I can recall a 20% or better speed difference transferring files on LAN depending on whether I initiated the connection from the Linux or the Windows box.
Strange... What symptoms was yours giving? Mine looked ok, started up and everything, but OS installs (3 or 4 different *nix's and Win2KPro) all failed. Threw a memtest CD in and it spewed errors like mad, tried the RAM module in different slots, which changed the error pattern, but it still coughed up lots of them. On a whim we swapped RAM with another machine (was hoping I could get away with RMAing just the RAM module) and both machines passed memtest, curiouser and curiouser. Moved RAM back to their respective machines and sent the whole box back to the distributor. When it came back it was subjected to memtest first, passed, got Slack9.1 and ran for over almost 4 years until the power company coughed up a lung and that machine never restarted.
My roommate earlier tonight ordered a box with an ASUS board running a Phenom quad core, should be here next friday.
I've had to RMA exactly one Gigabyte motherboard. I'm running three of them right now (would be 4 but one didn't come back after a power failure). Two of them have a combined running time approaching 10 years, the third came online last April. A friend has at least 3 more, friend's dad has two that we built. The dead one was running Slackware and was rebooted 3 times in almost 4 years (thank you Consumer's Power).
LegalTorrents provides tracker *and* seed hosting. Go over to TPB and count how many torrents they have running with zero seeds. A donation of $10 via LegalTorrents will clear $8.50 to the artist, buying from the RIAA members gives how much to those that actually made the music?
15% is not a bad 'payment' for a seed that will be there as long as the torrent is available.
When I was a kid we didn't have any fancy little Lego kits (that cost an arm and leg). I had a box with about 5000 assorted parts and could build almost anything. Nowadays you get what? 25 - 50 parts, many of which have no purpose outside of their rather narrow "building the kit", and one or two kits will probably cost as much as my huge box did.
If you look at the Lego website, I seem to recall that you could buy lots of specific pieces/colors. Not sure how cost effective or if you can get anything like "1000 assorted".
The smart thing to do was what they did originally: default to legacy IE mode, and allow site developers to put a meta tag in to force standards mode.
No, the smart thing to do would have been to NOT fork off their own version of M$slHTML. And "allowing" site developers to put in a meta tag to indicate that the site is standards compliant, is NOT, in and of itself, standards compliant. Doing it that way merely shifts the burden from devs with legacy IE compliant pages to devs with standards compliant pages. There is no way to escape having some group of web devs or another getting an extra ton of work dropped on them.
I used to get books from SFBC a long while ago, but things have changed financially, so...
What you will want to do early on is have your profile set to NOT auto-ship the monthly selection. This way you won't ever have to worry about the selection card getting lost in the mail (in either direction) or simply being delayed.
With each monthly mailing you will get a list of available alternate selections, and quarterly or so they will send out larger catalogs. I certainly had no problem getting my 4 required during the next year, and usually got 2 or 3 per month.
Another option is to check out your local used book store. The one in my area has an affiliate program such that if they do not have a specific title I am looking for they can search other stores all over the country.
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Failures at build never see the customer. One would hope that hardware failing build has at least enough warranty to recover failed parts from supplier/manufacturer. If not, how can you provide any warranty to your customer?
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Failure at build is one thing. I have never had anything pass memtest and subsequently been passed on to the customer and *then* fail.
I have yet to have a customer offer a contract for a full ECC system, but I expect that type of customer to be ordering in the dozens or hundreds. For one machine or 100 I would still give 48 hours of memtest. For ECC I would still give 48 hours of memtest.
If you can recommend a better test, I am open to suggestions.
The main problem with performance now vs. performance later is the PointyHairedBoss giving me dollars now and wanting performance now. Only in very rare cases will you be able to sell dollars now for performance later.
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I run memtest for a minimum of 48 hours on any new system I build and have never had any problem with RAM that has passed that. This is the best I can do without the premium of paying for ECC capable motherboards and RAM.
A long time ago I worked for a telemarketer. The software that did the dialing had a button on screen to flag a number as "Do Not Call". The manager told me don't ever click that. I was fired soon after...
Creating a compilation CD and selling it is directly making money.
If a DJ has already paid royalties for public performance, then format shifting is not making money. His paycheck as DJ does not change due to what he sources his music from.
Entropia Universe uses Telia and I am sitting here in Michigan with an idle machine that I bought specifically to play that game. Not just Scandinavia "unhappy".
A) The majority of the "fee" goes to the performers/writers (at present the majority goes to the labels/RIAA and the people that actually MAKE the music get tossed a few pennies if anything).
B) No DRM, or cross-platform DRM. Of what is out there (allegedly) free, I often get left out if I can't play it, or it is in a format that hacks and sputters as it chews all of my CPU. My linux machine will play DVDs, but my windows machine (with more CPU) never was able to keep up. No DRM would be preferable, but if not, at least make it functional.
