CI Host is actually located in Bedford, TX which is a suburb between Dallas and Fort Worth. I worked for them for a while (regrettably) and could go on and on about the "features" they have in place. This is typical of the company policy and doesn't surprise me one bit. Their Bedford "datacenter" is actually an old 3 story office building that was haphazardly converted into a facility for servers. The rows of 2-post racks (they don't do cabinets) were actually parallel with the support beams instead of perpendicular, they repeatedly overloaded the power circuits that they installed and didn't have a backup generator that would automatically kick in and have "redundant" power. A tech would have to go downstairs and get the key and then call an admin and ask for permission to fire the generator. Then and only then would it be turned on. Then the tech would again have to ask for permission to throw the breaker to give power to the building from the generator. I wouldn't host with this company regardless of their price or what they promise.
Another point: their "security" is actually that tech that was referred to. The owner (Chris Faulkner, go google him... he sued SMU... look it up) refuses to spend any money to fulfill the promises he has made to his customers and the claims he has made on his site. There isn't 24x7 access in Chicago, it's "Call when you need in" access.
Here's the list of stores they have announced as closing thus far:
Long Beach, CA (PCH) (Store # 175)
6310 East Pacific Coast Hwy, Long Beach, CA 90803
San Mateo, CA (Store #728)
41 West Hillsdale Boulevard, San Mateo, CA 94403
Mesquite, TX (Store #127)
1515 Town East Blvd. #168, Mesquite, TX 75150
Skokie, IL (Store #177)
7011 Central Ave., Skokie, IL 60077
I found these on their website at http://www.compusa.com/about/news.asp under an article called:
"CompUSA Announces Comprehensive Realignment to Better Compete in Changing Marketplace"
This question is just primed to be a massive flamewar. Good job on that one. +1 Retarded Choice, IMHO.
You shouldn't need to ask someone which distro you should use. You should play around with a bunch of them until you find one you like and want to use. Asking people for their opinion is great and all as it gets you a general idea of what the zealots what you to use (yes, everyone is a zealot of some kind and to some degree, stop denying it. I'll be first to admit it) but you're also just asking for a massive flame war. That's like going up to a store and asking "which groceries should I buy?". What's to say what the person you're asking tells you is actually what you really need?
Make your own decisions and stop trying to "follow the other persons lead". Each distro has its ups and downs, and there's bound to be one that's right for you. I have often found that the best way to finding a distro/setup that I need is to just play around with different ones and check out the documentation for each to see which one is going to be closest to what I need to do. Of course, if you're going to ask people which to use, why not just go with what the big heads in the corporate section are using (god help you if you actually do so).
Make up your own mind and find one yourself that you are comfortable with and that you enjoy using. Simple as that.
I hate to have to ruin my karma like this, but please refrain from lumping "HAM" operators with the CB groups. We frankly don't like that. Although, most "HAM" (amateur) operators usually train for stuff like this just incase we actually are needed. They have quite a few groups/classes that you can do to help learn where you fit in the 'disaster' picture.
Although, I must admit, you at least nailed the point on the head with your second thought you put down. Amateur Radio operators don't just get their license to chit-chat about stuff. Most of us are here for when we're needed.
Case in point: The recent streak of Hurricanes out around Florida. The Amateur Radio community had spotters in the field the entire time relaying information to the National Weather Service and the Hurricane Watch Center.
A good resource for those of you interested in getting your Amateur Radio Service license is:
http://www.arrl.org (Amateur Radio Relay League)
It's considered the "voice" of the community and has quite a bit of news on there.
