with so much computational power, a human may not be necessary to debug software, or even write it for that matter, you could simply design the interface and ask the computer to code for "apply sharpen to cursor selection area" and it will do all the magic and ask you where to put the button and select box. And then ask you how your day was and then crack dirty jokes about you mom.
.. how about if you used nbd and exported a small image on each machine on a network of about 100 machines, then used all of the drives in a software raid0? sure networks can be slow and 100 speed is just 12MBytes per second. but in theory you could get 12MBytes/sec * 100 = 1200MBytes/sec(1.17GB/s) or more realistically 1/2 that. OR if you were on Gigabit ethernet then you could be looking at a very high thoroughput but prob high access time with tcp/ip overhead.
i run gentoo as my firewall, i build the entire firewall system in a folder on my main system chrooted in the "build" folder. I build my entire system(firewall, fileserver celeron500x2 on bp6, 256mb ram.) without X or anything fancy. Just the necesities. The I copy the/firewallinstall folder to another harddrive's, install grub to the mbr of the new drive. I also EXCLUDE copying any of the portage stuff, delete the portage and gcc related contents in/var and emerge unmerge gcc before the copy to get the file system size very small.
Its a PowerPC processor with RDRAM, it's short a hard drive but drive space can be mounted over the lan via nfs. Consider that a PowerPC processor is 60% faster per clock, its ~500Mhz p3 equivelent, and the xbox uses a 733 "celeron" equivelent processor. The Cube would be a pretty descent little linux box.
I would say a hybrid approach would be ideal. Use a *nix and run server machines that function individually in a vertical style systems where each machine can litterally handle EVERY singly service run on the network and uses an external data source/storage/fileserver. Then you can add identical "cluster" machines to handle the load, each machine will take its equal share of the total amount of service requests. They would all boot from the centrallized file source, which would have an identical mirror on the opposite side(physically) of your network. No machine would bear the entire wieght of the users wrath by handleing any one service exclusively, but requests would be filled "round-robin"
I have run 3 networks very successfully with this approach. They are all and schools and all handle min 100 users, max 1600. I have observed that this round-robin cluster system is very reliable and very scalable. Updates are simple, update one system, it essentailly updates them all since they all have the same data storage.
I also like having the ability to put servers in seperate locations around the facility. On two of the networks, i run a seperate switch to handle inter-server communications and bootup, this allows me to run gigabit ethernet links between the servers without having to spend the $$$$ on gigabit switches for the entire network, the gigabit switch only supports the number of servers.
This also allows me to use very inexpensive computer hardware and not spend the money on enterprise grade parts. Their is little fear of one server crashing due to hardware failure and effecting the entire network, it simply lowers the performance potential of the server network.
most of the servers are lower end athlon XP chips in commodity hardware(i like the cheap K7S5A PLUS and M7VIG PLUS boards) as they have onboard 10/100 ethernet, are inexpensive and only riquire a gigabit ethernet card.
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Another advantage is that i can create a "system image" of the OS on the file server and save it, do an update or upgrade, and test it, then have the option of putting the other image back onto the tftp server(bootp is great!!)
if your '71 chevy truck is slow, you just put in a bigger engine right?! so how about a bigger ION drive. and a small nucleur reactor.
i suppose you do lose some efficiency by carrying your own fuel, but nuclear power is far more efficient than solar power right now.
with larger ION drives, or more small ION drives, and enough power from the reactor, this may be able to compete with a rocket engine for inter-solarsystem travel.
but then again, id rather have laser,mazer, or phaser cannons. I'll travel really really slowly if I have a really big gun!
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another advantage would be less vibration during accelleration. Imageing sending a team to Alpha Centauri using standard rockets. They would have to burn for 3 solid months to accellerate and the same to decellerate. 3 months is a long time to be strapped to a chair.
this solves the lack of gravity problem as well. Just accellerate at a rate the would be near 1G or at some acceptable level of force, then spin the ship around and do the same thing for decelleration. This way you would have artificial gravity for a good portion of the trip. I can't imagine the side effects of a couple of years is zero G, and what happens when the team trys to go to the plannet with no muscles built up for planetside life.
