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Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:42 pm |
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Toby A Inkster wrote:
| Quote: | Patrick wrote:
If you had $5k to spend on a machine to be used as a web server (Linux),
what and why would you buy (memory, processor, etc)? T
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1 x HP Proliant DL380
1 x Intel Xeon 3.2 GHz Processor
2 x 1 GB FB-DIMM SDRAM
2 x HP 73 GB 10000rpm HDD
1 x redundant power supply
The list price of that lot (in the UK anyway) would be about £2500 (~$5000)
including tax, but you could probably bargain it down a bit. It would last
you for years before you'd need to even think about upgrading it, and when
you did, you'd find free slots for an extra processor, six extra FB-DIMMs
and four extra HDDs.
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Thanks Toby,
That was exactly the kind of info I was hoping to get.
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Steven J. Sobol
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Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:49 pm |
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In article <1177551181.272913.306790@n35g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, Defranco wrote:
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Yeah, I'm just going to get rid of the animation altogether and use a
static 3-D extruded logo.
| Quote: | - I didn't like the links (Home, Blog, etcc.) format on top, I think
that you should change the format (font, size)
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Y'know, I had something else that I thought looked completely gaudy
before I set up the links the way you see them now. I'm ok with the
way they are now, but would be willing to entertain suggestions as
to font and size changes.
| Quote: | - The colors of background and the header are too similar.
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maybe a darker shade of grey in the background, or lighter on the
header and footer...?
| Quote: | - place links on bottom too
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Good idea.
| Quote: | - avoid the thumbs on the right (nucleous, etc) like it is now - it
is killing the professional layout of your page.
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So what are you thinking, maybe on the left? I need the links there,
especially the Weather Channel link which is required according to the
license agreement that allows me to use their data.
I guess I could put the weather/nucleus/adobe links across the top.
Maybe replace the blog selection links, which, now that I'm
re-visiting the site, I don't like too much.
Absolutely. I love being able to bounce ideas off of you guys...
you're all quite helpful.
Thanks,
Steve
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Ed Jay
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Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:54 pm |
| Post subject: Re: The next new thing on the web? |
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veg_all@yahoo.com scribed:
| Quote: | On Apr 24, 4:04 pm, "John" <jpl...@swbell.net> wrote:
Oh I can think of a lot of things if my home was hooked up to a computer and
had video cams that I can look around the house when I'm gone at work. I
could have it let the dog out, check and see if I turned the stove off and
if I didn't it would. I don't always get off at the same time so I could
have the heat or ac come on as I'm heading home. Did I lock the door? Who
I was thinking about that too, something like wireless robots that
work off something attached to your usb port. Then these robots can be
controlled from the web. I am sure something like this already exists
or not?
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Sam Alex
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Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:08 pm |
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On 2007-04-24, paul@paulwatt.info <paul@paulwatt.info> wrote:
| Quote: | Hey Peeps,
I've been struggling to get buisness, hence I now have a day job
(which is why I'm posting from google). Any advice on getting more
buisness? At the moment I'm doing charity work,sites for
friends,registered with freelancers.net etc. I know theres no magic
solution, but any pointers in the right direction?
Cheers
Paul
http://www.paulwattdesigns.com
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Hi Paul,
What your doing with charity work and so forth is a great way to find other
paying clients. Word of mouth IMO is one of the best ways to advertise your
work.
Another option is getting in with a few local computer shops, not Best Buy
and corporate turds, but rather the smaller mom and pop places. These folks
can get your name out to their customers, and possibly by hosting their site
for free, they'll pass along your card to potential clients.
You can also sponsor local events if you have the cash. Get your name in
the high school sports programs, year books, or even in restaurant menus.
We have a number of restaurants locally who have advertisements in their
menus (which I hate, but it works).
ALso find a nitch market. For example, write a kick ass real estate site
with CMS and so forth, then find a realtor to host their site for free (or
for a VERY low cost). As other realtors see their site they'll want the
same. This goes for other areas, like restaurants, catering places, and so
forth. If you can design a kick-ass must have site, others will flock to you.
Just some suggestions --- Now if I myself would only follow these
suggestions :)
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Sam Alex
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Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:24 pm |
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On 2007-04-24, veg_all@yahoo.com <veg_all@yahoo.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I have been using the web since 1994 and have noticed the following
evolution trend:
Pre 1990's - Text dominated web
1990-1995 - Pictures added
1995-2000 - Audio added
2000-2010 - Video added
2010+ - ?????
Now that we have text, pictures, audio and video, what more is there
to the web? I think we are at the end of what the web can promise.
Now things will just get more standardized and stable over the next
10-30 years.
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I think the web will start to move into every crack of everyone's lives, not
that it's not already there for some. I think as speeds start increasing,
folks will find ingenious ways of using the Internet, I mean who thought
VoIP would take off like it has, or that folks would be downloading music
and videos from the Internet. IN the days of dial-up this idea would've
been nuts.
I honestly think what comes in 2010 and beyond we can't even imagine right
now. I bet folks will do more remote-control type stuff as the speeds start
getting faster, example being you have one person playing piano on one site
but robotic arms mimicing the movements on a remote piano 1000 miles away.
