The mini has been very successful for many small-to-medium size business:
Google Mini
And while the 1001 @ $30K is a bit more expensive, it has 5x the doc count, it has many more features... database crawl, feeds, multiple collections, secure doc crawl,etc.
Lots of good info here: http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/
Keep in mind, the Ultra 5 & 10 share the same moterboard. I would recommend going with the 10 over the 5 since it offers a bit more room for expansion, and you have more graphics (UPA) options.
You must have been looking in the wrong place, if you want a vanila SCSI card from sun you can pick one up for about $100 Sun P/N 375-0097 Single-Ended Ultra/Wide SCSI:
Sure it lists for $190, but you *would* be crazy to pay list price for anything, sun or not. That's about what you'd pay for an Adaptec card for your PC, but as others mentioned you're not just buying a card, you're buying a whole package. This card has been extensively tested and certified in a number of configurations - so you know it'll work.
Perhaps you were looking at a dual card for a list of $500? Again, $500 list would be around $250 for most Sun customers. Sure the dual card shouldn't cost twice as much, but you should consider that you can pop 6 or 8 or these into a Sun workgroup server giving you 16 external scsi channels!
Also, nearly all of Sun's cards are 64 bit, and many of them run at 66Mhz. Compare that to your 33Mhz 32bit PCI slots on your typical PC server.
Sure PC servers and cards are cheaper, but look at the I/O on 64bit/66Mhz compared to 32bit/33Mhz - it's worth the money in many cases, and the drivers work!
Here's the Sun Java Card site:
http://java.sun.com/products/javacard/
Lots of good info there, toolkit, spec, etc. The Java Card book from Sun Press is also pretty good.
The difference in HD is much more than SVIDEO vs. Coax on your regular TV. It's like comparing your 21" 1280x1024 monitor to a 21" monitor from 15 years ago that only supports 640x480 or so, or even *gasp* 320x200.
Yeah, the DVD/PVR combo is nice - but it's about 5x more expensive than a Tivo!
If you want to archive, just get the network card for your tivo, download the mpeg files to your PC and archive to CDR/DVD/Tape/HD... Over a 100Mbit this is pretty quick.
There are plenty of good hacks for Tivo. Not sure what the Panasonic and similar units are running under the hood, but being able to login to your PVR, have it run a web server, etc. is way cool!
Eric
And what about these people? http://www.microsoft.com/insider/printhelp/
They're all smiling 'cause their #!@%ing XP printer driver finally installed.
(sorry, couldn't find this in the stock photo archive. I'm sure it's there though)
I can see things moving in the service, hosted direction. Rather than buy a box that wll be obsolete in 6-12 months, I'd much rather subscribe to a service. I pay $20/mo to the cable company or whoever and they store all the shows I want on their side and send them over to me on demand. This wouldn't even need that much storage since they only need to store each show one.
The real issues are bandwidth and legal. While legally a single person can record most OTA stuff for private, personal use, I doubt a company could do that and serve up shows for anyone. And just looking at replay tv sharing it takes like 4 hours for a 30 minute show to download, but as bandwidth to the home become faster and more ubiquitous... watch out!
It really would be your own personal tv channel. Simply pay the networks for what you do watch, maybe they'll even get rid of the commercials.
Same goes for software. I'd much rather subscribe to get the the latest and greatest versions of any software I want automatically available on my desktop. I'm still a little wary of getting rid of my PC's, but that'll probably happen to some extent too as the home pc becomes "a service"
I'll never buy a Dell simply because of their lame commercials. At least Gateway's are slightly better - Moo!
This is good. IBM drives suck!
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I had two, that's right TWO IBM deskstar 60GXP drives fail on me this weekend. They were only 6 months old. Sure they were going 24x7, but that's still a long way from the claimed 100,000 MTBF! Hitachi makes much higher quality drives IMHO.
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The mini has been very successful for many small-to-medium size business: Google Mini
And while the 1001 @ $30K is a bit more expensive, it has 5x the doc count, it has many more features... database crawl, feeds, multiple collections, secure doc crawl,etc.
Sun Java OS PC's
$300 for a "complete" 1.6Ghz Duron system isn't too bad...
Lots of good info here:
m s/U5/U5 .htmlm s/U10/U 10.html
S S5/S S5.html
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/
Keep in mind, the Ultra 5 & 10 share the same moterboard. I would recommend going with the 10 over the 5 since it offers a bit more room for expansion, and you have more graphics (UPA) options.
