Ok so it beat the other laptops in photoshop by 1 second... But totally lost to the other laptops in encoding windows media by 30 seconds. Give me a break, this does not make the Macbook the fastest windows xp laptop. I have nothing against macbooks, but c'mon, we need some quality control on slashdot.
Forget corn, hemp cellulose can be converted to ethanol. The amount of cellulose that hemp provides per square foot is way more than corn could produce and hemp can grow and regrow much faster and require a lot less other energy resources for growth than say corn or trees. However I can't tell you anything about the actual conversion process and how much energy is used for the conversion, but off set the other costs and over all using hemp would be cheaper. Note to all the anti drug peeps, I'm talking about hemp, not mary jane, there are strains that contain little to no THC or cannabinoids so go lurk elsewhere.
My friend was at a datacenter in downtown LA installing Windows 2003 for one of his clients, and his box got 0wned DURING the install right after networking was configured. He knew because the datacenter started getting calls of attacks coming from his machine. He didn't even get a chance to do a windows update.
Just curious what others who are in my position plan to do when sarge is moved to stable. I'm currently running sarge on all my production servers because woody was just too far in the past. I was originally planning to just keep all my sources at sarge, but I'm worried that sarge will become like woody and fall far behind in updates.
Now I'm thinking maybe I should just change all my sources to testing and stick with that. What do others plan to do?
I use dell for servers as well, They can usually get pretty good deals on poweredge servers. When I first met with Dell, they told me the more I buy from them, the better the deals get... Bleh! Such crap. I was getting poweredge 1750's for about 1.4K and now for the same exact servers, they're quoting me 1.9K and they wont give me my original price.
On top of that, I find that for other components, I'm getting my ass reamed in prices. I recently bought a Powervault 220s + a poweredge 1750 with a Perc4/Di and Perc4/DC coming out to about $16,000. I figured that purchasing at this level should get me some deals. I added some desktop purchases onto this order, and they wouldn't even upgrade the ram for free, in fact, they gave me worse pricing than what was on the dell website. I had to get them to price match to their own website.
As for the Perc4/DC which is really an LSI MegaRaid 320-2 rebadged, They charged me $788 for the raid card. When I found out it was really a megaraid 320-2, I looked that up and found out retail for that is around $500.
Then yesterday, I went to get a quote for some 300gig SCSI U320 harddrives... the price started out at $1,600, and then after 5 minutes of my rep "smashing the price down", it came out to $1,200. While I was waiting on the phone, I went to newegg and looked up the same harddrive model, and found it for $858.
I'm getting tired of having to pricematch everything, and then waiting a month for drives to arrive from dell. I'll keep buying my servers there, but fuck everything else, it's just not worth the trouble and price.
Oh yeah, and for some reason Dell home seems to have better prices than corporate. wtf Shouldn't the thousands we spend be getting us better pricing upfront?
Is to use spoofed source ip's. But how? I'm not good at explaining things and this is just theory but here goes....
if we were modelling a torrent style p2p app each download would require 4 parties involved: 1) Leecher 2) tracker 3) uploader 4) proxy uploader
and here's how it would work: 1) leecher starts to download the torrent and contacts the tracker 2) tracker contacts the uploader and proxy uploader and specifies the leecher's address the uploader's address and the proxy address. This info is given to the uploader and the proxy. 3) the proxy is not told about file names or anything, just ip's and ports 4) the uploader sends the torrent to the leecher with spoofed source ip's, the spoofed ip is the ip of the proxy. 5) uploader keeps sending data packets to leecher, if the leecher loses a packet, it contacts the proxy to resend the packet, the proxy notifies the uploader and the uploader resends the packets with the spoofed ips.
hehe just a thought, I could be totally wrong. I haven't thought more in detail than this.
Lets analogize this to the IT world. Say you have an web app for your company that isn't working. The company is loosing millions of dollars every hour that it's down, the product is dying. You're the admin/developer and you check it out, you glance at the code and dont see any immediate bugs, the web server is listening on the right port, etc etc, you spend about an hour looking at it and cant find anything wrong so what do you do? Tell them, "I dont see anything wrong you hypochondriacs!" ??? Obviously something is wrong, the product isn't working, money is being lost. What he needs is a doctor that is devoted to helping him, one that says "Ok, there is something seriously wrong as you're having problems standing for too long and just developed a murmer out of nowhere, we're gonna keep trying and debugging until we figure this out."
perhaps it isn't a infection, but geez, why can't doctors be more like Unix admins? I subscribe to many mailing lists and sit on irc and I see people trying at fixing things sometimes for weeks and months on end, never giving up and then eventually they figure it out. If Unix admins were like doctors, well, I dont want to think about that...
and how many Actinomycosis specialists do you know? Everyone here keeps telling him to go to a doctor and giving patrick shit for "self medicating", but uhhh... according to his letter, he was prescribed Cipro, and was told continually to keep taking it by physicians. And he's beeng going to doctors and hospitals to find someone to help him, and nobody seems to know what's up. how you got modded "Insightful" is a mystery to me.
