I never trusted Passport or anything of the like for web based services. Set ALL your passwords to the same thing? That's nuts too -- trusting webmasters not to try and hack into other accounts is just asking for trouble...
Storing passwords within Mozilla or some such is just waiting for trouble too (IMHO). What will you do when it breaks and you can't remember your password to anything? Sure, most sites have ways to deal with lusers who forget their password, but that is just a pain and time consuming.
My wife asked me this exact question (how to remember) recently. It's easy: come up with something you WILL remember and use the same IDEA across many, many platforms.
For example:
I drive a subaru. All passwords will start with SUB.
My birthday may be 03/31/1968 (impossible:), so I'll use... 8630
I'm on SlAsHdot, so SAH...my password here would be: sub8630sah
Guess THAT. What would the password be for Yahoo? Easy: sub8630yho
I have to disagree. I know EXACTLY what is going on under the hood of my Mac's. The ONLY reason I'm using Mac's today is because of the Unix based OS. Recently with the upgrade to 10.2.2 there was a problem of the CPU spiking to 100% (and staying there). Easy to diagnose and fix -- it's the crappy HP print driver causing the problem (again).
Replace with Gimp-Print... from the Linux world no less. Problem solved.
PS: I've not been happy with HP print drivers for a LONG time (even though I do like their printers). My biggest headache in the Windows world is... printing.
I couldn't get ANY of my Mac's to panic -- and figured out why... The fileutils package has long ago become "standard" on my Mac distributions thankfully (this time:).
Mostly Mac, eh? GOOD FOR YOU. Unfortunately, for me, we're just now migrating AWAY from Windows. Thankfully they've never touched *MY* datacenter -- and *I* certainly have refused to use it myself.
My statement to my users: The computer we provide is a tool. You can negotiate the make/model as much as you'd like, but like the printers, copiers, fax machines, and phones you'll use what is provided. IT IS A TOOL.
If they don't like it I'd suggest you let them know to start looking for work elseware. If they can't/won't learn to use the tool, OS X, then obviously they'll be unable to complete their job.
Personally inside work and outside I have REFUSED to diagnose, use, touch, learn, anything XP. NOTHING gets plugged into my network without my knowledge (arpwatch). XP is completely UNSUPPORTED.
Here, Windows 2000 "Professional" is being supported only until it is completely REMOVED. Anybody that wants to talk Linux or BSD with me is also VERY welcome. I do like the Unix's... but Windows? Please. Mickey-MouseSoft is a joke of a system.
Who's in charge there? There's no reason you couldn't take the OS X only stance. If it the PARTNERS wanting XP, well, then, they OWN the business. Do what THEY want. If it is some secretary or trouser trout then I have to question: do they make their own decision on what they should be paid too? Can I work there?
Fortunately, for me here, the "IT Department" (me) owns the largest chunk of company stock as well (non computer related business -- they're just TOOLS we happen to use in our job). Heheh. I make my own rules, and well, Windows had it's chance. I see the light now. It is Unix.
Of course I _started_ on AT&T SysVr2 TRUE "Unix" and have missed those days only briefly. Loved Coherent, drooled over the NeXT, settled on Linux, and can say I like tight and fast BSD. OS X is the GUI of choice today for the GNU generation.
Understanding that your fear _is_ irrational is half the battle I guess. Ironically I'm scared to death of heights, or more to the point, not falling, but the sudden stop.
I crack myself up. I fired off VirtualPC on the 'ol Mac. Inside that running Windows 2000 "Professional" loaded Internet Explorer and went to their web site to watch some trailers.
The VirtualPC, being at 800x600, is well below by normal screen size of 1280x1024. More than enough horse power to watch multi-media on a "fake" PC as well.
What's normal DVD video at? 640x480 or about?
I, of course, was recording this (video and stereo audio) to a MP4...and emailed it to them with a polite "FUCK YOU". I wonder if they'll even begin to understand. Dumb asses.
Let's just say she makes $20 per sucker, er, sale. That's $1,200 less the $250 to batch it. $950 and let's even take off ANOTHER $150 in "business expenses". Bastards (the BUYERS now...)
Per batched email she's pissing off 3 million of us, maybe even just ONE million actually "see" it. So what. She just made $800 for doing WHAT?
Rest a day.
Repeat.
