I moved house at the end of last year, (my own place for the first time), and spent 5 weeks without Internet access as the house was a new build and the phone company were less than brilliant in putting in a line.
It was a pain, not due to ending up a gibbering wreck, but because being used to using it for research etc all the time gets you into a way of thinking where you expect it to be there as a tool...
Did I miss it - yes, did I have a reaction to not having it - nope
.... the legality is of course questionable as other have stated as the file is being distributed without the permission of the copyright holder....
I would expect that MS will consider at least doing one of the following: 1). [unlikely] embrace this and post official md5 hashes on the full sp2 download page so people can confirm their downloads. 2). [more likely] loudly proclaim how "evil hackers" are illegally distributing their code and hint that there may be trojans and viruses in it as its from an insecure (ha!) source.
Me, i downloaded it a few hours ago from the MS link given else where in this article, (and yes i followed their page... i will be using the download on several machines not just the one...)....... the bummer though is that i'm just starting to put together a new shuttle box and this means that everyone downloading this from them is likely to affect their other downloads:(
(oh and i'm giving it a while before instlling SP2 to allow other people to find the bugs:) ).
Also make sure that the power feed to your computer room will handle the load required for running the machines in the cluster in addition to everthing else in there. I have a friend who ran into this with a beowulf cluster where he was working...
It's like saying you can't modify your car or your house or your clothes!
Given the state of the UK planning laws its quite possible that you won't be able to modify the house you own in the way you want, (to the extreme that there have been stories on the news in the East Midlands over the last few days about people being told by the council that they are going to have to take down or relocate their satellite dishes because they no not have planning permission for them due to which wall of the house they are on...).
I've got a couple, one by me and one by my old boss....
1). I was looking at a compaq box running win95 for a friend of my mum's. They were having problems with their scanner software so we decided to reinstall it. So go to Add/remove programs... select the scanner software and click uninstall.... hmmmm.... this is taking a long time... well not sure what was wrong with the uninstaller but most of c:\windows went away.... I was left with the task of explaining to them that their computer was going to take slightly longer to fix...
2). We had an F50 at work running AIX... my ex-boss needed to clear some files out of a directory that were older than a certain date, so a quick find with -mtime and -exec rm switches was his choice of method to clear them... unfortuantly he didnt notice he was sitting in / and yes the date stamp on most of the OS binaries did mean that they were for the chop.... good thing we had taken a mksysb the day before...:)
Agree totally with those points. With the keyboards and mice it might be an idea to let the people choose what models they have if they are being replaced, (let them buy their own and expense it within reasonable limits). This lets people buy what they are comfortable using instead of what you think they will be comfortable using.
Given that the Promise and Highpoint controllers tend to be cr*p does any one have a link to anywhere online in the UK who sell 3ware controllers (and actually have the prices and online ordering) ???
Having read through some of the responses to the article it appears that some people have way to much time and money on their hands:)... the important thing is this is a personal system not a commercial one with mission critical data, (if you do have mission critical data on your home machine then you need something really out of scope of this Ask Slashdot).
For a home system keep it simple, if its simple but works then you can full understand it which means if it does go wrong then you are unlikely to panic and make matters worse.
Keep your data on mirrored (RAID1) disks and use a journaled filesystem. Use software raid and once you have set it up make sure that you can mount it using a different system than will run it normally, e.g. a Knoppix cd or do as i do and have the OS seperate on a caddied drive so try a spare disk with a distribution on it... do this BEFORE you put your data on (just in case). I, personally have three disks in each of my fileservers, one for OS and the RAID1 pair for data... doing the above means if the OS dies you still have access to the RAID array.
Now that will only protect you against the possibility of a hardware problem with the system... it will not protect you against user error. To do that you will need to copy the data off of the server in some way... Personally I do this by having another server, (same style of configuration as before hardware wise but it does run a different distribution on slightly different hardware). The data is periodically copied over onto it, e.g. if i rip a new cd... it is not rsync'd as its possible that may propagate an unnoticed user error and hence remove data.
