Heh, yeah it's a bit loud. But as its purpose is as a fileserver, it's more important to keep the hard drives cool than to keep it quiet.
Of course, my game machine isn't exactly silent either, with the CPU fan, GPU Fan, Chipset fan, MB exhaust fan [part of the motherboard, exhuasts next to the PS/2 ports], PS fan, rear exhaust fan and side exhaust fan. It's not as bad as it you might expect, as ALL the fans are variable based on the temperature. It runs fairly cool with an internal ambient tempurature usually around 100F at Max load [according to the thermometer built into the case with a sensor sitting between the CPU & GPU.], the CPU temp is usually around 35-40C tops [Athlon64 2800+]
Lets see here. I have a server [Duron 1200] in a datacenter that's kept fairly cool. [Not as cool as it should be, it's a shitty hosting company, but I can't complain because I'm not paying for it]. The HD temperatures in that server run around 54C.
I have another server [P4 1.8Ghz] sitting in a spare bedroom of my house. The temperature in that room is usually about 80F (27C) even with the AC going. It gets even warmer if I'm in there gaming on my desktop machine during the summer. The HD temps in that server are around 33C.
The difference between the two cases is the fans. In my home server there are 4 fans blowing directly over the HD's using air coming in from the front, as well as an exhaust fan directly over the CPU, an exhaust fan in the back plus the PS fan. In the datacenter server, there's just the PS fan [and MAYBE an exhaust fan in the back, I don't remember].
So in my experience, the cooling in the server itself is more important than the ambient temp. All the cool ambient air in the world isn't going to help if the server case becomes a small insulated pocket of hot air. With that said it's important to give both as much cooling capability as possible.
I was starting to get just barely nearsighted in one eye in highschool. It turns out that I was reading so much for such long stretches [6+ hours sometimes] that my eye muscles were getting used to focusing at one distance. I was told to start looking up from the book every chapter or so and focus on a wall, or something far away to exercise the muscles. That helped and my vision is fine.
So I've been reading and sitting in front of CRT's for 15yrs and have near perfect vision.
Dunno about any long term effects from the radiation from the CRT though.
Why don't you let them make their own call on what they consider "a favor"?
I'm not saying they shouldn't be allowed to make that call. If they want to allow the RIAA group to make an exorbitant amount of money for something that could be done free, that's fine and I'm not going to buy their CD's; but the RIAA is trying to eliminate the choice for musicians who DO want free distribution. That is a bad thing.
P2P downloaders don't make any money off of their downloads (usually).
You know it just dawned on me that it's even more different than that statement suggests. Not only are P2P file-sharers not getting paid, they are paying their own/parent's money [in the form of equipment, time, bandwidth and electricity] in order to distribute the product of the RIAA. So in a twisted sense, they are doing the the musicians a favor. The whole reason bands sign obscene contracts with the RIAA is to get their music distributed. They know they aren't going to make much money off the CD sales, it'll come from concerts and merchandise.
While in the current legal framework I agree that downloading copywrited music against the wishes of the musicians is illegal, I think they need to realize that in a way we are doing them a favor. This is why the RIAA is so scared of P2P. They know it has the potential to take them out of the loop without significantly hurting the musicians.
Anyway, that's just something that popped into my head. I know that similar opinions have been voiced, but I've never seen it put that way.
First of all, don't get me wrong, I don't particularly agree with the parent either, but there are a few flaws in your arguments.
1. The 4-man group worked out a deal between lawyers for a contract that the 4-man group willingly signed between them and the record label they willingly decided to sign with.
The problem here comes when the RIAA and member music companies control every aspect of the music industry. At some point when there is no cheap/free way to distribute their music, they are forced to sign with an RIAA backed company in order to bring their music to a wider audience and progress beyond playing weekend gigs at the local coffee house. This is a monopoly and needs to be regulated or they will continue to pocket the largest portion of the sales dollars while the artists who had no alternative way of getting their music out, get almost nothing.