Phrofit? Yeah... almost _pure_ profit. The problem IS the buyers in addition to her. Could you imagine if we ALL tried to sell crap?
I would hope the general mass would JUST SAY NO and literally buy NOTHING. Zero.
Otherwise the noise ratio is going to get too high and we'll all be on a blocking email basis UNLESS you are specifically allowed. No easy way to catch up or find a old friend... Could you image a Windows crash with this type of setup? Yuck.
To this day I have REFUSED to change my freakin' email address (as suggeseted by local channel 7 Chicago news tonight on just this issue). Will I ADVERTISE it like it was done in days of old?
Hell no. I used to use it in chat rooms, usenet, finger away if you want, signon boards, web sites (would be nice), etc. IT IS *MINE*.
The spammers just don't get it. In my case it *IS* mine. I am my own ISP (effectively:) with my own domains (personal and corporately) and email boxes sitting on my servers in either my office or my basement. MINE.
But no, I have to go hiding behind some bullshit name like "krray". WTF has the Internet come to?
Yes, keyspan's usb/serial converters work just fine with OS X. Though I'm finding less and less use for serial (any platform) more and more. Only use anymore is legacy equipment...
Under-powered CPU's? IMHO a 1Ghz G4 is about the same as a 4Ghz P4 in speed. Remember the pipeline in the G4 _is_ shorter (faster answers to questions if you will) and instead of being just a 32bit core like intel/amd it has 4 32bit pathways into the 128bit core. MUCH faster. Rather like 4 CPU's in 1 (though not even CLOSE technically:). MHz myth and all that...there is truth.
The OS is $129. Sure beats $300+ for Windows.
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Take this (CD in hand) along with a licensed copy of Partition Magic (bootable CD in hand)... and my Powerbook. Already tried it. Works nice.
First tested it on the network booting VirtualPC and dumping a image. Haven't found _any_ issues (trojan or otherwise) with the disk image. It *is* Unix, and well, easy to rip apart when you have "root" access and full access to the "console". NOTHING to hide.
I'm more comfortable with this solution than anything I've seen DOS/Windows based.
Unix in hand (Powerbook OS X), booting just another flavor of the same Unix. Inter-mixes with Linux very nicely (original local network test). Unix is unix is unix sometimes. And then you have Windows which is what I will use to it to backup.
I would much rather see distributed computing being further worked on. It just makes more sense.
1Gbit network with the systems sharing storage (distributed *redundant* RAID perhaps?) and CPU resources (among others) would be very nice.
It would be nice to be able to do this and share Sun, Linux, BSD, OSX, whatever. Realistically though I'm willing to be Apple brings this concept to market first...as usual.
I've been waiting for Serial-ATA ever since reading about it. Faster speeds/bandwidth - which is actually finally needed in the IDE type world.
NO MORE RIBBON CABLE. My favorite Linux configuration is 1 whatever IDE drive for the OS, 1 IDE CDROM, and two (RAID-1) large IDE's for data and configurations. Quick and cheap for non-critical type functions/services. I rolled through a complete failure on the core OS drive, CD died -- while trying to roll up in size on the RAID-1 and hit *FOUR* defective WD drives...while never losing data _and_ configurations. IBM sits in there right now...:)
High end servers and workstations? Yeah, Serial-ATA is nice with the coming 40M/sec IDE type drives...but I'm also going to go after that 320M/sec SCSI technology too. Same IDE game, just a different connector basically.
NO MORE RIBBON CABLE.
Try stuffing four drives in a case. Not only is the IDE chain full, but cabling is a complete joke. Not anymore. Kind of like Firewire in the box, if you will. Except I think their screwing it up and keeping power separate where Firewire _can_ cary power to the devices.
So instead of tiny IDE connectors in the current Firewire and external type drives there will be tiny Serial-ATA hookups. So what. Now get inside a PC (and/or Mac) and do a little work.
With this and pricing for LARGE amounts of data... I could see easily wanting a tall tower (remember those?) and building a rock and roll back end storage system for personal use. Quick and cheap... and now VERY EASY to do. Personal RAID-50 500G personal array anybody?
I could record so many hours of anything I wanted and never worry about losing it... even with el'crap-ola IDE no-warranty technology.
Of course when I have a few extra thousand lying around (not likely any time soon with the current economy outlook) I'd love to try SCSI-320.
