Hi, welcome to Windows XP. It's been years now, but you should try it some day! Then you can open 20 IE windows, and they take up ONE space on the task bar! JUST LIKE TABS! OMG!
If you possessed such a large amount of clue being a system admin, etc. you would a) have done research before buying the application (you did BUY it right?), and known of the clean install issue before hand b) know that there isn't anything called 'XP Advanced server' and that there is no 'XP Server' at all. Give me a break.
Because you only asked '3' questions, you can only have 1 significant digit of accuracy, thus you got '0' useful answers. Adding extra digits after the decimal point doesn't add accuracy, it just shows you didn't pay attention in highschool science class.
Also, as mentioned here often, I believe 'anecdotes is not the plural of data'.
And given the HUGE deployment of windows 2000 and windows xp vs. the relatively miniscule deployment of it's competitors, I'm willing to wager that the 'bugs' your filed in 'net use' were actually screwups on your end, and not product defects. And I'm also willing to wager that they are documented in the MSKB.
How is the Start Menu flimsy? Does yours waver when you click on it, always bending out the way?
You might want to invest in Ad-aware:)
Seriously, the 'intelligent' start menu in WinXP is a godsend to me...it works very well, although I can see a few cases where it wouldn't work so good (if you use windows to do nothing but cygwin work:).
highly trained my ass. Managing hundreds of windows, linux, and netware servers, there are some things (specifically account management!) that Windows and Netware rock at, that linux sucks at. Having to add/change user/password combos on hundreds of machines manually sucks. Changing it once, and provisioning access centrally via a directory rocks. Take your rhetoric elsewhere.
As far as the number of people that box can support - that's absolutely insane, unless you get hundreds of thousands of hits per minute on your websites, and they are all hitting some kind of back end database. RAID5 is good for redundancy, 1gb of RAM is cheap, but Dual P4's is a waste of money for that setup.
Only 250 people, email and web - you could run it fine on a single P3, with 256 / 512M of RAM ( I assume linux or BSD). Being educational, you get great prices on hardware from Dell or Compaq or what have you - probably cheaper than buying parts. Don't spend more than 1500 bucks on the server (including RAID). Check out the Dell 1650's, maybe a low-end IDE-based rackmount would work great. FYI, I am an engineer at a moderate public school district (~60K kids), and we don't have ANY dual p4 servers yet:)
Mod this idiot down, user applications run as the user that launched them! If his system is running them as Administrator, it's ebcause he LAUNCHED THEM as administrator.
Of everything - not just those files in CVS. Every person, every concept, every document needs to be duplicated, or be/easily/ reconstructed from others that are. No person is so special that someone else can't be trained to be 'their backup' - no single person should ever hold the only set of 'keys to the kingdom'.
It's only valid coming from Scandinavians because their environment is a beatuiful example of what nature can look like (compared to the a lot of the industrialized world).
But, if it dies in a lightning storm, you have to out of pocket replace it, whereas my cable modem, which is rented, will be replaced free of charge by my cable company. And yes, I've lost two cables modems in the last year to lightning...anyone know of any coax surge protectors?:)
They aren't educating with PC's - these are macs!:)
And there is a good possibility that this money came in as a grant to be used for only one purpose - to purchase computing equipment. Not all school budgets are liquid. Some money HAS to be spent on certain things.
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Sorry, but I don't think so. RAM -> RAM across a network (assuming at LEAST 100mbit ethernet) will be FASTER than accessing a RAID of local disks. It's all memory to memory transfer at that point - no spin up, no seek time. The disk's may get close for a very long sequential write/read, where the multiple drives can actually come close to using the bandwitdh available via the RAID controller. But for random access...no way. RAM 'seek time' is measured in NANOSECONDS, while even the fastest drive is in the miliseconds! RAM is over 1000 times faster!
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Just remember, he's SCREWED if the power goes out and he hasn't flushed that/huge/ RAMdisk to a real disk.
If you resume contains a 'hobbies and interests' section, add them there. They aren't education related, and they aren't *jobs*, so don't place them in the main body of your resume.
A Cover letter would probably be the best spot overall though.
There are alternate window managers and shells for Windows too. Litestep is the most well known, but you also have Geoshell, Darkstep, and a host of others.
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You use too many words for most /.ers, and not enough pictures!
Great article, btw :)
Hi, welcome to Windows XP. It's been years now, but you should try it some day!
Then you can open 20 IE windows, and they take up ONE space on the task bar! JUST LIKE TABS! OMG!
If you possessed such a large amount of clue being a system admin, etc. you would
a) have done research before buying the application (you did BUY it right?), and known of the clean install issue before hand
b) know that there isn't anything called 'XP Advanced server' and that there is no 'XP Server' at all.
