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We've had some concerns with the availability and load balancing aspect of the equation. First and foremost is availability, we're a hosted service provider. We often dedicate a physical server to a client. This allows us to ensure that a HW failure is not going to affect multiple clients...

@Work (ISP/Hosting provider) we used a lot of tape in our backups and with the increased capacity of SATA drives we've since moved to online backup instead of tapes. I will say that dealing with older tape drives was a PITA. The drives would constantly have one problem or another. However, the...

Client for Microsoft Networks is the discovery and login protcol suite that runs on top of IP. Disabling it may break SMB connectivity between windows workstations, but it doesn't prevent Windows from using the NIC for IP (Internet or LAN) connectivity. WinNT 4.0 (and win9x) probably had a...

Agreed, is the file system on the array mounted? How do you normally access it? Does dmesg show any error on boot relating to /dev/Raid6, mdadm, or any of the drives?

1.5GB is pretty regular for me. I only have 6 tabs open (across 3 windows) right now and am at 600MB. I started FF on Friday and didn't use it over the weekend (now Monday). Task manager shows that the peak usage was 1.5GB, which must have been Friday. I don't normally have more than 20 tabs...

Sounds like a job for a scheduled task....

This may just be me and my browsing habits, but I'm starting to think of dumping XP because of FF4. I have two problems that are related to FF4 under XP. First, since updating to FF4 my existing FF windows are blank if I access them via remote desktop - new FF windows display fine. This appears...

Redhat is being less friendly to commercial products like Oracle's Unbreakable Linux. RH hasn't done anything unfriendly to CentOS. There was an article about the way Redhat has been repackaging it's source RPMs in RHEL 6 which stated that it would hurt all RHEL derivatives. Unfortunately, the...

Do you have any stats (UPS load estimate, watt meter, etc) on how much power the components draw now? CentOS 5 is still maintained for several years to come and CentOS6 is right around the corner (or use Scientific Linux if you want it now). I don't see any requirement to move away from this...

Since Windows updates is now pushing SP1, I now have a bunch of machines that are failing to install SP1 automatically. if I log on as administrator, i can install SP1 manually and it has gone fine on the machines that I've tried. No idea why the automatic update fails. As you guys...

The guests are reliant on the host for underlying hardware access, so you probably can't disable the NIC in the host OS. However, you could leave it out of the host os's routing table (no IP and no routes) and bridge it to the guest. For a windows host, I would start by disabling all...

I haven't looked, but I assumed they were NiCad. I guess Li-Ion might have a longer shelf life?

I'm sure it's been mentioned before. But the closest windows GUI equivalent that I've found is SyncBack Freeware Microsoft's SyncToy has been recommended to me as well. My use if it has been pretty limited though. Tannin would probably recommend something old school like xcopy or xxcopy or...

Have you tried batteries+? I have replaced batteries for various devices there before. They can make custom packs out of generic cells for just about anything. Cost isn't the cheapest, but it may beat ebay + shipping. The batteries on a PERC are pretty small... My guess is $30-$40 for a new...

haha, nope. But the latency was pretty low, probably < 10ms (couple AS hops away, same city). I tried to sign up for a speedtest.net official mirror (or whatever they call them), and they never called me back. Some of the companies we work with are official speedtest.net mirrors. It's probably...

wow, I had no idea how slowly the outer planets circled the sun. Pluto, for instance, takes about 250 years to revolve around the sun. Also, somewhat surprising, is that it is almost impossible to have more than the first 3 planets in alignment. The first three seem to align every ~ 50 years...

I've gotten ~90Mbps/68Mpbs on a nearby speedtest.net server. Unfortunately, I don't think many of their distributed locations have the capacity to accurately test over 50Mbps.

I don't know that anyone is forced to use BofA. However, due to (sometimes local) monopolies people are forced to work with Comcast, Walmart, and TicketMaster. These companies certainly take advantage of their status, and I think we'll see one of them win the prize. Personally, I have nothing...

With my last desk I got a CPU holder, it's great. Very similar to this one - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fomJC49m8uI I have the CPU off the floor, which leaves room for a small sub and UPS beneath it.

http://glow.mozilla.org/ seems perfectly fluid for me in FF4 (is there a fps counter somewhere?)... hovering about 50% CPU usage (of each core) on a c2d E8400. Chrome displays perceptibly identically. I'm not sure how the page is coded, but does this have anything to do with gfx performance? I...

I've found that NIC drivers play the biggest role in network performance (moreso than the NIC itself). I tend to stick to intel NICs because they always seem to work well in whatever OS I choose (DOS, Linux, Windows) because of the broad and tested driver support. Between different drivers I've...

I've never experienced this with any motherboard, intel or otherwise. If I set the boot order to CD->HDD->Network, it stays that way whether I add a HDD, remove all CD drives, etc. One bug I noticed with one system is that my boot HDD was sometimes not detected and the system would try to boot...

I just did a fresh install of Win7 Home premium 64 on an unformatted, new HDD. Attempted to update before doing anything else and found windows update wanted to give me 70+ updates before offering SP1. After a couple of rounds of updates, I attempted to download SP1 manually and was scarred off...