Now, IDE is rolling into ~40M/sec. Firewire *has* been ready for those speeds for a while. At least USB2 can keep up for a bit as well. Even faster drives is a must though. Firewire-2 is just around the corner (either 800 or 1.6Gbit's).
It's sad that your typical/standard Mac type network (1Gbit) is faster than the typical drive being hosted. Your typical Windows network at 100Mbit is pretty muched caqpped by the current typical drives top performance at 10M/sec.
Serial-ATA, oh yeah. One card (1Gbit) in the Linux box and I could saturate their bandwidth. Why not?
Using Linux itself has just saved me money in my time. "It just works". Make a change, reboot, make a change, reboot, reboot? Never. Mysterious crashes? Long gone.
I've also always had I believe a CM11a plugged into one of the serial ports. It's called X10 and allows signalling to take place over the electrical lines.
Linux takes care of outside lighting, HV/AC, and a host of other operations for me around the house. Add in a RF remote and all of a sudden you can control/dim the lights throughout the house with X10 and the remote in your hand (Linux does nothing here).
Can Windows control the lights? Of course, but I've never seen a Windows box "just work" with no human intervention for years on end.
I like the fact that when I walk into the bathroom at 2am (for obvious reasons:) that the lights turn on automatically (sensored to X10) and the Linux box sees this (and the time) and dims the lights automatically for me. HHmmm, this saves power too!
Linux needs this at the filesystem level ... NOW
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I've been a rabid Linux user from the early days. Today Linux handles DNS, Email, and Web services on my networks...it does NOT handle file access for JUST THIS REASON (lack of undelete).
I'm not worried about *me*. When I delete something I fine with it being completely gone. What about completely clueless network users though? Being the MIS/IT MGR for where I work having access to "salvage" on the Novell Netware file servers is a wonderful tool for users mistakes.
Classic example: last week one user created a Excel spreadsheet to be completed by another user. The second user opened the spreadsheet from Word, modified it, and saved it (as a.XLS file). Excel says it's corrupt (it's a Word document now).
Getting the inserted table [spreadsheet] from Word back into Excel was next to impossible. Crappy Microsoft programming as usual -- and clueless users to boot. Easiet solution was to salvage the original spreadsheet and instruct user what NOT to do and re-enter the damn data PROPERLY this time.
Linux would have left me high and dry. Well, not really, but having to go back to tape backups to simply salvage one file is a pain in the butt.
I guess Linux will be nothing more than a niche product/market if "gurus" keep their attitudes posted here. Wake up and pay attention to corporate users and admins wants/needs. Telling me I'm clueless and wrong won't gain more market share (well, for Linux at least) -- I've recently bought another Netware license to cover just this issue for another remote office.
I'm in my mid 30's, have/had MSCE (DOA now:), RHCE, and CNE certificates, multiple degrees in computer science, and just been buried in the computer business for 15+ years. Today I'm the MIS/IT MGR where I work (and partly own:). Anyway...
I remember drooling over the NeXT. Way outside my price range though, but enjoyed working on them with my job at the time at North-Western in IL.
Here at work we grew up on the network originally with DOS, then WFW3.11, 98se, and finally 2K. I skipped 95/98 due to HORRIBLE networking issues. At one point I took a Win98se box home to FORCE myself to completely learn the OS. What a joke! At least my Linux box was moved to the basement and not just re-formatted. The Windows box literally lasted almost 6 months and went flying out the Window one day with too much of the garbage.
I sat there dumb founded. What do I do NOW? I love Linux, but the pissing match between KDE/Gnome, their complex setup/usage and so forth have kept them off my corporate desktops. Did I want to go back to Linux as my main GUI? I did then.
This was six months before OS X beta when I started reading about it. I bought a Cube for myself three months later and used OS 9 for three months. OS 9 was OK, and boy did I have it decked out and functional very quickly.
OS X initially was just OK. Coming from a Unix background it was obviously the right choice. As of 10.2 it's game over (for us:). I'm using source code I wrote ten years ago and compiling it on OS X no problem. Take _any_ package out there (ssh, ftp, apache, whatever) and compile/use it -- or just look around... it's probably already installed. For example the "df/du" commands that ship with OS X stink, go grab the fileutils package, compile, and install.
It just works. And works. And works.
