Well, my original account was 4 digits, but those accounts no longer exist because they lost the database with the first 10,000 accounts and had to start over at 10,000. I have the data files showing activity on that account on a backup CD somewhere =)
Flashbacks to babyhood, that reminds me of another outstanding film, the directors cut to The Butterfly Effect. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it though it's definitely not for people who cry easily or women who have lost a child!
A couple hundred hours, hmm at $100 a pop that means a single large lecture hall should be able to pay for his time, so if his book is used at numerous universities then one years profit from sales should pay for his time at a good multiple of his normal hourly rate. The price could probably be dropped to $cost_of_production + $10 and he would still be making over his hourly rate depending on number of copies sold.
Actually two out of four SSD's reviewed used MORE power when idle than the 7200rpm drive, that's just stupid. The Sandisk used about 60% less, so there's a reason to go with the name brand in this case, they do a heck of a lot more R&D than simply throwing some components together off the shelf.
Wow, that seems really inefficient, my 42" is only 169W max (typical is more like 110W). I can't find the power usage numbers for what I believe is the only 42" CRT produced, the Mitsubishi MegaView Pro 42, but it weighs in at 200lbs!
PEX is certainly certified for drinking, they couldn't sell it as a plumbing supply if it wasn't. My folks had all their basement copper plumbing replaced with PEX a decade ago after the third or fourth leak of their copper system. I imagine you could run a copper line through the PEX and resistively heat that, but it's better to simply avoid the freezing in the first place.
Why rely on the government? I've said it once and I'll say it a thousand times, today's dumps will be the mines of the next century. It will be easier to mine the dumps for recycled material than it is to recover it from low density deposits at some point so it WILL happen. The bigger potential problem will be running out of cheap sources of energy, mining and recycling are both massively energy intensive so prices for both will go up commensurate with the increase in the cost of energy.
Energy Star isn't the government meddling, it's a strictly voluntary program to get a certified power usage metric on a standardized test. In fact I'm surprised someone like UL didn't come out with something like it before the government did, I guess it just goes to show how cheap energy was!
Exactly, is owning a copy of TreeSize Pro without a PI license now a criminal offense in Texas, because by nature of using the production you are involved in the review and analysis of materials stored on a computer. That was just the first tool I randomly selected on my work PC that falls under that definition.
Since when is it ANY citizens duty to be an actor for the state?!? Seriously, when did it become ok in America to FORCE an entire profession to become an arm of the government. This is pure lunacy and I can tell you I would be working towards the election of anyone running against any politician who knowingly passed such legislation. I'm a registered Democrat but even I can obviously see this is overreaching *think of the children* gone WAY too far.
Actually many states have instituted nurse practitioners, kind of a doctor light for just such reasons. They have to be part of a doctors practice but they can see patients and write scripts (I believe cosigned by the doctor). It's actually often a more lucrative position then a GP because they don't have to carry nearly the insurance load and they share billing resources with the established practice.
Um, considering what a semester hour costs shouldn't the professor pick the *best* book not the cheapest. If a professor is handicapped by a poor book then you're not going to get a lot of value for your money and time invested in the course. Of course the best textbook might be no textbook at all, but that's a separate argument/discussion.
Why not, Project management is about managing the client and the talent, it has little to do with the technical challenges. You generally have a lead technical person who handles that end of things. I've had fantastic PM's who couldn't program their way out of a wet paper bag yet ran a project MUCH more effectively then teams led solely by technical people turned PM. In fact I would say it's a rare bird indeed who has both very strong technical skills and the time management and people skills required to do it all. So much so that I don't think you should ever try to create a job description that requires all of those skills because you'll either get people who simply lie well to fill them or they will never be filled.
Without IT you wouldn't be doing a lot of data manipulating or useful work because your stuff would be broken. A sysadmin is the plumber of the 21st century, a skilled craft that is under appreciated but none the less invaluable. The difference is most medium sized businesses on up need one or more full time sysadmins whereas they generally don't need a full time plumber unless they are making some liquid product.
XP is buggy (all non-trivial software is to varying degrees) but it is certainly not crashy. I have had installs of XP stay up for over a year with SP1 and SP2. People either have really crappy hardware with poorly written drivers or they install some crapware that makes their Windows installs so crash prone. Of course it's probably the OEM's fault with all the crud they load because I haven't run an OEM install of XP ever and I haven't seen the problems so many people report. I think the problems with FF are largely the same, it's not that the browser is crashy, it's the plugins and addons that people load. Unfortunately Flash is one of the worst offenders and it's basically required for many sites, I almost wish MS would open up Silverlight and win against flash.