2. Albums have broader popularity then concerts, because not everyone can go to a concert or afford to (have you seen ticket prices compared to the cost of an album?)
This is partially caused by the fact that since the artist gets very little money from the hundreds of thousands of copies that are sold of their music, they raise ticket prices to make money. The concert promoters also get a big slice of that. Of course I think that most of the artists these days are greedy little bastards when it comes to ticket prices. You don't need to charge $50+/ticket to live very very comfortably. Garth Brooks managed to make heaps of money, while insisting that his concert tickets never cost more than $18.
So while I think that companies that base their business on the trading of illegal files should be punished, P2P software in general should not be regulated into uselessness. The end result will be worse than the current situation.
How about the tried and tested Carrier Pigeon? Or maybe posting DVDs through the snail mail?
Well, the Carrier Pigeon's might work, but the government oversees the postal system as well, so no go on mailing DVD's.:)
No, I think we need some sort of quantum level communication [Quantum Entaglement?]. Yeah that's the ticket. Get cracking you lazy physisists! Where's our Quantum communication already?!?
Ah yes, the days of store-and-forward, when it could take up to several days to have an email delivered. Won't that be fun!:)
Then again I'd rather see that than total government control over the internet.
Unfortunately, the government already controls the phone lines and the wireless frequencies. We'd probably have to come up with some unregulated medium for it to work without the government saying 'No you can't do that over our phone lines'.
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Oh sure, my wifes name, Bday, pets name and maiden name are...
Or maybe not.:)
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Interesting you should mention the CC companies' push for fraud protection. In the last few weeks my wife has received two offers from one of her CC companies. They basically want to pay you $10 for signing up for the fraud protection. You know the deal, "cash this check and we'll activate the protection. You can cancel at any time, yadda yadda yadda"
Now here's the important part. The check is made out to "Wife's Name or Bearer". That's right. "Or Bearer" which means that anyone who happened to come upon that check could cash it, automatically starting a monthly charge on her CC without her knowledge. Yeah that's the way to protect her card from fraudulent charges. Way to go!
Needless to say, we are complaining to them and closing the account with that company.
Or maybe the poor guy is aware that sometimes issues crop up during a full deployment that don't show up in a test environment, and just wants to see what issues or concerns others have come across in their deployments. Or perhaps he just wants to supplement his testing with other opinions of the products which might bring to light issues that he hadn't thought of.
I'm a pretty pessimistic guy but it amazes even me the amount of negative feedback that is generated whenever someone asks a question.
Maybe he is just being lazy and not wanting to try it on his own but you don't know that. It's pretty rude to slam him on the basis of something you don't know anything about.
Not to mention the fact that by posting it in a public forum, he's bringing an important topic into public discussion which could produce a productive idea or two on the topic. Sure I know it's a slim chance, this is Slashdot after all:). But it could happen.
...although the media ports in the center console are a bit much.
Actually the main problem that he's going to discover is that if he allows anyone to eat in the vehicle, the media ports are going to get full of crumbs.
Even if he doesn't allow eating, having the ports facing up like that is just going to get them clogged with dust or cleaning fluids. They need to be put in horizontally somewhere, or at least have a cover put over them.
I'm not sure what the point of this type of contest is. The real test of a machine, is put to it up and use it permanently. If it doesn't get hacked, you're probably doing things right. [Or you're tremendously lucky:) ]
I've had various public-facing servers up for years. The only one that's gotten hacked [I'm embarrassed,but I admit it happened] is my home firewall/router which was running a poorly set-up, poorly configured, slightly old version of Squid. It was frankly my fault that I got hacked. But I learned what went wrong, and I'm now more diligent. None of the ftp/web/mail servers I've put up have been hacked [yet, I acknowledge that it may happen eventually]. Even the ones I've had up in high-profile hosting facilities are still doing fine, in spite of being scanned and attacked regularly.
