I beleive that there are two downfalls to tar. One was long file name support. I think I read once it was long file names and the other was backing up devices in the/dev/ directory. I don't know if either of these are currently an issue with recent versions.
Also, if tar encounters a bad spot on a tape, it usually bombs out. cpio can be told to skip over the bad sector.
There are advantages and disadvantages to all the backup programs. I don't think that there is one program that is "perfect" for everyone. If you are only going to backup a data directory, then tar will probably work fine. If you want to do the whole system, I'd go with cpio or a commercial backup program like BackupExec or Lone-Tar.
I beleive the Flash is for the OS and the apps that come with it. Just pop in a CF card and use that as the "hard drive". It probably is a cost thing. People don't want to pay the extra money when many/most won't use it. I wouldn't be supprised if 50% of PDA owners never add additional software and of the other 50%, half wouldn't have a use/need for more then 32 megs.
Are they still high tension if they are underground? I always thought the "high-tension" was a result of the weight of the cable strung a 1/4 mile between towers stretching the cables.
Embedded systems. Put one in your toaster, fridge, hair dryer, internal diagnostics on your TV, spa, whatever. It's not meant to be a webserver for a high bandwidth website, but more for controlling some device via a web interface.
Huh? Did you go to the Sisley website? It's probably the most politically un-correct website of a clothing manufacturer. The front page alone implies threesomes, nudity, and of course stupid overuse of flash.
They use to own about 4.2 million shares or about 11%, but this was back in the late 90's. I do not beleive that they currently have a stake in the company since Caldera bought them and then changed names.
It was actually a win-win situation for Microsoft when they did own them. Microsoft had an agreement where SCO had to include a useless bit of code in the OS for backwards compatibility with Xenix. In doing so, SCO had to pay royalties since Microsoft originally owned the rights to Xenix. So they got a few bucks for every copy sold. Then the agreement was judged to be anticompetitive so Microsoft let them out of the agreement. This raised stock prices, of which Microsoft took their 11%.
They don't have clout in the market anymore and they probably don't have the coffers needed to pursue these infringements.
I would not completely say that yet. SCO in the US is gasping for air, but they are still quite big in Europe and Asia where they have quite a presence in the financial industry. Dell is trying to penetrate those markets with their servers and the only way that they can do that is if their servers are SCO certified.
SCO and Caldera are sorta the same, sorta different. SCO origninally was its own company, but was purchased by Caldera a few years back for it's IP rights. Caldera promptly tried to run SCO into the ground trying to get people to switch to OpenLinux, Caldera's "flagship" product. The only problem was that it wasn't very successful compared to other distributions.
Caldera then spun off SCO back into it's own organization, SCO Group. They recently just released 5.0.7 of OpenServer, UnixWare's little brother. All the documentation says Copywrite 2003 Caldera International, Inc. d/b/a The SCO Group.
So I guess technically they are Caldera, but not nearly as much as they were a year ago.
Yes I was being a smartass. So what. The original poster was expressing his amazement that the prices more then doubled to more then $14 dollars. $14 gets a semi-decent ISP in most places in the US. Yeah you can get cheaper/free, but a real full service ISP is around that. That's 56K dialup, not 90Mbit internet pipe that he was use to.
I don't think that Vanderbilt is the same as UTexas. If it was, I don't think he'd be suprised at a $14 fee.
Also, UTexas has been charging residents for ResNet. When I left the dorms, I was paying ~$6-7/mo for access. According to my mates in the dorms now, a.) the cost is over double that, and b.) ports must be paid for _IN ADVANCE_. Ouch.-
<SARCASM> Yeah. Bummer having to pay $15 for fatter pipes then 98% of consumer internet users out there have access to. And having to actually PAY for something before having access to it. For the love of it! </SARCASM>
Is it illegal to use the number for identification or is it illegal to require the number for identification. I know that the college I attended, they would use your SSN if you provided it, but they would assign another SID if you asked them to without penalty. On financial aid information though, your SSN is required.
I realized that when I wrote that originally. That is why I said you probably aren't going to do hot swapping. I admit that I have not looked into hot swapping IDE drives significantly, but it appears that IDE hot swapping has a tendency to be buggy at best and absolutely dangerous at worst. I wouldn't trust a real server to hardware that "may" work properly.
Everything adds up extra. I said later down that there were other storage options. Like you pointed out, there are even with actual hard drive. Although adding a IDE hotswap controller and shockmounted drives are going to add significantly to the price...possibly 400-500% over the price of just the drive.
50/100 GB Tape: $50. Easily unmounted, removed, taken off-site or stored in a safe, etc. Tape changers make backing up to multiple tapes/rotating tapes a cinch. Random seek times for a particular file is slow, but full restores are acceptable.
