Thanks for making that point too, I was going to mention that Google plans for failures and found a long time ago that it's cheaper to pay someone to go change drives all day than it is to buy super expensive enclosures.
These guys build their own hardware, think it might be able to be improved on or help the community, and they release the specs, for free, on the Internet. They then get jumped on by people saying "bbbb-but support!". They're not pretending to offer support, if you want support, pay the 2MM for EMC, if you can handle your own support in-house, maybe you can get away with building these out.
It's like looking at KDE and saying "But we pay Apple and Microsoft so we get support" (even though, no you don't). The company is just releasing specs, if it fits in your environment, great, if not, bummer. If you can make improvements and send them back up-stream, everyone wins. Just like software.
I seem to recall similar threads whenever anyone mentions open routers from the Cisco folks.
Hah good point. Maybe it's just the shining awesome coming from his Macbook? Oh that's right, the only thing coming off of my Macbook is little chipping bits of bezel, so it must be something else:-)
I've been half-heartedly scouring Corbis and others looking for the original myself. I'm going on the assumption that most people are lazy, and would pick something in the first couple of hundred results of their search criteria, so I'm not digging too deep.
The white guy seems to be in a much more natural pose, and his head seems to be in better proportion to his body.
My wife mentioned that she assumed the black guy was the fake, and I'm starting to believe she's right.
Red, Green, Yellow and Blue are not "all primary colors".
One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong. Maybe you remember it from sandwich bag ads from the late 80s/early 90's? And so another slideshow is closed.
I looked at that like a year ago, and it looked as if it hadn't been updated in years then. Are they back to work on it? It was quick, but it was also very crashy when I tested it out.
Now that KDE4 is in Ports, Konqueror works nice and fast on OSX also, however it crashes way too often too.
...checks site... Yeah, looks like Shiira has seen some activity since February of this year. Prior to that the previous news item on their site was Jan '08, and before that, July '07. Could be nice.
Anyone have any word on the Safari scrolling bugs? It's been a problem since 4.0 (but not with the betas), described and there.
I'll install it, but this takes a day or so to manifest usually. I didn't see anything jump out in the patch notes, but they're kind of sparse on the details anyway.
This is the only story where being modded "Redundant" is a laudable goal.
Personally, In-home backup to mirrored Iomega NAS, and offsite to a USB enclosure which goes away weekly.
This is an ugly but workable script I wrote for linux/mac to make multiple snapshot backups where the data set is rather smaller than the target media. That's not the case with me, or probably most of slashdot, but it works for Moms and laptops.
Now it's all about the Facebook spam?. Either West Bloomfield, MI is the spam capital of the world, or these guys operations are bravely soldiering on.
From EMC at an EMC technical event. Don't get me wrong, it was a great event and the upcoming products look really nice, but I have to know how this works. It's also possible that the guy who was saying that had no idea what he was talking about.
No, they don't. You're either being disingenuous, or idiotic
I choooooose....2:) Disingenuous FTW Alex. I was also being 3:) drunk and snarky, and annoyed with EMC and VMWare spinning cloud computing as "fault tolerant" computing somehow.
The sales pitch of The Cloud is that, and yes I've heard this, you can move VMs from one physical location to another with no downtime. I fail to see how that pitch works in terms of IP subnets, which must be different for the networks to work, but there you have it.
I suspect by "move" they mean "copy and re-ip" and by no downtime, they mean "ecxept for DNS change propagation time", but I'm no VM/Cloud Computing expert yet. I'm not saying it can't happen, but I really need that part explained to me, and no VMWare or EMC people have been able to do so adequately yet.
I'm thinking critically because Amazon, EMC, VMWare, etc bill The Cloud as a mystical place where you throw your shit and then it's universally available 100%. Nothing bad happens in The Cloud.
So what's the deal with having all copies of these VMs in one datacenter? That's not very The Cloud of them. Maybe they should replicate all of EC2 to GFS. Would The Cloud win then?
Customers being given the option of redeploying their VMs or waiting an unspecified period of time until The Cloud is back online isn't The Cloud we were promised.
This is how you go from being "relatively new to Linux" to being "power linux user", if that's your goal. If you read all the logs and figure out the errors, and fix them one by one until X works again, you win.
If your goal is to just have a stable system that works, ignore what I just said, but if you can fix it without rebuilding from scratch, you gain lots of knowledge, usually at the expense of only an evening.
The agreement covers his personal time as well. It's not that they let him loose on Facebook at the office, it's that they govern what he can do on Facebook at home.
I see you work for Compuglobalhypermeganet, huh? That was a pretty vague writeup. I'd say advice would be "Decide if you want money or jobs", "Hire a lawyer to try and get you want you want". If you don't feel like you or your technology would reach its potential at MegaCorp, refuse to sell out to them and make your own billions/change the world/improve lives.
I see the issue here, I'm using USD, an 8-core (Dual Nehalem) is $3200 USD. The prices are a bit higher now since my numbers were run before the Nehalem refresh, which happened after Feb 1 apparently.
I'll re-do it with Nehalem's all-around the next time someone gets in my face IRL:-)
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Thanks for making that point too, I was going to mention that Google plans for failures and found a long time ago that it's cheaper to pay someone to go change drives all day than it is to buy super expensive enclosures.
These guys build their own hardware, think it might be able to be improved on or help the community, and they release the specs, for free, on the Internet. They then get jumped on by people saying "bbbb-but support!". They're not pretending to offer support, if you want support, pay the 2MM for EMC, if you can handle your own support in-house, maybe you can get away with building these out.
