From the article:
Increased uptime requirements arise when enterprises stack multiple workloads onto a single server, making it even more essential to keep the server running. You don't just move twenty critical servers to one slightly bigger machine. You need to follow the same redundancy rules you should follow with the multiple physical servers.
Unless you are running a test bed or dealing with less critical servers, where you can use old equipment, you get a pair (at least) of nice, beefy enterprise servers with redundant everything and split the VMs among them. And with a nice SAN between them, you can move the VMs between the servers when needed.
Even better if you can, get the servers (or another pair) set up at two sites for disaster recovery.
Yes, this will cost money, but Virtuilzation is not designed to make the bean counters save money. You need a plan to do it right and the budget to pay for all of it.
Brin's book "Kiln People" has a great sub-plot of the "Transparent Society". The books protagonist is a P.I. and has to use the camera network on a case and refers to smart criminals either dodging the cameras or using them to falsify alibis.
In the book there are cameras everywhere, government and private. The owners of the private ones can sell access to the recordings or even give them away. So in the case of this P.I., he has his computer agent find the cameras along a route he thinks a criminal has used and download the recordings, including paying for any he needs. Anyone can get the recordings from a camera as long as the camera owner permits it and you are willing to pay their price.
It seems like the French government decided to not go the way of Australia and force its ISPs to block "illegal" content. Instead they went after the easy target of foreign company.
Forget the debate on whether this is censorship or not, it is currently part of French law. So why are they forcing an American company to bend to their laws. They should have the French companies (ISPs) enforce this law, especially since it is a lot easier to block foo.yahoo.com than it is for Yahoo to figure out what domains originate in France and block all $BIGNUM of them. You can't even rely on a global block of the.fr TLD since lots of.com,.net, &.org domains must exist in France.
I accidentally got signed up with the bill payment service provided by my bank, Nevada State Bank, and found out it was a pain to get them to stop charging me $4.95 a month. I figured that since I am real bad about remembering to pay my bills on time and my late charges end up being more than that, then it is not a very bad deal at all.
The service is mybills.com but it seems to be only available through banks since the obvious URL just gives you a server status page. Well, now I know they use Stronghold/Apache. I never bothered to check before this article. All transactions with my bank and mybills.com are handled via 128-bit SSL.
So far I only use it for my utility bills, two of which are setup with this service and get paid via transfer on the date I set. The other two get checks mailed from the service on that date. I also can get an e-mail notification of the upcoming due date for the two registered companies. The minimum date for payments tends to be about four days from the entry date. So last minute bill payments are out.
They of course offer the choice to have a certain amount sent out each month. With all the horror stories I have heard about automatic payments and the fact I would tend to forget about these and spend the money, I will never use this feature.
Overall, this is barely cost effective for me, but very convenient. If you are someone with a lot more bills than me then a service like this may really worth your while.
...specifically those that rhyme with "luck," "witch" and "tart."
The only one of these three that does not have a negative connotation is luck. Bitch and witch can be used interchangeably. And tart, in a different context, is not a very friendly word. Couldn't they have used cart?
You have got to wonder about newspaper editors sometimes.
Am I just missing it or is there no listing of the hard drive space that they come with?
All of the links that have the specs make the point that you can upgrade to 48MB memory easily. But, I did not see a single reference to storage space.
Can anyone here enlighten me?
Re:This is an example of one of Jamie's points.
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(Only during allowed times) Members of the opposite sex may be invited into your dorm room ONLY if the door is left open and each person keeps two feet on the ground at all times.
So in other words they are promoting sex in public . And I'm pretty sure most sexually active college students would take the "two feet on the ground" as a challenge.
Hey, isn't this discrimination against the handicapped?
I work for a major hotel in Las Vegas and I can't believe some of the stuff I hear when I happen to be in the Room Reservations Department.
Many times I have heard a clerk spend a minute or more explaining to a returning customer that they can't magically pull up the credit card number from their last visit on the computer system. Sure we have the number archived for accounting and legal reasons, but it is in no way linked to the customer database.
I bet these same customers are the ones that are worried about packet sniffers on the Internet. They would probably have a fit if you mentioned how easy it is to intercept their number when they use that $19.95 cordless phone while giving out their CC number. But they expect that person on the other side of the line that they will never meet in person to have access to a database with the customer's CC number bundled with their name and address?
"Mommy, stupid consumers make my head hurt." "I know dear. Just ignore them and they might go away."
Do you know how it treats PNGs, ie as distinct from GIFs? (For an example, check out my listed webpage: if the top-left most PNG block doesn't come out as purple on transparent, it's bugged.)
Windows 95 platform, Netscape Navigator 4.08: Purple square Opera 3.60b3: White square with a purple big-cheeked face
These are of course older versions, but does that answer your question?
... is there any way to tell debian's package manager to install the damn thing anyway?
From the conflict/dependency resolutiion help screen you see upon a conflict:
You can also move around the list and change the markings so that they are more like what you want, and you can 'reject' my suggestions by using the capital 'D' or 'R' keys (see the keybindings help screen). You can use capital 'Q' to force me to accept the situation currently displayed, in case you want to override a recommendation or think that the program is mistaken.
