Or, as Larry Page (that's the right guy right? I can only remember Serguey Brin for sure) said, google was a typo and googol.com was already taken so it all worked out in the end. Furthermore, most people think it's really google and not googol.
Why not put the software in a standard tamper proof bag? They're used all the time to carry currency and valuable documents (to make sure the armored transport/trucking company has not open the bags.) They are cheap, one shot and the only way to open them is to destroy them. Big fat markings on it that opening the bag implies that the conveniently included EULA has been accepted. If the software is returned still in the bag it has not been tampered with and thus it hasn't been duplicated.
Now all that's left is to buy 10 million piece of microsoft software and return them still in their bags. Lather, rinse and repeat, how many cardboard boxes and printed licenses can 40 billion $ buy?;-)
Really, my samsung cell phone needs charging about twice a week and it's never off. The battery is half the weight of my old Motorola Star-tac (digital). It too needed two charges a week. So 10 hours would be a huge step back.
Costly? Get two similar HD and swap the PCB. Chances are decent that only the PCB was dead, there ya go all the data and no need to load up some forensic software to read the deleted data since the drive is assumed "dead".
Yes, I have done this and recovered valuable information. Of course, Both drives where mine anyway, but still.
Do you honnestly want me to believe that you have 220GB of "valuable" data?
Right!
Remove the MP3 collection, sure it's time consuming to create, but you can archive it once to CD, the songs don't change.
Remove your movie collection (see above)
Remove your software (It's less trouble to reinstall them, usually. Exceptions are either custom (make a CD with a doc on how to install) or pirated (You could make a CD. Is it worth it?)
What do you have left? Probably your e-mails, bookmarks and the 16 odd documents from the likes of word and excel, most of which are no longer relevant. Possibly your tax/accounting data. Like 500k of it.
I've had a half rack with 24/7 access at Worldcom Canada in Montreal. Nice data center with everything routed through ceiling railings
Dual-redundant, UPS and Gen-set backed up electrical outlet pairs at every rack (and a third non-backed-up pair for screens, kvm, etc.) They provide you with a Puzzlini failover power bar (near instant switch from primary power cable to secondary, using it, they moved my rack physically by about 40 feets without cutting power or noticeable network outage. That covers electricity.
Bandwidth was a 100 mbps full-duplex linked terminated at a cisco 2640 (I think, the biggest 2600 anyway) in the rack. We had 3 mbps burstable to 7.5 (the limit was so we didn't blow our cap, Worldcom measures bandwidth use every minute or so from the router, throws out the top 5% and bill you for the highest value left over.)
You get the IP block you need. We had 16, but that's what we had asked for.
We had biometric access to the datacenter, then check-in with the 24 hours security guard and we had an electronic locking device for the cabinet (Nice touch, Worldcom staff cannot open cabinet, -24DC on the contacts of the device would... (They were phasing that out I believe for end-to-end biometrics.)
FM-200 (or was it CO2 displacement?) Fire suppression system.
50 feet from the MCI OC-192, 40 feet from the trans-canadian OC-48 backbone...
Multiple redundant massive liebert HVAC units, Power Distribution units and battery banks, 300kw, 700kw and 4mw gen-set (First two worldcom and last one the building.)
We paid about 2100$ in 2000 for it. I don't know their current pricing. It's steep but you can save some by shaving on customer-access (24 hours notice access was 700$ per full rack, versus 700$ per half-rack for 24/7 customer access.)
Please remember these are 2 years old prices in Canadian dollars (USD$1 for CDN$1.56 last I checked)
The system had 500 days uptime until about 57 days ago (Except one, but with 2 blown disks on 3 disks RAID-5 it's not going anywhere). Also, if you don't pay your bill in a timely fashion, they will cut your route quickly. Don't expect them to wait more then 90 days for payment.... I don't know if they take credit card, but they do make quarterly payment arrangements.
That is so true. At my bank, they have a cheesy windows based account management system. Last time I opened an account, the employee spent about 30 minutes trying to make the system accept that I wanted an account. Something always snagged, stupid little things. Then she went to the basement to use the 3270, 5 minutes later I had an account. It probably took her 3 minutes to type my name considering her typing skills.
I've also done data entry on a well designed windows NT system. Such a thing exist. It basically boils down to consistent interface. That and the system was intelligent about where the focus for keyboard was at every point. You could tell that the whole interface was built (by UNISYS) to conform perfectly to the work flow. F-keys used to set the values of drop-downs. The same F-Key would also move from the number entry field to its drop-down menu automagically. All in all, mostly similar to my 3270 data entry experience.
65000 rows in 5 tables is not small potato, it's inconsequential. It will fit all in RAM on anything recent. Performance will obviously be miles better.
A more realistic test would have been 1000000 rows in 15-20 tables. That's more on the line of the kind of system I've seen. Maybe on the small side.
