Comment Re:Waldo (Score 1) 154
Sorry, I meant to mod up but my finger slipped. Damn these mechanical arms!
Comment Re:Honeymoon is over (Score 1) 774
My HP 2133 shipped with an absolutely, craptastically broken SUSE Enterprise Linux. Barely functional wifi, no webcam or audio, poorly configured desktop. First time I ran YUM to update, it broke the X-server. Suffice to say 10 hours later I had Ubuntu humming along. My mom, wife, and anyone else who's not a Linux fanboy would have shipped it back to HP 10 minutes after powering it up.
Comment Re:Now that's excessive! (Score 1) 101
At $10,000/hour operating costs, that's only $0.064 (USD) per terrabyte. Not bad.
Comment Re:why can't i just cloud it newby asks (Score 1) 298
I think that's pretty much the idea of calling in a shared hosting provider. Some people have the in-house expertise and need the flexibility of DIY. Most do not. If you are in the second category but want to play with HA anyway, save your company the money and build one at home for fun.
Comment MOD PARENT UP! (Score 1) 156
Nothing against the Chinese, but the constant barrage of bots flinging themselves against my firewall needs to stop! In our case, it's more likely script kiddies on a rr.com connection, but nevertheless, better use packet inspection at the Tier-1 level would help here too.
Comment Studios are missing the point (Score 1) 575
I don't understand why the studios want to cram low-quality, DRM crap down their customers' throats when it is trivial to rip a DVD anyway. If I really wanted to send pirate copies of Legally Blonde 3 to 10,000 of my friends, I'm sure as heck not going to waste 2 hrs downloading and capturing a compressed-as-hell video stream. The nearest video store is 5 mins away, and dvd::rip works just fine, thanks.
(Useful) Stupid Regex Tricks? 516
careysb writes to mention that in the same vein as '*nix tricks' and 'VIM tricks', it would be nice to see one on regular expressions and the programs that use them. What amazingly cool tricks have people discovered with respect to regular expressions in everyday life as a developer or power user?"
Submission + - Online Storage & File Sync Launches Linux Clie (appscout.com)
Alan426 writes: PC Magazine featured an online file-synchronization application for Fedora, Ubuntu, Mac, and Windows. From the article:
Dropbox, one of the many file-synchronization and online-backup combo tools to debut this year is finally ready for the masses to sign up; no more invite required. The basic service is free and includes 2GB of storage space online. Maybe even better news: Dropbox now has Linux clients (for Fedora Core 9 and Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04), which it says is functionally the same as what you get on Mac and Windows. You won't find that yet with the competition.
The web site has a nice explanation, with diagrams. The product sets up a hot folder and background processes to sync with a central server. Storage is free up to 2GB, US$9.99/month or $99/year for up to 50GB.
Comment Re:Perfect steps... (Score 1) 261
3. It fills downtime while other processes are loading. Need a few minutes to download that huge iso?
That's what slashdot is for.
Submission + - VMS Dinosaurs Stall Seattle Schools (nwsource.com)
Alan426 writes: School reform in Seattle is blocked — by two aging VAXen. If only there were some way they could run this old, proprietary software on a PC! Maybe someone will invent a magical box to replace these mainframes. Flashback to 1992.
From the article:
From the article:
An aging computer — so old that the University of Washington has an early model on display as a museum piece — stands between the Seattle School Board and the changes it wants to make in how the district assigns students to schools. The computer, called a VAX, was first sold in the late 1970s. The district still uses two VAXes of late-'80s to mid-90s vintage. They use old-fashioned disks and stand about 5 feet tall. Staff members sometimes look for used replacement parts on eBay.
