One of the best things you could do is configure SNMP on all 3 boxen. After that, run MRTG to figure out what's happening on the wire. If you made the connectors yourself (as opposed to factory-made cables), doublecheck to see if the connectors fall within the CAT-VI spec. How much of the pair is untwisted? How far into the connector is the shield/plenum seated? Is the wire kinked or does it have sharp bends anywhere? Is the wire running next to power? All these things can cause the signal to be degraded.
Get a good disk benchmark and run that on all 3 boxen. Find out if the disks can sustain traffic at the 1000mb (125MB/s isn't going to come from a single IDE disk) rate. Also, keep in mind that core logic switching from a PCI RAID card to a PCI NIC will eat up some bandwidth.
Finally, benchmark each link individually with a server benchmark tool. Put a 1GB file on the linux box and see how long it takes to transfer to each of the clients. Then do the same file from the clients back to the server.
On a side note, SOHO GB switches shouldn't cost more than $100. But, if your disks cannot keep up with the rate, it won't matter.
On a side, side note, we have tools that show a lot of things about our hardware. Why are there no tools showing the used bandwidth of the PCI/AGP/memory bus. Troubleshooting this prob would be simple if you could see that a specific bus is being saturated.
He said MOST users. Not the small percentage of people who have nothing better to do with a PC than use it as a game console.
Surfing the web and writing e-mails...That's what most people want out of a PC.
Besides, in a few years, HDTV and X-Box2/PS3 will crush the PC gaming market. Why bother to sit in front of a PC that you have to upgrade every 3 months to keep up with Doom IV when you know that your console produces acceptable framerates?
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that we have 2 ears, so we can only hear in 2 directions?
I know if an object is 6' from me producing a 1000khz tone. If that same object is moved, I can tell where it is moving to without looking. If it moves to 10' or to 2', I can tell that too.
Yes, headphones can produce the same effects. But they remove the ambience from the movie theatre experience.
Would you rather pay $1000 for 6 big speakers, or $1000 for 500 smaller speakers?
If the cost of the new system is competetive and the sound is better, people will buy it.
Now if that work on the complexity of wiring in 500 speakers. Maybe WiFi to the speakers? Add a 3 position thumbwheel on the back of each speaker to alow 10^3 possible encryption patterns and interference with your neighbor would be resolved...as would people sniffing your pr0n.
Could open up a new can of worms. I rather like being Bios Hakr. I'd really have a hard time posting to groups like this if I had to go by my real name.
There are also about 10,000 other privacy concerns. With your idea, you might as well use your social security number as your global user name...and your mom's maiden name as your password. That way, when you piss off someone, it's easy for them to find you.
Yes, but when they start carrying alt.binaries.*, then it may actually have something for people to be interested in.
Actually, I love usenet. But I mainly see it as being replaced by message groups because of useability problems. Mainly: In order to use usenet, that's one more program I have to use.
Same thing for IRC. IRC was my first love. Hot donkee on turtle porn in one window, Linux bootloader help in another, and downloads of the latest warez in another. But, after dalnet died, I just lost all interest in it. I may log on to slashnet once a year, quakenet about twice that, and freenode about once every other month for gentoo help.
Look at kazaa vs bittorrent. One operates in a browser, the other in a spyware encased c# front end. For a lot of people I know, kazaa is now their 'backup gun'. Most are happy with bittorrent.
It's really sad that if it isn't in a browser, we won't use it.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=shire Besides that, there are about 1000 'shires' in the UK. I think there may even be a few here in the US.
In order to protect a trademark, you have to defend it from ALL encroachment, not just SOME. And if WB wants to go to the UK and start suing, well, I don't think it'll be pretty.
US rations have a heater included. Unlike the French, which requires an open flame, ours use a chemical heater. You open the heater, add the MRE pouch, and add a little water. 90 seconds later, piping hot MRE.
You are not a devout christian conservative. Most people in Utah are.
>Nothing like finding a small group of defenseless people to impose some moral rules on, when you can be fairly certain you won't come in the same position yourself.
That's what democracy is. The majority decide and the minority deals with it or leaves.
We (the US), being a republic, have some protection from this. But on an issue as closely divided as abortion, things get heated. Meanwhile, the true issues get ignored so that "the babies don't get murdered".
Yep, be a good little sheep and let the EFF make your decisions for you.
How about you pull your head out of your ass and actually look at the voting record for your representatives. Look at what they are for and agianst. You have to realise that you have to take the good with the bad. If your rep was for copyright termination but for legalized rape, would you vote for him? Politics is all about making trades.