I do remember that even if you do this upon the first conflict warning, it will still prompt you on its final check. But you can quickly type Q to continue on.
It'll probably be blocked sometime soon, anyone who can please mirror this site
Use it wisely. You don't want to have the domain peg in your company logs and be noticed.
If I had the bandwith, I would gladly be a host for the ACP program. It needs to be mirrored as much as possible for people to be able to access in times of need.
...just like I have a problem with non-secretaries who say "Can I ask what this is about?" before deciding whether to put my call through.
What is wrong with this? The employee is just looking out for fellow employees' time and wasting of their employer's resources. If you are being asked that, you have not yet proven that the call is worthy to interrupt part of the business.
At my place of employment we rarely get unexpected outside calls. Due to this we tend to be able to tell when it is a sales or polling call and will sometimes use that type of line to "flush" them out. We don't have time to deal with those type of calls so it is best to end them as soon as possible. We have actually been forbidden by our legal department and our department director to answer polls and unsolicited sales calls in the company's name (or at least we believe they did and use that to our advantage.)
That means that they can screen this guy out if they want to. Seems to me it would be a hell of a lot cheaper to do it that way than to take it to court...
But that still means that Intel has to spend money due to his mailings. Why should they have pay for something that is not in their business interests?
If you receive unwanted snail-mail you end up only wasting the time spent to browse through it and dispose of it. The sender has paid the bulk of the costs. In the case of Hamidi, I bet his costs to send all the messages was less than the business costs for an Intel admin to examine and set up blocking for his messages.
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Unless you are running a test bed or dealing with less critical servers, where you can use old equipment, you get a pair (at least) of nice, beefy enterprise servers with redundant everything and split the VMs among them. And with a nice SAN between them, you can move the VMs between the servers when needed.
Even better if you can, get the servers (or another pair) set up at two sites for disaster recovery.
Yes, this will cost money, but Virtuilzation is not designed to make the bean counters save money. You need a plan to do it right and the budget to pay for all of it.
Brin's book "Kiln People" has a great sub-plot of the "Transparent Society". The books protagonist is a P.I. and has to use the camera network on a case and refers to smart criminals either dodging the cameras or using them to falsify alibis.
In the book there are cameras everywhere, government and private. The owners of the private ones can sell access to the recordings or even give them away. So in the case of this P.I., he has his computer agent find the cameras along a route he thinks a criminal has used and download the recordings, including paying for any he needs. Anyone can get the recordings from a camera as long as the camera owner permits it and you are willing to pay their price.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha. You can't fool me...there ain't no Sanity Clause.
Only if we are allowed to add Congress to this list after this passes.
Mr. Stubblefield was kind enougth to provide the paper in three different formats and you choose to point to only the PDF version on Slashdot?
The intro page is at http://www.cs.rice.edu/~astubble/wep/ which points to the paper in PostScript, PDF, & HTML formats.
I'm not sure if these are the correct postings, but they are all I could find using DejaNews:
/. long URL bug mangled them.
[@HOME ] - EMAIL - Tier 1 Troubleshooting Guide
[ @HOME] - 256kbps Upstream Toolkit
[@HOME] - MSO - Customer Credit Calculation
[@HOME] - Comcast - Stolen Modem Procedure
[@HOME] - Abuse Reporting Procedure
I had URLs that would give a plain text version, but the
Hasn't anyone else found this HTML version of the document on Microsoft's website?
b rief.htm
http://www.mi crosoft.com/enterprise/licensing/docs/re-imaging_
All these complaints and conversions to text or HTML by others, when just some mild searching would have found the official version.
It seems like the French government decided to not go the way of Australia and force its ISPs to block "illegal" content. Instead they went after the easy target of foreign company.
.fr TLD since lots of .com, .net, & .org domains must exist in France.
Forget the debate on whether this is censorship or not, it is currently part of French law. So why are they forcing an American company to bend to their laws. They should have the French companies (ISPs) enforce this law, especially since it is a lot easier to block foo.yahoo.com than it is for Yahoo to figure out what domains originate in France and block all $BIGNUM of them. You can't even rely on a global block of the
I accidentally got signed up with the bill payment service provided by my bank, Nevada State Bank, and found out it was a pain to get them to stop charging me $4.95 a month. I figured that since I am real bad about remembering to pay my bills on time and my late charges end up being more than that, then it is not a very bad deal at all.
The service is mybills.com but it seems to be only available through banks since the obvious URL just gives you a server status page. Well, now I know they use Stronghold/Apache. I never bothered to check before this article. All transactions with my bank and mybills.com are handled via 128-bit SSL.
So far I only use it for my utility bills, two of which are setup with this service and get paid via transfer on the date I set. The other two get checks mailed from the service on that date. I also can get an e-mail notification of the upcoming due date for the two registered companies. The minimum date for payments tends to be about four days from the entry date. So last minute bill payments are out.
They of course offer the choice to have a certain amount sent out each month. With all the horror stories I have heard about automatic payments and the fact I would tend to forget about these and spend the money, I will never use this feature.