Anyway, that's the real test. Put it up, use it, and keep current with security updates. There's really not a whole lot more to it.
That's true but it will be at an inflated eBay price. Which btw, there is a grand total of 1 HD-2000 card available on ebay right now, and no HD-3000's.
I have a feeling that it will not be easy to find someone who wants to sell theirs after the broadcast flag is in full effect.
I'm curious about something regarding the pcHDTV card. Obviously it will soon be illegal to sell the cards, but is there anything stopping them from selling [or even better, giving away] the plans and schematics and perhaps even the parts to build one yourself?
I'd LOVE to get one, but I don't know if I'll be able to come up with the money by the time they're illegal, so if I can't, will plans be available to me to build my own?
Of course, the best option would be for the court to tell the FCC to shove the broadcast flag up their collective @sses, but I'm not holding my breath.
That's funny. My parents, and the parents of the thousands of generations before us didn't seem to have that big of a problem raising kids properly without resorting to gps & tracking watches etc.
Wait, you contradict yourself in your very next statement:
Sure, there will always be a few kids who do stupid shit, no matter how good their parents are,
I contradicted nothing.
So you're implying that your parents generation never produced kids that did bad/evil things? Or that bad things never happened to their kids? That if they had the technology they wouldn't have used it (hmmm, seat belts and car seats immediately come to mind here).
I said no such thing. There's no way to guarantee 100% that your child will be good. If being a good parent doesn't make your child good, neither will a gps strapped to your kids wrist. But good parenting does NOT require a gps or tracker.
If you ask me there should be a series of tests to determine whether or not a pair of parents are capable of raising a child before they are allowed to procreate.
Ahhh, so it's ok to restrict ones ability to do one of the very fundamental things that we are capable of doing, but it's not ok to prevent someone from copying some software or music? I see the profundity in your logic.
Boy you pulled that one out of your ass. When did I mention anything about copying software or music? What it boils down to is that I'd rather not have a test to see if someone will be a good parent. I want them to be responsible for their children. But today that doesn't seem to be the case, so if you want ME to be responsible for YOUR children, then you are going to have to prove you're not too stupid to have kids, because I don't want 'em.
On the one hand the/. community will whine about civil liberties being taken away from minors (e.g. gps tracking watches, etc), but then they whine about parents not "controlling" their kids. Well which is it, do kids have the right to screw up just like parents, or do parents have the right to exercise whatever control they see necessary to "straighten kids out"?
That's funny. My parents, and the parents of the thousands of generations before us didn't seem to have that big of a problem raising kids properly without resorting to gps & tracking watches etc. Sure, there will always be a few kids who do stupid shit, no matter how good their parents are, but face it, the majority of kids would be much better behaved if parents would stop depending on society to raise their kids, and take responsibility for themselves.
My wife, my mother and my step-father are all teachers. It's obvious to see that the kids who have parents that pay attention to them and what they are doing, and who take an interest in what the kids are doing tend to be the ones who do well in school and don't get into any major trouble. And the kids who are always in trouble, and constantly failing are consistantly the ones whose parents are depending on the school system, tv and society to babysit and raise them.
If you ask me there should be a series of tests to determine whether or not a pair of parents are capable of raising a child before they are allowed to procreate.
and then a spammer started jo-jobbing me. Meaning that they started using fake addresses @mydomain. So I was getting tons and tons of bounce messages. It was awful.
Yeah, I had someone jo-jobbing my yahoo email address. Fortunately they guy was dumb enough to do it from the same DSL block every time, so I gave SBC enough info to turn off his DSL. I also got the click-for-pay places he was using to shut his account down. He finally got the idea and stopped.
I remember my Mac SE/30 fully booted in 6 seconds. That's with nothing in the system folder but System and Finder. After a lot of extensions, it was more like 15-20 seconds. Still, very fast.
