We have a 40MB limit for 10k users. PSTs are unlimited, which is where most of the space gets used up. Which is actually just fine. Exchange isn't the fastest beast, so keeping the Exchange limit low means that performance on that is fine. The SAN holds the PST files, which has no performance problems, and adding space is easy. That SAN holds multiple things, and is around 200TB now.
If you can, have your company move towards PST files. It'll take a lot of time and education, but it's worth it in the end.
Funny that you think pay to transfer would add money to the system. Blizzard is making US $3mil a DAY from WoW alone. If that isn't enough money to handle basic maintenance and expansion, they need to learn how to manage their finances better.
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I'm not going to try it until I can get a Linux/SH3 version.
In 1990 (or maybe 91?), for my birthday, I received a monster of a computer. Genuine Intel 386SX-25, 1MB of RAM, a 40MB hard drive, Tseng 512k video card, a 1.2MB Teac floppy drive, and an 8-bit Sound Blaster. I had what I think was a Logitech joystick as well. It was running MS-DOS 5.0. A year or two later, I upgraded it to 8MB of RAM, so I could play Aces over Europe.
I upgraded it several years later to a 486DX2-66, and man was it fast! 16MB of RAM as well, which was a huge amount of RAM. Somewhere along the way, I had added a 340MB hard drive, so I had a big disk, and a fast computer.
Parts of that computer I ended up using for almost 10 years, finally retiring the keyboard when I purchased my first ATX motherboard, an Abit-BP6.
Last year, I finally threw away the motherboard, although I still have the hard drives in a box collecting dust. I've always meant to pull them out and grab all the data off of them, but I'm not sure they'd even spin up any more.
Going from something like 1080i or 1080p to standard SD is liking going from wearing glasses to taking them off. Everything looks like ass and is blurry.
Depending on how recent the game you want to run is, it sometimes works very well, but often works well except for a few bits. For instance, hitting two mice buttons at once in Guild Wars will make it crash, and Cedega doesn't seem like they want to fix that (it's been like that for 3 months at least).
I disagree with Guild Wars being all about pvp. I think it's actually more a 70/30 or even 80/20 pve/pvp split. You go to any district in the pve side of things, and they are packed, everywhere. Well, maybe not some place like Druid's Overlook, but places like Lion's Arch, Droknars, etc are packed. If you go to Heroes' Ascent, Random/Team Arenas, etc you find a fair number of people, but far less than in the pve side of things. Plus, if there was more pvp going on, my rank 1000 guild would be playing other similar ranked guilds, not EW and then Evil right in a row:(
Guild Wars is doing a persistent outcome in their expansion, which is supposed to come out sometime between now and the end of June.
According to what they are saying, on the new continent, there are 3 "factions". The local continental population "Cantha", and then two extreme right and left wing factions. They control various parts of the continent, and your guild chooses a side to fight for. Through guild battles, and other pvp/pve type (quests, battles, whatever), you can add towns to one faction or another. Apparently if one faction manages to take over the whole continent, something special will happen. There hasn't been enough information released yet to find out if that's all, or if there is more to it than that.
Anyways, it's at least some type of persistent effect on the world even if it isn't exactly like you're describing.
You never played Diablo2 did you? If you had, you'd know Blizzard doesn't give a rats ass about their customers, they just try and keep you satisfied just enough to stay around, but not so much that they actually have to spend any money for it.
Ah, sorry. Back when the Athlon was first introduced, I read something about the bus being similar/identical to the EV6 bus, and equated Athlon=Alpha. Never did any more research on it, so ever since I've just that HyperTrasport was another name for the EV6 bus, which linked back to my mental conenction of Athlon=Alpha. So when you mentioned that Apple had rights to it, I was thinking that they had purchased the rights to the EV6 bus.
Why don't they do what Guild Wars does, and have a very large set of public alpha/beta testers? Not to mention that Guild Wars can update the game in a far more efficient manner, allowing for quick bug fixes to be rolled out without requiring massive downloads.
