The challenge is keeping your "old server" hardware alive without having staff supporting/monitoring it.
Sure, good HW can keep churning for quite some time, but sooner or later the HD will die. Or the PSU will grow tired. Maybe a fan will die and leave the system overheated? When compared to a brand spanking new dedicated unit I believe one can get away with less human monitoring. Of course, as always, YMMV.
Then again, should you have the resources available, pfsense or m0n0wall are the bomb. Seriously.
I'm on an unmetered 100 Mbps line, bursting up to 300 Mbps from time to time. Just like you, I had a tough time finding consumer-grade hardware able to keep up with speeds > 30-50 Mbps. After going through most of what's on offer here in the EU, short of DIY routers, I ended up with D-Link's "Wireless N Gigabit router DIR-655". Believe it or not, but I have actually seen throughput close to 150 Mbps (using NAT) on the WAN while on this network.
Of course, YMMW, but my search ended with this piece of hardware.Of course, it's priced slightly higher than the average router, but IMHO it's worth it.
On a side note: I personally, had no luck what so ever using Linksys offerings, including the WRT54*. Most "premium" hardware platforms in the consumer sphere only offer throughput close to 30-40 or even 50 Mbps while on NAT.
Good luck. And enjoy the speeds you have been blessed with, son.
Usually people have older hardware laying around doing next to nothing. If this is the case for you, have a look at FreeNAS. It's really robust and works well for me.
I have been using BackupPC for some time now with great results. Despite its name, the software is quite powerful and easily fits borderline enterprise requirements. It'll function with most platforms out there, and has some nifty options for laptop users - meaning the intermittently connected machines.
I wish you good luck. Having fully backed up laptop machines is A Good Thing in my book. I often find disks in portables to be more error prone than stationary machines', though this is probably caused by the wear and tear of a mobile PC.
Frankly this sounds more like fanboi talk than a serious analysis. If your goal is to diss Intel and give AMD props then saying they are using 10 year old technology makes sense. If you are actually trying to argue that AMD's future is much brighter than Intel's it's totally non-sensical. If Intel can gain huge performance benefits just copying stuff AMD is doing now while AMD has to make huge advances just to stay competitive I know who I would put my money on.
Err, you're assuming Intel in fact has a brand spanking new architecture up its sleeve, ready to be rolled out at any given moment. State your sources please. Otherwise, let's not speculate on the future x 2.
You can easily use a (open) proxy or similar to mask your HTTP traffic. But if you'd like to take it one step further, Relakks (based out of Sweden - also accepts foreign users) uses VPN to route all packets from your machine out onto the Internets. You can check their legal FAQ to read about their restrictive policy regarding your personal information. It'd take a subpoena from the Swedish gov't to for them to hand out your originating IP address. This is rarely done - and as I understand it copyright violations are not considered "serious" enough.
Works like a charm and the performance drop is insignificant. You could easily saturate even a 100 Mbps link using this service.
First of all, distributing a link seems like a smaller obstacle than distributing an executable file of some sort... A simple office text/plain e-mail would suffice.
With a web app, you also download your code with every single page. Graphics. HTML. Javascript. Every single time.
Yeah, or you could try caching stuff locally on the client machine. This can easily be done with expire-tags or similar. I'd also considering using inline CSS and JavaScript instead of linking them in externally as files. Surely this will reduce the network load. One could also use AJAX where applicable in order to keep pages from refreshing too often. This would also make the app quite snappy.
Otherwise, a high level language running directly against an SQL server is the way to go
Again, this traffic across the network would not exist if you used a web application for the purpose. So, perhaps the HTML transferred through the network is in fact equal to the SQL flowing back and forwards? Hmm.
Then there is the joy of browser compatiblility. You start out saying, oh, we will only support browser X...but it never sticks...and your regression testing grows geometrically with each browser and version of browser you support.
Ok, but what happens to your precious application when your company's Windows users are screaming for a functional version? Mac OS X? The web is a great tool if you need to deliver content and functionality across different setups.
