I live in Perth, Australia. Remote place.. in most cases, the cost of shipping an oldish SGI out of here is more than they're worth. Somehow tho, I seem to have become known as the old-sgi-man. People come to me and say "Don Alex, I have these old SGIs that need to be gone", I take them, then mysteriously others come to me and say "Don Alex, my poor family needs an SGI". I charge and take no money for this service. Mostly they've gone to students who are after some non-intel hardware to play with a unix on. Indys run Linux particularly well.
In the last 6 months, I think I've helped dispose of about 40 unwanted SGIs to good or better homes. Mostly Indys (about 30), but some O2s and Indigos as well. i'm working on the Onyx still...
Traditionally, foreign entities and nationals bringing legal action in the US have been almost singularlly unsuccessful.
*reads it a bit further* my Australian great-aunt married a US serviceman after WW2 and lives in upstate NY. Does this mean I am allowed to bring civil actions in the US?:D
Just because more defaced sites run linux, it doesn't mean Linux is less secure.
1) Linux security holes are often due to configuration, ie something that a clooful admin could have fixed.
2) Windows security holes are due to the operating system, ie something a clooful admin can't fix (except by installing Linux:) See 1) for considerations of that
UWisc is big enough to look after themselves and presumably doesn't pay for traffic by the megabyte like we do.. 3.5c/mb might not sound like too much, but SMC's arrogance in hard coding the time server cost us thousands in network traffic.
Bastards. In vengence, we now don't buy anything from SMC:> All in all, buying a hardware NTP server and sticking it in a colo would have worked out a lot better economically for them.
The scene, Dredrick Tatum, world heavyweight boxing champion is lecturering the class on staying in school, when nelson muntz becomes chemically attracted to Tatum as a bullying target after Lisa swabs tatum with sweat...
Nelson: I can't help myself. [punches Tatum] Tatum: Young man, I insist that you desist. Nelson: Sorry. [continues punching] I'm so sorry. [near tears, he runs behind Tatum and gives him a wedgie] Please don't hurt me. Tatum: [rolling up his sleeve] You leave me little recourse.
I'm a systems person at a university department.. over the last 2 years, with all the various machines at work and "friends", I've probably been in contact with about 600 -700 machines.
Of these, I've had to replace 3 video cards. One early AGP Matrox, an AGP TNT 2 M64, and a PCI S3 VirgeDX. All of them more than 3 years old. And the TNT2 was a maybe, but after fitzing with Windows for 2 hours, and plonking in another TNT2 and having it work perfectly, replacing it was an easier option all round.
OT, but if you want to know what dies a lot, it's hard drives, mice, monitors and power supplies... about 30 mice per year and about 15 each of hard drives, monitors and PSUs.
Australia's academic research network, AARNet, is currently reporting 80Gps outbound ICMP traffic from Welchia. In order to stop the country from getting saturated from this, most local peering points are temporarily blocking ICMP.
Sorry, what was that about Welchia not being worse than Blaster?
Apple only ever dominated the market when it had no real competition. So yes, while it did once dominate the market, look at the alternatives are the time. When the Apple II came out, the alternatives for home computers were mostly things you had to put together yourself and flick switches on to program. When the Macintosh came out, the alternative were machines that were like the Apple II. Now Apple's computers need to compete against machines with a similar user interface and similar features. To sell an Apple, the buyer needs to be won over that the Apple does these things BETTER than the alternatives (Windows/Linux/Solaris). And people, by and large, are stupid, so Apple doesn't sell to them since they see price as the major factor in a computer purchase, not quality.
Disclaimer: I own lots of Mac and love them. I have a AthlonXp2400 that gathers dust most of the day while I use my Powerbook G4
That for once, Sony will make a digital camera with colour balance that doesn't look like it was calibrated by a colour blind monkey with a penchant for blue?
I personally don't think it's flamebait, it's a valid comment. But just misinformed and poorly approached. The fact he has his signature in the comment and not as a specific signature (which I have turned off) does increase his newbie rating, but whatever.
Samba isn't just Linux, I run Samba on a Solaris box. Unfortunately, at this point in time, you still need Samba and Microsoft, but as Tridge has said, in 20 years time, people will still be using Rsync, but Samba will have been forgotten.
Forgiveness please, but why do you run a keylogger on your home computer "for legal reasons"?:P To save your work in case of a system crash? or just ridiculous levels of paranoia?:)
Heh.. I had some of those drives for about 48 hours. We had an external SCSI/IDE RAID device.. upgraded the segate 20GBs to 75GB Deathstar drives.. after rebuilding each of the new drives twice, (thankfully not at the same time! god bless parity!), we went to our VAR and said "can we have some different drives please?". To their credit, they sent us out Maxtor fluid bearing 80GBs. Fortunately for us, our RAID unit refused to even recognise these drives, so we sent them back almost straight away.
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I live in Perth, Australia. Remote place.. in most cases, the cost of shipping an oldish SGI out of here is more than they're worth. Somehow tho, I seem to have become known as the old-sgi-man. People come to me and say "Don Alex, I have these old SGIs that need to be gone", I take them, then mysteriously others come to me and say "Don Alex, my poor family needs an SGI". I charge and take no money for this service. Mostly they've gone to students who are after some non-intel hardware to play with a unix on. Indys run Linux particularly well.
In the last 6 months, I think I've helped dispose of about 40 unwanted SGIs to good or better homes. Mostly Indys (about 30), but some O2s and Indigos as well. i'm working on the Onyx still...
weirdly designed building.. there's cupboards in unusual shapes and sizes to make rooms appear square ;)
url is you friend.
I have an SGI Onyx in a cupboard at work, turned off and doing nothing.
