Sorry SGI to break up your party but your claims are not valid... and never will be.
RLX Technologies has the densest server 24 blades in a 3U rack space. That means 336 CPUs in one full Rack.
Eat your heart out SGI. You think you might have something big... when all your doing is hype and making yourselves look like liars. Or is that the gimp who posted the initial message who got OVERZELOUS and posted this pathetic message to/.
It is a 10GB unit which runs under SCSI and is bootable. You can have your whole OS running on RAM. The price new is $80,000, however, if interested, I can sell it for $15,000. If anyone interested post a reply here. Otherwise, check EBay next week for the word 'Solid Data' and you will see the unit there for sale (not up yet).
1: Have the business sector start up a class action suit due to the "BAIT and Switch" nature of Win2k SP3 and WinXP SP1. By having the whole business sector sue Microsoft for this anti-privacy issue, the business sectors will have the right to get some money back from M$ (whis is due big time for all the security issues and hacks that allow others to get in to the OS.)
2: Apple should get into high gear, buy back Bill Gates' stock, and finally release OSX to work on the x86 platform! This alone will boost the switchover to MAC. I have been a Windows user for a good part of my life because there really is NO other OS out there compatible on x86 that can compete with Windows by offering the same amount of software support and ease of use. With Mac OSX, this reality is almost there. You know that Gates bought shares in Apple just to make sure that he has the right to veto OSX's release on the X86 platform.
3: EVERYONE and their Mother should send APPLE feedback on MAC OSX and say "MY COPY OF MAC OSX DOES NOT WORK ON MY INTEL/AMD MOTHERBOARD. PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP SO I CAN START USING MAC OSX." Here is the URL for the feedback form. http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
Here is what I wrote to the feedback form. MY COPY OF MAC OSX DOES NOT WORK ON MY X86/AMD MOTHERBOARD. PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP SO I CAN START USING MAC OSX. MAKE OSX COMPATIBLE WITH X86 PLATFORMS SO THAT APPLE CAN FINALLY GRAB BETTER MARKET SHARE WITH THE EXISTING HARDWARE. IF YOU CONTINUE TO IGNORE THE X86 COMMUNITY, THEN BY ALL MEANS, APPLE WILL FINALLY BE DOOMED YET AGAIN.
APPLE PLEASE BUYBACK ALL OF BILL GATES' SHARES IN APPLE AND RELEASE OSX TO THE X86 PLATFORM. YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT. I BET YOU CAN GET 20-25% MARKET SHARE WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR OF RELEASING OSX FOR X86 PLATFORMS.
PEOPLE WANT CHOICE. IF YOU ARE TRYING TO ELIMINATE CHOICES, THEN PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO BUY YOUR PRODUCT. PERIOD. JUST LOOK AT YOUR TRACK RECORD. APPLE HAS NEVER BROKEN THE 10% MARKET SHARE BARRIER WITH YOUR PROPRIETARY SYSTEM. YOUR OSX PLATFORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GO FURTHER THAN LINUX EVER CAN. MAKE MICROSOFT FEEL THREATENED BY ANOTHER OS.
Dialup for most people who can get it for approximately $10/month is perfectly fine for most customers needs. The ones who need broadband are power users who need it for web designing, gaming, Voice over IP services and power buying/selling on ebay. I consider that broadband is currently underpriced for the type of speeds that are offered.
If people are currently complaining that Broadband is too costly, so be it. It is costly to provide such services as an average cost per port of transport is priced at $3000+ or $50/month for 5 years. Once providers have paid off their system, it will only then be plausible to make some money back. However, 95% of the providers can not survive at the currently overcharged pricing of current hardware. Hence, why we have had major broadband bankruptcies across North America.
Only a small percentage of users need broadband. And that percentage should be paying premiums for the extra speeds. Now before you go flaming about this, what "GIVES" the public right to pay dialup pricing for a service that is 20 times faster should the price fall? Why not get a T1 to your house and pay the appropriate pricing of the service (ranging from $250 to $2500 depending on area) instead.
