I don't have redundant anything and I have better uptime at home than Google has had this year.
That being said, if my house burns to the ground, it would take me about 12 hours to get a new server with restored data running in a new location. Wait, that's still faster than Google...
My home basement server and the servers I admin where I work have no where near the downtime Google has had this year, including the time I take them offline to do core software updates (all scheduled and late at night).
Is my solution cheaper? No. Is my uptime noticibly better than Google's? Absolutely.
The company I work for relies on email, and we would have serious problems with ANY downtime. If we were on Google (and we did look at using their services a while back), we would be losing customers and money every time they go down.
Sorry, but I've worked in plenty of organizations where our email didn't go down unexpectedly for days on end. Not at all difficult to keep a lowly email server from going tits up.
This is also the SECOND extended outage for Google this year.
Smaller IT departments > cloud computing if you absolutely want to have uptime. Sure, it costs more for the services provided, and there is more to manage, but if you need uptime, you pay for it.
I have used ATI products under Linux since their Mach64 chipsets, and I have never had problems installing ATI drivers or getting 2D and 3D acceleration to work under X.
ATI drivers weren't as easy to install as nVidia's, but they worked just fine.
Consumer HD cameras are going towards SDHC for storage. My brand new Canon HF100 has no firewire port, but it does have a USB port and a removeable SDHC card.
The new Panasonic HD cameras also do not use FireWire.
Who said an infrared mouse was causing interference? The quote was regarding a BlueTooth mouse, which is very much RF, and could have a decent transmit range.
Still, this speaks poorly of the Airbus design if it's this easy to interfere with flight operations. I'd expect a modern aircraft to be able to resist all forms of RF short of an electomagnetic pulse, especially from within the passenger compartment!
The volt has a charge timer built into the car's charging system. Set the timer once, and plug the car in any time. It will start charging (and/or stop charging) when you specify.
This functionality is already present in the Chevy Volt. It has a timer so you can plug it in to the wall socket when you park your car in the evening, and it can be programmed to charge the battery starting at midnight, etc.
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Honestly, Apple doesn't have a "high-end" system either. I am typing this on a MacPro (work machine), and I can tell you, this system isn't fast, and it doesn't handle a lot of applications at once either.
I don't know what keeps Apple alive, to be honest.
I've never been a fan of nVidia because of power consumption and price, but I have used a few of their cards. I have used ATI extensively under Windows, Mac, and especially Linux, and never had problems with drivers or backwards compatibility.
My son has a Radeon 8500 in his machine, and he plays OpenGL/3D games, plays movies, etc with no problems (Ubuntu). I still have a few machines with RageXL and Rage128 cards running Linux w/hardware acceleration enabled.
I became a fan of ATI back in the mach64 days, when nVidia's TNT cards blew chunks under Linux. They eventually fixed their drivers, and I started using them here and there.
I evaluated Exchange 2007 a while back, and it was horrible. The hardware requirements were just insane, going by Microsoft's recommendations, even for a small shop.
I even INSTALLED Exchange 2007 on a test system that, while horribly underpowered for Exchange, ran Zimbra perfectly fine.
Indeed. I was being generous with the $50K of hardware. The client I was working with would have paid over $150K in hardware to ensure Exchange would perform well, and have failover capabilities.
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I don't have redundant anything and I have better uptime at home than Google has had this year.
That being said, if my house burns to the ground, it would take me about 12 hours to get a new server with restored data running in a new location. Wait, that's still faster than Google...
My home basement server and the servers I admin where I work have no where near the downtime Google has had this year, including the time I take them offline to do core software updates (all scheduled and late at night).
Is my solution cheaper? No. Is my uptime noticibly better than Google's? Absolutely.
The company I work for relies on email, and we would have serious problems with ANY downtime. If we were on Google (and we did look at using their services a while back), we would be losing customers and money every time they go down.
Sorry, but I've worked in plenty of organizations where our email didn't go down unexpectedly for days on end. Not at all difficult to keep a lowly email server from going tits up.