You can reach a large range of people through slashdot, perhaps one of these people knows or is an Actinomycosis specialist. Dont knock Pat for trying to be resourceful.
I think it's really sad that this article should be soo accliamed by some slashdotters. I'm glad debian is getting it's fame, it's a good distro (though I think apt-get sucks major...), and I used debian for many years due to it's commitment to stability. However the article makes it sound like debian is the only distro that stays true to standards and stability.
"after evaluating six different Linux distributions (including Red Hat and Suse), gave Debian the nod."
Yeah that tells me absolutely nothing, which six distros did they test? Obviously they didn't do a very thorough test if they found debian to be the only distro that held importance in standards.
"the decision to go with Debian was made because of one thing: standards."
So that's the one thing eh? Well for one, they obviously didn't try slackware, there are many non-standard things about debian and I find this article to be very close minded and devious. Praising debian is one thing, but distorting other distributions by making debian sound like the only non-commercial, stable, and standardized distro is wrong. I have love for all distros, but if you really want a stable, non-commercial distro that sticks to standards, I think slackware is the way to go.
PS. There's nothing wrong with compiling from source.
" Your average club dj on the other hand would be married to vinyl and their technics 1200 mk3 or m3d."
That's also a gross generalization, not all club dj's are married to technics. Many other companies put out awesome turntables, I some times feel that technics is the Redhat or Mandrake of turntables. Everyone assumes a good dj will be using technics because it's a brand people like to throw around a lot. Very corporate approach. I personally use Numark TT-2 Pros and they are my favorites at the moment. Stanton has nice turntables too. But no turntable has left me completely satisfied.
yeah that's great but did they have that external unit that you plug in the turntable to? And did they have the special encoded records? If not than what's the use of final scratch on BeOS if it isn't what the final scratch is actually about?
I've been a green day fan since the beginning too and I can assure you they haven't sold out. A lot of time poeple get pissed when their favorite band gets too big, it's called ignorance. Go see greenday play live sometime soon, you'll see that they have remained true to themselves and are just having a lot more fun now. They give a mean performance.
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Ok so it beat the other laptops in photoshop by 1 second... But totally lost to the other laptops in encoding windows media by 30 seconds. Give me a break, this does not make the Macbook the fastest windows xp laptop. I have nothing against macbooks, but c'mon, we need some quality control on slashdot.
Forget corn, hemp cellulose can be converted to ethanol. The amount of cellulose that hemp provides per square foot is way more than corn could produce and hemp can grow and regrow much faster and require a lot less other energy resources for growth than say corn or trees. However I can't tell you anything about the actual conversion process and how much energy is used for the conversion, but off set the other costs and over all using hemp would be cheaper. Note to all the anti drug peeps, I'm talking about hemp, not mary jane, there are strains that contain little to no THC or cannabinoids so go lurk elsewhere.
My friend was at a datacenter in downtown LA installing Windows 2003 for one of his clients, and his box got 0wned DURING the install right after networking was configured. He knew because the datacenter started getting calls of attacks coming from his machine. He didn't even get a chance to do a windows update.
sounds like a concept I suggested back in december when there was a slashdot article about decentralizing bitorrent.
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Just curious what others who are in my position plan to do when sarge is moved to stable. I'm currently running sarge on all my production servers because woody was just too far in the past. I was originally planning to just keep all my sources at sarge, but I'm worried that sarge will become like woody and fall far behind in updates. Now I'm thinking maybe I should just change all my sources to testing and stick with that. What do others plan to do?
I use dell for servers as well, They can usually get pretty good deals on poweredge servers. When I first met with Dell, they told me the more I buy from them, the better the deals get... Bleh! Such crap. I was getting poweredge 1750's for about 1.4K and now for the same exact servers, they're quoting me 1.9K and they wont give me my original price.
On top of that, I find that for other components, I'm getting my ass reamed in prices. I recently bought a Powervault 220s + a poweredge 1750 with a Perc4/Di and Perc4/DC coming out to about $16,000. I figured that purchasing at this level should get me some deals. I added some desktop purchases onto this order, and they wouldn't even upgrade the ram for free, in fact, they gave me worse pricing than what was on the dell website. I had to get them to price match to their own website.
As for the Perc4/DC which is really an LSI MegaRaid 320-2 rebadged, They charged me $788 for the raid card. When I found out it was really a megaraid 320-2, I looked that up and found out retail for that is around $500.
Then yesterday, I went to get a quote for some 300gig SCSI U320 harddrives... the price started out at $1,600, and then after 5 minutes of my rep "smashing the price down", it came out to $1,200. While I was waiting on the phone, I went to newegg and looked up the same harddrive model, and found it for $858.
