It is worthless for a single user who just deleted some important message. You end up building a new exchange server, and then restoring the entire mailstore, than going into that box and grabbing the one message.
Wrong.
Many products exist to restore single Exchange mailboxes (Ontrack's Power Controls being one of them), or even specific content within a mailbox, such as an individual e-mail) without having to build a new Exch server. In fact. Power Controls only needs an Outlook client and its MAPI client installed on a separate workstation, and can restore to the same mailbox, a different or new mailbox, or export to something else, like a.PST file.
Couple that with high-end back-end storage like a NetApp SAN/iSAN or EMC equivalent that supports snapshots, and you can do this completely behind the scenes. People do it every day...
[Full disclosure: I work for Network Appliance, and we are a rebranded reseller of Ontrack Power Controls...]
Notwithstanding how pointless and utterly weightless this question is, if you had put more thought into the solution than asking the question, you'd already have solved the problem.
Use mailsound.wav as your mail sound. Write a script or batch file to randomly rename one of your source wav files to this same name. Schedule the script to run every 30s or whatever interval.
Geez.... and I wasted more time answering than the question is worth.:O
There is actually quite a large demand for these chips among PC builders who know what they can do. The average Joe who walks in and says "I want more memory" isn't going to have a clue, or a care, about these chips. But they do make a distinct difference.
I recently built myself an Athlon64 (3200+) system and put in a 1GB (2x512MB) set of Corsair "value brand DDR memory (recommended by the motherboard manufacturer, DFI). I had stability problems at stock speeds all around and RMA'd the first pair. When I had the same problems with the second pair, I gave up and went to the TwinX PC4400 memory (TWINX1024-4400C25) with TCCD chips.
I haven't regretted the extra money once. Although I hadn't intended to do an excessive amount of overclocking, this system is totally stable (24 hours of Prime95 and 24 hours of Memtest86+ in a ~82F room) at nearly a 50% overclock on the CPU and memory both, with stock cooling on everything. You just can *not* do that with value branded memory, much of which isn't ever tested before being sold.
Also, with the TwinX label, you're getting a matched pair of sticks, so timings and overclocking aside, things just work out better, and it's a pretty sure bet that the sticks won't turn out bad when under load.
(I used to buy only Micron for SDRAM because I got sick of flaky systems only to have Memtest confirm a bad memory stick, but Micron's DDR memory isn't up there in the quality rankings just yet.)
... we built him an outhouse. A full-size, ghetto-style outhouse, replete with rusty metal roof, and someone's real-life front door (recently replaced). Roped it off with police crime scene tape (obtained from a LE friend) and made a masking tape outline of a body on the floor (no tie to the outhouse, it just looked good). Put up signs through the whole building directing people to it, and as they visited and cackled, many people added bathroom grafitti on the inside walls.
[ Back history: Last year, we gave someone else a real toilet to sit on instead of his office chair. We had to keep the toilet theme going.:) ]
The best part is -- out of pure coincedence and a previous scheduling conflict -- our new VP arrived that same morning to make a presentation to the whole center. He loved it so much, he agreed to show our video of the build-up during his presentation, and ended up using it to lead off his deal.:)
I wish I had somewhere to put the pics up that would survive the Slashdot Death Ray, but alas...
Some states (parts of Indiana, all of Hawaii, and Arizona) have already recognized the general silliness (YMMV) in switching clocks around for some nebulous net gain. The Navajo Indian reservations ignore DST, too.
I expect if this passes Congress, the states will just pass laws to reverse this for their own constituents. Naturally, the net effect of (all of) this will just be extended chaos...
If it's not already confusing enough for only SOME of Indiana to observe DST, whose bright idea was it to make India be ten and a HALF hours off from EST ??
For the love of all that's holy, someone *please* mod this guy down. Anyone who actually LIKED the movie Napolean Dynomite (and yes, I really tried to enjoy it) has something severely mangled in their brain processes.
Also, anyone who tells you it's the fashizzle is just lying to your facizzle.
Why is it you never have mod points on the days when you just HAVE to have them?? Grrrrr....
The feed rollers dry out. Check eBay and you'll see roller kits for the LJ 1100 series are all over the place, and quite easy to replace. However, even the new ones dry out sooner than they should.
If you want a solid, decent-for-home-use laser printer, a LaserJet 5P or 6P (both 600dpi, with relatively inexpensive toner) will do you fine.
I sold a pallet of these on eBay recently for around $30-$40 each, plus shipping, and never heard a negative word on any of them. You can't beat a $40 laser printer...
