For me, at home, the problem was storage space. If it only holds 2 disks, why wouldn't I just drop them in my tower and share them out from my workstation?
But if they're moving what, 100s of GB or more a day, I'm thinking they might want more than 1.5TB of storage, which means more disks. Disks take up space AND power. I can't imagine getting much smaller than my mini-tower box with 9 disks in a RaidZ2 array + CD Rom for booting/installing/patching and one OS drive. 10 3.5 inch disks take up room...
Granted I built this with 750GB disks so only get about 4.5TB of available space according to Windows via CIFS fileshare, but hey.
At home, problems are noise and heat. At work? A server room would take care of this, but they might not have one, in which case, put it away from people's desks (it's not THAT loud, but noticable if right next to it).
On Windows you might want to try Find and Run robot. It searches your start menu (and other locations you specify) with find as you type... very fast and free(with some hassle in getting the code).
Except for reports of even SP1 of Vista not copying files as fast as XP (or Linux etc). And that in our testing, CPU spiked with the "classic" skin. Oh, and driver and software support for Vista 64 still not great, and I need RAM... I don't need the OS using it. Not to mention the costs of upgrading everything else to work with Vista (well, we're behind the times a lot at work, but it's working now, why break it with Vista?).
Mileage does vary. I used to always buy WD as they were far better than Maxtor for about the same price. Till I hit the 320GB sizes. NO WD I've had that is 320GB and up (and that's about 5 drives from different vendors over a 2 year period, so I have bad WD Karma now) has lasted a year without needing warranty replacement. Several took 2 replacements in the course of 6 months. Oh, and if you buy retail, WD is a 1 year warranty, OEM 3 year IME... Upside, WD is great about warranty returns.
I've switched to Seagate. It's what we use at work, and now I use it at home for all new drives. Upshot is 5 year warranty. Downside is advanced RMA costs me $20 rather than whatever I can get shipping for. Upshot is if you get a defective replacement, they then start paying shipping. I'm trying to stay away from slimline Seagates, I think they used to be Maxtors, and they are still crap. I'm hoping Seagate will have figured that out by the time I need another drive. It really only comes up when I try and buy smaller capacity drives than the higher range (200GB for instance).
I think it actually comes down to a number of things, but model counts as well. WD works well with the 2.5" laptop drives. Seagate's 3.5" half-height drives are awesome. WD 320GB and 500GB half height are crap, Seagate quarter height (slimline) seem to be Maxtor "quality". As usual YMMV.
While I haven't used Zabbix much, preferring the competitior Zenoss, I do see that even paid software for these tasks require a lot of work to get implemented in an environment. Why? Simply because no company has (without doing custom work for you) created a network monitoring system that: 1) talks to every possible server, switch, workstation and generic device you might want to monitor 2) talks to it in the way you want (maybe you want WMI rather than SNMP because MS SNMP sucks, or you want to use SSH because you don't want to open up SNMP to your network for security reasons) 3) displays the info how you want 3a) provides reports how you want
Even if there are plugins for every device in the method you need to communicate, they may not monitor what you want monitored (flat text logfiles on Windows for instance).
Do you know of software that is both easy to use, and easy to configure (or even how you'd create software like that) for this sort of network monitoring task?
No matter how GUI or scripty or easy an interface is, it isn't going to read your mind, and you're going to spend time configuring who gets what alert for what, how often you poll this device vs that device etc. The problem I see is you can make it dead simple, at the expense of what you can do (can you take a syslog sent to you and modify it's severity based on several other devices status? Not going to be simple to implement that).
The other thing I've noticed is that there's an intermediary area where you're right in using something easier to install and configure. But if you reach that by being a set of problem solving that is the same for everyone, eventually there does seem to be either an integrated to a larger system or oss solution that people start using (i.e. it becomes free as in beer somehow).
I'm thinking trumpet winsock eventually getting supplanted by Windows 95 built in networking (based on BSD stack?). Or the inroads of OpenOffice to MS Office for more and more uses. Firefox and IE forcing Opera to free (without ads) eventually.
Where am I going with this divergence into closed source software? Just that if your software is needed by enough people, and easy enough to do (smallish problem domain) you can't sell it either (it can be closed source). Look at AIM, Opera etc sold via ads. Well, the rise of Pidgin or Firefox sort of made them either much less used or made them drop ads. I imagine GMail really killed the Yahoo paid mail accounts. Thunderbird along with webmail pretty much made paid IMAP/pop3 clients go out of business (I certanily don't hear about people spending money on e-mail clients unless it's Outlook - which isn't really the same thing).
