Get a small case, some ram and a small laptop HD. You could do SSD if you wanted really quiet. Then install xbmclive, once setup, configure it to use hdmi. I have three HTPC's based on that board and they can be run fanless and with the dual core and the Nvidia VDPAU i'm doing 1080p over the network to my NAS.
I've tried the WDlive, the seagate, AppleTV, xbox360... none are as flexible as xbmclive.
I worked in a datacenter that was two blocks from the harbor. The datacenter is on the second floor, but what the hell do you do if you're in the building and there is a flood, or if you're at home and have to get to the DC? It reminds me of New Orleans, but that didn't stop them from building it.
I have a Pro and a Duo. Based on debian, community hack support, all around good deal. I couldn't build a tiny pc with as many features and space for the price. X-RAID means you can keep expanding as drives get bigger and cheaper.
The government will put you through the process to get clearance.
The problem you describe is with contractors. It costs a lot of money to put someone through the clearance process and the money is lost if you fail to clear or decide to bail after 6 months.
If the government hires you for a position that needs a clearance, they will clear you.
When I worked for the Navy as a contractor, the Admiral in charge of deciding what software we used asked Bill Gates to lower the license fees. We were buying Exchange 5.5 for all of Naval Sea Systems Command. Bill said no.
Microsoft looks at the military as a business, it doesn't get any special treatment. MS knows they have them by the balls and they treat them as such.
Those tests are the only thing they have signed agreements to do. And that is all that will be done.
There is no money and it isn't happening.
I guess I should explained that I work for one of the companies that didn't win the contract. We are actually glad we lost now. Apple with have to sue the state to get anything and they probably won't. They got what they wanted...headlines that said a school bought thousands of iBooks. What more do you need?
Open relays are common for schools. I recently implemented some thing to reduce spam and all the schools that send us email were blocked, because they are on the list as being an open relay.
Unfortunately, ALL of our business is school related. The open relay block came down. Sigh... I am still able to use the known spammer list, but it isn't as effective as the open relay.
More info on setting this up for yourself can be found at http://www.spews.org . They are kind of a clearing house for all the spam blockers.
I highly recommend using something. I use it personally and have seen a 80% drop in spam that gets through.
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I am guessing this in reference to EverQuest.
Isn't it a Brad McQuaid quote? (VP at Verant)
"Pay me $10 little man, my porsche needs performance upgrades"
Anyway.... I played Ultima Online. I quit when they couldn't control cheating. I think it might have been after a server wipe.....so long ago.
I picked up Dark Age of Camelot after some buddies said it was good. Same buddies I played UO with. I haven't touched another MMOG since I beta tested EverQuest.....(it sucked).
DAoC is good. It isn't a click fest for everything, you can't be PK'ed unless you reach certain level and venture out looking for it. Loot from monsters is yours....no one else can take it. Even if you are fighting with a group, loot is auto-split. You can't die and have someone hork all your stuff. In a nutshell it fixes a lot of problems that UO had and the learning curve is great.
Also, there haven't been the terrible server problems UO had. Someone figured out how to run a server with thousands of users.
Anyway, thumbs up to the DAoC team. I play almost every night. I am addicted.
If that isn't a glowing review....I don't know what is.;p
I was thinking PVC pipe would be good, the main pipe in the middle of the house could be big and the room conduit could be smaller, with 45 degree angles along the way.
If you run conduit, no matter what happens, you can run new cable later.
If it was me I would run the cat5e now and include a string with the pull. Later you can attach whatever cable you want and pull it through. It will be difficult if you don't have conduit.
My future plans include 802.11a, so I am not worried about fiber. I just need one run to the middle of the house for my AP. I am using 802.11b now and I am happy with the speed/wire trade off.
Good luck!
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How are you breaking off the images?
Alteon has a feature that allows you to separate servers by differen jobs. You can have all you images on little boxes and all your cgi's on big honking workhorses. That allows you to reduce the load of serving up images on the big servers.
Just wondering what you guys use. I thought it was Arrowpoints, but I am not sure. If I had to choose it would be alteon, the arrowpoints do things backwards.
I appreciated having a website that was accessible and had news and a place to post feelings. rock on.
The problem is Guy Kawasaki is speaking to adults and business people.
Games, for the most part, are targeted at the younger crowd. They don't know anything about making money or pressure to get things released.