Alpha Centauri is something like 5,644,944,000 kilometers away, this is most likely a 5-10 year trip. Yes, artificial gravity would be good.
Also, the waste material from the reactor could be used as the actualy propellant(maybee, IANORS(I am Not a Rocket Scientist) and then you wouldn't have to store it, you could just eject it out the back of the craft.
first.
contrary to popular opinion, quitting without an attempt to right the situation IS the WRONG way. Consider the trend in society and one's personal life that fallow such actions. Also, the only outcome of this would be another person being put in the same situation to have the same issues to deal with.
a free people do not quit(give up) like this. a free people fix the problem.
secondly, "arrogant fucks" like nathanh are the ones who built this country(USA) and most of the free world, by not being someones bitch or some pussy that runs away.
thirdly, in the USA, standard labor laws generally allow a certain amount of slack for clocking in times for timepeice variation. In most areas that I have worked, this is 3-5 minutes. This is a matter of law(IANOL) and no contract can change this. Most countries in the civilized world also have some similar laws.
with this in mind, do you think a porno star can back out of a contract? what would she get sued for if she did?(i much prefer to think of a female porno star)
how about the ~$2000 tax benefit in MOST STATES per year.
The car compensates you EASILY for the extra cost in tax incentive alone in 2 years.
Also, the little 1.4 litre in that civic is far more reliable than the engine that is put in the standard sedan. It doesn't have "hard starts", the elec motor starts the engine by slowly turning it over with even power and the engine is lubricated BEFORE hand, this doesn't happed in a standard car.
the hybris civic is much more quiet than the standard civic as well.
it has a comprable warranty on the car and 8 years/80k on the elec system.
btw, the gas milage steadily increases over the first 5k miles while breaking in. i got about 42 when i first got the car and it increased to 46 in the first 5k. im at 6500 now so i don't know if it gets better. also, just drove to cali(from montana) and got 53 on the trip.
try limiting the bandwidth any user can use in a 1 hour period. If the user excedes this limit they are put on a low bandwidth limitation for the next hour. You can do this with linux fairly easily.
You can also install filters to a network proxy like censornet and block filenames as soon as you find a problem. You can look at the most rescently downloaded filenames and selectively block them to stop propogation through the network or at least slow it down. Doing this "could" help you keep the network running and give you time to fix the problem.
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also, distance is of little importance to latency.: ligh travels at 299792458 m/s so in 1ms, light travels 299792 meters, or 300Kilometers. so a 1 kilometer run, plus reply time takes.06ms.
it would litterally require that the access point be in space to significantly effect latency on transmition.
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food for thought.
wireless connectivinty travels at the speed of light(inn an atmosphere). Wire connections travel at the speed of light(through a contuctor), Wired connections have farther to travel and wireless has less distrance to travel(shortest path is a straight line).
so, wireless is FASTER at delivering data, any latency comes from the processing speed of the processor in the wireless device, which is similar to ethernet. That means their is no latency advantage to wired connections.
wireless gets the bulk of its latency from retries from bad data. The better the link the lower the latency.
This is the latency numbers delivered by my linksys card to my linksys AP(802.11G) PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=150 time=0.514 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=150 time=0.475 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=150 time=0.481 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=150 time=0.475 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=150 time=0.479 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=150 time=0.480 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=150 time=0.486 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=150 time=0.471 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=150 time=0.480 ms
so the numbers given by the previous post(100+ms) are crap, if he is getting these numbers he is trying to transmit through a tree, down the block, through a wall, and has 55ft of antenea wire:)
The problem with these chips is price. I have an Alpha chip myself, it runs at 600Mhz. When this thing came out it cost $1400! for the chip alone. At the same time a p2 300 was about $150 or so and when the p3 600 came out it was about $350 or so? its been a while so my numbers may be completely wrong but the point is their. These processors were completely out of reach of most consumers and many businesses. 64bit computing was price prohibitive at the time. AMD is making 64bit computing competitive with 32bit CPUs.
