I second this. I kick off a 40gb DLT Cartridge about every month. I have a 'fireproof safe', but the tape would just melt in there. We have recently gotten a safety deposit box and started dropping our tapes there.
It can be a bit of a hastle to drive across town for a tape to restore that one 15kb Word Document, but you are nine 9s (99.9999999%) closer to being garounteed of your data's safety. To combat that travel time, we have a 325GB RAID 5 NAS server used for local online archival with plans to buy more as needed. I just wish Dell would hurry up and start putting the 320GB Maxtor in those suckers (:
As for personal backups... burn a CD occationally and take it to work - stick it in your desk drawer. For work, onsite NAS and offsite tape.
Same here. I've used both, though, and NVidia is by far the better driver company. ATI may be making some kick ass hardware, but their software/drivers suck flea infested monkey nuts.
I'm all for progress in processor speed, but the consumer is looking for the most bang for their buck. Knowing Intel's past, that's going to be one hella expensive chip. I wish they would focus more on making a quality chip for much less (or just charging more acceptable prices) rather than seeing how fast they can burn the suckers up.
The last few computers I've bought have all had middle of the line processors in them because the price breaks are enormous. I so absolutely no reason to purchase a top-notch processor when you can get one a couple hundred megahertz slower for more than a couple hundred dollars (US) cheaper. Those last few megahertz they're eeking out honestly don't make that big of a difference in the real world - especially at a premium price.
While most of the market does not care about the very high end systems - they can't afford them - they ARE excellent PR. Bragging rights can go a long way.
This is so true, and it's really unfortunate. Consumers base too much of their purchases on how impressive something appears, or how they can use it to impress their clients. This is all in light of actual performance of the item in question.
A good example is LCDs instead of CRTs on the print servers at my office. They're in public areas and they "look cool". Unfortunately, they get about 10 minutes of actual use during the day. What a waste of money.
Yeah, absolutely. That's the argument I always have with Apple's computers. Who cares if they're smaller and faster if they cost twice as much and are obsolete twice as fast.
I picture a running back (football for those less informed) charging down the field and a defender setting up to tackle him. Then BLAMO! the running back plasters the dude and keeps on going.
The defender gets up, dusts himself off and says, "You know, I think you're right. Maybe we should just let this go and concern ourselves more with the offence. K?"
How about we calculate density by flops or something else useful. I mean, how difficult would it be to cram a butt load of Pentiums in a rack? Yeah well how much calculation can they do?
Lets cruise on over to the Top 500 and use their handy dandy html list to view 'most powerful chip'. This unfortunately requires a little calc work because they failed to include this number in their table.
#1 NEC Earth-Simulator 35,860.00 GFlops using 5,120 Processors -- WOW!
But that's only 7 GFlops per processor... that thing is mamoth with 5,120 processors.
Now lets look at a little different design...
#14 Hitachi SR8000-F1/168 1,653.00 GFlops using 168 Processors -- Hot DAMN!!
This is more like it. They're pulling 9.84 GFlops per processor. With their architecture they could pull off the Earth-Simulator's GFlop rate with 3,645 processors - That's 28% less computer doing the same amount of work. Which means if the Earth-Simulator had been constructed with Hitachi's hardware, they could have been pulling 50,380 GFlops in the same cubic footage.
Now this is all rambling that assumes that the processors are similar in size. Which probably isn't true. But they are also getting more power out of less hardware, and it is rare that THAT isn't a bonus.... ramble ramble...
That's for Open Directory - essentially Apple's Active Directory for OS X Server. He is not wanting to set up an OS X server on his network, but have his OS X clients connect to his Windows 2000 server using the active directory.
OS X 10.2+ has a gui interface for Samba - this is your best bet for connecting clients to your server. It does not authenticate them through Active Directory, but more the method that a Windows 98 machine will connect to your server.
Active Directory connectivity is "closed source" and I'm sure much coveted by Microsoft. Chances are, you won't be doing something like that with ease.
Maybe if so many script kiddies/ warez'ers/ napsterites hadn't gone so fscking overboard downloading/spamming/sharing, the legislations wouldn't have any backing. It would be too much bother for so little.
