Yeah, and almost as unjust would be a group of racketeers in one country suing a business in another country for a legal business practice in the companies country...
You've already chosen Big, I'd recommend making your other choice Option 3. As a couple of other people have said call EMC, Hitachi or IBM and price a SAN. After you've got your hardware, drop a copy of Veritas VxFS/VxVM on your server(s). The first time you'll find out about a hard disk failure is when the wrench monkey from whichever hardware vendor you decide on shows up to replace the disk because the box called for help and Veritas makes FS/Volume management so easy even a paper MCSE can puzzle it out.
Well, if it supports int13, you could use it to boot from iscsi. $500 network card compared to $1000+ fabric board that requires a seperate fabric/copper infrastructure... Don't know that it's a way I'd want to go with a server, but I can see some people thinking it's a Good Thing (tm)
If it's simple and a friend it's usually a six-pack of Guiness. If it's a repeat offender and a friend, then I charge them whatever the going rate for Ghost and a hard drive is at Frye's and make an image when I'm done. Subsequent visits are back to Guiness.
If it's a business, I usually barter with them. If they don't want to barter, it's $50/hour plus parts.
Hmmm, one of the supporters for California Prop. 71 ($3BN state funded stem cell research) was Schwarzenegger... You know, the Republican governor out here? If you're going to troll, at least try to do it intelligently.
If it makes you feel better, consider that the game is free and they're charging you $50 for the first month of access. Additional months drop to $15 if you want to keep playing.
First: It's amazing how many people haven't got a CLUE. "Don't give it to them or get another vender" isn't an option. When you're running a 24x7x365 system and expect sub 1 hour response time from your venders (our customers do) you're going to have to give some.
All of the boxes we hook up have phone lines into them. If security is an issue on dial-in access, we set it up as follows:
Modem is enabled dial-out only, no dial in access.
If the box dials home, we contact the administrator, identify who we are and which box has troubles and have them enable access to the server/hardware and reset the root password temporarily on the box. This occurs only if it's something we haven't already configured to work with sudo.
We then keep logs of the entire session, then email it to the customer when we're done.
When we're done, we have them reset the root password and disable dial-in on the modem again.
If we require access to a network resource from the machine, we're onsite with the customer shoulder surfing.
We do this at secure military sites, financial institutions, etc. and have yet to have an issue in 20 years.
I'm guessing you don't fly much, do you? Three guesses what's sheppherding those giant chunks of steel and aluminum through the sky for 95% of the flight.
When I was working front line tech support for a backup software vender, I had a customer explain to me that his system was infected with a virus during the OS load from a CD he received from DEC. Dunno if that was true or he was an idiot (ok, after him explaining how the system crashed I knew he was an idiot).
This would be the same "general public" that uses Gator to store their passwords and really believe that someone they know would suddenly send them a poorly formatted email message with an executable attachment of a naked Anna Kournakova? Where's the "in other news, the sky is blue and water is wet" post?
I haven't been keeping up on the Canadian team, have they even attempted a live fire testing of this launch platform? For some reason, I keep hearing the looney tunes theme and picturing Wiley Coyote whenever I think about this. Whoever the person/people are they plan on sending, your families have my condolences.
The local fox affiliate has been doing this for a couple of years. Find the code, enter at the site, win cool prizes... Hmmm, a fight between the Evil Empire and Fair and Balanced Reporting... I think I need some popcorn
They've been doing this for a while and fighting them in a competition called robo-one. www.sozbots.com is supposed to be selling the Kondo kits by this weekend. You can get info on building one from scratch using servos, stamp boards, etc. at http://forums.delphiforums.com/RoboOne/start
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It's the "Whitney Houston / Bobby Brown" syndrome. They keep thinking if they come back one more time, they won't get slapped silly.
These are also the same people who forgot to standardize between metric and U.S. measurements for a Mars probe http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,31631, 00.html and installed an accelerometer backwards in the Genesis probe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(spacecraft). Smart people make simple mistakes all of the time. Is that the case here? Probably not, but it is always worth taking a second look.
Consider a 6-month paid monitoring service from a major credit reporting bureau.
With how often it's happening, it may already be paid for for him.
Yeah, and almost as unjust would be a group of racketeers in one country suing a business in another country for a legal business practice in the companies country...
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Oh, wait...