It's like looking at KDE and saying "But we pay Apple and Microsoft so we get support" (even though, no you don't). The company is just releasing specs, if it fits in your environment, great, if not, bummer. If you can make improvements and send them back up-stream, everyone wins. Just like software.
I seem to recall similar threads whenever anyone mentions open routers from the Cisco folks.
And it's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
... senses working overtime ...
Hah good point. Maybe it's just the shining awesome coming from his Macbook? Oh that's right, the only thing coming off of my Macbook is little chipping bits of bezel, so it must be something else :-)
I've been half-heartedly scouring Corbis and others looking for the original myself. I'm going on the assumption that most people are lazy, and would pick something in the first couple of hundred results of their search criteria, so I'm not digging too deep.
The white guy seems to be in a much more natural pose, and his head seems to be in better proportion to his body. My wife mentioned that she assumed the black guy was the fake, and I'm starting to believe she's right.
Win. Someone mod him even more Interesting, and me -1 drunken jackass. Teach me to think during the 30 second comment-preview period.
Red, Green, Yellow and Blue are not "all primary colors". One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong. Maybe you remember it from sandwich bag ads from the late 80s/early 90's? And so another slideshow is closed.
I looked at that like a year ago, and it looked as if it hadn't been updated in years then. Are they back to work on it? It was quick, but it was also very crashy when I tested it out. Now that KDE4 is in Ports, Konqueror works nice and fast on OSX also, however it crashes way too often too.
...checks site... Yeah, looks like Shiira has seen some activity since February of this year. Prior to that the previous news item on their site was Jan '08, and before that, July '07. Could be nice.
Anyone have any word on the Safari scrolling bugs? It's been a problem since 4.0 (but not with the betas), described and there.
I'll install it, but this takes a day or so to manifest usually. I didn't see anything jump out in the patch notes, but they're kind of sparse on the details anyway.
No no, wait, I don't feel quite safe enough. Are you guys sure I'm in the right tax bracket yet?
If only we could actually run our cars on Snake Oil we'd be all set.
/I have no reason to believe Joule Biotech is "snake oil" fwiw.
This is the only story where being modded "Redundant" is a laudable goal.
Personally, In-home backup to mirrored Iomega NAS, and offsite to a USB enclosure which goes away weekly.
This is an ugly but workable script I wrote for linux/mac to make multiple snapshot backups where the data set is rather smaller than the target media. That's not the case with me, or probably most of slashdot, but it works for Moms and laptops.
Now it's all about the Facebook spam?. Either West Bloomfield, MI is the spam capital of the world, or these guys operations are bravely soldiering on.
I am not discounting either possibility.
From EMC at an EMC technical event. Don't get me wrong, it was a great event and the upcoming products look really nice, but I have to know how this works. It's also possible that the guy who was saying that had no idea what he was talking about.
No, they don't. You're either being disingenuous, or idiotic
I choooooose....2:) Disingenuous FTW Alex. I was also being 3:) drunk and snarky, and annoyed with EMC and VMWare spinning cloud computing as "fault tolerant" computing somehow.
The sales pitch of The Cloud is that, and yes I've heard this, you can move VMs from one physical location to another with no downtime. I fail to see how that pitch works in terms of IP subnets, which must be different for the networks to work, but there you have it.
I suspect by "move" they mean "copy and re-ip" and by no downtime, they mean "ecxept for DNS change propagation time", but I'm no VM/Cloud Computing expert yet. I'm not saying it can't happen, but I really need that part explained to me, and no VMWare or EMC people have been able to do so adequately yet.
I'm thinking critically because Amazon, EMC, VMWare, etc bill The Cloud as a mystical place where you throw your shit and then it's universally available 100%. Nothing bad happens in The Cloud.
/cloud
So what's the deal with having all copies of these VMs in one datacenter? That's not very The Cloud of them. Maybe they should replicate all of EC2 to GFS. Would The Cloud win then?
Customers being given the option of redeploying their VMs or waiting an unspecified period of time until The Cloud is back online isn't The Cloud we were promised.
Have you SEEN the WENUS?
This is how you go from being "relatively new to Linux" to being "power linux user", if that's your goal. If you read all the logs and figure out the errors, and fix them one by one until X works again, you win. If your goal is to just have a stable system that works, ignore what I just said, but if you can fix it without rebuilding from scratch, you gain lots of knowledge, usually at the expense of only an evening.
How many times must Slashdot be told: The Internet is Not A Big Truck
No, working in Massachusetts = Taxation Without Representation.
Just saw gnu-gcc today. Which one of you NH nerds had that one? Oh, and I see pwned guy around quite a bit, today at Star Trek wasn't much of a shock.
The agreement covers his personal time as well. It's not that they let him loose on Facebook at the office, it's that they govern what he can do on Facebook at home.
I see you work for Compuglobalhypermeganet, huh? That was a pretty vague writeup. I'd say advice would be "Decide if you want money or jobs", "Hire a lawyer to try and get you want you want". If you don't feel like you or your technology would reach its potential at MegaCorp, refuse to sell out to them and make your own billions/change the world/improve lives.
So we go back and kill Carl Gauss. Then my CRTs won't be all ghosty and my house would still be worth something.
I see the issue here, I'm using USD, an 8-core (Dual Nehalem) is $3200 USD. The prices are a bit higher now since my numbers were run before the Nehalem refresh, which happened after Feb 1 apparently.
:-)
I'll re-do it with Nehalem's all-around the next time someone gets in my face IRL