Setting up a group policy to push the patch out to the clients works great. Don't know what the advantage of SMS is but with group policies you really don't need it(for this).
SATA starts at about 150MB/sec in the first generation, but don't forget that your standard 32bit 33mhz PCI slot can only do about 133 MB per second. New bus technology will need to be implemented before real performance will be seen from these drives.
No way this will fly. The main customers are RIAA and MPAA and we've all seen their lack of vision when it comes to digital media. I find it disturbing.
Last time I checked a T1 was 1.5Mbps. I could be wrong tho...
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Individual copyrights should be renewable indefinatly in spans of 7 years. Corporate copyrights should be for 5 years with onetime renewal of an additional 5 years. This would allow corporations time to R&D, and market the copyrighted product and have some monetary gain.
280 blades in a standard 42U rack. Each blade is a P3 700 based upon the Tualatin line.
HP is continuing Compaqs blade line along with their own which will be geared toward the telco market. Also, beowulf is not really a good idea with these blades (Compaq or others) due to the need of a high speed interconnect like Myranet (sp?). Blades of these types are really only good for infrastructure and perhaps web-farms. Anything more is too much.
ASHINGTON, May 16 -- Senator Trent Lott, the minority leader, forced the Senate Commerce Committee to adjourn this morning as it was on the verge of adopting an online privacy bill.
The measure would require Internet service providers, online service providers and commercial Web sites to get customers' permission before they could disclose important personal information. That would include financial, medical, ethnic, religious and political information along with Social Security data and sexual orientation.
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Mr. Lott, a Mississippi Republican, had been on the losing side of a series of votes on amendments. The most important would have deleted the bill's provisions allowing individuals to sue over disclosure of their personal information, and another would have imposed the same secrecy protections on businesses that collect their information without using the Internet.
The bill does direct the Federal Trade Commission to enact rules imposing "similar" requirements on online and off-line data collection. But that did not satisfy most committee Republicans.
Just before the committee was to vote to send the bill to the Senate floor, Mr. Lott invoked a Senate rule barring committees from meeting for more than two hours after the Senate convenes and votes. That halted action on the bill and on several other measures, including a nomination by President Bush to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Since all 12 committee Democrats -- and 2 Republicans, Senators Conrad Burns of Montana and Ted Stevens of Alaska -- support the bill, it is likely to be voted out at the committee's next meeting, which may happen on Friday. But Mr. Lott's intense opposition indicates that it may be difficult for the bill even to be debated on the Senate floor.
The committee's senior Republican, Senator John McCain of Arizona, had warned the committee that unless the off-line-online data issue was addressed satisfactorily and the private suits were eliminated, the bill "will have great difficulty in receiving consideration on the floor of the Senate."
The Senate Democratic leaders have been reluctant to tie the Senate up for weeks with any but the most essential bills. But they might force this bill to the floor because there would be a political risk to Republicans in voting to maintain a filibuster against it.
Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida, explained the politics of the measure.
"I think this subject of privacy is a ticking time bomb, and we better pay attention to it, because people do not want their personally identifiable medical and financial information spread all over every place," Mr. Nelson said. "A doctor needs to know what ails you. But those ailments, your mortgage banker doesn't need to know that."
Senator Ernest F. Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat who is chairman of the committee and sponsor of the bill, complained that "other than the progressive-minded companies, Hewlett-Packard and others, still a good segment of the industry opposes this bill."
Mr. Hollings said he found this strange because 180 American companies had agreed to similar rules to do business in the European Union
I watch commercials for their entertainment value. If they don't make me laugh I don't watch. They certainly don't influence me to buy very often. I can't even recall the last thing I saw in a commercial that I wanted to buy. Arby's maybe? The point is that they are wasting time and money on this crap. People who want to watch commercials will do so and those that do not, will not. Nothing they do can change that.
The business model must change. It is not the government's place to pass legislation designed to protect a failing business. We live in a capitalist society in the United States and yet more and more the government is asked to step in and prop up failing industries. An industry fails in a capitalist society for a reason. It is because their business model is inadequate to meet the need of their consumers. Case in point: The steel industry. In the last five years the number of steel mills that have closed due to bankruptcy has sky rocketed. The reason? Demand for domestic steel decreased due to the lower prices of foreign steel. Why is foreign steel cheaper? Because the foreign steel producers, for the most part, do not have to deal with unions and the labor contracts they shove down the steel mill owner's throats. Here you have a contract that guarantees a job to the union worker regardless of his performance. That means if he sleeps on the job he doesn't lose his job. Not only does he get to keep it, he gets paid for the time he was sleeping! (at $30/hr it gets pretty expensive) Lost productivity does not matter to the unions. As long as the union workers get to keep their contract jobs, they won't strike. This type of attitude does not work in a society designed to give the best reward to those that do the best work. If you want to sell the most steel it has to be at the best possible price. Lost productivity drives up these costs.
