While our storage needs are nowhere near that size, I can attest to the greatness of Bacula. The hardware part is probably up to you, but as far as software, I cannot preach this software enough. 1) It's completely cross platform in terms of systems you can pull data from. The Director and Storage Daemon run flawlessly on every distro of Linux I've tried it on (Slackware, Debian, and Fedora)... and the restores are easy as pie with some of the available interfaces. Configuration is a pain and can take awhile, but once it's set, you're done. We have 5 servers, two of which are hosted outside the company and we don't even have physical access too... I was able to set these up to work with the same backup solution as if they were local with ease. Other internal servers are Windows 2000 -> Mac OS X... all backup without issue, daily incrementals, weekly diffs, and once a month fulls.
I can't fucking believe it. Research from Berkeley that would seem to denegrate republicans.
Just out of curiosity, is "denegrate" the new Republican hot-word? I heard Bush use it about 100 times over the course of the three debates. Now it would appear that it's being used every time someone is trying to spin something to the right.
I've had some minor issues with RhythmBox over time. For starters, I'm pushing a general gnome question across here... does every app automatically work with ESD? It seems like there should be a direct OSS or Alsa option, particularly for those of us with good cards and hardware mixing. RhythmBox I find to be slow at startup when playing mp3s, that is, every time I start to play an mp3 it not only slows and pauses for a second, but slows my entire system. I'm not sure what the issue with this is, but it's noticeable in every single release I've tried (stable and development). Lastly, I'd just like to say that I think GTKPod is an excellent solution for iPod users on Linux, it's what I've been using all along and seems to work great with a lot of features. I'd really like to start using RhythmBox, but until I can get decent audio playback out of it and it's features can match GTKPod I guess I'm sticking with Beep Media Player and GTKPod.
Windows XP doesn't finish loading everything before you actually see the screen. Not sure about your system, but my XP get me to the welcome screen in maybe 15 second... the welcome screen then sits there for about another 5 seconds, then I finally get my login... after logging in it continue to load a lot of my device drivers which freeze the system up (not completely but make it slow to the point I can't use it) for about another 30 seconds. You could probably modify init to provide you with a login prompt before it starts running all the services... this way here you'd be able to login and use the system and the services would load up in the background while you were doing this. That's basically what XP does, realistically the time it takes me to get from loading to services start up in Linux is probably under 10 seconds... the services are what seem to take the most amount of time. They take about 20 seconds all around to load -- Depending on how many I have. My Server system boots up in about 15 seconds total from loading to login prompt... all services loaded.
ever tried searching for Linux on MSN? -- oddly enough the first link you get it to amazon.com andmentions "buying linux" -- the second seems to be alright, and the third is funny altogether:
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I do this on google all the time in exactly that fashion... it's amazing some of the results I get. So why aren't they sueing google? I'd like to see them do that so google could win and the kid would have a precedent for a counter-suit. He'd probably be able to win, get his original life savings back, along with coverage of all money he put out for the legal battle.
He's not disappeared, I talked to him about 3 weeks ago... he's actually been busy working on Waimea... from what he told me he's adding support for PNG's with transparency and things like that... some shape extensions.... along with a rewrite of most of the code (which seems odd since it's extremely good the way it is)... He told me it would be out in a couple weeks, but it's not like coders are well known for hitting deadlines (unless your paid, even then your company most likely extends it)... But it's well and alive, and you may want to wait till that version comes out before a fork. You have a good idea with the whole new scripting thing... but he's adding a lot of basic features which will make it much more configurable for look and feel in general... so I would wait it out.
So by the "normal" way... you mean windows I take it. Personally I dislike the "normal" way... as I dislike a windows key on my keyboard to begin with, I think it's just a sign of how much Microsoft has gained. And yes, I'm aware of keyboards without Windows keys... but I'm also aware I can't find them in the store for 5 dollars like I can these things.
Windows key + E to open your file manager... that would seem normal if you used a file manager called Explorer.
Alt-Tab makes some sense, I guess... personally I prefer having all mine lined up and using alt+up and down arrows to scroll through them, so if I wan to go back I don't have to hit alt+tab 7 more times if I got 8 windows open... I can just hit alt+up arrow.
Your "normal" way sucks... granted it may be a familiar way to many who have used windows... but no one ever said Microsoft and their idea of shortcuts were the best possible.
