I think you're either over-complicating this or I'm not quite following what you're asking.
If you said up a brain dead load balancer, the only real impact you'll have is that it'll have to restablish the SSL connection each time it hops servers. Not wonderful, but not the end of the world.
That's assuming you ARE sharing SSL certificates across machines - and if all the servers are supposed to be serving one secure domain (ie https://www.mydomain.com) then I'm not sure why you wouldn't.
A better solution is to use a load balancer that will support 'sticky' based on the SSL session ID, that way the sessions are kept open, saving both ends from a lot of uneccessary work - but this apparently doesn't suit your needs.:)
Actually, yes. Mail & telephone service are both horrible and expensive where I live. Electricity and water service are acceptable, but would likely be a lot less expensive if it wasn't a government enforced monopoly.
Health care is not regulated by the government? Not very familiar with the industry? They're doing a wonderful job at improving things - more and more laws, and all we've done is increase the paperwork burden on the health care system and drive costs up 20 times in the last 20 years.
What are some other winners? Social security? Welfare? The economy? Medicare? The NEA? Farm subsidies? Airport security? The drug war? Saddam?
What am I really getting for my average 55% tax burden besides a good military?
The internet is a pretty shoddy example. So far, the government hasn't tried too hard to 'fix' it. Of course, when they do, the result is fortunately still laughable - but let those censorship bills keep rolling in.
Odd, sure seems this particular problem was fixed without government intervention. Perhaps if you weren't so used to having your mommy wipe your ass, you could actually provide for yourself.
The only problem is, it's the Titanic of memory leaks and also hangs/crashes fairly regularly. A quick review of their bug list shows the issues were reported over a month ago. Hopefully it'll get fixed, I've had to switch back to Evolution - at least it just hangs regularly, and doesn't leak much memory.:)
... the crack editorial staff of Slashdot diligently researches the article before posting it, by clicking on the included URL and reading 4 sentences to verify it's really a wireless monitor and not just a Windows CE piece of crap with wireless built in.
Yes, the government will fix it. The government has a wonderful track record of "fixing" all sorts of industries. I can hardly wait until they "fix" a few more industries, like health care.
Does he live in Nigeria? Not likely. Is it very likely that the Nigerian military will invade the United States to take his ass out? Hmmm... not likely.
Even if they did, a good slingshot would overpower them.
Why should I trust anyone in a society that so quickly turns to ambulance chasing lawyers and frivolous lawsuits as the solution to the most minor problem?
Exactly, I shouldn't take any chances - neither should Apple.
I pay $250/mbit at Level 3. That's $30k a year for 10 mbits.
I hope you're not an IT manager...
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Well, that's nice - except they don't seem to know computers very well either. They can't admin machines, databases, routers, etc... and if you were a computer geek with a computer geek company, wouldn't you have a rough idea how many machines you had and how much bandwidth you use?
I don't mean to insult, but this will probably come across that way. I'm a loyal surfer and certainly appreciate Slashdot as an information source. However...
You say that 10-12 people work on Slashdot as their job, plus support from NetOps (which I'm guessing is third party? Exodus?)
Honestly - I don't get it. What do all these people do? It seems to me that Slashdot isn't run as a business, but instead is still run by a couple of geeky types that had a Fun Idea (TM) that they rode the Dot-Com boom on and don't want to give it up.
The content is submitted by the readers, the moderation is done by the readers...
The application is worked on by the community...
Stories are posted by 4 "story type people", but the posts are so frequently duplicates, have misspellings, poor grammar, broken URLs, etc - I can't really believe that anyone puts any serious time into it!
$100-$200k per year of bandwidth at 10mbps? You're getting ** raped **.
12 machines and some test boxes? C'mon. Most readers have that much in their home. Is the setup that poor that it requires that much hands on maintenance?
I'm also guessing that the geeks that founded it aren't able to admin machines, configure routers, etc... since we've all read the stories about all the people that get jerked out of bed when the site goes down.:)
It seems to me that Slash could run with about 3 employees, provided they had breadth of skill.
Yes, I've done all this before - including the part where you re-evaluate and realize you can do it a LOT cheaper.
Yes, I could be VERY mistaken in my observations and I welcome corrections.
I also have no beef with subscriptions. I'll even consider paying. This is just a tangent.:)
I'd hate to see Slashdot go away, and it seems a great way to do that would be for VA/Andover to take some serious looks at cost cutting... a lot larger companies have run with less.
Can't we require that people with access to post front page articles actually have to semi-regularly read Slashdot themselves so we can avoid continually duplicating stories?
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Yeah, and Level 3 and UUNet are global companies, in case you haven't noticed.
Nothing like some knee-jerk US-bashing.
Christ, it takes TWO seconds to find laws on this with Google. Been on the net long?
You can boot off of firewire drives if your bios supports it, which apparently some do.
I think you're either over-complicating this or I'm not quite following what you're asking.
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If you said up a brain dead load balancer, the only real impact you'll have is that it'll have to restablish the SSL connection each time it hops servers. Not wonderful, but not the end of the world.
That's assuming you ARE sharing SSL certificates across machines - and if all the servers are supposed to be serving one secure domain (ie https://www.mydomain.com) then I'm not sure why you wouldn't.
