My wife had a similar catch-22 problem. She brought her laptop with her on business and the hotel had a per-day Internet access fee. You get to the payment screen by popping open your web browser, and it automatically redirects you to the pay site, and then you've got 24 hours of access.
This was all well and good, except that her company had hard-coded a proxy server into Internet Explorer and the payment web page couldn't be reached. (She has the same problem in airports w/wireless access.) Luckily I had dropped Firefox on her laptop when I used it once and she was able to use that to view the page and make her payment. From there, she connected to her work VPN and used MSIE through the proxy. Doh.
Your sports teams help define your city. For a lot of cities, it's what puts them on the map. I'm not a big sports fan, but I watch the local NFL and MLB teams when it's convenient. The guys that own these teams are business men, and there are plenty of cities that would love to have your team and are willing to subsidize stadiums to get it. Sure, the situation sucks, but I'd rather pay the extra tax than give up a major part of my city's identity. Whether you personally care about sports or not, this is a simple fact. If your current facility is outdated and you don't help build a new one your team WILL leave.
You say that if your team leaves, "that just opens up an opportunity for someone to start a new team." Guess what? You'll get a team to replace your old team by...building them a stadium and spending more than you would have to keep the old team around! See the Minnesota North Stars/Dallas Stars/Minnesota Wild for an example.
I don't generally play "by the rules" but rather "by my gut".
Ahhh...So you're the guy sitting at third base who hits his 13 and takes the facecard from the dealer showing 6. I'm not a big gambler, so I like the $5 limit, but playing with the people sitting at $5 tables can be extremely frustrating.
Wouldn't it be pretty simple for whoever compiled the release to have a known good MD5 and periodically check that what people are downloading is good? A script that runs daily from somewhere else (even on your home PC) like this maybe:
Download package Check for matching hash If hash doesn't match, send notification email/SMS/whatever
Even if the site is compromised and the hacker (cracker!) changes the.md5 file you'd still find out pretty quick if something was amiss. Someone commented that this has been a problem since November, couldn't they have known sooner with very little effort?
Just thought I'd point out that NFS (NAS) is NetApp's bread and butter. They've been saying NFS is as good as block storage over Fibre Channel forever, and not everyone agrees. Their claim may or may not be true, but this coming from NetApp should be scrutinized in the same way as a statement from Microsoft saying how much lower their TCO is compared to Linux. Storage vendors are well skilled at spin.
Come on now, this is insightful? An insightful mod makes this look like a personal attack on the guy rather than an attempt at humor. Put the personal beliefs aside and mod it funny if anything else, sheesh.
There are many ways to do online backups of large amounts of storage. One common way is with storage based snapshots. You quiesce your application (i.e. put your database into hot backup mode), take your logical snapshot, and present that snapshot to a backup server. To the backup server, it looks like you're backing up local disk, but in actuality you're getting a point in time copy of your application/database.
Erm, to avoid confusion let's not call anything about RAID1 "striping". It's a mirror between two disks. All writes are written to both disks identically, and as such you can read back from either disk since the data is in both places. If you interleave your reads your read performance will be better. Sorry to nitpick, but there is no striping of data in RAID1.
Netware...is STILL a viable choice for a server OS.
Do you really believe that? Say I'm starting a new business and I plan to have a hundred people with PCs on their desks. How should I enable them to share files and run print servers? Would you really recommend I go out and purchase Novell Netware? Maybe when you say "viable" you mean that it will work today, not that it's something you actually believe is going to be around in five years.
I used to be a Netware advocate and took care of an NDS tree with >100 servers in it. I liked it. Times have changed, it's simply not going to be around for much longer. Novell is doing nothing more than paying lip service to its existing customer base by saying otherwise. The writing is on the wall here, if you're not planning your migration to OES (or some other Linux, or Windows) you're in denial. Read between the lines, the Netware ship is sinking.