I setup TaxxyLady for a CPA. Free The Net - Lenexa (after google's SF trial). Though I usually stick to something more mundane... my personal SSID is moon. Sister's is smeegy (her online nick). Most of the neighbors are pretty boring: schools, mascots, sports, last names, or the defaults. I...

I don't think you need super high end hardware for chipkill, SDDC is the equivalent I believe, and is available on ~ $1000 standard intel server platforms from any manuf. In the right platform, ECC can be very handy -we've been alerted to DIMM failures on 3 separate servers (typically after...

maybe, unfortunately I don't have any spare 3TB drives to test. I do have a sans-digital enclosure (port expander/backplane only model) I need to setup.

To be fair, the non-"enterprise class" version is $1000 cheaper. The only difference I saw was a 3 year warranty on the standard model and 5 year warranty on the enterprise model. If you bought your own drives and parts you'd be lucky to get more than a year warranty on any of the parts beyond...

Dunno. Just installed SP1 on my home desktop (Win7 Home Premium 64bit) and had no issues. This box has had a ton of crap installed since I set it up ~6 months ago. The server (Win2008 R2) that I had trouble on was a new install (week or two old) that had only Notepadd++ and DOSBox installed and...

I have an office full of win7 machines and after this experience will probably be phasing the install over a couple week period.

Just installed SP1 on 2008 R2 via automatic updates. Checked on the server 1/2 hour later... RDP is dead, console shows 'shutting down services'... waited 1/2 hour... still 'shutting down services'. Thankfully, upon reboot the system proceeded to finish the SP1 installation and appears to be...

I think the windows key came about in the mid-late nighties as a way to entrench windows by making users learn shortcuts that they could then not transfer to other systems... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_key

I should mention that everything looks OK at this point in time. Your MX records correctly point to google A records and those A records resolve just fine. I would not expect to have any problems delivering to your domains.

Changing DNS providers (SOA records) always takes 48 hours to cache out - because this is what the TLD root DNS servers use for all domains. If you did not change DNS providers, and just chagned the MX records, then it's really up to your provider how long it takes for their records to cache...

carbon copies?

Thanks for the tip. I've tried Tversity, Twonky (light version that comes with HP home servers), and PS3 Media Server and haven't been 100% satisfied by by any of them. I'll give PlayOn a whirl, the demo video seems to demonstrate pretty well integrated web video access.

Unfortunately not.

Did you get this resolved? I meant to spend some time looking at it, but got distracted. If you still have trouble I would be happy to take a look. I troubleshoot issues like these all day long.

I'm pretty happy with the Dell quietkey variations throughout the years also. I've used them at work extensively, and they're easily (and cheaply) available new or used in bulk from ebay or some retailers.

A couple of my co-workers are really into watching movies via media player appliances. One has the WD-TV live and the other has a couple popcorn hour players (livingroom+bedroom). Both have HD vid/audio in the living room. The guy with the WD chose it because he liked the interface (he is also...

That's not as easy as it might seem at first. While the serial port is emulated pretty well, the parallel ports are not. Most stop at printing support, if they even support it at all. This means that more exotic devices like scanners, dongles, etc usually don't work. Beyond the basics to get...

This could be an interrupt sharing/contention problem or a chipset bug/limitation. Wouldn't hurt to ensure you have the latest bios/firmware/drivers (get NIC drivers from NIC manuf) for each system. Could also be a windows setting... like the general performance option for applications vs...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4G I thought this was interesting, NPR talked about 4g networks a few weeks ago. There is apparently a "standard". However, none of the US networks meet that standard. I suspect that Stereodude is spot on. We won't see 4g for several years; needless to say, current...

Actually, we use the same IMAP software and I've corresponded with the operator of Fastmail a few times in the past. Bron is actively pursuing the development of the Cyrus IMAP software at a pace faster than ever before - it's really exciting to be able to see this in OSS. Fastmail specializes...

That's something I hadn't read in the reviews. However, it's important not to confuse VT-d with traditional VT (aka VT-x). I don't know that anyone is actually taking advantage of either of these technologies (VT-d, TXT) in the consumer space. Both technologies also require a fully supported...

Your array is much larger than the example (8TB vs 1TB), so it does not surprise me that it might take many times longer. I've heard of large RAID 5 resync's taking days. Either way, I don't think this step would take longer in the event of user error. The creation of the array in step 3 is...

+1 for clonezilla. I haven't utilized it on SSDs, but I have used it for years and it has worked on everything I've thrown at it - from 440BX based pII's with IDE disks, ATi Chipset P4's using SATA disks, intel c2duos w/ SATA, to Dell servers running RAID arrays on PERC SCSI or SAS controllers...

Just wondering since my company also competes in that space. We charge significantly less and offer a similar suite - IMAP, POP, SMTP, Webmail, SpamFilter, Mailing lists, etc. Of course, we don't have google's snazzy interface, but if you're using a mail client that doesn't really matter. We are...

I never buy batteries off ebay - Too much cheap Chinese junk that's mislabeled or misrepresented. I have bought some non-OEM camera batteries and never noticed a distinguishable difference in battery life, but these are from a reputable dealer... who ships out of HK. I have been interested in...

How much do you pay them to host your mail for free? ;- ) And for how many users?