Folks will just start distributing these patches through other arenas (torrent, newsgroups, web sites, etc.), or will develop methods (as they always have) to work around the system checks.
This is just a ruse to get folks to pay less attention to the fact that the MS OS is generally less secure for most people than it should be...
He have any use for a bag full (probably 24 sticks or so) of 30-pin 1MB SIMMs??? I was going to take a previous poster's idea and make keychains out of them for sale on eBay, but if your friend can use them for something... well, useful, he can have 'em. They've been sitting in this static bag for umpteen years now.
Having them all in one place makes mirroring the entire data set in real time more feasible. Heck, you can even mirror across a WAN link and have an offsite DR location that's always in sync with the original nnn TB data set.
Having all the disks in one place can also allow for more security. Admins may have access to the servers, but not the media itself, so there's diminished risk in an entire hard disk going "missing," a la NASA JPL and/or Los Alamos. If you guard that, plus don't allow any other removable media (USB keys, floppies, optical media) and only specific, verified/authenticated network access, you've covered a large swath of access points to that data.
In cases of medical/privacy data, guarding a single physical location is certainly preferable to having to guard multiple...
I can think of many reasons TO have all the disks in one place, and only a few reasons to leave them in the servers as JBOD or a server-based RAIDn array.
iSCSI LUNs can be pretty friggin' huge. More than once, I've seen a customer nuke the holy bejeebers out of a 950GB iSCSI LUN all at once, with a single click (the equivalent of "LUN DESTROY"). I actually had a WebEx session to a customer once and watched him delete a 1.3TB LUN before I could stop him.
If you're on plain JBOD, you have to get out your restore tapes and pray to the tape gods. If you're on a SAN/NAS appliance (like NetApp), you can usually restore that data in a matter of seconds (literally) from snapshot. That's saved many an admin from getting insta-pinkslipped...
It sounds like your environment and requirements might be a good candidate for a Network Appliance filer... NetApp pioneered iSCSI, and you'd also get the benefit of instant snapshot backups, the fact that they already have (working) MPIO drivers for Windows, the performance of a RAID4 Fibre Channel storage system, as well as enterprise-level clustering/backup/recovery and a host of other bullet items you can find on your own.
At risk of sounding like a dreaded sales person, expand your search a bit and look beyond LeftHand and EquaLogic -- they're only providing part of the picture that NetApp (and others) already have for the taking.
And, yes, I own NetApp stock... as do several of my mutual funds.:)
No avoidance is necessary, and unless you're familiar with iSCSI, your "evidence" is anecdotal at best.
iSCSI works well, and it's as fast as the underlying network (ideally, a direct crossover connection to the target storage, so there's no other traffic to contend with). iSCSI is not as fast as FCAL (2 Gbit/sec max), but only because 10Gbit Ethernet isn't the main course -- yet.
Usually, your storage pool will be Fibre Channel, and some servers connect via FC LUNs (via an FC switch), others will connect via iSCSI LUNs. In either case, the storage array itself is not usually JBOD -- it needs to be something like RAID4 or RAID5 (or at least RAID1 / RAID0+1) to preserve the data integrity in the case of a simple disk failure.
In any case, FC-AL has one fatal flaw -- an open loop. (Think of FCAL as "token ring," because that's essentially what it is.) If a disk fails "open" (I see this occasionally as a storage engineer for a major SAN/NAS vendor), or a cable or GBIC on the loop fails, the entire loop is taken offline.
FC-AL is the "gold standard" for performance and reliability, but has limitations when you want to expand clustering (FC switches still cost gobs of $$$). Fibre Channel cabling also has distance limitations that go away with iSCSI.
The acid test -- for me anyway -- is seeing LARGE customers (banks, airlines, government agencies [pick a 3-letter acronym], pharmaceuticals, major industries such as oil and energy, entertainment companies and movie studios, etc.) implementing iSCSI on an equally LARGE scale, and quite successfully.
With few exceptions, if the underlying Ethernet network is functioning properly, iSCSI performs remarkably fast. No, you won't get the 2 Gbit FCAL rates -- *yet* -- but we have customers running dozens of large (>TB) databases off a single appliance over one or two GigE ports and iSCSI.
Generally, it's recommended to segment off the iSCSI traffic so it's not routed or mixed with public traffic anyway, but even those (small) customers that pipe all of their storage appliance data through a single 10/100 Ethernet interface only have problems if they put too many users on there as well. (A direct crossover cable is *ideal* for iSCSI.)
In addition, the Microsoft iSCSI initiator has finally outgrown its initial bugs/problems (with our help in some cases), and is darn solid with plenty of different targets.
