Have you ever try to watch a video over todays current internet connections (via VNC or even NX)?
I have. It doesn't work so well... and it was of low resolution. Today's Multimedia Whores would never find their place. I, myself, am included in this group of people - I backup all of my movies & music... even my BluRay collection.
In my experience they have always been stable and well supported.
Where does this leave us AMD users... I'm still not quite the fan of the AMD chipsets as they haven't been around long enough... all of the "performance" boards were Nvidia based. My current board has an Nforce 570.
Even though it might be a heat wave where you are, I know that shorts were not invented by a Canadian.
Not invented by us... but certainly still utilized by us. I live in a small town Saskatchewan. A good portion of the population still wears shorts in the winter.
I wear nothing more than undergarments, blue jeans, a t-shirt and a 'bunnyhug' (sask. term -- 'hoodie' everywhere else) during the winter... which can be as low as -40C.
Last winter I dug my '91 Chrysler Daytona out of the snow (literally up to over a meter high) a few times (sometimes resorting to a neighbours help) wearing just that.
Kayaking is a lot of fun, but very pricy if you don't own your own kayak.
I live atop a hill overlooking a valley... There's a nice big river in there and a shop that rents out kayaks, canoes and a few other fun water sport-type things.
A while back my girlfriend and I were looking for something to do, so we tried Kayaking. It cost $22 a person but I think it was worth it.
I didn't feel any huge workout from it but it was a lot of fun... Weight training to stay healthy was a big priority in school but has since dropped on my priority list.
I am now trying to cajole some friends and/or family members to come and make it a weekly thing.
I host my own work as well as customers. I'm running it all on a Business Class 7Mbit ADSL line... never any problems as most sites are pretty low on bandwidth.
They would have to be pretty low on bandwidth since although your downstream might be maximum 7Mbps, your upstream will be much less...maybe 1Mbps tops. Hosting at home on ADSL is a cheap-ass solution.
I know what ADSL stands for. Uplink isn't even 1Mbit... it's closer to 800Kbits.
To me, this guy doesn't sound like he's running anything mission critical. I think it would be perfectly acceptable for a home server GIVEN his bitching about other companies spying on his content. That's why I suggested it.
I run out of my home because I do this for a living. I am here to keep it all on lockdown and I am here with spare parts and servers to ensure it runs smooth.
I only have one provider accessible to me. ADSL is all they offer until you get into the dedicated connections... but then the price jumps from $100/month to $1500/month.
As others have mentioned, bitching and complaining I should be running out of a 'proper' facility is all bullshit. It's what you make of it on a personal level. This is how I want it, so this is how I do it.
Apparently you didn't even read my post, just picked parts out so you can criticize.
I've been running servers out of my home for years now. I'm trying to think of how long and I'd say it's been about 5 years now.
Only issue I've ever had was a power outage that lasted a good couple hours (apparently most of the province was out as well as the whole northern part of the state below it)... that was unavoidable. My UPS's lasted all but 20 mins of the outage. Which is fine for me. 20 minutes of 5 years down the drain is pretty darn good, if you ask me.
It's a difficult issue. I have a dedicated server at APlus in Phoenix, and for the first six months, they didn't have any of the passwords for the box. Then they had a big outage and had to move the servers to another data center, and asked the users to tell them the root password so the could shut down the server, move it, and reconfigure the networking. So now they have the root password, and they did use it once without asking me first when I called in with a later problem.
Assuming this is a Linux Box, and you are SSH'ing in... 'passwd' is your friend.
I run a few servers here at home that are web-facing.
I have never found a provider that will accommodate me in any ways that I see fit, so the home solution has won me over every time I go looking.
I host my own work as well as customers. I'm running it all on a Business Class 7Mbit ADSL line... never any problems as most sites are pretty low on bandwidth.
