My understanding is that the phone has to reindex everything almost to a MacOS upgrade. That kills the battery for a day or three until it's done,then things start to normalize.
I've consolidated on Fastmail with my own domain. Everything is backed up via IMAP so I can move whenever I need to. I'd much rather let someone else take the time to deal with server administration and keep a backup as a "just in case".
I recently experienced this - we had purchased a complete Micros package for a hotel and everything was going along well. Now that Oracle bought them, support goes to a callcenter where they have no idea what they're talking about and just try to upsell you paid services.
If you're ever looking for something that was from (formerly) Micros, now Oracle Hospitality; run, don't walk.
Also, I've found that InfoGenesis is much better for POS and LMS is excellent for hotel management systems (even though it's based on the iSeries).
Take a look at Drupal and the different distributions that are available for download (pre-defined packages of modules and features known to work together). It looks like they have a distribution right up your alley in OpenPublic (openpublicapp.com).
I would recommend Easynews if you want a web interface to the binaries newsgroups. For retention Giganews can't be beat (>300 days at last count). Google Groups is great for regular text newsgroups.
So they don't let you have cameras in a secure environment, but WiFi is OK (and don't give me that whole wpa/wpa2 is secure enough - if it's government or important enough to warrant security that high - then it's important enough to warrant some class-a espionage)? Sounds like our government to me.
You may also want to look at some free, but not foss solutions. I know that Sun's Java Communications Suite is freely available and offers pretty much everything that exchange offers, including a pretty ajax-enabled web interface and an Outlook plugin so that it works just as if it were an Exchange server.
And then there's the foss solutions like Zimbra, etc.
It may not be opensourced yet, but Sun has released almost their entire enterprise stack for free for anyone to use, including their DSEE, with unlimited entries. It can synchronize with AD, and they have a good deployment planning guide for synchronizing with AD and there are guides all over the place regarding authenticating Windows off of LDAP servers.
You mentioned that you don't want to wait too long for a computer to boot up to to jot down your idea. My recommendation would be to use what's worked for hundreds of years, a pen and paper - pens are fairly nondescript and a nice moleskine along with a decent fountain pen (you can get a decent one for $30-50 that should last as long as you take care of it) makes writing a sheer pleasure.
I would second that, maybe post it on YouTube for the number of eyes that would see it, and then link to a Vimeo version of the video in higher resolution - you can post at up to HD resolution on Vimeo.
Each raw image from a single Pan-STARRS camera will contain 2 Gbytes (2 bytes per pixel). In full survey mode, typical exposures last 30 seconds, so the raw data rate is several terabytes per night for the full telescope. The amount of data produced by Pan-STARRS is so large that it will not be practical to archive every image. Software techniques are therefore being developed to extract the important information from the images, while allowing less crucial information to be discarded.
It probably has to do with storing massive amounts of 1.4 gigapixel images in an uncompressed format. It should roughly be about 2-4GB per image depending on what's in the image and if they do any non-lossless post compression, and considering that they're going to be receiving data from 4 telescopes, that's a lot of storage that they'll be using up in just one night's worth of images, let alone years worth of data.
Still, if it's a multi-cored system and from the make file it seems that there's going to be many files to transcode (I'd be willing to bet that it's DVD collection large), then I'd be willing to take the hit of a couple hours idle CPU time assuming that you can keep all cores going full throttle for an extended period of time.
e.g. 48 hours running, 3 hours at the end with cpu time idle (3 cores idle for an hour or so) - 192 potential cpu hours (48*4), 189 hours used. 189/192=98.44% usage of the cpus - that's good enough for me. And the more files that you have to transcode, the better the usage of your cpus gets. In reality what's probably going to be your bottleneck will be your I/O, not the CPU time.
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I had a coworker who would just send letters off resignation from your email if you left your computer unlocked. I like your thing better.
Same here - I think that I had a low 4-digit ID from way back when.
He will be missed.
My understanding is that the phone has to reindex everything almost to a MacOS upgrade. That kills the battery for a day or three until it's done,then things start to normalize.
I've consolidated on Fastmail with my own domain. Everything is backed up via IMAP so I can move whenever I need to. I'd much rather let someone else take the time to deal with server administration and keep a backup as a "just in case".
