Wow, I'm glad to find out others had the same problem! It SUCKED for what it was supposed todo, $100 down the drain until I listed it on Ebay a few months ago, actually got $40 for it! I guess there's still a market for useless crap afterall;)
This reminds me of a show I was watching on The Science Channel some time back. There is a team that mines for Diamonds in northern Canada (ice), and sells them as "Clean" diamonds. No child labor or any of the like -- they are real, pure diamonds, and you can sleep comfortably knowing where they came from.
I'm not sure where to find more information, but I'm sure that if you peek around a little bit, you'll find what I am talking about.
If I ever get engaged, this will be my solution. Resale value is the lesser issue IMO.
OK, so LOTR was a decent movie, but I'm getting really sick of this slogan being put places it really shouldent be. Just my (albiet, off topic) 2 cents.
I have found that I really dont like the way DVD's play. I much prefer playing DiVX/MPEG from disk. I've ripped all of my DVD's (quite a lot) to DIVX, and just use a box hookup up to my TV to play them. I cant even tell the difference in quality (if you rip at the right quality level). I usually eat up between 1-2GB per movie, but its really worth it. I can seek in the file how I want, pause easily, and its great for quickly switching between movies, queue'ing them up for long-term viewing, etc. Its great for multi-disc movies, and it allows me to save a bunch of physical space. overall, very cheap. my only gripe is that it takes a bit of time to rip a disc, but you can easily queue 4 discs to rip overnight and ittl happen w/o a hitch. storage space is so cheap now, i just keep everything on my home nat/samba box with a bunch of disks.
If you are familiar with, and like OpenBSD, check out DataHive. They make pre-configured openbsd-based servers in a variety of hardware/software configurations, which have friendly web-based GUI's and all of the services it sounds like you need built right in, plus the ability to expand as with a typical OpenBSD installation.
Its a great way to utilize a product that you know is secure, and have help, documentation, and a real company's support behind it.
Search for QoS software, I'm sure you can find something. For the *BSD's, the package of choice is ALTQ.
Most QoS software will let you do everything imagineable to traffic, classifying it and letting you limit and shape it in the ways you want. It takes a tad bit of CPU time, though.
You might be best to throw an old 486/586 with Linux or BSD on it in front of your PC. OpenBSD is great for this, as it has pf (for firewall & nat) and ALTQ integrated. Check it out.
The entire television industry revolves around one thing: Advertising. If there's no advertising, there's no money, and therefore no reason to be in business. If an advertiser is willing to pay 30% more to have ads on during programming, and the general public will roll over and accept it (a sure thing in America) -- you know it will happen, and will only continue to get worse.
I've given up on all non-pay networks. HBO is the only place where I can actually enjoy a movie. Now, if only HBO did news, it would be perfect. I have NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER paying for entertainment/information in this way.
Cable and Satellite Companies, give us a choice! I will pay that extra $10 to get NBC,CBS,ABC,FOX WITHOUT ADVERTISEMENTS. If the consumer is willing to pay for the service, instead of having advertisements crammed down their throat, lets have the option out there!
This is why Open Source isnt taken seriously by many real companies -- many of the majorly hyped projects take this type of opinion towards marketing, "not our job". The fact is, it should be if you want your product to be used, open source or not.
Marketing does not need to mean advertising. I believe for Open Source projects, they need to use marketing as a way to define needs of the market (or the wants of the users), and goals of the project. As well as a way to present the product to the end user/customer.
How can you develop something for which you do not understand its requirements, nor its goals? Just because it is open source, and a voulenteer effort, does not mean its a good idea to attack the project blind from 2 sides!
My guess is that Microsoft is there to announce their formal adoption of Linux, and replacement of all future server products with Linux based solutions, with the next generation of Desktops being based upon Lindows.
That or they will have strippers, so that nobody visits any of the other booths.
First, how should a normal (well, aside from the "Campaign Contributions" to Mr. Berman) corporation be allowed to do this? I wonder when the RIAA will realize that if they continue to piss people off like this, they wont get customers.
Someone should setup a database of mailing addresses for bands so we can all start sending check's instead of paying in a way the RIAA gets a cut. Maybe then the RIAA would get the idea that NOBODY LIKES THEM.
80 GB hard drive... $100 80 GB tape drive... $5000
Its a small business or small office in question (obviously). You can use the RAID array in the DataHive server to rotate disks every now and then, it will sync up the data.
