From its initial inception as SUNsite.unc.edu to the current incarnation as ibiblio.org, what have been the major changes and upgrades the site has seen, with respect to servers, redundancy, architecture, and storage? What were the factors that led to your decisions?
Properly planned and implemented, a central identification system could be a great guardian of privacy. But where is the understanding and will to create such a thing?
Definitely not at oracle or within the government.
Are they gonna hire the systems and network gurus for this brilliant project from the local population (think "Northern Exposure") or are they going to structure salaries and benefits to entice some pot smoking sysadmin to move due North from the Valley?:)
I wouldn't mind the gig, but I think I'd freeze my nuts off. Hard to imagine the good aspects to watching a bunch of servers in a place where the main hobbies are alcoholism and insomnia.
Wait a minute. That sounds like my current gig! Where do I sign up?
I've been looking at his designs at http://www.rocketguy.com and there are some little details that say this guy's headed more for an early grave than any suborbital flight. For one thing, he's using sewer-grade 12" PVC for his "Fuel Tanks." Sounds great, right? This stuff will crack from the force of rolling off of a truck, and he wants to use it as not only a storage container for a highly volatile and reactive chemical, but also as a gravity-fed fuel delivery system. On a rocket-propelled craft travelling at MACH-4!
I'm really hoping he doesn't actually try to store the distilled 90% pure hydrogen peroxide anywhere on his property. He will move from the status of "Local Character" to "Community Menace" very quickly.
I think amateur rocketry is a helluva lot of fun, and properly engineered rockets can even deliver satellite payloads. This guy's efforts are more of the "tinfoil helmet" variety, and shouldn't be confused with what some folks are actually doing to improve actual steam propelled rockets. Check out http://www.erps.org for a few interesting sidenotes on this engine
type.
Sure I did. Did you get a load of the "cross-sectional" data in the exit polls in Florida?
1819 Respondents of over 5.5 million voters is hardly a good sampling. Especially considering the attention span it takes to fill out an exit poll versus the attention span of the average voter.
Remember: Jerry Springer is still one of the most popular shows on TV.
The "returns" are pure speculation, but a little more on the dramatic side. They are interpreted from the exit polls with the express intent of keeping our dumb asses glued to the tube so we can watch more commercials. Even the news outlets won't know the real winner until the last electorial ballot is cast, and that won't happen until all the polls close and the popular vote is completely tallied.
The idea is to generate as much drama as possible surrounding the election, and capitalize on the hype by targeting ads at the idiots who are sitting and biting their nails at the TV or foolishly refreshing some web page.
bmajik wrote: 2) You'll basically a machine babysitter that never gets promoted and never gets rid of that pager.
Do you really believe this? I agree that in order to solve high level problems, some skill in analytical thinking is necessary, but grouping all sysadmins into the "babysitter" role is a little shortsighted. If you think your function is somehow more pertinent than your sysadmin's, you are fooling yourself.
I've run into assholes with the same high-minded opinion of themselves in almost every gig I've been in, and the only thing they consistently have in common is that they get fired at the end of the development cycle, and the sysadmin is left to sort out the mess they've made. Not what I'd call babysitting. Not by a long shot.
Bezos wrote: I've been saying for 4 years now that, online, the balance of power shifts away from the merchant and toward the customer. This is a good thing. If you haven't already, read the cluetrain manifesto. If you want the book, well...you can get it at several places online...
Sure. I got my copy at B&N. Software patents are evil, dude, no matter how thin you slice your leeching window. What you are doing is stopping the very conversation you defend. Sounds like the Cluetrain's making a stop@amazon.com, but they're not taking delivery.
I've heard that on HP you can shrink volumes as well.
Sure you can. HP LVM can resize volumes if they are unmounted. You just have to remember that the volume and the volume container are two seperate entities, and you can easily truncate a volume and corrupt the data inside if you resize things out of sequence.
Think they'll keep it friendly and free when they've weakened the demand for VCD's? My bet is that the whole idea is to own both format and content by providing the movies through a web interface of some kind.
