Actually they transmit more often than that -- how else would the network know which tower to send your incoming calls to or that you've "travelled outside the calling area". They don't broadcast on every tower for every incoming call, that would be retarded.
Your phone checks in regularly. Different carriers/network types use different amounts of time between heartbeats.
Instead of "fail-over" think in terms of having two public webservers that load-balance ALL traffic to your site. If one goes down the other takes up the full load.
This complicates the back-end if you have a database driven site, but you were going to have to deal with that anyway.
The "quick and dirty" way to do this is a round-robin DNS CNAME entry that sends traffic from your usual name "www.whatever.com" to "www1.whatever.com" and "www2.whatever.com".
Keep your TTL/update times low and if you know www1 went down via your monitoring, remove the second entry from DNS.
During the time your customers are hitting www1 and www2 and the 1 machine is down, you'll have an "every other time they hit it they get an error" problem, but you said you were monitoring (preferrably from a third unrelated network), so that's taken care of. You could even script the removal of the DNS entry if you trust your monitoring that much. Of course, you need to deal with corner-cases like the monitoring server not being able to monitor but the site is actually up and working fine... stuff like that...
Basically this is what many of the commerical products do under the hood. You can go buy F5's or Alteons or any of the other hardware boxes that handle multi-site load-balancing, but you can do it yourself for a fraction of the cost if you understand how and understand that everyone's working with the same limitations with DNS caching times, etc.
You ever give any thought about the fact that that same "system" if left alone would make the place you live a barren wasteland known as a desert?
Pump in a few million gallons of water a year and it becomes habitable land. And now you're worried about the air pollution?
Phoenix is a REALLY bad example of trying to get back to some sort of natural ecosystem; if you did that, you definitely wouldn't be there in the first place.
Like the damn CEO of Coke has any knowledge or cares how the "workers" run the silly contest? It's good to be the King... back to work, sugar-water peasants!
I can honestly say I've never run into an "elitist jerk" Mac user. Not since 1995 anyway.
Most of the Mac users I run into today are Unix admins or security people by trade who've settled on the Mac as a really good quality compromise between the open-source and commercial worlds.
Commercial support of things like Microsoft Office that they need (and yet only tolerate) for business purposes, and yet they can still pop open a Terminal window and through the likes of Fink, can install just about all of the open-source tools out there and/or throw together some useful shell scripts as needed. Best of both worlds.
These folks typically are just folks trying to get something done with their computers -- which has never come across as "elitist" to me.
Most Mac users are well-educated, thoughtful, witty, and quite nice people as well as having a tad more disposable income -- since they typically pay just a bit more for their computers (but they argues and I agree that they get much better bundled software that's all just about flawlessly-integrated.
They also typically have higher incomes than the johnny-come-lately ooh-lookie-I-made-my-PeeCee-do-something-neat or the when-I-grow-up-I-want-to-work-on-computers crowd that flocks to the PC architecture thinking that a PC is the only kind of computer there is.
You also have the artists who don't have time to fuss with their software to do video editing, or audio tracks. Those folks also congregate around the Mac water-cooler.
I don't think the parent post deserves a +2 Funny -- it makes very little sense.
Had the supposedly "buggy" patch installed, and then got the new one. Never saw a difference in wireless signal strength. All bars lit.
Of course, the AP is located in a strategic location in the house using sound RF engineering principals to determine the location and not stuffed in a dresser underneath the clean socks, and a pie tin, as it would appear the whiners have done to themselves...;-)
Locating it as close as possible to the client machines and strategically centered in the middle of the desired zone of coverage while moving it appropriately closer to clients that are behind walls and other objects that soak up energy at 2.4 GHz -- works very well.
Knowing the limitations of the signal and being willing to install a second AP if necessary to get the desired coverage is probably also something that helps.
If your signal strength is marginal, fix the root cause -- get better antennas (while remaining with the legal Effective Radiated Power limits) and put them in the correct locations.
The physics of RF at 2.4 GHz haven't changed any recently, last I checked.
If you're running with a single bar for signal strength you haven't designed your RF patterns/system layout correctly. Fix that. Then a silly software bug that lowers signal strength by one bar will be as *yawn* unexciting as it was here...
