>With electronic content, there is
>no per-unit cost
I still disagree with this thought. You pay staff to run the IT systems, that the content can be written by paid staff, editted, approved, and (eventually through whatever loops your management has) published on your site.
You still have costs associated with: shelling out the bandwidth to serve (isp, hardware, electricity, etc), the staff needed to update the information, or, minimally, correct any issues with it.
Unless you pay no hosting costs for your website, and the entire staff (no matter the size) is free, then you can get away with saying there is no per unit cost.
Otherwise, as long as the content is online on your site, there is a definite cost directly related to that content, all the time.
Ha, yeah, I thought it was going to be about dotcom's that didn't purchase enough operating insurance and were being sued by their customers for misc reasons.
I've recently broke that big 30 barrier, and I've been noticing lately (since about 29 or so):
I need more sleep
If I exercise, I find out very quickly how good of shape I was in at the end of high school/beginning of college (and how I wish my body was that way now)
I *need* to eat healthier.
So let me explain:
I get tired quicker. If I go for a jog, I used to be able to run 10 miles at a drop of hat, in 'the day'. Now, a few miles and I want to keel over on someone's lawn for a nap.
If I don't eat healthy, my insides quickly let me know. Indigestion, gurgling, you name it. I'll find out. I'm slowly realizing that if you take the time, and you listen, your body will tell you more then you ever thought it could. (rather rudely sometimes, but...)
It seems like all my 'computer friends' are slowly all growing up. There's less lan parties, less endless hours on irc, less bar hopping, less getting trashed every Thursday, Friday and Saturday (using Sunday as recovery time). Now everyone's getting married, having kids, houses, mortgages, kids in sports, kids (did I mention that?).
With all this new stuff coming in, the time on the computer is the hardest thing to make up. I find I'm falling asleep at night with all sorts of code and ideas and crap going through my head. Wakeup, kick the monitor on and type it in before I get a shower and head to work. Otherwise, if I try to put too much time into the comptuer, the wife will not be pleased, and the kids won't get the time they need either.
Anyway, back to what to eat: whole grains (drop the white-bleached-bread), FRUIT, water. Yes, water. It's one of the best things for you and most people don't get the daily does they need. Eat smaller - most people garble down why more food then they need. Cut your portions down. Eat more often. Yes, that will help your metabolism and it'll help you burn callories quicker if you want to lose that gut and extra pounds.
Stay *away* from fast foods. There's not much worse then the crap they give you at those fast food places. At first I thought this was a load of crap, but after not eating any for 6 months, I went and a had a burger from one of the national chains - damn did I feel horrible for the next 10 hours. It felt like I had ate a friggin rock. No more of that crap from now on, let me assure you.
Don't skip meals. Make 'lunch' your biggest meal. At nite, eat a salad, and don't put a ton of goop and crap on it.
My wife, about 8 months ago, started us on this 'new eating scheme'. (I don't know what book she got it out of, I can get the info if someone wants it). It's not a diet, as I've known them, but it's more of a lifestyle change (or minimally eating habit change). It's very similar to the above. It's not cheap at the grocery store, but quite honestly, after a while you'll feel better. When you eat better, you have more energy, you're apt to get more exercise, and you *think* more clearly.
Don't believe me? Try it. Get an hour's worth of exercise everyday. (try walking to start off, stretch before and after).
Go to bed at a timely fashion, so make sure you're getting minimally 6 hours of sleep. Some people require less/more, so if you're getting the minimum, leave yourself time to get a few hours more. But make sure you go to bed earlier. And if you're married, make sure you both do, and take advantage of that extra time alone when you're both not so tired:)
You'll also be amazed at how hard you'll sleep if you get a bit of exercise each day. Personally, I took up mountain biking. But that's another story.
That's my $.02. Good luck to all you fellow aging geeks out there.
The ghost-multicasting service, I believe, is only win32. And, I think, it's a waste unless you are going to be ghosting many machines from the same image source at the same time.
