Here comes a raging global warming debate... haven't seen this on the Internet in 5 seconds.
Hopefully for this one we'll get some cashiers, makeup artists and puppeteers to weigh in with their expert environmental opinion, just to mix things up.
Try writing a large program that needs to do heavy number-crunching in Java/Ruby/Perl/Python
Those languages are way too high level. What you make up in development time will nowhere near compensate you for the greater processing time. I mean, CPU costs are through the roof these days!
But I have to say - even C++ is too high level. I hand code assembler with vi. That's what real number crunchers do.
With many of those products, you can not only remotely control the system (including see the power on self test, modify CMOS settings and even install an operating system) but they have a feature to cycle power as well.
We've been using them for several years now. Works great.
Next you'll need a 1,000 watt power supply just to run your computer. How long until my home computer is hooked up to a 50 amp 240 volt line?
I mean, if one GPU is good and two GPUs are better, does that mean 5 are fantastic?
I used to have a Radeon 1950 Pro in my current system, which is nowhere near the top of the scale in video cards (in fact, it's probably below even average). It was so loud and literally doubled the number of watts my system took while running (measured by Kill-a-Watt). I took it out and now just use the integrated Intel graphics adapter. Man, that was fast enough for me but I don't play games very often.
I bet Dean Kamen is wondering why he wasted his time messing with gyroscopes and other sophisticated electronics. These can probably be made for 1/10th the cost of a Segway and they could probably be made just as maneuverable.
Sure, you don't sit as highly as you stand but that's probably a good thing overall. Probably gets 200 MPG, too.
Don't ask these types of questions or someone with copious (maybe even infinite!) mod points will mod you as Flamebait!
I'm sure that Rob just felt that we needed to know about a new, obscure news aggregation site with Digg-like submission and voting buttons. Rob only had our best interest at heart. And of course, in addition to knowing about this site, he realized without us knowing that we'd be fascinated to ask the person who launched this site all kinds of questions because he had some tie-in to a movie with a technical cult-following.
SCO is dead!? I just bought a new SCO Source license yesterday for $699! Why wasn't I told about this sooner? Thanks a lot, guys.
Anyway, I'm still glad I have the peace of mind of fully licensing all of SCO's Unix intellectual property within my installation of Ubuntu. If you'd like this peace of mind, buy today at:
Does it make anyone else sad when they think that there are fellow members of our race that would patent breathing if they could and would idly watch people that couldn't afford to pay their licensing fees suffocate?
With those you know WHEN it's going to happen. You can schedule it for out of hours.
The position you're touting is completely foreign to me. I don't want to discount it, I just think it must be because you work for a small company and don't have any experience administering widely used web sites.
Even for medium sized companies, I have to imagine that "out of hours" are few and far between.
GMail was down and that's "just" email as you say, but it was also Google Apps. Many businesses depend on that for their word processing, spreadsheeting and other Microsoft Office replacement needs.
The chance of having a single server run through a year is much, much higher than winning the lottery.
Sure, if you don't include planned downtime. But interconnected networks require higher security which requires regular patching which makes having a single server run through a year without any downtime at all nearly impossible (just like winning the lottery). Back in my Novell days, I had several Netware 3.12 systems with uptimes of 2-3 years.
we only have one or two unexpected downtimes per year
What about your planned downtime? If you're running Windows, you're rebooting to install patches on a regular basis or you're running unpatched systems. What about software installs?
In the context of the article, do you think the users of Google Apps (or any users) would be happy with, "Oh, no you don't understand. This is PLANNED downtime. This doesn't affect you or our downtime numbers."
you can have 0 unexpected downtime with a single server, if you are lucky.
You can win the lottery too, if you are lucky. How many people win the lottery though?
When my boss tells me he wants 0 downtime (or even five-9 downtime), I show him a quote for the 7-figure cost of creating such a system.
Apparently Google is expected to hit that level of uptime all while charging either nothing for their standard edition or $50 per user per year for the premier.
I wonder how much downtime the companies that are using Google Apps would experience if they had to pay for their own redundancy?
Everyone reading this article should send at the very least one email to their elected government official
I see. You've already sent correspondence to your government officials in regard to global warming, the crisis in Darfur, Russia's invasion of Georgie, alternative energy adoption, and all the other really important things.
Good thing we solved all those problems - now it's time to complain about a standard being approved by ISO that nobody cares about.
Of course the United States could do better but in all fairness, the land area and population density are completely different:
United States:
9.8M square kilometers
Japan:
377K square kilometers
When you're running physical cable, this makes a huge difference.