She'd just note it and later after she got you to marry her, she'd be on that internal LAN where she could actually route to your 172.16.x.x addresses -- then she'd have a field day.;-)
Peers will never have rules of conduct on how they treat their "customers" and shouldn't.
What stands in the way isn't the peer support going on, it's the lack of a really good quality paid support company.
Example: RedHat's paid support pretty well sucks, and they're probably one of the "better" ones around. Granted I only had to deal with them on a single issue on the phone, one time -- but that was enough to make me realize I'd never recommend them again for service.
A bubble sort in VB is a rite of passage to become a sysadmin? Holy shit... I never knew!
Someone better take my admin privs on my machines away now.
The last guy I knew who knew how to program a bubble sort in VB also had zero idea how his e-mail got to his machine or his network file systems worked.
I guess he won't be vying for the prized sysadmin position (ha! Riiiight...) anytime soon...
Oh yeah, I think he knew one Cisco IOS command too -- "help".
I've always wondered why my various employers over the years haven't had the same requirement... they can announce publically that they expect to make no profit and continue to operate -- or even take a trip through the Bankruptcy car-wash, but a home-based business can not do that and continue to reap the tax benefits. Odd.
I am saying that companies with no limits imposed by external forces WILL exploit workers. Free markets are good at regulating prices in a generally downward direction as technology and efficiency go up, but everyone generally needs to work. Therefore, the market will also continually regulate wages down the lowest common denominator.
In order to protect overall wages, outside regulations (minimal ones) are probably necessary on corporations to keep hours and wages reasonable.
Your claim was that these regulations are "failed", therefore like open-source projects or anything else in life, I recommend that anyone who feels these regulations are unreasonable should then be the ones who take on the additional work for less pay so the rest of us can continue to live life at the wage levels we prefer to protect artificially. (I fully understand that the U.S. economy pays more for the average worker than it should if the markets were truly "Free" to self-regulate. In other words, pure-capitalism is a recipe for disaster in my view, and if it's the nirvana you think it is, you can take the pain to get us there if you like.)
Since you dislike the 8-hour workday laws, and you feel they're part of a "failed" idea, we the other Citizens of the country that feel differently have voted...
We think you're energetic enough and willing, so we've decided you and anyone who agrees with you gets the $8/hour job that requires at least a 16-hour overnight shift and only 8 hours between shifts.
Oh, I forgot, there's no shortage of regional airline pilots willing to do standing-overnighters! Silly me...
Unfortunately current statistics show that U.S. companies, outside of the bio-medical fields, are spending the lowest percentages of their revenues on R&D than they ever have.
Why? All the idiot "investors" that have changed investment from something you do for decades to something you do for days expecting instant 10-20% returns on their investment every quarter.
These same idiots can plainly see that in their own lives their companies are struggling to get by, let alone create that level of growth quarter after quarter, and then wonder why their jobs are outsourced.
And the outsourcing's not enough -- the "leaders" of these companies implement cut-backs that include chopping almost all funding for R&D.
There's a rational, logical end-result of all this greed and insanity.
Hmmm. Someone posting publicly about being a socially stunted emotionally retarded asshole, just might have some issues themselves... but if we just assume you're frustrated because you're clueless about the reasons people create software for free, I guess we can move on and address those issues.
We'll forget that you've just given an example of the exact same type of public attack you claim your "inferior" peers who write software do.
First off, asking for help: I've been watching people ask for help online about various technical issues for a very long time -- well over a decade -- and I've only really come to one major conclusion: It's how you ask that determines the response. Just like in person.
Ask like a jerk, you'll get treated like one. Only difference is you'll get less of the benefit of the doubt online, as the online community has to put up with comments like yours above so regularly, the pre-conception is that most people who need help ARE idiots. Because they don't know how to ask nicely.
As far as "lusers" needing to learn how the software works -- well, quite frankly, yes. As much as it will be unpopular with the/. crowd here, ~80% of the "non-computer worker" friends I know that have computers probably really didn't need them for anything useful in the first place. All they really needed was a box that does e-mail, allows them to create documents of various sorts, and surfs the web.
