Bingo. Nothing in battle is more important than knowing where your enemy is, so you can either avoid him, or smack his fanny where he least expects it.
Au contraire (sp?). While installation support is great for the initiated, untrained user, it's superfluous to someone like myself who does his own package management.
The same with device support. It's nice to know that on windows, any device you purchase will come with a driver for you to use. It's a bit more annoying to have to take the linux hardware compatibility list with you whenever you go component shopping.
Without great, all-encompassing device support, and dumb-ass user installation tools, I still get useful work done. My mom wouldn't necessarily like it, but even she can get her email, access her recipes, and play the odd game of mahjongg.
For 3 computers, a rack is serious overkill. Unless you can do something like an underdesk rack. I found these rack rails last week while searching for something. I want a rack that is sturdy enough for me to move from house to house without disassembling, and came across these.
You could use 2 pair of these to build an underdesk rolling rack cage (3 4U servers is only 28 inches).
Let's see, they call it taxachusetts for a reason.
Buy a car anywhere, register it, pay $60, plus sales tax (only on title transfer, which is another $40 fee). Excise tax on a new car worth $27500 ($600/y) (2001 chrysler sebring). I pay $47/y on my 1997 Mercury Sable. Hmm, 5% sales tax, except on food and clothing. 5% use tax on same. 7.9% income tax for $40K+ income. $10 per $1000 property tax in most communities.
Nevermind the alcohol tax. There's a reason we go over the border to NH to buy alcohol. Perfect example: 1.75L of Peachtree in MA: $35. 1.75L of Peachtree in NH: $19.
Gax taxes in this state are $.38/gallon. Average gas price is $1.75 for 87 octane. 20/c of that tax is state, the rest federal. Yes, you read that right, a 20% tax on gas...;-) Not that I'm complaining. Drivers should pay for the majority of the roads through gas taxes.
Nice place to live. Cold as a sumbitch, but nice.
The fact that a low-income family isn't getting fucked with a nasty sales tax for food and clothing makes us somewhat lovable (Bush has NO chance of winning Massachusetts).
Yes, it doesn't particularly help low-frequencies, but for the high-pitched whine of the cabin fans, and all the gibbering going on... (much of which comes simply from the ear cups).
You say you're penalized? Of course you are. You have to deal with the logistics of managing a B&M. Taxes don't factor into this. Let me give you a concrete example: Taxachusetts, 5% sales tax.
Purchase a $900 computer at CompUSA, and pay $45 in taxes.
Purchase the same computer online for $500, and pay $25 in use taxes. All told, my computer is *STILL* half the price of the one from CompUSA.
For things like that, you cannot offer the turnover and efficiencies that mail order can. It's why places like Calumet, Adorama, and B&H Photo killed the local neighborhood camera store.
Economies of scale break down when you've got a supply chain that looks like:
Nikon -> Nikon USA -> Regional Distributor -> B&M.
*Genius award*. Plus, how much does it really cost for the business to have a van round around town once or twice a day dropping packages off? Hell, even a $1-$3 delivery charge pays for the service.
But there's a fundamental difference. Unix gives you (as a developer/user) means to protect yourself. As an example, I had a set of nameservers running bind that were exploited by some script-kiddie a few years back. Because of my negligence, I lost two good servers. So I reimaged them, and built a number of chroot jails around my dns servers. Now script kiddie comes back, and all of a sudden he can't do squat. So my cron job detects that the server is hosed, kills it (killing the kiddie), reimages the jail, and restarts it. Kiddie does this shit 10 or 12 times before he realizes he's wasting his time, and here I am 2 years later, servers still running.
Windows DOESN'T have this ability. It makes concessions so that things are easy for the USER, and gives them no way to protect their software from themselves. It's a fundamental design difference.
It's not immune. But it's proactive about security threats (unix/linux). Hell, on Windows a non-privileged user can still use privileged ports. Any piece of spyware can masquerade as an ftp or telnet server without the user even knowing it, even if they run it as a guest user.
Tell me how that's conducive to keeping a secure system?
Which is a damn good point. If I could get digital copies of O'Reilly's books for $1 a pop, I would. But I can't, so Safari has to be good enough for me, and I have to hope that the resort in Jamaica has WiFi.
I can take my laptop anywhere. Taking my laptop + Internet + books necessary to do my job is tougher.
Way back in the day, companies used dongles to help enforce software license compliance. mm.. When was the last time you used a dongle, eh?
It's more expensive trying to fight the pirates than it is to just produce content. I challenge you to name a single (already viable, not starving) recording artist or software house that was driven into the ground because of piracy.
