I agree with you. I had been living in South America for the past few years and when I got home I was looking for some Sci_Fi goodness after two years of 10 channel cable and dial up acess. So i decide to start up on farscape and caught some episodes about the invisible man and fell in love with the show.
IT was campy sort of a mix between:
1.Max Headroom(Edison had the brit fiora chick as a controller always a little sexual tension, invisible man has brit chick doctor.
2. The Hulk - Ivisible man gets to much quicksilver in the system and starts bugging out.
Edge of Night(whatever that vampire show is with Skanky and the vampire is a cop) Just like the Invisible Man he was an asshole in the past and is atoning for his sins, using his power for good, but they both lapse into old ways sometimes.
And you know, I never really made it to Farscape, cause I liked the invisible man so much, and I didnt realize I was watching an old show.
Well posting as an AC and trolling as well. Ho hum.
1. Cops do whip black ass, and white ass, hispanic ass, all kindsa ass. Course next to Latin America and Russia, I would prefer a US ass whuppin than one of those. Have seen South American and Russian cops tear it up. And people don't sue there.
Hey you know what? I am a Jewish Hispanic. And I look like I should be selling rugs in a bazaar. I look more Arabic than most Arabs. I get searched in airports. Big deal, 5 minutes extra. Makes me feel kinda safe. I have been searched five times this year and the people in the airport were nothing but nice and apologetic to me.
We had a load of hurt come down on our country and we are watching our backs. Nothing wrong with that, and I am happy we are doing it. And you can use the arguement that the methods they are using are not effective. Well please suggest something. Should we do nothing?
I hold citizen ship in the UK,US, and Colombia. Pretty varied huh? Guess I am lucky, gotta pretty good world view IMHO.
The US does some harsh shit sometimes, but we do a lotta good stuff too. Stop trolling, stop being an AC.
I gotta tell you somehing as well. These days more BLACK people have asked me if I was an arab. Trying be a computer geek who is in radioshack buying wire when a big black man says"lookit at ol bin lades kid getting his shit for a bomb, damn, you aint gonna blow me up, just where in the hell or you from"
I never thought cat shit could be more offensive, but add radiation and we take it to a whole new level.
From the Article "Oct 25, 2002 9:04 am US/Eastern (AP) (WHITMAN, Mass. ) A man who ignored a veterinarian's order to flush his cat's radioactive waste down the toilet was hit with a $2,800 bill.
And Bill Jenness said he's happy to pay it.
"I don't feel I was mistreated," Jenness told The Patriot Ledger of Quincy. "It's my cat, my responsibility and I did not abide by the directions I was given."
Jenness' cat, Mitzi, an 11-year-old shorthair, was treated with an injection of radioiodine after developing hyperthyroidism, which is common in cats her age.
The treatment makes the cat radioactive for weeks, so special care is required, including limiting snuggling time, keeping the cat away from children and pregnant women and using protective gloves when flushing the cat litter.
Jenness said he decided to throw the litter in the trash after the waste hardened into abnormally large clumps.
"I was afraid of my septic system being clogged," he said.
Mitzi's mess was discovered at an incinerator in Rochester when alarms detected radioactivity. Workers traced the waste to Jenness after finding mail with his name on it nearby.
The radiation treatment by Radiocat in Waltham and cost of disposing the waste totaled about $5,000. Jenness said it was worth it because Mitzi is doing well.
Radiocat's Web site says the amount of radiation from a radioiodine shot is probably less than the amount a person receives on a long plane flight or a day at the beach.
But Thomas Burnett, a Whitman public works commissioner, said any radiation in trash is too much.
The hosting is separate from the bandwidth offerings.
Verio bought a company called HIWAY.com and that become thier main hosting division. From shared to dedicated.
The rest of Verio is just bought up ISP's around the country. Lotta shop owners got rich in the mid to late 90's selling out to verio, and a lotta people got laid off.
Verio pays the money for the good equipment and they have very good uptimes. But they do cater to spammers. Hell they host most of the websites in the world. When I was there they cut a deal to let Bell South sell Bell South branded hosting on verio Boxes.
You might want to try rackshack.net. I have had great expereince with them
Well I have a couple of clients who bought them at Circut City and the like. Mostly because of Brand NAME, and the pretty case with all the matching baubles.
And of the ten on one the networks I manage remotely. I never really had any problems with them.
I can't beleive you have not ever seen one in the shop? They are a bit proprietary but well made. A decent store bought. Much better than an HP or Compaq. Have seen plenty of those.
Sony also makes a pretty sweet laptop, an they also hold up well.
Unless you live in a really rural area, this surprises me. Or the quality is good. One or the other.
Sorry, I was a little unclear about somethings. but the point being that apples to apples Star Office doesnt cut the Mustard.
I was using Office 2000 on 98 machines, and Star 5.2 on the same ones. Star Office had lower system recquirements, older product. Office 2000 on same system, but higher resource requirements whupped its ass hands down. And on 40 machines.
My windows 2000 box is an Athlon 1800, 512 meg, 7200 IBM drive, and Star Office 6.0 sits on it, and Office XP. And for work(as well as compatibilty issues with the rest of the world) Office is the better product.
I try and and keep all options on my machine cause you never know who I might support.
On the XP box is office 2000 and Open Office. And guess which one functions better?
Workstation productivity for pushing characters around Office is the best. Linux kicks ass in so many other areas but MS has office down.
I am sorry I was unclear. But I was comparing 5.2 to 2000. But even 97 is better than 5.2.
Hey how old is Star Office 5.2? Ancient! And while there are many people say it is all I need, FINE, that might be great for you but not for the rest.
I love *nix OSes. But Star Office on anything is dog slow and a nightmare to operate.
