NTFS is a very solid filesystem and seems to recover problems well when something bad does happen. The only complaints I have are slow searches and reports. It takes a LONG time to find a file on a big volume, or try and do reports on file system usage. A good database system should speed that up tremendously.
The idea of having to rewrite the apps is interesting though. That tells me this is at least 5 years off, and longer before it would be used widescale. But I guess that makes sense, would you be the first shop to put your big fileserver on a new filesystem like that? Not me.
One problem is people are keeping old notebooks longer. They may not run an app you need but they make great Internet terminals while sitting on the couch. My wife uses an old IBM 600E for Internet surfing. If she actually ran apps on it we would have sold it and upgraded ages ago, but there is no need.
At work we've given some old notebooks to users for this very reason instead of selling them.
Read the SLAs on business circuits. The telcos do NOT reimburse for lost revenue or productivity. You get back credit on your bill for your outage. That's it. If our T1s at work go down for more than like an hour we get back a day's credit off the bill. We don't get back money lost due to loss of communications. You won't either. That's just part of doing business like this.
Maybe it's a form letter. In political situations those are VERY common. It's not some secret ploy, ask anyone that is lobbying for some change. Everyone does this. It's a way to get poeple to show support that wouldn't otherwise sit down and write out letters by hand.
Oh yeah, we've never done that on Slashdot for copyright laws, have we?
We just started getting the new P4 1.7GHz Compaq workstations at the office. They use the new "quiet" drives from WD and have very quiet fans. They are almost totally silent when running. Very nice.
We used to host our own mail and several small sites. There isn't much to it. You'll just need to set up a system and make sure it's secured. I used an OpenBSD firewall, but even one of the small NAT/firewall boxes will work fine.
The only downside is that you won't get the uptime of a colo center. I used SpeakEasy SDSL and while reliable, they weren't 100%. You just have to ask how important this site is and whether you can be down a day every month or two. Also, do you want other poeple using YOUR bandwidth?
Get a quiet system to run this on, as the whirring of a server will get old.
The problem with this idea is that there is no incentive for PC makers to put in copy protection for movies. Unless it helps PC makers earn money, they won't bother. Margins are too thin as it is.
Not everyone cares about the movie/audio industry and they need to figure that out.
Who in the world would want to administer seperate client firewalls? Sure, sounds great at home with 5 machines, now do it with 5000. No way that will ever happen.
A good centrally administered firewall won't stop you from doing what you need to do. If a protocol is well thought out NAT will not cause a problem.
I watch HDTV every day. Most people in the US have HDTV signals available to them. Mine comes in via Time Warner. If you can get Time Warner cable find out if they offer HD boxes in your area, most do now.
If you can't get it via cable use an antenna. It looks every bit as good since it's all digital. As for content, if you watch primetime then a lot of that is in HD. HBO shows movies in HD that look better than DVD. NBC is showing the olympics in HD right now, and they look amazing.
Antigen is GREAT. A lot of people haven't heard of it, but they should. It beats every other Exchange anti-virus tool, hands down.
We had a lot of problems with GroupShield at work and just went to Antigen. So much better. Everywhere I've deployed GroupShield there has been problems. The general answer in their KB is REINSTALL! Which is not a good thing on a production mail server.
Yeah, Microsoft did it. Or maybe without a clear direction or final decision makers a big project like this can't reach a goal. Th eone thing about commercial software is that at some point one person or group decides exactly which features will be in the next version and which ones won't. It looks like Mozilla got caught up in the "all features right now" problem and it has really shown. Don't try to be all things to all people, just make a good base browser and then build on it.
Someone else mentioned this too, but can you do LVM in Linux easily? If so, set up to do snapshots before a big upgrade. A snapshot is a virtual copy of your data. When a file is added or changed only the extra info is written to a seperate place on the disk. So, you end up with two "copies" of the data but it doesn't use up a ton of disk space.
