This article might have pushed me over the edge. But since the server was slashdotted before it even it that main page I never got the chance. Guess I'll have to stick with WinTel hardware now.
Wow! There are actually still other search engines out there besides Google? Who would have imagined? I figured the other ones had all dissapeared after "google" became a word in the dictionary:P These competetors must be evil though because Google is good and they are trying to bribe users away. They should all be burned as witches!
Co-worker: Hey, remember that app you built for ____ a few months back? Can you add [certain funcationality] to it?
Me: Oh yeah, I have the source for that app on that machine over there.
Me: *points*
Co-worker: You mean that box that won't boot because the hard drive is dead?
Me: *Looks*, *realizes the doom of my situation*
Me: Oh crap...
I only just upgraded a couple of my machines to XP this month from win2k. I have been in a foul mood many times this month because of it dealing with all of XP's stupid little "helpful" things. I was FORCED to upgrade because I needed to run software that ONLY runs on XP. I'm enjoying the faster boot times but otherwise hating life because of it. Including one incident of it making me look like a moron because I sent a file to a client with the wrong extention because XP decided I named it wrong and appended what it thought was right after the extention I put on. It's funny, I used to dislike Macs for many of the same reasons I hate XP now. Ever since OS X came out my opinion of Apple has been changing to a more positive tone. If I didn't work in a MSFT shop I would be seriously considering a switch. I already convinced them to install one Linux box so far:D
Mod parent UBER insightful. If people cannot obtain what they want reasonably through normal channels, they will resort to other means. That applies both to inflated prices AND onerous DRM type restrictions.
I put Gigabit in a (private) school two years ago. At the time it was still too expensive for their limited budget to make it 100% gigabit on good managed switches, but we were able to put in enough for a minimum of one GbE port in each room of the building. Many of the rooms have more then one GbE port. At the same time we upgraded the backbone of their network (including the older buildings) to GbE so at least the switches have good bandwidth to each other everywhere. They haven't utilized the potential of that bandwith yet as they only have a couple old servers and use the internet more then anything...but there is room to grow for them.
Oddly enough, at my last job the network was heavilly taxed all the time with tons of client-server and server-server traffic. The CIO would complain about the network being slow and expect us to do something about it. But when it came time to buy hardware, Claimed there was no justification to put out a few bucks more fo GbE switches (we were having to buy hardware anyway). So the network was even slower since we had even more stuff plugged in. So glad I don't work for that pointy haired guy anymore.
That figure of "0 battery packs replaced in prius ever" is misleading. Toyota is quick to make this claim...but it's based on some tricky definitioning. I have seen several accounts in different forums of people getting their battery packs replaced in the prius under warranty. Toyota claims that no batteries have been replaced for being "worn out". The way they get away with this is by labelling all the batteries they have to replace as "defective" instead of "worn out". I find it difficult to believe though that someone could have their car a year and put 70 - 100,000 miles on their car before deiscovering that their battery pack is "defective". Linakage: http://www.hybridcars.com/discussion/discussthread .php?thread_id=254&replies=9
Yes, fun game. I have an electronic version of it on my cell phone. Currently in the game I am playing I own Boardwalk and Park place and a few other properties but a bot player has 3 monopolies with houses on them. Unless those virtual dice really roll my way I don't think I will win:(
I agree SATA is fine. I can actually say that from Experience. A company I recently worked for needed a file server and I built one with PATA IDE drives in RAID 0+1. While the 3ware controllers are ideal, we actually used a cheaper raid controller and it worked fine. There was more load on the CPU from the raid controller since it was cheap but it didn't matter because all that box did was serve files. The CPU didn't have anything better to do:) This was pretty much an identical situation to yours. About 100+ or so employees with 50-60 simultainious users at any one time. That setup had more drive failures then the other SCSI boxen we had, but as long as you don't mind swapping drives once in a while to keep it running all is good. Most of the failures we had though were on the IBM deathstar drives. We eventually replaced the entire array with some bigger WD drives and only had one drive fail after that I think.
