Usually RAID 5 and a database is a pretty bad match, because RAID 5 read/write performance is lower than RAID 0, 1, 0+1 read/write performance...
IIRC the big hit is in write performance, but one would hope large RAID caches should help this somewhat. Still, a 0+1 rig would probably provide the best overall performance and redundancy (and cost the most:p)..
Just try to get an IP from your local Baby Bell, Cable-Internet or DSL provider. Think you could afford it on a fixed income?
Why do you need an IP? Run on a virtual server or free hosting service if you don't want to spend money. Spend $20-30/month if you want fancy stuff like CGIs, MySQL, etc.. If you don't like the TOS, move, or pony up the $$$.. I don't have a problem with it.
Why not volunteer your own time and expertise to setup a non-profit ISP project with your own TOS for this purpose, not unlike the New Deal people recording old blues artists?
I can't imagine hosting static pages is going to get any cheaper than it is now, and IMHO this is a good thing as long as search engines continue to index (and this is a concern, considering they miss whole regions of the Internet)..
Does anyone know of a way to get a free IP so you can run your own server from home?
No, and I think your assumptions are a bit off: networking has never been less costly or convenient as it is today. Ever tried to get ISDN? Or, god help you, a T1 to your house? Even having to put up with tech.morons to get DSL was a dream compared to Hell Atlantic or UUNet for T1 service.. My mom+pop ISP has a class B (helps to have started in 1993) and grants static IPs to every customer, including dialups, and my DSL network is a/27 subnet right now.. Of course, I wouldn't have a problem if the price went down, but still, I can't complain too loudly (I remember having to dialup to university terminal annexes to telnet into hosts, and having to run a console SLIP emulator, god forbid we have a dialin SLIP/PPP...)..
And when IPv6 comes along IP addresses should become portable and super-cheap..
Maybe some day, but not yet, you can't get near the pixel fill rate with the antialiasing you need to beat an Onyx2.
And a lot (if not most) of that is the video silicon, not the CPUs.. We've got an orphan Onyx with a 4-board RealityEngine2 in the office and it runs 2 MIPS 4400/166MHz CPUs.. IIRC those are the same as the ones in the Cobalt boxes (Qube, RaQ) or at least the same generation..
But the video is obscenely cool.. (when will Mesa get the aquarium screensaver?;)
Well, gee whiz, Gomer, I'd rather nobody starved and everyone lived in nice homes by the ocean and ate lobster and never got fat.
Wake up.
There's hundreds of MILLIONS of firearms in the US alone. There's factories around the world making millions of them every year. Part of the ex-soviet method of world destabilization was to give away the blueprints to their AK-47s and churn out millions to give away for free just to fuck with us. We're only reaping the harvest of the cold war. And even if we made firearm ownership illegal tomorrow, even if all the firearms in this country magically vanished, motivated individuals could simply fabricate them anew if they found it too difficult or expensive to import them.
Gun ownership is a tough issue. Don't threaten my liberty so casually by being such a pollyanna.
The furthest I would go would be to mandate gun training before receiving a permit to purchase. Hell, maybe in place of compulsory military service (which is where Swiss (reserves) and Israelis learn to handle guns) offer gun training in secondary schools.. Make guns boring, like sex ed makes sex so dull...
The USA and Canada are young - don't think it can't happen here.
With McCarthy in the fifties, it almost _did_ happen here.. I only hope my pop would have stood firm and blown some of the McCarthyites away if it came to it, even at the expense of not having been conceived 15 or so years later...
Since that time, it's become almost a weekly event reading of yet another massacre in the United States.
With nearly 300 million people, I'm surprised it doesn't happen _more_ often.. And I wonder how gun deaths compare in quantity to deaths by allergic reaction to food/bees/etc, pollution, etc. I wonder how many deaths are a byproduct of liberty, and what the cost would be if we decided to relinquish that liberty?
And, I also wonder, if the US wasn't the world's policeman (come on Europeans and Canadians, as much as you like to deny it, when it comes to geopolitical heavy lifting we are your daddy. Whenever we police you gripe, and when we leave it to you you fuck it up and blame us for staying out! Make up your minds!) would there be enough guaranteed security for other western countries to put 'enlightened' measures in place?
I tend to think that Euro/Canadian 'civilization' is bought and paid for by American blood on a daily basis, since we remain the arsenal and backbone of democracy we relieve you of the need to arm, and the costs of arming yourselves... Americans are the Morlocks of global politics... Be glad we're apathetic to the point of not noticing the money and effort we're pouring into foreign defense, and remember the difference between American isolationism (two world wars with hundreds of millions dead) and interventionism (brush fires with not nearly the same body count)..
Soldiers in our military consider the Constitution to be more important than whatever government is currently in power.
