I have a copy of the original "red book" with hand-written notes on shape tables, etc. I also had a plethora of other sources of information - the Wozpack, Disk Doctor, early copies of call-apple and coutless others which were hard to come-by in the UK at the time.
Kids of today, get off my lawn, etc.
So what we have now are "appliances" and lawyers.
And as they say; If you can't open it, you don't own it.
A MiniITX Via 1GHz processor will run at about 15 watts, but if you want less, look for 500MHz AMD Geode boards (ALIX). 4 watts. The savings comes from not having an graphics hardware - it's rs232. They're fantastic little boards.
I used to live in Clackmannanshire - it's an area of Scotland that encompasses several small towns and villages. A bit of digging and I find that the town this store is in is: Clackmannan.
Now I wish I had a better spell chequer than a teacher shouting at me when I was growing up. (Dyslexia hadn't been invented back then) Trying to write Clackmannanshire as part of my address was bothersome!
Other local towns include Sauchie (Pronounced Sawki) Tullibody and Tillicoultry. The local big hill is Dumyat (Dum eye at)
You have a viable alternative - or rather about 130 of them, so get clued-up, ask BT retail for a MAC and migrate to another provider who can provide you with the service you want.
The BT Wholesale network is actually rather good. BT Retail is just one of 130 ISPs who use the BT wholesale network, and they're a particularly bad example.
It's vitally important to not confuse the two, and do not let BT tell you otherwise. I have BT copper to my home/office, I pay BT the minimum amount a month for this copper, but my Internet access is through the BT wholesale network, via another ISP, not BT.
Downloaded. Compiled. Installed and rebooted, and it's running on a little test "embedded" box I'm playing with. (Geode LX800) It's passed all my own tests, and that's that.
Like the new compression stuff. Compressed kernel under 1MB again - First time I've seen that for a while.
I was living/working in the US and one of our UK colleagues had brought a tape of Linux over - A Sun DC150 tape with SLS I think...
So I bought a PC - a DX4/66 and an Ethernet card (ne2K) 280MB drive and I think 32MB of RAM. Loaded the tape onto one of the sun servers we had, NFS exported the partition, wrote a boot floppy and I think 5 more root floppys, booted the PC and did the install, initially off the floppys then via NFS.
Half an hour later I had a PC running Linux, X and fvwm and it was more usable and faster than the X windows terminals I was using on the Suns we had.
Back in the UK some months later and I switched to what was then an embryonic Debian and the rest is history...
So the first thing I did with it was marvel at just how good it was! I had my own "unix" box. How cool was that?
Make sure you use a business ADSL with "up to" 830Kb/sec upstream, however...
You ought to still be able to get good old fashioned 2Mb E1 lines for a lot less than 10Mb fibre. (and I'm not talking about SDSL either - "proper" 2Mb leased lines). You may even be able to get a distance independent deal, so bring a 2Mb line back to corprat HQ from each remote site - sure, it's not "fast", but I guess 2Mb upstream would be much better than 400Kb upstream as far as backups are concerned. (Still keep the ADSL at each site for general Internet access though)
It's generally not a good idea to keep liquid Nitrogen in a closed system - it expands by something like 700 times when it goes from liquid to gas, so either you need to keep it cool - hard to do if it's sitting on a hot-plate, or make the pot extremely pressure proof... And then you still need to keep it cool. Best to just let it boil away and top it up...
Speed, er "safety" cameras are everywhere - but most of the time they're fixed, so there exists databases of "point of interest" to download into most GPSs. (Along with the speed the camera is set to). Even the mobile/temporary ones are usually at known locations, so they're included too. So anyone with a GPS who gets caught speeding deserves what they get...
We've also had average speed cameras for a while now too - number plate recognition (ANPR). I deal with these using cruise control, but it really irritates me when people decide "OMG, what speed have I been doing..." then slow down to a crawl 250 metres before the next camera...
And I'm sure that as the variable ones are video, they'll just get added to the total surveillance society we're sleepwalking into...
Don't forget to archive as well as backup. Sure, you can get last weeks data back, but can you get last years? The year before that? Archive your data as well as backing it up...
rsync to get the data, cp -al to keep snapshots. I've been using this for years to manage TB of data over relatively low-speed links. You'll take a hit first-time (so kick it off at night, kill it in the morning, and the next night just execute the same command and it'll eventually catch up, then cp -al it, then lather rinse, repeat.
This page: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ has been about for years. Use it!
I can see the No Skype on Cell-data restriction. VoIP is really very poorly suited for being carried over the wireless anyway, and the overhead is significantly more than just voice calls. Not to mention, voice on the cellphone network is pretty cheap already.
It's not about cheap, it's about convenience. I want a mobile data device that I can run data applications over... If one of those applications is VoIP then great. I actually want one device I can use anywhere for voice - I have the back-end to route calls to one number via VoIP, landline or mobile, so why do I have one phone at home, one in my office and one in my pocket? I just want one phone...