A better solution is to use a load balancer that will support 'sticky' based on the SSL session ID, that way the sessions are kept open, saving both ends from a lot of uneccessary work - but this apparently doesn't suit your needs.
If your machine is under a maintenance/support agreement, you don't pay anything to upgrade to Solaris 9.
Don't forget that.
You're in a company where money is tight, but 400mhz desktops aren't good enough? What are you doing, 3D Rendering?
Or is money not so tight that the company shouldn't spring for you guys to have better Quake machines?
Actually, yes. Mail & telephone service are both horrible and expensive where I live. Electricity and water service are acceptable, but would likely be a lot less expensive if it wasn't a government enforced monopoly.
Health care is not regulated by the government? Not very familiar with the industry? They're doing a wonderful job at improving things - more and more laws, and all we've done is increase the paperwork burden on the health care system and drive costs up 20 times in the last 20 years.
What are some other winners? Social security? Welfare? The economy? Medicare? The NEA? Farm subsidies? Airport security? The drug war? Saddam?
What am I really getting for my average 55% tax burden besides a good military?
The internet is a pretty shoddy example. So far, the government hasn't tried too hard to 'fix' it. Of course, when they do, the result is fortunately still laughable - but let those censorship bills keep rolling in.
Seems to me PING came out a long time before Click did. :)
Odd, sure seems this particular problem was fixed without government intervention. Perhaps if you weren't so used to having your mommy wipe your ass, you could actually provide for yourself.
Kmail has improved ten-fold in usability.
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The only problem is, it's the Titanic of memory leaks and also hangs/crashes fairly regularly. A quick review of their bug list shows the issues were reported over a month ago. Hopefully it'll get fixed, I've had to switch back to Evolution - at least it just hangs regularly, and doesn't leak much memory.
... the crack editorial staff of Slashdot diligently researches the article before posting it, by clicking on the included URL and reading 4 sentences to verify it's really a wireless monitor and not just a Windows CE piece of crap with wireless built in.
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Yes, the government will fix it. The government has a wonderful track record of "fixing" all sorts of industries. I can hardly wait until they "fix" a few more industries, like health care.
Does he live in Nigeria? Not likely. Is it very likely that the Nigerian military will invade the United States to take his ass out? Hmmm... not likely.
Even if they did, a good slingshot would overpower them.
Why should I trust anyone in a society that so quickly turns to ambulance chasing lawyers and frivolous lawsuits as the solution to the most minor problem?
Exactly, I shouldn't take any chances - neither should Apple.
Spelling grammar correctly would help your case. :)
Ever heard of colocation?
I pay $250/mbit at Level 3. That's $30k a year for 10 mbits.
I hope you're not an IT manager...
Well, that's nice - except they don't seem to know computers very well either. They can't admin machines, databases, routers, etc ... and if you were a computer geek with a computer geek company, wouldn't you have a rough idea how many machines you had and how much bandwidth you use?
I don't mean to insult, but this will probably come across that way. I'm a loyal surfer and certainly appreciate Slashdot as an information source. However ...
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You say that 10-12 people work on Slashdot as their job, plus support from NetOps (which I'm guessing is third party? Exodus?)
Honestly - I don't get it. What do all these people do? It seems to me that Slashdot isn't run as a business, but instead is still run by a couple of geeky types that had a Fun Idea (TM) that they rode the Dot-Com boom on and don't want to give it up.
The content is submitted by the readers, the moderation is done by the readers...
The application is worked on by the community
Stories are posted by 4 "story type people", but the posts are so frequently duplicates, have misspellings, poor grammar, broken URLs, etc - I can't really believe that anyone puts any serious time into it!
$100-$200k per year of bandwidth at 10mbps? You're getting ** raped **.
12 machines and some test boxes? C'mon. Most readers have that much in their home. Is the setup that poor that it requires that much hands on maintenance?
I'm also guessing that the geeks that founded it aren't able to admin machines, configure routers, etc... since we've all read the stories about all the people that get jerked out of bed when the site goes down.
It seems to me that Slash could run with about 3 employees, provided they had breadth of skill.
Yes, I've done all this before - including the part where you re-evaluate and realize you can do it a LOT cheaper.
Yes, I could be VERY mistaken in my observations and I welcome corrections.
I also have no beef with subscriptions. I'll even consider paying. This is just a tangent.
I'd hate to see Slashdot go away, and it seems a great way to do that would be for VA/Andover to take some serious looks at cost cutting... a lot larger companies have run with less.
I'd probably agree to use it too if I had to sit through another hour of a presentation after already enduring 2 hours.
a) You're not as good as you think you are (who says your previous employers were worth a damn?)
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b) At your age, you don't realize that many of the things you think are "stupid reasons" aren't.
c) You could just be an immature brat that they hate working with.
Nothing personal, and I'm not over 30 - but everything isn't some conspiracy based on discrimination. I've worked with enough dipshits of ALL ages
Uhh.. Ward invented the XMODEM protocol, not the MODEM protocol.
Wow, 10 years later and the bullshit continues.
There was never a hole in Renegade.
There were a lot of stupid people that ran trojans that would allow people to download the Renegade.dat file.
However, there was no hole in Renegade.
I think I should know.
Without knowing something so basic to web site operation?
Can't we require that people with access to post front page articles actually have to semi-regularly read Slashdot themselves so we can avoid continually duplicating stories?