This is primarily what I work with professionally, and in all honesty (at the risk of sounding like a cliche) your best bet would probably be a linux server using an ide raid controller for raid5. Most NAS solutions are nothing more than a Windows or Linux machine with 20 types of filesharing protocols enabled; NFS, Samba, FTP, etc. The advantage to more high-end products is redundancy and support. Loadbalancing NICs and power supplies, dual paths to every drive from 2 raid controllers, etc. The only use I've found for the commercial support from IBM is that the software and documentation for their FAStT products are still being written and are released in piecemeal. With a little bit of know-how, you could build a 1TB ide raid5 SAN/NAS solution using linux (or even windows) for around $2k. Not bad as opposed to $6-8k for Dell's NAS solution, or $150k+ for an IBM FAStT solution.
I love when people use acronyms that nobody knows. I also love the apparent lack of editorial process involved in selecting ask slashdot questions. Kthxbye.
I did this 3 years ago and I couldn't be happier. 7 addresses and 2 states later, I still have the exact same number, no long distance charges ever, and although I'm probably paying too much I know exactly what I'm going to be billed every month. With my Verizon landline, I had message rate service for $11/month, yet my phone bill was regularly $30+ including the long distance carrier before I made a single call.
I'd just like to add that I have AT&T for my wireless service and they suck. I routinely get bills that say "due upon receipt", but are overdue by the time I get them, somehow all my bills from them always show up with no postmark, and I've had my service disconnected several times for failure to pay a bill that wasn't due yet because of "glitches" in their system. You really can't win, but it's less complicated than the hassles of a landline.
Sometimes the easiest way to obtain information is just to ask for it. It doesnt matter how many locks you have on your door and bars on your windows if you open up for anyone that knocks...
The downside of relying on advertising revenue to support the operating costs is that you'll never come out ahead if you don't handle it yourself. As the proprietor of an internet radio station, we basically give away 60-80Mbits of bandwidth at any given moment, which isn't really the best business model. Just about every advertising network you can participate in has a "we don't have to pay you" clause in their terms of service that allows them to cancel your contract at any time for any reason without warning and without paying. Even the ones that make good on their end of the deal rarely pay enough to cover the costs of the amount of traffic it takes to get that many impressions or clickthroughs.
Your best bet is to do demographically targeted advertising which you solicit yourself and negotiate the terms directly with the advertisers. For example, Slashdot might solicit ThinkGeek since the readers here are likely the kind of poeple that would buy ThinkGeek's merchandise. A radio station might partner with music stores or clothing companies. It's a lot more work when you have to handle it yourself, but unfortunately it's the only way I've found to be able to generate enough revenue to be worth placing ads on your site.
I used to bounce between Sound Forge and Cool Edit, trying to decide which to use. Cool Edit was cheaper and seemed just as good, but Sound Forge was the de facto standard. I wound up opting for Cool Edit Pro for one huge reason - fast cut-and-paste editing. With Sound Forge, deleting 15 seconds of audio from the end of a 60-minute wav file is instant, but deleting it from the beginning of the sound clip requires that all data be shifted over by 15 seconds, which can take minutes. 90% of the work I do has do do with recording and copying/pasting, which Cool Edit Pro was far superior for. The rest of the time is spent normalizing and doing fades, which is the same for either one. I'm sure newer versions have been released and these concerns might not even apply any more, but I'm still using the version of Cool Edit Pro I purchased in mid-1998, and haven't had a single complaint or noticed any lacking features to date.
It's probably a safe assumption that hundreds of students at any given university are sharing copyrighted media files at any given time on various P2P networks. The students being selectively prosecuted in these lawsuits were probably chosen because of the large amount of material they had in their shared libraries or becuse they went to better known or reputable universities. It would seem to me that with millions of users on these P2P networks at any given time, a plea of "not guilty" on the grounds of selective prosecution would be a no-brainer.
I've received numerous parking tickets in NYC when no other cars on that street received any, simply because I don't have NY plates and would be less likely to contest the tickets. However every single one was dismissed on grounds of selective prosecution, and that's just a $50 parking ticket. We're talking about a $97,000,000,000 lawsuit against a few people that were doing the same thing as hundreds of other people at their university, and millions of other people nationwide. Give me a break, these lawsuits are just plain rediculous and the world knows it.
