I do a lot of traveling as I provide independant (as in completely independant, even independant of the mid-sized IT company that I own and operate) security (IT mostly) and business-intel services. I provide these services all over the place (though mostly in the US, Caribbean, central and south america) and the independance that I spoke of is critical for this to work. It common amongst all in this industry to strike a precarious balance between an "every man for himself" and a disparate brotherhood. I don't know if this makes sense or not...sorry. Anyway, it is this complete independance where you build trust amongst your peers and then benefit one another while maintaining this line of demarcation between yourself and, well, everyone and everything else that maintains your value/job/livelyhood/etc. It is necessary because you're crossing borders, cultures and ideologies and you cannot afford to become entangeled. One of the things that has always been comforting is that while at home in the states things are much more relaxed. Relationships much simpler. The "road rules" less important. This article (as with so many others in recent history) indicates the utter breakdown of that ideology here in the US as has happened so many other places. To force this sort of craziness on the people of this county will simply polarize it. Those who are of nominal to lower than average intelligence will simply bow to the pressure. Those of higher intelligence will either exploit the situation for personal gain, learn to play the system and maintain a peripheral presence or will remove themselves from the system and as such said required independance will become the norm here as it is in countries that we used to critisize for the rights (be they human, privacy, etc.) violations. I hope that those here on/. fall into the third catagory of intelligent peoples where you can still thive in such a predatory environment AND still do some good. Sorry...I'm done rambling. If you wish to mod me down I understand, I just felt it needed said.
I set them up on Knoppix 3.2 (HD based install) with Synaptic for "point and click installs". They love it. They can install what they want when they want. They paid....ZERO. Besides, Knoppix is a much better and more "robust" desktop platform in my opinion. I have tried to like Lindows...but I hate it. Just my $.02
Full T1 from Birch is only $390/mo. (free router, free install, block of statics). Split a channel or two off for voice, sell some bandwidth to your neighbors. Voi la...in the end (assuming you have a few interested neighbors) costs no more than local phone service (or less....pays for itself). Just be sure to throttle your neighbors data access. Of course if by "20 minutes outside of St. Louis" you mean in Illinois, well, your screwed. IL (where I used to live) is telco and broadboand no-mans land with high rates and terrible service.
I believe that the point here is that SCO is trying to use the IBM suit to set precident, and if successful then go after Linus, you, me, your grandmother, etc. They have after all stated that "all micro-kernel based operating systems" essentially are covered by their IP holdings.
Actually the Roomba doesn't suck. I have one. It's more of a little eletric broom that runs around your house sweeping everything into a little miniature dust-pan. So technically, it doesn't suck, figuratively it does suck...it died after about two months of steady use. It kind of has these little spasms now and then. It stops moving, then twitches a bit and runs in tight circles in the middle of the room....come to think of it, it acts just like my Grandmothers toy poodle used to when it got old.
if you don't quit (or sincerely threaten to) then you are caving in to your employer for the very same reasons that they caved into their "biggest customer". Sum'n other rolls downhill. If you have a family, they'll be feeling toward you just as you feel toward your employer just as they feel about the customer. We need Dr. Phil on this.
Yeah. Really! Watching TV doen't affect your inclination to do what you see others doing while viewing. Sheesh...idtiots. That's why commercial air time is a mult-billion dollar a year industry.
Ahhh, the memories. Pay per minute for CServe on top of the long-distance phone call from my rural town, USA to the big city that had the nearest PoP. Thank GOD those days are gone.
I own a Linux/Open Source systems design firm in St. Louis (which I won't name so no one can mod me down for mooching adverts). In honor of SCO & Microsoft and their efforts towards getting Linux and Open Source (at least in name) engrained into the minds of virtually everyone involved in a business that uses technology (as in all of them) I am starting radio advertising (something new to us) next week. I will run ads that piggy-back off of all the talk about Linux and OSS lately, sort of a "Heard a lot of talk about Linux and Open Source lately? Blah blah blah explain blah blah XYZ server blah blah free blah blah stable blah blah call blah.com" Talk about leveraging your advertising dollar. So if you're in St. Louis and you hear the ads, well, turn it up!
For those of you who think this has unduely tainted Linux and or OSS, I disagree completely. For the most part, people listen/read/etc. only peripherally and hear buzz-words while missing a great deal of content (listen to any radio ads lately?). Just my opinion, but we'll soon see if I'm right.
