genius!!

seriously?...

that for you i fixed.

this exchange comes to mind:

Peter: I'm looking for some toilet training books.
Salesman: We have the popular 'everybody poops", or the less popular 'nobody poops but you'.
Peter: Well, you see, we're catholic...
Salesman: Ah, then you'll want 'you're a naughty, naughty boy, and that's concentrated evil coming out the back of you'.

(emphasis mine)


in high school, we read a short story called the lottery, and i believe it's still taught to this day (hopefully). just because something's been around forever doesn't mean it's right, just, or good.

in fact, and this is merely my opinion, it seems that the older something is, the more critical we should be in its examination, and the more cautiously we should approach its application.

the point of the story i linked is that it's easy to lose sight of the original intent after much time has passed. i don't want to start a religious debate, but look at some of the laws and codes that are "still on the books" (though almost certainly not observed) in the oldest, still extant religions... carrying paddles with you so when you poo, you can bury it so god doesn't step in it... not eating pork, likely because uncooked or poorly cooked pork carries much higher risks of sickness or disease than other meats...

and to go a step further, regarding what's been mentioned many times so far on this thread, the story challenges us to examine blindly following the crowd, and instead, ask why... i know thinking for one's self isn't popular these days, but it doesn't change the fact that we should, and that those who do should speak out or ask public questions when they see something fishy.

it's likely that everyone here is on the same side when it comes to feelings about sex offenders such as rapists, child predators, etc. questioning measures such as the one in the article should not be construed as sympathy for these people, but should be seen as concern for our own rights.

I just re-read the OP's request, and I remembered a client of mine, a little over a year ago, in a small office, around 30 people. Spent around $15k for an entry-level SAN from HP, MSA 1500i. i guess my question for the OP would be, what do you mean by SOHO? Are you strictly speaking price? And, if so, what do you consider SOHO prices? If you're looking to not spend $40k for an equallogic/lefthand/etc SAN, but are ok spending a small chunk, then maybe an entry level iSCSI SAN from HP, EMC, etc will work. I can't speak to every make and model, but most of these are built around "server quality" hardware, typically reasonable RAM, Xeon-class CPUs, dedicated network and drive controllers, etc. HP and some of the other OEMs also sell "storage servers", for HP this would be based off of a DL380 chassis, populated with disks, running windows storage server.

i guess what would help me understand your request would be more details. what do you consider SOHO? what is a reasonable price to pay to get what you want?

and is going away in favor of pci-e.

they're not?

i'm having trouble seeing where they made the jump from "dell decides to charge" to "microsoft's fee". OEMs have the option, there is no MS fee. just like end users have the option, and businesses and so on. dell is basically charging more, because instead of using one image per model, they're using two. and that should be ok ($150, i don't know about that), but can someone please explain how this is a microsoft fee? or is this just another chance to blindly bash microsoft?

to provide some insight, my sister is a lit teacher at a local middle school. she's a great teacher, and got into it so that she could teach lit to middle- and high-school students. she makes probably $10-15k more per year at a local public school than if she went to any of the private schools or academies. from what i understand, higher pay for private school teachers is typically a misconception.

that's what i know, and this is my opinion: i think for a lot of people, getting into teaching is a give-up. people overwhelmed by the choices of what they're going to do in life default to childhood ambitions, or realize that you only need a couple years of college to start substitute-teaching (and it just goes from there). the algebra teacher i had my senior year was an ex-microsoft employee (who knows what she really did there, but supposedly she was a software engineer), and she was horrible. she hated it, we hated her, but she probably sucked more at programming, and was fired. the year before, my geometry teacher was an ex-student, cheerleader, and preoccupied with all the rumors, who was dating who, etc, that went on. (to be fair, my history, art, CS, and lit teachers were fantastic, but, that kind of proves the point - they got into teaching because they wanted to, the bad ones didn't).

*cough* thinkpads *cough*

seriously, they've been using liquid cooling for years....

this is not how we roll... why, if we did that, most of our politicians would have no purpose. (that, or they'd have to do real work, which could prove difficult/impossible, as they are typically only qualified to manipulate people, or lecture people on manipulating people. on the other hand, they might successfully convince us that they're doing a good job, or, that we don't need to take responsibility (or can't) and deserve for everyone to bend over backwards for us, and their jobs are secure.)

anyway, think of the politicians!!

there are websites that use silverlight?!