Now I understand! That little coffee cup symbol that comes up on my phone is really telling me to go have a cup of coffee while I wait for the Java software to start. And all along I thought it was not functional at all but just an amusing little pun on the "Java" name... Silly me.
Yes, I have always liked Minolta. I'm glad now that I opted for an Olympus for my most recent digital camera purchase though. Otherwise I would have been slapping my forhead and saying "D'OH!" right about now...
Every once in a while I see an article that needs modding on the top level. Obviously there are all the dups that could be modded "redundant". This particular article should have a "flamebait" option.
Only "Archive quality" CD-Rs are designed to last 100 years on the shelf. The standard cheapo CD-Rs use dyes that degrade after about 10 years. Actual results will vary based on the quality of burner, and if you got a disk out of a "good" batch.
Seriously, I can't believe the parent was the only post to make a joke of the fact that the star's name happens to also be the acronym for the Internal Revenue Service.
I fear the first people to try and settle this new found supposedly habitable spot in space will perish...by being TAXED to DEATH (by the local aliens or our own government...whichever comes first). Or maybe they will simply be victims of lethal hazing by the "Frat Boys" gang. Either way they DIE.
Yep, most definately the only good thing Maxtor has is the technology they got from Quantum. I have 4 30GB Fireball AS drives that I ran in RAID 5 for a long time and now just use as extra drives here and there because all four drives outlived the raid controller they were attached to! Yes, that would be 4 ATA drives that all have survived going on 6 years of abuse.
On the other hand, I bought a 60GB Maxtor and an 80GB Maxtor a while back (after the merge) thinking maybe some of the quantum magic had rubbed off but no dice. The 60GB lasted a year but then promptly died about 3 weeks after the warranty expired. The 80GB was RMA'd after 3 months. Then IT's replacements was RMA'd after about 6 months. Then the last drive died again after about 3 months and I didn't even bother trying to RMA it and went out to buy a Seagate drive. I have only had one Seagate drive fail in the past few years and it had lived to the ripe old age of 4 years.
I am happy to see that there has been some bi-partisan opposition to the "patriot act" renewal in the senate. I was saddened to see such support for it in the house. The "patriot act" was horribly written and not at all in line with the intent of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and general spirit of the US foundational principles. Despite anything the White House, Jay Sekulow, the ACLJ or anybody else might try to shove down our throats. And just for the record, I normally support the above people in their efforts...but in this one they are dead wrong. When the US was founded, you heard quotes of "Give me liberty or give me death". People in those days realized that it was better to risk death then live under an oppressive government and that realization drove the formation of the USA. The overall situation has not changed much in over 200 years. The only differences are: now the primary danger is from terrorist attack as opposed to redcoats, and the government trying to oppress the people is local.
Yep, I remember reading the original article too. The part I find especially amusing is that Taco posted today's article and the one in '02 as well. My guess is that he is trying to duplicate himself for a sort of multiplicity thing.
The Cisco 506E is plenty powerful enough to handle just a t1 worth of traffic. Most likely the quality issues are caused by voice packets having to wait their turn when data packets are going through. I don't know all the particulars of the 506E but if it supports traffic prioritization you will want to make sure that's turned on for the VOIP port(s) to start. If that's not an option, try using the multiple VLAN capability of the 506E and put VOIP traffic on it's own VLAN. If the 506E supports it, give the VOIP traffic some dedicated bandwith by configuring the VLAN s for that.
If the 506E doesn't have the options to do the trick you might consider switching to VPN router hardware that does support traffic prioritization.
If switching hardware isn't an option, maybe adding hardware is... You can try using a separate device to prioritize the VOIP traffic. I know Dlink makes a basic device for the task... http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=426
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This article might have pushed me over the edge. But since the server was slashdotted before it even it that main page I never got the chance. Guess I'll have to stick with WinTel hardware now.
Wow! There are actually still other search engines out there besides Google? Who would have imagined? I figured the other ones had all dissapeared after "google" became a word in the dictionary:P These competetors must be evil though because Google is good and they are trying to bribe users away. They should all be burned as witches!