I'd love to drop a bunch of example company names, but I'm sure those companies consider that information to be competitive, and it's not my place to divulge it. Any large company you can think of already has an investment in FC-AL, and all but a very small percentage have iSCSI infrastructures as well. Medium-size and small (50 employees) companies are also seeing HUGE benefits from iSCSI their own implementations.
The 0-day acid test (which works amazingly well in our labs with the right HBAs) is SAN booting over iSCSI. Imagine having an nnn-Terabyte set of storage, from which ALL your servers boot EVERYTHING. Not a single magnetic disk is required in the servers themselves. Makes server clustering and blade/grid computing so very attainable... provided the network will drive it. 10Gbit Ethernet and more will definitely fuel this migration, sooner than you think!!
(As an engineer for a major storage vendor (FC/iSCSI/near-line IDE storage/archiving), I work with all of this stuff on a daily basis. Not saying I'm an expert, just that I kinda know what I'm spouting here...)
Seriously, if you're really IN Information Technology, and you don't suck at it... you don't really have time for a second job.
There's too much information to manage/learn/protect/recover/share/compile/report on/administer/etc....
(In deference to the truth, I was once *in* IT full-bore [1995-2003], and didn't have the bandwidth for a decent meal, much less a second job. Now that I'm only in a tertiary tech-support role in IT (with somewhat lower pay), I have several offline clients for whom I provide various architecture, administration, security, recovery and installation consulting services.
The trick, IMO, is to get good enough at being BURIED by a real IT job that, once you're not buried by it anymore, you can more easily branch out into working for yourself at the same time. The side cash is nice, and (again, if you don't suck), most customers will quickly pony up to my $115/hour rate for higher-level architecture/design work, not to mention my standard $75/hour troubleshooting/installation rate because they know they're getting at least that much value from the payments. Do that a few times a week, and you have instant play money for building up your *own* company!!)
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However, are these internet degrees even worth the paper their printed on?
Mod +1 *Sad*....
"Great! Now spell PROFIT..."
Man I loved Speak 'n Spell!
Wrong.
Many products exist to restore single Exchange mailboxes (Ontrack's Power Controls being one of them), or even specific content within a mailbox, such as an individual e-mail) without having to build a new Exch server. In fact. Power Controls only needs an Outlook client and its MAPI client installed on a separate workstation, and can restore to the same mailbox, a different or new mailbox, or export to something else, like a .PST file.
Couple that with high-end back-end storage like a NetApp SAN/iSAN or EMC equivalent that supports snapshots, and you can do this completely behind the scenes. People do it every day...
[Full disclosure: I work for Network Appliance, and we are a rebranded reseller of Ontrack Power Controls...]
Notwithstanding how pointless and utterly weightless this question is, if you had put more thought into the solution than asking the question, you'd already have solved the problem.
:O
Use mailsound.wav as your mail sound. Write a script or batch file to randomly rename one of your source wav files to this same name. Schedule the script to run every 30s or whatever interval.
Geez.... and I wasted more time answering than the question is worth.
There is actually quite a large demand for these chips among PC builders who know what they can do. The average Joe who walks in and says "I want more memory" isn't going to have a clue, or a care, about these chips. But they do make a distinct difference.
I recently built myself an Athlon64 (3200+) system and put in a 1GB (2x512MB) set of Corsair "value brand DDR memory (recommended by the motherboard manufacturer, DFI). I had stability problems at stock speeds all around and RMA'd the first pair. When I had the same problems with the second pair, I gave up and went to the TwinX PC4400 memory (TWINX1024-4400C25) with TCCD chips.
I haven't regretted the extra money once. Although I hadn't intended to do an excessive amount of overclocking, this system is totally stable (24 hours of Prime95 and 24 hours of Memtest86+ in a ~82F room) at nearly a 50% overclock on the CPU and memory both, with stock cooling on everything. You just can *not* do that with value branded memory, much of which isn't ever tested before being sold.
Also, with the TwinX label, you're getting a matched pair of sticks, so timings and overclocking aside, things just work out better, and it's a pretty sure bet that the sticks won't turn out bad when under load.
(I used to buy only Micron for SDRAM because I got sick of flaky systems only to have Memtest confirm a bad memory stick, but Micron's DDR memory isn't up there in the quality rankings just yet.)
You mean...
:)
"You've got questions, we've got questions."