As far as the RIAA is concerned, they are pushing so hard to get this legislation passed because they see their demise on the horizon. With the widespread use of the internet as a distribution medium for digital media, the old method of pressing a quarter million CDs for Britney's latest release is soon to come to an end. The artists will now hire technical people like web designers and system administrators s to publish their work to a website in some form of subscription based service. The artists will finally get the money they deserve without the record companies taking 90%. And the record companies will become defunct.
In summary, the RIAA, and other failing industries, need to adapt their business models to meet the demands of their consumers. If they fail to adapt, regardless of government intervention, they are doomed to fail.
AOL Time Warner recently upgraded a vast majority of their cable/network to fiber at a cost of billions. What that means is much greater capacity than their old infrastructure. It also means that they have to get a return on their investment in the most expeditious manner possible. They have already upped the price of subscription to road runner by five dollars in the past 6 months (how man subscribers are there? x $5). Now this. They have nearly limitless bandwidth capacity due to this upgrade. Remember that they did this upgrade with video on demand in mind. This is ultimately a way for them to even gain greater margins on the services they provide.
Read: Greed
This is what it amounts to. The games Battle.net currently supports are either years old or in beta cycle. At this point the games have been posted to usenet, morpheus, or just plain copied so many times that there is little they can do about it. But they can try to make sure that online gaming with their product takes place under their auspices. Does anyone have the EULA for Starcraft or Diablo 2? I would be interested in seeing whether it states in the EULA that online internet play may only take place on the Battle.net servers. Otherwise, it seems like they wouldn't have a leg to stand on.
In the end, though, it is just another large corporation using the shield of intellectual property rights to force people to use their services. And the only thing we can do about it is not buy their products.
Microsoft Cluster services is designed for one thing: High Availability (little or no down time / load balancing). Beowulf clustering is designed for one thing: Parallel Processing (data analysis / number crunching). They are two different types of clustering. The debate on cost is a waste of time. While Linux is as capable of high availability clustering as Microsoft is, it has little cost. With Microsoft you have to buy a license of Advanced server for each cluster node and then have licenses for each application as well. For cluster aware Microsoft apps that means Enterprise editions. Advanced Server costs in the $4000 range. SQL 2000 Enterprise Edition cost in the range of $11,000 per node. If you are backending a website with a SQL cluster, just for SQL you are looking at around $20,000 per processor. If you are looking for a cluster to be online 24x7 then you go with Microsoft (and pay the additional money for support). If you are looking to predict weather patterns, analyse ocean currents, or predict the lottery, use Red Hat and Beowulf (and pay the additional money for support).
A[n internet] connection is a connection is a connection. Why does it matter what use you put your available bandwidth to? What difference does it make which port you send/recieve information on? It doesn't require any special service on their (the isp's) end to set it up. The ISPs are providing the same service to the residential customers, in this case, as they are the "corporate." All this is, is a way to make more money out of corporate customers.
The only place I can think of that would have this many cameras is in a casino. A casino is not going to want to compress the images if it costs them quality. Often, what they are looking for is the little nuances in the handling of the cards or dice, or even body language. If they lose some of the image due to compression or due to cutting every other frame to save space this is going to be relativly useless to them. Remember that while the human eye/brain "sees" at a rate that is in the range of 30 frames a second, slow motion videography will require a substatially higher rate.
...that most strat games could really be more strategic and tactical if they would limit the amount of ammo the units have. If this were the case, you make an effort to either build up your forces more for the attack phase or build up your bases more in preparation for the enemy's attack; then try more to disrupt the flow of supplies when you make your initial attacks. Quite often when I play a RTS game, my initial targets are the resources - not the manufacturing facility. Cut of the source of the supplies/money/etc. and you have in essence won the battle - assuming the same is not done to you.
Too bad you have so little faith in Microsoft.
Until you have experienced this level of support firsthand you should probably refrain from commenting. I am involved in a Datacenter project and can verify -first hand- that they meet their obligations on this, if no other, product.