I personally now have a PowerMac (gave the Cube to my brother for home use), parents on the iMac, and a Powerbook for roaming (mostly the wife). Corporately I use a Mac daily (bouncing between all the OS' w/ VirtualPC -- 98se, 2K, XP, Linux, etc) as well as many Powerbooks in the field.
Interanally we're switching to Mac 100% as the existing equipment is depreciated (4 years) which is a concept Microsoft just does not "get". I thought it was simple accounting... I wish I had an extra 100K laying around so I could by a Mac for everybody _tdoay_.
I will say that my Mac users _never_ call me for help. I endlessly hear from Windows users though... Applications crashing (reboot needed), BSOD _still_ in 2K (though much more rare), configurations mysteriously getting munched, etc.
I have seen the Mac crash. Wow, the last time it happened (the 2nd time, 1st I saw was on BETA) the wife thought world war three had started by my reaction, "WHAT!? NO WAY! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!. I DON'T BELIEVE IT. IS THIS THE END?" -- as she came running upstairs to find out WHAT.
YES, this is *EXACTLY* what it means. With the fact that this memory is faster than hard drives and unlike your RAM keeps its memory when voltage is removed.
I can see putting 5 or 10G in a box for the OS and applications. Hard drives will be for your content perhaps.
Perhaps Windows will still be around by the time this makes it to market. So what? Windows itself may be fast, and may be be _more_ stable by that time. Now take that same system put a Unix on it and compare. Same old game, just faster and better.
I'll take my BSD, Linux and OS X any day, thank you. 5G boot strap for the OS on my Mac? Oh yeah...
Ok, I fully understand the need for speed. I'm itching to get SCSI Ultra320's myself for the Mac...
Let's be honest though -- 10 or 20G is a CRAP LOAD of data. My only suggestion (locally or corporately) would be to learn to departmentalize your info. Keep it in chunks you can manage.
I have recently out grown my DAT tape drive(s) for their usefulness in both speed and size. What's the next serios option? DLT of course. For business backups at the minimum you'd need two tape drives (one on site, and one off -- always testing/using both). Then add in the tape library which for me would be at least 15 tapes (assuming 1 tape for 1 complete backup). Of course these tapes should be replaced/re-cycled yearly (IMHO).
I found my solution works to save me money and time. Take a old computer and throw a couple of these huge drives in there and set them up under Linux as a RAID-1 array. Repeat for offsite system as well. Today all my backups go to this system.
As these drives can EASILY handle 10M/sec (100Mbit network currently) they're faster than tape. Moving the files to a temporary drive (I use a 30G Lacie with a Mac myself) is easy enough and can be done during normal business hours without bothering anybody (I don't even notice on the Mac as I use it while grabbing last nights dump).
So now I have the backup onsite (RAID-1). I chose RAID-1 to keep cost down, but my sanity up. The systems themselves (being backed up) are RAID-5 based and more powerful by far. I also have a backup in hand at all times (though covering less time).
Then dump it offsite to the other RAID-1 system. For me the corporate data here, which covers a DECADE and is kept "clean", is just 4G daily. 30 days sits on 120G no problem. 320G will be very helpful as 4G/day will obviously just keep growing. With this new drive my data set can increase 150% and still hold 30 days worth of live backups.
I'd be more interested in seeing these drives in SERIAL ATA format with nice cabling. Trying to shove four drives (1 boot HD, 1 CD, and then I like 2 for the RAID-1 data _only_) into a computer and fight the ribbon cables is a freakin' joke.
That the ONLY problem I've found with this solution so far... Thoughts?
Actually, if you try to run VirtualPC for Windows inside of a VirtualPC on OS X it won't work.
You just get a dialog box telling you that you can't run VirtualPC inside VirtualPC... and I quote, "You just had to try, didn't you?".
Programmers with a sense of humor. I love it.
My goodness, what are you porting? And from what platform? Any WHY would you be porting TO Windows?
Everybody I know that writes code (myself included) is porting everything they have to a Unix based platform. Heck, all my code (ported obviously:) compiles flawlessly with no tweaking for any OS to Linux, BSD, and OS X (my preferred GUI, thank you).
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I never trusted Passport or anything of the like for web based services. Set ALL your passwords to the same thing? That's nuts too -- trusting webmasters not to try and hack into other accounts is just asking for trouble...
:), so I'll use ... 8630 ...my password here would be: sub8630sah
... people don't like to THINK. Sad.