For the record, give Pg 2 processors, 1 gig of ram, fast raid scsi discs and configure it properly. I swear you'll think your dealing with 65000 rows no matter what you do (but don't screw up the indices, use EXPLAIN a lot.)
I'm surprised no one mentionned piggybacking on port 53 UDP. No one can afford to block that port and comprehensive filtering would be prohibitive in CPU cost for large links. DNS over TCP exists, but the overhead is not exactly light.
If you have some name of program used before LaTeX and still in use, could you name them for us? Thank you!
*I* still use troff (groff actually) and I've typesetted equations and tables with eqn and tbl. It worked just fine. And it has been working for quite some times now. After all run-off was the first practical unix software (with ed).
You could probably have built in web access to these things too and check out her online profile.
And you could use her online profile to find out her IP and hack her bionic goggles to match her idea of a perfect mate, her bionic ears so you sound good and maybe her nose too, if your cleaning habits are questionnable...
Of course, when she removes the goggle, she's in for a shock;-)
With a little device like this, I could move my "Computer" from home to work, have the laptop be a "dock" for the computer.
Taking it one step further, an industry standard device could allow one to buy laptops as a chassis with engine. I could buy the Thinkpad X's chassis and plop in a transmeta computing module to get 2x the battery life.
Since you didn't read the article, I'll refresh your memory, they're running an IBM 36GB SCSI disk with a Fast/Wide SCSI adapter. Somehow, I fail to see IDE in there.
Penguin Computing friction slide rails for 1U system are consistently 1/8th - 1/16th of an inch off. This, obviously, fucks up with our networking gear (which is dead on the money (cisco)) and home made systems (they line up together and with the net stuff..) but our penguins are off.
Indeed, one would dare guess that 4 b-52's full of cluster ammunition would be a whole lot scarier to Joe Random Infantryman then that snappy stealth bomber.
Alex
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It is supposed to be a full-version that arrives on your desktop, right? So that does sound like I will be "borrowing a copy from someone else.", right? So why is it is that when that someone else is a large corporation this is classified as renting, and is legal but my lending the CD is *wrong*/*evil*/*illegal*/immoral*/pick your term..
Because when you "rent", you either:
Pay huge premium on the title (a la video store.)
Share the revenue with the publisher (the same way blockbuster does.)
This also means that you need an arrangement with the puyblisher, probably the reason they only have 6 titles. I mean, Unreal Tournament has already been reaping cash for so long it's worth trying to rent. It was probably a good title to try this technology, it has already made most of it's cash and it is succesfull.
I would venture to say that EB1 is an innovative experiment that has great potential. The model that Duet and MusicNet are pursuing with their service is a monthly subscription to access a certain number of titles. I know I would subscribe to get access to like 10 or 15 titles per month to play.
In fact, I am ready to bet that offering say 100 game/hours increment (that is being able to play up to 100 games for 1 hour or 100 hours of a game or any combinations) would be a succesfull, lucrative business. The market might not be ready yet, but it could easily develop.
This would mean more revenues and more diversity. Succesfull games would be leased very often (say 20-30 hours per player on average) and lemons would get only an hour. This means that games like Project IGI that take about 15 hours to play through wouldn't be very succesfull, but that games like Halflife could get hundreds of hours of download (or just be bought outright for competitive prices like 40$ - (hours_played)).
Maybe Microsoft was right, the future of software is in renting.
I might also add that penguin Relion 110/120 have Super 370 Mobo's with only one 64-bit PCI slot (and a riser) and dual integrated Ultra160, dual Socket 370, 4 GB ram and dual NICs. The 100 are more "consumer", but the 120/110's have been out since nearly a year and about 2 months respectively.
Now, in 1U system, it usually means 1 PCI slot on the riser. There are physical limitation to putting 2 in the same case. It would be possible, but it would require "friendly" placement of the CPU and it's fan to make it feasable. As well as well designed risers and a backplate that would prevent you from have KVM access...
I think that being able to install free software on as many platforms as possible is a good thing. GCC under Solaris is a whole lot cheaper then Sun's solutions and does the trick. I use VIM on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and I've used it on Solaris and HP-UX. Why? Cause it kicks some serious butts. What would I do if the license was as restrictive as Open Motif's?
Flipr is a p2p music sharing software that will only share content that has been "cleared" by their copyright holders. In plain old MP3 format without subscription fees.
I think this would be a "constructive" use of p2p.
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Or, as Larry Page (that's the right guy right? I can only remember Serguey Brin for sure) said, google was a typo and googol.com was already taken so it all worked out in the end. Furthermore, most people think it's really google and not googol.