Anything beyond that is lost on most users. What that level of user calls "in-tu-it-ive" (WTF are the dashes for?) is a far cry from what a computer user who actually uses the processing power of the machine for something useful or fun (programming knowledge required) is going to find intuitive.
If software developers are going to write software for someone other than themselves, to a specification that doesn't meet their own personal needs... in most cultures, that's called a job.
Jobs are things people do with compensation in mind, because they're not particularly fun.
So... you want a say in what goes in your favorite Free software tools, start ponying up some cash for the developer of your choice and work out a business deal with him/her to meet a deadline and add/change XYZ.
Otherwise, quite honestly -- you're free to "give up on open source"... that's why it's called Free software. You're free to go jump in a lake and guess what... no one will care.
Now the part that really puts a lot of users on the spot: If you purchase certain commercial OS's, they really don't care what you want in the user interface either.
At least you have a CHANCE to influence an open source developer... the only people that influence commercial developers when the rubber hits the road are their bosses. Some even have great ideas that the companies they work for can't or won't implement because of the great cost or time necessary.
Windows is a bad example because it's not in the slightest way designed for ease-of-use... (simple stupid example: Click START to shut the machine off? Retarded. And there's plenty more examples.)
If you care about your user interface, you basically have three options:
1) Wait for someone to build it 2) Learn to code yourself and build it 3) Pay someone else to build it
Not too difficult to grasp, really. And if there's something out there you like better than open-source versions, by all means... go use it. It's your computer.
Stop being a baby/troll and just take control of your own life. Run what you want, or sell the computer and take up stamp collecting. It's pretty simple.
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Actually they transmit more often than that -- how else would the network know which tower to send your incoming calls to or that you've "travelled outside the calling area". They don't broadcast on every tower for every incoming call, that would be retarded.
Your phone checks in regularly. Different carriers/network types use different amounts of time between heartbeats.
Instead of "fail-over" think in terms of having two public webservers that load-balance ALL traffic to your site. If one goes down the other takes up the full load.
This complicates the back-end if you have a database driven site, but you were going to have to deal with that anyway.
The "quick and dirty" way to do this is a round-robin DNS CNAME entry that sends traffic from your usual name "www.whatever.com" to "www1.whatever.com" and "www2.whatever.com".
Keep your TTL/update times low and if you know www1 went down via your monitoring, remove the second entry from DNS.
During the time your customers are hitting www1 and www2 and the 1 machine is down, you'll have an "every other time they hit it they get an error" problem, but you said you were monitoring (preferrably from a third unrelated network), so that's taken care of. You could even script the removal of the DNS entry if you trust your monitoring that much. Of course, you need to deal with corner-cases like the monitoring server not being able to monitor but the site is actually up and working fine... stuff like that...
Basically this is what many of the commerical products do under the hood. You can go buy F5's or Alteons or any of the other hardware boxes that handle multi-site load-balancing, but you can do it yourself for a fraction of the cost if you understand how and understand that everyone's working with the same limitations with DNS caching times, etc.
You ever give any thought about the fact that that same "system" if left alone would make the place you live a barren wasteland known as a desert?
Pump in a few million gallons of water a year and it becomes habitable land. And now you're worried about the air pollution?
Phoenix is a REALLY bad example of trying to get back to some sort of natural ecosystem; if you did that, you definitely wouldn't be there in the first place.
A battery not powering anything doesn't have any current draw.
Back to basic electronics class for you...
Like the damn CEO of Coke has any knowledge or cares how the "workers" run the silly contest? It's good to be the King... back to work, sugar-water peasants!
And both are wasting enormous amounts of time worrying about distro-specific crap instead of fixing bugs...
I can honestly say I've never run into an "elitist jerk" Mac user. Not since 1995 anyway.
Most of the Mac users I run into today are Unix admins or security people by trade who've settled on the Mac as a really good quality compromise between the open-source and commercial worlds.
Commercial support of things like Microsoft Office that they need (and yet only tolerate) for business purposes, and yet they can still pop open a Terminal window and through the likes of Fink, can install just about all of the open-source tools out there and/or throw together some useful shell scripts as needed. Best of both worlds.
