The only thing the DS has that got me to buy it was it's backwards compatibility with GBA games. I don't own a GBA, but a lot of games in that line I really enjoy playing.
So I'm keeping myself happy playing GBA games on my DS until something worthy comes out on DS cards.
The next Zelda game better be DS... or I'm going to go postal.
So my 71 year old house that has had phone service since it was built... has already paid for the damn copper pair.
If I go broadband cable and don't want TV service I get $10 ding on my bill for "cable access"
If I go DSL every provider in the area says no DSL w/o voice service unless you go for the business grade DSL that starts at $100/month...!.. FCC, thanks for the ass pounding without the complimentary reach-around.
A shock to the hip isn't going to kill you, even if you have a heart condition. It may cause some stress - and that may set off something - but no more stress than boot camp would give you anyway.
I think the shock is there to piss you off and make sure you remember to keep your friggen head down when the baddies are shooting at you.
suggestions on how to over come the challenge of running a computer network in a country where the power fluctuates wildly and multiple outages in week are not unusual occurrences?
Google aren't an internet provider? Why do I keep seeing ads from them telling me to sign up to broadband then?
It's the drug induced hallucinations. Google isn't an Internet provider.Rumors abound when Google was looking for people experienced in fiber - but they want start mapping and reselling dark fiber. It is just sitting there.
The flip side is, this is the guy's company. Your departure may lead to a string of disasters that could kill it off entirely. The big question is, is there enough bad blood between you and the company that you wouldn't mind letting your boss suffer for his mistakes? If so, I don't see any reason to let your relationship continue beyond the four weeks you outlined earlier. Maybe less, if your boss's counter-offer was galling enough.
I'm sick of seeing companies (especially small ones) bring on green I.T. guys... fill their head full of responsibilities and loyalties, but pay them jack squat. Then when they get the nerve to look around or ask for a raise - it gets thrown in their face that they're "ingrates" or "ungrateful" because company x took a "chance" and hired them... and they owe it company x.
I say blow me - have fun teaching the next guy my uncommented code, and tricks to get your cheapass copier to work day after day.
You have nothing to worry about - it's your life, you make the call.
If you were so crucial to the company, you should have been given the recognition as such. End user support? System Administration? These don't sound like the jobs you spent years in school to learn.
I would politly say - "I have to move on, so bring someone in and I'll spend my three - four weeks training them... but after that, I will no longer be employeed here"
Unless you specifically signed a contract saying you would give notice after X weeks - there is no "requirement" for you to do more than what you feel like.
If he doesn't like it - leave. I'm serious. Pack your desk and leave that very minute. If you put in your two weeks under that kind of duress - it'll be hell. You'll never get a good reference anyway and your resume will speak for itself.
This is a good lesson to any company owner who relies on cheap help to do the critical tasks of I.T.... you best evaluate your corporate structure and pay scales. If you can afford to lose your I.T. people who know your systems and can fix things very quickly... are they worth paying rock bottom wages? Can you afford to lose one every year? Can you do the job they do and still be productive?
VXA-3 will exceed the capacity of the SDLT and will be the exact same size, using the same tapes and autoloaders. All I have to do is swap out the drive and gain double my storage.
With most fiber installs on homes, you get voice and data services (data split between Internet and TV). The box they install on your home essentially splits up the voice and data. It also includes a small UPS to keep your dialtone going in the event of a power outage.
Your internal wiring doesn't really matter. It's cat5 to the NID they install - high speed all the way... err until it hits the first hop everyone else is using.
No, I meant 500 Megabytes per minute. Some research may have helped you respond.
VXA says you'll get 43GB per hour, but in a real life you'll see ~500MB per minute which works out to about 30GB/hour. With that speed, we have backups dumped on to a 1TB NAS then written to tape. It allows the backups to flow as fast and smooth as possible to tape without having to worry about network congestion.
Burned DVDs and CDrs have piss poor shelf life for archival material. RAID arrays can disappear at the snap of a raid card's whim (yes - it happened to me last week).
Please - re-evaluate your solution before you actually need to recover data or get (gasp) audited and need every single file to work 100% for the auditors.
Recordable optical media sold retail are not up to the standards of archival requirements of most governing bodies (like the SEC). There are optical WORM drives that are used by medical data centers and hold only 30GB on a huge platter. And most of those are getting retired for other methods.