:)
No you can't have it, I thought I'd just taunt you tho
From what I've read about Apple's DRM scheme, it's not terribly locked in. I'd be interested in knowing if this works...
:)
:P
(I'm in Australia, RIAA can fuck off if they want to make something of it
1) Load up song in quicktime Player (Professional Edition) on Authorized Computer.
2) Export as MP3
3) Profit
You're also IT manager for Lilith Fair? :) or should s/exactly/very similar/?
So generally speaking, it's been written to allow extra-territorial prosecutions - generally to benefit US interests - and not the other way around? :)
Traditionally, foreign entities and nationals bringing legal action in the US have been almost singularlly unsuccessful.
:D
*reads it a bit further* my Australian great-aunt married a US serviceman after WW2 and lives in upstate NY. Does this mean I am allowed to bring civil actions in the US?
On the page announcing Clippy's untimely death on Microsoft.com, he was quoted,/a> as saying "All your base are belong to us" :)
Just because more defaced sites run linux, it doesn't mean Linux is less secure.
:) See 1) for considerations of that
1) Linux security holes are often due to configuration, ie something that a clooful admin could have fixed.
2) Windows security holes are due to the operating system, ie something a clooful admin can't fix (except by installing Linux
With the time server at uwa.edu.au.
:> All in all, buying a hardware NTP server and sticking it in a colo would have worked out a lot better economically for them.
UWisc is big enough to look after themselves and presumably doesn't pay for traffic by the megabyte like we do.. 3.5c/mb might not sound like too much, but SMC's arrogance in hard coding the time server cost us thousands in network traffic.
Bastards. In vengence, we now don't buy anything from SMC
The scene, Dredrick Tatum, world heavyweight boxing champion is lecturering the class on staying in school, when nelson muntz becomes chemically attracted to Tatum as a bullying target after Lisa swabs tatum with sweat...
Nelson: I can't help myself. [punches Tatum]
Tatum: Young man, I insist that you desist.
Nelson: Sorry. [continues punching] I'm so sorry. [near tears, he runs behind Tatum and gives him a wedgie] Please don't hurt me.
Tatum: [rolling up his sleeve] You leave me little recourse.
Source: http://www.snpp.com/episodes/CABF11
I think there's a lesson in this for all of us.
I'm a systems person at a university department.. over the last 2 years, with all the various machines at work and "friends", I've probably been in contact with about 600 -700 machines.
Of these, I've had to replace 3 video cards. One early AGP Matrox, an AGP TNT 2 M64, and a PCI S3 VirgeDX. All of them more than 3 years old. And the TNT2 was a maybe, but after fitzing with Windows for 2 hours, and plonking in another TNT2 and having it work perfectly, replacing it was an easier option all round.
OT, but if you want to know what dies a lot, it's hard drives, mice, monitors and power supplies... about 30 mice per year and about 15 each of hard drives, monitors and PSUs.
Forgive me for merely reporting that which is being reported by AARnet, they only provide internet access to several million hosts in Australia.
because prior to the release of Welchia they had a baseline from Blaster? :)
Australia's academic research network, AARNet, is currently reporting 80Gps outbound ICMP traffic from Welchia. In order to stop the country from getting saturated from this, most local peering points are temporarily blocking ICMP.
Sorry, what was that about Welchia not being worse than Blaster?
Thanks for all your hard work over the years anyway, you have been a great help to the Macintosh community :)
Apple only ever dominated the market when it had no real competition. So yes, while it did once dominate the market, look at the alternatives are the time. When the Apple II came out, the alternatives for home computers were mostly things you had to put together yourself and flick switches on to program. When the Macintosh came out, the alternative were machines that were like the Apple II. Now Apple's computers need to compete against machines with a similar user interface and similar features. To sell an Apple, the buyer needs to be won over that the Apple does these things BETTER than the alternatives (Windows/Linux/Solaris). And people, by and large, are stupid, so Apple doesn't sell to them since they see price as the major factor in a computer purchase, not quality.
Disclaimer: I own lots of Mac and love them. I have a AthlonXp2400 that gathers dust most of the day while I use my Powerbook G4
That for once, Sony will make a digital camera with colour balance that doesn't look like it was calibrated by a colour blind monkey with a penchant for blue?
I personally don't think it's flamebait, it's a valid comment. But just misinformed and poorly approached. The fact he has his signature in the comment and not as a specific signature (which I have turned off) does increase his newbie rating, but whatever.
Samba isn't just Linux, I run Samba on a Solaris box. Unfortunately, at this point in time, you still need Samba and Microsoft, but as Tridge has said, in 20 years time, people will still be using Rsync, but Samba will have been forgotten.
BURNINATION.
Serious.. put them on a baking tray or something, then use one of these match things, or a fancy pants cigarette lighter, and burn them outside.
Forgiveness please, but why do you run a keylogger on your home computer "for legal reasons"? :P To save your work in case of a system crash? or just ridiculous levels of paranoia? :)
I dunno about you, but my electric company DOES run advertising campaigns about electrical device safety, most of which is common sense.
;p
PSA = Free advertising. But when it comes to electricity, it's not like you usually have a choice I guess
Our friends in Japan have beaten you to it :)
Heh.. I had some of those drives for about 48 hours. We had an external SCSI/IDE RAID device.. upgraded the segate 20GBs to 75GB Deathstar drives.. after rebuilding each of the new drives twice, (thankfully not at the same time! god bless parity!), we went to our VAR and said "can we have some different drives please?". To their credit, they sent us out Maxtor fluid bearing 80GBs. Fortunately for us, our RAID unit refused to even recognise these drives, so we sent them back almost straight away.