didn't this happen to Big Brother the network monitoring tool
Sure, it doesn't always happen.. you didn't do it.
You could have though, right? In my department at work, we needed a Java coverage tool and I prefer open source. JCoverage was largely dead, so Mark (a co-worker) forked it. Now Cobertura has lots of involved folks and is growing well.
If your favorite open source project is dying, fork it, announce it on Freshmeat and see if you can get the community behind it. You don't have to do all the work, but you do have to get the ball rolling.
Unfortunately, all of these apply to any of the previous administrations that I can think of.
Insert "The Clinton Administration" in there if you want. It all remains valid. Or Reagan.
How is this flamebait moderators??
Please try to remember that "flamebait" doesn't mean something disagrees with your personal political viewpoint.
Anything from MS people would like to see open sourced?
The odds are slim to none, but since you asked...
If MS open sourced a "basic" version of Windows, they could easily achieve complete world OS dominance. The free version of linux rational would appear to evaporate and MS would continue to make a killing for years to come on their OS add-ons, office suite and development tools.
Just a thought... I personally prefer linux, but I can see it playing out that way.
Good solution but I've noticed that most setups with two small fans tend to be louder than I like.
In one of my boxes, I pulled both the 5 1/4 inch bay covers and put an 80mm fan on the front. It blows air into the case, directly over the hard drives. It's not that pretty, but it's effective.
I lost 3 large IDE hard drives in 6 months... I lost a 120, a 160 and 200 to disk failures in 2 different computers. I started paying more attention to the drives and I realized that ~all~ my drives were quite warm to the touch.
I added fans (80mm or larger) to either blow in the front of the case, over the hard drives, or I put the fan behind the drives to blow air over the drives. Forward or back doesn't seem to matter, but mount the fan perpendicular. This way one fan can move air over multiple drives.
I've not had another drive fail. It's been over a year and I've got nearly a TB at the house, so no failures is fairly significant (to me at least).
The other thing I've started doing in single drive systems is mounting the drive sideways on the back of the case. I run a screw through the air holes in the back of a mid-tower case. The hard drive covers the PCI slots, but I don't swap cards often, so that's ok. More importantly, the drive's heat can rise up the power supply (which has a fan sucking out the heat).
The original article might not impress everyone, but he's pointing out a huge problem with modern drives that not everyone realizes... it's a good post.
why doesn't this, or any new p2p, encrypt the data?
That might slow them down a bit by preventing network sniffing, but the Powers That Be would just dummy out clients to act like client software and get the same information. Unless you went private, they'd still be able to see what you were sharing.
Heck, that might be what they are doing now. It'd be faster than grep-ing through network logs...
Untested?? Ha! When's the last time you tried to build a kernel? I nearly always have to go hack on some code to get it to compile! Of course, I'm usually compiling for my laptop or my Opteron box, which aren't "standard" compiles, but still....
Think about the number of options in a kernel compile. No one even compiles every permutation, much less tests. Wasn't it Linus himself that said "If it compiles it's a good kernel.. if it boots, it's a great one"?
It's been a year, so I'll reference Pricewathc for costs. I honestly don't remember the details but the price was equivalent to a dual P4 at the time.
I got one of the Tyan motherboards and it's still selling for ~350, but you can get a dual Tyan motherboard now for ~250.
Two CPUs at $125 each (the "slow" 240s).
Two sticks of registered ECC ram, 1 gig each, at $110 each
80 gig harddrive w/8 meg cache (IDE) are $53 now.
That leaves a case and power supply. I'll ballpark that $75.
Although the Tyan board has onboard video, I put a dual head NVidia GeForce 5200FX on for about another $100.
So at today's prices, my rig would be $250 (mb) + 250 (cpus) + 220 (ram) + 53 (hd) + 75 (case) + 100 (video). That comes to $948.
I paid an extra few bucks to have them assemble it for me because the boards were brand new and I didn't want to have to mess with memory incompatibilities, but today you could build your own. I also scavenged a CD/DVD from another box and opted for no floppy drive.
As to the platform, I have been very pleased with the performance. I've run 32 bit XP, 32 bit RedHat, 32 bit Knoppix, 64 bit Knoppix, etc on it and had no problems at all.
I built a dual opteron w/2 gigs of ram complete (80 gig drive, video, case, etc) for $1,700 when the opterons were brand new (about a year ago). Much cheaper the Sun box... but then again, Sun's support is better.;)
Opteron boards can support 8 gigs per CPU. The singles support 8, duals support 16, quads 32.
This is the only way to get an affordable high ram board.
Sounds like for the poster's needs, he'd want to buy a dual and fill it with 2 gig memory sticks. After he's tinkered with 16 gigs of memory for a bit, he can decide if he needs more. The 2 gig dimms can be pulled over to his quad (or 8 way board) if he needs it.
I've got a dual processor system. They don't cost that much more than a single... you won't pay a premium for a new "dual core" box, but you'll still get all the advantages of a fast responsive system.
p.
In my opinion, dual cores are for businesses whose rack space is at a premium and gamers with spare money to burn.
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Sounds a lot better than getting sued for tens of thousands of dollars...
Sure, it doesn't always happen.. you didn't do it.
You could have though, right? In my department at work, we needed a Java coverage tool and I prefer open source. JCoverage was largely dead, so Mark (a co-worker) forked it. Now Cobertura has lots of involved folks and is growing well.
http://cobertura.sourceforge.net/faq.html
If your favorite open source project is dying, fork it, announce it on Freshmeat and see if you can get the community behind it. You don't have to do all the work, but you do have to get the ball rolling.