Yes, we're an all Cisco Fibre Channel shop and I've heard of FC write acceleration. It should be quite helpful over those long runs, it'll remove a whole round trip. We don't have any SSM blades yet, but I've been hearing that people are really wanting the Gen2 SSM blades to come out so they're not stuck with the Gen1 limit for port count in a director. The rumor is they'll need to wait until at least Q1 2008. Are you using your Cisco gear to do FCIP? You must be using Inter-VSAN routing then, right?
I agree with just about everything you've said. Maybe the big storage vendors are gouging people, but what they deliver simply isn't available yet as a DIY project (in any reliable and supportable way, anyhow). SRDF is a good example.
Are you really doing synchronous replication over a 100km distance with SRDF? The latency over that distance would probably make many applications choke if you were doing truly synchronous replication. There are various channel extension products you can place between the two sites which would trick your EMC Symmetrix storage arrays into thinking they were doing synchronous replication, but in reality your remote site would be somewhat behind your local site. Or maybe you're using asynchronous SRDF (SRDF/A)?
Nice nick, by the way. I'm going to have that song in my head all day now.
Disk capacities have been increasing MUCH faster that the bus speed used to talk to them, so RAID arrays are taking longer and longer to rebuild.
Actually, the speed of the disks is still the bottleneck, not the bus. Disk capacities have grown by leaps and bounds, but the performance of any individual disk hasn't increased at anywhere near the same rate.
I'd also point out that with most standard RAID scenarios, when a disk fails the rest of the disks in that RAID set generally become immensely more busy than their normal workload. For example, when I have a single drive fail with RAID 5 and my ass is on the line until the rebuild completes, the remaining disks will be drastically more stressed than during normal operation which increases the likelihood of failure and data loss. I can throttle my rebuild to lessen that stress, but that will increase the time where I'm unprotected against a second drive failure. It's a catch-22, you may as well ust cross your fingers and hope for the best.
If you really care about the availability of your data, an additional layer of redundancy is worth your time and money. RAID6 (or any double-parity implementation) and three-way RAID 1 are good examples.
Note: I am jaded. We lost data using RAID 10 (on a Sourceforge mirror site, BTW) due to a double-drive failure.
Indeed, any visits done 50,000 years ago would have been to a group of "intelligent" primates who, in all probability, would have had great difficulty in having the contextual skills needed to show intelligence to the visitors.
Who is to say that we have the contextual skills needed to show intelligence to other visitors? Perhaps we're passed by as not intelligent enough to bother with yet.
Or maybe they're just watching us until we develop and successfully test warp drive.
True, my Xbox will break someday, by which time I hope there's a device out there that does everything it can do with an interface as nice. I can do all the things you listed that you do with your computer with XBMC. Emulators (launched via XBMC) - check. TV shows from Bittorrent and downloaded movies - check. Music through my home theater quality receiver - check. YouTube - check. (The YouTube script was a nice addition when I upgraded to XBMC 2). I don't need to install a larger hard drive or wait for content to download to the XBox, it streams it all from the PC in my home office.
Sure, we'll always have computers, but it's not always silly to buy extra hardware that can do things your computer can do. I can drop a television tuner card into my PC and watch on my monitor, but I still own a television or two.
Oh, and I get the added bonus of not looking like a dork who has a keyboard and mouse on his coffee table.:)
I'd wager at least as many people have their PC's hooked up to a TV as have TiVo.
Really??? If you're willing to wager I think a lot of people would take you up on it. I'm a geek and I've only hooked up a computer to my television once. Given this was about four years ago, but it looked crappy even with an S-Video cable and I got sick of having a wireless keyboard and mouse on the coffee table. I won't be doing it again soon if I can avoid it. I'd be surprised if there weren't 20 or more TiVo's plugged into televisions for every computer out there that is.
Oh, and I love my TiVo and my modded XBox with XBox Media Center.
I think you missed the part where countries that refuse to enact such laws are isolated from the rest on the Internet at large. It's an interesting idea, but it sets a rather scary precedent.
