I figured you meant the soldering iron. Imagine all the mobile handset companies with resistors in hand waiting to see the outcome of the auction. Is it really going to be for mobile networking, or a way to overcome the CLEC's last mile networks to the home? Longer waves ~700MHz are going to have longer reach than the current >2GHz frequencies my CDMA phone uses.
During beta testing it seemed to me that there was no surefire way to determine how your disks were set up, it was just some kind of JBOD array with file duplication on disks until you ran out of space for the duplication. I don't like the idea of a closed system wherein the builder says "when you run out of space, simply put some disks in that bad boy"; what happens when it no longer works like it's supposed to, as most things do? I want something recoverable, something with a file system I know about, based on a technology I can get down to nuts & bolts with if I have to when a real failure occurs. That product isn't Windows Home Server.
OK, I've been over and over this home/small business NAS thing quite a bit in the last few months. Let me tell you, the best NAS is a Debian box with Samba running.
I looked at the set-top, semi-cheap NAS boxes on Newegg, they all have reviews saying that they've either failed prematurely, or the transfer rates are way too slow. With that in mind, I bought a cheap barebone PC for the customer, and ran FreeNAS on it.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure if FreeNAS is the problem, or the barebone was the problem, but the machine started to lock up at random intervals. At first, I could solidly blame it on power loss, because APC Powerchute was showing brown/blackouts at the same time as the outages. So then, I fought with the cheesy BIOS on the cheap board to get it set to power on after a power outage and not fail a post without a keyboard (wasn't very obvious and the cheap barebone didn't ship with a manual, company's web page doesn't carry information about this box anymore). I got it home and found that memory slots DIMM B1 & B2 were both bad, the board wouldn't post with memory in either one, but works fine in A1 & A2 (no dual channel). FreeNAS being in beta, I also decided to replace it with Debian/Samba, because the customer is becoming a little short fused over this fiasco.
The Debian box has been purring like a kitten on my desk for about a week now, and backups go off flawlessly. If you're interested, I've also found that Acronis True Image Home 11 is probably the best available option for their backups. Windows backups just aren't doing the trick, in my tests, a System State restore was causing a BSOD right after restoration, which doesn't even get me to the point of being able to restore data. The customer uses Peachtree Accounting, which has its own backup solution, so I've also advised her to do a backup in it and store it on the NAS share periodically, even though we're creating image backups. Acronis TI 11 restores have been perfect and effortless in my testing.
Admittedly, some of this is my own inexperience. I've never done this at home, and this was the first of my handful of side-business customers who requested a backup server. I'm sure more experienced people would have known to do a full backup at least every week with incrementals every night, since last time we had a disaster, I had to click through hundreds of incremental backups on the same full backup for data. I also shouldn't have used beta software for a business environment. Then, I shouldn't have trusted included Windows software to be reliable when the time came to perform.
You've described exactly my stance on the issue. I also buy CDs and rip them so I can get them onto my iPod. In fact, I hardly ever touch a CD again after it's been christened by my optical drive. Lately, I've gotten the impression that the music industry considers these methods just as illegal as downloading the songs without paying, so it seems perfectly logical to assume that downloading == buying a CD.
I can't wait until artists figure out that they don't need these companies to survive or become famous. Look at OK Go; you put up something catchy with a witty video, and bang, you're popular. I'd even settle for a video of nothing but blackness with the track playing. If I like, I'll buy from your website or chosen distribution method.
There are too many bad parents buying their young kids ridiculously violent games, and kids doing the same with their parents' money. This law is for the idiots who think that because something goes in a Playstation, it's fine for a kid to play. Unfortunately, the government would not have to be involved if these hillbillies would educate themselves (or even sit down and watch a kid play GTA for a few minutes).
You could some up a few of those points with "Availability", which is a pretty common metric. MTTR (mean time to repair) from the telco world could apply easily to IT work. Just a couple of ideas.
This is a good way for Google to take an offensive stance in the net neutrality game, since AT&T and other carriers contend that Google should pay for priority or bandwidth use. Let's see what happens when consumers gain choice and freedom.
My experience with the Commodore 128 came very early in life while playing games to distract myself from chicken pox, so I'm not what you would call an "expert".
