Might depend on if you want to expand it beyond basic NAS functionality. As I understand it, NexentaStor is designed for second-tier backup and not for providing additional network services such as web, iTunes, DNS, etc.
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One thing I've learned from speccing a few enterprise backup systems is that you really have to be specific with your needs. The reason everyone on this board isn't just recommending the same thing is because there are so many trade-offs associated with backup systems.
For example, how easy do you need it to be to set up? Do you want something with a command line, web interface, or dedicated monitor? How much space and ventilation do you have for the system? Does it need wireless or wired connections? How comfortable are you with the various technologies that you could use in a DIY situation? How much space do you need? How much reliability do you need? How much availability do you need?
These are all factors that are essential to choosing the right solution.
My current setup is more of a NAS than a backup box. It's an old box, Athlon 3000+ with 1GB of RAM, running OpenSolaris. Solaris is a pain, but ZFS is worth it. It makes managing all those disks painless. In return I get redundancy in the form of mirrored disks, speed in terms of ZFS caching and mirrored disks, infinite constant-time snapshots (I do hourly), and a host of minor options. I export these disks via NFS to all the systems on our home network and it is generally faster than a single native disk. All in all it has cost me $120 for a new case and $40 for a new SATA card when I needed to add more disks, plus the cost of disks. Now I have 80GB of OS/web space and 750GB of storage, all mirrored. That means I'll basically never worry about losing stuff.
If you really want quality storage, look for ZFS. It's in OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, and OS X now. Also, if you ever get more systems it is nice to have a NAS to share files and allow for centralized management.
"a lot of static electricity in the air could be messing up the radio waves"
I didn't think static electricity could exist in the air. After all, that's why we can see a spark jump, the air conducts electicity.
It seems like the reason you shouldn't be allowed to broadcast is clear, you'll cut into profits.
Big corporations don't want you to transimit over their signal as they'll loose audience and hence, revenue. But that hasn't stopped most people before.
The interesting thing will be when the RIAA starts suing people for broadcasting their music.
I'm here at work, at the Science Library at UCSC. I just tried to read the article, but immediately upon openning the page, I got a BSOD. I tried to do it with another computer at the desk here, and got the same thing.
Perhaps there's a new worm out that crashes your computer whenever you go to a page with the word "MSBlaster" in it so you can never find the information on patching it?;)
Since they're showing it on so many channels, I guess it would be a great time to fire up that PVR and skip it. While I'm at it, I might as well store that movie they're showing on HBO tonight.
I can understand what he's talking about, even if it seems a little extreme. I've seen a similar thing happen with Anarchy Online.
I know a few people, and have done all I can to avoid this myself, who have gotten so wrapped up in finding one item or making the "uberest" character they can that it has ruined the game for them. There is one item in particular, the Grid Armor, which is one of the rarest items in the game. The highest version of it, Mk 4, is extremely rare. I have known people who have spent over 100 hours in the game just looking for it or trying to accumulate the credits(the monetary unit) to buy it from another character. A few of them quit when it seemed like if they couldn't get the item, the game wouldn't be fun, yet it wasn't fun trying to get it. There is a point where it stops being so fun, but you keep playing.
The most interesting is the people who blame FunCom (the makers of AO) for all their problems. There are still many bugs and inbalances in AO, and some people have quit because of this. Most people continue to play for those really good parts of the game they started for, but dying repeatedly from a bug to the point you can't gain a level really gets on your nerves after a while.
I think what it comes down to is the escape from reality. That is where the addiction really lies. It is a roleplaying game, and by it's fundamental quality it allows you to take on another character, personality, and life for a while. In this other world you can have friends, or be successful, or powerful, or whatever it is you really want ot be. I think a lot of people try to use AO as an escape from life and that is where they go wrong. When it isn't all that much more perfect you find you hate it even more than real life because you thought it could be perfect. It's kinda like growing up and wishing you were a kid again when everything was so easy, even though all the same problems of the world were out there. Some people do get nearly addicted to the game, and they are addicted to the escape, in my opinion.
I'm a student at UCSC and I know that they do it here. When I lived in the dorm all my friends who used Kazaa or Morpheus experienced terrible speeds (on the order of.5 kB/s). I knew that the school limited the bandwidth almost simply by the fact that you could download a file from a corporate site at 700 kB/s.
One week in January, the limits were taken off. My friends were amazed at the speeds they were getting. Some of them went on downloading blitzes, some just kept going and thought it nice that things came faster. I however, started having serious issues just bringing up webpages. Even Google would take a few minutes to load. Every other process on the network was slowed down durring that week. Thankfully they fixed it and things went back to being nice and fast.
I was thankful for the bandwidth limits (which were port based) because it kept the rest of the network from being bogged down. With a taste of what p2p could do to a network, I knew that it really was necessary. I confess though, that I used WinMX and was able to avoid any visible restrictions when I did my downloading.
I thought microsoft was in the process of wrapping up anti-trust lawsuits, and here we are talking about the monopolistic power of their new system. Will they learn? or do the fines and cost actually scratch the beast at all?
It seems to me like this will open up a whole new world of spoofing. The systems necessary to completely keep unauthorized programs from running, and even controling e-mail, is a bit much. I bet hackers will just get a little more insidious. Name your program something windowsish sounding and I bet 9 out of 10 users would authorize it thinking it was ok. The system may not be extremely exploitable, but the user still will be.
Also, who's to prevent one guy from using his lunux box to interpret code and do the things that people stop worrying about because they think everyone has this palladium stuff?
I'm not one to like giving up control. I don't want anyone else telling me what can or can't go on on my computer. I guess that mostly addresses the DMA thing, but I needed to plug it.
