The standard BitTorrent client also allows you to throttle upstream bandwidth if you add a flag (--max_upload_rate xx and launch it from a command line. You can even throttle the number of upload streams (--max_uploads xx) if you so desire to. If you are used to the "point-and-click" world of Microsoft GUI then you never read any of the documentation, then you probably never knew this was possible.
As your site has now felt the effects of the Slashdot effect and given the recent article on how to overcome this effect, what changes will you put in place to assure your website remains responsive.
As a followup, how would you relate the slashdot effect to real world economics.
Microsoft is not really known for being "quick" about turning out anything.. if anything, they are more known for slipping release dates for "quality" (*cough* *cough*) reasons. Although I won't argue with them making it look glossy on the outside - Microsoft = Marketing..
- A quick solution does not always have to be a poor and dirty solution.
- A solution that takes a long time to develop and produce does not always equal a good and proper solution.
The goal would be a quick and proper solution that satisfies the need given a set of constraits (one of them being time).
Call them the McDonalds of the chip world. Soon, their slogan will be "Billions and Billions of chips shipped" (then maybe McDonalds could sue Intel for trademark infringment! woo!)
My question is how many of those chips are stil actually being used today? huh? How many of those 8086 chips are in use today? (maybe NASA still uses a few, eh?)
And of course, my final question: Sure, 1 billion chips.. but how many transistors have you shipped on those 1 billion chips?
>Sheesh, it's amazing how much the SCO PR department has in >common with M$ PR department. They both must read slashdot and >then formulate their responses accordingly.
Thirdly, Exchange is a complete pig without a very experienced administrator. I don't just mean a competant Exchange admin -- be prepared to spend significant money to get a decent one, if you want to have any hope of it being halfway reliable.
And sendmail doesn't require an experienced admin to setup right? Granted, in this case, they already have unix/sendmail admins.
Also, plan on downtime. Unlike Unix mail systems, Exchange seems to need to be taken down for maintenance every so often. I'm not an Exchange admin, so don't ask me why, but every Exchange site I've worked at has had to do this.
We have several dedicated Exchange boxes that are up 24/7. Those almost never go down for maintenance. The only exchange boxes that get taken down in our infrastructure are the ones that run other things besides exchange.
All that being said, given a preference, I'd rather admin a unix box. I know and use MS products because the company I work for is almost all Microsoft. And you know what? I don't give a damn. They can do what they want as long as I have a job that I enjoy. Regardless of what I use, Unix/MS/Mac products, there will always be new challenges and that is what I enjoy most.
1000 users is NOTHING to Exchange. You can easily do that on one server in a single site, and it'll run itself.
I'm sorry, but in my experience that simply isn't true. I've worked on a 500 user site running Exchange 5.0 on a quad-processor PPro with 512MB RAM, and it was completely bogged down. Normal end-user work wasn't particualarly slow, but trying to do *anything* on the server was painful. Any window activity regularly took several minutes between screen refreshes, and rebooting the server guarenteed an hour of downtime (30 min waiting for Exchange to shut down, 30 min waiting for it to start back up).
hmm.. at one point, we had 2000+ users on one exchange 5.5 box with a 60+ gig Information Store. The box was a quad PPro 200 w/768MB RAM. There were only occasional times that the system would bog down. 99% of the time, the system remained quite responsive. When I started at the company, I worked the helpdesk and we never had people complain about lost messages.
We have since then split the users between 4 exchange boxes and we still have no problems on the exchange servers..
It is all about knowledge and planning..
Happ(o)
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Given that Florida's election is being decided by a 400-vote difference, with 19,000 botched votes thrown out, I'd say the impossibility of clicking on two presidential choices at the same time makes this system a huge win.
I don't understand why everyone is making a big stink about the 19,000 some odd votes being thrown out.
Yes, I understand that those votes could make or break either canidate, but in the last election ('96) there were 15,000-16,000 votes thrown out then with considerably less people voting.
The amount of votes being voided is actually pretty normal. It always happens. If people had problems with the ballot before, why did they not complain before?
Slashdot Mirror
The standard BitTorrent client also allows you to throttle upstream bandwidth if you add a flag (--max_upload_rate xx and launch it from a command line. You can even throttle the number of upload streams (--max_uploads xx) if you so desire to. If you are used to the "point-and-click" world of Microsoft GUI then you never read any of the documentation, then you probably never knew this was possible.