These folks typically are just folks trying to get something done with their computers -- which has never come across as "elitist" to me.
Most Mac users are well-educated, thoughtful, witty, and quite nice people as well as having a tad more disposable income -- since they typically pay just a bit more for their computers (but they argues and I agree that they get much better bundled software that's all just about flawlessly-integrated.
They also typically have higher incomes than the johnny-come-lately ooh-lookie-I-made-my-PeeCee-do-something-neat or the when-I-grow-up-I-want-to-work-on-computers crowd that flocks to the PC architecture thinking that a PC is the only kind of computer there is.
You also have the artists who don't have time to fuss with their software to do video editing, or audio tracks. Those folks also congregate around the Mac water-cooler.
I don't think the parent post deserves a +2 Funny -- it makes very little sense.
Nicely done! LOL!
Fair 'nuff. Sounds like there were other major problems with that patch with some hardware. Guess I got lucky.
Had the supposedly "buggy" patch installed, and then got the new one. Never saw a difference in wireless signal strength. All bars lit.
;-)
Of course, the AP is located in a strategic location in the house using sound RF engineering principals to determine the location and not stuffed in a dresser underneath the clean socks, and a pie tin, as it would appear the whiners have done to themselves...
Locating it as close as possible to the client machines and strategically centered in the middle of the desired zone of coverage while moving it appropriately closer to clients that are behind walls and other objects that soak up energy at 2.4 GHz -- works very well.
Knowing the limitations of the signal and being willing to install a second AP if necessary to get the desired coverage is probably also something that helps.
If your signal strength is marginal, fix the root cause -- get better antennas (while remaining with the legal Effective Radiated Power limits) and put them in the correct locations.
The physics of RF at 2.4 GHz haven't changed any recently, last I checked.
If you're running with a single bar for signal strength you haven't designed your RF patterns/system layout correctly. Fix that. Then a silly software bug that lowers signal strength by one bar will be as *yawn* unexciting as it was here...
Like how zero gravity doesn't seem to help poorly-engineered gyroscopes last any longer up there than they do down here?
Buy a NetApp Filer, mount it and use it for all your variable data. Get rid of the RAID arrays attached directly to the servers.
She'd just note it and later after she got you to marry her, she'd be on that internal LAN where she could actually route to your 172.16.x.x addresses -- then she'd have a field day. ;-)
Hmm, actually what you describe is peer support.
Paid support could never act like that.
Peers will never have rules of conduct on how they treat their "customers" and shouldn't.
What stands in the way isn't the peer support going on, it's the lack of a really good quality paid support company.
Example: RedHat's paid support pretty well sucks, and they're probably one of the "better" ones around. Granted I only had to deal with them on a single issue on the phone, one time -- but that was enough to make me realize I'd never recommend them again for service.
A bubble sort in VB is a rite of passage to become a sysadmin? Holy shit... I never knew!
Someone better take my admin privs on my machines away now.
The last guy I knew who knew how to program a bubble sort in VB also had zero idea how his e-mail got to his machine or his network file systems worked.
I guess he won't be vying for the prized sysadmin position (ha! Riiiight...) anytime soon...
Oh yeah, I think he knew one Cisco IOS command too -- "help".
I've always wondered why my various employers over the years haven't had the same requirement... they can announce publically that they expect to make no profit and continue to operate -- or even take a trip through the Bankruptcy car-wash, but a home-based business can not do that and continue to reap the tax benefits. Odd.
Ah.. we were arguing opposites. I understand now, also.
Thanks.
No, you misinterpret my meaning.
I am saying that companies with no limits imposed by external forces WILL exploit workers. Free markets are good at regulating prices in a generally downward direction as technology and efficiency go up, but everyone generally needs to work. Therefore, the market will also continually regulate wages down the lowest common denominator.
In order to protect overall wages, outside regulations (minimal ones) are probably necessary on corporations to keep hours and wages reasonable.
Your claim was that these regulations are "failed", therefore like open-source projects or anything else in life, I recommend that anyone who feels these regulations are unreasonable should then be the ones who take on the additional work for less pay so the rest of us can continue to live life at the wage levels we prefer to protect artificially. (I fully understand that the U.S. economy pays more for the average worker than it should if the markets were truly "Free" to self-regulate. In other words, pure-capitalism is a recipe for disaster in my view, and if it's the nirvana you think it is, you can take the pain to get us there if you like.)