Co-worker: Hey, remember that app you built for ____ a few months back? Can you add [certain funcationality] to it?
Me: Oh yeah, I have the source for that app on that machine over there.
Me: *points*
Co-worker: You mean that box that won't boot because the hard drive is dead?
Me: *Looks*, *realizes the doom of my situation*
Me: Oh crap...
(true story)
I only just upgraded a couple of my machines to XP this month from win2k. I have been in a foul mood many times this month because of it dealing with all of XP's stupid little "helpful" things. I was FORCED to upgrade because I needed to run software that ONLY runs on XP. I'm enjoying the faster boot times but otherwise hating life because of it. Including one incident of it making me look like a moron because I sent a file to a client with the wrong extention because XP decided I named it wrong and appended what it thought was right after the extention I put on. It's funny, I used to dislike Macs for many of the same reasons I hate XP now. Ever since OS X came out my opinion of Apple has been changing to a more positive tone. If I didn't work in a MSFT shop I would be seriously considering a switch. I already convinced them to install one Linux box so far:D
Mod parent UBER insightful. If people cannot obtain what they want reasonably through normal channels, they will resort to other means. That applies both to inflated prices AND onerous DRM type restrictions.
I put Gigabit in a (private) school two years ago. At the time it was still too expensive for their limited budget to make it 100% gigabit on good managed switches, but we were able to put in enough for a minimum of one GbE port in each room of the building. Many of the rooms have more then one GbE port. At the same time we upgraded the backbone of their network (including the older buildings) to GbE so at least the switches have good bandwidth to each other everywhere. They haven't utilized the potential of that bandwith yet as they only have a couple old servers and use the internet more then anything...but there is room to grow for them.
Oddly enough, at my last job the network was heavilly taxed all the time with tons of client-server and server-server traffic. The CIO would complain about the network being slow and expect us to do something about it. But when it came time to buy hardware, Claimed there was no justification to put out a few bucks more fo GbE switches (we were having to buy hardware anyway). So the network was even slower since we had even more stuff plugged in. So glad I don't work for that pointy haired guy anymore.
That figure of "0 battery packs replaced in prius ever" is misleading. Toyota is quick to make this claim...but it's based on some tricky definitioning. I have seen several accounts in different forums of people getting their battery packs replaced in the prius under warranty. Toyota claims that no batteries have been replaced for being "worn out". The way they get away with this is by labelling all the batteries they have to replace as "defective" instead of "worn out". I find it difficult to believe though that someone could have their car a year and put 70 - 100,000 miles on their car before deiscovering that their battery pack is "defective". Linakage: http://www.hybridcars.com/discussion/discussthread .php?thread_id=254&replies=9
Yes, fun game. I have an electronic version of it on my cell phone. Currently in the game I am playing I own Boardwalk and Park place and a few other properties but a bot player has 3 monopolies with houses on them. Unless those virtual dice really roll my way I don't think I will win:(
What about "Bambi: First Blood Part II"?
Or mermaids swiming below the surface in the warm sea below? That THAT would be more interesting:)
I agree SATA is fine. I can actually say that from Experience. A company I recently worked for needed a file server and I built one with PATA IDE drives in RAID 0+1. While the 3ware controllers are ideal, we actually used a cheaper raid controller and it worked fine. There was more load on the CPU from the raid controller since it was cheap but it didn't matter because all that box did was serve files. The CPU didn't have anything better to do:) This was pretty much an identical situation to yours. About 100+ or so employees with 50-60 simultainious users at any one time. That setup had more drive failures then the other SCSI boxen we had, but as long as you don't mind swapping drives once in a while to keep it running all is good. Most of the failures we had though were on the IBM deathstar drives. We eventually replaced the entire array with some bigger WD drives and only had one drive fail after that I think.
Now I understand! That little coffee cup symbol that comes up on my phone is really telling me to go have a cup of coffee while I wait for the Java software to start. And all along I thought it was not functional at all but just an amusing little pun on the "Java" name... Silly me.
