Well theoretically, if your Intel Mac is socketed, you should be able to drop in a faster Intel chip anytime - maybe not the Core 2 Quad (though I'd be curious), but surely a faster C2D like an E6850... this is assuming yours uses desktop processors. I know some (all?) of the new iMacs use notebook CPUs which makes things a bit more challenging.
Windows Home Server is little more than a web control panel on top of the XP kernel, yet they managed to screw it up somehow ?! That's a new level of incompetence!
How about you take that old XP machine you replaced last summer, add a bunch of big hard drives and set up conventional shared folders. That has been proven to work by millions of office and home networks worldwide, AND you can still do anything else on that machine, should you need to. I personally run Windows 2003, but that's because I'm fussy and I already had it. I'm sure XP or 2000 would work exactly the same.
If you don't have a spare XP machine, build a cheap one and use Linux. All you really need is the cheapest board, CPU and Ram you can find (integrated video), a good power supply and a few large SATA drives. You could go with a used PC, just make sure the power supply is in good shape - better yet, replace it outright. Get an oversized model from a half-decent brand like Antec, Seasonic or OCZ... something quiet with 3-4 times more power than you think you need (500-600w is the sweet spot). Linux + Samba + FTP =:)
Actually the only reason I didn't do Linux on my home server is because I had already ripped all my movies to an NTFS drive, and I didn't feel like juggling about 800gb of DVD images around my network, just to reformat a drive. Maybe I'll do that the next time I add more drives.
I'm going to preface this for the new guys: I'm a big PC-head. I build them, I program them, I sell them, and there were times when I had no home, but I still had a bitchin' fast PC:)
I'd take the Mac over the Dell, no hesitation. First of all, if I were in the market for a clean, quiet, space-saving computer, that would mean I'm not after breakneck performance and extreme gaming. The Mac is the undisputed king of the common desktop.
A few months ago, I would have said "Screw them both" and built a microATX PC running Windows MCE. Today, I'd buy the Mac at a similar price. This about-face happened when I upgraded an ancient Mac at work (used for compatibility testing), an old 400mhz G4. I loaded OS 10.4 on there, which went very smoothly. More importantly, for common tasks like office work and surfing, the damned thing feels every bit as fast as the 3.2ghz P4 next to it - apps launch quickly, the dock and menus stay responsive even when things are thrashing, it's almost like a prettified BeOS! It clearly falls short where raw processing is required, like video encoding and data compression, but the fact is most people would probably feel content with the 400mhz G4. It's all about the fluidity of the user interface. Windows XP, even on a rocket PC, will chug every time you click on something - crap scheduler, and nonexistent disk throughput management. Linux is even worse at it, there's a very tangible latency in every interaction as dynamic libraries take forever to link, though the raw throughput is greater once you get it going.
Windows Vista doesn't even accomplish the same level of fluidity on a machine 20 times faster with a whiz-bang graphics accelerator. What it does accomplish is to waste a few G4's worth of CPU doing nothing! That's why the Dell One, with its superior hardware, gets lower marks from me. Hardware is nothing without software, and PC software is like lead shoes covered in feces.
When was the last time you were in a food establishment that served both Pepsi and Coke products?
Maybe things are worse where you live, but in my neck of the woods (and it's a lame neck, I assure you), most of the independent eateries have both brands, largely because they're sick of getting verbally abused when the customer's favorite is unavailable. There's a significant number of people who don't tolerate this marketing fascism, typically the older crowd from what I can tell.
Taken further, it's not at all uncommon for bars to polarize their clientele. We have two major booze brands up here, Labatt and Molson... in most cases they're mutually exclusive. People will go to the one that sells their brand, which has resulted in many bar owners opening secondary clubs with the opposite brands to capture that market.
It's important to note that TorrentSpy didn't actually destroy evidence, they didn't store any of it in the first place. This makes the case far more terrifying, as they are being held responsible for supposed evidence that was never there, and that the plaintiffs can't even prove ever existed.