I think this particular charity could be extremely important on a global level. We've got misguided or uneducated people teaching children around the world inciteful falsehoods like the holocaust never happened and all Jews are evil. Imagine if inquisitive children could actually make their way out to the Internet and discover the truth about the world outside their village/country/religion/oppressive government. The amount of extremism in the world may just drop...or at least non-participant support for extremism, which is half the problem in and of itself.
Insert pornography jokes as you see fit, but ask yourself if you're more enlightened because you have access to the Internet. It IS important.
I still don't understand the concept behind making images illegal. Granted, someone who wants to look at this kind of stuff might have a really messed up sense of morality, and probably reality as well, but I don't see how this is a legal issue before there is an actual victim.
If you (or your wife, or your child) are forced to be photographed nude or engaged in sexual activity to which you have not consented, are you not victimized every time those photographs are seen or distributed? Are you really arguing that there's no victim here?
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My wife had a similar catch-22 problem. She brought her laptop with her on business and the hotel had a per-day Internet access fee. You get to the payment screen by popping open your web browser, and it automatically redirects you to the pay site, and then you've got 24 hours of access. This was all well and good, except that her company had hard-coded a proxy server into Internet Explorer and the payment web page couldn't be reached. (She has the same problem in airports w/wireless access.) Luckily I had dropped Firefox on her laptop when I used it once and she was able to use that to view the page and make her payment. From there, she connected to her work VPN and used MSIE through the proxy. Doh.
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I think you meant "Lest we forget". You were modded up anyhow so I guess bringing it up is a moo point.
You say that if your team leaves, "that just opens up an opportunity for someone to start a new team." Guess what? You'll get a team to replace your old team by...building them a stadium and spending more than you would have to keep the old team around! See the Minnesota North Stars/Dallas Stars/Minnesota Wild for an example.
Ahhh...So you're the guy sitting at third base who hits his 13 and takes the facecard from the dealer showing 6. I'm not a big gambler, so I like the $5 limit, but playing with the people sitting at $5 tables can be extremely frustrating.
Wouldn't it be pretty simple for whoever compiled the release to have a known good MD5 and periodically check that what people are downloading is good? A script that runs daily from somewhere else (even on your home PC) like this maybe:
.md5 file you'd still find out pretty quick if something was amiss. Someone commented that this has been a problem since November, couldn't they have known sooner with very little effort?
Download package
Check for matching hash
If hash doesn't match, send notification email/SMS/whatever
Even if the site is compromised and the hacker (cracker!) changes the
Just thought I'd point out that NFS (NAS) is NetApp's bread and butter. They've been saying NFS is as good as block storage over Fibre Channel forever, and not everyone agrees. Their claim may or may not be true, but this coming from NetApp should be scrutinized in the same way as a statement from Microsoft saying how much lower their TCO is compared to Linux. Storage vendors are well skilled at spin.
Not so fast -- Their whole line of MDS Fibre Channel switches are Linux underneath. There's even a GPL notice that comes up when they boot.
Somebody cue the bad joke trumpet: Wha-Wha-Wha-Whaaaaaaaa....
As referenced in the parent's sig, methinks you need a sarcasm detector.
Did anyone else read that in the voice of Mr. Maki from South Park?
Come on now, this is insightful? An insightful mod makes this look like a personal attack on the guy rather than an attempt at humor. Put the personal beliefs aside and mod it funny if anything else, sheesh.
Erm, to avoid confusion let's not call anything about RAID1 "striping". It's a mirror between two disks. All writes are written to both disks identically, and as such you can read back from either disk since the data is in both places. If you interleave your reads your read performance will be better. Sorry to nitpick, but there is no striping of data in RAID1.
Do you really believe that? Say I'm starting a new business and I plan to have a hundred people with PCs on their desks. How should I enable them to share files and run print servers? Would you really recommend I go out and purchase Novell Netware? Maybe when you say "viable" you mean that it will work today, not that it's something you actually believe is going to be around in five years.