second. FAT32 will only do -40GB(i can't remember exactly),
third seagate sucks for IDE get WD.
fourth, how about daily backups, should i get a new harddrive for every day?
fifth, how about "backup" data and not "archive" data. You need to back data up so that it may be restored with permissions and directoryies correctly.
sixth. hey, if the drive CRASHES you can't really get the data off of it to use the windows "re-import all your settings
seventh Who wants to reinstall windows and all the settings if something goes wrong if they can just restore it from backup?
eighth "the chances of a hard drive that is unused crashing are so astronomically small, don't worry about it" - guess what? 90% of all hard drives that fail are not installed in a computer but being stored or moved.
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the answer(s) (1) ===== get a removable rack hard drive(WD - very large), partition it into equal blocks the maximum size of a FAT32 partition(use FAT32 for compatability) and put it in an external USB2.0 box. use a command line zip utility to zip the entire drive up using the -ur options and working from the root directory to a file on the partitions of the USB drive. Name the file by the date and save it to the USB2.0 hard drive and overwrite the first file and rename it weekly. the -u updates the file so you only change files that need changed which saves you time. Then weekly you also make a copy of the latest backup file and name it by the week and keep those for six months. you can also burn these backup images off to cd-r or dvd-r for backup redundancy.
To restore your system, you can boot off a floppy and unzip the files from your USB2.0 drive to the disk, and hopefully you made a copy of the MBR onto the floppy so you can restore that as well. The USB2.0 drive holder should have come with a DOS floppy driver or if your luck your BIOS can recognize this drive. some other compression utilities offer similar options to avoid re-copying files for no reason. Using the old backups will make your backup process faster after the first week because of this -u option. ===== (2) ===== use Nero and "burn HD backup" from the file menu this has some limitations. First, it doesn't like backing up active file systems(like your windows OS install) but it can, just nothing else can be running or accessing the disk while the backup is happening. secondly, it can only restore a backup completely, overwriteing the entire partition it is restoring to. third. individual files cannot be extraced from the archive, only the WHOLE system. also, this cannot burn to DVD yet. maybee in 6.5, but not 6. ===== (3) ===== get a real backup program, dedicated to this=money.
It has some nice features like remote auto install and YaST for a very nice system installer and maintainer.
SuSE Enterprise also supports x86, IBM mainframe, I/P series IBM servers, Itanium2 and AMD Opteron processors. This gives you a lot of flexability to add new hardware to the network to improve performance and the knowledge that the new machines will run perfectly with exsisting servers.
SuSE also has great tech support services at a much lower rate than redhat. You can feel confident that your server software is also run by the German Government and praised! by them.
SuSE's max turnaround time for support is just 2 hours!
SuSE is also United Linux Compatible and LSB compliant.
Suse Prices are not too bad either: x86 single server 749USD$ Itanium Single server 448USD$ Opteron Single CPU 448USD$ Opteron Dual CPU 767USD$ Opteron Quad CPU 1405USD$ Opteron 8 CPU 2585USD$ These include 1 Year Maintainance and Service.
windows auto-update in a university setting? i have to say that is pretty stupid. windows update has a rather serious history of damaging systems and requireing yet another update to fix it. This can leave your entire windows network damaged for many hours if not days while you must go around and manually patch systems up because they can no longer access the web or even shares on the network to get updates. This is fun..........
hey, guess what. AMD CPUs generate no more heat that intel chips(since P4). Claimed and Actual heat dissipation is two different things, one is the truth, and the other is bullsh*t.
they can offer other open sources software without destroying their case, but if they offer the kernel, which is GPL, then they release all code in the kernel via GPL. This is not like you can make SuSE linux GPL but not the artwork, the artwork is not IN SuSE Linux, but a file with it. The (supposedly)offending kernel code is IN the kernel theirfor would be GPL'd.
but again, i can't find kernel sources available on their site, and im not sure if the linux they released ever included the kernel sources.
actually, non-titled properties, those being properties that possesion implies ownership, would allow the purchaser to keep the property as long as it was bought in good faith.
