You get to give something away for free instead of paying for books and amazon gets a little advertisement.... big deal. And if this spins out of control and people follow these links and BUY BOOKS then it keeps their lust for reading alive and keeps people interested in even having libraries at all. As for keeping lists of books that were checked out... my county library does this unless you specifically check a box on your account that you want them not to. I think you'll find that this is
common practice in many libraries today.
I would go with Ubuntu, linuxmint or some such desktop distro today. Not so much because it's a better OS or will be supported longer than XP but because when you're donating computers you have to expect that they will end up in the hands of people who can't necessarily afford to buy software to do a lot of things and by default XP comes with 0 extras and won't necessarily know how/where to fine open source options for windows. In this light your typical linux distribution comes with software that will do a little bit of everything from office/word processing/whatever to editing graphics and even a few fun games for kids with plenty more for free in the repositories. I did this for several years in central Nebraska. In all I gathered up several hundred PC's from local businesses that were going to discard them and refurbished them and installed a user friendly linux distribution (at the time I was using Lindows/Linspire) and never had a complaint or even a call back with anything other than a thank you. Most distros like ubuntu, mint, fedora etc today are just as easy to use as windows out of the box even for a new user poking around trying to figure things out.
Half the time, ex-military also means ex-Kentucky trailer dweller.
As someone who has been responsible for the architecture, design and security of many of the IT products and services that you consume every single day of your life AND a U.S. Air force veteran I can tell you first hand that you are absolutely ignorant and know nothing of which you speak.
There are several reasons for building in Las Vegas -
-Electricity is very, very cheap and being consumed so steadily by so many entities that it's easy to look "green" in this environment
because the datacenter electric consumption is dwarfed by the use of all of those mega casinos, hotels, attractions, etc by so much
that the IT use just looks like a blip on the radar.
-It really does require less energy to condition/cool air in the desert than it does in most of the rest of the country.
This is actually for a couple of reasons
1.The facilities are effectively big caves.. they are several feet thick cement walls that are light colored on the outside. They are so well
insulated that the outdoor heat doesn't have a chance of making it inside.
2. The humidity in this area is naturally so low that no additional energy is required when cooling the air to dehumidify it. Imagine being in virginia or pennsylvania where the humidity is 60-80% outdoors. Half of that humidity has to be pulled from the air and siphoned off
3. they use strict hot/cold aisle separation where the whole facility becomes a plenum and duct system and the super-heated air is just ducted directly outside. The racks sit on cool cement floors and cold air pours directly into the front of the equipment and the air that runs through the equipment goes directly up through the roof duct system where it is contained and exhausted.
4. with the addition and application of simple evaporative cooling that is greatly accelerated in ultra arid climates you can save nearly 30% of the cost of using gas compression cooling only.
1. It sounds like you have some problems with the military in this country and people exercising their constitutional rights?
2. I think your perception is a little off. I worked their for a while and none of them openly carry real guns. They are strapped with and walk around carrying tasers not actual guns. Actual guns are available but they are not carried on patrol by the security staff.
3. I worked there as a customer for half a decade under sun microsystems and then an employee for a while after that and the staff was never anything less
than helpful and willing to bend over backwards to help any of the customers. The security staff are cordial but firm as it should be. They are all (every single one of them) are nice guys and not one of them are "alpha male psychopaths" They simply have rules and directives that are imposed on the facility as a matter of policy and it is their job to make sure that everyone and everyones property stays safe and secure.
4. They have a big responsibility as every cage in almost every part of all of their facilities across the valley is filled mostly with what would be considered the most high profile targets for any data thief
This part of the story is actually true. (I worked there for a short while after the sun microsystems buyout by oracle was finalized and most of the grid/cloud business unit staff was cut) They have a very extensive network of dark fiber as well as on-premise peering available in their data centers with most of the tier 1 isp's in this country
Sorry but you are very, very wrong.
