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I've ip-banned most of Asia (210.x.x.x and 211.x.x.x, I believe) due to the spam and that simple act cut our spam by 90%, and since we don't deal internationally right now, it's not really a big deal.
Since CNET is also running this story, shouldn't they now be considered a "rumors site" and have their press pass revoked from Macworld? Additionally, why is this news? Why not at least wait until after the product is announced? Is a 17" screen even worth mentioning? Or is it just something that's been submitted 10 billion times and is only being posted to make the deluge stop?
Posted by EvilCliff on 22:13 Tuesday 09 July 3002 from the its-shrinkage dept. ari writes: "I woke up this morning and I was out of coffee. This was a real pain in the ass. I had to go to seven eleven in my underwear and en route, I was accosted by a school of fish floating in midair. I really thought I was losing my mind, but cookiemonster assured me I was okay, so I continued on. I then noticed that my penis was exposed. My question is, has this ever happened to anybody, and if so, how did you solve the problem? I'd really prefer an Open Source solution if possible, of course." Penis exposure is a problem for men everywhere. What works for you?
Why do people believe that using electric vehicles is better for the environment than fossil-fuel powered combustion-driven ones? The electricity has to come from somewhere, and unless you live near Niagara Falls or some other Hydroelectric facility, your choices are Coal, Oil, and Nuclear as sources of electricity (wind and solar not being reliable enough or common enough to be mentioned), all of which have their own methods of polluting. I really would like to know this, because all I've been hearing for 10-20 years is "conserve electricity," and now people are finding new and exciting ways to waste it. I just cannot see how people are reconciling these facts with themselves. While having a car that has no emissions is a nice idea, electricity certainly isn't a zero-emission fuel source, unless, as I said, you are near a dam. Otherwise you're just centralizing the emissions to wherever the electricity is being produced.
I used to work at Aimster, and received their shaft when the CEO (John Deep) decided not to pay anybody, and let them continue working without telling them there wasn't any money left. Apparently they're now making some money off the work of the backs of now-laid-off programmers, which must be a great business model, though I don't know how I could live with myself doing what they did.
Here are some links to some journal entries I wrote as the stuff was happening:
Remember: everything you've ever been read about Aimster in the press was a lie. It was not created by John Deep, nor his daughter (Madeline, called Aimster as a way to launch her "modeling career" on the backs of the programmers).
Another tidbit: February 14, 2001 - Video (Real Player only, apparently) of John Deep at the O'Reilly P2P conference, where he babbled on for a very long time (about 12 minutes) about how his daughter is the software and other stupid garbage. You can see that he sounds really crazy here, especially compared to people like Ray Ozzie who actually have legitimate business experience.
Additionally, I don't know anybody that just turns off the PC anymore. Even my grandmother and mother know that you shut down the computer, and one's running Win98, the other's running MacOS 9. I have a feeling that an experienced computer user trying to emulate a newbie would work about as well as... say, lindows emulating Windows.
I've wanted one of these for a while. It's a fully functional PC that's not much larger than a CD (though a bit thicker, of course). There's also this one that adds firewire support and is based on the Intel 815 rather than the 810.
While you may consider this shady, perhaps it's Apple's revenge for Microsoft buying up the company that was set to release the most anticipated game ever for MacOS and releasing it only for XBox (despite what Bungie's webpage says, I'll believe there's a Mac/PC version of HALO when it's on store shelves). Maybe they're buying up companies that MSFT has hinted at purchasing, so Apple decides to beat them to the punch.
If these are the rules that Microsoft is playing by then Apple can either follow suit or sit around and wait for MS to buy up these companies and pull another HALO on them. I personally think that since Apple has emerged once again as the only decent competitor to MS on the desktop, the longer they're around, the better off we all are.
I've been using Gamespy 3D for about 2 years and have never even been prompted to pay for it. The gamespy UI is about 1000 times better than anything in any game (Q3, CS, RTCW are the games I've played and GS3D is better than all of them). If you're trying to play a multiplayer game with other people (i.e. your clanmates) and trying to find a server, the in-game browser is nearly useless. Gamespy allows you to find a server (though the ping function in Gamespy has never given accurate results).
