That's nothing. Our corporate IT department (we're a fortune 20 company) charges other departments in the organization 6 hours @ $85/hour to (drumroll......) create a xen guest on an existing server that's "owned" by the department being billed.
Typing "xm create foo" = $510
Then they bill the victim retail price for a RHEL license on top of that. So you'd think we'd get a little support...nope. You want to take a piss around here, you fill out a few tickets and wait until the 71st hour of their 72 hour SLA before anyone can be bothered to get off their ass to read the ticket.
So we've just been ignoring them and rolling out CentOS and staffing our own mini IT group instead. At least they'll get up off their bums when something is broken and fix it.
WHERE makes a huge difference. I punted AT&T in NYC due to the maddening frequency of dropped calls. Up in the burbs, I was satisfied with the service, but had to switch when I started spending more time in Manhattan due to a job change. I'm really happy with T-Mobile now, but I suspect that might not be the case if I was out in the boonies.
Agreed. I like Crysis because of its overall polish and the flexibility allowed in terms of how problems can be solved. It doesn't hurt that the eye candy is ALSO rather stunning if your rig has the hardware to handle it. So I'm willing to accept less "realistic" gunplay for better overall realism and more engaging environment.
If you want 100% realistic gunplay, get off your ass, give the sofa a rest, and visit a rifle range.
Now all we need is the next iteration of Crysis to suck the life out of the latest and greatest video card so people will be pining away for something offering the performance of 3 of these puppies in crossfire mode @ 1/3 of the price.
Geeks all over the world are going to have to live with mom and dad an extra few months to pay for that indulgence.:)
What's more valuable? 1.5 billion consumers with a very limited purchasing power or developed countries where eyeballs are actually worth paying for?
I think Google should not submit to Chinese bullying at all. It's not a market worth chasing given the effort and bad karma required to be a participant.
Historically, the church has always frowned upon the unwashed masses being able to communicate and think for themselves. Hell, it was only a few decades ago that they allowed masses to be performed in languages other than Latin...effectively making 99% of their flock reliant entirely upon their interpretation of the very documents they use to "shepherd" their flock.
*yawn*
The more things change, the more they stay the same....
OK, burn me at the stake. I double dog dare ya...:)
It took me about 15 minutes to show them how to navigate around (compared to their old Windows XP machine that just gave up the ghost). The only thing I needed to set up for them was flash video so they can use youtube. The system keeps itself updated automatically and they'd already been using Openoffice under Windows.
They've got a brand new Asus notebook and Ubuntu found all the hardware bits by itself (including wifi and bluetooth). Haven't gotten a "support request" in months. I left a bootable Vista partition just in case they decide they want to get back on the Windows merry-go-round, but so far they haven't seen any need.
I work in NYC and have the choice between Verizon and ATT for my "company" phone service. I use the data features fairly frequently and when our group of 40-50 folks sits down and chats (we're pretty equally divided between ATT and Verizon users) it seems to me that ATT data service is usually faster and more reliable. Of the people who are most vocal about their Verizon support there, they seem to be mostly voice users and only casual data users.
As far as the iPhone goes, I'd MUCH rather have a Nexus One if I was in the market for a fancy smart phone.
I've been using 1.2.3 since it was released and while some of the problems have gotten better it still isn't nearly stable enough to be a core component of an ISP's mix of gear. Also, 2.0 has been in alpha for ages and only JUST went to beta and has a prominent warning in their support forums about not trusting it for production use.
I've heard things are MUCH better when using it as an inbound loadbalancer, but the outbound stuff is troublesome and doesn't scale well (at least for me).
That said, for a SOHO environment, it's a pretty good solution and the price is right.:)
PFsense has been OK for me in a small business environment, but it's nowhere near robust enough for ISP duty. For one, the multiwan implementation has been somewhat troublesome (mostly working, but occasional glitches) and traffic shaping doesn't work at all with multiwan. If you can do your multiwan stuff with an appliance, then perhaps that's not an issue, but my assumption was that you wanted something to act as your "core" using commodity hardware.
Do you honestly think people are going to pay US$30-40k for a compact car that (feature-wise) compares to a US$16k Toyota Corolla?
Other than the deep pocketed early adopters and people who want to flaunt their "greenness", I think the sales of the Volt are going to be bleak.
And even if they sold every one of their stated 8000 unit capacity (in the first year), they're losing money on each one AND reliant on a government subsidy to close the sale.
This has epic failure written all over it even though it seems to a casual observer to be a "nice product."
Like all the other smartphones in recent memory, they cost a fortune if you're an early adopter. If you don't want to get mugged then just wait a couple of months for the hoopla to die down. Your old phone won't stop working in the interim if you don't have the latest whizbang handset the day after its release.
"amount and quality of quests, other players (major part in mmo!), raiding, instances, battlegrounds or in-game economy. MMO's are a lot about the community and other people you play with - they make the world."
Sounds kinda like...'erm....Wall Street. Should try that other MMO called "real life." Some folks even manage to eke out a living by playing.