Not with Datacenter. Part of the price you are paying for this OS covers support directly from redmond. you call, give them your account number and you are escalated to level four tech support with an engineer within minutes. That's what you get for a million dollar (hardware and software) solution.
Is a locked down version of Windows. What happens when you lock it down? Well, intensive testing occurs first to determine what is being done with the box and what possible problems could arrise. Then those problems are solved. Also, only certain applications are certified to run on a datacenter box. The goal here is to achieve five nines. That is have this box up and running for 99.999% of the year. Without thorough testing of applications this level of availability would be impossible.
Part of what you get with a Datacenter purchase is a premier level of support. This includes a named engineer for support, and automatic escalation to the highest level for any support needs. It also includes any updates and or fixes on a priority basis - if you have a Datacenter server you get patches, updates, etc. before anyone else does.
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Setting up a group policy to push the patch out to the clients works great. Don't know what the advantage of SMS is but with group policies you really don't need it(for this).
SATA starts at about 150MB/sec in the first generation, but don't forget that your standard 32bit 33mhz PCI slot can only do about 133 MB per second. New bus technology will need to be implemented before real performance will be seen from these drives.
No way this will fly. The main customers are RIAA and MPAA and we've all seen their lack of vision when it comes to digital media. I find it disturbing.
Last time I checked a T1 was 1.5Mbps. I could be wrong tho...
Individual copyrights should be renewable indefinatly in spans of 7 years. Corporate copyrights should be for 5 years with onetime renewal of an additional 5 years. This would allow corporations time to R&D, and market the copyrighted product and have some monetary gain.
280 blades in a standard 42U rack. Each blade is a P3 700 based upon the Tualatin line.
HP is continuing Compaqs blade line along with their own which will be geared toward the telco market. Also, beowulf is not really a good idea with these blades (Compaq or others) due to the need of a high speed interconnect like Myranet (sp?). Blades of these types are really only good for infrastructure and perhaps web-farms. Anything more is too much.
ASHINGTON, May 16 -- Senator Trent Lott, the minority leader, forced the Senate Commerce Committee to adjourn this morning as it was on the verge of adopting an online privacy bill. The measure would require Internet service providers, online service providers and commercial Web sites to get customers' permission before they could disclose important personal information. That would include financial, medical, ethnic, religious and political information along with Social Security data and sexual orientation. Advertisement Mr. Lott, a Mississippi Republican, had been on the losing side of a series of votes on amendments. The most important would have deleted the bill's provisions allowing individuals to sue over disclosure of their personal information, and another would have imposed the same secrecy protections on businesses that collect their information without using the Internet. The bill does direct the Federal Trade Commission to enact rules imposing "similar" requirements on online and off-line data collection. But that did not satisfy most committee Republicans. Just before the committee was to vote to send the bill to the Senate floor, Mr. Lott invoked a Senate rule barring committees from meeting for more than two hours after the Senate convenes and votes. That halted action on the bill and on several other measures, including a nomination by President Bush to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Since all 12 committee Democrats -- and 2 Republicans, Senators Conrad Burns of Montana and Ted Stevens of Alaska -- support the bill, it is likely to be voted out at the committee's next meeting, which may happen on Friday. But Mr. Lott's intense opposition indicates that it may be difficult for the bill even to be debated on the Senate floor. The committee's senior Republican, Senator John McCain of Arizona, had warned the committee that unless the off-line-online data issue was addressed satisfactorily and the private suits were eliminated, the bill "will have great difficulty in receiving consideration on the floor of the Senate." The Senate Democratic leaders have been reluctant to tie the Senate up for weeks with any but the most essential bills. But they might force this bill to the floor because there would be a political risk to Republicans in voting to maintain a filibuster against it. Senator Bill Nelson, Democrat of Florida, explained the politics of the measure. "I think this subject of privacy is a ticking time bomb, and we better pay attention to it, because people do not want their personally identifiable medical and financial information spread all over every place," Mr. Nelson said. "A doctor needs to know what ails you. But those ailments, your mortgage banker doesn't need to know that." Senator Ernest F. Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat who is chairman of the committee and sponsor of the bill, complained that "other than the progressive-minded companies, Hewlett-Packard and others, still a good segment of the industry opposes this bill." Mr. Hollings said he found this strange because 180 American companies had agreed to similar rules to do business in the European Union
I watch commercials for their entertainment value. If they don't make me laugh I don't watch. They certainly don't influence me to buy very often. I can't even recall the last thing I saw in a commercial that I wanted to buy. Arby's maybe? The point is that they are wasting time and money on this crap. People who want to watch commercials will do so and those that do not, will not. Nothing they do can change that.