It seems to me that the weakest link in an e-commerce transaction today (or perhaps always) is the company itself. It's doubtful that somebody is intercepting SSLv3 or TLSv1 128-bit communications, but if the company is storing this data in a MySQL db with no firewall, no password, et cetera, you may as well be posting your account info in you Slashdot sig.
The problem is that there's really no way for you to determine this beforehand. If you portscan www.store.com or whatever it is you might end up in some trouble, depending how much of an ass the sysadmin is.
Another risk factor for which you're totally unable to account is the employees at the company. You have no idea whether or not Joe Schmoe that's reading your order is honest or dishonest. Maybe he's a disgruntled employee and is sending himself all of the customers' account info to later blackmail the company.
Like I said, there's really nothing you can do to determine this stuff in advance. Of course, everything I've said here assumes that your CC info was stolen from an e-commerce store, which may or may not be the case. But similar problems exist for brick-and-mortar stores -- if they toss their copy of the receipt right into the trash or have a disgruntled employee, you're at just as much risk, and have just as little chance of knowing so beforehand.
I haven't bought more than 2 or 3 CD's in the last 3 years.
Nor have I, but of those CDs that I have bought, I've been very satisfied with all of them. If I hadn't had the opportunity to listen to the tracks on MP3 beforehand, I'm pretty sure my satisfaction rate would be closer to 25-50%, as before the MP3 phenomenon started, most of the albums I bought had one or two decent songs and 10-12 tracks of garbage.
If the record company's sales are down, maybe they should try increasing the quality of their product and lowering prices -- you know, how businesses are supposed to increase sales? If neither of these options is viable for them then perhaps it's time for them to fold up shop. While I do have some ethical problems with downloading MP3s, I think the fact that the MP/RIAAs have convinced everyone that "downloading==piracy" is scary. How did "copyright infringement" manage to become equivalent with "One who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without commission from a sovereign nation."? I don't even think associating downloading with theft is appropriate.
The content industries seem to think that they should be immune to market forces and are trying to get the government to impose laws to ensure their profits. The problem is that profitability is not a right. If it were, every failed dot-com would still be around, sustained by tax dollars. There is no reason musicians should be millionaires. There's really no reason anybody should be a millionaire. Most people who are wealthy earn it. Then there are (pop) musicians, whose success is determined mostly by record companies' marketing dollars. Even baseball players are more deserving of their money than most musicians -- they do what they do much better than most other people.
Like I said, I'm still not totally sure where I stand on the ethics of MP3 downloading, but I lean about 90/10 in favor of it, for all sorts of reasons.
Boy, Hitler would have loved you! "The law states that we must murder the Jews. Sorry, Jews! That's the law! Is it a good law? Doesn't matter. It's the law."
I recently considered the IBM XSeries 300 and 330, and I was told by their rep that the standard for the 300 is 256, and if you want to upgrade to say 1 Gig, you have to buy 2 512 meg chips, on top of the 256 that's included. I tried everything I could to get them not to include the 256, but they said there was nothing they could do. It's just a regular 256 Meg pc133 ECC sdram stick, so I don't know what the big deal would be, but it was really annoying. I wanted 1024 megs of ram in the machine, and paying for an extra 256 I didn't need just seemed dumb. The rep suggested selling the 256 on ebay. So I went with Gateway (though not for this reason alone, of course).
I think the overall Xserve package is going to be good for some people.
Well, that's sort of what I was getting at. I think it will be great for the people who currently have farms of G4s anyway, like people doing lots of video encoding. It wouldn't surprise me if the Xserve was created just for Pixar. However for a small business, at $2999 the Apple machine is just not worth it for a webserver or even an all-in-one mailserver/firewall/dhcp/nat/web/samba box. While Apple's eliteness can be argued in the consumer and pro line, the server market is a lot different. At $1999 it would at least be competitive. For anything other than a rendering machine or a packet filter, CPU speed is practically irrelevant. Disk speed and memory size are the bottlenecks on most servers. I commend Apple for choosing DDR ram, but they don't have ECC memory, which people tend to look for in servers.
