1) Chances are, if you are a geek, you CAN afford a big honkin plot of land somewhere. I bought 36 acres outside of Research Triangle Park for less than it would cost to buy one acre INSIDE of the Triangle. I have a bit of a commute (about one hour), but then I live at a place where I can pursue my own ideas of appropriate living. I can make my own diesel, grow my own food, set up an ordnance bunker, paint my trees yellow, set up giant satellite dishes and windmills, farm pit bulls, whatever. (note I don't necessarily do a lot of the things on this list, but I could, and some of my neighbors do)
2) Smaller dishes are protected. If your HOA tells you that you can't put up a DirecTV dish, tell them to blow it out their ass and refer them to the FCC. http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html. This offers no protection for larger dishes (unless you live in alaska).
...in which a strange group of travellers arrive on your shores with overwhelmingly advanced military technology, and start to eradicate your people through diseased blankets and open hostilities, and then make treaties with you that they have no intention of honoring. The point of the game is to die of old age to win.
It's nice to see them trying to meet their customers halfway but really I think a few things have to happen:
1) Eliminate DRM. 2) Price the movies so cheaply that there isn't much point in stealing it. If a song is worth $1, and a TV show is worth $2, a movie shouldn't be worth more than $4 or $5 (US dollars). Make the "special features" a free optional download for people who have purchased the movie (a lot of people, myself included, will usually opt to just download the movie). Note that this could almost completely assume all of the $$$ that rental outfits are making from movies, allowing the studios to pocket profits from the vast majority of people who will just view the movie once and then discard it. 3) Work with the major PVR platforms to make it easier to buy an unencumbered $4 or $5 movie right from the menu than it is to download a pirate torrent and import it into the PVR. Don't just partner with one major commercial interest, get in bed with the OSS platforms also. Billions of dollars are at stake so spending a couple of million to have your product supported on the majority of popular PVR platforms is buying free money.
Aside from Fiber Channel, you could roll your own with iSCSI or ATAoE (ATA over Ethernet). This way you could take advantage of existing ethernet infrastructure and expertise, and partition off a storage VLAN for all of your DASD.
Part of the reason we're in such a pickle is because we depend so completely on just one fuel source. Haven't we learned that diversity will make us more robust?
Wait till you see that baby in action. Then laugh. In drama, really, the prop doesn't matter, it's how it's used that counts. But when you see how that thing is used, you'll agree it's a very effective bit of design.
Yeah, the toilet plunger was used in the 2005 season. It was pretty cool to finally see it getting put to use.
I don't care about all the crap (no pun intended) people give the toilet plunger on the pepper pots. The same people would complain even more if it were ever changed to something more practical and sci-fi looking. The Daleks are fine just the way they are. Shame we lost one of the best Doctors ever, though, at the end of the '05 season.
I would look for something that runs on some flavor of UNIX or Linux. If you pick a Windows based solution, you're probably locked into Windows. Is the same true for your AS/400 solution?
At least if you settle on Solaris, and Sun does you wrong, you can change to AIX, or Linux, or HP/UX, etc.
We need a first wave of these devices ASAP in the hands of the free software community to sort out the capabilities of the device and then create a software base for it that will be useful for its intended purpose. It's going to be a tough sell until then.
I can just see some gummint beauracrat in Turdistahn trying to figure out why he should spend a billion dollars on these things when his country's GDP is half of that, and he won't know what to do with these things once he has them.
Another sysadmin who is going to tell you that I don't give out root or sudo access to users. Most users who think they know enough, or even DO know enough, really know enough to make big problems. They invariably never check with me before making a change, or tell me that they made a change, or even admit to having made a change when they inevitably screw something up.
I make them come to me for everything. But not directly. That's what the ticketing system is for. The ticketing system justifies my existence, keeps any requests from slipping through the cracks, and helps to keep track of ad-hoc changes made to any given system.
Many times end users think they need root for something when they don't. For example, there might be some niche tool that they need installed on a system. Or do they? If the one user is the only one that is going to use it, I advise him to do something like "./configure --prefix=~" to build apps to install in his home directory. You don't need root to install apps anymore. Besides, if you want an app installed for everyone to have access to, sysadmin should be doing that anyway.
It might be a pain in the ass to make you go to the sysadmin for everything, but in the long run it will keep things running smoothly and perhaps force you to be a little more disciplined in your work.
I was going to post, but the parent to this is almost exactly what I was going to say. He's right. 2x OpenBSD boxen with CARP will be far more resilient, and less expensive, than the proposed solution.
So much for the idea of presenting our young minds with a number of schools of thought, and giving them the ability to examine the evidence and choose between them responsibly.