Pirates are people who wouldn't have paid for your shit anyway.
At which point I have a basis for a giant, company-shattering product liability suit. Yah, you sold me this piece of shit software, and on the day you discontinue support for it, the damn thing formats my hard drive, displays images of Bill Gates' ass and makes puckering noises. I want my money back, and treble damages for inciting me to commit suicide!!!
I lived next to a railroad for 8 years as a kid, like 50' from the railroad. in fact, except for a few occasions, I mostly never heard the nightly 11pm train go by.
Then again, I'm a guy would could fall asleep on a jet engine running at full throttle.
iptables kicks the crap out of XP's built in firewall. I'm surprised it took them this long to get around to doing something similar. Innovation my ass.;-)
Who cares though? 1000baseT isn't going to be supplanted in the timeframe your motherboard is viable, firewire2 isn't going away, neither is serial ATA. Having 1 or two PCI-Express slots on your machine coupled with an all-in-one motherboard isn't a bad thing. If one small part of your motherboard breaks, sound, nic, etc, you replace it with a new card. If more than one thing breaks, you'd naturally be thinking about a replacement anyway.
As long as I still have my PCI-express 16x slot, and a couple PCI-E 1x-4x slots, I'll be happy, for those rare things like video capture/etc that aren't onboard already (or aren't good enough in USB/firewire models).
Let's face it gents, slots are going away for general purpose devices...
I wish you people would shut up about the damn space elevator already. Please tell me how you're going to build a 20,000km space tether out of unobtanium WITHOUT FUCKING CHEAP ACCESS TO SPACE?!
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They'll respect it if I shove a missile up their flame tunnel. ;-)
Thank you for landing on Chris' Moon. Your departure fee will be 10 tons of water.
Bingo. Nothing in battle is more important than knowing where your enemy is, so you can either avoid him, or smack his fanny where he least expects it.
Um, 1880's or thereabouts? Or when did the wars against the heathen Indians end? I forget, but I figure the death of Custer to be a damn good metric.
Au contraire (sp?). While installation support is great for the initiated, untrained user, it's superfluous to someone like myself who does his own package management.
The same with device support. It's nice to know that on windows, any device you purchase will come with a driver for you to use. It's a bit more annoying to have to take the linux hardware compatibility list with you whenever you go component shopping.
Without great, all-encompassing device support, and dumb-ass user installation tools, I still get useful work done. My mom wouldn't necessarily like it, but even she can get her email, access her recipes, and play the odd game of mahjongg.
For 3 computers, a rack is serious overkill. Unless you can do something like an underdesk rack. I found these rack rails last week while searching for something. I want a rack that is sturdy enough for me to move from house to house without disassembling, and came across these.
You could use 2 pair of these to build an underdesk rolling rack cage (3 4U servers is only 28 inches).
I cannot honestly believe that a decent regexp search is worse than page flipping.
Tho I did see the Subversion book is available online.
Let's see, they call it taxachusetts for a reason.
;-) Not that I'm complaining. Drivers should pay for the majority of the roads through gas taxes.
Buy a car anywhere, register it, pay $60, plus sales tax (only on title transfer, which is another $40 fee). Excise tax on a new car worth $27500 ($600/y) (2001 chrysler sebring). I pay $47/y on my 1997 Mercury Sable. Hmm, 5% sales tax, except on food and clothing. 5% use tax on same. 7.9% income tax for $40K+ income. $10 per $1000 property tax in most communities.
Nevermind the alcohol tax. There's a reason we go over the border to NH to buy alcohol. Perfect example: 1.75L of Peachtree in MA: $35. 1.75L of Peachtree in NH: $19.
Gax taxes in this state are $.38/gallon. Average gas price is $1.75 for 87 octane. 20/c of that tax is state, the rest federal. Yes, you read that right, a 20% tax on gas...
Nice place to live. Cold as a sumbitch, but nice.
The fact that a low-income family isn't getting fucked with a nasty sales tax for food and clothing makes us somewhat lovable (Bush has NO chance of winning Massachusetts).
Oh, and gun permits are $100. Every 4 years.
Yes, it doesn't particularly help low-frequencies, but for the high-pitched whine of the cabin fans, and all the gibbering going on... (much of which comes simply from the ear cups).
;-)
Plus, they sound damn good.
Itanium is hardly what I'd call RISC.
Why intel didn't just buy ALL of the AXP technology off Digital and ship that as the Itanic continues to boggle my mind to this day...
Audio AV gear is usually not deep enough to house 1U servers, so I don't advise it.