Yes, I have always liked Minolta. I'm glad now that I opted for an Olympus for my most recent digital camera purchase though. Otherwise I would have been slapping my forhead and saying "D'OH!" right about now...
...I have heard in a long time!
I was thinking dead as in the Disco sense...
Every once in a while I see an article that needs modding on the top level. Obviously there are all the dups that could be modded "redundant". This particular article should have a "flamebait" option.
Only "Archive quality" CD-Rs are designed to last 100 years on the shelf. The standard cheapo CD-Rs use dyes that degrade after about 10 years. Actual results will vary based on the quality of burner, and if you got a disk out of a "good" batch.
Seriously, I can't believe the parent was the only post to make a joke of the fact that the star's name happens to also be the acronym for the Internal Revenue Service.
I fear the first people to try and settle this new found supposedly habitable spot in space will perish...by being TAXED to DEATH (by the local aliens or our own government...whichever comes first). Or maybe they will simply be victims of lethal hazing by the "Frat Boys" gang. Either way they DIE.
Sorry, couldn't resist:)
Yep, most definately the only good thing Maxtor has is the technology they got from Quantum. I have 4 30GB Fireball AS drives that I ran in RAID 5 for a long time and now just use as extra drives here and there because all four drives outlived the raid controller they were attached to! Yes, that would be 4 ATA drives that all have survived going on 6 years of abuse.
On the other hand, I bought a 60GB Maxtor and an 80GB Maxtor a while back (after the merge) thinking maybe some of the quantum magic had rubbed off but no dice. The 60GB lasted a year but then promptly died about 3 weeks after the warranty expired. The 80GB was RMA'd after 3 months. Then IT's replacements was RMA'd after about 6 months. Then the last drive died again after about 3 months and I didn't even bother trying to RMA it and went out to buy a Seagate drive. I have only had one Seagate drive fail in the past few years and it had lived to the ripe old age of 4 years.
Now I'm just curious... You say you looked under the "flap" on your roomba and looked at it's "din connector". So tell us, is it male or female?
I am happy to see that there has been some bi-partisan opposition to the "patriot act" renewal in the senate. I was saddened to see such support for it in the house. The "patriot act" was horribly written and not at all in line with the intent of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and general spirit of the US foundational principles. Despite anything the White House, Jay Sekulow, the ACLJ or anybody else might try to shove down our throats. And just for the record, I normally support the above people in their efforts...but in this one they are dead wrong. When the US was founded, you heard quotes of "Give me liberty or give me death". People in those days realized that it was better to risk death then live under an oppressive government and that realization drove the formation of the USA. The overall situation has not changed much in over 200 years. The only differences are: now the primary danger is from terrorist attack as opposed to redcoats, and the government trying to oppress the people is local.
All I ask for is for a hybrid with a frikkin "Laassserr" on it's hood. Come on people! Throw me a bone here...
Yep, I remember reading the original article too. The part I find especially amusing is that Taco posted today's article and the one in '02 as well. My guess is that he is trying to duplicate himself for a sort of multiplicity thing.
The Cisco 506E is plenty powerful enough to handle just a t1 worth of traffic. Most likely the quality issues are caused by voice packets having to wait their turn when data packets are going through. I don't know all the particulars of the 506E but if it supports traffic prioritization you will want to make sure that's turned on for the VOIP port(s) to start. If that's not an option, try using the multiple VLAN capability of the 506E and put VOIP traffic on it's own VLAN. If the 506E supports it, give the VOIP traffic some dedicated bandwith by configuring the VLAN s for that.
If the 506E doesn't have the options to do the trick you might consider switching to VPN router hardware that does support traffic prioritization.
If switching hardware isn't an option, maybe adding hardware is... You can try using a separate device to prioritize the VOIP traffic. I know Dlink makes a basic device for the task... http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=426
Yeah, stay away from the cybernetic implants. They might mess with our precious bodily fluids!