Uh... that doesn't look like a server / enterprise class disk to me. It looks like a normal old Seagate disk that Apple want to charge lots for cause it has an Apple sticker on it.
It is also worth noting that while _some_ ISP's in Australia try to charge an Arm and 2x Legs for going over your CAP most ISP's offer a "Speed Cap" where your speed is limited if you use more data than you have purchased.
Also there is at least one ISP that I know of that allows its users to by extra data if they want / need more than their standard plan allows for a calendar month.
Oh an to all of those people who are bitching that "bandwidth is cheap" have you ever wondered why your 20Mbit Cable connection typically runs at something _much less_ than that??
For an idea of what its like to live in a country that has to get all of its internet data from USA / Europe, read this article, and watch the embedded flash video.
FYI I pay $70AUD (~$48USD) per month for a 1.5mbit / 256kbit DSL line with 40Gb of data.
This is from one of the more expensive / boutique providers in AU. You can get DSL a whole lot cheaper, but the quality of the connection, speed of downloads and support suffers greatly.
You can use this page to get an idea of what is available in AU.
Hey!! Now thats just not nice. Not only did I have nothing to do with SCO , i *CAN'T*! even write code. At least not unless you count sloppy Bash scripts... but best we keep that quite, oh.. wait ! O_0
**but RedHat, SUSE, and Solaris are all established products. Ubuntu still has to figure out how to find customers that want to pay for it.**
While this is true and i do agree with you. you still need to pay for those products up front.
unless i am missing something the support service offered by Ubuntu / Canonical ( spl ) are support contracts.. the products are still free to use up front, and you only pay for support if you have a problem or want support for a large project.
this still leans towards comunity based support for most ppl , but gives the PHB's that nice warm feeling they get when they have someone to call on / point the finger at
and at $250USD for 10 cases, that doesnt seem so bad , specially when you compare the cost of getting an Real Live MS Tech on the phone... you do have your credit card handy right ???
replacing skills, with easy to use automated systems is not anyway to make ANY environment safer.
perhaps before granting someone a license to drive they should have to take and pass an advanced driving / Defensive driving course with refresher courses say every 2 years or something.
if people in my town had to do that i'd feel a whole lot safer on the road.
this is correct for most 3rd party disk controllers, im talking IDE / SATA / SCSI and all the RAID subsections of.
oh and even if you think that your nice new W2k3 server install has all the right drivers just cause it detected your SCSI card fine...
it doesnt.
just try and install a SCSI tape drive and watch it fail to detect the device. you still have to get the latest drivers from the manufacture ( for both the controller and the tape drive ) .
The single best thing MS could do to facilitate the installtion of their OS, is make it so you can have 3rd party drives on a CD / network share / Flash disk ANYTHING!
just give us a God Dam option that isnt a fkn floppy disk!
the latest VMware Workstation 5.5 Beta that i have been playing with does have "experimental" Direct3D support, but at this stage it only supports older D3D versions, 7 or 8 i think.
I tried playing Quake 1 and it did seem to work in software mode, but when i tried all my other exe files for it , all sorts of nasty things happend.
But those other exe files were things like GLQuake, Tenibre ( spl ) and other recompiled exe files with extra fancy features, so im not all that supprised that it didnt handle them so well.
There was a case in Australia, where an improved version of the breathalyzer machine "got drunk". After having serveral people blow below the legal limit, the machine started to acrue the alcohol, eg person 1 0.01 PCA, person 2 0.02 PCA , etc etc until this fellow blew and it went over the limit.
Problem was this fellow was of a religion ( cant remember which one ) that forbade alcohol. So he goes back to the station for a blood test and Lo for the blood test came back negative for alcohol.
And now blood tests are needed to convict on DUI and "blowing in the bag" is used to see if a blood test is needed.
Slashdot Mirror
For one-armed, one-legged people.
Works OK for me. Not sure about everyone else tho.
*sings!*
Red Backed, Red Bellied, Blue Ringed Octopus
Tiapan, Tiger Snake, Death Adder, Box Jellyfish
*Shark!!*
Come to Australia..... You might accidentally get killed!
In this image : http://db.tidbits.com/tbthumbs/tn10166_System-Profiler-SAS-report.jpg
the drive model is listed as : st380815as n
2 seconds of googling shows this page : http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=809a4d4b57cb0110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD
Uh... that doesn't look like a server / enterprise class disk to me. It looks like a normal old Seagate disk that Apple want to charge lots for cause it has an Apple sticker on it.
See my previous post.
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1005029&cid=25479145
It is also worth noting that while _some_ ISP's in Australia try to charge an Arm and 2x Legs for going over your CAP most ISP's offer a "Speed Cap" where your speed is limited if you use more data than you have purchased.
Also there is at least one ISP that I know of that allows its users to by extra data if they want / need more than their standard plan allows for a calendar month.
Oh an to all of those people who are bitching that "bandwidth is cheap" have you ever wondered why your 20Mbit Cable connection typically runs at something _much less_ than that??
Go on , have a think about it for a while.
For an idea of what its like to live in a country that has to get all of its internet data from USA / Europe, read this article, and watch the embedded flash video.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/communications/soa/Net-neutrality-is-an-American-problem-/0,139023754,339292161,00.htm
FYI I pay $70AUD (~$48USD) per month for a 1.5mbit / 256kbit DSL line with 40Gb of data.
