I'm not sure it's effective. And if it is, I doubt it's effective enough to warrant the amount of money thrown at it or the misuse that will inevitably occur.
I'm also not sure why we should believe anything they say.
I'd rather take my chances with the terrorists over opaque security organizations who can spy on me whenever they wish. I'm far more likely to get shot or run over by a fellow citizen anyway.
Turn your spying ability on the bankers and then we'll talk.....
It's no longer possible to run your own email server on Comcast. They (understandably) blocked outbound port 25 on their home tier internet connections years ago but they recently started blocking inbound port 25 as well. AFAICT, the only way around this is to pay for business class internet or set up a proxy elsewhere which will forward your mail to a different port on your home network.
AFAICT, our defense & intelligence agencies, and their contractors (especially their contractors) will take a high school dropout with a clearance over a PHD without one, any day of the week.
That said, good for him if he progressed as far as he did without traditional credentials. They should not always be a requirement.
Ah, but I buy SLI boards because I know I can add another card later, when the price drops. Also, You can find very cheap SLI boards.. I paid less than 100 for the one in my current gaming machine. I even have a SLI MB in my server because I found one for 50 bucks when I was rebuilding that box. SLI was incidental in that case. It was other features I was after. I've spent as little as $39 on SLI boards in the past.
560TIs were going for $75 at Micro-center last week. I paid $220 for my first one when they were new. Now I have two and can run every modern game at 1080p and high or better quality, and usually 60fps.
My last machine is about 6 years old and is the AMD version of the OPs. It still runs everything I throw at it reasonable well. I only upgraded because I'm a geek and that's what I do. (and as cheaply as I can) The second machine is now my guest gaming machine.
With cross platform game development for nearly every AAA game these days, you can pretty much be assured it will run well on your old PC if it runs well on an XBox.
I've been replacing my (highly unreliable) CFLs with LED bulbs as I find deals, starting about a year and a half ago. I've seen decent, non dimmable bubs for as low as $10 and dimmables by Phillips for as low as $14. I've yet to have an LED bulb fail whereas there was always a flaky CFL or three, somewhere in the house. The light quality does vary a bit but none of the LEDs I've used are worse than CFLs in that regard. I've seen no flickering or significant turn on delays.
I love the colored bulbs idea but will never pay $50/bulb. I suspect cheap LEDs will be ubiquitous in 2-4 years though.
My house is full of single pane, leaky windows. I'd love to replace the windows but a) the mortgage is still underwater b) I could only afford to replace 1 or 2 per year, and c) my neighborhood association would complain that I'm lowering the value of their property in our "Historical Neighborhood". (yes, seriously)
I'd love some of those German multipane windows that open two ways....they are awesome, but I'd have to import them and my neighbors would throw a fit.
Yes, I was a naive first time home buyer.... Never again.
What you say is true but even when we avoid the annoyances that Metro brings, the improvements in Windows 8 STILL aren't worth the cost and hassle of upgrading. Those of us who care about the truly useful improvements in Windows 8 have had access to free and decent workarounds for years. All-in-all, they are pretty minor improvements. I can find no must-have, killer feature in Windows 8.
Windows 8, minus Metro, would have made a great service pack though.
"Assuming your old computer will suck 100W 24x7x365"
100W is a bit high I think. My last home built dual-core AMD server, with 8 hard drives, idled at < 50 watts. My current 8 core beast running two (sometimes more) VMs idles at between 70-80. Headless of course.
Never mind the effect of violent video games on children, I'd support a violent video game ban just to raise the maturity level of your typical BF3 server.
"...college is what teaches people to knuckle under and get stuff done."
Actually college (and there were several) failed miserably at that lesson. 4 Years in the military (non-combattant/non-war time) succeeded where college failed.... not that I'd recommend the military these days. Some sort of real life boot camp outside of a McWalmart job would probably be useful to many.
