It's considered poor form to reply to your own post just to agree with it or praise it.
Or are you going to claim that that AC posted, you loaded the page after that, read it all, reflected on it, had a chuckle, and decided to post about how you enjoyed that chuckle, all within a 30 post (sitewide) / 5 minute window? HIGHLY UNLIKELY!
A walkout is not in anybody's best interest and it's unfortunate that the union chose to do that
I'm generally anti-union because they almost always devolve into pieces of shit, but fuck AT&T and fuck the obvious bullshit line about a strike not being in anyone's best interest. It's in the best interest of the union (and hopefully of the employees).
Are you kidding me? 2 GB of "slow" DDR3 blows away whatever SSD you're imagining in terms of both speed and latency. And the ASICs in RAID controllers can keep up just fine. They're typically designed to saturate all their internal links, with headroom.
When the battery backup fails, nothing happens unless the server also loses power.
Where are you getting servers with "100's of GB in DDR4 RAM" as a dedicated cache? Why would such amounts of cache matter when just a few GBs can provide a very low cache miss rate? How do you ultimately account for the lack of speed from running a single device compared to, for example, 4, devices in RAID 10? If you're advocating software RAID or various fake RAIDs, who is supporting it and what are you running on it? Can you boot from it?
Yes, I suppose the RAID controller itself could fail. I've seen it once in my life in a server that was already decommissioned and resurrected to give it away to someone else.
A modern file system with SSD write caches? WTF? I'm talking about the most popular "solution" in the server space - VMware ESXi. How do you set up software RAID in ESXi and use your "modern file system" as such? RAM-based SSD? You mean a fucking RAM drive? Those haven't been relevant for ages due to practical limitations on capacity and power, and of course the fucking cost. Maybe if someone goes back to them using HBM2 they'll be an option, but so far all I can conclude is that you're insane.
RAID provides redundancy and speed. ESXi for example doesn't let you do RAID across multiple storage devices at a software level. My hardware RAID controller has 8 PCIe 3.0 lanes, cache, and battery backup. Yes, battery backup is still important. Yes, a RAM cache is faster than SSDs (though you'll wants to toggle the write cache policy). I don't live in pretend fairy land where SSDs never fail, and I don't shuffle shit off to a SAN/etc. device over network, fiberchannel, etc. because I want the performance.
Are there hardware RAID controllers that support NVMe drives (U.2 or M.2 or direct PCIe), preferably with battery backup? I'm tired of being limited by SATA/SAS because hardware RAID is a requirement and I haven't seen anything reputable for the other options.
trump is a disaster who advocated abandoning nato, japan, and south korea so that we could be "allies" with putin.
I'd rather be on good terms with the nation that's an actual superpower than:
1 - Continue to fund a failed organization nearly by ourselves 2 - Be military allies with a nation that's barred from having a real standing military, even if we've becomes friends since they were Nazi Germany's other half in WWII. 3 - Be involved with the powder keg that is South/North Korea.
But of course, it's not a this-or-that scenario.
We can and should demand that other NATO members pay their own way. We can and should step back a bit from other regions in the far east. We can (and should) be friendly with Russia. They're our actual ally. And yes, so is China. Yeah, both do shady shit most people don't agree with. That's their business, as is our shady shit most people don't agree with. But the media really wants to trump up this Trump/Putin link (despite zero evidence being proffered), while ignoring everything regarding China or everything Clinton has done.
None of this means we have to abandon NATO or our far east allies. And it doesn't mean we have to lick Putin's boot. It just means we stop paying for everything and we stop stirring shit outside of our borders.
Use certificate pinning. Yeah, you won't be able to get out over the corporate shit without first tunneling elsewhere, but your coporate spues won't be able to see your shit if you pin to known good certs.
Please tell me what the figures are talking about, and then tell me how much water is permanently removed from the water cycle as a result. Please include numbers.
There is a device called a fence. You may have heard of it.
There is this thing called a bird. It flies. Wild chickens fly quite well. Even a stray domestic chicken would be able to get over any fence you're allowed to build on your property if it cared to.
Microsoft absolutely did not announce this, you clown. Show me where they announced they would artificially block access to the critical update service for new, "unsupported" (but completely functional) hardware.
There's a difference between not supporting something and actively blocking it despite the fact that it works. In fact, MS hasn't provided actual support for Windows 7 beyond security and time zone patches since SP1. Security patches are supposed to be provided until 2020. We have a little under 3 years left of support. Contractually-obligated support.
MS is actively sabotaging the update service for new hardware. If they merely "didn't support" it , then it would still work. None of the OS/Office/etc. patches nor the update services care what CPU you're running.