Bad PR is better than no PR. Funcom will limp along and get things working and this will all go away. In the meantime, they have reached thousands of potential gamers.
I haven't played an MMORPG since Ultima Online. I am waiting for the killer game that really does it right.
Apparently you have never had to deal with the superior customer service at Exodus. I can only speak of my experience with the Sterling, VA location, so take this with a grain of salt.
We just pulled 12 racks of equipment from that sorry excuse for a datacenter. We had several boxes fail because of high heat and numerous network problems because of Exodus techs that didn't know what they were doing. Getting more power, a phone line or network drop seems like an impossible task.
I won't even go into the hassle of getting into and out of the building. It isn't a security thing, it seems all the guards are on slow motion.
Our new location has much more cage space and my thumb is in the system so I don't have to deal with a security guard for everything.
As much as I hate spending time in the data center, I do like being able to get in and out quickly.
Here in Northern Virginia, Verizon controls the last mile. The rule is, if Verizon doesn't offer it as a service, then other ISP's can't either. Verizon doesn't run DSL if you are too far from the central office, so the ISP can't either.
I feel that as the one in charge of security, I need to be aware of everything. That means have root access everywhere.
That is why I love this job so much. I have to know it all to be able to secure it. If I couldn't get access to everything, I wouldn't touch the box at all. I can't be sure things are secure if I can't check all processes or users or whatever else I need.
The security role seemed natural to me after being a sysadmin, network engineer, etc. I like beign involved.
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Start with this http://www.amazon.com/Zotac-IONITX-90-Watt-Intel-Motherboard/dp/B002BA5IHC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1283483342&sr=8-3
Get a small case, some ram and a small laptop HD. You could do SSD if you wanted really quiet. Then install xbmclive, once setup, configure it to use hdmi. I have three HTPC's based on that board and they can be run fanless and with the dual core and the Nvidia VDPAU i'm doing 1080p over the network to my NAS.
I've tried the WDlive, the seagate, AppleTV, xbox360... none are as flexible as xbmclive.
I worked in a datacenter that was two blocks from the harbor. The datacenter is on the second floor, but what the hell do you do if you're in the building and there is a flood, or if you're at home and have to get to the DC? It reminds me of New Orleans, but that didn't stop them from building it.
http://www.readynas.com/
I have a Pro and a Duo. Based on debian, community hack support, all around good deal. I couldn't build a tiny pc with as many features and space for the price. X-RAID means you can keep expanding as drives get bigger and cheaper.
I think you're screwed.
http://gjukebox.sourceforge.net/
Development is pretty much dead, but it is a mix of perl, php and mysql. I have been using it for years and love it.
Web gui, cmd line if you know perl, auto rips cds, stores mp3s logically, in general it is nice.
What is the "official" answer?
What is the real answer?
I probably sound like and idiot, but I am curious to know what you think the real answer is.
OMG!!! DejaVu!!!! My two racks are both silver. ;)
What are you using to keep the racks upright? They don't appear to be bolted to the floor.
The government will put you through the process to get clearance.
The problem you describe is with contractors. It costs a lot of money to put someone through the clearance process and the money is lost if you fail to clear or decide to bail after 6 months.
If the government hires you for a position that needs a clearance, they will clear you.
I get that now.
Sigh.... I am averaging 5 a day, that get BLOCKED. I use several RBL's to block spam and a few still seem to get through.
When I worked for the Navy as a contractor, the Admiral in charge of deciding what software we used asked Bill Gates to lower the license fees. We were buying Exchange 5.5 for all of Naval Sea Systems Command. Bill said no.
Microsoft looks at the military as a business, it doesn't get any special treatment. MS knows they have them by the balls and they treat them as such.
Those tests are the only thing they have signed agreements to do. And that is all that will be done.
There is no money and it isn't happening.
I guess I should explained that I work for one of the companies that didn't win the contract. We are actually glad we lost now. Apple with have to sue the state to get anything and they probably won't. They got what they wanted...headlines that said a school bought thousands of iBooks. What more do you need?
Guess what? You will never hear the real story.
There is a budget shortfall and guess what is getting slashed?
That whole maine thing was a was for Apple to get lots of free press.
Open relays are common for schools. I recently implemented some thing to reduce spam and all the schools that send us email were blocked, because they are on the list as being an open relay.
