"I _DO_ work at a hosting provider, and unfortunately root access is often required to repair the steaming piles of crap customers often leave behind." this is totally false. A hosting provider for servers has no business at all in a customers box. There is absolutely no need in any circumsances to get into a customers box at any time. You can determine if there is a network issue outside the box and leave the box to the customer.
I host servers as a sublease in some racks I own. My host needs and gets zero access to my boxes and I need and get zero access to my customers boxes unless they specifically ask me for support (considering I do consulting and support).
For the submitter, I agree that you get a remote access devices but even a KVM is not terribly secure considering the provider could intercept the KVM's usb or ps2 ports and put a splitter on the VGA. I prefer to get a Dell or HP server(Dell really) with DRAC cards that provide secure remote access. Encrypt your drives, including swap space. This can be done with Linux or Windows servers which is the fast majority of systems out there.
I have cabinets that lock and have intrusion detection sensors on the doors. I also have a cisco 887 with a cellular circuit so I can admin the boxes if the ISPs service goes down. It would be pretty easy to get into my cabinet but nearly imposible to do so without my knowledge and expect a sh!t storm if you did. I live 2 miles from my co-lo as well and can take the expressway in about 5 minutes so work fast if you are breaking in!
"And if you want privacy I would strongly urge you to use disk encryption to keep them out of your files" If the system is up, then disk encryption is useless. If the system is rebooted, then a password will need to be input before the system boots unless you have a DRAC card or similar remote access device to the machine that doesnt involve the actual machine booting up for access.
Consider putting your hardware in a locked rack to completely deny physical access. Stick them with the bill if they break your lock, you have the right to do this you know. Rented space equates to owned space with the exception of the lack ability to modify that space without consent. That means that the physical space your server sits in is yours. You own it. It is trespass for them to physically manipulate your machine without consent.
I do some basic php development and really couldnt imagine having to do the same work in C++. It would take so much more time it would make it nearly impossible to do.
so maybe its time to optimize php? Perhaps do some hardware acceleration of php code with CUDA -or- maybe if just focus on the php interpreter and make it more efficient.
as with any scripting language, an un-optimized interpreter will run the script code an order of magnitude slower or worse than a pre-compiled program.
I have seen some comments that it isnt likely to cause such a different in server needs because it doesnt take into account I/O performance. Well consider that everything must be bought with some sort of budget in mind then consider that a nice dual-quad core server will cost many thousands of dollars more than a single core2duo server. a 2 socket 3ghz quad core with 24Ghz aggregate x the 10:1 ration means you need a single 2.4 cpu so a core2duo e8400 is actually worth twice the cpu power for pre-compiled code vs a dual quad core system running php. The different is price could be spent on SSD disks or a faster SAS array and actually improve performance.
you can test this yourself by running a bash script to run 10,000 queries on a mysql database with the compiled mysql tools vs a php script to do the same thing (run on the command line) and then subtract the time the database took to return the data. This is a very typical workload for php and it will lose this race everytime.
do I need to put some result here? no, do it yourself so you can see first hand.
ZFS has just come out with built-in on line deduplication. Isnt this what you would call a killer feature for a NAS distro like this? FreeNAS is moving away from a killer feature like this?
In my experience, debian(linux) isnt going to offer significantly better hardware support to justify this switch. No graphics cards or exotic hardware are typically used for a small NAS server and thats where linux has better driver support.
I really like FreeNAS because it is so lightweight, runs from a flash key, does its job without complaining etc. but I dont see much a future for it with this switch. It is essentially a brand new project going up against Openfiler.
Ill have to change my scheme here and export a deduplicated ZFS share via iSCSI and attach it to my windows server to get the AD integrate de-duplicated fileserver.
Afghanistan is/has been a country in turmoil. Those people are fighting to survive, not fighting for national unity etc etc. Thats not less noble or anything, but its a different situation. The US and allies attempt to conquer and impose an artificial government is destined to fail because the people will quickly revert to the civil war situation. They need to work it out on their own, or more specifically, they need to decide their own destiny not have it controlled for them.
I feel like our government(US) has spun so far out of reason and logic that they cant even begin to consider how these people will react. So many people in power seem to treat these people as if they are a single group of like minded Muslims when in fact they are a mix of regular people trying to live regular lives. Everything is always about some Muslim agenda.