CPU drivers that contain microcode fixes, or provide support for the various power states, can be delivered by Intel and AMD with or without Windows Update. Microcode fixes can also be included in BIOS/UEFI updates. But MS has already strong-armed Intel and AMD to not providing such support for Windows 7. Try getting access to the built-in GPU on Kaby Lake on Windows 7, or proper support for the chipset. Hell, Intel tried this back with Skylake - forcing the USB controller into USB 3 mode always, thus breaking the Windows 7 installation process for anyone installing from a USB drive or using a USB keyboard. The uproar back then forced Intel and MS to backtrack and provide an official method of integrating XHCI drivers for Intel's shit into the Windows 7 installer. The Taiwanese mobo manufacturers, of course, had been providing such workarounds on their own because they care about their customers since they have competition.
Maybe you are too old for this, because you clearly have no clue what's going on.
Nope. MPEG will sue and claim that all the open implementations are using their patents. The patents are so vague, broad, and numerous that even if MPEG loses on every single count they'll win by attrition.
They have a contractual obligation to support the OS, and they're artificially shirking that obligation. Windows 7 runs on just about any x86 or x86-64 platform. The line about "unsupported hardware" is PURE BULLSHIT.
As a US citizen, I can only hope the EU takes them to task over this because I know this fucking country won't do a damned fucking thing because of shitholes like you who encourage this blatantly illegal behavior.
You're one of several shills posting that bullshit here. Windows 7 extended support (security patches) is guaranteed until January of 2020. They're pulling the plug on that early for anyone with a Ryzen or Kaby Lake CPU. This isn't about those CPUs not being supported - Windows 7 runs on them just fine. This isn't about the patches needing more testing or development - the patches don't care what CPU you're running and MS hasn't tested a patch before deploying it in 3 fucking years.
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It's considered poor form to reply to your own post just to agree with it or praise it.
Or are you going to claim that that AC posted, you loaded the page after that, read it all, reflected on it, had a chuckle, and decided to post about how you enjoyed that chuckle, all within a 30 post (sitewide) / 5 minute window? HIGHLY UNLIKELY!
A walkout is not in anybody's best interest and it's unfortunate that the union chose to do that
I'm generally anti-union because they almost always devolve into pieces of shit, but fuck AT&T and fuck the obvious bullshit line about a strike not being in anyone's best interest. It's in the best interest of the union (and hopefully of the employees).
For the confused: OP likely had a > in the title, and it should have been "This is why Alexa > Google Home".
Are you kidding me? 2 GB of "slow" DDR3 blows away whatever SSD you're imagining in terms of both speed and latency. And the ASICs in RAID controllers can keep up just fine. They're typically designed to saturate all their internal links, with headroom.
When the battery backup fails, nothing happens unless the server also loses power.
Where are you getting servers with "100's of GB in DDR4 RAM" as a dedicated cache? Why would such amounts of cache matter when just a few GBs can provide a very low cache miss rate? How do you ultimately account for the lack of speed from running a single device compared to, for example, 4, devices in RAID 10? If you're advocating software RAID or various fake RAIDs, who is supporting it and what are you running on it? Can you boot from it?
Yes, I suppose the RAID controller itself could fail. I've seen it once in my life in a server that was already decommissioned and resurrected to give it away to someone else.
A modern file system with SSD write caches? WTF? I'm talking about the most popular "solution" in the server space - VMware ESXi. How do you set up software RAID in ESXi and use your "modern file system" as such? RAM-based SSD? You mean a fucking RAM drive? Those haven't been relevant for ages due to practical limitations on capacity and power, and of course the fucking cost. Maybe if someone goes back to them using HBM2 they'll be an option, but so far all I can conclude is that you're insane.
RAID provides redundancy and speed. ESXi for example doesn't let you do RAID across multiple storage devices at a software level. My hardware RAID controller has 8 PCIe 3.0 lanes, cache, and battery backup. Yes, battery backup is still important. Yes, a RAM cache is faster than SSDs (though you'll wants to toggle the write cache policy). I don't live in pretend fairy land where SSDs never fail, and I don't shuffle shit off to a SAN/etc. device over network, fiberchannel, etc. because I want the performance.
Are there hardware RAID controllers that support NVMe drives (U.2 or M.2 or direct PCIe), preferably with battery backup?
I'm tired of being limited by SATA/SAS because hardware RAID is a requirement and I haven't seen anything reputable for the other options.
Know when to run
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table
Stay away from Xpoint (Optane) products for a while.
They're far, far off their initial promises, which points to manufacturing issues.
http://semiaccurate.com/2016/0...
Anything quick and easy done enough times gets boring.
Like your mom.