I work for a rather large webhosting company and on the M$ side of things, we normally update all of the shared M$ boxes within 12 hours of learning of the patches (be it windows patches or software specific patches), but only if it's a security-sensitive update. Major version updates can take up to a month (ie: PHP 4.2.x - PHP 4.3.x). On the other client machines, it can be anywhere from 24 hours to a week. It all depends on how severe the patch is. The Blaster patch was applied within 36 hours on all M$ machines when it originally came out. The unix side is a bit slower... they have dev boxes that they test and retest the new patches on. Once it's deemed suitable for our enviroment, they will go ahead and apply it. That can take up to 5 hours to auctually apply the patch;D
What's to say that outbound traffic would need to be blocked? Just from a quick glance through, if they blocked incoming stuff only but allowed most/all outbound traffic, that would keep problems with quake3, AIM, IRC, etc from popping up. Granted, if something occurs, they can then go back and block specific outbound ports. As far as Im concerned, most of the inbound traffic should be blocked by default for normal lusers. You can then go 'opt-out' and have some incoming ports like 22, 25, 110, 23 (dear god, not telnet), or whatever else you know you want open allowed to go into your connection. Wouldn't be that hard to implement. Of course, if an ISP really needs to stop something from going outbound (135, 137, 138, 139, 445) then they can do so without causing too much harm to other "important" (if you can consider IM and Quake3 important) traffic to pass. Just my 2 cents.
Not to forget about having to chase down the dependancies, hoping they're the right version, then chasing down the dependancies' depandancies, etc., etc., etc. That's one of the major reasons I chose to stay away from the RPM-based systems and went with FreeBSD. The ports tree gets the dependancies for you (if you are in a lazy enough mood to go that route) or the pkg_add gets them as well. It's a lot less of a headache to worry about "oops, I forgot this dependancy!". I personally think that the RPM users who are die hard "OMFGZORZ MY RPMS PWNZORZ UR SYSTEM" just think that they are cool because they know how to use a search engine and find the rpm they need and spend 12 hours hunting down everything needed to get something installed whereas a FreeBSD user would get the software installed and move on to things that are more important (ie: life away from hunting rpms). Just my 2 cents.
I have a couple Intel machines and a few AMD machines. I haven't had much luck getting the Intel's up to a "high" oc when it's been compared to the AMDs. I hope AMD doesn't follow suit with this and keep their chips running just the way they are.
In my personal opinion, Intel is flat-out stupid for doing this. Their chips are what $400 $500 a pop for the newer ones? If they sell that with a no-oc clause, that would be ok. That way if the end luser goes out and fries the chip not knowing what they are doing, they can make another $400-500. Now they have it so they can't make any money off of that.
Speaking FOR AMD, I had a friend who fried his XP 1700+ (the goober wired the cpu fan wrong [gg to him not knowing how to solder]) and shipped it back to AMD and they sent him a XP 1800+ at no cost. ???/me goes off to fry his XP 2200+ hoping to get a XP 3000+ >=)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA. You read wrong. There were well over 1200 users (Im not sure on auctual count) but it's enough to fill up the convention center where the World Championship Rodeo is held =\ and it's HUGE. 30? HAHAHAHA Nice Try;)
What about QuakeCon? They've had well over 1100 people for the last couple of years. Here is their site. Last year, they filled up the Mesquite Convention Center (Mesquite, Texas) and were turning people away. Total count for last year was somewhere around 1,200 people in the BYOC alone. This does not include all the spectators or people that diddn't bring a comp but played on someone else's... Their sponsors include: ATI (last year), Nvidia (year before), Bawls, AMD, Linksys, Speakeasy, id Software (id software auctually pays for most of it). I would have to say that QuakeCon is FAR larger that the one you're referring to.
For those interested in going: the BYOC is completely FREE. Yes, you pay nothing at all to get to participate in QuakeCon. They have $30,000+ tournaments (that's grand prize). Normally, they're held in August here in Texas (Mesquite, Texas... east of downtown Dallas) and registration normally fills up within a day of it being opened. =\
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Seriously, who said this has anything to do with the movie? Way to jump to conclusions! There's bound to be another reason behind it.