Unfortunately, ALL of our business is school related. The open relay block came down. Sigh... I am still able to use the known spammer list, but it isn't as effective as the open relay.
More info on setting this up for yourself can be found at http://www.spews.org . They are kind of a clearing house for all the spam blockers.
I highly recommend using something. I use it personally and have seen a 80% drop in spam that gets through.
jas
Maybe slashdot her website?
http://www.fent.net/about.html
I stand corrected.
Both of 'em were dicks anyway. >;)
I am guessing this in reference to EverQuest.
;p
Isn't it a Brad McQuaid quote? (VP at Verant)
"Pay me $10 little man, my porsche needs performance upgrades"
Anyway.... I played Ultima Online. I quit when they couldn't control cheating. I think it might have been after a server wipe.....so long ago.
I picked up Dark Age of Camelot after some buddies said it was good. Same buddies I played UO with. I haven't touched another MMOG since I beta tested EverQuest.....(it sucked).
DAoC is good. It isn't a click fest for everything, you can't be PK'ed unless you reach certain level and venture out looking for it. Loot from monsters is yours....no one else can take it. Even if you are fighting with a group, loot is auto-split. You can't die and have someone hork all your stuff. In a nutshell it fixes a lot of problems that UO had and the learning curve is great.
Also, there haven't been the terrible server problems UO had. Someone figured out how to run a server with thousands of users.
Anyway, thumbs up to the DAoC team. I play almost every night. I am addicted.
If that isn't a glowing review....I don't know what is.
Check the nocat site for the (Wireless router Project) WRP. I think that is what you are looking for.
http://www.nocat.net
It will be less than ten years.....
Servers will still be hardwired, but all clients will be wireless.
What is the diameter of that tube?
I was thinking PVC pipe would be good, the main pipe in the middle of the house could be big and the room conduit could be smaller, with 45 degree angles along the way.
Any reason not to use PVC?....besides cost?
If you run conduit, no matter what happens, you can run new cable later.
If it was me I would run the cat5e now and include a string with the pull. Later you can attach whatever cable you want and pull it through. It will be difficult if you don't have conduit.
My future plans include 802.11a, so I am not worried about fiber. I just need one run to the middle of the house for my AP. I am using 802.11b now and I am happy with the speed/wire trade off.
Good luck!
How are you breaking off the images?
Alteon has a feature that allows you to separate servers by differen jobs. You can have all you images on little boxes and all your cgi's on big honking workhorses. That allows you to reduce the load of serving up images on the big servers.
Just wondering what you guys use. I thought it was Arrowpoints, but I am not sure. If I had to choose it would be alteon, the arrowpoints do things backwards.
I appreciated having a website that was accessible and had news and a place to post feelings. rock on.
The problem is Guy Kawasaki is speaking to adults and business people.
Games, for the most part, are targeted at the younger crowd. They don't know anything about making money or pressure to get things released.
Bad PR is better than no PR. Funcom will limp along and get things working and this will all go away. In the meantime, they have reached thousands of potential gamers.
I haven't played an MMORPG since Ultima Online. I am waiting for the killer game that really does it right.
Apparently you have never had to deal with the superior customer service at Exodus. I can only speak of my experience with the Sterling, VA location, so take this with a grain of salt.
We just pulled 12 racks of equipment from that sorry excuse for a datacenter. We had several boxes fail because of high heat and numerous network problems because of Exodus techs that didn't know what they were doing. Getting more power, a phone line or network drop seems like an impossible task.
I won't even go into the hassle of getting into and out of the building. It isn't a security thing, it seems all the guards are on slow motion.
Our new location has much more cage space and my thumb is in the system so I don't have to deal with a security guard for everything.
As much as I hate spending time in the data center, I do like being able to get in and out quickly.
jas
Here in Northern Virginia, Verizon controls the last mile. The rule is, if Verizon doesn't offer it as a service, then other ISP's can't either. Verizon doesn't run DSL if you are too far from the central office, so the ISP can't either.
It pisses me off.
I feel that as the one in charge of security, I need to be aware of everything. That means have root access everywhere.
That is why I love this job so much. I have to know it all to be able to secure it. If I couldn't get access to everything, I wouldn't touch the box at all. I can't be sure things are secure if I can't check all processes or users or whatever else I need.
The security role seemed natural to me after being a sysadmin, network engineer, etc. I like beign involved.