You're right about the grid-like technologies, but I wasn't referring to that. In the enterprise space, VM stuff is to drive up utilization. You hear the "root" story from developers. Large enterprises do it for cost. Its actually less expensive to run servers as guests and you get high availability as a throw-in.
Multiple OSes at once? [..] I never got the whole concept of virtual servers
Its mainly an enterprise play.
If you're an old-timer UNIX admin, you may have difficulty understanding the point of server virtualization (i.e. multiple OS instances). In UNIXland, it has been normal and customary for several completely unrelated applications to run under the same OS instance, together servicing thousands of users. That never worked well in Windowsland. That being said, it didn't stop manufacturers from making staggering improvements in performace and capabilities of Intel servers. Companies grew to expect single Intel boxes to perform at the levels of large UNIX servers. The only way to achieve that in recent years has been to use industrial strength virtualization technology (basically, ESX). The boxes are beefier than ever, and ESX isn't cheap, but it works wonders.
For $50k, you can run 50 VMware guests on one very beefy box (not counting SAN), but you'd want a second for failover. For $75k, you can run about 100 guests on 14 blades in 7U (again, not counting SAN) and have the guests automatically migrate to the blades most able to run their workload at that moment in time. Ask a blade to come down for maintenance, and all the guests scatter to other blades before the blade powers off. Replaced a dead blade with a blank? Your systems management policies detect the new blank and automatically install ESX on it so guests can migrate back and evenly spread out the load.
Sounds crazy, I know, but that's a taste of what we're doing in the enteprise space these days.
If I use a cell to make a call to a friend's cell, we both get charged. Even if it's the same cell company [..] Free incoming calls only makes sense, but due to the current infrastructure, it's not feasible.
Sounds like you need to investigate modern offerings. Cingular/AT&T and Verizon have offered unlimited mobile-to-mobile minutes by default for years. And I've had one of Nextel's "free incoming" plan for years (600 peak outbound minutes for $63, all other calls and 2-way free) If you have AT&T/Cingular or Verizon, you most likely have to upgrade your phone to get the best plans. That old AMPS-only "I just need a phone, not a PDA" clunker can be a real boat anchor nowadays.
That's funny. Good stuff. No, actually I don't. Funny you should mention that, as I was coming back here to post how sad it is that the new ibiblio torrent site has a video on the triangle blogger's meeting. That's when I encountered your contribution that couldn't be more off base. Sorry about discussing a torrent for halfway decent, free and freely redistributable music.
I will try to keep future posts more interesting. Piracy roxxors. Copyrights should be unconstitutional. I want to pay 1c per album when I download them via BitTorrent because the distribution doesn't cost the record company anything. Did I miss anything? Thanks for playing, but next time check the uid. Capped since there was a cap.
I like to seed torrents of debian, fc4, and gentoo isos. I noticed today that my 2005.0 seed showed 0 seeds and 0 peers connected so I figured 2005.1 was out. Gentoo's torrent page was down, so I found it at tracker.netdomination.org. Had over 110 seeds connected and pushing the 6Mbps limit of my cablemodem. I just assumed I missed the story here and stumbled across the fact that it was out. Guess not. Oh, and the new Mercedes Benz Mixed Tape (#8) is out, so I grabbed that torrent, too.
Come on, what kind of geeks are you?:) The world's most powerful computer wants to transfer its intelligence into a human life, so he traps his creator's wife into the ultimate X10 house, and brings in a remotely controllable man to impregnate her. The movie is 30 years old, but Koontz updated the book in 2003 IIRC to bring the concepts and capabilities up2date. Once you read it, you'll feel compelled to change the addressable name of your voice-activated home automation system to "Alfred." Its a really fun book to read.
Do you really think it should be that difficult to make phone calls?
No, it sucks, you're right! I would gladly trade free unlimited national 2-way radio for free mobile-to-mobile calls and nights that start at 7pm. But its not there yet, and no one else can touch the free incoming calls 24x7 in the states. I'm not talking $250 totally unlimited plans, I'm talking $60/mo to never pay for an inbound call.
Sometimes I wish I knew a number to call to leave a voicemail for my friends so they'd think they just missed my call;) "Geez, I didn't even hear it ring!"
Nextel has to switch technologies anyways as they are being removed from their current freq
Which is an important point here missed by many. Nextel, in effort to offer to step out of the way of emergency services was granted back in February the right to exchange the crappy frequencies they built their business on for awesome new ones for half off. Saved billions in the process.