Spare 100 GB Hard Drives: $100 If you go with cheaper IDE drives, you probably aren't going to do hot swapping, so you'll have to bring the system down to remove them. SCSI would be more expensive, but would allow hot swapping. NAS is an option though, but slower. Drives are not meant to be carted around, bumped, etc like removable media is. One accidental drop and the entire backup is shot unlike tape or disc based backups. Really fast seek times though.
CD-Rs: Cheap. $15+ depending on quality/name brand. You can get free at BestBuy or some place after rebate, but usually not worth the hassle for a business. Only holds 700 MB, so be prepared for lots of swapping. Slower then other methods. Plus you now have a stack of 150 CDs for every backup that you do. Can be transported around, but inconvenient. Fast seek times for individual restores.
DVD-Rs: More expensive then CD-Rs. 20+ for 20 disks for a 100 GB backup. Same things apply to CD-Rs, stack of discs, inconvenient transportation, etc...just less discs.
This is all hypothetical of course, you circumstance may be different.
Tape drives were not meant for backing up individual files for restoring those individual files. It was meant for archiving large data file/sets. Tapes offer a large capacity at a decent price with convenience of having all your data in a small durable package unlike what hard drives. Yes there are going to be alternate storage mediums, but there is a convenience/price/durability tradeoffs.
If you want to be able to seek to a particular file to restore/modify it, go with a CD-R or HD. If you want to backup your system, go with tape.
Is Dell selling their own design of printers are are they just rebadging an existing manufacturer? I know that they were selling Lexmark inkjet printers recently.
At $1800/card + $550 for the memory, I bet he could do a lot better with a semi-top of the line raid setup. DV editing doesn't require nanosecond seek time that memory provides.
Follow the grandparent's link, click the blue "Recommended Systems". Right under the phone of the laptop there is a link that says "Inspiron 2650C starting at $699". Click it. That takes you to a page that has the laptop for $849 - $150 rebate = $699. You can customize it from there.
This link takes you straight to that page. Here is the same laptop that is $806-$150 rebate (not shown on that page but on another that leads to that page). The extra $$$ off is due from their Employee Purchase Program that anyone can get thru.
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I beleive that there are two downfalls to tar. One was long file name support. I think I read once it was long file names and the other was backing up devices in the /dev/ directory. I don't know if either of these are currently an issue with recent versions.
Also, if tar encounters a bad spot on a tape, it usually bombs out. cpio can be told to skip over the bad sector.
There are advantages and disadvantages to all the backup programs. I don't think that there is one program that is "perfect" for everyone. If you are only going to backup a data directory, then tar will probably work fine. If you want to do the whole system, I'd go with cpio or a commercial backup program like BackupExec or Lone-Tar.
I beleive the Flash is for the OS and the apps that come with it. Just pop in a CF card and use that as the "hard drive". It probably is a cost thing. People don't want to pay the extra money when many/most won't use it. I wouldn't be supprised if 50% of PDA owners never add additional software and of the other 50%, half wouldn't have a use/need for more then 32 megs.
Thank you. I never knew that high tension referred to voltage. I always assumed a tensile, as in stretching, meaning.
Are they still high tension if they are underground? I always thought the "high-tension" was a result of the weight of the cable strung a 1/4 mile between towers stretching the cables.
Aren't those the ingredients in a Twinkie?
Embedded systems. Put one in your toaster, fridge, hair dryer, internal diagnostics on your TV, spa, whatever. It's not meant to be a webserver for a high bandwidth website, but more for controlling some device via a web interface.
Huh? Did you go to the Sisley website? It's probably the most politically un-correct website of a clothing manufacturer. The front page alone implies threesomes, nudity, and of course stupid overuse of flash.
It appears that your link is down at the moment. Here is probably the same story at CNN.com
Moist Towelette?
They use to own about 4.2 million shares or about 11%, but this was back in the late 90's. I do not beleive that they currently have a stake in the company since Caldera bought them and then changed names.
It was actually a win-win situation for Microsoft when they did own them. Microsoft had an agreement where SCO had to include a useless bit of code in the OS for backwards compatibility with Xenix. In doing so, SCO had to pay royalties since Microsoft originally owned the rights to Xenix. So they got a few bucks for every copy sold. Then the agreement was judged to be anticompetitive so Microsoft let them out of the agreement. This raised stock prices, of which Microsoft took their 11%.
I would not completely say that yet. SCO in the US is gasping for air, but they are still quite big in Europe and Asia where they have quite a presence in the financial industry. Dell is trying to penetrate those markets with their servers and the only way that they can do that is if their servers are SCO certified.