Then there's software like PuTTY - who is going to pay for a Windows terminal app now? Why? (IBM mainframe connections will, but for ssh?)
All that said, I'm not sure you and the GPP are disagreeing so much as using different terms: Software companies using OSS are going to be selling their programming time and expertise more than the software.
I was under the impression (from basically TV cop shows so not worth much) that they can't compel you to testify period. Otherwise, why would they go through the whole trying to get someone to testify in all those shows? Why not just compel testimony?
OT: Yet another reason not to play 4e. No I kid, but while "True Neutral" needed some distinction between unaligned and zen buddhist - it seems to me that Chaotic Neutral covers someone like TwoFace from Batman(though he was played evil, I have some doubts as to whether someone who flips a coin for every decision and goes by that is inherently evil) - though I suppose that could also be described as just plain crazy. And Lawful Neutral seems even more clearly important for someone who just follows the law as written. He's not trying to game the system (potentially lawful evil) and he's not interested in the "spirit of the law" or using the justics system to help people (potentially lawful good).
As I always used alignment as descriptive rather than proscriptive, I think more, not less, categories are good. Your definition of unaligned seems to be chaotic neutral to me. Unaligned I would think would be someone who for some reason doesn't have a moral or ethical or whatever code. Someone who never thinks about the construct. But I still would find the characters actions would define some morality. Maybe living entirely with "situational ethics" would get you unaligned, but I could also see that as neutral evil - out for number one and doing whatever works best in any situation.
I'm sorry, but Media Player Classic is a valid choice. VLC has some sort of bizarre interface that has no pause/play buttons or has a separate floating menu from the video screen (on windows anyway). Now, you may like that, but it certainly isn't like any other Windows app I've ever seen, and it drives me crazy. Maybe you can customize it, but MPC "works" out of the box like I work, why would I waste time customizing VLC? Hell, it's why I use Opera instead of firefox.
On the other hand, why would you block ads at the browser level still? There are much better techniques now, like a system wide http proxy. Guess what it works with all browsers on your system and doesn't require a plugin. Get with the times.
Ehh? I've been using proxomitron since... IDK, 2000? It's not exactly a new concept - the in browser ad blocking is the new concept, especially for the ease of use by giving a GUI for ad blocking...
Really? Opera did the things you explicitly mentioned when I started using it with v5.12 in 2001... I figured once Firefox 3 offered to save my tabs, it did the same thing. I really couldn't function without "Continue from last time"...
I don't believe that offering money or paying money makes the task all *about* the money. I think it has to be more of a spectrum, like just about everything else. If I was in a situation to live my life without money, I don't think I'd give up doing something - I'd get really bored. I'm lucky in that I like my job enough, I wouldn't just go off and do something else random, but likely would still enjoy doing what I do, even without pay.
I'm sure there's many people who would never go back to work and would instead take up different things to spend their time on. I think there are few who would just sit around doing nothing however. Even retired people I know get bored of watching TV all day, every day.
Back on point - there are people who are lucky enough to like what they do at work. Doing something enjoyable might well be something you'd do without the money.
For instance, my brother is an artist, but he hates making art now that he works for an ad agency doing it for money.
This is the example I think is too anecdotal to really tell us anything. I like playing around with Computers, setting up servers or configuring hardware and software to do new different things. I did this at home quite a lot, before getting a job doing system administration. Now I get to do it with more hardware and different software that I couldn't afford at home, and even better, I have real reasons to set up network monitoring software for instance, something that has been a lot of fun for me, but I wouldn't ever do it at home, as there's no reason to. I've gotten better at scripting for deployments at work, something I don't need to do at home.
But I still like to set up servers at home. I just got an OpenSolaris raidz2 NAS setup. Great for backing up my PCs at home. Not something I'd do at work however.
I know a mechanic who works on cars all day, every day at work, yet still loves to work on and build up his racecar.
I could go on, but not everyone decides to stop doing what they like, just because they got a job doing it.
I would argue that TNG was pretty weak till several seasons in. So was DS9 IMO, I certainly didn't get into it until the dominion war, I remember being bored to tears with most of season 1. And worse for Enterprise was Voyager never really getting good in many people's opinion.
But yes, the entire concept with Enterprise was pretty horrible from start til season 4.
Double Jeopardy means the same court cannot try you twice for the same crime (in general). But if you, say, murder someone in New York State on federal property, you can be charged and tried by each jurisdiction you fell under for the law you broke. So The fed can charge you for murder on federal property, NY can charge you for murder in the state, and I guess the county could also charge you, and the city for that matter. None of that is double jeopardy because you've actually broken several laws at once.