The business model must change. It is not the government's place to pass legislation designed to protect a failing business. We live in a capitalist society in the United States and yet more and more the government is asked to step in and prop up failing industries. An industry fails in a capitalist society for a reason. It is because their business model is inadequate to meet the need of their consumers. Case in point: The steel industry. In the last five years the number of steel mills that have closed due to bankruptcy has sky rocketed. The reason? Demand for domestic steel decreased due to the lower prices of foreign steel. Why is foreign steel cheaper? Because the foreign steel producers, for the most part, do not have to deal with unions and the labor contracts they shove down the steel mill owner's throats. Here you have a contract that guarantees a job to the union worker regardless of his performance. That means if he sleeps on the job he doesn't lose his job. Not only does he get to keep it, he gets paid for the time he was sleeping! (at $30/hr it gets pretty expensive) Lost productivity does not matter to the unions. As long as the union workers get to keep their contract jobs, they won't strike. This type of attitude does not work in a society designed to give the best reward to those that do the best work. If you want to sell the most steel it has to be at the best possible price. Lost productivity drives up these costs. As far as the RIAA is concerned, they are pushing so hard to get this legislation passed because they see their demise on the horizon. With the widespread use of the internet as a distribution medium for digital media, the old method of pressing a quarter million CDs for Britney's latest release is soon to come to an end. The artists will now hire technical people like web designers and system administrators s to publish their work to a website in some form of subscription based service. The artists will finally get the money they deserve without the record companies taking 90%. And the record companies will become defunct. In summary, the RIAA, and other failing industries, need to adapt their business models to meet the demands of their consumers. If they fail to adapt, regardless of government intervention, they are doomed to fail.
Unions YES! Look what they have done to the US steel industry.
AOL Time Warner recently upgraded a vast majority of their cable/network to fiber at a cost of billions. What that means is much greater capacity than their old infrastructure. It also means that they have to get a return on their investment in the most expeditious manner possible. They have already upped the price of subscription to road runner by five dollars in the past 6 months (how man subscribers are there? x $5). Now this. They have nearly limitless bandwidth capacity due to this upgrade. Remember that they did this upgrade with video on demand in mind. This is ultimately a way for them to even gain greater margins on the services they provide.
Read: Greed
This is what it amounts to. The games Battle.net currently supports are either years old or in beta cycle. At this point the games have been posted to usenet, morpheus, or just plain copied so many times that there is little they can do about it. But they can try to make sure that online gaming with their product takes place under their auspices. Does anyone have the EULA for Starcraft or Diablo 2? I would be interested in seeing whether it states in the EULA that online internet play may only take place on the Battle.net servers. Otherwise, it seems like they wouldn't have a leg to stand on. In the end, though, it is just another large corporation using the shield of intellectual property rights to force people to use their services. And the only thing we can do about it is not buy their products.
I forgot to add that Microsoft on supports 2 node clustering with Advanced Server and 4 node clustering with Datacenter.
Microsoft Cluster services is designed for one thing: High Availability (little or no down time / load balancing). Beowulf clustering is designed for one thing: Parallel Processing (data analysis / number crunching). They are two different types of clustering. The debate on cost is a waste of time. While Linux is as capable of high availability clustering as Microsoft is, it has little cost. With Microsoft you have to buy a license of Advanced server for each cluster node and then have licenses for each application as well. For cluster aware Microsoft apps that means Enterprise editions. Advanced Server costs in the $4000 range. SQL 2000 Enterprise Edition cost in the range of $11,000 per node. If you are backending a website with a SQL cluster, just for SQL you are looking at around $20,000 per processor . If you are looking for a cluster to be online 24x7 then you go with Microsoft (and pay the additional money for support). If you are looking to predict weather patterns, analyse ocean currents, or predict the lottery, use Red Hat and Beowulf (and pay the additional money for support).
A[n internet] connection is a connection is a connection. Why does it matter what use you put your available bandwidth to? What difference does it make which port you send/recieve information on? It doesn't require any special service on their (the isp's) end to set it up. The ISPs are providing the same service to the residential customers, in this case, as they are the "corporate." All this is, is a way to make more money out of corporate customers.
That there are 50 million handicapped people in a society of 275 million. That is a pretty high percentage. 18%???