The services rendered to most people on broadband are sketchy and in most cases, are problematic. The cause of these problematic cases are due to several factors of poorly constructed networks, lower wages, and low pricing. Broadband technologies can be just as effective as T1+ services, however, the telcos just want to ensure that these services never exceed the performance of their dedicated services. Otherwise, their dedicated services will never retain the value and cost of what they are worth these days. Therefore, why broadband service has been more of a patchup type of service with constant failures.
We offer dedicated SDSL service via our company. Since we have offered this private service (not via our telco), we have never seen the service fail once. We use the simplest provisioning of the service and through simplicity, we can offer a T1 grade service, without the T1 pricing. Yes our pricing is much higher (business services only) however, we can offer a certain level of guarantee over our SDSL services that no other provider will care to offer.
...Would be that if companies will offer both a Linux and Windows version, they should bundle BOTH ports onto one CD. This way the customer will get a version for BSD (Screw Linux) and another version for Windows on the same CD. This will encourage cross platform usage and encourage the use of BSD since they have paid for it. However, only ONE version can be active at one given time.
Sure this could work in conjunction with voting (AFTER the file is downloaded) so this would help strengthen the servers who are storing the same checksum files. However, the voting would have to be regulated in a way that would ensure that it is not being biased to one particular user. The data would all be passed and stored on each supernode to help maintain the integrity of the network and the good/bad servers. However, you will NOT see the rating of the server directly.
Have each user vote for each server they download from. If a specific server gives out bad files, the users would vote as a bad server. Then it would not be able to connect to the P2P network.
This would be moderation however, it would be the smartest way as each user would have their word on who is allowed and not allowed on the network.
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BTW, if you plan on asking for an SLA you need to ask for it in writing in this manner to protect your ass. Otherwise, you will never get proper SLA refunds.
- All SLA tests will be conducted from the CPE Point of Entry to the Provider and the Border Router to the CPE equipment. - The average Latency difference between Provider and Customer will be calculated in this manner (CPE Ping to destination - Provider Ping to destination) - Should there be an average latency over the SLA agreement, the customer will get a pro rated refund for the duration of the issue until the situation is cleared. - This SLA agreement is ONLY within the Provider's Network. Sites outside the provider's network will be calculated to the Provider's Border router. - Should the Return Paths be available (via remote end doing a traceroute back to the CPE) then the Point of Entry into the Provider's network will also be tested. This is to be able to cover the FULL extent of the path.
We have had many issues described above however with Worldcom, they pulled a Homer and said that their SLA server (which averages their whole network to one location with prioritized packets for the SLA server) were not showing any latency issues and therefore will issue credits.
If an ISP is saying to get their SLA, ask them that you would like to have the above clause put it. I will guarantee you 90% of them will say sorry we will not. Therefore, these providers with current SLAs are just making the extra buck on a cheap SLA they have which will NOT be advantageous for your extra spent dollar.
Trust me on this, I have tried to get the higher priced SLA providers to add my clause in and they all refused. SLAs are worthless unless there is another major catastrophe that takes out half the US Internet market.
Why spend lots of money with T1 when SDSL (the Newer T1 service) can do it for you. It *IS* exactly like T1 service without the extra costs of Regulated T1 Line costs. However, if you really want to know the real deal, these big guys have no push anymore as they are also bottlenecked at the border routers. So it makes no difference if you go with the big guys or the cheapest price, you WILL be limited in speed one way or another.
Remember that a private ISP is just that. Private. Therefore, they have all rights to censor any matter they feel they want censored from their network. If you don't like it, go to another provider. I myself am happy they are taking a stand against DoS by the RIAA. I would consider doing the same.
