Many find the new UI changes hard to learn and unnecessary.
Sue wasn't talking about the UI. She was talking about the need to buy new
software whenever MS changes its mind, and that's what I was responding to.
There could have been changes made that don't stop quite
as many programs from
You do realize that you don't have to buy a dedicated NAS, but can
build one yourself out of any old computer that can run Linux. Same for a
MySQL server.
Yes, of course. That however, is not a mistake I plan on repeating. I have
about 5 servers I built myself out of Intel OEM parts, built
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After all, you want to protect against not just disk drive failure, but
also computer failure.
Of course, but that is a luxury we can't afford. When you are poor(er),
you
learn to tolerate risk at a much higher level
For a small business, I would generally recommend using computers they
would
otherwise discard and set up two, replicated MySQL servers for a reliable
database that won't stop if one computer or one disk drive fails.
You could do the same thing with two older computers that still work
That is the point that most people are dealing with today, and that Tom
keeps emphasizing.
If the likelihood of a computer failure is close to the likelihood of a disk
drive failure, how do you minimize the risk?
That's the thing. In my experience, the system will fail many, many
times less
The best scheme for backups I have heard of is something that I have
heard with any type of document you want to archive, Multiple
copies in multiple places. The more copies and the more places you
keep those copies the better off you are.
With the costs of HD's it is so much easier to
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Michael Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Any pointers/URLs for how-to documents would be much appreciated.
Here you go:
MySQL replication:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication.html
http://www.howtoforge.com/mysql_database_replication
This is a followup from my earlier post (see below). The computer has
crashed again with the exact same error since then and it has been
suggested that either the hard drive or controller might be the
problem. The new diagnostic info is that immediately before failure, a
high pitched whistle or
Thanks for your help. Between this and the other responses, I should be able
to get this done with only a minimum of teeth gnashing.
David
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From: b_s-wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Upgrading Mac Hard Drives
To:
My daughter and her husband have a satellite system right now and
have problems that are being blamed on voltage in the house. We will see.
Plun in a UPS and eliminate that red herring.
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I you have quite a bit to back up, do not dispair. I had that problem. It
was a hard disk failure. I bought an external usb-ide cable. I put the
hard disk in a sealed ziplock bag with all the air drawn out. I froze the
hard disk in the freezer. I took it out, put it on the cable, and quickly
This illustrates a very fundamental difference in culture between the 2
platforms: choice vs. dictates. I'll take choice every time.
Jeff has been thoroughly re-educated. Microsoft is double-plus good!
Maybe Jeff got excited by the kinky new M$ ads.
ugh..don't say kinky in reference to bill gates.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:03 PM, b_s-wilk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This illustrates a very fundamental difference in culture between the 2
platforms: choice vs. dictates. I'll take choice every time.
Jeff has been thoroughly re-educated.
New Hard Drive, reinstall operating system.
Put the old hard drive in the refrigerator, and when the new HDD is up and
running, re-install it as a slave to see if you can retrieve the data from it
(if there is data that you want to retrieve).
Ellen H.
Richard P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe Jeff got excited by the kinky new M$ ads.
Can you believe there is a link to the video on the home page.
What is wrong with these people? Even I'm embarassed for them.
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The new diagnostic info is that immediately before failure, a
high pitched whistle or scream was heard coming from the hard drive.
I have had drives do that and then continue to work fine for years.
Drives are funny beasts and hard to predict.
Since drives are cheap, it might be worth it for
The best scheme for backups I have heard of is something that I have
heard with any type of document you want to archive, Multiple
copies in multiple places. The more copies and the more places you
keep those copies the better off you are.
The only problem with that is finding the newest
That's the thing. In my experience, the system will fail many, many
times less often than will a hard drive. All Tom has are
throertetical numbers from drive mfrs to back up his claim. My real
world experience shows a very different result. And you minimize the
risk with backups, at least at
Small businesses are better served by off loading risk among multiple
computers, not relying on just one computer with a RAID controller.
Thank you!
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Ok instead of talking down to everyone as you tend to do, tell us at long
last where you get your drives then?
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No so. That is why I said to stop buying your drives from Toys R Us.
I'm seeing power supply, motherboard, and memory failures at about the
same rate as I'm seeing drive failures.
I would suggest, then, that you stop buying your hardware from Toys R
Us. At least upgrade to FAO Schwartz.
Again, you are working with out of date ideas. Hardware costs are way
Thanks for all the helpful tips. I now have the computer up and
running, but a different problem has emerged. The on-board Ethernet
connection doesn't work. It was working fine the last time the
computer was running. As a work-a-round, I've put in a wireless PCI
board to get the needed updates and
Too funny. Now you know why the big boys won't let you play with them.
I don't need the ego boost. My job is not to waste money.
You would have me spend $10,000 to serve a 5-person office? That would be
an example of bad judgement.
That $69 server was bought on a lark, with the expectation
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Tom Piwowar wrote:
I'm running one server here using s $69 linux-based appliance
and 2 $100 drives and it is positively a joy.
Tom,
What
i should recommend that you congure up michelson and morley, as the defined the
non existance of ether.
