I have the same problem in my house. For us (we're renting and can't make mods to the house) the simplest answer was to use ethernet to powerline bridges. Plug the brick into the wall, plug your ethernet into it, and all the computers on the network are sharing the powerlines at 14 Mb/s.
It's not terribly fast, but it's easy and reliable. All the adapters I've seen come with DES encryption built in, and you'll wanna set that.
If he sells you the copyright, he can no longer use the images for self-promotion (like in his sample album). Worse -- if he got a great shot of you in your Vera Wang dress and you own the copyright, you can then license that to Vera Wang for use in ads and such -- not something he's going to want to see (unlikely, but there you go).
What you want to do is license the images for personal use -- state that you want to be able to reprint them to share with friends and family, in print and on the web. All should be fine, and he may not charge much for it (if at all).
Most photographers are now going to a "pay me for my time up front" pricing scheme, as photo-quality inkjets and cheap flatbed scanners are making the traditional pricing methods (charge little up-front, and make it up on the print and album sales) obsolete. These folks will generally be glad to let you have high-quality image files/negs once the shoot is over -- they've already made their money, have some images to show, and want lots of referrals from happy brides.
I just had a client order a PC from Walmart 3 weeks ago, and I thought the cost (with Lindows, not the Sun offering) was more like $215, though that was with 64M RAM. I thought it was $265 after shipping.
Oh well. Still better than paying the Microsoft tax.
Not to mention that the woman who sued McD's had only wanted her medical fees covered (which seems reasonable, as she had to have skin grafts in a really sensitive area) , and McD's repeatedly refused.
McD's ended up being fined (IIRC) one day's profits.
Consider hosting it yourself. It's pretty easy with a Consider hosting it yourself. It's pretty easy with a Linux distribution like e-Smith (now SME Server), and can be done on a broadband connection (depending on your TOS) without a static IP if you use an outfit like No-ip. You could also pony up the money for a business-class line and have even less concerns with having your service cut off. It's more expensive (I pay $250/month for 1Mb/s SDSL, but the benefits are certainly there.
I've set up a number of clients with VPN solutions, and I use the same
setup to monitor their networks remotely (Nagios rocks). I'd say
the following are issues you need to keep in mind:
VPNs can be a great solution, depending on what kind of network
applications you're trying to access. Broadband feels fast, but
it's shockingly slow when compared to a 100 megabit switched
network. If you're going to transfer many files across the
network or are using fat database clients that need access to a network
share, it's going to crawl.
Citrix is a great option if you're wanting to provide a "virtual
desktop" sort of environment. Windows 2000's Terminal Services is
cheaper (assuming you're already purchased Win2k Server and everyone's
connection from a Win2k Pro/XP Pro box), but it makes less efficient
use of bandwidth and doesn't offer nearly the same amount of
flexibility as Citrix. Think Linux, Mac, Java clients here --
Citrix can hook you up, but Terminal Services is a Windows-only
solution. Odds are you'll want a dedicated multiprocessor box for
this.
I love firewall appliances -- they're easy to set up, require low
maintenance, and offer better reliability (no moving parts!) than
something running on PC hardware. Most vendors have good options
for VPN access as well. Something like a SonicWALL Pro300 costs
$2,200, passes 3DES traffic at 45Mb/s, comes with 50 VPN client
licenses (supports up to 1,000 on the single box), can be set up as a
pair for high-availability, now supports Microsoft's PPTP in case you
feel like you need to enable it, etc. I love Cisco solutions, but
they might not be the best choice unless you've got someone on staff
who's gone to the effort to understand how to make them do what you
want. There's a lot to be said for a good web-based
interface. Or paying someone to do it for you.
Linux can be set up to do this for less money (depending on what
hardware you've got lying around) and with more configurability, but
there's a cost involved. Have someone set it up who understands what they're
doing. Use a hardware-based RAID array. Make sure you set
things up so that the installation process for client machines can be
explained in easy to understand language on one piece of paper. That's
front-only, not both sides. Anything else and this can turn into
a support nightmare. As a general rule, I'd say that a firewall
appliance is the best solution unless you can clearly state why you
want to use something different.