That's pretty much how anything goes these days. Or ever, for that matter. People, sheep as we are, find something neat and abuse it until it is no more.
I never really liked Real anyway. The end result of their compression makes for really ugly video that still isn't that great of file size. I see no real need for their style of streaming video. Their software is crammed full of spy/ad ware. Anything they can do Apple or Microsoft can do better. Real comes across as pretty much worthless in my books.
When was the last time you said to yourself, "I would really like to roll up my display and carry it with me."
Do we roll up paper work now? The only thing I can think of is newspapers and large prints that go through the mail. Everything is layed flat and secured as such.
Now, covering a wall or ceiling in these things... that's uber cool (: I've always wanted a wall that I could change the decore of on a regular and effortless basis (:
I've got an old Tandy 1000RL I've been thinking about putting X86 hardware into. Right now I'm using it as a monitor stand.
I've also got an old Apple Performa 620/CD or something at work that I'm doing the same thing with. It would make a good funky style rack case if I ever had the motivation to do the modifications.
Neither myself or anyone in my family agreed to the software; the cable guy did.
Yeah, but you made some agreement with the Cable company and I'm sure their stupid software was included in that agreement.
I suppose an easy way of getting around this is to just tell the guy you'll sign his piece of paper if and only if he doesn't install the software.
And it's not wholey true that cable modems don't require software. There are some companies using point to point protocal to increase security or whatever. So some software may actually be required. My recomendation there is to have a Linksys router on hand. If the cable company doesn't allow them, wait for the cable guy to leave and then set it up.
I work at an advertising agency, so my milage will most definitely vary.
When I started, I was semi-expected to wear kaki pants and button up shirt. Though the last two+ years I've been wearing nothing but blue jeans and nice pull over shirts with my Adidas shoes. Somedays I wear sandals, somedays I wear shorts.
But like I say, I'm a sys admin for a creative agency, so we tend to do things a little different.
I think it's really cool what they're doing with "set-top boxes" (is that he right term). I mean, a stereo unit that plays mp3s from a hard drive, or CD, or even from the network (I own an AudioTron). And these things are going to be REALLY cool... but exactly who would own them? The people that have DivX files to play on them aren't going to be paying money for hardware to play them. They already have a computer that plays them, and probably an easy way of connecting it to their television set. Mp3 players for stereo units have a bigger market because there simply are more people who can use them.
In addition to that, there are so many non-standards that are changing so fast that I prefer to just build a good computer to sit in the stereo cabinate and use a wireless keyboard and mouse at the couch. With S-Video and optical audio outputs, I don't really need to worry about secondary hardware because my computer does everything I need. With a network connection to a file server, the geek world needs nothing more.
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I started RC5-64 just shortly after it was actually completed back in July... I was ranked on the daily board in the top 120 so I was making heavy ground on a few of my friends.
Then one day it just stops updating... "what the fizuck?"... then I find out that the solution had been found. I was about a week away from passing a competetive friend of mine... DOH! Then I find out that all the work my computers had done was obliterated because it didn't really mean anything anyway. Just marvelous.
The MPD-AP20U will cost under $300 and will be available in November through retail outlets and Sony's Web site.
Last I checked, to get all the functions of this device seperately you'd be spending over $1,000. Then when you pack it all into one small case and make it portable... that usually doubles the price of the technology. But not here - it's less than a third!
$300 is a DARN fine buy, if you ask me. Though, I don't need one of these because I have hardware to do all the functions independantly, and no need to be portable about it. But it would make a cool Christmas present for a geek relative.
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from the webserver? Surely they're not serving the site from a lunchbox, but it apparently can't handle a slashdotting, so maybe it is ...
I second this. I kick off a 40gb DLT Cartridge about every month. I have a 'fireproof safe', but the tape would just melt in there. We have recently gotten a safety deposit box and started dropping our tapes there.
... burn a CD occationally and take it to work - stick it in your desk drawer. For work, onsite NAS and offsite tape.