Storing passwords within Mozilla or some such is just waiting for trouble too (IMHO). What will you do when it breaks and you can't remember your password to anything? Sure, most sites have ways to deal with lusers who forget their password, but that is just a pain and time consuming.
My wife asked me this exact question (how to remember) recently. It's easy: come up with something you WILL remember and use the same IDEA across many, many platforms.
For example:
I drive a subaru. All passwords will start with SUB.
My birthday may be 03/31/1968 (impossible
I'm on SlAsHdot, so SAH
Guess THAT. What would the password be for Yahoo? Easy: sub8630yho
Unfortunately
I have to disagree. I know EXACTLY what is going on under the hood of my Mac's. The ONLY reason I'm using Mac's today is because of the Unix based OS. Recently with the upgrade to 10.2.2 there was a problem of the CPU spiking to 100% (and staying there). Easy to diagnose and fix -- it's the crappy HP print driver causing the problem (again).
... from the Linux world no less. Problem solved.
... printing.
Replace with Gimp-Print
PS: I've not been happy with HP print drivers for a LONG time (even though I do like their printers). My biggest headache in the Windows world is
$ su -l
Password: (enter the root password here)
#
I couldn't get ANY of my Mac's to panic -- and figured out why... The fileutils package has long ago become "standard" on my Mac distributions thankfully (this time :).
Doesn't panic my kenel(s).
Mostly Mac, eh? GOOD FOR YOU. Unfortunately, for me, we're just now migrating AWAY from Windows. Thankfully they've never touched *MY* datacenter -- and *I* certainly have refused to use it myself.
... but Windows? Please. Mickey-MouseSoft is a joke of a system.
My statement to my users: The computer we provide is a tool. You can negotiate the make/model as much as you'd like, but like the printers, copiers, fax machines, and phones you'll use what is provided. IT IS A TOOL.
If they don't like it I'd suggest you let them know to start looking for work elseware. If they can't/won't learn to use the tool, OS X, then obviously they'll be unable to complete their job.
Personally inside work and outside I have REFUSED to diagnose, use, touch, learn, anything XP. NOTHING gets plugged into my network without my knowledge (arpwatch). XP is completely UNSUPPORTED.
Here, Windows 2000 "Professional" is being supported only until it is completely REMOVED. Anybody that wants to talk Linux or BSD with me is also VERY welcome. I do like the Unix's
Who's in charge there? There's no reason you couldn't take the OS X only stance. If it the PARTNERS wanting XP, well, then, they OWN the business. Do what THEY want. If it is some secretary or trouser trout then I have to question: do they make their own decision on what they should be paid too? Can I work there?
Fortunately, for me here, the "IT Department" (me) owns the largest chunk of company stock as well (non computer related business -- they're just TOOLS we happen to use in our job). Heheh. I make my own rules, and well, Windows had it's chance. I see the light now. It is Unix.
Of course I _started_ on AT&T SysVr2 TRUE "Unix" and have missed those days only briefly. Loved Coherent, drooled over the NeXT, settled on Linux, and can say I like tight and fast BSD. OS X is the GUI of choice today for the GNU generation.
Microwho? Fire the idiots...
I wonder if we could get him a job over at that place in Redmond?
Understanding that your fear _is_ irrational is half the battle I guess. Ironically I'm scared to death of heights, or more to the point, not falling, but the sudden stop.
:)
I guess I'm scared to stop too quickly...
--yes, I'm a private pilot
I backup my data @ work to go home and my data @ home to go to work. It's always in my hands (or the car) too.
:)
A RAID-1 Linux system with a couple of 120G 'el cheapo IDE hard drives can do a lot of damage...
Of course with all my data here and there with me in-between I rarely know where the hell I am.
I crack myself up. I fired off VirtualPC on the 'ol Mac. Inside that running Windows 2000 "Professional" loaded Internet Explorer and went to their web site to watch some trailers.
The VirtualPC, being at 800x600, is well below by normal screen size of 1280x1024. More than enough horse power to watch multi-media on a "fake" PC as well.
What's normal DVD video at? 640x480 or about?
I, of course, was recording this (video and stereo audio) to a MP4...and emailed it to them with a polite "FUCK YOU". I wonder if they'll even begin to understand. Dumb asses.
Let's just say she makes $20 per sucker, er, sale.