I dare someone to sit down with 20 Afghan families and tell them to say what is on their mind without talking about religion. Our leaders (US, UK, Europe, etc) seem to think that those people would have nothing to say if it wasnt about religion. I think that some enlightenment might occur.
I know I am far away from these people but I get some hint of what they must feel. I am not Christian and people that find this out initially think that must mean I have no moral center and that I am trying to be some sort of rogue. I know for a fact that my values are significantly more honest and honorable than 90% or the people I know and/or work with because I have seen their disreguard for racial tollerance, religious freed, disrespect of law(reasonable ones) etc. The Afghans, Iranians, Iraqis, and for that matter all people that are looked down on for not being Christian have good values and good intentions and there are very very few radicals.
Excuse the rant, but I am reading a lot of "what have you done to earn your freedom" and "must be nice to sit in America and spout right and wrong from a soft chair in an air conditioned house" etc etc posts from people that are unable to honestly answer the very question they are asking in a meaningful way.
I do my part by not spreading the religious FUD. I am not anti-christian or anti-muslim or anti-anything and when confronted with people and conversations that are blindly biased I argue for fairness and compassion. I respect the people I see and pay my taxes and make a hole in traffic for people to get in. I live in a country of 400 Million people and small things add up.
I think that if the world view of America wasnt taken up by our foreign policy then most people would see what the majority of these 400 million contribute and how they honor and maintain what our forefathers fought for.
Your comment steems strange. My statement clearly states that Iranians are standing up for themselves in this endeavor. I also suggest that other people are probably more willing to help because of this.
I pay me taxes and I participate in my freedom. My Grandfather and my line back to out immigration has fought to gain the freedom I enjoy today and the keep that freedom. Our policies and methods are not perfect and we make mistakes but many of those 'mistakes' turned into effective paybacks to other countries that enjoy freedom today. France for instance. France saw that American was standing up for itself and help (though there are other motivations and are not important to the outcome) and we in turn defended and liberated France when they were in need with the obvious help of the rest of the allied forces.
Point is, that despite international opinion, American and Americans are still fighting for freedom wherever necessary. So dont give my a line about taking what my forefathers did for granted because we still live by those principals that got us our freedom.
To have pride in your liberty it must cost something, you must have earned it. its a cruel truth. Iraqis wont have pride in their liberty because they did not choose it, they are only accepting it. If the Iranian people can win, with or without international assistance, they will have pride in their freedom because they earned it.
What I appreciate about this situation is that the Iranian people are standing up for them selves. Makes me want to help them. Something along the lines of supporting a justified patriot.
I dont care for the Afghan or Iraq wars because the people didnt stand up for themselves so I dont think that the rest of the civilized world shoudl sacrifice our soldiers lives for them. I think you will find many people much more willing to help the Iranians because they will stand up for themselves.
I have done a lot of solo and group trips to France, the UK, and Denmark. Here are my tips.
1) Get a netbook with wifi. Laptops are too big to carry all the time while a netbook is about perfect. I have a dell mini 9. If you cant, then just dont bring a laptop. Its not that important. get more photo storage. 2) Get a power adapter for your gear before leaving. 3) Get a passport/cash wallet than you can hang around your neck and put inside your shirt. The truth is that if you can be spotted as a tourist you can become a target. Put 10 pounds (thats money) in your back pocket in case you have to dump some cash and run. I have had this happen and was glad to loose 10 pounds and not find out how serious the guys were. 4) Consider staying at hostels. Many people will try to save some cash and sleep in hostels but I like them for the social scene. You can meet up in the morning with fellow travelers and get tips for the day and you can chat through the night about what they saw and get some good ideas for the next day. 5) Identify Irish pubs with kitchens close to your hotel/hostel. I find that the Irish pubs (Hightly recommend the Claddagh Ring in Hendon http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=72570195125 (the hostel in Hendon is good as well) have a good plate of food that you can chow down on happily. 6) Get a day pass for the underground/city transportation and dont mess with single trip payments unless you are really planning on a single ride to and from your destination. 7) Good shoes. Dont buy new shoes just before the trip. Get some good walking or running shoes and wear them for a month. Check styles in Europe and pick something that fits in a bit yet looks reasonable to you. 8) Ditch the baseball cap and consider dressing nicer than t-shirt and jeans. You might actually pass as a european tourist instead of an american tourist. dont be affraid of slacks and a nice shirt. 9) Dont try to fake an accent in a pub(or anywhere really). Had a buddy that tried it, it cost him 4 beers:) 10) take 2 german girls up on anything they invite you to do with them. seriously. good times. pack 'protection' if you are single (as in batchelor) 11) consider that you dont want to site and wait for many MB of pictures to upload on slow hotel or hostel internet connections. Buy more memory cards. You can buy a 2GB memory card for the price of one upload session at an internet cafe. I travel with a bunch of sd-cards (canon T1i and an sd1100) and I just pop out an sd-card and put it with my passport and pop a new one in. 12) Shave. Just do it. If you go to a pub or a disco-tek or something you will fit in better.