But this doesn't help you if your house burns down, (incidentally taking your backup cds/dvds with it). I personally get round this by transfering the things i do not want to loose, e.g. personal documents, family photos etc, via sftp onto another server, same hardware setup, at my parents several hundred miles away. This amount of data if you are being honest should be small as it should only be really irreplacable files, i.e. NOT porn, mp3's or movies which you can rerip. This is done automatically but uses a 7 day cycle so that i have that long to notice a cockup and just be able to copy back...this data is also stored on CD there as well just in case. Static data, e.g. Grandma's Birthday Photos 1992 do not need to be copied again and again as long as theres a know good copy offsite.
This, IMHO, means that my data is reasonably secure from being unretrievably destroyed.
I have had had disk failures with the data disks... and with the linux software raid havent had any problem putting in a new disk and remirroring onto it with minimal intervention from myself.
What ever you decide to do, if you make backups please make sure you can restore from them before you are in a situation when you HAVE to be able to restore from them!
be nice though if micheal had actually thought to check the text on the page which indicates that 32 Athlon MP 2000+ CPU's are used in the rack shown which is not what the link to the image in the submission says.....
No, you would still be just using lead, ideally you would wear the tin foil hat and then place the lead bucket over it thus giving two layers of protection....:)
What you can get normally depends on who you are dealing with... I've finally managed to get my parents to understand that I will not deal with their friends spyware riddled, unpatched windows systems and will only deal with Windows boxes if I have set them up in the past, (unix boxes are different though).
So far I managed to wangle the following:
Case of Beer (of course) - from a friend who I built several machines for and setup a wireless network, (well actually her husband bought the beer for me).
Career help/advice - from the above friend as well, (we work for the same company).
Several meals - From my mate Ed who despite having the best intentions always manages to screw up his Linux box in some way:)
Misc food, (mostly Pizza) - From my friends Paul and Chris when I have to help them fix/upgrade their boxes.
RS6000 Server - From someone who I helped through work, (he worked for our VAR and I gave him telephone advice several times when he was stuck at other customers).
Various SUN Servers - From a couple of mates who I used to hang around with and help them fix stuff.
Various people just gave their thanks which is fine as in the vast majority of cases the problem wasn't their fault. And yes I have been in a girls dorm room at 23:30 fixing her PC when I was at University *ahem* *ahem*:)
To add even more confusion IBM also produced an XT286... which was bascially a 286 AT motherboard in a XT case, (my Dad had one as a home machine from IBM).
Well the IMEI number is normally on a label on the outside of the box so if its a new phone then he probably got it from there... or he may have written it in the space provided in the owners manual so you have it for reference if the phone is stolen (!)
... if i'm at work then IE loads the corperate intranet hub page and I have sitebar3 configured to talk to my home system to pull down my bookmarks thus giving me one click access to 99% of the sites I'm likely to want...
... at home, on IE the same sort of thing except the main page displayed is a html file off of one of my local servers which has common links on it... on other browsers then they just get the common link page without sitebar3, (there is a link off of the page to load sitebar3 in a seperate window if needed).
Seems to work quite well... The flat file page also syncs any updates across to several other copies on different ISP's so I can definately get to it anywhere in the world.
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I moved house at the end of last year, (my own place for the first time), and spent 5 weeks without Internet access as the house was a new build and the phone company were less than brilliant in putting in a line.
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It was a pain, not due to ending up a gibbering wreck, but because being used to using it for research etc all the time gets you into a way of thinking where you expect it to be there as a tool
Did I miss it - yes, did I have a reaction to not having it - nope
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Nah .... someone should make a film called "index.html" .... and then insist that they scan for it :)
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.... the legality is of course questionable as other have stated as the file is being distributed without the permission of the copyright holder ....
... i will be using the download on several machines not just the one ...) ... .... the bummer though is that i'm just starting to put together a new shuttle box and this means that everyone downloading this from them is likely to affect their other downloads :(
:) ).
