Well I can't say anything about the validity of the story that is linked ito in the previous posts, this exact same thing happened to me in college back in 1997 at the University of Toledo, Oh.
Back then I had a habit of specifically asking the bank for 2 dollar bills, as I thought that it was fun to spread them around, as so few people have actually ever seen them. So anyway my abbreviated story goes...
Ordered food at Taco Bell, I only had $2 bills and the clerk kept insisting they were fake, I kept insisting that they were real. Finally, they told me to pay with real money, or leave the store or they would call the cops. I told them that I was attempting to pay with real money, and that they could call the cops if they liked. Anyway, the cops came listened to our positions, inspected the bills that I was using, and laughed at the Taco Bell people.
I have one of these not more than 5 feet from me right now. There nice but the plugs are only intended for Rackable Systems servers. If you feel comfortable hacking off the ends to whatever style of plug you want, by all means do so. Also, each of the 4 PS slots can handle up to 3 servers, so you could power up to 12 servers with one of these babies. IIRC, only 12 volt DC though.....
I would just like to say "thank you" to you Seth, and everyone else inside RH, for working to bring us the latest and greatest with Fedora, and the stability and support with RHEL. I use both.
Also, I have never quite understood, what all the confusion was about regarding Fedora vs RHEL. After the first week or so after the announcement, I though that it was abundantly clear that Fedora was the Bleeding Edge Distro and RHEL was the Corporate Oriented Distro that made PHB's feel warm and fuzzy, 'cause they paid someone for support. And that the software developed/stabilized/proven in Fedora would eventually be integrated into RHEL.
My biggest beef with RH, is the Sales/Marketing side of the company. They make it very difficult to get additional RHN Entitlements and are not very timely.
Heck I don't even have S-Video on my Stereo Receiver/Amplifier. My TV only supports one S-Video in so that's what my DVD uses, but everything else has to go through the old Composite style video connections. I bought my Receiver back in '94 It works great, made it through college, and is no where near broken. As long as components support multiple outs why would I buy a new one.
Then again, I don't have cable/Satellite, and belive that watching TV is the quickest way to become a sheeple.
I suspect that once HDMI becomes mainstream, that it will become the only output on a component.
Erm, the business types? Just about every company I've ever worked at has used Redhat/Fedora or Suse running. The reason they like it is that
A) It just works
B) Have tools to make configuring easy
C) If needed, (Very Very Rare), you can get support from Vendor.
D) Updates and installation are easy and quick. No configuring from source, you don't have to worry about configuring the source *Just Right* when your updating your customers server, you don't have to worry about having everything the customer needs compiled in and downtime is very minimal. The majority of the time, if you need to do anything, all you have to do is 'service program start'.
Also, many companies do not have very good tracking of what features or services were added and when. Especially over time, as the support department Alters/Tweaks it via support requests. It is must easier to keep track of "Sepecial Cases"
In short, both Redhat/Fedora and Suse make excellent distros for business types. The rest for the most part appeal to the "Geeky" types for one reason or another.
Umm, There is absolutely no way you could build a quality DC for 300,000.... One of the previous replies to your post is correct, the hardware is the cheap part.
I actually had the cops called on me in college for doing this exact same thing, Taco Bell and everything. Back then, I was in the habit of getting $20.00 in $2's out of the bank, and I really enjoyed seeing the look on people faces when I used them. They aren't really all that rare, just go up to a teller, and ask.
Anyway's the cops came laughed, and I also got my food for free.
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If I recall correctly, the ignition harness on cars can vary between 100,000 - 300,000 volts, but at low amperage. Most likely not enought to kill you, unless your holding a spark plug in each hand, but it is enough to give you a very nasty shock, and knock you on your butt.
For the most part I agree with people ahow are saying that they like to work on their cars themselves. I guess I was lucky, my high school had a full auto shop in it, and instead of study hall my senior year, I took auto shop. We ended up overhauling a V-8, and dropping it into a VW Rabbit that one student had. We also had to lengthen the frontend (by about a foot) on to accomodate the engine.