I'll 2nd the E90. I have one. I've had all Nokia's communicators over the past 10 (ish) years. The E90 can play music, has an FM radio, basic quality 3MP camera. Usable keyboard & screen on the inside, built-in GPS and maps (& Google maps is just a download away) You can get PuTTY for it, if that's your thing, use it as a GSM/GPRS/3G modem to your laptop. Don't leave home without it. (And a pocketfull of PAYG SIM cards for each country you visit!)
Just don't lose it... (or have it taken off you by the various licensed thieves round the globe )-:
There was a (UK) TV program on recently with a bloke who specialises in puddings (Sweet Baby James or something it's called and he makes the most fantastic easy to make puddings!!!) and he challenged a scientific chef and Mrs Farmhouse cook to bake a Victoria sponge cake... The boffin at HQ went to great lengths about how important it was to measure the ingredients and combine them in such a way and timed the cooking to the second... Mrs. Farmhouse woman just put in some of this and enough of that and beat it up with a hand whisk until it looked OK then baked it "until it's done".
Then they took the cakes to the cake buyer/tester in Harrods. Guess which one tasted and looked the best? The Mrs. Farmhouse one, of-course!
There's also a series on right now hosted by some scientific cook bod - it's quite entertaining, (especially when he deep fried a whole chicken in the last series - left it in a second too long and it caught fire) but I can't help thinking his name ought to be a "new millenium" substitute for "Gordon Bennett"... It's "Heston Blumenthal".
I'm with O2, fortunately out of my mandatory lock-in period. I'm not interested in an iPhone, but as soon as I can get my grubby paws on a Nokia E90, I'm jumping ship - probably to T-Mobile. Why? O2's GPRS data charges are extortionate.
You get 100KB for free a month. Last month I had to use my phone for data and I managed to suck down 14441KB. They charged me £27.97 for the privilege. That sucks. ~30 quid for 15MB. I pay less than that for my broadband connection a month and that's capped at 40GB a month.
The promo was/is good and I was about to sign up to Google Checkout to accept smallish payments on a system I'm working on, but was really put off by the fact that Google insist on the person making the payment sign up to a Google account. PayPal dropped this a long time ago, and much as I dislike PayPal, at least now you have the choice to letting your clients make their own decision to signing up to PayPal, or not.
Once Google removes this restriction, I'll probably use them to accept small payments rather than use PayPal.
It was registerd last week by "S Consulting"... So we may never see it, or they might graciously provide a redirect...
I've registerd 2.eu's so-far. One for my own domain (because I could) and one for a friend when all the other options had been taken (.me.uk,.co.uk,.org, etc.)
Took delivery at ork of 3 Dell small business PC things - They all had Firefox pre-installed which surprised me. It was an older version, but even so quite nice to see for a change.
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I have a copy of the original "red book" with hand-written notes on shape tables, etc. I also had a plethora of other sources of information - the Wozpack, Disk Doctor, early copies of call-apple and coutless others which were hard to come-by in the UK at the time.
Kids of today, get off my lawn, etc.
So what we have now are "appliances" and lawyers.
And as they say; If you can't open it, you don't own it.
A MiniITX Via 1GHz processor will run at about 15 watts, but if you want less, look for 500MHz AMD Geode boards (ALIX). 4 watts. The savings comes from not having an graphics hardware - it's rs232. They're fantastic little boards.
Now I wish I had a better spell chequer than a teacher shouting at me when I was growing up.
I have to ask - was that intentional?
Sadly, yes. See: http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/SpellingChequer.html
Now I wish I had a better spell chequer than a teacher shouting at me when I was growing up. (Dyslexia hadn't been invented back then) Trying to write Clackmannanshire as part of my address was bothersome!
Other local towns include Sauchie (Pronounced Sawki) Tullibody and Tillicoultry. The local big hill is Dumyat (Dum eye at)
I want my cheaper words!!!
The BT Wholesale network is actually rather good. BT Retail is just one of 130 ISPs who use the BT wholesale network, and they're a particularly bad example.
It's vitally important to not confuse the two, and do not let BT tell you otherwise. I have BT copper to my home/office, I pay BT the minimum amount a month for this copper, but my Internet access is through the BT wholesale network, via another ISP, not BT.
Like the new compression stuff. Compressed kernel under 1MB again - First time I've seen that for a while.
Now to try it on my Acer Aspire One...
So I bought a PC - a DX4/66 and an Ethernet card (ne2K) 280MB drive and I think 32MB of RAM. Loaded the tape onto one of the sun servers we had, NFS exported the partition, wrote a boot floppy and I think 5 more root floppys, booted the PC and did the install, initially off the floppys then via NFS.
Half an hour later I had a PC running Linux, X and fvwm and it was more usable and faster than the X windows terminals I was using on the Suns we had.
Back in the UK some months later and I switched to what was then an embryonic Debian and the rest is history...
So the first thing I did with it was marvel at just how good it was! I had my own "unix" box. How cool was that?
Nagios not been mentioned yet? That gives me the overall picture, but MRTG for the individual server stuff.
I can't work out how many servers the OP has.. Is it 5 or 10? I know exactly how many servers I have in a remote data centre!
Make sure you use a business ADSL with "up to" 830Kb/sec upstream, however ...
