I upgraded my Toshiba Tecra M5 laptop (Core 2, 2GB, Nvidia) a few days ago to Karmic (AMD64), and no issues so far. I did the one-button upgrade in place, after doing the in-place upgrade to Intrepid when it came out. Boot is a little longer than I'd like (40 seconds from POST to desktop), but not out of line with the XP installation on the second partition. In fact, sleep seems to behave better (Toshiba rolls their own ACPI, and Intrepid didn't always bring back the screen when waking up), and my VPN connection to work, which I had given up on for a couple of weeks, suddenly started working.
In contrast, Windows 2000 and XP have actually got better and better supported over the years - more and more drivers were released that wouldn't BSOD the system, more and more software released that didn't require Administator privileges to run (or even install - many games and apps nowadays install fine without requiring admin). Yes support for Win2K is dropping, but that's after way more than 3 measly years.
Agreed. My Dell C640 (1.7GHz) runs CentOS and has a 60GB hard drive. It draws 12 watts at idle with the drive spun down and 13 watts spun up, measured at the wall. It had a broken screen, so I got it cheap off eBay.
Would you expect a car manufacturer to offer a 10 year warranty on all of their cars?
No, but I expect them to honor the warranty they already offered. Microsoft said that they would provide critical security updates to Windows XP until 2014. This is a pretty critical bug, but they decided to downgrade it so they don't have to fix it.
Most are not willing to lower their expectation below read-at-least-once data. Statistically speaking, you may be right, but read-possibly-never is not something to design backup systems around. The possibility of a full recovery over the Internet is what pushes me towards using local storage, though who says you shouldn't do both?
I agree, it makes you think twice before trusting this type of provider as your only backup, or worse, your primary data store. However, in instances such as this, I could see these units, further abstracted and made redundant by the software layer above, as a viable alternative to the big storage providers when you need tons of cheap storage and don't care about speed, or about "rolling your own" higher-level software.
Not only that, they seem to think there is no difference between block and file storage. This is an HTTP only NAS system backed by JFS. That would not be my first choice for many applications. I couldn't use this for most of my data center even if it did have a support infrastructure.
Note that this was by choice. They host backups for consumers' data (a la Carbonite.) Therefore, most of the data will be write-once, read-possibly-never. They chose HTTPS for the simplicity at the server end, and they won't have the IOPS requirements or bandwidth requirements that a high-end data center would need. (Carbonite, for instance, uses a fraction of a user's upstream bandwidth to trickle the data up, so that the consumer's Internet connection isn't hammered. There are an awful lot of consumers that have 384k-768k upstream, so massive speed isn't a requirement here.)
The fact that HTC put 64MB of RAM, to be shared between storage and working RAM, in a device that runs Windows Mobile is a crime. Well, that and the damned lack of a headphone jack unless you use an adapter.
It's funny how ISP's are perfectly happy to "protect the network" by filtering Bittorrent and newsgroups, capping data usage and blocking port 25, but still allow spoofed packets (and spoofed email headers) out.
And since IRC is used for command and control of the majority of zombie machines, it might be a good idea to filter out IRC for the general public and make it "opt in" for those who actually need it.
Exchange Server Standard is limited to 75GB for the message store. When the size of the entire mailbox store exceeds 75GB, you have to upgrade to Exchange Server Enteprise, which means more money and (if I'm not mistaken) rebuying your per-seat licensing as well. Large customers can save money by cramming more users into that 75GB.
My 2004 Ion has a leaky sunroof. The water is supposed to drain into the front fender well, but because of the design of the fender, dirt and debris eventually builds up and covers the drains. The water then drains into the car from the sunroof.
Saturn blamed the problem on the fit of the sunroof because "it's a plastic body, and they're all like that." No mention of why they couldn't just retrofit hoses from the current drain holes to go under the car. The "solution" was to go to the Saturn dealer once a winter and pay $150 for them to remove the fender line and clean out the area.
A side note: my '90 Accord will turn over 299,000 miles tomorrow, and the sunroof is still perfectly watertight.