It can be a bit of a hastle to drive across town for a tape to restore that one 15kb Word Document, but you are nine 9s (99.9999999%) closer to being garounteed of your data's safety. To combat that travel time, we have a 325GB RAID 5 NAS server used for local online archival with plans to buy more as needed. I just wish Dell would hurry up and start putting the 320GB Maxtor in those suckers (:
As for personal backups
Same here. I've used both, though, and NVidia is by far the better driver company. ATI may be making some kick ass hardware, but their software/drivers suck flea infested monkey nuts.
Save yourself a headache and stick to NVidia.
I'm all for progress in processor speed, but the consumer is looking for the most bang for their buck. Knowing Intel's past, that's going to be one hella expensive chip. I wish they would focus more on making a quality chip for much less (or just charging more acceptable prices) rather than seeing how fast they can burn the suckers up.
The last few computers I've bought have all had middle of the line processors in them because the price breaks are enormous. I so absolutely no reason to purchase a top-notch processor when you can get one a couple hundred megahertz slower for more than a couple hundred dollars (US) cheaper. Those last few megahertz they're eeking out honestly don't make that big of a difference in the real world - especially at a premium price.
The Sun is on FIRE!!!! We're doooooooooooommmmeeddd!!!!!
If only we had known this before, maybe we could have done something about it!
While most of the market does not care about the very high end systems - they can't afford them - they ARE excellent PR. Bragging rights can go a long way.
This is so true, and it's really unfortunate. Consumers base too much of their purchases on how impressive something appears, or how they can use it to impress their clients. This is all in light of actual performance of the item in question.
A good example is LCDs instead of CRTs on the print servers at my office. They're in public areas and they "look cool". Unfortunately, they get about 10 minutes of actual use during the day. What a waste of money.
No one ever said anything about putting this together as a "network cluster". It's a big ass super computer.
Yeah, absolutely. That's the argument I always have with Apple's computers. Who cares if they're smaller and faster if they cost twice as much and are obsolete twice as fast.
Good point.
I picture a running back (football for those less informed) charging down the field and a defender setting up to tackle him. Then BLAMO! the running back plasters the dude and keeps on going.
The defender gets up, dusts himself off and says, "You know, I think you're right. Maybe we should just let this go and concern ourselves more with the offence. K?"
How about we calculate density by flops or something else useful. I mean, how difficult would it be to cram a butt load of Pentiums in a rack? Yeah well how much calculation can they do?
... that thing is mamoth with 5,120 processors.
...
... ramble ramble ...
Lets cruise on over to the Top 500 and use their handy dandy html list to view 'most powerful chip'. This unfortunately requires a little calc work because they failed to include this number in their table.
#1 NEC Earth-Simulator 35,860.00 GFlops using 5,120 Processors -- WOW!
But that's only 7 GFlops per processor
Now lets look at a little different design
#14 Hitachi SR8000-F1/168 1,653.00 GFlops using 168 Processors -- Hot DAMN!!
This is more like it. They're pulling 9.84 GFlops per processor. With their architecture they could pull off the Earth-Simulator's GFlop rate with 3,645 processors - That's 28% less computer doing the same amount of work. Which means if the Earth-Simulator had been constructed with Hitachi's hardware, they could have been pulling 50,380 GFlops in the same cubic footage.
Now this is all rambling that assumes that the processors are similar in size. Which probably isn't true. But they are also getting more power out of less hardware, and it is rare that THAT isn't a bonus.
In addition to that, most video cards lack Mac drivers.
So pththththththth on your multi-display Mac.
That's for Open Directory - essentially Apple's Active Directory for OS X Server. He is not wanting to set up an OS X server on his network, but have his OS X clients connect to his Windows 2000 server using the active directory.
OS X 10.2+ has a gui interface for Samba - this is your best bet for connecting clients to your server. It does not authenticate them through Active Directory, but more the method that a Windows 98 machine will connect to your server.
Active Directory connectivity is "closed source" and I'm sure much coveted by Microsoft. Chances are, you won't be doing something like that with ease.
Maybe if so many script kiddies/ warez'ers/ napsterites hadn't gone so fscking overboard downloading/spamming/sharing, the legislations wouldn't have any backing. It would be too much bother for so little.