Not the absolute best incremental backup solution, but the data would be backed up, easy to get at, and you always have a good copy. Just bring the circular home with you.
Tape drives are an old, expensive, hard to maintain (this company in question has no IT department), and are mainly used just as a CoverYourAss solution.
Because it indexes all of the domain names of the same site as different hosts.
Google returns one accurate site for the company "DataHive", one domain name (not the proper one, but how would it know =)
This site returns 3 different domains, and tries to present them as different pages, though they all have the same content.
I can imagine its easy to claim more than google when you multiply the number of real hits.
I must say though, the results I found were pretty good for a number of queries. Definetly a google competitor. It does not seem to find all of the newsgroup/mailing-list stuff that google returns, good or bad depending on what you are searching for.
You need a small business server. You can justify this to the superiors quite easily. Check out DataHive, they make servers specifically for small business, based upon OpenBSD. It was actually recently reviewed under the BSD section.
Its REALLY easy to setup, requires next to no maintenence, and if users save files to it, and it has automatic RAID 1 to protect data. And with OpenBSD on the backend, how can you go wrong?
If you are happy with the vendor you are with, and everyone likes working on their product, it makes NO sense to switch vendors to save a couple bucks. The technicians will spend (as read by management: waste) their time learning the ins and outs, do's and dont's of the new OS. Not to mention possible incompatibilities, and more wasted time futzing with network integration, plus warranty and support calls (Sun: Its your IBM box at fault! IBM: its your Sun box at fault!) If you are happy with the platform you are on, stay with it!
Explain that to management, and I'd be very suprised if they didnt continue with the origional vendor.
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My 2 Cents does not mean its a worthless comment, it means that its my personal opinion and I dont necessarily expect others to share it.
Wow, I'm glad to find out others had the same problem! It SUCKED for what it was supposed todo, $100 down the drain until I listed it on Ebay a few months ago, actually got $40 for it! I guess there's still a market for useless crap afterall ;)
This reminds me of a show I was watching on The Science Channel some time back. There is a team that mines for Diamonds in northern Canada (ice), and sells them as "Clean" diamonds. No child labor or any of the like -- they are real, pure diamonds, and you can sleep comfortably knowing where they came from.
I'm not sure where to find more information, but I'm sure that if you peek around a little bit, you'll find what I am talking about.
If I ever get engaged, this will be my solution. Resale value is the lesser issue IMO.
OK, so LOTR was a decent movie, but I'm getting really sick of this slogan being put places it really shouldent be. Just my (albiet, off topic) 2 cents.
This article has no point to it. Its not a real installation of Windows in the first place, its a proprietary OEM install.
The real comparison should be the ease and ability of the end user to Install AND CONFIGURE the system.
I have found that I really dont like the way DVD's play. I much prefer playing DiVX/MPEG from disk. I've ripped all of my DVD's (quite a lot) to DIVX, and just use a box hookup up to my TV to play them. I cant even tell the difference in quality (if you rip at the right quality level). I usually eat up between 1-2GB per movie, but its really worth it. I can seek in the file how I want, pause easily, and its great for quickly switching between movies, queue'ing them up for long-term viewing, etc. Its great for multi-disc movies, and it allows me to save a bunch of physical space. overall, very cheap. my only gripe is that it takes a bit of time to rip a disc, but you can easily queue 4 discs to rip overnight and ittl happen w/o a hitch. storage space is so cheap now, i just keep everything on my home nat/samba box with a bunch of disks.
For me, its the only way.
Can someone offer to fix CmdrTaco's TERM export? :)
So now we are moderating the Anti-BSD trolls Score:1, Funny?
Slashcode needs a module that automatically uses sed to weed out user error :)
If you are familiar with, and like OpenBSD, check out DataHive. They make pre-configured openbsd-based servers in a variety of hardware/software configurations, which have friendly web-based GUI's and all of the services it sounds like you need built right in, plus the ability to expand as with a typical OpenBSD installation.
Its a great way to utilize a product that you know is secure, and have help, documentation, and a real company's support behind it.
Search for QoS software, I'm sure you can find something. For the *BSD's, the package of choice is ALTQ.
Most QoS software will let you do everything imagineable to traffic, classifying it and letting you limit and shape it in the ways you want. It takes a tad bit of CPU time, though.
