Our company experienced what we believe was its first age-related failure in October of 2012, an office PC with an Intel SSD drive in the value oriented line of 2008 (which was still high at the time). Basically the drive behaved as a mechanical drive would behave with an occasional bad sector and we were able to successfully image the data to a new one. Out of 200 Intel drives, that's pretty good. (We did have one failure in 2010 but that was an outright dead drive and we were able to RMA it). Not sure if this contributes anything to the conversation but I figured I'd throw this out there.
The Intel X25's in my PC, from 2009, are still humming along nicely and my last benchmark produced the same results in 2012 as they did in 2010. But I've gone so far as to set environment variables for user temp files to a mechanical drive, internet temp files to a RAM drive and system temp files to a RAM drive, offsetting the wear leveling.
If I had the mod points, I would mod every one of your points up as there's posts in this thread that are technically inaccurate to the point of 'outright wrong' and your posts are sensibly accurate. One of the domains we manage receives thousands of emails per hour and millions of emails per day and we fully support SPF on both sides, enforcing SPF outgoing (-all) and fully supporting SPF incoming. Even a softfail on incoming will increase our server's consideration of your spammyness. Since implementing SPF globally, we haven't had any complaints on either the recipient or sender's side while we've reduced the amount of people that receive spam in the name of our domain and reduced the amount of spam that we receive.
I believe even gmail affects spam ratings by interpreting softfails.
I'm guessing that the lack of education and complexity of creating a proper SPF record is adversely affecting its adoption rate.
I'm fully in agreement and I'm questioning whether some of the commenters here suggesting to use scoring over blocking, for senders that have enabled SPF, are actively involved in the administration of high volume email servers. If a company has created an SPF record, clearly they want people to block email that is not originating from their servers. This does not result in 'false positives' as its an SPF record with the DNS server - the address doesn't change.
I don't believe I've ever heard of an SPF false positive failure but the sender would be notified with a bounce back, at which point the issue could be corrected, so I don't think false positives should be a concern.
For the past year, one of our business domains has been a patsy for a continual bombardment of spam against the internet. Typically our catch-all account would receive at least 200 bounce back failures a day. Since then, we enabled SPF on our domain and it drastically increased the amount of bounce-backs considerably... which is good, as it means less people are seeing our domain in a malicious light as they're immediately denying the spam as it's caught by an SPF filter before it goes through other filters.
I encourage all mail server admins to enable SPF to hamper the ability of spammers to hit their targets.
Yea, I've heard the same from friends, that they can sleep after a cup of coffee and I found that bizarre. I suppose these differing experiences lends credence to the linked article. My experience with caffeine has remained the same for as long as I can remember, at least since my mid 20's. Too much coffee has a visible effect on me.
Since I've become an adult with habitual patterns, I've been able to tangibly gauge the effects of caffeine on my mind and I'm not entirely sure that young people, what with all the other natural chemicals raging through their body, are able to do the same.
I'm a person that's tangibly sensitive to the effects of caffeine. For me, a single morning cup of coffee can immediately waken me to the point where I'd be if I naturally allowed myself that one hour transition from waking to working. However, a second cup of coffee within a 5 hour period will cause my mind to race faster than I can effectively communicate and I have 'the jitters'. Also, a large cup of Starbucks will literally make it impossible for me to work as I can't focus on my screen or conversations. And if I have a coffee after 3:00 PM? I can forget about sleeping before 2:00 AM.
What works best for me, what allows me to reach an effective plateau, is one cup of coffee in the morning and a cup of green tea (or yerba) in the afternoon - I'm always sharp, on the ball and I'm less distracted by whatever causes ADHD.
If you're finding it difficult to find.conf files in/etc and properly constructing a sentence, then it's possible that Ubuntu Server is perfect for him or you. Especially you.
... of course, at the end of the day he can always compile from source or follow blog postings which provide a considerable amount of detail to complete this simple task. We've compiled from source many of our applications so we can customize the compiled experience to a finer degree. I may have made some ports contributions along the way as well.
Since we made the switch to FreeBSD in 2004, providing various services such as proxying web usage or web access logging for corporations, we've never even considered another OS as it's been a rock solid performer. Thousands of users in various locations are relying on our systems and despite inept people accidentally unplugging some of them, failed UPS', failed hard drives, they ruggedly truck on without issue.