As it stands now, we're getting about 2 new OSS/Linux based projects per week. These are just a server and a PC, but rather full blown office systems. People have started to pay attention to things like bottom line, performance, long-range costs, REAL R.O.I., etc.
Later, got lots of work to do.
ER
I am curious what your opinion is on using ReiserFS as opposed to XFS on very large data stores (say 3+TB). I have done a great deal of benchmarking on my current system (x86 box with 1.75TB external RAID array on an Adaptec U360 controller) to compare XFS and Reiser and gotten very different results when changing the file sizes. Reiser seems much happier with zillions of small files where XFS seems to excell with very large average file sizes. Is there a way to tune Reiser to balance it or have I simply provided myself with flawed findings?
...think of the number of APs they'd sell based on this fact alone. They obviously should abide by the GPL, but they should also shout it from the hilltops that their AP is Linux based and therefore a hackers delight (and the FCC's nightmare).
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"Making background freely - You can do it using the Wallpaper program or the Painter easily for yourself."
Cause if I'm not making backrgound freely, I'm just not happy.
Agreed. I have a 1GB CompactFlash (not MicroDrive) card ($198.00 on after rebate, $220 prior) and a USB2 keychain adapter for it ($34). Works great and doesn't require wearing/taking off an ugly watch every time I want to use it.
I have owned and "sported" several Porsches in the past. I can say from experience that this WILL be the most uncomfortable chair you have ever sat in.
They have used a Corbeau A4 racing seat to make this thing which is akin to sitting on plywood. I'm sure it will help emmensely in those high-G corners on the way to the bathroom. Here's a link (not sure why anyone would want it but hey): http://www.corbeau.com/brochure/A4.shtml
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Are these people really this moronic? Several people have made great points thus far, but I feel like reiterating and "summing it up" anyhow (mod down for dup if you like). They have fought on the technological "battlefield" repeatedly and lost repeatedly. Each time they seem to scale up on the offensive and entrench themselves more deeply into the the technology battle their level of defeat ratchets up in direct correlation. It would seem that (as they old saying states) they are not learning from their mistakes. The first time one of these morons "accidentally" DOSs the wrong person/a business/a government entity/you pick, they will rue the day they decided to implement such a stupid plan. I am NOT for stealing music, but as many have pointed out, the answer isn't fighting online music, it's embracing it and turning it into THE new transport for delivery of commercial music (a la Apple). Yes, I know there are lots of things to be hashed out, but the powers that be in the music industry have got to be painfully aware that the current market is soon dead and they must find a new way to conduct business.
Damn straight...you tell'em. I'm taking my angry-white-mail self down to New Lady Fitness right now and DEMAND that they give me a membership!
What a moron.
I have found Dell to be one of the worst when it comes to rebates. I have over $1,400 in unpaid rebates with Dell (we do a lot of business with them) all filled out correctly, etc. Of that $1,400+, all of it is over 180 days out. HP has been the best that I have dealt with. Any more I just ignore the rebates and compare prices based on the price paid rather than the price paid minus applicable rebates.
Thank God (with a capital G) that we finally have a President that will stand up to the U.N. and for what is right. Not flame bait, rather my honest opinion (that is allowed, even valued here...right?).
SuSE. Up serving SMB, NFS, OpenAFS, Apache, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SMTP/POP3/IMAP, SSH, TightVNC, Squid, netatalk, etc. for ~20 users (used pretty heavily) and not been rebooted in over a year. Runs on an IBM xSeries with a single 800MHz PIII, 256MB. I like other distro's as well and yes SuSE has it's weaknesses but overall I am delighted with it. Maybe you should try it.
While I am sure HP won't do this, a Minolta or the like could sell their wares based on the fact that inexspensive third party cartridges are available for them. As a prospective buyer, I would definitely see this as a plus. Lexmark's doing this is like Ford making you buy Ford branded gasoline or tires for your car. It's crap, it's a step backward and it'll hurt them in the long run.
It's made (or at least sold) by Hyperlink Technologies (www.hyperlinktech.com). They are about $20 (IIRC) if you just want one. Price goes down as you buy volume. They have performed as well as the most expensive I have ever purchased. Never ever had a problem with any of their antennas or cables. Great customer service too.
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/. fall into the third catagory of intelligent peoples where you can still thive in such a predatory environment AND still do some good. Sorry...I'm done rambling. If you wish to mod me down I understand, I just felt it needed said.