1. Buy up radio licenses from trucking companies operating in 800MHz all over the country. 2. Build a cellular network with those frequencies geared towards business (i.e. markup city) 3. Pound the emegency service radios until they beg the FCC to do something. 4. Exchange the crappy, life-threatening frequencies for shiny new ones at fire sale prices.
Maybe we'll get some interesting new services on those frequencies. Crap, I forgot "profit" somewhere in there.
"Nextel, the #1 preferred carrier for delivery boys, tow truck drivers and construction workers in all 50 states. 51 if you count Canada."
Does Nextel not give free mobile to mobile minutes? Do people not notice that they make their conversations so public like this?
No free mobile-to-mobile minutes, but they are the only US carrier to offer unlimited free incoming calls 24x7 (like the rest of the civilized world) AFAIK. My friends have gotten used to me calling and saying "call me back!" or texting them to call me. I keep looking at a Cingular crackberry, but I use about 1600 minutes a month, and use only 200 of 600 plan minutes. My plan includes unlimited nationwide 2-way radio, but my wife's doesn't. So, to keep a short call free during peak hours, I alert her at home, she alerts me back, and then I initiate a DirectConnect with her. Unfortunately, if she takes more than 3 seconds or so to reply, then the call drops and she becomes the initiator, charging either minutes against her plan, or 10c/min if I'm in a different market.
I'll need a metric assload of minutes if I'm going to give up free incoming calls. Besides, without Nextel, what am I going to hook up my aweseome yellow Nextel Cup pit crew headsets to? Its a joke, people.
But I think the phones still don't work like real 'walkie-talies' they still have to go to the nearest cell tower
The i850 now has an off-network walkie-talkie. And the walkie-talkie vs normal cell calls is more useful than it seems. Don't get me wrong, I want to shove it down peoples' throats when they use it in restaurants, but it is useful at times.
quite notorious bug with NT SP3 that broke Notes clients
That's funny, I tell that story as SP6 as it actually went GA prohibiting access to TCP/IP for all users except Administrator. That's why 6a came out a week or two later. At least that's how I tell it;) I thought SP3 was stable for quite some time.
If that were true, I can just imagine what would happen if the employees get bonuses for each new patent they submit.
Come work at IBM. We get awards for every submission the company deems worthy, every patent actually awarded, and an extra bonus for every fourth submission accepted by the company for further refinement and submission to USPTO. One accepted submission every month would net you an extra $25k or so a year, unless you come up with something extraordinary, in which case the bonus can be much higher than normal. All employees are eligible.
Well, there's certainly prior art for not reading the article. The patent for whitespace insertion is actually for adding more information to an electronic page, without cause the page's content [etc.]
Dude, I think your problem sits between your keyboard and your chair. Too bad you posted AC, so I can't k-line you.
Replying to self. I went right to the camp and didn't notice the hundreds of megs in each day's directory. I thought the days were going to hold the PPTs or PDFs. Sheesh.
If you don't [..] transfer large files [..] all the time, chances are there is absolutely no reason to buy anything but 802.11b
Do the newer firmwares bring WPA security to 802.11b? Knowing WEP's weaknesses, I never bothered to run it on b. But since switching to g (yes, I move big files all the time), I also gained WPA security and really like it. My SSID is blank in NetStumbler.
You still must leave a phone line plugged into the Tivo for the crypto card to make it's once-a-month call
My sis went nearly 18 mos without a phone line on a DirecTiVO. She just got a bunch of "cool" updates when she finally hooked it up, but it worked fine in RO mode for over a year.
I hope you have a backup plan. Mine has been flawless (well, nearly) but when I gave one as a gift to my in-laws, it rebooted every 2 minutes or every time you changed the channel. The cable company replaced it three times and ran all new cabling from the pole throughout the house to no avail. Someone in San Francisco gave away free TiVOs to capitalize on the fantastic failure the Comcast DVR has been by and large.
My problems were limited to one of the two tuners going black when switching to it, resulting in half of my scheduled recordings coming up as zero seconds long. Very frustrating. Another time, both tuners went black while I was away on travel so my wife didn't have tv for about 3 weeks.
Slashdot Mirror
You're right about the grid-like technologies, but I wasn't referring to that. In the enterprise space, VM stuff is to drive up utilization. You hear the "root" story from developers. Large enterprises do it for cost. Its actually less expensive to run servers as guests and you get high availability as a throw-in.
Multiple OSes at once? [..] I never got the whole concept of virtual servers
Its mainly an enterprise play.
