They have these really great baker's racks that can handle hundreds of pounds per shelf, and will allow airflow around the computer cases. The wireframe racks are great to hook pull-ties around too, makes the cabling neater. Casters on the feet mean you can roll 'em around to access the back. You can probably put everything on it, excepting for your monitor and keyboard; and with the space savings you ought to be able to fit a small desk in there.
Several other people have recommended rack setups, and for ultimate reliability and neatness I'd have to agree; but if your budget is small a backer's rack will do the job.
I remember seeing the first boxy mice and thinking they were funny looking. "What's the use of a keypad with only two buttons on it? What? You're supposed to MOVE it?"
And yes, I did have to walk to school when I was a child. Uphill. Both ways.
After reading all the responses to this post I notice no one's tried to answer the question, "how".
My first question is, how big is the database? If it's smaller than, oh, a few gigabytes, what I would do is use BitTorrent to distribute it. Tracker bandwidth shouldn't be large, and you'd want a dedicated seed server providing 20K/s of bandwidth. You'll probably also want to convince other people to run seeds, giving the downloaders more bang for their buck.
If the database proves to be unpopular, then the total torrent bandwidth will be slow, requiring people to spend days to download the data; but hey, at least they'll get it eventually. If it IS popular, then you won't be blowing your budget on your network connection.
If you're going to be serving more than a few connections at a time, it's easy for threads to eat monstrous amounts of resources. It's better if you can handle network connections via a single thread. On the other hand, moving other tasks to separate threads can help. For instance, you will probably want to run the UI with a separate thread (yes, even if it's text-only), and it's useful to be able to split file operations among several threads and let the OS optimize disk access.
This would be "mostly secure", but unless strict data-space separation would use it might still be vulnerable to a buffer overflow or similar attack that would allow arbitrary code provided as data to be executed. The attacker would use this opportunity to establish a "beachhead", modifying whatever integrity-checking system the OS is using to allow it to continue to exist.
I don't know if eefoof.com will be able to make it by sharing their revenue when youtube is rapidly losing money while keeping all of its own. The bandwidth requirements for serving video are nasty. Unless they switch to a p2p-amplified system (or find a much less expensive bandwidth source) they're probably frelled.
There was a plan to make a launch vehicle (unmanned) using 4 of the same boosters that help put the shuttle in orbit; it probably wouldn't be difficult to put together, and would have a huge lofting capability.
OTOH Vonage has some drawbacks... Here in El Paso, TX, retailers like Best Buy are selling Vonage's VoIP appliances on endcap displays and offering great rebate deals - and it's not until you bring the thing home, unpack it and try to sign up that you find out Vonage can't give you a phone # in El Paso's 915 area code.
Even if Al is making less per song, does that mean anyone who bought one of his songs or records from iTunes would've otherwise purchased a brand new CD? Or might they have bought a used one, or none at all?
In a word, yes. Mandating perks to employees who work more than 36 hours a week means it's in the company's best interests to have as few people work full-time as possible. Unintended consequences are as real as the intended ones.
And as for "pure profit" - not every company has huge profit margins. If it weren't for profits, those companies and their products wouldn't exist.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Google own Keyhole, which commands a few satellites? The sats certainly aren't dedicated to Google Earth, but I'm sure the GE staff can request some tasks.
IMO working two jobs simply dissipates one's ability to concentrate on one's work. The main reason so many people are working multiple jobs is because of the burdens imposed on employers when they try to work people full-time or on overtime. While I can understand sympathy for workers who are forced to work MORE hours than they'd prefer, the current regulations also hold back those who would prefer to keep at it for more than 36 hours a week.
So let ISPs start giving priority on bandwidth for some things, and maybe limit bandwidth for others. Over time, let people yell and scream, and companies figure out ways to provide premium services without irking their customers too much, and ten years from now when everyone has 25-megabit connections no one will care because even "low tier" bandwidth will be enough for a couple of high-quality video streams simultaneously.
Laptop and cell phone battery life and performance do affect a lot of people, but what's given me the most grief is batteries for power tools. They're quirky, the companies discontinue them after a few years forcing you to buy new tools, and some tools are so power-hungry they run through 'em in minutes. Give a cordless circular saw an alcohol fuel cell and a 1/2 liter tank and contractors will snap them up by the thousands.
Rather than using a thumb drive, I recommend you use a redundant system at the branch, either a full redundant cluster or a segregated backup server if you want to do it on a budget. Then do incremental backups over the internet either between branches or to a central repository. The amount of data generated by even a large bank branch over the course of the day will be relatively small and can be shipped over the net in minutes. (You'll of course want good security for your internet link, with an airgap, bans on anything except backup communications and perhaps http with serious filtering on web access.)