Dell R715 2 x AMD Opteron 6282 SE CPUs 96 GB RAM 4 x 600 GB 10k SAS drives (RAID 5 data) 2 x 146 GB 15k SAS drives (RAID 1 system) 4 x onboard Broadcom 1Gbps NICS 4 x 1Gbps Intel NICS (quad port server adapter)
Most production VMs are stored on an Equalogic PS4100 (2 x 1Gbps multipath iscsi connection) but I run some non-critical stuff locally. The local storage was spec'ed mainly for testing and backup.
I support a little over 400 users, 250 of which use thin clients.
4 of the VMs are Server 2003 x64 terminal servers in a cluster config, used by the thin client users. Other servers are mostly 2008R2 running various things including, DC/DNS (we have a physical DC as well), Blackberry BESX, Nagios, Spiceworks, Document management, ISS/MSSQL (internal and external web sites & apps), a dedicated print server.
I'm with you. Don't really want a phone that's much bigger than the Nexus S. I found the Galaxy Nexus to large to use one handed. If I need a bigger screen I'll get a tablet.
I converted about 20 physical servers to hyper-v VMs running on two 2 socket/32 core Bulldozer, hyper-v hosts at the beginning of the year and have been thrilled with the results. Those two servers provide more horsepower than my company needs and, in a pinch, either one of them can run all of the critical VMs itself. Not a single problem since deployment. I paid around 11k/box. Intel cost quite a bit more in hardware as well as for the per socket licensing of Hyper-v for that many cores using intel chips. I was converting >4-5 year old hardware and as far as the users are concerned, everything is faster now.
I will keep buying AMD as long as they are cheaper and "good enough", if only to keep some competition alive.
Still running a quad-core AMD gaming machine at home as well and it is still playing every thing I throw at it.
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I'm not sure it's effective. And if it is, I doubt it's effective enough to warrant the amount of money thrown at it or the misuse that will inevitably occur.
I'm also not sure why we should believe anything they say.
I'd rather take my chances with the terrorists over opaque security organizations who can spy on me whenever they wish.
I'm far more likely to get shot or run over by a fellow citizen anyway.
Turn your spying ability on the bankers and then we'll talk.....
I accept connections on 587 but tell that to the millions of SMTP servers still sending on 25.
This. I'm using SSL/TLS when I can but I'm afraid 25 in is still a requirement.
It's no longer possible to run your own email server on Comcast. They (understandably) blocked outbound port 25 on their home tier internet connections years ago but they recently started blocking inbound port 25 as well. AFAICT, the only way around this is to pay for business class internet or set up a proxy elsewhere which will forward your mail to a different port on your home network.
AFAICT, our defense & intelligence agencies, and their contractors (especially their contractors) will take a high school dropout with a clearance over a PHD without one, any day of the week.
That said, good for him if he progressed as far as he did without traditional credentials. They should not always be a requirement.
Ah, but I buy SLI boards because I know I can add another card later, when the price drops. Also, You can find very cheap SLI boards.. I paid less than 100 for the one in my current gaming machine. I even have a SLI MB in my server because I found one for 50 bucks when I was rebuilding that box. SLI was incidental in that case. It was other features I was after. I've spent as little as $39 on SLI boards in the past.
560TIs were going for $75 at Micro-center last week. I paid $220 for my first one when they were new. Now I have two and can run every modern game at 1080p and high or better quality, and usually 60fps.
My last machine is about 6 years old and is the AMD version of the OPs. It still runs everything I throw at it reasonable well. I only upgraded because I'm a geek and that's what I do. (and as cheaply as I can) The second machine is now my guest gaming machine.
With cross platform game development for nearly every AAA game these days, you can pretty much be assured it will run well on your old PC if it runs well on an XBox.
My anecdotal experience:
I've been replacing my (highly unreliable) CFLs with LED bulbs as I find deals, starting about a year and a half ago. I've seen decent, non dimmable bubs for as low as $10 and dimmables by Phillips for as low as $14. I've yet to have an LED bulb fail whereas there was always a flaky CFL or three, somewhere in the house. The light quality does vary a bit but none of the LEDs I've used are worse than CFLs in that regard. I've seen no flickering or significant turn on delays.
I love the colored bulbs idea but will never pay $50/bulb. I suspect cheap LEDs will be ubiquitous in 2-4 years though.
