"Redundant Array of Independent Disks"
Gotta love commercialization eh? It used to be "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks", but I guess there wasn't much money to be made with that acronym. (Yes, I know that this move was made in recognition of the fact that RAID arrays are implemented for performance as much as redundancy nowdays, so 15k SCSI drives are pretty much the standard).
Anyway, back to the topic at hand. For a home server, I'd cast my vote for RAID-1. Even though I run RAID-5 on my home server, I'm just nerdy like that and I think that's overkill for the average Joe.
One thing to consider that I haven't read (but might be posted already) is rebuild time. If you have a RAID-1 array and a drive fails, you can keep working. (At your own risk mind you since there will be no redundancy anymore). With RAID-5, you lose a drive and things come to a screeching halt until you replace the drive. (Which is also why I have a hot spare in my system)
Someone did mention it, but I'd have to second it - RAID arrays are not a substitute for backups. If you data is important, back it up. RAID only protects from hardware failures, not user failures, file system corruptions, viruses, hackers, etc.
I don't know of any sites that catalog WiFi hotspots, besides a few WAR sites that list unsecured access points.
Our Arby's is right across the street from the High School, and I think that might have a lot to do with why they've chosen to offer WiFi. Since there are about 15 fast food places within a couple blocks of the high school, I figure the person who came up with this idea probably got promoted off the fryer, at least to the sandwich assembly lines!
Ah, and this brings to mind a different cultural oddity:
Imagine a plate of food on the table that you've just dished up. How do you view that? Clean, fit to be eaten, etc. Now take the same plate, place it in a clean, empty sink, and then put it back on the table. How do you view that same plate now? Unclean? Unfit for consumption?
Hrmmm...
Most people view it the same as if you just pulled some scraps out of a dumpster and tossed them on a dirty plate. I guess we're just odd that way...
You all seem to have missed the point of why this filter was put into place.
The US government is trying to help the people of China bypass the censorship that their country has put into place. Why? Simple, to defend the human rights of the people of China. Quite obviously, the US Government has no fear of any possible backlash from the Chinese government in doing this.
However, the squeals from the many church organizations that would be offended by the US Government giving unrestricted access to p0rn and gay rights websites would be unbearable!
Fear the church! Fear it more than you fear the largest communist country in the world!
All you really have to do is click on the Lysol baner and buy some of their handy-dandy disinfectant! Spray once a day as per the instructions, and viola, no more germs, no more immune system. And, you'll be keeping the $0.25 that your ad-click might have generated in the good old USA! Maybe that's how government grants are funded nowdays...
I always wondered why there was no shower curtain in my apartment in Korea. The bathroom was tiled all over, had a sink, toilet, shower head and a drain in the center. Simple enough - my only complaint was that the shower head was directly over the toilet...
Not in all cases...Sometimes advertisers just pay to have their ad appear on a prominent section of a popular page. They know the ad will be seen by tons of people and have paid for just that.
In these cases, the only thing clicks would do is eat up the advertiser's bandwidth... Hrmmm...Is that a bad thing?
WiFi should be a condiment, like catsup or salt or paper napkins...
Agreed! If I were a business owner and had a way of offsetting the cost of installing and maintaining business class DSL, I'd do it in a heartbeat because I know I'd be using that connection as much as anyone else.
Ah, just the thought of it almost gives me a woody...
- Install WiFi hotspot. - Get more business. - Make enough from extra business to pay for access. - Enjoy my own "free" access.
I live in smalltown America (Bozeman, MT - Not Manhattan) and we have several spots in town offering free WiFi (besides my next door neighbor) including the local Arby's.
Some of them advertise, and some of them do it quietly - which I would assume would be to benefit the regulars.
I don't think I'm going to use ad-supported wi-fi hotspots any time soon, simply because when I'm away from my desk, I prefer not to be connected. (No cell, no pager, no laptop, no pda, etc)
But I can understand, as many have stated here, that some free services depend on ad revenue to exist, and if you don't like that, don't use them.
But - What I really hate, and it will be very hard for any of you to sway me on this, is stuff that you pay for that is laced with ads! For example, we just dumped our cable company (Bresnan) mainly because their menu sucks! They have to abbreviate almost every show title because there is no room to show the full title since the left half of the screen is used for ads.
Another example, DVD's that show movie previews that you can't skip using a commercial DVD player because it says "Operation prohibited" when you try to access the menu or fast forward. I know what you're saying, "I like the previews" (and so do I, most of the time), or "Once isn't so bad". But when you get a few scratches on your DVD and it restarts the DVD several times during a viewing, and you end up watching the same previews 5 times in the course of watching a movie, that really sucks...
Anyway, isn't this thread about wi-fi hot spots?
