This isn't quite like 8-tracks where the players aren't made anymore.
Obviously if you dump this stuff to tape then the comparison holds...for a little while. I would expect that any company, upon upgrading their archive hardware would migrate existing data to the new equipment!
Then the issue is simply with format. I find it hard to believe that in 500 years, no one will be able to decipher a txt, doc, png, jpg, etc. These are SOFTWARE formats--not hardware. Thus, you don't need to maintain any piece of equipment, just a little code. Sure, the more obscure formats like wps, wks, etc. might give you trouble but comon--you will have the same problem with well documented open source formats that are not very popular (like xcf?).
I don't think open source alone is the solution here.
What is wrong with you people? Does it seriously take 17 seconds to load a program on a 2.4ghz machine?? I'm running relatively ancient hardware (1.33 tbird) and writer takes only a couple seconds to start. This is on linux, but I don't recall waiting 17-pain-staking seconds for anything in any os...except maybe for bootup, not applications.
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Timewarner business class road runner can be pretty speedy.
If you are actually growing rapidly (in sales, not overhead), the cost shouldn't be so much of an issue.
I would not go for a solution that mashes together a bunch of residential services.
Why not use email? You could setup some filters to catch and flag messages from your clients, then move them into folders to designate their status.
Everyone likes email.
This isn't quite like 8-tracks where the players aren't made anymore.
Obviously if you dump this stuff to tape then the comparison holds...for a little while. I would expect that any company, upon upgrading their archive hardware would migrate existing data to the new equipment!
Then the issue is simply with format. I find it hard to believe that in 500 years, no one will be able to decipher a txt, doc, png, jpg, etc. These are SOFTWARE formats--not hardware. Thus, you don't need to maintain any piece of equipment, just a little code. Sure, the more obscure formats like wps, wks, etc. might give you trouble but comon--you will have the same problem with well documented open source formats that are not very popular (like xcf?).
I don't think open source alone is the solution here.
Most of the larger, APC ups's have temperature sensors that you can query with snmp. Surely this can also tie into nagios...
What is wrong with you people? Does it seriously take 17 seconds to load a program on a 2.4ghz machine?? I'm running relatively ancient hardware (1.33 tbird) and writer takes only a couple seconds to start. This is on linux, but I don't recall waiting 17-pain-staking seconds for anything in any os...except maybe for bootup, not applications.
All I ever see on techtv is the screen savers show, which sucks. I mean this show REALLY sucks. I can't stand it. This isn't a loss. YAY for comcast.
i bet this works great with 20000 users. or not :(