I was the Technology Director of a Small University and I purchased a load of new Dells(bout 1 year ago i think) Pentium 3 1.0 ghz. 256 megs of ram. I grabbed 40. We had 40 plain jane 233 mmx pentiums with 128 megs of ram and win 98. We only had liscenses for 40 copies of office 2000, so I smacked star office on the 233's. I had 40 machines that became dog slow, erratic, and crash prone. The ran office 2000 just fine. The productivity level for the students dropped abour 30%. I started keeping a log of the problems and they all pointed at star office. Locking the box up, not opening word files well. Whole slew of shit.
I tweaked and tweaked, and finally threw office back on the boxes and the liscensing be damned. Cause in this case office worked better, the students got into Acess, Excel, and kept on chugging.
On my new boxes I dual booted win 2000 and redhat. Taught classes in both. Taught Star Office and Office. And Office is a great product, yes it is bloated, but you can do *alot* in it. Star Office could not touch it. Office 97 runs better, doesnt eat the desktop and resources Alive.
I like Open Office, still see room for improvement. Loads better than Star. But saying Star is an Office Killer in this day and age that is ridicoulous.
Plus, in poor countries they learn to use what they have, the file server I replaces ran sco on a 1.0 gig scsi drive, 486 sx 25. They had done wonders with the box. Replaced it with Red 6.2 dual 1.0 p///s. Raid 3 on 36 gig scsis.(we got a good deal with dell).
We took a survey of 300 students. They liked linux, they wanted to learn linux, and we taught it. But hands down they voted star office out. They just couldnt be productive in their normal school work with star office.
Yo thanks man, and actually i replied to the wrong comment, see two down where the guy is talking about the videp editing business. And is snikering about them losing the entire system. But hey I gotta plus 5 for replying to the wrong comment.
But you are right, i forgot about the drive it eats for parity.
Hmmm, You suggested raid 5. Would not have been the best in video editing. 3 would have hit been better cause of the next to none performance loss when a drive is out.
Well let me break it down first to you by where you went wrong.
But in any case you should have at least left a little manual with them to explain very non technically what you had done and if they had a problem to look in the manual because all of stuff you had done on the system would have been there laid out and they could have researched. I always tape a note on the side of the server and sometimes inside saying WARNING READ VENDOR SUPPLIED INFO. I make them very aware of what I have done.
It is also hard for me to believe that the guy looked at the server and thought they had one 500 gig hardrive, instead of thinking it was a volume. Any idiot would go. "500 gig drive? Huh?). Then again they got some real bozos in the world and I still shake my head on a weekly basis sometimes.
I always also get then to sign a CYA(Cover Your Ass) statement saying I explained backups, what they should do, and should a problem crop up it ain't my fault. Usually scares em into buying a tape drive. Or at least meeting me in the middle on the raid end.
RAID Level 3 - RAID Level 3 provides redundancy by writing all data to three or more drives. Just Awesome storage for video imaging, streaming, publishing applications or any system that requires large file block transfers.
The only real disadvantage here is in small file transfers.
Advantages - Single dedicated parity disk High read data rate High write data rate 4 drives minimum No performance degradation if drive fails Best and worst case performance similar Video Streaming Video Publishing Video Editing Pre Press Image editing Any application that needs heavy updating and large file usage
RAID Level 5 Advantages Most flexible of all disk arrays Best balance cost / performance / protection of any RAID system Allows multiple simultaneous writes High read data rate Medium write data rate 3 drives minimum Ideal for small write applications Highly efficient Transaction processing Relational Databases File & Print Servers WWW, E-mail, and News servers Intranet Servers
You lose a drive in a 5 situation and performance takes a huge hit. This has been my experience.
I am a techno geek but i have been to Machu Picchu and it was spectacular. Egpyt is next on my list as well as Japan.
But it is good to see things that were built so well with so little technology that survive today. Attesting to human intelligence and cunning. Give you a real good perspective on the world we live in now.
Much prettier than an IMAX movie, plus you are outside.
I love technology museums but the Great Wall of China would be a good thing to stroll down with my lady(plus you geeks could get some choice hentai).
I guess my point is check out something other than the electronic.
My apologies, the x serve cab ne headless. But the cost is quite high out of the gate.
Apples site:
$3,999.00
Dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4 256K L2 cache & 2MB L3 cache per processor 512MB DDR SDRAM @ 266MHz 60GB Apple Drive Module CD-ROM drive ATI Graphics Card Dual Gigabit Ethernet Two USB ports Three FireWire ports
Dell
You can do the same for 1600 hundred bucks in a rack.
you say " And I don't think a dual p4 heavy duty crunch box is twice the price of a dual g4 xserve. mebbe a bit cheaper, providing you're running a free OS with free software on the PCs" I said that the dualie p4 option is almost gonna be a third to half as less. Yes and we are talking about using linux on ther server.
And on the PC's you can run Linux or Windows. Wouldn't you do the same with a G4? For what you get the xserve just costs to much money.
Well since Linux is free right? Why would I need to liscense anything right? and you can order Dell without an OS(the option is availible, even on their webpage.)
Well as a 0ld fart in the computer world(32) I am looking at my shelf now. I recently put about 250 books in storage and left one shelf standing. I am an MCSE/A, A+,Net+,Linux +, and a CCNA.
7 Books for Windows 2000 products. You gotta remember that Active Directory, Exchange are each products on their own. AD comes with server but is a bitch to to get to play nicley.
Since 93 I calculate I have spent a cool 12 grand of my own money on materials and classes(I like buying OS's, and kinda like looking at the Shelf and seeing them all lined up looking back at me)so that works out to like 1333 a year I have spent on training for the industry, bettering my skills and making me more econmicially viable. But again that cash is written off by me as a hobby, cause it is what I enjoy doing and it makes me loot.