IMPORTANT 12) Bring your own batteries! there is a big counterfeit battery scam and if you dont know where to buy good batteries you are in trouble. Bring a charger and a spare battery pack for your camera(s) and other battery operated gear. 13) travel light. you want to be able to carry as much with you as possible. Jeans are good for 3 days. wear lightweight undershirts so you can re-wear your outer shirt twice. for a 6 day trip I would pack 2 jeans, 3 shirts, 6 undershirts, 7 underwear, and 7 pair of socks. That should fit in a backpack nicely. 14) CARRY ON YOUR BAG. If you cant carry your main bag with you, make sure you have 2 days worth of clothes (2 underwear, 2 socks, 2 undershirts) in your carry on. You can survive on this if you must. I have had to make 7 days on that setup and wash my clothes in the sink. Sounds like a rough situation but it was somewhat rewarding in its own way.
So, be careful in planning your baggage and keeping your money and budget on track. once that is done, do the rest of the trip unscripted. simply put together a list of must sees, wants, maybees and then hit them in whatever order works. you will find that this list can morph quickly once you realize that Hyde Park and Kensington is a 1 hour deal instead of 4 you ca
decide what truly needs to be distributed. DNS, DHCP, firewall. What is likely not necessary to distribute WWW, FTP, email.
DNS can be replicated with BIND or you can do a DNS server that uses MySQL and replicate the mysql database. DHCP must run at each site but you need to decide if you want DNS updated with DHCP. If so, you need to decide if you want those hostnames available across the network. DHCP can update DNS when a client requests an address, DNS can then replicate between each sites DNS server and in the end, you could access that machine from anywhere on the network that is permitted by your firewall runes.
for firewall, consider just using iptables and a bash script to download the current config and then replace some placeholders in the file with the local IP information. I have done this where I keep a copy of the firewall config on an internat webpage and just download the file, sed out my LOCALIPADDRESS and WANIPADDRESS with the local IP, and write that data to iptables on a schedule with cron. That way you can make a broad change to the firewalls at each site in a single file.
email doesnt like to be distributed. consider simple keeping a hot spare, even at a remote site, using something like DRDB to keep the email store in sync. Because you already have DNS everywhere you can quickly adjust the DNS entries for the email server. Use low TTL numbers so downtime is minimized. Then you can ssh into the remote machine and mount the store, then start the email services and you are in business.
If you subtract search engines google is responsible for a a tiny portion of the internet. Andrew gets benies from google so I suppose they do get some credit for the quantity of his work as he needs to eat and pay rent so that he can code.
Google has more than 15,000 servers. A well tuned system can outperform a poorly tuned system 2:1 for very specialized apps like google uses. you dont think that having 15,000 vs 30,000 servers is worth maybe 2Mil in wages and power bill? google had a 2Mil power bill per month. Those developers are starting to look pretty cheap..
Increasing the efficiency of their code, from memory management and scheduler to proxy servers can save huge amounts of CPU time which in turn lowers electricity requirements and number of servers needed.
I am not surprised at all by this and wonder when google will look at using small for factor DC power ARM systems. A fairly recent platform they used ran a custom motherboard and power supply and they started out on some sparc,x86, and an RS/6000 so they are not affraid of some custom hardware. Cutting that power bill can be a very significate improvement in the cost structure just like improving the performance of the OS.
That depends on the definition of average in this circumstance. sure that sound crazy you say but the GPS device could average just the peak speeds. I have a handheld unit that does this.
Think about it, wouldnt it be more valuable to know what the average maintained speed was rather that the true average? You would want to know how fast your car is being driven without stoplights lowering the value.
not that it really effects the outcome. Radar guns are a product designed to be accurate (though they are not always calibrated properly) while GPS is not terribly accurate and is advertized as such.