You certainly have a valid point, which is probably a major factor in why there is no differentiation. However it is important not to confuse the laws about the use of a technology with the technology itself. Any home stereo with a radio and a tape deck will likely come equipped to record off of the radio; where's your DRM there? The individual that created the recording is now technically responsible for creating that distribution of the recording, but that doesn't change the fact that the original FM broadcast was in fact - a broadcast. Stronger DRM technology may help clarify the gray areas involved here, but don't forget that if sound is coming out of your speakers, it can be going into a tape deck just as easily. Sometimes DRM circumvention is just that simple. (Arguments about digital-to-analog conversions omitted.)
The root of all of the recent controversey surrounding royalties and licensing for internet radio (CARP) stems from an incorrect definition in the 1998 Digital Milennium Copyright Act (DMCA). It fails to differentiate between downloaded and streamed audio content as it pertains to internet radio. From a strictly technical standpoint there isn't much difference. The data being transmitted over the internet to your computer is pretty much identical; downloading just implies that you save a copy. However from a legal standpoint, streamed content is the equivalent of a public performance or broadcast, whereas downloaded content constitutes a distribution of that recording. This makes all the difference in the world when it comes to copyright laws, since the labels making up the RIAA (the copyright holders) should not even be entitled to royalties from internet radio in the first place.
A seemingly benign oversight in the wording can have major implications. Do you forsee significant changes/corrections to the DMCA along these lines? Why or why not...
Just curious, how is making it external going to make the power supply's cooling fan any quieter? If anything it will be louder since it wont be inside the case, and now none of your power cables will reach the internal components... First post?:-P
It's about time someone set a precedent in determining the cost of spam. Not just in terms of denial of service, but also the amount of time it takes people to deal with it.
Many people don't realize what a hassle spam can be, until you try to put a monetary cost on it. Let's forget about the resources it uses and just look at how much time it consumes to delete... For the sake of using round numbers, let's say it takes someone 5 seconds to identify a message as spam and delete it. That means in an hour they can theoretically delete 720 pieces of spam. I don't know about the rest of you, but I regularly receive about 100 pieces of spam on a typical day. That means that about 2.6% of your paycheck goes towards you deleting spam. For an employee that makes $50k/year, this comes out to approximately 3.5 cents per piece of spam received, or $1277/year...
The problem with most suggestions here is that it seems the average slashdot reader is a linux hobbyist or works as the IT manager for a small office that happens to run linux. What happens when you need to backup 6TB/night and don't want to pay someone to sit around swapping tapes all night. Sometimes it just isn't practical to purchase another SAN solution to facilitate an rsync. Or what if you have a collection of high capacity LTO tape drives at your disposal, but don't have the budget for something larger and automated, or smaller with an autoloader. I think automation and efficiency is almost as important as reliability and cost. Not everyone can afford a Storagetek Powderhorn Silo, or needs the versatility of expensive products such as Veritas Netbackup. Then again, sometimes tar or rsync just don't cut it in an enterprise environment where data is mission critical.
Googleshare The invention of blogger Steven Berlin Johnson. Search Google for one word. Then search those results for the name of a person. Divide the number of results delivered for your second search by those from the first to get that person's "semantic mindshare" of the word.
Is it just me or does this seem like one of the most pointless ides for a web site ever? Why would you devise a mathematical equation that calculates nothing...
The first thing I do when I turn on my computer is tune into internet radio, usually a 128kbps mp3 stream for around 4 hours a day. At that rate, I'd use up my 3GB quota before the month was half over, and that doesn't even include browsing the web, sending and receiving e-mail, or downloading files. I'll stick with cable until they can figure out a better definition for "unlimited".
"Mitch cares very much about the social impact of technology" - I think that really says it all here. How would you feel knowing that you are the reason certain civil liberties and rights to privacy no longer exist?
Ironically, the reason most companies will opt for closed source solutions is because they have large companies behind them: Microsoft, Sun, IBM. Although this gives the illusion of having someone to hold responsible, the EULA usually contains a clause relinquishing the vendor of any real responsibility or culpability. Whereas with open source software, you have no legal recourse if the latest release of sendmail or bind has an exploit, but rest assured that within 24 hours a fix will be released. Compare that with response times from commercial closed source vendors...