Also with wifi becoming more available, I think there are things we're just
now starting to see that are possible with always-on anywhere connectivity.
It's scary in a way... When I first touched the Internet in 1993 it was
more of a way to communicate with friends and family over email and IRC,
plus a fun alternative to BBSing. I mean I remember hitting simtel.com via
FTP in 1994 and having access to way more files then any local BBS had, and
no waiting for a free line.
Times they are a changin', but only time will tell if it's all for the good.
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Kris
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Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:44 pm |
| Post subject: Re: The next new thing on the web? |
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:03:21 +0100, Mark Goodge
<usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
| Quote: | On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:46:34 -0600, Kris put finger to keyboard and
typed:
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:11:41 +0100, Mark Goodge
usenet@listmail.good-stuff.co.uk> wrote:
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:54:42 -0600, Kris put finger to keyboard and
typed:
While it might be true that broadband speeds are getting higher, is
the actual availability of broadband increasing significantly?
Yes. By the end of 2006, approximately 77% of global users were on
broadband.
I don't have the actual figures in front of me, but in the past month
I read that approximately 1/3 of Americans don't have either a
computer or internet access.
The US is actually lagging behind on broadband rollout, compared to
most of Europe and Asia. The US currently has around 66% on broadband,
which leaves plenty of room for growth.
Is that 66% of the population or 66% of internet users -- and can you
point me to the statistics?
Internet users. There are various sources of stats, but the one I
quoted is at http://dhdeans.blogspot.com/search/label/broadband
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I checked this link and two things jumped out at me:
"At the end of 2006, it is estimated that over three-quarters (77
percent) of the global online population was utilizing a broadband
connection to access the Internet, in comparison to just 21 percent
utilizing a dial-up connection. And though the prevalence of broadband
access continued its steady growth trend through 2006, growing an
additional seven percentage-points from 2005 (70 percent), *the days
of robust annual growth for broadband penetration may soon be coming
to an end*."
Emphasis added by me -- and I think this statement is an indication of
my point. Not everyone lives in "the big city." Given distance
requirements, etc., there is a huge population of internet users who
do not have high speed access, and aren't likely to in the near
future.
"The latest findings from "The Face of the Web 2006" -- *based on
interviews in 12 key global markets* with more than 6,553 adults,
including 3,798 active Internet users at the end of last year --
reflect the adoption possibilities of the Internet that few other
consumer technologies have shown in the past."
Emphasis added by me -- this information comes from "key global
markets." I doubt they were interviewing the peeps from Podunk. I'm
getting the impression there are a lot more of us than they realize.
| Quote: | I admit I'm out in the sticks -- I just got electricity out here about
five years ago and I'm lucky to have a phone at all. I *could* have
high speed access if I were to shell out the money for satellite --
but that cost is outrageous. I don't envision that cable will be
available here *ever* and certainly not DSL. Heck, we only have one
internet service provider that actually has a local access number
available.
If you can get a landline phone at all, then you have the potential to
have DSL. All you're waiting for is for your phone company to enable
it at the exchange. Unlike cable, DSL doesn't rely on the ISP putting
in any infrastructure - the telco does that, and then resells it to
the ISP.
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This article will is a good example of what I'm talking about:
http://news.com.com/Rural+living,+high-speed+Internet+access/2100-1034_3-6001442.html
Just because you have a telephone doesn't mean you have access to DSL.
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Matt Silberstein
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Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:50 pm |
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:29:05 -0500, in alt.www.webmaster , "George L.
Sexton" <gsexton@Mhsoftware.com> in
<D6udnSRKvOQs-LLbnZ2dnUVZ_qXinZ2d@comcast.com> wrote:
| Quote: | On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:20:07 -0400, Patrick wrote:
Hi All,
Was wondering;
If you had $5k to spend on a machine to be used as a web server (Linux),
what and why would you buy (memory, processor, etc)? The machine would
be used to display results from numeric model runs from a 192 processor
cluster. I'm not sure yet how the results would be displayed or what
technologies would be employed.
That's simple. 2G on a dual core machine with maybe 4GB of RAM, and then
spend the rest on an Apple Cinema Display.
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Why a big display on a server? Why a dedicated display on a server?
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Matt Silberstein
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Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:53 pm |
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:20:07 -0400, in alt.www.webmaster , Patrick
<psmith@marine.usf.edu> in <f0nkia$6sc$1@news1.usf.edu> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi All,
Was wondering;
If you had $5k to spend on a machine to be used as a web server (Linux),
what and why would you buy (memory, processor, etc)? The machine would
be used to display results from numeric model runs from a 192 processor
cluster. I'm not sure yet how the results would be displayed or what
technologies would be employed.
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If it is just displaying the results you don't need a big system. If
it has to process the results or store *many* gig and do extensive
complicated searches through the results that changes things. Can you
estimate that work?
BTW, If you over-spec the system it will end up doing more jobs. In
fact, even if you don't over-spec the system it will end up doing more
jobs.