Whomever they employ will also get marked on they honeypots. Once marked, a lawsuit can be issued on both the company that the RIAA employed to openly attack the ISP's network and the RIAA. The DCMA can not protect against DoS or attacks on a network. This is just clearly an attack of someone's network and is considered as breaking and entering. Unless the RIAA is willing to pay $50,000/month to allow such activity to go on within an ISP's network. With hundreds of thousands of ISPs worldwide, the RIAA would be bankrupt in a few hours.
ATI has been a leader in offering multiple types of resolutions. I would highly suggest looking at the Radeon 9700 Pro and see if it will support this resolution. If not currently, it will eventually as this is only a driver issue. ATI would consider adding this to their driver to allow Plasma screens be properly visible.
Anyone thought of issuing a Class action Lawsuit on behalf of all users vs Microsoft to have them fix this problem?
If Microsoft elects to not fix the problem, then the lawsuit should make it manditory for Microsoft to pay everyone out there with IE and Outlook for the purchase of Anti-Virus Software, Computer repairs needed for the past 2.5 years which were paid to repair machines with virii and all future anti-virus needs for any OS MS offers with IE.
It is NOT highly unlikeless it will go down. If a MAN goes down, it does not matter which POP you have it in, both links will be dead in the water. To be safe, you need Multihoming between 2 separate infrastructures.
The Best Combination is to have one going to:
- The Local ISP over Telco Wire Provider over MAN #1.
- The Local ISP over Independant/non-subcontracted Copper or Cable Wire Provider who does not connect to the first local ISP locally and is connected to MAN #2 or another MAN/WAN provider from the first one.
This way, you can have higher availability since it would be completely independant circuits throughout the whole city.
I got to say that I must agree with him. It is really not the Frenchie's fault but the actual design of the plane itself. Has anyone ever flown in one? It feels like the plane would fall apart.
I would honestly like to see the airlines bring back/increase the amount of 747s (or atleast the new 777s) in their fleet.
I am curious as to what operating systems and daemons the government sites are currently using. I would like to see a list of this to see as to:
1: How much is spent on computer security.
2: Salary of these so called admins for these networks.
3: What OSes the government has standardized on.
4: To determine if one OS is better than the other.
Since each different division uses different software, which OSes are the least vulnerable and start converting to those OSes.
Another thing that should be pointed out is that the departments that got "F" marks should suspend/fire the admin without pay or atleast get a new admin and send the current admin to a 1-2 year course on the specific platforms.
Another thing I have noticed is that there really is NO security schools to help admins get a better knowledge of securing OSes. Maybe this idea can be a new niche market for anyone out there interested in teaching computer security.
g.SHDSL would be able to reach your house. However, unless the Canadian Government finally realizes that Bell needs to offer DLECs the ability to offer these services at wholesale rates, you will never see this technology reach your house.
Actually Lots of high end Professional Digital Cameras can work with PC Card IBM 1 GB Microdrives and I heard there is a 2 or 4GB version coming out soon. If you need the "Rolls" of film, the Microdrive is the preferred choice then. The photographer does not need to enable any compression at all and can later dump it onto 4.7 or 100 GB DVD-RW/C3D-FMD. later we will have 1TB FMD drives too... Only time will tell anyways.
Actually, I think she is right, but there is an EASY way around this. Ever heard of Digital Camera Printers? Also, another thing that can be done is create a 5 minute Digital to photopaper transfer machine (would be a large machine to reduce pixelation) and file each photo in an 8*10 format for future reference incase then next huge disaster occurs and wipes out the terabytes of image data.
Think about it. 1 EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse)bomb in a city will wipe out all data on a disk within 25-50 miles radius. Imagine all the pictures and data lost by this device.
is that there are so many flavors of the same shit, people just disregard it. If Netcraft could determine every single type of Linux out there, I bet you *BSD would be in one of the top ranked nix environments...
I think Slashdot should unincorporate itself from VALinux and become a non-profit organisation.
As a non-profit organisation, you can issue tax credits to people and companies who become a member or advertise on Slashdot, get lower priced rates from your vendors (since most vendors offer non-profit pricing levels) and at the same time, any profits left over would be distributed evenly as credit for the next renewal.