... we built him an outhouse. A full-size, ghetto-style outhouse, replete with rusty metal roof, and someone's real-life front door (recently replaced). Roped it off with police crime scene tape (obtained from a LE friend) and made a masking tape outline of a body on the floor (no tie to the outhouse, it just looked good). Put up signs through the whole building directing people to it, and as they visited and cackled, many people added bathroom grafitti on the inside walls.
:) ]
:)
[ Back history: Last year, we gave someone else a real toilet to sit on instead of his office chair. We had to keep the toilet theme going.
The best part is -- out of pure coincedence and a previous scheduling conflict -- our new VP arrived that same morning to make a presentation to the whole center. He loved it so much, he agreed to show our video of the build-up during his presentation, and ended up using it to lead off his deal.
I wish I had somewhere to put the pics up that would survive the Slashdot Death Ray, but alas...
Some states (parts of Indiana, all of Hawaii, and Arizona) have already recognized the general silliness (YMMV) in switching clocks around for some nebulous net gain. The Navajo Indian reservations ignore DST, too.
I expect if this passes Congress, the states will just pass laws to reverse this for their own constituents. Naturally, the net effect of (all of) this will just be extended chaos...
If it's not already confusing enough for only SOME of Indiana to observe DST, whose bright idea was it to make India be ten and a HALF hours off from EST ??
For the love of all that's holy, someone *please* mod this guy down. Anyone who actually LIKED the movie Napolean Dynomite (and yes, I really tried to enjoy it) has something severely mangled in their brain processes.
Also, anyone who tells you it's the fashizzle is just lying to your facizzle.
Why is it you never have mod points on the days when you just HAVE to have them?? Grrrrr....
Dangit. Where are my mod points when I actually NEED the? The parent post needs to be visible to all...not buried by a 0 score!
Take off, eh !!
Uhh... don't you mean back-bacon, eh?? :)
Uhh... don't you mean back-bacon?? :)
The feed rollers dry out. Check eBay and you'll see roller kits for the LJ 1100 series are all over the place, and quite easy to replace. However, even the new ones dry out sooner than they should.
If you want a solid, decent-for-home-use laser printer, a LaserJet 5P or 6P (both 600dpi, with relatively inexpensive toner) will do you fine.
I sold a pallet of these on eBay recently for around $30-$40 each, plus shipping, and never heard a negative word on any of them. You can't beat a $40 laser printer...
Folks will just start distributing these patches through other arenas (torrent, newsgroups, web sites, etc.), or will develop methods (as they always have) to work around the system checks.
This is just a ruse to get folks to pay less attention to the fact that the MS OS is generally less secure for most people than it should be...
He have any use for a bag full (probably 24 sticks or so) of 30-pin 1MB SIMMs??? I was going to take a previous poster's idea and make keychains out of them for sale on eBay, but if your friend can use them for something... well, useful, he can have 'em. They've been sitting in this static bag for umpteen years now.
Look at the pics -- he still has a TYPEWRITER on his desk!! Gack!
Ahh, but nearly all of the hacked gamez had boot loaders at 2048 or 49152:
:)
sys 2048
sys 49152
THOSE are the ones *I* remember.
Nope, we bought the Epyx FastLoad cartridge and used the C= + Run/Stop keystrokes to do the same. :)
Not necessarily.
Having them all in one place makes mirroring the entire data set in real time more feasible. Heck, you can even mirror across a WAN link and have an offsite DR location that's always in sync with the original nnn TB data set.
Having all the disks in one place can also allow for more security. Admins may have access to the servers, but not the media itself, so there's diminished risk in an entire hard disk going "missing," a la NASA JPL and/or Los Alamos. If you guard that, plus don't allow any other removable media (USB keys, floppies, optical media) and only specific, verified/authenticated network access, you've covered a large swath of access points to that data.
In cases of medical/privacy data, guarding a single physical location is certainly preferable to having to guard multiple...
I can think of many reasons TO have all the disks in one place, and only a few reasons to leave them in the servers as JBOD or a server-based RAIDn array.
Almost...
iSCSI LUNs can be pretty friggin' huge. More than once, I've seen a customer nuke the holy bejeebers out of a 950GB iSCSI LUN all at once, with a single click (the equivalent of "LUN DESTROY"). I actually had a WebEx session to a customer once and watched him delete a 1.3TB LUN before I could stop him.
If you're on plain JBOD, you have to get out your restore tapes and pray to the tape gods. If you're on a SAN/NAS appliance (like NetApp), you can usually restore that data in a matter of seconds (literally) from snapshot. That's saved many an admin from getting insta-pinkslipped...
