Especially for enterprise systems. Can you imagine being the IT manager that has to tell the Vice-President of a company that he cannot access his files on the server, because a processor overheated? Better start looking on monster.com...:-)
It is kinda like back in the day when I ran a BBS, a friend of mine hacked command.com and changed the name for del, so that if someone was able to exploit my doorway, they wouldn't be able to delete anything. I'm sure someone could have tried to cause havoc by moving things around, but I would atleast still have my logs to figure out which punk did it....:-)
Sun has already accounted for this, because you can set up multiple servers. When one goes down, it's responsibilities are served with another machine. This would rarely happen, because sun servers are rock solid. I have never had one crash on me!
I don't know how many enterprise systems you have worked on, but most keep their data on a SAN or a dedicated fileserver with redundant controllers, and disks. The odds of losing data on modern storage arrays is near 0.
I really wonder how many/.ers don't use IE. I personally don't use IE, because I move between Windoze, Sun, and Linux platforms so much it is nice to have a common interface. I use netscape on Win and Sun, and Mozilla on Linux. I don't want to have to remember O on Windows, and L on mozilla, etc...:-)
I would think that Verizon, being a mega-merger massive telco who owns basically the entire Atlantic coast is tied directly into the backbone of the Internet, and doesn't pay anyone for access.
You forgot the most important thing, the stereo system.
Get about 30 kicker 15" subwoofers and power them with your own neuclear power plant (available from another russian agency). Then you would be ghetto fabulous!
I'm sure that for Verizon, bandwidth is cheap. They probably have a dozen or so OC48/192/... lines running from my CO to their office downtown. Even at prime times like 6-10pm I get the exact bandwidth they promised. With Time Warner, etc bandwidth is probably much more expensive, so they tend to oversubscribe more. Plus it is nice being able to listen on ports and run a server....
DSL is the only real option for broadband, unless you live in the ghetto, then TW would probably be able to deliver on there promises, because you will be the only one on the network.
The problem with your ISP's test site is that it is on the same network. Cable networks have "gateways" to the internet, and the problem with Road Runner in Tampa/St. Pete is that they don't have that many gateways per neighborhood, and sometimes it can get worse speeds than a 56K modem. That is why I switched to DSL, it is a always reliable connection, and I know no one is hogging my share of the pipe.
Or like the simpsons episode where Bart asks Buck McCoy what material a old lunch box was made of. And he said "metal, they used to make everything out of metal, lunchboxes, cars...."
Not to mention the extra load to the nation's already overloaded power grid! California remember black-outs, can you imagine adding a couple thousand electric cars/hygrogen feul cell cars to your power grid?
I only have IE on my machine, just in case I need it for a particular site. I still think that NS is a better browser, probably because I go between Win, Linux, and Solaris machines all day. I hate IE with a passion, because if MSFT didn't include IE with Windows, netscape would still be the premier browser. Pretty soon Windows 2004 will include Office (at a substantial price increase), and MSFT will say that Office is an essential (and non-removable) part of a modern operating system.
Actually the fragmentation of windows would probably help the computer industry. When was the last time microsoft innovated? Maybe when they ported BASIC to the Z80?:-) Here is a list of MSFT innovations.
DOS (Nope, bought that)
Windows (Stole that from many different companies)
DriveSpace (Stole that from Stac)
IE (Nope, just muscled Netscape out by including it in windows) .NET (Basically got pissed at Sun over the whole Java mess)
64 bit OS? (has been available in *nix space for years)
I don't know if I would drive around in a car with a tank full of hydrogen in it. Gives a new meaning to back fire. I can just see someone leveling their garage or house.:-)
Yeah, that is all marketing hype, and most of the technically inclined should know to just read through all of that crap. Intel P4 1.4Ghz or USIII 1.0 Ghz, hmmmm Intel has more Ghz's so that must be better (Kinda like AOL vs. DSL, AOL is already there on my computer, so it must be better).
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Especially for enterprise systems. Can you imagine being the IT manager that has to tell the Vice-President of a company that he cannot access his files on the server, because a processor overheated? Better start looking on monster.com... :-)
Your forgot about Panaphonics.... It was something involving magnet-box, panaphonics, and sorny...
It is kinda like back in the day when I ran a BBS, a friend of mine hacked command.com and changed the name for del, so that if someone was able to exploit my doorway, they wouldn't be able to delete anything. I'm sure someone could have tried to cause havoc by moving things around, but I would atleast still have my logs to figure out which punk did it.... :-)
When you criticize someone you should probably check out your facts. RTFL (Read The Fscking Link) :-)
As Austin Powers would say "That is not a woman, it's a man baby!".