So long as I can preview it before paying for the download, and don't have to pay to re-cownload it if my CD gets scratched... While the RIAA is bitching about piracy, I've bought the same damn Nine Inch Nails CD 3 times at $17 a pop since 1993. I should really stop losing my stuff every time I move...
I would venture to guess that the vast majority of internet bandwidth being utilized is due to piracy. A year or so ago when some of the largest illegal movie/music/software sites were raided and taken down my authorities, sites such as internettrafficreport.com showed as much as a 90% decrease in traffic in a very short period of time. Startling...
It's not enough to just know who is sending spam. The large spam factories make use of hundreds of mail relays across every provider in every country that is willing to sell them a connection. IP addresses of relays change about as fast as they can be detected, and this says nothing of open smtp relays or formmail scripts on web servers that are exploited. The bottom line is that if a spammer is peddling a product or service, there is someone along the communication chain that will be able to identify them because they need to ultimately get paid. I think the key follow that chain as far as the law allows you to, and hold the that party responsible for either making reparations, or identifying the next person in the chain.
Sorting through gigabytes of Microsoft legacy code that was written under the pretense that nobody would ever see it. Now there's a scary thought. I'd hate to be the guy with THAT job...
If you're looking for something affordable as well as easily scalable, it might be easiest to just pickup some 4u rackmount UPS units from APC or BestPower and install one in each rack. There is usually a separate circuit to each rack anyway. For a few hundred bucks, you get enough conditioned power for a full rack of equipment IN EACH RACK, and you also gain the ability to remotely control and monitor power to each device that is plugged into it. If you're going to spend $1-2k per cabinet anyway, what's another $400 for power.
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This is primarily what I work with professionally, and in all honesty (at the risk of sounding like a cliche) your best bet would probably be a linux server using an ide raid controller for raid5. Most NAS solutions are nothing more than a Windows or Linux machine with 20 types of filesharing protocols enabled; NFS, Samba, FTP, etc. The advantage to more high-end products is redundancy and support. Loadbalancing NICs and power supplies, dual paths to every drive from 2 raid controllers, etc. The only use I've found for the commercial support from IBM is that the software and documentation for their FAStT products are still being written and are released in piecemeal. With a little bit of know-how, you could build a 1TB ide raid5 SAN/NAS solution using linux (or even windows) for around $2k. Not bad as opposed to $6-8k for Dell's NAS solution, or $150k+ for an IBM FAStT solution.
In case you completely forgot, this is exactly what those 4 college students were charged with doing - at $97,000,000,000 each. Great advice buddy!
I love when people use acronyms that nobody knows. I also love the apparent lack of editorial process involved in selecting ask slashdot questions. Kthxbye.
I did this 3 years ago and I couldn't be happier. 7 addresses and 2 states later, I still have the exact same number, no long distance charges ever, and although I'm probably paying too much I know exactly what I'm going to be billed every month. With my Verizon landline, I had message rate service for $11/month, yet my phone bill was regularly $30+ including the long distance carrier before I made a single call.
I'd just like to add that I have AT&T for my wireless service and they suck. I routinely get bills that say "due upon receipt", but are overdue by the time I get them, somehow all my bills from them always show up with no postmark, and I've had my service disconnected several times for failure to pay a bill that wasn't due yet because of "glitches" in their system. You really can't win, but it's less complicated than the hassles of a landline.
Sometimes the easiest way to obtain information is just to ask for it. It doesnt matter how many locks you have on your door and bars on your windows if you open up for anyone that knocks...
The downside of relying on advertising revenue to support the operating costs is that you'll never come out ahead if you don't handle it yourself. As the proprietor of an internet radio station, we basically give away 60-80Mbits of bandwidth at any given moment, which isn't really the best business model. Just about every advertising network you can participate in has a "we don't have to pay you" clause in their terms of service that allows them to cancel your contract at any time for any reason without warning and without paying. Even the ones that make good on their end of the deal rarely pay enough to cover the costs of the amount of traffic it takes to get that many impressions or clickthroughs.
