Have you thought about software RAID? Before everyone jumps down my throat, I realize that it's slower than hardware RAID...but, here is my rationale for using it:
1) You don't need drives that are the same size. I've done hardware RAID, had a drive fail 2 years down the road and not been able to find an 18GB SCSI drive to re-insert to the array. That has the potential to jack your entire array. With software RAID, you buy a 36G drive, partition it so that 1 partition fits your array, and off you go
2) It's a personal file server, so speed is less important than cost (i'm guessing). With software RAID you can mix all sorts of wonderous things together. IDE drives from the basement, SCSI-320 drives you stole from work and nearly everything in between. It's for flexible, and has no associated controller cost.
3) It's easy as heck. You can configure it in Disk Druid/fdisk, and it works quite easily in any major distribution (I've done it in Slack, Debian, RH, Fedora and Mandrake).
The major downside is that you cannot (as least I don't know how to) hot-swap drives. But again, this is a personal file server. Spend your money on pizza and beer, screw the SCA hot-swap drives that are going to cost you an arm and a leg.
There are offenders in any ultra-conservative area. Take the western side of Michigan. SUre, it's in the northern, supposedly more progressive half of the country, but there are still several smaller (but booming) towns with ridiculous liquor laws. Hudsonville comes to mind, and Zeeland might be the same way, but I'm not 100% sure.
Of course "social life" plays into everyone's decisions about career.
You do, however, have to take a broad definition of the term "social life". For a 22 year old programmer, social life = bars, nightclubs, etc....or it equals hiking, biking and camping availability. For a 35 year old single worker, it probably equals the same thing..but for a married, 35 year old father of two, "social life" is really churches, youth football leagues and PTO meetings.
Whoever you are though, quality of life (which, to a large part, is defined by extra-curricular social interactions) plays a large role in a career selection.
This is a bit of a chicken vs. the egg problem too. She talks about such a high percentage of her patients having online-romance problems. I'm left wondering: are people with other psychological problems getting involved in net-romance? or is net romance causing psychological problems?
Truthfully, I lean toward the "screwed up people are getting screwed" side of things. BUt maybe I'm just a cold cynical bastard.
I had one. The audio coudln't keep up with the video. So I got on Deja.com and found out that this is a *very* common complain with Apex' models. So I bought a Sony.
I just returned an Apex 703. It didnt' overhead, but on nearly every disc I played, the audio and video would end up out of sync after about 20 minutes of watching.
You get what you pay for I guess. I returned it and got a Sony for more money.:(
actually I was using the linux command line tool as a batch processor. So while, yes, the documents were one page each....the problem is the lack of the command line tool.
It was really just a proof of concept anyway....so it's not costing me enough bandwidth to matter having switched away from DjVu.
On that note, I've been using DjVu's open-source encoder for several years to encode text documents. It's compression ratios are incredible and the plugin is also free and easy to install.
The big problem I have with this article is that DJVu isn't a "new image format". It doesn't even display things inline (like GIF, PNG and JPEG). It is however an excellent alternative to PDF if size of file is your main concern.
The extensive references to "speed" when compared to GIFs and PDFs could be one of two things. They could be talking about Download speed (my personal experiences show DjVu files to be about 10 times smaller than GIFs and even more when compared to PDFs. Or, they might be speaking of encoding speed which DjVu seems to excel in
Here is a problem however: the command line encoder used to be free for non-commercial use. I was using DjVu for encoding swim-team documents for a small non-scholarship collegiate swim team. Certainly this counts as non-commercial. HOwever, the new version from Lizard Tech would cost me $2,000 USD to run. That is absurd by comparison. So I'm abandoning DjVu since I can no longer afford the encoder.
