What'll be funny is when heavy users (aka big spenders) of the legit music services (iTunes, Napster, etc) have their connection dropped because they're paying for/downloading too many songs from those services.
There ya go RIAA! Punish your biggest customers for being your biggest customers..morons.
"While existing providers of broadband through cable TV lines or phone wires consider the technology intriguing, they stress that talk of it has been around for years, with nothing to show for it."
I remember 4 or 5 years ago there was a company called MediaFusion that was doing the same thing and promised something like 5gb/s on a single power line. Last I heard (5 years ago) they were testing in Florida but I think the company eventually went under and nothing became of it.
Then, the price for upgrading the entire US's power grid to provide service: ~$100 million. Cheap stuff.
"Traffic lights, pacemakers, appliances -- all subject to outages and interruptions because in the future they're controlled via Internet"
why in the hell would these things be put on the internet? If they're being controlled via a network, they should be on their own.. not on a public one like the Internet. I just don't see the point.
Not like it matters to anyone outside of RCN's territory. Because cable companies (ATT/Comcast) have monopolies in 90%+ of their markets this doesn't mean crap to them. Optimum Online has been doing higher bandwidth than them for years and they apparently they don't give a damn.
All ATT/Comcast have to do is compete with DSL in some areas and it doesn't take a whole lot of bandwidth to do that.
So, congrats to those who can take advantage of this. Too bad the rest of us will most likely continue to suffer in 'broadband' hell.
Here, we use NovaNET by Novastor (Site). It allows for backups set by administrators (or users if you really want) to pretty much any device, including any tape drive. You could back the contents of every one of the client PCs to a single tape drive. Very useful, very easily set up. Just install it on a 'server' machine, then install it on each of the clients. Next time you log in, you'll see all of the clients' files available for backup.
I'd suggest downloading the 30 day trial from their website and give it a shot. There's also versions for linux & netware.
This is from etherlinx.com:
"We have operationally "lit up" the South Bay and Oakland areas with 2MB Ethernet "
If they're getting 2MB in their test, I'm guessing a full fledged service can do even more than that.
It's all about transition. If you force a change on your users they'll hate you for it (and probably force a change back).
Do this: Install Open Office for Windows on some (or all) of the users. You may want to start with some of the more tech-savvy users and gradually move to the rest of them. Be sure to be ready for a lot of "I did x by doing y in Excel, how do I do it in this?" or "in the old system, I did this..."
Windows is a little more tricky. I would suggest, if you can wait this long, for Lindows to come out or at least something similar. The key being it's still MS Windows-ish.. just make sure whichever one you go with you can run those specialized programs.
Also, be sure to include a lot of pretty desktops and screen savers (a lot of beaches, sunsets etc). Most users, at least here, will do anything--including dump windows--just for a pretty looking background.
Eventually you may be able to move them off of the Lindows type OS and onto a (free) distro or your own.
As for the servers, it all depends on what you do with them, but most things like print serving, file sharing, NT domains, etc can be done easily with samba or lpd or whatever.
I think the best solution, being a System Admin/IT Mgr who graduated from college a week ago, is to go to college and co-op. I co-oped for three of the four years I was in school. I got the best of both worlds, not only a college education/degree but also 3 years of real experience. By graduation my resume was bursting at the seams with skills and experience, not to mention the Bachelor's degree.
Also, a good idea is to gain as many certifications you can while you're in school. Unless you go to MIT or something, you'll probably have time to take a few certifications here and there. From what I hear it's difficult to do that kind of stuff once you're in the "real world."
From Cisco's site about the hardware included:
"The Cisco ATA 186 is installed at the subscriber's premises and supports two voice ports, each with its own independent telephone number. "
I'm guessing from that you could just put this somewhere in the basement and using some creative splitting you could hook up at least a couple phones per line.
I wonder since with limited upstream on most residential broadband connections nowadays, when you try to call someone will it kill your ping on your game of Tribes. Or if you're downloading a bunch of stuff, will your girlfriend get mad because your phone won't ring when she tries to call? ack.. i can see the problems already..
NEW machines installed in Adelaide convenience stores make the illegal copying of the latest CDs and computer software - which costs artists and software designers millions of dollars - as easy as buying a loaf of bread.
I especially like it how by coping CDs we are stealing millions of dollars from the artists and software designers and NOT the huge corporations behind them. We should all be ashamed! Those POOR POOR people! Maybe the artists & designers should go ask their managers/bosses for a ride to the soup kitchen in their new Jaguar.
Reminds me of those Sally Struthers commercials. "Save the children, Save the software designers!"
If "Rip, Mix, Burn" type language is what Disney is going after, shouldn't they be going for companies like Philips that use almost the exact same slogan for its set-top CDR's? Or Roxio for its campaigns for Easy CD Creator?
Perhaps Blizzard should be looking into games like Tribes 2 where you create a user/pass on Sierra's authentication servers and that user is connected to a CD-Key. In order to play on the Internet, you must first log in. The actual game servers are hosted by just about anyone.
Also, it would make sense for Blizzard to include a TCP/IP server ("quick" server for 1 or 2 games, as well as dedicated Win32/Linux servers) in their games and this type of thing would never be a problem.