If you're an old-timer UNIX admin, you may have difficulty understanding the point of server virtualization (i.e. multiple OS instances). In UNIXland, it has been normal and customary for several completely unrelated applications to run under the same OS instance, together servicing thousands of users. That never worked well in Windowsland. That being said, it didn't stop manufacturers from making staggering improvements in performace and capabilities of Intel servers. Companies grew to expect single Intel boxes to perform at the levels of large UNIX servers. The only way to achieve that in recent years has been to use industrial strength virtualization technology (basically, ESX). The boxes are beefier than ever, and ESX isn't cheap, but it works wonders.
For $50k, you can run 50 VMware guests on one very beefy box (not counting SAN), but you'd want a second for failover. For $75k, you can run about 100 guests on 14 blades in 7U (again, not counting SAN) and have the guests automatically migrate to the blades most able to run their workload at that moment in time. Ask a blade to come down for maintenance, and all the guests scatter to other blades before the blade powers off. Replaced a dead blade with a blank? Your systems management policies detect the new blank and automatically install ESX on it so guests can migrate back and evenly spread out the load.
Sounds crazy, I know, but that's a taste of what we're doing in the enteprise space these days.
If I use a cell to make a call to a friend's cell, we both get charged. Even if it's the same cell company [..] Free incoming calls only makes sense, but due to the current infrastructure, it's not feasible.
Sounds like you need to investigate modern offerings. Cingular/AT&T and Verizon have offered unlimited mobile-to-mobile minutes by default for years. And I've had one of Nextel's "free incoming" plan for years (600 peak outbound minutes for $63, all other calls and 2-way free) If you have AT&T/Cingular or Verizon, you most likely have to upgrade your phone to get the best plans. That old AMPS-only "I just need a phone, not a PDA" clunker can be a real boat anchor nowadays.
That's funny. Good stuff. No, actually I don't. Funny you should mention that, as I was coming back here to post how sad it is that the new ibiblio torrent site has a video on the triangle blogger's meeting. That's when I encountered your contribution that couldn't be more off base. Sorry about discussing a torrent for halfway decent, free and freely redistributable music.
I will try to keep future posts more interesting. Piracy roxxors. Copyrights should be unconstitutional. I want to pay 1c per album when I download them via BitTorrent because the distribution doesn't cost the record company anything. Did I miss anything? Thanks for playing, but next time check the uid. Capped since there was a cap.
I like to seed torrents of debian, fc4, and gentoo isos. I noticed today that my 2005.0 seed showed 0 seeds and 0 peers connected so I figured 2005.1 was out. Gentoo's torrent page was down, so I found it at tracker.netdomination.org. Had over 110 seeds connected and pushing the 6Mbps limit of my cablemodem. I just assumed I missed the story here and stumbled across the fact that it was out. Guess not. Oh, and the new Mercedes Benz Mixed Tape (#8) is out, so I grabbed that torrent, too.
I'm surprised that Apple didn't buy VMWare
APPLE?!?!?! IBM was the sure bet before EMC stepped in to scoop them up. I was close to the talks.
Demon Seed
:) The world's most powerful computer wants to transfer its intelligence into a human life, so he traps his creator's wife into the ultimate X10 house, and brings in a remotely controllable man to impregnate her. The movie is 30 years old, but Koontz updated the book in 2003 IIRC to bring the concepts and capabilities up2date. Once you read it, you'll feel compelled to change the addressable name of your voice-activated home automation system to "Alfred." Its a really fun book to read.
Come on, what kind of geeks are you?
Do you really think it should be that difficult to make phone calls?
;) "Geez, I didn't even hear it ring!"
No, it sucks, you're right! I would gladly trade free unlimited national 2-way radio for free mobile-to-mobile calls and nights that start at 7pm. But its not there yet, and no one else can touch the free incoming calls 24x7 in the states. I'm not talking $250 totally unlimited plans, I'm talking $60/mo to never pay for an inbound call.
Sometimes I wish I knew a number to call to leave a voicemail for my friends so they'd think they just missed my call
Nextel has to switch technologies anyways as they are being removed from their current freq
Which is an important point here missed by many. Nextel, in effort to offer to step out of the way of emergency services was granted back in February the right to exchange the crappy frequencies they built their business on for awesome new ones for half off. Saved billions in the process.
1. Buy up radio licenses from trucking companies operating in 800MHz all over the country.
2. Build a cellular network with those frequencies geared towards business (i.e. markup city)
3. Pound the emegency service radios until they beg the FCC to do something.
4. Exchange the crappy, life-threatening frequencies for shiny new ones at fire sale prices.
Maybe we'll get some interesting new services on those frequencies. Crap, I forgot "profit" somewhere in there.
"Nextel, the #1 preferred carrier for delivery boys, tow truck drivers and construction workers in all 50 states. 51 if you count Canada."