That's why it pays to work for a Fortune 500 company, you always win the fishbowl drawings:) I picked up a free Sun Netra that way a couple years back.
Last years Interop was that way. I was attending some classes, so I'd stop by the booths at lunch, grab a couple beers, and then take some back to class with me. Best classes I ever took, even if I don't recall much of them.
Interesting that you brought up clothing. I sat on a jury for a case being brought against a clothing counterfeiter, and from the evidence brought up in the trial, the workmanship was horrid. After that trial, I'll definitely never purchase anything that I know or suspect is counterfeit, if I care at all about the quality.
The biggest eye opener was actually the counterfeit Levis. Apparently the fake ones don't use as many rivets, and have lower quality seams, and so quickly deteriorate. Even though you may have paid $15 for $45 jeans, you end up having to purchase new ones far more often, which ends up costing more in the long run.
Yes. That would be a very accurate description of Firefox. Good enough to make IE better.
Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox started off as a great idea. A stripped down version of Mozilla. The problem is, around.5-.7, it slowly started moving away from being a stripped down browser to being a "full-featured" browser, with all the bloat that comes with it.
It's better than IE, which is about all that can be said for it anymore. If Microsoft is actually improving IE as a result, IE might actually come out to be a faster, better browser. As absurd as that sounds right now, if Firefox keeps adding to the bloat, and if MS keeps slowly securing and improving IE, I might some day recommend IE over Firefox.
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We have a 40MB limit for 10k users. PSTs are unlimited, which is where most of the space gets used up. Which is actually just fine. Exchange isn't the fastest beast, so keeping the Exchange limit low means that performance on that is fine. The SAN holds the PST files, which has no performance problems, and adding space is easy. That SAN holds multiple things, and is around 200TB now.
If you can, have your company move towards PST files. It'll take a lot of time and education, but it's worth it in the end.
Funny that you think pay to transfer would add money to the system. Blizzard is making US $3mil a DAY from WoW alone. If that isn't enough money to handle basic maintenance and expansion, they need to learn how to manage their finances better.
I'm not going to try it until I can get a Linux/SH3 version.
None. I prefer ales over lagers.
In 1990 (or maybe 91?), for my birthday, I received a monster of a computer. Genuine Intel 386SX-25, 1MB of RAM, a 40MB hard drive, Tseng 512k video card, a 1.2MB Teac floppy drive, and an 8-bit Sound Blaster. I had what I think was a Logitech joystick as well. It was running MS-DOS 5.0. A year or two later, I upgraded it to 8MB of RAM, so I could play Aces over Europe.
I upgraded it several years later to a 486DX2-66, and man was it fast! 16MB of RAM as well, which was a huge amount of RAM. Somewhere along the way, I had added a 340MB hard drive, so I had a big disk, and a fast computer.
Parts of that computer I ended up using for almost 10 years, finally retiring the keyboard when I purchased my first ATX motherboard, an Abit-BP6.
Last year, I finally threw away the motherboard, although I still have the hard drives in a box collecting dust. I've always meant to pull them out and grab all the data off of them, but I'm not sure they'd even spin up any more.
Going from something like 1080i or 1080p to standard SD is liking going from wearing glasses to taking them off. Everything looks like ass and is blurry.
Depending on how recent the game you want to run is, it sometimes works very well, but often works well except for a few bits. For instance, hitting two mice buttons at once in Guild Wars will make it crash, and Cedega doesn't seem like they want to fix that (it's been like that for 3 months at least).
Good luck with Nethack :) I've ascended once (Valk natch), although I've only been playing a few years, and aren't as spoiled as I could be.