Second Life wasn't as popular as it was hyped to be? Can't imagine why...working, being bombarded with advertising, dealing with strangers (who have the anonymity of the Internet in their arsenal), spending real $ on fake $, and withstanding dick bombardments. It should have died a long time ago.
In my area, @Home was offering Internet service over my local cable company (then TCI), and when AT&T bought TCI, they called it AT&T@Home (assuming @Home was also bought by AT&T?). Once AT&T sold the franchise to Cox, it was simply Cox HSI. Curious how that worked out, did @Home actually compete with newly built cable networking infrastructure shortly, or was it acquired in pieces by the franchises?
"Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games, the battles were real, and the only enemy you fought was the buggers."
So everyone did their updates at the same time as me. Windows updates are generally available in the morning, I do mine after work on Tuesdays. How strange that "several readers" do their updates at exactly the same time as me and submit a story about it.
More like someone saw the story I submitted and took it for themselves. It's not that it's bothering me, it just makes me wonder if Slashdot is gamed, sort of like Digg.
"The infringed patents cover a method for translating calls between an Internet network and the standard telephone network, call-waiting features and wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, handsets. Vonage was cleared of infringing two patents related to billing systems designed to prevent fraud."
TFA is absolutely correct, the magic is lost, all hope surrendered, eagle is not landing, link is down, kernel has panicked, Jack Bauer died in hour 23.
So now all you jobless miscreants and eBay "Powersellers" can stop swarming EB Games at 10:30 in the morning and let me get my mfing Wii!
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I figured you meant the soldering iron. Imagine all the mobile handset companies with resistors in hand waiting to see the outcome of the auction. Is it really going to be for mobile networking, or a way to overcome the CLEC's last mile networks to the home? Longer waves ~700MHz are going to have longer reach than the current >2GHz frequencies my CDMA phone uses.
During beta testing it seemed to me that there was no surefire way to determine how your disks were set up, it was just some kind of JBOD array with file duplication on disks until you ran out of space for the duplication. I don't like the idea of a closed system wherein the builder says "when you run out of space, simply put some disks in that bad boy"; what happens when it no longer works like it's supposed to, as most things do? I want something recoverable, something with a file system I know about, based on a technology I can get down to nuts & bolts with if I have to when a real failure occurs. That product isn't Windows Home Server.
OK, I've been over and over this home/small business NAS thing quite a bit in the last few months. Let me tell you, the best NAS is a Debian box with Samba running.
I looked at the set-top, semi-cheap NAS boxes on Newegg, they all have reviews saying that they've either failed prematurely, or the transfer rates are way too slow. With that in mind, I bought a cheap barebone PC for the customer, and ran FreeNAS on it.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure if FreeNAS is the problem, or the barebone was the problem, but the machine started to lock up at random intervals. At first, I could solidly blame it on power loss, because APC Powerchute was showing brown/blackouts at the same time as the outages. So then, I fought with the cheesy BIOS on the cheap board to get it set to power on after a power outage and not fail a post without a keyboard (wasn't very obvious and the cheap barebone didn't ship with a manual, company's web page doesn't carry information about this box anymore). I got it home and found that memory slots DIMM B1 & B2 were both bad, the board wouldn't post with memory in either one, but works fine in A1 & A2 (no dual channel). FreeNAS being in beta, I also decided to replace it with Debian/Samba, because the customer is becoming a little short fused over this fiasco.
The Debian box has been purring like a kitten on my desk for about a week now, and backups go off flawlessly. If you're interested, I've also found that Acronis True Image Home 11 is probably the best available option for their backups. Windows backups just aren't doing the trick, in my tests, a System State restore was causing a BSOD right after restoration, which doesn't even get me to the point of being able to restore data. The customer uses Peachtree Accounting, which has its own backup solution, so I've also advised her to do a backup in it and store it on the NAS share periodically, even though we're creating image backups. Acronis TI 11 restores have been perfect and effortless in my testing.
Admittedly, some of this is my own inexperience. I've never done this at home, and this was the first of my handful of side-business customers who requested a backup server. I'm sure more experienced people would have known to do a full backup at least every week with incrementals every night, since last time we had a disaster, I had to click through hundreds of incremental backups on the same full backup for data. I also shouldn't have used beta software for a business environment. Then, I shouldn't have trusted included Windows software to be reliable when the time came to perform.
Can you imagine this scheme working with Top 40 "artists" like 50 Cents and Fergie? Doubtful.