Of course, I'm probably not the one to compare to because I have FIOS (up to 45 M/bps) and Cable (up to 16 M/bps) available to me. Currently I have FIOS @ 15 M/bps downstream and 2 M/bps upstream.
I don't get license management measures in software that is only going to be used by major corporations.
If someone wants to run virtual machines at home or in a small business, they're likely going to be more than satisfied with VMWare Virtual Server (formerly GSX) and wouldn't even consider the much more complex ESX.
In a major corporation, fear of massive fines and prosecution is enough to stop them from pirating your software. Hardware dongles, software license managers and the like only hurt your paying customers.
Unless and until every system connected to the Internet needs a unique key of some sort before it's allowed to exchange packets, blocking anything will be completely ineffective.
The current net neutrality debate is the first line of defense toward preventing such a system.
I've dreamed often of the day I could buy a completely non-standard technology that rids me of large quantities of the pesky money I have lying around while at the same time solves the removable storage problems of 3 years ago. Too bad this unit only costs $18,000 and stores just under 1/3 of my hard disk space!
He has two systems on his local network. He's using a "man in the middle" attack to use System A to sniff the traffic of System B. Then he's pointing out that you can get passwords from systems like MySpace because it's not encrypted.
How is this a big deal? This does not allow someone to get anyone's password that isn't on their same network. There are easier ways to get someone's password if you're on the same network as them, starting with slapping them until they give you their password. But it all comes back to - if the site matters, it's using HTTPs.
Rather than mod me down - care to make your own predictions?
Are you new here or what? You just went on a tirade against Microsoft, said how Linux and Apple were trending to take market share from them and sang the praises of OpenOffice.org. Then you invite people on Slashdot to mod you down. For what? You're preaching smack in the middle of a HUGE choir.
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Turns out Diebold accidentally leaked a snippet of their C# source code that shows the conditions that the machines may fail to register votes:
if(vote.Party == "Democrat" && democratvotes % 3)
democratvotes++;
Oopsie!
How about "Simple Global Carbontosis?
Here comes a raging global warming debate... haven't seen this on the Internet in 5 seconds.
Hopefully for this one we'll get some cashiers, makeup artists and puppeteers to weigh in with their expert environmental opinion, just to mix things up.
The FCC rejects Comcast's insistence that it does not have the authority to take these steps.
Want to royally piss off any governmental agency? Tell them they don't have the authority to do what they're doing. They'll find SOME way to get you.
Try writing a large program that needs to do heavy number-crunching in Java/Ruby/Perl/Python
Those languages are way too high level. What you make up in development time will nowhere near compensate you for the greater processing time. I mean, CPU costs are through the roof these days!
But I have to say - even C++ is too high level. I hand code assembler with vi. That's what real number crunchers do.
Yes.
Look at this: IP KVM.
With many of those products, you can not only remotely control the system (including see the power on self test, modify CMOS settings and even install an operating system) but they have a feature to cycle power as well.
We've been using them for several years now. Works great.
Next you'll need a 1,000 watt power supply just to run your computer. How long until my home computer is hooked up to a 50 amp 240 volt line?
I mean, if one GPU is good and two GPUs are better, does that mean 5 are fantastic?
I used to have a Radeon 1950 Pro in my current system, which is nowhere near the top of the scale in video cards (in fact, it's probably below even average). It was so loud and literally doubled the number of watts my system took while running (measured by Kill-a-Watt). I took it out and now just use the integrated Intel graphics adapter. Man, that was fast enough for me but I don't play games very often.
I bet Dean Kamen is wondering why he wasted his time messing with gyroscopes and other sophisticated electronics. These can probably be made for 1/10th the cost of a Segway and they could probably be made just as maneuverable.
Sure, you don't sit as highly as you stand but that's probably a good thing overall. Probably gets 200 MPG, too.
So you have any link what so ever with Slashdot?
Don't ask these types of questions or someone with copious (maybe even infinite!) mod points will mod you as Flamebait!
I'm sure that Rob just felt that we needed to know about a new, obscure news aggregation site with Digg-like submission and voting buttons. Rob only had our best interest at heart. And of course, in addition to knowing about this site, he realized without us knowing that we'd be fascinated to ask the person who launched this site all kinds of questions because he had some tie-in to a movie with a technical cult-following.
SCO is dead!? I just bought a new SCO Source license yesterday for $699! Why wasn't I told about this sooner? Thanks a lot, guys.
