We want to use a single virtualization platform for all our servers which means a migration from ESXi.
I'm curious as to the advantages of moving away from ESXi - I'm in a much smaller environment than what yours sounds like, but I've been happy with ESXi for all the guests I've run on it (Windows & various Linux distros). Before spending real money on it, though, I'm looking at other options. To me the ESXi hypervisor idea seems great - next to nothing running on the box means less to go wrong etc. The VSphere stuff seems to give all the bells & whistles I would need, and the price isn't excessive for the scale I'm dealing with. What will the RHEL setup give you?
The Mini doesn't have a Blu-ray drive, does it? I know what you mean about switching devices, but when the cheapest external Blu-ray drive I can find is $150 & my standalone with streaming Netflix built in was only $99, I'll stick with it for now. With the Media Browser plug in I have all my DVDs available on the Revo, so I only really have to switch if I'm watching a disk from Netflix. With all the streaming stuff out there I'm doing that less & less.
Get an Aspire Revo for your TV instead - it's only $200-$300. I already had a stand alone Blu-ray, so it's perfect for my needs. Search for Revo htpc, there are tons of cool things you can do once you add a usb tuner & a remote.
Yeah, I guess if you don't trust that they're not being all sneaky about it you wouldn't do it. But barring that, it seems that on the face of it they're making an effort to preserve your anonymity.
I just thought I'd point out that the whole barcode thing is irrelevant. They may as well put your name on the sample, because as soon as you seek to turn in your code and discover the result, you're mapped back to the sample.
From TFA: "The results of the test will be put in a secure online database where students will be able to retrieve their results by using their bar code." There doesn't seem to be any indication that you'd have to identify yourself to retrieve the results - they give you a code, you enter it in & see the results. If none of the samples are linked to names, it doesn't really matter that you could look at other results. So I don't think you'd be mapped back to the sample.
Try excercising if you're overweight and have some kind of physical injury. The trouble with unhealthy is that a couple of issues can then lead to a spiral. This idea that someone can click their fingers and excercise some will power to get healthy is a luxurious dellusion only healthy people with too much spare time can afford.
I didn't say it was easy, but if they can't find a way to exercise and lose weight, they are going to suffer the consequences. I mean, this is nature: nature doesn't care if it's hard. Hopefully for them they will be one of the lucky people who doesn't see any negative health effects even though they are overweight and treat their body badly. But it's not likely.
Not easy? Try not possible for many. Yes you suffer the consequences but requiring that some people make a superhuman effort to meet your standards is ridiculous.
For the past year I've started going 3 times a week to a nearby county gym at lunchtime. The county gives free membership to seniors, so 80% of the other people in there are old. Some of them are overweight, a lot of them seem to have health problems; often they're just slowly pedaling a stationary bike, slowly walking the treadmill, or sitting on an exercise ball. The important thing is, though, they're doing *something*, and over time that's better than doing nothing. It's not a superhuman effort, and it's certainly possible for almost everyone - if you can leave the house to work, you can do some exercise. Hell, even just taking the stairs rather than the elevator can help, but lots of people won't even take that small step. You just have to make it part of your routine, which is the real hard part for most people.
Let's put it this way - basic screening that will catch someone bringing or loading powerful explosives on board? I'm in favor. Draconian screening that stops my 8 year old bringing on a pair of nail clippers? Stupid. I kept flying after Pan Am 103 (a flight I had regularly been on) was blown up, and I'm not paranoid. I think that after 9/11 they should have made the cabin doors locked, and then carried on more or less as before.
The risks from bombs was understood & mitigated for a long time before 9/11. The use of the plane itself as weapon was new, and OP is right - that problem is solved with a locked cockpit door. Sure you still need to screen, but that was always the case.
You can make the choices for the end users just fine, without taking away their ability to make different choices.
I'm not sure that's completely true, if the goal is "improving reliability and efficiency for a defined set of tasks". Think of what users do on their Windows pcs - they install toolbars to get smileys for their mail, they load up all sorts of crap, and then when they have hosed it all up, they say it's too slow. If you want something to work well for a reasonable period of time, you get it to where you want it and lock it down. This is why properly administered Windows machines in business don't have all the problems home machines end up with, and it's why something that does a few things well, in an appealing form factor, seems like a pretty good thing to a lot of people.
That HDHR does look nifty - if my cheapo usb tuner heads south I'd certainly consider something like that. I have to say the $30 tuner does a pretty good job - it picks up way more stations than the one built into the Dish VIP box. The Revo is really a quick and dirty solution, when I canceled Dish my wife wanted a replacement up & running quickly. If I bump into too many obstacles I'll give MythBuntu a whirl.
