When you're connecting to 5-10 people at a time, and are always seeing those speeds, then you start to see the benefit. It's easy to back up a server over a gigabit link, but try getting on-demand content from students all over the country.
Intra-campus you could see full 100mbit between machines, going offcampus 1mbit wasn't that unusual and sometimes much higher during non-peak hours. Like anything, it really depended on which school you were connecting to and how congested the network was when you were trying to pull.
Does this mean I get a refund on my VIP membership?;) Seriously though, I2hub was an awesome project while it lasted. The whole point of this network was to bring together college students using highspeed networks. While some students chose to share copyrighted files, a lot of others uses I2hub for legitimate and semi-scholarly purposes. I can't tell you how many times I've helped kids with their C++ and Java questions, found good game competitors, and reconnected with old friends. The whole point of the I2 network is to see what researchers and academics can do with large amounts of bandwidth. I2hub certainly explored that question. So... what's next?
"The Best Run Businesses Run SAP" is a true statement... SAP says it over and over again. What they're really stating is that only the best run businesses can survive a SAP implementation, the rest run out of money or patience, or worse, end up being driven out of business by the enormous cost and disruption it causes. SAP has a HORRIBLE track record on linux. They claim support for linux and other non-MS platforms, but that's only for their core products. Everything outside of CRM and R3 is riddled with technotes and disclaimers about needing MSSQL and WINDOWS. They don't really write cross-platform systems, they just make claims and back them up with fine-print disclaimers.
I just left a company that was $10M and 2 years behind on their "$2M" SAP implementation. It's a joke. Once SAP gets their foot in the door, they flood your company with incompetent consultants and rebuild your business around SAP-approved procedures and architecture. At the end of this clusterfuck you end up WAY over budget and desperately looking for a scape goat. Clearly Crest Electronics chose Linux.
SAP products require patch after patch, and take MONTHS to really install. We had a team of engineers working around the clock (literally) for 5 months to get our base systems set up to SAP specs. Even then we would receive "mystery" patches, frequently resulting in system crashes as they weren't designed to work with other patches. Bottom line - SAP is the problem. They churn out highly unstable software and have armies of consultants who will sweep problems like this under the carpet or find something else to blame.
I did this a 6 months ago with 10x250 GB IDE drives. It's a bit of a cabling nightmare, but with a dremel, drill, and some determination, I crafted a 5x2 "plane" setup. As the article points out, cooling is a major factor. The 4 fans I slapped on the front of the array keep it at a very nice 80 degrees year round. I haven't had a disk die yet, but I've got spares sitting in shrink wrap just incase.
Reminds me of the widespread terror of the usage of GIFs a few years ago. Things have died down around that one, and it would seem that nothing happened (at least that has bothered me in anyway) to restrict GIF usage. Then again, Unisys (the patent holder) was a company I had heard of before and had something to lose. This new development with JPEGs seems to be from a company who's desparate to make a buck.
You retard... It's a civil suit, not a criminal trial. The DA has nothing to do with this. There's a 5 year statute of limitations on the crimes that he is testifying to, so it doesn't matter what he says.
Well, that's how my ads used to start out. Now you can telnet to it. Stop remembering how it used to be and get on my BBS to expierence how it still is!
Telnet to bbs.schaefer.nu
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Most of the stores around me (Philadelphia, PA) have the Xbox in fairly frequently. I didn't think that the supply problem was that much of an issue here. I was at Electronics Botique last week and the guy said they had a bunch of them lying around.
People always assume that the little boxes with next don't mean anything, just keep clicking next. They're stupid for not reading what they are doing. It isn't right that they can't modify the message, or that it pimps Microsoft's apps. For some people, it's great to be able to notify others instantly, they probably don't know how to check 2 mail accounts. They aren't uber-geeks, just casual users who are playing with the all-in-one apps that M$ is putting together. It really is nice for people who are just getting started. Yes, it is spam, because Microsoft forced commercialization into it.
You know what this means... Quake, Doom, etc. running on these things.
I have no idea why people bash sun so much.. Maybe it's because the quality of their programming has died in the last few years. I am going insane at work using NIS+. When I called their tech support about it he could reproduce the error and couldn't get around it. My "little problem" was having a user change his password...
I work for a fast-growing startup and when we go to hire people, they want to know all about us. With the nightmares of other.com's out there, they want to know how we are financed, what exactly we have and don't have yet, and where we are headed. We expect them to want to know this, so start with an NDA and then take them through the whole horse and pony show. I haven't found anyone that thought it was strange, and only one person actually read it. We aren't trying to steal them away from competition through a non-compete, but provide our company with legal recourse if we found them mirroring our business. Wouldn't you like to get the big picture at a company rather than just show up first day to find out that you had just boarded a sinking ship?
I can't say enough about dante. It works well with M$ proxy server. The only problem is the authentication to it, which Microsoft has severely altered so that it isn't really Socks5 any more. What you do is get a 98 box/w proxy client on it, stick one of those cheap Socks 5 proxy servers on it, and then go to it as the proxy. Not pretty, but it works. Dante will act as a wrapper to your programs, so stuff like telnet and ftp will run just fine. I lived at a school that had a hellish NT setup and was elated to find out that I could actually get some work done. E-mail me with questions.