It's really a shame some lamers moderated my original comment down to -1 using "Overrated," the coward's way of moderating. It really reflects poorly on Mac users that anything even slightly critical of Apple is marked down so low, when I think as someone who recently made a purchase of a 1U server and spent a lot of time checking out the different options, I know a hell of a lot more than the dunce who wrote the article and drew a conclusion of "I LIKE XSERVE HEHE." From the "article" (which was nearly content-free except for a lame table comparing price of Xserve to other 1U machines):
Apple could pose a serious challenge to high end Intel workstations.
Outside the reality distortion field, these machines offer the potential for a decently valued, comparably powered server for the standard low-end server market. On top of that, they also look neat!
Sorry, but if there's one thing these machines DON'T offer, it's value, unless you truly care what your rackmount looks like (in which case I don't think Apple's even the best) and are willing to pay a premium for that. I have a feeling that the people doting on the Xserve and how great it is compared to [insert other company here] have never been (and probably will never be) in a position in which they actually have the opportunity or need to buy such a machine, and their feelings on the matter are based solely on the fact that the machine is made by Apple and that it Looks Nice, so it must be great, and nothing from Evil Intel can possibly compare. This is not a photoshop benchmark, this is a server, and there's no magic you can do that will make this server at $2999 attractive to any market other than rendering farms. Sorry. If you can show me that an Xserve can outperform a similarly priced Intel/AMD system (and no, not the most expensive one on the market *cough*HP*cough*) then maybe we can continue this discussion. Show me that Apache + PHP + MySQL/Oracle + SSL, or even Samba, performs better on an Xserve than on an x86 machine running BSD or Linux, and I will bow to you. Until that day, Apple has no business pricing this machine at 50% more than "equivalent" Intel machines.
But alas, I tried to inject some reality into the Mac users' circle-jerk. As a Mac lover, you people disgust me (not you specifically, dephex, but "the others") and make me feel ashamed even to like the same computers as you.
Plus you're only getting 36GB of HD space, whereas the Apple has 60GB.
Be fair, at least.
Not to mention you get gigabit ethernet, good design (slim casing, swappable drives, etc.) and ease of use. Ease of use is a bigger deal than I think you would be willing to admit. Maintaining a Linux server is going to be harder in just about every way.
Ok, how much will it cost to get 36 gigs of SCSI with the Xserve? A jillion dollars still won't buy it, because it's not even an option. For the price of 36 gigs of SCSI (partitioned however I want) I could easily buy nearly 400 gigs of IDE, but I don't want IDE. Actually, we were considering IDE, but Gateway's price for SCSI was too good to pass up. And for a webserver, at least for ours, we really don't use more than about 10 gigs, so the extra 20 gigs is irrelevant. I have the OS on drive 1 and I have the entire site content on Drive 2 to improve performance.
Gigabit ethernet is quite useless, even for a company using 10 Mbit of traffic, which is a HUGE amount. The gateway comes with Dual 10/100 ethernet out of the box. The gateway is a 1U with "good design" (though the fact that you care what the machine looks like even though it's just sitting in a rack 20 miles away is a bit troubling) and 3 hot-swappable SCSI drives in the front. I have been maintaining a Solaris machine for a while and several linux boxes, so I don't think it's going to be that hard to continue doing so. This is a webserver; if I have to even check on it more than twice a week, something is really wrong, so while apple's admin tools might be nice, they're no killer app. At least not for a $1600 premium. And for buying the ram from someone other than apple, I could do the same for the gateway and shave some money off the price. This way, I only have to deal with one company, which is a much bigger timesaver than the admin tools would be.
Like I said, for the price of Apple's lowend machine I could almost buy another gateway, just to serve our images.
