You could just as easily say that laws that force companies not to lie to investors are state intervention, and befitting of a command economy.
A free market requires certain things to work: Educated consumers that can make rational choices about products, and the possibility of even making a choice.
The average person faced with buying an Intel compatible computer has little choice, and generally lacks the education to make a rational choice about the products.
Then, once they get the computer, all the little things MS does to lock out other software competitors bite them. They might try an alternate to Office, but when they realize they can't easily exchange files with peers, they will probably see no choice other than to buy MS office.
I hope that government intervention isn't necessary to break the MS monopoly, I think we are making great progress toward those ends with only technical means. That said, even as a Libertarian, I am not totally opposed to the government compelling MS to stop engaging in anti-competitive behaviours.
I've come up with a solution for this, but it requires a little tinkering, and it probably only works in UNIX.
Basically, everyone gets a drop box in their SMB home directory, that is upload only. (rwx-wx-wx)
So users go to say a "dropboxes" directory and just drag the file to the users they want to send it to.
For distribution lists, you create cron jobs that poll certain folders and distribute files accordingly. This could be made to automatically create dropboxes that send the file to the dropboxes of people on various email distribution lists.
So I drop a file in/home/me/dropboxes/salesservice/ and in 2 minutes the cron has come by and copies that file to all of salesservice's drop boxes.
If you wanted to, other cron jobs could notify users via email that a new file has been put in their dropbox.
I haven't implemented this idea yet, but I have thought a lot about it. It would really cut down on people sending large email attchments within the company.
Most 3d stuff won't even work over X remotely because it uses DRI. All you will see is a blue box.
If you use VNC instead of remote X, then the video should work, but it will be choppy.
640 X 480 X 3Bpp X framerate.
It's about 1 meg per frame at 640X480X24bits, assuming no compression. That's 10fps. With compression, you might get 20-50 in theory, but VNC doesn't seem particularly good at keeping up with video.
So video can work remotely, it just won't be very smooth over 100mbit, in my experience. I've worked more with using Windows as the VNC server (where I work we use it for remote administration and such) rather than Linux as the VNC server though.
As you pointed out, he wants "at least RAID3", which will NEVER be satisfied with only 2 drives.
I said as a minimum, not "as a minimum that would fulfill his requirements".
I think you legacy SCSI RAID guys are scared. Your market is shrinking, and the future is bleak. I've set up over 8TB of ATA based RAID at work across various systems, and it's really been as reliable as other SCSI and FC RAIDs we have had in the past. We have never lost any data to an ATA/SATA RAID failure, although we have to SCSI RAID failures in the past. (Of course not permanantly lost, we do have backups)
For reference, one year support contract on one of our SCSI RAIDs cost the same thing as would replacing the whole thing with an ATA/SATA RAID of the same size and redundancy
All that said, I agree with most of your points. SCSI or FC should be considered, especially since his budget is $50,000, and he only needs 500GB.
Yep, and even today, people pay three times more for SCSI drives, even though the underlying technology is the same as any other hard disk.
Sure, the QA is probably a little higher, and the quantities smaller, and warantees longer, but not enough to make it cost three times more per GB or more.
Besides, regarding 5 year warantees, would you seriously spend time RMAing a 6 gig drive from 1998?
Things like the USA/patriot act; it's a group of laws that exist outside the US Constitution.
That's kinda a waste. Why should congress have to vote to affirm that murder is still illegal every 5 years, etc...
What we need is not some gimmick, but a demand from the people that the federal government go back to the notion that has been discarded over the last 50 years, that any right not specifically mentioned in the constitution is still reserved to the people or the states, not automatically assumed to not exist.
When people wanted to ban alcohol, it required a constitutional amendment. When people wanted to ban cocaine, marijuana, heroin, and hundreds of other drugs, the governments just slowly banned them without the amendment process. What a difference 40 years makes!
The only recent constitutional amendment was a BS one to make it look like congress cared about the people's concerns about being able to give themselves pay raises whenever they like. In reality it has little effect since most of congress are long term incumbents.
The current supreme court, while sometimes making good decisions, doesn't seem to be willing to take any strong stands against the federal government. Most of the stuff they have struck down lately have been state laws, with the odd blatently unconstitutional federal law thrown in.
In addition to the dw yw that the other poster pointed out, try hitting v. You will then be in visual mode where you can use the nav keys to select what you want to cut or copy, then after selecting hit y or d. This also works with multiline selections, so you don't have to count lines.
nominal fee such as $.01/message. A corportation would shrug at having to pay $8/day for email,
That's only 800 emails a day. Our company of 150 produces that much per day, at least. $2000 per year for a company that only has revenue around the low 8 digit range, it's not something they would "shrug" at, especially since it would offer no benefits.
