I had a BBS run on a 2400bps modem at the same time as all the others in town had 9600 and disallowed connections below 2400. My board allowed any speed. The other sysops were trying to convince me to get a 9600 and forbid 1200 and below. My position was that everyone got 30 minutes anyways, and there weren't any files to transfer, so why would I care how many bits they get.
I also had people in town who thought I must have really good porn since the line was always busy and all there appeared to be was one instance each of BRE and TW2002, two grafitti walls, and local messaging. Truth was I just had a bunch of people on 300 and 1200 bps modems who wanted to play BRE and TW2002 and used all their turns every day.
Places that are set up this way normally only PXE boot the build process once, then just boot off the hard drive. Once the image is loaded and booted, the machine is part of the domain, and patches are sent out automatically. usually (not always, sadly) the user home dirs are on the server anyways, so if a workstation dies or needs to be re-imaged you just pop a new one in. Sure, maybe it's a 2 hour service call, but it's way better than non-managed systems.
Why do you want compiz? Without compiz my aspire one runs KDE 4.3.2 with desktop effects with Konsole, Kate, Konqueror, Firefox, Kontact and minicom all running at the same time, quite responsively.
I was referring to the temperature range normally experienced in the densely populated areas of coastal BC (The lower Mainland and south-east Vancouver Island), not the efficiency limits of heat pumps. Most of the heat pumps I've seen going in around here are air-source, because they're cheaper, not because they're better. Apparently the olympic athletes village in whistler is going to be partly sewage source heat pump too.
Shaw cable, in BC, Canada now sells "High speed" with"Powerboost" which means your connections are throttled after the first few seconds of connecting. It seems a good way to do it; people just surfing have a good experience, but torrenters still have fairly high (but not as high) speed access. Sadly, they market it as medium speed with boosting, not throttled high speed which it is.
Actually, in BC electric baseboard heaters are fairly common. The advantages are that you can independently control each room and don't need to have a duct system. Thus you can heat only the bedroom at night, and turn the rest of the house down. Most newer houses are going with forced air heat pumps though as they're much more efficient when the temperature difference between inside and outside is relatively small (most of the year on the coast). The heat pumps are electric powered but move substantially more heat than they consume. Some of the more expensive houses are going with heat recovery ventilation too.
As a long-term Linux guy (since 1995) I think ZFS integration with Samba, iSCSI Targets, and Zones makes OpenSolaris relevant to me. I am now trying to learn Opensolaris so I can use these on a SOHO server. Sure in a year or two BTRFS may have RAID5-like redundancy, caching and intent logging on SSD, and these features, but OpenSolaris/ZFS has them now. I definitely won't be running any solaris on my netbook (kubuntu), laptop (WinXP), or Macs though.
I think if the opensolaris community can produce a variant that makes it easy for a less-than-elite user to set up a server with a samba share, some iSCSI targets (for time machine, aperture library, or whatever), and possibly an IMAP server, they can greatly increase the pool to whom they are relevant. Auto-magic HDD management like drobo would help too.
Those Pentium IIs are what gives me something to do... so many break/fix calls between them and the same company's over-complicated network.
My point was just that you can't assume everyone has the same refresh cycle, just like you shouldn't assume that all servers are in a datacentre, or that racks are only in a datacentre, or that all servers are on racks, etc. There's a lot of variety out there.
System refresh rates vary by customer. I work at a subcontractor that does refresh installs among other things. Some companies it's every two years. Some companies are repairing mission-critical servers that are Pentium II's with OpenUnix.
I remember seeing a power supply around 2004 that had one or more backup batteries that fit in trays in 5.25" drivebays so you could hot-swap them and they were internal to the server. A SOHO or retail server (for a handful of POS' ) with this and a couple of PCI multiport ethernet cards and a PCI docsis or DSL modem would do a lot to consolidate the IT equiplent and all it's power bricks and interconnections. Sadly I've not been able to find that type of power supply since.
