This causes so many more problems though. The nature of cable/air broadcast is the broadcast part. The signal is sent one to many. More people watching does not create any extra load on the system.
With a network-based solution though, the more people the more load, and I highly doubt most internet providers would be able to keep up. They are already complaining about Netflix, and that still has a small share of the home media viewing market.
He could be creating a deb that could be installed that installs and configures various services to make a debian-based system look like the old FreeNAS. I've used FreeNAS and there is really no reason to have a dedicated system for services that it provides. Many of the people that already use it either use FreeBSD or Linux on another system. If those systems could also run the easy configuration of FreeNAS, they could consolidate systems in their environment.
That's all guessing though. I really hope it ends up being an apt-get package in a repository some where. I like FreeNAS, but I would rather dedicate hardware resources to something else that is more utilitarian, even if that means I have to configure every service myself.
I ran ZFS/FUSE on Ubuntu 64-bit for about 3 months. Aside from some performance issues, it worked great up until about 20-30 reading and writing threads, when it crashed. It was easy enough to restart the file system, but I also had to restart the 15 VMs I had running on it. It would crash predictably though, so that's something.
ZFS under FreeBSD or Solaris is so much nicer. The performance even on the same hardware is many times better in straight reading and writing throughput.
sadly, when they get into the corporate world, most of them will want to converse about intelligent topics, but will be met with blank stares and "did you see that football game last night!"
I don't think the purpose of a card like that is gaming. Sure, games will work very nicely with it, but paying several thousand dollars for a video card like this when your game is only going to use 10% of the available power is VERY wasteful.
ZFS - Are you really using your server for data storage? SAN or NAS should be a better option depending on your price point SMF - while nice, i have experienced many different kinds of errors. If one of the dependencies has a problem, the chain breaks and it is a pain to discover the problem. FMA - if hardware is broken, i would rather the machine be fully broken and out of service. Running on degraded hardware is too much of a risk. if a few bits get switched or some data is not written correctly, you could corrupt data. Zones - I still have yet to see a reason to use this except for dedicated virtualization servers. binary compatibility - if you are running custom code without the source, sounds like you have a setup for failure. rcapd - ulimit can do this per process, and there are also multiple 3rd party open source resource limiters. processor sets, cpu shares, fair share scheduler - Yes, there are.
I've been in many different places with Solaris, Linux, and a few other random UNIX environments. In almost every case, the Solaris and other random unix environments could be replaced with Linux at 1/10th the cost.
I manage some HPUX servers right now and just the hardware maintenance on each of the servers is more than a few brand new Linux servers each year.
Furthermore, I believe that GP was not complaining about censorship and/or limit of access by government authorities, but rather using that to preface the technical reason they have one ISP that routes through China.
This part of the GP tells me different:
Our Internet uplink goes through China (because of a domestic Internet monitoring policy that allows for only one country-level Internet provider).
You go through several NAT devices because that is what your government wants. With IPV6, you would go through the same networks, you would just have a longer NAT ip address.
IPV6 will not make the routing table that IPV4 enforces go away, it will just give it the ability to have QOS and a few other features. If your government wants to limit your access, they will still have that ability.
I don't remember accepting any licenses when i buy/listen/copy/acquire music
but then again, i haven't bought any music in the past 10 years.
I think the question is what exactly is copywritten? Is it the music? Can you really copyright sound patterns? What about bird calls, or phone rings? What about single tones? Can you copyright the wavelengths also?
If you copyright a piece of music, and someone else produces an exact copy using their own band and instruments, did they violate your copyright? What happens if they change one note?
1. 20Mb for $50 is better than the $60/month i pay now for 10Mb 2. Shared? The whole internet is shared. Want dedicated bandwidth, get a dedicated link to EVERY SERVER ON THE INTERNET! 3. Mine is reliable. you might just have a bad link or bad cabling in your house. 4. the price will probably increase if you sign up for one of their "$20 off for 3 months" deals. 5. Comcast doesn't do that. 6. very doubtful, but that's customer service at ANY company. 7. Maybe Maybe not, which ever is more profitable 8. Why would they? It doesn't make them money.
Because that gives incentive to raise the prices of the decoder boxes $30. The end user gets an invisible $10 off of the cost of the components, $10 extra goes to the profits of the company that sold it to you (bestbuy), and the other $10 goes to the hardware vendor and the distribution center.
It's just a matter of time until the hardware is released. Once released, people on the internet will open these boxes up and calculate the price of the components. I would be surprised if it was more than $10 in actual parts. Wouldn't these different boxes all be almost exactly the same inside? I could see some of them being "premium" and adding extra inputs, but the majority of them should easily be a few chips, input, output, and some power circuitry.
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This causes so many more problems though. The nature of cable/air broadcast is the broadcast part. The signal is sent one to many. More people watching does not create any extra load on the system.
With a network-based solution though, the more people the more load, and I highly doubt most internet providers would be able to keep up. They are already complaining about Netflix, and that still has a small share of the home media viewing market.
looks like they tried to use video conference software over a dialup modem with a webcam from 2001.
companies are starting to get smart and letting their employees work from home.
What do you foresee happening to GNU in the next 20, 50, and 100 years?
I bet they run in Wine!