I wonder if the main selling point of VCD's is the content, or is it the ability to play it on demand with ordinary players? If it's the content, the the movie companies might have a chance of pulling it off. If it's the accessability, then I think it's another format war brewing.
These games are pretty much leading edge stuff in Brasil. Considering that computer hardware is at roughly four times the cost there than in the states, the typical gaming machine is a Pentium 200 with 32 MB of RAM, if people have gaming computers at all. Not everyone can just go to the local Comp-USA and pick up a PIII 600 for ~1500 USD.
Really a cool and inovative idea -... for some dirty hippies with lousy music. I really hope people that listen to this music have a fun time, though I think a dirty tree hugger sitting in an unheated VW bus won't really appreciate it. I think they will be more interested in where they will score their next hit of fake LSD.
This is funny, if not a little venomous. Aside from the "lousy music" part, (Phish rocks, IMHO) it's kinda accurate. Phish is not exactly an "all things for all people" group.
As for the "dirty hippy" aspect, I guess you get that with almost anything, but the general attitude at a Phish show attracts seekers a bit more than most other events. Maybe it's because kids in search of a little kindness and compassion know they won't be overrun with bigotted jerks. Not that I'm fingerpointing or anything.;)
Careful... I burned up a few cheetah's in a case like this. The drive bays have no airflow unless you create it by wasting a few slots with a fan. I got rid of mine, went to a full tower with sidefans, and have no regrets.
Thanks for clearing that up... I keep imagining Frank Black a.k.a. "Black Francis" of the Pixies.
Imagine a 300-pound bald dude in overalls screaming into a microphone while a dischordant guitar plays loud surfer tunes.
Best album: Surfer Rosa:)
Now imagine said "Frank Black" having steamy, but thwarted encounters with Scully. Sorta like "Moonlighting meets Drew Carey" as directed by David Lynch.
!/bin/bash #Modify with filenames as necessary...;) # # YMMV find *.gz -exec tar -zxvf {} \; cd xc less README; less INSTALL echo "You should know enough to compile this now," echo "but be sure to BACK UP your" echo "/usr/X11R6 directory before going" echo "any further."
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From its initial inception as SUNsite.unc.edu to the current incarnation as ibiblio.org, what have been the major changes and upgrades the site has seen, with respect to servers, redundancy, architecture, and storage? What were the factors that led to your decisions?
Definitely not at oracle or within the government.
I wouldn't mind the gig, but I think I'd freeze my nuts off. Hard to imagine the good aspects to watching a bunch of servers in a place where the main hobbies are alcoholism and insomnia.
Wait a minute. That sounds like my current gig! Where do I sign up?
I'm really hoping he doesn't actually try to store the distilled 90% pure hydrogen peroxide anywhere on his property. He will move from the status of "Local Character" to "Community Menace" very quickly.
I think amateur rocketry is a helluva lot of fun, and properly engineered rockets can even deliver satellite payloads. This guy's efforts are more of the "tinfoil helmet" variety, and shouldn't be confused with what some folks are actually doing to improve actual steam propelled rockets. Check out http://www.erps.org for a few interesting sidenotes on this engine type.
Netscape's always maintained a pretty quick FTP server. Try ftp://ftp13.netscape.com/pub /ne tscape6/english/6.0/ for pretty quick downloads. ; Here the Windows self-installer.
I knew it was sometime out there, but I wasn't sure when. Thanks. :)
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Sure I did. Did you get a load of the "cross-sectional" data in the exit polls in Florida?
1819 Respondents of over 5.5 million voters is hardly a good sampling. Especially considering the attention span it takes to fill out an exit poll versus the attention span of the average voter.
Remember: Jerry Springer is still one of the most popular shows on TV.
The new Prez and VP
The "returns" are pure speculation, but a little more on the dramatic side. They are interpreted from the exit polls with the express intent of keeping our dumb asses glued to the tube so we can watch more commercials. Even the news outlets won't know the real winner until the last electorial ballot is cast, and that won't happen until all the polls close and the popular vote is completely tallied.