Being a non-profit informational organisation, you are entitled to some government grants to further the non-profit organisation.
We can consider Slashdot as a library of information should Slashdot start mirroring other site's information similar to what Google is doing. And therefore, could be allowed to get some credits as a public library.
any thoughts on this welcomed.
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Learn to use less bandwidth. The easy trick here to reduce bandwidth is to reduce your pipeline to the Internet to a smaller, less expensive pipeline. Yes, it will lag during peak hours, however, people would rather wait for the content to show up than to see it disappear completely.
Another thing is to modify the comments list to work in a frame or subject basis by limiting to the first 100-200 words of a comment. Soem comments go on for miles on end and therefore are useless. Should a comment have a rating of 0, only post title, +1 = 50 words, +2 = 100 words, +3 = 200 words, +4 would be whole comment.
This would help reduce your bandwidth use, allow you to get a smaller pipe, and live longer in this hellish economy.
It is called content management... And if you can't learn to manage your content delivery system properly, then yes, you can not survive in the future.
I still have 3 SCSI 2GB Conner 3.5" drives running on our SQL Server. They are atleast 15 years old. They are still running strong. Never RMAed or Crashed. (Crosses fingers hoping for 15 more years of good work out of these drive). Anyways, I wish Conner Peripherals came back and made some drives again... Maybe we would have better quality again.
Conner was the highest quality/most advanced drive makers at the time. I seriously doubt most of you would even remember who Conner were.
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Sorry SGI to break up your party but your claims are not valid... and never will be.
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RLX Technologies has the densest server
24 blades in a 3U rack space. That means 336 CPUs in one full Rack.
Eat your heart out SGI. You think you might have something big... when all your doing is hype and making yourselves look like liars. Or is that the gimp who posted the initial message who got OVERZELOUS and posted this pathetic message to
It is a 10GB unit which runs under SCSI and is bootable. You can have your whole OS running on RAM. The price new is $80,000, however, if interested, I can sell it for $15,000. If anyone interested post a reply here. Otherwise, check EBay next week for the word 'Solid Data' and you will see the unit there for sale (not up yet).
Well there are several ways to get this fixed.
1: Have the business sector start up a class action suit due to the "BAIT and Switch" nature of Win2k SP3 and WinXP SP1. By having the whole business sector sue Microsoft for this anti-privacy issue, the business sectors will have the right to get some money back from M$ (whis is due big time for all the security issues and hacks that allow others to get in to the OS.)
2: Apple should get into high gear, buy back Bill Gates' stock, and finally release OSX to work on the x86 platform! This alone will boost the switchover to MAC. I have been a Windows user for a good part of my life because there really is NO other OS out there compatible on x86 that can compete with Windows by offering the same amount of software support and ease of use. With Mac OSX, this reality is almost there. You know that Gates bought shares in Apple just to make sure that he has the right to veto OSX's release on the X86 platform.
3: EVERYONE and their Mother should send APPLE feedback on MAC OSX and say "MY COPY OF MAC OSX DOES NOT WORK ON MY INTEL/AMD MOTHERBOARD. PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP SO I CAN START USING MAC OSX." Here is the URL for the feedback form.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/
Here is what I wrote to the feedback form.
MY COPY OF MAC OSX DOES NOT WORK ON MY X86/AMD MOTHERBOARD. PLEASE FIX THIS ASAP SO I CAN START USING MAC OSX. MAKE OSX COMPATIBLE WITH X86 PLATFORMS SO THAT APPLE CAN FINALLY GRAB BETTER MARKET SHARE WITH THE EXISTING HARDWARE. IF YOU CONTINUE TO IGNORE THE X86 COMMUNITY, THEN BY ALL MEANS, APPLE WILL FINALLY BE DOOMED YET AGAIN.