... almost _pure_ profit. The problem IS the buyers in addition to her. Could you imagine if we ALL tried to sell crap?
:) with my own domains (personal and corporately) and email boxes sitting on my servers in either my office or my basement. MINE.
That's $1,200 less the $250 to batch it. $950 and let's even take off ANOTHER $150 in "business expenses". Bastards (the BUYERS now...)
Per batched email she's pissing off 3 million of us, maybe even just ONE million actually "see" it. So what. She just made $800 for doing WHAT?
Rest a day.
Repeat.
Phrofit? Yeah
I would hope the general mass would JUST SAY NO and literally buy NOTHING. Zero.
Otherwise the noise ratio is going to get too high and we'll all be on a blocking email basis UNLESS you are specifically allowed. No easy way to catch up or find a old friend... Could you image a Windows crash with this type of setup? Yuck.
To this day I have REFUSED to change my freakin' email address (as suggeseted by local channel 7 Chicago news tonight on just this issue). Will I ADVERTISE it like it was done in days of old?
Hell no. I used to use it in chat rooms, usenet, finger away if you want, signon boards, web sites (would be nice), etc. IT IS *MINE*.
The spammers just don't get it. In my case it *IS* mine. I am my own ISP (effectively
But no, I have to go hiding behind some bullshit name like "krray". WTF has the Internet come to?
Yes, keyspan's usb/serial converters work just fine with OS X. Though I'm finding less and less use for serial (any platform) more and more. Only use anymore is legacy equipment...
:). MHz myth and all that...there is truth.
Under-powered CPU's? IMHO a 1Ghz G4 is about the same as a 4Ghz P4 in speed. Remember the pipeline in the G4 _is_ shorter (faster answers to questions if you will) and instead of being just a 32bit core like intel/amd it has 4 32bit pathways into the 128bit core. MUCH faster. Rather like 4 CPU's in 1 (though not even CLOSE technically
The OS is $129. Sure beats $300+ for Windows.
Take this (CD in hand) along with a licensed copy of Partition Magic (bootable CD in hand) ... and my Powerbook. Already tried it. Works nice.
First tested it on the network booting VirtualPC and dumping a image. Haven't found _any_ issues (trojan or otherwise) with the disk image. It *is* Unix, and well, easy to rip apart when you have "root" access and full access to the "console". NOTHING to hide.
I'm more comfortable with this solution than anything I've seen DOS/Windows based.
Unix in hand (Powerbook OS X), booting just another flavor of the same Unix. Inter-mixes with Linux very nicely (original local network test). Unix is unix is unix sometimes. And then you have Windows which is what I will use to it to backup.
Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha
I would much rather see distributed computing being further worked on. It just makes more sense.
1Gbit network with the systems sharing storage (distributed *redundant* RAID perhaps?) and CPU resources (among others) would be very nice.
It would be nice to be able to do this and share Sun, Linux, BSD, OSX, whatever. Realistically though I'm willing to be Apple brings this concept to market first...as usual.
I've been waiting for Serial-ATA ever since reading about it. Faster speeds/bandwidth - which is actually finally needed in the IDE type world.
:)
... I could see easily wanting a tall tower (remember those?) and building a rock and roll back end storage system for personal use. Quick and cheap ... and now VERY EASY to do. Personal RAID-50 500G personal array anybody?
... even with el'crap-ola IDE no-warranty technology.
NO MORE RIBBON CABLE. My favorite Linux configuration is 1 whatever IDE drive for the OS, 1 IDE CDROM, and two (RAID-1) large IDE's for data and configurations. Quick and cheap for non-critical type functions/services. I rolled through a complete failure on the core OS drive, CD died -- while trying to roll up in size on the RAID-1 and hit *FOUR* defective WD drives...while never losing data _and_ configurations. IBM sits in there right now...
High end servers and workstations? Yeah, Serial-ATA is nice with the coming 40M/sec IDE type drives...but I'm also going to go after that 320M/sec SCSI technology too. Same IDE game, just a different connector basically.
NO MORE RIBBON CABLE.
Try stuffing four drives in a case. Not only is the IDE chain full, but cabling is a complete joke. Not anymore. Kind of like Firewire in the box, if you will. Except I think their screwing it up and keeping power separate where Firewire _can_ cary power to the devices.
So instead of tiny IDE connectors in the current Firewire and external type drives there will be tiny Serial-ATA hookups. So what. Now get inside a PC (and/or Mac) and do a little work.