If you're going to use something like Citrix, you can have the
client implement encryption and just pass that traffic through your
firewall. Not as good a solution as implementing a VPN, but the
support costs will likely be lower to support one applicaion (Citrix
client) than two (Citrix plus your VPN software of choice).
I can't get the article to load past the second page, but it sounds like they've just got their web server configured to cache queries to the database so that it can respond without hitting the disk.
Sounds like the same thing MySQL 4.x does. I'm running a site that generates all the content on the fly from a MySQL database, and the upgrade from 3.23.54 to 4.0.9 resulted in a situation where half of the queries that come in are anwered by the query cache, and I saw my server utilization drop from 1.5-2.5 to.3-.8.
Significant and worth doing, but I don't know if their solution is all that special. Just upgrade MySQL.;)
Second, that FUD about service packs re-breaking the OS is just garbage. Please give me ONE example, JUST ONE, of a service pack opening up new holes for ANY WINDOWS OS, 3.1 and up. You can't because you are a paid basher talking out of your ass.
Service pack 2 for NT Server made it so my machine rebooted the 2nd time I accessed a device on the floppy controller. Streamer or floppy -- first access is fine, 2 seconds after the 2nd access I was looking at a black screen and the PC was doing a POST (read: no shutdown, just an immediate reboot). SP3 fixed it, and it wasn't there pre-service pack.
When I worked at a major law firm in Atlanta, our DC office had a ton of hard-to-reproduce problems related to the BDC over there. Turns out the admin installed SP4 when it came out because he trusted MS releases. Uninstalled to SP3 and it was solid as a rock. Put SP5 on and it was still great. SP6 sucked, but 6a was just fine (except it broke the way some NT boxes routed, apparently).
So maybe the rule is to avoid even-numbered service packs.
Have to agree here -- installed mine last night and was impressed with ease of setup and features offered.
Prices appear to have gone down. Mine cost $49 after rebate, makes my printer accessible over the network, acts as a 4-port 10/100 (full duplex, I believe) switch, has a number of configurable firewall options (which ports to leave open, allows you to leave one machine open, etc), is easy to configure, etc. If I'd been paying full price I would have considered the Netgear #314, which seems comparable but will also send messages to the syslog server on your network (neat feature).
For those who are curious: my DSL provider included a PCI modem that only came with Windows drivers, so I've been running Win98 + internet connection sharing to make share the dsl line over the network. When I replaced the (233 MHz) Win98 box with the SMC Barricade and an external modem, the DSL test pages showed my connection speed had *quadrupled*. Money well spent.
Great timing -- I spent a big chunk of yesterday trying to figure out which directory solutions were available for Linux.
I guess my question is: will anyone use this?
Looking at the pricing offered at novell.com shows that you can use Novell's NDS on Linux for $2 per seat. At that price, I'll take NDS (proven solution, fast, shown to be scalable beyond 1 *billion* objects, good management tools are available, etc).
What am I missing here? It's open source, but it's apparently going to require some hacking (to set up your schema) before you can use it, which will limit the number of people capable of deploying it.
Would anyone here take this over NDS/eDirectory? Why?
Check out Telebank. I don't use them yet but I'm tempted to (good rates, refund ATM fees, etc.) I've also heard that eTrade is going to buy the service -- might be all that you're looking for.
They offer clocks and smoke detectors with hidden cameras in them. And I would use these for.....what exactly? I agree, most of thier other stuff is basic electronic kits, but a clock with a hidden camera? That's like a hunting store stocking armor piercing bullets.
I can think of a couple of legitimate uses:
The week I moved into my house my brand-new (one use) lawnmower was stolen. The thieves have come back on at least 3 other occasions (read: I've scared them off this many times) and tried to gain entry to my house. I would love to have something like this mounted outside -- the cops have said they'd act if they knew who it was and had some evidence.
I don't have children yet, but I've heard way too many stories about abuse from "care providers." If I came home and my toddler was bruised, I'd like to make sure that the sitter wasn't stepping out of bounds.
You may disagree, but in my world these uses are entirely legitimate.
And BTW, your example of "armor piercing bullets" is flawed. There are rounds designed to pierce armor (hard to come by on the civilian market), and there are those rounds that are often referred to as "armor piercing." Most of the latter are simply powerful enough to penetrate a "bullet proof" vest. Lots of them originated over 100 years ago. And most hunting stores carry them -- it's inhumane to hunt deer with.22 cal rifles (which will also pierce kevlar "bullet-proof" vests, btw...)