He could be creating a deb that could be installed that installs and configures various services to make a debian-based system look like the old FreeNAS. I've used FreeNAS and there is really no reason to have a dedicated system for services that it provides. Many of the people that already use it either use FreeBSD or Linux on another system. If those systems could also run the easy configuration of FreeNAS, they could consolidate systems in their environment.
That's all guessing though. I really hope it ends up being an apt-get package in a repository some where. I like FreeNAS, but I would rather dedicate hardware resources to something else that is more utilitarian, even if that means I have to configure every service myself.
I don't think the goal was CPU processing.
Also, the article says "supercomputer" not server.
I ran ZFS/FUSE on Ubuntu 64-bit for about 3 months. Aside from some performance issues, it worked great up until about 20-30 reading and writing threads, when it crashed. It was easy enough to restart the file system, but I also had to restart the 15 VMs I had running on it. It would crash predictably though, so that's something.
ZFS under FreeBSD or Solaris is so much nicer. The performance even on the same hardware is many times better in straight reading and writing throughput.
truthfully, once you pass the barrier where you are swapping, the benefits of additional ram diminish significantly.
Wasn't it Microsoft that went before a senate committee asking for more H-1B visas because they could not find enough qualified workers?
At that instant, Microsoft's H-1B visa workers became an issue with the senate.
sadly, when they get into the corporate world, most of them will want to converse about intelligent topics, but will be met with blank stares and "did you see that football game last night!"
I don't think the purpose of a card like that is gaming. Sure, games will work very nicely with it, but paying several thousand dollars for a video card like this when your game is only going to use 10% of the available power is VERY wasteful.
ZFS - Are you really using your server for data storage? SAN or NAS should be a better option depending on your price point
SMF - while nice, i have experienced many different kinds of errors. If one of the dependencies has a problem, the chain breaks and it is a pain to discover the problem.
FMA - if hardware is broken, i would rather the machine be fully broken and out of service. Running on degraded hardware is too much of a risk. if a few bits get switched or some data is not written correctly, you could corrupt data.
Zones - I still have yet to see a reason to use this except for dedicated virtualization servers.
binary compatibility - if you are running custom code without the source, sounds like you have a setup for failure.
rcapd - ulimit can do this per process, and there are also multiple 3rd party open source resource limiters.
processor sets, cpu shares, fair share scheduler - Yes, there are.
I've been in many different places with Solaris, Linux, and a few other random UNIX environments. In almost every case, the Solaris and other random unix environments could be replaced with Linux at 1/10th the cost.
I manage some HPUX servers right now and just the hardware maintenance on each of the servers is more than a few brand new Linux servers each year.
At least they are being consistent about being inconsistent.
Furthermore, I believe that GP was not complaining about censorship and/or limit of access by government authorities, but rather using that to preface the technical reason they have one ISP that routes through China.
This part of the GP tells me different:
Our Internet uplink goes through China (because of a domestic Internet monitoring policy that allows for only one country-level Internet provider).
You go through several NAT devices because that is what your government wants. With IPV6, you would go through the same networks, you would just have a longer NAT ip address.
IPV6 will not make the routing table that IPV4 enforces go away, it will just give it the ability to have QOS and a few other features. If your government wants to limit your access, they will still have that ability.
MCSE will tell you to open perfmon and go through a lengthy process selecting items to watch.
Of course then, you're running another program and just adding to the disk activity.
I don't remember accepting any licenses when i buy/listen/copy/acquire music
but then again, i haven't bought any music in the past 10 years.
I think the question is what exactly is copywritten? Is it the music? Can you really copyright sound patterns? What about bird calls, or phone rings? What about single tones? Can you copyright the wavelengths also?
If you copyright a piece of music, and someone else produces an exact copy using their own band and instruments, did they violate your copyright? What happens if they change one note?
MPAA doesn't care if you download songs.
or have a packet sniffing device on each network segment.
Why would USB be the bottleneck for network transfers?
Doesn't it just have a 100Mb/sec network connection? that's around 10MB/sec if you're lucky, and any USB2 drive should be able to fill that easily.
If it has gigabit, nevermind then.
no, i don't see the point.
what do you mean by 'burn out'?
Just a note, i don't have Comcast.
I used to until TimeWarner came to town and took over Comcast's services.
Where to start
1. 20Mb for $50 is better than the $60/month i pay now for 10Mb
2. Shared? The whole internet is shared. Want dedicated bandwidth, get a dedicated link to EVERY SERVER ON THE INTERNET!
3. Mine is reliable. you might just have a bad link or bad cabling in your house.
4. the price will probably increase if you sign up for one of their "$20 off for 3 months" deals.
5. Comcast doesn't do that.
6. very doubtful, but that's customer service at ANY company.
7. Maybe Maybe not, which ever is more profitable
8. Why would they? It doesn't make them money.
you sound like a bitter ex-employee.
Because that gives incentive to raise the prices of the decoder boxes $30. The end user gets an invisible $10 off of the cost of the components, $10 extra goes to the profits of the company that sold it to you (bestbuy), and the other $10 goes to the hardware vendor and the distribution center.
It's just a matter of time until the hardware is released. Once released, people on the internet will open these boxes up and calculate the price of the components. I would be surprised if it was more than $10 in actual parts. Wouldn't these different boxes all be almost exactly the same inside? I could see some of them being "premium" and adding extra inputs, but the majority of them should easily be a few chips, input, output, and some power circuitry.