The las vegas valley is completely full of huge high tech data centers collocating it services for companies all over the country (including the US federal government) Not even counting any of the external colo that's happening there where do you think the IT infrastructure is that supports all of those mega-casinos? These Datacenters! Sun microsystems had "Sun Cloud" facilities in three separate NAP data centers including the supernap and nearly every large it org that you've ever heard of has a presence in their facilities as well. I moved to las vegas because I traveled so much to and from there working on these projects that I never saw my family.
http://switchnap.com/pages/tech-specs/thermal-scif.php
for several years they have been using what they call "T-scif" (thermal separate compartment in facility) to do what google is showing here for us (sun/oracle) for many years.
black cds labeled "Music" from a few years ago came with this tax pre-installed. That is why they cost 1000% more than regular non "music" cdrs... the piracy was implied.
Climate science is nothing but voodoo/interpretation of existing data. The truth is that we only have 50 years of semi-reliable data that proves that the climate changes over time. It gets warmer, it gets colder, but none, not one of these people has been able to reliably prove that humans have anything to do with climate change.
take your ipv6 and get stuffed hippy!.... you probably drive a prius too!!!! The widespread use of 1918 space has virtually eliminated any need for ipv6 on the public internet.... if you NEED ipv6 its either because you just got your ccna and you're trying to prove something or you just read network computing from 1900 and found out that it's the next big thing.... it's adoption far outweighs that of elective colonoscopy but really who want's something shoved in their arse;)
Spend some time on Jinx.com or something and find some scary looking hack/phreak stickers... you'll look hardcore
and remember
the size to goodness ration is inversely proportional when you are talking about geek gadgets.
The reality is that university degrees, saving a small percentage of highly technical schools, mean absolutely nothing and in no way indicate the capability of the person that has them. I have one from a state school that has a fairly prestigious technology curriculum because my parents thought was important. I have never listed it on a resume and I have been working in this industry since I got out of high school making real money. These days I make alot of money doing something I love and learning new things every day and no one has ever asked me if I have a degree. Comp sci and bis programs in most schools are absolutely worthless as far as their ability to teach you skills that you can use in the workplace. While interviewing people do often ask me about my technical expertise though. Some bigger larger companies that I have worked for conduct several highly technical interviews and are even smart enough to look for overall aptitude above specific skills.
To do this successfully, at a high level in the real world you need to have IT.... and that's not an acronym. It's the ability to put 1+1 together and get 4... get from a to d without going through B and C... something that isn't as common as you might think
You need to have very diverse skill sets and experience that allow you to make neural connections quickly that others don't. One of my best hires was a kid that grew up farming and tinkered with electrical engineering.... part of IT is also a passion for learning and finding answers.
It sounds like it's time to run your own dns servers. For what you're trying to do I recommend powerdns with either a mysql or postgres backend. You can do massive updates with regular sql update syntax very quickly and anything that can talk mysql can update it... perl, php, ruby, etc... you name it.
Every fantastic new PC game that comes out is a new rendition of the same.. over and over and over again... quake/unreal are still quake and unreal if you make the graphics better and better and add more maps... almost every new game that comes out is just a new version of the same damn thing... there is nothing new or revolutionary and that's why I virtually quit PC gaming and bought a wii
These people are stupid right? I need a list of these links to sprinkle them as destinations for links that say that they are for catholic ministries so that anyone that is looking into becoming a priest can be raided and picked up early before they have a chance to hurt anyone;)... j/k
Think about it... when was the last time you lost your hard line because of a power outage? They have been outfitting the COs with backup power by default for at least the last 30 years. The real issue here is the wireless telcos that want to play telco but not have the same service level as the real thing;)
The earth has been going through and endless cycle of warming and cooling, super heating and ice age phases FOREVER. I'm not saying that people are helping contribute to the change but it would be happening even if we were NOT HERE as it has for millions of years. This is just the next thing to get the world freaked out about and distract us from our real problems like global hunger, war etc... it's rediculous and a waste of time money and breath!!!! again for the cheap seats... IF THERE WERE NO HUMANS ThE GLOBE WOULD STILL WARM AND THEN COOL DOWN AGAIN INTO AN ICE AGE AFTER!!!!!
