Actually, I'm about 30min south of Boston and Verizon just hooked our town and the neighboring one up with FiOS internet. So per-town isn't holding them back. FiOS TV is still not available because Comcast's exclusive contract hasn't run-out yet, but hopefully when it comes round for renewal it won't be exclusive any more...
All for the low, low price of... a second home! Don't the rental tenants get a bit miffed with your closet of humming, blinking technology?
"Hello, Mr. Landlord? Yeah, that server closet thing of yours... uhm, it's smoking again..."
Outside all of the FCC/ham radio transmission non-issues, aren't there some rental laws about not requiring your rental tenants to be certified in networking and transceiver operations?;)
Business connections come with no bandwidth usage guarantees. For that you would need a "commercial" account, which I believe start at $1,500/month.
These details came to light a few months ago when Comcast started making threatening calls to people who used "too much" bandwidth, despite them never being provided any measure of said limits.
I am actually doing the same as you, although with a slight change. Instead of RAID-0 I'm simply using LVM with the raw disks. This way, if the worst happended and both boxes experienced failures simultaneously, then the LVM tools can easily bring the Volume Group online in degraded mode and let you pull off as much data as possible. Having a failure on RAID-0 most likely means the entire array is toast.
But thanks for posting this so I know my ideas aren't totally crazy.;)
I think I've suddenly gone blind because your "[non-]fancy way of saying" doesn't sound a damn thing like the gibberish my eyes just read. "mutually orthagonal vectors" ?!
If I'm wrong, then I should probably go and lie down, but I just showed my wife and now she's crying... so I think it's your explanation and not me.
I completely agree. Everyone seems to missing the key selling-point of LibraryThing.com in that it's web-based, and therefor by definition, cross-platform.
Frankly I don't want the hours of cataloging effort I put into maintaining my library to disappear one day when I drop my laptop (yeah yeah, backups, whatever;P).
And besides, LibraryThing has some excellent features including our much beloved LoC interfaces and MARC records! Wooo! No self-respecting owner of a library of any merit would do without those two!:D
You neglected to mention that LibraryThing.com is web-based, has awesome import/export abilities, and basically lets you manage your data platform-independent.
I switched from Delicious Library after paying for it, for a lifetime Librarything.com account.
I would just like to atest to the fact that I've not hired people because of their online presence.
Namely the great tech guy that went through two rounds of interviews, seemed very charismatic... but oh, apparently likes to take recently-dated photos of himself whacky out on some hard drugs.
Yeah, that'd be a reliable situation if a server went done or a client's database fried.
I'm just saying, it's obvious advice in this day and age; not all PHB's are incapable of operating Google...
* Does breathing make living more enjoyable? * Does having paint make being a painter more enjoyable? * Does having a computer make developing software more enjoyable?
I could go on, but I think we've all paid this post far too much heed as it is.
I completely agree. It's a little-believed sociologic fact that employers want people to keep their salaries secret (regardless of reason) for the specific fact that it allows them to pay the same workers different amounts. I've never heard a single phrase applied better since I was but a wee 20-something and was told (in passing) by a manager that "Hey, you know how it is, the squeaky wheel gets the grease..."
I get so frustrated when people balk at the idea of discussing their salaries - how are the majority of people supposed to truly know their worth. One of the other posters mentioned the better companies having defnied pay levels, but these are/always/ tailored to the current employees and never hold true to everyone in a specific position.
I'm glad someone was modded-up for airing these opinions.
Actually it worked fine. All nytimes.com checks on is a referrer - if it's Google, you get in for free. So even though Google said "hey, I got nuthin!" for that URL, just click it again and voila, you're in.
Does anybody else smell a strategically-delayed yet feeble PR campaign from the likes of EA?
Sure smells that way to me. Is there anybody actually out there that still thinks the game industry is all peaches and cream? Jesus, I'd rather be working as an intern at Merrill Lynch...
Careful now, messing with scammers could get you whacked. Case-in-point, the final paragraph of the aforementioned P-P-P-Powerbook story:
3) Finally, and most disturbingly, Jeff was not heard from again. I personally e-mailed him for permission to run his story on ZUG, but after an initial response, I never heard from him again. All of his Web sites have come down, and he is nowhere to be found.
Jeff, wherever you are, this P-P-P-Powerbook's for you.
Some of you may not be familiar with this, but if you log in to Windows Update and then go to Settings, there's a checkbox that says "Show a link to Windows Update Catalog".
What this does is let you actually browse ANY and ALL updates for ANY version of Windows. That is to say, regardless of whether they've ever been installed on the connecting machine.