A+ 1 book - Too easy, looked over the book one day before the exams. But I have been working with pc hardware since 1990. Experience carried me through.
Net +, been doing networks since 95, expereince again passed the test as well as 3 years sitting at an ISP Help Desk.
Linux + Well, three linux books, but you would have to count the Solaris, BSD, and other unix tomes I have bought over the years. Say about 15.My unix books FAR EXCEED the windows ones. Come on fellas include the Oreillys in there.
CCNA- Again working at an ISP helped but I actually bought 3 books for this test.
So I primarily work with the windows platform, I do the unix thing too. I don't wave either flag. But I will say this, there are bad admins on both sides. And probably more bad Win admins. BUT they are Linux people who really do not know what a full featured product(large and complicated) Win 2000 is. Hell you can run it all CLI if you want to, kill the gui.
And as for training. I always try to 90% of the subject matter before I take any class, and I always take classes I know the subject matter well. But you know what? I always learn something, you sit in a room with other admins, make freinds, swap war stories, tips, and hassle the teacher.
The problem with Linux admins is this. Most of learned it on a box at home, and learned it fairly well. But never have adminned in an enterprise, where it counts, where you eat and sleep the box. I adminned an nt 4.0 network that accounted for a 1 million dollars a month in revenue. In 97. And it taught me responsibility. It taught me how to admin well.
I was installing Linux on a box at an isp one day and the head admin came to me and said."Hey you want to admin at an ISP Mr. NT?(I was the staff MCSE in an all Solaris shop)" I told em that is why I was putting RHat on my box. He sat me down and said a few wise things to me"Learn Solaris, Learn a BSD, then go to Linux if you wish" And you know what, I couldn;t touch a linux box at work until he was happy with me on the fucking sun servers. And looking back. I am glad he did.
I paid for all my training out of my own pocket, and granted I have a great deal of experience. I would have loved a company to pay for it. Formal training can help if you have a good teacher. I took an AD course from someone who knew what they were doing, as well as an exchange course. No New Horizonz student cum teacher.
Any back to the books. Tally up your Unix Books on Bind, DNS, Apache, and you will have the same number or more than your windows books. You gotta look an the pieces as well.
Or that most of the tests focused on networked apps? and webserving?
To quote "better cost of ownership for running network infrastructure, print serving, file serving and security applications than Linux."
These are all OS X things can do, well macs can finally do with OS X. PC's with Windows and UNIX have always done these well. When was the last time you say an all MAC ISP? Well, I suppose you could dig some up, i just googled and found a few.
TCO on a mac for a workstation is great, but again this was focused on the server arena. And if you look at it, there are much more server options as for as hardware and apps for Linux and Windows.
Mac OSX has not been around that long either. And who would want to put the pretty mac in a rack? Can I get a blade server mac? Can I get a g4 in a pizza box with a 2 meg vid card and a ps2 port for mouse and keyboard?
The Mac is not ready to compete in the server market at this time and for that reason it was left out of the study. Sure they can be used as a server, but that would totally blow the tco figures outta the water. You need some heavy crunch boxes so you tell you bosses we are gonna get 15 dualie G4's. or for the same price we can get 30 dualie p4's. Did i mention the space recquirewould probably be a third to house them? Where is the headless MAC?
I have an Ibook and love it. No complaints. But still I use a pc at home as well. With Windows 2000, got another with linux. I am pretty much OS nuetral and use the best one for each particualar aspect of my job. exchange on 2000(exchange is a great ap if you know what your doing) linux for file serving, print servers, backups and an accounting app(not written for linux, written for sco but fiddled with til it worked).
I use my Ibook on the road and at work and to keep me abreast of the Mac Os. In the IT field we need to learn em all, not jihad behind one.
Hey man In 89 I almost bought that 240 but opted for the Miata instead cause of the drop top, and I liked it cause it was little like me. I am 5'4 and all my cars generally are small. The Passat is the biggest I ever owned but the seat jacks up high. The other in the running was the volks corrado with the first VR6, had a spoiler that ran up after 45 miles an hour was reached.
Hey man, I am poor as dirt as well. IT is not the best place to be now and I whore my networking ass out doing websits. They are horrible, I have no talent, but it pays the bills.
Honda makes a great car and the wife had a celica for years that gave her no trouble.
Recently I was looking at buying a 99 jetta and the guy wanted 3000 grand over book. The car was cherry, but not three grand cherry. I asked him why so much and he told me that is what the rims and tires cost when he bought them plus the flourescent kit(this i saw after the fact). I told him that he could just give me the old rims and i would pay him book, not even argue. And he could keep the lights as well He told me no, that if I wanted the car I had to buy the rims. 17's on a jetta. I told him that he could keep both sets and i would come over with my own rims and tires. Still no. That was two months ago and the car is still for sale. He called me this weekend and said he would drop a grand. I told him no. Kicker is, he bought the rims on time.
My comment concerning cars is that I would say that 90% of all the modded cars you see do not have any engine mods other than maybe a loud exhaust.
My point is that a large percentage of bios tweaks, overclocking, rarely result in a big improvement. Maybe a little bragging rights.
I was making fun of people who mod cars, but you gotta admint there are many civics out there where the rims are worth more than the car. That the aggregate total could have bought them a nicer vehcile, one worth modding.
I have a 95 VR6 Volkswagen Passat. Chipped and Turboed. I am pulling 330 hp's of the sucker. And it hauls some serious ass and looks damn good. The money was spent on the engine and exhuast. It sits om 17 inch BBS rims, not flashy. Yokahamas cayse they are sticky. As for the exterior? Stock hunter green paint, no tail, no neon. Nothing that says steal me for the parts, hey Mr. Policeman pull me over as a usual suspect in my crack mobile. My little yuppie mobile with balls as my old lady calls it.
