The real power of hp/compaq servers comes from the remote management.
If the box is at remote location, and it freezes, ssh won't do you any good, since you cannot login.
With iLO, you get console access remotely. You can even format and reinstall the entire machine if needed.
well, compared to war in iraq, which has already cost $215 billion dollars,
if the transition would take $25 billion, it could have been done 8 times alredy.. and still have some "change" left
Duh, now that I actually rtfa, it was about the public computers they kept in their cafe, not about their wlan
Kinda makes sense to record the users, in case something gets broken etc.
The stored photocopies of ID's sounds bit excessive though.
Whenever I'm connected via wlan, I use openvpn tunnel for any transferred data.
Do they really expect to be able to automatically capture everything, or are the cafe wlans offering internet access only through their proxy server?
Suse is great distribution, but I'd rather place it on desktop instead servers.
I'd like to dare the author to replicate this experiment using Debian stable as linux side server OS.
Have they improved overall quality also?
I've had 50% fail rate (6 drives in one machine, one doa, two broken down after less than month in use) with western digital sata drives.
I haven't lost any important data, but it's annoying to take machine apart every two weeks and send hdd back for warranty replacement.
The original that kept corrupting was on Berkley back-end.
After the last failure, I restored the Berkley system, took complete dump, upgraded to latest version of svn, and loaded the dump to FSFS back-end.
Haven't had any problems with the latest version yet, and hopefully won't have either.
Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't run any business data over wireless links unless I really really had to.
Of course there's always encryption, but if you're setting up home office, just wire it with ethernet,
one day job, more secure solution with better performance.
Subversion is great, until it corrupts your repository so, that it cannot be recovered with the tools provided.
Then you're glad you made daily backups of the repository, revert and continue as usual.
Embedded devices aren't really focus market for linux. Even with being stripped to bare minimum, the kernel will take over 500kb to operate.
Embedded systems usually don't have need to carry that much memory. Task specific operating systems like TRON and its variations take only few kilobytes, and are extremely efficient and reliable in what they do.
What linux provides, is interesting approach, but it also rises the price tag with hardware specs higher than the cheapest alternatives.
Perhaps it just shows how everyone finds flaws in pay-per-view systems, but no-one has clear idea how one should work in order to work properly.
I've been drafting a business plan with couple of my friends for a ip-tv solution which would offer streamed video over internet, protected by drm, but still platform independed. We have semi-working software and delivery point at tier-1, so bandwidth isn't an issue. Only thing basically missing is the program licensing.
For the cash model, we've been thinking of offering something like $1-3/movie, with 2 or 3 commercial breaks lasting 2-4 minutes, depending on the movie rating. Access to certain movie is granted for 24-48 hours from the moment of sale.
For series, 20-50c/episode with one 2-4 minute commercial break. Episodes would be sold as a season kit, that allows the user access to them for 30-60 days, and they can view whichever episode in order they choose during that time.
Some sort of bundling is also a possibility, pay $20, watch 10 movies at the time of your choice, etc. Aim is to keep the costs lower than on rental dvds, and make profit by selling advertisement time on the shows.
Not for generating electricity, but geothermal energy is increasingly popular way to heat residential buildings here.
It's already half cheaper than oil burner heating and as the oil prices climb, geothermal becomes more and more attractive option.
I2hub was never internet2-only as the name suggested.
I'm nowhere near any I2 endpoints and I still could login to the hub, all it required was ip-address from any university range.
Bittorrent with tracker limited to certain university address range would be interesting.
The download speeds would be blazing, since most of the clients would be using 10/100Mbit or even gigabit connections.
Re:uuuh just so you know...
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The CISO Handbook
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· Score: 2, Interesting
But this book is Chief Security Officer handbook, not CISCO manual, so the correct abbreviation actually is CISO.
Just copypaste that isbn to your favourite search engine and see the results.
Well, leave out raised floors and install servers on floor level then.
But remember, this is what happens when shit hits the fan and servers are on floor level.
That's what CIH virus did back in 99, except it didn't play audio, but it sure hosed your computer by flashing over the bios.
Now, a worm using 0-day exploit and launching the flash event 4 days after initial infection would quite efficiently wipe down large amount of unpatched home and even corporate computers connected to internet.
Take any newspaper, it will have rant from the editor everyday dealing with some aspect of concern he/she would raise opinion on, from this aspect, slashdot isn't any different and this story is suitable.
As for the name thing, they should use some sort of filtering while registering users or rethink their internal rank systems instead.
Randomly abusing paying customers has tendency to lower income in any business.
Re:What other pre-web services are out there?
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IMDb Turns 15
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· Score: 1
Btw, you can download IMDB from ftp://ftp.funet.fi/.
It's located under/pub/mirrors/ftp.imdb.com/pub. The complete movie database is there, with tools that allow you to run your own imdb server, only thing missing are the poster images.
The diffs folder contains updates to the database which are released weekly.
just have to remember to post a link to your www server in a story on slashdot front page while you're setting up the tent, that way you'll have nice camp fire set up, as the server goes up in flames
Slashdot Mirror
I see it now..
Kernel developers..
The real power of hp/compaq servers comes from the remote management.
If the box is at remote location, and it freezes, ssh won't do you any good, since you cannot login.