(this is not a plug, it's just what works best for us) There are many tape solutions like Exabyte's VXA-3 with 160GB native storage space on an $80 tape. Granted $/GB is higher than a DVD-R - the tape will not let you down. The tape is equal to ~35 DVDs and writes at 500MB+/minute.
We have an Exabyte autoloader with 10 tapes on a weekly rotation - and it was as close to heaven when we needed to restore a server. We also backup >400GB of data weekly from a few of our database servers - and need it to be there when something fails.
The entire rig will set you back about $3000 including tapes. This will give you over a TB of backup space. And the tapes are archival ready.
For your use - 1-2CDs/Day each tape will last you about 3-4 months. But it will also allow you to rotate your backups off site and give you much better utilization of space and much higher chances of recovering this data years down the road.
Please reconsider your backup solutions... if it's worth saving at all - it's worth being able to get it back later.
Or you could spend two seconds googling PBX and learn all you need to know.
If you ever plan to be a resource to a company it may be worth your time to learn the basics of PBX installations, IP telephony, and the proper pronouncation of the word "telephony".
No doubt. I jumped on the DS wagon because I've always enjoyed Nintendo's mobile game selection for the original gameboy line and really liked the new tech in the DS. I didn't purchased a GBA - but the DS was too cool to pass up. Now I feel I need to buy GBA games just to enjoy the platform. The DS looks like it's getting more support from GBA games than from anything else.
The big N needs to get some good games out - fast! Or the PSP is going to PP on the DS.
Slashdot Mirror
Okay - so let the slashdotters be the judge.
Adding WebTV as a premium feature is like selling a computer with a free month of AOL.
Oh wait...
The only thing the DS has that got me to buy it was it's backwards compatibility with GBA games. I don't own a GBA, but a lot of games in that line I really enjoy playing.
So I'm keeping myself happy playing GBA games on my DS until something worthy comes out on DS cards.
The next Zelda game better be DS... or I'm going to go postal.
And I just bought my Gamecube in January... guess you bastards are going to force me to upgrade my PackardBell to play doom 3, too?
GEeez... you buy something new and it gets outdated in just a few years.
LOL - if I had mod points you'd get one.
65535 channels and nothing on...
So my 71 year old house that has had phone service since it was built... has already paid for the damn copper pair.
..!.. FCC, thanks for the ass pounding without the complimentary reach-around.
If I go broadband cable and don't want TV service I get $10 ding on my bill for "cable access"
If I go DSL every provider in the area says no DSL w/o voice service unless you go for the business grade DSL that starts at $100/month.
Or
- Browse to slashdot
- TnA
- Pr0n
- Hack the Gibson
A shock to the hip isn't going to kill you, even if you have a heart condition. It may cause some stress - and that may set off something - but no more stress than boot camp would give you anyway.
I think the shock is there to piss you off and make sure you remember to keep your friggen head down when the baddies are shooting at you.
suggestions on how to over come the challenge of running a computer network in a country where the power fluctuates wildly and multiple outages in week are not unusual occurrences?
Save now and save often.
Bzzzzrt!
Google aren't an internet provider? Why do I keep seeing ads from them telling me to sign up to broadband then?
It's the drug induced hallucinations. Google isn't an Internet provider.Rumors abound when Google was looking for people experienced in fiber - but they want start mapping and reselling dark fiber. It is just sitting there.
The flip side is, this is the guy's company. Your departure may lead to a string of disasters that could kill it off entirely. The big question is, is there enough bad blood between you and the company that you wouldn't mind letting your boss suffer for his mistakes? If so, I don't see any reason to let your relationship continue beyond the four weeks you outlined earlier. Maybe less, if your boss's counter-offer was galling enough.
I'm sick of seeing companies (especially small ones) bring on green I.T. guys... fill their head full of responsibilities and loyalties, but pay them jack squat. Then when they get the nerve to look around or ask for a raise - it gets thrown in their face that they're "ingrates" or "ungrateful" because company x took a "chance" and hired them... and they owe it company x.
I say blow me - have fun teaching the next guy my uncommented code, and tricks to get your cheapass copier to work day after day.
You have nothing to worry about - it's your life, you make the call.
If you were so crucial to the company, you should have been given the recognition as such. End user support? System Administration? These don't sound like the jobs you spent years in school to learn.