I'm getting tired of having to pricematch everything, and then waiting a month for drives to arrive from dell. I'll keep buying my servers there, but fuck everything else, it's just not worth the trouble and price.
Oh yeah, and for some reason Dell home seems to have better prices than corporate. wtf Shouldn't the thousands we spend be getting us better pricing upfront?
Is to use spoofed source ip's. But how? I'm not good at explaining things and this is just theory but here goes....
if we were modelling a torrent style p2p app
each download would require 4 parties involved:
1) Leecher
2) tracker
3) uploader
4) proxy uploader
and here's how it would work:
1) leecher starts to download the torrent and contacts the tracker
2) tracker contacts the uploader and proxy uploader and specifies the leecher's address the uploader's address and the proxy address. This info is given to the uploader and the proxy.
3) the proxy is not told about file names or anything, just ip's and ports
4) the uploader sends the torrent to the leecher with spoofed source ip's, the spoofed ip is the ip of the proxy.
5) uploader keeps sending data packets to leecher, if the leecher loses a packet, it contacts the proxy to resend the packet, the proxy notifies the uploader and the uploader resends the packets with the spoofed ips.
hehe just a thought, I could be totally wrong. I haven't thought more in detail than this.
Lets analogize this to the IT world. Say you have an web app for your company that isn't working. The company is loosing millions of dollars every hour that it's down, the product is dying. You're the admin/developer and you check it out, you glance at the code and dont see any immediate bugs, the web server is listening on the right port, etc etc, you spend about an hour looking at it and cant find anything wrong so what do you do?
Tell them, "I dont see anything wrong you hypochondriacs!" ??? Obviously something is wrong, the product isn't working, money is being lost. What he needs is a doctor that is devoted to helping him, one that says "Ok, there is something seriously wrong as you're having problems standing for too long and just developed a murmer out of nowhere, we're gonna keep trying and debugging until we figure this out."
perhaps it isn't a infection, but geez, why can't doctors be more like Unix admins? I subscribe to many mailing lists and sit on irc and I see people trying at fixing things sometimes for weeks and months on end, never giving up and then eventually they figure it out. If Unix admins were like doctors, well, I dont want to think about that...
and how many Actinomycosis specialists do you know? Everyone here keeps telling him to go to a doctor and giving patrick shit for "self medicating", but uhhh... according to his letter, he was prescribed Cipro, and was told continually to keep taking it by physicians. And he's beeng going to doctors and hospitals to find someone to help him, and nobody seems to know what's up. how you got modded "Insightful" is a mystery to me.
You can reach a large range of people through slashdot, perhaps one of these people knows or is an Actinomycosis specialist. Dont knock Pat for trying to be resourceful.
uhh the virtual tour that is...
Looks like that dilbert page was outsourced to Latin America, check out the page source! It's in spanish!
I think it's really sad that this article should be soo accliamed by some slashdotters. I'm glad debian is getting it's fame, it's a good distro (though I think apt-get sucks major ...), and I used debian for many years due to it's commitment to stability. However the article makes it sound like debian is the only distro that stays true to standards and stability.
"after evaluating six different Linux distributions (including Red Hat and Suse), gave Debian the nod."
Yeah that tells me absolutely nothing, which six distros did they test? Obviously they didn't do a very thorough test if they found debian to be the only distro that held importance in standards.
"the decision to go with Debian was made because of one thing: standards."
So that's the one thing eh? Well for one, they obviously didn't try slackware, there are many non-standard things about debian and I find this article to be very close minded and devious. Praising debian is one thing, but distorting other distributions by making debian sound like the only non-commercial, stable, and standardized distro is wrong. I have love for all distros, but if you really want a stable, non-commercial distro that sticks to standards, I think slackware is the way to go.
PS. There's nothing wrong with compiling from source.
" Your average club dj on the other hand would be married to vinyl and their technics 1200 mk3 or m3d."
;)
That's also a gross generalization, not all club dj's are married to technics. Many other companies put out awesome turntables, I some times feel that technics is the Redhat or Mandrake of turntables. Everyone assumes a good dj will be using technics because it's a brand people like to throw around a lot. Very corporate approach. I personally use Numark TT-2 Pros and they are my favorites at the moment. Stanton has nice turntables too. But no turntable has left me completely satisfied.
You're right about all the other ones though
yeah that's great but did they have that external unit that you plug in the turntable to? And did they have the special encoded records? If not than what's the use of final scratch on BeOS if it isn't what the final scratch is actually about?
I've been a green day fan since the beginning too and I can assure you they haven't sold out. A lot of time poeple get pissed when their favorite band gets too big, it's called ignorance. Go see greenday play live sometime soon, you'll see that they have remained true to themselves and are just having a lot more fun now. They give a mean performance.