I've used ghost for the past few years, but haven't messed with the multicasting server much. I generally move the images backnforth from the pc to a netware,linux(smb) or nt4 server's share (server type depended on what I was running for whatever employer I've been with since Ghost was created) with a boot floppy using tcp/ip. I have two versions of the floppy - one to write the image to a file, and the other to load it from the server. All automated with batch scripts.
This works nicely (and, for me, was the easiest to do) *if* you have a nice speedy network. I have mine 100baseT, swithched, with gigabit going switch to switch, so given the traffic load on it, I can ghost whenever I want to.
But, you may not. In that case, I'd go with ghosting images from a cd, scsi or firewire (the scsi and firewire drivers under dos will be fun tho).
How do you figure only $15-$20 more per machine to add scsi to it?
And which scsi are you talking about? I? II? III? etc etc...
But back to why I'm posting - Firewire's prices are dropping like flies. I added a Pyro board to my PC at work and at home, then picked up a firewireide interface. Now I've got an 80GB udma100 'firewire' drive that's portable and the cost was reasonable. Now I'm not lugging piles of cdr's back and forth to work with mp3's.
Incase you are curious, I went with firewire because of the previous thread on slashdot about USB drives. I was originally looking at them, but once I realized how slow it is... ugh.
What OS, what kernels, how did you build Mysql, what version of Mysql you're using, what's built into apache, are you using perl? php? etc.
If you're using perl head over to slashcode.com and look at the source to slashdot (and bender). They're code is designed for mod_perl, apache and mysql. I hear they can handle 1.5mil+ hits a day.
This is *very* true. I work for a very large Bar association (I'm a techie, I don't get the legal mumble jumble) - and the attorneys who know IT technology are making a *fortune*. If you have the opportunity to go to law school, take full advantage of it and do it.
I'll second the suggestion for Thunderstone. It's not cheap, but it is *quick*. I've written different search engines with it. I'm writing the code for one now. I've yet to see a sql backend work with text as quick as texis does.
You can download their webinator demo and use it as search mechanism on your own website. See their website for more information.
Kids... for one reason. We've got two of them, and I've got them proxied out of just about everything that we think they shouldn't be seeing (or, atleast think they're too young for yet).
If they used hotmail, or any other email provider, then they're unwatchable. And kids have a habit of giving out way too much information about themselves, they're too trusting.
Buy a KVM switch. I've got a Belkin Omni 4-port. Now when I need to, I switch over to the server. No more fuddling with cables try to reach around to the back of the server box and all that. It's already plugged into my current keyboard/mouse/monitor.
...was extremely interesting, IMHO. Remember, it wasn't Al Gore being interviewed, it was his tech guy.
That's it exactly. While I too would have loved to see that last question answered, he's not the person to be answering that question. Maybe Gore's head PR person.
This guys a webmaster!! Where's all the questions about how he's backending the thing, or the equipment, or the in-house code to manage all the logs and stats and test performance. That's what I wanted to hear about. Give me something that I can relate to.
And why, oh why, aren't they running Slash??? I can just imagine the "first post" posts they'd have on their site:)
I doubted it too (when I got home my stepson swore it was a UFO, heh), but this morning on the way in all the radio stations were talking about it, mentioning it was verified from Wright Patterson Airforce base in Dayton, OH. which is just west of Columbus. Just now I checked the website for the local newspaper and found an article here (note the logic of columbus residents calling the police) that has quotes from some OSU Astronomers verifying what you said - that it was junk and not part of the Leonids. Damn! It certainly was brilliant looking. I've got my hopes up for tonite now!!
I saw one of them on my way home from work last nite (7pm, Columbus, Ohio). It streaked across the sky, and eventually brokeup into smaller pieces that each streaked and then faded into nothingness. (and yes I was cursing that I didn't have my Oly2000 digital camera with me at the time) I've watched meteor showers before, but I never saw one this big, bright, or with such a long tail.
1. Who could and who should decide when to end a childs life?
IMHO: The parents - if they can afford to pay the bills from the hospitalization et all. If they cannot, I don't think they should have a choice.