Overall, this is barely cost effective for me, but very convenient. If you are someone with a lot more bills than me then a service like this may really worth your while.
From the Washington Post article:
...specifically those that rhyme with "luck," "witch" and "tart."
The only one of these three that does not have a negative connotation is luck. Bitch and witch can be used interchangeably. And tart, in a different context, is not a very friendly word. Couldn't they have used cart?
You have got to wonder about newspaper editors sometimes.
Am I just missing it or is there no listing of the hard drive space that they come with?
All of the links that have the specs make the point that you can upgrade to 48MB memory easily. But, I did not see a single reference to storage space.
Can anyone here enlighten me?
http://www.ariannaonline.com/c olumns/files/040698.html
I am currently sitting behind a proxy with SurfWatch active (for "sex" only). I had a feeling that the above domain name would be a trigger.
Well what a surprise...*BLAM!*... Blocked by SurfWatch®
I then checked out Arianna Online through my home machine and it appears that she is just a political writer. An anti-censorship one at that.
Where is the "sex" in that? Of course I had to use Lynx, so there could be pictures showing a sexy political writer.
I just can't figure these filterware companies out.
than can afford to pick up a $700 of NT Server or $100-$200 for NT Workstation.
You are talking about students here. I don't think they really care how much they are legally supposed to pay for software.
(Only during allowed times) Members of the opposite sex may be invited into your dorm room ONLY if the door is left open and each person keeps two feet on the ground at all times.
So in other words they are promoting sex in public . And I'm pretty sure most sexually active college students would take the "two feet on the ground" as a challenge.
Hey, isn't this discrimination against the handicapped?
I work for a major hotel in Las Vegas and I can't believe some of the stuff I hear when I happen to be in the Room Reservations Department.
Many times I have heard a clerk spend a minute or more explaining to a returning customer that they can't magically pull up the credit card number from their last visit on the computer system. Sure we have the number archived for accounting and legal reasons, but it is in no way linked to the customer database.
I bet these same customers are the ones that are worried about packet sniffers on the Internet. They would probably have a fit if you mentioned how easy it is to intercept their number when they use that $19.95 cordless phone while giving out their CC number. But they expect that person on the other side of the line that they will never meet in person to have access to a database with the customer's CC number bundled with their name and address?
"Mommy, stupid consumers make my head hurt."
"I know dear. Just ignore them and they might go away."
Could you please tell me if these concerns about IPV6's Static IP addresses are valid?:
[links to TechWeb article]
Sure, try this:
Use the archives, Luke!
Do you know how it treats PNGs, ie as distinct from GIFs?
(For an example, check out my listed webpage: if the top-left most PNG block doesn't come out as purple on transparent, it's bugged.)
Windows 95 platform,
Netscape Navigator 4.08: Purple square
Opera 3.60b3: White square with a purple big-cheeked face
These are of course older versions, but does that answer your question?
It would be better if Debian used RPM's. Then I could just mix and match them.
.rpm to/from .deb
.slp (Stampede), .tgz, and .tar.gz
Debian has a program called alien, with the Red Hat Package Manager installed, converts from/to
Alien also handles
From the conflict/dependency resolutiion help screen you see upon a conflict:
You can also move around the list and change the markings so that they are more like what you want, and you can 'reject' my suggestions by using the capital 'D' or 'R' keys (see the keybindings help screen). You can use capital 'Q' to force me to accept the situation currently displayed, in case you want to override a recommendation or think that the program is mistaken.
I do remember that even if you do this upon the first conflict warning, it will still prompt you on its final check. But you can quickly type Q to continue on.
It'll probably be blocked sometime soon, anyone who can please mirror this site
Use it wisely. You don't want to have the domain peg in your company logs and be noticed.
If I had the bandwith, I would gladly be a host for the ACP program. It needs to be mirrored as much as possible for people to be able to access in times of need.
Many thanks to the creator and maintainers.
This might be what you need to get around filtering software:
http://ians.978.org
...just like I have a problem with non-secretaries who say "Can I ask what this is about?" before deciding whether to put my call through.
What is wrong with this? The employee is just looking out for fellow employees' time and wasting of their employer's resources. If you are being asked that, you have not yet proven that the call is worthy to interrupt part of the business.
At my place of employment we rarely get unexpected outside calls. Due to this we tend to be able to tell when it is a sales or polling call and will sometimes use that type of line to "flush" them out. We don't have time to deal with those type of calls so it is best to end them as soon as possible. We have actually been forbidden by our legal department and our department director to answer polls and unsolicited sales calls in the company's name (or at least we believe they did and use that to our advantage.)
That means that they can screen this guy out if they want to. Seems to me it would be a hell of a lot cheaper to do it that way than to take it to court...
But that still means that Intel has to spend money due to his mailings. Why should they have pay for something that is not in their business interests?
If you receive unwanted snail-mail you end up only wasting the time spent to browse through it and dispose of it. The sender has paid the bulk of the costs. In the case of Hamidi, I bet his costs to send all the messages was less than the business costs for an Intel admin to examine and set up blocking for his messages.
Things of quality have no fear of time.