This is just like gun control anyway, it would only hurt the law-abiding. Only the non-spammers would follow the rules and pay the fees, the spammers would just crack into other people's systems, and run up huge email bills sending their spam.
Interesting story: When I was a freshman in college in 1997, our second C/C++ course project was to write a bookmark manager for netscape style bookmarks.html. With search, add, delete, folders and subfolders, etc.
It's really not that difficult. If a bunch of CS freshmen can do it in 1997, it makes you wonder what is going on with major browser development.
There's no way you could find hardware that will only run signed binaries on the open market. Only an idiot would buy such crippled hardware, and the company that came out with it would go under quickly, unless maybe they were some kind of monopoly or something.
I should hope it has built hypersonic aircraft. Otherwise there's been a huge conspiracy to mislead the public, and that concorde thing must be a hoax too.
And then proceeded to realize his oversight, turn is company around on a dime, and now has a large slice of that internet pie.
If by that you mean "buy a browser, bundle it with the OS to kill the competition, take a BSD TCP/IP stack and kludge that into the OS, buy up dozens of popular Internet sites".
Microsoft never contributed anything to the Internet in the way of innovation. What they have they bought from other companies.
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Companies use it when they have an inferior product to try to scare people away from their competitors. It usually only works on people who don't know the real merits of the products.
How do you think MS even got popular? Back in 1995-96 I hardly knew anyone with a legit copy of Win95, their computers all came with 3.1 and they borrowed 95 from a friend.
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I disagree.
You could just as easily say that laws that force companies not to lie to investors are state intervention, and befitting of a command economy.
A free market requires certain things to work: Educated consumers that can make rational choices about products, and the possibility of even making a choice.
The average person faced with buying an Intel compatible computer has little choice, and generally lacks the education to make a rational choice about the products.
Then, once they get the computer, all the little things MS does to lock out other software competitors bite them. They might try an alternate to Office, but when they realize they can't easily exchange files with peers, they will probably see no choice other than to buy MS office.
I hope that government intervention isn't necessary to break the MS monopoly, I think we are making great progress toward those ends with only technical means. That said, even as a Libertarian, I am not totally opposed to the government compelling MS to stop engaging in anti-competitive behaviours.
I've come up with a solution for this, but it requires a little tinkering, and it probably only works in UNIX.
/home/me/dropboxes/salesservice/ and in 2 minutes the cron has come by and copies that file to all of salesservice's drop boxes.
Basically, everyone gets a drop box in their SMB home directory, that is upload only. (rwx-wx-wx)
So users go to say a "dropboxes" directory and just drag the file to the users they want to send it to.
For distribution lists, you create cron jobs that poll certain folders and distribute files accordingly. This could be made to automatically create dropboxes that send the file to the dropboxes of people on various email distribution lists.
So I drop a file in
If you wanted to, other cron jobs could notify users via email that a new file has been put in their dropbox.
I haven't implemented this idea yet, but I have thought a lot about it. It would really cut down on people sending large email attchments within the company.
EG Dailey is pretty famous too, she does the voice of buttercup on the powerpuff girls, and also some voices in the Rugrats.
Then she wakes up... and decides to go assassinate a poor defenceless geek who just happens to be involved in the future creation of skynet.
Too bad no one had a permonition in 1970 to go assassinate a certain geek that was about to ruin the tech industry.
What do you mean? The sig is limited to 120 characters. I'm talking about it fitting in that limit.
I guess living in Virginia, my view is a little skewed.
Most 3d stuff won't even work over X remotely because it uses DRI. All you will see is a blue box.
If you use VNC instead of remote X, then the video should work, but it will be choppy.
640 X 480 X 3Bpp X framerate.
It's about 1 meg per frame at 640X480X24bits, assuming no compression. That's 10fps. With compression, you might get 20-50 in theory, but VNC doesn't seem particularly good at keeping up with video.
So video can work remotely, it just won't be very smooth over 100mbit, in my experience. I've worked more with using Windows as the VNC server (where I work we use it for remote administration and such) rather than Linux as the VNC server though.
That was apparently written before the UCITA was widely adopted.
My company resells EMC^2 and Ciproco RAIDs
Wow, big surprise there.
As you pointed out, he wants "at least RAID3", which will NEVER be satisfied with only 2 drives.
I said as a minimum, not "as a minimum that would fulfill his requirements".
I think you legacy SCSI RAID guys are scared. Your market is shrinking, and the future is bleak. I've set up over 8TB of ATA based RAID at work across various systems, and it's really been as reliable as other SCSI and FC RAIDs we have had in the past. We have never lost any data to an ATA/SATA RAID failure, although we have to SCSI RAID failures in the past. (Of course not permanantly lost, we do have backups)
For reference, one year support contract on one of our SCSI RAIDs cost the same thing as would replacing the whole thing with an ATA/SATA RAID of the same size and redundancy
All that said, I agree with most of your points. SCSI or FC should be considered, especially since his budget is $50,000, and he only needs 500GB.