Like my father always said to me "I brought you into this world, I can take you out".
2. Might this actually happen someday, will we start 'giving involuntary euthanesia' to children who might become criminals or something else 'undesired' (aka killing them)?
Anything is possible. I don't see it going that far, but I do see us eventually NOT treating infants that are born with problems that would cost over $10k to fix. It sounds sick, I know - but if you think about the initial cost, and you think about the family's costs over the (possible future) life of the child, it is *enourmous*. I know a family that was, and still is very much bankrupt from such a child. The child unfortunately never did improve.
Then again, my step son is a-ok after having been born premature. Because his father was in the military, taxpayers paid for his treatment - the bills would have been astronomical in the private sector. He was on oxygen for many days - in the hospital for about 6 weeks - the doctors ended up giving him a 90% chance of braindamage. He's fine now - but would *I* have insisted that the doc's let him go as is? Yes.
Just let them grow up, they'll probably be okay.
Define probably - is that probably if someone shells out a million or so for treatment for those first few months? What if it's not treatable, and it's a lifetime problem?
There is no probably. Babies are born screwed up all the time - it's just that you never hear about them in the media - and society ignores it for the most part. You will hear about the women who was impregnated and is going to have 12 kids and the couple cannot afford it and someone's taking a collection for them and companies are donating cars and a house etc to them.
After all, they can always ask for assisted suicide later.
What if they can't talk? What if they can't hardly communicate at all?
There are no guarantees here. There never will be. Its like playing the lottery - the only difference is that as time passes the chances of medical technology helping to improve the situation increase dramatically. And the thing is - if you lose - and your child is severly disabled - who's going to take care of that child after you're gone?
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>With electronic content, there is
>no per-unit cost
I still disagree with this thought. You pay staff to run the IT systems, that the content can be written by paid staff, editted, approved, and (eventually through whatever loops your management has) published on your site.
You still have costs associated with: shelling out the bandwidth to serve (isp, hardware, electricity, etc), the staff needed to update the information, or, minimally, correct any issues with it.
Unless you pay no hosting costs for your website, and the entire staff (no matter the size) is free, then you can get away with saying there is no per unit cost.
Otherwise, as long as the content is online on your site, there is a definite cost directly related to that content, all the time.
Why doesn't this thing have a firewire interface?
Ha, yeah, I thought it was going to be about dotcom's that didn't purchase enough operating insurance and were being sued by their customers for misc reasons.
What did you have blockcache set to?
Was block caching turned on at all?
Were you using the beta software that's out, or are you speaking with the released 2.0 version?
I've recently broke that big 30 barrier, and I've been noticing lately (since about 29 or so):
:)
I need more sleep
If I exercise, I find out very quickly how good of shape I was in at the end of high school/beginning of college (and how I wish my body was that way now)
I *need* to eat healthier.
So let me explain:
I get tired quicker. If I go for a jog, I used to be able to run 10 miles at a drop of hat, in 'the day'. Now, a few miles and I want to keel over on someone's lawn for a nap.
If I don't eat healthy, my insides quickly let me know. Indigestion, gurgling, you name it. I'll find out. I'm slowly realizing that if you take the time, and you listen, your body will tell you more then you ever thought it could. (rather rudely sometimes, but...)
It seems like all my 'computer friends' are slowly all growing up. There's less lan parties, less endless hours on irc, less bar hopping, less getting trashed every Thursday, Friday and Saturday (using Sunday as recovery time). Now everyone's getting married, having kids, houses, mortgages, kids in sports, kids (did I mention that?).
With all this new stuff coming in, the time on the computer is the hardest thing to make up. I find I'm falling asleep at night with all sorts of code and ideas and crap going through my head. Wakeup, kick the monitor on and type it in before I get a shower and head to work. Otherwise, if I try to put too much time into the comptuer, the wife will not be pleased, and the kids won't get the time they need either.
