Just imagine for a minute that your server is you house. If you leave your front door open for the day while your at work and theifs come in and strip the paint off your walls. Who's at fault. You are, unless you have insurace that covers this type of thing.
Lets say that you piss off the hole town, and everyone comes by and eggs your house. Who gets to clean it all up. You do, unless you have insurance that covers this sort of thing.
Maybe it's about time for insurance companies to start looking into this sort of thing. A webserver is a phisical item just like building and company cars. Maybe they should have insurance to protect themselves from the general public just like everything else.
the star-tacs i think are the better phones of the day. A buddy (who was a compulsive drinker) dropped his in the toilet twice and its even been in three different rum and cokes. Then to top it all off he went to Vegas one weekend. He lot the phone in the snow before he left, found it when he got back. After thawing out and a batt recharge it still worked. It was an abused phone.
Though it's not a good idea, you can short pin 14 (PS_ON) and 15 (ground) and the power supply will attempt to turn on, but without a load on at least the 5V line, it will immediately shut down (or burn out). Switching type power supplies such as those used in PCs will not run without a proper load.
You should be able to tie 60W worth of 6-ohm resistors between pins 4 and 5 and this will provide the proper load. But don't take my word for it.
Umm, yes it does make a difference. Granted i havn't seen the condition of your local telephone switching station. But just after all that fibre and copper gets laid, there are insane amounts of hardware that also need to go at each switching station just so all those connections can be used. Lets say all the copper in the switching station was too old or imcompatible with the new DSLAM for DSL. Huge cost. Is it worth it now to upgrade all that stuff to just so 100 people can get DLS on this block? Its all a price per head for the phone company. If its too high, then they don't do it.
I suggest you ask someone at your phone company for the real reason why DSL or highspeed is not in your area. If the cost per head is too much for them, then bring them more people to help pay for it (via subscribers)
I remeber a smaller neighboorhood just on the city limits who didn't have highspeed. A buddy asked the right people why? (granted that was a long and tuff process too) They ended up saying a $20,000 was needed to get it there, and for 5 people it wasn't worth it. They also said for 100 subscriptions they would. Two months later they had over 100 requests and it was done.
Sorry dude, I was trying to be sarcastic with that quoted comment.
I know all to well the benifits of highspeed. I could never switch back. When ever friends or myself move, highspeed is one of the things we check for in the neighboorhood. And it rates quite high on the scale of importance.
How did Canada do it? I don't think their system is government mandated, but I don't know enough to say for sure either way.
Dude, are you nuts. Up here in Edmonton, Alberta. We used to have this government run telephone company called Ed-Tel. Then they privitised and now they are called Telus.
Granted we almost have City wide DSL for $35 a month ($25 special 6 month pricing when ya first sign up) And we also have competition for Telus DSL called Interbaun Communications. They piggy back on the same copper lines that telus now owns and guess what. They charge the same price as Telus. Big surprise huh? (yeah, sure you can rent our lines, but you can't charge less then we do.)
Just wait around for awhile. Change takes time. Baby Bells will soon realise that they can make money by renting the copper to other companies to supply DSL. Then you will have your DSL competition and companies who can inovate with DSL like they should.
I think the telepone company should supply the copper and basic service. Other companies should provide the extra's like DSL, long distance etc... This way there will be real competition like it should be. But this will never happen.
In Japan you can get 100mbs for like 20 a month and even have your own server! Its the phone companies who want to limit supply to increase demand from corporate customers. They do not like high speed access because they can not sell as many t1 and t3 lines for thousands a month. Only the fat cats should have high bandwith at an outrageous cost to increase profits is what the bells want.
And you know why this is like this. Its because in Japan you can dig/lay 500 meters of fibre and hit 500 people who want to pay for it. At $20 a head a month it gets paid for pretty quickly and Profit, profit, profit.
Now, come back to Canada and the US. Company's can dig/lay 500 meters of fiber and hit maybe 5 people who want to pay for it. The math is simple either there is not going to be alot of it, or its going to be expensive.
Even if DSL was to be available in your area, my bets would be it would be priced the same or really, really, really close. Its not your only choice, you can always stay with dial-up. (I
'm assumeing you don't have high speed if you are taking other peoples opinions about outages) Do your homework, and ask a few people who already have the service. Then take their claims to the provider and ask them if its really that way. If it is really that bad, then you and your friends should tell them. Let them know why you are unhappy with their service. Maybe they will try to fix it.
If ya got the extra cash and highspeed is important to you then pay for it. Its quite simple. If its too expensive then stick with dail up. The only thing you are missing out on is Highspeed downloading of all that spam in your mail box and Linux ISO's.
If you really are going to stick with a one way transfer, then flip a coin and go with it. And if you don't like the answer, then go with the other one. Or just do like a bunch of other people, and use both. Sometimes it nice to have a choice in this world.
HTTP is nice and simple for the novice users to get stuff. And FTP is nice for other things.
Really, this question should be answered by you. You don't need our help, your the one who has to support it.
Well, it has video, and it is a game. So that means it can be classified as a video game.