Guy 1: Please do work for me. Guy 2: You have outstanding invoices, please pay those and a retainer upfront. Guy 1: one moment... (phones bookkeeper)
Guy1: Cheque #blahblahblah cleared on date, can you check your records? or, Guy1: (phones bank) Please stop payment on cheque #blahblahblah. (to guy 1) Here is a cheque. or, Guy1: My bad. Here is cash.
If coming to a stop at a yield sign causes a hazard, the other driver is already causing a hazard; Following too close, speeding, driving without due care, or all of the above.
It's not specific to Ireland. It's also fairly common in Canada for Banks, Credit Card Companies, and Car financing companies to do a heavy sales pitch at universities during the first few weeks.
OK... Windows (Vista Pre-Installs) come out of the box moronically set up. The default user is administrator but a window pops up asking for authorization for every action, whether it is a system-wide change or not, and if you turn it off no authorization is required even for system-wide changes. Furthermore, much vertical, printer/multifunction driver, and gaming software requires and assumes administrative access.
Ah, but windows (XP pre-installs) come out of the box moronically set up (default user is administrator being the biggest problem, much software assuming and requiring administrator access being the second).
Modern Linux desktop distros and MacOS come out of the (iso|box) intelligently set up.
'Cause training someone to fly exactly according to the flight plan, and never below 1000 feet except on approach is the same as training someone to fly in military situations...
Aspire one 8.9" works for me. It makes a bitchin router console/portable manual viewer. Also, it's pretty cool for some of the minor projects I'm experimenting with as a temporary (very low power) server.
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I had a BBS run on a 2400bps modem at the same time as all the others in town had 9600 and disallowed connections below 2400. My board allowed any speed. The other sysops were trying to convince me to get a 9600 and forbid 1200 and below. My position was that everyone got 30 minutes anyways, and there weren't any files to transfer, so why would I care how many bits they get.
I also had people in town who thought I must have really good porn since the line was always busy and all there appeared to be was one instance each of BRE and TW2002, two grafitti walls, and local messaging. Truth was I just had a bunch of people on 300 and 1200 bps modems who wanted to play BRE and TW2002 and used all their turns every day.
Places that are set up this way normally only PXE boot the build process once, then just boot off the hard drive. Once the image is loaded and booted, the machine is part of the domain, and patches are sent out automatically. usually (not always, sadly) the user home dirs are on the server anyways, so if a workstation dies or needs to be re-imaged you just pop a new one in. Sure, maybe it's a 2 hour service call, but it's way better than non-managed systems.
They have HDDs or SSDs. You'd PXE boot them to load the windows image, then run off local store.
Why do you want compiz? Without compiz my aspire one runs KDE 4.3.2 with desktop effects with Konsole, Kate, Konqueror, Firefox, Kontact and minicom all running at the same time, quite responsively.
I was referring to the temperature range normally experienced in the densely populated areas of coastal BC (The lower Mainland and south-east Vancouver Island), not the efficiency limits of heat pumps. Most of the heat pumps I've seen going in around here are air-source, because they're cheaper, not because they're better. Apparently the olympic athletes village in whistler is going to be partly sewage source heat pump too.
Shaw cable, in BC, Canada now sells "High speed" with"Powerboost" which means your connections are throttled after the first few seconds of connecting. It seems a good way to do it; people just surfing have a good experience, but torrenters still have fairly high (but not as high) speed access. Sadly, they market it as medium speed with boosting, not throttled high speed which it is.
Actually, in BC electric baseboard heaters are fairly common. The advantages are that you can independently control each room and don't need to have a duct system. Thus you can heat only the bedroom at night, and turn the rest of the house down. Most newer houses are going with forced air heat pumps though as they're much more efficient when the temperature difference between inside and outside is relatively small (most of the year on the coast). The heat pumps are electric powered but move substantially more heat than they consume. Some of the more expensive houses are going with heat recovery ventilation too.