Anyway, back to what to eat: whole grains (drop the white-bleached-bread), FRUIT, water. Yes, water. It's one of the best things for you and most people don't get the daily does they need. Eat smaller - most people garble down why more food then they need. Cut your portions down. Eat more often. Yes, that will help your metabolism and it'll help you burn callories quicker if you want to lose that gut and extra pounds.
Stay *away* from fast foods. There's not much worse then the crap they give you at those fast food places. At first I thought this was a load of crap, but after not eating any for 6 months, I went and a had a burger from one of the national chains - damn did I feel horrible for the next 10 hours. It felt like I had ate a friggin rock. No more of that crap from now on, let me assure you.
Don't skip meals. Make 'lunch' your biggest meal. At nite, eat a salad, and don't put a ton of goop and crap on it.
My wife, about 8 months ago, started us on this 'new eating scheme'. (I don't know what book she got it out of, I can get the info if someone wants it). It's not a diet, as I've known them, but it's more of a lifestyle change (or minimally eating habit change). It's very similar to the above. It's not cheap at the grocery store, but quite honestly, after a while you'll feel better. When you eat better, you have more energy, you're apt to get more exercise, and you *think* more clearly.
Don't believe me? Try it. Get an hour's worth of exercise everyday. (try walking to start off, stretch before and after).
Go to bed at a timely fashion, so make sure you're getting minimally 6 hours of sleep. Some people require less/more, so if you're getting the minimum, leave yourself time to get a few hours more. But make sure you go to bed earlier. And if you're married, make sure you both do, and take advantage of that extra time alone when you're both not so tired
You'll also be amazed at how hard you'll sleep if you get a bit of exercise each day. Personally, I took up mountain biking. But that's another story.
That's my $.02. Good luck to all you fellow aging geeks out there.
What is this? No firewire port? If they put USB ports on the thing, why not Firewire?
I *believe* the I-Opener was just bought out by someone this past week. Atleast, that's what I thought I read in the local newspaper the other day...
that's my best guess...
The ghost-multicasting service, I believe, is only win32. And, I think, it's a waste unless you are going to be ghosting many machines from the same image source at the same time.
I've used ghost for the past few years, but haven't messed with the multicasting server much. I generally move the images backnforth from the pc to a netware,linux(smb) or nt4 server's share (server type depended on what I was running for whatever employer I've been with since Ghost was created) with a boot floppy using tcp/ip. I have two versions of the floppy - one to write the image to a file, and the other to load it from the server. All automated with batch scripts.
This works nicely (and, for me, was the easiest to do) *if* you have a nice speedy network. I have mine 100baseT, swithched, with gigabit going switch to switch, so given the traffic load on it, I can ghost whenever I want to.
But, you may not. In that case, I'd go with ghosting images from a cd, scsi or firewire (the scsi and firewire drivers under dos will be fun tho).
How do you figure only $15-$20 more per machine to add scsi to it?
And which scsi are you talking about? I? II? III? etc etc...
But back to why I'm posting - Firewire's prices are dropping like flies. I added a Pyro board to my PC at work and at home, then picked up a firewireide interface. Now I've got an 80GB udma100 'firewire' drive that's portable and the cost was reasonable. Now I'm not lugging piles of cdr's back and forth to work with mp3's.
Incase you are curious, I went with firewire because of the previous thread on slashdot about USB drives. I was originally looking at them, but once I realized how slow it is... ugh.
I wonder if there are firewire drivers for dos?
Make your own. Buy an ide drive (ide,umda/33/66/100) and pickup a firewire drive kit (I bought the one by ADS).
So far, it kicks ass. I take it to/from work & home, no more carting around tons of cd's and zip disks.
You don't mention much about your situation!
What OS, what kernels, how did you build Mysql, what version of Mysql you're using, what's built into apache, are you using perl? php? etc.
If you're using perl head over to slashcode.com and look at the source to slashdot (and bender). They're code is designed for mod_perl, apache and mysql. I hear they can handle 1.5mil+ hits a day.