The same thing happens when China "cracks down." The media whines and opines for a while, but at the end of the day the rest of the world is powerless to stop these boneheads from abusing their own people. I feel for those affected, but at some point the people inside the Matrix need to do more to help themselves. Having the people outside complain really doesn't do a whole lot to make it better.
So if I'm a thug government, I know I can pretty much do what I want, especially if I have something the world wants (cheap labor/oil/etc).
I've been looking for a media jukebox that I can dump all my audio/video content onto. I *never* watch cable TV and have no interest in recording it or watching it with the system. What would be a good solution for this? I'd prefer to stick with something that runs on Ubuntu 'cuz that's what my extra box is currently running.
I have a machine with an ATI 4870 card that dual boots Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7. I haven't had any issues at all and it just plain worked out of the box with both operating systems.
I finally got to see what all the hoopla was with Crysis.:)
Also, Ubuntu 9.10 + compiz seems to work just fine on my 3 year old laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon x1600. Again, I didn't do anything special and it just plain worked without any intervention from me.
A Chinese company trying to pinch Microsoft for IP theft. That's funny.
I'm no Microsoft fanboy, but I have to wonder what minuscule percentage of Chinese Windows installations are actually using legit copies of Windows. Based on my few years of time in Beijing and being in Chinese GOVERNMENT offices where every copy of the OS and Office that I saw used a pirated license key (yes, every last one), I can't help but get a big belly laugh out of this.
I'd type this in Chinese, but I fear that would just be piling on.:)
One need only look at the "aid" money China lavishes on Africa in exchange for sweetheart deals to buy their natural resources to know why this happened.
So I'll grant you that Intel's flagship i7 is faster than AMD's flagship Phenom II, but the Phenom has a slightly LOWER TDP and is 1/5 of the cost of the i7. Is the i7 4-5 times faster?
Oh well, so goes it with parts of the Linux culture.
Coulda been worse. He could have been trying to get something folded in to the OpenBSD kernel. Theo makes those surly Linux kernel developers look like Miss Congeniality.:)
I don't know of ANY serious ISP that pays any attention to SORBS and it's been that way for a few years. Whoever cashed that $451k check had better squirrel that money away quickly before the unwitting buyer tries to claw it back.
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That's nothing. Our corporate IT department (we're a fortune 20 company) charges other departments in the organization 6 hours @ $85/hour to (drumroll......) create a xen guest on an existing server that's "owned" by the department being billed.
Typing "xm create foo" = $510
Then they bill the victim retail price for a RHEL license on top of that. So you'd think we'd get a little support...nope. You want to take a piss around here, you fill out a few tickets and wait until the 71st hour of their 72 hour SLA before anyone can be bothered to get off their ass to read the ticket.
So we've just been ignoring them and rolling out CentOS and staffing our own mini IT group instead. At least they'll get up off their bums when something is broken and fix it.
WHERE makes a huge difference. I punted AT&T in NYC due to the maddening frequency of dropped calls. Up in the burbs, I was satisfied with the service, but had to switch when I started spending more time in Manhattan due to a job change. I'm really happy with T-Mobile now, but I suspect that might not be the case if I was out in the boonies.
Agreed. I like Crysis because of its overall polish and the flexibility allowed in terms of how problems can be solved. It doesn't hurt that the eye candy is ALSO rather stunning if your rig has the hardware to handle it. So I'm willing to accept less "realistic" gunplay for better overall realism and more engaging environment.
If you want 100% realistic gunplay, get off your ass, give the sofa a rest, and visit a rifle range.
Now all we need is the next iteration of Crysis to suck the life out of the latest and greatest video card so people will be pining away for something offering the performance of 3 of these puppies in crossfire mode @ 1/3 of the price.
Geeks all over the world are going to have to live with mom and dad an extra few months to pay for that indulgence. :)
Given that ZFS was developed and trademarked by Sun, on what grounds does Netapp have any leg to stand on here? This is crazy.
What's more valuable? 1.5 billion consumers with a very limited purchasing power or developed countries where eyeballs are actually worth paying for?
I think Google should not submit to Chinese bullying at all. It's not a market worth chasing given the effort and bad karma required to be a participant.
Historically, the church has always frowned upon the unwashed masses being able to communicate and think for themselves. Hell, it was only a few decades ago that they allowed masses to be performed in languages other than Latin...effectively making 99% of their flock reliant entirely upon their interpretation of the very documents they use to "shepherd" their flock.
*yawn*
The more things change, the more they stay the same....
OK, burn me at the stake. I double dog dare ya... :)
It took me about 15 minutes to show them how to navigate around (compared to their old Windows XP machine that just gave up the ghost). The only thing I needed to set up for them was flash video so they can use youtube. The system keeps itself updated automatically and they'd already been using Openoffice under Windows.
They've got a brand new Asus notebook and Ubuntu found all the hardware bits by itself (including wifi and bluetooth). Haven't gotten a "support request" in months. I left a bootable Vista partition just in case they decide they want to get back on the Windows merry-go-round, but so far they haven't seen any need.