OOOOOOH SICK BURN!
trump is a disaster who advocated abandoning nato, japan, and south korea so that we could be "allies" with putin.
I'd rather be on good terms with the nation that's an actual superpower than:
1 - Continue to fund a failed organization nearly by ourselves
2 - Be military allies with a nation that's barred from having a real standing military, even if we've becomes friends since they were Nazi Germany's other half in WWII.
3 - Be involved with the powder keg that is South/North Korea.
But of course, it's not a this-or-that scenario.
We can and should demand that other NATO members pay their own way. We can and should step back a bit from other regions in the far east. We can (and should) be friendly with Russia. They're our actual ally. And yes, so is China. Yeah, both do shady shit most people don't agree with. That's their business, as is our shady shit most people don't agree with. But the media really wants to trump up this Trump/Putin link (despite zero evidence being proffered), while ignoring everything regarding China or everything Clinton has done.
None of this means we have to abandon NATO or our far east allies. And it doesn't mean we have to lick Putin's boot. It just means we stop paying for everything and we stop stirring shit outside of our borders.
What's wrong with being a conspiracy theorist?
Many of the "crackpot" theories regarding the government these "nuts" had over the past 3 decades have been proven to be correct.
Use certificate pinning. Yeah, you won't be able to get out over the corporate shit without first tunneling elsewhere, but your coporate spues won't be able to see your shit if you pin to known good certs.
They work on my phone just fine too. Just not in the YouTube app.
What does it do when a piece of newspaper blows around in traffic on the freeway?
A piece of what?
The only movie where 3D was worth it was Gravity.
I like OGG, but if I have the option I just FLAC it.
Please tell me what the figures are talking about, and then tell me how much water is permanently removed from the water cycle as a result.
Please include numbers.
There is a device called a fence. You may have heard of it.
There is this thing called a bird. It flies. Wild chickens fly quite well. Even a stray domestic chicken would be able to get over any fence you're allowed to build on your property if it cared to.
Microsoft absolutely did not announce this, you clown. Show me where they announced they would artificially block access to the critical update service for new, "unsupported" (but completely functional) hardware.
There's a difference between not supporting something and actively blocking it despite the fact that it works. In fact, MS hasn't provided actual support for Windows 7 beyond security and time zone patches since SP1. Security patches are supposed to be provided until 2020. We have a little under 3 years left of support. Contractually-obligated support.
MS is actively sabotaging the update service for new hardware. If they merely "didn't support" it , then it would still work. None of the OS/Office/etc. patches nor the update services care what CPU you're running.
CPU drivers that contain microcode fixes, or provide support for the various power states, can be delivered by Intel and AMD with or without Windows Update. Microcode fixes can also be included in BIOS/UEFI updates. But MS has already strong-armed Intel and AMD to not providing such support for Windows 7. Try getting access to the built-in GPU on Kaby Lake on Windows 7, or proper support for the chipset. Hell, Intel tried this back with Skylake - forcing the USB controller into USB 3 mode always, thus breaking the Windows 7 installation process for anyone installing from a USB drive or using a USB keyboard. The uproar back then forced Intel and MS to backtrack and provide an official method of integrating XHCI drivers for Intel's shit into the Windows 7 installer. The Taiwanese mobo manufacturers, of course, had been providing such workarounds on their own because they care about their customers since they have competition.
Maybe you are too old for this, because you clearly have no clue what's going on.
Nope. MPEG will sue and claim that all the open implementations are using their patents.
The patents are so vague, broad, and numerous that even if MPEG loses on every single count they'll win by attrition.
They have a contractual obligation to support the OS, and they're artificially shirking that obligation.
Windows 7 runs on just about any x86 or x86-64 platform. The line about "unsupported hardware" is PURE BULLSHIT.
As a US citizen, I can only hope the EU takes them to task over this because I know this fucking country won't do a damned fucking thing because of shitholes like you who encourage this blatantly illegal behavior.
Yet any student can do much more harm with a flathead screwdriver or an adjustable wrench (without even using them as weapons).
But when they open it up and find out what you've done they'll give you a backdoor dental exam.
Con someone confirm?
Myphry's Law strikes again, it seems.
Myphry's Law? Muphry's law just keeps striking.
You're one of several shills posting that bullshit here.
Windows 7 extended support (security patches) is guaranteed until January of 2020. They're pulling the plug on that early for anyone with a Ryzen or Kaby Lake CPU. This isn't about those CPUs not being supported - Windows 7 runs on them just fine. This isn't about the patches needing more testing or development - the patches don't care what CPU you're running and MS hasn't tested a patch before deploying it in 3 fucking years.
FUCK SATYA NADELLA!