The day the Xserve was announced, the Gateway I ordered was delivered. Price before Tax and Shipping: $1937, with Tax and Next-Day shipping: $2221:
Processor: (1)Intel® Pentium® III Processor 1.13-GHz with 512K full speed L2 Cache (Dual Processor Upgradeable) HDW Memory: 1024MB PC133 ECC SDRAM (2 - 512MB modules) Hard Drive: (Total 2) 18GB Ultra160 SCSI SCA 10K RPM Hard Drive Floppy Drive:
3.5" 1.44MB diskette drive HDW CD-ROM:
24X IDE CDROM HDW Operating System:
Optional SFW Video:
Integrated PCI Graphics - 4MB HDW Power Supply:
200 Watt Power Supply HDW Controller:
Integrated Single Channel Ultra160 HDW RAID Level:
Please choose a RAID Level HDW Network Card:
Dual Integrated Intel® PCI 10/100 Twisted Pair Ethernet HDW Limited Warranty and On-site Service Programs:
3Yr Parts, Labor, 3Yr Onsite - Next Business Day Limited Warranty, HW Tech Support as long as you own it WRN Server Management:
HP OpenView ManageX Event Manager SFW Gateway Networking Solutions - Security Audit:
Gateway® Security Audit ($199 value) WRN
That's right, 2 18-gig scsi 10k rpm hard drives and 1 gig ram. I can add a second P3 1.13 for $190 at any time. Here's a quote from IBM:
867282X NETFINITY X SERIES 300 PIII 1 1213.52 1213.52
1000 256 MB 20 GB 24X
MFG Part#: 867282X 22P7157 40GB 7200RPM ATA (EIDE) DRIVE 1 139.92 139.92
MFG Part#: 22P7157 33L3085 MEMORY UPGRADE 512MB 133MHZ 2 395.12 790.24
MFG Part#: 33L3085
Subtotal Without Shipping & Handling 2143.68
Shipping Via 2-DAY STD AIR + 85.00
Sales Tax + 183.87
GRAND Total 2412.55
note: total memory is 1.2 GB
Config from Apple's store:
1GHz PowerPC G4
1GB DDR SDRAM - 2 DIMMs 60GB Ultra ATA - 7200rpm - Bay 1 CD-ROM drive Gigabit Ethernet Card ATI Graphics Card Mac OS X Server, Unlimited License Pretax, pre-shipping Subtotal $3,599.00
While the G4 is an impressive chip, its forte is really in the area of stuff like video encoding. Maybe SSL performance would be better as well. But I don't really see any reason to buy a $3600 Mac to use as a webserver when for the same price I could practically get two Gateways of similar performance. I'm having a hard time determining what Apple's intended market is for these things. Surely it's not meant to be used as a webserver, because it's WAY overpriced for that market. Its out-of-box features are similar to those of the Cobalt Qube, which, out of box, supports A million things which I listed and the lameness filter wouldn't let me include and whose entry-level price is $1149. Once again, I have to wonder what apple is thinking, and I truly hope this is intended solely for rendering farms.
Now I'm going to add a ton of stupid shit because of the fuckin lameness filter. Nice, right? # Please try to keep posts on topic. # Try to reply to other people comments instead of starting new threads. # Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. # Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. # Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page) Problems regarding accounts or comment posting should be sent to CowboyNeal your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. # Use a clear subject that describes what your message is aboNow I'm going to add a ton of stupid shit because of the fuckin lameness filter. Nice, right? # Please try to keep posts on topic. # Try to reply to other people comments instead of starting new threads. # Read other people's messages before posting your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. # Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. # Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive comments might be moderated. (You can read everything, even moderated posts, by adjusting your threshold on the User Preferences Page) Problems regarding accounts or comment posting should be sent to CowboyNeal your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. # Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. # Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensiveyour own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. # Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. # Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive.threshold on the User Preferences Page) Problems regarding accounts or comment posting should be sent to CowboyNeal your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. # Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. # Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensiveyour own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. # Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. # Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive. threshold on the User Preferences Page) Problems regarding accounts or comment posting should be sent to CowboyNeal your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. # Use a clear subject that deslaaaaaame laaaaaaaame laaaaaaaame cribes what your message is about. # Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensiveyour own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. # Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. # Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive. threshold on the User Preferences Page) Problems regarding accounts or comment posting should be sent to CowboyNeal your own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. # Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. # Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensiveyour own to avoid simply duplicating what has already been said. # Use a clear subject that describes what your message is about. # Offtopic, Inflammatory, Inappropriate, Illegal, or Offensive.