Incidentally, if you want to see how it worked for me, I used it on nearly every swim meet results page for a few years. Here is an example, just click on the links next to the word "Splits" in each event: http://www.k-swimming.org/cgi-bin/swimming/results /meet_view.pl?8
You're right....population density is higher in Europe. BUt from an environmental standpoint, they're doing an average job. Urban sprawl is better in Europe and as a result mass transit and auto-emissions are years ahead of the US in general. At least on a per-capita basis. Add to that the fact that last time I was in England, there was more open country side than anywhere outside of Detroit (my hometown).
Actually I heard or read that Nader wasn't initially interested in the Green Party's nomination. THey sought *him* out. At least that's how I understood it.
So what you really have is the Green Party looking for someone people will recognize, someone people will listen to, and someone people respect. *hey!* that's what ALL parties do when they choose a presidential nominee. As soon as the Democrats or Republicans choose some lowly city counsilwoman with great ideas and no national exposure as their nominee I'll listen to your argument.:)
Hip HIp! I'm as quick to bash Americans as the next guy, but Land Rovers are British, and they've been around about twice as long as Ford Explorers and the lot.
That said, I think the US started producing Jeeps an awfully long time ago, so I don't really know who invented SUVs.:)
You're the opposite of most people on this board. You get two thumbs up for having the balls to admit you voted for someone *more* conservative than Bush. Hip Hip.
I find that viewpoint *incredibly* ludicrous. First off, as soon as the entire world starts voting for the president of the USA, you also have the rest of the world admitting or conceding that the USA is the world's primary controller.
Despite the fact that I'm an american citizen, I like the fact that our actions are judged and often condemed by other nations. As soon as the President is choosen by, and hence reports *to* the rest of the world, this sentiment would quickly faide into partisan politics....which is what gets us in our messes in the first place.
CGI to CGI is a fair comparison...however, of COURSE Apache loses "BIGTIME" to CGI vs. ASP.
Apples to Oranges man. ASP vs. PHP3 would be a more fair comparison.
1) Stock system vs. Stock System NEVER EVER EVER happens in benchmarks. Both OSes allow for configuration during install.
2) Stock systems are not what are used in the real world (i.e. webhosting companies) and therefore the results of a benchmark pitting stock system vs. stock system are completely useless. Web hosting companies DO hire talented system-administrators for NT or Linux.
3) your third comment is a complete troll. You should be moderated down.
This is yet another example of why benchmarks are shite.
To illustrate:
I have a pentium200 w/32 Megs of RAM runnign Slackware Linux 7.1 and Apache 1.3.12 compiled from scratch, and connected to the new with a T-1.
Using the provided tool "ab" (Apache Bench) I have concluded (don't flame me, I realize that benchmarks are useless) that my piddly little P-200 could sustain traffic of 25 hits per second.
If that happened for an entire 24 hour period, I'd be looking at 2.1 million hits per day....which is complete bullshiz.
My point? Shame on Dell for posting results from 2 wildly different studies on the traffic any given hardware can support. Shame on Dell for trying to pose NT as the "high-traffic" solution and Red Hat as the low-traffic solution when you have the same hardware. If they start complaining about not selling any Linux servers, then ads like this will be to blame (I've seen the advertisement, and it's completely nuts).
I would disagree with you saying that Indian code is not as high quality. I have several limited experiences with Indian coders, and they have done a *great* job.
Thank said, I have to agree with you 100% that outsourcing is not best used in the short-term. Rather, it reuires some dedication and long term commitment to get through the initial hiccups in order for it to work right.
So once you get to the "we're in this for the long term" you might just want to hire people in house.
It's not like C or Perl code which is usually long and involved, most
everything that can be done with JS/HTML is documented in some book or online help, so I can't really see being
possessive about someone dissecting your code and using it
That is the statement of someone who hasn't had to do something long and in depth in a language. I hear people make that comment about Perl all the time too. "Well stealing CGIs isn't like stealing C...they're short and easy to read anyway".
So in my opinion, code (be in HTML, JavaScript, Visual Basic, etc.) is subject to a license. If you use the GNU, then people have the right to steal your code. If they use a more restrictive license, they should be required to leave your code alone. It's only a matter of time before people put the same restrictions on HTML/JavaScript in my opinion.