That's pretty much how anything goes these days. Or ever, for that matter. People, sheep as we are, find something neat and abuse it until it is no more.
Moderation is the key to all things.
a ... BEOWULF cluster of THESE!!! ... yeah.
Is this any different from this article?
I never really liked Real anyway. The end result of their compression makes for really ugly video that still isn't that great of file size. I see no real need for their style of streaming video. Their software is crammed full of spy/ad ware. Anything they can do Apple or Microsoft can do better. Real comes across as pretty much worthless in my books.
But what about this new technology in conjunction with Real Doll? Now THAT's a money making idea.
Nice to see some of our tax dollars not going to waste on over-priced under-powered software.
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I suppose this means there will be more job openings for geeks in government possisions. Get out your resumes guys and gals
When was the last time you said to yourself, "I would really like to roll up my display and carry it with me."
... that's uber cool (: I've always wanted a wall that I could change the decore of on a regular and effortless basis (:
Do we roll up paper work now? The only thing I can think of is newspapers and large prints that go through the mail. Everything is layed flat and secured as such.
Now, covering a wall or ceiling in these things
I've got an old Tandy 1000RL I've been thinking about putting X86 hardware into. Right now I'm using it as a monitor stand.
I've also got an old Apple Performa 620/CD or something at work that I'm doing the same thing with. It would make a good funky style rack case if I ever had the motivation to do the modifications.
Dude, since ... always. That's what Slashdot does. I'd cite examples, but I'd be listing just about everything ...
Neither myself or anyone in my family agreed to the software; the cable guy did.
Yeah, but you made some agreement with the Cable company and I'm sure their stupid software was included in that agreement.
I suppose an easy way of getting around this is to just tell the guy you'll sign his piece of paper if and only if he doesn't install the software.
And it's not wholey true that cable modems don't require software. There are some companies using point to point protocal to increase security or whatever. So some software may actually be required. My recomendation there is to have a Linksys router on hand. If the cable company doesn't allow them, wait for the cable guy to leave and then set it up.
I work at an advertising agency, so my milage will most definitely vary.
When I started, I was semi-expected to wear kaki pants and button up shirt. Though the last two+ years I've been wearing nothing but blue jeans and nice pull over shirts with my Adidas shoes. Somedays I wear sandals, somedays I wear shorts.
But like I say, I'm a sys admin for a creative agency, so we tend to do things a little different.
I think it's really cool what they're doing with "set-top boxes" (is that he right term). I mean, a stereo unit that plays mp3s from a hard drive, or CD, or even from the network (I own an AudioTron). And these things are going to be REALLY cool ... but exactly who would own them? The people that have DivX files to play on them aren't going to be paying money for hardware to play them. They already have a computer that plays them, and probably an easy way of connecting it to their television set. Mp3 players for stereo units have a bigger market because there simply are more people who can use them.
In addition to that, there are so many non-standards that are changing so fast that I prefer to just build a good computer to sit in the stereo cabinate and use a wireless keyboard and mouse at the couch. With S-Video and optical audio outputs, I don't really need to worry about secondary hardware because my computer does everything I need. With a network connection to a file server, the geek world needs nothing more.
I started RC5-64 just shortly after it was actually completed back in July ... I was ranked on the daily board in the top 120 so I was making heavy ground on a few of my friends.
... "what the fizuck?" ... then I find out that the solution had been found. I was about a week away from passing a competetive friend of mine ... DOH! Then I find out that all the work my computers had done was obliterated because it didn't really mean anything anyway. Just marvelous.
Then one day it just stops updating
The MPD-AP20U will cost under $300 and will be available in November through retail outlets and Sony's Web site.
... that usually doubles the price of the technology. But not here - it's less than a third!
Last I checked, to get all the functions of this device seperately you'd be spending over $1,000. Then when you pack it all into one small case and make it portable
$300 is a DARN fine buy, if you ask me. Though, I don't need one of these because I have hardware to do all the functions independantly, and no need to be portable about it. But it would make a cool Christmas present for a geek relative.