HP StorageWorks LTO-4 Ultrium 1840 Tape Drive represents HP's fourth-generation of LTO tape drive technology positioned as HP's first tape drive capable of storing up to 1.6 TB per cartridge...
Capable of data transfer rates up to 240 MB/sec
If God forbid your old JBOD lets out the smoke the day before your next tape archive is due, or something else happens and you lose the site, you've just lost a months worth of data. What's a months worth of data worth to your company?
Apparently they only had the two drives: one mirroring the other. They had one single drives worth of data. Just think how little data that really is, for a moment. They could have bought a second hand tape drive from eBay and a box of new tapes for a couple of hundred dollars and had a complete backup solution going in one afternoon.
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe, the horse was lost.
For want of a horse,the rider was lost.
For want of a rider, the battle was lost.
For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
ATI/AMD is releasing ever more complete docs and more or less cruddy closed drivers.
ATI are releasing huge amounts of code to the X, Mesa & kernel developers. Like the code-drop we're talking about that adds R600/R700 support to those drivers.
The only problem with your logic is that you assume that modern 3D graphics cards are just as good at 2d rendering as they are at 3D. Unfortunately this is not the case.
Not at all. 2D acceleration is a solved problem. The 2D engine takes up a fraction of the die space on a modern ASIC. Removing the 2D acceleration hardware creates more work than just leaving it the hell alone. Even if it hasn't improved since the R300 days, 2D acceleration on a Radeon (for example) is still more than fast enough for any normal windowing and compositing operations your desktop might want to do.
To all the "how can I watch it in the US?" people - you might as well get it from a torrent, because it's just as legal.. At least admit your fucking over normal, hard-working people - they're the ones paying for it, not advertisers..
As a UK License Payer I'm quite happy for people outside the UK to have access to the content the BBC produces. Go for it.
No matter what you might believe or have read, Linux is not Enterprise quality software.
The vast number of enterprises running Linux would probably disagree with you. Linux is also the de-facto OS on almost every super computer cluster in the Top 500.
If you'd said "Carrier Grade" then you might have had a point, but it won't be long until someone starts to offer a specialised carrier grade Linux distribution.
There was nothing wrong with Rambus technology that caused it to ultimately fail.
I don't think the crappy Rambus controller on the Intel i820 chipset helped it's technical reputation too much, but you're right that the legal shenanigans probably damaged them to most.
I wonder if there is some sort of corollary for Moores Law, but applicable to Internet Time? Services like Twitter are springing up, becoming fashionable and burning out quicker and quicker. Will we see new sites doing that in a single week in a couple of years time? After that, will sites begin to flash in and out of existence in a matter of minutes?
My God this is so insightful I should go sign up for Twitter and start writing it all down immediately, before it stops being fashionable!
approach to fighting untruth. His idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to his particular idea.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of email will not put up with it ( ) Microsoft will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists (x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (x) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP ( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack ( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email ( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes ( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches ( ) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering ( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to his are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical (x) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation (x) Blacklists suck (x) Whitelists suck (x) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free (x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses (x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome ( ) I don't want the government reading my email ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. (x) This is a stupid idea, and he is a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
The Government could use the Parliament Act to over-ride the Lords. Of course this assumes that Labour will be in power after the next general election and that the Conservatives actually stick to their promise to scrap ID cards. One is very unlikely, the other is a bit of an unknown but likely.
VLC Media Player to play said ISO on Linux, BSD, Solaris, OS-X, BeOS, Windows, QNX (WTF is this?), or Syllable (WTF is this one as well?): Free
QNX is a widely used embedded system that happens to also have a very nice desktop/development environment, so it can also run VLC.
Syllable is a fork of the now long-dead AtheOS, and is mostly GPL/LGPL so you can give it a try if you like. We even have a pre-installed virtual machine image (VMDK) you can try, if you like.
Which is why they've done the sensible thing and built themselves a niche with the low end small-form-factor market, instead of trying to compete directly with Intel or AMD.
Yes, it's not like the good old days when anyone with enough capital could just buy up the IP of an existing CPU like Cyrix or the IDT WinChip and rework the core until it was usable: there isn't anyone left. One route for them might be to license the IP for something like Transmeta Efficeon and try to bring the core up-to date, but the overhead and effort required may make it more effort than it's worth.
Also bear in mind that Network Manager can be a pain in the ass and might be the cause of your trouble. On my laptop it routinely forgets my AP name and WAP password, so I have to open it up an re-enter the password every time I reboot Ubuntu.
Yup, you're right. The OSI pages seem to be deliberately vague on the subject: the OSI logo is a trademark but as you say, the attempt to register "Open Source" as a trademark or service mark failed. Ironically the only place I could find clear information on the subject was the FSF.
Yes, you're missing something quite fundamental. The term "Open Source" is a trademark. You can't use it without permission of the OSI, and they've set the criteria of what qualifies as "Open Source". Most of the Microsoft "Shared Source" licenses do not qualify and thus can not be called "Open Source".
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If your company is employing sysadmins who require training before they can deploy a new bit of software, they're doing something horribly wrong.