There really is no argument here other than the parents possibly saying that there is compelling evidence that the radar gun was not accurate and needed testing. The judge should have ordered a test on the radar gun and if it came back accurate and there was no service done on it in the interim then the ticket stands, if the gun is wrong or there was service done then the ticket dropped.
I know what your thinking, I should really be a judge:)
These are two different classes of product. You could easily buy a nettop that can do this job for maybe $200 but will use much more power.
Now I will switch teams here when we start to see these ARM based nettops and netbooks as they should compete with a router on power (though still use a bit more) but offer a clarkconnect(clearos??) or pfsense option that is hands down 100 times more powerful than what you can fit in 8Mb of flash.
Though the wrt54gl is a nice little unit and there are alternatives that are compatible and have a usb port like the asus wl-520g, this router has a few pluses.
This has: a very nice 480Mhz CPU. USB 2.0 while other devices have USB 1.1 Wireless N and Gigabit (which is available in other routers) 8MB Flash/64MB Ram
What this really means is that you can actually get gigabit across the switch ports and you can really get N speeds out of the unit. You can also turn on QoS without overworking your router, actually setup a VPN connection that doesnt drop or freeze the router, and actually put a hard disk on the USB2 port and get a reasonable transfer speed. This will be in the top class of wireless routers in performance.
I have a 15MB/1MB pipe at home and a regular wrt54g cannot handle my use on the wired ports and bogs down and freezes up when pushing the thing. I put in a cisco 881 and use the wrt54gl just for wireless access, all routing is done on the cisco.
I have over 30 wrt54gl units in production and to keep them running without a lot of reboots I limit this uplink port on my switch to 10Mb. Great unit but not for a power user or office IMHO.
A unit like this may be just what a lot of people need where a $60 router isnt powerful enough and to get serious they needed to jump up to a unit that was a couple hundred bucks.
except that the files are(or can be) DRM encumbered and accessing itunes directly pretending to be an ipod gets past the DRM right? sure you can get right at the files but that doesnt mean you can play them.
also, breaking the encryption is a crime according to the DMCA right? so if iTunes lets me have access then I can play my files without licensing DRM from apple?
your statement doesnt seem to apply to my comment.
my point is that I have a right to use what I pay for and no lockout of any manufacturer is going to stop that so long as I can bypass their lockouts. If they violate my fair use then I should take action and either make it well know in the media that they do such a thing or in certain circumstances take legal action.
The logos as seen here: http://www.usb.org/home are trademarks held by the USB-IF and its member companies.
USB does not qualify as a genericized trademark because references to USB are clearly for the specific interface as described by USB-IF. To have USB be a genericized term then USB must be commonly used to describe cables plugged into computers which it is not.
USB-IF is essentially a committee to push adoption of USB. Microsoft, Intel, HP, ST-Ericsson, NEC, and LSI are the primary members and Intel heads the board. This group does not hold copyright or patent to USB, only trademark to the USB logos.
USB is a standard. Only the logos can be fought over.
I see this type of comment a lot and I think I have a good arguement against it. I equate this to the 'if you have nothing to hide then why do you care if I look" argument.
If I dont like the situation I *SHOULD* exercise my rights to the fullest. If I have fair use rights, then I dont can what apple thinks, Im going to sync my media off to a device of my choosing even if I have to circumvent thier lockdowns. I have the RIGHT to access my media and therefore I will without hesitation.
I do prefer to start with OSS in the first place as then I tend to avoid having to exercise my rights but I wont cripple myself like that because some products dont exist in the open source world. I have rights that should protect me from wrongdoing.
I personally wont buy an apple product because of their politics and that I have an alternative. It actually amazes me the people continue to buy apple stuff because of this. I actually think that there are a few better players out there than ipods now and slowly the market will see this and quit paying the apple tax (aka inflated prices due to apple styling). Remember, this happened before to apple, when the PC overtook the mac for consumer level computers. see history repeat itself.
Fair use is what that was called. It is still on the books by the way.
The consumer has certain rights. They paid for the music and apple cannot deny them access to it. Palm is providing an interface and should not have to pay apple for that. Maybe apple has some fancy API that they could license but they would have to pay for that. if they can do it without paying then why wouldnt they? Keep in mind that the consumer who has fair use rights to the media is the one who is using the service, palm provides the interface.