This is also the SECOND extended outage for Google this year.
Smaller IT departments > cloud computing if you absolutely want to have uptime. Sure, it costs more for the services provided, and there is more to manage, but if you need uptime, you pay for it.
It's not a portable, it's a desktop.
Yeah, I used a mighty mouse for a month when I started a new job that only has Mac workstations.
I now have generic USB two-button mouse w/wheel that works.
It's another form over function problem with Apple peripherals.
All new consumer camcorders using SDHC typically do not have FireWire ports either.
What possible advantage would Apple hardware give you over any other brand of laptop when you want to run Linux?
Exactly what I was thinking. Dedicated VRAM is a must, especially if the new video chipsets are supposed to be worth anything. What a joke.
Zero updates to their iMac and MacPro lines.
Oooo... The MacBook is now ONLY $999! I'll be interested in Mac laptops when their entry is around $599.
I have used ATI products under Linux since their Mach64 chipsets, and I have never had problems installing ATI drivers or getting 2D and 3D acceleration to work under X.
ATI drivers weren't as easy to install as nVidia's, but they worked just fine.
Consumer HD cameras are going towards SDHC for storage. My brand new Canon HF100 has no firewire port, but it does have a USB port and a removeable SDHC card.
The new Panasonic HD cameras also do not use FireWire.
The only reason I'm not using Chrome is because there's no Linux version and no MacOS X version (home and work machines).
Because dealing with dead batteries in your mouse/keyboard is so much better than adding a third USB port.
Firewire is all but dead in the consumer world.
Who said an infrared mouse was causing interference? The quote was regarding a BlueTooth mouse, which is very much RF, and could have a decent transmit range.
Still, this speaks poorly of the Airbus design if it's this easy to interfere with flight operations. I'd expect a modern aircraft to be able to resist all forms of RF short of an electomagnetic pulse, especially from within the passenger compartment!
Read it again. He is contributing to a project, not running a project of his own. The license terms were determined by someone else.
I agree, though. If he were to start a project, I'd recommend GPL next time to avoid this dilemma.
The volt has a charge timer built into the car's charging system. Set the timer once, and plug the car in any time. It will start charging (and/or stop charging) when you specify.
This functionality is already present in the Chevy Volt. It has a timer so you can plug it in to the wall socket when you park your car in the evening, and it can be programmed to charge the battery starting at midnight, etc.
Android.
A quick search yielded this site:
http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
Honestly, Apple doesn't have a "high-end" system either. I am typing this on a MacPro (work machine), and I can tell you, this system isn't fast, and it doesn't handle a lot of applications at once either.
I don't know what keeps Apple alive, to be honest.
I didn't make the statement.
Wow. 70K for a Java developer AND DBA. Yup, we're the idiots out here.
UAW.
I've never been a fan of nVidia because of power consumption and price, but I have used a few of their cards. I have used ATI extensively under Windows, Mac, and especially Linux, and never had problems with drivers or backwards compatibility.
My son has a Radeon 8500 in his machine, and he plays OpenGL/3D games, plays movies, etc with no problems (Ubuntu). I still have a few machines with RageXL and Rage128 cards running Linux w/hardware acceleration enabled.
I became a fan of ATI back in the mach64 days, when nVidia's TNT cards blew chunks under Linux. They eventually fixed their drivers, and I started using them here and there.
I evaluated Exchange 2007 a while back, and it was horrible. The hardware requirements were just insane, going by Microsoft's recommendations, even for a small shop.
I even INSTALLED Exchange 2007 on a test system that, while horribly underpowered for Exchange, ran Zimbra perfectly fine.
Indeed. I was being generous with the $50K of hardware. The client I was working with would have paid over $150K in hardware to ensure Exchange would perform well, and have failover capabilities.
Forgetaboutit.
Yeah, take the time to configure it properly on the $50K of new hardware it takes to run a modern install of Exchange.
Exchange is a pile of shit from every angle, with the single exception of sitting in front of Outlook.