My '04 Saturn has sunroof issues and clunky bushings that Saturn has no way to fix, my '99 Metro went through four manual transmission rebuilds and two A/C compressors in 100,000 miles, my friend's '94 Suburban had the transmission die at 80,000 miles, my dad's Saturn SL needed wheel bearings at 54,000 miles...
12 consumer level SATA drives by Samsung. What'd be interesting is to see how long it takes before it fails with complete data loss due to drive failure. Raid 5 isn't going to save this turkey.
I think that applies to any one company. If you spread your RAID out among similar-sized disks from different manufacturers, you stand less of a chance of a bad batch of drives (Deathstars) or firmware (yeah you, Seagate) dying in a short period of time.
9. Software raid is much easier to remotely admin online while using SSH and linux command line. Hardware raid often requires downtime and reboots.
I would imagine it's also easier to move a software array from one system to another. If your specialty RAID card dies, at a minimum you'll have to find another card to replace it with, and at worst the configuration is stored in the controller instead of on the disks, making the RAID worthless.
I was in an airport a couple of weeks ago (Denver?) The WiFi was "free", but they proxied all of your traffic through their servers and used that to encapsulate all web sites into a frame with advertisements above. They did allow SSH, so I just bypassed them by proxying my traffic through an SSH tunnel to my home machine.
The Windows 7 RC didn't have drivers for the AMD PCNet family of network cards, which are pretty darn popular cards installed in hundreds of thousands of HP computers.
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I upgraded my Toshiba Tecra M5 laptop (Core 2, 2GB, Nvidia) a few days ago to Karmic (AMD64), and no issues so far. I did the one-button upgrade in place, after doing the in-place upgrade to Intrepid when it came out. Boot is a little longer than I'd like (40 seconds from POST to desktop), but not out of line with the XP installation on the second partition. In fact, sleep seems to behave better (Toshiba rolls their own ACPI, and Intrepid didn't always bring back the screen when waking up), and my VPN connection to work, which I had given up on for a couple of weeks, suddenly started working.
In contrast, Windows 2000 and XP have actually got better and better supported over the years - more and more drivers were released that wouldn't BSOD the system, more and more software released that didn't require Administator privileges to run (or even install - many games and apps nowadays install fine without requiring admin). Yes support for Win2K is dropping, but that's after way more than 3 measly years.
Really? Last time I checked, Microsoft has said that it won't be patching known serious bugs in TCP/IP in Windows XP, even though they claim XP will be supported until 2014.
That's okay, I can just hire a developer to backport those patches... oh, wait.
I got a GV translation that just said, "com com com com com". When I actually listened to the voicemail, it turned out to be a fax machine calling me.
Agreed. My Dell C640 (1.7GHz) runs CentOS and has a 60GB hard drive. It draws 12 watts at idle with the drive spun down and 13 watts spun up, measured at the wall. It had a broken screen, so I got it cheap off eBay.
Would you expect a car manufacturer to offer a 10 year warranty on all of their cars?
No, but I expect them to honor the warranty they already offered. Microsoft said that they would provide critical security updates to Windows XP until 2014. This is a pretty critical bug, but they decided to downgrade it so they don't have to fix it.
Sounds like you need an ITAPPMONROBOT
Most are not willing to lower their expectation below read-at-least-once data. Statistically speaking, you may be right, but read-possibly-never is not something to design backup systems around. The possibility of a full recovery over the Internet is what pushes me towards using local storage, though who says you shouldn't do both?
I agree, it makes you think twice before trusting this type of provider as your only backup, or worse, your primary data store. However, in instances such as this, I could see these units, further abstracted and made redundant by the software layer above, as a viable alternative to the big storage providers when you need tons of cheap storage and don't care about speed, or about "rolling your own" higher-level software.
Not only that, they seem to think there is no difference between block and file storage. This is an HTTP only NAS system backed by JFS. That would not be my first choice for many applications. I couldn't use this for most of my data center even if it did have a support infrastructure.
