Which CT scanner are we not going to get, in order to pay for all this? Or which MRI will we fail to pay for the last 25% of to pay for all this?
Because, you see, you've just spent your budget on hardware that will never likely be used that gets you no visible day-to-day advantage, except leaving you vulnerable to multiple simultaneous drive failures. (This is surprisingly likely: go read the Google paper on drive failure rates.)
Instead,, you use a second system with snapshot backups, possibly using a system like rsnapshot that supports hard-linked backups. This gives you on-line backup, fast bare-metal restoration, and easy access to yesterday's or last week's data. It also offloads the tape backups. And the mirrored drives can be used for off-loaded backup or mirroring, for creating off-site backup media of actual hard drives, not tapes.
True. But why use SAS? Given the recent reliability, larger size, and vastly lower expense, of 3.5" SATA drives, a decent 2 Terabyte server using 6x600 Gig drives in RAID5 with one hotswap drive fits easily in 2U and costs less than $3000. A similar capacity of SAS drives takes 4U, has 10% less disk space available, draws a lot more power, and typically costs at least $6000.
I know where I'd spend my money: I'd buy two of the SATA units and have a much more flexible system with redundancy.
You use another hard drive for backup: that's not difficult. For off-site or storage backup, you use another hard drive.
I use this approach at work, rather than spending colossal amounts of money on expensive tape libraries and backup software. It seems quite effective, although it does require a bit of thought to use effectively. (Don't back up live MySQL databases, write them to a backup file!)
You and several other respondents have invoked the idea of "actively" denying entrance. I didn't say that! Like Target's website does not serve the visually impaired, you simply don't serve people who aren't white. And if you think it hasn't happened, and still doesn't happen, you haven't watched a young black man try to get a cab or a late night meal in a crowded restaurant.
When that "complex mathematical formula" is used as the basis for preventing people from doing some unrelated activity, then yes, that use should be at least examined. Or do you think it's fair if a website to make a doctor's appointment requires Internet Explorer version 7, blocking Linux, MacOS, FireFox, and older Windows users from accessing it?
I've lived in racist enough places, and worked in sexist and racist enough industries, that such comments from the under-skilled, overpaid, privileged punks who benefited from the instituionalized racism. Such comments don't come from the skilled people in their fields: they come from the people who want to skate by on their "people skills".
The standards for "web accessibility" also help stabilize the web. Simple text web pages, or ones with well defined ALT tags, remain legible in newer and older browsers. They also make the content more easily searchable and editable by the authors. It's not as "flashy", a pun I choose deliberately. But it usually saves server resources, client resources, and bandwidth to keep the page content centric rather than focusing on the latest "Web 2.0" exciting graphical cuteness, even if the latter makes for more exciting demos when getting the work approved.
Slashdot itself is a very good example of this. The simple layout and content keeps the site focused on the material. The advertising is unobtrusive, and it's easy to get to the material you want even if you are using a truly antique browser, even a text-only one.
Goodness. Next thing you know, you'll have us being "separate but equal". When stores or institutions as large as Target violate the ADA or practice racist or sexist policies, it affects the whole neighborhood or the whole industry.
And yes, I wheel crippled people to restaurants and to doctor's appointments, I've taught blind and deaf relatives both practical matters and technical ones. Failure to make reasonable concessions to accessibility cuts them off from social, economic, and political opportunities. It's penny wise and pound foolish: a store as large as Target, which dominates the commerce in entire towns or neighborhoods, bears a legal and social responsibility to serve that entire community.
Or better yet, find a more popular PHPBB tool and send the authors a note saying "I did these useful things, do you want them?", and encourage them to merge in the features or make the customization easily available. This works very well for Webmin.
Not entirely, I think. The NSA has a long and infamous history of violating its federal mandates, for example monitoring US civilian communications which are the domain of the FBI.
Sure. If you want to have someone provide, put in, and remove the CD when they're done. That kind of service can be very expensive, in either a data center with lots of services and a real reluctance to touch customer hardware, or at home where you have to keep the CD around and remember where it is. And if the CD drive works (one of the most likely components to fail at home!)
Oh, I think you're mistaken. Vendor supported fast boot times are a big deal, and "all-in-one" boards are useful for educational markets or corporate markets where desktop systems wind up running as servers.
This is incredibly useful for hardware that's having installation problems, so you can boot one machine with the Linux and check the console messages on the other with the support staff on the phone, or probe your hardware or network from the Linux to see why your normal boot system isn't working.