Good faith would also imply that the purchase was from a reputable dealer and not the crack head junky on the corner yelling "Stereo, 25 bucks homie!"
first of all, do you think that really deserved a Troll?
secondly, Linus did say that the code that SCO IS pursuing is mostly gone and replaced by better code anyway and that he would step up complete removal of the code SCO claims ownership to if necessary.
And yes, SCO has stated that the will be pressing licensing of Unixware code to current linux users.
this has moved beyond the SCO vs. IBM thing, is has become SCO vs. Linux.
Yes, they are going after IBM for contract violation first, they will most likely go after them for the Linux IP deal whether they win the contract deal or not..based on what they think is going on. we'll see.
Troll, crap that was really harsh for a person who must be behind on his reading.
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viruses. like mouses.
their are no computer virii, just a lot of viruses.
with so much computational power, a human may not be necessary to debug software, or even write it for that matter, you could simply design the interface and ask the computer to code for "apply sharpen to cursor selection area" and it will do all the magic and ask you where to put the button and select box. And then ask you how your day was and then crack dirty jokes about you mom.
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how about if you used nbd and exported a small image on each machine on a network of about 100 machines, then used all of the drives in a software raid0? sure networks can be slow and 100 speed is just 12MBytes per second. but in theory you could get 12MBytes/sec * 100 = 1200MBytes/sec(1.17GB/s) or more realistically 1/2 that. OR if you were on Gigabit ethernet then you could be looking at a very high thoroughput but prob high access time with tcp/ip overhead.
windows2k/xp has plenty of oportunities to BSOD with perfectly fine software on good drivers. A replaced DLL or bad registry key and many more.
isntall skills for winxp?
AC, you are just plain stupid.
i run gentoo as my firewall, i build the entire firewall system in a folder on my main system chrooted in the "build" folder. I build my entire system(firewall, fileserver celeron500x2 on bp6, 256mb ram.) without X or anything fancy. Just the necesities. The I copy the /firewallinstall folder to another harddrive's, install grub to the mbr of the new drive. I also EXCLUDE copying any of the portage stuff, delete the portage and gcc related contents in /var and emerge unmerge gcc before the copy to get the file system size very small.
this works great for me.
I'm still running a BP6 with dual 500's, i have an arc logic 2000 videocard, you know, "the first EVER pci video card" or its at least that old :).
It's running the big ol' - super - clickity IBM keyboard for an 8086 and a 14' regular VGA from a ps/2 286 machine.
Also have a mac6100,7100,8200 running various OS's from OS 7.5.5.1 to linux.
the tandy trs80 is in the garage "compiling dust" (get it?)
oh wait! i got it, the oldest peice of hardware I still have plugged in is......MY F*NG FLOPPY DRIVE, DIE FLOPPY DIE!
what makes you think that?
Its a PowerPC processor with RDRAM, it's short a hard drive but drive space can be mounted over the lan via nfs. Consider that a PowerPC processor is 60% faster per clock, its ~500Mhz p3 equivelent, and the xbox uses a 733 "celeron" equivelent processor. The Cube would be a pretty descent little linux box.
I would say a hybrid approach would be ideal. Use a *nix and run server machines that function individually in a vertical style systems where each machine can litterally handle EVERY singly service run on the network and uses an external data source/storage /fileserver. Then you can add identical "cluster" machines to handle the load, each machine will take its equal share of the total amount of service requests. They would all boot from the centrallized file source, which would have an identical mirror on the opposite side(physically) of your network. No machine would bear the entire wieght of the users wrath by handleing any one service exclusively, but requests would be filled "round-robin"
I have run 3 networks very successfully with this approach. They are all and schools and all handle min 100 users, max 1600. I have observed that this round-robin cluster system is very reliable and very scalable. Updates are simple, update one system, it essentailly updates them all since they all have the same data storage.