With this arrangement, if there's a local failure in the computers you can be back up and running in minutes rather than having to go out and get a new server to reload your system on; but if something happens that's serious enough to take out both your main system and the backup server, chances are you won't be opening for business immediately anyway, and your data will be well-protected off-site.
I don't believe we're heading for a recession, per se. What I think we're going to have is what's been labeled "stagflation" - higher prices, salaries not adjusting, and people essentially getting poorer because their dollars won't buy as much. The good news is, it's slightly better than hyperinflation, because things will eventually readjust; the bad news is, it'll still be very painful.
I've been following the stock market, and in my opinion we're not seeing a bubble. We're not even seeing a rise. In my opinion the value of the stock market has been reflecting inflation in the US dollar and in other currencies around the world. We aren't seeing all of it in the stores - yet - but it's coming. The prices of precious metals are a good indicator of what's going on.
Here's some computers I'd recommend you try to get. Each represents one or more milestones to what we now consider commonplace. (I've left out some of the more obvious ones; please forgive me if I've named some you consider obvious.)
Desktops: Commodore PET 2001 (color chicklet keyboard). Sinclair ZX-80/81. Coleco Adam. DEC Rainbow 100. Amiga 2000.
Portables: TRS-80 Model 100/102. Osborne 1. Compaq suitcase PC. HP 200LX. Apple Newton. Toshiba T1000.
I'm not certain what site Mr. Fomitchev was benchmarking, but on one website I administer, I get ~25,000 unique visitors per day, and nearly 20,000 downloads of the 3.5 megabyte software package on the site. Now, I don't believe very many people will be downloading multiple copies of the software, nor do I think most of the bots that hit the page are going to waste their downstream to grab copies, either.
What is the IRS going to DO with stores of in-game currency? Are they going to use it to pad the defense budget, to obtain milspec +6 orcslayers? (Actually there are some neat weapons they can use in Eve Online...)
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Shiggity-shiggity-shwa.
(No, it's not a real ad, but it's the first thing that popped into my head.)
They have these really great baker's racks that can handle hundreds of pounds per shelf, and will allow airflow around the computer cases. The wireframe racks are great to hook pull-ties around too, makes the cabling neater. Casters on the feet mean you can roll 'em around to access the back. You can probably put everything on it, excepting for your monitor and keyboard; and with the space savings you ought to be able to fit a small desk in there.
Several other people have recommended rack setups, and for ultimate reliability and neatness I'd have to agree; but if your budget is small a backer's rack will do the job.
Reverse the door. You'll want pinned hinges so the room's still secure, but that'll buy you a LOT of extra space.
I remember seeing the first boxy mice and thinking they were funny looking. "What's the use of a keypad with only two buttons on it? What? You're supposed to MOVE it?"
And yes, I did have to walk to school when I was a child. Uphill. Both ways.
No, no, you're being far too verbose. The correct usage is:
Hey y'all! Watch this!
Should you ever hear such a statement, please be sure to run away as quickly as you can.
After reading all the responses to this post I notice no one's tried to answer the question, "how".
My first question is, how big is the database? If it's smaller than, oh, a few gigabytes, what I would do is use BitTorrent to distribute it. Tracker bandwidth shouldn't be large, and you'd want a dedicated seed server providing 20K/s of bandwidth. You'll probably also want to convince other people to run seeds, giving the downloaders more bang for their buck.
If the database proves to be unpopular, then the total torrent bandwidth will be slow, requiring people to spend days to download the data; but hey, at least they'll get it eventually. If it IS popular, then you won't be blowing your budget on your network connection.
If you're going to be serving more than a few connections at a time, it's easy for threads to eat monstrous amounts of resources. It's better if you can handle network connections via a single thread. On the other hand, moving other tasks to separate threads can help. For instance, you will probably want to run the UI with a separate thread (yes, even if it's text-only), and it's useful to be able to split file operations among several threads and let the OS optimize disk access.
This would be "mostly secure", but unless strict data-space separation would use it might still be vulnerable to a buffer overflow or similar attack that would allow arbitrary code provided as data to be executed. The attacker would use this opportunity to establish a "beachhead", modifying whatever integrity-checking system the OS is using to allow it to continue to exist.
I don't know if eefoof.com will be able to make it by sharing their revenue when youtube is rapidly losing money while keeping all of its own. The bandwidth requirements for serving video are nasty. Unless they switch to a p2p-amplified system (or find a much less expensive bandwidth source) they're probably frelled.