And switch to LinuxBIOS or OpenBIOS, instead of that 5-minute boot time mandating collection of Phoenix and AMI hackery that is most modern BIOS's. Simply improving the boot time of low end and high end machines will save power and improve uptime noticeably, and make it one heck of a lot easier to tell the BIOS "do not use PXE boot in my secure environment".
There's nothing to investigate: send one check for a pirated version, trace the transaction, seize the bank records and assets. This is basic behavior for credit card fraud, so it's not like it's a new procedure.
No, the federal and local police usually can't be troubled to pursue such "minor" crimes. Sometimes it's for jurisdictional reasons: the local police want the FBI to do it, the FBI thiknks the Secret Service should do it, and the Secret Service thinks it's not worth their effort. I'm tired of it, too: I get pirate DVD salespeople harassing me in parking lots, and taking up useful booth space at swapfests and trunk sales, interfering with honest businesses selling real DVD's, used DVD's, or freeware DVD's.
Antenna designs are straightforward physical design patents, and have nothing to do with software or business method patents. Such off the cuff, mis-aimed ranting makes the rest of us who dislike software patents look foolish: please don't do it again.
Not for the company that comes up with the cure, or a vastly better treatment. The existing treatments are all tied down with numerous patents, as are the glucometers. The diabetes associations have a lot of older, powerful people with Type 2 diabetes who will take anyone caught doing that kind of obstruction and have their guts for garters.
And it's rather humorous that you've just recounted SCO's slanders about Pamela being a shill for IBM. Even when the Nasdaq is throwing them out, their fraudulent claims continue as ideas in the minds of people who've never looked deeper.
One of the primary reasons that Novell/SuSE were gaining market share was Samba. Guess what? Jeremy Allison, one of the core Samba authors, left Novell over what he sees as the illegal behavior of Novell in this deal. He now works for Google.
If Microsoft wanted to try to control Samba development, they may have done so. But I'd expect Google to run with the network storage work, now, with Jeremy in place.
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Which CT scanner are we not going to get, in order to pay for all this? Or which MRI will we fail to pay for the last 25% of to pay for all this?
Because, you see, you've just spent your budget on hardware that will never likely be used that gets you no visible day-to-day advantage, except leaving you vulnerable to multiple simultaneous drive failures. (This is surprisingly likely: go read the Google paper on drive failure rates.)
Instead,, you use a second system with snapshot backups, possibly using a system like rsnapshot that supports hard-linked backups. This gives you on-line backup, fast bare-metal restoration, and easy access to yesterday's or last week's data. It also offloads the tape backups. And the mirrored drives can be used for off-loaded backup or mirroring, for creating off-site backup media of actual hard drives, not tapes.
True. But why use SAS? Given the recent reliability, larger size, and vastly lower expense, of 3.5" SATA drives, a decent 2 Terabyte server using 6x600 Gig drives in RAID5 with one hotswap drive fits easily in 2U and costs less than $3000. A similar capacity of SAS drives takes 4U, has 10% less disk space available, draws a lot more power, and typically costs at least $6000.
I know where I'd spend my money: I'd buy two of the SATA units and have a much more flexible system with redundancy.
You use another hard drive for backup: that's not difficult. For off-site or storage backup, you use another hard drive.
I use this approach at work, rather than spending colossal amounts of money on expensive tape libraries and backup software. It seems quite effective, although it does require a bit of thought to use effectively. (Don't back up live MySQL databases, write them to a backup file!)
You and several other respondents have invoked the idea of "actively" denying entrance. I didn't say that! Like Target's website does not serve the visually impaired, you simply don't serve people who aren't white. And if you think it hasn't happened, and still doesn't happen, you haven't watched a young black man try to get a cab or a late night meal in a crowded restaurant.
When that "complex mathematical formula" is used as the basis for preventing people from doing some unrelated activity, then yes, that use should be at least examined. Or do you think it's fair if a website to make a doctor's appointment requires Internet Explorer version 7, blocking Linux, MacOS, FireFox, and older Windows users from accessing it?
What made you think I was kidding?
I've lived in racist enough places, and worked in sexist and racist enough industries, that such comments from the under-skilled, overpaid, privileged punks who benefited from the instituionalized racism. Such comments don't come from the skilled people in their fields: they come from the people who want to skate by on their "people skills".
Well written, sir or madam.
The standards for "web accessibility" also help stabilize the web. Simple text web pages, or ones with well defined ALT tags, remain legible in newer and older browsers. They also make the content more easily searchable and editable by the authors. It's not as "flashy", a pun I choose deliberately. But it usually saves server resources, client resources, and bandwidth to keep the page content centric rather than focusing on the latest "Web 2.0" exciting graphical cuteness, even if the latter makes for more exciting demos when getting the work approved.
