No, you still can't build really big servers.
But you can slap 8 160GB drives in a box and drive them all at full speed, or just as close to full speed as SCSI controllers manage with 8 drives on a controller (PCI bus speeds being what they are).
I've been using 3Ware gear for a year and a half - they work. For any system that requires 8 drives or less, there really is no reason to pay SCSI prices.
If you were working for the government, they would pay you, not the other way around.
Technically, what you are, is an indentured servant. You are permitted to keep a portion of your "income", but the government gets first dibs, in exchange for basically no guarantees whatsoever. You can't even sue the government if they fail to provide a service you are supposedly being taxed for.
Can you boot off a vinum volume? Can you create vinum volumes during install and install onto them?
Can you boot without spending hours (or days) fsck'ing a large (400GB+) FFS volume, with or without softupdates?
If these things have been corrected, I may look at FreeBSD again for my server needs. I love FreeBSD for some things, but handling large amounts of disk is a problem.
This is so dumb it's unbelievable. What makes you think an International treaty on the Internet would only include spam?
It would certainly legislate adult materials.
It would try to impose DMCA-type restrictions on all published material anywhere in the world.
It would probably impose draconian (ie. UK-style) libel restrictions on all published material anywhere in the world.
It would probably explicitly permit any country that wants to get you to force your local government to help them out.
Fight spam yourself. Don't expect your government to help you, because they don't work for you, they work for their paymasters. And for pity's sake don't expect the UN, EU or world trade consortium to help you, because they don't want to help you, they want to control you.
Being in the arm would give us more chance of nearby supernovaes, but I doubt it would make for more asteroid impacts. These objects are not extra-solar, AFAIK.
You'd need to intercept it quite a ways out to only need to deflect it a bit. Well past the orbit of the moon, I would think. I don't think a rocket that can barely put payloads into geosync is going to manage that intercept.
Of course countries could never agree on what was appropriate even for kids. "I have two mommies" and similar books used in Canadian schools, for example, wouldn't go over too well with the Christian right in the US. And that's just comparing two countries with mostly identical value systems.
Why not just charge for the traffic? Geesh. All cable/DSL contracts I've seen say they'll charge for excess traffic, but they never do. Just charge a fair rate for it, and the problem will solve itself.
That sounds about right. I worked for an E-mail outsourcing company and our mail load would triple around Christmas.
The message volume didn't go up that much, but the average size per message went through the roof. Stupid animated elfs getting splatted, and reindeers and crap, and people mailing each other holiday pictures.
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No, they won't, because they're way too easy to firewall.
This fight is not over, not by a long shot.
I already bounce most E-mail from Exchange servers, since most of them are setup as open relays and are consequently on ordb or orbz.
Anyone else picturing the Civ:CTP Beef Vat?
http://www.3ware.com/
No, you still can't build really big servers.
But you can slap 8 160GB drives in a box and drive them all at full speed, or just as close to full speed as SCSI controllers manage with 8 drives on a controller (PCI bus speeds being what they are).
I've been using 3Ware gear for a year and a half - they work. For any system that requires 8 drives or less, there really is no reason to pay SCSI prices.
http://www.3ware.com/
Um, what's the difference between government pensions and government welfare? It all comes from the same taxpayer.
Save money.
Save admin time (and therefore number of admins)
Reduce vulnerability to viruses and worms.
Save money.
liability suit probably == jury trial
ie. the same sort of people who gave 12 mill to some bimbo for spilling hot coffee on herself.
I guess you've never been to a city Council meeting.
If you were working for the government, they would pay you, not the other way around.
Technically, what you are, is an indentured servant. You are permitted to keep a portion of your "income", but the government gets first dibs, in exchange for basically no guarantees whatsoever. You can't even sue the government if they fail to provide a service you are supposedly being taxed for.
Can you boot off a vinum volume? Can you create vinum volumes during install and install onto them?
Can you boot without spending hours (or days) fsck'ing a large (400GB+) FFS volume, with or without softupdates?
If these things have been corrected, I may look at FreeBSD again for my server needs. I love FreeBSD for some things, but handling large amounts of disk is a problem.
This is so dumb it's unbelievable. What makes you think an International treaty on the Internet would only include spam?
It would certainly legislate adult materials.
It would try to impose DMCA-type restrictions on all published material anywhere in the world.
It would probably impose draconian (ie. UK-style) libel restrictions on all published material anywhere in the world.
It would probably explicitly permit any country that wants to get you to force your local government to help them out.
Fight spam yourself. Don't expect your government to help you, because they don't work for you, they work for their paymasters. And for pity's sake don't expect the UN, EU or world trade consortium to help you, because they don't want to help you, they want to control you.
Do you need special training or a license to be a real terrorist? How many suicide bombers are NOT mentally unstable?
Although if you steal or kill somebody, they won't take your driver's license.
Oh, and smoking doesn't hurt anyone else.
The problem with petroleum is that the hard work has already been done by nature. We're just coasting on the free ride until we run out.
Being in the arm would give us more chance of nearby supernovaes, but I doubt it would make for more asteroid impacts. These objects are not extra-solar, AFAIK.
You'd need to intercept it quite a ways out to only need to deflect it a bit. Well past the orbit of the moon, I would think. I don't think a rocket that can barely put payloads into geosync is going to manage that intercept.
Corporations can use GPL'd software, just like anyone else. They just can't make a few changes, lock it up, and call it their own product.
Of course countries could never agree on what was appropriate even for kids. "I have two mommies" and similar books used in Canadian schools, for example, wouldn't go over too well with the Christian right in the US. And that's just comparing two countries with mostly identical value systems.
Why not just charge for the traffic? Geesh. All cable/DSL contracts I've seen say they'll charge for excess traffic, but they never do. Just charge a fair rate for it, and the problem will solve itself.
I wish I had mod points for this.
This is of course the reason the Constitution tightly limits the portions of our lives the Government is permitted to meddle in.
That sounds about right. I worked for an E-mail outsourcing company and our mail load would triple around Christmas.
The message volume didn't go up that much, but the average size per message went through the roof. Stupid animated elfs getting splatted, and reindeers and crap, and people mailing each other holiday pictures.
My mother started sending me all that crap. I told her to stop. Then she got all upset - she actually thought she was being helpful.
Her friends send this stuff back and forth all the time.
What a pain.
Only in the US. In the UK you can be sued for hurting someone's reputation, even if what you said is true.
hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -m 16 /dev/hda
add that to your rc.local startup file.