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  1. SQL - sequel? on Patent on Wireless Transfer of Pupil Data · · Score: 1

    What's a sequel server?
    I always thought that the spiffy .NET technologies incorporated a Structured Query Language server - I've never heard of Sequel server. Maybe this /is/ an innovative product.

    </sarcasm>

  2. Re:Computing pet peeves on Computing Pet Peeves? · · Score: 1

    a program that is conformant to the Made for Windows Guidelines can NOT do most of this. They are required to have an installer, and are required to store pertinent information in the registry. Besides, if you know what you're doing - reading info from the registry can be faster than reading it out of a text or xml file!

  3. novell eDirectory on User Account Management? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Link: <a href="http://www.novell.com/products/edirectory/"& gt;eDirectory </a> is based on LDAP - and it runs on Solaris and Linux! It's very cross platform and Novell makes another product (dirXML) that can even synch against Win2K or anything else (including text files (like, /etc/passwd!)) for anything from user management to data synch. VERY stable, and VERY robust.

  4. Re:Install/configure on How to Fix the Unix Configuration Nightmare · · Score: 1

    Why two different files? Why not just add an element <itemhelp> descriptions stuff for gui </itemhelp> to each item in the config file?

  5. Re:sounds interesting... on A Thermometer In A Nanotube · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A) Lithium isn't very far away, it's element #3 (to Carbon's 6), so it's ultra tiny.
    But that's irrelevant, as this thermometer uses Gallium is #31 (the first element to be predicted before it was discovered), and Gallium is much bigger than carbon. But that's why the carbon is arranged into tubes - multiple atoms across, able to hold gallium atoms.

    What I want to know, is if using the SEM to read the temp changes the temp? All those impinging electrons must raise the kinetic energy of the Gallium atoms at least a little?

  6. Irridium is still sending stuff up? why? on Slashback: Playstation, CueCat, Games · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or better yet, how? Where did all the cash for those birds come from? Was it a pre-payed deal? Did the NSA decide they REALLY wanted them up there, or are they part of our new Missle Defense prog? (J/k!)

  7. Re:Mammoth2 drives on Backing Up 100 Gigs in an Hour? · · Score: 1

    Nyope. He's my coworker.

  8. Re:Mammoth2 drives [retraction] on Backing Up 100 Gigs in an Hour? · · Score: 1

    I feel dumb, that's ~1gb/hour ;)
    Disregard my post.

  9. Mammoth2 drives on Backing Up 100 Gigs in an Hour? · · Score: 1

    We use an Exabyte X80 with 2 mammoth2 drives (it's upgradable to 8!), and fully loaded it backs up ~1gb / sec. Not very cheap, but very fast.

  10. Re:Sounds like your NIC is the bottleneck on Increasing the Transfer Rate? · · Score: 1

    Compaq ML530 can host up to 4-way Xeon processors and shittons of RAM. It's got drive cages (hotswap) for up to 14 drives - but that's not the fiber he's looking for.
    I'd get a dual port gig-e NIC in one of those 66Mhz PCI slots, and a badass fibercard in the other.
    OR, put two fiber cards in the 66Mhz PCI slots, and fill the rest with load-balanced 100BaseTX cards.

  11. Re:Cynicism on Testing Technology on a Veritable Army of Children? · · Score: 1

    How do you know it's a corporation? May be a private non-profit organization or something.

  12. All right! on Salt Lake City from LandSat · · Score: 1

    Now we can pick out EXACTLY which targets to choose </sarcasm>
    Pictures like this are a real neat use of satellites, even if they don't serve very much 'purpose' (well, in this case). Wonder what it would cost to set up a stream of this view during the olympics? Would that violate any 'single broadcaster' agreement? :)

  13. To bad their webserver doesn't run on this thing on User Review of Transmeta-Based Aquapad · · Score: 1

    It'd probably still be alive today:

    Windows NT error number 2 occurred.

  14. Re:NDS and the 3 day rule on Disaster Recovery? · · Score: 1

    I was exagerrating a bit with the 'rebuilding the tree' deal, but putting a server that's been offline (ESP if it holds/held a r/w or master of a partition) for more than 3 calendar days is NOT something that is going to happen. You'd have better luck slipping a well, you understand.
    My comment was based on the assumption that he has an active tree still alive and CHANGING. In which case, it'd be assinine to put one of those servers back in after 3 days.
    PS: Glad to see at least one other person familiar with NDS on /. ;)

  15. NDS and the 3 day rule on Disaster Recovery? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just make sure you get your NDS stuff restored within three days. AFter that, have fun rebuilding your tree! Unless of course, you followed guidelines and had offsite replicas of each partition!

