Can we please not get more this crap about Hulu? Most of internet users see "Sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed from within the United States", so please don't post such trash on/.
Nehalem family CPUs have AES encryption commands in assembler (supported by Linux). UltraSPARC T2 have 8 cryptographic accelerators onboard. By buying modern CPU you have SSL acceleration.
Some of them are sane. Adobe gives at least yum repositories for its Flash plugin. Google has linux repos. eBay gives repos with Skype. Dell has even BIOS and firmware updates in theirs.
And from the user side, everything is updated using single program.
You are mistaking with IAP -- Internet Access Providers. They are often mistaken, as most IAP provides also services for their users (like email, web account etc).
Is anyone really expecting to have great experience with VoIP and games while having some heavy torrents running? No matter TCP or UDP, it's not going to work.
They may present SSD memory region accessible by PCI address space. The same way graphic cards present their memory. There's already driver for such kind of memory, it is included in Linux Kernel for few years and was used in implementing swap-over-videoram.
Better yet, buy two of them and mirror. Use some good filesystem -- like ZFS (available in Mac OS X, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD and to some extent in Linux), which will detect corruption and heal files using redundant copies. (google "zfs self-healing" for more)
I think I must be the only person in the world who often daydreams (when I have the time and inclination to daydream) that I've gone back in time and taken some piece of modern computer equipment to shock and amaze people from the early days of computing.
No, you aren't the only person in the world with such daydreams. Good to know I'm not only one, either:)
As noted below, you propose using SSD as a buffer. Well, this is done today with ZFS (available in Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OS X). It's called L2ARC. Look here for details
This is/.. If there were 2.33 chips they would write 2.33. 2.3 GHz clearly show it's Barcelona Opteron. They've TDP of 137W (or 74W in case of High Efficiency chips).
So, they are proposing Sun StorageTek 5800 (codenamed Honeycomb) as their research?
Compare article with this whitepaper, especially Figure 13 on page 28. Networked nodes with 4 disks each, grouped in cells of 16 + 1 management node. Each object is stured redundantly on disks of different storage nodes. Everything self-contained, accessible by nice API. Oh, and the software is Open Source.
I professionally touch only AMD Opteron processors and they are labeled clearly. 1220, 2350, 8320 - XYZZ. X is maximum socket count for CPU, tied with number of coherent HT links. I haven't seen Opteron servers with more than 8 sockets. Y is generation. 3 is Barcelona (native quad). ZZ is frequency number. It is increased by 100 or 200 MHz each two ticks.
For example: 2218 is 2.6 GHz; 2220 is 2.8 Ghz, 2222 is 3.0 GHz. There are occasionaly two letters added: HE (High Efficiency) for CPU dissipating 68/75W, or SE (Special Edition?) for fastest models dissipating 120/137W. Regular edition have TDP of 90/105W.
And that's it. AMD naming system couldn't be clearer.
Now, compare it to Xeons... it's a maze. There is little connection between ZZ and frequency number. There are some strange E, Q, X, QX prefixes. My head hurts when I have to choose between Xeons.
That reminded me situation I saw few years ago. New server arrived, with 8 GB of RAM. After few days of use all disk activity almost ceased. Under load systems did some writes sometimes. *Only* writes. No reads from disk. It was little puzzling. Under closer inspection it became obvious that all disk content was cached in RAM. There was about 4GB data on server disks (including operating system) and all of this was cached in RAM. Only changes were written to disk.
This was first time when I saw linux "free" showing 2-3GB of literally free memory. Which couldn't be used for disk cache, because there wasn't any more data to cache.
Let it go... Sun released ZFS on open source license. It already got integrated in few systems. Open source != GPL. Free software != GPL. We, linux guys, want ZFS features. But we are not center of the universe. Let's just wait for btrfs to mature and Daniel Phillip's ddlink to take off.
Did your program really communicated using MySQL protocol over TCP or unix socket? Is this protocol even documented? Almost all software uses implementation of this protocol from libmysqlclient. Linking to this library. Hence, GPL.
Why only nVidia supported? How they can go to Linux and ignore decent cards with available drivers (ATI r3xx, Intel), instead supporting binary only (thus really unsupportable) nVidia drivers? Why they ignore owners of older Mac Books Pro (with ATI cards)? Why they code support for nVidia instead of generic OpenGL renderer?
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Can we please not get more this crap about Hulu? Most of internet users see "Sorry, currently our video library can only be streamed from within the United States", so please don't post such trash on /.
Nehalem family CPUs have AES encryption commands in assembler (supported by Linux). UltraSPARC T2 have 8 cryptographic accelerators onboard. By buying modern CPU you have SSL acceleration.
Dude, external PCIe is available in laptop for years, it is called ExpressCard. And suprise, it's even used for external graphics: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/vidock-expresscard-graphics,1933.html
In some countries even OTA is not free. If you have a TV or radio, you have to pay a tax for it. This tax is transferred to public broadcasters.
