@Dashrender said:

Before I cut my phone portion of my bill down to $12/month (unlimited incoming, 100 min outgoing) I was paying $32 a month for unlimited in/out calling and caller ID/Call waiting/call waiting ID, On Screen Caller ID.

I live in an extended LATA here, so if I have a POTS line I have to pay a minimum $50 a month for it. The line itself is ~$20, just like everyone else in Texas. If I actually want to call someone outside of my town without paying long distance charges or even have someone from Dallas call me without paying long distance, I have to buy a "metro" line, that's another ~$10 or so. Then taxes, USF, and vertical services like CID and VM, you got a $50 phone bill.

When I worked for AT&T, it was pretty sweet for the line. Every vertical service sold by them, like VM, LineBacker, CID, and a DSL/dialup account so it was a $120 normal bill. I just had to pay taxes and anything above the 1.5Mbps loop for DSL, so $20 a month usually. My second, third, and fourth lines were as equally cheap and DSL was fairly inexpensive as well.

The month they finally got around to pulling my concessions off my phone bill really sucked. Only took them a year to do it. Thankfully AT&T was starting to sell unbundled loop DSL at the time so I was able to convert my multiple pairs and DSL pipes to dry loop. Then I flipped my house line to a SIP provider. $150 for two years of service paid up front, pretty nice.

@JaredBusch said:

When I was growing up the local telco was GTE North. bought/sold/blah. Finally landed as Verizon at the time DSL was introduced at the turn of the century. Guess what. Still no DSL available there.

That's what you get for living in Southern Illinois.

Northern Illinois, specifically DeKalb, was a pilot town for GTE's brand new frame relay DSL in 1997. I moved to Texas and got the third installation slot in town 1998. They had brand new folks learning how to put it in from my install. And I had to buy a POTS line because I was using ISDN. So add to the fun of porting over my number to POTS, dropping a pair in for the loop, then configuring all that fun stuff.

People wonder why I don't bat an eye when I have two pipes currently coming into the house. I've always paid a lot of money for my internet access.

@scottalanmiller said:

The only reason that I use Exchange for my personal email is that I comingle it with work so that I don't have to go to two places to get mail. If I was keeping them separate, I would not be inclined to use Exchange either.

BENGHAZI!!!

@JayRMS said:

My initial thought is this Open 4-Post. It's adjustable so you can fit to any depth you need, extremely strong (3000 lb load) although that's probably overkill for you. Ships unassembled which considering dim weights are a monster, that saves you quite a bit on shipping if you don't mind assembly, otherwise we can assemble for a charge and ship at that dim weight. The image is the 42u, but on the page you have a 24u for $389.

You guys do will-call right? I've been looking for a sweet rack, and I need somewhere to put my equipment too!

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

Have you looked at an ikea rack? Not sure if you can get 24U out of those or not.

You mean their night stands?

Pretty much. Although I read someone use their bookshelf to do something bigger. It will hold a significant amount of weight.

The Lackrack!

https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

@johnhooks said:

I don't care what the office looks like as long as I can have one of these.

Gonna be a robot too?

Would be helpful for a model/manufacturer for that thing. Aspen doesn't yield much in the way of finding info.

@coliver said:

@MattSpeller said:

@hubtechagain lol - you're cleaning me out bud! $6.50 is my final offer

What is that like $4USD?

Nah, it's about tree fiddy!

AFAIK, that's part of the whole architecture. Kind of hard to change course since these features existed within PPC well before OpenPOWER existed.

Can't seem to find the Redbook on it from IBM though, although keep in mind Rackspace is selling OpenPOWER stuff. I doubt they are buying hundreds of these things and letting the customer at it.

@Reid-Cooper said:

I would be happy to try using Power for projects, but I mostly look to hosted cloud products for computing resources these days when dealing with the Intel world, why would I move back to physical to work with Power?

Because PPC has always been available to "virtualize".

I work with iSeries boxes so this will be AS/400 specific, but they have a function called LPAR. If you need separate instances, all you have to do is partition the system and you have a "new" machine ready to go. This has existed in the AS/400 line for a long time, even before PPC, introduced in V4R4 back in 1998.

Yeah, it's not "virutalized" like you expect x86 to be, but it's effectively the same.

@coliver said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@coliver said:

Everything I've read (from some enterprise users) seem to suggest that glacier retrieval can indeed go into the 24 hour time frame.

And I've heard longer. It's because it is going to physical tape retrieval.

I didn't realize it was physical tape. Wow. I thought tape was getting to the price/gb line where disk is less expensive. Is tape that much more reliable?

https://www.tape4backup.com/29080.php?gclid=CIrgj9ibwsgCFQIOaQodLecN1A

Where can you get 2.5TB worth of storage for under $40?

Mind you, that's the physical capacity. Compression in backup schemes can be super powerful. I've had LTO4 tapes not even get near capacity after compression for a week's worth of full backups.