There was a plan to make a launch vehicle (unmanned) using 4 of the same boosters that help put the shuttle in orbit; it probably wouldn't be difficult to put together, and would have a huge lofting capability.
OTOH Vonage has some drawbacks... Here in El Paso, TX, retailers like Best Buy are selling Vonage's VoIP appliances on endcap displays and offering great rebate deals - and it's not until you bring the thing home, unpack it and try to sign up that you find out Vonage can't give you a phone # in El Paso's 915 area code.
Even if Al is making less per song, does that mean anyone who bought one of his songs or records from iTunes would've otherwise purchased a brand new CD? Or might they have bought a used one, or none at all?
In a word, yes. Mandating perks to employees who work more than 36 hours a week means it's in the company's best interests to have as few people work full-time as possible. Unintended consequences are as real as the intended ones.
And as for "pure profit" - not every company has huge profit margins. If it weren't for profits, those companies and their products wouldn't exist.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Google own Keyhole, which commands a few satellites? The sats certainly aren't dedicated to Google Earth, but I'm sure the GE staff can request some tasks.
IMO working two jobs simply dissipates one's ability to concentrate on one's work. The main reason so many people are working multiple jobs is because of the burdens imposed on employers when they try to work people full-time or on overtime. While I can understand sympathy for workers who are forced to work MORE hours than they'd prefer, the current regulations also hold back those who would prefer to keep at it for more than 36 hours a week.
I wonder (1) how recent and what resolution Google Earth's latest imagery is, and (2) can we get them to take another shot ASAP and compare them?
So let ISPs start giving priority on bandwidth for some things, and maybe limit bandwidth for others. Over time, let people yell and scream, and companies figure out ways to provide premium services without irking their customers too much, and ten years from now when everyone has 25-megabit connections no one will care because even "low tier" bandwidth will be enough for a couple of high-quality video streams simultaneously.
This is a great excuse to launch a few thousand starwisps outbound.
...show me the tools!
Laptop and cell phone battery life and performance do affect a lot of people, but what's given me the most grief is batteries for power tools. They're quirky, the companies discontinue them after a few years forcing you to buy new tools, and some tools are so power-hungry they run through 'em in minutes. Give a cordless circular saw an alcohol fuel cell and a 1/2 liter tank and contractors will snap them up by the thousands.
Rather than using a thumb drive, I recommend you use a redundant system at the branch, either a full redundant cluster or a segregated backup server if you want to do it on a budget. Then do incremental backups over the internet either between branches or to a central repository. The amount of data generated by even a large bank branch over the course of the day will be relatively small and can be shipped over the net in minutes. (You'll of course want good security for your internet link, with an airgap, bans on anything except backup communications and perhaps http with serious filtering on web access.)
With this arrangement, if there's a local failure in the computers you can be back up and running in minutes rather than having to go out and get a new server to reload your system on; but if something happens that's serious enough to take out both your main system and the backup server, chances are you won't be opening for business immediately anyway, and your data will be well-protected off-site.
I don't believe we're heading for a recession, per se. What I think we're going to have is what's been labeled "stagflation" - higher prices, salaries not adjusting, and people essentially getting poorer because their dollars won't buy as much. The good news is, it's slightly better than hyperinflation, because things will eventually readjust; the bad news is, it'll still be very painful.
I've been following the stock market, and in my opinion we're not seeing a bubble. We're not even seeing a rise. In my opinion the value of the stock market has been reflecting inflation in the US dollar and in other currencies around the world. We aren't seeing all of it in the stores - yet - but it's coming. The prices of precious metals are a good indicator of what's going on.
Here's some computers I'd recommend you try to get. Each represents one or more milestones to what we now consider commonplace. (I've left out some of the more obvious ones; please forgive me if I've named some you consider obvious.)
Desktops:
Commodore PET 2001 (color chicklet keyboard).
Sinclair ZX-80/81.
Coleco Adam.
DEC Rainbow 100.
Amiga 2000.
Portables:
TRS-80 Model 100/102.
Osborne 1.
Compaq suitcase PC.
HP 200LX.
Apple Newton.
Toshiba T1000.
I'm not certain what site Mr. Fomitchev was benchmarking, but on one website I administer, I get ~25,000 unique visitors per day, and nearly 20,000 downloads of the 3.5 megabyte software package on the site. Now, I don't believe very many people will be downloading multiple copies of the software, nor do I think most of the bots that hit the page are going to waste their downstream to grab copies, either.
What is the IRS going to DO with stores of in-game currency? Are they going to use it to pad the defense budget, to obtain milspec +6 orcslayers? (Actually there are some neat weapons they can use in Eve Online...)