You have the down and up crossed in that, download is always higher in an asymmetric configuration eg 5/1 cable in 5Mb down and 1Mb up. I personally have 6/500 6Mb down 500Kb up, whereas my dad's business class in 5/1.
Amazon S3 + command line tools seems to be the best bet right now. $.15/GB/month storage and $.20/GB of transfer. The tool I see most often quoted is s3sync.
From their FAQ: For a typical system on a typical broadband line, Mozy backs up data at about 2-4 GB per day. But if left undisturbed on a fast connection, you can back up over 9 GB in a single day.
My dad's initial backup of 7GB's of data took significantly less than a day on a 1Mb upload cable line so I don't think they throttle on their end. As far as pricing on the DVD restore here's what the restore popup lists:
When restoring large amounts of data, avoid long download times and slow connection speeds by ordering a DVD restore. Mozy recovers your data and burns it to DVDs usually within 2-3 business days. Your DVDs are then shipped via FedEx Next Day delivery.
When ordering a DVD restore, you will be charged a $29.95 and $0.50 per GB processing fee, as well as the FedEx Next Day shipping rate.
Personally my users make sure I have plenty of opportunities to do test restores =)
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By the way, is there any sort of setup out there with more than 2 parity drives?
Sure, a RAID1+0 of 6 drives has 3 parity (well mirror) drives. If you are talking strictly parity I'm not aware of any though you could theoretically do diagonal parity in two directions. I find that I get better reliability than any single array could offer from my SAN where I can split the data and parity into separate shelfs therefore eliminating any shared components.
Look at Mozy for online backup. Home users are $5/month per machine for unlimited backups. You can retrieve the files via an integrated explorer plugin, their website, or for a fee have them burn and ship you a pile of DVD's. It's owned by EMC so it's not going anywhere. Then only downside I've come across is it only allows incremental restores up to 30 days back then they get rolled into the newest file. Not a problem if you version you filenames, but a lot of users don't.
Sounds like they simply set the expire date on your account to the end of your contact and the password caching mechanism correctly adhered to that command.
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Well, my original account was 4 digits, but those accounts no longer exist because they lost the database with the first 10,000 accounts and had to start over at 10,000. I have the data files showing activity on that account on a backup CD somewhere =)
Flashbacks to babyhood, that reminds me of another outstanding film, the directors cut to The Butterfly Effect. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it though it's definitely not for people who cry easily or women who have lost a child!
A couple hundred hours, hmm at $100 a pop that means a single large lecture hall should be able to pay for his time, so if his book is used at numerous universities then one years profit from sales should pay for his time at a good multiple of his normal hourly rate. The price could probably be dropped to $cost_of_production + $10 and he would still be making over his hourly rate depending on number of copies sold.
All those chips for RAM require power too...
Actually two out of four SSD's reviewed used MORE power when idle than the 7200rpm drive, that's just stupid. The Sandisk used about 60% less, so there's a reason to go with the name brand in this case, they do a heck of a lot more R&D than simply throwing some components together off the shelf.
Wow, that seems really inefficient, my 42" is only 169W max (typical is more like 110W). I can't find the power usage numbers for what I believe is the only 42" CRT produced, the Mitsubishi MegaView Pro 42, but it weighs in at 200lbs!
Doesn't matter since $600 is way high for a T1, in most places I can get one with transport and local loop charges for more like ~$450/month.
PEX is certainly certified for drinking, they couldn't sell it as a plumbing supply if it wasn't. My folks had all their basement copper plumbing replaced with PEX a decade ago after the third or fourth leak of their copper system. I imagine you could run a copper line through the PEX and resistively heat that, but it's better to simply avoid the freezing in the first place.
Why rely on the government? I've said it once and I'll say it a thousand times, today's dumps will be the mines of the next century. It will be easier to mine the dumps for recycled material than it is to recover it from low density deposits at some point so it WILL happen. The bigger potential problem will be running out of cheap sources of energy, mining and recycling are both massively energy intensive so prices for both will go up commensurate with the increase in the cost of energy.
Energy Star isn't the government meddling, it's a strictly voluntary program to get a certified power usage metric on a standardized test. In fact I'm surprised someone like UL didn't come out with something like it before the government did, I guess it just goes to show how cheap energy was!
Exactly, is owning a copy of TreeSize Pro without a PI license now a criminal offense in Texas, because by nature of using the production you are involved in the review and analysis of materials stored on a computer. That was just the first tool I randomly selected on my work PC that falls under that definition.