What if your wife is the one that killed you? Due to my overt geekiness I'm sure mine has come close. Asside from that I'm not entirely certain my wife's memory doesn't operate from a perl mysql interface.
I had a minor altercation with a woman in booking. I purchased a ticket from United Airlines and showed up about 1.25 hours before my flight, waited in line to check in and when I got to the front after 20 minutes I was told that while I bought my ticket United that I had to check in with US Air. It seams that while my ticket was purchased from United they actually sold me a US Air flight!!! What a bunch of crap right? So I get on the bus and ride over to the US Air terminal and try to check in there. At the US Air terminal they said I only had 40 minutes before the flight and they CUT checkins at 45 minutes!@#$@!!!!! This meant I could not check in for the flight even though the plane was nearly an hour from leaving the ground. I begged and pleaded. I even offered to have someone UPS my luggage or have my luggage go on a later flight but with no luck. So I ask what I do now??? She sent me back over to the united terminal because I didn't have a US Air ticket!!!! In line for another 20 minutes I finally get to the United counter and explain my situation. The girl that was their tried to make me feel like an idiot for not knowing that I should be on a US Air flight to begin with (though again... I bought my ticket directly from United and my ticket reciept said United!! After spending a half hour arguing with her and then asking for her supervisor they tried to get me to pay them another hundred dollars to switch tickets after it was their fault I missed my original flight. I talked them out of that and told t he supervisor that the original girl was very obnoxious and didn't even try to help me. Finally I got put on another flight. I head for security and get the super bomb sniffing shoes and belt off pat down extra search. I was very nice to the TSA rep and asked who exactly decides who get the Extra search? He told me that airline rep makes the decision when they book the ticket!!!! The bitch that didn't want to help me was responsible for my BCS super search.
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You get to give something away for free instead of paying for books and amazon gets a little advertisement .... big deal. And if this spins out of control and people follow these links and BUY BOOKS then it keeps their lust for reading alive and keeps people interested in even having libraries at all. As for keeping lists of books that were checked out ... my county library does this unless you specifically check a box on your account that you want them not to. I think you'll find that this is
common practice in many libraries today.
I would go with Ubuntu, linuxmint or some such desktop distro today. Not so much because it's a better OS or will be supported longer than XP but because when you're donating computers you have to expect that they will end up in the hands of people who can't necessarily afford to buy software to do a lot of things and by default XP comes with 0 extras and won't necessarily know how/where to fine open source options for windows. In this light your typical linux distribution comes with software that will do a little bit of everything from office/word processing/whatever to editing graphics and even a few fun games for kids with plenty more for free in the repositories. I did this for several years in central Nebraska. In all I gathered up several hundred PC's from local businesses that were going to discard them and refurbished them and installed a user friendly linux distribution (at the time I was using Lindows/Linspire) and never had a complaint or even a call back with anything other than a thank you. Most distros like ubuntu, mint, fedora etc today are just as easy to use as windows out of the box even for a new user poking around trying to figure things out.
So I have a mid2010 macbook pro and I've been running lion since preview 2 and have never experienced a kernel panic ......
Half the time, ex-military also means ex-Kentucky trailer dweller.
As someone who has been responsible for the architecture, design and security of many of the IT products and services that you consume every single day of your life AND a U.S. Air force veteran I can tell you first hand that you are absolutely ignorant and know nothing of which you speak.
There are several reasons for building in Las Vegas - -Electricity is very, very cheap and being consumed so steadily by so many entities that it's easy to look "green" in this environment because the datacenter electric consumption is dwarfed by the use of all of those mega casinos, hotels, attractions, etc by so much that the IT use just looks like a blip on the radar. -It really does require less energy to condition/cool air in the desert than it does in most of the rest of the country. This is actually for a couple of reasons 1.The facilities are effectively big caves .. they are several feet thick cement walls that are light colored on the outside. They are so well
insulated that the outdoor heat doesn't have a chance of making it inside.