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"I _DO_ work at a hosting provider, and unfortunately root access is often required to repair the steaming piles of crap customers often leave behind."
this is totally false. A hosting provider for servers has no business at all in a customers box. There is absolutely no need in any circumsances to get into a customers box at any time. You can determine if there is a network issue outside the box and leave the box to the customer.
I host servers as a sublease in some racks I own. My host needs and gets zero access to my boxes and I need and get zero access to my customers boxes unless they specifically ask me for support (considering I do consulting and support).
For the submitter, I agree that you get a remote access devices but even a KVM is not terribly secure considering the provider could intercept the KVM's usb or ps2 ports and put a splitter on the VGA. I prefer to get a Dell or HP server(Dell really) with DRAC cards that provide secure remote access. Encrypt your drives, including swap space. This can be done with Linux or Windows servers which is the fast majority of systems out there.
I have cabinets that lock and have intrusion detection sensors on the doors. I also have a cisco 887 with a cellular circuit so I can admin the boxes if the ISPs service goes down. It would be pretty easy to get into my cabinet but nearly imposible to do so without my knowledge and expect a sh!t storm if you did. I live 2 miles from my co-lo as well and can take the expressway in about 5 minutes so work fast if you are breaking in!
"And if you want privacy I would strongly urge you to use disk encryption to keep them out of your files"
If the system is up, then disk encryption is useless. If the system is rebooted, then a password will need to be input before the system boots unless you have a DRAC card or similar remote access device to the machine that doesnt involve the actual machine booting up for access.
Consider putting your hardware in a locked rack to completely deny physical access. Stick them with the bill if they break your lock, you have the right to do this you know. Rented space equates to owned space with the exception of the lack ability to modify that space without consent. That means that the physical space your server sits in is yours. You own it. It is trespass for them to physically manipulate your machine without consent.
I do some basic php development and really couldnt imagine having to do the same work in C++. It would take so much more time it would make it nearly impossible to do.
so maybe its time to optimize php? Perhaps do some hardware acceleration of php code with CUDA -or- maybe if just focus on the php interpreter and make it more efficient.
as with any scripting language, an un-optimized interpreter will run the script code an order of magnitude slower or worse than a pre-compiled program.
I have seen some comments that it isnt likely to cause such a different in server needs because it doesnt take into account I/O performance. Well consider that everything must be bought with some sort of budget in mind then consider that a nice dual-quad core server will cost many thousands of dollars more than a single core2duo server. a 2 socket 3ghz quad core with 24Ghz aggregate x the 10:1 ration means you need a single 2.4 cpu so a core2duo e8400 is actually worth twice the cpu power for pre-compiled code vs a dual quad core system running php. The different is price could be spent on SSD disks or a faster SAS array and actually improve performance.
you can test this yourself by running a bash script to run 10,000 queries on a mysql database with the compiled mysql tools vs a php script to do the same thing (run on the command line) and then subtract the time the database took to return the data. This is a very typical workload for php and it will lose this race everytime.
do I need to put some result here? no, do it yourself so you can see first hand.
ZFS has just come out with built-in on line deduplication. Isnt this what you would call a killer feature for a NAS distro like this? FreeNAS is moving away from a killer feature like this?
In my experience, debian(linux) isnt going to offer significantly better hardware support to justify this switch. No graphics cards or exotic hardware are typically used for a small NAS server and thats where linux has better driver support.
I really like FreeNAS because it is so lightweight, runs from a flash key, does its job without complaining etc. but I dont see much a future for it with this switch. It is essentially a brand new project going up against Openfiler.
Ill have to change my scheme here and export a deduplicated ZFS share via iSCSI and attach it to my windows server to get the AD integrate de-duplicated fileserver.
Afghanistan is/has been a country in turmoil. Those people are fighting to survive, not fighting for national unity etc etc. Thats not less noble or anything, but its a different situation. The US and allies attempt to conquer and impose an artificial government is destined to fail because the people will quickly revert to the civil war situation. They need to work it out on their own, or more specifically, they need to decide their own destiny not have it controlled for them.
I feel like our government(US) has spun so far out of reason and logic that they cant even begin to consider how these people will react. So many people in power seem to treat these people as if they are a single group of like minded Muslims when in fact they are a mix of regular people trying to live regular lives. Everything is always about some Muslim agenda.
I dare someone to sit down with 20 Afghan families and tell them to say what is on their mind without talking about religion. Our leaders (US, UK, Europe, etc) seem to think that those people would have nothing to say if it wasnt about religion. I think that some enlightenment might occur.