This is great for backups too. You don't have to worry about files being open and it's a great way to get a point in time shot of your data in case of short backup windows.
If you don't plan to rent 5 DVDs per month check out www.dvdovernight.com. They charge by the rental ($4) instead of a monthly fee. They also rent porn.
I had a RoadRunner cable modem for $40/month. My company picked up the bill for it so now it is registered as a business cable modem. They pay $80/month for exactly the same setup.
To get a static IP I would have to pay a $99 install fee (they change me to a Cisco box) and an extra $50/month.
But, I'm very happy with it. 2Mb/sec down, 384Kb/sec up and I get every bit of it.
I want my HD DVD, now. I don't want this tape format, but I could see some people buying it if they don't get HD DVD off the ground soon. If the players were cheap enough I'd pick one up and rent movies for it...but I'm not buying any movies on tape.
There should be an HD DVD standard coming out SOON! It would have been nice to have had HD support in from the first day and just start using it when needed. That way they could release movies in standard definition with tons of extras, or use the space for an HD version. I'd love that.
It sucks that movies on HBOHD look better than those on my DVD player.
If you wanted to save developers work, you'd have to do this at the hardware level like a notebook does. That way the entire system, OS and all, get dumped to disk.
If you wanted only specific apps to do it, then the developer of the app would have to handle that...I would think....
No, I wouldn't design a totally new memory dump system, I'd keep logs. Have the app keep track of where it is so that should the system restart it can pick back up again. That could be done without new BIOS and memory systems.... And you could do it TODAY with your existing hardware setup.
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NTFS is a very solid filesystem and seems to recover problems well when something bad does happen. The only complaints I have are slow searches and reports. It takes a LONG time to find a file on a big volume, or try and do reports on file system usage. A good database system should speed that up tremendously.
The idea of having to rewrite the apps is interesting though. That tells me this is at least 5 years off, and longer before it would be used widescale. But I guess that makes sense, would you be the first shop to put your big fileserver on a new filesystem like that? Not me.
NTFS has been a journaling file system similar to those for a very long time. Linux was the one playing catchup on that end.
You could read the article.
HINT: Manufactures turned it on. It's not on by default.
I really love Slashdot.....
Does it use the older beige drives or the new ultra2/3? I may be able to help you.
One problem is people are keeping old notebooks longer. They may not run an app you need but they make great Internet terminals while sitting on the couch. My wife uses an old IBM 600E for Internet surfing. If she actually ran apps on it we would have sold it and upgraded ages ago, but there is no need.
At work we've given some old notebooks to users for this very reason instead of selling them.
Read the SLAs on business circuits. The telcos do NOT reimburse for lost revenue or productivity. You get back credit on your bill for your outage. That's it. If our T1s at work go down for more than like an hour we get back a day's credit off the bill. We don't get back money lost due to loss of communications. You won't either. That's just part of doing business like this.
Maybe it's a form letter. In political situations those are VERY common. It's not some secret ploy, ask anyone that is lobbying for some change. Everyone does this. It's a way to get poeple to show support that wouldn't otherwise sit down and write out letters by hand.
Oh yeah, we've never done that on Slashdot for copyright laws, have we?
$999 for the workstation with 256MB RAM, 40GB HD, Nvidia graphics, and built-in NIC.
We just started getting the new P4 1.7GHz Compaq workstations at the office. They use the new "quiet" drives from WD and have very quiet fans. They are almost totally silent when running. Very nice.
We used to host our own mail and several small sites. There isn't much to it. You'll just need to set up a system and make sure it's secured. I used an OpenBSD firewall, but even one of the small NAT/firewall boxes will work fine.
The only downside is that you won't get the uptime of a colo center. I used SpeakEasy SDSL and while reliable, they weren't 100%. You just have to ask how important this site is and whether you can be down a day every month or two. Also, do you want other poeple using YOUR bandwidth?
Get a quiet system to run this on, as the whirring of a server will get old.