Let's suppose a non-negligible portion of TorrentSpy's user base was slanted toward piracy, and one can make the assumption that any evidence they could have collected would be incriminating, it's still just hypothesis until you have logs to support it. I can give you a big hint: datacenters don't store that kind of detail unless they're specifically mandated by law to do so. For the most part, they're too busy dealing with routing info and aggregate (billable) stats to care who visits your server, and even then all they know is that some IP tried to connect to some port. Deep packet inspection is prohibitively expensive for the amounts of data being delivered, and raise various privacy issues that are too costly to bother litigating.
TorrentSpy might not be innocent, but I don't think you can truly accuse them of destroying evidence. That's a fallacy.
Nope, those ones we fight back. The only way someone can (consistently) weasel their way out of a porn charge is to argue that their credit card info was stolen. That argument doesn't hold much water when the merchant can prove (via Geolocation) that the purchase was made from the cardholder's computer (or at least the same city/area). The fact that the guy's wife objects to his porn consumption does not undo the consumption nor the service provider's expense (bandwidth).
If you buy a car, and your wife doesn't like it because it's not a fuckin' Toyota, you still have to pay it. I don't care that you married an ignorant bitch.
Yep, having your domain and hosting with the same company is asking for trouble, because they basically control your site end-to-end in that scenario. Having them as two separate companies makes it much more difficult for any one party to kill your site, and I'm not even talking about uptime issues - this is purely political.
The other issue is do you know what happens if/when you move your site to a different hosting provider ? Will you encounter resistance, either in the form of a blanket policy restriction, or uncooperative customer service ?
We've seen all sorts of abuses in the industry, there's no good reason to give any company so much control over your site. Is it really worth the $2.00 you might save on a bundle ? I think not.
Why in the hell would a little store in a quiet city keep so much stock if it isn't moving ? You don't see me stocking up on, for example, shotgun ammo... because I live in a big pansy-ass city where everyone rides the bus and drinks $8.00 coffee while reading some pretentious douche's latest paperback. Not a single hunter in the bunch (not many mass murderers either). But if I did have an excess inventory of weaponry, I'd dump it on some southerner and fill my warehouse with pink fluffy iPod sleeves that appeal to the local clientele.
That's what some people would call retail management.
"The security of knowing that you won't be screwed over by the country you pay your taxes to when something happens to you is also an achievement that the USA does not yet have, but Cuba does."
And Canada, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, Israel, Australia, even teeny little Costa Rica has universal health care.
The USA can bash its neighbors all it wants, that doesn't change the fact that other nations have succeeded where the US continues to fail. We might not all be rich and glamourous, but at least we're healthy and happy.
We have peace and security up here in Canada, but we are afraid of invasion by one particular nation: Americans! We're cool with every other country on the globe, just not you guys. If China invades us tomorrow we'll go "Welp, you got us by surprise there!", but we've been suspicious of the USA for decades.
It's not because our government is weak, it's because your government is out of control. The world doesn't seem so predatory on this side of the bridge. Now maybe if your breweries were to start making good beer, you guys might learn to chill out just the same:)
However that same military is the reason why we can bitch about the state of our country and the world with near impunity
I don't think many Americans are worried about being invaded by foreign armies. They're mostly worried about being invaded by their own government.
Bush may have killed a bunch of arabs, but he killed a ton of Americans too. The ones that lived, he made their lives just a little more miserable every few months. Keep going with this government, and soon it's the Americans that will seek political refuge abroad.
Buddy, I sell porn, and I hate the credit companies. If the porn industry (on all levels) stops accepting credit cards in favor of debit, people will switch to debit, and believe me, we want to! There are few things more insulting than paying fees to a credit processor who is constantly looking for excuses to ruin your business. It's not the merchants who are high-risk, it's the customers! A merchant could jump through a million hoops to ensure zero fraud, if a few of the buyers call in a fraudulent chargeback that merchant's getting slapped anyway.