CI Host is actually located in Bedford, TX which is a suburb between Dallas and Fort Worth. I worked for them for a while (regrettably) and could go on and on about the "features" they have in place. This is typical of the company policy and doesn't surprise me one bit. Their Bedford "datacenter" is actually an old 3 story office building that was haphazardly converted into a facility for servers. The rows of 2-post racks (they don't do cabinets) were actually parallel with the support beams instead of perpendicular, they repeatedly overloaded the power circuits that they installed and didn't have a backup generator that would automatically kick in and have "redundant" power. A tech would have to go downstairs and get the key and then call an admin and ask for permission to fire the generator. Then and only then would it be turned on. Then the tech would again have to ask for permission to throw the breaker to give power to the building from the generator. I wouldn't host with this company regardless of their price or what they promise. Another point: their "security" is actually that tech that was referred to. The owner (Chris Faulkner, go google him... he sued SMU... look it up) refuses to spend any money to fulfill the promises he has made to his customers and the claims he has made on his site. There isn't 24x7 access in Chicago, it's "Call when you need in" access.
I'm a moron and forgot to edit it properly. My bad.
Long Beach, CA (PCH) (Store # 175)
6310 East Pacific Coast Hwy, Long Beach, CA 90803
San Mateo, CA (Store #728)
41 West Hillsdale Boulevard, San Mateo, CA 94403
Mesquite, TX (Store #127)
1515 Town East Blvd. #168, Mesquite, TX 75150
Skokie, IL (Store #177)
7011 Central Ave., Skokie, IL 60077
There ya go.
Here's the list of stores they have announced as closing thus far: Long Beach, CA (PCH) (Store # 175) 6310 East Pacific Coast Hwy, Long Beach, CA 90803 San Mateo, CA (Store #728) 41 West Hillsdale Boulevard, San Mateo, CA 94403 Mesquite, TX (Store #127) 1515 Town East Blvd. #168, Mesquite, TX 75150 Skokie, IL (Store #177) 7011 Central Ave., Skokie, IL 60077 I found these on their website at http://www.compusa.com/about/news.asp under an article called: "CompUSA Announces Comprehensive Realignment to Better Compete in Changing Marketplace"
LOL. Sure... the "cool" people ;)
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This question is just primed to be a massive flamewar. Good job on that one. +1 Retarded Choice, IMHO.
You shouldn't need to ask someone which distro you should use. You should play around with a bunch of them until you find one you like and want to use. Asking people for their opinion is great and all as it gets you a general idea of what the zealots what you to use (yes, everyone is a zealot of some kind and to some degree, stop denying it. I'll be first to admit it) but you're also just asking for a massive flame war. That's like going up to a store and asking "which groceries should I buy?". What's to say what the person you're asking tells you is actually what you really need?
Make your own decisions and stop trying to "follow the other persons lead". Each distro has its ups and downs, and there's bound to be one that's right for you. I have often found that the best way to finding a distro/setup that I need is to just play around with different ones and check out the documentation for each to see which one is going to be closest to what I need to do. Of course, if you're going to ask people which to use, why not just go with what the big heads in the corporate section are using (god help you if you actually do so).
Make up your own mind and find one yourself that you are comfortable with and that you enjoy using. Simple as that.
I hate to have to ruin my karma like this, but please refrain from lumping "HAM" operators with the CB groups. We frankly don't like that. Although, most "HAM" (amateur) operators usually train for stuff like this just incase we actually are needed. They have quite a few groups/classes that you can do to help learn where you fit in the 'disaster' picture.
Although, I must admit, you at least nailed the point on the head with your second thought you put down. Amateur Radio operators don't just get their license to chit-chat about stuff. Most of us are here for when we're needed.
Case in point: The recent streak of Hurricanes out around Florida. The Amateur Radio community had spotters in the field the entire time relaying information to the National Weather Service and the Hurricane Watch Center.
A good resource for those of you interested in getting your Amateur Radio Service license is:
http://www.arrl.org (Amateur Radio Relay League)
It's considered the "voice" of the community and has quite a bit of news on there.