I have to say, I usually go for the Linux option all things being equal, but I too have just set up a Win 7 HTPC as my Dish Network replacement. A friend spent far too much time getting his MythTV setup to work; I bought the dual core Atom/ION Revo box, a USB ATSC tuner and a Media Center remote and I was recording live OTA TV the same evening I got the box from Newegg. With the install of the Media Browser plugin and Virtual Clone Drive I can also watch all my avi files and DVD ISOs. It's pretty sweet for under $400 for everything, especially since the Revo is a small, quiet, WiFi equipped box with HDMI. If you're interested http://revohtpc.com/ has a lot of information on what works. I figure if Win 7 ever pisses me off I can run XBMC on it, but for now I'm happy.
My daughter has been surrounded by books and read to for her entire 8 years yet she is falling behind in reading. (though she's ahead in comprehension or vocabulary)
Keep at it - my now 4th grader didn't start getting really into reading until 2nd or 3rd grade and now she's voracious - I never thought I'd have to bug her to stop reading! Our 2nd grader hasn't hit that point yet, but she's getting there; I still read to both of them most nights, we go to the library regularly, and I'm sure she'll do just fine. All kids are different, and I wouldn't be surprised if the younger one reads less just because of her personality, but that's ok. One thing that helped with our older one was that she really got into Manga - try graphic novels for a while, there are lots of good ones out there (Bone, for example). Once her skills get better she'll naturally find chapter books easier.
My impression is that the tethered kite will fly back and forth in the current, allowing the little turbine strapped to the bottom of it to spin faster (10x, per TFA). I guess they'll just go ahead with their trial to see if it all works out, but it seems like it could be a way to make use of the power of the currents without building huge turbines.
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My idea of a CMS is that you have someone set your site up for you the way you want it, and THEN it's simple to maintain - adding new pages, updating content etc. Getting the initial templates etc to look the way you want them, though, is usually not simple, and that's what it seems this book is covering. So - if you want to make CMSMS websites from scratch, you'd get this book. If you hired someone to make you a site & you're just keeping it up to date, you don't need the book or knowledge of CSS etc.
Batteries require maintenance. Sure it's not hard but someone would have to do it.
True, but the ongoing cost of maintaining a bank of lead acid batteries is significantly less than the cost of providing fuel for a generator. These villagers were an extreme - they're poor even by Afghan standards - but I imagine that even they would see the value in it.
My player was $99 (the same as my first DVD player) and it also does Netflix streaming. Maybe not insignificant, but pretty reasonable. I've found that I use the streaming way more than actual discs. I have had one disc (Ponyo) give me trouble due to firmware issues, which I ended up downloading & watching in Japanese with subtitles instead - good for the kids' reading!
I read an article the other day about some villagers in a remote corner of Afghanistan. There was a large generator which had been given to them years before which was lying unused. Apparently they had used the gas that came with it, calculated that it would cost 20 cents per house per night to run it, and never fired it up again. They couldn't afford the gas, which anyway would have been difficult to transport. A donated solar panel installation, on the other hand, might actually do them some good.
If we're talking about kid foods here, Chick-Fil-A does an optional fruit cup with their kids meal, so I think it's not bad overall, certainly not "crap". I will say that it's possible to do a passably healthy kids meal at McDonalds too - chicken nuggets with apples (we usually don't take the caramel sauce they throw in with the apples though) and a milk isn't a bad thing once in a while. All things in moderation...
I prefer to take my kids to Chick-Fil-A too, even though I myself don't eat meat & I don't particularly agree with their corporate mission ("glorify god"). The chicken seems to be better, and the "toys" are often books or educational CDs; most of the McDonalds or Burger King toys get discarded quickly because they're not very adaptable. We might hit one of those places once a month, though, so we don't get through many of them.
I've had great luck with WRT54GLs running Tomato - very stable for me. Crashing once or twice a week would be totally unacceptable, I don't see any issues for months at a time. I have one sitting in my garage, on some flakey 1930's wiring, acting as a bridge, and it never goes down.
If it's like my system, the thermostat gets a radio signal to turn itself down. I don't think there's a privacy implication, I'd bet the only way they'd know if you overrode it is that your power usage would increase. I imagine that they're betting that most people won't actually override it; I can't see myself bothering, if I even noticed it.
So does Pepco (also in MD). My thermostat can be set for an hour to 50, 25 or 0% of the previous hour's usage during peak load times, to help them meet peak demand without adding new capacity. The program I'm on only takes effect in the summer. They installed the thermostat for me, and I think (they never say exactly) that it uses a pager style radio to get the message to cut back the a/c. I'm interested to see how it works out - we don't really care about a few degree rise on the hottest days.
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We want to use a single virtualization platform for all our servers which means a migration from ESXi.