Your best bet is to do demographically targeted advertising which you solicit yourself and negotiate the terms directly with the advertisers. For example, Slashdot might solicit ThinkGeek since the readers here are likely the kind of poeple that would buy ThinkGeek's merchandise. A radio station might partner with music stores or clothing companies. It's a lot more work when you have to handle it yourself, but unfortunately it's the only way I've found to be able to generate enough revenue to be worth placing ads on your site.
I used to bounce between Sound Forge and Cool Edit, trying to decide which to use. Cool Edit was cheaper and seemed just as good, but Sound Forge was the de facto standard. I wound up opting for Cool Edit Pro for one huge reason - fast cut-and-paste editing. With Sound Forge, deleting 15 seconds of audio from the end of a 60-minute wav file is instant, but deleting it from the beginning of the sound clip requires that all data be shifted over by 15 seconds, which can take minutes. 90% of the work I do has do do with recording and copying/pasting, which Cool Edit Pro was far superior for. The rest of the time is spent normalizing and doing fades, which is the same for either one. I'm sure newer versions have been released and these concerns might not even apply any more, but I'm still using the version of Cool Edit Pro I purchased in mid-1998, and haven't had a single complaint or noticed any lacking features to date.
It's probably a safe assumption that hundreds of students at any given university are sharing copyrighted media files at any given time on various P2P networks. The students being selectively prosecuted in these lawsuits were probably chosen because of the large amount of material they had in their shared libraries or becuse they went to better known or reputable universities. It would seem to me that with millions of users on these P2P networks at any given time, a plea of "not guilty" on the grounds of selective prosecution would be a no-brainer.
I've received numerous parking tickets in NYC when no other cars on that street received any, simply because I don't have NY plates and would be less likely to contest the tickets. However every single one was dismissed on grounds of selective prosecution, and that's just a $50 parking ticket. We're talking about a $97,000,000,000 lawsuit against a few people that were doing the same thing as hundreds of other people at their university, and millions of other people nationwide. Give me a break, these lawsuits are just plain rediculous and the world knows it.
You certainly have a valid point, which is probably a major factor in why there is no differentiation. However it is important not to confuse the laws about the use of a technology with the technology itself. Any home stereo with a radio and a tape deck will likely come equipped to record off of the radio; where's your DRM there? The individual that created the recording is now technically responsible for creating that distribution of the recording, but that doesn't change the fact that the original FM broadcast was in fact - a broadcast. Stronger DRM technology may help clarify the gray areas involved here, but don't forget that if sound is coming out of your speakers, it can be going into a tape deck just as easily. Sometimes DRM circumvention is just that simple. (Arguments about digital-to-analog conversions omitted.)
The root of all of the recent controversey surrounding royalties and licensing for internet radio (CARP) stems from an incorrect definition in the 1998 Digital Milennium Copyright Act (DMCA). It fails to differentiate between downloaded and streamed audio content as it pertains to internet radio. From a strictly technical standpoint there isn't much difference. The data being transmitted over the internet to your computer is pretty much identical; downloading just implies that you save a copy. However from a legal standpoint, streamed content is the equivalent of a public performance or broadcast, whereas downloaded content constitutes a distribution of that recording. This makes all the difference in the world when it comes to copyright laws, since the labels making up the RIAA (the copyright holders) should not even be entitled to royalties from internet radio in the first place.
A seemingly benign oversight in the wording can have major implications. Do you forsee significant changes/corrections to the DMCA along these lines? Why or why not...
Just curious, how is making it external going to make the power supply's cooling fan any quieter? If anything it will be louder since it wont be inside the case, and now none of your power cables will reach the internal components... First post? :-P
Shuttle Data Recorder May be Key to Accident
...and in other news, the pope is catholic. Brilliant headline.
It's about time someone set a precedent in determining the cost of spam. Not just in terms of denial of service, but also the amount of time it takes people to deal with it.
