Yeah, AWEsome game. I absolutely loved the experience...until I came upon the first 'undead' creature. That just made me realize that it was a game, and spoiled it for me.
Whatever hapened to yesterdayland.com? It was a site where you could see what shows were popular during your decade, what cartoons were on, what toys were cool, etc. Did they close up shop?
Interesting, assuming your taling about x-10 cameras. I picked up several of them after google searches to monitor my front door, back door, and back yard. I've had nothing but good luck with them. Of course, I didn't expect the same picture quality as an IMAX either, so it may depend you your perception.
Yeah, funny how that works in their favor. Though I have to admit that I don't know the technical differences between my cell phone and the one on the seat-back in front of me.
Yeah, it really scares me. The possibility of monitoring weather patterns from WITHIN the storm?? Can you imagine the impact this will have to civillization as we know it?? SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL WEATHER MAN!!
Perhaps you should take off your tin-foil hat and look at what the technology is actualy used for.
You may wish to reflect upon your position, as some would consider you unnaturally fearful. Some might even use rough language such as 'pansy' or 'miserable pussy', but I, for one, would deplore it.
I see. So if the offsite facility is eradicated with all backups lost, and the datacenter is still ok...then all else is still (relatively) good because there's still a copy onsite.
Luckily, our offsite storage company has a guarantee, and all locations are built like bunkers. For us, having this arangement works. (knock on wood)
Ah, gotcha. In my environment, there really isn't too much CPU power left over. Plus, stuff gets swapped in and out of memory/CPU, etc. Not good for the health of any kind of backups.
"However, the solution you get meets the #1 rule of backup: anything worth backing up is worth backing up offsite. And this does not mean make a backup, and take it offsite. This means make a backup, and make a second copy and take *that* offsite. Anything else is just not worth doing."
I disagree. Most companies I've worked for have had the same offsite service, and they offer a 1 hour turnaround time on anything stored at their facility.
If you're spending a bunch of money on tapes already, why double it?
Sounds quite a bit like what we do. We forego the hard drive storage (in a manner of speaking) and use an IBM 3494 VTS (Virtual Tape System). It's a little complicated to explain here, but it's software wrapped around a number of hard drives. When the software determines that the Virtual Tape drive is full, it archives that data to tape.
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"Yeah. I was underwhelmed too."
Yeah, but have you ever just been whelmed?
Yeah, AWEsome game. I absolutely loved the experience...until I came upon the first 'undead' creature. That just made me realize that it was a game, and spoiled it for me.
It was the original NASCAR for me.
30 cars in the field, all out for blood.
Taladega - the longest, fastest track on the circuit.
All 30 cars come around turn 1.
I'm just hitting 198 miles per hour on the straight.
Going the wrong way.
"Oh, the humanity!"
*sigh* Thanks.
Oh, Toys R Us is selling the Green Machine again. It's even better than before.
Whatever hapened to yesterdayland.com? It was a site where you could see what shows were popular during your decade, what cartoons were on, what toys were cool, etc. Did they close up shop?
Point taken. Your employer pays you x amount to work for him, and just because your expenses are now less, you don't charge them less.
Good analogy.
Ever listen to Eminem? Not for everybody, I'm sure, but his lyrics are certainly not thoughtless.
(As Tommy Chong) Heh. You knew it was P-diddy instead of Puff-Daddy.
Oh wait, so did I. Scary...
I disagree with you in general, but I gotta admit that it's tough to argue with your logic.
Plus, you made me laugh.
Most of the 9% will be the WRONG file. I.E. The 'full version' of Half Life turns out to be the demo of Rainbox Six.
Interesting, assuming your taling about x-10 cameras. I picked up several of them after google searches to monitor my front door, back door, and back yard. I've had nothing but good luck with them. Of course, I didn't expect the same picture quality as an IMAX either, so it may depend you your perception.
"I wouldn't be surprised if more sites went to a optional subscription model, like salon.com: no ads if you subscribe."
I would more likely spend $x on a software solution to cancel-out the ads, rather than spend $x times # of web-sites to get rid of the ads.
I found the rest of your post very informative. Too bad you posted AC.
At least it gets recycled.
How is that recycle money spent, is what I want to know...
"Put me on your do-not-call list"
Tried that, and each time was told that they needed that from me in writing.
Great.
So if I did that they'd write me instead of calling me.
"Assulting a US Postal Worker while they are on duty is a Federal felony and will land you in pound-you-in-the-ass prison."
Jerk. I just got my wisdom teeth out, and you went and made me laugh.
Dammit, I'm still chuckling.
Yeah, funny how that works in their favor. Though I have to admit that I don't know the technical differences between my cell phone and the one on the seat-back in front of me.
Yeah, it really scares me. The possibility of monitoring weather patterns from WITHIN the storm?? Can you imagine the impact this will have to civillization as we know it?? SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL WEATHER MAN!!
Perhaps you should take off your tin-foil hat and look at what the technology is actualy used for.
You may wish to reflect upon your position, as some would consider you unnaturally fearful. Some might even use rough language such as 'pansy' or 'miserable pussy', but I, for one, would deplore it.
I see. So if the offsite facility is eradicated with all backups lost, and the datacenter is still ok...then all else is still (relatively) good because there's still a copy onsite.
Luckily, our offsite storage company has a guarantee, and all locations are built like bunkers. For us, having this arangement works. (knock on wood)
Ah, gotcha. In my environment, there really isn't too much CPU power left over. Plus, stuff gets swapped in and out of memory/CPU, etc. Not good for the health of any kind of backups.
"However, the solution you get meets the #1 rule of backup: anything worth backing up is worth backing up offsite. And this does not mean make a backup, and take it offsite. This means make a backup, and make a second copy and take *that* offsite. Anything else is just not worth doing."
I disagree. Most companies I've worked for have had the same offsite service, and they offer a 1 hour turnaround time on anything stored at their facility.
If you're spending a bunch of money on tapes already, why double it?
If that's all it has to do, so what? At least it frees up the main processor to service clients' requests, serve email, etc.
Easier, maybe. Cheaper, no.
But what if the river floods? :)
Funny. Our 100GB (3590) tapes are $54 each.
:)
That's $0.54 per GB. It's 6pm, and the beer may be kicking in, so I'll let you do the rest of the calc.
Sounds quite a bit like what we do. We forego the hard drive storage (in a manner of speaking) and use an IBM 3494 VTS (Virtual Tape System). It's a little complicated to explain here, but it's software wrapped around a number of hard drives. When the software determines that the Virtual Tape drive is full, it archives that data to tape.