APPLE PLEASE BUYBACK ALL OF BILL GATES' SHARES IN APPLE AND RELEASE OSX TO THE X86 PLATFORM. YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT. I BET YOU CAN GET 20-25% MARKET SHARE WITHIN THE FIRST YEAR OF RELEASING OSX FOR X86 PLATFORMS.
PEOPLE WANT CHOICE. IF YOU ARE TRYING TO ELIMINATE CHOICES, THEN PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO BUY YOUR PRODUCT. PERIOD. JUST LOOK AT YOUR TRACK RECORD. APPLE HAS NEVER BROKEN THE 10% MARKET SHARE BARRIER WITH YOUR PROPRIETARY SYSTEM. YOUR OSX PLATFORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO GO FURTHER THAN LINUX EVER CAN. MAKE MICROSOFT FEEL THREATENED BY ANOTHER OS.
The Internet Traffic Report site is OLD data. Half of the bad addesses do not exist anymore. Therefore their data is inaccurate. Period.
Dialup for most people who can get it for approximately $10/month is perfectly fine for most customers needs. The ones who need broadband are power users who need it for web designing, gaming, Voice over IP services and power buying/selling on ebay. I consider that broadband is currently underpriced for the type of speeds that are offered.
If people are currently complaining that Broadband is too costly, so be it. It is costly to provide such services as an average cost per port of transport is priced at $3000+ or $50/month for 5 years. Once providers have paid off their system, it will only then be plausible to make some money back. However, 95% of the providers can not survive at the currently overcharged pricing of current hardware. Hence, why we have had major broadband bankruptcies across North America.
Only a small percentage of users need broadband. And that percentage should be paying premiums for the extra speeds. Now before you go flaming about this, what "GIVES" the public right to pay dialup pricing for a service that is 20 times faster should the price fall? Why not get a T1 to your house and pay the appropriate pricing of the service (ranging from $250 to $2500 depending on area) instead.
The services rendered to most people on broadband are sketchy and in most cases, are problematic. The cause of these problematic cases are due to several factors of poorly constructed networks, lower wages, and low pricing. Broadband technologies can be just as effective as T1+ services, however, the telcos just want to ensure that these services never exceed the performance of their dedicated services. Otherwise, their dedicated services will never retain the value and cost of what they are worth these days. Therefore, why broadband service has been more of a patchup type of service with constant failures.
We offer dedicated SDSL service via our company. Since we have offered this private service (not via our telco), we have never seen the service fail once. We use the simplest provisioning of the service and through simplicity, we can offer a T1 grade service, without the T1 pricing. Yes our pricing is much higher (business services only) however, we can offer a certain level of guarantee over our SDSL services that no other provider will care to offer.
...Would be that if companies will offer both a Linux and Windows version, they should bundle BOTH ports onto one CD. This way the customer will get a version for BSD (Screw Linux) and another version for Windows on the same CD. This will encourage cross platform usage and encourage the use of BSD since they have paid for it. However, only ONE version can be active at one given time.
Sure this could work in conjunction with voting (AFTER the file is downloaded) so this would help strengthen the servers who are storing the same checksum files. However, the voting would have to be regulated in a way that would ensure that it is not being biased to one particular user. The data would all be passed and stored on each supernode to help maintain the integrity of the network and the good/bad servers. However, you will NOT see the rating of the server directly.
However, if the voting is ONLY allowed after a download, then this poisoning can be significantly reduced...
Have each user vote for each server they download from. If a specific server gives out bad files, the users would vote as a bad server. Then it would not be able to connect to the P2P network.
This would be moderation however, it would be the smartest way as each user would have their word on who is allowed and not allowed on the network.
BTW, if you plan on asking for an SLA you need to ask for it in writing in this manner to protect your ass. Otherwise, you will never get proper SLA refunds.
- All SLA tests will be conducted from the CPE Point of Entry to the Provider and the Border Router to the CPE equipment.
- The average Latency difference between Provider and Customer will be calculated in this manner (CPE Ping to destination - Provider Ping to destination)
- Should there be an average latency over the SLA agreement, the customer will get a pro rated refund for the duration of the issue until the situation is cleared.