I know I am far away from these people but I get some hint of what they must feel. I am not Christian and people that find this out initially think that must mean I have no moral center and that I am trying to be some sort of rogue. I know for a fact that my values are significantly more honest and honorable than 90% or the people I know and/or work with because I have seen their disreguard for racial tollerance, religious freed, disrespect of law(reasonable ones) etc. The Afghans, Iranians, Iraqis, and for that matter all people that are looked down on for not being Christian have good values and good intentions and there are very very few radicals.
Excuse the rant, but I am reading a lot of "what have you done to earn your freedom" and "must be nice to sit in America and spout right and wrong from a soft chair in an air conditioned house" etc etc posts from people that are unable to honestly answer the very question they are asking in a meaningful way.
I do my part by not spreading the religious FUD. I am not anti-christian or anti-muslim or anti-anything and when confronted with people and conversations that are blindly biased I argue for fairness and compassion. I respect the people I see and pay my taxes and make a hole in traffic for people to get in. I live in a country of 400 Million people and small things add up.
I think that if the world view of America wasnt taken up by our foreign policy then most people would see what the majority of these 400 million contribute and how they honor and maintain what our forefathers fought for.
true enough.
France helped liberate American to promote french interests. Just because there were multiple reasons doesnt lessen the result or intent.
Your comment steems strange. My statement clearly states that Iranians are standing up for themselves in this endeavor. I also suggest that other people are probably more willing to help because of this.
yes and yes.
can the previous post be flagged -100 Flamebait?
I pay me taxes and I participate in my freedom. My Grandfather and my line back to out immigration has fought to gain the freedom I enjoy today and the keep that freedom. Our policies and methods are not perfect and we make mistakes but many of those 'mistakes' turned into effective paybacks to other countries that enjoy freedom today. France for instance. France saw that American was standing up for itself and help (though there are other motivations and are not important to the outcome) and we in turn defended and liberated France when they were in need with the obvious help of the rest of the allied forces.
Point is, that despite international opinion, American and Americans are still fighting for freedom wherever necessary. So dont give my a line about taking what my forefathers did for granted because we still live by those principals that got us our freedom.
To have pride in your liberty it must cost something, you must have earned it. its a cruel truth. Iraqis wont have pride in their liberty because they did not choose it, they are only accepting it. If the Iranian people can win, with or without international assistance, they will have pride in their freedom because they earned it.
What I appreciate about this situation is that the Iranian people are standing up for them selves. Makes me want to help them. Something along the lines of supporting a justified patriot.
I dont care for the Afghan or Iraq wars because the people didnt stand up for themselves so I dont think that the rest of the civilized world shoudl sacrifice our soldiers lives for them. I think you will find many people much more willing to help the Iranians because they will stand up for themselves.
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I have done a lot of solo and group trips to France, the UK, and Denmark. Here are my tips.
1) Get a netbook with wifi. Laptops are too big to carry all the time while a netbook is about perfect. I have a dell mini 9. If you cant, then just dont bring a laptop. Its not that important. get more photo storage. :)
2) Get a power adapter for your gear before leaving.
3) Get a passport/cash wallet than you can hang around your neck and put inside your shirt. The truth is that if you can be spotted as a tourist you can become a target. Put 10 pounds (thats money) in your back pocket in case you have to dump some cash and run. I have had this happen and was glad to loose 10 pounds and not find out how serious the guys were.
4) Consider staying at hostels. Many people will try to save some cash and sleep in hostels but I like them for the social scene. You can meet up in the morning with fellow travelers and get tips for the day and you can chat through the night about what they saw and get some good ideas for the next day.
5) Identify Irish pubs with kitchens close to your hotel/hostel. I find that the Irish pubs (Hightly recommend the Claddagh Ring in Hendon http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=72570195125 (the hostel in Hendon is good as well) have a good plate of food that you can chow down on happily.
6) Get a day pass for the underground/city transportation and dont mess with single trip payments unless you are really planning on a single ride to and from your destination.
7) Good shoes. Dont buy new shoes just before the trip. Get some good walking or running shoes and wear them for a month. Check styles in Europe and pick something that fits in a bit yet looks reasonable to you.
8) Ditch the baseball cap and consider dressing nicer than t-shirt and jeans. You might actually pass as a european tourist instead of an american tourist. dont be affraid of slacks and a nice shirt.