It got worse and worse through the OSs. But now OSX is actually getting better and better. My G4 laptop boots as fast as my AMD PC desktop with better hardware - about 45 seconds (including pause for login).
As a sys-admin, I find that the faster computers get, the longer they take to boot [especially servers]. Eventually, computers will be so fast, that they will never finish booting.
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PS. Yes I stole that, I just don't remember where I first heard it.
I was also thinking that it would make a nifty little server. Now all Apple needs to do is make some external HD enclosures [USB & Firewire], so you can snap them together and make a nice little integrated, expandable unit. I think it'd be a bitchin' little media server. Or any other server that needs lots of HD capacity but not too much data-transfer speed.
Hardly, unfortunately, they've got cops every 10 fuckin' feet on the highways it seems. I've gotten more tickets in the last 2 years here in Texas [only doing a few over the limit], than I did in 10 years of speeding like a fuckin' maniac [90+ everywhere] in California.
Oh yeah, gotta love Texas. Stupid state can't even build a regular highway that doesn't suck. And the drivers here are driving me nuts [no pun intended.]
Hopefully they'll have a decent speed limit. 70mph [60 at night] is just too damned slow in a state this big.
Anyway, I'm not exactly thrilled. I think it's a total waste of my tax money. [sigh]
Every country is mentioning its own citizens. I read elmundo.es, and it is about Spanish survivors. BBC -- guess what -- British. They're doing something to attract readership -- making it relevant to their readers.
Am I the only one saddened by the fact that 200 people of your nation dying is relevant, but 70,000+ people dying who aren't from your nation, isn't relevant enough?
Possibly up to 100,000 HUMANS died. That's equivalent to the entire population of the town I grew up in. If that isn't relevant to you, you don't deserve to live on this planet.
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Holy crap, isn't that loud?! Loud computers suck.
Heh, yeah it's a bit loud. But as its purpose is as a fileserver, it's more important to keep the hard drives cool than to keep it quiet.
Of course, my game machine isn't exactly silent either, with the CPU fan, GPU Fan, Chipset fan, MB exhaust fan [part of the motherboard, exhuasts next to the PS/2 ports], PS fan, rear exhaust fan and side exhaust fan. It's not as bad as it you might expect, as ALL the fans are variable based on the temperature. It runs fairly cool with an internal ambient tempurature usually around 100F at Max load [according to the thermometer built into the case with a sensor sitting between the CPU & GPU.], the CPU temp is usually around 35-40C tops [Athlon64 2800+]
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Lets see here. I have a server [Duron 1200] in a datacenter that's kept fairly cool. [Not as cool as it should be, it's a shitty hosting company, but I can't complain because I'm not paying for it]. The HD temperatures in that server run around 54C.
I have another server [P4 1.8Ghz] sitting in a spare bedroom of my house. The temperature in that room is usually about 80F (27C) even with the AC going. It gets even warmer if I'm in there gaming on my desktop machine during the summer. The HD temps in that server are around 33C.
The difference between the two cases is the fans. In my home server there are 4 fans blowing directly over the HD's using air coming in from the front, as well as an exhaust fan directly over the CPU, an exhaust fan in the back plus the PS fan. In the datacenter server, there's just the PS fan [and MAYBE an exhaust fan in the back, I don't remember].
So in my experience, the cooling in the server itself is more important than the ambient temp. All the cool ambient air in the world isn't going to help if the server case becomes a small insulated pocket of hot air. With that said it's important to give both as much cooling capability as possible.
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Yup, I was told basically the same thing.
I was starting to get just barely nearsighted in one eye in highschool. It turns out that I was reading so much for such long stretches [6+ hours sometimes] that my eye muscles were getting used to focusing at one distance. I was told to start looking up from the book every chapter or so and focus on a wall, or something far away to exercise the muscles. That helped and my vision is fine.
So I've been reading and sitting in front of CRT's for 15yrs and have near perfect vision.
Dunno about any long term effects from the radiation from the CRT though.