I'm not standing up for Hatch. I just think that you need to look at the whole picture of your reps before you make a decision.
>most recording artists see 3%-6% of the profits of their works
Yes, and most of these artists do very little work. They have other people write for them, other people dress them, other people create an image for them, other people teach them to dance, sing, speak. Basicly, all they have to do is shake and sing. Why should they get more than a few percent?
If they were true artists, they'd create a work, release it, and bask in the glow of knowing that in 80 years time, someone might realize how good of a song it really was.
An artist's primary concern is to make art, not money.
>Most book-length authors see about 10%-15% of the profit
And they have companies to do research, fact check, edit, revise, format, print, and market for them.
Same with basicly any 'art' today. For every name you can recognise on the cover, there are 100 names doing work in the background that you never hear.
The problem about politicans is that it's too hard to get the options you want without getting options you don't.
Let's take 2 people, vote for one.
Guy 1 For gun control, agianst abortion, for privacy, agianst privitized medicare.
Guy 2 Agianst gun control, for abortion, for Anti-terrorism, for social security.
This is the prob that the people of Utah are faced with. Their choice is to vote for someone who is agianst abortion but for big corporations, or to vote for someone who is for abortion but agianst copyright extentions. What matters most to their lives? Probably fewer than 10% of people give a crap about copyright...even less in Utah. But 90% of people have strong feelings about abortion, even though fewer than 1% of people will ever want/need/get one.
What's more important? Abortion or copyright? To the people of Utah, they've already sold their political souls...and made MPAA/RIAA very happy.
It also handles sound, input, networking, and who knows what else.
Also, Carmak's biggest prob was with DX5 being much more complicated that OGL. After DX9, he got all quiet about it. While I'm no M$ fanboy, I do see the advantages of having a small group of devs having complete control over DX rather than the 'design by commite' approach of OGL. The fact that M$ also has unlimited resources also helps a lot.
Basicly, today DX blows the socks off OGL. Unfortunately, it also limits you to a specific platform. Let's just hope that DIII also runs on OGL for easy porting to MacOS and Linux.
Bicycle. Say it agian...BI-cycle. Now, I'm not as good in latin as I think I am, but trying to call a unicycle or tricycle a bicycle could get you killed in some circles.
My guess would be a loop of a cadence count to keep him on time. While any good cycling computer already tells you this, it's sometimes easier if you find music with a beat equal to the cadence you want to spin at.
My computer may or may not run faster because of my mods. That isn't the point.
My modded heatsink keeps the proc cooler. I took off the 60mm fan and replaced it with an 80mm model. The fact that it has LEDs now is just for show. However, keeping the CPU cool is its primary purpose.
My 2 other fans blowing on my hard drives don't make my access times faster, but keeping those things cool extends the MTBF. I see so many people just add another drive in the same cage with the first. Just knowing that the center of those drives is burning up hurts me. But, in my case, everything stays cool.
My clear case may not make my box any faster, but it sure is convenient when it comes to troubleshooting. Let me see, is anything loose? Nope. Took five seconds to see that. Once a month, I clean my case inside and out. I'm sure my components are a lot happier not covered with dust like 90% of home PCs.
Try airsoft. Paintball is nice, but you don't get the real feeling of airsoft.
The basic premise is that the guns are VERY realistic, shoot.25g pellets, and are extremely moddable. I have a Walther p-99, a Colt M-4, and a psg-1. People see me walking out from my apartment and they get afraid.
In the US, most of the guns have red tips. But you can order the gun from overseas and have the red tip removed once it arrives.
They are also fairly accurate. My M-4 can hit 40 out of 40 at about 20 meters. While not as impressive as paintball accuracy, it gives the game a more in-your-face feel. My psg-1 can hit from 100 meters fairly well...depending on wind.
The pistols use gas charges and fire about 30 rounds between refils. The rifles use electric and can sustain 50 rounds (the limit of my magazine) with no prob and I have shot close to 1000 rounds between batteries.
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One of the best things you could do is configure SNMP on all 3 boxen. After that, run MRTG to figure out what's happening on the wire. If you made the connectors yourself (as opposed to factory-made cables), doublecheck to see if the connectors fall within the CAT-VI spec. How much of the pair is untwisted? How far into the connector is the shield/plenum seated? Is the wire kinked or does it have sharp bends anywhere? Is the wire running next to power? All these things can cause the signal to be degraded.