I'm curious as to the advantages of moving away from ESXi - I'm in a much smaller environment than what yours sounds like, but I've been happy with ESXi for all the guests I've run on it (Windows & various Linux distros). Before spending real money on it, though, I'm looking at other options. To me the ESXi hypervisor idea seems great - next to nothing running on the box means less to go wrong etc. The VSphere stuff seems to give all the bells & whistles I would need, and the price isn't excessive for the scale I'm dealing with. What will the RHEL setup give you?
The Mini doesn't have a Blu-ray drive, does it? I know what you mean about switching devices, but when the cheapest external Blu-ray drive I can find is $150 & my standalone with streaming Netflix built in was only $99, I'll stick with it for now. With the Media Browser plug in I have all my DVDs available on the Revo, so I only really have to switch if I'm watching a disk from Netflix. With all the streaming stuff out there I'm doing that less & less.
Get an Aspire Revo for your TV instead - it's only $200-$300. I already had a stand alone Blu-ray, so it's perfect for my needs. Search for Revo htpc, there are tons of cool things you can do once you add a usb tuner & a remote.
Yeah, I guess if you don't trust that they're not being all sneaky about it you wouldn't do it. But barring that, it seems that on the face of it they're making an effort to preserve your anonymity.
I just thought I'd point out that the whole barcode thing is irrelevant. They may as well put your name on the sample, because as soon as you seek to turn in your code and discover the result, you're mapped back to the sample.
From TFA:
"The results of the test will be put in a secure online database where students will be able to retrieve their results by using their bar code."
There doesn't seem to be any indication that you'd have to identify yourself to retrieve the results - they give you a code, you enter it in & see the results. If none of the samples are linked to names, it doesn't really matter that you could look at other results. So I don't think you'd be mapped back to the sample.
Try excercising if you're overweight and have some kind of physical injury. The trouble with unhealthy is that a couple of issues can then lead to a spiral. This idea that someone can click their fingers and excercise some will power to get healthy is a luxurious dellusion only healthy people with too much spare time can afford.
I didn't say it was easy, but if they can't find a way to exercise and lose weight, they are going to suffer the consequences. I mean, this is nature: nature doesn't care if it's hard. Hopefully for them they will be one of the lucky people who doesn't see any negative health effects even though they are overweight and treat their body badly. But it's not likely.
Not easy? Try not possible for many. Yes you suffer the consequences but requiring that some people make a superhuman effort to meet your standards is ridiculous.
For the past year I've started going 3 times a week to a nearby county gym at lunchtime. The county gives free membership to seniors, so 80% of the other people in there are old. Some of them are overweight, a lot of them seem to have health problems; often they're just slowly pedaling a stationary bike, slowly walking the treadmill, or sitting on an exercise ball. The important thing is, though, they're doing *something*, and over time that's better than doing nothing. It's not a superhuman effort, and it's certainly possible for almost everyone - if you can leave the house to work, you can do some exercise. Hell, even just taking the stairs rather than the elevator can help, but lots of people won't even take that small step. You just have to make it part of your routine, which is the real hard part for most people.
Let's put it this way - basic screening that will catch someone bringing or loading powerful explosives on board? I'm in favor. Draconian screening that stops my 8 year old bringing on a pair of nail clippers? Stupid. I kept flying after Pan Am 103 (a flight I had regularly been on) was blown up, and I'm not paranoid. I think that after 9/11 they should have made the cabin doors locked, and then carried on more or less as before.
The risks from bombs was understood & mitigated for a long time before 9/11. The use of the plane itself as weapon was new, and OP is right - that problem is solved with a locked cockpit door. Sure you still need to screen, but that was always the case.
You can make the choices for the end users just fine, without taking away their ability to make different choices.
I'm not sure that's completely true, if the goal is "improving reliability and efficiency for a defined set of tasks". Think of what users do on their Windows pcs - they install toolbars to get smileys for their mail, they load up all sorts of crap, and then when they have hosed it all up, they say it's too slow. If you want something to work well for a reasonable period of time, you get it to where you want it and lock it down. This is why properly administered Windows machines in business don't have all the problems home machines end up with, and it's why something that does a few things well, in an appealing form factor, seems like a pretty good thing to a lot of people.
That HDHR does look nifty - if my cheapo usb tuner heads south I'd certainly consider something like that. I have to say the $30 tuner does a pretty good job - it picks up way more stations than the one built into the Dish VIP box. The Revo is really a quick and dirty solution, when I canceled Dish my wife wanted a replacement up & running quickly. If I bump into too many obstacles I'll give MythBuntu a whirl.