I also like having the ability to put servers in seperate locations around the facility. On two of the networks, i run a seperate switch to handle inter-server communications and bootup, this allows me to run gigabit ethernet links between the servers without having to spend the $$$$ on gigabit switches for the entire network, the gigabit switch only supports the number of servers.
This also allows me to use very inexpensive computer hardware and not spend the money on enterprise grade parts. Their is little fear of one server crashing due to hardware failure and effecting the entire network, it simply lowers the performance potential of the server network.
most of the servers are lower end athlon XP chips in commodity hardware(i like the cheap K7S5A PLUS and M7VIG PLUS boards) as they have onboard 10/100 ethernet, are inexpensive and only riquire a gigabit ethernet card.
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Another advantage is that i can create a "system image" of the OS on the file server and save it, do an update or upgrade, and test it, then have the option of putting the other image back onto the tftp server(bootp is great!!)
if your '71 chevy truck is slow, you just put in a bigger engine right?! so how about a bigger ION drive. and a small nucleur reactor.
i suppose you do lose some efficiency by carrying your own fuel, but nuclear power is far more efficient than solar power right now.
with larger ION drives, or more small ION drives, and enough power from the reactor, this may be able to compete with a rocket engine for inter-solarsystem travel.
but then again, id rather have laser,mazer, or phaser cannons. I'll travel really really slowly if I have a really big gun!
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another advantage would be less vibration during accelleration. Imageing sending a team to Alpha Centauri using standard rockets. They would have to burn for 3 solid months to accellerate and the same to decellerate. 3 months is a long time to be strapped to a chair.
this solves the lack of gravity problem as well. Just accellerate at a rate the would be near 1G or at some acceptable level of force, then spin the ship around and do the same thing for decelleration. This way you would have artificial gravity for a good portion of the trip. I can't imagine the side effects of a couple of years is zero G, and what happens when the team trys to go to the plannet with no muscles built up for planetside life.
Alpha Centauri is something like 5,644,944,000 kilometers away, this is most likely a 5-10 year trip. Yes, artificial gravity would be good.
Also, the waste material from the reactor could be used as the actualy propellant(maybee, IANORS(I am Not a Rocket Scientist) and then you wouldn't have to store it, you could just eject it out the back of the craft.
first.
contrary to popular opinion, quitting without an attempt to right the situation IS the WRONG way. Consider the trend in society and one's personal life that fallow such actions. Also, the only outcome of this would be another person being put in the same situation to have the same issues to deal with.
a free people do not quit(give up) like this. a free people fix the problem.
secondly, "arrogant fucks" like nathanh are the ones who built this country(USA) and most of the free world, by not being someones bitch or some pussy that runs away.
thirdly, in the USA, standard labor laws generally allow a certain amount of slack for clocking in times for timepeice variation. In most areas that I have worked, this is 3-5 minutes. This is a matter of law(IANOL) and no contract can change this. Most countries in the civilized world also have some similar laws.
with this in mind, do you think a porno star can back out of a contract? what would she get sued for if she did?(i much prefer to think of a female porno star)
hey jerkoff, how about the environment.
how about the ~$2000 tax benefit in MOST STATES per year.
The car compensates you EASILY for the extra cost in tax incentive alone in 2 years.
Also, the little 1.4 litre in that civic is far more reliable than the engine that is put in the standard sedan. It doesn't have "hard starts", the elec motor starts the engine by slowly turning it over with even power and the engine is lubricated BEFORE hand, this doesn't happed in a standard car.
the hybris civic is much more quiet than the standard civic as well.
it has a comprable warranty on the car and 8 years/80k on the elec system.