[shameless plug]
... as do several of my mutual funds. :)
It sounds like your environment and requirements might be a good candidate for a Network Appliance filer... NetApp pioneered iSCSI, and you'd also get the benefit of instant snapshot backups, the fact that they already have (working) MPIO drivers for Windows, the performance of a RAID4 Fibre Channel storage system, as well as enterprise-level clustering/backup/recovery and a host of other bullet items you can find on your own.
At risk of sounding like a dreaded sales person, expand your search a bit and look beyond LeftHand and EquaLogic -- they're only providing part of the picture that NetApp (and others) already have for the taking.
And, yes, I own NetApp stock
[/shameless plug]
No avoidance is necessary, and unless you're familiar with iSCSI, your "evidence" is anecdotal at best.
iSCSI works well, and it's as fast as the underlying network (ideally, a direct crossover connection to the target storage, so there's no other traffic to contend with). iSCSI is not as fast as FCAL (2 Gbit/sec max), but only because 10Gbit Ethernet isn't the main course -- yet.
Usually, your storage pool will be Fibre Channel, and some servers connect via FC LUNs (via an FC switch), others will connect via iSCSI LUNs. In either case, the storage array itself is not usually JBOD -- it needs to be something like RAID4 or RAID5 (or at least RAID1 / RAID0+1) to preserve the data integrity in the case of a simple disk failure.
In any case, FC-AL has one fatal flaw -- an open loop. (Think of FCAL as "token ring," because that's essentially what it is.) If a disk fails "open" (I see this occasionally as a storage engineer for a major SAN/NAS vendor), or a cable or GBIC on the loop fails, the entire loop is taken offline.
FC-AL is the "gold standard" for performance and reliability, but has limitations when you want to expand clustering (FC switches still cost gobs of $$$). Fibre Channel cabling also has distance limitations that go away with iSCSI.
... provided the network will drive it. 10Gbit Ethernet and more will definitely fuel this migration, sooner than you think!!
The acid test -- for me anyway -- is seeing LARGE customers (banks, airlines, government agencies [pick a 3-letter acronym], pharmaceuticals, major industries such as oil and energy, entertainment companies and movie studios, etc.) implementing iSCSI on an equally LARGE scale, and quite successfully.
With few exceptions, if the underlying Ethernet network is functioning properly, iSCSI performs remarkably fast. No, you won't get the 2 Gbit FCAL rates -- *yet* -- but we have customers running dozens of large (>TB) databases off a single appliance over one or two GigE ports and iSCSI.
Generally, it's recommended to segment off the iSCSI traffic so it's not routed or mixed with public traffic anyway, but even those (small) customers that pipe all of their storage appliance data through a single 10/100 Ethernet interface only have problems if they put too many users on there as well. (A direct crossover cable is *ideal* for iSCSI.)
In addition, the Microsoft iSCSI initiator has finally outgrown its initial bugs/problems (with our help in some cases), and is darn solid with plenty of different targets.
I'd love to drop a bunch of example company names, but I'm sure those companies consider that information to be competitive, and it's not my place to divulge it. Any large company you can think of already has an investment in FC-AL, and all but a very small percentage have iSCSI infrastructures as well. Medium-size and small (50 employees) companies are also seeing HUGE benefits from iSCSI their own implementations.
The 0-day acid test (which works amazingly well in our labs with the right HBAs) is SAN booting over iSCSI. Imagine having an nnn-Terabyte set of storage, from which ALL your servers boot EVERYTHING. Not a single magnetic disk is required in the servers themselves. Makes server clustering and blade/grid computing so very attainable
(As an engineer for a major storage vendor (FC/iSCSI/near-line IDE storage/archiving), I work with all of this stuff on a daily basis. Not saying I'm an expert, just that I kinda know what I'm spouting here...)
Seriously, if you're really IN Information Technology, and you don't suck at it... you don't really have time for a second job.
There's too much information to manage/learn/protect/recover/share/compile/report on/administer/etc....
(In deference to the truth, I was once *in* IT full-bore [1995-2003], and didn't have the bandwidth for a decent meal, much less a second job. Now that I'm only in a tertiary tech-support role in IT (with somewhat lower pay), I have several offline clients for whom I provide various architecture, administration, security, recovery and installation consulting services.
The trick, IMO, is to get good enough at being BURIED by a real IT job that, once you're not buried by it anymore, you can more easily branch out into working for yourself at the same time. The side cash is nice, and (again, if you don't suck), most customers will quickly pony up to my $115/hour rate for higher-level architecture/design work, not to mention my standard $75/hour troubleshooting/installation rate because they know they're getting at least that much value from the payments. Do that a few times a week, and you have instant play money for building up your *own* company!!)