Anyway, I'm still glad I have the peace of mind of fully licensing all of SCO's Unix intellectual property within my installation of Ubuntu. If you'd like this peace of mind, buy today at:
http://www.caldera.com/scosource/
Now does anyone know where I can purchase a rock that wards off tigers?
How did you get such great stealth advertising on Slashdot for your Digg-clone site?
Regardless of the answer - hats off to you - I'm sure it will be quite a boon!
Does it make anyone else sad when they think that there are fellow members of our race that would patent breathing if they could and would idly watch people that couldn't afford to pay their licensing fees suffocate?
With those you know WHEN it's going to happen. You can schedule it for out of hours.
The position you're touting is completely foreign to me. I don't want to discount it, I just think it must be because you work for a small company and don't have any experience administering widely used web sites.
Even for medium sized companies, I have to imagine that "out of hours" are few and far between.
But then again: This is "just" e-mail.
GMail was down and that's "just" email as you say, but it was also Google Apps. Many businesses depend on that for their word processing, spreadsheeting and other Microsoft Office replacement needs.
The chance of having a single server run through a year is much, much higher than winning the lottery.
Sure, if you don't include planned downtime. But interconnected networks require higher security which requires regular patching which makes having a single server run through a year without any downtime at all nearly impossible (just like winning the lottery). Back in my Novell days, I had several Netware 3.12 systems with uptimes of 2-3 years.
we only have one or two unexpected downtimes per year
What about your planned downtime? If you're running Windows, you're rebooting to install patches on a regular basis or you're running unpatched systems. What about software installs?
In the context of the article, do you think the users of Google Apps (or any users) would be happy with, "Oh, no you don't understand. This is PLANNED downtime. This doesn't affect you or our downtime numbers."
you can have 0 unexpected downtime with a single server, if you are lucky.
You can win the lottery too, if you are lucky. How many people win the lottery though?
When my boss tells me he wants 0 downtime (or even five-9 downtime), I show him a quote for the 7-figure cost of creating such a system.
Apparently Google is expected to hit that level of uptime all while charging either nothing for their standard edition or $50 per user per year for the premier.
I wonder how much downtime the companies that are using Google Apps would experience if they had to pay for their own redundancy?
I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but things like this make me understand a little bit more why someone would become one.
Everyone reading this article should send at the very least one email to their elected government official
I see. You've already sent correspondence to your government officials in regard to global warming, the crisis in Darfur, Russia's invasion of Georgie, alternative energy adoption, and all the other really important things.
Good thing we solved all those problems - now it's time to complain about a standard being approved by ISO that nobody cares about.
Of course the United States could do better but in all fairness, the land area and population density are completely different:
United States:
9.8M square kilometers
Japan:
377K square kilometers
When you're running physical cable, this makes a huge difference.
Of course, I'm probably not the one to compare to because I have FIOS (up to 45 M/bps) and Cable (up to 16 M/bps) available to me. Currently I have FIOS @ 15 M/bps downstream and 2 M/bps upstream.
I don't get license management measures in software that is only going to be used by major corporations.
If someone wants to run virtual machines at home or in a small business, they're likely going to be more than satisfied with VMWare Virtual Server (formerly GSX) and wouldn't even consider the much more complex ESX.
In a major corporation, fear of massive fines and prosecution is enough to stop them from pirating your software. Hardware dongles, software license managers and the like only hurt your paying customers.
Unless and until every system connected to the Internet needs a unique key of some sort before it's allowed to exchange packets, blocking anything will be completely ineffective.
The current net neutrality debate is the first line of defense toward preventing such a system.
I've dreamed often of the day I could buy a completely non-standard technology that rids me of large quantities of the pesky money I have lying around while at the same time solves the removable storage problems of 3 years ago. Too bad this unit only costs $18,000 and stores just under 1/3 of my hard disk space!
He has two systems on his local network. He's using a "man in the middle" attack to use System A to sniff the traffic of System B. Then he's pointing out that you can get passwords from systems like MySpace because it's not encrypted.
How is this a big deal? This does not allow someone to get anyone's password that isn't on their same network. There are easier ways to get someone's password if you're on the same network as them, starting with slapping them until they give you their password. But it all comes back to - if the site matters, it's using HTTPs.
Rather than mod me down - care to make your own predictions?
Are you new here or what? You just went on a tirade against Microsoft, said how Linux and Apple were trending to take market share from them and sang the praises of OpenOffice.org. Then you invite people on Slashdot to mod you down. For what? You're preaching smack in the middle of a HUGE choir.
I'm surprised you're not +10 Godlike by now.