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maybee im a bit defensive of my car.
2003 hybris civic, 5 speed. avg mpg 46. tax savings this year, $2000.
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btw, the gas milage steadily increases over the first 5k miles while breaking in. i got about 42 when i first got the car and it increased to 46 in the first 5k. im at 6500 now so i don't know if it gets better. also, just drove to cali(from montana) and got 53 on the trip.
try limiting the bandwidth any user can use in a 1 hour period. If the user excedes this limit they are put on a low bandwidth limitation for the next hour.
You can do this with linux fairly easily.
You can also install filters to a network proxy like censornet and block filenames as soon as you find a problem. You can look at the most rescently downloaded filenames and selectively block them to stop propogation through the network or at least slow it down. Doing this "could" help you keep the network running and give you time to fix the problem.
also, distance is of little importance to latency. : .06ms.
ligh travels at 299792458 m/s
so in 1ms, light travels 299792 meters, or 300Kilometers. so a 1 kilometer run, plus reply time takes
it would litterally require that the access point be in space to significantly effect latency on transmition.
food for thought.
:)
wireless connectivinty travels at the speed of light(inn an atmosphere). Wire connections travel at the speed of light(through a contuctor), Wired connections have farther to travel and wireless has less distrance to travel(shortest path is a straight line).
so, wireless is FASTER at delivering data, any latency comes from the processing speed of the processor in the wireless device, which is similar to ethernet. That means their is no latency advantage to wired connections.
wireless gets the bulk of its latency from retries from bad data. The better the link the lower the latency.
This is the latency numbers delivered by my linksys card to my linksys AP(802.11G)
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=150 time=0.514 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=150 time=0.475 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=150 time=0.481 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=150 time=0.475 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=150 time=0.479 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=150 time=0.480 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=7 ttl=150 time=0.486 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=8 ttl=150 time=0.471 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=9 ttl=150 time=0.480 ms
so the numbers given by the previous post(100+ms) are crap, if he is getting these numbers he is trying to transmit through a tree, down the block, through a wall, and has 55ft of antenea wire
The problem with these chips is price. I have an Alpha chip myself, it runs at 600Mhz. When this thing came out it cost $1400! for the chip alone. At the same time a p2 300 was about $150 or so and when the p3 600 came out it was about $350 or so? its been a while so my numbers may be completely wrong but the point is their. These processors were completely out of reach of most consumers and many businesses. 64bit computing was price prohibitive at the time. AMD is making 64bit computing competitive with 32bit CPUs.
first
NERO=GOOD
second.
FAT32 will only do -40GB(i can't remember exactly),
third
seagate sucks for IDE get WD.
fourth, how about daily backups, should i get a new harddrive for every day?
fifth, how about "backup" data and not "archive" data. You need to back data up so that it may be restored with permissions and directoryies correctly.
sixth.
hey, if the drive CRASHES you can't really get the data off of it to use the windows "re-import all your settings
seventh
Who wants to reinstall windows and all the settings if something goes wrong if they can just restore it from backup?
eighth
"the chances of a hard drive that is unused crashing are so astronomically small, don't worry about it" - guess what? 90% of all hard drives that fail are not installed in a computer but being stored or moved.
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the answer(s)
(1)
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get a removable rack hard drive(WD - very large), partition it into equal blocks the maximum size of a FAT32 partition(use FAT32 for compatability) and put it in an external USB2.0 box.
use a command line zip utility to zip the entire drive up using the -ur options and working from the root directory to a file on the partitions of the USB drive. Name the file by the date and save it to the USB2.0 hard drive and overwrite the first file and rename it weekly.
the -u updates the file so you only change files that need changed which saves you time.
Then weekly you also make a copy of the latest backup file and name it by the week and keep those for six months. you can also burn these backup images off to cd-r or dvd-r for backup redundancy.