My house is full of single pane, leaky windows. I'd love to replace the windows but a) the mortgage is still underwater b) I could only afford to replace 1 or 2 per year, and c) my neighborhood association would complain that I'm lowering the value of their property in our "Historical Neighborhood". (yes, seriously)
I'd love some of those German multipane windows that open two ways....they are awesome, but I'd have to import them and my neighbors would throw a fit.
Yes, I was a naive first time home buyer.... Never again.
Microsoft really is trying to commit suicide.
I noticed this as well. For a minute I thought my new Nexus 4 was broken, but I switched back to the regular site and scrolling is fine
I am always struck by the false assumptions that much of economic theory is built on. Rational self-interest, my ass.
Can you recommend any sub-$200 USB SDRs?
I thought parody was fair use?
Seriously though... If DICE is paying license fees to arms dealers then I quit. Sci Fi shooters here I come.
Actually, I think these exercises are being held by the gun nuts.
What you say is true but even when we avoid the annoyances that Metro brings, the improvements in Windows 8 STILL aren't worth the cost and hassle of upgrading. Those of us who care about the truly useful improvements in Windows 8 have had access to free and decent workarounds for years. All-in-all, they are pretty minor improvements. I can find no must-have, killer feature in Windows 8.
Windows 8, minus Metro, would have made a great service pack though.
"Assuming your old computer will suck 100W 24x7x365"
100W is a bit high I think. My last home built dual-core AMD server, with 8 hard drives, idled at < 50 watts.
My current 8 core beast running two (sometimes more) VMs idles at between 70-80. Headless of course.
Never mind the effect of violent video games on children, I'd support a violent video game ban just to raise the maturity level of your typical BF3 server.
Of course, that probably won't help, will it?
Except we're discussing the UK tax code.
"...college is what teaches people to knuckle under and get stuff done."
Actually college (and there were several) failed miserably at that lesson. 4 Years in the military (non-combattant/non-war time) succeeded where college failed.... not that I'd recommend the military these days. Some sort of real life boot camp outside of a McWalmart job would probably be useful to many.
This. I will close every video with an unskippable commercial of more than a few seconds.
How many voters could they possibly lose by ditching their repetitive, bible-thumping, moralistic, jingo bullshit, and who would they lose them to?
Sure...
Server specs are:
Dell R715
2 x AMD Opteron 6282 SE CPUs
96 GB RAM
4 x 600 GB 10k SAS drives (RAID 5 data)
2 x 146 GB 15k SAS drives (RAID 1 system)
4 x onboard Broadcom 1Gbps NICS
4 x 1Gbps Intel NICS (quad port server adapter)
Most production VMs are stored on an Equalogic PS4100 (2 x 1Gbps multipath iscsi connection) but I run some non-critical stuff locally. The local storage was spec'ed mainly for testing and backup.
I support a little over 400 users, 250 of which use thin clients.
4 of the VMs are Server 2003 x64 terminal servers in a cluster config, used by the thin client users.
Other servers are mostly 2008R2 running various things including, DC/DNS (we have a physical DC as well), Blackberry BESX, Nagios, Spiceworks, Document management, ISS/MSSQL (internal and external web sites & apps), a dedicated print server.
I'm with you. Don't really want a phone that's much bigger than the Nexus S. I found the Galaxy Nexus to large to use one handed. If I need a bigger screen I'll get a tablet.
I converted about 20 physical servers to hyper-v VMs running on two 2 socket/32 core Bulldozer, hyper-v hosts at the beginning of the year and have been thrilled with the results. Those two servers provide more horsepower than my company needs and, in a pinch, either one of them can run all of the critical VMs itself. Not a single problem since deployment. I paid around 11k/box. Intel cost quite a bit more in hardware as well as for the per socket licensing of Hyper-v for that many cores using intel chips. I was converting >4-5 year old hardware and as far as the users are concerned, everything is faster now.
I will keep buying AMD as long as they are cheaper and "good enough", if only to keep some competition alive.
Still running a quad-core AMD gaming machine at home as well and it is still playing every thing I throw at it.
No doubt anyone can learn it. Doesn't mean we want or need to.