I have said it before and I'll say it again (as many people don't seem to know this): Sending large files by e-mail is a bad idea because the mime-encoding adds 30% overhead. Your 20MB get blown up to 26MB in the process. On the other hand, any MTA that doesn't refuse to deliver oversized mails probably deserves the bill (at least once)...
Funny you mention escalade. I just got myself the cheap 2-disk escalade for the home-box. Nice to know it does even a little bit more than just saving some cpu cycles over softraid (why I bought it).
You don't have to convince me. I was the guy recommending SCSI, right? In fact without reliable power (redundant PSU + UPS) the drives (IDE as well as SCSI) can crap out just anytime - sync'd or not. Ofcourse you can get battery-backed IDE-controllers. But are you really going to spend that kind of money and then run the drives with disabled write-cache?
I think when an IDE disk loses power during write there's little any software can guarantee (the journaling fs experts are welcome to correct me, though). SCSI-disks and a battery backed controller should be minimum for any DB-server, unless you have very good UPS + redundant PSU.
You also realize that if you uninstall a package in Gentoo, it doesn't check for whether that will break other packages' dependencies, right?
Really now? I've been planning to give gentoo a shot but if that's true I can as well screw it and go the old slack route. Dependency-tracking seems pretty worthless when it doesn't work in both directions.
When uninstalling software it's either something I compiled myself (so I know where the stuff and the deps live) or something that the system installed for me (from binary-pkg or on-the-fly compiled).
In the latter case I expect the system to be able to remove such pkgs smoothly without me having to worry about breaking other stuff.
I'd rather like to see some sort of browser plugin (right click on textarea, "encrypt for...").
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Well, having a stable target for patches and extensions can be a nice thing, too. And if you're dealing with mailing lists (from the admin side) you definately wanna take a look at ezmlm.
I haven't tried postfix in a while but I guess the old rule of thumb (for small sites use whatever, if you need it big stick with qmail) still applies?
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Well, look on any other forum and you'll see people whine about the noise, too...
Maybe someone reading both slashdot.jp and here picks this up.
That would be the perfect workstation for my PHB!
Just lock away the keyboard somewhere and don't tell him where...
Look here.
If it was, IBM would have certainly had a few things to say about it.
They probably have but SCO intimidated them so they shut up.
or someone in Redmond would have gotten a VERY unpleasent letter and a flaming pile of dog poo from me
Maybe if a few (more?) people would actually do just that (the latter)...
I, for my part, am definately considering the purchase of a dog now.
I have said it before and I'll say it again (as many people don't seem to know this): Sending large files by e-mail is a bad idea because the mime-encoding adds 30% overhead. Your 20MB get blown up to 26MB in the process.
On the other hand, any MTA that doesn't refuse to deliver oversized mails probably deserves the bill (at least once)...
Now that's one bad excuse. This time.
You can put whatever security you want on your server.
Before or after I gave them write-access? *scratch*
Yes, I've seen a simplified design.
[ 3 or 7 or 9 or 6 or 0] [ 5 or 1 or 2 or 0 or 8 or 4 ] [ I'm feeling lucky! ]
Funny you mention escalade.
I just got myself the cheap 2-disk escalade for the home-box.
Nice to know it does even a little bit more than just saving some cpu cycles over softraid (why I bought it).
You don't have to convince me. I was the guy recommending SCSI, right?
In fact without reliable power (redundant PSU + UPS) the drives (IDE as well as SCSI) can crap out just anytime - sync'd or not.
Ofcourse you can get battery-backed IDE-controllers. But are you really going to spend that kind of money and then run the drives with disabled write-cache?
for example, each chaingun bullet was a separate UDP packet.
So with proper iptables settings I could filter or rewrite the individual bullets? Neat.
There's mng. But I think no browser supports it.
I think when an IDE disk loses power during write there's little any software can guarantee
(the journaling fs experts are welcome to correct me, though).
SCSI-disks and a battery backed controller should be minimum for any DB-server, unless you have very good UPS + redundant PSU.
Windows *is* designed to access the internet, handle email etc.
Oh? I'm more under the impression that windows was designed to be accessed by the internet...
Yes something like that. But pre-made in a box and with a reasonable pricetag, please.
More like a siege.
You also realize that if you uninstall a package in Gentoo, it doesn't check for whether that will break other packages' dependencies, right?
Really now?
I've been planning to give gentoo a shot but if that's true I can as well screw it and go the old slack route. Dependency-tracking seems pretty worthless when it doesn't work in both directions.
When uninstalling software it's either something I compiled myself (so I know where the stuff and the deps live) or something that the system installed for me (from binary-pkg or on-the-fly compiled).
In the latter case I expect the system to be able to remove such pkgs smoothly without me having to worry about breaking other stuff.
Don't forget naim. It's great for us console junkies!
There are technically perfectly good choices: H.323 [...]
*cough*
Please think again.
Well, just in case there is a junior janitor trainee position. Could anyone please point me to the application form?
So you'd trust them to store your private key?
I'd rather like to see some sort of browser plugin (right click on textarea, "encrypt for...").
Well, having a stable target for patches and extensions can be a nice thing, too.
And if you're dealing with mailing lists (from the admin side) you definately wanna take a look at ezmlm.
I haven't tried postfix in a while but I guess the old rule of thumb (for small sites use whatever, if you need it big stick with qmail) still applies?
What happened to e-mail ettiquete??
Well, hopefully at least one of the MX-servers on the mails route to your inbox enforces it and simply drops the big package.
Large attachments are a very bad idea since MIME-encoding adds 33% overhead.
Use other protocols to transfer large files!