Since when is it ANY citizens duty to be an actor for the state?!? Seriously, when did it become ok in America to FORCE an entire profession to become an arm of the government. This is pure lunacy and I can tell you I would be working towards the election of anyone running against any politician who knowingly passed such legislation. I'm a registered Democrat but even I can obviously see this is overreaching *think of the children* gone WAY too far.
Wow, Canada has reinvented the apothecary =)
Actually many states have instituted nurse practitioners, kind of a doctor light for just such reasons. They have to be part of a doctors practice but they can see patients and write scripts (I believe cosigned by the doctor). It's actually often a more lucrative position then a GP because they don't have to carry nearly the insurance load and they share billing resources with the established practice.
Um, considering what a semester hour costs shouldn't the professor pick the *best* book not the cheapest. If a professor is handicapped by a poor book then you're not going to get a lot of value for your money and time invested in the course. Of course the best textbook might be no textbook at all, but that's a separate argument/discussion.
Why not, Project management is about managing the client and the talent, it has little to do with the technical challenges. You generally have a lead technical person who handles that end of things. I've had fantastic PM's who couldn't program their way out of a wet paper bag yet ran a project MUCH more effectively then teams led solely by technical people turned PM. In fact I would say it's a rare bird indeed who has both very strong technical skills and the time management and people skills required to do it all. So much so that I don't think you should ever try to create a job description that requires all of those skills because you'll either get people who simply lie well to fill them or they will never be filled.
Without IT you wouldn't be doing a lot of data manipulating or useful work because your stuff would be broken. A sysadmin is the plumber of the 21st century, a skilled craft that is under appreciated but none the less invaluable. The difference is most medium sized businesses on up need one or more full time sysadmins whereas they generally don't need a full time plumber unless they are making some liquid product.
XP is buggy (all non-trivial software is to varying degrees) but it is certainly not crashy. I have had installs of XP stay up for over a year with SP1 and SP2. People either have really crappy hardware with poorly written drivers or they install some crapware that makes their Windows installs so crash prone. Of course it's probably the OEM's fault with all the crud they load because I haven't run an OEM install of XP ever and I haven't seen the problems so many people report. I think the problems with FF are largely the same, it's not that the browser is crashy, it's the plugins and addons that people load. Unfortunately Flash is one of the worst offenders and it's basically required for many sites, I almost wish MS would open up Silverlight and win against flash.
You have the down and up crossed in that, download is always higher in an asymmetric configuration eg 5/1 cable in 5Mb down and 1Mb up. I personally have 6/500 6Mb down 500Kb up, whereas my dad's business class in 5/1.
Amazon S3 + command line tools seems to be the best bet right now. $.15/GB/month storage and $.20/GB of transfer. The tool I see most often quoted is s3sync.
From their FAQ:
For a typical system on a typical broadband line, Mozy backs up data at about 2-4 GB per day. But if left undisturbed on a fast connection, you can back up over 9 GB in a single day.
My dad's initial backup of 7GB's of data took significantly less than a day on a 1Mb upload cable line so I don't think they throttle on their end. As far as pricing on the DVD restore here's what the restore popup lists:
When restoring large amounts of data, avoid long download times and slow connection speeds by ordering a DVD restore. Mozy recovers your data and burns it to DVDs usually within 2-3 business days. Your DVDs are then shipped via FedEx Next Day delivery.
When ordering a DVD restore, you will be charged a $29.95 and $0.50 per GB processing fee, as well as the FedEx Next Day shipping rate.
Personally my users make sure I have plenty of opportunities to do test restores =)
By the way, is there any sort of setup out there with more than 2 parity drives?
Sure, a RAID1+0 of 6 drives has 3 parity (well mirror) drives. If you are talking strictly parity I'm not aware of any though you could theoretically do diagonal parity in two directions. I find that I get better reliability than any single array could offer from my SAN where I can split the data and parity into separate shelfs therefore eliminating any shared components.
Look at Mozy for online backup. Home users are $5/month per machine for unlimited backups. You can retrieve the files via an integrated explorer plugin, their website, or for a fee have them burn and ship you a pile of DVD's. It's owned by EMC so it's not going anywhere. Then only downside I've come across is it only allows incremental restores up to 30 days back then they get rolled into the newest file. Not a problem if you version you filenames, but a lot of users don't.
Sounds like they simply set the expire date on your account to the end of your contact and the password caching mechanism correctly adhered to that command.