You'd better leave America (along with Western civilization, and virtually all religion) behind if you think owning property comes before "welfare" - which, in non-reactionary terminology, means efforts by men, through their governments, to help other men - and before "non-discrimination" - which means recognition of equal humanity and everything that flows from it: equal rights, due process, life and liberty, and all those other things Ayn Rand couldn't imagine living without.
Well, then - you are describing socialism. There were "welfare" and everybody wanted to get help from others but not to help others. And to help others they had to have some property and money to pay for goods. And also in some socialist countries it was illegal not to work - "welfare" was enforced.
You just forgetting that source of welfare is property.
The conflict in Israel is caused by the non-Israeli countries that refuse to let Palestinians settle outside of Palestine, and supply the Palestinians with arms and explosives.
Nice, nice.. So the problem not in Israelis forcing Palestinians out, but in somebody not wanting Palestinians in?
BTW Palestinians do not want go somewhere, they want to live in Palestine.
Yeah, but how about when "they" come to destory Earth for their intergalatic highway? We'll say something like "but this planet is ours you don't own it." They'd respond with "Bob bought this solar system 10 million years ago for.0005 credits. We gave him the option of destorying it himself or us paying him 1 credit to destory it. He took the 1 credit. So now we are destorying the solar system."
Well, example - if you have property and there are some cats living and you want to demolish it you should take care of cats or it would be "animal cruelty" in case of demolishing property AND cats.
On the other hand nobody cares about insects there...
Seriously folks, if you think you need $3,000 to build a server, then you're out of your minds.
Performance, reliability, price - pick two of three.
I usually go for performance and reliability. In other case it will be I who have to fix or upgrade it.
Been using Linux SW raid in the 2.4 kernel series for a year+ now and it has worked like a champ,
Just a year??? And you giving advices?;)))
If your criteria for an adequate disk server include either (a) high performance or (b) long-term maintainability, then you should choose SW raid.
That's bullshit.
Software RAIDs have much more problems in maintenance and have special requirements to achive same level performance as hardware RAIDs.
Software just have much more ways to crap on you than hardware. Usually you can't boot from software RAID or it's tricky. As for performance - consider, for example mirror on one SCSI channel. Software RAID writes two times data then hardware RAID. It easily could be bottleneck.
Not to mention that commodity, general-purpose HW is always cheaper to replace
I better buy something that does not need to be replaced at all;)) Well, it's not possible, but you may lower frequency of replacement.. Hmm, I actually agree - I like commodity, general-purpose hardware RAIDs;)))
HW raid was compelling in the past....
If you want a fire-and-forget dedicated box, go for it.
All my boxes fire-and-forget. I have much more things to do then tinkering with software when I can avoid it.
No one has ever told me exactly why Sun has to have their own firmware
Firmware is a software, right? Software could be written in different ways and could serve different purposes incuding performance and reliability increase etc. They might as well hide hardware bugs, SCSI bugs etc.
BTW Network Appliance also have their own disks firmware.
1) I'm worried that someone will claim ash is GPL and I must release the source.
How come? Just slap GPL on it? Basically BSD license says if you redistribute code you must retain copyright notice and list of conditions within source code. So you can't change it. One may add some code to it and have GPLed additions.
BTW ash is a shell distributed with FreeBSD. You may use FreeBSD's source which is guaranteed BSD licensed.
It has some niche use of course, but it's plain inconvenient to have only 2 hours of CD-quality music in it.
Yeah, you may use SmartMedia Cards in it, you need a palmfull of them if you are far away from your computer and their price just wipe out price difference between iPod and RipFlash.
I would LOVE to have a device that I can take to an informal gig or jam session and make a decent-sounding recording, and then transfer it to my computer later.
For DECENT recording you need a mike bigger than iPod...
I downloaded FreeBSD 5.1 a few months ago and installed it, but lacking support for my wireless network card (Atheros chipset), I decided to put it off.
Actually Atheros chipset cards are supported now. Driver called ath. You may install 5.1 and upgrade (cvs) or you may wait for 5.2. It's due in couple months.
I's not a panacea. If you want more processor power
you pay for it with more power consumption and air conditioning. Usually in colocations you have 2x20 Amp outlets. If you use blade servers you end up with filling from one third to half the rack and your power consumption reach 100%.