This post was not about whether or not Key Escrow was good from the standpoint of privacy and/or morality. Rather, it's about a vulnerability in Key Escrow's current implementation. So frankly, I'm glad it's posted here.
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Have you thought about software RAID? Before everyone jumps down my throat, I realize that it's slower than hardware RAID...but, here is my rationale for using it:
1) You don't need drives that are the same size.
I've done hardware RAID, had a drive fail 2 years down the road and not been able to find an 18GB SCSI drive to re-insert to the array. That has the potential to jack your entire array. With software RAID, you buy a 36G drive, partition it so that 1 partition fits your array, and off you go
2) It's a personal file server, so speed is less important than cost (i'm guessing). With software RAID you can mix all sorts of wonderous things together. IDE drives from the basement, SCSI-320 drives you stole from work and nearly everything in between. It's for flexible, and has no associated controller cost.
3) It's easy as heck. You can configure it in Disk Druid/fdisk, and it works quite easily in any major distribution (I've done it in Slack, Debian, RH, Fedora and Mandrake).
The major downside is that you cannot (as least I don't know how to) hot-swap drives. But again, this is a personal file server. Spend your money on pizza and beer, screw the SCA hot-swap drives that are going to cost you an arm and a leg.
That's just my $0.02...flame away
Apache, while an integral component of my daily existence was just a "Patchy" re-release of the NCSA httpd program that preceded it.
So, it's anything but original or innovative. That said, it's great proof that the OSS model is vastly superior to an Army of Commercial Programmers.
This seems vaguely reminiscent of the potato clock I had when I was a kid.
You stuck potatoes (or fruit) in plastic cups, hooked up some wires to them and *wallah* you had your own LCD clock running just fine.
There are offenders in any ultra-conservative area. Take the western side of Michigan. SUre, it's in the northern, supposedly more progressive half of the country, but there are still several smaller (but booming) towns with ridiculous liquor laws. Hudsonville comes to mind, and Zeeland might be the same way, but I'm not 100% sure.
You do, however, have to take a broad definition of the term "social life". For a 22 year old programmer, social life = bars, nightclubs, etc....or it equals hiking, biking and camping availability. For a 35 year old single worker, it probably equals the same thing..but for a married, 35 year old father of two, "social life" is really churches, youth football leagues and PTO meetings.
Whoever you are though, quality of life (which, to a large part, is defined by extra-curricular social interactions) plays a large role in a career selection.
Truthfully, I lean toward the "screwed up people are getting screwed" side of things. BUt maybe I'm just a cold cynical bastard.
I had one. The audio coudln't keep up with the video. So I got on Deja.com and found out that this is a *very* common complain with Apex' models. So I bought a Sony.
I just returned an Apex 703. It didnt' overhead, but on nearly every disc I played, the audio and video would end up out of sync after about 20 minutes of watching. You get what you pay for I guess. I returned it and got a Sony for more money. :(
This sounds like the problem I had with my Athlon 900MHz when I first got it. I had to tell Lilo to disable it and then it worked fine.
It was really just a proof of concept anyway....so it's not costing me enough bandwidth to matter having switched away from DjVu.
lost the sources :(
went back to download a new copy of it and found that all of a sudden it cost $2000. That was actually my problem.
The big problem I have with this article is that DJVu isn't a "new image format". It doesn't even display things inline (like GIF, PNG and JPEG). It is however an excellent alternative to PDF if size of file is your main concern.
The extensive references to "speed" when compared to GIFs and PDFs could be one of two things. They could be talking about Download speed (my personal experiences show DjVu files to be about 10 times smaller than GIFs and even more when compared to PDFs. Or, they might be speaking of encoding speed which DjVu seems to excel in
Here is a problem however: the command line encoder used to be free for non-commercial use. I was using DjVu for encoding swim-team documents for a small non-scholarship collegiate swim team. Certainly this counts as non-commercial. HOwever, the new version from Lizard Tech would cost me $2,000 USD to run. That is absurd by comparison. So I'm abandoning DjVu since I can no longer afford the encoder.