9) Dont try to fake an accent in a pub(or anywhere really). Had a buddy that tried it, it cost him 4 beers
10) take 2 german girls up on anything they invite you to do with them. seriously. good times. pack 'protection' if you are single (as in batchelor)
11) consider that you dont want to site and wait for many MB of pictures to upload on slow hotel or hostel internet connections. Buy more memory cards. You can buy a 2GB memory card for the price of one upload session at an internet cafe. I travel with a bunch of sd-cards (canon T1i and an sd1100) and I just pop out an sd-card and put it with my passport and pop a new one in.
12) Shave. Just do it. If you go to a pub or a disco-tek or something you will fit in better.
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12) Bring your own batteries! there is a big counterfeit battery scam and if you dont know where to buy good batteries you are in trouble. Bring a charger and a spare battery pack for your camera(s) and other battery operated gear.
13) travel light. you want to be able to carry as much with you as possible. Jeans are good for 3 days. wear lightweight undershirts so you can re-wear your outer shirt twice. for a 6 day trip I would pack 2 jeans, 3 shirts, 6 undershirts, 7 underwear, and 7 pair of socks. That should fit in a backpack nicely.
14) CARRY ON YOUR BAG. If you cant carry your main bag with you, make sure you have 2 days worth of clothes (2 underwear, 2 socks, 2 undershirts) in your carry on. You can survive on this if you must. I have had to make 7 days on that setup and wash my clothes in the sink. Sounds like a rough situation but it was somewhat rewarding in its own way.
So, be careful in planning your baggage and keeping your money and budget on track. once that is done, do the rest of the trip unscripted. simply put together a list of must sees, wants, maybees and then hit them in whatever order works. you will find that this list can morph quickly once you realize that Hyde Park and Kensington is a 1 hour deal instead of 4 you ca
www, ftp, email, dns, firewall, dhcp
decide what truly needs to be distributed. DNS, DHCP, firewall. What is likely not necessary to distribute WWW, FTP, email.
DNS can be replicated with BIND or you can do a DNS server that uses MySQL and replicate the mysql database. DHCP must run at each site but you need to decide if you want DNS updated with DHCP. If so, you need to decide if you want those hostnames available across the network. DHCP can update DNS when a client requests an address, DNS can then replicate between each sites DNS server and in the end, you could access that machine from anywhere on the network that is permitted by your firewall runes.
for firewall, consider just using iptables and a bash script to download the current config and then replace some placeholders in the file with the local IP information. I have done this where I keep a copy of the firewall config on an internat webpage and just download the file, sed out my LOCALIPADDRESS and WANIPADDRESS with the local IP, and write that data to iptables on a schedule with cron. That way you can make a broad change to the firewalls at each site in a single file.
email doesnt like to be distributed. consider simple keeping a hot spare, even at a remote site, using something like DRDB to keep the email store in sync. Because you already have DNS everywhere you can quickly adjust the DNS entries for the email server. Use low TTL numbers so downtime is minimized. Then you can ssh into the remote machine and mount the store, then start the email services and you are in business.
If you subtract search engines google is responsible for a a tiny portion of the internet. Andrew gets benies from google so I suppose they do get some credit for the quantity of his work as he needs to eat and pay rent so that he can code.
Google has more than 15,000 servers. A well tuned system can outperform a poorly tuned system 2:1 for very specialized apps like google uses. you dont think that having 15,000 vs 30,000 servers is worth maybe 2Mil in wages and power bill? google had a 2Mil power bill per month. Those developers are starting to look pretty cheap..
Increasing the efficiency of their code, from memory management and scheduler to proxy servers can save huge amounts of CPU time which in turn lowers electricity requirements and number of servers needed.
I am not surprised at all by this and wonder when google will look at using small for factor DC power ARM systems. A fairly recent platform they used ran a custom motherboard and power supply and they started out on some sparc,x86, and an RS/6000 so they are not affraid of some custom hardware. Cutting that power bill can be a very significate improvement in the cost structure just like improving the performance of the OS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform#Server_types
That depends on the definition of average in this circumstance. sure that sound crazy you say but the GPS device could average just the peak speeds. I have a handheld unit that does this.
Think about it, wouldnt it be more valuable to know what the average maintained speed was rather that the true average? You would want to know how fast your car is being driven without stoplights lowering the value.
not that it really effects the outcome. Radar guns are a product designed to be accurate (though they are not always calibrated properly) while GPS is not terribly accurate and is advertized as such.