2. The humidity in this area is naturally so low that no additional energy is required when cooling the air to dehumidify it. Imagine being in virginia or pennsylvania where the humidity is 60-80% outdoors. Half of that humidity has to be pulled from the air and siphoned off
3. they use strict hot/cold aisle separation where the whole facility becomes a plenum and duct system and the super-heated air is just ducted directly outside. The racks sit on cool cement floors and cold air pours directly into the front of the equipment and the air that runs through the equipment goes directly up through the roof duct system where it is contained and exhausted.
4. with the addition and application of simple evaporative cooling that is greatly accelerated in ultra arid climates you can save nearly 30% of the cost of using gas compression cooling only.
1. It sounds like you have some problems with the military in this country and people exercising their constitutional rights? 2. I think your perception is a little off. I worked their for a while and none of them openly carry real guns. They are strapped with and walk around carrying tasers not actual guns. Actual guns are available but they are not carried on patrol by the security staff. 3. I worked there as a customer for half a decade under sun microsystems and then an employee for a while after that and the staff was never anything less than helpful and willing to bend over backwards to help any of the customers. The security staff are cordial but firm as it should be. They are all (every single one of them) are nice guys and not one of them are "alpha male psychopaths" They simply have rules and directives that are imposed on the facility as a matter of policy and it is their job to make sure that everyone and everyones property stays safe and secure. 4. They have a big responsibility as every cage in almost every part of all of their facilities across the valley is filled mostly with what would be considered the most high profile targets for any data thief
This part of the story is actually true. (I worked there for a short while after the sun microsystems buyout by oracle was finalized and most of the grid/cloud business unit staff was cut) They have a very extensive network of dark fiber as well as on-premise peering available in their data centers with most of the tier 1 isp's in this country
Sorry but you are very, very wrong. The las vegas valley is completely full of huge high tech data centers collocating it services for companies all over the country (including the US federal government) Not even counting any of the external colo that's happening there where do you think the IT infrastructure is that supports all of those mega-casinos? These Datacenters! Sun microsystems had "Sun Cloud" facilities in three separate NAP data centers including the supernap and nearly every large it org that you've ever heard of has a presence in their facilities as well. I moved to las vegas because I traveled so much to and from there working on these projects that I never saw my family.
http://switchnap.com/pages/tech-specs/thermal-scif.php for several years they have been using what they call "T-scif" (thermal separate compartment in facility) to do what google is showing here for us (sun/oracle) for many years.
black cds labeled "Music" from a few years ago came with this tax pre-installed. That is why they cost 1000% more than regular non "music" cdrs ... the piracy was implied.
Oh .. .and where I live it began snowing earlier than ever ... mid october and is now experiencing the coldest temperatures in recorded history.
Climate science is nothing but voodoo/interpretation of existing data. The truth is that we only have 50 years of semi-reliable data that proves that the climate changes over time. It gets warmer, it gets colder, but none, not one of these people has been able to reliably prove that humans have anything to do with climate change.
take your ipv6 and get stuffed hippy! .... you probably drive a prius too!!!! The widespread use of 1918 space has virtually eliminated any need for ipv6 on the public internet .... if you NEED ipv6 its either because you just got your ccna and you're trying to prove something or you just read network computing from 1900 and found out that it's the next big thing. ... it's adoption far outweighs that of elective colonoscopy but really who want's something shoved in their arse ;)
Spend some time on Jinx.com or something and find some scary looking hack/phreak stickers ... you'll look hardcore
and remember
the size to goodness ration is inversely proportional when you are talking about geek gadgets.
It lets you build your own working facebook application quickly ... in just a few minutes it seems like
The reality is that university degrees, saving a small percentage of highly technical schools, mean absolutely nothing and in no way indicate the capability of the person that has them. I have one from a state school that has a fairly prestigious technology curriculum because my parents thought was important. I have never listed it on a resume and I have been working in this industry since I got out of high school making real money. These days I make alot of money doing something I love and learning new things every day and no one has ever asked me if I have a degree. Comp sci and bis programs in most schools are absolutely worthless as far as their ability to teach you skills that you can use in the workplace. While interviewing people do often ask me about my technical expertise though. Some bigger larger companies that I have worked for conduct several highly technical interviews and are even smart enough to look for overall aptitude above specific skills. To do this successfully, at a high level in the real world you need to have IT .... and that's not an acronym. It's the ability to put 1+1 together and get 4 ... get from a to d without going through B and C ... something that isn't as common as you might think
You need to have very diverse skill sets and experience that allow you to make neural connections quickly that others don't. One of my best hires was a kid that grew up farming and tinkered with electrical engineering .... part of IT is also a passion for learning and finding answers.