I would expect that MS will consider at least doing one of the following:
1). [unlikely] embrace this and post official md5 hashes on the full sp2 download page so people can confirm their downloads.
2). [more likely] loudly proclaim how "evil hackers" are illegally distributing their code and hint that there may be trojans and viruses in it as its from an insecure (ha!) source.
Me, i downloaded it a few hours ago from the MS link given else where in this article, (and yes i followed their page
(oh and i'm giving it a while before instlling SP2 to allow other people to find the bugs
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Also make sure that the power feed to your computer room will handle the load required for running the machines in the cluster in addition to everthing else in there. I have a friend who ran into this with a beowulf cluster where he was working...
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....and this is when we find out that Justin used a mail client which only supported plain text ... hence no italics ...
Given the state of the UK planning laws its quite possible that you won't be able to modify the house you own in the way you want, (to the extreme that there have been stories on the news in the East Midlands over the last few days about people being told by the council that they are going to have to take down or relocate their satellite dishes because they no not have planning permission for them due to which wall of the house they are on ...).
*cough*Nanny state*cough*
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I've got a couple, one by me and one by my old boss ....
... select the scanner software and click uninstall .... hmmmm .... this is taking a long time ... well not sure what was wrong with the uninstaller but most of c:\windows went away .... I was left with the task of explaining to them that their computer was going to take slightly longer to fix ...
... my ex-boss needed to clear some files out of a directory that were older than a certain date, so a quick find with -mtime and -exec rm switches was his choice of method to clear them ... unfortuantly he didnt notice he was sitting in / and yes the date stamp on most of the OS binaries did mean that they were for the chop .... good thing we had taken a mksysb the day before ... :)
1). I was looking at a compaq box running win95 for a friend of my mum's. They were having problems with their scanner software so we decided to reinstall it. So go to Add/remove programs
2). We had an F50 at work running AIX
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... ok it was a busted HPUX server not a Linux box ... (a production one at that .... )
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How do Slackware users out there keep their systems upto date, (I dont mean updating to this new release candidate I mean just 9.1 fixes) ?
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For a home system keep it simple, if its simple but works then you can full understand it which means if it does go wrong then you are unlikely to panic and make matters worse.
Keep your data on mirrored (RAID1) disks and use a journaled filesystem. Use software raid and once you have set it up make sure that you can mount it using a different system than will run it normally, e.g. a Knoppix cd or do as i do and have the OS seperate on a caddied drive so try a spare disk with a distribution on it
Now that will only protect you against the possibility of a hardware problem with the system
But this doesn't help you if your house burns down, (incidentally taking your backup cds/dvds with it). I personally get round this by transfering the things i do not want to loose, e.g. personal documents, family photos etc, via sftp onto another server, same hardware setup, at my parents several hundred miles away. This amount of data if you are being honest should be small as it should only be really irreplacable files, i.e. NOT porn, mp3's or movies which you can rerip. This is done automatically but uses a 7 day cycle so that i have that long to notice a cockup and just be able to copy back
This, IMHO, means that my data is reasonably secure from being unretrievably destroyed.
I have had had disk failures with the data disks
What ever you decide to do, if you make backups please make sure you can restore from them before you are in a situation when you HAVE to be able to restore from them!
Regards
Tim
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So far I managed to wangle the following:
Various people just gave their thanks which is fine as in the vast majority of cases the problem wasn't their fault. And yes I have been in a girls dorm room at 23:30 fixing her PC when I was at University *ahem* *ahem*
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more likely a Capacity Planning role ...
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Well the IMEI number is normally on a label on the outside of the box so if its a new phone then he probably got it from there ... or he may have written it in the space provided in the owners manual so you have it for reference if the phone is stolen (!)
Tim
Seems to work quite well ... The flat file page also syncs any updates across to several other copies on different ISP's so I can definately get to it anywhere in the world.