I do a lot of traveling as I provide independant (as in completely independant, even independant of the mid-sized IT company that I own and operate) security (IT mostly) and business-intel services. I provide these services all over the place (though mostly in the US, Caribbean, central and south america) and the independance that I spoke of is critical for this to work. It common amongst all in this industry to strike a precarious balance between an "every man for himself" and a disparate brotherhood. I don't know if this makes sense or not...sorry. Anyway, it is this complete independance where you build trust amongst your peers and then benefit one another while maintaining this line of demarcation between yourself and, well, everyone and everything else that maintains your value/job/livelyhood/etc. It is necessary because you're crossing borders, cultures and ideologies and you cannot afford to become entangeled. One of the things that has always been comforting is that while at home in the states things are much more relaxed. Relationships much simpler. The "road rules" less important. This article (as with so many others in recent history) indicates the utter breakdown of that ideology here in the US as has happened so many other places. To force this sort of craziness on the people of this county will simply polarize it. Those who are of nominal to lower than average intelligence will simply bow to the pressure. Those of higher intelligence will either exploit the situation for personal gain, learn to play the system and maintain a peripheral presence or will remove themselves from the system and as such said required independance will become the norm here as it is in countries that we used to critisize for the rights (be they human, privacy, etc.) violations. I hope that those here on
I set them up on Knoppix 3.2 (HD based install) with Synaptic for "point and click installs". They love it. They can install what they want when they want. They paid....ZERO. Besides, Knoppix is a much better and more "robust" desktop platform in my opinion. I have tried to like Lindows...but I hate it. Just my $.02
Full T1 from Birch is only $390/mo. (free router, free install, block of statics). Split a channel or two off for voice, sell some bandwidth to your neighbors. Voi la...in the end (assuming you have a few interested neighbors) costs no more than local phone service (or less....pays for itself). Just be sure to throttle your neighbors data access. Of course if by "20 minutes outside of St. Louis" you mean in Illinois, well, your screwed. IL (where I used to live) is telco and broadboand no-mans land with high rates and terrible service.
I believe that the point here is that SCO is trying to use the IBM suit to set precident, and if successful then go after Linus, you, me, your grandmother, etc. They have after all stated that "all micro-kernel based operating systems" essentially are covered by their IP holdings.
Actually the Roomba doesn't suck. I have one. It's more of a little eletric broom that runs around your house sweeping everything into a little miniature dust-pan. So technically, it doesn't suck, figuratively it does suck...it died after about two months of steady use. It kind of has these little spasms now and then. It stops moving, then twitches a bit and runs in tight circles in the middle of the room....come to think of it, it acts just like my Grandmothers toy poodle used to when it got old.
if you don't quit (or sincerely threaten to) then you are caving in to your employer for the very same reasons that they caved into their "biggest customer". Sum'n other rolls downhill. If you have a family, they'll be feeling toward you just as you feel toward your employer just as they feel about the customer. We need Dr. Phil on this.
Yeah. Really! Watching TV doen't affect your inclination to do what you see others doing while viewing. Sheesh...idtiots. That's why commercial air time is a mult-billion dollar a year industry.
Phfft...
Compuserve.
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71660,2120 was my signon as I recall.
Ahhh, the memories. Pay per minute for CServe on top of the long-distance phone call from my rural town, USA to the big city that had the nearest PoP. Thank GOD those days are gone.
ER
I own a Linux/Open Source systems design firm in St. Louis (which I won't name so no one can mod me down for mooching adverts). In honor of SCO & Microsoft and their efforts towards getting Linux and Open Source (at least in name) engrained into the minds of virtually everyone involved in a business that uses technology (as in all of them) I am starting radio advertising (something new to us) next week. I will run ads that piggy-back off of all the talk about Linux and OSS lately, sort of a "Heard a lot of talk about Linux and Open Source lately? Blah blah blah explain blah blah XYZ server blah blah free blah blah stable blah blah call blah .com" Talk about leveraging your advertising dollar. So if you're in St. Louis and you hear the ads, well, turn it up!
For those of you who think this has unduely tainted Linux and or OSS, I disagree completely. For the most part, people listen/read/etc. only peripherally and hear buzz-words while missing a great deal of content (listen to any radio ads lately?). Just my opinion, but we'll soon see if I'm right.
