I'm not in favour of the water cooling. We just got rid of the external water cooling system in our building that supported the IBM 3090 & ES9000 processors. Putting in a new device that would require roof chillers again would be nuts.
Now, if the water cooling is internal to the unit that is a different story.
As for fan noise on the computer room floor, most of it comes from the A/C units, not the equipment.
It will be built with tax payer dollars, and when the local government needs more cash they will sell it off to the highest bidding private corporation.
Unable to read the/.'d article, but I think that these would be cool for running under the raised floor in the computer room.
Put a guide string and a light on it, stuff it under the floor and have it come out at the destination. Tie the string that it pulled for you to the cable and pull the cable in.
This follows the same lines as "security through obscurity"
Every one assumed they had privacy through "practical obscurity" meaning that before the internet information had to be obtained by actually visiting or calling a government agency.
With the internet the amount of personal data that you can obtain on a person in a relatively short period of time, while sitting at home is quite disturbing.
The real question is "Should the goverenment publish personal information to the net, but still make it available if you show up in person?"
The best way that I have heard this explained is to think of the airport bagage system.
Every airport has a three letter designator and bagage is sorted accordingly (by label) based on it's destination. You check your bag at the counter and the tag (label) is applied to it and sent into the bowels of the airport and it magically appears at your destination.
QoS allows time critcal application traffic to get priority over non-priority traffic.
QoS really only kicks in when the network traffic exceeds the bandwith allocated, so if the traffic is perfectly matched to the bandwidth QoS really dosen't play a role. If your traffic suddenly out grows, or bursts above the allocated bandwidth QoS becomes a factor and critcal traffic will be get a preferance over non-critical traffic.
The best example of this type of priority traffic (other than the previous exapmles) is SNA over IP
Late last fall there was some TV reports about a new Toronto housing development that had fibre installed into each house as a standard.
The report did not go into detail regarding hardware required to use the fibre or where/how it tied into the local service provider.
Answer: New construction with in five years will probably have fibre installed. Existing homes/ developments will likely not get the technology for 10-15 years due to the rewiring required.
"With the new pricing plan, AT&T may be able to mine a lucrative new market. "
This is just people in the AT&T Marketing dept. saying they created a new way to suck money out of your pocket on a process you currently don't pay for!
Slashdot Mirror
Do you find it iAnnoying ?
I smell a naming patent
IBM is just redifining itself.
They sold the comunications side of the business to Cisco a couple of years ago.
They sell the HDD to Hitachi.
Looks like they want to focus on services and Big Iron. Stuff they do very well.
I'm not in favour of the water cooling. We just got rid of the external water cooling system in our building that supported the IBM 3090 & ES9000 processors. Putting in a new device that would require roof chillers again would be nuts.
Now, if the water cooling is internal to the unit that is a different story.
As for fan noise on the computer room floor, most of it comes from the A/C units, not the equipment.
When you buy beer at the grocery store, the only thing your debt crad provider knows is where you spent the money, not what you bought.
This is like athe chicken and the egg. Which came first.
.02 cents
It will be hard to determine if any authour's ideas ever influenced the inventor.
I think the invention process is more evolutionary .
Just my
It will be built with tax payer dollars, and when the local government needs more cash they will sell it off to the highest bidding private corporation.
Unable to read the /.'d article, but I think that these would be cool for running under the raised floor in the computer room.
Put a guide string and a light on it, stuff it under the floor and have it come out at the destination. Tie the string that it pulled for you to the cable and pull the cable in.
This follows the same lines as "security through obscurity"
Every one assumed they had privacy through "practical obscurity" meaning that before the internet information had to be obtained by actually visiting or calling a government agency.
With the internet the amount of personal data that you can obtain on a person in a relatively short period of time, while sitting at home is quite disturbing.
The real question is "Should the goverenment publish personal information to the net, but still make it available if you show up in person?"
0.02 cents
The best way that I have heard this explained is to think of the airport bagage system.
Every airport has a three letter designator and bagage is sorted accordingly (by label) based on it's destination. You check your bag at the counter and the tag (label) is applied to it and sent into the bowels of the airport and it magically appears at your destination.
Simple example, but functional
Agreed
QoS allows time critcal application traffic to get priority over non-priority traffic.
QoS really only kicks in when the network traffic exceeds the bandwith allocated, so if the traffic is perfectly matched to the bandwidth QoS really dosen't play a role. If your traffic suddenly out grows, or bursts above the allocated bandwidth QoS becomes a factor and critcal traffic will be get a preferance over non-critical traffic.
The best example of this type of priority traffic (other than the previous exapmles) is SNA over IP
The same can be said for Network Analysts.
The background maintenance is something the developers don't see, unless it is not done and the network crashes.
Having the Cisco enable password is as good as having root.
It looks like /. UID 118223 'cowkiller' will be the closest, if MIR comes down on time.
cowkiller guessed '2001-03-23 02:02:02'
You can find the contest here
2001-03-20 20:35:11
Comming to a Fiji backyard near you.
I love flying pig jokes!
Late last fall there was some TV reports about a new Toronto housing development that had fibre installed into each house as a standard.
The report did not go into detail regarding hardware required to use the fibre or where/how it tied into the local service provider.
Answer: New construction with in five years will probably have fibre installed. Existing homes/ developments will likely not get the technology for 10-15 years due to the rewiring required.
What do you think??
Kingtut
Where's the beef?
A little more detail would be nice.
We currently run the VERY latest "z" series IBM server with 1100 MIPS and are considering running Linux on it as soon as kernal 2.4 is out of beta.
What was the newspaper headline years ago "DEWEY WINS!"
.... I Am Canadian.. Crack a cold one !
Go Clarkie!!
I am Joe
As a Canadian watching the procedings I find the electronic projections (trending) quite interesting.
I wonder if the same will occur for the Canadian Federal Election on November 27th. Probably not, because CNN doesn't care....
Please!!!!!
Can I turtle (hockey style) the annoying American.
Excellent commercials....
I nominate Lucien Bouchard to lead this expedition.
Hell! Send Stockwell Day and Jean the PM to keep Bouchard company.
Does the US want send any political leaders?
I'm in!
Tap the keg and call me happy!
More than up time is the kick ass I/O peformance that BIG IRON provides.
Also BIG IRON has perfected disk and tape storage management far beyond that of other OS's. Like ten years ahead of everyone else.
The BIG IRON has evolved into the storage server in our shop for all NT/AIX/HP/UNIX servers using ADSM get to the S390 and HSM for storage management.
"With the new pricing plan, AT&T may be able to mine a lucrative new market. "
This is just people in the AT&T Marketing dept. saying they created a new way to suck money out of your pocket on a process you currently don't pay for!