They'd approve only if it was GNU/RMS
SCO and Caldera are sorta the same, sorta different. SCO origninally was its own company, but was purchased by Caldera a few years back for it's IP rights. Caldera promptly tried to run SCO into the ground trying to get people to switch to OpenLinux, Caldera's "flagship" product. The only problem was that it wasn't very successful compared to other distributions.
Caldera then spun off SCO back into it's own organization, SCO Group. They recently just released 5.0.7 of OpenServer, UnixWare's little brother. All the documentation says Copywrite 2003 Caldera International, Inc. d/b/a The SCO Group.
So I guess technically they are Caldera, but not nearly as much as they were a year ago.
Yes I was being a smartass. So what. The original poster was expressing his amazement that the prices more then doubled to more then $14 dollars. $14 gets a semi-decent ISP in most places in the US. Yeah you can get cheaper/free, but a real full service ISP is around that. That's 56K dialup, not 90Mbit internet pipe that he was use to.
I don't think that Vanderbilt is the same as UTexas. If it was, I don't think he'd be suprised at a $14 fee.
<SARCASM>
Yeah. Bummer having to pay $15 for fatter pipes then 98% of consumer internet users out there have access to. And having to actually PAY for something before having access to it. For the love of it!
</SARCASM>
Welcome to the real world.
Is it illegal to use the number for identification or is it illegal to require the number for identification. I know that the college I attended, they would use your SSN if you provided it, but they would assign another SID if you asked them to without penalty. On financial aid information though, your SSN is required.
Hm...just wondering. I wonder want a UID of 1 would go for on EBay...
You do realize that the cx is not necessarily indicitive of it being on Christmas Island don't you? It appears that the server resides in Switzerland.
I realized that when I wrote that originally. That is why I said you probably aren't going to do hot swapping. I admit that I have not looked into hot swapping IDE drives significantly, but it appears that IDE hot swapping has a tendency to be buggy at best and absolutely dangerous at worst. I wouldn't trust a real server to hardware that "may" work properly.
Everything adds up extra. I said later down that there were other storage options. Like you pointed out, there are even with actual hard drive. Although adding a IDE hotswap controller and shockmounted drives are going to add significantly to the price...possibly 400-500% over the price of just the drive.
Yes they do pay off. Here's why:
50/100 GB Tape: $50. Easily unmounted, removed, taken off-site or stored in a safe, etc. Tape changers make backing up to multiple tapes/rotating tapes a cinch. Random seek times for a particular file is slow, but full restores are acceptable.
Spare 100 GB Hard Drives: $100 If you go with cheaper IDE drives, you probably aren't going to do hot swapping, so you'll have to bring the system down to remove them. SCSI would be more expensive, but would allow hot swapping. NAS is an option though, but slower. Drives are not meant to be carted around, bumped, etc like removable media is. One accidental drop and the entire backup is shot unlike tape or disc based backups. Really fast seek times though.
CD-Rs: Cheap. $15+ depending on quality/name brand. You can get free at BestBuy or some place after rebate, but usually not worth the hassle for a business. Only holds 700 MB, so be prepared for lots of swapping. Slower then other methods. Plus you now have a stack of 150 CDs for every backup that you do. Can be transported around, but inconvenient. Fast seek times for individual restores.
DVD-Rs: More expensive then CD-Rs. 20+ for 20 disks for a 100 GB backup. Same things apply to CD-Rs, stack of discs, inconvenient transportation, etc...just less discs.
This is all hypothetical of course, you circumstance may be different.
Tape drives were not meant for backing up individual files for restoring those individual files. It was meant for archiving large data file/sets. Tapes offer a large capacity at a decent price with convenience of having all your data in a small durable package unlike what hard drives. Yes there are going to be alternate storage mediums, but there is a convenience/price/durability tradeoffs.
If you want to be able to seek to a particular file to restore/modify it, go with a CD-R or HD. If you want to backup your system, go with tape.
Is Dell selling their own design of printers are are they just rebadging an existing manufacturer? I know that they were selling Lexmark inkjet printers recently.
Or perhaps just a copper wire screen over a regular air duct? A Faraday cage does not have to be solid to be effective.
At $1800/card + $550 for the memory, I bet he could do a lot better with a semi-top of the line raid setup. DV editing doesn't require nanosecond seek time that memory provides.
You do know that you can get every form as a PDF at the IRS website don't you?
Follow the grandparent's link, click the blue "Recommended Systems". Right under the phone of the laptop there is a link that says "Inspiron 2650C starting at $699". Click it. That takes you to a page that has the laptop for $849 - $150 rebate = $699. You can customize it from there.
This link takes you straight to that page. Here is the same laptop that is $806-$150 rebate (not shown on that page but on another that leads to that page). The extra $$$ off is due from their Employee Purchase Program that anyone can get thru.