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Linux Not Quite Ready For New 4K-Sector Drives
Theovon writes "We've seen a few stories recently about the new Western Digital Green drives. According to WD, their new 4096-byte sector drives are problematic for Windows XP users but not Linux or most other OSes. Linux users should not be complacent about this, because not all the Linux tools like fdisk have caught up. The result is a reduction in write throughput by a factor of 3.3 across the board (a 230% overhead) when 4096-byte clusters are misaligned to 4096-byte physical sectors by one or more 512-byte logical sectors. The author does some benchmarks to demonstrate this. Also, from the comments on the article, it appears that even parted is not ready, since by default it aligns to 'cylinder' boundaries, which are not physical cylinder boundaries and are multiples of 63."
Terminals are only irrelevant if you have a strictly Windows and DOS notion of computing.
The document you cited touches on this a little bit.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
the now-irrelevant concept of a terminal
Speak for yourself sir, I for one like my rs-232 terminals to be handy for when ethernet is down and you can't ssh (and can't be assed hooking up keyboard and monitor). Seriously, anyone adept at the command line uses it far more than the gui to get things done, terminals will never disappear.
or like on the SheevaPlug, Cobalt RaQ, or Cobalt Qube when you cannot hook up a keyboard and monitor
but in windows server 2008 and Exchange 2007 the command line and scripting (powershell) is back with a vengeance. Even Microsoft realized dah Powah of dah Toiminal!
So why aren't more machines built like the SheevaPlug?
Yet is has console, but it's a USB connection. It has the USBSerial built in. I don't need anything for my Mac other than the cable that came with it.