This is from one of the more expensive / boutique providers in AU. You can get DSL a whole lot cheaper, but the quality of the connection, speed of downloads and support suffers greatly.
You can use this page to get an idea of what is available in AU.
http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc/?action=search
Like I said, you can get DSL cheaper, but sometimes good things are worth paying for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling
Hey!! Now thats just not nice. Not only did I have nothing to do with SCO , i *CAN'T*! even write code. At least not unless you count sloppy Bash scripts ... but best we keep that quite, oh .. wait ! O_0
These two firefox extensions can help block some of those style attacks
p df **PDF WARNING!**
http://www.safecache.com/
and
http://www.safehistory.com/
They do this by segmenting your cache and history so that each page only has access to each individual history.
this page has more info about the method they use,
http://crypto.stanford.edu/sameorigin/
and this is a *PDF* on the subject
http://crypto.stanford.edu/sameorigin/sameorigin.
What if my Post Traumatic Stress was caused by video games?
Like the several times I have dreamed the Quake 1 Cross hair and/or being the Quake guy?
**but RedHat, SUSE, and Solaris are all established products. Ubuntu still has to figure out how to find customers that want to pay for it.**
.. the products are still free to use up front, and you only pay for support if you have a problem or want support for a large project.
While this is true and i do agree with you. you still need to pay for those products up front.
unless i am missing something the support service offered by Ubuntu / Canonical ( spl ) are support contracts
this still leans towards comunity based support for most ppl , but gives the PHB's that nice warm feeling they get when they have someone to call on / point the finger at
and at $250USD for 10 cases, that doesnt seem so bad , specially when you compare the cost of getting an Real Live MS Tech on the phone... you do have your credit card handy right ???
Paid support you say ???
Sounds like that is exactly where they are going
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/paid
just like say
Fedora / CentOS --> RHEL
or
OpenSUSE --> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
or
OpenSolaris --> Solaris
, seems like they are all working on the
"here try our stuff for free!" approach , closely followed by the "but if you want business/ enterprise support, well you can pay for that"
no such thing as a free lunch , but there is nothing like free advertising.
Note : yes i know CentOS isnt fedora, but you get the idea.
perhaps say, India , or China or some other place in the world , where Tech is still new and exciting and growing and a very high rate.
Over specialization breeds weakness, Its slow death.
Too much of the one thing is bad, Diversity is good!
or if you are thinking about running a mail server , you should take the time to read this page
http://www.acme.com/mail_filtering/
its not the be all and end all, but there are several very very good ideas.
OAM
replacing skills, with easy to use automated systems is not anyway to make ANY environment safer.
perhaps before granting someone a license to drive they should have to take and pass an advanced driving / Defensive driving course with refresher courses say every 2 years or something.
if people in my town had to do that i'd feel a whole lot safer on the road.
Nicto .. Veridum .... *cough cough cough*
/me : i know ppl like that /CW : what, that do wasteful repatative things like read /. /me : no , short and hairy with long arms /CW : whack ..
If you have to choose between two evils, choose the one that you haven't tried yet.
this is correct for most 3rd party disk controllers, im talking IDE / SATA / SCSI and all the RAID subsections of.
...
oh and even if you think that your nice new W2k3 server install has all the right drivers just cause it detected your SCSI card fine
it doesnt.
just try and install a SCSI tape drive and watch it fail to detect the device. you still have to get the latest drivers from the manufacture ( for both the controller and the tape drive ) .
The single best thing MS could do to facilitate the installtion of their OS, is make it so you can have 3rd party drives on a CD / network share / Flash disk ANYTHING!
just give us a God Dam option that isnt a fkn floppy disk!
if i wanted to play that disk in my car cd player ? or my Diskman ? or in my HiFi setup in the home theater room ?
the latest VMware Workstation 5.5 Beta that i have been playing with does have "experimental" Direct3D support, but at this stage it only supports older D3D versions, 7 or 8 i think.
I tried playing Quake 1 and it did seem to work in software mode, but when i tried all my other exe files for it , all sorts of nasty things happend.
But those other exe files were things like GLQuake, Tenibre ( spl ) and other recompiled exe files with extra fancy features, so im not all that supprised that it didnt handle them so well.
but how many clowns can you fit in one ?
my evil Twin gets hold of it ?
There was a case in Australia, where an improved version of the breathalyzer machine "got drunk". After having serveral people blow below the legal limit, the machine started to acrue the alcohol, eg person 1 0.01 PCA, person 2 0.02 PCA , etc etc until this fellow blew and it went over the limit.
Problem was this fellow was of a religion ( cant remember which one ) that forbade alcohol. So he goes back to the station for a blood test and Lo for the blood test came back negative for alcohol.
And now blood tests are needed to convict on DUI and "blowing in the bag" is used to see if a blood test is needed.
( currently looking for link )
Everything is subject to change.
Did Mythbusters have a large enough mirror ?
Did MIT utilise better aiming of their mirror ?
Did the boats that Archimedes tried to destroy sit perfectly still on a cloud-less day waiting to be burnt to a crisp ?
enquiring minds want to know.