We trade blacklists of fraudulent buyers. I've heard a story, that I believe as the truth, of one buyer who called in a pretty big chargeback (upwards of $1000). It was one of many merchants who had been burned by this one individual. The last guy to get screwed actually called in some thugs and had the squirmy fraudster beat the *@&# up.
Maybe we can solve the overload problem by forcing everyone to learn (proper) French, where everything has 30 words to describe it in similar yet subtly colored details. I'm sure there are lots of other highly verbose languages, but French is the one I know. I've lost count of how many pointless arguments I've triggered through ambiguous usage of "one fits all" English words that would make any lawyer salivate.
Yup. 35% chargebacks is the kind of thing that Visa/MC would shut down in a matter of hours.
It is such a royal bitch to launch a legit credit-card processor, thanks to all the irritating rules to cover up the flaws created by the cards themselves. The credit companies make a ton of money by defrauding both the client and the merchants, with a whole assortment of fees and fines, but they're in a position where it's near-impossible for a a retailer to refuse credit cards without losing most of your business. The only reason these companies thrive is because people suck at finances. If there were a non-credit payment system, usable worldwide (or almost) that can offer instant authorization and online processing, the entire internet would flock to it in a heartbeat.
VMware is your friend. Go ahead and emulate that sumbitch while you do all those naughty things outside the sandbox.:)
Honestly though, this is just another monopoly-pushing move by MS. Most Windows people get their OS when they buy a computer (thanks to the lovely OEM cartel). This is probably targeted at people who have an unlicensed copy of Windows, and by "converting" them into legit users, MS can claim a bunch of big adoption numbers when the next round of FUD comes around. They could even pull a random number out of their ass and say "this many Linux commies switched over, the rest were pirated".
Then they can go to the supreme court and say "Your honor, we're not an illegal monopoly; People WANT to use our software, we can't help being so awesome!" or some weak paraphrasing.
Yep same boat here... I'm filling someone else's shoes, and every time I stumble upon yet another of his bastard projects, I get the urge to physically hunt him down and throttle the little shit, but then I realize it probably made sense to that one guy and he seemed quite prolific in his perverse ways. We just work very differently, and it's human nature that I consider my own technique superior... otherwise I'd have to admit that I suck and that's just not my style:)
In The Netherlands there's BREIN, which is like taking the RIAA/MPAA, multiplying by the BSA, cubed. They go around shutting people down without any sort of legal backing, and they rope in the police as their personal thugs.
It's way messed up, which is why I support groups like The Pirate Bay and other rights activists who viciously oppose BREIN.
What good has capitalism brought to the world ? Show me! I don't see it, so please open my eyes to the truth you speak of.
When someone's hoarding all the goods (or money), they're depriving everyone else of those assets. When they acquire those assets by unethical (if not illegal) means, it is a malicious attack on the balance that makes society work. Such heinous acts should NOT go unpunished.
Or would you rather live in a free-for-all like Saudi Arabia ?
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Maybe people interested in a video game don't want to waste their life playing the stock market. There's nothing fun about money unless you spend it on something you enjoy. Making money isn't fun, it might be satisfying but it doesn't stimulate your endorphins. Money is fake; it's an abstract concept. It used to represent work, converted into a generic, delayed product. Today it means absolutely nothing; the people with the most money are often those who didn't lift a finger to earn it.
Speculation has corrupted what was once a fair and honest system. The stock market is bullshit. Anyone in the tech industry should know this after living through the dot-com bubble. The very concept of "cashing out" is proof that there is zero value in money.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I personally refuse to give some jerk an extra $200 just to get a Wii that I *should* have been able to buy at the regular price from any store. In the always-connected 21st century, middlemen are no longer required (nor welcome). Nintendo should sell direct and drop-ship right to my doorstep.
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Well theoretically, if your Intel Mac is socketed, you should be able to drop in a faster Intel chip anytime - maybe not the Core 2 Quad (though I'd be curious), but surely a faster C2D like an E6850... this is assuming yours uses desktop processors. I know some (all?) of the new iMacs use notebook CPUs which makes things a bit more challenging.
