Imagine if 100k of us put up a few bucks. I'd slap down a few hundred. Hell, I'm set for life thanks to the stock rally of the late 90s and so I figure I owe it to the world. Don't underestimate the strength of numbers.
Does anyone think it would be possible for us to organise a community purchase of the space capsule and then donate it to a museum for everyone to enjoy? Post your comments and if there's a chance, I'll take the initiative.
Any firm *serious* about shared storage uses EMC. This isn't snake-oil motivated zealotry or whatever. If any of you have engineers in big name firms are in them yourself, ask them what they use for shared storage and you'll have the majority be EMC. You simply cannot beat the performance, reliability, and scalability. If this is interesting to you, contact me via email and I'll put you in touch with my EMC rep, a very knowledgable, kind, and no-nonsense guy.
Regards
ps: I know this sounds like a lot of marketing, but when you have such a complex situation as massive shared storage that needs uber uptime and so on, I can't really convey how happy it makes you to find a solution that Just Plain Works. I call it like I see it, no intra-ass sunshine blowing.
"The article's author (rightly) points out that this is probably an unstoppable phenomenon"
Reality check: The firm management controls the firm and what takes place in it. If they don't want you running on workstations at work that they provide you with, you will not be running it. If you do they can simply fire you. To say it's unstoppable I think is not realistic. I'm not saying it is right but that's the way it is.
While this may seem like an original phenomenon, I draw your attention to the aging baby boomers and the success they have created for the Prowler. Nostalgia is nothing new. Computers, however, are, relatively. As the first wave of us who grew up programming games and such and measuring application sizes in KBs age, we happily return to our earlier and more fond experiences with computers that were fun and just plain Worked. Amiga is an example of technological nostalgia to come about more often in the near future.
It's obvious by reading that that both candidates have only a minor grasp of the fundamentals involved in the Napster and related cases. The first candidate to appoint a *qualified* Technology Advisor will win my vote, until then I'm not voting. Even if it means sitting out the next 5 presidential elections.
It's common practice to say the entire phrase and put its acronym in parenthesis just following before you begin using an acronym in a document. I'm sorry but what the bloody hell is HURD? Sorry, I spend more time developing than keeping up on the latest propaganda.
'Get 'em while they're young,' relatively, will help to speed along the process of making technology common place and mainstream, something good for all of us. Having a girl IR her number from her laptop to yours, mmmm I can see it now.
After all, everyone wants uptime > 3 weeks, eh? And you don't need to wait for a "service pack," either.
Woa really!?!? Cool!
Bullshit. If this was a bug in Windows you would have shit all over it. Red Hat should get no more slack than any other software firm, linux developers or not. Bad software development practice is bad software development practice, period. *sigh* A freaking uptime limiting bug how lame. Another thing, if we start getting complacent about such crippling bugs, it will be damn acceptable to ship products with these bugs in them. Just like how MS knowingly releases windows with 'known issues'. (Bugs galore, and I know this as a fact by inside info.) This cannot happen if we want Linux to make a real competitive demonstration against Windows. Why should managers heed our advice and convert from nt/win2k to an arguably more difficult platform WITH THE SAME PROBLEMS!? This is not flaimbait I just don't think people understand how important such bugs are, far more than the bug themself. MS and it's PR war machine is salivating right now, rightfully so.
The question wasn't your opinion on using multiple-box power supplies. This is one thing I hate about typical geeks, their inability to answer questions directly without giving their most educated opinion. "How can I do x?" "Why would you want to do something so stupid as x?". Holly shit people, are we so bloody brilliant that we can imagine every possible thing this guy could want to do and we sure as hell know that multi-box power supplies are a bad idea? Check your ego at the door and stop trying to win clue-points with your conjecture. If he wanted our opinions on whether to use it or not he would have asked, among giving enough background information on the project to put is in a POSITION to even be able to have opinions.
Have you tried actually talking to the "Dormites?" Quite honestly, they may not be aware of their detrimental affect their MP3 hayday is having on the net connection. Use a dorm mailing list or your school newspaper or something to communicate the problem to students and then hold a 1 or 2 series open forum in a public place like library or something. Invite all Napster/ users and any other interested party to come and talk about *friendly* ways to remedy the problem. I can vow to you this, those "Dormites" would much rather coexist than have *zero* Napster access, even if it meant self-control, et cetera. You mention that if nothing is done you will have no option but to disallow it and you'll have a good number of people show up. I've often found that when people are shown that 1. They are causing a problem nd 2. You want to work *with* them to solve the problem, you will get 100x better results than pulling some staff management type thing. I hope this helps and if you don't mind keep me updated by email how it goes.