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Might depend on if you want to expand it beyond basic NAS functionality. As I understand it, NexentaStor is designed for second-tier backup and not for providing additional network services such as web, iTunes, DNS, etc.
One thing I've learned from speccing a few enterprise backup systems is that you really have to be specific with your needs. The reason everyone on this board isn't just recommending the same thing is because there are so many trade-offs associated with backup systems.
For example, how easy do you need it to be to set up?
Do you want something with a command line, web interface, or dedicated monitor?
How much space and ventilation do you have for the system?
Does it need wireless or wired connections?
How comfortable are you with the various technologies that you could use in a DIY situation?
How much space do you need?
How much reliability do you need?
How much availability do you need?
These are all factors that are essential to choosing the right solution.
My current setup is more of a NAS than a backup box. It's an old box, Athlon 3000+ with 1GB of RAM, running OpenSolaris. Solaris is a pain, but ZFS is worth it. It makes managing all those disks painless. In return I get redundancy in the form of mirrored disks, speed in terms of ZFS caching and mirrored disks, infinite constant-time snapshots (I do hourly), and a host of minor options. I export these disks via NFS to all the systems on our home network and it is generally faster than a single native disk. All in all it has cost me $120 for a new case and $40 for a new SATA card when I needed to add more disks, plus the cost of disks. Now I have 80GB of OS/web space and 750GB of storage, all mirrored. That means I'll basically never worry about losing stuff.
If you really want quality storage, look for ZFS. It's in OpenSolaris, FreeBSD, and OS X now. Also, if you ever get more systems it is nice to have a NAS to share files and allow for centralized management.
"a lot of static electricity in the air could be messing up the radio waves" I didn't think static electricity could exist in the air. After all, that's why we can see a spark jump, the air conducts electicity.
It seems like the reason you shouldn't be allowed to broadcast is clear, you'll cut into profits.
Big corporations don't want you to transimit over their signal as they'll loose audience and hence, revenue. But that hasn't stopped most people before.
The interesting thing will be when the RIAA starts suing people for broadcasting their music.
I'm here at work, at the Science Library at UCSC. I just tried to read the article, but immediately upon openning the page, I got a BSOD. I tried to do it with another computer at the desk here, and got the same thing. Perhaps there's a new worm out that crashes your computer whenever you go to a page with the word "MSBlaster" in it so you can never find the information on patching it? ;)
Since they're showing it on so many channels, I guess it would be a great time to fire up that PVR and skip it. While I'm at it, I might as well store that movie they're showing on HBO tonight.
From my experience with politicians I wouldn't assume that saying something is "thought out" and actually thinking are the same thing.
I can understand what he's talking about, even if it seems a little extreme. I've seen a similar thing happen with Anarchy Online. I know a few people, and have done all I can to avoid this myself, who have gotten so wrapped up in finding one item or making the "uberest" character they can that it has ruined the game for them. There is one item in particular, the Grid Armor, which is one of the rarest items in the game. The highest version of it, Mk 4, is extremely rare. I have known people who have spent over 100 hours in the game just looking for it or trying to accumulate the credits(the monetary unit) to buy it from another character. A few of them quit when it seemed like if they couldn't get the item, the game wouldn't be fun, yet it wasn't fun trying to get it. There is a point where it stops being so fun, but you keep playing. The most interesting is the people who blame FunCom (the makers of AO) for all their problems. There are still many bugs and inbalances in AO, and some people have quit because of this. Most people continue to play for those really good parts of the game they started for, but dying repeatedly from a bug to the point you can't gain a level really gets on your nerves after a while. I think what it comes down to is the escape from reality. That is where the addiction really lies. It is a roleplaying game, and by it's fundamental quality it allows you to take on another character, personality, and life for a while. In this other world you can have friends, or be successful, or powerful, or whatever it is you really want ot be. I think a lot of people try to use AO as an escape from life and that is where they go wrong. When it isn't all that much more perfect you find you hate it even more than real life because you thought it could be perfect. It's kinda like growing up and wishing you were a kid again when everything was so easy, even though all the same problems of the world were out there. Some people do get nearly addicted to the game, and they are addicted to the escape, in my opinion.
I'm a student at UCSC and I know that they do it here. When I lived in the dorm all my friends who used Kazaa or Morpheus experienced terrible speeds (on the order of .5 kB/s). I knew that the school limited the bandwidth almost simply by the fact that you could download a file from a corporate site at 700 kB/s.
One week in January, the limits were taken off. My friends were amazed at the speeds they were getting. Some of them went on downloading blitzes, some just kept going and thought it nice that things came faster. I however, started having serious issues just bringing up webpages. Even Google would take a few minutes to load. Every other process on the network was slowed down durring that week. Thankfully they fixed it and things went back to being nice and fast.
I was thankful for the bandwidth limits (which were port based) because it kept the rest of the network from being bogged down. With a taste of what p2p could do to a network, I knew that it really was necessary. I confess though, that I used WinMX and was able to avoid any visible restrictions when I did my downloading.
I thought microsoft was in the process of wrapping up anti-trust lawsuits, and here we are talking about the monopolistic power of their new system. Will they learn? or do the fines and cost actually scratch the beast at all?
It seems to me like this will open up a whole new world of spoofing. The systems necessary to completely keep unauthorized programs from running, and even controling e-mail, is a bit much. I bet hackers will just get a little more insidious. Name your program something windowsish sounding and I bet 9 out of 10 users would authorize it thinking it was ok. The system may not be extremely exploitable, but the user still will be. Also, who's to prevent one guy from using his lunux box to interpret code and do the things that people stop worrying about because they think everyone has this palladium stuff? I'm not one to like giving up control. I don't want anyone else telling me what can or can't go on on my computer. I guess that mostly addresses the DMA thing, but I needed to plug it.