Bingo. When I turn on my render farm at home I open the glass door and put a custom stack of box fans in pointing out. I turn them on and fire up the render farm. After several experiments I found this to be an optimal solution. In the winter I don't open the door:-)
In the peak summer temps (100+) I don't render between 1:00pm and midnight. Since the inital query was for a switch and a server (Even if it is an E10K as someone else mentioned) The closet with it's own AC should work fine, and sans that a cowling over the exhaust of the server that vents (through another filter to keep the bugs and such outside) directly to the outside. Use a boost fan on the exhaust to get a slight negative pressure in the cowling. You can use dynamat and make everything nice and quiet. -nB
Dude, who had 500MB drives in 1986? I saw 50 meg drives that were 18" platters and scarry big.
I'd think your point still is valid though... Anyone in 1986 faced with the prospect of backing up 500Mb would likely turn to the intern and say: "Start memorizing".
BTW, in 1986 if someone came up to you and told you that there would be hard drives in 20 years that are 750GB and were faster than your current system memory what would you have said to them? -nB
I think in this case they are praying that it does not go to trial, they are looking at something deeply embedded in the CPUs (my assumption based on going back to PIII, and inclusive of P4 and PM, all different). They are simply hoping Intel will open the checkbook and ask: How Much?
My money is on Intel on this one. I bet they can show Prior Art*, even if not patented, which would basically guarentee them the ability to continue using the IP witout royalty. -nB
* Or they will be able to show a logical and "obvious" progression in design, end result remains.
I'm betting not... Last scheme that involved IFOs corrupted them. All you had to do was rip an ISO image, modify.BUP to.IFO and.IFO to.BUP and you were done. -nB
If it can't read the IFO it'll read the BUP. If it can't read the BUP it'll fail the disk. Not sure if the Xbox MS dvd player will work, but XBMC can just play the VOBs and ignore the rest of the DVD if needed. -nB
As with most copy protection mechanisms, a way round it is never that far behind. SlySoft have a product called AnyDVD which works in the background to automatically remove the copy protection of a DVD movie as soon as it's inserted into the drive. The other day they released an updated version of AnyDVD which effortlessly bypasses Protect DVD-Video.
Bingo, Even something as basic as NAT through a cheapie router will buy them all the time they need to connect to windows update. It won't protect them from malicious connections once infected but because most all routers ignore incoming connection attempts the user is at least protected till patched (assuming the first thing they do is Windows Update, not pr0n surf). -nB
My wife found my ex's (psycho stalker) page. I just had to go create a shell acct to troll her, funny thing is, I trolled the heck outa her blog, then ask her to add me to her friends list . . . and she did!?!
Anyway, the breif ammount of time I've spent on myspace has been painful on virtually all fronts. -nB
They are (in most cases) allowed to take the notebook home. However, the encrypted hard drive and encrypted documentation policies are non-negotable. You will encrypt your hard drive or you will not work here. That goes very far towards security. -nB
A large part of our workforce is mobile. We are in the semiconductor industry, and while your wanting sales and MarCom to have notebooks is obvious, I'll agree the rest is not so obvious:
Techs: Notebooks allow them to have their computer no matter where they are (in a lab, at their desk, in the cafe, checking e-mail over breakfast, etc.) What I've noticed is that most of the techs desks are now empty. They've set up shop in the lab and basically live there. Since labs are up to 3 buildings away from peoples desks, this means a lot of time not wasted.
Engineers: Go ahead and basically ditto techs, while silicon is in-house. While in the design phase, this allows teams working on the same functional block to all huddle in a conference room and work as a team (granted an open office plan could allow this as well, but then you'd be moving people's desks around as their team assignments changed).
Managers: Damned if I know, all they seem to do is power point and show each other their power point foo in meetings. A thumb drive and bullpen PC on the projector would work fine, but then again, they usually work from the Cafe and/or home.
Legal: Stickiest situation. Notebooks are better for security for a non tech savy user. They have hardened locking cabinets that their notebooks are locked into at night. While a removable HDD would do, these are lawyers, not techs.
HR: Ditto legal.