I'm curious how this new/new-old/new-rehashed 'proof required' method will work for patches that do not pertain to the connecting OS. Right now I can log in with WinXP, patch myself merrily, and then switch over to the Catalog and download a bunch of patches for my Win98 box (to save some time, or avoid connecting my Win98 box to the Internet, etc.)
If logic follows, Microsoft will either have to get rid of the Catalog completely, or require a valid license for every different copy of Windows that you download patches for... The latter of course is particularly flawed, as Microsoft are not to know how many machines I plan on patching with my Catalog downloads...
Anyway, just a thought... and if none of you have seen this option, I do suggest you check it out as it means you only need 1 Windows machine on the Internet ever, and you can patch all the others to your heart's content...:)
Am I the only person that wants to know why the open source movement is so intent on diluting the browser market, instead of just improving Firefox and dominating Internet Explorer?
I agree that Firefox was necessary given what Mozilla had/has become, but why-oh-why are we STILL pumping out new browsers? Can't these obviously talented developers find a spot to contribute to a current browser? You know, one that already has the publicity (full-page newspaper ads, etc.) and growing market share.
I just hate to see skilled people expend energy reinventing the wheel...:(
There's this very logical train of thought that I and all my family follow when flying international: Do NOT wrap any presents that you may be carrying. It causes an exponential amount of problems if the security folk have only your word to go on, and/or have to start unwrapping your gifts, because if they do it to 1, they're going to do it to all of them.
The easiest option is to figure out what kind of cables and/or wireless equipment would allow you to keep the PC back in the snug, safe comfort of your house and only have the bare minimum out in the shed.
Initially it seeems like a pain but it's nearly always the easiest and cheapest solution.
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Actually, I'm about 30min south of Boston and Verizon just hooked our town and the neighboring one up with FiOS internet. So per-town isn't holding them back. FiOS TV is still not available because Comcast's exclusive contract hasn't run-out yet, but hopefully when it comes round for renewal it won't be exclusive any more...
All for the low, low price of... a second home! Don't the rental tenants get a bit miffed with your closet of humming, blinking technology?
;)
"Hello, Mr. Landlord? Yeah, that server closet thing of yours... uhm, it's smoking again..."
Outside all of the FCC/ham radio transmission non-issues, aren't there some rental laws about not requiring your rental tenants to be certified in networking and transceiver operations?
Business connections come with no bandwidth usage guarantees. For that you would need a "commercial" account, which I believe start at $1,500/month. These details came to light a few months ago when Comcast started making threatening calls to people who used "too much" bandwidth, despite them never being provided any measure of said limits.
I am actually doing the same as you, although with a slight change. Instead of RAID-0 I'm simply using LVM with the raw disks. This way, if the worst happended and both boxes experienced failures simultaneously, then the LVM tools can easily bring the Volume Group online in degraded mode and let you pull off as much data as possible. Having a failure on RAID-0 most likely means the entire array is toast.
;)
But thanks for posting this so I know my ideas aren't totally crazy.
-volve
...why?!
Here, have some of my advil - it sounds like you may need them more than I.
Pardon?!
I think I've suddenly gone blind because your "[non-]fancy way of saying" doesn't sound a damn thing like the gibberish my eyes just read. "mutually orthagonal vectors" ?!
If I'm wrong, then I should probably go and lie down, but I just showed my wife and now she's crying... so I think it's your explanation and not me.
*goes to find advil*
I completely agree. Everyone seems to missing the key selling-point of LibraryThing.com in that it's web-based, and therefor by definition, cross-platform.
;P).
:D
Frankly I don't want the hours of cataloging effort I put into maintaining my library to disappear one day when I drop my laptop (yeah yeah, backups, whatever
And besides, LibraryThing has some excellent features including our much beloved LoC interfaces and MARC records! Wooo! No self-respecting owner of a library of any merit would do without those two!
-volve
You neglected to mention that LibraryThing.com is web-based, has awesome import/export abilities, and basically lets you manage your data platform-independent.
I switched from Delicious Library after paying for it, for a lifetime Librarything.com account.
Definitely a very awesome site.
-volve
I would just like to atest to the fact that I've not hired people because of their online presence.
Namely the great tech guy that went through two rounds of interviews, seemed very charismatic... but oh, apparently likes to take recently-dated photos of himself whacky out on some hard drugs.
Yeah, that'd be a reliable situation if a server went done or a client's database fried.
I'm just saying, it's obvious advice in this day and age; not all PHB's are incapable of operating Google...
-volve
Next you'll be saying that there's no such thing as an "ATM Machine" or a "PIN Number". The's unpossible!