I've recently got a new client (signed and sealed -- working on the project right now, actually). Their project is going to require their own server(s -- Yay redundancy!) for some power behind their project... if all goes well I'm going to lease some office space outside of my home and upgrade the connection to whatever the best is I can get.
The 'at home' solution offers total control. If you're making enough money off your clients, it's worth it in my opinion.
Right now I am working as a distributor for a small company based in Moose Jaw.
My job, essentially, is to drive around the province as a specialized courier in a vehicle provided for me.
None of the vehicles have CD players, AUX in, or any options other than an AM/FM Tuner. And wearing headphones while driving is illegal in some places -- so an MP3 player is out of the question.
Sirius radio is more targeted towards this kind of market. I don't like having to press the seek button every hour or so.
My brother has two subscriptions. I have two subscriptions. My mom has one, and looking at getting another for her store. My sister and her husband are looking into it.
I, personally, think that Sirius/XM seem to know what their doing.
Satellite Radio isn't for you. If you don't like it, DON'T BUY IT. Simple as that.
My PS/2 Plays DVDs. My DVD player plays DVDs, My HDDVD player plays DVDS "It was cheap", and my XBox plays DVDs. I need the Wii the wii to play DVDs.....
The only thing I own out of that list is my Wii...
My spam has been pretty ridiculously high for the last few weeks, although I have no idea if this is part of it. It really does seem like gmail's spam filters are declining these days.
You don't say? I own a few domain names and to make life easier for me, I have setup 'catch all' e-mail forwards. I get about 30-40 spam messages a day. Gmail catches all of them with the exception of one every few weeks.
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Have you ever try to watch a video over todays current internet connections (via VNC or even NX)?
I have. It doesn't work so well... and it was of low resolution. Today's Multimedia Whores would never find their place. I, myself, am included in this group of people - I backup all of my movies & music... even my BluRay collection.
That's a really small demographic in comparison to the population there...
Are they being conservative or do they have factual numbers? That seems low to me.
No I didn't read the article.
I, personally, think they are digging their own grave with this one.
There just isn't enough bandwidth everywhere for there to be a totally online OS.
Me too ('cept mine is 24" - SyncMaster 245b)... The new browsers support min-width/min-height and max-width/max-height.
Why not use it?
Take a look at CAcert. They are working to get included in the default FF install... most Linux distro's already package it in for you though.
Really? I have never, ever, in my entire life had an onboard ethernet port that didn't work (under Linux).
Can you list some boards so I know which ones to avoid?
I really like the Nforce chipset.
In my experience they have always been stable and well supported.
Where does this leave us AMD users... I'm still not quite the fan of the AMD chipsets as they haven't been around long enough... all of the "performance" boards were Nvidia based. My current board has an Nforce 570.
How does the AMD 780 compare? Anyone?
It was indeed in a blizzard... I didn't 'like it', per se, I knew it had to be done so I did it. :-P
Not invented by us... but certainly still utilized by us. I live in a small town Saskatchewan. A good portion of the population still wears shorts in the winter.
I wear nothing more than undergarments, blue jeans, a t-shirt and a 'bunnyhug' (sask. term -- 'hoodie' everywhere else) during the winter... which can be as low as -40C.
Last winter I dug my '91 Chrysler Daytona out of the snow (literally up to over a meter high) a few times (sometimes resorting to a neighbours help) wearing just that.
I swore by VMware for the longest time until I stumbled across VirtualBox.
It is much, much faster on my machine. Damn near the same as if it was installed on the hardware.
If I ever actually needed Windows for more than Photoshop (CS2 now runs fine under WINE).
One feature I am looking for (and have not found yet via reading the net) is if it's possible to use a physical disk instead of a virtual disc.
It's really handy trying to install pfSense on a flash drive (the dd method doesn't work)... although there are other uses I could use it for, too.
Kayaking is a lot of fun, but very pricy if you don't own your own kayak.
I live atop a hill overlooking a valley... There's a nice big river in there and a shop that rents out kayaks, canoes and a few other fun water sport-type things.