Since you dislike the 8-hour workday laws, and you feel they're part of a "failed" idea, we the other Citizens of the country that feel differently have voted...
We think you're energetic enough and willing, so we've decided you and anyone who agrees with you gets the $8/hour job that requires at least a 16-hour overnight shift and only 8 hours between shifts.
Oh, I forgot, there's no shortage of regional airline pilots willing to do standing-overnighters! Silly me...
Just what speed *is* the most appropriate for ramming? And is it really pre-calculated in advance? ;-)
It was printed on the handle they pulled to go that fast on a huge flashing light they put in a close-up shot as the handle was pulled.
Too many hits on the crack pipe for you that night. We understand.
That slacka!
RTFA.
Unfortunately current statistics show that U.S. companies, outside of the bio-medical fields, are spending the lowest percentages of their revenues on R&D than they ever have.
Why? All the idiot "investors" that have changed investment from something you do for decades to something you do for days expecting instant 10-20% returns on their investment every quarter.
These same idiots can plainly see that in their own lives their companies are struggling to get by, let alone create that level of growth quarter after quarter, and then wonder why their jobs are outsourced.
And the outsourcing's not enough -- the "leaders" of these companies implement cut-backs that include chopping almost all funding for R&D.
There's a rational, logical end-result of all this greed and insanity.
Hmmm. Someone posting publicly about being a socially stunted emotionally retarded asshole, just might have some issues themselves... but if we just assume you're frustrated because you're clueless about the reasons people create software for free, I guess we can move on and address those issues.
/. crowd here, ~80% of the "non-computer worker" friends I know that have computers probably really didn't need them for anything useful in the first place. All they really needed was a box that does e-mail, allows them to create documents of various sorts, and surfs the web.
We'll forget that you've just given an example of the exact same type of public attack you claim your "inferior" peers who write software do.
First off, asking for help: I've been watching people ask for help online about various technical issues for a very long time -- well over a decade -- and I've only really come to one major conclusion: It's how you ask that determines the response. Just like in person.
Ask like a jerk, you'll get treated like one. Only difference is you'll get less of the benefit of the doubt online, as the online community has to put up with comments like yours above so regularly, the pre-conception is that most people who need help ARE idiots. Because they don't know how to ask nicely.
As far as "lusers" needing to learn how the software works -- well, quite frankly, yes. As much as it will be unpopular with the
Anything beyond that is lost on most users. What that level of user calls "in-tu-it-ive" (WTF are the dashes for?) is a far cry from what a computer user who actually uses the processing power of the machine for something useful or fun (programming knowledge required) is going to find intuitive.
If software developers are going to write software for someone other than themselves, to a specification that doesn't meet their own personal needs... in most cultures, that's called a job.
Jobs are things people do with compensation in mind, because they're not particularly fun.
So... you want a say in what goes in your favorite Free software tools, start ponying up some cash for the developer of your choice and work out a business deal with him/her to meet a deadline and add/change XYZ.
Otherwise, quite honestly -- you're free to "give up on open source"... that's why it's called Free software. You're free to go jump in a lake and guess what... no one will care.
Now the part that really puts a lot of users on the spot: If you purchase certain commercial OS's, they really don't care what you want in the user interface either.
At least you have a CHANCE to influence an open source developer... the only people that influence commercial developers when the rubber hits the road are their bosses. Some even have great ideas that the companies they work for can't or won't implement because of the great cost or time necessary.
Windows is a bad example because it's not in the slightest way designed for ease-of-use... (simple stupid example: Click START to shut the machine off? Retarded. And there's plenty more examples.)
If you care about your user interface, you basically have three options:
1) Wait for someone to build it
2) Learn to code yourself and build it
3) Pay someone else to build it
Not too difficult to grasp, really. And if there's something out there you like better than open-source versions, by all means... go use it. It's your computer.
Stop being a baby/troll and just take control of your own life. Run what you want, or sell the computer and take up stamp collecting. It's pretty simple.