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This is inaccurate; my partner works in the New York State unemployment system, and executives who made $300,000 a year routinely call up and get unemployment benefits after being laid off.
Well, I thought something was probably wrong with their decision, but they were no help at all. Every time I went to the unemployment office, I was turned away, and told to call their automated phone number. And that number doesn't even let you wait in line -- if there are a lot of people already on hold, it just hangs up on you and says "call back later," and I think their hours were something like 8-4. I tried for several days and was never even able to be put on hold.
Anyhow, it wasn't even a matter of thinking I was ineligible, they told me I was ineligible. I didn't really know waht to do at that point, and was really contemplating suicide, so arguing with the UI retards wasn't something high on my list. But maybe I'll look into it now, though like you said, it's been a long time so I don't know what kind of good could come of it.
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I've ip-banned most of Asia (210.x.x.x and 211.x.x.x, I believe) due to the spam and that simple act cut our spam by 90%, and since we don't deal internationally right now, it's not really a big deal.
Most spam I receive has a blank To: header and a forged From: header, so this tactic is not exactly foolproof (I've been using it for a while).
If you can't support a website with ad revenue, or even an ISP , why would anybody think it would work for an entire OS?
Well, I don't agree with that statement, but it's sort of unrelated to my point, which was, is CNET getting THEIR press pass revoked?
Since CNET is also running this story, shouldn't they now be considered a "rumors site" and have their press pass revoked from Macworld? Additionally, why is this news? Why not at least wait until after the product is announced? Is a 17" screen even worth mentioning? Or is it just something that's been submitted 10 billion times and is only being posted to make the deluge stop?
Posted by EvilCliff on 22:13 Tuesday 09 July 3002
from the its-shrinkage dept.
ari writes: "I woke up this morning and I was out of coffee. This was a real pain in the ass. I had to go to seven eleven in my underwear and en route, I was accosted by a school of fish floating in midair. I really thought I was losing my mind, but cookiemonster assured me I was okay, so I continued on. I then noticed that my penis was exposed. My question is, has this ever happened to anybody, and if so, how did you solve the problem? I'd really prefer an Open Source solution if possible, of course." Penis exposure is a problem for men everywhere. What works for you?
Why do people believe that using electric vehicles is better for the environment than fossil-fuel powered combustion-driven ones? The electricity has to come from somewhere, and unless you live near Niagara Falls or some other Hydroelectric facility, your choices are Coal, Oil, and Nuclear as sources of electricity (wind and solar not being reliable enough or common enough to be mentioned), all of which have their own methods of polluting. I really would like to know this, because all I've been hearing for 10-20 years is "conserve electricity," and now people are finding new and exciting ways to waste it. I just cannot see how people are reconciling these facts with themselves. While having a car that has no emissions is a nice idea, electricity certainly isn't a zero-emission fuel source, unless, as I said, you are near a dam. Otherwise you're just centralizing the emissions to wherever the electricity is being produced.
If someone can enlighten me, I'd appreciate it.
I used to work at Aimster, and received their shaft when the CEO (John Deep) decided not to pay anybody, and let them continue working without telling them there wasn't any money left. Apparently they're now making some money off the work of the backs of now-laid-off programmers, which must be a great business model, though I don't know how I could live with myself doing what they did.