There's just something that's "beer and ball-scratching" good about working on your own vehicle. Of course, me being in an apartment, and having most of my tools 1,200 miles away kind of limits what I can do now-a-days.
All I can say is avoid CPanel like the plague. I previously admined Raq's from RaQ 3's to RaQ XTR's, all I can say is I love them, for their relative simplicity, you don't give end users 10 ways to do the same thing, it only end up confusing them more. Raq's were simplistic, and most everyone could figure the GUI out. CPanel suffers from creeping featuritus, and the desire to add more features rather than fix bugs and produce a stable release. And have you ever actually looked at some of the CPanel code?!?!?! If your looking to scare/laugh yourself silly, I suggest that you do. Unfortunately most of the really juicy stuff is perl binaries, so you can't really get at it, but a much of it is plain jane perl scripts. CPanel's biggest issue though is *testing*, it seems like it's left up to the end users to test the cpanel updates.
Other control panels that I've used are webmin, plesk (6), and ensim. I must say that plesk, and ensim are the lesser evils, but they have their pro's and con's also. My favorite GUI control panel is by far the RaQ's. However as I like to say...
"My control panel is vi."
PS here's a few humorous parodies of cpanel..... http://www.giotechnology.com/images/c panel/
When's the last time that you tried it? I sadly downloaded th 1.7.x beta on the 1/28/2003. With redhat 8 there were only two rpms that I had to install and they were both -devel ones to boot. After that, I just did a rpmbuild --rebuild gnucash.src.rpm and everything built just fine.
No I'll have to go get the official release rather than the "beta" and do the same. I can see your comment being true maybe last year, or with ealier distros....
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Well I can't say anything about the validity of the story that is linked ito in the previous posts, this exact same thing happened to me in college back in 1997 at the University of Toledo, Oh.
Back then I had a habit of specifically asking the bank for 2 dollar bills, as I thought that it was fun to spread them around, as so few people have actually ever seen them. So anyway my abbreviated story goes...
Ordered food at Taco Bell, I only had $2 bills and the clerk kept insisting they were fake, I kept insisting that they were real. Finally, they told me to pay with real money, or leave the store or they would call the cops. I told them that I was attempting to pay with real money, and that they could call the cops if they liked. Anyway, the cops came listened to our positions, inspected the bills that I was using, and laughed at the Taco Bell people.
I got my food for free....
I have one of these not more than 5 feet from me right now. There nice but the plugs are only intended for Rackable Systems servers. If you feel comfortable hacking off the ends to whatever style of plug you want, by all means do so. Also, each of the 4 PS slots can handle up to 3 servers, so you could power up to 12 servers with one of these babies. IIRC, only 12 volt DC though.....
I would just like to say "thank you" to you Seth, and everyone else inside RH, for working to bring us the latest and greatest with Fedora, and the stability and support with RHEL. I use both.
Also, I have never quite understood, what all the confusion was about regarding Fedora vs RHEL. After the first week or so after the announcement, I though that it was abundantly clear that Fedora was the Bleeding Edge Distro and RHEL was the Corporate Oriented Distro that made PHB's feel warm and fuzzy, 'cause they paid someone for support. And that the software developed/stabilized/proven in Fedora would eventually be integrated into RHEL.
My biggest beef with RH, is the Sales/Marketing side of the company. They make it very difficult to get additional RHN Entitlements and are not very timely.
Again, thanks!
Heck I don't even have S-Video on my Stereo Receiver/Amplifier. My TV only supports one S-Video in so that's what my DVD uses, but everything else has to go through the old Composite style video connections. I bought my Receiver back in '94 It works great, made it through college, and is no where near broken. As long as components support multiple outs why would I buy a new one.