It all sums up to increased time availability &&|| security. All notebooks use IBMs TCPA chip to run the HDD in an encrypted session, so little chance of a stolen book being an issue for us. -nB
Any business should use Optiplex or better (if using Dell), as the support agreement is far superior: drivers for >=5 years (=1 year on dimension). Spare parts for >=5 years (>90 days on dimension).
"Unless you *really* need the porability frequently (therefore making a "floating" laptop a hassle), notebooks are a *very* expensive way to outfit an office."
We've found it to be the opposite. All engineers, HR, Legal, Tech writers, managers, and most techs, have notebooks. Pays off huge for us. With the volume of hardware we use and consume we don't do the warrenty thing the same way. We get warrenty on the components and have IBM trained staff in IT for the repair work. Mind you if employees "owned" the notebooks, as in:
This is your notebook, it is for business use. Once a new one is issued to you we will take this hard drive and crush it, but give you the rest of the machine"
I bet my IT department would not have to refresh notebooks for about 5 years rather than three because people would take much better care of them.
"Of course if you can properly lock down your software"
I guess you missed the part about the volume of PCs that are notebooks? Physical abuse takes it's toll far more than software issues. All one needs do is refresh with the latest and greatest image for that notebook build and you've fixed any software issues. The hardware takes a pounding, that pounding increases the rate of parts wear out on the notebooks, that's life.
Really, not to flame, but I don't get your point. -nB
Sure they will. When something in her machine blows up the IT department will grab a machine from spares, throw the latest image on it and give it to Jenny in HR. At that point she will be running on Vista. IT depatments (at least the one here) don't spend money for the hell of it, but they are not going to try and save $500 in hardware costs only to increase support costs by several times that. The fewer builds you have the better, that's the way you deal with 100K unit PC deployments. Sure you have a ton of machines, but there are only 5-8 types to worry about. -nB
Of my company (~80K employees) about 2/3 have IBM/Lenovo notebooks. The other 1/3 are dell notebooks or desktops. A rolling three year window is used to determine upgrades, and yes it's required. When the dot bomb happened and we pushed to a 4 year cycle support costs in that last year were dramatically higher than the other years. The knee in the curve appeared to happen at 3 years 3 months (quaterly mapping).
If your department/company is on desktops then the upgrade costs for a rollout will be minimal anyway as a vista PC will likely only be a couple hundred more than a bottom end XP box from dell, and I'm sure the entire optiplex line will be Vista compatible. -nB
6) Yes there are cheeper and geekier alternatives like the guy who made his own windmill/generator combo from a plywood disk, some rare earth disk magnets, magnet wire and the wheel off an old volvo.
Can't seem to find the link ATM, but I'll keep looking... -nB
You are so right. Over here someone went to repaint their house as the CCNRs mandated (in all fairness the paint was looking tired). Once the painters were out a neighbor threw a fit that the color was too brigt to be allowed. Whole thing ended up on the local news and in court!
The real kicker? The painters were painting the house the exact same friggin shade of color. They color matched to some of the paint under the eves where it was not yet sun-fadded. There's nothing like putting your foot in a drama queens ass in court, especially when they are the ones pressing charges and the judge holds them down for said foot insertion:-)
Needless to say the home owner won, but they did not get to counter-sue for court costs (so their insurance paid) and their home-owners quietly dropped them after the renewal period the following year was over. -nB
My $400 ESD ergo stool is extra spiffy because it is vinal. I can buff it till it's shiney:-) Oh, and while it does not look like much at all, it's actually very comfy for tech work. Not sure I'd want to code in it though...
Best advice I can give: If you must be in cubes, so should your management. Offices are a waste of resources (IMHO) but also, what is good for the gander is good for the goose. Offices are for Legal and HR only. Liberal number of cozy conference rooms for private conversations is a good idea though. -nB
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Bingo. :-)
When I turn on my render farm at home I open the glass door and put a custom stack of box fans in pointing out. I turn them on and fire up the render farm. After several experiments I found this to be an optimal solution. In the winter I don't open the door
In the peak summer temps (100+) I don't render between 1:00pm and midnight. Since the inital query was for a switch and a server (Even if it is an E10K as someone else mentioned) The closet with it's own AC should work fine, and sans that a cowling over the exhaust of the server that vents (through another filter to keep the bugs and such outside) directly to the outside. Use a boost fan on the exhaust to get a slight negative pressure in the cowling. You can use dynamat and make everything nice and quiet.