Here are some links to some journal entries I wrote as the stuff was happening:
http://slashdot.org/~Evro/journal/2128
http://slashdot.org/~Evro/journal/1918
http://slashdot.org/~Evro/journal/1118
Remember: everything you've ever been read about Aimster in the press was a lie. It was not created by John Deep, nor his daughter (Madeline, called Aimster as a way to launch her "modeling career" on the backs of the programmers).
Another tidbit: February 14, 2001 - Video (Real Player only, apparently) of John Deep at the O'Reilly P2P conference, where he babbled on for a very long time (about 12 minutes) about how his daughter is the software and other stupid garbage. You can see that he sounds really crazy here, especially compared to people like Ray Ozzie who actually have legitimate business experience.
Additionally, I don't know anybody that just turns off the PC anymore. Even my grandmother and mother know that you shut down the computer, and one's running Win98, the other's running MacOS 9. I have a feeling that an experienced computer user trying to emulate a newbie would work about as well as... say, lindows emulating Windows.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/59ef.shtm l and http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/59ef-2.sh tml
I've wanted one of these for a while. It's a fully functional PC that's not much larger than a CD (though a bit thicker, of course). There's also this one that adds firewire support and is based on the Intel 815 rather than the 810.
My spidey sense says Michael Robertson.
Where are they getting all this money???
Apple has a Market Cap of US$6.154 Billion as of this post.
While you may consider this shady, perhaps it's Apple's revenge for Microsoft buying up the company that was set to release the most anticipated game ever for MacOS and releasing it only for XBox (despite what Bungie's webpage says, I'll believe there's a Mac/PC version of HALO when it's on store shelves). Maybe they're buying up companies that MSFT has hinted at purchasing, so Apple decides to beat them to the punch.
If these are the rules that Microsoft is playing by then Apple can either follow suit or sit around and wait for MS to buy up these companies and pull another HALO on them. I personally think that since Apple has emerged once again as the only decent competitor to MS on the desktop, the longer they're around, the better off we all are.
I've been using Gamespy 3D for about 2 years and have never even been prompted to pay for it. The gamespy UI is about 1000 times better than anything in any game (Q3, CS, RTCW are the games I've played and GS3D is better than all of them). If you're trying to play a multiplayer game with other people (i.e. your clanmates) and trying to find a server, the in-game browser is nearly useless. Gamespy allows you to find a server (though the ping function in Gamespy has never given accurate results).
It seems to me that the weakest link in an e-commerce transaction today (or perhaps always) is the company itself. It's doubtful that somebody is intercepting SSLv3 or TLSv1 128-bit communications, but if the company is storing this data in a MySQL db with no firewall, no password, et cetera, you may as well be posting your account info in you Slashdot sig.
The problem is that there's really no way for you to determine this beforehand. If you portscan www.store.com or whatever it is you might end up in some trouble, depending how much of an ass the sysadmin is.
Another risk factor for which you're totally unable to account is the employees at the company. You have no idea whether or not Joe Schmoe that's reading your order is honest or dishonest. Maybe he's a disgruntled employee and is sending himself all of the customers' account info to later blackmail the company.
Like I said, there's really nothing you can do to determine this stuff in advance. Of course, everything I've said here assumes that your CC info was stolen from an e-commerce store, which may or may not be the case. But similar problems exist for brick-and-mortar stores -- if they toss their copy of the receipt right into the trash or have a disgruntled employee, you're at just as much risk, and have just as little chance of knowing so beforehand.
Yeah, I know, it was a joke. But this has to be at least marginally better than getting root automatically, as is the case with some setups.
This could allow arbitrary code to be run on the server as the user the Apache children are set to run as.
Oh no! User nobody is wreaking havoc!
Considering that nobody doesn't even have a login on my box, I don't see how this compares with the root-o'-the-week for IIS.
Oh cool... so there's one!
I haven't bought more than 2 or 3 CD's in the last 3 years.
Nor have I, but of those CDs that I have bought, I've been very satisfied with all of them. If I hadn't had the opportunity to listen to the tracks on MP3 beforehand, I'm pretty sure my satisfaction rate would be closer to 25-50%, as before the MP3 phenomenon started, most of the albums I bought had one or two decent songs and 10-12 tracks of garbage.
