that help us? Unless of course you wanted to contribute $10 US to the "buy the Canucks some music" fund....
I don't watch too much TV either, but of the TV I do watch, almost none of it is what would be "network" shows. I watch stuff on TLC, Discovery, and even HGTV (Love the woodworking shows for some reason...)
And Enterprise (yeah, it sucks, but it's still better than almost everything else on "prime time"). And SG1. And that's about it.
The issue isn't access to the source, the issue is that they're starting to falter and inadvertantly let it slip that they themselves have no idea what is infringing, if anything, nor do they have the resources to determine it, so they're hoping IBM will do their jobs for them. When they're getting to the point that they're supposed to serve up the meat and potatoes, they're finding their larder's empty and are now begging the dinner guests for food.
It's not the storage capacity that matters in a lot of cases, it's the throughput.
I have a similar potential need. I run Squirrelmail on my Red Hat box at home hosting my mail, and for the longest time I was using an IDE drive to hold it, because IDE's cheap, and was even more so 3 years ago when I first put the box together. My mailbox is taking 20-30 seconds to refresh after an operation, since it's admittely huge. The mainboard I used in building the server was a cheap QDI dual processor board that I got for $130 and slapped two celeron 466s on it, good deal! It also has an Adaptec 7880 controller built into it that I never used since the cost of SCSI drives was even more than it is today.
In light of this test, I am really curious to see whether or not I would get a boost in performance by moving my mail onto a small (18GB) SCSI drive instead. I don't need a huge amount of storage for the mail, and I can use IDE drives for the main stuff I do with the server, but having faster mail performance is something I've been trying to do for a while. I had planned a whole new box, but I think I'll give this a go first and see what happens....
Negligable? 7 minutes to 28 seconds is negligible? What was the Columbia reentry? Almost great?
And just how exactly does it "all even out" in a RAID setup? IDE RAID and SCSI RAID are still two very different animals...
Maybe I'm just really bitter. Haven't given software RAID a go for a couple of years now. For good hardware IDE RAID 5 under Linux (or other OSs), go with 3Ware's cards.
Software RAID anything just never works, period.
Burned me 2 times. Never again.
Nah, a Palm makes a great ebook reader. And Palms are cheap like borscht, you can pick up a used Zire or Palm III/V for under $50. Hell, you can get a new Zire 21 for $99. Cost of the unit hasn't been an issue for a long time unless you're talking about one of those stupid only-reads-ebooks-and-costs-$300 devices like the Franklin Ebook reader.
Here's the problem I have had with the e-books as presented by the industry since day one. Cost of the books themselves. Why the hell does the ebook version cost only a buck less than the paperback version? It only costs a buck to print and ship to distributors? That's friggin news to me! If the Ebooks were reasonably priced for the lack of a physical thing that you can hold in your hands, like say around $2.50 per instead of $7 per, then there would have been a lot more interest than there has been so far.
In fact, there's been so little interest in Ebooks, I find the title of the article laughable. The bubble burst? What bubble? It was never there to begin with. The publishing industry is terrified of ebooks and never wanted them to succeed to begin with, which probably explains the asinine pricing model. A lot of the bigger publishers refused to even consider ebooks at all. A lot of the books I read on my palm come from either public domain sources like Project Gutenberg, or one of the few tree publishers that does seem to "get it", Baen Books. They even have a free library of a lot of their published stuff, a download from which of a book by David Weber eventually saw me going out and buying several of his books. They also have an interesting "webscription" system, which I am thinking about trying for a few months. Could be good. Unfortunately, they seem the exception rather than the rule when it comes to publishers and ebooks.
We get a lot of meat-heads going out to the bars in Vancouver, but lately it seems we're having shootings, some of them pretty bad. It seems to me this is an attempt to stop this sort of thing from happening. That and the fights, stabbings, etc.
One thing to note, this is not all bars, only those who want in on the system and are willing to shell out for it. There will be a lot of bars in the Vancouver area that don't want in on the system, or can't afford to do it, so it won't happen for them. Largely the ones doing this will be the uber-hip trendy bars anyway. I could care less.
I have to argue that most people do not care in the slightest about art
Great. Make sure you delete all those MP3s on your hard drive. Wouldn't want that art to get to you or anything.
Unless of course it's that dreck the labels shovel to the masses. That is *NOT* art, so you can keep it.
While you're at it, what color is your car? If it's not white (cheap paint and reflects most solar heating) then it's not a paint chosen for function. Make sure you only buy white cars in the future. And no radios. Those waste power.
Same goes for your house. No paintings on the wall, all white walls and carpets. Efficiency, not aesthetics!
And, you're not one of those casemodding people are you? That's a waste of resources!
And ultimately, I think the point everyone who DIDN'T READ THE ARTICLE is missing is that this is a PRIVATE foundation giving these grants out. It's their money. If they want to give a grant for a blacksmith to study the expressiveness of metal, it's THEIR MONEY to give. If they wanted to give a grant to study the number of cats that walk by a given house in a year, same deal.