So I doubt that foreign trials will matter any more, it's just yet another jurisdiction who's law you broke, were tried in, and may have served a sentance for.
Note: IANAL, and before going into a new jurisdiction, make sure you're not wanted for any crimes there...
I think Total Uninstall will track all changes and show them, including registry changes between two scans it does. So you'd do a scan, do an install, scan again save that. Rinse and repeat... Not free, but $35 or so is cheap, and totally windows, though you do need to first install Total Uninstall...
You could try the Emco.is Remote Deployment Kit - they license down to 50 PCs, and at $145 for the full Enterprise edition for those 50PCs, it's pretty cheap really.
If he actually wants to snapshot installers, then he could try Total Uninstall? Or he could try Emco.is and their RDK which has worked decently for me.
If he actually just wants to snapshot a drive, then there's Seagate's tool that's a stripped down Acronis(free with a Seagate drive hooked up), or the full Acronis True Image(not free though)...
Wow. No, I don't think it's ok to do something because you *can* do something. I do think that it's not wrong to explore a little however... I don't mean wandering into people's houses, but you sound like wandering around a University is stupid and wrong... Browsing the stacks at a library is stupid and wrong. Only go where someone explicitly leads you... What a great life that must be.
Do you never just click around the Internet at random? Check out random links on Wikipedia? I'm not specifically talking about this incident, but it sounds like you think that users should never use Network Neighboorhood. And that you've never worked somewhere with public network shares for collaboration.
Finally, it really does sound like you're totally against the good samaritan. Extending your statements and everyone is silent all the time, no one ever says "Hey - did you really mean to do X". Because you don't know, because you didn't ever look outside you own little area that someone led you to.
I do understand privacy, but on a computer network, it's not obvious where you "should be" and "shouldn't be" without some outside clues. Generally speaking, if a system prompts for a password and it accepts mine, that usually implies I'm allowed or even expected to use it. The places I've worked almost never actually tell you all at once where everything is...
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For me, at home, the problem was storage space. If it only holds 2 disks, why wouldn't I just drop them in my tower and share them out from my workstation?
I want at least 6 disk and dual stripe parity...
But if they're moving what, 100s of GB or more a day, I'm thinking they might want more than 1.5TB of storage, which means more disks. Disks take up space AND power. I can't imagine getting much smaller than my mini-tower box with 9 disks in a RaidZ2 array + CD Rom for booting/installing/patching and one OS drive. 10 3.5 inch disks take up room...
Granted I built this with 750GB disks so only get about 4.5TB of available space according to Windows via CIFS fileshare, but hey.
At home, problems are noise and heat. At work? A server room would take care of this, but they might not have one, in which case, put it away from people's desks (it's not THAT loud, but noticable if right next to it).
Doesn't stuff like ZFS pretty much make that a moot point?
On Windows you might want to try Find and Run robot. It searches your start menu (and other locations you specify) with find as you type... very fast and free(with some hassle in getting the code).
Except for reports of even SP1 of Vista not copying files as fast as XP (or Linux etc). And that in our testing, CPU spiked with the "classic" skin. Oh, and driver and software support for Vista 64 still not great, and I need RAM... I don't need the OS using it. Not to mention the costs of upgrading everything else to work with Vista (well, we're behind the times a lot at work, but it's working now, why break it with Vista?).
Oh, come on. Dell doesn't support software - they tell you to reinstall from media/restore partition, and or replace the computer...
Mileage does vary. I used to always buy WD as they were far better than Maxtor for about the same price. Till I hit the 320GB sizes. NO WD I've had that is 320GB and up (and that's about 5 drives from different vendors over a 2 year period, so I have bad WD Karma now) has lasted a year without needing warranty replacement. Several took 2 replacements in the course of 6 months. Oh, and if you buy retail, WD is a 1 year warranty, OEM 3 year IME... Upside, WD is great about warranty returns.
I've switched to Seagate. It's what we use at work, and now I use it at home for all new drives. Upshot is 5 year warranty. Downside is advanced RMA costs me $20 rather than whatever I can get shipping for. Upshot is if you get a defective replacement, they then start paying shipping. I'm trying to stay away from slimline Seagates, I think they used to be Maxtors, and they are still crap. I'm hoping Seagate will have figured that out by the time I need another drive. It really only comes up when I try and buy smaller capacity drives than the higher range (200GB for instance).
I think it actually comes down to a number of things, but model counts as well. WD works well with the 2.5" laptop drives. Seagate's 3.5" half-height drives are awesome. WD 320GB and 500GB half height are crap, Seagate quarter height (slimline) seem to be Maxtor "quality". As usual YMMV.