Get a good disk benchmark and run that on all 3 boxen. Find out if the disks can sustain traffic at the 1000mb (125MB/s isn't going to come from a single IDE disk) rate. Also, keep in mind that core logic switching from a PCI RAID card to a PCI NIC will eat up some bandwidth.
Finally, benchmark each link individually with a server benchmark tool. Put a 1GB file on the linux box and see how long it takes to transfer to each of the clients. Then do the same file from the clients back to the server.
On a side note, SOHO GB switches shouldn't cost more than $100. But, if your disks cannot keep up with the rate, it won't matter.
On a side, side note, we have tools that show a lot of things about our hardware. Why are there no tools showing the used bandwidth of the PCI/AGP/memory bus. Troubleshooting this prob would be simple if you could see that a specific bus is being saturated.
He said MOST users. Not the small percentage of people who have nothing better to do with a PC than use it as a game console.
Surfing the web and writing e-mails...That's what most people want out of a PC.
Besides, in a few years, HDTV and X-Box2/PS3 will crush the PC gaming market. Why bother to sit in front of a PC that you have to upgrade every 3 months to keep up with Doom IV when you know that your console produces acceptable framerates?
See DRBD. It's 2 computers that mirror each other in a RAID1 fassion...
I think what you are trying to say is that the bits flew into your computer in exacly the same way bricks don't...
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that we have 2 ears, so we can only hear in 2 directions?
I know if an object is 6' from me producing a 1000khz tone. If that same object is moved, I can tell where it is moving to without looking. If it moves to 10' or to 2', I can tell that too.
Yes, headphones can produce the same effects. But they remove the ambience from the movie theatre experience.
Would you rather pay $1000 for 6 big speakers, or $1000 for 500 smaller speakers?
If the cost of the new system is competetive and the sound is better, people will buy it.
Now if that work on the complexity of wiring in 500 speakers. Maybe WiFi to the speakers? Add a 3 position thumbwheel on the back of each speaker to alow 10^3 possible encryption patterns and interference with your neighbor would be resolved...as would people sniffing your pr0n.
Could open up a new can of worms. I rather like being Bios Hakr. I'd really have a hard time posting to groups like this if I had to go by my real name.
There are also about 10,000 other privacy concerns. With your idea, you might as well use your social security number as your global user name...and your mom's maiden name as your password. That way, when you piss off someone, it's easy for them to find you.
Yes, but when they start carrying alt.binaries.*, then it may actually have something for people to be interested in.
Actually, I love usenet. But I mainly see it as being replaced by message groups because of useability problems. Mainly: In order to use usenet, that's one more program I have to use.
Same thing for IRC. IRC was my first love. Hot donkee on turtle porn in one window, Linux bootloader help in another, and downloads of the latest warez in another. But, after dalnet died, I just lost all interest in it. I may log on to slashnet once a year, quakenet about twice that, and freenode about once every other month for gentoo help.
Look at kazaa vs bittorrent. One operates in a browser, the other in a spyware encased c# front end. For a lot of people I know, kazaa is now their 'backup gun'. Most are happy with bittorrent.
It's really sad that if it isn't in a browser, we won't use it.
See here:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=shire
Besides that, there are about 1000 'shires' in the UK. I think there may even be a few here in the US.
In order to protect a trademark, you have to defend it from ALL encroachment, not just SOME. And if WB wants to go to the UK and start suing, well, I don't think it'll be pretty.
US rations have a heater included. Unlike the French, which requires an open flame, ours use a chemical heater. You open the heater, add the MRE pouch, and add a little water. 90 seconds later, piping hot MRE.
Nice photos...
g /v iewer.html?picture=Ceremony
http://kombat.org/Photography/AndrewTerraWeddin
Was my fav...
>The second guy sounds like a win/win to me.
You are not a devout christian conservative. Most people in Utah are.
>Nothing like finding a small group of defenseless people to impose some moral rules on, when you can be fairly certain you won't come in the same position yourself.
That's what democracy is. The majority decide and the minority deals with it or leaves.
We (the US), being a republic, have some protection from this. But on an issue as closely divided as abortion, things get heated. Meanwhile, the true issues get ignored so that "the babies don't get murdered".
Yep, be a good little sheep and let the EFF make your decisions for you.
How about you pull your head out of your ass and actually look at the voting record for your representatives. Look at what they are for and agianst. You have to realise that you have to take the good with the bad. If your rep was for copyright termination but for legalized rape, would you vote for him? Politics is all about making trades.