I work for a rather large webhosting company and on the M$ side of things, we normally update all of the shared M$ boxes within 12 hours of learning of the patches (be it windows patches or software specific patches), but only if it's a security-sensitive update. Major version updates can take up to a month (ie: PHP 4.2.x - PHP 4.3.x). On the other client machines, it can be anywhere from 24 hours to a week. It all depends on how severe the patch is. The Blaster patch was applied within 36 hours on all M$ machines when it originally came out. The unix side is a bit slower... they have dev boxes that they test and retest the new patches on. Once it's deemed suitable for our enviroment, they will go ahead and apply it. That can take up to 5 hours to auctually apply the patch ;D
What's to say that outbound traffic would need to be blocked? Just from a quick glance through, if they blocked incoming stuff only but allowed most/all outbound traffic, that would keep problems with quake3, AIM, IRC, etc from popping up. Granted, if something occurs, they can then go back and block specific outbound ports. As far as Im concerned, most of the inbound traffic should be blocked by default for normal lusers. You can then go 'opt-out' and have some incoming ports like 22, 25, 110, 23 (dear god, not telnet), or whatever else you know you want open allowed to go into your connection. Wouldn't be that hard to implement. Of course, if an ISP really needs to stop something from going outbound (135, 137, 138, 139, 445) then they can do so without causing too much harm to other "important" (if you can consider IM and Quake3 important) traffic to pass. Just my 2 cents.
Not to forget about having to chase down the dependancies, hoping they're the right version, then chasing down the dependancies' depandancies, etc., etc., etc. That's one of the major reasons I chose to stay away from the RPM-based systems and went with FreeBSD. The ports tree gets the dependancies for you (if you are in a lazy enough mood to go that route) or the pkg_add gets them as well. It's a lot less of a headache to worry about "oops, I forgot this dependancy!". I personally think that the RPM users who are die hard "OMFGZORZ MY RPMS PWNZORZ UR SYSTEM" just think that they are cool because they know how to use a search engine and find the rpm they need and spend 12 hours hunting down everything needed to get something installed whereas a FreeBSD user would get the software installed and move on to things that are more important (ie: life away from hunting rpms). Just my 2 cents.
I have a couple Intel machines and a few AMD machines. I haven't had much luck getting the Intel's up to a "high" oc when it's been compared to the AMDs. I hope AMD doesn't follow suit with this and keep their chips running just the way they are. In my personal opinion, Intel is flat-out stupid for doing this. Their chips are what $400 $500 a pop for the newer ones? If they sell that with a no-oc clause, that would be ok. That way if the end luser goes out and fries the chip not knowing what they are doing, they can make another $400-500. Now they have it so they can't make any money off of that. Speaking FOR AMD, I had a friend who fried his XP 1700+ (the goober wired the cpu fan wrong [gg to him not knowing how to solder]) and shipped it back to AMD and they sent him a XP 1800+ at no cost. ??? /me goes off to fry his XP 2200+ hoping to get a XP 3000+ >=)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHA. You read wrong. There were well over 1200 users (Im not sure on auctual count) but it's enough to fill up the convention center where the World Championship Rodeo is held =\ and it's HUGE. 30? HAHAHAHA Nice Try ;)
What about QuakeCon? They've had well over 1100 people for the last couple of years. Here is their site. Last year, they filled up the Mesquite Convention Center (Mesquite, Texas) and were turning people away. Total count for last year was somewhere around 1,200 people in the BYOC alone. This does not include all the spectators or people that diddn't bring a comp but played on someone else's... Their sponsors include: ATI (last year), Nvidia (year before), Bawls, AMD, Linksys, Speakeasy, id Software (id software auctually pays for most of it). I would have to say that QuakeCon is FAR larger that the one you're referring to. For those interested in going: the BYOC is completely FREE. Yes, you pay nothing at all to get to participate in QuakeCon. They have $30,000+ tournaments (that's grand prize). Normally, they're held in August here in Texas (Mesquite, Texas... east of downtown Dallas) and registration normally fills up within a day of it being opened. =\