How is this flamebait moderators??
Please try to remember that "flamebait" doesn't mean something disagrees with your personal political viewpoint.
I'd bet that astronaut blogs would be very popular ~and~ cheap.
I don't know... this one looks decent (courtesy of PriceWatch)
http://www.xtremenotebooks.com/index.php?section=c atagory&include_type=14_inch
It's an AMD64-3700 w/a Radeon 9700
True... I was thinking more of emerging markets, were cost matters a great deal.
The odds are slim to none, but since you asked...
If MS open sourced a "basic" version of Windows, they could easily achieve complete world OS dominance. The free version of linux rational would appear to evaporate and MS would continue to make a killing for years to come on their OS add-ons, office suite and development tools.
Just a thought... I personally prefer linux, but I can see it playing out that way.
In one of my boxes, I pulled both the 5 1/4 inch bay covers and put an 80mm fan on the front. It blows air into the case, directly over the hard drives. It's not that pretty, but it's effective.
I lost 3 large IDE hard drives in 6 months... I lost a 120, a 160 and 200 to disk failures in 2 different computers. I started paying more attention to the drives and I realized that ~all~ my drives were quite warm to the touch.
I added fans (80mm or larger) to either blow in the front of the case, over the hard drives, or I put the fan behind the drives to blow air over the drives. Forward or back doesn't seem to matter, but mount the fan perpendicular. This way one fan can move air over multiple drives.
I've not had another drive fail. It's been over a year and I've got nearly a TB at the house, so no failures is fairly significant (to me at least).
The other thing I've started doing in single drive systems is mounting the drive sideways on the back of the case. I run a screw through the air holes in the back of a mid-tower case. The hard drive covers the PCI slots, but I don't swap cards often, so that's ok. More importantly, the drive's heat can rise up the power supply (which has a fan sucking out the heat).
The original article might not impress everyone, but he's pointing out a huge problem with modern drives that not everyone realizes... it's a good post.
http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/articles/zenph/ index.html
Ya think???
How would this affect taxes?
Darned if I know why it's not funny... I was trying to be funny when I wrote it! :)
Well... Duh!
I just assumed everyone ~knew~ we'd be using UDP between planets...
Sheesh... do I have to send a memo about ~everything???
That might slow them down a bit by preventing network sniffing, but the Powers That Be would just dummy out clients to act like client software and get the same information. Unless you went private, they'd still be able to see what you were sharing.
Heck, that might be what they are doing now. It'd be faster than grep-ing through network logs...
Untested?? Ha! When's the last time you tried to build a kernel? I nearly always have to go hack on some code to get it to compile! Of course, I'm usually compiling for my laptop or my Opteron box, which aren't "standard" compiles, but still....
Think about the number of options in a kernel compile. No one even compiles every permutation, much less tests. Wasn't it Linus himself that said "If it compiles it's a good kernel.. if it boots, it's a great one"?
A dual CPU w/32 gigs of ram... http://www.costcentral.com/proddetail/HP_ProLiant_ DL585/380125001/F85632/froogle/
How do I justify that one to the wife? "But think of all the money we'd save not having to buy a hard drive!"
Seriously, a few years ago at a bio-tech, building a ~huge~ database, we'd have done anything for something like this!
I got one of the Tyan motherboards and it's still selling for ~350, but you can get a dual Tyan motherboard now for ~250.
Two CPUs at $125 each (the "slow" 240s).
Two sticks of registered ECC ram, 1 gig each, at $110 each
80 gig harddrive w/8 meg cache (IDE) are $53 now.
That leaves a case and power supply. I'll ballpark that $75.
Although the Tyan board has onboard video, I put a dual head NVidia GeForce 5200FX on for about another $100.
So at today's prices, my rig would be $250 (mb) + 250 (cpus) + 220 (ram) + 53 (hd) + 75 (case) + 100 (video). That comes to $948.
I paid an extra few bucks to have them assemble it for me because the boards were brand new and I didn't want to have to mess with memory incompatibilities, but today you could build your own. I also scavenged a CD/DVD from another box and opted for no floppy drive.
As to the platform, I have been very pleased with the performance. I've run 32 bit XP, 32 bit RedHat, 32 bit Knoppix, 64 bit Knoppix, etc on it and had no problems at all.
I built a dual opteron w/2 gigs of ram complete (80 gig drive, video, case, etc) for $1,700 when the opterons were brand new (about a year ago). Much cheaper the Sun box... but then again, Sun's support is better. ;)
This is the only way to get an affordable high ram board.
Sounds like for the poster's needs, he'd want to buy a dual and fill it with 2 gig memory sticks. After he's tinkered with 16 gigs of memory for a bit, he can decide if he needs more. The 2 gig dimms can be pulled over to his quad (or 8 way board) if he needs it.
I've got a dual processor system. They don't cost that much more than a single... you won't pay a premium for a new "dual core" box, but you'll still get all the advantages of a fast responsive system. p. In my opinion, dual cores are for businesses whose rack space is at a premium and gamers with spare money to burn.
???
Have you looked at the BitTorrents or P2P networks lately?
The question is being asked millions of times a day. No one's had a good answer yet, but the question is being asked.
Does Nielson put boxes on people's computers (like they do w/TVs) to track where people go or are they using spyware?
I just replaced my Tivo with a Mtyh box. ;)
I thought that AMD is slated to ship their dual core chip first? Is this Intel rushing something to maket?