I'm sorry, but to me your arguments sound silly. I believe this is a matter of relativity; if I know how to create web based applications (internal or external) and do it good, then it'd probably be the wisest choice instead of me trying to learn "a high level language". Of course, this goes both ways.
Hmm, I really don't have a clue as to what platform Orkut is running on. Of course, the URL's on the site uses the ".aspx"-suffix but the returned server header says GFE:
Size of the iPod never really mattered to me, the 30 GB photo is small enough.
Yes, that's your personal opinion. Speaking for myself, I welcome the smaller sized Nano. I just received it today and it really is compact. Apple really managed to blow the competition away by miles this time. It's small yet it has a "solid" feel as opposed to the plastic touch of many similar Flash based players.
As an urban user (meaning I live in the city, don't own a car) the size is the most important attribute of any MP3 player to a certain limit. The Minis where small, but not small enough to fit in any pocket without me noticing it's there. So far, the Nano seems to be a solid choice.
Ok. I'll bite. If Apple was to release a thing like this, they'd price it in a better way so semi-normal people could afford it. Sure, they're not known for low prices but they have (recently) been very smart about dividing their products into segments matching the buyers wallets.
I mean come on. $899 for this piece of metal? That's steep in my eyes as you can get a pretty nice machine for that kind of money. Even Sonos seems like a bargain now...
Yes indeed. Yamaha's stuff really has impressed me. Used to own a low-end receiver of theirs and they're still pretty good. Probably will give you more bang for the buck then the high-end ones will.
(And no, I do not work for/with Yamaha, I'm only one satisfied customer)
Ok, so basically you're looking for an appliance to unify all of your separate media players? Well, Yamaha along with a bunch of companies have been producing receivers capable of this for quite some time. I personally use this one and it works great. I have an XBox, two DVD-players, digital TV-receiver, CD-player and a PS2.
I guess my point is; this boxen is nothing new under the sun... Really.
Sometimes, living in Sweden isn't all that bad. At home I have a 10Mbps (duplex) broadband connection without upper limits on traffic and it's "only" about ~$40 USD a month through Bredbandsbolaget.
So, all that talk about ISP's "losing money" on people wanting higher bandwidth up and downstreams is fud. If the ISP in question has the proper infrastructure then it's all about pricing and packaging the different services/products correctly.
Heck, Bredbandsbolaget allows me to instantly upgrade my 10Mbps to 100Mbs down and 10Mbps upstream although that service is rather pricy and the 10Mbps I have today will suffice for some time.
I've heard rumors claiming Apple constructed Safari's User-Agent header that way to increase the chance of Javascripts around the world treating it like Gecko (i.e. Konqueror). And if you've ever tested some dHTML on Safari you'd know that Safari == Gecko DOM-wise.
It's actually a pretty smart move if you ask me...
FTFA: [A new, low-power 970FX consumes between 13W and 16W at frequencies of 1.2GHz, 1.4GHz and 1.6GHz. That's more than the 10W that the Freescale MPC7448 found in today's 1.5Ghz PowerBooks consumes, but around half the maximum power consumption of Intel's Pentium M, which powers today's Centrino laptops. IBM is also unveiled the dual-core 970MP codenamed 'Antares', at clock frequencies of 1.4GHz to 2.5GHz. Each core has 1MB of L cache, and one core can be turned off to save power.]
But surely, Apple should have been in the loop with IBM, knowing these puppies were to be announced. Or is it perhaps IBM trying deperately to keep Apple tied down to the G5's?
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Absolutely true. Pfsense is awesome!
The challenge is keeping your "old server" hardware alive without having staff supporting/monitoring it.
Sure, good HW can keep churning for quite some time, but sooner or later the HD will die. Or the PSU will grow tired. Maybe a fan will die and leave the system overheated? When compared to a brand spanking new dedicated unit I believe one can get away with less human monitoring. Of course, as always, YMMV.
Then again, should you have the resources available, pfsense or m0n0wall are the bomb. Seriously.