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"Redundant Array of Independent Disks" Gotta love commercialization eh? It used to be "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks", but I guess there wasn't much money to be made with that acronym. (Yes, I know that this move was made in recognition of the fact that RAID arrays are implemented for performance as much as redundancy nowdays, so 15k SCSI drives are pretty much the standard). Anyway, back to the topic at hand. For a home server, I'd cast my vote for RAID-1. Even though I run RAID-5 on my home server, I'm just nerdy like that and I think that's overkill for the average Joe. One thing to consider that I haven't read (but might be posted already) is rebuild time. If you have a RAID-1 array and a drive fails, you can keep working. (At your own risk mind you since there will be no redundancy anymore). With RAID-5, you lose a drive and things come to a screeching halt until you replace the drive. (Which is also why I have a hot spare in my system) Someone did mention it, but I'd have to second it - RAID arrays are not a substitute for backups. If you data is important, back it up. RAID only protects from hardware failures, not user failures, file system corruptions, viruses, hackers, etc.
I don't know of any sites that catalog WiFi hotspots, besides a few WAR sites that list unsecured access points.
Our Arby's is right across the street from the High School, and I think that might have a lot to do with why they've chosen to offer WiFi. Since there are about 15 fast food places within a couple blocks of the high school, I figure the person who came up with this idea probably got promoted off the fryer, at least to the sandwich assembly lines!
Ah, and this brings to mind a different cultural oddity:
Imagine a plate of food on the table that you've just dished up. How do you view that? Clean, fit to be eaten, etc. Now take the same plate, place it in a clean, empty sink, and then put it back on the table. How do you view that same plate now? Unclean? Unfit for consumption?
Hrmmm...
Most people view it the same as if you just pulled some scraps out of a dumpster and tossed them on a dirty plate. I guess we're just odd that way...
You all seem to have missed the point of why this filter was put into place.
The US government is trying to help the people of China bypass the censorship that their country has put into place. Why? Simple, to defend the human rights of the people of China. Quite obviously, the US Government has no fear of any possible backlash from the Chinese government in doing this.
However, the squeals from the many church organizations that would be offended by the US Government giving unrestricted access to p0rn and gay rights websites would be unbearable!
Fear the church! Fear it more than you fear the largest communist country in the world!
All you really have to do is click on the Lysol baner and buy some of their handy-dandy disinfectant! Spray once a day as per the instructions, and viola, no more germs, no more immune system. And, you'll be keeping the $0.25 that your ad-click might have generated in the good old USA! Maybe that's how government grants are funded nowdays...
I always wondered why there was no shower curtain in my apartment in Korea. The bathroom was tiled all over, had a sink, toilet, shower head and a drain in the center. Simple enough - my only complaint was that the shower head was directly over the toilet...
"The same is true with internet ads..."
Not in all cases...Sometimes advertisers just pay to have their ad appear on a prominent section of a popular page. They know the ad will be seen by tons of people and have paid for just that.
In these cases, the only thing clicks would do is eat up the advertiser's bandwidth... Hrmmm...Is that a bad thing?
Is it me, or isn't this one of those jobs that could further be outsourced, to um, I don't know, a script maybe?
WiFi should be a condiment, like catsup or salt or paper napkins...
Agreed! If I were a business owner and had a way of offsetting the cost of installing and maintaining business class DSL, I'd do it in a heartbeat because I know I'd be using that connection as much as anyone else.
Ah, just the thought of it almost gives me a woody...
- Install WiFi hotspot.
- Get more business.
- Make enough from extra business to pay for access.
- Enjoy my own "free" access.
I live in smalltown America (Bozeman, MT - Not Manhattan) and we have several spots in town offering free WiFi (besides my next door neighbor) including the local Arby's.
Some of them advertise, and some of them do it quietly - which I would assume would be to benefit the regulars.
I don't think I'm going to use ad-supported wi-fi hotspots any time soon, simply because when I'm away from my desk, I prefer not to be connected. (No cell, no pager, no laptop, no pda, etc) But I can understand, as many have stated here, that some free services depend on ad revenue to exist, and if you don't like that, don't use them. But - What I really hate, and it will be very hard for any of you to sway me on this, is stuff that you pay for that is laced with ads! For example, we just dumped our cable company (Bresnan) mainly because their menu sucks! They have to abbreviate almost every show title because there is no room to show the full title since the left half of the screen is used for ads. Another example, DVD's that show movie previews that you can't skip using a commercial DVD player because it says "Operation prohibited" when you try to access the menu or fast forward. I know what you're saying, "I like the previews" (and so do I, most of the time), or "Once isn't so bad". But when you get a few scratches on your DVD and it restarts the DVD several times during a viewing, and you end up watching the same previews 5 times in the course of watching a movie, that really sucks... Anyway, isn't this thread about wi-fi hot spots?