You laugh now, but just wait until he starts selling these things to Audiophiles at £10,000 a pop.
Who told you that?
If God forbid your old JBOD lets out the smoke the day before your next tape archive is due, or something else happens and you lose the site, you've just lost a months worth of data. What's a months worth of data worth to your company?
Apparently they only had the two drives: one mirroring the other. They had one single drives worth of data. Just think how little data that really is, for a moment. They could have bought a second hand tape drive from eBay and a box of new tapes for a couple of hundred dollars and had a complete backup solution going in one afternoon.
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe, the horse was lost.
For want of a horse,the rider was lost.
For want of a rider, the battle was lost.
For want of a battle, the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
ATI are releasing huge amounts of code to the X, Mesa & kernel developers. Like the code-drop we're talking about that adds R600/R700 support to those drivers.
Not at all. 2D acceleration is a solved problem. The 2D engine takes up a fraction of the die space on a modern ASIC. Removing the 2D acceleration hardware creates more work than just leaving it the hell alone. Even if it hasn't improved since the R300 days, 2D acceleration on a Radeon (for example) is still more than fast enough for any normal windowing and compositing operations your desktop might want to do.
You are me and I claim the seven different "Wireless" configuration dialogs I had to negotiate to set up WiFi for a neighbours Vista laptop.
As a UK License Payer I'm quite happy for people outside the UK to have access to the content the BBC produces. Go for it.
The vast number of enterprises running Linux would probably disagree with you. Linux is also the de-facto OS on almost every super computer cluster in the Top 500.
If you'd said "Carrier Grade" then you might have had a point, but it won't be long until someone starts to offer a specialised carrier grade Linux distribution.
I don't think the crappy Rambus controller on the Intel i820 chipset helped it's technical reputation too much, but you're right that the legal shenanigans probably damaged them to most.
I wonder if there is some sort of corollary for Moores Law, but applicable to Internet Time? Services like Twitter are springing up, becoming fashionable and burning out quicker and quicker. Will we see new sites doing that in a single week in a couple of years time? After that, will sites begin to flash in and out of existence in a matter of minutes?
My God this is so insightful I should go sign up for Twitter and start writing it all down immediately, before it stops being fashionable!
Oh, no...wait. I was too late.
I am glad I'm not the only one to be annoyed by that, but it frankly doesn't surprise me.
You're right: the people listed should be either "Male" or "Female" for the purposes of this breakdown. "Transsexual" is utterly meaningless.
Tim Berners-Lee advocates a
(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting untruth. His idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to his particular idea.)
( ) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop spam for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of email will not put up with it
( ) Microsoft will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many email users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
(x) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(x) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
( ) Susceptibility of protocols other than SMTP to attack
( ) Willingness of users to install OS patches received by email
( ) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
( ) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
( ) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
( ) Outlook
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to his are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
(x) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) SMTP headers should not be the subject of legislation
(x) Blacklists suck
(x) Whitelists suck
(x) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
(x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Temporary/one-time email addresses are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government reading my email
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
( ) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
(x) This is a stupid idea, and he is a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
The Government could use the Parliament Act to over-ride the Lords. Of course this assumes that Labour will be in power after the next general election and that the Conservatives actually stick to their promise to scrap ID cards. One is very unlikely, the other is a bit of an unknown but likely.
QNX is a widely used embedded system that happens to also have a very nice desktop/development environment, so it can also run VLC. Syllable is a fork of the now long-dead AtheOS, and is mostly GPL/LGPL so you can give it a try if you like. We even have a pre-installed virtual machine image (VMDK) you can try, if you like.
It makes excellent sense if your whole world is not limited to X.org. There are lots of other platforms that can benefit from Open drivers.
Which is why they've done the sensible thing and built themselves a niche with the low end small-form-factor market, instead of trying to compete directly with Intel or AMD.
Yes, it's not like the good old days when anyone with enough capital could just buy up the IP of an existing CPU like Cyrix or the IDT WinChip and rework the core until it was usable: there isn't anyone left. One route for them might be to license the IP for something like Transmeta Efficeon and try to bring the core up-to date, but the overhead and effort required may make it more effort than it's worth.
Notice the odd one out? What do you think the logical long-term plan should be, if you were nVidia?
You probably want this, or a variant of this for your distro: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=789824
Also bear in mind that Network Manager can be a pain in the ass and might be the cause of your trouble. On my laptop it routinely forgets my AP name and WAP password, so I have to open it up an re-enter the password every time I reboot Ubuntu.
What could possibly go wrong with that?
Yup, you're right. The OSI pages seem to be deliberately vague on the subject: the OSI logo is a trademark but as you say, the attempt to register "Open Source" as a trademark or service mark failed. Ironically the only place I could find clear information on the subject was the FSF.
Yes, you're missing something quite fundamental. The term "Open Source" is a trademark. You can't use it without permission of the OSI, and they've set the criteria of what qualifies as "Open Source". Most of the Microsoft "Shared Source" licenses do not qualify and thus can not be called "Open Source".