Although the technology it is used in is repugnant, NTFS has always been the One True Filesystem.
I thought ZFS was.
And ZFS has native support for SSD as L2ARC.
http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/media/presentations/ssd.pdf
I have nothing but praise for ZFS. Simple to manage, reliable, fast. With native CIFS instead of User file system Samba, I've seen orders of magnitude performance from windows machines when doing networked file access.
Gary
As for Samba performance...
I have an OpenSolaris server which I use with a 2.5 TB disk stack in a Raid-5z configuration as a NAS for my SOHO setup. I set it up to use as Mac OS/X time-machine server for my Mac machines. With Samba, the initial backup took about 5 hours and consumed 1 of my two CPUs. I switched over to the native CIFS server in OpenSolaris and tried it from scratch again. This time it took under 2 hours and consumed less than 1% total CPU.
I had similar experiences when I backed up my Windows machines.
Sun still has the fastest NFS stack if that's the way you want to go as well. But, I typically use dirvish (rsync based) to back up my Unix/Linux machines nightly to the server. In 3 years of heavy use, I've never had a single hiccup.
Nice Flame-bait piece. However, the technical issue of using a Zune on Mac OS/X is a LOT easier than specified. I can't believe that they didn't recognize the SongBird 1.0 release runs on Mac and interfaces with Zune.
2) Yet another DRM format. What if Amazon gets out of this business? You'd feel like the people that bought Sony Beta or RCA Videodisc machines.
3) You can't resell what you bought. When I buy a paperback, I'm free to sell or give it away (I usually donate them to the local library for their book sales). With AZW you can even move it off the Kindle to read on your computer, pda, phone, etc. Wasn't it Amazon that fought the book industry when they complained about them selling used books? A bit hypocritical in my mind.
Bookeen cons:
1) OS is a bit lacking in capabilities.
2) No wifi, bluetooth, etc.
3) No touch screen for markups.
In these (1) is being addressed by Bookeen in the next update. (2) is not a big deal for me. (3) This would make it the killer device if the price remained the same.
Just use the usb connection and the bookeen looks like a disk drive, so you can just drag and drop book in and out from the computer. It should work on Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris, etc. The firmware is updated via an SD card, so no software needs to be hosted on the computer.
I've had an even tougher situation... The company was losing good people at a steady rate to competitors, so they decided to try to stem the flow. I had already been working for the company for 10 years when they came up with a new Employee Invention Agreement that went even further than yours. It basically stated that:
1) Any invention I did on company time was theirs 2) Any invention I did off company time was theirs, regardless whether it was related to the companies focus. 3) Any invention I did within 1 year of leaving was theirs. If it was related to anything that the company was doing anywhere in corporation it was extended to 5 years.
The only way to get past (2) and (3) was to list the inventions that I had been working on prior to employment as exemptions.
I delayed signing, but eventually it got to a point where I was being threatened with termination. I finally signed, but included a 50 page addendum of anything that had ever crossed my mind that wasn't covered by (1).
At this point it's moot because I've been away from that company for over 2 years. But I did sweat it for awhile. They gave me a real hard time when I left the company.
FC actually pre-dates SATA They are blindingly fast, but Fibre Channel boxes are usually pretty pricey.
You can do the same thing as I did, but you need a PCI controller board, (not mine which is PCI-X). I would check with the OpenSolaris forum, since they would have more experience with which Sparc drivers are available for you and which cards are best.
Good Luck, that looks like a nice machine to play with.
I think you'll a bit high. I put together a 5-500Gb Sata II disk setup with Raid-Z in a 5 disk enclosure for under $1000. I run it off my Sunfire v20z. That's 2 TBs for under 1k USD!
I worked on some of the software for this project and it's no put-on. I think the applicability for the pretty far term is limited. It works just as proposed, and will work fine through 30% tinted glasses/contacts even large eye occlusions are reasonably handled. Pictures of eyes, false eyes, etc. shouldn't fool the filters that validate for living eyes.
So what is the problem? You would need one heck of a super-computer to match against a billion possible matches. The initial deployment will be in high-security areas where the known "good" people are reasonable (10's of thousands max wouldn't be unreasonable). So don't think that something like this would be deployed at airport concourses to weed out terrorists yet. However, it could be used to monitor movement into secure areas with just a database of people with acceptable clearance. Not on the list... send out the troops to check it out.
Of course that's my two cents and I've been away from this for over a year now so things may be a bit different.