Windows Home Server is little more than a web control panel on top of the XP kernel, yet they managed to screw it up somehow ?! That's a new level of incompetence!
:)
How about you take that old XP machine you replaced last summer, add a bunch of big hard drives and set up conventional shared folders. That has been proven to work by millions of office and home networks worldwide, AND you can still do anything else on that machine, should you need to. I personally run Windows 2003, but that's because I'm fussy and I already had it. I'm sure XP or 2000 would work exactly the same.
If you don't have a spare XP machine, build a cheap one and use Linux. All you really need is the cheapest board, CPU and Ram you can find (integrated video), a good power supply and a few large SATA drives. You could go with a used PC, just make sure the power supply is in good shape - better yet, replace it outright. Get an oversized model from a half-decent brand like Antec, Seasonic or OCZ... something quiet with 3-4 times more power than you think you need (500-600w is the sweet spot). Linux + Samba + FTP =
Actually the only reason I didn't do Linux on my home server is because I had already ripped all my movies to an NTFS drive, and I didn't feel like juggling about 800gb of DVD images around my network, just to reformat a drive. Maybe I'll do that the next time I add more drives.
I'm going to preface this for the new guys: I'm a big PC-head. I build them, I program them, I sell them, and there were times when I had no home, but I still had a bitchin' fast PC :)
I'd take the Mac over the Dell, no hesitation. First of all, if I were in the market for a clean, quiet, space-saving computer, that would mean I'm not after breakneck performance and extreme gaming. The Mac is the undisputed king of the common desktop.
A few months ago, I would have said "Screw them both" and built a microATX PC running Windows MCE. Today, I'd buy the Mac at a similar price. This about-face happened when I upgraded an ancient Mac at work (used for compatibility testing), an old 400mhz G4. I loaded OS 10.4 on there, which went very smoothly. More importantly, for common tasks like office work and surfing, the damned thing feels every bit as fast as the 3.2ghz P4 next to it - apps launch quickly, the dock and menus stay responsive even when things are thrashing, it's almost like a prettified BeOS! It clearly falls short where raw processing is required, like video encoding and data compression, but the fact is most people would probably feel content with the 400mhz G4. It's all about the fluidity of the user interface. Windows XP, even on a rocket PC, will chug every time you click on something - crap scheduler, and nonexistent disk throughput management. Linux is even worse at it, there's a very tangible latency in every interaction as dynamic libraries take forever to link, though the raw throughput is greater once you get it going.
Windows Vista doesn't even accomplish the same level of fluidity on a machine 20 times faster with a whiz-bang graphics accelerator. What it does accomplish is to waste a few G4's worth of CPU doing nothing! That's why the Dell One, with its superior hardware, gets lower marks from me. Hardware is nothing without software, and PC software is like lead shoes covered in feces.
So what the heck is mutt, then ? 'ed' with a new name ?
"runs four versions of Linux at home"
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Oh yeah ? Well I run four versions of Windows and two Macs on top of my Linux!
Seriously, web development is the worst job evar.
Maybe things are worse where you live, but in my neck of the woods (and it's a lame neck, I assure you), most of the independent eateries have both brands, largely because they're sick of getting verbally abused when the customer's favorite is unavailable. There's a significant number of people who don't tolerate this marketing fascism, typically the older crowd from what I can tell.
Taken further, it's not at all uncommon for bars to polarize their clientele. We have two major booze brands up here, Labatt and Molson... in most cases they're mutually exclusive. People will go to the one that sells their brand, which has resulted in many bar owners opening secondary clubs with the opposite brands to capture that market.
It's important to note that TorrentSpy didn't actually destroy evidence, they didn't store any of it in the first place. This makes the case far more terrifying, as they are being held responsible for supposed evidence that was never there, and that the plaintiffs can't even prove ever existed.