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I have the same problem in my house. For us (we're renting and can't make mods to the house) the simplest answer was to use ethernet to powerline bridges. Plug the brick into the wall, plug your ethernet into it, and all the computers on the network are sharing the powerlines at 14 Mb/s.
It's not terribly fast, but it's easy and reliable. All the adapters I've seen come with DES encryption built in, and you'll wanna set that.
If he sells you the copyright, he can no longer use the images for self-promotion (like in his sample album). Worse -- if he got a great shot of you in your Vera Wang dress and you own the copyright, you can then license that to Vera Wang for use in ads and such -- not something he's going to want to see (unlikely, but there you go).
What you want to do is license the images for personal use -- state that you want to be able to reprint them to share with friends and family, in print and on the web. All should be fine, and he may not charge much for it (if at all).
Most photographers are now going to a "pay me for my time up front" pricing scheme, as photo-quality inkjets and cheap flatbed scanners are making the traditional pricing methods (charge little up-front, and make it up on the print and album sales) obsolete. These folks will generally be glad to let you have high-quality image files/negs once the shoot is over -- they've already made their money, have some images to show, and want lots of referrals from happy brides.
I've been running a forum that sees something like a million hits per day on Redhat. I've scheduled a half-day tomorrow to migrate.
Now, I just need to decide between Debian and FreeBSD (yeah, I know it's "dead," but it sure is a nice OS).
I just had a client order a PC from Walmart 3 weeks ago, and I thought the cost (with Lindows, not the Sun offering) was more like $215, though that was with 64M RAM. I thought it was $265 after shipping.
Oh well. Still better than paying the Microsoft tax.
Not to mention that the woman who sued McD's had only wanted her medical fees covered (which seems reasonable, as she had to have skin grafts in a really sensitive area) , and McD's repeatedly refused.
McD's ended up being fined (IIRC) one day's profits.
Consider hosting it yourself. It's pretty easy with a Consider hosting it yourself. It's pretty easy with a Linux
distribution like e-Smith (now SME
Server), and can be done on a broadband connection (depending on your
TOS) without a static IP if you use an outfit like No-ip. You could also pony up
the money for a business-class line and have even less concerns with
having your service cut off. It's more expensive (I pay
$250/month for 1Mb/s SDSL, but the benefits are certainly there.
Really -- be your own webmaster.
- VPNs can be a great solution, depending on what kind of network
applications you're trying to access. Broadband feels fast, but
it's shockingly slow when compared to a 100 megabit switched
network. If you're going to transfer many files across the
network or are using fat database clients that need access to a network
share, it's going to crawl.
- Citrix is a great option if you're wanting to provide a "virtual
desktop" sort of environment. Windows 2000's Terminal Services is
cheaper (assuming you're already purchased Win2k Server and everyone's
connection from a Win2k Pro/XP Pro box), but it makes less efficient
use of bandwidth and doesn't offer nearly the same amount of
flexibility as Citrix. Think Linux, Mac, Java clients here --
Citrix can hook you up, but Terminal Services is a Windows-only
solution. Odds are you'll want a dedicated multiprocessor box for
this.
- I love firewall appliances -- they're easy to set up, require low
maintenance, and offer better reliability (no moving parts!) than
something running on PC hardware. Most vendors have good options
for VPN access as well. Something like a SonicWALL Pro300 costs
$2,200, passes 3DES traffic at 45Mb/s, comes with 50 VPN client
licenses (supports up to 1,000 on the single box), can be set up as a
pair for high-availability, now supports Microsoft's PPTP in case you
feel like you need to enable it, etc. I love Cisco solutions, but
they might not be the best choice unless you've got someone on staff
who's gone to the effort to understand how to make them do what you
want. There's a lot to be said for a good web-based
interface. Or paying someone to do it for you.
- Linux can be set up to do this for less money (depending on what
hardware you've got lying around) and with more configurability, but
there's a cost involved. Have someone set it up who understands what they're
doing. Use a hardware-based RAID array. Make sure you set
things up so that the installation process for client machines can be
explained in easy to understand language on one piece of paper. That's
front-only, not both sides. Anything else and this can turn into
a support nightmare. As a general rule, I'd say that a firewall
appliance is the best solution unless you can clearly state why you
want to use something different.