Ultra 5/10:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Syste
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Syste
SparcStation 5:
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/
You must have been looking in the wrong place, if you want a vanila SCSI card from sun you can pick one up for about $100 Sun P/N 375-0097 Single-Ended Ultra/Wide SCSI:
m l? catid=42708
http://store.sun.com/catalog/doc/BrowsePage.jht
Sure it lists for $190, but you *would* be crazy to pay list price for anything, sun or not. That's about what you'd pay for an Adaptec card for your PC, but as others mentioned you're not just buying a card, you're buying a whole package. This card has been extensively tested and certified in a number of configurations - so you know it'll work.
Perhaps you were looking at a dual card for a list of $500? Again, $500 list would be around $250 for most Sun customers. Sure the dual card shouldn't cost twice as much, but you should consider that you can pop 6 or 8 or these into a Sun workgroup server giving you 16 external scsi channels!
Also, nearly all of Sun's cards are 64 bit, and many of them run at 66Mhz. Compare that to your 33Mhz 32bit PCI slots on your typical PC server.
Sure PC servers and cards are cheaper, but look at the I/O on 64bit/66Mhz compared to 32bit/33Mhz - it's worth the money in many cases, and the drivers work!
--NM
Here's the Sun Java Card site:
http://java.sun.com/products/javacard/
Lots of good info there, toolkit, spec, etc. The Java Card book from Sun Press is also pretty good.
Yeah, the dell dude has turned to a life of buying drugs on the street. I'm sure he could use the work:
t /index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/02/10/dell.dude.arres
The difference in HD is much more than SVIDEO vs. Coax on your regular TV. It's like comparing your 21" 1280x1024 monitor to a 21" monitor from 15 years ago that only supports 640x480 or so, or even *gasp* 320x200.
66.35.250.150 slashdot
Yeah, the DVD/PVR combo is nice - but it's about 5x more expensive than a Tivo! If you want to archive, just get the network card for your tivo, download the mpeg files to your PC and archive to CDR/DVD/Tape/HD... Over a 100Mbit this is pretty quick. There are plenty of good hacks for Tivo. Not sure what the Panasonic and similar units are running under the hood, but being able to login to your PVR, have it run a web server, etc. is way cool! Eric
This kid is probably one of the best 13 year old writers I've ever seen! Encarta must save him so much time that he doesn't have to go to school anymore. He can continue with his modeling/freelance writer career.
Hey, there's a new encyclopedia - it's called "Google"!
And what about these people?
http://www.microsoft.com/insider/printhelp/
They're all smiling 'cause their #!@%ing XP printer driver finally installed. (sorry, couldn't find this in the stock photo archive. I'm sure it's there though)
This girl is obviously smiling because her Windows PC didn't crash and lose her History paper last night: href=http://www.microsoft.com/insider/homeoffice/ Stock Photo
Now here's a good one: http://www.microsoft.com/insider/productivity/
Stock Photo
Here dad is helping figure out what "fatal error in krnl32.dll means". Say, isn't that a mac they're using?
What the hell are these two looking at? http://www.microsoft.com/insider/finance/
Ah well, I think the whole site is just one big stock art catalog. Once again Microsoft doesn't create anything original...
I can see things moving in the service, hosted direction. Rather than buy a box that wll be obsolete in 6-12 months, I'd much rather subscribe to a service. I pay $20/mo to the cable company or whoever and they store all the shows I want on their side and send them over to me on demand. This wouldn't even need that much storage since they only need to store each show one.
The real issues are bandwidth and legal. While legally a single person can record most OTA stuff for private, personal use, I doubt a company could do that and serve up shows for anyone. And just looking at replay tv sharing it takes like 4 hours for a 30 minute show to download, but as bandwidth to the home become faster and more ubiquitous... watch out!
It really would be your own personal tv channel. Simply pay the networks for what you do watch, maybe they'll even get rid of the commercials.
Same goes for software. I'd much rather subscribe to get the the latest and greatest versions of any software I want automatically available on my desktop. I'm still a little wary of getting rid of my PC's, but that'll probably happen to some extent too as the home pc becomes "a service"
I'll never buy a Dell simply because of their lame commercials. At least Gateway's are slightly better - Moo!
I had two, that's right TWO IBM deskstar 60GXP drives fail on me this weekend. They were only 6 months old. Sure they were going 24x7, but that's still a long way from the claimed 100,000 MTBF! Hitachi makes much higher quality drives IMHO.