-nB
"Mass murder/genocide is quite another thing."
Before I react I think I lost something in the thread...
Who are you referring to here?
-nB
Dude, who had 500MB drives in 1986?
I saw 50 meg drives that were 18" platters and scarry big.
I'd think your point still is valid though...
Anyone in 1986 faced with the prospect of backing up 500Mb would likely turn to the intern and say: "Start memorizing".
BTW, in 1986 if someone came up to you and told you that there would be hard drives in 20 years that are 750GB and were faster than your current system memory what would you have said to them?
-nB
Dude, I just watched 2010 last night!
:)
What timing!
I'm waiting for blackmonolith@langrangepoint.europa.com before I accept it as not spam though
-nB
Not to nitpick as you are the native, but should not that be Jovian, as opposed to Jupitarian?
-nB
I'm just wondering if /. is the right place to be asking about throttling BT bandwith? Might have better luck at TPB?
-nB
I think in this case they are praying that it does not go to trial, they are looking at something deeply embedded in the CPUs (my assumption based on going back to PIII, and inclusive of P4 and PM, all different). They are simply hoping Intel will open the checkbook and ask: How Much?
My money is on Intel on this one. I bet they can show Prior Art*, even if not patented, which would basically guarentee them the ability to continue using the IP witout royalty.
-nB
* Or they will be able to show a logical and "obvious" progression in design, end result remains.
I'm betting not... Last scheme that involved IFOs corrupted them. All you had to do was rip an ISO image, modify .BUP to .IFO and .IFO to .BUP and you were done.
-nB
If it can't read the IFO it'll read the BUP. If it can't read the BUP it'll fail the disk.
Not sure if the Xbox MS dvd player will work, but XBMC can just play the VOBs and ignore the rest of the DVD if needed.
-nB
-nB
Bingo,
Even something as basic as NAT through a cheapie router will buy them all the time they need to connect to windows update.
It won't protect them from malicious connections once infected but because most all routers ignore incoming connection attempts the user is at least protected till patched (assuming the first thing they do is Windows Update, not pr0n surf).
-nB
My wife found my ex's (psycho stalker) page. I just had to go create a shell acct to troll her, funny thing is, I trolled the heck outa her blog, then ask her to add me to her friends list . . . and she did!?!
Anyway, the breif ammount of time I've spent on myspace has been painful on virtually all fronts.
-nB
They are (in most cases) allowed to take the notebook home.
However, the encrypted hard drive and encrypted documentation policies are non-negotable. You will encrypt your hard drive or you will not work here.
That goes very far towards security.
-nB
A large part of our workforce is mobile.
We are in the semiconductor industry, and while your wanting sales and MarCom to have notebooks is obvious, I'll agree the rest is not so obvious:
Techs: Notebooks allow them to have their computer no matter where they are (in a lab, at their desk, in the cafe, checking e-mail over breakfast, etc.) What I've noticed is that most of the techs desks are now empty. They've set up shop in the lab and basically live there. Since labs are up to 3 buildings away from peoples desks, this means a lot of time not wasted.
Engineers: Go ahead and basically ditto techs, while silicon is in-house. While in the design phase, this allows teams working on the same functional block to all huddle in a conference room and work as a team (granted an open office plan could allow this as well, but then you'd be moving people's desks around as their team assignments changed).
Managers:
Damned if I know, all they seem to do is power point and show each other their power point foo in meetings. A thumb drive and bullpen PC on the projector would work fine, but then again, they usually work from the Cafe and/or home.
Legal:
Stickiest situation. Notebooks are better for security for a non tech savy user. They have hardened locking cabinets that their notebooks are locked into at night. While a removable HDD would do, these are lawyers, not techs.
HR: Ditto legal.
It all sums up to increased time availability &&|| security. All notebooks use IBMs TCPA chip to run the HDD in an encrypted session, so little chance of a stolen book being an issue for us.