I got bit by the preview box issue again. Well you would think I would learn to take this into account and preview my posts twice but I think my mother forgot to close the CRACKPIPE tag when conceiving me.
I'm talking about bloat in general. Furthermore, was I the one speaking of bloat? No. I was taking issue with his stance that our problem with bloat is the disk space it uses when as far as I am concerned, the problem with bloat is the inherient lack of quality in bloated code. So now you've asked me irrelevant questions and have wasted my time. Why don't you try reading what I say precisely before you troll me? Thanks.
Did I even say the software was bloated? No. I was taking issue with his stance that our problem with bloat is the disk space it uses, when in reality, atleast as far as I'm concerned, the problem with bloat is the lack of quality in bloated code.
"Also note that 160MB of Beta's ~800MB install is taken up by QuickTime trailers for various questionable movies (Charlie's Angles, The Emperor's New Groove, etc.) Even minus that 160MB, I suspect many curmudgeons will still holler about the "bloated" install size. To them, I have this to say: 1GB of hard disk space costs about $5 at today's prices (20GB IDE drives are less than $100). By contrast, back when Mac OS ("System", please) could fit on one floppy disk, a floppy disk's worth of HD space cost about $10 (I bought a 32MB HD for $450 back when the Mac System fit on an 800K floppy.) Feel better now?"
No, I do not feel better. The issue isn't the financial cost of a bloated piece of software, it's the quality cost of a bloated piece of software. While I'm always generally pleased with the quality of coverage by Ars, this is 1 point I strongly disagree with.
I'm a male and I acknowledge women are better than men. Not only do they not have the much impairing 'competitive real-man' nature of most alpha males (It is alpha male that exudes uber-testosterone, no?), but they are also more rational, and dynamic.
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Imagine if 100k of us put up a few bucks. I'd slap down a few hundred. Hell, I'm set for life thanks to the stock rally of the late 90s and so I figure I owe it to the world. Don't underestimate the strength of numbers.
Regards
Does anyone think it would be possible for us to organise a community purchase of the space capsule and then donate it to a museum for everyone to enjoy? Post your comments and if there's a chance, I'll take the initiative.
Regards
Any firm *serious* about shared storage uses EMC. This isn't snake-oil motivated zealotry or whatever. If any of you have engineers in big name firms are in them yourself, ask them what they use for shared storage and you'll have the majority be EMC. You simply cannot beat the performance, reliability, and scalability. If this is interesting to you, contact me via email and I'll put you in touch with my EMC rep, a very knowledgable, kind, and no-nonsense guy.
Regards
ps: I know this sounds like a lot of marketing, but when you have such a complex situation as massive shared storage that needs uber uptime and so on, I can't really convey how happy it makes you to find a solution that Just Plain Works. I call it like I see it, no intra-ass sunshine blowing.
You're a lousy mascot for idiots, yet they use you anyway. So just deal.
Regards
"The article's author (rightly) points out that this is probably an unstoppable phenomenon"
Reality check: The firm management controls the firm and what takes place in it. If they don't want you running on workstations at work that they provide you with, you will not be running it. If you do they can simply fire you. To say it's unstoppable I think is not realistic. I'm not saying it is right but that's the way it is.
Regards
When I first read the title I thought it was going to be an article about Gore and how he had Rolling Stone magasine airbrush his 'package'. ;P
Regards
While this may seem like an original phenomenon, I draw your attention to the aging baby boomers and the success they have created for the Prowler. Nostalgia is nothing new. Computers, however, are, relatively. As the first wave of us who grew up programming games and such and measuring application sizes in KBs age, we happily return to our earlier and more fond experiences with computers that were fun and just plain Worked. Amiga is an example of technological nostalgia to come about more often in the near future.
Regards
It's obvious by reading that that both candidates have only a minor grasp of the fundamentals involved in the Napster and related cases. The first candidate to appoint a *qualified* Technology Advisor will win my vote, until then I'm not voting. Even if it means sitting out the next 5 presidential elections.
Regards
It's common practice to say the entire phrase and put its acronym in parenthesis just following before you begin using an acronym in a document. I'm sorry but what the bloody hell is HURD? Sorry, I spend more time developing than keeping up on the latest propaganda.
Regards
'Get 'em while they're young,' relatively, will help to speed along the process of making technology common place and mainstream, something good for all of us. Having a girl IR her number from her laptop to yours, mmmm I can see it now.
Regards
Uh, no CGI as in Computer Generated Imagery, or something.
Regards
After all, everyone wants uptime > 3 weeks, eh? And you don't need to wait for a "service pack," either.