Slashdot itself is a very good example of this. The simple layout and content keeps the site focused on the material. The advertising is unobtrusive, and it's easy to get to the material you want even if you are using a truly antique browser, even a text-only one.
Goodness. Next thing you know, you'll have us being "separate but equal". When stores or institutions as large as Target violate the ADA or practice racist or sexist policies, it affects the whole neighborhood or the whole industry.
And yes, I wheel crippled people to restaurants and to doctor's appointments, I've taught blind and deaf relatives both practical matters and technical ones. Failure to make reasonable concessions to accessibility cuts them off from social, economic, and political opportunities. It's penny wise and pound foolish: a store as large as Target, which dominates the commerce in entire towns or neighborhoods, bears a legal and social responsibility to serve that entire community.
I know. Let's open a white people only restaurant, and let people vote with their wallets whether they are willing to eat there.
Or better yet, find a more popular PHPBB tool and send the authors a note saying "I did these useful things, do you want them?", and encourage them to merge in the features or make the customization easily available. This works very well for Webmin.
It needs the crowd of mostly naked women and a small ugly bald man, running around chasing the star, and vice versa.
But it's still surprisingly funny.
Well, yes, but that one has prior art due to the old Quaker oatmeal can wrapped with tin foil.
Prior art and what is "obvious" are fascinating aspects of patent law.
Not entirely, I think. The NSA has a long and infamous history of violating its federal mandates, for example monitoring US civilian communications which are the domain of the FBI.
With his luck, she won't have change for a 20 and make him write 79 more attempts at a first post.
Sure. If you want to have someone provide, put in, and remove the CD when they're done. That kind of service can be very expensive, in either a data center with lots of services and a real reluctance to touch customer hardware, or at home where you have to keep the CD around and remember where it is. And if the CD drive works (one of the most likely components to fail at home!)
Oh, I think you're mistaken. Vendor supported fast boot times are a big deal, and "all-in-one" boards are useful for educational markets or corporate markets where desktop systems wind up running as servers.
This is incredibly useful for hardware that's having installation problems, so you can boot one machine with the Linux and check the console messages on the other with the support staff on the phone, or probe your hardware or network from the Linux to see why your normal boot system isn't working.
And switch to LinuxBIOS or OpenBIOS, instead of that 5-minute boot time mandating collection of Phoenix and AMI hackery that is most modern BIOS's. Simply improving the boot time of low end and high end machines will save power and improve uptime noticeably, and make it one heck of a lot easier to tell the BIOS "do not use PXE boot in my secure environment".
There's nothing to investigate: send one check for a pirated version, trace the transaction, seize the bank records and assets. This is basic behavior for credit card fraud, so it's not like it's a new procedure.
No, the federal and local police usually can't be troubled to pursue such "minor" crimes. Sometimes it's for jurisdictional reasons: the local police want the FBI to do it, the FBI thiknks the Secret Service should do it, and the Secret Service thinks it's not worth their effort. I'm tired of it, too: I get pirate DVD salespeople harassing me in parking lots, and taking up useful booth space at swapfests and trunk sales, interfering with honest businesses selling real DVD's, used DVD's, or freeware DVD's.
Antenna designs are straightforward physical design patents, and have nothing to do with software or business method patents. Such off the cuff, mis-aimed ranting makes the rest of us who dislike software patents look foolish: please don't do it again.
In the UK, they're apparently making DNA sampling mandatory, and organizing the police databases now to store it.
Not for the company that comes up with the cure, or a vastly better treatment. The existing treatments are all tied down with numerous patents, as are the glucometers. The diabetes associations have a lot of older, powerful people with Type 2 diabetes who will take anyone caught doing that kind of obstruction and have their guts for garters.
And it's rather humorous that you've just recounted SCO's slanders about Pamela being a shill for IBM. Even when the Nasdaq is throwing them out, their fraudulent claims continue as ideas in the minds of people who've never looked deeper.
One of the primary reasons that Novell/SuSE were gaining market share was Samba. Guess what? Jeremy Allison, one of the core Samba authors, left Novell over what he sees as the illegal behavior of Novell in this deal. He now works for Google.
If Microsoft wanted to try to control Samba development, they may have done so. But I'd expect Google to run with the network storage work, now, with Jeremy in place.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly. It makes a very big difference in court.