C) Host rate able to keep up with my connection. Constantly buffering while streaming is not cool. I don't care if it pushes 600k/sec, but if the stream wants 100k/sec at least be able to push that. If they can't push that much, then that is what P2P is made for. Don't want Pirate Bay? Run your own tracker/seeds. (Give better quality and they will flock to YOUR tracker as opposed to others.)
Nobody forces me to maintain my car, but I do it anyway to avoid things like losing a wheel at highway speeds. So we have a nuclear reactor (failure scales a wee bit above losing a wheel) with the government telling them to ignore maintenance requirements? Maybe they need another reactor (I wish I had a second car) but things capable of "spectacular" failure do not need to be pushed beyond safety regs...
Being able to take them home could work, if there were enough of them available, particularly in a business situation where it was staffed 24 hours a day, but with regular shift changes. Get a (folding) car and drive it home, drive in to work the next day when your shift starts, then the shift coming off gets a car and drives it home.
On a chat board someone posted pictures of a few hard drives that had "encountered" a couple of large caliber rifles. They had holes clean through the drives. I think it was a case of the hard drives being dead and the fun of playing with large caliber rifles more than a desire to "secure erase" data, but someone else commented "ain't no data coming off them drives".
I made a comment, while not as eloquent as the parent above, that a suprising amount of data would still be recoverable. This was greeted by various iterations of "ain't no data...", etc.
A couple of days later I got a message from the original poster. Apparently he had emailed the pictures to his son who was (vaguely) in "law enforcement data recovery" and his son had told him that I was right.
Now what lengths "they" would go to depends on what they thought was on there. Your pirated mp3 collection might be safe. If they were convinced that those drives had been used be Osama bin Laden you can bet that every bit that could be recovered, would be.
Regarding the "old MRI" machine suggested a few posts down... I seem to recall reading (not that my memory is all that great) that MRI machines are kept on a 'warm' standby. To completely power down or power up is not an instantaneous operation. They also weigh several tons and consume an enormous amount of power. It probably wouldn't work, certainly would not be "cost effective" to erase your mp3 collection, and the very fact that you went to such lengths to attempt to erase data would be enough convince them that you had something far more "valuable" to erase than mp3s.
And data can be recovered after fires if someone wants it bad enough. "Incinerate" probably equates to something along the lines of a smelting furnace or thermite.
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I can recall a 20% or better speed difference transferring files on LAN depending on whether I initiated the connection from the Linux or the Windows box.
And for a P2P protocol we used sneakernet. We had to take floppy disks and WALK to the host. Through 6 feet of snow. Uphill. Both ways!
With the fan acting erratic it could have also been the power supply, or if another board worked with that PSU then it was probably the board.
Strange... What symptoms was yours giving? Mine looked ok, started up and everything, but OS installs (3 or 4 different *nix's and Win2KPro) all failed. Threw a memtest CD in and it spewed errors like mad, tried the RAM module in different slots, which changed the error pattern, but it still coughed up lots of them. On a whim we swapped RAM with another machine (was hoping I could get away with RMAing just the RAM module) and both machines passed memtest, curiouser and curiouser. Moved RAM back to their respective machines and sent the whole box back to the distributor. When it came back it was subjected to memtest first, passed, got Slack9.1 and ran for over almost 4 years until the power company coughed up a lung and that machine never restarted.
My roommate earlier tonight ordered a box with an ASUS board running a Phenom quad core, should be here next friday.
I've had to RMA exactly one Gigabyte motherboard. I'm running three of them right now (would be 4 but one didn't come back after a power failure). Two of them have a combined running time approaching 10 years, the third came online last April. A friend has at least 3 more, friend's dad has two that we built. The dead one was running Slackware and was rebooted 3 times in almost 4 years (thank you Consumer's Power).
False advertising is a subset of fraud, that is, false advertinsing is fraud, but not all fraud is false advertising.
15% is not a bad 'payment' for a seed that will be there as long as the torrent is available.
If you look at the Lego website, I seem to recall that you could buy lots of specific pieces/colors. Not sure how cost effective or if you can get anything like "1000 assorted".
No, the smart thing to do would have been to NOT fork off their own version of M$slHTML. And "allowing" site developers to put in a meta tag to indicate that the site is standards compliant, is NOT, in and of itself, standards compliant. Doing it that way merely shifts the burden from devs with legacy IE compliant pages to devs with standards compliant pages. There is no way to escape having some group of web devs or another getting an extra ton of work dropped on them.
M$slHTML = Microsoft (somewhat like) HTML
I used to get books from SFBC a long while ago, but things have changed financially, so...