- If you're going to use something like Citrix, you can have the
client implement encryption and just pass that traffic through your
firewall. Not as good a solution as implementing a VPN, but the
support costs will likely be lower to support one applicaion (Citrix
client) than two (Citrix plus your VPN software of choice).
That's all for now. Hope this helps.I can't get the article to load past the second page, but it sounds like they've just got their web server configured to cache queries to the database so that it can respond without hitting the disk.
.3-.8.
;)
Sounds like the same thing MySQL 4.x does. I'm running a site that generates all the content on the fly from a MySQL database, and the upgrade from 3.23.54 to 4.0.9 resulted in a situation where half of the queries that come in are anwered by the query cache, and I saw my server utilization drop from 1.5-2.5 to
Significant and worth doing, but I don't know if their solution is all that special. Just upgrade MySQL.
Second, that FUD about service packs re-breaking the OS is just garbage. Please give me ONE example, JUST ONE, of a service pack opening up new holes for ANY WINDOWS OS, 3.1 and up. You can't because you are a paid basher talking out of your ass. Service pack 2 for NT Server made it so my machine rebooted the 2nd time I accessed a device on the floppy controller. Streamer or floppy -- first access is fine, 2 seconds after the 2nd access I was looking at a black screen and the PC was doing a POST (read: no shutdown, just an immediate reboot). SP3 fixed it, and it wasn't there pre-service pack. When I worked at a major law firm in Atlanta, our DC office had a ton of hard-to-reproduce problems related to the BDC over there. Turns out the admin installed SP4 when it came out because he trusted MS releases. Uninstalled to SP3 and it was solid as a rock. Put SP5 on and it was still great. SP6 sucked, but 6a was just fine (except it broke the way some NT boxes routed, apparently). So maybe the rule is to avoid even-numbered service packs.
Have to agree here -- installed mine last night and was impressed with ease of setup and features offered.
Prices appear to have gone down. Mine cost $49 after rebate, makes my printer accessible over the network, acts as a 4-port 10/100 (full duplex, I believe) switch, has a number of configurable firewall options (which ports to leave open, allows you to leave one machine open, etc), is easy to configure, etc. If I'd been paying full price I would have considered the Netgear #314, which seems comparable but will also send messages to the syslog server on your network (neat feature).
For those who are curious: my DSL provider included a PCI modem that only came with Windows drivers, so I've been running Win98 + internet connection sharing to make share the dsl line over the network. When I replaced the (233 MHz) Win98 box with the SMC Barricade and an external modem, the DSL test pages showed my connection speed had *quadrupled*. Money well spent.
Great timing -- I spent a big chunk of yesterday trying to figure out which directory solutions were available for Linux.
I guess my question is: will anyone use this?
Looking at the pricing offered at novell.com shows that you can use Novell's NDS on Linux for $2 per seat. At that price, I'll take NDS (proven solution, fast, shown to be scalable beyond 1 *billion* objects, good management tools are available, etc).
What am I missing here? It's open source, but it's apparently going to require some hacking (to set up your schema) before you can use it, which will limit the number of people capable of deploying it.
Would anyone here take this over NDS/eDirectory? Why?
Check out Telebank. I don't use them yet but I'm tempted to (good rates, refund ATM fees, etc.) I've also heard that eTrade is going to buy the service -- might be all that you're looking for.
They offer clocks and smoke detectors with hidden cameras in them. And I would use these for.....what exactly? I agree, most of thier other stuff is basic electronic kits, but a clock with a hidden camera? That's like a hunting store stocking armor piercing bullets.
I can think of a couple of legitimate uses:
You may disagree, but in my world these uses are entirely legitimate.
And BTW, your example of "armor piercing bullets" is flawed. There are rounds designed to pierce armor (hard to come by on the civilian market), and there are those rounds that are often referred to as "armor piercing." Most of the latter are simply powerful enough to penetrate a "bullet proof" vest. Lots of them originated over 100 years ago. And most hunting stores carry them -- it's inhumane to hunt deer with .22 cal rifles (which will also pierce kevlar "bullet-proof" vests, btw...)