Please note this: it's one of the rarest things in the history of mankind. I doubt anyone could name 5 other armies which served the people explicitly and provably, over some warlord or particular monarch.
The civilian control of the military, demonstrated decisively by Harry Truman in the sacking of MacArthur (a very unpopular decision at the time), is one of the things that makes America great.
However if the majority is unarmed and some small fanatic group gets an itch to take power (by force) this would not be a good situation
An interesting take on this is The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, where fundies take over the US and force women into christian slavery. I'm more afraid of Scientologists personally, but I'd be privileged to pop a cap in the ass of any fringe whacko trying to mess with my liberty..
Many people view the widespread dissemination of security software to be a *good* thing.
Yes, it is. But as Ben Franklin once said,
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Using the BSD license helped propagate security, with an achilles heel which undermined liberty, and now we're feeling the effects. We'll probably get around this, but I doubt this'll be the last time we see a useful piece of technology coopted in an incompatible fashion to poison the open software well...
RMS must be having a right good chuckle right about now...
If UCITA is made law, then how many organizations are going to want to take a chance on getting 'I Agree'd into indentured servitude? Since the EULAs would be given more force, fiduciary responsibility would mandate that they be clearly analyzed and their weight seriously measured in relation to corporate needs. I'm thinking unencumbered open/free software would start looking mighty nice.
Sometimes people need a sharp shock to get them out of their bad habits.. Perhaps UCITA is the bazooka we've been waiting to have M$ and closed software companies point at their big toe..
Doesn't Intel have to support Rambus contractually? I mean, isn't there some kind of deal between the two, where Intel has to use their memory and be seen supporting them in good faith?
... I just read Freeware on the way home from a gaming convention last month (a 6.5 hr drive from Buffalo to NYC took 11 hours because I couldn't put the thing down).. Absolutely bizarre, wonderful stuff, and I was a bit lost not having read the first 2 books in the series, but I enjoyed the ideas all the same.
Hey, they can fund their work with semiconscious sex toys;)
To the argument regarding copying music as not being theft because it deprives no one of any good, you are correct. It is not theft. This is a bad term.
Actually, if you copy music and don't buy a legal copy, you are in fact stealing. From whom, now, this is the issue.
What you are clamouring to say is that "We don't like the current system. Change it". You're rebels, fulfilling your teenage angst.
Not necessarily. It's just the most convenient weapon we have. What's easier, writing letters and going on marches, or by letting technology dictate behavior continue to go the easy way which is to continue downloading illegal music and allowing the technology and the behavior to apply pressure for you. It makes civil disobedience easy and rewarding. The problem is at this point prosecuting MP3 pirates is as effective as prosecuting jaywalkers in NYC. And, as long as this happens, the strength of anti-piracy law will be reduced to the point that it will be as strong as NYC anti-jaywalking law.
The real question that will be asked when the recording industry is hurt enough long enough is, how do we make money under the new market rules? The artistic side of the music world has broken down into 2 camps, the indies who love net-distributed music, and the corporate wh0res that see it as a threat to their 10-Ks. But ultimately, as long as it is easy and cheap to pirate music, their views are irrelevant.
I'm just disappointed that Metallica and Dr. Dre are simply enriching lawyers at the expense of their targets and the goodwill of their fanbase. That money would be better spent tryign to find a fair solution that allows music consumers to stay legal at a reasonable price, whcih could possibly include buying themselves out of their record company and providing legal downloads. Your Working Boy,
Slashdot Mirror
*hehe* I could point you towards other noise artists who literally were doing just that- cat something_or_other > /dev/snd
;)
Try snoop -a on Solaris systems, particularly firewalls
Your Working Boy,
Usually RAID 5 and a database is a pretty bad match, because RAID 5 read/write performance is lower than RAID 0, 1, 0+1 read/write performance...
:p)..
IIRC the big hit is in write performance, but one would hope large RAID caches should help this somewhat. Still, a 0+1 rig would probably provide the best overall performance and redundancy (and cost the most
Your Working Boy,
Just try to get an IP from your local Baby Bell, Cable-Internet or DSL provider. Think you could afford it on a fixed income?
/27 subnet right now.. Of course, I wouldn't have a problem if the price went down, but still, I can't complain too loudly (I remember having to dialup to university terminal annexes to telnet into hosts, and having to run a console SLIP emulator, god forbid we have a dialin SLIP/PPP...)..
Why do you need an IP? Run on a virtual server or free hosting service if you don't want to spend money. Spend $20-30/month if you want fancy stuff like CGIs, MySQL, etc.. If you don't like the TOS, move, or pony up the $$$.. I don't have a problem with it.
Why not volunteer your own time and expertise to setup a non-profit ISP project with your own TOS for this purpose, not unlike the New Deal people recording old blues artists?