...When the security breach is exploited by a "hacker" instead of the FBI?
The only place I can think of that would have this many cameras is in a casino. A casino is not going to want to compress the images if it costs them quality. Often, what they are looking for is the little nuances in the handling of the cards or dice, or even body language. If they lose some of the image due to compression or due to cutting every other frame to save space this is going to be relativly useless to them. Remember that while the human eye/brain "sees" at a rate that is in the range of 30 frames a second, slow motion videography will require a substatially higher rate.
System Parts (1): StorageWorks Modular Storage Solutions
Quantity Part Number Description Estimated
Retail Price*
(USD)
252 232432-B22 72.8 GB Pluggable Ultra3 10K Drive (1") $ 515,340.00
12 Fibre to Hub/Switch Connection from Storage to Fibre Hub/Switch
3 135820-B21 M2200 Controller Shelf $ 18,183.00
6 176622-B21 HSG80 Controller - 256 MB Cache $ 98,976.00
18 190209-001 StorageWorks Enclosure Model 4314R - Rack $ 53,190.00
6 380674-B21 RA8000 256 MB Cache Upgrade $ 23,040.00
6 135823-B21 Cache Battery $ 3,408.00
6 222318-B21 ACS V8.6-1F Controller Software FC-SW software $ 42,000.00
18 119826-B21 StorageWorks Enclosure 4200 Redundant Power Supply $ 4,086.00
12 380561-B21 FC Optical GBIC $ 4,440.00
18 168256-B21 1 Meter VHDCI to VHDCI SCSI cable $ 3,834.00
12 234457-B22 5m Multi-mode Cable Kit $ 1,368.00
Estimated SubTotal $ 767,865.00
Storage InterConnect
Quantity Part Number Description Estimated
Retail Price*
(USD)
4 Existing System Slot Requires an open System slot in server
4 Fibre Host Connection Connection from Hub/Switch to Server
4 176479-B21 Compaq StorageWorks 64-Bit/33 MHz PCI-to-FC HBA $ 8,180.00
2 158222-B21 FC Switch 8 port $ 37,940.00
1 380551-001 RA/MA8000 Platform Kit Windows NT Intel/PCI $ 750.00
2 167365-B21 Compaq Storage Switch Universal Rack Mount Kit $ 370.00
8 380561-B21 FC Optical GBIC $ 2,960.00
4 234457-B22 5m Multi-mode Cable Kit $ 456.00
Estimated SubTotal $ 50,656.00
Rack Parts
Quantity Part Number Description Estimated
Retail Price*
(USD)
2 120663-B21 Compaq Rack Model 9142 (42U height) $ 2,704.00
5 207590-D71 Power Distribution Unit - Low Voltage $ 1,640.00
2 169940-B21 Rack Blanking Panel Kit (15U) $ 92.00
1 120670-B21 42U Side Panel Kit $ 212.00
1 120669-B21 Baying Kit $ 85.00
Estimated SubTotal $ 4,733.00
Estimated Total $ 823,254.00
...that most strat games could really be more strategic and tactical if they would limit the amount of ammo the units have. If this were the case, you make an effort to either build up your forces more for the attack phase or build up your bases more in preparation for the enemy's attack; then try more to disrupt the flow of supplies when you make your initial attacks. Quite often when I play a RTS game, my initial targets are the resources - not the manufacturing facility. Cut of the source of the supplies/money/etc. and you have in essence won the battle - assuming the same is not done to you.
Too bad you have so little faith in Microsoft. Until you have experienced this level of support firsthand you should probably refrain from commenting. I am involved in a Datacenter project and can verify -first hand- that they meet their obligations on this, if no other, product.
Not with Datacenter. Part of the price you are paying for this OS covers support directly from redmond. you call, give them your account number and you are escalated to level four tech support with an engineer within minutes. That's what you get for a million dollar (hardware and software) solution.
Is a locked down version of Windows. What happens when you lock it down? Well, intensive testing occurs first to determine what is being done with the box and what possible problems could arrise. Then those problems are solved. Also, only certain applications are certified to run on a datacenter box. The goal here is to achieve five nines. That is have this box up and running for 99.999% of the year. Without thorough testing of applications this level of availability would be impossible.
Part of what you get with a Datacenter purchase is a premier level of support. This includes a named engineer for support, and automatic escalation to the highest level for any support needs. It also includes any updates and or fixes on a priority basis - if you have a Datacenter server you get patches, updates, etc. before anyone else does.