This is yet another example of "political correctness" run amock. I put "political correctness" in quotes because it is really another way of saying polite tyranny.
Time and time again, the government justifies my decision to homeschool my children. That and the fact that my kids consistently understand concepts that the other kids they play with (their own age) haven't even been introduced to yet.
Also, set up a mirror port on your switch and run "etherape" on a machine connected to that port. You'll get a real-time graphical representation of where the traffic is going on your network, and some indications of what kind of traffic you're looking at.
Some of the ones I have more recent experience with. All of these require some reading and planning before you set them up.
OpenNMS - Probably the most trouble-free NMS I've found so far. No, not "trouble-free". But the closest to it.
Nagios - The most flexible, but also the biggest royal pain in the ass to set up & maintain. Almost infinitely scalable, though, if you are willing to take the time to write some perl scripts to automate most administrative tasks and divide the monitoring work up (several "slave" hosts can harvest monitoring data for a subset of your network and push it to your central Nagios server which greatly lessens the load on your main monitoring server). Some really great monitoring possibilities are out there if you look into NRPE with Nagios.
OpManager - We bought this commercial solution at my last job. Great for monitoring Windows servers. A real pain in the ass to monitor anything else with any level of sophistication. It also has some fatal bugs that cause it to quietly orphan nodes if it misses a scheduled poll!
You now understand part of why managers started to appreciate some of the benefits of open source software. The accounting is much simpler. Service agreements are usually based on much simpler metrics (i.e. how many servers do you have running our product).
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yeah, out of curiousity, which version of windows are you running that fits in 32MB of ram?
Windows 98 runs surprisingly well on a Pentium 100 with 32MB RAM and a 1GB hard disk.
1) Chances are, if you are a geek, you CAN afford a big honkin plot of land somewhere. I bought 36 acres outside of Research Triangle Park for less than it would cost to buy one acre INSIDE of the Triangle. I have a bit of a commute (about one hour), but then I live at a place where I can pursue my own ideas of appropriate living. I can make my own diesel, grow my own food, set up an ordnance bunker, paint my trees yellow, set up giant satellite dishes and windmills, farm pit bulls, whatever. (note I don't necessarily do a lot of the things on this list, but I could, and some of my neighbors do)
2) Smaller dishes are protected. If your HOA tells you that you can't put up a DirecTV dish, tell them to blow it out their ass and refer them to the FCC. http://www.fcc.gov/mb/facts/otard.html. This offers no protection for larger dishes (unless you live in alaska).
Hit and run name calling from an Anonymous Coward?
Jeez. No point in responding to that. Grow some balls and take some accountability for your opinions if they mean anything to you.
...in which a strange group of travellers arrive on your shores with overwhelmingly advanced military technology, and start to eradicate your people through diseased blankets and open hostilities, and then make treaties with you that they have no intention of honoring. The point of the game is to die of old age to win.
It's nice to see them trying to meet their customers halfway but really I think a few things have to happen:
1) Eliminate DRM.
2) Price the movies so cheaply that there isn't much point in stealing it. If a song is worth $1, and a TV show is worth $2, a movie shouldn't be worth more than $4 or $5 (US dollars). Make the "special features" a free optional download for people who have purchased the movie (a lot of people, myself included, will usually opt to just download the movie). Note that this could almost completely assume all of the $$$ that rental outfits are making from movies, allowing the studios to pocket profits from the vast majority of people who will just view the movie once and then discard it.
3) Work with the major PVR platforms to make it easier to buy an unencumbered $4 or $5 movie right from the menu than it is to download a pirate torrent and import it into the PVR. Don't just partner with one major commercial interest, get in bed with the OSS platforms also. Billions of dollars are at stake so spending a couple of million to have your product supported on the majority of popular PVR platforms is buying free money.
Aside from Fiber Channel, you could roll your own with iSCSI or ATAoE (ATA over Ethernet). This way you could take advantage of existing ethernet infrastructure and expertise, and partition off a storage VLAN for all of your DASD.
Part of the reason we're in such a pickle is because we depend so completely on just one fuel source. Haven't we learned that diversity will make us more robust?
...when Benjamin Franklin has contributed so much more to the liberty of so many (not just in North America, but also in Europe!)
:)
Not knocking MLK, but I think his contributions pale in comparison to Franklin. I could be biased, posting from Philadelphia.
Wait till you see that baby in action. Then laugh. In drama, really, the prop doesn't matter, it's how it's used that counts. But when you see how that thing is used, you'll agree it's a very effective bit of design.
Yeah, the toilet plunger was used in the 2005 season. It was pretty cool to finally see it getting put to use.