See I am a nerd at heart. My ride is a wolf in sheeps clothing. I agree with you on imports, never owned an american car, though I like the new explorers.
Oh paid 13k for the passat(1996 with 20k miles) and 1500 for the engine upgrades. I got all power, leather, killer ride for a grand total of 15 grand(added the cost of the rims). And my insurance is on a sedan. I am gonna buy a 2000 soon for the wife.
So I do know a little about cars myself. Probably not as much as you do cause I am in my 30's now and dont pay much attention to them any more. And your point is valid.
But you forgot a couple production cars sold in the us that kick ass. That are not so modern.
1963 Jag XKE 12 cylinder 0-60 4.5
1970 Hemi Cuda This 425 HP rating was only at 5,000 RPM. But the Hemi was easily capable of living at 6,000 RPM where the dyno registered closer to 500 HP.
These are two of my personal faves. Get crappy gas mileage, but kick ass totally stock, and there are many more production muscle cars that did and didnt cost a whole lotta jack. And although I love the imports, aint nothing like low end american torque. Mom's 1980 vette with an l-82 bored out is a dream on take off. Ever sat behind the wheel of a Chevelle?
Back to your 25000 dollar car. My 15000k passat has 330 hps, hauls ass, looks good, lets me cook most people at a light if i feel like it. And sometimes I do when the 240's, civics, and what have you are racing their engines at a light, giving me the finger for driving the speed limit. Times when that nissan or honda pulls up with the bass thumping. And i look at the wife and she knows to let her boy do this thing. She calmy reaches in the cd case and puts in the my special drving cd. The one with real rock and roll on it. La Grange by ZZ Top is my preference on these occasions. Cause it starts off slow and then crashes into you.
So you see I guess I do know a lot about cars. Having tinkered with everyone I ever owned. And I was making fun of the ricers, or people who modded cars. I was making fun of the tails, rims, tires, but no show.
Oh yeah, my proudest car mod? 1990 Miata 275 horsepwer, no after effects, utility white, nothing cosmetic done at all. Was real fun to go down to palm beach and freak nsx, beemers, and the luxurty car owners out.
I know you are trolling, are about 18-22 years old.
And one last lesson maybe this 32 year old geriatric can tell you. Unless you have unlimited funds(which you dont if you are modding nissans) rule one i always learned is. NEVER SPEND DOUBLE THE MONEY ON A CARS BOOK VALUE. Cause if you wreck it, the insurance will only pay book.
So they have written a manual for non technical people to really screw up their systems?
I can feel the pain already.
1. They reccomend futzing around in the bios. BIOS is a no no even if you know what you are doing. Most people who really know hardware stay outta the BIOS unless it is absolutely necessary. The standard settings are usually the best, and unless you need to free an IRQ, or change the boot device, leave it alone. Anyway these days BIOS kinda maintain themselves. Flashing the BIOS as well, Christ on a rubber crutch, don't get me started. Unless you really need some feature don't do it.
2. Overclocking? With AMD high ends running at such low prices why? The cost spent on all the fancing cooling devices can be used to just buy a better CPU. I dont overclock, admittedly I did drop 35bucks on all copper heatsink with heat pipes, to cool the new Athlon, but i think it looks cool,(like anyone is ever gonna see it anyway). LAst thing you need to do is get some newbie burning up his chip/board/ setting the curtains on fire, voiding his warranty.
I think this whole article is really bad advice for the non technical person. Because any tech worth his salt would not advise any of this stuff for a few more FPS.
I would say the best advice is quality hardware and don't pinch pennies when buying it. Aside from the ultra high end video cards, stuff is really cheap these days.
Here is my guide to a good system. I judge it by having the case cover on and how often do I have to get in there and open it up. New computer three months old, burn in 3 days, I havent had the case off since. And I am a hardware nut.
This whole tweaking thing is like the ricers. Just spend the money that you would have dropped on fans,pumps, copper, heatsinks, on the high end stuff to begin with.
Actually if they could grab some end of the spectrum that would not interfere with the the machines in the hospital(and it wouldnt be that hard to custom tune a frequency) if you wanted to go the wireless route.
But they could all have an rj45 dongle that they could plug in from room to room. That would lower the cost of having a pc in each room. 3 foot patch cable in the pocket. Doctors would love this cause the charts would always be ready. No excuses and the nurses could be doing important stuff.
Step further is sync it like a pda at the nurses station. By the time the patient is in the room you know who he is so the info will be shunted to the box.
Easy solutions if you don't think to hard about them.
I have been doing medical IT for awhile now, 6+ years, and it for about 12 i suppose, and best thing is the problems and solving them. There is always a solution.
Any records that docs might need instead of putting the chart on the door, each doc gets his own and you can send it his patient list, their chart, all the details, ASAP. No need for records to send up the chart. No need for stationary PC.
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I agree with you. I had been living in South America for the past few years and when I got home I was looking for some Sci_Fi goodness after two years of 10 channel cable and dial up acess. So i decide to start up on farscape and caught some episodes about the invisible man and fell in love with the show.
IT was campy sort of a mix between:
1.Max Headroom(Edison had the brit fiora chick as a controller always a little sexual tension, invisible man has brit chick doctor.
2. The Hulk - Ivisible man gets to much quicksilver in the system and starts bugging out.
Edge of Night(whatever that vampire show is with Skanky and the vampire is a cop) Just like the Invisible Man he was an asshole in the past and is atoning for his sins, using his power for good, but they both lapse into old ways sometimes.
And you know, I never really made it to Farscape, cause I liked the invisible man so much, and I didnt realize I was watching an old show.
Puto
Nooo lord please no.... I am puring kerosene in my eyes now.
Putp
Well posting as an AC and trolling as well. Ho hum.