Give me a break.
Because you only asked '3' questions, you can only have 1 significant digit of accuracy, thus you got '0' useful answers. Adding extra digits after the decimal point doesn't add accuracy, it just shows you didn't pay attention in highschool science class.
Also, as mentioned here often, I believe 'anecdotes is not the plural of data'.
And given the HUGE deployment of windows 2000 and windows xp vs. the relatively miniscule deployment of it's competitors, I'm willing to wager that the 'bugs' your filed in 'net use' were actually screwups on your end, and not product defects. And I'm also willing to wager that they are documented in the MSKB.
It's really hard to build LAMP on a non-linux system, given that LAMP is 'Linux Apache Mysql PHP', not 'Stuff things more stuff' :)
How is the Start Menu flimsy? Does yours waver when you click on it, always bending out the way? You might want to invest in Ad-aware :)
Seriously, the 'intelligent' start menu in WinXP is a godsend to me...it works very well, although I can see a few cases where it wouldn't work so good (if you use windows to do nothing but cygwin work :).
highly trained my ass.
Managing hundreds of windows, linux, and netware servers, there are some things (specifically account management!) that Windows and Netware rock at, that linux sucks at. Having to add/change user/password combos on hundreds of machines manually sucks. Changing it once, and provisioning access centrally via a directory rocks.
Take your rhetoric elsewhere.
Linux emulation! You can run *anything* you can run on linux, it just takes a little bit more work.
Called Diablo / Diablo II? Competitive RPG with non-persistant world :) :)
That just means it'll be cake to boost yourself
As far as the number of people that box can support - that's absolutely insane, unless you get hundreds of thousands of hits per minute on your websites, and they are all hitting some kind of back end database. RAID5 is good for redundancy, 1gb of RAM is cheap, but Dual P4's is a waste of money for that setup.
Only 250 people, email and web - you could run it fine on a single P3, with 256 / 512M of RAM ( I assume linux or BSD). Being educational, you get great prices on hardware from Dell or Compaq or what have you - probably cheaper than buying parts. Don't spend more than 1500 bucks on the server (including RAID). Check out the Dell 1650's, maybe a low-end IDE-based rackmount would work great. FYI, I am an engineer at a moderate public school district (~60K kids), and we don't have ANY dual p4 servers yet :)
Mod this idiot down, user applications run as the user that launched them! If his system is running them as Administrator, it's ebcause he LAUNCHED THEM as administrator.
Of everything - not just those files in CVS. Every person, every concept, every document needs to be duplicated, or be /easily/ reconstructed from others that are.
No person is so special that someone else can't be trained to be 'their backup' - no single person should ever hold the only set of 'keys to the kingdom'.
What are you, dense?
C# runs on FreeBSD and Windows 2k/XP.
You're misinformed, it's IP Multicasting that you're thinking about, and unfortunately, that's a distant dream on the real internet.
It's only valid coming from Scandinavians because their environment is a beatuiful example of what nature can look like (compared to the a lot of the industrialized world).
I get updates to NAVCE every weekend.
But, if it dies in a lightning storm, you have to out of pocket replace it, whereas my cable modem, which is rented, will be replaced free of charge by my cable company. :)
And yes, I've lost two cables modems in the last year to lightning...anyone know of any coax surge protectors?
They aren't educating with PC's - these are macs! :)
And there is a good possibility that this money came in as a grant to be used for only one purpose - to purchase computing equipment. Not all school budgets are liquid. Some money HAS to be spent on certain things.
Sorry, but I don't think so.
RAM -> RAM across a network (assuming at LEAST 100mbit ethernet) will be FASTER than accessing a RAID of local disks. It's all memory to memory transfer at that point - no spin up, no seek time. The disk's may get close for a very long sequential write/read, where the multiple drives can actually come close to using the bandwitdh available via the RAID controller.
But for random access...no way. RAM 'seek time' is measured in NANOSECONDS, while even the fastest drive is in the miliseconds! RAM is over 1000 times faster!
Just remember, he's SCREWED if the power goes out and he hasn't flushed that /huge/ RAMdisk to a real disk.
If you resume contains a 'hobbies and interests' section, add them there. They aren't education related, and they aren't *jobs*, so don't place them in the main body of your resume.
A Cover letter would probably be the best spot overall though.
She's hot :)
There are alternate window managers and shells for Windows too. Litestep is the most well known, but you also have Geoshell, Darkstep, and a host of others.
Why is this in developers? Seriously? Shouldn't this be in 'News' like everything else this big?