The truth is, there is not enough information to answer the question. How much data? Acceptable down time? etc. How many suckers will donate?
Based on what they have now, which is under 350GB, they could just buy a bunch of single disks (300GB for under $250) and mirror/rsync/whatever them. Say they want more space. They can buy 2TB in RAID5 for ~$4400, so getting complete redundancy in equipment is only another ~$4400, not $12k. Not only that, it's 75% of the cost with 6x the original capacity.
I need more information on why they think the Dell is necessary to justfiy giving up money for what looks like a poor plan.
I think that the hard drive is the most overlooked upgrade for a "power user". If at all possible, go out and pick up a 15krpm Ultra SCSI hard drive and controller for the boot partition. Use that slow ATA crap for storage of non-performance type stuff.
Yeah, except that the SATA drive used in the tests (in this article) is the WD Raptor, which smokes most 15k scsi drives. It's what's going in my next system this summer. Check out storagereport.com.
Heh, well I still can't sleep next to the thing when it's on.
That's funny, it took me months to be able to sleep without the PC noise once we bought a house and my computers had to be in another room. I had a hard time sleeping with the machine off when I was in school.
After making 3 recipes from a F&W magazine that were better than any I've followed before, we bought a subscription. Our record continues towards perfection - every recipe is not just good, it's a whole new experience worth remembering, and doing again. You can get each recipe online and each comes with a wine recommendation, which I consider almost critical.
I've tried epicurious a number of times, and it just seems to be weird combos of food, that are hit or miss, best so far are goat cheese stuffed turkey burgers, but everything else has been forgetable.
Cool - I was going to mention The Diesel Stop as my favorite new site (as in new to me). I had *no* idea how much you could tweak a PSD. Lots of good advice to be had there - it's helped me a lot. Good articles too.
I'll second other sentiments in that you'll only find pretty specific stuff on the car side (DMS, z06vette, tdiclub, etc.. The reason is is that there's so much material that can be discussed on just one type of vehicle alone, that adding more just makes in messy. The trick is finding the good ones, since there are often many forums/sites dedicated to certain makes/models. I went through a number of Ford Truck forums before I found TDS.
Touching on your other point, and to add some data, I collect mechanical watches - mostly for the appreciation of what it takes to make something so small and accurate and reasonably durable. I have a watch worth more than my daily driver and best computer put together, and one that runs based on the movement of a tiny tuning fork. Amazing stuff. I've even bought a kit (tools, basic watch movement) that shows you how to take apart a movement and put it back together. I find it fascinating.
I disagree. Not completely, but come on! Why the hell are you reading email on a machine that has the source? If you can't completely isolate the dev network, you can at least make sure it doesn't have dual(+) functionality to add to the exploitable possibilities.
database dumps - one of our smaller database dumps is 2.3 GB compressed. The dumps are the easiest method of backup and distribution - locally and (very) remotely.
I couldn't agree more. Every single job I've ever gotten (since early high school) was because of someone I knew there. Where I am now, over half of the people working there got there by knowing someone already there. I've gotten two jobs out of the blue because someone knew me (and my skills) and knew someone who was looking for something like me. A personal recommendation goes a long way.
Diesel cars used to be hot in the early 80's because diesel was so much cheaper than unleaded or regular. Economics screwed that up because diesel cars got to be big enough that regular gas stations (not just truck stops) started to carry diesel. That increased the gas stations cost, and thus raised the price of diesel to the same or higher levels compared to unleaded.
I don't buy this for a second. Do you really believe that consumer diesel could put a dent in the trucking/train/farming diesel market? Big truck stops get refueled with diesel 7-8 times each day. Active gas stations don't even push that much unleaded gas, let alone diesel.
I watched half an episode a few months ago, and it was interesting. Never seen it before. Then I watched two episodes earlier this spring - wow. It was really good, but I was really confused. I decided I had to watch them all in order. I bought Season 1 on DVD, and it was amazing (would have bought them all if I could have). So I turned to my computer and p2p friends, and managed to get every single ep except one ("Beer Bad" from (I believe) Season 3). I also taped most of Seasons 4&5 from the 4x a day FX reruns. Everything made so much more sense seeing it in order. Generally shows like this annoy me (24) where you miss one show and you're lost, but it's so worth the extra effort to catch it. I've heard Angel isn't as bad, but I never really got into it (and I wasn't a big fan when he was on Buffy), so I just get pissed when they do crossovers and I miss it.