The problem with this idea is that there is no incentive for PC makers to put in copy protection for movies. Unless it helps PC makers earn money, they won't bother. Margins are too thin as it is.
Not everyone cares about the movie/audio industry and they need to figure that out.
Who in the world would want to administer seperate client firewalls? Sure, sounds great at home with 5 machines, now do it with 5000. No way that will ever happen.
A good centrally administered firewall won't stop you from doing what you need to do. If a protocol is well thought out NAT will not cause a problem.
Your TV has to have a component input and be able to handle 1080i resolution. Everything on the HD channel feeds are upsized to 1080i.
I watch HDTV every day. Most people in the US have HDTV signals available to them. Mine comes in via Time Warner. If you can get Time Warner cable find out if they offer HD boxes in your area, most do now.
If you can't get it via cable use an antenna. It looks every bit as good since it's all digital. As for content, if you watch primetime then a lot of that is in HD. HBO shows movies in HD that look better than DVD. NBC is showing the olympics in HD right now, and they look amazing.
Antigen is GREAT. A lot of people haven't heard of it, but they should. It beats every other Exchange anti-virus tool, hands down.
We had a lot of problems with GroupShield at work and just went to Antigen. So much better. Everywhere I've deployed GroupShield there has been problems. The general answer in their KB is REINSTALL! Which is not a good thing on a production mail server.
Yeah, Microsoft did it. Or maybe without a clear direction or final decision makers a big project like this can't reach a goal. Th eone thing about commercial software is that at some point one person or group decides exactly which features will be in the next version and which ones won't. It looks like Mozilla got caught up in the "all features right now" problem and it has really shown. Don't try to be all things to all people, just make a good base browser and then build on it.
Try www.dvdovernight.com. They are $4/rental.
Someone else mentioned this too, but can you do LVM in Linux easily? If so, set up to do snapshots before a big upgrade. A snapshot is a virtual copy of your data. When a file is added or changed only the extra info is written to a seperate place on the disk. So, you end up with two "copies" of the data but it doesn't use up a ton of disk space.
This is great for backups too. You don't have to worry about files being open and it's a great way to get a point in time shot of your data in case of short backup windows.
If you don't plan to rent 5 DVDs per month check out www.dvdovernight.com. They charge by the rental ($4) instead of a monthly fee. They also rent porn.
I had a RoadRunner cable modem for $40/month. My company picked up the bill for it so now it is registered as a business cable modem. They pay $80/month for exactly the same setup.
To get a static IP I would have to pay a $99 install fee (they change me to a Cisco box) and an extra $50/month.
But, I'm very happy with it. 2Mb/sec down, 384Kb/sec up and I get every bit of it.
Orinoco (formerly Lucent) has a home gateway product that's an 802.11 AP with NAT and a built-in 56K modem. Orinoco's wireless products are great.
www.wavelan.com
I want my HD DVD, now. I don't want this tape format, but I could see some people buying it if they don't get HD DVD off the ground soon. If the players were cheap enough I'd pick one up and rent movies for it...but I'm not buying any movies on tape.
There should be an HD DVD standard coming out SOON! It would have been nice to have had HD support in from the first day and just start using it when needed. That way they could release movies in standard definition with tons of extras, or use the space for an HD version. I'd love that.
It sucks that movies on HBOHD look better than those on my DVD player.
If you wanted to save developers work, you'd have to do this at the hardware level like a notebook does. That way the entire system, OS and all, get dumped to disk.
If you wanted only specific apps to do it, then the developer of the app would have to handle that...I would think....
No, I wouldn't design a totally new memory dump system, I'd keep logs. Have the app keep track of where it is so that should the system restart it can pick back up again. That could be done without new BIOS and memory systems.... And you could do it TODAY with your existing hardware setup.
How often is this a problem? If it happens a lot fix the power problem...not the problems after.
I don't see it worth the time and effort to set something like this up.