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Why don't you let them make their own call on what they consider "a favor"?
I'm not saying they shouldn't be allowed to make that call. If they want to allow the RIAA group to make an exorbitant amount of money for something that could be done free, that's fine and I'm not going to buy their CD's; but the RIAA is trying to eliminate the choice for musicians who DO want free distribution. That is a bad thing.
Ender-
P2P downloaders don't make any money off of their downloads (usually).
You know it just dawned on me that it's even more different than that statement suggests. Not only are P2P file-sharers not getting paid, they are paying their own/parent's money [in the form of equipment, time, bandwidth and electricity] in order to distribute the product of the RIAA. So in a twisted sense, they are doing the the musicians a favor. The whole reason bands sign obscene contracts with the RIAA is to get their music distributed. They know they aren't going to make much money off the CD sales, it'll come from concerts and merchandise.
While in the current legal framework I agree that downloading copywrited music against the wishes of the musicians is illegal, I think they need to realize that in a way we are doing them a favor. This is why the RIAA is so scared of P2P. They know it has the potential to take them out of the loop without significantly hurting the musicians.
Anyway, that's just something that popped into my head. I know that similar opinions have been voiced, but I've never seen it put that way.
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First of all, don't get me wrong, I don't particularly agree with the parent either, but there are a few flaws in your arguments.
1. The 4-man group worked out a deal between lawyers for a contract that the 4-man group willingly signed between them and the record label they willingly decided to sign with.
The problem here comes when the RIAA and member music companies control every aspect of the music industry. At some point when there is no cheap/free way to distribute their music, they are forced to sign with an RIAA backed company in order to bring their music to a wider audience and progress beyond playing weekend gigs at the local coffee house. This is a monopoly and needs to be regulated or they will continue to pocket the largest portion of the sales dollars while the artists who had no alternative way of getting their music out, get almost nothing.
2. Albums have broader popularity then concerts, because not everyone can go to a concert or afford to (have you seen ticket prices compared to the cost of an album?)
This is partially caused by the fact that since the artist gets very little money from the hundreds of thousands of copies that are sold of their music, they raise ticket prices to make money. The concert promoters also get a big slice of that. Of course I think that most of the artists these days are greedy little bastards when it comes to ticket prices. You don't need to charge $50+/ticket to live very very comfortably. Garth Brooks managed to make heaps of money, while insisting that his concert tickets never cost more than $18.
So while I think that companies that base their business on the trading of illegal files should be punished, P2P software in general should not be regulated into uselessness. The end result will be worse than the current situation.
Ender-
How about the tried and tested Carrier Pigeon? Or maybe posting DVDs through the snail mail?
:)
Well, the Carrier Pigeon's might work, but the government oversees the postal system as well, so no go on mailing DVD's.
No, I think we need some sort of quantum level communication [Quantum Entaglement?]. Yeah that's the ticket. Get cracking you lazy physisists! Where's our Quantum communication already?!?
Ender-
Ah yes, the days of store-and-forward, when it could take up to several days to have an email delivered. Won't that be fun! :)
Then again I'd rather see that than total government control over the internet.
Unfortunately, the government already controls the phone lines and the wireless frequencies. We'd probably have to come up with some unregulated medium for it to work without the government saying 'No you can't do that over our phone lines'.
Ender-
Oh sure, my wifes name, Bday, pets name and maiden name are...
:)
Or maybe not.
Ender-
Interesting you should mention the CC companies' push for fraud protection. In the last few weeks my wife has received two offers from one of her CC companies. They basically want to pay you $10 for signing up for the fraud protection. You know the deal, "cash this check and we'll activate the protection. You can cancel at any time, yadda yadda yadda"
Now here's the important part. The check is made out to "Wife's Name or Bearer". That's right. "Or Bearer" which means that anyone who happened to come upon that check could cash it, automatically starting a monthly charge on her CC without her knowledge. Yeah that's the way to protect her card from fraudulent charges. Way to go!