1. Cops do whip black ass, and white ass, hispanic ass, all kindsa ass. Course next to Latin America and Russia, I would prefer a US ass whuppin than one of those. Have seen South American and Russian cops tear it up. And people don't sue there.
Hey you know what? I am a Jewish Hispanic. And I look like I should be selling rugs in a bazaar. I look more Arabic than most Arabs. I get searched in airports. Big deal, 5 minutes extra. Makes me feel kinda safe. I have been searched five times this year and the people in the airport were nothing but nice and apologetic to me.
We had a load of hurt come down on our country and we are watching our backs. Nothing wrong with that, and I am happy we are doing it. And you can use the arguement that the methods they are using are not effective. Well please suggest something. Should we do nothing?
I hold citizen ship in the UK,US, and Colombia. Pretty varied huh? Guess I am lucky, gotta pretty good world view IMHO.
The US does some harsh shit sometimes, but we do a lotta good stuff too. Stop trolling, stop being an AC.
I gotta tell you somehing as well. These days more BLACK people have asked me if I was an arab. Trying be a computer geek who is in radioshack buying wire when a big black man says"lookit at ol bin lades kid getting his shit for a bomb, damn, you aint gonna blow me up, just where in the hell or you from"
Man, got me all pissed on a friday night.
What about this guy?
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I never thought cat shit could be more offensive, but add radiation and we take it to a whole new level.
From the Article "Oct 25, 2002 9:04 am US/Eastern
(AP) (WHITMAN, Mass. ) A man who ignored a veterinarian's order to flush his cat's radioactive waste down the toilet was hit with a $2,800 bill.
And Bill Jenness said he's happy to pay it.
"I don't feel I was mistreated," Jenness told The Patriot Ledger of Quincy. "It's my cat, my responsibility and I did not abide by the directions I was given."
Jenness' cat, Mitzi, an 11-year-old shorthair, was treated with an injection of radioiodine after developing hyperthyroidism, which is common in cats her age.
The treatment makes the cat radioactive for weeks, so special care is required, including limiting snuggling time, keeping the cat away from children and pregnant women and using protective gloves when flushing the cat litter.
Jenness said he decided to throw the litter in the trash after the waste hardened into abnormally large clumps.
"I was afraid of my septic system being clogged," he said.
Mitzi's mess was discovered at an incinerator in Rochester when alarms detected radioactivity. Workers traced the waste to Jenness after finding mail with his name on it nearby.
The radiation treatment by Radiocat in Waltham and cost of disposing the waste totaled about $5,000. Jenness said it was worth it because Mitzi is doing well.
Radiocat's Web site says the amount of radiation from a radioiodine shot is probably less than the amount a person receives on a long plane flight or a day at the beach.
But Thomas Burnett, a Whitman public works commissioner, said any radiation in trash is too much.
This is too funny.
Puto
The hosting is separate from the bandwidth offerings.
Verio bought a company called HIWAY.com and that become thier main hosting division. From shared to dedicated.
The rest of Verio is just bought up ISP's around the country. Lotta shop owners got rich in the mid to late 90's selling out to verio, and a lotta people got laid off.
Verio pays the money for the good equipment and they have very good uptimes. But they do cater to spammers. Hell they host most of the websites in the world. When I was there they cut a deal to let Bell South sell Bell South branded hosting on verio Boxes.
You might want to try rackshack.net. I have had great expereince with them
Puto
Well I have a couple of clients who bought them at Circut City and the like. Mostly because of Brand NAME, and the pretty case with all the matching baubles.
And of the ten on one the networks I manage remotely. I never really had any problems with them.
I can't beleive you have not ever seen one in the shop? They are a bit proprietary but well made. A decent store bought. Much better than an HP or Compaq. Have seen plenty of those.
Sony also makes a pretty sweet laptop, an they also hold up well.
Unless you live in a really rural area, this surprises me. Or the quality is good. One or the other.
Puto
Sorry, I was a little unclear about somethings. but the point being that apples to apples Star Office doesnt cut the Mustard.
I was using Office 2000 on 98 machines, and Star 5.2 on the same ones. Star Office had lower system recquirements, older product. Office 2000 on same system, but higher resource requirements whupped its ass hands down. And on 40 machines.
My windows 2000 box is an Athlon 1800, 512 meg, 7200 IBM drive, and Star Office 6.0 sits on it, and Office XP. And for work(as well as compatibilty issues with the rest of the world) Office is the better product.
I try and and keep all options on my machine cause you never know who I might support.
On the XP box is office 2000 and Open Office. And guess which one functions better?
Workstation productivity for pushing characters around Office is the best. Linux kicks ass in so many other areas but MS has office down.
I am sorry I was unclear. But I was comparing 5.2 to 2000. But even 97 is better than 5.2.
Best tool for the job aint always the free one.
Puto
Hey how old is Star Office 5.2? Ancient! And while there are many people say it is all I need, FINE, that might be great for you but not for the rest.
I love *nix OSes. But Star Office on anything is dog slow and a nightmare to operate.
I was the Technology Director of a Small University and I purchased a load of new Dells(bout 1 year ago i think) Pentium 3 1.0 ghz. 256 megs of ram. I grabbed 40. We had 40 plain jane 233 mmx pentiums with 128 megs of ram and win 98. We only had liscenses for 40 copies of office 2000, so I smacked star office on the 233's. I had 40 machines that became dog slow, erratic, and crash prone. The ran office 2000 just fine. The productivity level for the students dropped abour 30%. I started keeping a log of the problems and they all pointed at star office. Locking the box up, not opening word files well. Whole slew of shit.
I tweaked and tweaked, and finally threw office back on the boxes and the liscensing be damned. Cause in this case office worked better, the students got into Acess, Excel, and kept on chugging.