The three choices are:
1) Big
2) Cheap
3) Easy
You've already chosen Big, I'd recommend making your other choice Option 3. As a couple of other people have said call EMC, Hitachi or IBM and price a SAN. After you've got your hardware, drop a copy of Veritas VxFS/VxVM on your server(s). The first time you'll find out about a hard disk failure is when the wrench monkey from whichever hardware vendor you decide on shows up to replace the disk because the box called for help and Veritas makes FS/Volume management so easy even a paper MCSE can puzzle it out.
Following their line of logic, the people of the world have given them enough money all movies from here on out will be shown free of charge...?
Yeah, didn't think so either.
Well, if it supports int13, you could use it to boot from iscsi. $500 network card compared to $1000+ fabric board that requires a seperate fabric/copper infrastructure... Don't know that it's a way I'd want to go with a server, but I can see some people thinking it's a Good Thing (tm)
You mean first amendment (free speech), I assume, since the fourth covers illegal search and seizure.
If it's simple and a friend it's usually a six-pack of Guiness. If it's a repeat offender and a friend, then I charge them whatever the going rate for Ghost and a hard drive is at Frye's and make an image when I'm done. Subsequent visits are back to Guiness.
If it's a business, I usually barter with them. If they don't want to barter, it's $50/hour plus parts.
Hmmm, one of the supporters for California Prop. 71 ($3BN state funded stem cell research) was Schwarzenegger... You know, the Republican governor out here?
If you're going to troll, at least try to do it intelligently.
If it makes you feel better, consider that the game is free and they're charging you $50 for the first month of access. Additional months drop to $15 if you want to keep playing.
From the vender side.
First: It's amazing how many people haven't got a CLUE. "Don't give it to them or get another vender" isn't an option. When you're running a 24x7x365 system and expect sub 1 hour response time from your venders (our customers do) you're going to have to give some.
All of the boxes we hook up have phone lines into them. If security is an issue on dial-in access, we set it up as follows:
Modem is enabled dial-out only, no dial in access.
If the box dials home, we contact the administrator, identify who we are and which box has troubles and have them enable access to the server/hardware and reset the root password temporarily on the box. This occurs only if it's something we haven't already configured to work with sudo.
We then keep logs of the entire session, then email it to the customer when we're done.
When we're done, we have them reset the root password and disable dial-in on the modem again.
If we require access to a network resource from the machine, we're onsite with the customer shoulder surfing.
We do this at secure military sites, financial institutions, etc. and have yet to have an issue in 20 years.
I'm guessing you don't fly much, do you? Three guesses what's sheppherding those giant chunks of steel and aluminum through the sky for 95% of the flight.
Now just wait until some idiot puts that engine into his Honda.
Won't happen until they can come out with a "fart can" for the exhaust.
When I was working front line tech support for a backup software vender, I had a customer explain to me that his system was infected with a virus during the OS load from a CD he received from DEC. Dunno if that was true or he was an idiot (ok, after him explaining how the system crashed I knew he was an idiot).
By saying have the sack to put your name to your opinion I'm admitting to not being interesting...?
I think you need to put your crack pipe down and take a giant step away from it.
Not really. You can say what you like and I'll even defend your right to make an ass-hat of yourself. Just have the sack to put your name to it.
Why couldn't you have the balls
So says the anonymous coward. If you're going to rag on someone/thing, have the balls to put your name behind it.
This would be the same "general public" that uses Gator to store their passwords and really believe that someone they know would suddenly send them a poorly formatted email message with an executable attachment of a naked Anna Kournakova? Where's the "in other news, the sky is blue and water is wet" post?
I haven't been keeping up on the Canadian team, have they even attempted a live fire testing of this launch platform? For some reason, I keep hearing the looney tunes theme and picturing Wiley Coyote whenever I think about this. Whoever the person/people are they plan on sending, your families have my condolences.
Go figure, inexpensive storage from EMC... Clariion AX100 . 3 TB that'll fit in a 2U space for $9536 at sanspot
The local fox affiliate has been doing this for a couple of years. Find the code, enter at the site, win cool prizes... Hmmm, a fight between the Evil Empire and Fair and Balanced Reporting... I think I need some popcorn
They've been doing this for a while and fighting them in a competition called robo-one. www.sozbots.com is supposed to be selling the Kondo kits by this weekend. You can get info on building one from scratch using servos, stamp boards, etc. at http://forums.delphiforums.com/RoboOne/start
On the plus side, this damn pager and cell phone work forces on me won't be going off at 3 a.m. anymore...
Why not go Sealed Lead Acid or, if you want to save some weight nicads/nimh?