Hopefully the front page posting will encourage other FreeBSD users to donate. There's certainly more servers in production, especially some of the more reliable ones, that are using FreeBSD according to Netcraft.
Thank you. The first words that rang through my mind were 'incompetency' in terms of either a) having incompetent internal IT staff or b) having internal incompetent management that did not hire external staff to create a properly configured network. It sounds like someone in charge is trying to offload their responsibility to a 'PC vs. Mac' argument when it's really a bad management issue.
We've had a rental outlet in my city for the past 20 years or so and they've survived by giving people what they want and people drive 30 minutes out of town to rent videos from this place. What sets them apart is the following:
- wide selection of movies and TV shows, stuff you won't find elsewhere or downloadable via torrents, like lesser known foreign and independent movies, the place is huge.
- enough copies of popular movies so you can almost always get what you went there for
- blu-ray, DVD, VHS (!), Xbox 360, Wii, etc., whatever you and your family needs, it's there
- two for one days on slower nights of the week and other coupons for the past decade brings plenty of people into the outlet
- extras are sold off at a good price when they're no longer rented
I was a late bloomer, as far as reading went. I didn't feel the need as my intuitive rationale at the wee age of five was that it simply wasn't necessary; I can do what I want, function just fine without reading, so why waste time learning...... then my mom brought home some comic books from the convenience store down the street, a Spider-Man and a Fantastic Four, and while I enjoyed the pictures, I really wanted to know what they were saying. The Fantastic Four had less exciting imagery yet an abundance of speech bubbles so I figured, these guys must be saying something important. This strongly motivated me to learn and I was reading rather large books by the age of 10 (my fifth grade teacher felt that that uncut version of Stephen King's The Stand was inappropriate at my age and was shocked, both positively and negatively, that I understood the context and ambiguities of certain scenes).
That all being said, it's my suggestion that you grab a stack of comics that range in terms of popularity, style and maturity and he'll be motivated by what he likes.
Perhaps check on eBay for used collections of comic books as they go cheap there. The classic comic books may have less violence and more of a moral high ground than current day comic books.
Yea, I was going to post the same, but more as a statement rather than a question, perhaps welcoming the poster to the internet. I'm sure this has been on Slashdot before, probably since there was a Google.
HAH, I'm pleased to see the first post in my view contained exactly what I was going to write concerning the Apple devices at the Occupy protests. Thank you for that.
I initially hated the ribbon as well, angered that they'd removed some of the functions I'd used or misplaced them... until a Microsoft developer blogged that everything is still there, it's just ribbonized. I gave it a chance and after around 3 months, I prefer the ribbon.
I agree with another poster though, that the world has upgraded to wide screen displays and software developers need to innovate and find a way for us to use the left and right areas of our screen, rather than the up and down. (I've tilted one of my 24" LG displays vertically until then)
Thank you, for your comments re: buzzwords. I've been trying to move my laundry and dishwashing to the cloud, in the hopes of making Nagging Wife obsolete; but the magic of this cloud didn't come to fruition.
Microsoft called you? The situation the OP is referring to is different, as it's the initiation of legal proceedings by a law firm and the letter he received has a legally binding request with serious implications, set in stone, regardless of how you respond or don't respond.
Good luck counter-suing the BSA. They're represented by teams of the most expensive lawyers in North America and fighting them would cost more than it would cost to pay the fees. We're not talking about a small claims court here, where you can say, "fuck em"; we're talking about a team of high priced lawyers sitting across from you who do this for a living. It's easy to talk the talk, but it's expensive to fight the fight.
Aspects of this argument are being fought by people represented by the EFF, situations with used software like Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc.
Are you speaking from experience? That most assuredly did not work for us, nor did credit card statements. The court of law requires an itemized receipt of purchasing, clearly listing the purchase of a software license. A software licensing audit is not the same as a financial audit.
The title of my post was cut off but it reads, "We lost (& kind of won)." That bit in parenthesis is important when considering the above post. We lost five figures... but could have easily lost six.