As it stands now, we're getting about 2 new OSS/Linux based projects per week. These are just a server and a PC, but rather full blown office systems. People have started to pay attention to things like bottom line, performance, long-range costs, REAL R.O.I., etc.
Later, got lots of work to do.
ER
I am curious what your opinion is on using ReiserFS as opposed to XFS on very large data stores (say 3+TB). I have done a great deal of benchmarking on my current system (x86 box with 1.75TB external RAID array on an Adaptec U360 controller) to compare XFS and Reiser and gotten very different results when changing the file sizes. Reiser seems much happier with zillions of small files where XFS seems to excell with very large average file sizes. Is there a way to tune Reiser to balance it or have I simply provided myself with flawed findings?
...think of the number of APs they'd sell based on this fact alone. They obviously should abide by the GPL, but they should also shout it from the hilltops that their AP is Linux based and therefore a hackers delight (and the FCC's nightmare).
ER
I think I'll try this route.
"Making background freely - You can do it using the Wallpaper program or the Painter easily for yourself." Cause if I'm not making backrgound freely, I'm just not happy.
Agreed. I have a 1GB CompactFlash (not MicroDrive) card ($198.00 on after rebate, $220 prior) and a USB2 keychain adapter for it ($34). Works great and doesn't require wearing/taking off an ugly watch every time I want to use it.
I have owned and "sported" several Porsches in the past. I can say from experience that this WILL be the most uncomfortable chair you have ever sat in. They have used a Corbeau A4 racing seat to make this thing which is akin to sitting on plywood. I'm sure it will help emmensely in those high-G corners on the way to the bathroom. Here's a link (not sure why anyone would want it but hey): http://www.corbeau.com/brochure/A4.shtml ER
Are these people really this moronic? Several people have made great points thus far, but I feel like reiterating and "summing it up" anyhow (mod down for dup if you like). They have fought on the technological "battlefield" repeatedly and lost repeatedly. Each time they seem to scale up on the offensive and entrench themselves more deeply into the the technology battle their level of defeat ratchets up in direct correlation. It would seem that (as they old saying states) they are not learning from their mistakes. The first time one of these morons "accidentally" DOSs the wrong person/a business/a government entity/you pick, they will rue the day they decided to implement such a stupid plan. I am NOT for stealing music, but as many have pointed out, the answer isn't fighting online music, it's embracing it and turning it into THE new transport for delivery of commercial music (a la Apple). Yes, I know there are lots of things to be hashed out, but the powers that be in the music industry have got to be painfully aware that the current market is soon dead and they must find a new way to conduct business.
Damn straight...you tell'em. I'm taking my angry-white-mail self down to New Lady Fitness right now and DEMAND that they give me a membership! What a moron.
Oh yeah! IIS on W2k (no security patches wince last Monday) with no firewall.... Touche'!
I have found Dell to be one of the worst when it comes to rebates. I have over $1,400 in unpaid rebates with Dell (we do a lot of business with them) all filled out correctly, etc. Of that $1,400+, all of it is over 180 days out. HP has been the best that I have dealt with. Any more I just ignore the rebates and compare prices based on the price paid rather than the price paid minus applicable rebates.
Already exists (in both cases).
"I'm from Canada..." Stop there. Nothing more need be said.
Thank God (with a capital G) that we finally have a President that will stand up to the U.N. and for what is right. Not flame bait, rather my honest opinion (that is allowed, even valued here...right?).
SuSE. Up serving SMB, NFS, OpenAFS, Apache, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SMTP/POP3/IMAP, SSH, TightVNC, Squid, netatalk, etc. for ~20 users (used pretty heavily) and not been rebooted in over a year. Runs on an IBM xSeries with a single 800MHz PIII, 256MB. I like other distro's as well and yes SuSE has it's weaknesses but overall I am delighted with it. Maybe you should try it.
While I am sure HP won't do this, a Minolta or the like could sell their wares based on the fact that inexspensive third party cartridges are available for them. As a prospective buyer, I would definitely see this as a plus. Lexmark's doing this is like Ford making you buy Ford branded gasoline or tires for your car. It's crap, it's a step backward and it'll hurt them in the long run.
It's made (or at least sold) by Hyperlink Technologies (www.hyperlinktech.com). They are about $20 (IIRC) if you just want one. Price goes down as you buy volume. They have performed as well as the most expensive I have ever purchased. Never ever had a problem with any of their antennas or cables. Great customer service too.