Needless to say, we are complaining to them and closing the account with that company.
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Or maybe the poor guy is aware that sometimes issues crop up during a full deployment that don't show up in a test environment, and just wants to see what issues or concerns others have come across in their deployments.
:). But it could happen.
Or perhaps he just wants to supplement his testing with other opinions of the products which might bring to light issues that he hadn't thought of.
I'm a pretty pessimistic guy but it amazes even me the amount of negative feedback that is generated whenever someone asks a question.
Maybe he is just being lazy and not wanting to try it on his own but you don't know that. It's pretty rude to slam him on the basis of something you don't know anything about.
Not to mention the fact that by posting it in a public forum, he's bringing an important topic into public discussion which could produce a productive idea or two on the topic. Sure I know it's a slim chance, this is Slashdot after all
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...although the media ports in the center console are a bit much.
Actually the main problem that he's going to discover is that if he allows anyone to eat in the vehicle, the media ports are going to get full of crumbs.
Even if he doesn't allow eating, having the ports facing up like that is just going to get them clogged with dust or cleaning fluids. They need to be put in horizontally somewhere, or at least have a cover put over them.
Otherwise it looks like a nice job.
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I'm not sure what the point of this type of contest is. The real test of a machine, is put to it up and use it permanently. If it doesn't get hacked, you're probably doing things right. [Or you're tremendously lucky :) ]
I've had various public-facing servers up for years. The only one that's gotten hacked [I'm embarrassed,but I admit it happened] is my home firewall/router which was running a poorly set-up, poorly configured, slightly old version of Squid. It was frankly my fault that I got hacked. But I learned what went wrong, and I'm now more diligent. None of the ftp/web/mail servers I've put up have been hacked [yet, I acknowledge that it may happen eventually]. Even the ones I've had up in high-profile hosting facilities are still doing fine, in spite of being scanned and attacked regularly.
Anyway, that's the real test. Put it up, use it, and keep current with security updates. There's really not a whole lot more to it.
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That's true but it will be at an inflated eBay price. Which btw, there is a grand total of 1 HD-2000 card available on ebay right now, and no HD-3000's.
I have a feeling that it will not be easy to find someone who wants to sell theirs after the broadcast flag is in full effect.
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I'm curious about something regarding the pcHDTV card. Obviously it will soon be illegal to sell the cards, but is there anything stopping them from selling [or even better, giving away] the plans and schematics and perhaps even the parts to build one yourself?
I'd LOVE to get one, but I don't know if I'll be able to come up with the money by the time they're illegal, so if I can't, will plans be available to me to build my own?
Of course, the best option would be for the court to tell the FCC to shove the broadcast flag up their collective @sses, but I'm not holding my breath.
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That's funny. My parents, and the parents of the thousands of generations before us didn't seem to have that big of a problem raising kids properly without resorting to gps & tracking watches etc.
Wait, you contradict yourself in your very next statement:
Sure, there will always be a few kids who do stupid shit, no matter how good their parents are,
I contradicted nothing.
So you're implying that your parents generation never produced kids that did bad/evil things? Or that bad things never happened to their kids? That if they had the technology they wouldn't have used it (hmmm, seat belts and car seats immediately come to mind here).
I said no such thing. There's no way to guarantee 100% that your child will be good. If being a good parent doesn't make your child good, neither will a gps strapped to your kids wrist.
But good parenting does NOT require a gps or tracker.
If you ask me there should be a series of tests to determine whether or not a pair of parents are capable of raising a child before they are allowed to procreate.
Ahhh, so it's ok to restrict ones ability to do one of the very fundamental things that we are capable of doing, but it's not ok to prevent someone from copying some software or music? I see the profundity in your logic.
Boy you pulled that one out of your ass. When did I mention anything about copying software or music?
