Highest density Internet storage available!
With the Voyager(TM), you get up to 144 GB of data in 1U (1.75 inches), and an additional 288 GB of storage in a 1U optional disk array called StorageArray(TM), for a total of 432 GB in 2U.
I'm not sure how 432 GB in 2U is equal to 640 GB in 1U. The press release for the StorageEngine again only mentions the 144 GB in 1U/432 GB in 2U.
VA Linux and IBM both have a partnership with Network Engines for their 1U server box. This article has more info.
This is another bad example. The meal plan is a very profit making enterprise: it costs something like $10 to eat a meal at the dining hall. And there's even been talk of shutting down the Balch dining hall because it isn't making enough money.
The reasons for shutting Balch down are related to the fact that the number of people using the facility has steadily decreased, to the point where the university is (nearly?) losing money just by keeping the doors open.
It's bad practice to keep a dying business alive with resources from a successful one. At some point, you have to stop throwing away money. If consumers aren't buying your unsuccessful product, then you need to change or kill that product. Throwing away money that could be better spent on successful existing (or new) products is stupid.
Of course ResNet exists (anywhere) to help attract students to the dorms. That does not change the fact that it is an expensive and difficult service to deploy and maintain properly. Charging a fee for those who wish to use that service, in order to recover initial and ongoing costs, is totally reasonable.
Here at Cornell University we pay over $80 a semester for access to the Campus Network, it is in fact a money making endevour for them.
Money making != profit generating. Have you considered that the ResNet fee exists to help the program breakeven? Do you know how much it costs to run fiber between buildings on a large campus, then wire several thousand rooms, and have to provide constant support for what you've deployed? Answer: it isn't cheap, either in equipment or personnel costs.
If you want to use ResNet, you have to pay for it, just like you have to pay to get on meal plan or to use the Cornell Fitness Centers. Is it right to make students paying $24k or so a year in tuition feel like they're being nickeled and dimed? No. But it's also wrong to expect things that are complicated and expensive to provide to be given to you for free.
There have been threats of crack downs on programs like Napster and sites like DialPad, but nothing yet. As I also work for the campus computing center running the email system, I know that we in fact do not have a bandwidth problem, however that is an easy excuse for them.
Where have the threats of crackdowns on Napster and DialPad been posted? The Daily Sun, or by CIT somewhere, or is this just FUD that you're spreading based on rumor? Do you see the bandwidth utilization reports for Cornell's Internet links and know in fact that we're not maxing our connection out, or is this just more FUD?
As for bandwidth problems, there are indeed problems that exist between Cornell and AppliedTheory, frequently at AT's Ithaca gateway. Just because the campus network can throw files around without trouble doesn't mean that things off-campus can cope as well. If Napster is generating 20 or 30% more traffic that normal, and that traffic is clogging connections to the outside world, then AT has to fix the problem, Cornell has to fix the problem, or both of them do. AT's fix lies in a bigger/more reliable network for a small service area (costs money). Cornell's potential fix could be to limit or kill Napster (free, but pisses students off). Which one do you think will happen sooner?
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We have gotten several emails from RIAA requesting that mp3s be removed from people's publicly available web directories. Each email gave a specific URL to a file -- nothing from them ever came asking for "find / -name \*mp3|mail riaa".
Complaints that some universities have received lately from RIAA have included specific locations of material as well.
RIAA sucks, and the Songfile/ArtPass/Harry Fox cabal that wrecked the old-school www.lyrics.ch also sucks.
Anyone can buy big blocks of numbers from a telco for use with direct inward dial (DID) trunks. Bell Atlantic gives out blocks of either 20 or 100, and the sales reps usually push blocks of 100 at a time. Minimizing wasteful allocations is unimportant to them.
Just because I get a couple of phone lines and want to pay for a few hundred (or even thousand) numbers to go along with that doesn't mean I should be able to eat up that number space. Maybe I need those numbers for a service (pagers), or maybe I am just greedy.
DSL/cable providers putting firewalls in their out-of-the-box equipment will probably never happen. They can't even get telnet/other admin passwords right.
Covad (even though their own security policy says this is not to happen) plops down nearly every FlowPoint router with a very stupid and easy to guess password.
There was talk on bugtraq a few months ago about a telco (I think USWest) not even putting passwords on some ADSL routers. People telnetted to their routers and could do things unchallenged.
If you can't get DSL/cable companies to close the front gate properly, forget about having the fancy alarms in the house working or even getting installed.
I think the original purpose of QWERTY on typewriter keyboards was to prevent people from typing to fast and having keys or hammers get stuck.
Not abandoning QWERTY when typewriters got better (like the IBM ones with the spinning ball instead of those hammer thingies) or when computers came out probably was done to make it easier to use the new devices.
There are people who can't find things if they rearrange something as simple as a desk or fridge. Could you imagine changing around 30 or 40 keys on them?
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Highest density Internet storage available!
With the Voyager(TM), you get up to 144 GB of data in 1U (1.75 inches), and an additional 288 GB of storage in a 1U optional disk array called StorageArray(TM), for a total of 432 GB in 2U.