If the record company's sales are down, maybe they should try increasing the quality of their product and lowering prices -- you know, how businesses are supposed to increase sales? If neither of these options is viable for them then perhaps it's time for them to fold up shop. While I do have some ethical problems with downloading MP3s, I think the fact that the MP/RIAAs have convinced everyone that "downloading==piracy" is scary. How did "copyright infringement" manage to become equivalent with "One who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without commission from a sovereign nation."? I don't even think associating downloading with theft is appropriate.
The content industries seem to think that they should be immune to market forces and are trying to get the government to impose laws to ensure their profits. The problem is that profitability is not a right. If it were, every failed dot-com would still be around, sustained by tax dollars. There is no reason musicians should be millionaires. There's really no reason anybody should be a millionaire. Most people who are wealthy earn it. Then there are (pop) musicians, whose success is determined mostly by record companies' marketing dollars. Even baseball players are more deserving of their money than most musicians -- they do what they do much better than most other people.
Like I said, I'm still not totally sure where I stand on the ethics of MP3 downloading, but I lean about 90/10 in favor of it, for all sorts of reasons.
Is it a good law? Doesn't matter. It is the law.
Boy, Hitler would have loved you! "The law states that we must murder the Jews. Sorry, Jews! That's the law! Is it a good law? Doesn't matter. It's the law."
I recently considered the IBM XSeries 300 and 330, and I was told by their rep that the standard for the 300 is 256, and if you want to upgrade to say 1 Gig, you have to buy 2 512 meg chips, on top of the 256 that's included. I tried everything I could to get them not to include the 256, but they said there was nothing they could do. It's just a regular 256 Meg pc133 ECC sdram stick, so I don't know what the big deal would be, but it was really annoying. I wanted 1024 megs of ram in the machine, and paying for an extra 256 I didn't need just seemed dumb. The rep suggested selling the 256 on ebay. So I went with Gateway (though not for this reason alone, of course).
Well, that's sort of what I was getting at. I think it will be great for the people who currently have farms of G4s anyway, like people doing lots of video encoding. It wouldn't surprise me if the Xserve was created just for Pixar. However for a small business, at $2999 the Apple machine is just not worth it for a webserver or even an all-in-one mailserver/firewall/dhcp/nat/web/samba box. While Apple's eliteness can be argued in the consumer and pro line, the server market is a lot different. At $1999 it would at least be competitive. For anything other than a rendering machine or a packet filter, CPU speed is practically irrelevant. Disk speed and memory size are the bottlenecks on most servers. I commend Apple for choosing DDR ram, but they don't have ECC memory, which people tend to look for in servers.
It's really a shame some lamers moderated my original comment down to -1 using "Overrated," the coward's way of moderating. It really reflects poorly on Mac users that anything even slightly critical of Apple is marked down so low, when I think as someone who recently made a purchase of a 1U server and spent a lot of time checking out the different options, I know a hell of a lot more than the dunce who wrote the article and drew a conclusion of "I LIKE XSERVE HEHE." From the "article" (which was nearly content-free except for a lame table comparing price of Xserve to other 1U machines):Sorry, but if there's one thing these machines DON'T offer, it's value, unless you truly care what your rackmount looks like (in which case I don't think Apple's even the best) and are willing to pay a premium for that. I have a feeling that the people doting on the Xserve and how great it is compared to [insert other company here] have never been (and probably will never be) in a position in which they actually have the opportunity or need to buy such a machine, and their feelings on the matter are based solely on the fact that the machine is made by Apple and that it Looks Nice, so it must be great, and nothing from Evil Intel can possibly compare. This is not a photoshop benchmark, this is a server, and there's no magic you can do that will make this server at $2999 attractive to any market other than rendering farms. Sorry. If you can show me that an Xserve can outperform a similarly priced Intel/AMD system (and no, not the most expensive one on the market *cough*HP*cough*) then maybe we can continue this discussion. Show me that Apache + PHP + MySQL/Oracle + SSL, or even Samba, performs better on an Xserve than on an x86 machine running BSD or Linux, and I will bow to you. Until that day, Apple has no business pricing this machine at 50% more than "equivalent" Intel machines.