What it boils down to is that I'd rather not have a test to see if someone will be a good parent. I want them to be responsible for their children. But today that doesn't seem to be the case, so if you want ME to be responsible for YOUR children, then you are going to have to prove you're not too stupid to have kids, because I don't want 'em.
On the one hand the /. community will whine about civil liberties being taken away from minors (e.g. gps tracking watches, etc), but then they whine about parents not "controlling" their kids. Well which is it, do kids have the right to screw up just like parents, or do parents have the right to exercise whatever control they see necessary to "straighten kids out"?
That's funny. My parents, and the parents of the thousands of generations before us didn't seem to have that big of a problem raising kids properly without resorting to gps & tracking watches etc.
Sure, there will always be a few kids who do stupid shit, no matter how good their parents are, but face it, the majority of kids would be much better behaved if parents would stop depending on society to raise their kids, and take responsibility for themselves.
My wife, my mother and my step-father are all teachers. It's obvious to see that the kids who have parents that pay attention to them and what they are doing, and who take an interest in what the kids are doing tend to be the ones who do well in school and don't get into any major trouble. And the kids who are always in trouble, and constantly failing are consistantly the ones whose parents are depending on the school system, tv and society to babysit and raise them.
If you ask me there should be a series of tests to determine whether or not a pair of parents are capable of raising a child before they are allowed to procreate.
and then a spammer started jo-jobbing me. Meaning that they started using fake addresses @mydomain. So I was getting tons and tons of bounce messages. It was awful.
Yeah, I had someone jo-jobbing my yahoo email address. Fortunately they guy was dumb enough to do it from the same DSL block every time, so I gave SBC enough info to turn off his DSL.
I also got the click-for-pay places he was using to shut his account down. He finally got the idea and stopped.
I hate those F*CKIN' people!
I remember my Mac SE/30 fully booted in 6 seconds. That's with nothing in the system folder but System and Finder. After a lot of extensions, it was more like 15-20 seconds. Still, very fast.
It got worse and worse through the OSs. But now OSX is actually getting better and better. My G4 laptop boots as fast as my AMD PC desktop with better hardware - about 45 seconds (including pause for login).
As a sys-admin, I find that the faster computers get, the longer they take to boot [especially servers]. Eventually, computers will be so fast, that they will never finish booting.
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PS. Yes I stole that, I just don't remember where I first heard it.
I've posted a mirror at a hosting facility:
/ 1984macintro.mov
http://olaf.fearthepenguin.net/~ender/video/apple
Enjoy
I was also thinking that it would make a nifty little server. Now all Apple needs to do is make some external HD enclosures [USB & Firewire], so you can snap them together and make a nice little integrated, expandable unit.
I think it'd be a bitchin' little media server. Or any other server that needs lots of HD capacity but not too much data-transfer speed.
Thank you! I thought no one was ever going to get around to pointing that out!
Hardly, unfortunately, they've got cops every 10 fuckin' feet on the highways it seems. I've gotten more tickets in the last 2 years here in Texas [only doing a few over the limit], than I did in 10 years of speeding like a fuckin' maniac [90+ everywhere] in California.
I hate this state.
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Oh yeah, gotta love Texas. Stupid state can't even build a regular highway that doesn't suck.
And the drivers here are driving me nuts [no pun intended.]
Hopefully they'll have a decent speed limit. 70mph [60 at night] is just too damned slow in a state this big.
Anyway, I'm not exactly thrilled. I think it's a total waste of my tax money. [sigh]
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Every country is mentioning its own citizens. I read elmundo.es, and it is about Spanish survivors. BBC -- guess what -- British. They're doing something to attract readership -- making it relevant to their readers.
Am I the only one saddened by the fact that 200 people of your nation dying is relevant, but 70,000+ people dying who aren't from your nation, isn't relevant enough?
Possibly up to 100,000 HUMANS died. That's equivalent to the entire population of the town I grew up in. If that isn't relevant to you, you don't deserve to live on this planet.