On my new boxes I dual booted win 2000 and redhat. Taught classes in both. Taught Star Office and Office. And Office is a great product, yes it is bloated, but you can do *alot* in it. Star Office could not touch it. Office 97 runs better, doesnt eat the desktop and resources Alive.
I like Open Office, still see room for improvement. Loads better than Star. But saying Star is an Office Killer in this day and age that is ridicoulous.
Plus, in poor countries they learn to use what they have, the file server I replaces ran sco on a 1.0 gig scsi drive, 486 sx 25. They had done wonders with the box. Replaced it with Red 6.2 dual 1.0 p///s. Raid 3 on 36 gig scsis.(we got a good deal with dell).
We took a survey of 300 students. They liked linux, they wanted to learn linux, and we taught it. But hands down they voted star office out. They just couldnt be productive in their normal school work with star office.
Puto
Yo thanks man, and actually i replied to the wrong comment, see two down where the guy is talking about the videp editing business. And is snikering about them losing the entire system. But hey I gotta plus 5 for replying to the wrong comment.
But you are right, i forgot about the drive it eats for parity.
Puto
Hmmm, You suggested raid 5. Would not have been the best in video editing. 3 would have hit been better cause of the next to none performance loss when a drive is out.
Well let me break it down first to you by where you went wrong.
But in any case you should have at least left a little manual with them to explain very non technically what you had done and if they had a problem to look in the manual because all of stuff you had done on the system would have been there laid out and they could have researched. I always tape a note on the side of the server and sometimes inside saying WARNING READ VENDOR SUPPLIED INFO. I make them very aware of what I have done.
It is also hard for me to believe that the guy looked at the server and thought they had one 500 gig hardrive, instead of thinking it was a volume. Any idiot would go. "500 gig drive? Huh?). Then again they got some real bozos in the world and I still shake my head on a weekly basis sometimes.
I always also get then to sign a CYA(Cover Your Ass) statement saying I explained backups, what they should do, and should a problem crop up it ain't my fault. Usually scares em into buying a tape drive. Or at least meeting me in the middle on the raid end.
RAID Level 3 - RAID Level 3 provides redundancy by writing all data to three or more drives. Just Awesome storage for video imaging, streaming, publishing applications or any system that requires large file block transfers.
The only real disadvantage here is in small file transfers.
Advantages -
Single dedicated parity disk
High read data rate
High write data rate
4 drives minimum
No performance degradation if drive fails
Best and worst case performance similar
Video Streaming
Video Publishing
Video Editing
Pre Press
Image editing
Any application that needs heavy updating and large file usage
RAID Level 5
Advantages
Most flexible of all disk arrays
Best balance cost / performance / protection of any RAID system
Allows multiple simultaneous writes
High read data rate
Medium write data rate
3 drives minimum
Ideal for small write applications
Highly efficient
Transaction processing
Relational Databases
File & Print Servers
WWW, E-mail, and News servers
Intranet Servers
You lose a drive in a 5 situation and performance takes a huge hit.
This has been my experience.
Puto
Lord at 12 or 13 in 1983 I had to go see this 3d flick. Space, 3d, and Molly Ringwald
The other cast.
Peter Strauss
Ernie Hudson
Michael Ironside
This movie was such total crap even at 13 I was disgusted. I mean I had Buckaroo Banzai and Flash Gordon under my belt.
Anyone else remember this one?
Wait. I think Milly showed her titties.
Putp
I am a techno geek but i have been to Machu Picchu and it was spectacular. Egpyt is next on my list as well as Japan.
But it is good to see things that were built so well with so little technology that survive today. Attesting to human intelligence and cunning. Give you a real good perspective on the world we live in now.
Much prettier than an IMAX movie, plus you are outside.
I love technology museums but the Great Wall of China would be a good thing to stroll down with my lady(plus you geeks could get some choice hentai).
I guess my point is check out something other than the electronic.
Puto
My apologies, the x serve cab ne headless. But the cost is quite high out of the gate.
Apples site:
$3,999.00
Dual 1 GHz PowerPC G4
256K L2 cache & 2MB L3 cache
per processor
512MB DDR SDRAM @ 266MHz
60GB Apple Drive Module
CD-ROM drive
ATI Graphics Card
Dual Gigabit Ethernet
Two USB ports
Three FireWire ports
Dell
You can do the same for 1600 hundred bucks in a rack.
you say " And I don't think a dual p4 heavy duty crunch box is twice the price of a dual g4 xserve. mebbe a bit cheaper, providing you're running a free OS with free software on the PCs" I said that the dualie p4 option is almost gonna be a third to half as less. Yes and we are talking about using linux on ther server.
And on the PC's you can run Linux or Windows. Wouldn't you do the same with a G4? For what you get the xserve just costs to much money.
Puto
Well since Linux is free right? Why would I need to liscense anything right? and you can order Dell without an OS(the option is availible, even on their webpage.)
Puto
Well as a 0ld fart in the computer world(32) I am looking at my shelf now. I recently put about 250 books in storage and left one shelf standing. I am an MCSE/A, A+,Net+,Linux +, and a CCNA.
7 Books for Windows 2000 products. You gotta remember that Active Directory, Exchange are each products on their own. AD comes with server but is a bitch to to get to play nicley.
Since 93 I calculate I have spent a cool 12 grand of my own money on materials and classes(I like buying OS's, and kinda like looking at the Shelf and seeing them all lined up looking back at me)so that works out to like 1333 a year I have spent on training for the industry, bettering my skills and making me more econmicially viable. But again that cash is written off by me as a hobby, cause it is what I enjoy doing and it makes me loot.
A+ 1 book - Too easy, looked over the book one day before the exams. But I have been working with pc hardware since 1990. Experience carried me through.
Net +, been doing networks since 95, expereince again passed the test as well as 3 years sitting at an ISP Help Desk.