I don't care about all the crap (no pun intended) people give the toilet plunger on the pepper pots. The same people would complain even more if it were ever changed to something more practical and sci-fi looking. The Daleks are fine just the way they are. Shame we lost one of the best Doctors ever, though, at the end of the '05 season.
Why are they using 2GHz intel chips on the high end iMacs when 3Ghz ones are available on the PC?
They need some reason to make the PowerMac look better than the iMac.
No, it's just ahead of Apple's announced plans.
Pretty much everyone was expecting the first Intel Macs to land today.
How about something that runs on more than just Windows and a Mac? I hear that a few people on this site might run Linux or *BSD.
"This is true -- and why I've moved entirely to a personal gold standard for currency."
Yeah I'm sure that works really well at the gas station.
I would look for something that runs on some flavor of UNIX or Linux. If you pick a Windows based solution, you're probably locked into Windows. Is the same true for your AS/400 solution?
At least if you settle on Solaris, and Sun does you wrong, you can change to AIX, or Linux, or HP/UX, etc.
UNIX/Linux gives you the most freedom.
We need a first wave of these devices ASAP in the hands of the free software community to sort out the capabilities of the device and then create a software base for it that will be useful for its intended purpose. It's going to be a tough sell until then.
I can just see some gummint beauracrat in Turdistahn trying to figure out why he should spend a billion dollars on these things when his country's GDP is half of that, and he won't know what to do with these things once he has them.
Another sysadmin who is going to tell you that I don't give out root or sudo access to users. Most users who think they know enough, or even DO know enough, really know enough to make big problems. They invariably never check with me before making a change, or tell me that they made a change, or even admit to having made a change when they inevitably screw something up.
I make them come to me for everything. But not directly. That's what the ticketing system is for. The ticketing system justifies my existence, keeps any requests from slipping through the cracks, and helps to keep track of ad-hoc changes made to any given system.
Many times end users think they need root for something when they don't. For example, there might be some niche tool that they need installed on a system. Or do they? If the one user is the only one that is going to use it, I advise him to do something like "./configure --prefix=~" to build apps to install in his home directory. You don't need root to install apps anymore. Besides, if you want an app installed for everyone to have access to, sysadmin should be doing that anyway.
It might be a pain in the ass to make you go to the sysadmin for everything, but in the long run it will keep things running smoothly and perhaps force you to be a little more disciplined in your work.
100 million emails
let's be generous and say that the average email is 8192 bytes in size (8KB)
100,000,000 * 8KB = ~800GB
That's not much at all. And that's if you store it uncompressed.
Use a well documented unencumbered compression algorithm and it's likely to all fit on a single tape.
Come on, you don't think Bush really turned his back on the TIA project so easily, do you?
actual performance monitoring
Obligatory RTFM.
...leaving out PostgreSQL was a glaring omission.
I was going to post, but the parent to this is almost exactly what I was going to say. He's right. 2x OpenBSD boxen with CARP will be far more resilient, and less expensive, than the proposed solution.
So much for the idea of presenting our young minds with a number of schools of thought, and giving them the ability to examine the evidence and choose between them responsibly.
This is yet another example of "political correctness" run amock. I put "political correctness" in quotes because it is really another way of saying polite tyranny.
Time and time again, the government justifies my decision to homeschool my children. That and the fact that my kids consistently understand concepts that the other kids they play with (their own age) haven't even been introduced to yet.
Also, set up a mirror port on your switch and run "etherape" on a machine connected to that port. You'll get a real-time graphical representation of where the traffic is going on your network, and some indications of what kind of traffic you're looking at.
Some of the ones I have more recent experience with. All of these require some reading and planning before you set them up.
OpenNMS - Probably the most trouble-free NMS I've found so far. No, not "trouble-free". But the closest to it.
Nagios - The most flexible, but also the biggest royal pain in the ass to set up & maintain. Almost infinitely scalable, though, if you are willing to take the time to write some perl scripts to automate most administrative tasks and divide the monitoring work up (several "slave" hosts can harvest monitoring data for a subset of your network and push it to your central Nagios server which greatly lessens the load on your main monitoring server). Some really great monitoring possibilities are out there if you look into NRPE with Nagios.
OpManager - We bought this commercial solution at my last job. Great for monitoring Windows servers. A real pain in the ass to monitor anything else with any level of sophistication. It also has some fatal bugs that cause it to quietly orphan nodes if it misses a scheduled poll!
You now understand part of why managers started to appreciate some of the benefits of open source software. The accounting is much simpler. Service agreements are usually based on much simpler metrics (i.e. how many servers do you have running our product).