I'm not sure how 432 GB in 2U is equal to 640 GB in 1U. The press release for the StorageEngine again only mentions the 144 GB in 1U/432 GB in 2U.
VA Linux and IBM both have a partnership with Network Engines for their 1U server box. This article has more info.
This is another bad example. The meal plan is a very profit making enterprise: it costs something like $10 to eat a meal at the dining hall. And there's even been talk of shutting down the Balch dining hall because it isn't making enough money.
The reasons for shutting Balch down are related to the fact that the number of people using the facility has steadily decreased, to the point where the university is (nearly?) losing money just by keeping the doors open.
It's bad practice to keep a dying business alive with resources from a successful one. At some point, you have to stop throwing away money. If consumers aren't buying your unsuccessful product, then you need to change or kill that product. Throwing away money that could be better spent on successful existing (or new) products is stupid.
Of course ResNet exists (anywhere) to help attract students to the dorms. That does not change the fact that it is an expensive and difficult service to deploy and maintain properly. Charging a fee for those who wish to use that service, in order to recover initial and ongoing costs, is totally reasonable.
Here at Cornell University we pay over $80 a semester for access to the Campus Network, it is in fact a money making endevour for them.
Money making != profit generating. Have you considered that the ResNet fee exists to help the program breakeven? Do you know how much it costs to run fiber between buildings on a large campus, then wire several thousand rooms, and have to provide constant support for what you've deployed? Answer: it isn't cheap, either in equipment or personnel costs.
If you want to use ResNet, you have to pay for it, just like you have to pay to get on meal plan or to use the Cornell Fitness Centers. Is it right to make students paying $24k or so a year in tuition feel like they're being nickeled and dimed? No. But it's also wrong to expect things that are complicated and expensive to provide to be given to you for free.
There have been threats of crack downs on programs like Napster and sites like DialPad, but nothing yet. As I also work for the campus computing center running the email system, I know that we in fact do not have a bandwidth problem, however that is an easy excuse for them.
Where have the threats of crackdowns on Napster and DialPad been posted? The Daily Sun, or by CIT somewhere, or is this just FUD that you're spreading based on rumor? Do you see the bandwidth utilization reports for Cornell's Internet links and know in fact that we're not maxing our connection out, or is this just more FUD?
As for bandwidth problems, there are indeed problems that exist between Cornell and AppliedTheory, frequently at AT's Ithaca gateway. Just because the campus network can throw files around without trouble doesn't mean that things off-campus can cope as well. If Napster is generating 20 or 30% more traffic that normal, and that traffic is clogging connections to the outside world, then AT has to fix the problem, Cornell has to fix the problem, or both of them do. AT's fix lies in a bigger/more reliable network for a small service area (costs money). Cornell's potential fix could be to limit or kill Napster (free, but pisses students off). Which one do you think will happen sooner?
We have gotten several emails from RIAA requesting that mp3s be removed from people's publicly available web directories. Each email gave a specific URL to a file -- nothing from them ever came asking for "find / -name \*mp3|mail riaa".
Complaints that some universities have received lately from RIAA have included specific locations of material as well.
RIAA sucks, and the Songfile/ArtPass/Harry Fox cabal that wrecked the old-school www.lyrics.ch also sucks.
Teas.
earl-grey
irish-breakfast
russian-caravan
jasmine
mint
camomile
longjing
darjeeling
ceylon
etc.
There are tons more, both in English and other languages.
Anyone can buy big blocks of numbers from a telco for use with direct inward dial (DID) trunks. Bell Atlantic gives out blocks of either 20 or 100, and the sales reps usually push blocks of 100 at a time. Minimizing wasteful allocations is unimportant to them.
Just because I get a couple of phone lines and want to pay for a few hundred (or even thousand) numbers to go along with that doesn't mean I should be able to eat up that number space. Maybe I need those numbers for a service (pagers), or maybe I am just greedy.
DSL/cable providers putting firewalls in their out-of-the-box equipment will probably never happen. They can't even get telnet/other admin passwords right.
Covad (even though their own security policy says this is not to happen) plops down nearly every FlowPoint router with a very stupid and easy to guess password.
There was talk on bugtraq a few months ago about a telco (I think USWest) not even putting passwords on some ADSL routers. People telnetted to their routers and could do things unchallenged.
If you can't get DSL/cable companies to close the front gate properly, forget about having the fancy alarms in the house working or even getting installed.
I think the original purpose of QWERTY on typewriter keyboards was to prevent people from typing to fast and having keys or hammers get stuck.
Not abandoning QWERTY when typewriters got better (like the IBM ones with the spinning ball instead of those hammer thingies) or when computers came out probably was done to make it easier to use the new devices.
There are people who can't find things if they rearrange something as simple as a desk or fridge. Could you imagine changing around 30 or 40 keys on them?
"This opportunity has so much credibility and so much excitement for people, and we're real excited about making it happen," Mr Rawlings said.
Credibility? What the hell is he talking about?
"There's a reason why malicious hackers around the world hate Vranesevich, now here's your chance to learn how to make them hate you too."
Sounds like fun. More details about his workshop can be found here.
The whole affair sounds as useful as Dr. Nick Riviera from The Simpsons lecturing would-be physicians.