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Although the technology it is used in is repugnant, NTFS has always been the One True Filesystem.
I thought ZFS was.
And ZFS has native support for SSD as L2ARC. http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/media/presentations/ssd.pdf I have nothing but praise for ZFS. Simple to manage, reliable, fast. With native CIFS instead of User file system Samba, I've seen orders of magnitude performance from windows machines when doing networked file access. Gary
As for Samba performance... I have an OpenSolaris server which I use with a 2.5 TB disk stack in a Raid-5z configuration as a NAS for my SOHO setup. I set it up to use as Mac OS/X time-machine server for my Mac machines. With Samba, the initial backup took about 5 hours and consumed 1 of my two CPUs. I switched over to the native CIFS server in OpenSolaris and tried it from scratch again. This time it took under 2 hours and consumed less than 1% total CPU. I had similar experiences when I backed up my Windows machines. Sun still has the fastest NFS stack if that's the way you want to go as well. But, I typically use dirvish (rsync based) to back up my Unix/Linux machines nightly to the server. In 3 years of heavy use, I've never had a single hiccup.
Nice Flame-bait piece. However, the technical issue of using a Zune on Mac OS/X is a LOT easier than specified. I can't believe that they didn't recognize the SongBird 1.0 release runs on Mac and interfaces with Zune.
Kindle cons:
1) Ugly
2) Yet another DRM format. What if Amazon gets out of this business? You'd feel like the people that bought Sony Beta or RCA Videodisc machines.
3) You can't resell what you bought. When I buy a paperback, I'm free to sell or give it away (I usually donate them to the local library for their book sales). With AZW you can even move it off the Kindle to read on your computer, pda, phone, etc. Wasn't it Amazon that fought the book industry when they complained about them selling used books? A bit hypocritical in my mind.
Bookeen cons:
1) OS is a bit lacking in capabilities.
2) No wifi, bluetooth, etc.
3) No touch screen for markups.
In these (1) is being addressed by Bookeen in the next update. (2) is not a big deal for me. (3) This would make it the killer device if the price remained the same.
Just use the usb connection and the bookeen looks like a disk drive, so you can just drag and drop book in and out from the computer. It should work on Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris, etc. The firmware is updated via an SD card, so no software needs to be hosted on the computer.
Gary
I've had an even tougher situation... The company was losing good people at a steady rate to competitors, so they decided to try to stem the flow. I had already been working for the company for 10 years when they came up with a new Employee Invention Agreement that went even further than yours. It basically stated that:
1) Any invention I did on company time was theirs
2) Any invention I did off company time was theirs, regardless whether it was related to the companies focus.
3) Any invention I did within 1 year of leaving was theirs. If it was related to anything that the company was doing anywhere in corporation it was extended to 5 years.
The only way to get past (2) and (3) was to list the inventions that I had been working on prior to employment as exemptions.
I delayed signing, but eventually it got to a point where I was being threatened with termination. I finally signed, but included a 50 page addendum of anything that had ever crossed my mind that wasn't covered by (1).
At this point it's moot because I've been away from that company for over 2 years. But I did sweat it for awhile. They gave me a real hard time when I left the company.
FC actually pre-dates SATA They are blindingly fast, but Fibre Channel boxes are usually pretty pricey. You can do the same thing as I did, but you need a PCI controller board, (not mine which is PCI-X). I would check with the OpenSolaris forum, since they would have more experience with which Sparc drivers are available for you and which cards are best. Good Luck, that looks like a nice machine to play with.
I think you'll a bit high. I put together a 5-500Gb Sata II disk setup with Raid-Z in a 5 disk enclosure for under $1000. I run it off my Sunfire v20z. That's 2 TBs for under 1k USD!
I worked on some of the software for this project and it's no put-on. I think the applicability for the pretty far term is limited. It works just as proposed, and will work fine through 30% tinted glasses/contacts even large eye occlusions are reasonably handled. Pictures of eyes, false eyes, etc. shouldn't fool the filters that validate for living eyes. So what is the problem? You would need one heck of a super-computer to match against a billion possible matches. The initial deployment will be in high-security areas where the known "good" people are reasonable (10's of thousands max wouldn't be unreasonable). So don't think that something like this would be deployed at airport concourses to weed out terrorists yet. However, it could be used to monitor movement into secure areas with just a database of people with acceptable clearance. Not on the list... send out the troops to check it out. Of course that's my two cents and I've been away from this for over a year now so things may be a bit different.