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Our company experienced what we believe was its first age-related failure in October of 2012, an office PC with an Intel SSD drive in the value oriented line of 2008 (which was still high at the time). Basically the drive behaved as a mechanical drive would behave with an occasional bad sector and we were able to successfully image the data to a new one. Out of 200 Intel drives, that's pretty good. (We did have one failure in 2010 but that was an outright dead drive and we were able to RMA it). Not sure if this contributes anything to the conversation but I figured I'd throw this out there.
The Intel X25's in my PC, from 2009, are still humming along nicely and my last benchmark produced the same results in 2012 as they did in 2010. But I've gone so far as to set environment variables for user temp files to a mechanical drive, internet temp files to a RAM drive and system temp files to a RAM drive, offsetting the wear leveling.
If I had the mod points, I would mod every one of your points up as there's posts in this thread that are technically inaccurate to the point of 'outright wrong' and your posts are sensibly accurate. One of the domains we manage receives thousands of emails per hour and millions of emails per day and we fully support SPF on both sides, enforcing SPF outgoing (-all) and fully supporting SPF incoming. Even a softfail on incoming will increase our server's consideration of your spammyness. Since implementing SPF globally, we haven't had any complaints on either the recipient or sender's side while we've reduced the amount of people that receive spam in the name of our domain and reduced the amount of spam that we receive.
I believe even gmail affects spam ratings by interpreting softfails.
I'm guessing that the lack of education and complexity of creating a proper SPF record is adversely affecting its adoption rate.
I'm fully in agreement and I'm questioning whether some of the commenters here suggesting to use scoring over blocking, for senders that have enabled SPF, are actively involved in the administration of high volume email servers. If a company has created an SPF record, clearly they want people to block email that is not originating from their servers. This does not result in 'false positives' as its an SPF record with the DNS server - the address doesn't change.
I don't believe I've ever heard of an SPF false positive failure but the sender would be notified with a bounce back, at which point the issue could be corrected, so I don't think false positives should be a concern.
For the past year, one of our business domains has been a patsy for a continual bombardment of spam against the internet. Typically our catch-all account would receive at least 200 bounce back failures a day. Since then, we enabled SPF on our domain and it drastically increased the amount of bounce-backs considerably... which is good, as it means less people are seeing our domain in a malicious light as they're immediately denying the spam as it's caught by an SPF filter before it goes through other filters.
I encourage all mail server admins to enable SPF to hamper the ability of spammers to hit their targets.
Yea, I've heard the same from friends, that they can sleep after a cup of coffee and I found that bizarre. I suppose these differing experiences lends credence to the linked article. My experience with caffeine has remained the same for as long as I can remember, at least since my mid 20's. Too much coffee has a visible effect on me.
Since I've become an adult with habitual patterns, I've been able to tangibly gauge the effects of caffeine on my mind and I'm not entirely sure that young people, what with all the other natural chemicals raging through their body, are able to do the same.
I'm a person that's tangibly sensitive to the effects of caffeine. For me, a single morning cup of coffee can immediately waken me to the point where I'd be if I naturally allowed myself that one hour transition from waking to working. However, a second cup of coffee within a 5 hour period will cause my mind to race faster than I can effectively communicate and I have 'the jitters'. Also, a large cup of Starbucks will literally make it impossible for me to work as I can't focus on my screen or conversations. And if I have a coffee after 3:00 PM? I can forget about sleeping before 2:00 AM.
What works best for me, what allows me to reach an effective plateau, is one cup of coffee in the morning and a cup of green tea (or yerba) in the afternoon - I'm always sharp, on the ball and I'm less distracted by whatever causes ADHD.
Or Weyland Industries
"I've been a knitter for a long time (started on scarves back in the day) and enjoy pretty much any pattern..." etc., etc.
Hopefully I've conveyed my point.
If you're finding it difficult to find .conf files in /etc and properly constructing a sentence, then it's possible that Ubuntu Server is perfect for him or you. Especially you.
He may be referring to Apache HTTP Server 2.4.x, discussion concerning what he's referring to can be found on forums.freebsd.org - http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=34310
... of course, at the end of the day he can always compile from source or follow blog postings which provide a considerable amount of detail to complete this simple task. We've compiled from source many of our applications so we can customize the compiled experience to a finer degree. I may have made some ports contributions along the way as well.
Whoops, I typically forget to capslock my words. Good thing you're here for that helpful casing correction!