You might be best to throw an old 486/586 with Linux or BSD on it in front of your PC. OpenBSD is great for this, as it has pf (for firewall & nat) and ALTQ integrated. Check it out.
I use GIF's and JPG's on every site I make. Sue me!
The entire television industry revolves around one thing: Advertising. If there's no advertising, there's no money, and therefore no reason to be in business. If an advertiser is willing to pay 30% more to have ads on during programming, and the general public will roll over and accept it (a sure thing in America) -- you know it will happen, and will only continue to get worse.
I've given up on all non-pay networks. HBO is the only place where I can actually enjoy a movie. Now, if only HBO did news, it would be perfect. I have NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER paying for entertainment/information in this way.
Cable and Satellite Companies, give us a choice! I will pay that extra $10 to get NBC,CBS,ABC,FOX WITHOUT ADVERTISEMENTS. If the consumer is willing to pay for the service, instead of having advertisements crammed down their throat, lets have the option out there!
Just my 2c
This is why Open Source isnt taken seriously by many real companies -- many of the majorly hyped projects take this type of opinion towards marketing, "not our job". The fact is, it should be if you want your product to be used, open source or not.
Marketing does not need to mean advertising. I believe for Open Source projects, they need to use marketing as a way to define needs of the market (or the wants of the users), and goals of the project. As well as a way to present the product to the end user/customer.
How can you develop something for which you do not understand its requirements, nor its goals? Just because it is open source, and a voulenteer effort, does not mean its a good idea to attack the project blind from 2 sides!
My guess is that Microsoft is there to announce their formal adoption of Linux, and replacement of all future server products with Linux based solutions, with the next generation of Desktops being based upon Lindows.
That or they will have strippers, so that nobody visits any of the other booths.
Blegh! I dont wanna upgrade -- I like my media player the way it is. If i minded getting hacked, would I be running windows?
I didnt say anything about shoplifting. I am talking about obtaining it through digital media, and paying the musician directly.
First, how should a normal (well, aside from the "Campaign Contributions" to Mr. Berman) corporation be allowed to do this? I wonder when the RIAA will realize that if they continue to piss people off like this, they wont get customers.
Someone should setup a database of mailing addresses for bands so we can all start sending check's instead of paying in a way the RIAA gets a cut. Maybe then the RIAA would get the idea that NOBODY LIKES THEM.
$4B in 5Q? I'm impressed.
80 GB hard drive... $100
80 GB tape drive... $5000
Its a small business or small office in question (obviously). You can use the RAID array in the DataHive server to rotate disks every now and then, it will sync up the data.
Not the absolute best incremental backup solution, but the data would be backed up, easy to get at, and you always have a good copy. Just bring the circular home with you.
Tape drives are an old, expensive, hard to maintain (this company in question has no IT department), and are mainly used just as a CoverYourAss solution.
Because it indexes all of the domain names of the same site as different hosts.
;)
Google returns one accurate site for the company "DataHive", one domain name (not the proper one, but how would it know =)
This site returns 3 different domains, and tries to present them as different pages, though they all have the same content.
I can imagine its easy to claim more than google when you multiply the number of real hits.
I must say though, the results I found were pretty good for a number of queries. Definetly a google competitor. It does not seem to find all of the newsgroup/mailing-list stuff that google returns, good or bad depending on what you are searching for.
Its nice to have another competant option
.. when you can just download the MP3's and be done with it? ;)
Bring a PDA, a Typewriter, and a pack of mountain dew (or beer, if thats your style). Problem solved!
That or drop out, whatever's clever.
You need a small business server. You can justify this to the superiors quite easily. Check out DataHive, they make servers specifically for small business, based upon OpenBSD. It was actually recently reviewed under the BSD section.
Its REALLY easy to setup, requires next to no maintenence, and if users save files to it, and it has automatic RAID 1 to protect data. And with OpenBSD on the backend, how can you go wrong?
If you are happy with the vendor you are with, and everyone likes working on their product, it makes NO sense to switch vendors to save a couple bucks. The technicians will spend (as read by management: waste) their time learning the ins and outs, do's and dont's of the new OS. Not to mention possible incompatibilities, and more wasted time futzing with network integration, plus warranty and support calls (Sun: Its your IBM box at fault! IBM: its your Sun box at fault!) If you are happy with the platform you are on, stay with it!
Explain that to management, and I'd be very suprised if they didnt continue with the origional vendor.