If you do it for yourself (in company's office) the costs are skyrocket because of UPSes and additional air conditioning.
If tasks are not CPU-intensive you may be better off with SPARC-based blades or Intel-M or Celeron processors...
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And some people out there claim experience as far as from their birhtday.
How about dogs years?
French French and Canadian French?
Well, then - you are describing socialism. There were "welfare" and everybody wanted to get help from others but not to help others. And to help others they had to have some property and money to pay for goods. And also in some socialist countries it was illegal not to work - "welfare" was enforced.
You just forgetting that source of welfare is property.
Nice, nice.. So the problem not in Israelis forcing Palestinians out, but in somebody not wanting Palestinians in?
BTW Palestinians do not want go somewhere, they want to live in Palestine.
Well, example - if you have property and there are some cats living and you want to demolish it you should take care of cats or it would be "animal cruelty" in case of demolishing property AND cats.
On the other hand nobody cares about insects there...
They could claim it's really a meatball ;)))
By the way I don't think he even discovered it in the first place..
It does not make you subject to it. You will be just ignored or moved aside by any country which signed treaty.
Those guys are gamers. And this box also supposed to be game machine. Guess what OS have a lot of games written for it (and processor is Intel) ;))).
Performance, reliability, price - pick two of three. I usually go for performance and reliability. In other case it will be I who have to fix or upgrade it.
Just a year??? And you giving advices?;)))
If your criteria for an adequate disk server include either (a) high performance or (b) long-term maintainability, then you should choose SW raid.
That's bullshit.
Software RAIDs have much more problems in maintenance and have special requirements to achive same level performance as hardware RAIDs. Software just have much more ways to crap on you than hardware. Usually you can't boot from software RAID or it's tricky. As for performance - consider, for example mirror on one SCSI channel. Software RAID writes two times data then hardware RAID. It easily could be bottleneck.
Not to mention that commodity, general-purpose HW is always cheaper to replace
I better buy something that does not need to be replaced at all ;)) Well, it's not possible, but you may lower frequency of replacement.. Hmm, I actually agree - I like commodity, general-purpose hardware RAIDs ;)))
HW raid was compelling in the past. ...
If you want a fire-and-forget dedicated box, go for it.
All my boxes fire-and-forget. I have much more things to do then tinkering with software when I can avoid it.
And what's with the statement that it shouldn't run Linux? I couldn't think of a better OS to run a server on under a budget.
FreeBSD!!!
Firmware is a software, right? Software could be written in different ways and could serve different purposes incuding performance and reliability increase etc. They might as well hide hardware bugs, SCSI bugs etc.
BTW Network Appliance also have their own disks firmware.
How come? Just slap GPL on it? Basically BSD license says if you redistribute code you must retain copyright notice and list of conditions within source code. So you can't change it. One may add some code to it and have GPLed additions.
BTW ash is a shell distributed with FreeBSD. You may use FreeBSD's source which is guaranteed BSD licensed.
You have 128MB in RipFlash Plus only...
It has some niche use of course, but it's plain inconvenient to have only 2 hours of CD-quality music in it.
Yeah, you may use SmartMedia Cards in it, you need a palmfull of them if you are far away from your computer and their price just wipe out price difference between iPod and RipFlash.
Are you kidding?
NEW cars usually have CD player/Radio in them. Cassette players went the way of the dodo.
For DECENT recording you need a mike bigger than iPod...
That would be OpenBSD, not Linux ;))
Well, it's enough just to sell stocks, who cares about soul?
It's not Gentoo providing them - it's XFree86 project ..
Mmm, do you have short horns, demon?
Actually Atheros chipset cards are supported now.
Driver called ath. You may install 5.1 and upgrade (cvs) or you may wait for 5.2. It's due in couple months.
I's not a panacea. If you want more processor power you pay for it with more power consumption and air conditioning. Usually in colocations you have 2x20 Amp outlets. If you use blade servers you end up with filling from one third to half the rack and your power consumption reach 100%.
If you do it for yourself (in company's office) the costs are skyrocket because of UPSes and additional air conditioning.
If tasks are not CPU-intensive you may be better off with SPARC-based blades or Intel-M or Celeron processors...
It states 45MB/s for IDE and 29MB/s for SCSI. Received by, surprisingly, hdparm.