Alex
Why not put the software in a standard tamper proof bag? They're used all the time to carry currency and valuable documents (to make sure the armored transport/trucking company has not open the bags.) They are cheap, one shot and the only way to open them is to destroy them. Big fat markings on it that opening the bag implies that the conveniently included EULA has been accepted. If the software is returned still in the bag it has not been tampered with and thus it hasn't been duplicated.
;-)
Now all that's left is to buy 10 million piece of microsoft software and return them still in their bags. Lather, rinse and repeat, how many cardboard boxes and printed licenses can 40 billion $ buy?
Alex
Really, my samsung cell phone needs charging about twice a week and it's never off. The battery is half the weight of my old Motorola Star-tac (digital). It too needed two charges a week. So 10 hours would be a huge step back.
Alex
Costly? Get two similar HD and swap the PCB. Chances are decent that only the PCB was dead, there ya go all the data and no need to load up some forensic software to read the deleted data since the drive is assumed "dead".
Yes, I have done this and recovered valuable information. Of course, Both drives where mine anyway, but still.
AlexDo you honnestly want me to believe that you have 220GB of "valuable" data?
Right!
Remove the MP3 collection, sure it's time consuming to create, but you can archive it once to CD, the songs don't change.
Remove your movie collection (see above)
Remove your software (It's less trouble to reinstall them, usually. Exceptions are either custom (make a CD with a doc on how to install) or pirated (You could make a CD. Is it worth it?)
What do you have left? Probably your e-mails, bookmarks and the 16 odd documents from the likes of word and excel, most of which are no longer relevant. Possibly your tax/accounting data. Like 500k of it.
Hmm, looks like that fits on a 2GB DDS-1 tape.
I've had a half rack with 24/7 access at Worldcom Canada in Montreal. Nice data center with everything routed through ceiling railings
Dual-redundant, UPS and Gen-set backed up electrical outlet pairs at every rack (and a third non-backed-up pair for screens, kvm, etc.) They provide you with a Puzzlini failover power bar (near instant switch from primary power cable to secondary, using it, they moved my rack physically by about 40 feets without cutting power or noticeable network outage. That covers electricity.
Bandwidth was a 100 mbps full-duplex linked terminated at a cisco 2640 (I think, the biggest 2600 anyway) in the rack. We had 3 mbps burstable to 7.5 (the limit was so we didn't blow our cap, Worldcom measures bandwidth use every minute or so from the router, throws out the top 5% and bill you for the highest value left over.)
You get the IP block you need. We had 16, but that's what we had asked for.
We had biometric access to the datacenter, then check-in with the 24 hours security guard and we had an electronic locking device for the cabinet (Nice touch, Worldcom staff cannot open cabinet, -24DC on the contacts of the device would... (They were phasing that out I believe for end-to-end biometrics.)
FM-200 (or was it CO2 displacement?) Fire suppression system.
50 feet from the MCI OC-192, 40 feet from the trans-canadian OC-48 backbone...
Multiple redundant massive liebert HVAC units, Power Distribution units and battery banks, 300kw, 700kw and 4mw gen-set (First two worldcom and last one the building.)
We paid about 2100$ in 2000 for it. I don't know their current pricing. It's steep but you can save some by shaving on customer-access (24 hours notice access was 700$ per full rack, versus 700$ per half-rack for 24/7 customer access.)
Please remember these are 2 years old prices in Canadian dollars (USD$1 for CDN$1.56 last I checked)
The system had 500 days uptime until about 57 days ago (Except one, but with 2 blown disks on 3 disks RAID-5 it's not going anywhere). Also, if you don't pay your bill in a timely fashion, they will cut your route quickly. Don't expect them to wait more then 90 days for payment.... I don't know if they take credit card, but they do make quarterly payment arrangements.
Alex, Ex-statisfied customer.
That is so true. At my bank, they have a cheesy windows based account management system. Last time I opened an account, the employee spent about 30 minutes trying to make the system accept that I wanted an account. Something always snagged, stupid little things. Then she went to the basement to use the 3270, 5 minutes later I had an account. It probably took her 3 minutes to type my name considering her typing skills.
I've also done data entry on a well designed windows NT system. Such a thing exist. It basically boils down to consistent interface. That and the system was intelligent about where the focus for keyboard was at every point. You could tell that the whole interface was built (by UNISYS) to conform perfectly to the work flow. F-keys used to set the values of drop-downs. The same F-Key would also move from the number entry field to its drop-down menu automagically. All in all, mostly similar to my 3270 data entry experience.
65000 rows in 5 tables is not small potato, it's inconsequential. It will fit all in RAM on anything recent. Performance will obviously be miles better.
A more realistic test would have been 1000000 rows in 15-20 tables. That's more on the line of the kind of system I've seen. Maybe on the small side.