Let's suppose a non-negligible portion of TorrentSpy's user base was slanted toward piracy, and one can make the assumption that any evidence they could have collected would be incriminating, it's still just hypothesis until you have logs to support it. I can give you a big hint: datacenters don't store that kind of detail unless they're specifically mandated by law to do so. For the most part, they're too busy dealing with routing info and aggregate (billable) stats to care who visits your server, and even then all they know is that some IP tried to connect to some port. Deep packet inspection is prohibitively expensive for the amounts of data being delivered, and raise various privacy issues that are too costly to bother litigating.
TorrentSpy might not be innocent, but I don't think you can truly accuse them of destroying evidence. That's a fallacy.
Nope, those ones we fight back. The only way someone can (consistently) weasel their way out of a porn charge is to argue that their credit card info was stolen. That argument doesn't hold much water when the merchant can prove (via Geolocation) that the purchase was made from the cardholder's computer (or at least the same city/area). The fact that the guy's wife objects to his porn consumption does not undo the consumption nor the service provider's expense (bandwidth).
If you buy a car, and your wife doesn't like it because it's not a fuckin' Toyota, you still have to pay it. I don't care that you married an ignorant bitch.
Yep, having your domain and hosting with the same company is asking for trouble, because they basically control your site end-to-end in that scenario. Having them as two separate companies makes it much more difficult for any one party to kill your site, and I'm not even talking about uptime issues - this is purely political.
The other issue is do you know what happens if/when you move your site to a different hosting provider ? Will you encounter resistance, either in the form of a blanket policy restriction, or uncooperative customer service ?
We've seen all sorts of abuses in the industry, there's no good reason to give any company so much control over your site. Is it really worth the $2.00 you might save on a bundle ? I think not.
Why in the hell would a little store in a quiet city keep so much stock if it isn't moving ? You don't see me stocking up on, for example, shotgun ammo... because I live in a big pansy-ass city where everyone rides the bus and drinks $8.00 coffee while reading some pretentious douche's latest paperback. Not a single hunter in the bunch (not many mass murderers either). But if I did have an excess inventory of weaponry, I'd dump it on some southerner and fill my warehouse with pink fluffy iPod sleeves that appeal to the local clientele.
That's what some people would call retail management.
You remind me of a law student. Many words, zero ideas.
"The security of knowing that you won't be screwed over by the country you pay your taxes to when something happens to you is also an achievement that the USA does not yet have, but Cuba does."
And Canada, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, Israel, Australia, even teeny little Costa Rica has universal health care.
The USA can bash its neighbors all it wants, that doesn't change the fact that other nations have succeeded where the US continues to fail. We might not all be rich and glamourous, but at least we're healthy and happy.
We have peace and security up here in Canada, but we are afraid of invasion by one particular nation: Americans! We're cool with every other country on the globe, just not you guys. If China invades us tomorrow we'll go "Welp, you got us by surprise there!", but we've been suspicious of the USA for decades.
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It's not because our government is weak, it's because your government is out of control. The world doesn't seem so predatory on this side of the bridge. Now maybe if your breweries were to start making good beer, you guys might learn to chill out just the same
You clearly aren't employed in the tech industry ;)
Backup ? That's the one thing that's guaranteed to fail when you need it most. Screw the backup.
However that same military is the reason why we can bitch about the state of our country and the world with near impunity
I don't think many Americans are worried about being invaded by foreign armies. They're mostly worried about being invaded by their own government.
Bush may have killed a bunch of arabs, but he killed a ton of Americans too. The ones that lived, he made their lives just a little more miserable every few months. Keep going with this government, and soon it's the Americans that will seek political refuge abroad.
Buddy, I sell porn, and I hate the credit companies. If the porn industry (on all levels) stops accepting credit cards in favor of debit, people will switch to debit, and believe me, we want to! There are few things more insulting than paying fees to a credit processor who is constantly looking for excuses to ruin your business. It's not the merchants who are high-risk, it's the customers! A merchant could jump through a million hoops to ensure zero fraud, if a few of the buyers call in a fraudulent chargeback that merchant's getting slapped anyway.