Some of them are sane. Adobe gives at least yum repositories for its Flash plugin. Google has linux repos. eBay gives repos with Skype. Dell has even BIOS and firmware updates in theirs.
And from the user side, everything is updated using single program.
You are mistaking with IAP -- Internet Access Providers. They are often mistaken, as most IAP provides also services for their users (like email, web account etc).
As for bluetooth, that's how Ubuntu works. They don't have manpower to develop anything signifacant themselves.
Dell provides firmware repositories for popular Linux and tools to flash BIOSes, BMC firmware, HDD (!) firmwares, HBA firmware and such. Just take a look at http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware.
Block integrity patches were discussed in excellent article on LWN in July 2008. Kernel 2.6.27 was released in October 2008. This is old news.
Is anyone really expecting to have great experience with VoIP and games while having some heavy torrents running? No matter TCP or UDP, it's not going to work.
They may present SSD memory region accessible by PCI address space. The same way graphic cards present their memory. There's already driver for such kind of memory, it is included in Linux Kernel for few years and was used in implementing swap-over-videoram.
Now, it isn't. It's too rigid. Cat 5 is perfect. So are power cables.
It provides protection against data deterioration. Offsite backups are another line of defense, also important.
Better yet, buy two of them and mirror. Use some good filesystem -- like ZFS (available in Mac OS X, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD and to some extent in Linux), which will detect corruption and heal files using redundant copies. (google "zfs self-healing" for more)
I think I must be the only person in the world who often daydreams (when I have the time and inclination to daydream) that I've gone back in time and taken some piece of modern computer equipment to shock and amaze people from the early days of computing.
:)
No, you aren't the only person in the world with such daydreams. Good to know I'm not only one, either
As noted below, you propose using SSD as a buffer. Well, this is done today with ZFS (available in Solaris, FreeBSD, Mac OS X). It's called L2ARC. Look here for details
This is /.. If there were 2.33 chips they would write 2.33. 2.3 GHz clearly show it's Barcelona Opteron. They've TDP of 137W (or 74W in case of High Efficiency chips).
Check this wiki page.
So, they are proposing Sun StorageTek 5800 (codenamed Honeycomb) as their research?
Compare article with this whitepaper, especially Figure 13 on page 28. Networked nodes with 4 disks each, grouped in cells of 16 + 1 management node. Each object is stured redundantly on disks of different storage nodes. Everything self-contained, accessible by nice API. Oh, and the software is Open Source.
I professionally touch only AMD Opteron processors and they are labeled clearly. 1220, 2350, 8320 - XYZZ.
X is maximum socket count for CPU, tied with number of coherent HT links. I haven't seen Opteron servers with more than 8 sockets.
Y is generation. 3 is Barcelona (native quad).
ZZ is frequency number. It is increased by 100 or 200 MHz each two ticks.
For example:
2218 is 2.6 GHz; 2220 is 2.8 Ghz, 2222 is 3.0 GHz.
There are occasionaly two letters added: HE (High Efficiency) for CPU dissipating 68/75W, or SE (Special Edition?) for fastest models dissipating 120/137W. Regular edition have TDP of 90/105W.
And that's it. AMD naming system couldn't be clearer.
Now, compare it to Xeons... it's a maze. There is little connection between ZZ and frequency number. There are some strange E, Q, X, QX prefixes. My head hurts when I have to choose between Xeons.
That reminded me situation I saw few years ago. New server arrived, with 8 GB of RAM. After few days of use all disk activity almost ceased. Under load systems did some writes sometimes. *Only* writes. No reads from disk. It was little puzzling. Under closer inspection it became obvious that all disk content was cached in RAM. There was about 4GB data on server disks (including operating system) and all of this was cached in RAM. Only changes were written to disk.
This was first time when I saw linux "free" showing 2-3GB of literally free memory. Which couldn't be used for disk cache, because there wasn't any more data to cache.
Let it go... Sun released ZFS on open source license. It already got integrated in few systems. Open source != GPL. Free software != GPL.
We, linux guys, want ZFS features. But we are not center of the universe. Let's just wait for btrfs to mature and Daniel Phillip's ddlink to take off.
Simple, take one of Azul's Java CPUs.
Did your program really communicated using MySQL protocol over TCP or unix socket? Is this protocol even documented?
Almost all software uses implementation of this protocol from libmysqlclient. Linking to this library. Hence, GPL.
Why only nVidia supported? How they can go to Linux and ignore decent cards with available drivers (ATI r3xx, Intel), instead supporting binary only (thus really unsupportable) nVidia drivers? Why they ignore owners of older Mac Books Pro (with ATI cards)? Why they code support for nVidia instead of generic OpenGL renderer?