Since we made the switch to FreeBSD in 2004, providing various services such as proxying web usage or web access logging for corporations, we've never even considered another OS as it's been a rock solid performer. Thousands of users in various locations are relying on our systems and despite inept people accidentally unplugging some of them, failed UPS', failed hard drives, they ruggedly truck on without issue.
Hopefully the front page posting will encourage other FreeBSD users to donate. There's certainly more servers in production, especially some of the more reliable ones, that are using FreeBSD according to Netcraft.
Thank you. The first words that rang through my mind were 'incompetency' in terms of either a) having incompetent internal IT staff or b) having internal incompetent management that did not hire external staff to create a properly configured network. It sounds like someone in charge is trying to offload their responsibility to a 'PC vs. Mac' argument when it's really a bad management issue.
- wide selection of movies and TV shows, stuff you won't find elsewhere or downloadable via torrents, like lesser known foreign and independent movies, the place is huge.
- enough copies of popular movies so you can almost always get what you went there for
- blu-ray, DVD, VHS (!), Xbox 360, Wii, etc., whatever you and your family needs, it's there
- two for one days on slower nights of the week and other coupons for the past decade brings plenty of people into the outlet
- extras are sold off at a good price when they're no longer rented
I was a late bloomer, as far as reading went. I didn't feel the need as my intuitive rationale at the wee age of five was that it simply wasn't necessary; I can do what I want, function just fine without reading, so why waste time learning... ... then my mom brought home some comic books from the convenience store down the street, a Spider-Man and a Fantastic Four, and while I enjoyed the pictures, I really wanted to know what they were saying. The Fantastic Four had less exciting imagery yet an abundance of speech bubbles so I figured, these guys must be saying something important. This strongly motivated me to learn and I was reading rather large books by the age of 10 (my fifth grade teacher felt that that uncut version of Stephen King's The Stand was inappropriate at my age and was shocked, both positively and negatively, that I understood the context and ambiguities of certain scenes).
That all being said, it's my suggestion that you grab a stack of comics that range in terms of popularity, style and maturity and he'll be motivated by what he likes.
Perhaps check on eBay for used collections of comic books as they go cheap there. The classic comic books may have less violence and more of a moral high ground than current day comic books.
Yea, I was going to post the same, but more as a statement rather than a question, perhaps welcoming the poster to the internet. I'm sure this has been on Slashdot before, probably since there was a Google.
... justify to everyone else that the new product is actually worse than the previous iteration. (I own an iPad 2 so this works for me!)
HAH, I'm pleased to see the first post in my view contained exactly what I was going to write concerning the Apple devices at the Occupy protests. Thank you for that.
I initially hated the ribbon as well, angered that they'd removed some of the functions I'd used or misplaced them... until a Microsoft developer blogged that everything is still there, it's just ribbonized. I gave it a chance and after around 3 months, I prefer the ribbon.
I agree with another poster though, that the world has upgraded to wide screen displays and software developers need to innovate and find a way for us to use the left and right areas of our screen, rather than the up and down. (I've tilted one of my 24" LG displays vertically until then)
Thank you, for your comments re: buzzwords. I've been trying to move my laundry and dishwashing to the cloud, in the hopes of making Nagging Wife obsolete; but the magic of this cloud didn't come to fruition.
Microsoft called you? The situation the OP is referring to is different, as it's the initiation of legal proceedings by a law firm and the letter he received has a legally binding request with serious implications, set in stone, regardless of how you respond or don't respond.
Good luck counter-suing the BSA. They're represented by teams of the most expensive lawyers in North America and fighting them would cost more than it would cost to pay the fees. We're not talking about a small claims court here, where you can say, "fuck em"; we're talking about a team of high priced lawyers sitting across from you who do this for a living. It's easy to talk the talk, but it's expensive to fight the fight.
Aspects of this argument are being fought by people represented by the EFF, situations with used software like Vernor v. Autodesk, Inc.
Are you speaking from experience? That most assuredly did not work for us, nor did credit card statements. The court of law requires an itemized receipt of purchasing, clearly listing the purchase of a software license. A software licensing audit is not the same as a financial audit.
The title of my post was cut off but it reads, "We lost (& kind of won)." That bit in parenthesis is important when considering the above post. We lost five figures... but could have easily lost six.