I would politly say - "I have to move on, so bring someone in and I'll spend my three - four weeks training them... but after that, I will no longer be employeed here"
Unless you specifically signed a contract saying you would give notice after X weeks - there is no "requirement" for you to do more than what you feel like.
If he doesn't like it - leave. I'm serious. Pack your desk and leave that very minute. If you put in your two weeks under that kind of duress - it'll be hell. You'll never get a good reference anyway and your resume will speak for itself.
This is a good lesson to any company owner who relies on cheap help to do the critical tasks of I.T.... you best evaluate your corporate structure and pay scales. If you can afford to lose your I.T. people who know your systems and can fix things very quickly... are they worth paying rock bottom wages? Can you afford to lose one every year? Can you do the job they do and still be productive?
I didn't think so.
Similar to SDLT, but not quite.
SDLT Tape vs VXA-2.
VXA-3 will exceed the capacity of the SDLT and will be the exact same size, using the same tapes and autoloaders. All I have to do is swap out the drive and gain double my storage.
Another redesign?/i?
Isn't that like polishing a turd?
With most fiber installs on homes, you get voice and data services (data split between Internet and TV). The box they install on your home essentially splits up the voice and data. It also includes a small UPS to keep your dialtone going in the event of a power outage.
Your internal wiring doesn't really matter. It's cat5 to the NID they install - high speed all the way... err until it hits the first hop everyone else is using.
That's a gheto backup! But man, it would work.
:)
Sure puts your drives and raid controller (or CPU if you're running software raid) through hell for a few hours.
I hope nobody plans on using it for anything
No, I meant 500 Megabytes per minute. Some research may have helped you respond.
VXA says you'll get 43GB per hour, but in a real life you'll see ~500MB per minute which works out to about 30GB/hour. With that speed, we have backups dumped on to a 1TB NAS then written to tape. It allows the backups to flow as fast and smooth as possible to tape without having to worry about network congestion.
Burned DVDs and CDrs have piss poor shelf life for archival material. RAID arrays can disappear at the snap of a raid card's whim (yes - it happened to me last week).
Please - re-evaluate your solution before you actually need to recover data or get (gasp) audited and need every single file to work 100% for the auditors.
Recordable optical media sold retail are not up to the standards of archival requirements of most governing bodies (like the SEC). There are optical WORM drives that are used by medical data centers and hold only 30GB on a huge platter. And most of those are getting retired for other methods.
(this is not a plug, it's just what works best for us)
There are many tape solutions like Exabyte's VXA-3 with 160GB native storage space on an $80 tape. Granted $/GB is higher than a DVD-R - the tape will not let you down. The tape is equal to ~35 DVDs and writes at 500MB+/minute.
We have an Exabyte autoloader with 10 tapes on a weekly rotation - and it was as close to heaven when we needed to restore a server. We also backup >400GB of data weekly from a few of our database servers - and need it to be there when something fails.
The entire rig will set you back about $3000 including tapes. This will give you over a TB of backup space. And the tapes are archival ready.
For your use - 1-2CDs/Day each tape will last you about 3-4 months. But it will also allow you to rotate your backups off site and give you much better utilization of space and much higher chances of recovering this data years down the road.
Please reconsider your backup solutions... if it's worth saving at all - it's worth being able to get it back later.
mabu nailed it - this is just another "snakeoil" scam that has been around for thousands of years - now just logically moving to another medium.
In the 1800's the cure-all was sold from the back of a horse pulled wagon. Now it's just grabbing suckers using pop-up advertisement.
If I'm 75 miles away from the nearest TV and driving - I'd want to listen to it.
Not all of us get a comfy chair and can of beer on Sunday.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=911
Or you could spend two seconds googling PBX and learn all you need to know.
If you ever plan to be a resource to a company it may be worth your time to learn the basics of PBX installations, IP telephony, and the proper pronouncation of the word "telephony".
Why on Earth would a merged XM and Sirius drop their prices? Without competition they can raise their prices.
Too late, XM Radio is already meeting the price/features of Sirius.
Now if XM would just get NFL it would be a perfect radio station.
No doubt. I jumped on the DS wagon because I've always enjoyed Nintendo's mobile game selection for the original gameboy line and really liked the new tech in the DS. I didn't purchased a GBA - but the DS was too cool to pass up. Now I feel I need to buy GBA games just to enjoy the platform. The DS looks like it's getting more support from GBA games than from anything else.
The big N needs to get some good games out - fast! Or the PSP is going to PP on the DS.