Rackmount? For 3 pcs? Something small? Bad idea. Mini-ITX or or microATX is the way to go. Small boxes like this:
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http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?d
Racks themselves are expensive. Figure on a $250 minimum investment. Then a $100 minimum case cost.
I've got a number of skyhawk 4U cases in a 48U rack. It works for me, especially with all my AV gear in lockdown shelves. Works for me, YMMV.
Geez, how old are your PATA cables that you can't get notched connectors?
You say you're penalized? Of course you are. You have to deal with the logistics of managing a B&M. Taxes don't factor into this. Let me give you a concrete example: Taxachusetts, 5% sales tax.
Purchase a $900 computer at CompUSA, and pay $45 in taxes.
Purchase the same computer online for $500, and pay $25 in use taxes. All told, my computer is *STILL* half the price of the one from CompUSA.
For things like that, you cannot offer the turnover and efficiencies that mail order can. It's why places like Calumet, Adorama, and B&H Photo killed the local neighborhood camera store.
Economies of scale break down when you've got a supply chain that looks like:
Nikon -> Nikon USA -> Regional Distributor -> B&M.
And that is why the playing field isn't level.
*Genius award*. Plus, how much does it really cost for the business to have a van round around town once or twice a day dropping packages off? Hell, even a $1-$3 delivery charge pays for the service.
Better,
7) Don't use html mail.
But there's a fundamental difference. Unix gives you (as a developer/user) means to protect yourself. As an example, I had a set of nameservers running bind that were exploited by some script-kiddie a few years back. Because of my negligence, I lost two good servers. So I reimaged them, and built a number of chroot jails around my dns servers. Now script kiddie comes back, and all of a sudden he can't do squat. So my cron job detects that the server is hosed, kills it (killing the kiddie), reimages the jail, and restarts it. Kiddie does this shit 10 or 12 times before he realizes he's wasting his time, and here I am 2 years later, servers still running.
Windows DOESN'T have this ability. It makes concessions so that things are easy for the USER, and gives them no way to protect their software from themselves. It's a fundamental design difference.
It's not immune. But it's proactive about security threats (unix/linux). Hell, on Windows a non-privileged user can still use privileged ports. Any piece of spyware can masquerade as an ftp or telnet server without the user even knowing it, even if they run it as a guest user.
Tell me how that's conducive to keeping a secure system?
Which is a damn good point. If I could get digital copies of O'Reilly's books for $1 a pop, I would. But I can't, so Safari has to be good enough for me, and I have to hope that the resort in Jamaica has WiFi.
I can take my laptop anywhere. Taking my laptop + Internet + books necessary to do my job is tougher.
Way back in the day, companies used dongles to help enforce software license compliance. mm.. When was the last time you used a dongle, eh?
It's more expensive trying to fight the pirates than it is to just produce content. I challenge you to name a single (already viable, not starving) recording artist or software house that was driven into the ground because of piracy.
Pirates are people who wouldn't have paid for your shit anyway.
At which point I have a basis for a giant, company-shattering product liability suit. Yah, you sold me this piece of shit software, and on the day you discontinue support for it, the damn thing formats my hard drive, displays images of Bill Gates' ass and makes puckering noises. I want my money back, and treble damages for inciting me to commit suicide!!!
Yes they do. Usually in reference to your mom. ;-)
I lived next to a railroad for 8 years as a kid, like 50' from the railroad. in fact, except for a few occasions, I mostly never heard the nightly 11pm train go by.
Then again, I'm a guy would could fall asleep on a jet engine running at full throttle.
I have a pair of the Bose noise cancelling headsets. I don't have to adjust my volume. :-)
iptables kicks the crap out of XP's built in firewall. I'm surprised it took them this long to get around to doing something similar. Innovation my ass. ;-)
Who cares though? 1000baseT isn't going to be supplanted in the timeframe your motherboard is viable, firewire2 isn't going away, neither is serial ATA. Having 1 or two PCI-Express slots on your machine coupled with an all-in-one motherboard isn't a bad thing. If one small part of your motherboard breaks, sound, nic, etc, you replace it with a new card. If more than one thing breaks, you'd naturally be thinking about a replacement anyway.
As long as I still have my PCI-express 16x slot, and a couple PCI-E 1x-4x slots, I'll be happy, for those rare things like video capture/etc that aren't onboard already (or aren't good enough in USB/firewire models).
Let's face it gents, slots are going away for general purpose devices...
I wish you people would shut up about the damn space elevator already. Please tell me how you're going to build a 20,000km space tether out of unobtanium WITHOUT FUCKING CHEAP ACCESS TO SPACE?!
;-)
Thank you.