In fact , it's pronounced "mill-e-wah-que" which is Algonquin for "the good land."
You've described exactly my stance on the issue. I also buy CDs and rip them so I can get them onto my iPod. In fact, I hardly ever touch a CD again after it's been christened by my optical drive. Lately, I've gotten the impression that the music industry considers these methods just as illegal as downloading the songs without paying, so it seems perfectly logical to assume that downloading == buying a CD.
I can't wait until artists figure out that they don't need these companies to survive or become famous. Look at OK Go; you put up something catchy with a witty video, and bang, you're popular. I'd even settle for a video of nothing but blackness with the track playing. If I like, I'll buy from your website or chosen distribution method.
There are too many bad parents buying their young kids ridiculously violent games, and kids doing the same with their parents' money. This law is for the idiots who think that because something goes in a Playstation, it's fine for a kid to play. Unfortunately, the government would not have to be involved if these hillbillies would educate themselves (or even sit down and watch a kid play GTA for a few minutes).
You could some up a few of those points with "Availability", which is a pretty common metric. MTTR (mean time to repair) from the telco world could apply easily to IT work. Just a couple of ideas.
Now it all makes sense, OU students would have simply had their rich parents pay the settlement.
This is a good way for Google to take an offensive stance in the net neutrality game, since AT&T and other carriers contend that Google should pay for priority or bandwidth use. Let's see what happens when consumers gain choice and freedom.
My experience with the Commodore 128 came very early in life while playing games to distract myself from chicken pox, so I'm not what you would call an "expert".
load"*",8,10 0 on the tapes?
Ok, who put California Games x 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
Second Life wasn't as popular as it was hyped to be? Can't imagine why...working, being bombarded with advertising, dealing with strangers (who have the anonymity of the Internet in their arsenal), spending real $ on fake $, and withstanding dick bombardments. It should have died a long time ago.
In my area, @Home was offering Internet service over my local cable company (then TCI), and when AT&T bought TCI, they called it AT&T@Home (assuming @Home was also bought by AT&T?). Once AT&T sold the franchise to Cox, it was simply Cox HSI. Curious how that worked out, did @Home actually compete with newly built cable networking infrastructure shortly, or was it acquired in pieces by the franchises?
"Ender, for the past few months you have been the battle commander of our fleets. This was the Third Invasion. There were no games, the battles were real, and the only enemy you fought was the buggers."
I'm sure a simple script could take care of this DVD key fiasco. Don't you kind of wonder why the allow the circus to continue?
Like when everyone used to say that the human eye couldn't distinguish between 27? 30? FPS and 60. I could certainly tell a difference.
So everyone did their updates at the same time as me. Windows updates are generally available in the morning, I do mine after work on Tuesdays. How strange that "several readers" do their updates at exactly the same time as me and submit a story about it. More like someone saw the story I submitted and took it for themselves. It's not that it's bothering me, it just makes me wonder if Slashdot is gamed, sort of like Digg.
Aww, thanks for the encouragement Sparky! It means a lot coming from...wait...who are you?
I just submitted this, and it got rejected and then this shows up on the front page. Interesting!
Back on topic, I just hit the reboot button on the SBS2003, and now need to divert all my happy thoughts to the server as it boots back up.
A conservative who wants liberation from the oppressive neocon government, that's refreshing.
Look at these patents:
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http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=%2Fne
So basically any VOIP system utilizing a database to authenticate callers and bill them for usage is infringement. Amazing.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=%2Fne
VOIP DNS.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=%2Fne
Same.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=%2Fne
Voice mail / call waiting / call forwarding I assume. Now this is proprietary because it's been ported to VOIP systems?
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?u=%2Fne
This looks more applicable to wireless networks; I wonder how it applied in this case.
Those published standards may only be for TDM voice, not VoIP or VoIP PSTN gateways AFAIK.
"The infringed patents cover a method for translating calls between an Internet network and the standard telephone network, call-waiting features and wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, handsets. Vonage was cleared of infringing two patents related to billing systems designed to prevent fraud."
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&s
TFA is absolutely correct, the magic is lost, all hope surrendered, eagle is not landing, link is down, kernel has panicked, Jack Bauer died in hour 23.
So now all you jobless miscreants and eBay "Powersellers" can stop swarming EB Games at 10:30 in the morning and let me get my mfing Wii!