I disagree with Guild Wars being all about pvp. I think it's actually more a 70/30 or even 80/20 pve/pvp split. You go to any district in the pve side of things, and they are packed, everywhere. Well, maybe not some place like Druid's Overlook, but places like Lion's Arch, Droknars, etc are packed. If you go to Heroes' Ascent, Random/Team Arenas, etc you find a fair number of people, but far less than in the pve side of things. Plus, if there was more pvp going on, my rank 1000 guild would be playing other similar ranked guilds, not EW and then Evil right in a row :(
Guild Wars is doing a persistent outcome in their expansion, which is supposed to come out sometime between now and the end of June.
According to what they are saying, on the new continent, there are 3 "factions". The local continental population "Cantha", and then two extreme right and left wing factions. They control various parts of the continent, and your guild chooses a side to fight for. Through guild battles, and other pvp/pve type (quests, battles, whatever), you can add towns to one faction or another. Apparently if one faction manages to take over the whole continent, something special will happen. There hasn't been enough information released yet to find out if that's all, or if there is more to it than that.
Anyways, it's at least some type of persistent effect on the world even if it isn't exactly like you're describing.
You never played Diablo2 did you? If you had, you'd know Blizzard doesn't give a rats ass about their customers, they just try and keep you satisfied just enough to stay around, but not so much that they actually have to spend any money for it.
Ah, sorry. Back when the Athlon was first introduced, I read something about the bus being similar/identical to the EV6 bus, and equated Athlon=Alpha. Never did any more research on it, so ever since I've just that HyperTrasport was another name for the EV6 bus, which linked back to my mental conenction of Athlon=Alpha. So when you mentioned that Apple had rights to it, I was thinking that they had purchased the rights to the EV6 bus.
Thanks for the correction.
Did Apple buy DEC from HP? Compaq bought them 5-10 years ago, and I thought HP still owned them?
I stream video from a server to my HTPC. That way I can have a silent PC in the living room, while the noisy hard drives are in the computer room.
If I could do it wireless I would, but Gigabit Ethernet is needed, and isn't available in a wireless solution.
Slashdot upgraded something?
Why don't they do what Guild Wars does, and have a very large set of public alpha/beta testers? Not to mention that Guild Wars can update the game in a far more efficient manner, allowing for quick bug fixes to be rolled out without requiring massive downloads.
Civ4 (and Civ3 before it) is definitely much better than Civ2, especially because Civ2 sucked compared to Civ1 :)
Try Gentoo. You get what you choose, not what someone else chooses for you. Take a little longer to get setup, but for a server its great.
Of course, it fails in the paid-support category, but for just a few servers, it's easy enough to support.
That's why it pays to work for a Fortune 500 company, you always win the fishbowl drawings :) I picked up a free Sun Netra that way a couple years back.
Last years Interop was that way. I was attending some classes, so I'd stop by the booths at lunch, grab a couple beers, and then take some back to class with me. Best classes I ever took, even if I don't recall much of them.
The new line of Sun Opteron servers are decent.
Interesting that you brought up clothing. I sat on a jury for a case being brought against a clothing counterfeiter, and from the evidence brought up in the trial, the workmanship was horrid. After that trial, I'll definitely never purchase anything that I know or suspect is counterfeit, if I care at all about the quality.
The biggest eye opener was actually the counterfeit Levis. Apparently the fake ones don't use as many rivets, and have lower quality seams, and so quickly deteriorate. Even though you may have paid $15 for $45 jeans, you end up having to purchase new ones far more often, which ends up costing more in the long run.
Yes. That would be a very accurate description of Firefox. Good enough to make IE better.
.5-.7, it slowly started moving away from being a stripped down browser to being a "full-featured" browser, with all the bloat that comes with it.
Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox started off as a great idea. A stripped down version of Mozilla. The problem is, around
It's better than IE, which is about all that can be said for it anymore. If Microsoft is actually improving IE as a result, IE might actually come out to be a faster, better browser. As absurd as that sounds right now, if Firefox keeps adding to the bloat, and if MS keeps slowly securing and improving IE, I might some day recommend IE over Firefox.
When they first were testing it months ago, they managed to get the Google servers blacklisted by Slashdot because of excessive requests.
Tell me something I don't know ;)