A while back my girlfriend and I were looking for something to do, so we tried Kayaking. It cost $22 a person but I think it was worth it.
I didn't feel any huge workout from it but it was a lot of fun... Weight training to stay healthy was a big priority in school but has since dropped on my priority list.
I am now trying to cajole some friends and/or family members to come and make it a weekly thing.
I know what ADSL stands for. Uplink isn't even 1Mbit... it's closer to 800Kbits.
To me, this guy doesn't sound like he's running anything mission critical. I think it would be perfectly acceptable for a home server GIVEN his bitching about other companies spying on his content. That's why I suggested it.
I run out of my home because I do this for a living. I am here to keep it all on lockdown and I am here with spare parts and servers to ensure it runs smooth.
I only have one provider accessible to me. ADSL is all they offer until you get into the dedicated connections... but then the price jumps from $100/month to $1500/month.
As others have mentioned, bitching and complaining I should be running out of a 'proper' facility is all bullshit. It's what you make of it on a personal level. This is how I want it, so this is how I do it.
Apparently you didn't even read my post, just picked parts out so you can criticize.
I've been running servers out of my home for years now. I'm trying to think of how long and I'd say it's been about 5 years now.
Only issue I've ever had was a power outage that lasted a good couple hours (apparently most of the province was out as well as the whole northern part of the state below it)... that was unavoidable. My UPS's lasted all but 20 mins of the outage. Which is fine for me. 20 minutes of 5 years down the drain is pretty darn good, if you ask me.
Assuming this is a Linux Box, and you are SSH'ing in...
'passwd' is your friend.
I run a few servers here at home that are web-facing.
I have never found a provider that will accommodate me in any ways that I see fit, so the home solution has won me over every time I go looking.
I host my own work as well as customers. I'm running it all on a Business Class 7Mbit ADSL line... never any problems as most sites are pretty low on bandwidth.
I've recently got a new client (signed and sealed -- working on the project right now, actually). Their project is going to require their own server(s -- Yay redundancy!) for some power behind their project... if all goes well I'm going to lease some office space outside of my home and upgrade the connection to whatever the best is I can get.
The 'at home' solution offers total control. If you're making enough money off your clients, it's worth it in my opinion.
You've obviously never been to a rural area.
I live in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Right now I am working as a distributor for a small company based in Moose Jaw.
My job, essentially, is to drive around the province as a specialized courier in a vehicle provided for me.
None of the vehicles have CD players, AUX in, or any options other than an AM/FM Tuner. And wearing headphones while driving is illegal in some places -- so an MP3 player is out of the question.
Sirius radio is more targeted towards this kind of market. I don't like having to press the seek button every hour or so.
My brother has two subscriptions. I have two subscriptions. My mom has one, and looking at getting another for her store. My sister and her husband are looking into it.
I, personally, think that Sirius/XM seem to know what their doing.
Satellite Radio isn't for you. If you don't like it, DON'T BUY IT. Simple as that.
In Saskatchewan, here. Them farmers daughters are reeeaaalll purdy-like.
Terrible, joke. Yeah, I know... although I only know a few farmers and their kids are older than I am.
Buy, as mentioned by everyone else... we certainly are not lacking aesthetically pleasing women.
I don't think the browser can play video content... maybe FLV, but that's pushing it even.
The only thing I own out of that list is my Wii...
Case in point.
... play DVD's?
That's the only feature missing on the Wii, in my opinion, anyway.
Odd...
I've never dealt with any of these websites before.
Scab companies I tells ya!
You don't say? I own a few domain names and to make life easier for me, I have setup 'catch all' e-mail forwards. I get about 30-40 spam messages a day. Gmail catches all of them with the exception of one every few weeks.
Ignoring the first line, you had me going until I read this:
It's $5.99 here. All taxes included.
They lowered it from $8.99+taxes two years ago, though.
What what? In the butt.