I use Waimea... where anything and everything are configurable from what shortcuts do what, or what buttons on my mouse do what, or even what application or config file I want to map my root menu. Dynamic menus are godly, and I can code my own applications to pretty much be called by any shortcut or mouse button to handle anything the way I want. And last I checked it's code was smaller than both Blackbox and Fluxbox. http://www.waimea.org -- Fear the Power! Fear the Look! Fear the configurability! Fear the efficiency... Fear it all. This is the best window manager ever... and while it assumes some "normal" shortcuts, it's not so bold to assume anything is what's right for me, so it's configurability is through the roof.
I'm not sure about you... but I'd certainly notice if the texture or "feel" of a dollar was off. Aren't they printed on an almost clothlike paper or something? I notice the difference between that and normal printing paper easily. So where are these people getting that style of paper, and does it change the quaility or ability to print... or are bar tenders and the such just stupid and don't realize?
Does anyone know of any statistics on how many developers actually get away with using Open Source Software (more specifically GPLed) code within their closed source products. It would seem to me that with the large distribution of GPLed code and the ease of use to obtain it along with documentation on how to use it, more and more people would do this assuming no one will ever find out. Afterall, how many people actually go around trying to look for breaches in the GPL.
I think this is a bad system for all students, some are arguing that school is easy enough and homework should be done before fun begins anyway, but what if your childs idea of fun is going on the computer and programming C? I went through highschool with a great amount of ease and rarely did homework until the last minute (never if the teacher didn't check or grade it)... Just because school is easy doesn't mean we shoul give mass amounts of homework to correct that, we should change what we learn to more challenging stuff, then homework can be lessened but much more worth while. Most teachers give homework because they are required to, not because the believe it in. And I'm not sure about other schools, but in my old high school we were supposed to be given 40 minutes of homework from each class per day. I'm not sure if you realize this but 40 minutes of homework per class with 6 classes a day (probably the normal amount in any school) comes out to 4 hours of homework a night. So assuming the child gets home at 2:30-3:00 as I did, this brings them to 8:00 with an hour taken out for dinner and maybe going to the bathroom or something. If 2 hours seems like a long enough time to work on your C code per day, you've never been on a coding binge.
The privacy issue is another thing. I think it's bad to use any part of your social security number for anything other than stuff which it really is absolutely necessary for. Wasn't there a rather large problem not that long ago relating to school databases getting hacked and those school's using student's social security numbers as their student ID. While mass identity fraud of high school students might not be too useful because their not really old enough to legally do much, the ability to obtain this information in any way because this program has lax security would probably make any parent think twice about wanting it implemented.
I'm not a parent, but I understand that homework doesn't mean learning, nor does school. The most important learning I've done has always been outside of school, and it's the reason that college for me right now is as easy as high school. In the end, I don't care how much you think homework works, or how much you think institutionalized education is the best way to go. The BEST thing for all students is to be given a freedom and responsibility to learn as they please and as they see fit, because it's much better to learn the things that interest you so you can excel in those than do poorly all around because your bored to death by your subject matter. I realize there's a certain importance to the basics, but the basics were taught to me in grade school, and I'd like to know how many parents that didn't go to college and actually USE what they learned in high school actually remember anything about it. I know my parents don't. Fact of the matter is, you don't care about Wilson's 14 points, and neither does your kid. If you think for a minute the ability to make sure your son or daughter has wasted vast amounts of time on often tedious and repetative homework, and furthermore that you should, you've got a lot of learning to do yourself. And I don't need a teacher to tell me that.
not only will you have mothers suing fast food chains for making their children fat (and yet fatter as they eat and then sit for a healty hour of internet browsing), but you'll have them suing that their precious youngsters are becomming massively depressed due to their growing addictions to the internet which McDonald's is only helping to feed.
Not to mention if I ever find my dreamy computer geek girlfriend it will give me all the more reason to hide my stingy nature by saying, "Well McDonald's has WiFi!!!."
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I wonder if that other boy was just refreshing all night.... We assume that the slash-dot effect is not from sheer mass of users but from the fact that they habitually find themselves refreshing pages, as if they can get first post anywhere.
But to stay on topic, I think the most amazing thing about this is that given point value systems, which do exist in chess, or the simple idea of "how to win" the more advanced technology gets the better they are going to become. It won't be long till computers can be programmed and run efficiently code that allows them to add up all possible endings for a single game of chess since the first moves and then calculate which would be the best move to make based upon how many endings turn out in favor of the computer. Where did that Fischer boy go to?
