Pricewatch is a good way to find inexpensive vendors. I have always had good luck with them. You may be able to find a vendor near you, too, for same day service.
NewEgg is pretty good, though I am extremely annoyed that they charge extra to "rush" process your order in less than 3 days.
I love my Blu Ray burner. Some day I will learn how to get the Blu Ray movies to play on Linux, but even without that it rocks.
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I don't want to nitpick too much, but RAID 5 is faster for most garden variety storage needs, and for any sort of read access. Obviously you would never want to use it for a database or a swap file if you can avoid it - it is much slower any time you are writing out data in sizes that are smaller than the block size (and some controllers just suck, too).
I prefer RAID 10 though, but not for performance. And of course you must remember that RAID helps with failover, not backups.
I did a comparison between Zimbra and CommuniGate, and Communigate won hands down.
The only advantage to Zimbra is that the Zimbra web interface is more powerful. CommuniGate won everywhere else, including the installation process and especially their Outlook plugin.
Feature parity with Windows must be the goal if they want to beat NVidia. I hope we can get some sort of media acceleration beyond the stale old XVideo & XV-MC.
Will the new spec allow for super long USB cables?
Ideally, I would like to have long DVI and long USB cables, then I could put my computer in the other room altogether. The noise improvement would be HUGE.
He said the exact same thing. However, the final agreement seems to have made the open access requirements significantly less open, so that may be why Google is getting more serious about it.
You can even skimp on the hardware RAID and do it in software; though I don't recommend it. Grab a 3ware RAID on ebay. 2 port cards should be dirt cheap.
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Pricewatch is a good way to find inexpensive vendors. I have always had good luck with them. You may be able to find a vendor near you, too, for same day service.
NewEgg is pretty good, though I am extremely annoyed that they charge extra to "rush" process your order in less than 3 days.
Put the crack pipe down! 720p60 absolutely rocks.
Whether or not it is worth the money is a valid question, but it is so much better than the NTSC standards that it is not even funny.
The only letdown is that they had a chance to eliminate interlacing once and for all - and they failed.
I love my Blu Ray burner. Some day I will learn how to get the Blu Ray movies to play on Linux, but even without that it rocks.
I don't want to nitpick too much, but RAID 5 is faster for most garden variety storage needs, and for any sort of read access. Obviously you would never want to use it for a database or a swap file if you can avoid it - it is much slower any time you are writing out data in sizes that are smaller than the block size (and some controllers just suck, too).
I prefer RAID 10 though, but not for performance. And of course you must remember that RAID helps with failover, not backups.
SuperMicro has a lot of fun chassis options; and OpenFiler does a fantastic job with iSCSI, NFS, Samba.
aka traffic shaping
It is free, and about as easy to sign up and use as Hotmail.
http://www.sendsidenetworks.com/
They are like PayPal for documents. Secure, with tracking of who has read the documents. And the information doesn't leave their network.
I did a comparison between Zimbra and CommuniGate, and Communigate won hands down.
The only advantage to Zimbra is that the Zimbra web interface is more powerful. CommuniGate won everywhere else, including the installation process and especially their Outlook plugin.
5 user license is free, and licensing above that isn't too painful.
It includes an Outlook plugin, and it can do all of the collaboration things that Exchange does - but it is much less painful.
I've been happy with GoDaddy for two reasons:
1) Cheap ($30/year for one cert, $200/year for wildcard)
2) Super Bowl Spokesperson has huge tracts of land.
The drawback is that you need a CA cert - but if this is a problem then you should probably find a new line of work.
I don't understand why people get excited about RPM's when seek times for IDE/SATA drives haven't improved in 10 years.
I would love to see a 7200 rpm SATA drive with 5ms seek times.
Pixar movies would look especially good at higher frame rates. I wish Pixar would render them at 720p60 to show on ABC or on their DVD's.
Feature parity with Windows must be the goal if they want to beat NVidia. I hope we can get some sort of media acceleration beyond the stale old XVideo & XV-MC.
He is the only candidate who defends Federalism.
Will the new spec allow for super long USB cables?
Ideally, I would like to have long DVI and long USB cables, then I could put my computer in the other room altogether. The noise improvement would be HUGE.
If this is full duplex, then it will be a great deal. Otherwise it is just sad.
He said the exact same thing. However, the final agreement seems to have made the open access requirements significantly less open, so that may be why Google is getting more serious about it.
Seems like a good way to go, just make sure your server isn't hax0red.
Very simple, non-root, and also a good way to avoid the painful AXFR process and zone files.
They solve the recursion problem by not supporting it; it is only for the master.
Openfiler rocks!
You can even skimp on the hardware RAID and do it in software; though I don't recommend it. Grab a 3ware RAID on ebay. 2 port cards should be dirt cheap.
If you run Warcraft inside its own instance of Wine, there is much less chance that it will have access to your private data.
on what planet is 550x309 considered "HD" ?
The key of Linux is that people take it wherever they want it to go, and nobody can take it back away from you.
Just try to get something to a hotmail user's inbox... if you don't pay their extortion it is impossible.