Where I work our developers use windows boxes because that interface is simple for them. They write the code under cygwin and compile with GCC. They can take their code wherever they want since they use a standard compiler. It's not about forcing an OS on people, it's getting them to use tools that will port easily. If they used visual studio or some other propriatary tool it would make things a hell of a lot more complex. The software that they write actually runs on Sun boxes with solaris 7. If you want to push Linux, push GCC. Once they can port their code they will be a lot happier to hear about what else they can do in Linux. I have found that they are most interested in A) a good text editor (emacs or vi) B) Good windowing interface C) ability to display video output from their apps (remote X session or local execution) If that all works fairly simply, I don't think they care a whole lot about what they are actually using.
It makes a lot of sense to design the site first, then add the text. This way you can change the look on the fly and not have to touch the pages in each language. As far as a splash screen for people in different national TLD's, it might be nice to pre-design a few for common countries, welcoming them and asking them which language they would like to procede in. That would not be a problem for updating, but imagine having to touch each one to add a nav bar or something? Ack! If international componants are needed they can be added with an international variable, like a table with region-specific symbols. If there is no need for that componant, then nothing will get inserted and it just won't appear.
This is from the README file distributed with 1.0: NAME README - Slashdot Readme DESCRIPTION This is the README file for Slash, release 0.9.5.
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I am a senior at The Hill School and we are requiring laptops for all incoming students. This is a private high school. I am one of the "techies" in the school, and am not quite sure what to make of it. A lot of students spend all night on AIM and ICQ chatting, and only do homework when the network shuts off at midnight. Teachers are NOT using computers at all in the classrooms, and rarely for homework. We have an opional laptop program now, and the students who have bought them use them as desktops. I have never seen one in a class. I am glad that I am leaving before I would be forced to buy one. I realize that it will take time to use them fully, but to REQUIRE them when teachers won't use them, and say that they have no need for them? WHY?!?!
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When you're connecting to 5-10 people at a time, and are always seeing those speeds, then you start to see the benefit. It's easy to back up a server over a gigabit link, but try getting on-demand content from students all over the country.
Intra-campus you could see full 100mbit between machines, going offcampus 1mbit wasn't that unusual and sometimes much higher during non-peak hours. Like anything, it really depended on which school you were connecting to and how congested the network was when you were trying to pull.
Does this mean I get a refund on my VIP membership? ;) Seriously though, I2hub was an awesome project while it lasted. The whole point of this network was to bring together college students using highspeed networks. While some students chose to share copyrighted files, a lot of others uses I2hub for legitimate and semi-scholarly purposes. I can't tell you how many times I've helped kids with their C++ and Java questions, found good game competitors, and reconnected with old friends. The whole point of the I2 network is to see what researchers and academics can do with large amounts of bandwidth. I2hub certainly explored that question. So... what's next?
"The Best Run Businesses Run SAP" is a true statement... SAP says it over and over again. What they're really stating is that only the best run businesses can survive a SAP implementation, the rest run out of money or patience, or worse, end up being driven out of business by the enormous cost and disruption it causes. SAP has a HORRIBLE track record on linux. They claim support for linux and other non-MS platforms, but that's only for their core products. Everything outside of CRM and R3 is riddled with technotes and disclaimers about needing MSSQL and WINDOWS. They don't really write cross-platform systems, they just make claims and back them up with fine-print disclaimers.
I just left a company that was $10M and 2 years behind on their "$2M" SAP implementation. It's a joke. Once SAP gets their foot in the door, they flood your company with incompetent consultants and rebuild your business around SAP-approved procedures and architecture. At the end of this clusterfuck you end up WAY over budget and desperately looking for a scape goat. Clearly Crest Electronics chose Linux.
SAP products require patch after patch, and take MONTHS to really install. We had a team of engineers working around the clock (literally) for 5 months to get our base systems set up to SAP specs. Even then we would receive "mystery" patches, frequently resulting in system crashes as they weren't designed to work with other patches. Bottom line - SAP is the problem. They churn out highly unstable software and have armies of consultants who will sweep problems like this under the carpet or find something else to blame.
I did this a 6 months ago with 10x250 GB IDE drives. It's a bit of a cabling nightmare, but with a dremel, drill, and some determination, I crafted a 5x2 "plane" setup. As the article points out, cooling is a major factor. The 4 fans I slapped on the front of the array keep it at a very nice 80 degrees year round. I haven't had a disk die yet, but I've got spares sitting in shrink wrap just incase.
http://www.schaefer.nu/pics/nikita/
Do the users have unlimited bandwidth? Most hosting sites cut people off after a certain limit.
http://www.schaefer.nu/mirrors/homepage.mac.com/ms chrag/SoulCalimeter/
I guess making it a link helps. :)
http://www.schaefer.nu/southtyrolgame/
Before it gets /.'ed, I mirrored it.
http://www.schaefer.nu/southtyrolgame/
We've got power here. My servers in Philadelphia, PA and Rochester, NY are running fine too.