Many people don't realize what a hassle spam can be, until you try to put a monetary cost on it. Let's forget about the resources it uses and just look at how much time it consumes to delete... For the sake of using round numbers, let's say it takes someone 5 seconds to identify a message as spam and delete it. That means in an hour they can theoretically delete 720 pieces of spam. I don't know about the rest of you, but I regularly receive about 100 pieces of spam on a typical day. That means that about 2.6% of your paycheck goes towards you deleting spam. For an employee that makes $50k/year, this comes out to approximately 3.5 cents per piece of spam received, or $1277/year...
The problem with most suggestions here is that it seems the average slashdot reader is a linux hobbyist or works as the IT manager for a small office that happens to run linux. What happens when you need to backup 6TB/night and don't want to pay someone to sit around swapping tapes all night. Sometimes it just isn't practical to purchase another SAN solution to facilitate an rsync. Or what if you have a collection of high capacity LTO tape drives at your disposal, but don't have the budget for something larger and automated, or smaller with an autoloader. I think automation and efficiency is almost as important as reliability and cost. Not everyone can afford a Storagetek Powderhorn Silo, or needs the versatility of expensive products such as Veritas Netbackup. Then again, sometimes tar or rsync just don't cut it in an enterprise environment where data is mission critical.
Googleshare The invention of blogger Steven Berlin Johnson. Search Google for one word. Then search those results for the name of a person. Divide the number of results delivered for your second search by those from the first to get that person's "semantic mindshare" of the word.
Is it just me or does this seem like one of the most pointless ides for a web site ever? Why would you devise a mathematical equation that calculates nothing...
Yeah I have to agree here, this is one of the gayest "ask slashdot" questions I've heard in a long time. Get her a rock, not a secret decoder ring.
96-98% if the incoming mail to my primary e-mail account is spam. 40% my ass...
The first thing I do when I turn on my computer is tune into internet radio, usually a 128kbps mp3 stream for around 4 hours a day. At that rate, I'd use up my 3GB quota before the month was half over, and that doesn't even include browsing the web, sending and receiving e-mail, or downloading files. I'll stick with cable until they can figure out a better definition for "unlimited".
"Mitch cares very much about the social impact of technology" - I think that really says it all here. How would you feel knowing that you are the reason certain civil liberties and rights to privacy no longer exist?
Ironically, the reason most companies will opt for closed source solutions is because they have large companies behind them: Microsoft, Sun, IBM. Although this gives the illusion of having someone to hold responsible, the EULA usually contains a clause relinquishing the vendor of any real responsibility or culpability. Whereas with open source software, you have no legal recourse if the latest release of sendmail or bind has an exploit, but rest assured that within 24 hours a fix will be released. Compare that with response times from commercial closed source vendors...
So long as I can preview it before paying for the download, and don't have to pay to re-cownload it if my CD gets scratched... While the RIAA is bitching about piracy, I've bought the same damn Nine Inch Nails CD 3 times at $17 a pop since 1993. I should really stop losing my stuff every time I move...
I would venture to guess that the vast majority of internet bandwidth being utilized is due to piracy. A year or so ago when some of the largest illegal movie/music/software sites were raided and taken down my authorities, sites such as internettrafficreport.com showed as much as a 90% decrease in traffic in a very short period of time. Startling...
It's not enough to just know who is sending spam. The large spam factories make use of hundreds of mail relays across every provider in every country that is willing to sell them a connection. IP addresses of relays change about as fast as they can be detected, and this says nothing of open smtp relays or formmail scripts on web servers that are exploited. The bottom line is that if a spammer is peddling a product or service, there is someone along the communication chain that will be able to identify them because they need to ultimately get paid. I think the key follow that chain as far as the law allows you to, and hold the that party responsible for either making reparations, or identifying the next person in the chain.
Sorting through gigabytes of Microsoft legacy code that was written under the pretense that nobody would ever see it. Now there's a scary thought. I'd hate to be the guy with THAT job...
If you're looking for something affordable as well as easily scalable, it might be easiest to just pickup some 4u rackmount UPS units from APC or BestPower and install one in each rack. There is usually a separate circuit to each rack anyway. For a few hundred bucks, you get enough conditioned power for a full rack of equipment IN EACH RACK, and you also gain the ability to remotely control and monitor power to each device that is plugged into it. If you're going to spend $1-2k per cabinet anyway, what's another $400 for power.