While I haven't used Zabbix much, preferring the competitior Zenoss, I do see that even paid software for these tasks require a lot of work to get implemented in an environment. Why? Simply because no company has (without doing custom work for you) created a network monitoring system that:
1) talks to every possible server, switch, workstation and generic device you might want to monitor
2) talks to it in the way you want (maybe you want WMI rather than SNMP because MS SNMP sucks, or you want to use SSH because you don't want to open up SNMP to your network for security reasons)
3) displays the info how you want
3a) provides reports how you want
Even if there are plugins for every device in the method you need to communicate, they may not monitor what you want monitored (flat text logfiles on Windows for instance).
Do you know of software that is both easy to use, and easy to configure (or even how you'd create software like that) for this sort of network monitoring task?
No matter how GUI or scripty or easy an interface is, it isn't going to read your mind, and you're going to spend time configuring who gets what alert for what, how often you poll this device vs that device etc. The problem I see is you can make it dead simple, at the expense of what you can do (can you take a syslog sent to you and modify it's severity based on several other devices status? Not going to be simple to implement that).
The other thing I've noticed is that there's an intermediary area where you're right in using something easier to install and configure. But if you reach that by being a set of problem solving that is the same for everyone, eventually there does seem to be either an integrated to a larger system or oss solution that people start using (i.e. it becomes free as in beer somehow).
I'm thinking trumpet winsock eventually getting supplanted by Windows 95 built in networking (based on BSD stack?). Or the inroads of OpenOffice to MS Office for more and more uses. Firefox and IE forcing Opera to free (without ads) eventually.
Where am I going with this divergence into closed source software? Just that if your software is needed by enough people, and easy enough to do (smallish problem domain) you can't sell it either (it can be closed source). Look at AIM, Opera etc sold via ads. Well, the rise of Pidgin or Firefox sort of made them either much less used or made them drop ads. I imagine GMail really killed the Yahoo paid mail accounts. Thunderbird along with webmail pretty much made paid IMAP/pop3 clients go out of business (I certanily don't hear about people spending money on e-mail clients unless it's Outlook - which isn't really the same thing).
Then there's software like PuTTY - who is going to pay for a Windows terminal app now? Why? (IBM mainframe connections will, but for ssh?)
All that said, I'm not sure you and the GPP are disagreeing so much as using different terms:
Software companies using OSS are going to be selling their programming time and expertise more than the software.
I was under the impression (from basically TV cop shows so not worth much) that they can't compel you to testify period. Otherwise, why would they go through the whole trying to get someone to testify in all those shows? Why not just compel testimony?
OT: Yet another reason not to play 4e. No I kid, but while "True Neutral" needed some distinction between unaligned and zen buddhist - it seems to me that Chaotic Neutral covers someone like TwoFace from Batman(though he was played evil, I have some doubts as to whether someone who flips a coin for every decision and goes by that is inherently evil) - though I suppose that could also be described as just plain crazy. And Lawful Neutral seems even more clearly important for someone who just follows the law as written. He's not trying to game the system (potentially lawful evil) and he's not interested in the "spirit of the law" or using the justics system to help people (potentially lawful good).
As I always used alignment as descriptive rather than proscriptive, I think more, not less, categories are good. Your definition of unaligned seems to be chaotic neutral to me. Unaligned I would think would be someone who for some reason doesn't have a moral or ethical or whatever code. Someone who never thinks about the construct. But I still would find the characters actions would define some morality. Maybe living entirely with "situational ethics" would get you unaligned, but I could also see that as neutral evil - out for number one and doing whatever works best in any situation.
I'm sorry, but Media Player Classic is a valid choice. VLC has some sort of bizarre interface that has no pause/play buttons or has a separate floating menu from the video screen (on windows anyway). Now, you may like that, but it certainly isn't like any other Windows app I've ever seen, and it drives me crazy. Maybe you can customize it, but MPC "works" out of the box like I work, why would I waste time customizing VLC? Hell, it's why I use Opera instead of firefox.
I wonder, how is Dragonfly coming along for the Opera dev tools?
Maybe. I understand that if you pay for crossover, some ActiveX can work. I don't know about in just Wine.
On the other hand, why would you block ads at the browser level still? There are much better techniques now, like a system wide http proxy. Guess what it works with all browsers on your system and doesn't require a plugin. Get with the times.
Ehh? I've been using proxomitron since... IDK, 2000? It's not exactly a new concept - the in browser ad blocking is the new concept, especially for the ease of use by giving a GUI for ad blocking...