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While our storage needs are nowhere near that size, I can attest to the greatness of Bacula. The hardware part is probably up to you, but as far as software, I cannot preach this software enough. 1) It's completely cross platform in terms of systems you can pull data from. The Director and Storage Daemon run flawlessly on every distro of Linux I've tried it on (Slackware, Debian, and Fedora)... and the restores are easy as pie with some of the available interfaces. Configuration is a pain and can take awhile, but once it's set, you're done. We have 5 servers, two of which are hosted outside the company and we don't even have physical access too... I was able to set these up to work with the same backup solution as if they were local with ease. Other internal servers are Windows 2000 -> Mac OS X... all backup without issue, daily incrementals, weekly diffs, and once a month fulls.
I can't fucking believe it. Research from Berkeley that would seem to denegrate republicans.
Just out of curiosity, is "denegrate" the new Republican hot-word? I heard Bush use it about 100 times over the course of the three debates. Now it would appear that it's being used every time someone is trying to spin something to the right.
I've had some minor issues with RhythmBox over time. For starters, I'm pushing a general gnome question across here... does every app automatically work with ESD? It seems like there should be a direct OSS or Alsa option, particularly for those of us with good cards and hardware mixing. RhythmBox I find to be slow at startup when playing mp3s, that is, every time I start to play an mp3 it not only slows and pauses for a second, but slows my entire system. I'm not sure what the issue with this is, but it's noticeable in every single release I've tried (stable and development). Lastly, I'd just like to say that I think GTKPod is an excellent solution for iPod users on Linux, it's what I've been using all along and seems to work great with a lot of features. I'd really like to start using RhythmBox, but until I can get decent audio playback out of it and it's features can match GTKPod I guess I'm sticking with Beep Media Player and GTKPod.
Anyone read that article in wired about why powerpoint sucked? Wasn't there something recently aswell about how power point made you dumb?
Windows XP doesn't finish loading everything before you actually see the screen. Not sure about your system, but my XP get me to the welcome screen in maybe 15 second... the welcome screen then sits there for about another 5 seconds, then I finally get my login... after logging in it continue to load a lot of my device drivers which freeze the system up (not completely but make it slow to the point I can't use it) for about another 30 seconds. You could probably modify init to provide you with a login prompt before it starts running all the services... this way here you'd be able to login and use the system and the services would load up in the background while you were doing this. That's basically what XP does, realistically the time it takes me to get from loading to services start up in Linux is probably under 10 seconds... the services are what seem to take the most amount of time. They take about 20 seconds all around to load -- Depending on how many I have. My Server system boots up in about 15 seconds total from loading to login prompt... all services loaded.
ever tried searching for Linux on MSN? -- oddly enough the first link you get it to amazon.com andmentions "buying linux" -- the second seems to be alright, and the third is funny altogether: 3. Alternatives to Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP Learn about the Microsoft alternatives and how to move to them from open source products. www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/migration
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I do this on google all the time in exactly that fashion... it's amazing some of the results I get. So why aren't they sueing google? I'd like to see them do that so google could win and the kid would have a precedent for a counter-suit. He'd probably be able to win, get his original life savings back, along with coverage of all money he put out for the legal battle.
He's not disappeared, I talked to him about 3 weeks ago... he's actually been busy working on Waimea... from what he told me he's adding support for PNG's with transparency and things like that... some shape extensions.... along with a rewrite of most of the code (which seems odd since it's extremely good the way it is)... He told me it would be out in a couple weeks, but it's not like coders are well known for hitting deadlines (unless your paid, even then your company most likely extends it)... But it's well and alive, and you may want to wait till that version comes out before a fork. You have a good idea with the whole new scripting thing... but he's adding a lot of basic features which will make it much more configurable for look and feel in general... so I would wait it out.
So by the "normal" way... you mean windows I take it. Personally I dislike the "normal" way... as I dislike a windows key on my keyboard to begin with, I think it's just a sign of how much Microsoft has gained. And yes, I'm aware of keyboards without Windows keys... but I'm also aware I can't find them in the store for 5 dollars like I can these things. Windows key + E to open your file manager... that would seem normal if you used a file manager called Explorer. Alt-Tab makes some sense, I guess... personally I prefer having all mine lined up and using alt+up and down arrows to scroll through them, so if I wan to go back I don't have to hit alt+tab 7 more times if I got 8 windows open... I can just hit alt+up arrow. Your "normal" way sucks... granted it may be a familiar way to many who have used windows... but no one ever said Microsoft and their idea of shortcuts were the best possible. I use Waimea... where anything and everything are configurable from what shortcuts do what, or what buttons on my mouse do what, or even what application or config file I want to map my root menu. Dynamic menus are godly, and I can code my own applications to pretty much be called by any shortcut or mouse button to handle anything the way I want. And last I checked it's code was smaller than both Blackbox and Fluxbox. http://www.waimea.org -- Fear the Power! Fear the Look! Fear the configurability! Fear the efficiency... Fear it all. This is the best window manager ever... and while it assumes some "normal" shortcuts, it's not so bold to assume anything is what's right for me, so it's configurability is through the roof.
