But hey, the guys over here are used to that, if you tell a Briton that they are getting raped with the prices they will have a *hard* time acknowledging it, they do not believe it as most of them have not traveled outside their island...
Absolute rubbish! Almost every Brit knows that prices are higher than most other countries, especially with the strength of the pound against the US dollar. As for most Brits having not gone abroad, I'm struggling to think of any I know. Don't forget that Britain used to own large chunks of the world.
I think you're right - large amounts of traffic for little work, even if it isn't targeted. I'd never stoop to that level, especially not for my own site, Backup Exec FAQ, a user-contributed support site for Symantec Backup Exec.;)
What amuses me is that SBS actually goes against many of Microsoft's own recommendations. Hence you see in product documentation things like:
You shouldn't run Exchange on a domain controller (except if using SBS)
You shouldn't run SQL on a domain controller (except if using SBS)
You shouldn't run ISA on a server running anything else (except if using SBS)
The incident that really put me off using SBS though was:
Use SBS for your small business
Business grows
Add additional domain controller for redundancy and capacity
RAID array in SBS server dies (2 drives failed simultaneously)
Discover all backups of the SBS server are unreadable
Decide to rebuild SBS server from scratch
Discover that you can't add SBS server to your domain, because it insists it has to be the first server in the domain
While I accept that any server should be properly backed up, with backups tested, you'll probably find that many business running SBS don't have the knowledge or resources to do proper disaster recovery testing.
So a new shell gets shipped with a specialised, expensive application, rather than with the Operating System, or as a separate download? So that'll cost nearly £1000 for the standard version then. Good old Microsoft...
I would have thought that most alphas would be running 4 or previous - something more proven. Anyone who's that bothered about tier-1 status probably wouldn't be running an unstable release. Do many people use 5 on alphas?
Losing Tier-1 status may not be that big a deal. AMD64 is tier-1, and there's no gdb or loadable module support (at least not in 5.2.1, I don't know about -CURRENT).
This is the same article as was linked to from the FreeBSD site a few weeks ago. Everyone's probably read this already. Basically, the Athlon64 is faster.
As I write, freshports says that there are 10022 ports. However, 62 of those are marked as broken, and 4 are marked as forbidden, so perhaps the celebration is premature. Only 44 ports need to be fixed!
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On a Compaq server (Dual Xeon with a RAID array), OpenServer couldn't find the RAID array, Windows 2000 server couldn't find the RAID array without using the Compaq installation CD, but FreeBSD installed perfectly, from 2 floppies (over FTP).
I'd probably call my plan for world domination file "ILikefluffyKittens.rtf" or something equally innocuous. Or better yet, "readme.txt", since nobody ever reads READMEs.
Indeed, but additions such as replication and true ACIDity (MySQL, is it or isn't it?) only matter if you're going to base your opinion on considered facts. And let's face it, this is Slashdot...
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Absolute rubbish!
Almost every Brit knows that prices are higher than most other countries, especially with the strength of the pound against the US dollar. As for most Brits having not gone abroad, I'm struggling to think of any I know. Don't forget that Britain used to own large chunks of the world.
I think you're right - large amounts of traffic for little work, even if it isn't targeted. I'd never stoop to that level, especially not for my own site, Backup Exec FAQ, a user-contributed support site for Symantec Backup Exec. ;)
Of course the Chinese tests are harder - they're in Chinese!
1.54? Are you sure? Do you work for NASA?
Modded down?
But Google says so!
Only on Slashdot does one actually look the answer up...
What amuses me is that SBS actually goes against many of Microsoft's own recommendations. Hence you see in product documentation things like:
The incident that really put me off using SBS though was:
While I accept that any server should be properly backed up, with backups tested, you'll probably find that many business running SBS don't have the knowledge or resources to do proper disaster recovery testing.
Boeing won't use SBS in their plane avionics - it only allows up to 75 seats, and they'll need up to 330 for the forthcoming 787.
This is Slashdot. You're not supposed to actually click on the links in the article...
So a new shell gets shipped with a specialised, expensive application, rather than with the Operating System, or as a separate download? So that'll cost nearly £1000 for the standard version then. Good old Microsoft...
I would have thought that most alphas would be running 4 or previous - something more proven. Anyone who's that bothered about tier-1 status probably wouldn't be running an unstable release. Do many people use 5 on alphas?
Losing Tier-1 status may not be that big a deal. AMD64 is tier-1, and there's no gdb or loadable module support (at least not in 5.2.1, I don't know about -CURRENT).
Gimp hackers...
Don't pick on them just because of the version numbers they coose, you insensitive clod...
I cna understand wanting a spoiler alert on a post revealing the end of a film, but you must be a true geek to want a spoiler alert on a benchmark!
This is the same article as was linked to from the FreeBSD site a few weeks ago. Everyone's probably read this already. Basically, the Athlon64 is faster.
This is Slashdot math. Unless coffee drinkers experience 26 hour days.
Not in zero-gravity...
As I write, freshports says that there are 10022 ports. However, 62 of those are marked as broken, and 4 are marked as forbidden, so perhaps the celebration is premature. Only 44 ports need to be fixed!
On a Compaq server (Dual Xeon with a RAID array), OpenServer couldn't find the RAID array, Windows 2000 server couldn't find the RAID array without using the Compaq installation CD, but FreeBSD installed perfectly, from 2 floppies (over FTP).
That's not a bug, it's a feature of most Nine Inch Nails tracks!
Perhaps you should call it SlashdotArticle.rtf
Indeed, but additions such as replication and true ACIDity (MySQL, is it or isn't it?) only matter if you're going to base your opinion on considered facts. And let's face it, this is Slashdot...
Save a load of time - read some comparisons, like this one and make your own mind up
It's not the iBooks that are discussed here, it's the PowerBooks.