Linux + Well, three linux books, but you would have to count the Solaris, BSD, and other unix tomes I have bought over the years. Say about 15.My unix books FAR EXCEED the windows ones. Come on fellas include the Oreillys in there.
CCNA- Again working at an ISP helped but I actually bought 3 books for this test.
So I primarily work with the windows platform, I do the unix thing too. I don't wave either flag. But I will say this, there are bad admins on both sides. And probably more bad Win admins. BUT they are Linux people who really do not know what a full featured product(large and complicated) Win 2000 is. Hell you can run it all CLI if you want to, kill the gui.
And as for training. I always try to 90% of the subject matter before I take any class, and I always take classes I know the subject matter well. But you know what? I always learn something, you sit in a room with other admins, make freinds, swap war stories, tips, and hassle the teacher.
The problem with Linux admins is this. Most of learned it on a box at home, and learned it fairly well. But never have adminned in an enterprise, where it counts, where you eat and sleep the box. I adminned an nt 4.0 network that accounted for a 1 million dollars a month in revenue. In 97. And it taught me responsibility. It taught me how to admin well.
I was installing Linux on a box at an isp one day and the head admin came to me and said."Hey you want to admin at an ISP Mr. NT?(I was the staff MCSE in an all Solaris shop)" I told em that is why I was putting RHat on my box. He sat me down and said a few wise things to me"Learn Solaris, Learn a BSD, then go to Linux if you wish" And you know what, I couldn;t touch a linux box at work until he was happy with me on the fucking sun servers. And looking back. I am glad he did.
I paid for all my training out of my own pocket, and granted I have a great deal of experience. I would have loved a company to pay for it. Formal training can help if you have a good teacher. I took an AD course from someone who knew what they were doing, as well as an exchange course. No New Horizonz student cum teacher.
Any back to the books. Tally up your Unix Books on Bind, DNS, Apache, and you will have the same number or more than your windows books. You gotta look an the pieces as well.
Puto
Windows and Unix can coexist.
But starting at 2999 it is a little steep. You can almost buy three intel based systems, each with a gig of ram for that loot.
Puto
Isnt Windows 2000 NT5. Last time I checked it was. Even says so it self. So NT has been around for a LONG TIME.
I ain't splitting hairs but stating the obivous.
Puto
Or that most of the tests focused on networked apps? and webserving?
To quote "better cost of ownership for running network infrastructure, print serving, file serving and security applications than Linux."
These are all OS X things can do, well macs can finally do with OS X. PC's with Windows and UNIX have always done these well. When was the last time you say an all MAC ISP? Well, I suppose you could dig some up, i just googled and found a few.
TCO on a mac for a workstation is great, but again this was focused on the server arena. And if you look at it, there are much more server options as for as hardware and apps for Linux and Windows.
Mac OSX has not been around that long either. And who would want to put the pretty mac in a rack? Can I get a blade server mac? Can I get a g4 in a pizza box with a 2 meg vid card and a ps2 port for mouse and keyboard?
The Mac is not ready to compete in the server market at this time and for that reason it was left out of the study. Sure they can be used as a server, but that would totally blow the tco figures outta the water. You need some heavy crunch boxes so you tell you bosses we are gonna get 15 dualie G4's. or for the same price we can get 30 dualie p4's. Did i mention the space recquirewould probably be a third to house them? Where is the headless MAC?
I have an Ibook and love it. No complaints. But still I use a pc at home as well. With Windows 2000, got another with linux. I am pretty much OS nuetral and use the best one for each particualar aspect of my job. exchange on 2000(exchange is a great ap if you know what your doing) linux for file serving, print servers, backups and an accounting app(not written for linux, written for sco but fiddled with til it worked).
I use my Ibook on the road and at work and to keep me abreast of the Mac Os. In the IT field we need to learn em all, not jihad behind one.
Puto
The MAC is a great machine.
Hey man In 89 I almost bought that 240 but opted for the Miata instead cause of the drop top, and I liked it cause it was little like me. I am 5'4 and all my cars generally are small. The Passat is the biggest I ever owned but the seat jacks up high. The other in the running was the volks corrado with the first VR6, had a spoiler that ran up after 45 miles an hour was reached.
Hey man, I am poor as dirt as well. IT is not the best place to be now and I whore my networking ass out doing websits. They are horrible, I have no talent, but it pays the bills.
Honda makes a great car and the wife had a celica for years that gave her no trouble.
Recently I was looking at buying a 99 jetta and the guy wanted 3000 grand over book. The car was cherry, but not three grand cherry. I asked him why so much and he told me that is what the rims and tires cost when he bought them plus the flourescent kit(this i saw after the fact). I told him that he could just give me the old rims and i would pay him book, not even argue. And he could keep the lights as well He told me no, that if I wanted the car I had to buy the rims. 17's on a jetta. I told him that he could keep both sets and i would come over with my own rims and tires. Still no. That was two months ago and the car is still for sale. He called me this weekend and said he would drop a grand. I told him no. Kicker is, he bought the rims on time.
Puto
My comment concerning cars is that I would say that 90% of all the modded cars you see do not have any engine mods other than maybe a loud exhaust.
My point is that a large percentage of bios tweaks, overclocking, rarely result in a big improvement. Maybe a little bragging rights.
I was making fun of people who mod cars, but you gotta admint there are many civics out there where the rims are worth more than the car. That the aggregate total could have bought them a nicer vehcile, one worth modding.
I have a 95 VR6 Volkswagen Passat. Chipped and Turboed. I am pulling 330 hp's of the sucker. And it hauls some serious ass and looks damn good. The money was spent on the engine and exhuast. It sits om 17 inch BBS rims, not flashy. Yokahamas cayse they are sticky. As for the exterior? Stock hunter green paint, no tail, no neon. Nothing that says steal me for the parts, hey Mr. Policeman pull me over as a usual suspect in my crack mobile. My little yuppie mobile with balls as my old lady calls it.