I'm not sure about you... but I'd certainly notice if the texture or "feel" of a dollar was off. Aren't they printed on an almost clothlike paper or something? I notice the difference between that and normal printing paper easily. So where are these people getting that style of paper, and does it change the quaility or ability to print... or are bar tenders and the such just stupid and don't realize?
I've got 5 words for you: I LOVE SELLING THIS COMPANY *long pause as he jumps around on stage* GIVE IT UP FOR ME!
Does anyone know of any statistics on how many developers actually get away with using Open Source Software (more specifically GPLed) code within their closed source products. It would seem to me that with the large distribution of GPLed code and the ease of use to obtain it along with documentation on how to use it, more and more people would do this assuming no one will ever find out. Afterall, how many people actually go around trying to look for breaches in the GPL.
I think this is a bad system for all students, some are arguing that school is easy enough and homework should be done before fun begins anyway, but what if your childs idea of fun is going on the computer and programming C? I went through highschool with a great amount of ease and rarely did homework until the last minute (never if the teacher didn't check or grade it)... Just because school is easy doesn't mean we shoul give mass amounts of homework to correct that, we should change what we learn to more challenging stuff, then homework can be lessened but much more worth while. Most teachers give homework because they are required to, not because the believe it in. And I'm not sure about other schools, but in my old high school we were supposed to be given 40 minutes of homework from each class per day. I'm not sure if you realize this but 40 minutes of homework per class with 6 classes a day (probably the normal amount in any school) comes out to 4 hours of homework a night. So assuming the child gets home at 2:30-3:00 as I did, this brings them to 8:00 with an hour taken out for dinner and maybe going to the bathroom or something. If 2 hours seems like a long enough time to work on your C code per day, you've never been on a coding binge. The privacy issue is another thing. I think it's bad to use any part of your social security number for anything other than stuff which it really is absolutely necessary for. Wasn't there a rather large problem not that long ago relating to school databases getting hacked and those school's using student's social security numbers as their student ID. While mass identity fraud of high school students might not be too useful because their not really old enough to legally do much, the ability to obtain this information in any way because this program has lax security would probably make any parent think twice about wanting it implemented. I'm not a parent, but I understand that homework doesn't mean learning, nor does school. The most important learning I've done has always been outside of school, and it's the reason that college for me right now is as easy as high school. In the end, I don't care how much you think homework works, or how much you think institutionalized education is the best way to go. The BEST thing for all students is to be given a freedom and responsibility to learn as they please and as they see fit, because it's much better to learn the things that interest you so you can excel in those than do poorly all around because your bored to death by your subject matter. I realize there's a certain importance to the basics, but the basics were taught to me in grade school, and I'd like to know how many parents that didn't go to college and actually USE what they learned in high school actually remember anything about it. I know my parents don't. Fact of the matter is, you don't care about Wilson's 14 points, and neither does your kid. If you think for a minute the ability to make sure your son or daughter has wasted vast amounts of time on often tedious and repetative homework, and furthermore that you should, you've got a lot of learning to do yourself. And I don't need a teacher to tell me that.
not only will you have mothers suing fast food chains for making their children fat (and yet fatter as they eat and then sit for a healty hour of internet browsing), but you'll have them suing that their precious youngsters are becomming massively depressed due to their growing addictions to the internet which McDonald's is only helping to feed. Not to mention if I ever find my dreamy computer geek girlfriend it will give me all the more reason to hide my stingy nature by saying, "Well McDonald's has WiFi!!!."
I wonder if that other boy was just refreshing all night.... We assume that the slash-dot effect is not from sheer mass of users but from the fact that they habitually find themselves refreshing pages, as if they can get first post anywhere.
But to stay on topic, I think the most amazing thing about this is that given point value systems, which do exist in chess, or the simple idea of "how to win" the more advanced technology gets the better they are going to become. It won't be long till computers can be programmed and run efficiently code that allows them to add up all possible endings for a single game of chess since the first moves and then calculate which would be the best move to make based upon how many endings turn out in favor of the computer. Where did that Fischer boy go to?