I'm not standing up for Hatch. I just think that you need to look at the whole picture of your reps before you make a decision.
>most recording artists see 3%-6% of the profits of their works
Yes, and most of these artists do very little work. They have other people write for them, other people dress them, other people create an image for them, other people teach them to dance, sing, speak. Basicly, all they have to do is shake and sing. Why should they get more than a few percent?
If they were true artists, they'd create a work, release it, and bask in the glow of knowing that in 80 years time, someone might realize how good of a song it really was.
An artist's primary concern is to make art, not money.
>Most book-length authors see about 10%-15% of the profit
And they have companies to do research, fact check, edit, revise, format, print, and market for them.
Same with basicly any 'art' today. For every name you can recognise on the cover, there are 100 names doing work in the background that you never hear.
The problem about politicans is that it's too hard to get the options you want without getting options you don't.
Let's take 2 people, vote for one.
Guy 1
For gun control, agianst abortion, for privacy, agianst privitized medicare.
Guy 2
Agianst gun control, for abortion, for Anti-terrorism, for social security.
This is the prob that the people of Utah are faced with. Their choice is to vote for someone who is agianst abortion but for big corporations, or to vote for someone who is for abortion but agianst copyright extentions. What matters most to their lives? Probably fewer than 10% of people give a crap about copyright...even less in Utah. But 90% of people have strong feelings about abortion, even though fewer than 1% of people will ever want/need/get one.
What's more important? Abortion or copyright? To the people of Utah, they've already sold their political souls...and made MPAA/RIAA very happy.
Direct X is more than just Direct3D...
It also handles sound, input, networking, and who knows what else.
Also, Carmak's biggest prob was with DX5 being much more complicated that OGL. After DX9, he got all quiet about it. While I'm no M$ fanboy, I do see the advantages of having a small group of devs having complete control over DX rather than the 'design by commite' approach of OGL. The fact that M$ also has unlimited resources also helps a lot.
Basicly, today DX blows the socks off OGL. Unfortunately, it also limits you to a specific platform. Let's just hope that DIII also runs on OGL for easy porting to MacOS and Linux.
You were modded as funny, but I read it as truly insightful.
Bicycle. Say it agian...BI-cycle. Now, I'm not as good in latin as I think I am, but trying to call a unicycle or tricycle a bicycle could get you killed in some circles.
My guess would be a loop of a cadence count to keep him on time. While any good cycling computer already tells you this, it's sometimes easier if you find music with a beat equal to the cadence you want to spin at.
That $850 et probably has better seals and more rigerous testing to ensure quality.
Do you want a set of Shimano Kraptastic Gripshifters, or some nice Diore (sp?) components?
Money buys less (weight) and more (quality).
My computer may or may not run faster because of my mods. That isn't the point.
My modded heatsink keeps the proc cooler. I took off the 60mm fan and replaced it with an 80mm model. The fact that it has LEDs now is just for show. However, keeping the CPU cool is its primary purpose.
My 2 other fans blowing on my hard drives don't make my access times faster, but keeping those things cool extends the MTBF. I see so many people just add another drive in the same cage with the first. Just knowing that the center of those drives is burning up hurts me. But, in my case, everything stays cool.
My clear case may not make my box any faster, but it sure is convenient when it comes to troubleshooting. Let me see, is anything loose? Nope. Took five seconds to see that. Once a month, I clean my case inside and out. I'm sure my components are a lot happier not covered with dust like 90% of home PCs.
Oh, and airsoft does hurt. About a month ago, me and a friend came around a corner on each other...
His P-90 swung faster than my M-4...I still have a line of scars down my left side from his burst.
Try airsoft. Paintball is nice, but you don't get the real feeling of airsoft.
.25g pellets, and are extremely moddable. I have a Walther p-99, a Colt M-4, and a psg-1. People see me walking out from my apartment and they get afraid.
The basic premise is that the guns are VERY realistic, shoot
In the US, most of the guns have red tips. But you can order the gun from overseas and have the red tip removed once it arrives.
They are also fairly accurate. My M-4 can hit 40 out of 40 at about 20 meters. While not as impressive as paintball accuracy, it gives the game a more in-your-face feel. My psg-1 can hit from 100 meters fairly well...depending on wind.
The pistols use gas charges and fire about 30 rounds between refils. The rifles use electric and can sustain 50 rounds (the limit of my magazine) with no prob and I have shot close to 1000 rounds between batteries.
Seriously, check into it.
Like rain on your wedding day?
Or maybe even a free ride if you've already paid?
(n/t)