I have to say, I usually go for the Linux option all things being equal, but I too have just set up a Win 7 HTPC as my Dish Network replacement. A friend spent far too much time getting his MythTV setup to work; I bought the dual core Atom/ION Revo box, a USB ATSC tuner and a Media Center remote and I was recording live OTA TV the same evening I got the box from Newegg. With the install of the Media Browser plugin and Virtual Clone Drive I can also watch all my avi files and DVD ISOs. It's pretty sweet for under $400 for everything, especially since the Revo is a small, quiet, WiFi equipped box with HDMI. If you're interested http://revohtpc.com/ has a lot of information on what works. I figure if Win 7 ever pisses me off I can run XBMC on it, but for now I'm happy.
My daughter has been surrounded by books and read to for her entire 8 years yet she is falling behind in reading. (though she's ahead in comprehension or vocabulary)
Keep at it - my now 4th grader didn't start getting really into reading until 2nd or 3rd grade and now she's voracious - I never thought I'd have to bug her to stop reading! Our 2nd grader hasn't hit that point yet, but she's getting there; I still read to both of them most nights, we go to the library regularly, and I'm sure she'll do just fine. All kids are different, and I wouldn't be surprised if the younger one reads less just because of her personality, but that's ok. One thing that helped with our older one was that she really got into Manga - try graphic novels for a while, there are lots of good ones out there (Bone, for example). Once her skills get better she'll naturally find chapter books easier.
My first Troll mod, yay! Someone needs to watch Raising Arizona...
And FWIW I've lived in the UK, and enjoyed the NHS etc. No need to get all defensive, it was just a joke.
The government do take a bite, don't she?
My impression is that the tethered kite will fly back and forth in the current, allowing the little turbine strapped to the bottom of it to spin faster (10x, per TFA). I guess they'll just go ahead with their trial to see if it all works out, but it seems like it could be a way to make use of the power of the currents without building huge turbines.
My idea of a CMS is that you have someone set your site up for you the way you want it, and THEN it's simple to maintain - adding new pages, updating content etc. Getting the initial templates etc to look the way you want them, though, is usually not simple, and that's what it seems this book is covering. So - if you want to make CMSMS websites from scratch, you'd get this book. If you hired someone to make you a site & you're just keeping it up to date, you don't need the book or knowledge of CSS etc.
Batteries require maintenance. Sure it's not hard but someone would have to do it.
True, but the ongoing cost of maintaining a bank of lead acid batteries is significantly less than the cost of providing fuel for a generator. These villagers were an extreme - they're poor even by Afghan standards - but I imagine that even they would see the value in it.
My player was $99 (the same as my first DVD player) and it also does Netflix streaming. Maybe not insignificant, but pretty reasonable. I've found that I use the streaming way more than actual discs. I have had one disc (Ponyo) give me trouble due to firmware issues, which I ended up downloading & watching in Japanese with subtitles instead - good for the kids' reading!
I read an article the other day about some villagers in a remote corner of Afghanistan. There was a large generator which had been given to them years before which was lying unused. Apparently they had used the gas that came with it, calculated that it would cost 20 cents per house per night to run it, and never fired it up again. They couldn't afford the gas, which anyway would have been difficult to transport. A donated solar panel installation, on the other hand, might actually do them some good.
If we're talking about kid foods here, Chick-Fil-A does an optional fruit cup with their kids meal, so I think it's not bad overall, certainly not "crap". I will say that it's possible to do a passably healthy kids meal at McDonalds too - chicken nuggets with apples (we usually don't take the caramel sauce they throw in with the apples though) and a milk isn't a bad thing once in a while. All things in moderation...
I prefer to take my kids to Chick-Fil-A too, even though I myself don't eat meat & I don't particularly agree with their corporate mission ("glorify god"). The chicken seems to be better, and the "toys" are often books or educational CDs; most of the McDonalds or Burger King toys get discarded quickly because they're not very adaptable. We might hit one of those places once a month, though, so we don't get through many of them.
The WNR3500L is also supported in a beta version of Tomato - I haven't tried it, so YMMV, but here's a link:
http://www.myopenrouter.com/article/14430/How-To-Install-Tomato-Firmware-on-NETGEAR-WNR3500L/
I've had great luck with WRT54GLs running Tomato - very stable for me. Crashing once or twice a week would be totally unacceptable, I don't see any issues for months at a time. I have one sitting in my garage, on some flakey 1930's wiring, acting as a bridge, and it never goes down.
If it's like my system, the thermostat gets a radio signal to turn itself down. I don't think there's a privacy implication, I'd bet the only way they'd know if you overrode it is that your power usage would increase. I imagine that they're betting that most people won't actually override it; I can't see myself bothering, if I even noticed it.
So does Pepco (also in MD). My thermostat can be set for an hour to 50, 25 or 0% of the previous hour's usage during peak load times, to help them meet peak demand without adding new capacity. The program I'm on only takes effect in the summer. They installed the thermostat for me, and I think (they never say exactly) that it uses a pager style radio to get the message to cut back the a/c. I'm interested to see how it works out - we don't really care about a few degree rise on the hottest days.