It sounds like it's time to run your own dns servers. For what you're trying to do I recommend powerdns with either a mysql or postgres backend. You can do massive updates with regular sql update syntax very quickly and anything that can talk mysql can update it ... perl, php, ruby, etc ... you name it.
Every fantastic new PC game that comes out is a new rendition of the same .. over and over and over again ... quake/unreal are still quake and unreal if you make the graphics better and better and add more maps ... almost every new game that comes out is just a new version of the same damn thing ... there is nothing new or revolutionary and that's why I virtually quit PC gaming and bought a wii
These people are stupid right? I need a list of these links to sprinkle them as destinations for links that say that they are for catholic ministries so that anyone that is looking into becoming a priest can be raided and picked up early before they have a chance to hurt anyone ;) ... j/k
Think about it ... when was the last time you lost your hard line because of a power outage? They have been outfitting the COs with backup power by default for at least the last 30 years. The real issue here is the wireless telcos that want to play telco but not have the same service level as the real thing ;)
Apparently someone forgot to tell these dimwits that viewing a web page AT ALL was just a software interpretation of a view of the code.
The earth has been going through and endless cycle of warming and cooling, super heating and ice age phases FOREVER. I'm not saying that people are helping contribute to the change but it would be happening even if we were NOT HERE as it has for millions of years. This is just the next thing to get the world freaked out about and distract us from our real problems like global hunger, war etc ... it's rediculous and a waste of time money and breath!!!! again for the cheap seats ... IF THERE WERE NO HUMANS ThE GLOBE WOULD STILL WARM AND THEN COOL DOWN AGAIN INTO AN ICE AGE AFTER!!!!!
What if your wife is the one that killed you? Due to my overt geekiness I'm sure mine has come close. Asside from that I'm not entirely certain my wife's memory doesn't operate from a perl mysql interface.
Are short/fat smart people going to be eaten? There are an aweful lot of us and we have guns!
I had a minor altercation with a woman in booking. I purchased a ticket from United Airlines and showed up about 1.25 hours before my flight, waited in line to check in and when I got to the front after 20 minutes I was told that while I bought my ticket United that I had to check in with US Air. It seams that while my ticket was purchased from United they actually sold me a US Air flight!!! What a bunch of crap right? So I get on the bus and ride over to the US Air terminal and try to check in there. At the US Air terminal they said I only had 40 minutes before the flight and they CUT checkins at 45 minutes!@#$@!!!!! This meant I could not check in for the flight even though the plane was nearly an hour from leaving the ground. I begged and pleaded. I even offered to have someone UPS my luggage or have my luggage go on a later flight but with no luck. So I ask what I do now??? She sent me back over to the united terminal because I didn't have a US Air ticket!!!! In line for another 20 minutes I finally get to the United counter and explain my situation. The girl that was their tried to make me feel like an idiot for not knowing that I should be on a US Air flight to begin with (though again ... I bought my ticket directly from United and my ticket reciept said United!! After spending a half hour arguing with her and then asking for her supervisor they tried to get me to pay them another hundred dollars to switch tickets after it was their fault I missed my original flight. I talked them out of that and told t he supervisor that the original girl was very obnoxious and didn't even try to help me. Finally I got put on another flight. I head for security and get the super bomb sniffing shoes and belt off pat down extra search. I was very nice to the TSA rep and asked who exactly decides who get the Extra search? He told me that airline rep makes the decision when they book the ticket!!!! The bitch that didn't want to help me was responsible for my BCS super search.