Like the AC pointed out, I figure most everyone has turned on the sig dash option in their preferences that wants it.
I had to fight to get that sig to fit, two dashes just won't fit without changing the wording of the sig a lot.
People beleived that SCSI was more expensive.
Yep, and even today, people pay three times more for SCSI drives, even though the underlying technology is the same as any other hard disk.
Sure, the QA is probably a little higher, and the quantities smaller, and warantees longer, but not enough to make it cost three times more per GB or more.
Besides, regarding 5 year warantees, would you seriously spend time RMAing a 6 gig drive from 1998?
If you want RAID-3 you pretty much have to go SCSI. There may be a way to do it with ATA drives, but I haven't heard of it.
You haven't looked very hard.
In any case, he said "at least RAID3" which implies that he is fine with RAID5 also.
What I would do is talk to standard RAID vendors like EMC^2 or Ciprico
What, so he can pay 10X as much for the same thing? A 500GB RAID is as few as two hard disks these days.
Things like the USA/patriot act; it's a group of laws that exist outside the US Constitution.
That's kinda a waste. Why should congress have to vote to affirm that murder is still illegal every 5 years, etc...
What we need is not some gimmick, but a demand from the people that the federal government go back to the notion that has been discarded over the last 50 years, that any right not specifically mentioned in the constitution is still reserved to the people or the states, not automatically assumed to not exist.
When people wanted to ban alcohol, it required a constitutional amendment. When people wanted to ban cocaine, marijuana, heroin, and hundreds of other drugs, the governments just slowly banned them without the amendment process. What a difference 40 years makes!
The only recent constitutional amendment was a BS one to make it look like congress cared about the people's concerns about being able to give themselves pay raises whenever they like. In reality it has little effect since most of congress are long term incumbents.
The current supreme court, while sometimes making good decisions, doesn't seem to be willing to take any strong stands against the federal government. Most of the stuff they have struck down lately have been state laws, with the odd blatently unconstitutional federal law thrown in.
In addition to the dw yw that the other poster pointed out, try hitting v. You will then be in visual mode where you can use the nav keys to select what you want to cut or copy, then after selecting hit y or d. This also works with multiline selections, so you don't have to count lines.
nominal fee such as $.01/message. A corportation would shrug at having to pay $8/day for email,
That's only 800 emails a day. Our company of 150 produces that much per day, at least. $2000 per year for a company that only has revenue around the low 8 digit range, it's not something they would "shrug" at, especially since it would offer no benefits.
This is just like gun control anyway, it would only hurt the law-abiding. Only the non-spammers would follow the rules and pay the fees, the spammers would just crack into other people's systems, and run up huge email bills sending their spam.
There's a difference between being against something, and thinking that something should be dealt with through legal means.
Putting them in a flat file is pretty unixy too. That way you can easily grep and sort and cut and slice and whatever.
Interesting story: When I was a freshman in college in 1997, our second C/C++ course project was to write a bookmark manager for netscape style bookmarks.html. With search, add, delete, folders and subfolders, etc.
It's really not that difficult. If a bunch of CS freshmen can do it in 1997, it makes you wonder what is going on with major browser development.
build a PC comparable to the XBox specs
There's no way you could find hardware that will only run signed binaries on the open market. Only an idiot would buy such crippled hardware, and the company that came out with it would go under quickly, unless maybe they were some kind of monopoly or something.
No one ever got fired from MS for spreading FUD. :)
I should hope it has built hypersonic aircraft. Otherwise there's been a huge conspiracy to mislead the public, and that concorde thing must be a hoax too.
And then proceeded to realize his oversight, turn is company around on a dime, and now has a large slice of that internet pie.
If by that you mean "buy a browser, bundle it with the OS to kill the competition, take a BSD TCP/IP stack and kludge that into the OS, buy up dozens of popular Internet sites".
Microsoft never contributed anything to the Internet in the way of innovation. What they have they bought from other companies.
If you're going to write bullshit that makes you come across as a pretentious blowhard, you should at least use correct metaphors.
.sig? :)
I wonder if that will fit in my
Fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Companies use it when they have an inferior product to try to scare people away from their competitors. It usually only works on people who don't know the real merits of the products.
Pirates have brought linux to Malaysia!
How do you think MS even got popular? Back in 1995-96 I hardly knew anyone with a legit copy of Win95, their computers all came with 3.1 and they borrowed 95 from a friend.