What you will want to do early on is have your profile set to NOT auto-ship the monthly selection. This way you won't ever have to worry about the selection card getting lost in the mail (in either direction) or simply being delayed.
With each monthly mailing you will get a list of available alternate selections, and quarterly or so they will send out larger catalogs. I certainly had no problem getting my 4 required during the next year, and usually got 2 or 3 per month.
Another option is to check out your local used book store. The one in my area has an affiliate program such that if they do not have a specific title I am looking for they can search other stores all over the country.
Failures at build never see the customer. One would hope that hardware failing build has at least enough warranty to recover failed parts from supplier/manufacturer. If not, how can you provide any warranty to your customer?
I have yet to have a customer offer a contract for a full ECC system, but I expect that type of customer to be ordering in the dozens or hundreds. For one machine or 100 I would still give 48 hours of memtest. For ECC I would still give 48 hours of memtest.
If you can recommend a better test, I am open to suggestions.
The main problem with performance now vs. performance later is the PointyHairedBoss giving me dollars now and wanting performance now. Only in very rare cases will you be able to sell dollars now for performance later.
I run memtest for a minimum of 48 hours on any new system I build and have never had any problem with RAM that has passed that. This is the best I can do without the premium of paying for ECC capable motherboards and RAM.
A long time ago I worked for a telemarketer. The software that did the dialing had a button on screen to flag a number as "Do Not Call". The manager told me don't ever click that. I was fired soon after...
If a DJ has already paid royalties for public performance, then format shifting is not making money. His paycheck as DJ does not change due to what he sources his music from.
"That's a nice house you've got there. Be a shame if you had to mortgage it it pay legal costs."
Entropia Universe uses Telia and I am sitting here in Michigan with an idle machine that I bought specifically to play that game. Not just Scandinavia "unhappy".
1) Offer unlimited service
2) Surreptitiously choke your customers
3) Deny
4) Nyah! Nyah! You can't stop us!
5) Profit...?
(6 has the potential to be quite entertaining.)
A) The majority of the "fee" goes to the performers/writers (at present the majority goes to the labels/RIAA and the people that actually MAKE the music get tossed a few pennies if anything).
B) No DRM, or cross-platform DRM. Of what is out there (allegedly) free, I often get left out if I can't play it, or it is in a format that hacks and sputters as it chews all of my CPU. My linux machine will play DVDs, but my windows machine (with more CPU) never was able to keep up. No DRM would be preferable, but if not, at least make it functional.
C) Host rate able to keep up with my connection. Constantly buffering while streaming is not cool. I don't care if it pushes 600k/sec, but if the stream wants 100k/sec at least be able to push that. If they can't push that much, then that is what P2P is made for. Don't want Pirate Bay? Run your own tracker/seeds. (Give better quality and they will flock to YOUR tracker as opposed to others.)
Network services was (probably) ingnored as "crying wolf".
Then over the course of one day all of the shiny paper comes off and then fingers are pointed at network services.
I have seen too many instances of one division ignoring another until a scapegoat is needed.
Nobody forces me to maintain my car, but I do it anyway to avoid things like losing a wheel at highway speeds. So we have a nuclear reactor (failure scales a wee bit above losing a wheel) with the government telling them to ignore maintenance requirements? Maybe they need another reactor (I wish I had a second car) but things capable of "spectacular" failure do not need to be pushed beyond safety regs...
So you're saying that only people that can afford high outgoing bandwidth should be considered as "legitimate" content distributors?
Being able to take them home could work, if there were enough of them available, particularly in a business situation where it was staffed 24 hours a day, but with regular shift changes. Get a (folding) car and drive it home, drive in to work the next day when your shift starts, then the shift coming off gets a car and drives it home.
I made a comment, while not as eloquent as the parent above, that a suprising amount of data would still be recoverable. This was greeted by various iterations of "ain't no data...", etc.
A couple of days later I got a message from the original poster. Apparently he had emailed the pictures to his son who was (vaguely) in "law enforcement data recovery" and his son had told him that I was right.
Now what lengths "they" would go to depends on what they thought was on there. Your pirated mp3 collection might be safe. If they were convinced that those drives had been used be Osama bin Laden you can bet that every bit that could be recovered, would be.
Regarding the "old MRI" machine suggested a few posts down... I seem to recall reading (not that my memory is all that great) that MRI machines are kept on a 'warm' standby. To completely power down or power up is not an instantaneous operation. They also weigh several tons and consume an enormous amount of power. It probably wouldn't work, certainly would not be "cost effective" to erase your mp3 collection, and the very fact that you went to such lengths to attempt to erase data would be enough convince them that you had something far more "valuable" to erase than mp3s.
And data can be recovered after fires if someone wants it bad enough. "Incinerate" probably equates to something along the lines of a smelting furnace or thermite.