Woa really!?!? Cool!
Bullshit. If this was a bug in Windows you would have shit all over it. Red Hat should get no more slack than any other software firm, linux developers or not. Bad software development practice is bad software development practice, period. *sigh* A freaking uptime limiting bug how lame. Another thing, if we start getting complacent about such crippling bugs, it will be damn acceptable to ship products with these bugs in them. Just like how MS knowingly releases windows with 'known issues'. (Bugs galore, and I know this as a fact by inside info.) This cannot happen if we want Linux to make a real competitive demonstration against Windows. Why should managers heed our advice and convert from nt/win2k to an arguably more difficult platform WITH THE SAME PROBLEMS!? This is not flaimbait I just don't think people understand how important such bugs are, far more than the bug themself. MS and it's PR war machine is salivating right now, rightfully so.
Regards
The question wasn't your opinion on using multiple-box power supplies. This is one thing I hate about typical geeks, their inability to answer questions directly without giving their most educated opinion. "How can I do x?" "Why would you want to do something so stupid as x?". Holly shit people, are we so bloody brilliant that we can imagine every possible thing this guy could want to do and we sure as hell know that multi-box power supplies are a bad idea? Check your ego at the door and stop trying to win clue-points with your conjecture. If he wanted our opinions on whether to use it or not he would have asked, among giving enough background information on the project to put is in a POSITION to even be able to have opinions.
Regards
We're one small step closer to an IPv6 internet. Can't say much other than good about this.
Regards
We still haven't rewarded the guy who came up with the Big Bang Theory yet. Until then I'm protesting.
Regards
Yes I was. I just suppose I and the circle I run in is far more mature and has far more class than you.
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It wasn't even second. It was third or something. Even if it was second would that have changed anything? No. So stfu, thanks.
Regards
Have you tried actually talking to the "Dormites?" Quite honestly, they may not be aware of their detrimental affect their MP3 hayday is having on the net connection. Use a dorm mailing list or your school newspaper or something to communicate the problem to students and then hold a 1 or 2 series open forum in a public place like library or something. Invite all Napster/ users and any other interested party to come and talk about *friendly* ways to remedy the problem. I can vow to you this, those "Dormites" would much rather coexist than have *zero* Napster access, even if it meant self-control, et cetera. You mention that if nothing is done you will have no option but to disallow it and you'll have a good number of people show up. I've often found that when people are shown that 1. They are causing a problem nd 2. You want to work *with* them to solve the problem, you will get 100x better results than pulling some staff management type thing. I hope this helps and if you don't mind keep me updated by email how it goes.
Regards
I got bit by the preview box issue again. Well you would think I would learn to take this into account and preview my posts twice but I think my mother forgot to close the CRACKPIPE tag when conceiving me.
Regards
I've already (just) got/installed it and it rocks. Good to see REAL competition in the browser market... *nudge nudge* Mozilla.
Regards
I'm talking about bloat in general. Furthermore, was I the one speaking of bloat? No. I was taking issue with his stance that our problem with bloat is the disk space it uses when as far as I am concerned, the problem with bloat is the inherient lack of quality in bloated code. So now you've asked me irrelevant questions and have wasted my time. Why don't you try reading what I say precisely before you troll me? Thanks.
Regards
Did I even say the software was bloated? No. I was taking issue with his stance that our problem with bloat is the disk space it uses, when in reality, atleast as far as I'm concerned, the problem with bloat is the lack of quality in bloated code.
Regards
"Also note that 160MB of Beta's ~800MB install is taken up by QuickTime trailers for various questionable movies (Charlie's Angles, The Emperor's New Groove, etc.) Even minus that 160MB, I suspect many curmudgeons will still holler about the "bloated" install size. To them, I have this to say: 1GB of hard disk space costs about $5 at today's prices (20GB IDE drives are less than $100). By contrast, back when Mac OS ("System", please) could fit on one floppy disk, a floppy disk's worth of HD space cost about $10 (I bought a 32MB HD for $450 back when the Mac System fit on an 800K floppy.) Feel better now?"
No, I do not feel better. The issue isn't the financial cost of a bloated piece of software, it's the quality cost of a bloated piece of software. While I'm always generally pleased with the quality of coverage by Ars, this is 1 point I strongly disagree with.
Regards
Quite coincidental, although happily accepted, consider my recent post on the issue.
Regards
I'm a male and I acknowledge women are better than men. Not only do they not have the much impairing 'competitive real-man' nature of most alpha males (It is alpha male that exudes uber-testosterone, no?), but they are also more rational, and dynamic.
Regards