If they really want a low UID - don't take over someone elses, just use something like -1. That being said, I'm in complete agreement with you.
I recently experienced this - we had purchased a complete Micros package for a hotel and everything was going along well. Now that Oracle bought them, support goes to a callcenter where they have no idea what they're talking about and just try to upsell you paid services.
If you're ever looking for something that was from (formerly) Micros, now Oracle Hospitality; run, don't walk.
Also, I've found that InfoGenesis is much better for POS and LMS is excellent for hotel management systems (even though it's based on the iSeries).
It's open-source, but you can contract with them to do support and setup. The asset management plugin is easy to add and works great.
Incredibly customizable as well. They also have an incident response module that may be worthwhile to look at if you're managing multiple datacenters.
It's not on my FreeBSD servers, so it's got that going for it.
Take a look at Drupal and the different distributions that are available for download (pre-defined packages of modules and features known to work together). It looks like they have a distribution right up your alley in OpenPublic (openpublicapp.com).
The original blog post is here.
Do they offer a Javascript/HTML5 interface?
Already exists.
Hosted via Google Docs:
here
Sun's SunRay clients can support multiple monitors, I've seen over 4 monitors on their system.
I would recommend Easynews if you want a web interface to the binaries newsgroups. For retention Giganews can't be beat (>300 days at last count). Google Groups is great for regular text newsgroups.
So they don't let you have cameras in a secure environment, but WiFi is OK (and don't give me that whole wpa/wpa2 is secure enough - if it's government or important enough to warrant security that high - then it's important enough to warrant some class-a espionage)? Sounds like our government to me.
You may also want to look at some free, but not foss solutions. I know that Sun's Java Communications Suite is freely available and offers pretty much everything that exchange offers, including a pretty ajax-enabled web interface and an Outlook plugin so that it works just as if it were an Exchange server.
And then there's the foss solutions like Zimbra, etc.
It may not be opensourced yet, but Sun has released almost their entire enterprise stack for free for anyone to use, including their DSEE, with unlimited entries. It can synchronize with AD, and they have a good deployment planning guide for synchronizing with AD and there are guides all over the place regarding authenticating Windows off of LDAP servers.
You mentioned that you don't want to wait too long for a computer to boot up to to jot down your idea. My recommendation would be to use what's worked for hundreds of years, a pen and paper - pens are fairly nondescript and a nice moleskine along with a decent fountain pen (you can get a decent one for $30-50 that should last as long as you take care of it) makes writing a sheer pleasure.
I would second that, maybe post it on YouTube for the number of eyes that would see it, and then link to a Vimeo version of the video in higher resolution - you can post at up to HD resolution on Vimeo.
Never mind, should have read the website
Each raw image from a single Pan-STARRS camera will contain 2 Gbytes (2 bytes per pixel). In full survey mode, typical exposures last 30 seconds, so the raw data rate is several terabytes per night for the full telescope. The amount of data produced by Pan-STARRS is so large that it will not be practical to archive every image. Software techniques are therefore being developed to extract the important information from the images, while allowing less crucial information to be discarded.
It probably has to do with storing massive amounts of 1.4 gigapixel images in an uncompressed format. It should roughly be about 2-4GB per image depending on what's in the image and if they do any non-lossless post compression, and considering that they're going to be receiving data from 4 telescopes, that's a lot of storage that they'll be using up in just one night's worth of images, let alone years worth of data.
If you do I highly recommend Mellel. It's a great middle ground between word processors and markup/typesetting programs like LaTeX.
Or, you could go with docbook and XSL transformations if you want pure markup/typesetting.
Still, if it's a multi-cored system and from the make file it seems that there's going to be many files to transcode (I'd be willing to bet that it's DVD collection large), then I'd be willing to take the hit of a couple hours idle CPU time assuming that you can keep all cores going full throttle for an extended period of time.
e.g. 48 hours running, 3 hours at the end with cpu time idle (3 cores idle for an hour or so) - 192 potential cpu hours (48*4), 189 hours used. 189/192=98.44% usage of the cpus - that's good enough for me. And the more files that you have to transcode, the better the usage of your cpus gets. In reality what's probably going to be your bottleneck will be your I/O, not the CPU time.
My vote is for Cher.
Worst. Music. Ever.