Does Nextel not give free mobile to mobile minutes? Do people not notice that they make their conversations so public like this?
No free mobile-to-mobile minutes, but they are the only US carrier to offer unlimited free incoming calls 24x7 (like the rest of the civilized world) AFAIK. My friends have gotten used to me calling and saying "call me back!" or texting them to call me. I keep looking at a Cingular crackberry, but I use about 1600 minutes a month, and use only 200 of 600 plan minutes. My plan includes unlimited nationwide 2-way radio, but my wife's doesn't. So, to keep a short call free during peak hours, I alert her at home, she alerts me back, and then I initiate a DirectConnect with her. Unfortunately, if she takes more than 3 seconds or so to reply, then the call drops and she becomes the initiator, charging either minutes against her plan, or 10c/min if I'm in a different market.
I'll need a metric assload of minutes if I'm going to give up free incoming calls. Besides, without Nextel, what am I going to hook up my aweseome yellow Nextel Cup pit crew headsets to? Its a joke, people.
Spritel? Nexint? Vista?
Sprextel. Nint. Sprextint. Better yet, I'll see your "Vista" and raise you a "SpreXP".
But I think the phones still don't work like real 'walkie-talies' they still have to go to the nearest cell tower
The i850 now has an off-network walkie-talkie. And the walkie-talkie vs normal cell calls is more useful than it seems. Don't get me wrong, I want to shove it down peoples' throats when they use it in restaurants, but it is useful at times.
emerge bind; /etc/init.d/named restart seems to work pretty well
Cool. You can share it with your LUG at the local library. Now pardon me while I return to rearchitecting an 8,000 server environment.
when's Slashdot going to impliment this "golden" system?
Right after they implement a spell checker.
quite notorious bug with NT SP3 that broke Notes clients
;) I thought SP3 was stable for quite some time.
That's funny, I tell that story as SP6 as it actually went GA prohibiting access to TCP/IP for all users except Administrator. That's why 6a came out a week or two later. At least that's how I tell it
If that were true, I can just imagine what would happen if the employees get bonuses for each new patent they submit.
Come work at IBM. We get awards for every submission the company deems worthy, every patent actually awarded, and an extra bonus for every fourth submission accepted by the company for further refinement and submission to USPTO. One accepted submission every month would net you an extra $25k or so a year, unless you come up with something extraordinary, in which case the bonus can be much higher than normal. All employees are eligible.
Well, there's certainly prior art for not reading
the article. The patent for whitespace insertion
is actually for adding more information to an
electronic page, without cause the page's content [etc.]
Dude, I think your
problem sits between
your keyboard and
your chair. Too bad
you posted AC, so I
can't k-line you.
Tim Burton's "Manos: Hands of Fate"?
Hmmm... new po-ta-to!
Replying to self. I went right to the camp and didn't notice the hundreds of megs in each day's directory. I thought the days were going to hold the PPTs or PDFs. Sheesh.
Crap. I got two of the three vids before the site slowed to a crawl. Can someone please bundle the presentations and vids into a torrent?
If you don't [..] transfer large files [..] all the time, chances are there is absolutely no reason to buy anything but 802.11b
Do the newer firmwares bring WPA security to 802.11b? Knowing WEP's weaknesses, I never bothered to run it on b. But since switching to g (yes, I move big files all the time), I also gained WPA security and really like it. My SSID is blank in NetStumbler.
You still must leave a phone line plugged into the Tivo for the crypto card to make it's once-a-month call
My sis went nearly 18 mos without a phone line on a DirecTiVO. She just got a bunch of "cool" updates when she finally hooked it up, but it worked fine in RO mode for over a year.
You know not what you're talking about. [that hack voids the warranty]
I don't know what I'm talking about because a hack that works voids the warranty?? No wonder you hid behind AC to make that comment. Holy cow.
DirecTV units can't use the network
Sure they can. You, my friend, need 9thtee.com. I used to login and schedule recordings on my buddy's DirecTiVO all the time. It works fine.
Good thing I ordered ComCast DVR!
I hope you have a backup plan. Mine has been flawless (well, nearly) but when I gave one as a gift to my in-laws, it rebooted every 2 minutes or every time you changed the channel. The cable company replaced it three times and ran all new cabling from the pole throughout the house to no avail. Someone in San Francisco gave away free TiVOs to capitalize on the fantastic failure the Comcast DVR has been by and large.
My problems were limited to one of the two tuners going black when switching to it, resulting in half of my scheduled recordings coming up as zero seconds long. Very frustrating. Another time, both tuners went black while I was away on travel so my wife didn't have tv for about 3 weeks.