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by eleitl 17y ago
Completely, entirely irrelevant. It's the panel size and type that matters.
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by eleitl 17y ago
If it's a one-pop shop 'Owner' is perfectly ok, too.
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by eleitl 17y ago
> If you're looking at this end of the spectrum, just go with a VPS/Cloud system. You'll be paying about the same amount, maybe less. And you get drastically improved reliability if your provider is using failover and isn't using crap h
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by eleitl 17y ago
> Now, they don't use ECC ram Right, which is why I wouldn't use them for production, other than firewall. I've just oredered a http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015A-... kit for 199 EUR sans VAT, add about 35 EUR
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by eleitl 17y ago
> Is $3.99 per mbps with a minimum commit of 10Mbps expensive? Yes. I currently pay about 12 EUR for a TByte of traffic, 100 MBit/s dedicated router (i.e. not shared switch) port.
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by eleitl 17y ago
We three. They used to have a killer of a deal (empty 19" rack for 99 EUR/month, inclusive 19% VAT) they unfortunately no longer offer.
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by eleitl 17y ago
> They offer some insanely cheap servers I've looked at their prices, and I wouldn't call them insanely cheap. I'm with Hetzner (both rented and an empty rack with own hardware) and the prices are about the same.
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by eleitl 17y ago
Dell 27" sells for 879 USD. Dell's 30" for about 1200 USD. So, no, the computer at the back is not exactly free.
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by eleitl 17y ago
I'm 43, and a "digital native", too. And I question this "understand deeply" thing. I would not claim to understand the Internet deeply, and I'm only a professional user since 1992, or so.
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by eleitl 17y ago
> than rely on the centralized infrastructure I wonder why you think such infrastructure must be central. It's certainly not part of the spec.
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by eleitl 17y ago
While I always been a great fan of Ted Nelson, his vision does not include distributed cryptographic filestores, where documents do not reside on individual servers, and where individual servers are in fact completely invisible and redundan
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by eleitl 17y ago
PLV works very well in practice to induce hypothermia. You only have to intubate, so you can field a kit any semi-skilled paramedical can use. Must take care of volu/barotrauma, though. This stuff has twice the density of water, after all.
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by eleitl 17y ago
Heh. There's literally not enough money on the entire planet for most of my projects. From the description, he's stuck in a rut. Instead of starting a yet another company, how about using the companies you have to fund something worthwhile.
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by eleitl 17y ago
Thanks, I used to hack Forth a bit back in my Amiga days. I still have my Novix 4000 board I bought used somewhere.
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by eleitl 17y ago
> On the server side, we use dtrace, zfs & zones on all Unix-like servers & have been happy with the result. I'd hate to have to move to Linux & loose those features. Well, Linux has dtrace analogs/contenders (no idea how fu
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by eleitl 17y ago
> OK for experienced admins, bad for newcomers. How difficult is to create Solaris packages from source? I must admit I never had the problem. > I'd also add Zones Well, Linux has VServer. > as well as ZFS I agree zfs is nice. P
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by eleitl 17y ago
Does it have access to 17+ kPackages, like Debian does? What about the tools duality? GNU and Solaris concepts are sufficiently different to require two set of binaries, and $PATH split-personality. Also, Sun (or Oracle) is firmly in contro
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by eleitl 17y ago
I'm trilingual, but I tend to also think primarily in English (not my native language). Apart from that I prefer to think in images.
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by eleitl 17y ago
I tend to do it visually.
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by eleitl 17y ago
This made the Beowulf list yesterday, and below is what I wrote in response: "Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11 SATA 3Gb/s 3.5″ Aargh! Should be definitely substitute
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by eleitl 17y ago
I would rather see a hand-optimized version of L4, packaged with a kernel for Debian. Or an OS written in Forth.
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by eleitl 17y ago
New Zealand, is it?
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by eleitl 17y ago
> The growing dominance of Ubuntu (at least on the desktop, the server room seems to have been won by Red Hat) Not my server room, for certain. Debian is doing very nicely there. Desktop yes (along with Win XP and OS X), but I could go
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by eleitl 17y ago
The difference between a job, or no job.
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by eleitl 17y ago
> and you made 6% annually from safe investments 6% and "safe" these days does not sound doable.
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by eleitl 18y ago
Articles like these makes me want to strangle the author. No, Sir, my Indy with Ethernet and Mosaic/Netscape was quite up to the task. In fact, my telnet to the Sun and ftp and gopher pre-web was already immensely useful. If it sucked for y
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by eleitl 18y ago
Warren Buffett (assuming his performance is not due to chance) buys things he understands. He also has deep pockets. For normal investors, in ordinary times one should pick up an index fund (roughly one third of your total investments, the
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by eleitl 18y ago
Why does his graph start with 1945, and not, say, with 1890?