Then again, I don't have cable/Satellite, and belive that watching TV is the quickest way to become a sheeple.
I suspect that once HDMI becomes mainstream, that it will become the only output on a component.
Erm, the business types? Just about every company I've ever worked at has used Redhat/Fedora or Suse running. The reason they like it is that
A) It just works
B) Have tools to make configuring easy
C) If needed, (Very Very Rare), you can get support from Vendor.
D) Updates and installation are easy and quick. No configuring from source, you don't have to worry about configuring the source *Just Right* when your updating your customers server, you don't have to worry about having everything the customer needs compiled in and downtime is very minimal. The majority of the time, if you need to do anything, all you have to do is 'service program start'.
Also, many companies do not have very good tracking of what features or services were added and when. Especially over time, as the support department Alters/Tweaks it via support requests. It is must easier to keep track of "Sepecial Cases"
In short, both Redhat/Fedora and Suse make excellent distros for business types. The rest for the most part appeal to the "Geeky" types for one reason or another.
Hey you stole my post
I'm there with you on everything but point 4. scp can be used under windows using either putty's "pscp.exe", or SecureCRT's "vcp.exe"
Umm, There is absolutely no way you could build a quality DC for 300,000.... One of the previous replies to your post is correct, the hardware is the cheap part.
I actually had the cops called on me in college for doing this exact same thing, Taco Bell and everything. Back then, I was in the habit of getting $20.00 in $2's out of the bank, and I really enjoyed seeing the look on people faces when I used them. They aren't really all that rare, just go up to a teller, and ask.
Anyway's the cops came laughed, and I also got my food for free.
If I recall correctly, the ignition harness on cars can vary between 100,000 - 300,000 volts, but at low amperage. Most likely not enought to kill you, unless your holding a spark plug in each hand, but it is enough to give you a very nasty shock, and knock you on your butt. For the most part I agree with people ahow are saying that they like to work on their cars themselves. I guess I was lucky, my high school had a full auto shop in it, and instead of study hall my senior year, I took auto shop. We ended up overhauling a V-8, and dropping it into a VW Rabbit that one student had. We also had to lengthen the frontend (by about a foot) on to accomodate the engine. There's just something that's "beer and ball-scratching" good about working on your own vehicle. Of course, me being in an apartment, and having most of my tools 1,200 miles away kind of limits what I can do now-a-days.
All I can say is avoid CPanel like the plague. I previously admined Raq's from RaQ 3's to RaQ XTR's, all I can say is I love them, for their relative simplicity, you don't give end users 10 ways to do the same thing, it only end up confusing them more. Raq's were simplistic, and most everyone could figure the GUI out. CPanel suffers from creeping featuritus, and the desire to add more features rather than fix bugs and produce a stable release. And have you ever actually looked at some of the CPanel code?!?!?! If your looking to scare/laugh yourself silly, I suggest that you do. Unfortunately most of the really juicy stuff is perl binaries, so you can't really get at it, but a much of it is plain jane perl scripts. CPanel's biggest issue though is *testing*, it seems like it's left up to the end users to test the cpanel updates.
c panel/
Other control panels that I've used are webmin, plesk (6), and ensim. I must say that plesk, and ensim are the lesser evils, but they have their pro's and con's also. My favorite GUI control panel is by far the RaQ's. However as I like to say...
"My control panel is vi."
PS here's a few humorous parodies of cpanel.....
http://www.giotechnology.com/images/
When's the last time that you tried it? I sadly downloaded th 1.7.x beta on the 1/28/2003. With redhat 8 there were only two rpms that I had to install and they were both -devel ones to boot. After that, I just did a rpmbuild --rebuild gnucash.src.rpm and everything built just fine.
No I'll have to go get the official release rather than the "beta" and do the same. I can see your comment being true maybe last year, or with ealier distros....
Umm If you read the website, they have very easy steps for installation on redhat 7.1,7.2,7.3,8.0. Using apt-rpm......