You could have hooked up a machine with pre-programmed timings to move the joystick in the right direction at the right time and consistently beat the "game".
You can do this with alot of games. Whats your point.
Chains on a bike??!?!?! What kind of bike do you have buddy? Try studs.. This way the wheels actually turn. LOL
I'm in Edmonton, and i ride most of the winter. As long as your dressed nice and have STUDS, your ok. The biggest problem is the CAGERS... They'll take you out faster than you can give them the finger after a fresh snowfall. Its bloddy well dangerous out there.
As for yellow snowballs... LOL... My Pee freezes before it hits the ground at -37
looks like I'll have to add a spare floppy drive to my list of parts that I carry around with me..
What? You should have been doing this along time ago. I can't even count how many times I've been out at client sites and I've been stuck with a pre P-166 computer with a BIOS that can't boot a CDROM with a non working floppy drive. There are lots around.
I carry spare hard drives, floppy drives, CDROMS with me where ever i go along with media to go with them. When you go on site, you never know what you're getting into.
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Lets say that you piss off the hole town, and everyone comes by and eggs your house. Who gets to clean it all up. You do, unless you have insurance that covers this sort of thing.
Maybe it's about time for insurance companies to start looking into this sort of thing. A webserver is a phisical item just like building and company cars. Maybe they should have insurance to protect themselves from the general public just like everything else.
It has already been done... perfect_pancake
But, if you read the question i answered, you will discover that he asked about ATX power supplies.
the star-tacs i think are the better phones of the day. A buddy (who was a compulsive drinker) dropped his in the toilet twice and its even been in three different rum and cokes. Then to top it all off he went to Vegas one weekend. He lot the phone in the snow before he left, found it when he got back. After thawing out and a batt recharge it still worked. It was an abused phone.
I looks like he just siliconed them to some metal brackets. Ghetto mod for sure.
Though it's not a good idea, you can short pin 14 (PS_ON) and 15 (ground) and the power supply will attempt to turn on, but without a load on at least the 5V line, it will immediately shut down (or burn out). Switching type power supplies such as those used in PCs will not run without a proper load. You should be able to tie 60W worth of 6-ohm resistors between pins 4 and 5 and this will provide the proper load. But don't take my word for it.
I suggest you ask someone at your phone company for the real reason why DSL or highspeed is not in your area. If the cost per head is too much for them, then bring them more people to help pay for it (via subscribers)
I remeber a smaller neighboorhood just on the city limits who didn't have highspeed. A buddy asked the right people why? (granted that was a long and tuff process too) They ended up saying a $20,000 was needed to get it there, and for 5 people it wasn't worth it. They also said for 100 subscriptions they would. Two months later they had over 100 requests and it was done.
I know all to well the benifits of highspeed. I could never switch back. When ever friends or myself move, highspeed is one of the things we check for in the neighboorhood. And it rates quite high on the scale of importance.
Granted we almost have City wide DSL for $35 a month ($25 special 6 month pricing when ya first sign up) And we also have competition for Telus DSL called Interbaun Communications. They piggy back on the same copper lines that telus now owns and guess what. They charge the same price as Telus. Big surprise huh? (yeah, sure you can rent our lines, but you can't charge less then we do.)
Just wait around for awhile. Change takes time. Baby Bells will soon realise that they can make money by renting the copper to other companies to supply DSL. Then you will have your DSL competition and companies who can inovate with DSL like they should.
I think the telepone company should supply the copper and basic service. Other companies should provide the extra's like DSL, long distance etc... This way there will be real competition like it should be. But this will never happen.
but thats gone now. They are too for thay type of bashing
Now, come back to Canada and the US. Company's can dig/lay 500 meters of fiber and hit maybe 5 people who want to pay for it. The math is simple either there is not going to be alot of it, or its going to be expensive.
If ya got the extra cash and highspeed is important to you then pay for it. Its quite simple. If its too expensive then stick with dail up. The only thing you are missing out on is Highspeed downloading of all that spam in your mail box and Linux ISO's.
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thats the budget i want to have
Virtual Processor license here we come.
HTTP is nice and simple for the novice users to get stuff. And FTP is nice for other things.
Really, this question should be answered by you. You don't need our help, your the one who has to support it.
I'll take that bet... Over what timeline will this bet reside.. Say 1 or so?
I'm in Edmonton, and i ride most of the winter. As long as your dressed nice and have STUDS, your ok. The biggest problem is the CAGERS... They'll take you out faster than you can give them the finger after a fresh snowfall. Its bloddy well dangerous out there.
As for yellow snowballs... LOL ... My Pee freezes before it hits the ground at -37
I would ask for documentation on how they are going to use the information and take them to a laywer for advice.
I carry spare hard drives, floppy drives, CDROMS with me where ever i go along with media to go with them. When you go on site, you never know what you're getting into.
Yeah, $250 per drive and $30 per disc is why they never caught on...
it's one of the simpler places to test equipment for airtightness and weightlessness. Besides in a place for a few seconds.
So, most of that shuttle has already been underwater several times.
So do like everyone else and get two. Its much simpler that way.