Damn commies.
-volve
Am I the only one amused by Praxis exploding due to unsafe practices?
/chuckles to self
-volve
* Does breathing make living more enjoyable?
* Does having paint make being a painter more enjoyable?
* Does having a computer make developing software more enjoyable?
I could go on, but I think we've all paid this post far too much heed as it is.
-volve
Nothing to see here, move along.
a -tamiflu_x.htm
Tamiflu might actually kill you on its own: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-11-17-fd
So, that's reassuring then... Take it, don't take it, it's all pretty much the same at this point.
I for one am going to get get in my X-Prize design and take my chances with the explosive, toxic moon dust way up there.
-volve
I completely agree. It's a little-believed sociologic fact that employers want people to keep their salaries secret (regardless of reason) for the specific fact that it allows them to pay the same workers different amounts. I've never heard a single phrase applied better since I was but a wee 20-something and was told (in passing) by a manager that "Hey, you know how it is, the squeaky wheel gets the grease..."
/always/ tailored to the current employees and never hold true to everyone in a specific position.
I get so frustrated when people balk at the idea of discussing their salaries - how are the majority of people supposed to truly know their worth. One of the other posters mentioned the better companies having defnied pay levels, but these are
I'm glad someone was modded-up for airing these opinions.
-volve
Actually it worked fine. All nytimes.com checks on is a referrer - if it's Google, you get in for free. So even though Google said "hey, I got nuthin!" for that URL, just click it again and voila, you're in.
-volve
Does anybody else smell a strategically-delayed yet feeble PR campaign from the likes of EA?
Sure smells that way to me. Is there anybody actually out there that still thinks the game industry is all peaches and cream? Jesus, I'd rather be working as an intern at Merrill Lynch...
-volve
No shit, really?
;)
The irony is that I am not making a "reasonable point", but yours could be construed as reasonable to the point of redundancy. I'm just saying...
It's a testament to the ease of such exploits that you were able to accomplish it all without the obvious use of a dictionary or college education...
:-/
If you'd benefitted from those, you may have been unstoppable.
Sometimes I weep for the state of our society...
Can K3b perform a byte-for-byte verify of an image file after it's been burned?
That's one of the best features of Nero 6 in my opinion. Not sure if the Linux version has that ability though...
How does this affect the Windows Update Catalog?
:)
Some of you may not be familiar with this, but if you log in to Windows Update and then go to Settings, there's a checkbox that says "Show a link to Windows Update Catalog".
What this does is let you actually browse ANY and ALL updates for ANY version of Windows. That is to say, regardless of whether they've ever been installed on the connecting machine.
I'm curious how this new/new-old/new-rehashed 'proof required' method will work for patches that do not pertain to the connecting OS. Right now I can log in with WinXP, patch myself merrily, and then switch over to the Catalog and download a bunch of patches for my Win98 box (to save some time, or avoid connecting my Win98 box to the Internet, etc.)
If logic follows, Microsoft will either have to get rid of the Catalog completely, or require a valid license for every different copy of Windows that you download patches for... The latter of course is particularly flawed, as Microsoft are not to know how many machines I plan on patching with my Catalog downloads...
Anyway, just a thought... and if none of you have seen this option, I do suggest you check it out as it means you only need 1 Windows machine on the Internet ever, and you can patch all the others to your heart's content...
Am I the only person that wants to know why the open source movement is so intent on diluting the browser market, instead of just improving Firefox and dominating Internet Explorer?
:(
I agree that Firefox was necessary given what Mozilla had/has become, but why-oh-why are we STILL pumping out new browsers? Can't these obviously talented developers find a spot to contribute to a current browser? You know, one that already has the publicity (full-page newspaper ads, etc.) and growing market share.
I just hate to see skilled people expend energy reinventing the wheel...
There's this very logical train of thought that I and all my family follow when flying international: Do NOT wrap any presents that you may be carrying. It causes an exponential amount of problems if the security folk have only your word to go on, and/or have to start unwrapping your gifts, because if they do it to 1, they're going to do it to all of them.
Food for thought...
The easiest option is to figure out what kind of cables and/or wireless equipment would allow you to keep the PC back in the snug, safe comfort of your house and only have the bare minimum out in the shed.
Initially it seeems like a pain but it's nearly always the easiest and cheapest solution.
Yeah you're right. Google pulls up 698 results for me and I can't find a single one that even tries to imply NewEgg sold Refurbished parts as New.
;)
The original poster probably works for MonarchComputer.com or something, taking a tip from Microsoft on the wonders of FUD tactics...