To restore your system, you can boot off a floppy and unzip the files from your USB2.0 drive to the disk, and hopefully you made a copy of the MBR onto the floppy so you can restore that as well. The USB2.0 drive holder should have come with a DOS floppy driver or if your luck your BIOS can recognize this drive.
some other compression utilities offer similar options to avoid re-copying files for no reason. Using the old backups will make your backup process faster after the first week because of this -u option.
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(2)
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use Nero and "burn HD backup" from the file menu
this has some limitations. First, it doesn't like backing up active file systems(like your windows OS install) but it can, just nothing else can be running or accessing the disk while the backup is happening.
secondly, it can only restore a backup completely, overwriteing the entire partition it is restoring to.
third. individual files cannot be extraced from the archive, only the WHOLE system.
also, this cannot burn to DVD yet. maybee in 6.5, but not 6.
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(3)
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get a real backup program, dedicated to this=money.
I say go with SuSE Enterprise Server.
It has some nice features like remote auto install and YaST for a very nice system installer and maintainer.
SuSE Enterprise also supports x86, IBM mainframe, I/P series IBM servers, Itanium2 and AMD Opteron processors. This gives you a lot of flexability to add new hardware to the network to improve performance and the knowledge that the new machines will run perfectly with exsisting servers.
SuSE also has great tech support services at a much lower rate than redhat. You can feel confident that your server software is also run by the German Government and praised! by them.
SuSE's max turnaround time for support is just 2 hours!
SuSE is also United Linux Compatible and LSB compliant.
Suse Prices are not too bad either:
x86 single server 749USD$
Itanium Single server 448USD$
Opteron Single CPU 448USD$
Opteron Dual CPU 767USD$
Opteron Quad CPU 1405USD$
Opteron 8 CPU 2585USD$
These include 1 Year Maintainance and Service.
windows auto-update in a university setting? i have to say that is pretty stupid. windows update has a rather serious history of damaging systems and requireing yet another update to fix it. This can leave your entire windows network damaged for many hours if not days while you must go around and manually patch systems up because they can no longer access the web or even shares on the network to get updates. This is fun..........
hey, guess what. AMD CPUs generate no more heat that intel chips(since P4). Claimed and Actual heat dissipation is two different things, one is the truth, and the other is bullsh*t.
Intel claims bullshit is what im saying.
Software platform is the SOFTWARE, it still needs HARDWARE to run. The software platform is the OpenPDA, and the hardware is Alchemy
i can't find a kernel on ftp.sco.com
they can offer other open sources software without destroying their case, but if they offer the kernel, which is GPL, then they release all code in the kernel via GPL. This is not like you can make SuSE linux GPL but not the artwork, the artwork is not IN SuSE Linux, but a file with it. The (supposedly)offending kernel code is IN the kernel theirfor would be GPL'd.
but again, i can't find kernel sources available on their site, and im not sure if the linux they released ever included the kernel sources.
your an idiot.
of course they take a dimebag you twit! if it were a can of soda, or some dorritos, or something LEGAL, then they wouldn't take it.
where does the dimebag come into this arguement? or did you just finnish off your dimebag before posting?
again, your are an idiot.
actually, non-titled properties, those being properties that possesion implies ownership, would allow the purchaser to keep the property as long as it was bought in good faith.
Good faith would also imply that the purchase was from a reputable dealer and not the crack head junky on the corner yelling "Stereo, 25 bucks homie!"
first of all, do you think that really deserved a Troll?
secondly, Linus did say that the code that SCO IS pursuing is mostly gone and replaced by better code anyway and that he would step up complete removal of the code SCO claims ownership to if necessary.
And yes, SCO has stated that the will be pressing licensing of Unixware code to current linux users.
this has moved beyond the SCO vs. IBM thing, is has become SCO vs. Linux.
Yes, they are going after IBM for contract violation first, they will most likely go after them for the Linux IP deal whether they win the contract deal or not..based on what they think is going on. we'll see.
Troll, crap that was really harsh for a person who must be behind on his reading.