As a long-term Linux guy (since 1995) I think ZFS integration with Samba, iSCSI Targets, and Zones makes OpenSolaris relevant to me. I am now trying to learn Opensolaris so I can use these on a SOHO server. Sure in a year or two BTRFS may have RAID5-like redundancy, caching and intent logging on SSD, and these features, but OpenSolaris/ZFS has them now. I definitely won't be running any solaris on my netbook (kubuntu), laptop (WinXP), or Macs though.
I think if the opensolaris community can produce a variant that makes it easy for a less-than-elite user to set up a server with a samba share, some iSCSI targets (for time machine, aperture library, or whatever), and possibly an IMAP server, they can greatly increase the pool to whom they are relevant. Auto-magic HDD management like drobo would help too.
Those Pentium IIs are what gives me something to do... so many break/fix calls between them and the same company's over-complicated network.
My point was just that you can't assume everyone has the same refresh cycle, just like you shouldn't assume that all servers are in a datacentre, or that racks are only in a datacentre, or that all servers are on racks, etc. There's a lot of variety out there.
System refresh rates vary by customer. I work at a subcontractor that does refresh installs among other things. Some companies it's every two years. Some companies are repairing mission-critical servers that are Pentium II's with OpenUnix.
I remember seeing a power supply around 2004 that had one or more backup batteries that fit in trays in 5.25" drivebays so you could hot-swap them and they were internal to the server. A SOHO or retail server (for a handful of POS' ) with this and a couple of PCI multiport ethernet cards and a PCI docsis or DSL modem would do a lot to consolidate the IT equiplent and all it's power bricks and interconnections. Sadly I've not been able to find that type of power supply since.
Yeah, a normal instance of this would be:
Guy 1: Please do work for me.
Guy 2: You have outstanding invoices, please pay those and a retainer upfront.
Guy 1: one moment... (phones bookkeeper)
Guy1: Cheque #blahblahblah cleared on date, can you check your records? or,
Guy1: (phones bank) Please stop payment on cheque #blahblahblah. (to guy 1) Here is a cheque. or,
Guy1: My bad. Here is cash.
Or rather a truly obvious GIMP port that the authors are trying to charge for but not including the source code.
During an argument my mom once called me a son of a bitch. I agreed.
Are you referring to Republic of China or People's Republic of China? ASUSTek is from Republic of China.
Actually, there was already an Open Source alternative complete, in production use, and developed in Ontario
If coming to a stop at a yield sign causes a hazard, the other driver is already causing a hazard; Following too close, speeding, driving without due care, or all of the above.
Christmas party conceptions. As opposed to the other two which are prom/graduation conceptions and back to school conceptions.
Here on Vancouver Island, Scotch Broom has pretty much the same properties as the Cogongrass. The Marijuana mostly grows indoors.
It's not specific to Ireland. It's also fairly common in Canada for Banks, Credit Card Companies, and Car financing companies to do a heavy sales pitch at universities during the first few weeks.
OK... Windows (Vista Pre-Installs) come out of the box moronically set up. The default user is administrator but a window pops up asking for authorization for every action, whether it is a system-wide change or not, and if you turn it off no authorization is required even for system-wide changes. Furthermore, much vertical, printer/multifunction driver, and gaming software requires and assumes administrative access.
Ah, but windows (XP pre-installs) come out of the box moronically set up (default user is administrator being the biggest problem, much software assuming and requiring administrator access being the second).
Modern Linux desktop distros and MacOS come out of the (iso|box) intelligently set up.
Is this the fault of the user?
Actually, you can order most of these parts from Dell and Lenovo if your laptop or it's damage is not covered by warranty.
'Cause training someone to fly exactly according to the flight plan, and never below 1000 feet except on approach is the same as training someone to fly in military situations...
Aspire one 8.9" works for me. It makes a bitchin router console/portable manual viewer. Also, it's pretty cool for some of the minor projects I'm experimenting with as a temporary (very low power) server.