But alas, I tried to inject some reality into the Mac users' circle-jerk. As a Mac lover, you people disgust me (not you specifically, dephex, but "the others") and make me feel ashamed even to like the same computers as you.
Plus you're only getting 36GB of HD space, whereas the Apple has 60GB.
Be fair, at least.
Not to mention you get gigabit ethernet, good design (slim casing, swappable drives, etc.) and ease of use. Ease of use is a bigger deal than I think you would be willing to admit. Maintaining a Linux server is going to be harder in just about every way.
Ok, how much will it cost to get 36 gigs of SCSI with the Xserve? A jillion dollars still won't buy it, because it's not even an option. For the price of 36 gigs of SCSI (partitioned however I want) I could easily buy nearly 400 gigs of IDE, but I don't want IDE. Actually, we were considering IDE, but Gateway's price for SCSI was too good to pass up. And for a webserver, at least for ours, we really don't use more than about 10 gigs, so the extra 20 gigs is irrelevant. I have the OS on drive 1 and I have the entire site content on Drive 2 to improve performance.
Gigabit ethernet is quite useless, even for a company using 10 Mbit of traffic, which is a HUGE amount. The gateway comes with Dual 10/100 ethernet out of the box. The gateway is a 1U with "good design" (though the fact that you care what the machine looks like even though it's just sitting in a rack 20 miles away is a bit troubling) and 3 hot-swappable SCSI drives in the front. I have been maintaining a Solaris machine for a while and several linux boxes, so I don't think it's going to be that hard to continue doing so. This is a webserver; if I have to even check on it more than twice a week, something is really wrong, so while apple's admin tools might be nice, they're no killer app. At least not for a $1600 premium. And for buying the ram from someone other than apple, I could do the same for the gateway and shave some money off the price. This way, I only have to deal with one company, which is a much bigger timesaver than the admin tools would be.
Like I said, for the price of Apple's lowend machine I could almost buy another gateway, just to serve our images.
Ok, and that's exactly what I did. You're not suggesting that MacOS is worth $1600, are you?
That's right, 2 18-gig scsi 10k rpm hard drives and 1 gig ram. I can add a second P3 1.13 for $190 at any time. Here's a quote from IBM:
Config from Apple's store:
While the G4 is an impressive chip, its forte is really in the area of stuff like video encoding. Maybe SSL performance would be better as well. But I don't really see any reason to buy a $3600 Mac to use as a webserver when for the same price I could practically get two Gateways of similar performance. I'm having a hard time determining what Apple's intended market is for these things. Surely it's not meant to be used as a webserver, because it's WAY overpriced for that market. Its out-of-box features are similar to those of the Cobalt Qube, which, out of box, supports A million things which I listed and the lameness filter wouldn't let me include and whose entry-level price is $1149. Once again, I have to wonder what apple is thinking, and I truly hope this is intended solely for rendering farms.
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This is inaccurate; my partner works in the New York State unemployment system, and executives who made $300,000 a year routinely call up and get unemployment benefits after being laid off.
Well, I thought something was probably wrong with their decision, but they were no help at all. Every time I went to the unemployment office, I was turned away, and told to call their automated phone number. And that number doesn't even let you wait in line -- if there are a lot of people already on hold, it just hangs up on you and says "call back later," and I think their hours were something like 8-4. I tried for several days and was never even able to be put on hold.
Anyhow, it wasn't even a matter of thinking I was ineligible, they told me I was ineligible. I didn't really know waht to do at that point, and was really contemplating suicide, so arguing with the UI retards wasn't something high on my list. But maybe I'll look into it now, though like you said, it's been a long time so I don't know what kind of good could come of it.