With this and pricing for LARGE amounts of data
I could record so many hours of anything I wanted and never worry about losing it
Of course when I have a few extra thousand lying around (not likely any time soon with the current economy outlook) I'd love to try SCSI-320.
Now, IDE is rolling into ~40M/sec. Firewire *has* been ready for those speeds for a while. At least USB2 can keep up for a bit as well. Even faster drives is a must though. Firewire-2 is just around the corner (either 800 or 1.6Gbit's).
It's sad that your typical/standard Mac type network (1Gbit) is faster than the typical drive being hosted. Your typical Windows network at 100Mbit is pretty muched caqpped by the current typical drives top performance at 10M/sec.
Serial-ATA, oh yeah. One card (1Gbit) in the Linux box and I could saturate their bandwidth. Why not?
Microwho?
Using Linux itself has just saved me money in my time. "It just works". Make a change, reboot, make a change, reboot, reboot? Never. Mysterious crashes? Long gone.
:) that the lights turn on automatically (sensored to X10) and the Linux box sees this (and the time) and dims the lights automatically for me. HHmmm, this saves power too!
I've also always had I believe a CM11a plugged into one of the serial ports. It's called X10 and allows signalling to take place over the electrical lines.
Linux takes care of outside lighting, HV/AC, and a host of other operations for me around the house. Add in a RF remote and all of a sudden you can control/dim the lights throughout the house with X10 and the remote in your hand (Linux does nothing here).
Can Windows control the lights? Of course, but I've never seen a Windows box "just work" with no human intervention for years on end.
I like the fact that when I walk into the bathroom at 2am (for obvious reasons
I've been a rabid Linux user from the early days. Today Linux handles DNS, Email, and Web services on my networks...it does NOT handle file access for JUST THIS REASON (lack of undelete).
.XLS file). Excel says it's corrupt (it's a Word document now).
I'm not worried about *me*. When I delete something I fine with it being completely gone. What about completely clueless network users though? Being the MIS/IT MGR for where I work having access to "salvage" on the Novell Netware file servers is a wonderful tool for users mistakes.
Classic example: last week one user created a Excel spreadsheet to be completed by another user. The second user opened the spreadsheet from Word, modified it, and saved it (as a
Getting the inserted table [spreadsheet] from Word back into Excel was next to impossible. Crappy Microsoft programming as usual -- and clueless users to boot. Easiet solution was to salvage the original spreadsheet and instruct user what NOT to do and re-enter the damn data PROPERLY this time.
Linux would have left me high and dry. Well, not really, but having to go back to tape backups to simply salvage one file is a pain in the butt.
I guess Linux will be nothing more than a niche product/market if "gurus" keep their attitudes posted here. Wake up and pay attention to corporate users and admins wants/needs. Telling me I'm clueless and wrong won't gain more market share (well, for Linux at least) -- I've recently bought another Netware license to cover just this issue for another remote office.
I'm in my mid 30's, have/had MSCE (DOA now :), RHCE, and CNE certificates, multiple degrees in computer science, and just been buried in the computer business for 15+ years. Today I'm the MIS/IT MGR where I work (and partly own :). Anyway...
:). I'm using source code I wrote ten years ago and compiling it on OS X no problem. Take _any_ package out there (ssh, ftp, apache, whatever) and compile/use it -- or just look around ... it's probably already installed. For example the "df/du" commands that ship with OS X stink, go grab the fileutils package, compile, and install.
I remember drooling over the NeXT. Way outside my price range though, but enjoyed working on them with my job at the time at North-Western in IL.
Here at work we grew up on the network originally with DOS, then WFW3.11, 98se, and finally 2K. I skipped 95/98 due to HORRIBLE networking issues. At one point I took a Win98se box home to FORCE myself to completely learn the OS. What a joke! At least my Linux box was moved to the basement and not just re-formatted. The Windows box literally lasted almost 6 months and went flying out the Window one day with too much of the garbage.
I sat there dumb founded. What do I do NOW? I love Linux, but the pissing match between KDE/Gnome, their complex setup/usage and so forth have kept them off my corporate desktops. Did I want to go back to Linux as my main GUI? I did then.
This was six months before OS X beta when I started reading about it. I bought a Cube for myself three months later and used OS 9 for three months. OS 9 was OK, and boy did I have it decked out and functional very quickly.