See I am a nerd at heart. My ride is a wolf in sheeps clothing. I agree with you on imports, never owned an american car, though I like the new explorers.
Oh paid 13k for the passat(1996 with 20k miles) and 1500 for the engine upgrades. I got all power, leather, killer ride for a grand total of 15 grand(added the cost of the rims). And my insurance is on a sedan. I am gonna buy a 2000 soon for the wife.
So I do know a little about cars myself. Probably not as much as you do cause I am in my 30's now and dont pay much attention to them any more. And your point is valid.
But you forgot a couple production cars sold in the us that kick ass. That are not so modern.
1963 Jag XKE 12 cylinder 0-60 4.5
1970 Hemi Cuda This 425 HP rating was only at 5,000 RPM. But the Hemi was easily capable of living at 6,000 RPM where the dyno registered closer to 500 HP.
These are two of my personal faves. Get crappy gas mileage, but kick ass totally stock, and there are many more production muscle cars that did and didnt cost a whole lotta jack. And although I love the imports, aint nothing like low end american torque. Mom's 1980 vette with an l-82 bored out is a dream on take off. Ever sat behind the wheel of a Chevelle?
Back to your 25000 dollar car. My 15000k passat has 330 hps, hauls ass, looks good, lets me cook most people at a light if i feel like it. And sometimes I do when the 240's, civics, and what have you are racing their engines at a light, giving me the finger for driving the speed limit. Times when that nissan or honda pulls up with the bass thumping. And i look at the wife and she knows to let her boy do this thing. She calmy reaches in the cd case and puts in the my special drving cd. The one with real rock and roll on it. La Grange by ZZ Top is my preference on these occasions. Cause it starts off slow and then crashes into you.
So you see I guess I do know a lot about cars. Having tinkered with everyone I ever owned. And I was making fun of the ricers, or people who modded cars. I was making fun of the tails, rims, tires, but no show.
Oh yeah, my proudest car mod? 1990 Miata 275 horsepwer, no after effects, utility white, nothing cosmetic done at all. Was real fun to go down to palm beach and freak nsx, beemers, and the luxurty car owners out.
I know you are trolling, are about 18-22 years old.
And one last lesson maybe this 32 year old geriatric can tell you. Unless you have unlimited funds(which you dont if you are modding nissans) rule one i always learned is. NEVER SPEND DOUBLE THE MONEY ON A CARS BOOK VALUE. Cause if you wreck it, the insurance will only pay book.
Puto
So they have written a manual for non technical people to really screw up their systems?
I can feel the pain already.
1. They reccomend futzing around in the bios. BIOS is a no no even if you know what you are doing. Most people who really know hardware stay outta the BIOS unless it is absolutely necessary. The standard settings are usually the best, and unless you need to free an IRQ, or change the boot device, leave it alone. Anyway these days BIOS kinda maintain themselves. Flashing the BIOS as well, Christ on a rubber crutch, don't get me started. Unless you really need some feature don't do it.
2. Overclocking? With AMD high ends running at such low prices why? The cost spent on all the fancing cooling devices can be used to just buy a better CPU. I dont overclock, admittedly I did drop 35bucks on all copper heatsink with heat pipes, to cool the new Athlon, but i think it looks cool,(like anyone is ever gonna see it anyway). LAst thing you need to do is get some newbie burning up his chip/board/ setting the curtains on fire, voiding his warranty.
I think this whole article is really bad advice for the non technical person. Because any tech worth his salt would not advise any of this stuff for a few more FPS.
I would say the best advice is quality hardware and don't pinch pennies when buying it. Aside from the ultra high end video cards, stuff is really cheap these days.
Here is my guide to a good system. I judge it by having the case cover on and how often do I have to get in there and open it up. New computer three months old, burn in 3 days, I havent had the case off since. And I am a hardware nut.
This whole tweaking thing is like the ricers. Just spend the money that you would have dropped on fans,pumps, copper, heatsinks, on the high end stuff to begin with.
Puto
Imagine the support calls.
i have the Solaris 8 Kit, and the 9 Kit. They both expressely state they are not for commercial use. Always have.
Puto
Here is what I see.
1. Costumes from the Highander 2, from the planet zeist.
2. Farenheit 451, burning stuff.
3. Take his family, Oh my God Hi-Tech Gladiator.
4. Logans Run - Contacting the resistence.
5. Pink Floyd The Wall- Everyone all conforming wearing the same stuff.
And 100 other stolen ideas from sci fi classics.
The matrix had good effects and a decent story. One of the better of the sc fis in the past decade, althought not the best are even that good.
But this one has good cheese effect so we will check it out.
Gice me John Carpenters The Thing, good stuff that one.
Puto
Actually if they could grab some end of the spectrum that would not interfere with the the machines in the hospital(and it wouldnt be that hard to custom tune a frequency) if you wanted to go the wireless route.
But they could all have an rj45 dongle that they could plug in from room to room. That would lower the cost of having a pc in each room. 3 foot patch cable in the pocket. Doctors would love this cause the charts would always be ready. No excuses and the nurses could be doing important stuff.
Step further is sync it like a pda at the nurses station. By the time the patient is in the room you know who he is so the info will be shunted to the box.
Easy solutions if you don't think to hard about them.
I have been doing medical IT for awhile now, 6+ years, and it for about 12 i suppose, and best thing is the problems and solving them. There is always a solution.
Puto
Hospitals, medical offices.
Any records that docs might need instead of putting the chart on the door, each doc gets his own and you can send it his patient list, their chart, all the details, ASAP. No need for records to send up the chart. No need for stationary PC.
A Doc could have all his info point and click.
Puto