I can't imagine hosting static pages is going to get any cheaper than it is now, and IMHO this is a good thing as long as search engines continue to index (and this is a concern, considering they miss whole regions of the Internet)..
Does anyone know of a way to get a free IP so you can run your own server from home?
No, and I think your assumptions are a bit off: networking has never been less costly or convenient as it is today. Ever tried to get ISDN? Or, god help you, a T1 to your house? Even having to put up with tech.morons to get DSL was a dream compared to Hell Atlantic or UUNet for T1 service.. My mom+pop ISP has a class B (helps to have started in 1993) and grants static IPs to every customer, including dialups, and my DSL network is a
And when IPv6 comes along IP addresses should become portable and super-cheap..
Your Working Boy,
Maybe some day, but not yet, you can't get near the pixel fill rate with the antialiasing you need to beat an Onyx2.
;)
And a lot (if not most) of that is the video silicon, not the CPUs.. We've got an orphan Onyx with a 4-board RealityEngine2 in the office and it runs 2 MIPS 4400/166MHz CPUs.. IIRC those are the same as the ones in the Cobalt boxes (Qube, RaQ) or at least the same generation..
But the video is obscenely cool.. (when will Mesa get the aquarium screensaver?
Your Working Boy,
Of course, if the guy standing BEHIND the guy with an Uzi had a gun, he might be able to shoot UZI guy before UZI man kills the rest of the patrons.
Two words: Colin Ferguson.
(though I doubt in NYC anyone would get involved...)
Your Working Boy,
How about doing away with drug laws?
Works for me.
Your Working Boy,
I'd rather nobody had guns.
Well, gee whiz, Gomer, I'd rather nobody starved and everyone lived in nice homes by the ocean and ate lobster and never got fat.
Wake up.
There's hundreds of MILLIONS of firearms in the US alone. There's factories around the world making millions of them every year. Part of the ex-soviet method of world destabilization was to give away the blueprints to their AK-47s and churn out millions to give away for free just to fuck with us. We're only reaping the harvest of the cold war. And even if we made firearm ownership illegal tomorrow, even if all the firearms in this country magically vanished, motivated individuals could simply fabricate them anew if they found it too difficult or expensive to import them.
Gun ownership is a tough issue. Don't threaten my liberty so casually by being such a pollyanna.
The furthest I would go would be to mandate gun training before receiving a permit to purchase. Hell, maybe in place of compulsory military service (which is where Swiss (reserves) and Israelis learn to handle guns) offer gun training in secondary schools.. Make guns boring, like sex ed makes sex so dull...
Your Working Boy,
The USA and Canada are young - don't think it can't happen here.
With McCarthy in the fifties, it almost _did_ happen here.. I only hope my pop would have stood firm and blown some of the McCarthyites away if it came to it, even at the expense of not having been conceived 15 or so years later...
Your Working Boy,
Since that time, it's become almost a weekly event reading of yet another massacre in the United States.
With nearly 300 million people, I'm surprised it doesn't happen _more_ often.. And I wonder how gun deaths compare in quantity to deaths by allergic reaction to food/bees/etc, pollution, etc. I wonder how many deaths are a byproduct of liberty, and what the cost would be if we decided to relinquish that liberty?
And, I also wonder, if the US wasn't the world's policeman (come on Europeans and Canadians, as much as you like to deny it, when it comes to geopolitical heavy lifting we are your daddy. Whenever we police you gripe, and when we leave it to you you fuck it up and blame us for staying out! Make up your minds!) would there be enough guaranteed security for other western countries to put 'enlightened' measures in place?
I tend to think that Euro/Canadian 'civilization' is bought and paid for by American blood on a daily basis, since we remain the arsenal and backbone of democracy we relieve you of the need to arm, and the costs of arming yourselves... Americans are the Morlocks of global politics... Be glad we're apathetic to the point of not noticing the money and effort we're pouring into foreign defense, and remember the difference between American isolationism (two world wars with hundreds of millions dead) and interventionism (brush fires with not nearly the same body count)..
Your Working Boy,
I'd rather be shot than stabbed.
(to paraphrase a classic)
"He's going to be CRUCIFIED!"
"eh. Could be worse."
Your Working Boy,
Yes, and Israel is much *more* heavily armed, and safer still.
As is Switzerland.
Your Working Boy,
Soldiers in our military consider the Constitution to be more important than whatever government is currently in power.
Please note this: it's one of the rarest things in the history of mankind. I doubt anyone could name 5 other armies which served the people explicitly and provably, over some warlord or particular monarch.
The civilian control of the military, demonstrated decisively by Harry Truman in the sacking of MacArthur (a very unpopular decision at the time), is one of the things that makes America great.