--
Matt Silberstein
Do something today about the Darfur Genocide
http://www.beawitness.org
http://www.darfurgenocide.org
http://www.savedarfur.org
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Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:08 pm |
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On 25 Apr, 16:36, mountain blues <fgffhh...@yahoo.com> wrote:
| Quote: | I'm putting together a small community website - for a few friends and
family.
Anyone able to recommend a good free (or very cheap) community type script?
(php based)
Thanks.
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without knowing exactly what you need, you could try something like
Joomla. comes with a lot of modules and is easy to install.
Paul
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Blinky the Shark
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Thu Apr 26, 2007 9:48 pm |
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Mark Goodge wrote:
| Quote: | There are people with no computer, just as there are people with no
telephone, no television, no freezer or no car. No technology ever
achieves 100% penetration; there will always be some people who aren't
interested in it.
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George L. Sexton
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Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:30 pm |
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:50:54 +0000, Matt Silberstein wrote:
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Why a big display on a server? Why a dedicated display on a server?
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Mis read the question. I thought he was looking for the machine that would
view the results. The question said "display results".
Still, buy the big monitor, say it was an oops, and then put it on your
desk  .
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George Sexton
MH Software, Inc. - Home of Connect Daily Web Calendar
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Red E. Kilowatt
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Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:50 pm |
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Karl Groves <karl@NOSPAMkarlcore.com> wrote in message:
Xns991DA261A4820karlkarlcorecom@199.45.49.11,
| Quote: | "Red E. Kilowatt" <redkilowattREMOVE@aww-faq.org> wrote in
news:462fa5b1$0 $24775$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
Matt Probert <comments@probertencyclopaedia.com> wrote in message:
462f7587.34168890@news.freenetname.co.uk,
Any other parents with a young child about to learn the recorder may
benefit from not buying their child a low cost plastic recorder, but
rather buy them a proper wooden recorder (about 50 quid).
The advantages are:
1) Easier to play, as its more tolerant of breathing errors
2) Less squeaks as per 1
3) Sounds nicer
And if the sound is nicer, and less error prone the child will be
less disheartened and the parents less relucatnt to allow
practising at 6 am on a Sunday morning!
Matt
50 quid?
I wouldn't spend that much. A child's interest in playing a recorder
usually does not last very long, no matter how good the instrument.
Who the hell gets up at 6am on Sunday morning? :-)
Me. I have a 3 year old and a 2 year old!
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Mark Goodge
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Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:12 pm |
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 06:58:56 -0500, Jerry Stuckle put finger to
keyboard and typed:
| Quote: | Mark Goodge wrote:
If you can get a landline phone at all, then you have the potential to
have DSL. All you're waiting for is for your phone company to enable
it at the exchange. Unlike cable, DSL doesn't rely on the ISP putting
in any infrastructure - the telco does that, and then resells it to
the ISP.
Not necessarily, Mark. DSL has distance limits. For instance, I'm over
13K feet from my local office. The phone company won't provide a DSL
line because I'm over 10K feet. Interestingly enough, some other
companies claim they can do it over the same lines - but they won't even
guarantee 128K bps.
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I did say that you only have the potential for DSL, not that can
actually get it.
| Quote: | Theoretically, DSL has the pretty much same reach as the phone
network, provided that all the exchanges are DSL-enabled. There are
still some issues with customers who are a long distance from the
exchange, but DSL technology is improving and people who were out of
reach a year or so ago can now get reasonable broadband speeds.
Eventually, it should be possible to get DSL on any fixed telephone
line, no matter how far from the exchange - if the signal will carry
voice, it will carry data.
No, DSL uses higher frequencies, and therefore suffers from higher
attenuations at the same distance. And yes, the technology is
improving, but so far it hasn't violated the laws of physics.
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Indeed, but in practice the number of people who are outside the
theoretical limit for DSL is shrinking considerably. The maximum
practical distance for DSL is now about 6km - which is considerably
more than your 13,000 feet (assuming you do mean feet, not yards) from
the exchange. But, of course, that's only true with the latest
equipment, and your telco may well not have the latest equipment. And
by the time they get round to upgrading your exchange, several years
may have passed - at which point you'll be on the cutting edge, but
people elsewhere will be several years behind.
Eventually, we'll reach a point where DSL coverage is pretty much
synonymous with fixed line voice coverage, at least for all but the
most extreme situations (and, by then, the most extreme fixed line
requirements will probably have been replaced by wireless anyway). But
there's a problem with living in a country which was an early adopter
of DSL technology, as the first installations were strictly
short-range only and there may not yet be an economic case for
replacing them all over again. Sometimes, being late to the party can
be a good thing in this situation - that's one of the reasons why many
Asian countries have better DSL coverage than the US and UK.
Mark
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Heidi
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Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:29 am |
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paul watt wrote:
: "Heidi" <heidivanrompay@telenet.be> wrote in message
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Yah that was my thought too...
and worse it is a dirty spammer...
She better change her name... :p
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Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:33 am |
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Jerry Stuckle wrote:
: I do see beachcomber.net has the option to purchase an InstantSSL
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Beachcomber.net has been good for me... =)
Almost at the one year mark and I do plan on renewing. =)
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