-nB
Hope this link works:x ?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=210ldp4min&s=bsd
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.asp
Dell optiplex with a P4 3.0GHz proc.
There is a $30 difference between 256 and 512 meg ram.
Base price is $443, still under 500 when ready for Vista.
Any business should use Optiplex or better (if using Dell), as the support agreement is far superior: drivers for >=5 years (=1 year on dimension). Spare parts for >=5 years (>90 days on dimension).
-nB
We've found it to be the opposite. All engineers, HR, Legal, Tech writers, managers, and most techs, have notebooks. Pays off huge for us.
With the volume of hardware we use and consume we don't do the warrenty thing the same way. We get warrenty on the components and have IBM trained staff in IT for the repair work. Mind you if employees "owned" the notebooks, as in:
I bet my IT department would not have to refresh notebooks for about 5 years rather than three because people would take much better care of them.
-nB
"Of course if you can properly lock down your software"
I guess you missed the part about the volume of PCs that are notebooks?
Physical abuse takes it's toll far more than software issues. All one needs do is refresh with the latest and greatest image for that notebook build and you've fixed any software issues. The hardware takes a pounding, that pounding increases the rate of parts wear out on the notebooks, that's life.
Really, not to flame, but I don't get your point.
-nB
Sure they will.
When something in her machine blows up the IT department will grab a machine from spares, throw the latest image on it and give it to Jenny in HR. At that point she will be running on Vista.
IT depatments (at least the one here) don't spend money for the hell of it, but they are not going to try and save $500 in hardware costs only to increase support costs by several times that. The fewer builds you have the better, that's the way you deal with 100K unit PC deployments. Sure you have a ton of machines, but there are only 5-8 types to worry about.
-nB
Of my company (~80K employees) about 2/3 have IBM/Lenovo notebooks. The other 1/3 are dell notebooks or desktops. A rolling three year window is used to determine upgrades, and yes it's required. When the dot bomb happened and we pushed to a 4 year cycle support costs in that last year were dramatically higher than the other years. The knee in the curve appeared to happen at 3 years 3 months (quaterly mapping).
If your department/company is on desktops then the upgrade costs for a rollout will be minimal anyway as a vista PC will likely only be a couple hundred more than a bottom end XP box from dell, and I'm sure the entire optiplex line will be Vista compatible.
-nB
Most of the hardware costs would be there anyway as part of a normal IT refresh cycle. So I call BS.
-nB
I can even see the possibility for three editions.
User - Server - Cluster||bigass SMP
OK, so while I couldn't find it in my bookmarks... A google search of volvo and windmill did nicely.
http://www.otherpower.com/bartmil.html
-nB
solw dwon cbowoy i'ts been one minute since your last confession. wait... wrong forum.
6) Yes there are cheeper and geekier alternatives like the guy who made his own windmill/generator combo from a plywood disk, some rare earth disk magnets, magnet wire and the wheel off an old volvo.
Can't seem to find the link ATM, but I'll keep looking...
-nB
You are so right.
:-)
Over here someone went to repaint their house as the CCNRs mandated (in all fairness the paint was looking tired).
Once the painters were out a neighbor threw a fit that the color was too brigt to be allowed. Whole thing ended up on the local news and in court!
The real kicker? The painters were painting the house the exact same friggin shade of color. They color matched to some of the paint under the eves where it was not yet sun-fadded.
There's nothing like putting your foot in a drama queens ass in court, especially when they are the ones pressing charges and the judge holds them down for said foot insertion
Needless to say the home owner won, but they did not get to counter-sue for court costs (so their insurance paid) and their home-owners quietly dropped them after the renewal period the following year was over.
-nB
My $400 ESD ergo stool is extra spiffy because it is vinal. I can buff it till it's shiney :-)
Oh, and while it does not look like much at all, it's actually very comfy for tech work. Not sure I'd want to code in it though...
Best advice I can give:
If you must be in cubes, so should your management. Offices are a waste of resources (IMHO) but also, what is good for the gander is good for the goose. Offices are for Legal and HR only. Liberal number of cozy conference rooms for private conversations is a good idea though.
-nB