As your site has now felt the effects of the Slashdot effect and given the recent article on how to overcome this effect, what changes will you put in place to assure your website remains responsive. As a followup, how would you relate the slashdot effect to real world economics.
They'll give it away and then try to charge people for it (Just make sure you keep the copyright and only sell them the right to distribute!)
Let SCO fight your legal battles. They should have plenty of experience by then.
Sell the rights to distribute it to SCO but keep the copyright to yourself..
Let SCO distribute it and then say they own it and start trying to charge people for it.
Let SCO fight your legal battles. They should have plenty of experience by then.
Microsoft is not really known for being "quick" about turning out anything.. if anything, they are more known for slipping release dates for "quality" (*cough* *cough*) reasons. Although I won't argue with them making it look glossy on the outside - Microsoft = Marketing..
- A quick solution does not always have to be a poor and dirty solution.
- A solution that takes a long time to develop and produce does not always equal a good and proper solution.
The goal would be a quick and proper solution that satisfies the need given a set of constraits (one of them being time).
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman.."
So don't charge a fee. Let others use your connection for free. Then you are still abiding by their terms since you are not collecting fees.
Then simply "ask" your neighbor for a " cash contribution" once in a while..
Call them the McDonalds of the chip world.
Soon, their slogan will be "Billions and Billions of chips shipped" (then maybe McDonalds could sue Intel for trademark infringment! woo!)
My question is how many of those chips are stil actually being used today? huh? How many of those 8086 chips are in use today? (maybe NASA still uses a few, eh?)
And of course, my final question: Sure, 1 billion chips.. but how many transistors have you shipped on those 1 billion chips?
>Sheesh, it's amazing how much the SCO PR department has in
>common with M$ PR department. They both must read slashdot and
>then formulate their responses accordingly.
They MS is where they got their "legal advice"
Personally, I didn't find Garcia's all that great.. now Papa Dels deep dish.. mmmmm... yummy stuff
And sendmail doesn't require an experienced admin to setup right? Granted, in this case, they already have unix/sendmail admins.
Also, plan on downtime. Unlike Unix mail systems, Exchange seems to need to be taken down for maintenance every so often. I'm not an Exchange admin, so don't ask me why, but every Exchange site I've worked at has had to do this.
We have several dedicated Exchange boxes that are up 24/7. Those almost never go down for maintenance. The only exchange boxes that get taken down in our infrastructure are the ones that run other things besides exchange.
All that being said, given a preference, I'd rather admin a unix box. I know and use MS products because the company I work for is almost all Microsoft. And you know what? I don't give a damn. They can do what they want as long as I have a job that I enjoy. Regardless of what I use, Unix/MS/Mac products, there will always be new challenges and that is what I enjoy most.
Happ(o)
I'm sorry, but in my experience that simply isn't true. I've worked on a 500 user site running Exchange 5.0 on a quad-processor PPro with 512MB RAM, and it was completely bogged down. Normal end-user work wasn't particualarly slow, but trying to do *anything* on the server was painful. Any window activity regularly took several minutes between screen refreshes, and rebooting the server guarenteed an hour of downtime (30 min waiting for Exchange to shut down, 30 min waiting for it to start back up).
hmm.. at one point, we had 2000+ users on one exchange 5.5 box with a 60+ gig Information Store. The box was a quad PPro 200 w/768MB RAM. There were only occasional times that the system would bog down. 99% of the time, the system remained quite responsive. When I started at the company, I worked the helpdesk and we never had people complain about lost messages.
We have since then split the users between 4 exchange boxes and we still have no problems on the exchange servers..
It is all about knowledge and planning..
Happ(o)Given that Florida's election is being decided by a 400-vote difference, with 19,000 botched votes thrown out, I'd say the impossibility of clicking on two presidential choices at the same time makes this system a huge win. I don't understand why everyone is making a big stink about the 19,000 some odd votes being thrown out. Yes, I understand that those votes could make or break either canidate, but in the last election ('96) there were 15,000-16,000 votes thrown out then with considerably less people voting. The amount of votes being voided is actually pretty normal. It always happens. If people had problems with the ballot before, why did they not complain before?