The episodes listed above ("Hush", "The Body", and of course "OMwF") by Golias are certainly absolutely fantastic for the reasons given, but my favorite is probably "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" from Season 2. The scene with Xander walking down the hall and the music..... Too much.
Earlier seasons were a bit better about being "comedy, horror, and kungfu action - all in the name", so I'm glad to see that Season 7 is supposed to be going "back to the basics". I remember many times earlier on actually being scared, and laughing out loud during the same episodes - it was great.
Download it and check it out on your desktop (Windows, Linux). Pretty cool. It works really well for common words, and conveniently sets up common endings for you (-tion, -ing, etc.) But, uncommon words are really tough, and punctuation is seriously lacking. Sometimes it's even hard to find the space for the end of a word. I don't really see how you could use it to edit text either, it's painful just editing the current stream as it is. It is pretty damn cool....
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A couple years ago when I first started getting into watches I found the following:
http://www.snoopy.net/jbc/
http://www.electronicsusa.com/bc10.html
http://www.california.com/~binard/java/Binclock. ht ml
I actually used jbc on my desktop for a bit. Once you get used to it, it's not that hard to read. It may take some time to get used to it though....
More important than luck though, is some skill or background. I started with Linux in 1993, and we set up a 2 pc network in our dorm (way before I'd ever heard of anyone doing it, but I'm sure we weren't the first.) So I turned into a Linux monkey. And back then you really had to know it to get anything going. I spent an entire weekend downloading Slackware onto floppies.
One summer some CS friends of mine got co-op jobs and they got me in too. My future boss liked me, and the linux stuff and hired me. I ended up staying through the summer and for a semester writing shell scripts to do various little things and helping out the sysadmin when there was nothing else to do. Cool stuff.
Then I got away from it for a bit, graduated, got a job, and they needed some help moving from 95 to NT, so I helped out a bit since I was already running NT. Then most of the systems guys left and I asked for a job. Now I'm the linux/2000 guy.
So it took some luck, some knowing someone, but mostly the ability, the skill, and the confidence to tackle systems problems. Cool stuff - best of luck.
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The truth is, there is not enough information to answer the question. How much data? Acceptable down time? etc. How many suckers will donate?
Based on what they have now, which is under 350GB, they could just buy a bunch of single disks (300GB for under $250) and mirror/rsync/whatever them. Say they want more space. They can buy 2TB in RAID5 for ~$4400, so getting complete redundancy in equipment is only another ~$4400, not $12k. Not only that, it's 75% of the cost with 6x the original capacity.
I need more information on why they think the Dell is necessary to justfiy giving up money for what looks like a poor plan.
Check out storagereport.com
Oops, I meant storagereview.com.....
I think that the hard drive is the most overlooked upgrade for a "power user". If at all possible, go out and pick up a 15krpm Ultra SCSI hard drive and controller for the boot partition. Use that slow ATA crap for storage of non-performance type stuff.
Yeah, except that the SATA drive used in the tests (in this article) is the WD Raptor, which smokes most 15k scsi drives. It's what's going in my next system this summer. Check out storagereport.com.
That's funny, it took me months to be able to sleep without the PC noise once we bought a house and my computers had to be in another room. I had a hard time sleeping with the machine off when I was in school.
After making 3 recipes from a F&W magazine that were better than any I've followed before, we bought a subscription. Our record continues towards perfection - every recipe is not just good, it's a whole new experience worth remembering, and doing again. You can get each recipe online and each comes with a wine recommendation, which I consider almost critical.
I've tried epicurious a number of times, and it just seems to be weird combos of food, that are hit or miss, best so far are goat cheese stuffed turkey burgers, but everything else has been forgetable.
Cool - I was going to mention The Diesel Stop as my favorite new site (as in new to me). I had *no* idea how much you could tweak a PSD. Lots of good advice to be had there - it's helped me a lot. Good articles too.
I'll second other sentiments in that you'll only find pretty specific stuff on the car side (DMS, z06vette, tdiclub, etc.. The reason is is that there's so much material that can be discussed on just one type of vehicle alone, that adding more just makes in messy. The trick is finding the good ones, since there are often many forums/sites dedicated to certain makes/models. I went through a number of Ford Truck forums before I found TDS.
Touching on your other point, and to add some data, I collect mechanical watches - mostly for the appreciation of what it takes to make something so small and accurate and reasonably durable. I have a watch worth more than my daily driver and best computer put together, and one that runs based on the movement of a tiny tuning fork. Amazing stuff. I've even bought a kit (tools, basic watch movement) that shows you how to take apart a movement and put it back together. I find it fascinating.