Note that this was by choice. They host backups for consumers' data (a la Carbonite.) Therefore, most of the data will be write-once, read-possibly-never. They chose HTTPS for the simplicity at the server end, and they won't have the IOPS requirements or bandwidth requirements that a high-end data center would need. (Carbonite, for instance, uses a fraction of a user's upstream bandwidth to trickle the data up, so that the consumer's Internet connection isn't hammered. There are an awful lot of consumers that have 384k-768k upstream, so massive speed isn't a requirement here.)
[QUOTE]The problem is that you don't need a password to overwrite everything in /Applications.[/QUOTE] You must be running as an admin user.
Annnnnd.. I fail.
[QUOTE]The problem is that you don't need a password to overwrite everything in /Applications.[/QUOTE]
You must be running as an admin user.
Obviously you've modified it from stock then. As delivered, it had 205 hp, weighed over 4,000 pounds and did the quarter in a bit over 16 seconds.
The fact that HTC put 64MB of RAM, to be shared between storage and working RAM, in a device that runs Windows Mobile is a crime. Well, that and the damned lack of a headphone jack unless you use an adapter.
Shouldn't that be: I guess that means she found out that I'm going to have been tapping her sister.
Paging Dr. Streetmentioner, Dr. Dan Streetmentioner...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822440
It's funny how ISP's are perfectly happy to "protect the network" by filtering Bittorrent and newsgroups, capping data usage and blocking port 25, but still allow spoofed packets (and spoofed email headers) out.
And since IRC is used for command and control of the majority of zombie machines, it might be a good idea to filter out IRC for the general public and make it "opt in" for those who actually need it.
Exchange Server Standard is limited to 75GB for the message store. When the size of the entire mailbox store exceeds 75GB, you have to upgrade to Exchange Server Enteprise, which means more money and (if I'm not mistaken) rebuying your per-seat licensing as well. Large customers can save money by cramming more users into that 75GB.
My 2004 Ion has a leaky sunroof. The water is supposed to drain into the front fender well, but because of the design of the fender, dirt and debris eventually builds up and covers the drains. The water then drains into the car from the sunroof. Saturn blamed the problem on the fit of the sunroof because "it's a plastic body, and they're all like that." No mention of why they couldn't just retrofit hoses from the current drain holes to go under the car. The "solution" was to go to the Saturn dealer once a winter and pay $150 for them to remove the fender line and clean out the area. A side note: my '90 Accord will turn over 299,000 miles tomorrow, and the sunroof is still perfectly watertight. My '04 Saturn has sunroof issues and clunky bushings that Saturn has no way to fix, my '99 Metro went through four manual transmission rebuilds and two A/C compressors in 100,000 miles, my friend's '94 Suburban had the transmission die at 80,000 miles, my dad's Saturn SL needed wheel bearings at 54,000 miles...
12 consumer level SATA drives by Samsung. What'd be interesting is to see how long it takes before it fails with complete data loss due to drive failure. Raid 5 isn't going to save this turkey.
I think that applies to any one company. If you spread your RAID out among similar-sized disks from different manufacturers, you stand less of a chance of a bad batch of drives (Deathstars) or firmware (yeah you, Seagate) dying in a short period of time.
9. Software raid is much easier to remotely admin online while using SSH and linux command line. Hardware raid often requires downtime and reboots.
I would imagine it's also easier to move a software array from one system to another. If your specialty RAID card dies, at a minimum you'll have to find another card to replace it with, and at worst the configuration is stored in the controller instead of on the disks, making the RAID worthless.
The Decathlon averages about 17 mpg at 128 mph. There are certainly worse ways to screw up the earth than to go for a Sunday fly in one of these.
I was in an airport a couple of weeks ago (Denver?) The WiFi was "free", but they proxied all of your traffic through their servers and used that to encapsulate all web sites into a frame with advertisements above. They did allow SSH, so I just bypassed them by proxying my traffic through an SSH tunnel to my home machine.
Do people actually use such constricted environments for actual chatting?
A/S/L?
Because we want other states to subsidize us for a change.
Fortunately it seemed to work with an XP driver.
The Windows 7 RC didn't have drivers for the AMD PCNet family of network cards, which are pretty darn popular cards installed in hundreds of thousands of HP computers.