Sun has already accounted for this, because you can set up multiple servers. When one goes down, it's responsibilities are served with another machine. This would rarely happen, because sun servers are rock solid. I have never had one crash on me!
I don't know how many enterprise systems you have worked on, but most keep their data on a SAN or a dedicated fileserver with redundant controllers, and disks. The odds of losing data on modern storage arrays is near 0.
Funny, IE isn't my browser of choice ...
/.ers don't use IE. I personally don't use IE, because I move between Windoze, Sun, and Linux platforms so much it is nice to have a common interface. I use netscape on Win and Sun, and Mozilla on Linux. I don't want to have to remember O on Windows, and L on mozilla, etc... :-)
I really wonder how many
7 Character? Which 7? a, b, c, d, e, f, g? I think you mean 7 bit.
I have used these machines, and they are very slick!
Sorry boys and girls, you have to buy the CD if you want to see it, encoding of the song into a lossy format destroys the image.
Have you ever heard of writing an ISO image of the CD, and burning the ISO image. That is how I share^H^H^H^H^H pirate all of my music.
She was charmed when I played with her top, it made me get up, then she went down and then I felt strange.
RealNames had the stupidest "technology" ever. It is just like a "Jump to conclusions mat".
I would think that Verizon, being a mega-merger massive telco who owns basically the entire Atlantic coast is tied directly into the backbone of the Internet, and doesn't pay anyone for access.
You forgot the most important thing, the stereo system.
Get about 30 kicker 15" subwoofers and power them with your own neuclear power plant (available from another russian agency). Then you would be ghetto fabulous!
I'm sure that for Verizon, bandwidth is cheap. They probably have a dozen or so OC48/192/... lines running from my CO to their office downtown. Even at prime times like 6-10pm I get the exact bandwidth they promised. With Time Warner, etc bandwidth is probably much more expensive, so they tend to oversubscribe more. Plus it is nice being able to listen on ports and run a server....
DSL is the only real option for broadband, unless you live in the ghetto, then TW would probably be able to deliver on there promises, because you will be the only one on the network.
The problem with your ISP's test site is that it is on the same network. Cable networks have "gateways" to the internet, and the problem with Road Runner in Tampa/St. Pete is that they don't have that many gateways per neighborhood, and sometimes it can get worse speeds than a 56K modem. That is why I switched to DSL, it is a always reliable connection, and I know no one is hogging my share of the pipe.
Say that everybody in the US was injured by microsoft's abuse of monopolistic powers, and award all citizens 153.25.
:-)
153.25 * 261mln = 40bln...
Where is my check?
"Step 1: Invest in Microsoft. Step 2:
Could Step 2 be sell it short?
Or like the simpsons episode where Bart asks Buck McCoy what material a old lunch box was made of. And he said "metal, they used to make everything out of metal, lunchboxes, cars...."
Max Headrom sold Coke, not pepsi!
This would be perfect for going into CompUSA and stealing software, much better than an iPod.
Not to mention the extra load to the nation's already overloaded power grid! California remember black-outs, can you imagine adding a couple thousand electric cars/hygrogen feul cell cars to your power grid?
It works in IE, but not NS 4.7 or NS 6.2.... Thank god I don't use IE...
I only have IE on my machine, just in case I need it for a particular site. I still think that NS is a better browser, probably because I go between Win, Linux, and Solaris machines all day. I hate IE with a passion, because if MSFT didn't include IE with Windows, netscape would still be the premier browser. Pretty soon Windows 2004 will include Office (at a substantial price increase), and MSFT will say that Office is an essential (and non-removable) part of a modern operating system.
Actually the fragmentation of windows would probably help the computer industry. When was the last time microsoft innovated? Maybe when they ported BASIC to the Z80? :-) Here is a list of MSFT innovations.
.NET (Basically got pissed at Sun over the whole Java mess)
DOS (Nope, bought that)
Windows (Stole that from many different companies)
DriveSpace (Stole that from Stac)
IE (Nope, just muscled Netscape out by including it in windows)
64 bit OS? (has been available in *nix space for years)
I don't know if I would drive around in a car with a tank full of hydrogen in it. Gives a new meaning to back fire. I can just see someone leveling their garage or house. :-)
Yeah, that is all marketing hype, and most of the technically inclined should know to just read through all of that crap. Intel P4 1.4Ghz or USIII 1.0 Ghz, hmmmm Intel has more Ghz's so that must be better (Kinda like AOL vs. DSL, AOL is already there on my computer, so it must be better).