Really? Opera did the things you explicitly mentioned when I started using it with v5.12 in 2001... I figured once Firefox 3 offered to save my tabs, it did the same thing. I really couldn't function without "Continue from last time"...
Isn't that in firefox 3.x without an extension? It's in Opera too... Are there really browsers still in use that *don't* do that?
I don't believe that offering money or paying money makes the task all *about* the money. I think it has to be more of a spectrum, like just about everything else. If I was in a situation to live my life without money, I don't think I'd give up doing something - I'd get really bored. I'm lucky in that I like my job enough, I wouldn't just go off and do something else random, but likely would still enjoy doing what I do, even without pay.
I'm sure there's many people who would never go back to work and would instead take up different things to spend their time on. I think there are few who would just sit around doing nothing however. Even retired people I know get bored of watching TV all day, every day.
Back on point - there are people who are lucky enough to like what they do at work. Doing something enjoyable might well be something you'd do without the money.
For instance, my brother is an artist, but he hates making art now that he works for an ad agency doing it for money.
This is the example I think is too anecdotal to really tell us anything. I like playing around with Computers, setting up servers or configuring hardware and software to do new different things. I did this at home quite a lot, before getting a job doing system administration. Now I get to do it with more hardware and different software that I couldn't afford at home, and even better, I have real reasons to set up network monitoring software for instance, something that has been a lot of fun for me, but I wouldn't ever do it at home, as there's no reason to. I've gotten better at scripting for deployments at work, something I don't need to do at home.
But I still like to set up servers at home. I just got an OpenSolaris raidz2 NAS setup. Great for backing up my PCs at home. Not something I'd do at work however.
I know a mechanic who works on cars all day, every day at work, yet still loves to work on and build up his racecar.
I could go on, but not everyone decides to stop doing what they like, just because they got a job doing it.
I would argue that TNG was pretty weak till several seasons in. So was DS9 IMO, I certainly didn't get into it until the dominion war, I remember being bored to tears with most of season 1. And worse for Enterprise was Voyager never really getting good in many people's opinion.
But yes, the entire concept with Enterprise was pretty horrible from start til season 4.
Double Jeopardy means the same court cannot try you twice for the same crime (in general). But if you, say, murder someone in New York State on federal property, you can be charged and tried by each jurisdiction you fell under for the law you broke. So The fed can charge you for murder on federal property, NY can charge you for murder in the state, and I guess the county could also charge you, and the city for that matter. None of that is double jeopardy because you've actually broken several laws at once.
So I doubt that foreign trials will matter any more, it's just yet another jurisdiction who's law you broke, were tried in, and may have served a sentance for.
Note: IANAL, and before going into a new jurisdiction, make sure you're not wanted for any crimes there...
Not that I know of... Perhaps Filemon/Regmon from sysinternals? But not nearly as easy to understand as Total Uninstall is. . .
If you don't like my previous suggestion, you might try Cygwin? Then you do have grep...
I think Total Uninstall will track all changes and show them, including registry changes between two scans it does. So you'd do a scan, do an install, scan again save that. Rinse and repeat... Not free, but $35 or so is cheap, and totally windows, though you do need to first install Total Uninstall...
You could try the Emco.is Remote Deployment Kit - they license down to 50 PCs, and at $145 for the full Enterprise edition for those 50PCs, it's pretty cheap really.
If he actually wants to snapshot installers, then he could try Total Uninstall? Or he could try Emco.is and their RDK which has worked decently for me.
If he actually just wants to snapshot a drive, then there's Seagate's tool that's a stripped down Acronis(free with a Seagate drive hooked up), or the full Acronis True Image(not free though)...
Wow. No, I don't think it's ok to do something because you *can* do something. I do think that it's not wrong to explore a little however... I don't mean wandering into people's houses, but you sound like wandering around a University is stupid and wrong... Browsing the stacks at a library is stupid and wrong. Only go where someone explicitly leads you... What a great life that must be.
Do you never just click around the Internet at random? Check out random links on Wikipedia? I'm not specifically talking about this incident, but it sounds like you think that users should never use Network Neighboorhood. And that you've never worked somewhere with public network shares for collaboration.
Finally, it really does sound like you're totally against the good samaritan. Extending your statements and everyone is silent all the time, no one ever says "Hey - did you really mean to do X". Because you don't know, because you didn't ever look outside you own little area that someone led you to.
I do understand privacy, but on a computer network, it's not obvious where you "should be" and "shouldn't be" without some outside clues. Generally speaking, if a system prompts for a password and it accepts mine, that usually implies I'm allowed or even expected to use it. The places I've worked almost never actually tell you all at once where everything is...