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"Communication: 10/100 Base-T LAN on board, MDC Fax/Modem V.90/V.92 on Board"
Screw the 1TB of RAM.. It's got a V.90/V.92 modem that FAXES TOO! ON BOARD! Wow, what will they think of next?
Not to mention the air shower, gatta get me one of those.
What'll be funny is when heavy users (aka big spenders) of the legit music services (iTunes, Napster, etc) have their connection dropped because they're paying for/downloading too many songs from those services.
There ya go RIAA! Punish your biggest customers for being your biggest customers..morons.
"Why does Michael Bay get to keep on making movies? Cause Pearl Harbor sucked, just a little bit more than I miss you..."
http://slashdot.org/yro/99/10/25/2039238.shtml
The only improvement the Sony has over the Sandisk I see is the battery. But, at over 2x the price, I can afford to carry a couple extra AAA's.
Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition 32-bit supports up to 32GB, 64-bit up to 64GB..
t ion/sysreqs/default.mspx
r ms/index-dl.html
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/evalua
We have several HP Proliant DL580's with 16GB RAM running 2003.
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/platfo
"While existing providers of broadband through cable TV lines or phone wires consider the technology intriguing, they stress that talk of it has been around for years, with nothing to show for it." I remember 4 or 5 years ago there was a company called MediaFusion that was doing the same thing and promised something like 5gb/s on a single power line. Last I heard (5 years ago) they were testing in Florida but I think the company eventually went under and nothing became of it. Then, the price for upgrading the entire US's power grid to provide service: ~$100 million. Cheap stuff.
Not like it matters to anyone outside of RCN's territory. Because cable companies (ATT/Comcast) have monopolies in 90%+ of their markets this doesn't mean crap to them. Optimum Online has been doing higher bandwidth than them for years and they apparently they don't give a damn.
All ATT/Comcast have to do is compete with DSL in some areas and it doesn't take a whole lot of bandwidth to do that.
So, congrats to those who can take advantage of this. Too bad the rest of us will most likely continue to suffer in 'broadband' hell.
Why aren't these people in jail?
I'd suggest downloading the 30 day trial from their website and give it a shot. There's also versions for linux & netware.
This is from etherlinx.com: "We have operationally "lit up" the South Bay and Oakland areas with 2MB Ethernet " If they're getting 2MB in their test, I'm guessing a full fledged service can do even more than that.
It's all about transition. If you force a change on your users they'll hate you for it (and probably force a change back). Do this: Install Open Office for Windows on some (or all) of the users. You may want to start with some of the more tech-savvy users and gradually move to the rest of them. Be sure to be ready for a lot of "I did x by doing y in Excel, how do I do it in this?" or "in the old system, I did this..." Windows is a little more tricky. I would suggest, if you can wait this long, for Lindows to come out or at least something similar. The key being it's still MS Windows-ish.. just make sure whichever one you go with you can run those specialized programs. Also, be sure to include a lot of pretty desktops and screen savers (a lot of beaches, sunsets etc). Most users, at least here, will do anything--including dump windows--just for a pretty looking background. Eventually you may be able to move them off of the Lindows type OS and onto a (free) distro or your own. As for the servers, it all depends on what you do with them, but most things like print serving, file sharing, NT domains, etc can be done easily with samba or lpd or whatever.
I think the best solution, being a System Admin/IT Mgr who graduated from college a week ago, is to go to college and co-op. I co-oped for three of the four years I was in school. I got the best of both worlds, not only a college education/degree but also 3 years of real experience. By graduation my resume was bursting at the seams with skills and experience, not to mention the Bachelor's degree. Also, a good idea is to gain as many certifications you can while you're in school. Unless you go to MIT or something, you'll probably have time to take a few certifications here and there. From what I hear it's difficult to do that kind of stuff once you're in the "real world."
Your pocket catches on fire because of the latest version of the Nimda virus..
From Cisco's site about the hardware included: "The Cisco ATA 186 is installed at the subscriber's premises and supports two voice ports, each with its own independent telephone number. " I'm guessing from that you could just put this somewhere in the basement and using some creative splitting you could hook up at least a couple phones per line.
I wonder since with limited upstream on most residential broadband connections nowadays, when you try to call someone will it kill your ping on your game of Tribes. Or if you're downloading a bunch of stuff, will your girlfriend get mad because your phone won't ring when she tries to call? ack.. i can see the problems already..
Reminds me of those Sally Struthers commercials. "Save the children, Save the software designers!"
It'd actually be better if it were right outside the store. Buy the CD, go outside & copy, wrap it back up and return it.
If "Rip, Mix, Burn" type language is what Disney is going after, shouldn't they be going for companies like Philips that use almost the exact same slogan for its set-top CDR's? Or Roxio for its campaigns for Easy CD Creator?
Perhaps Blizzard should be looking into games like Tribes 2 where you create a user/pass on Sierra's authentication servers and that user is connected to a CD-Key. In order to play on the Internet, you must first log in. The actual game servers are hosted by just about anyone.
Also, it would make sense for Blizzard to include a TCP/IP server ("quick" server for 1 or 2 games, as well as dedicated Win32/Linux servers) in their games and this type of thing would never be a problem.