There really is no argument here other than the parents possibly saying that there is compelling evidence that the radar gun was not accurate and needed testing. The judge should have ordered a test on the radar gun and if it came back accurate and there was no service done on it in the interim then the ticket stands, if the gun is wrong or there was service done then the ticket dropped.
I know what your thinking, I should really be a judge :)
These are two different classes of product. You could easily buy a nettop that can do this job for maybe $200 but will use much more power.
Now I will switch teams here when we start to see these ARM based nettops and netbooks as they should compete with a router on power (though still use a bit more) but offer a clarkconnect(clearos??) or pfsense option that is hands down 100 times more powerful than what you can fit in 8Mb of flash.
Though the wrt54gl is a nice little unit and there are alternatives that are compatible and have a usb port like the asus wl-520g, this router has a few pluses.
This has:
a very nice 480Mhz CPU.
USB 2.0 while other devices have USB 1.1
Wireless N and Gigabit (which is available in other routers)
8MB Flash/64MB Ram
What this really means is that you can actually get gigabit across the switch ports and you can really get N speeds out of the unit. You can also turn on QoS without overworking your router, actually setup a VPN connection that doesnt drop or freeze the router, and actually put a hard disk on the USB2 port and get a reasonable transfer speed. This will be in the top class of wireless routers in performance.
I have a 15MB/1MB pipe at home and a regular wrt54g cannot handle my use on the wired ports and bogs down and freezes up when pushing the thing. I put in a cisco 881 and use the wrt54gl just for wireless access, all routing is done on the cisco.
I have over 30 wrt54gl units in production and to keep them running without a lot of reboots I limit this uplink port on my switch to 10Mb. Great unit but not for a power user or office IMHO.
A unit like this may be just what a lot of people need where a $60 router isnt powerful enough and to get serious they needed to jump up to a unit that was a couple hundred bucks.
except that the files are(or can be) DRM encumbered and accessing itunes directly pretending to be an ipod gets past the DRM right? sure you can get right at the files but that doesnt mean you can play them.
also, breaking the encryption is a crime according to the DMCA right? so if iTunes lets me have access then I can play my files without licensing DRM from apple?
your statement doesnt seem to apply to my comment.
my point is that I have a right to use what I pay for and no lockout of any manufacturer is going to stop that so long as I can bypass their lockouts. If they violate my fair use then I should take action and either make it well know in the media that they do such a thing or in certain circumstances take legal action.
The logos as seen here:
http://www.usb.org/home
are trademarks held by the USB-IF and its member companies.
USB does not qualify as a genericized trademark because references to USB are clearly for the specific interface as described by USB-IF. To have USB be a genericized term then USB must be commonly used to describe cables plugged into computers which it is not.
USB-IF is essentially a committee to push adoption of USB. Microsoft, Intel, HP, ST-Ericsson, NEC, and LSI are the primary members and Intel heads the board. This group does not hold copyright or patent to USB, only trademark to the USB logos.
USB is a standard. Only the logos can be fought over.
I see this type of comment a lot and I think I have a good arguement against it. I equate this to the 'if you have nothing to hide then why do you care if I look" argument.
If I dont like the situation I *SHOULD* exercise my rights to the fullest. If I have fair use rights, then I dont can what apple thinks, Im going to sync my media off to a device of my choosing even if I have to circumvent thier lockdowns. I have the RIGHT to access my media and therefore I will without hesitation.
I do prefer to start with OSS in the first place as then I tend to avoid having to exercise my rights but I wont cripple myself like that because some products dont exist in the open source world. I have rights that should protect me from wrongdoing.
I personally wont buy an apple product because of their politics and that I have an alternative. It actually amazes me the people continue to buy apple stuff because of this. I actually think that there are a few better players out there than ipods now and slowly the market will see this and quit paying the apple tax (aka inflated prices due to apple styling). Remember, this happened before to apple, when the PC overtook the mac for consumer level computers. see history repeat itself.
Fair use is what that was called. It is still on the books by the way.
The consumer has certain rights. They paid for the music and apple cannot deny them access to it. Palm is providing an interface and should not have to pay apple for that. Maybe apple has some fancy API that they could license but they would have to pay for that. if they can do it without paying then why wouldnt they? Keep in mind that the consumer who has fair use rights to the media is the one who is using the service, palm provides the interface.