You ought to still be able to get good old fashioned 2Mb E1 lines for a lot less than 10Mb fibre. (and I'm not talking about SDSL either - "proper" 2Mb leased lines). You may even be able to get a distance independent deal, so bring a 2Mb line back to corprat HQ from each remote site - sure, it's not "fast", but I guess 2Mb upstream would be much better than 400Kb upstream as far as backups are concerned. (Still keep the ADSL at each site for general Internet access though)
It's generally not a good idea to keep liquid Nitrogen in a closed system - it expands by something like 700 times when it goes from liquid to gas, so either you need to keep it cool - hard to do if it's sitting on a hot-plate, or make the pot extremely pressure proof... And then you still need to keep it cool. Best to just let it boil away and top it up...
Speed, er "safety" cameras are everywhere - but most of the time they're fixed, so there exists databases of "point of interest" to download into most GPSs. (Along with the speed the camera is set to). Even the mobile/temporary ones are usually at known locations, so they're included too. So anyone with a GPS who gets caught speeding deserves what they get... We've also had average speed cameras for a while now too - number plate recognition (ANPR). I deal with these using cruise control, but it really irritates me when people decide "OMG, what speed have I been doing..." then slow down to a crawl 250 metres before the next camera... And I'm sure that as the variable ones are video, they'll just get added to the total surveillance society we're sleepwalking into...
My wife's Merc (Ok, it's a Smart for 4) regularly gets over 50 to the gallon (petrol)
Diesel cars here (UK) can get over 60 to the gallon.
Why is 38 in a diesel considered special?
Don't forget to archive as well as backup. Sure, you can get last weeks data back, but can you get last years? The year before that? Archive your data as well as backing it up...
rsync to get the data, cp -al to keep snapshots. I've been using this for years to manage TB of data over relatively low-speed links. You'll take a hit first-time (so kick it off at night, kill it in the morning, and the next night just execute the same command and it'll eventually catch up, then cp -al it, then lather rinse, repeat. This page: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ has been about for years. Use it!
I've got a PAYG SIM for my Nokia E90 which is much more use to me than an iPhone... And once my O2 contract runs out then who knows...
However Nokias SIP software is still somewhat problematic... Maybe in the next firmware release.
It's not about cheap, it's about convenience. I want a mobile data device that I can run data applications over... If one of those applications is VoIP then great. I actually want one device I can use anywhere for voice - I have the back-end to route calls to one number via VoIP, landline or mobile, so why do I have one phone at home, one in my office and one in my pocket? I just want one phone...
I'll 2nd the E90. I have one. I've had all Nokia's communicators over the past 10 (ish) years. The E90 can play music, has an FM radio, basic quality 3MP camera. Usable keyboard & screen on the inside, built-in GPS and maps (& Google maps is just a download away) You can get PuTTY for it, if that's your thing, use it as a GSM/GPRS/3G modem to your laptop. Don't leave home without it. (And a pocketfull of PAYG SIM cards for each country you visit!)
Just don't lose it... (or have it taken off you by the various licensed thieves round the globe )-:
One thing: Er, The Thing
We're doomed...
There was a (UK) TV program on recently with a bloke who specialises in puddings (Sweet Baby James or something it's called and he makes the most fantastic easy to make puddings!!!) and he challenged a scientific chef and Mrs Farmhouse cook to bake a Victoria sponge cake... The boffin at HQ went to great lengths about how important it was to measure the ingredients and combine them in such a way and timed the cooking to the second... Mrs. Farmhouse woman just put in some of this and enough of that and beat it up with a hand whisk until it looked OK then baked it "until it's done".
Then they took the cakes to the cake buyer/tester in Harrods. Guess which one tasted and looked the best? The Mrs. Farmhouse one, of-course!
There's also a series on right now hosted by some scientific cook bod - it's quite entertaining, (especially when he deep fried a whole chicken in the last series - left it in a second too long and it caught fire) but I can't help thinking his name ought to be a "new millenium" substitute for "Gordon Bennett"... It's "Heston Blumenthal".
I'm with O2, fortunately out of my mandatory lock-in period. I'm not interested in an iPhone, but as soon as I can get my grubby paws on a Nokia E90, I'm jumping ship - probably to T-Mobile. Why? O2's GPRS data charges are extortionate.
You get 100KB for free a month. Last month I had to use my phone for data and I managed to suck down 14441KB. They charged me £27.97 for the privilege. That sucks. ~30 quid for 15MB. I pay less than that for my broadband connection a month and that's capped at 40GB a month.
Mobile data in the UK is rubbish.
/DM
Once Google removes this restriction, I'll probably use them to accept small payments rather than use PayPal.
/DM/
http://www.drobo.com/ Looks interesting. /DM
It was registerd last week by "S Consulting" ... So we may never see it, or they might graciously provide a redirect...
I've registerd 2 .eu's so-far. One for my own domain (because I could) and one for a friend when all the other options had been taken (.me.uk, .co.uk, .org, etc.)
Took delivery at ork of 3 Dell small business PC things - They all had Firefox pre-installed which surprised me. It was an older version, but even so quite nice to see for a change.
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