:)
The idea is to generate as much drama as possible surrounding the election, and capitalize on the hype by targeting ads at the idiots who are sitting and biting their nails at the TV or foolishly refreshing some web page.
Sensationalism at its finest.
I think the answer to: Are the craters on the moon really made of goat cheese? is:
TRUE
Must be in its infancy, and therefore a litle gullible. Anyone want to break it to this AI that there's no Santa Claus?
Do you really believe this? I agree that in order to solve high level problems, some skill in analytical thinking is necessary, but grouping all sysadmins into the "babysitter" role is a little shortsighted. If you think your function is somehow more pertinent than your sysadmin's, you are fooling yourself.
I've run into assholes with the same high-minded opinion of themselves in almost every gig I've been in, and the only thing they consistently have in common is that they get fired at the end of the development cycle, and the sysadmin is left to sort out the mess they've made. Not what I'd call babysitting. Not by a long shot.
You mean I can kill Schroedenger's cat just by thinking about it? Cool!
Sure. I got my copy at B&N. Software patents are evil, dude, no matter how thin you slice your leeching window. What you are doing is stopping the very conversation you defend. Sounds like the Cluetrain's making a stop@amazon.com, but they're not taking delivery.
Pity.
Sure you can. HP LVM can resize volumes if they are unmounted. You just have to remember that the volume and the volume container are two seperate entities, and you can easily truncate a volume and corrupt the data inside if you resize things out of sequence.
Think they'll keep it friendly and free when they've weakened the demand for VCD's? My bet is that the whole idea is to own both format and content by providing the movies through a web interface of some kind.
:)
I wonder if the main selling point of VCD's is the content, or is it the ability to play it on demand with ordinary players? If it's the content, the the movie companies might have a chance of pulling it off. If it's the accessability, then I think it's another format war brewing.
Business as usual in the woods, no?
I think you may find Wireless ATM interesting, then. :)
These games are pretty much leading edge stuff in Brasil. Considering that computer hardware is at roughly four times the cost there than in the states, the typical gaming machine is a Pentium 200 with 32 MB of RAM, if people have gaming computers at all. Not everyone can just go to the local Comp-USA and pick up a PIII 600 for ~1500 USD.
Sad thing is that someone's already squatting the domain.
This is funny, if not a little venomous. Aside from the "lousy music" part, (Phish rocks, IMHO) it's kinda accurate. Phish is not exactly an "all things for all people" group.
As for the "dirty hippy" aspect, I guess you get that with almost anything, but the general attitude at a Phish show attracts seekers a bit more than most other events. Maybe it's because kids in search of a little kindness and compassion know they won't be overrun with bigotted jerks. Not that I'm fingerpointing or anything. ;)
How about one labelled "Insane" that doesn't change the point count? :)
That way we don't have to read half-way through the post before we realize someone's a raving lunatic.
+ ~$200 to $2500 for various MicroSoft Applications per machine.
Office
Publisher
Outlook
Exchange
Proxy
SQL Server
Just use the fans for acceleration. Use pitch/roll/yaw gyroscopes for steering. That way you control spin without worring about COE.
Careful... I burned up a few cheetah's in a case like this. The drive bays have no airflow unless you create it by wasting a few slots with a fan. I got rid of mine, went to a full tower with sidefans, and have no regrets.
Thanks for clearing that up... I keep imagining Frank Black a.k.a. "Black Francis" of the Pixies.
:)
Imagine a 300-pound bald dude in overalls screaming into a microphone while a dischordant guitar plays loud surfer tunes.
Best album: Surfer Rosa
Now imagine said "Frank Black" having steamy, but thwarted encounters with Scully. Sorta like "Moonlighting meets Drew Carey" as directed by David Lynch.
Yuck.
!/bin/bash ;)
#Modify with filenames as necessary...
#
# YMMV
find *.gz -exec tar -zxvf {} \;
cd xc
less README; less INSTALL
echo "You should know enough to compile this now,"
echo "but be sure to BACK UP your"
echo "/usr/X11R6 directory before going"
echo "any further."