I'm a fairly long-time reader and I have to agree - this really, really has made me think about removing/. from my 'sites to read a couple of times of day' bookmarks. Digg was zapped a while ago along with a few others who went down the "we're ipad apps in a browser!" ajax-laden route.
I really never thought I'd see slashdot stoop this low. It's a shame - it really is.
OpenVZ is often overlooked for this kind of workload. _Kind_ of similar to a jail environment. We use it for a lot of "light" servers - project websites, that kind of thing but it will handle a lot more than that. http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page . Easy to install, really easy to configure & manage.
There's rawstudio or cinepaint. Ufraw I guess too which can act as a stand-alone editor and also has a gimp plugin. If you don't mind closed-source then there is Bibble too.
Rawstudio is looking quite promising for such an early bit of software.
Cheaper-per-gig isn't the key here though. Price, support, noise, reliability, expandability, ease-of-use, power-consumption, size, time to set-up/install etc. The terastation is very, very quiet, fairly low power (for what it is), small, easy to use, easy to add extra space too etc.
If the submitter had asked "what's the cheapest per-gig solution" then maybe a carefully spec'd self-build would be wise. But a 24hr delivery of a small, quiet, expandable, low-power box seems "cheaper" to me. Maybe I value my time, peace and shelf-space too highly, but then I'm getting old....;-)
Yeah - seconded. The terastation is nice and probably cheaper than you can build your own box. Not the most configurable of beasts, but it'll give you a terrabyte of storage (or 750gig in RAID5) and is expandable via external USB drives if you want.
In the UK - dabs were selling the 1 terrabyte versions for about 500 pounds.
There is a package called Condor which runs as a job-schedular under windows or linux. It can either run on dedicated machines or as a seti-at-home screensaver type idea to use idle machines.
Works very nicely and can really harvest a lot of idle PC's across companies or campuses...
I've always wondered about the Rassilon idea too - but one of my even-sadder-than-me friends said there was an episode where it was suggested otherwise.
I'll just have to re-watch them all now to check...;-)
I've had that discussion with some other Dr.Who fans:-) Yay for nerds!:-)
I'd actually be interested in a female take on Dr.Who and/or finding out what happened to Romana in E-Space (maybe just to swoon over Lalla Ward mind you....;-)
I read Russell Davies saying that they weren't going to be tooooo fussy about following the Dr.Who backstory - so could be they just ignore it.
Either that or they come up with a whizzo plan whereby timelords award themselves extra re-generations (it was never really clear to me why they were limited in the first place - I'd always assumed it was just some Rassilon-esque dogma).
I'm pretty sure they're going to ignore the valyard in any case....
I personally don't mind the idea of DRM in a limited form. For instance, if I "buy" an.avi with the clear understanding that it's a "watch 5 times only" (at a knock-down price) or that kind of thing.
I do resent people preventing me doing perfectly legitimate things like making a backup of a CD or film - especially if I am being charged full-price (or over-price!) for the media/content to start with.
For instance, I bought a TV-series on DVD a few weeks ago and converted the video to a bunch of mpeg's and burned the resulting files to a DVD. I sit and watch those on my PC and keep the DVD safely away in a drawer.
Unless the DRM can be devised which can distinguish between mass piracy and personal backups (or even, shock! a single copy for a friend) then I think it's doomed.
Sooner or later enough regular people ask themselves "why can't I?" and it becomes a problem for the industry. Fending off some nerds and d00dz who can be dismissed on TV is fairly easy, fending off "concerned parents of Utah" is another matter.
In any case, this always reminds me of a quote from William S. Burroughs:
"To sell out your sons forever! To sell out the ground from unborn feet for ever?"
There are very workable free tools to manage large UNIX/linux installs - for instance cfengine. I use that extensively to manage 100's of workstations, servers and clusters with policies, sub-policies, logical grouping of policies etc etc
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I'm a fairly long-time reader and I have to agree - this really, really has made me think about removing /. from my 'sites to read a couple of times of day' bookmarks. Digg was zapped a while ago along with a few others who went down the "we're ipad apps in a browser!" ajax-laden route.
I really never thought I'd see slashdot stoop this low. It's a shame - it really is.
I eat them quite often - and they are really very, very hot - right from the first bite. Way, way hotter than Scotch Bonnet, Habanero etc.
OpenVZ is often overlooked for this kind of workload. _Kind_ of similar to a jail environment. We use it for a lot of "light" servers - project websites, that kind of thing but it will handle a lot more than that. http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page . Easy to install, really easy to configure & manage.