I used to be a Netware advocate and took care of an NDS tree with >100 servers in it. I liked it. Times have changed, it's simply not going to be around for much longer. Novell is doing nothing more than paying lip service to its existing customer base by saying otherwise. The writing is on the wall here, if you're not planning your migration to OES (or some other Linux, or Windows) you're in denial. Read between the lines, the Netware ship is sinking.
You'd have gotten more mileage using the short route: I am a robot, you insensitive clod!
Yes, we're an all Cisco Fibre Channel shop and I've heard of FC write acceleration. It should be quite helpful over those long runs, it'll remove a whole round trip. We don't have any SSM blades yet, but I've been hearing that people are really wanting the Gen2 SSM blades to come out so they're not stuck with the Gen1 limit for port count in a director. The rumor is they'll need to wait until at least Q1 2008. Are you using your Cisco gear to do FCIP? You must be using Inter-VSAN routing then, right?
Are you really doing synchronous replication over a 100km distance with SRDF? The latency over that distance would probably make many applications choke if you were doing truly synchronous replication. There are various channel extension products you can place between the two sites which would trick your EMC Symmetrix storage arrays into thinking they were doing synchronous replication, but in reality your remote site would be somewhat behind your local site. Or maybe you're using asynchronous SRDF (SRDF/A)?
Nice nick, by the way. I'm going to have that song in my head all day now.
Actually, the speed of the disks is still the bottleneck, not the bus. Disk capacities have grown by leaps and bounds, but the performance of any individual disk hasn't increased at anywhere near the same rate.
I'd also point out that with most standard RAID scenarios, when a disk fails the rest of the disks in that RAID set generally become immensely more busy than their normal workload. For example, when I have a single drive fail with RAID 5 and my ass is on the line until the rebuild completes, the remaining disks will be drastically more stressed than during normal operation which increases the likelihood of failure and data loss. I can throttle my rebuild to lessen that stress, but that will increase the time where I'm unprotected against a second drive failure. It's a catch-22, you may as well ust cross your fingers and hope for the best.
If you really care about the availability of your data, an additional layer of redundancy is worth your time and money. RAID6 (or any double-parity implementation) and three-way RAID 1 are good examples.
Note: I am jaded. We lost data using RAID 10 (on a Sourceforge mirror site, BTW) due to a double-drive failure.
Who is to say that we have the contextual skills needed to show intelligence to other visitors? Perhaps we're passed by as not intelligent enough to bother with yet.
Or maybe they're just watching us until we develop and successfully test warp drive.
Sure, we'll always have computers, but it's not always silly to buy extra hardware that can do things your computer can do. I can drop a television tuner card into my PC and watch on my monitor, but I still own a television or two.
Oh, and I get the added bonus of not looking like a dork who has a keyboard and mouse on his coffee table. :)
Really??? If you're willing to wager I think a lot of people would take you up on it. I'm a geek and I've only hooked up a computer to my television once. Given this was about four years ago, but it looked crappy even with an S-Video cable and I got sick of having a wireless keyboard and mouse on the coffee table. I won't be doing it again soon if I can avoid it. I'd be surprised if there weren't 20 or more TiVo's plugged into televisions for every computer out there that is.
Oh, and I love my TiVo and my modded XBox with XBox Media Center.
I think you missed the part where countries that refuse to enact such laws are isolated from the rest on the Internet at large. It's an interesting idea, but it sets a rather scary precedent.
I think this particular charity could be extremely important on a global level. We've got misguided or uneducated people teaching children around the world inciteful falsehoods like the holocaust never happened and all Jews are evil. Imagine if inquisitive children could actually make their way out to the Internet and discover the truth about the world outside their village/country/religion/oppressive government. The amount of extremism in the world may just drop...or at least non-participant support for extremism, which is half the problem in and of itself.
Insert pornography jokes as you see fit, but ask yourself if you're more enlightened because you have access to the Internet. It IS important.
If you (or your wife, or your child) are forced to be photographed nude or engaged in sexual activity to which you have not consented, are you not victimized every time those photographs are seen or distributed? Are you really arguing that there's no victim here?