For the record, give Pg 2 processors, 1 gig of ram, fast raid scsi discs and configure it properly. I swear you'll think your dealing with 65000 rows no matter what you do (but don't screw up the indices, use EXPLAIN a lot.)
Alex
In addition to no ads, you also get access to a lot of content. I find that I get my 30$ worth.
Alex
I'm surprised no one mentionned piggybacking on port 53 UDP. No one can afford to block that port and comprehensive filtering would be prohibitive in CPU cost for large links. DNS over TCP exists, but the overhead is not exactly light.
Alex
If you have some name of program used before LaTeX and still in use, could you name them for us? Thank you!
*I* still use troff (groff actually) and I've typesetted equations and tables with eqn and tbl. It worked just fine. And it has been working for quite some times now. After all run-off was the first practical unix software (with ed).
Alex
Fear: When you see B8 00 4C CD 21 and know what it means
mov ax, 4c00h
int 21h
Result: terminate program under DOS, exit code 0.
Alex
Fear my assembly skills.
You could probably have built in web access to these things too and check out her online profile.
And you could use her online profile to find out her IP and hack her bionic goggles to match her idea of a perfect mate, her bionic ears so you sound good and maybe her nose too, if your cleaning habits are questionnable...
Of course, when she removes the goggle, she's in for a shock ;-)
Alex
With a little device like this, I could move my "Computer" from home to work, have the laptop be a "dock" for the computer.
Taking it one step further, an industry standard device could allow one to buy laptops as a chassis with engine. I could buy the Thinkpad X's chassis and plop in a transmeta computing module to get 2x the battery life.
Alex
the only 2 games that wasnt, where Counter Strike and Ghost Recon.
And half-life is a quake2 derivative. This leaves only ghost recon.
Alex
Since you didn't read the article, I'll refresh your memory, they're running an IBM 36GB SCSI disk with a Fast/Wide SCSI adapter. Somehow, I fail to see IDE in there.
Alex
Sounds a lot like a Lucent AP1000, just swap one of the orinoco's for an 802.11a model when they become available...
Penguin Computing friction slide rails for 1U system are consistently 1/8th - 1/16th of an inch off. This, obviously, fucks up with our networking gear (which is dead on the money (cisco)) and home made systems (they line up together and with the net stuff..) but our penguins are off.
Indeed, one would dare guess that 4 b-52's full of cluster ammunition would be a whole lot scarier to Joe Random Infantryman then that snappy stealth bomber.
_Mustang said on Sat June 09, 16:44 EDT
Because when you "rent", you either:
This also means that you need an arrangement with the puyblisher, probably the reason they only have 6 titles. I mean, Unreal Tournament has already been reaping cash for so long it's worth trying to rent. It was probably a good title to try this technology, it has already made most of it's cash and it is succesfull.
I would venture to say that EB1 is an innovative experiment that has great potential. The model that Duet and MusicNet are pursuing with their service is a monthly subscription to access a certain number of titles. I know I would subscribe to get access to like 10 or 15 titles per month to play.
In fact, I am ready to bet that offering say 100 game/hours increment (that is being able to play up to 100 games for 1 hour or 100 hours of a game or any combinations) would be a succesfull, lucrative business. The market might not be ready yet, but it could easily develop.
This would mean more revenues and more diversity. Succesfull games would be leased very often (say 20-30 hours per player on average) and lemons would get only an hour. This means that games like Project IGI that take about 15 hours to play through wouldn't be very succesfull, but that games like Halflife could get hundreds of hours of download (or just be bought outright for competitive prices like 40$ - (hours_played)).
Maybe Microsoft was right, the future of software is in renting.
Alex
I might also add that penguin Relion 110/120 have Super 370 Mobo's with only one 64-bit PCI slot (and a riser) and dual integrated Ultra160, dual Socket 370, 4 GB ram and dual NICs. The 100 are more "consumer", but the 120/110's have been out since nearly a year and about 2 months respectively.
Penguin Computing Relion 110 and 120 have had 2 network cards on board (intel eepro100) for a while. I have 3 of them at work.
Yes, it has existed for years now.
Now, in 1U system, it usually means 1 PCI slot on the riser. There are physical limitation to putting 2 in the same case. It would be possible, but it would require "friendly" placement of the CPU and it's fan to make it feasable. As well as well designed risers and a backplate that would prevent you from have KVM access...
I think that being able to install free software on as many platforms as possible is a good thing. GCC under Solaris is a whole lot cheaper then Sun's solutions and does the trick. I use VIM on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and I've used it on Solaris and HP-UX. Why? Cause it kicks some serious butts. What would I do if the license was as restrictive as Open Motif's?
Flipr is a p2p music sharing software that will only share content that has been "cleared" by their copyright holders. In plain old MP3 format without subscription fees.
I think this would be a "constructive" use of p2p.
Alex
const static char std_disclaimer[] = "I work for them.";