- This SLA agreement is ONLY within the Provider's Network. Sites outside the provider's network will be calculated to the Provider's Border router.
- Should the Return Paths be available (via remote end doing a traceroute back to the CPE) then the Point of Entry into the Provider's network will also be tested. This is to be able to cover the FULL extent of the path.
We have had many issues described above however with Worldcom, they pulled a Homer and said that their SLA server (which averages their whole network to one location with prioritized packets for the SLA server) were not showing any latency issues and therefore will issue credits.
If an ISP is saying to get their SLA, ask them that you would like to have the above clause put it. I will guarantee you 90% of them will say sorry we will not. Therefore, these providers with current SLAs are just making the extra buck on a cheap SLA they have which will NOT be advantageous for your extra spent dollar.
Trust me on this, I have tried to get the higher priced SLA providers to add my clause in and they all refused. SLAs are worthless unless there is another major catastrophe that takes out half the US Internet market.
Why spend lots of money with T1 when SDSL (the Newer T1 service) can do it for you. It *IS* exactly like T1 service without the extra costs of Regulated T1 Line costs. However, if you really want to know the real deal, these big guys have no push anymore as they are also bottlenecked at the border routers. So it makes no difference if you go with the big guys or the cheapest price, you WILL be limited in speed one way or another.
Remember that a private ISP is just that. Private. Therefore, they have all rights to censor any matter they feel they want censored from their network. If you don't like it, go to another provider. I myself am happy they are taking a stand against DoS by the RIAA. I would consider doing the same.
Whomever they employ will also get marked on they honeypots. Once marked, a lawsuit can be issued on both the company that the RIAA employed to openly attack the ISP's network and the RIAA. The DCMA can not protect against DoS or attacks on a network. This is just clearly an attack of someone's network and is considered as breaking and entering. Unless the RIAA is willing to pay $50,000/month to allow such activity to go on within an ISP's network. With hundreds of thousands of ISPs worldwide, the RIAA would be bankrupt in a few hours.
ATI has been a leader in offering multiple types of resolutions. I would highly suggest looking at the Radeon 9700 Pro and see if it will support this resolution. If not currently, it will eventually as this is only a driver issue. ATI would consider adding this to their driver to allow Plasma screens be properly visible.
Anyone thought of issuing a Class action Lawsuit on behalf of all users vs Microsoft to have them fix this problem?
If Microsoft elects to not fix the problem, then the lawsuit should make it manditory for Microsoft to pay everyone out there with IE and Outlook for the purchase of Anti-Virus Software, Computer repairs needed for the past 2.5 years which were paid to repair machines with virii and all future anti-virus needs for any OS MS offers with IE.
It is NOT highly unlikeless it will go down. If a MAN goes down, it does not matter which POP you have it in, both links will be dead in the water. To be safe, you need Multihoming between 2 separate infrastructures.
The Best Combination is to have one going to:
- The Local ISP over Telco Wire Provider over MAN #1.
- The Local ISP over Independant/non-subcontracted Copper or Cable Wire Provider who does not connect to the first local ISP locally and is connected to MAN #2 or another MAN/WAN provider from the first one.
This way, you can have higher availability since it would be completely independant circuits throughout the whole city.
I got to say that I must agree with him. It is really not the Frenchie's fault but the actual design of the plane itself. Has anyone ever flown in one? It feels like the plane would fall apart.
I would honestly like to see the airlines bring back/increase the amount of 747s (or atleast the new 777s) in their fleet.
I am curious as to what operating systems and daemons the government sites are currently using. I would like to see a list of this to see as to:
1: How much is spent on computer security.
2: Salary of these so called admins for these networks.
3: What OSes the government has standardized on.
4: To determine if one OS is better than the other.
Since each different division uses different software, which OSes are the least vulnerable and start converting to those OSes.
Another thing that should be pointed out is that the departments that got "F" marks should suspend/fire the admin without pay or atleast get a new admin and send the current admin to a 1-2 year course on the specific platforms.