This is *very* true. I work for a very large Bar association (I'm a techie, I don't get the legal mumble jumble) - and the attorneys who know IT technology are making a *fortune*. If you have the opportunity to go to law school, take full advantage of it and do it.
You can download their webinator demo and use it as search mechanism on your own website. See their website for more information.
Kids... for one reason. We've got two of them, and I've got them proxied out of just about everything that we think they shouldn't be seeing (or, atleast think they're too young for yet).
If they used hotmail, or any other email provider, then they're unwatchable. And kids have a habit of giving out way too much information about themselves, they're too trusting.
Buy a KVM switch. I've got a Belkin Omni 4-port. Now when I need to, I switch over to the server. No more fuddling with cables try to reach around to the back of the server box and all that. It's already plugged into my current keyboard/mouse/monitor.
Shouldn't you be posting this over at slashcode?
Do you mean this one?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/430554.asp?cp1 =1 ?
That's it exactly. While I too would have loved to see that last question answered, he's not the person to be answering that question. Maybe Gore's head PR person.
This guys a webmaster!! Where's all the questions about how he's backending the thing, or the equipment, or the in-house code to manage all the logs and stats and test performance. That's what I wanted to hear about. Give me something that I can relate to.
And why, oh why, aren't they running Slash??? I can just imagine the "first post" posts they'd have on their site :)
I doubted it too (when I got home my stepson swore it was a UFO, heh), but this morning on the way in all the radio stations were talking about it, mentioning it was verified from Wright Patterson Airforce base in Dayton, OH. which is just west of Columbus.
Just now I checked the website for the local newspaper and found an article here (note the logic of columbus residents calling the police) that has quotes from some OSU Astronomers verifying what you said - that it was junk and not part of the Leonids.
Damn! It certainly was brilliant looking. I've got my hopes up for tonite now!!
I saw one of them on my way home from work last nite (7pm, Columbus, Ohio). It streaked across the sky, and eventually brokeup into smaller pieces that each streaked and then faded into nothingness. (and yes I was cursing that I didn't have my Oly2000 digital camera with me at the time) I've watched meteor showers before, but I never saw one this big, bright, or with such a long tail.
1. Who could and who should decide when to end a childs life?
IMHO: The parents - if they can afford to pay the bills from the hospitalization et all. If they cannot, I don't think they should have a choice.
Like my father always said to me "I brought you into this world, I can take you out".
2. Might this actually happen someday, will we start 'giving involuntary euthanesia' to children who might become criminals or something else 'undesired' (aka killing them)?
Anything is possible. I don't see it going that far, but I do see us eventually NOT treating infants that are born with problems that would cost over $10k to fix. It sounds sick, I know - but if you think about the initial cost, and you think about the family's costs over the (possible future) life of the child, it is *enourmous*. I know a family that was, and still is very much bankrupt from such a child. The child unfortunately never did improve.
Then again, my step son is a-ok after having been born premature. Because his father was in the military, taxpayers paid for his treatment - the bills would have been astronomical in the private sector. He was on oxygen for many days - in the hospital for about 6 weeks - the doctors ended up giving him a 90% chance of braindamage. He's fine now - but would *I* have insisted that the doc's let him go as is? Yes.
Just let them grow up, they'll probably be okay.
Define probably - is that probably if someone shells out a million or so for treatment for those first few months? What if it's not treatable, and it's a lifetime problem?
There is no probably. Babies are born screwed
up all the time - it's just that you never hear about them in the media - and society ignores it for the most part. You will hear about the women who was impregnated and is going to have 12 kids and the couple cannot afford it and someone's taking a collection for them and companies are donating cars and a house etc to them.
After all, they can always ask for assisted suicide later.
What if they can't talk? What if they can't hardly communicate at all?
There are no guarantees here. There never will be. Its like playing the lottery - the only difference is that as time passes the chances of medical technology helping to improve the situation increase dramatically. And the thing is - if you lose - and your child is severly disabled - who's going to take care of that child after you're gone?