Incidentally, if you want to see how it worked for me, I used it on nearly every swim meet results page for a few years. Here is an example, just click on the links next to the word "Splits" in each event: http://www.k-swimming.org/cgi-bin/swimming/results /meet_view.pl?8
You're right....population density is higher in Europe. BUt from an environmental standpoint, they're doing an average job. Urban sprawl is better in Europe and as a result mass transit and auto-emissions are years ahead of the US in general. At least on a per-capita basis. Add to that the fact that last time I was in England, there was more open country side than anywhere outside of Detroit (my hometown).
So what you really have is the Green Party looking for someone people will recognize, someone people will listen to, and someone people respect. *hey!* that's what ALL parties do when they choose a presidential nominee. As soon as the Democrats or Republicans choose some lowly city counsilwoman with great ideas and no national exposure as their nominee I'll listen to your argument. :)
That said, I think the US started producing Jeeps an awfully long time ago, so I don't really know who invented SUVs. :)
You're the opposite of most people on this board. You get two thumbs up for having the balls to admit you voted for someone *more* conservative than Bush. Hip Hip.
Despite the fact that I'm an american citizen, I like the fact that our actions are judged and often condemed by other nations. As soon as the President is choosen by, and hence reports *to* the rest of the world, this sentiment would quickly faide into partisan politics....which is what gets us in our messes in the first place.
P.S. Vote for Nader.
CGI to CGI is a fair comparison...however, of COURSE Apache loses "BIGTIME" to CGI vs. ASP. Apples to Oranges man. ASP vs. PHP3 would be a more fair comparison.
2) Stock systems are not what are used in the real world (i.e. webhosting companies) and therefore the results of a benchmark pitting stock system vs. stock system are completely useless. Web hosting companies DO hire talented system-administrators for NT or Linux.
3) your third comment is a complete troll. You should be moderated down.
To illustrate: I have a pentium200 w/32 Megs of RAM runnign Slackware Linux 7.1 and Apache 1.3.12 compiled from scratch, and connected to the new with a T-1.
Using the provided tool "ab" (Apache Bench) I have concluded (don't flame me, I realize that benchmarks are useless) that my piddly little P-200 could sustain traffic of 25 hits per second. If that happened for an entire 24 hour period, I'd be looking at 2.1 million hits per day....which is complete bullshiz.
My point? Shame on Dell for posting results from 2 wildly different studies on the traffic any given hardware can support. Shame on Dell for trying to pose NT as the "high-traffic" solution and Red Hat as the low-traffic solution when you have the same hardware. If they start complaining about not selling any Linux servers, then ads like this will be to blame (I've seen the advertisement, and it's completely nuts).
I get nothing but Mysql errors from that site. Perhaps it's still under construction?
Thank said, I have to agree with you 100% that outsourcing is not best used in the short-term. Rather, it reuires some dedication and long term commitment to get through the initial hiccups in order for it to work right.
So once you get to the "we're in this for the long term" you might just want to hire people in house.
That is the statement of someone who hasn't had to do something long and in depth in a language. I hear people make that comment about Perl all the time too. "Well stealing CGIs isn't like stealing C...they're short and easy to read anyway".
So in my opinion, code (be in HTML, JavaScript, Visual Basic, etc.) is subject to a license. If you use the GNU, then people have the right to steal your code. If they use a more restrictive license, they should be required to leave your code alone. It's only a matter of time before people put the same restrictions on HTML/JavaScript in my opinion.
This post was not about whether or not Key Escrow was good from the standpoint of privacy and/or morality. Rather, it's about a vulnerability in Key Escrow's current implementation. So frankly, I'm glad it's posted here.
...of it's developers.
you're either kidding (and it's not really funny) or you're a troll. Outstanding.