Does anyone know... once you setup raid what happens when a drive fails? Does something in the harddrive pop up and tell you? What if it is a linux server in a closet and you'd rather the server sent you an email?
The latest software hasn't been pushing the limits of hardware like it used to, so Microsoft decided to do that with Vista by requiring a minimum 512 MB of RAM, among other things. Vista arbitrarily caching pieces of your hard drive to ram, only makes things faster if you have expensive hardware. In general, default background processes in Vista actually decrease the performance of your user processes by allocating system resources for background processes (especially on older hardware).
But this is nothing new. When I first saw XP it would boot really fast in 20-30 seconds, but after a few years of installing updates (which add and modify background processes and services) the boot process now takes a minute or two even with a fast processor. This is due to XP's long list of unnecessary background processes it has to initialize. Some sites have come out on how to optimize XP and they generally point to disabling unnecessary background processes, like this site does.
"but they could also be used by a governments or other entities to 'dust' crowds or areas, easily tagging anyone present without their knowledge or consent."
Going to a marketplace and being RFID tagged without your knowledge, so they can track when you go in and out of affiliate stores and subsequent visits to the same marketplace... doesn't that sound a little bit like cookies? (marketing guys love cookies). Even to the point of RFID tags only having short range, so you'd have to actually go inside the store that tagged you (or an affiliate to be read).
Doing your laundry/dry cleaning would be like clearing the cookies in your browser.
This company first started local (photographed houses in Calgary), then nationally (photographed houses in Canada), and their doing the USA now.
I was in town when they first started on calgary. It has a population of 1 million and about 400,000 houses and they said it would take them a year to complete. Their project created a great resource for those buying and selling homes (and now just think of kml integration with google earth)
But seriously, how long do you think it would take them to do the entire USA? (they would likely hire photographers but its still a huge project, and they'd have to pay american photographers in canadian dollars so they can't afford to hire THAT many).
Slashdot Mirror
He probably has to download quite a few illegal works to test his product. Will he be sued for these?
Does anyone know... once you setup raid what happens when a drive fails? Does something in the harddrive pop up and tell you? What if it is a linux server in a closet and you'd rather the server sent you an email?
I claimed an upgrade (it was free, come on).
It now sits in my coaster drawer and has made a ton of AOL friends there.
Thats funny, Google or Yahoo has never lost my entire email account due to 'Digital Content Not Stable'.
RAID 6 eh? (not to be confused with raid 6a).
Low power? Green machine?
Try an abacus, the most environmentally friendly calculation device (and avoid the ones that use lead-based paint).
Or did you mean an environmental friendly computer?
The latest software hasn't been pushing the limits of hardware like it used to, so Microsoft decided to do that with Vista by requiring a minimum 512 MB of RAM, among other things. Vista arbitrarily caching pieces of your hard drive to ram, only makes things faster if you have expensive hardware. In general, default background processes in Vista actually decrease the performance of your user processes by allocating system resources for background processes (especially on older hardware).
But this is nothing new. When I first saw XP it would boot really fast in 20-30 seconds, but after a few years of installing updates (which add and modify background processes and services) the boot process now takes a minute or two even with a fast processor. This is due to XP's long list of unnecessary background processes it has to initialize. Some sites have come out on how to optimize XP and they generally point to disabling unnecessary background processes, like this site does.
Interestingly enough, both the USB Wifi article and the current satellite dish article were NZ innovations.
Go All Blacks!
"but they could also be used by a governments or other entities to 'dust' crowds or areas, easily tagging anyone present without their knowledge or consent." Going to a marketplace and being RFID tagged without your knowledge, so they can track when you go in and out of affiliate stores and subsequent visits to the same marketplace... doesn't that sound a little bit like cookies? (marketing guys love cookies). Even to the point of RFID tags only having short range, so you'd have to actually go inside the store that tagged you (or an affiliate to be read). Doing your laundry/dry cleaning would be like clearing the cookies in your browser.
This company first started local (photographed houses in Calgary), then nationally (photographed houses in Canada), and their doing the USA now.
I was in town when they first started on calgary. It has a population of 1 million and about 400,000 houses and they said it would take them a year to complete. Their project created a great resource for those buying and selling homes (and now just think of kml integration with google earth)
But seriously, how long do you think it would take them to do the entire USA? (they would likely hire photographers but its still a huge project, and they'd have to pay american photographers in canadian dollars so they can't afford to hire THAT many).