At 05:59 PM 9/9/2008, you wrote:
Thanks for all the helpful tips. I now have the computer up and
running, but a different problem has emerged. The on-board Ethernet
connection doesn't work. It
Not being argumentative ;) but I didn't post articles from mac
specific
sites on purpose...ars is a apple site? What about canalys?
I know, I wouldn't suggest otherwise. But, the site that Ars linked to with
the story on the canalys figures was a Mac site. I poked around a little
and
What is the $69.00 Linux appliance you are using? I'd like to get one!
Cisco Linksys NSLU2, which was recently discontinued. Amazon is still
selling them for $44.
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I realize you love to call people names. Yes, we all know you are superior.
I bow down to your all knowing all seeing knowlege. I'm sorry I'm so thick,
too stupid to understand even though you deign to use such simple language.
It must be a horror having to deal with such poor jesters in your
Ethernet to USB adapters abound and work well. I have used one with no
problems.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=184804Sku=B20-5096SRCCODE=GOOGLEBASEcm_mmc_o=TBBTkwCjCVyBpAgf%20mwzygtCjCVRqCjCVRq
This is one I Googled. It's not the one I have, but I
You would have me spend $10,000 to serve a 5-person office? That would
be an example of bad judgement.
No, that would be stupid, but I also wouldn't advise someone to get a SOHO
device for a 250 person network. Talk about bad judgment.
I would look at hosted solutions for a 5 person office
What is wrong with these people? Even I'm embarassed for them.
O-h-h-h-h-h, that's right, if it's not smarmy and smug and taking cheap
shots, then it Just. Isn't. Funny.
I thought it was rather amusing. I'm looking forward to the next one.
Sorry to have missed some of the more fun stuff in between then and now,
but a vacation on the coast beckoned.
Any recommendations on drive manufacturers?
Maxtor used to be one of my favorites until they got bought out by
Seagate (which was one of my least favorites based on a series of
So in a little over seven hours the Large Hadron Collider will be switched
on...any takers on if we'll all survive? I've set up a google alert to my
cell phone for the big event. The question is if all goes wrong, will I get
the msg before or after?
http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/
Mike
So in a little over seven hours the Large Hadron Collider will be switched
on...any takers on if we'll all survive? I've set up a google alert to my
cell phone for the big event. The question is if all goes wrong, will I get
the msg before or after?
http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/
Mike
resent
I understand that the dangerous stuff where we could be swallowed in a
black hole doesn't start for a few months. Brings to mind the bets they
took at Los Alamos about whether the first a-bomb in Alamogordo would
set fire to the atmosphere. And only slightly more media coverage of
this one -
So in a little over seven hours the Large Hadron Collider will
be switched on...any takers on if we'll all survive?
I'm not worried. My Maytag range has a handy feature that I will use if
necessary:
http://justweirdstuff.blogspot.com/2008/08/only-maytag-has-this.html
I'm not sure if I can
You asked this question a week ago. And the week before that...and the week
before that...Come to think about it, the weeks have all seemed very
similar.
Am I the only one who remembers this?
-Original Message-
So in a little over seven hours the Large Hadron Collider will be
So in a little over seven hours the Large Hadron Collider will be switched
on...any takers on if we'll all survive? I've set up a google alert to my
cell phone for the big event. The question is if all goes wrong, will I
get
the msg before or after?
My brother the astrophysicist and my
Uninstall it from network connections first; then uninstall it from the
device manager (the actual ethernet in network adapters listing); then
reboot and let windows tell you it has found new hardware and install it and
you shud be gud2go...
-Original Message-
From: Richard P.
Big boys look at the complete picture and recommend a workable solution with
budgets and resources in mind, rather than fake it and condescend to those
not implementing the latest thing you read about in magazine.
You really are badly wedged into '90s tech.
Did you read any of the references
I thought it was rather amusing. I'm looking forward to the next one.
Totally besotted by Microsoft? No, there was nothing funny about it. It
was kinky and weird. Everyone is scratching their heads about it, except
for Gates who is scratching his butt. It was the Zune of broadcast
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasictax
onomyName=operating_systemsarticleId=9114339taxonomyId=89intsrc=kc_top
Sep 9, 2008 ... Internet Explorer users abandoned the browser last week
to try out Google new Chrome, a Web metrics vendor said...
They report that
At 05:04 PM 9/9/2008, mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So in a little over seven hours the Large Hadron Collider will be switched
on...any takers on if we'll all survive? I've set up a google alert to my
cell phone for the big event. The question is if all goes wrong, will I
get the msg before
The only thing I found with a yellow question mark were Other
Devices which listed 5 items:
Video controller
SM Bus Controller
Other PCI Bridge Device
PCI Device
PCI Simple Communications Controller
I uninstalled them all and tried to reinstall them when the computer
found them upon reboot, but
MySQL replication:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication.html
Thanks for that. (Just for completeness if anyone searches the archives,
I've found the corresponding postgresql docs.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Replication,_Clustering,_and_Connection_Pooling
and I'm trying to
I'd love to be the person who throws the switch on this sucker.
Here, pull my finger.
Jeff M
On Sep 9, 2008, at 5:14 PM, mike wrote:
So in a little over seven hours the Large Hadron Collider will be
switched
on...any takers on if we'll all survive? I've set up a google alert
to my
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