Another thing I have noticed is that there really is NO security schools to help admins get a better knowledge of securing OSes. Maybe this idea can be a new niche market for anyone out there interested in teaching computer security.
g.SHDSL would be able to reach your house. However, unless the Canadian Government finally realizes that Bell needs to offer DLECs the ability to offer these services at wholesale rates, you will never see this technology reach your house.
Actually Lots of high end Professional Digital Cameras can work with PC Card IBM 1 GB Microdrives and I heard there is a 2 or 4GB version coming out soon. If you need the "Rolls" of film, the Microdrive is the preferred choice then. The photographer does not need to enable any compression at all and can later dump it onto 4.7 or 100 GB DVD-RW/C3D-FMD. later we will have 1TB FMD drives too... Only time will tell anyways.
Actually, I think she is right, but there is an EASY way around this. Ever heard of Digital Camera Printers? Also, another thing that can be done is create a 5 minute Digital to photopaper transfer machine (would be a large machine to reduce pixelation) and file each photo in an 8*10 format for future reference incase then next huge disaster occurs and wipes out the terabytes of image data.
Think about it. 1 EMP (Electro-Magnetic Pulse)bomb in a city will wipe out all data on a disk within 25-50 miles radius. Imagine all the pictures and data lost by this device.
With multiplexing your video, you can store up to 32 images on one screen and due to multiplexing, you can get each screen at full size.
check http://www.cctvsupplier.com for more info.
Here is a direct link to the color multiplexers
http://www.cctvsupplier.com/colmul.html
and here is the B&W multiplexers
http://www.cctvsupplier.com/bwmultiplexers.html
Pelco has the higher end product and is very effective as it is used in Casinos to give high quality recordings.
you can check them out at
http://www.pelco.com
I have seen some IP oriented versions, however, their quality is not the greatest.
Here is a link to an IP Based Multiplexer with a real live demo.
http://www.atvideo.com/vipmux_demo_page.htm
is that there are so many flavors of the same shit, people just disregard it. If Netcraft could determine every single type of Linux out there, I bet you *BSD would be in one of the top ranked nix environments...
I think Slashdot should unincorporate itself from VALinux and become a non-profit organisation.
As a non-profit organisation, you can issue tax credits to people and companies who become a member or advertise on Slashdot, get lower priced rates from your vendors (since most vendors offer non-profit pricing levels) and at the same time, any profits left over would be distributed evenly as credit for the next renewal.
Being a non-profit informational organisation, you are entitled to some government grants to further the non-profit organisation.
We can consider Slashdot as a library of information should Slashdot start mirroring other site's information similar to what Google is doing. And therefore, could be allowed to get some credits as a public library.
any thoughts on this welcomed.
Learn to use less bandwidth. The easy trick here to reduce bandwidth is to reduce your pipeline to the Internet to a smaller, less expensive pipeline. Yes, it will lag during peak hours, however, people would rather wait for the content to show up than to see it disappear completely.
Another thing is to modify the comments list to work in a frame or subject basis by limiting to the first 100-200 words of a comment. Soem comments go on for miles on end and therefore are useless. Should a comment have a rating of 0, only post title, +1 = 50 words, +2 = 100 words, +3 = 200 words, +4 would be whole comment.
This would help reduce your bandwidth use, allow you to get a smaller pipe, and live longer in this hellish economy.
It is called content management... And if you can't learn to manage your content delivery system properly, then yes, you can not survive in the future.
I still have 3 SCSI 2GB Conner 3.5" drives running on our SQL Server. They are atleast 15 years old. They are still running strong. Never RMAed or Crashed. (Crosses fingers hoping for 15 more years of good work out of these drive). Anyways, I wish Conner Peripherals came back and made some drives again... Maybe we would have better quality again.
Conner was the highest quality/most advanced drive makers at the time. I seriously doubt most of you would even remember who Conner were.