-Z
I disagree. Not completely, but come on! Why the hell are you reading email on a machine that has the source? If you can't completely isolate the dev network, you can at least make sure it doesn't have dual(+) functionality to add to the exploitable possibilities.
can be found in a little brochure Apple just sent us here at Harvard:
Lincoln (NE) Public School District
Interbrand
UNC Chapel Hill
Minnesota Wild
Riskwise
Sybase
They seem to be in some big time use at each of these places. No details really, just a little blurb and some cool pics.
database dumps - one of our smaller database dumps is 2.3 GB compressed. The dumps are the easiest method of backup and distribution - locally and (very) remotely.
Arwen wasn't in the book..... How's that?
Check out this:
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http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0211/14.pooch
I couldn't agree more. Every single job I've ever gotten (since early high school) was because of someone I knew there. Where I am now, over half of the people working there got there by knowing someone already there. I've gotten two jobs out of the blue because someone knew me (and my skills) and knew someone who was looking for something like me. A personal recommendation goes a long way.
Diesel cars used to be hot in the early 80's because diesel was so much cheaper than unleaded or regular. Economics screwed that up because diesel cars got to be big enough that regular gas stations (not just truck stops) started to carry diesel. That increased the gas stations cost, and thus raised the price of diesel to the same or higher levels compared to unleaded.
I don't buy this for a second. Do you really believe that consumer diesel could put a dent in the trucking/train/farming diesel market? Big truck stops get refueled with diesel 7-8 times each day. Active gas stations don't even push that much unleaded gas, let alone diesel.
I watched half an episode a few months ago, and it was interesting. Never seen it before. Then I watched two episodes earlier this spring - wow. It was really good, but I was really confused. I decided I had to watch them all in order. I bought Season 1 on DVD, and it was amazing (would have bought them all if I could have). So I turned to my computer and p2p friends, and managed to get every single ep except one ("Beer Bad" from (I believe) Season 3). I also taped most of Seasons 4&5 from the 4x a day FX reruns. Everything made so much more sense seeing it in order. Generally shows like this annoy me (24) where you miss one show and you're lost, but it's so worth the extra effort to catch it. I've heard Angel isn't as bad, but I never really got into it (and I wasn't a big fan when he was on Buffy), so I just get pissed when they do crossovers and I miss it.
The episodes listed above ("Hush", "The Body", and of course "OMwF") by Golias are certainly absolutely fantastic for the reasons given, but my favorite is probably "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" from Season 2. The scene with Xander walking down the hall and the music..... Too much.
Earlier seasons were a bit better about being "comedy, horror, and kungfu action - all in the name", so I'm glad to see that Season 7 is supposed to be going "back to the basics". I remember many times earlier on actually being scared, and laughing out loud during the same episodes - it was great.
Cool.
Download it and check it out on your desktop (Windows, Linux). Pretty cool. It works really well for common words, and conveniently sets up common endings for you (-tion, -ing, etc.) But, uncommon words are really tough, and punctuation is seriously lacking. Sometimes it's even hard to find the space for the end of a word. I don't really see how you could use it to edit text either, it's painful just editing the current stream as it is. It is pretty damn cool....
Z
A couple years ago when I first started getting into watches I found the following:
. ht ml
http://www.snoopy.net/jbc/
http://www.electronicsusa.com/bc10.html
http://www.california.com/~binard/java/Binclock
I actually used jbc on my desktop for a bit. Once you get used to it, it's not that hard to read. It may take some time to get used to it though....
-Z
More important than luck though, is some skill or background. I started with Linux in 1993, and we set up a 2 pc network in our dorm (way before I'd ever heard of anyone doing it, but I'm sure we weren't the first.) So I turned into a Linux monkey. And back then you really had to know it to get anything going. I spent an entire weekend downloading Slackware onto floppies.
One summer some CS friends of mine got co-op jobs and they got me in too. My future boss liked me, and the linux stuff and hired me. I ended up staying through the summer and for a semester writing shell scripts to do various little things and helping out the sysadmin when there was nothing else to do. Cool stuff.
Then I got away from it for a bit, graduated, got a job, and they needed some help moving from 95 to NT, so I helped out a bit since I was already running NT. Then most of the systems guys left and I asked for a job. Now I'm the linux/2000 guy.
So it took some luck, some knowing someone, but mostly the ability, the skill, and the confidence to tackle systems problems. Cool stuff - best of luck.