Best,
Why not just stash your farm of slow php systems behind some heavy duty caching appliance(s)?
Something like aicache might fit the bill.
I work in NYC and have the choice between Verizon and ATT for my "company" phone service. I use the data features fairly frequently and when our group of 40-50 folks sits down and chats (we're pretty equally divided between ATT and Verizon users) it seems to me that ATT data service is usually faster and more reliable. Of the people who are most vocal about their Verizon support there, they seem to be mostly voice users and only casual data users.
As far as the iPhone goes, I'd MUCH rather have a Nexus One if I was in the market for a fancy smart phone.
I've been using 1.2.3 since it was released and while some of the problems have gotten better it still isn't nearly stable enough to be a core component of an ISP's mix of gear. Also, 2.0 has been in alpha for ages and only JUST went to beta and has a prominent warning in their support forums about not trusting it for production use.
I've heard things are MUCH better when using it as an inbound loadbalancer, but the outbound stuff is troublesome and doesn't scale well (at least for me).
That said, for a SOHO environment, it's a pretty good solution and the price is right. :)
PFsense has been OK for me in a small business environment, but it's nowhere near robust enough for ISP duty. For one, the multiwan implementation has been somewhat troublesome (mostly working, but occasional glitches) and traffic shaping doesn't work at all with multiwan. If you can do your multiwan stuff with an appliance, then perhaps that's not an issue, but my assumption was that you wanted something to act as your "core" using commodity hardware.
Best,
Do you honestly think people are going to pay US$30-40k for a compact car that (feature-wise) compares to a US$16k Toyota Corolla?
Other than the deep pocketed early adopters and people who want to flaunt their "greenness", I think the sales of the Volt are going to be bleak.
And even if they sold every one of their stated 8000 unit capacity (in the first year), they're losing money on each one AND reliant on a government subsidy to close the sale.
This has epic failure written all over it even though it seems to a casual observer to be a "nice product."
Like all the other smartphones in recent memory, they cost a fortune if you're an early adopter. If you don't want to get mugged then just wait a couple of months for the hoopla to die down. Your old phone won't stop working in the interim if you don't have the latest whizbang handset the day after its release.
"amount and quality of quests, other players (major part in mmo!), raiding, instances, battlegrounds or in-game economy. MMO's are a lot about the community and other people you play with - they make the world."
Sounds kinda like...'erm....Wall Street. Should try that other MMO called "real life." Some folks even manage to eke out a living by playing.
The same thing happens when China "cracks down." The media whines and opines for a while, but at the end of the day the rest of the world is powerless to stop these boneheads from abusing their own people. I feel for those affected, but at some point the people inside the Matrix need to do more to help themselves. Having the people outside complain really doesn't do a whole lot to make it better.
So if I'm a thug government, I know I can pretty much do what I want, especially if I have something the world wants (cheap labor/oil/etc).
I'm excited about the ATI improvements making it into the kernel too. Wonder if Ubuntu Karmic will pick up the new kernel after some testing?
I've been looking for a media jukebox that I can dump all my audio/video content onto. I *never* watch cable TV and have no interest in recording it or watching it with the system. What would be a good solution for this? I'd prefer to stick with something that runs on Ubuntu 'cuz that's what my extra box is currently running.
I have a machine with an ATI 4870 card that dual boots Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7. I haven't had any issues at all and it just plain worked out of the box with both operating systems.
I finally got to see what all the hoopla was with Crysis. :)
Also, Ubuntu 9.10 + compiz seems to work just fine on my 3 year old laptop with an ATI Mobility Radeon x1600. Again, I didn't do anything special and it just plain worked without any intervention from me.
A Chinese company trying to pinch Microsoft for IP theft. That's funny.
I'm no Microsoft fanboy, but I have to wonder what minuscule percentage of Chinese Windows installations are actually using legit copies of Windows. Based on my few years of time in Beijing and being in Chinese GOVERNMENT offices where every copy of the OS and Office that I saw used a pirated license key (yes, every last one), I can't help but get a big belly laugh out of this.
I'd type this in Chinese, but I fear that would just be piling on. :)
One need only look at the "aid" money China lavishes on Africa in exchange for sweetheart deals to buy their natural resources to know why this happened.
Is anyone really surprised?
According to Newegg:
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor $199.99
Intel Core i7-975 Extreme Edition Bloomfield 3.33GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core Processor $999.99
So I'll grant you that Intel's flagship i7 is faster than AMD's flagship Phenom II, but the Phenom has a slightly LOWER TDP and is 1/5 of the cost of the i7. Is the i7 4-5 times faster?
Oh well, so goes it with parts of the Linux culture.
Coulda been worse. He could have been trying to get something folded in to the OpenBSD kernel. Theo makes those surly Linux kernel developers look like Miss Congeniality. :)
I don't know of ANY serious ISP that pays any attention to SORBS and it's been that way for a few years. Whoever cashed that $451k check had better squirrel that money away quickly before the unwitting buyer tries to claw it back.
I'd say he's still fairly influential in the open source community.