  16. Re:Petzold on Programming References for the Win32 Environment? · · Score: 1

    Mod Parent up - Charles Petzold is a Win32 God (or demon as it may be ;). his book will teach you Everything you need to know to write against the win32 api. He's the win32 equiv of your Stevens book for Unix.

  17. LDAP on Enterprise-Level Authentication for Linux? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well, LDAP will do this. And it'll do it on a whole bunch different platforms. If you want really, really, nice LDAP implementation, go for eDirectory by Novell.

  18. Speaking of Feature bloat on Print Quotas Under NT? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Could this be a feature not built into Win2K? I've googled and searched both technet and MSDN, and can't find a thing mentioning print quotas. It appears this has to managed by a third party product!!

  19. Re:c the speed of light, sort of on Speed of Light Measurement Using Ping · · Score: 1

    Wrong. It's measuring the speed of 'light' in the electromagnetic waveform sense. Not all measurements of the speed of light must be done in vacuo.

  20. Re:Clearing up a bit of confusion on Firewire or Gigabit Ethernet? · · Score: 1

    Actually, I have a 3com IP telephone on my desk too, and it also has the power brick. But that's because our infrastructure engineer hasn't put the PoE connectors onto our floors switches yet ;)

  21. Clearing up a bit of confusion on Firewire or Gigabit Ethernet? · · Score: 1

    First, a number of posters seem to be confusing Ethernet (a Layer 2 technology - datalink) with TCP/IP (a layer 3+ technology). IP CAN run over Ethernet, just as ATM, Appletalk, IPX, and many other protocols can.
    Second, as has been mentioned, 1000BaseTX/FX doesn't really mean you GET 1000Mbps...a rule of thumb with any ethernet device is you get approx. 1/4 of the available bandwith. Now, something to consider is the fact that this rule of thumb and common practice is for NETWORKS, with multiple people on one segment (even if it's switched, blah blah blah). If you have a dedicated transciever pair of 1000BaseX transmitters, talking over a dedicated cable, you could probably get as close to the 1Gbps that the PCI bus would allow.
    Another poster (the top rated one ATM) mentioned the voltages carried over the bus. Unfortunately, he's off on that one....Ethernet can easily carry more voltage..in fact, whole product lines are devoted to PoE (Power over Ethernet). Just look at any business IP telephone...they grab their operating voltage straight off the network cable. The only issue with this, is any switch you have in a rack that services these PoE devices needs a PoE converter on it (to enable a standard ethernet switch to handle more than 12V DC). So even sending power over it is just great.
    But when it all comes down to it...Ethernet is not the answer for dedicated connections...one of the big reasons behind ethernet's popularity is CSMA/CD (Which is kinda obsolete in a Dual-Simplex/Full duplex world). This allows many, many devices to automatically share a line, and transmit...while making sure everything eventually gets thru. There is a lot of overhead involved in these kinds of transmissions that are totally pointless on a PCI bus extension (where everything has it's own channel anyway).
    Now, I don't see why they can't just make a 1Gbps firewire transciever .... as that's a whole 'nother story ;)

  22. Re:what kind of hard drive does it have? on Off-The-Rack Liquid-Cooled PC Case · · Score: 1

    Now, if they'd just make a HDD enclosure that was filled with Sound-Dampening liquid for your HDD :)
    Actually, why just use regular fans, and enclose the whole case (minus fan openings wiht water or something to dampen the sound. the fan's only sound loud because of the resonanc on the metal case (which is mostly empty...)

  23. Terrorism on Laws to Punish Insecure Software Vendors? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So, if a law like this is passed, will the people who break it be branded IT Terrorists? I mean, everything else is terrorism now, why stop here?

  24. Re:Having worked with both... on Apache 2.0 vs. IIS · · Score: 1

    Um, you know you can run Internet Services Manager from ANY computer in a Domain / AD? That's right, ANY! Just tell it to connect to your webserver, instead of localhost.

    If /.'s spent more time actually learning how their MS products are supposed to work, instead of just automagically assuming their bulky, cludgy and a pain in the arse....maybe Ms would get a tad more respect.

  25. Securing FreeBSD on Securing FreeBSD 4.x STABLE · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Isn't it called 'Insert the OpenBSD install CDROM, and reboot'.?