Flickr itself is hardly free from censorship problems either...
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There's rawstudio or cinepaint. Ufraw I guess too which can act as a stand-alone editor and also has a gimp plugin. If you don't mind closed-source then there is Bibble too.
Rawstudio is looking quite promising for such an early bit of software.
Cheaper-per-gig isn't the key here though. Price, support, noise, reliability, expandability, ease-of-use, power-consumption, size, time to set-up/install etc. The terastation is very, very quiet, fairly low power (for what it is), small, easy to use, easy to add extra space too etc.
;-)
If the submitter had asked "what's the cheapest per-gig solution" then maybe a carefully spec'd self-build would be wise. But a 24hr delivery of a small, quiet, expandable, low-power box seems "cheaper" to me. Maybe I value my time, peace and shelf-space too highly, but then I'm getting old....
Yeah - seconded. The terastation is nice and probably cheaper than you can build your own box. Not the most configurable of beasts, but it'll give you a terrabyte of storage (or 750gig in RAID5) and is expandable via external USB drives if you want.
In the UK - dabs were selling the 1 terrabyte versions for about 500 pounds.
Damn you! ;-)
Where-as you're a long-timer? ;-)
I suspect in the three days it takes the "optimisation" to occur they'll be rail-gunned to death by someone running debian i386 on a P90... ;-)
And besides, they'll repost the story in a few hours and you'll get slashdotted all over again... ;-)
Good grief.
There is a package called Condor which runs as a job-schedular under windows or linux. It can either run on dedicated machines or as a seti-at-home screensaver type idea to use idle machines. Works very nicely and can really harvest a lot of idle PC's across companies or campuses...
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I've always wondered about the Rassilon idea too - but one of my even-sadder-than-me friends said there was an episode where it was suggested otherwise.
;-)
I'll just have to re-watch them all now to check...
No no - I never really liked her as Romana. It's Lalla Ward for me I'm afraid :-)
As I remember it shows a sequence of faces from Tom's to Jon to Patrick to William to dodgy-guy-with-bad-beard to ....
There's no flash or cut to suggest a switch from one mind to the other so I'd always assumed it was a hint at previous incarnations.
In "The Brain of Morbius" it's suggested that Harnell wasn't the first Doctor though - so I guess all bets are off really :-)
I've had that discussion with some other Dr.Who fans :-) Yay for nerds! :-)
;-)
I'd actually be interested in a female take on Dr.Who and/or finding out what happened to Romana in E-Space (maybe just to swoon over Lalla Ward mind you....
I read Russell Davies saying that they weren't going to be tooooo fussy about following the Dr.Who backstory - so could be they just ignore it.
Either that or they come up with a whizzo plan whereby timelords award themselves extra re-generations (it was never really clear to me why they were limited in the first place - I'd always assumed it was just some Rassilon-esque dogma).
I'm pretty sure they're going to ignore the valyard in any case....
I personally don't mind the idea of DRM in a limited form. For instance, if I "buy" an .avi with the clear understanding that it's a "watch 5 times only" (at a knock-down price) or that kind of thing.
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I do resent people preventing me doing perfectly legitimate things like making a backup of a CD or film - especially if I am being charged full-price (or over-price!) for the media/content to start with.
For instance, I bought a TV-series on DVD a few weeks ago and converted the video to a bunch of mpeg's and burned the resulting files to a DVD. I sit and watch those on my PC and keep the DVD safely away in a drawer.
Unless the DRM can be devised which can distinguish between mass piracy and personal backups (or even, shock! a single copy for a friend) then I think it's doomed.
Sooner or later enough regular people ask themselves "why can't I?" and it becomes a problem for the industry. Fending off some nerds and d00dz who can be dismissed on TV is fairly easy, fending off "concerned parents of Utah" is another matter.
In any case, this always reminds me of a quote from William S. Burroughs
"To sell out your sons forever! To sell out the ground from unborn feet for ever?"
Because we all know that your name is a great indication of ability and knowledge... ;-)
Come to think on it, most of the Phd's I know hang about chatrooms calling themselves "r00dboi2004" or "r0x0rd00d" so who knows.
I remember when the internet was all fields you know....
There are very workable free tools to manage large UNIX/linux installs - for instance cfengine. I use that extensively to manage 100's of workstations, servers and clusters with policies, sub-policies, logical grouping of policies etc etc
I admin over 100 sun machines and I can assure you that both the quality of the hardware, and the support are going rapidly down the pan.
:-/ Shame really as they used to be really nice machines.
No more sun machines for us....
I feel terribly drawn to making that a reality.... :-)