With iLO, you get console access remotely. You can even format and reinstall the entire machine if needed.
well, compared to war in iraq, which has already cost $215 billion dollars,
if the transition would take $25 billion, it could have been done 8 times alredy.. and still have some "change" left
Duh, now that I actually rtfa, it was about the public computers they kept in their cafe, not about their wlan
Kinda makes sense to record the users, in case something gets broken etc.
The stored photocopies of ID's sounds bit excessive though.
Whenever I'm connected via wlan, I use openvpn tunnel for any transferred data.
Do they really expect to be able to automatically capture everything, or are the cafe wlans offering internet access only through their proxy server?
Suse is great distribution, but I'd rather place it on desktop instead servers.
I'd like to dare the author to replicate this experiment using Debian stable as linux side server OS.
Have they improved overall quality also?
I've had 50% fail rate (6 drives in one machine, one doa, two broken down after less than month in use) with western digital sata drives.
I haven't lost any important data, but it's annoying to take machine apart every two weeks and send hdd back for warranty replacement.
The original that kept corrupting was on Berkley back-end.
After the last failure, I restored the Berkley system, took complete dump, upgraded to latest version of svn, and loaded the dump to FSFS back-end.
Haven't had any problems with the latest version yet, and hopefully won't have either.
Linksys wireless routers are pretty cheap now...
Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't run any business data over wireless links unless I really really had to.
Of course there's always encryption, but if you're setting up home office, just wire it with ethernet,
one day job, more secure solution with better performance.
Subversion is great, until it corrupts your repository so, that it cannot be recovered with the tools provided.
Then you're glad you made daily backups of the repository, revert and continue as usual.
Sounds impressive, I'd love to see some of the code and specs too.
keruon(@)gmail(/.)com
Embedded devices aren't really focus market for linux. Even with being stripped to bare minimum, the kernel will take over 500kb to operate.
Embedded systems usually don't have need to carry that much memory. Task specific operating systems like TRON and its variations take only few kilobytes, and are extremely efficient and reliable in what they do.
What linux provides, is interesting approach, but it also rises the price tag with hardware specs higher than the cheapest alternatives.
Perhaps it just shows how everyone finds flaws in pay-per-view systems, but no-one has clear idea how one should work in order to work properly.
I've been drafting a business plan with couple of my friends for a ip-tv solution which would offer streamed video over internet, protected by drm, but still platform independed. We have semi-working software and delivery point at tier-1, so bandwidth isn't an issue. Only thing basically missing is the program licensing.
For the cash model, we've been thinking of offering something like $1-3/movie, with 2 or 3 commercial breaks lasting 2-4 minutes, depending on the movie rating. Access to certain movie is granted for 24-48 hours from the moment of sale.
For series, 20-50c/episode with one 2-4 minute commercial break.
Episodes would be sold as a season kit, that allows the user access to them for 30-60 days, and they can view whichever episode in order they choose during that time.
Some sort of bundling is also a possibility, pay $20, watch 10 movies at the time of your choice, etc.
Aim is to keep the costs lower than on rental dvds, and make profit by selling advertisement time on the shows.
Compaq Proliant 1500 drew 60W from grid when turned off from the main switch.
Probably used it for the raid adapters.
"I don't get it... It's going to burn at 160MB/sec but only read at 27MB/sec?"
Assuming this isn't vapourware.. perhaps their optics burn all holographic layers at one go, but can only read the layers one by one
this article mentions something similar
Not for generating electricity, but geothermal energy is increasingly popular way to heat residential buildings here.
It's already half cheaper than oil burner heating and as the oil prices climb, geothermal becomes more and more attractive option.
I2hub was never internet2-only as the name suggested.
I'm nowhere near any I2 endpoints and I still could login to the hub, all it required was ip-address from any university range.
Bittorrent with tracker limited to certain university address range would be interesting.
The download speeds would be blazing, since most of the clients would be using 10/100Mbit or even gigabit connections.
But this book is Chief Security Officer handbook, not CISCO manual, so the correct abbreviation actually is CISO.
Just copypaste that isbn to your favourite search engine and see the results.
Well, leave out raised floors and install servers on floor level then.
But remember, this is what happens when shit hits the fan and servers are on floor level.
That's what CIH virus did back in 99, except it didn't play audio, but it sure hosed your computer by flashing over the bios.
Now, a worm using 0-day exploit and launching the flash event 4 days after initial infection would quite efficiently wipe down large amount of unpatched home and even corporate computers connected to internet.
Take any newspaper, it will have rant from the editor everyday dealing with some aspect of concern he/she would raise opinion on, from this aspect, slashdot isn't any different and this story is suitable.
As for the name thing, they should use some sort of filtering while registering users or rethink their internal rank systems instead.
Randomly abusing paying customers has tendency to lower income in any business.
Btw, you can download IMDB from ftp://ftp.funet.fi/. /pub/mirrors/ftp.imdb.com/pub. The complete movie database is there, with tools that allow you to run your own imdb server, only thing missing are the poster images.
It's located under
The diffs folder contains updates to the database which are released weekly.
What I'd like to see is, how that thing works with Firefox and Opera.
just have to remember to post a link to your www server in a story on slashdot front page while you're setting up the tent, that way you'll have nice camp fire set up, as the server goes up in flames