OS X initially was just OK. Coming from a Unix background it was obviously the right choice. As of 10.2 it's game over (for us
It just works. And works. And works.
I personally now have a PowerMac (gave the Cube to my brother for home use), parents on the iMac, and a Powerbook for roaming (mostly the wife). Corporately I use a Mac daily (bouncing between all the OS' w/ VirtualPC -- 98se, 2K, XP, Linux, etc) as well as many Powerbooks in the field.
Interanally we're switching to Mac 100% as the existing equipment is depreciated (4 years) which is a concept Microsoft just does not "get". I thought it was simple accounting... I wish I had an extra 100K laying around so I could by a Mac for everybody _tdoay_.
I will say that my Mac users _never_ call me for help. I endlessly hear from Windows users though... Applications crashing (reboot needed), BSOD _still_ in 2K (though much more rare), configurations mysteriously getting munched, etc.
I have seen the Mac crash. Wow, the last time it happened (the 2nd time, 1st I saw was on BETA) the wife thought world war three had started by my reaction, "WHAT!? NO WAY! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!. I DON'T BELIEVE IT. IS THIS THE END?" -- as she came running upstairs to find out WHAT.
YES, this is *EXACTLY* what it means. With the fact that this memory is faster than hard drives and unlike your RAM keeps its memory when voltage is removed.
I can see putting 5 or 10G in a box for the OS and applications. Hard drives will be for your content perhaps.
Perhaps Windows will still be around by the time this makes it to market. So what? Windows itself may be fast, and may be be _more_ stable by that time. Now take that same system put a Unix on it and compare. Same old game, just faster and better.
I'll take my BSD, Linux and OS X any day, thank you. 5G boot strap for the OS on my Mac? Oh yeah...
Ok, I fully understand the need for speed. I'm itching to get SCSI Ultra320's myself for the Mac... Let's be honest though -- 10 or 20G is a CRAP LOAD of data. My only suggestion (locally or corporately) would be to learn to departmentalize your info. Keep it in chunks you can manage. I have recently out grown my DAT tape drive(s) for their usefulness in both speed and size. What's the next serios option? DLT of course. For business backups at the minimum you'd need two tape drives (one on site, and one off -- always testing/using both). Then add in the tape library which for me would be at least 15 tapes (assuming 1 tape for 1 complete backup). Of course these tapes should be replaced/re-cycled yearly (IMHO). I found my solution works to save me money and time. Take a old computer and throw a couple of these huge drives in there and set them up under Linux as a RAID-1 array. Repeat for offsite system as well. Today all my backups go to this system. As these drives can EASILY handle 10M/sec (100Mbit network currently) they're faster than tape. Moving the files to a temporary drive (I use a 30G Lacie with a Mac myself) is easy enough and can be done during normal business hours without bothering anybody (I don't even notice on the Mac as I use it while grabbing last nights dump). So now I have the backup onsite (RAID-1). I chose RAID-1 to keep cost down, but my sanity up. The systems themselves (being backed up) are RAID-5 based and more powerful by far. I also have a backup in hand at all times (though covering less time). Then dump it offsite to the other RAID-1 system. For me the corporate data here, which covers a DECADE and is kept "clean", is just 4G daily. 30 days sits on 120G no problem. 320G will be very helpful as 4G/day will obviously just keep growing. With this new drive my data set can increase 150% and still hold 30 days worth of live backups. I'd be more interested in seeing these drives in SERIAL ATA format with nice cabling. Trying to shove four drives (1 boot HD, 1 CD, and then I like 2 for the RAID-1 data _only_) into a computer and fight the ribbon cables is a freakin' joke. That the ONLY problem I've found with this solution so far... Thoughts?
Actually, if you try to run VirtualPC for Windows inside of a VirtualPC on OS X it won't work. You just get a dialog box telling you that you can't run VirtualPC inside VirtualPC ... and I quote, "You just had to try, didn't you?".
Programmers with a sense of humor. I love it.
My goodness, what are you porting? And from what platform? Any WHY would you be porting TO Windows?
:) compiles flawlessly with no tweaking for any OS to Linux, BSD, and OS X (my preferred GUI, thank you).
Everybody I know that writes code (myself included) is porting everything they have to a Unix based platform. Heck, all my code (ported obviously
Good luck...