I'm on an unmetered 100 Mbps line, bursting up to 300 Mbps from time to time. Just like you, I had a tough time finding consumer-grade hardware able to keep up with speeds > 30-50 Mbps. After going through most of what's on offer here in the EU, short of DIY routers, I ended up with D-Link's "Wireless N Gigabit router DIR-655". Believe it or not, but I have actually seen throughput close to 150 Mbps (using NAT) on the WAN while on this network.
Of course, YMMW, but my search ended with this piece of hardware.Of course, it's priced slightly higher than the average router, but IMHO it's worth it.
On a side note: I personally, had no luck what so ever using Linksys offerings, including the WRT54*. Most "premium" hardware platforms in the consumer sphere only offer throughput close to 30-40 or even 50 Mbps while on NAT.
Good luck. And enjoy the speeds you have been blessed with, son.
You must be new around here, right?
Usually people have older hardware laying around doing next to nothing. If this is the case for you, have a look at FreeNAS. It's really robust and works well for me.
Internal drives are cheap these days.
I have been using BackupPC for some time now with great results. Despite its name, the software is quite powerful and easily fits borderline enterprise requirements. It'll function with most platforms out there, and has some nifty options for laptop users - meaning the intermittently connected machines.
I have also used Symantec's BackupExec with the Desktop and Laptop Option (DLO) with mixed results. It fits the bill if you're running a homogeneous network.
I wish you good luck. Having fully backed up laptop machines is A Good Thing in my book. I often find disks in portables to be more error prone than stationary machines', though this is probably caused by the wear and tear of a mobile PC.
Frankly this sounds more like fanboi talk than a serious analysis. If your goal is to diss Intel and give AMD props then saying they are using 10 year old technology makes sense. If you are actually trying to argue that AMD's future is much brighter than Intel's it's totally non-sensical. If Intel can gain huge performance benefits just copying stuff AMD is doing now while AMD has to make huge advances just to stay competitive I know who I would put my money on.
Err, you're assuming Intel in fact has a brand spanking new architecture up its sleeve, ready to be rolled out at any given moment. State your sources please. Otherwise, let's not speculate on the future x 2.
Let's not forget The Pirate Bay, people. They've had this up since 03:00 UTC.
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You can easily use a (open) proxy or similar to mask your HTTP traffic. But if you'd like to take it one step further, Relakks (based out of Sweden - also accepts foreign users) uses VPN to route all packets from your machine out onto the Internets. You can check their legal FAQ to read about their restrictive policy regarding your personal information. It'd take a subpoena from the Swedish gov't to for them to hand out your originating IP address. This is rarely done - and as I understand it copyright violations are not considered "serious" enough.
Works like a charm and the performance drop is insignificant. You could easily saturate even a 100 Mbps link using this service.
Thank you very much for making me laugh. Your post is funny. Period.
First of all, distributing a link seems like a smaller obstacle than distributing an executable file of some sort... A simple office text/plain e-mail would suffice.
With a web app, you also download your code with every single page. Graphics. HTML. Javascript. Every single time.
Yeah, or you could try caching stuff locally on the client machine. This can easily be done with expire-tags or similar. I'd also considering using inline CSS and JavaScript instead of linking them in externally as files. Surely this will reduce the network load. One could also use AJAX where applicable in order to keep pages from refreshing too often. This would also make the app quite snappy.
Otherwise, a high level language running directly against an SQL server is the way to go
Again, this traffic across the network would not exist if you used a web application for the purpose. So, perhaps the HTML transferred through the network is in fact equal to the SQL flowing back and forwards? Hmm.
Then there is the joy of browser compatiblility. You start out saying, oh, we will only support browser X...but it never sticks...and your regression testing grows geometrically with each browser and version of browser you support.
Ok, but what happens to your precious application when your company's Windows users are screaming for a functional version? Mac OS X? The web is a great tool if you need to deliver content and functionality across different setups. I'm sorry, but to me your arguments sound silly. I believe this is a matter of relativity; if I know how to create web based applications (internal or external) and do it good, then it'd probably be the wisest choice instead of me trying to learn "a high level language". Of course, this goes both ways.