We trade blacklists of fraudulent buyers. I've heard a story, that I believe as the truth, of one buyer who called in a pretty big chargeback (upwards of $1000). It was one of many merchants who had been burned by this one individual. The last guy to get screwed actually called in some thugs and had the squirmy fraudster beat the *@&# up.
Hey, you've just described every goddamned business app, ever!
How many times have we seen million-dollar apps built on VB and a few unlicensed OCX objects ?
The only difference between Geek Squad and a big-business app developer is the Geek Squad developer doesn't jerk off while reading his job contract.
Maybe we can solve the overload problem by forcing everyone to learn (proper) French, where everything has 30 words to describe it in similar yet subtly colored details. I'm sure there are lots of other highly verbose languages, but French is the one I know. I've lost count of how many pointless arguments I've triggered through ambiguous usage of "one fits all" English words that would make any lawyer salivate.
Yup. 35% chargebacks is the kind of thing that Visa/MC would shut down in a matter of hours.
It is such a royal bitch to launch a legit credit-card processor, thanks to all the irritating rules to cover up the flaws created by the cards themselves. The credit companies make a ton of money by defrauding both the client and the merchants, with a whole assortment of fees and fines, but they're in a position where it's near-impossible for a a retailer to refuse credit cards without losing most of your business. The only reason these companies thrive is because people suck at finances. If there were a non-credit payment system, usable worldwide (or almost) that can offer instant authorization and online processing, the entire internet would flock to it in a heartbeat.
VMware is your friend. Go ahead and emulate that sumbitch while you do all those naughty things outside the sandbox. :)
Honestly though, this is just another monopoly-pushing move by MS. Most Windows people get their OS when they buy a computer (thanks to the lovely OEM cartel). This is probably targeted at people who have an unlicensed copy of Windows, and by "converting" them into legit users, MS can claim a bunch of big adoption numbers when the next round of FUD comes around. They could even pull a random number out of their ass and say "this many Linux commies switched over, the rest were pirated".
Then they can go to the supreme court and say "Your honor, we're not an illegal monopoly; People WANT to use our software, we can't help being so awesome!" or some weak paraphrasing.
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why the fuck are they being released from prison?
A: because the system has failed.
Yep same boat here... I'm filling someone else's shoes, and every time I stumble upon yet another of his bastard projects, I get the urge to physically hunt him down and throttle the little shit, but then I realize it probably made sense to that one guy and he seemed quite prolific in his perverse ways. We just work very differently, and it's human nature that I consider my own technique superior... otherwise I'd have to admit that I suck and that's just not my style :)
In The Netherlands there's BREIN, which is like taking the RIAA/MPAA, multiplying by the BSA, cubed. They go around shutting people down without any sort of legal backing, and they rope in the police as their personal thugs.
It's way messed up, which is why I support groups like The Pirate Bay and other rights activists who viciously oppose BREIN.
What good has capitalism brought to the world ? Show me! I don't see it, so please open my eyes to the truth you speak of.
When someone's hoarding all the goods (or money), they're depriving everyone else of those assets. When they acquire those assets by unethical (if not illegal) means, it is a malicious attack on the balance that makes society work. Such heinous acts should NOT go unpunished.
Or would you rather live in a free-for-all like Saudi Arabia ?
Maybe people interested in a video game don't want to waste their life playing the stock market. There's nothing fun about money unless you spend it on something you enjoy. Making money isn't fun, it might be satisfying but it doesn't stimulate your endorphins. Money is fake; it's an abstract concept. It used to represent work, converted into a generic, delayed product. Today it means absolutely nothing; the people with the most money are often those who didn't lift a finger to earn it.
Speculation has corrupted what was once a fair and honest system. The stock market is bullshit. Anyone in the tech industry should know this after living through the dot-com bubble. The very concept of "cashing out" is proof that there is zero value in money.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I personally refuse to give some jerk an extra $200 just to get a Wii that I *should* have been able to buy at the regular price from any store. In the always-connected 21st century, middlemen are no longer required (nor welcome). Nintendo should sell direct and drop-ship right to my doorstep.