Your Working Boy,
However if the majority is unarmed and some small fanatic group gets an itch to take power (by force) this would not be a good situation
An interesting take on this is The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, where fundies take over the US and force women into christian slavery. I'm more afraid of Scientologists personally, but I'd be privileged to pop a cap in the ass of any fringe whacko trying to mess with my liberty..
Live free or die,
Your Working Boy,
And God help you if you attempt to port a Perl script over.
Hey, at least M$Perl has fork() now...
(can't tell ya how that bit me in the ass about 1.5 years ago.. Glad it was someone else's problem tho, I was just resident perl nerd working late...)
Your Working Boy,
Many people view the widespread dissemination of security software to be a *good* thing.
Yes, it is. But as Ben Franklin once said,
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Using the BSD license helped propagate security, with an achilles heel which undermined liberty, and now we're feeling the effects. We'll probably get around this, but I doubt this'll be the last time we see a useful piece of technology coopted in an incompatible fashion to poison the open software well...
RMS must be having a right good chuckle right about now...
Your Working Boy,
If UCITA is made law, then how many organizations are going to want to take a chance on getting 'I Agree'd into indentured servitude? Since the EULAs would be given more force, fiduciary responsibility would mandate that they be clearly analyzed and their weight seriously measured in relation to corporate needs. I'm thinking unencumbered open/free software would start looking mighty nice.
Sometimes people need a sharp shock to get them out of their bad habits.. Perhaps UCITA is the bazooka we've been waiting to have M$ and closed software companies point at their big toe..
Just a little diabolical advocatin'..
Your Working Boy,
I'd like to know who in congress voted for the DMCA, so I can vote against them this November.
Your Working Boy,
Why do you install it on servers?
[client] $ ssh user@server # ssh w/xauth fwding
[server] $ kmgmt-app
Why else?
Your Working Boy,
people like me seem to have spent the time finding audio samples which don't encode well and complaining.
Then you're doing your job..
:)
Your Working Boy,
Doesn't Intel have to support Rambus contractually? I mean, isn't there some kind of deal between the two, where Intel has to use their memory and be seen supporting them in good faith?
If so, when this deal expires, watch out RMBS...
Your Working Boy,
We DeadHeads don't trade any material without permission and we know that mp3s are below us.
Pretty much the only reason to own DAT decks, if you're not a DJ or sound engineer...
Your Working Boy,
The real crime of the music industry is that these costs are huge, and they all come out of the artist's royalties.
But the artist only sees $0.56 out of each CD, and those costs come out of that small fraction! What about the other $16.43?
Goes into the Bentleys these ponytailed A&R poseurs collect...
The quantity of sympathy I have for RIAA and its puppets can best be expressed by sqrt(-1)...
Your Working Boy,
... I just read Freeware on the way home from a gaming convention last month (a 6.5 hr drive from Buffalo to NYC took 11 hours because I couldn't put the thing down).. Absolutely bizarre, wonderful stuff, and I was a bit lost not having read the first 2 books in the series, but I enjoyed the ideas all the same.
;)
Hey, they can fund their work with semiconscious sex toys
Your Working Boy,
I'd have just overwritten the boot block, fucked up the FATs, and written pseudorandom gibberish on their C: drive... But I'm cruel like that.
;)
Don't gloat too loudly
Your Working Boy,
To the argument regarding copying music as not being theft because it deprives no one of any good, you are correct. It is not theft. This is a bad term.
Actually, if you copy music and don't buy a legal copy, you are in fact stealing. From whom, now, this is the issue.
What you are clamouring to say is that "We don't like the current system. Change it". You're rebels, fulfilling your teenage angst.
Not necessarily. It's just the most convenient weapon we have. What's easier, writing letters and going on marches, or by letting technology dictate behavior continue to go the easy way which is to continue downloading illegal music and allowing the technology and the behavior to apply pressure for you. It makes civil disobedience easy and rewarding. The problem is at this point prosecuting MP3 pirates is as effective as prosecuting jaywalkers in NYC. And, as long as this happens, the strength of anti-piracy law will be reduced to the point that it will be as strong as NYC anti-jaywalking law.
The real question that will be asked when the recording industry is hurt enough long enough is, how do we make money under the new market rules? The artistic side of the music world has broken down into 2 camps, the indies who love net-distributed music, and the corporate wh0res that see it as a threat to their 10-Ks. But ultimately, as long as it is easy and cheap to pirate music, their views are irrelevant.
I'm just disappointed that Metallica and Dr. Dre are simply enriching lawyers at the expense of their targets and the goodwill of their fanbase. That money would be better spent tryign to find a fair solution that allows music consumers to stay legal at a reasonable price, whcih could possibly include buying themselves out of their record company and providing legal downloads.
Your Working Boy,