Software by itself doesn't do anything, it needs hardware, training, support, etc to be a complete system. Teachers should be good at teaching, not being computer geeks.
FOSS unlocks the software piece of the system, but the rest is still needed.
While this was meant as a joke, a pigeon could carry a pretty good sized flash chip these days. Some of the old spy tricks almost make sense with today's tech.
The best paste is rubber cement. The buzz alone was worth it.
From the old hs newspaper days, when everything had to be sent out for typesetting, and then returned for cut up, and pasting for the master, which was shipped back for printing. Computers printed on teletypes or line printers, Selectrics were the typewriter to have.
It sounds like you need to some basic disaster planning. Think in terms of "what if this happens?"
Like you loose your data center? How good is your backup, is it off site, do you have a tested plan for restoring the data and system on an interm basis on someone's system?
Then you can look at some more specific things, what happens if I loose this server, this connection, this router, and specific services, DNS, Email, etc.
The big question $$$ depends on how much you have to loose. If you can afford a day of downtime, you don't have to spend as much effort on HA as say the NYSE, or an airline.
More interesting would be Solaris. ZFS to do the raid on the SATA drives, mixing and matching across the different on board raid chips, and 4 lan ports, it would make a great server.
From the fine article, the sprinklers are kept dry, and 2 events must happen before they are activated.
Both a smoke alarm, and then each individual sprinkler head has a thermal link that must melt before activating.
With a 24/7/365 control room, so yes, they have a chance to shut things down.
The idea that tripping a single sprinkler head will set them all off at once is hollywood fiction. They are set off one by one, when a fusible link burns out at the sprinkler head. Fancier heads can shut off once the heat source is gone, to minimize water damage.
There will be some guy in an ill fitting suit accosting you, "hey man, got extra IP4?" "I gotta plug in man, I'm jones'ng for some connectivity." "IP6? can't. My colon can't take the colons, 3 dots is all I can handle"
For those people with a specific application, put it in a VMware appliance, with what ever distribution you need. Access can be via a browser, or over the network, nice and hardware agnostic.
Other images can be provided for other virtualization services, I'm familiar with the VMware route.
In the bad old days, one had to periodically backup, init the drive, and restore it, on a periodic basis for defraging the disk. This was before there were programs to do this automatically, and online.
This also had the effect of testing the full backup procedures. Not to mention spending a weekend at work.
If i remember correctly VMS used to give a job a temporary priority boost, upon completion of the IO for just this reason, to get it to the top of the cpu queue and get it going again.
Yes in theory. Remember it was designed to survive global thermonuclear war.
No in practice. Because it is cheaper not to. Those multiple routes and connections are more expensive than a simple, single one which works just fine on a clear sunny day.
A hybrid would work very good in a city bus, with the stop and go action, if it has regenerative braking. Another advantage, at least where weather is a problem, is the ability to keep the engine running while stopped, so the heat and air keep working.
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Software by itself doesn't do anything, it needs hardware, training, support, etc to be a complete system. Teachers should be good at teaching, not being computer geeks.
FOSS unlocks the software piece of the system, but the rest is still needed.
The middle initial in FUD looses all its value if said patents are known for certain.
While this was meant as a joke, a pigeon could carry a pretty good sized flash chip these days. Some of the old spy tricks almost make sense with today's tech.
The best paste is rubber cement. The buzz alone was worth it.
From the old hs newspaper days, when everything had to be sent out for typesetting, and then returned for cut up, and pasting for the master, which was shipped back for printing. Computers printed on teletypes or line printers,
Selectrics were the typewriter to have.
It sounds like you need to some basic disaster planning. Think in terms of "what if this happens?"
Like you loose your data center? How good is your backup, is it off site, do you have a tested plan for restoring the data and system on an interm basis on someone's system?
Then you can look at some more specific things, what happens if I loose this server, this connection, this router, and specific services, DNS, Email, etc.
The big question $$$ depends on how much you have to loose. If you can afford a day of downtime, you don't have to spend as much effort on HA as say the NYSE, or an airline.
And all I wanted was a Hz or two. Dang it all.
Ever hear of a diesel-electric locomotive? They have existed for years.
A really, really, tiny violin. Between the cable and telco's the poor thing is taking a real beating.
More interesting would be Solaris. ZFS to do the raid on the SATA drives, mixing and matching across the different on board raid chips, and 4 lan ports, it would make a great server.
If you read the details, while being Sun machines, they are Opteron based, so yeah they compare.
Actually, the pressed seed gives oil that is very much like like diesel, and was considered by Ford and others before WW2.
From the fine article, the sprinklers are kept dry, and 2 events must happen before they are activated.
Both a smoke alarm, and then each individual sprinkler head has a thermal link that must melt before activating.
With a 24/7/365 control room, so yes, they have a chance to shut things down.
The idea that tripping a single sprinkler head will set them all off at once is hollywood fiction. They are set off one by one, when a fusible link burns out at the sprinkler head. Fancier heads can shut off once the heat source is gone, to minimize water damage.
"Ha Ha"
There will be some guy in an ill fitting suit accosting you, "hey man, got extra IP4?" "I gotta plug in man, I'm jones'ng for some connectivity." "IP6? can't. My colon can't take the colons, 3 dots is all I can handle"
Microsoft has been found guilty of patent infringement in the MPEG area, but AFAIK no end users have been sued for using the technology.
For those people with a specific application, put it in a VMware appliance, with what ever distribution you need. Access can be via a browser, or over the network, nice and hardware agnostic.
Other images can be provided for other virtualization services, I'm familiar with the VMware route.
Run different applications in different windows (aka different areas of the screen). How original.
In the bad old days, one had to periodically backup, init the drive, and restore it, on a periodic basis for defraging the disk. This was before there were programs to do this automatically, and online.
This also had the effect of testing the full backup procedures. Not to mention spending a weekend at work.
If i remember correctly VMS used to give a job a temporary priority boost, upon completion of the IO for just this reason, to get it to the top of the cpu queue and get it going again.
In the US of A, advertising slogans would be far more likely.
Solaris 10 is free these days. ZFS looks really good for this kind of application.
Yes in theory. Remember it was designed to survive global thermonuclear war.
No in practice. Because it is cheaper not to. Those multiple routes and connections are more expensive than a simple, single one which works just fine on a clear sunny day.
The reality is somewhere in between.
And you the US, are gonna do WHAT about the on-line gambling issue that didn't go your way?
A hybrid would work very good in a city bus, with the stop and go action, if it has regenerative braking. Another advantage, at least where weather is a problem, is the ability to keep the engine running while stopped, so the heat and air keep working.
The NY times reports today http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/27/science/27marm.h tml the marmoset family of monkeys does this.