As it's going to get pounded, here's a mirror
Reminds me of the widespread terror of the usage of GIFs a few years ago. Things have died down around that one, and it would seem that nothing happened (at least that has bothered me in anyway) to restrict GIF usage. Then again, Unisys (the patent holder) was a company I had heard of before and had something to lose. This new development with JPEGs seems to be from a company who's desparate to make a buck.
burnallgifs.org
You retard... It's a civil suit, not a criminal trial. The DA has nothing to do with this. There's a 5 year statute of limitations on the crimes that he is testifying to, so it doesn't matter what he says.
I just validated you and the other 50 new users that just joined. Sorry it took so long, I was doing "family stuff" yesterday.
Well, that's how my ads used to start out. Now you can telnet to it. Stop remembering how it used to be and get on my BBS to expierence how it still is!
...
Telnet to bbs.schaefer.nu
-CyberBlob
Sysop: The Black Box BBS
Lord, TEOS, Usurper, BRE, Trade Wars,
Most of the stores around me (Philadelphia, PA) have the Xbox in fairly frequently. I didn't think that the supply problem was that much of an issue here. I was at Electronics Botique last week and the guy said they had a bunch of them lying around.
I hve formed a coop for buying these units. If you are interested in buying one or more, join the mailing list at audrey-coop@yahoogroups.com
People always assume that the little boxes with next don't mean anything, just keep clicking next. They're stupid for not reading what they are doing. It isn't right that they can't modify the message, or that it pimps Microsoft's apps. For some people, it's great to be able to notify others instantly, they probably don't know how to check 2 mail accounts. They aren't uber-geeks, just casual users who are playing with the all-in-one apps that M$ is putting together. It really is nice for people who are just getting started. Yes, it is spam, because Microsoft forced commercialization into it.
You know what this means... Quake, Doom, etc. running on these things.
I have no idea why people bash sun so much.. Maybe it's because the quality of their programming has died in the last few years. I am going insane at work using NIS+. When I called their tech support about it he could reproduce the error and couldn't get around it. My "little problem" was having a user change his password...
I work for a fast-growing startup and when we go to hire people, they want to know all about us. With the nightmares of other .com's out there, they want to know how we are financed, what exactly we have and don't have yet, and where we are headed. We expect them to want to know this, so start with an NDA and then take them through the whole horse and pony show. I haven't found anyone that thought it was strange, and only one person actually read it. We aren't trying to steal them away from competition through a non-compete, but provide our company with legal recourse if we found them mirroring our business. Wouldn't you like to get the big picture at a company rather than just show up first day to find out that you had just boarded a sinking ship?
I can't say enough about dante. It works well with M$ proxy server. The only problem is the authentication to it, which Microsoft has severely altered so that it isn't really Socks5 any more. What you do is get a 98 box /w proxy client on it, stick one of those cheap Socks 5 proxy servers on it, and then go to it as the proxy. Not pretty, but it works. Dante will act as a wrapper to your programs, so stuff like telnet and ftp will run just fine. I lived at a school that had a hellish NT setup and was elated to find out that I could actually get some work done. E-mail me with questions.
Where I work our developers use windows boxes because that interface is simple for them. They write the code under cygwin and compile with GCC. They can take their code wherever they want since they use a standard compiler. It's not about forcing an OS on people, it's getting them to use tools that will port easily. If they used visual studio or some other propriatary tool it would make things a hell of a lot more complex. The software that they write actually runs on Sun boxes with solaris 7. If you want to push Linux, push GCC. Once they can port their code they will be a lot happier to hear about what else they can do in Linux. I have found that they are most interested in A) a good text editor (emacs or vi) B) Good windowing interface C) ability to display video output from their apps (remote X session or local execution) If that all works fairly simply, I don't think they care a whole lot about what they are actually using.
It makes a lot of sense to design the site first, then add the text. This way you can change the look on the fly and not have to touch the pages in each language. As far as a splash screen for people in different national TLD's, it might be nice to pre-design a few for common countries, welcoming them and asking them which language they would like to procede in. That would not be a problem for updating, but imagine having to touch each one to add a nav bar or something? Ack! If international componants are needed they can be added with an international variable, like a table with region-specific symbols. If there is no need for that componant, then nothing will get inserted and it just won't appear.
This is from the README file distributed with 1.0: NAME README - Slashdot Readme DESCRIPTION This is the README file for Slash, release 0.9.5.
I am a senior at The Hill School and we are requiring laptops for all incoming students. This is a private high school. I am one of the "techies" in the school, and am not quite sure what to make of it. A lot of students spend all night on AIM and ICQ chatting, and only do homework when the network shuts off at midnight. Teachers are NOT using computers at all in the classrooms, and rarely for homework. We have an opional laptop program now, and the students who have bought them use them as desktops. I have never seen one in a class. I am glad that I am leaving before I would be forced to buy one. I realize that it will take time to use them fully, but to REQUIRE them when teachers won't use them, and say that they have no need for them? WHY?!?!