@scottalanmiller said:

Red Hat, Suse and Ubuntu have already ported their entire ecosystems. How many things are actually written just for AMD64 architecture anyway?

Knew about SuSE and kind of about Ubuntu, but didn't know RedHat had a PPC port. Though most who do use that specific kernel it would be using Yellow Dog most of the time. PPC was kind of the forgotten platform for Linux, right before SPARC and somewhere around Alpha. Even IA64 has more support around it than PPC. It might have been the whole IBM stuff. PPC was limited to AIX and OS/400 for the longest time. With a commodity server now, at a reasonable price, there should be more adoption of it.

Only items that would be x86 only would be precompiled binaries. If there is source, and gcc supports the call, then it should compile on any version. There would be x86 type calls only, especially with C++ and such, but it should work.

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

And FreeBSD is younger than the Mach kernel, which Darwin is based.

Sure, but that they put a Mach kernel onto mostly FreeBSD utilities doesn't change where that ecosystem came from. They took ideas from Next, the kernel from Carnegie Melon and mostly the FreeBSD OS to put together Darwin. FreeBSD is widely recognized as the core contributor to the initial releases.

But FreeBSD came out AFTER 4.1BSD, which is where the great schism started. Next started their work on Mach/Darwin a few years before FreeBSD came about. There is plenty borrowed from FreeBSD but it's still running kernels that are nothing like FreeBSD.

@Reid-Cooper said:

Mac OSX is a fork of FreeBSD.

It's most certainly not. There is more than one BSD out there.

OSX is a derivative of the original BSD. This can trace its history back to the NextSTEP which traces back to BSD. Darwin, which the kernel is called now, is completely foreign as compared to FreeBSD. And FreeBSD is younger than the Mach kernel, which Darwin is based.

All Unix derivatives lead back to AT&T but where they are now versus where they were with SystemV is completely different. The Linux kernel is nothing like BSD which is nothing like the commercial Unix released like HP-UX or AIX.

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

How is @thanksajdotcom doing? He hasn't been around on here in a few days, has he?

He's fine. He's been on a bus for days. Now he is partying his way across the west on his way to Vegas.

IOW, he has learned nothing.

@scottalanmiller said:

Dominica actually looked up the rules from Greyhound in this case. Don't know if AJ thought that he was following the rules or not. Dominica looked them up and determined that Greyhound didn't follow their stated policy on their website.

Which makes me wonder about the whole thing. They don't "hold" luggage. It's not an airport where there is tons of space to do something like this. The Dallas stop is half filled with busses and a small waiting room. The only place to store stuff like that would be at the garage between the Dallas County Jail and the halfway house on I-35. The SF stop is literally a temp building, so however it was supposed to be stored is a strange one.

For a company to do something like that so far out of policy, well, it doesn't pass the smell test. Even ignoring the obvious security faults here, what exactly were people supposed to do when they got to SF? There were five busses running that route per day, how were they supposed to catch up? Nah, it's not sounding right. And when something doesn't sound right, I demand proof.

@scottalanmiller said:

@PSX_Defector said:

@scottalanmiller said:

AJ's luggage has been found on the bus heading to San Francisco, but not the bus that he was on.

Where he was supposed to be going in the first place. This wouldn't have been a problem if he just followed directions.

Entitlement at its finest. Change things and expect a MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR COMPANY to just cater to your whims.

In this particular case Dominica checked their online policy and they did not follow it. Technically this one wasn't AJ screwing up. Greyhound has a policy about how luggage is handled and they decided not to follow it AND did not notify people on the bus that their luggage was not going along with them. Yes, AJ was asking for trouble by not following directions from you, but he DID follow the directions from Greyhound.

Of course, the truth is more than likely much murkier than what is being told, with glaring omissions.

Excuse after excuse. Wasn't my fault, I followed what they said. Wasn't my fault, I didn't know. They were changing the rules on me. I would have a great suspicion about anything being said at this point.

@scottalanmiller said:

AJ's luggage has been found on the bus heading to San Francisco, but not the bus that he was on.

Where he was supposed to be going in the first place. This wouldn't have been a problem if he just followed directions.

Entitlement at its finest. Change things and expect a MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR COMPANY to just cater to your whims.

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Found out that Greyhound lost @thanksajdotcom luggage. They think that it went on to San Francisco when he got off of the bus early. So hopefully they will find it soon.

Greyhound lost nothing. The traveler got off the bus prior to the ticketed location. It is up to the traveler to ensure that their luggage gets off with them in that instance.

Agreed. That is the normal method of luggage on the bus. You have your carry-on and you hand your checked bag to the porter to shove under the bus. Even mentioned that little fact.

No matter, don't care.

@scottalanmiller said:

Looks more like Michigan. Am I right @FiyaFly

Not enough rust to be MI.