Hmm, I really don't have a clue as to what platform Orkut is running on. Of course, the URL's on the site uses the ".aspx"-suffix but the returned server header says GFE:
# curl -I "https://www.orkut.com/"
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: https://www.orkut.com/GLogin.aspx?done=https%3A%2
Content-Length: 0
Cache-control: private
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:58:40 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Server: GFE/1.3
...perhaps this means they're load balancing or similar, but still.
[the form of username+extension@donmain.tld. ]
Donmain sounds like some serious italian mob site... Wonder if it's available? Hm...
Dang, where are those modpoints when you need'em?
You tell it like it is...
Does your compiler/linker also check databases and their structure? Does it perhaps check external db's far away from your control?
Do you like having dangling connections all over the place? No. I didn't think so.
Size of the iPod never really mattered to me, the 30 GB photo is small enough.
Yes, that's your personal opinion. Speaking for myself, I welcome the smaller sized Nano. I just received it today and it really is compact. Apple really managed to blow the competition away by miles this time. It's small yet it has a "solid" feel as opposed to the plastic touch of many similar Flash based players.
As an urban user (meaning I live in the city, don't own a car) the size is the most important attribute of any MP3 player to a certain limit. The Minis where small, but not small enough to fit in any pocket without me noticing it's there. So far, the Nano seems to be a solid choice.
But that's just my opinion.
Ok. I'll bite. If Apple was to release a thing like this, they'd price it in a better way so semi-normal people could afford it. Sure, they're not known for low prices but they have (recently) been very smart about dividing their products into segments matching the buyers wallets.
I mean come on. $899 for this piece of metal? That's steep in my eyes as you can get a pretty nice machine for that kind of money. Even Sonos seems like a bargain now...
Yes indeed. Yamaha's stuff really has impressed me. Used to own a low-end receiver of theirs and they're still pretty good. Probably will give you more bang for the buck then the high-end ones will.
(And no, I do not work for/with Yamaha, I'm only one satisfied customer)
Ok, so basically you're looking for an appliance to unify all of your separate media players? Well, Yamaha along with a bunch of companies have been producing receivers capable of this for quite some time. I personally use this one and it works great. I have an XBox, two DVD-players, digital TV-receiver, CD-player and a PS2.
I guess my point is; this boxen is nothing new under the sun... Really.
Sometimes, living in Sweden isn't all that bad. At home I have a 10Mbps (duplex) broadband connection without upper limits on traffic and it's "only" about ~$40 USD a month through Bredbandsbolaget.
So, all that talk about ISP's "losing money" on people wanting higher bandwidth up and downstreams is fud. If the ISP in question has the proper infrastructure then it's all about pricing and packaging the different services/products correctly.
Heck, Bredbandsbolaget allows me to instantly upgrade my 10Mbps to 100Mbs down and 10Mbps upstream although that service is rather pricy and the 10Mbps I have today will suffice for some time.
DSL; good riddance.
I've heard rumors claiming Apple constructed Safari's User-Agent header that way to increase the chance of Javascripts around the world treating it like Gecko (i.e. Konqueror). And if you've ever tested some dHTML on Safari you'd know that Safari == Gecko DOM-wise.
It's actually a pretty smart move if you ask me...
You must mean these ones.
FTFA: [A new, low-power 970FX consumes between 13W and 16W at frequencies of 1.2GHz, 1.4GHz and 1.6GHz. That's more than the 10W that the Freescale MPC7448 found in today's 1.5Ghz PowerBooks consumes, but around half the maximum power consumption of Intel's Pentium M, which powers today's Centrino laptops. IBM is also unveiled the dual-core 970MP codenamed 'Antares', at clock frequencies of 1.4GHz to 2.5GHz. Each core has 1MB of L cache, and one core can be turned off to save power.]
But surely, Apple should have been in the loop with IBM, knowing these puppies were to be announced. Or is it perhaps IBM trying deperately to keep Apple tied down to the G5's?
[Posting AC for no karma whoring]
Wouldn't that actually be ultimate form of karma whoring?
Yes.
Oh, that one's easy. OS X 10.4!
Hmm. I wonder if this means we'll be seeing SVG support in Macromedia's Flash Player any time soon?
That alone would be worth the ridiculous amount of money Adobe coughed up...