I've noticed that often 'old-school' telco data centers often seem to be much more sparing with the AC running 70F-85F vs. the 'high-tech' data centers who tend to run 'freeze your ass off' data centers. Something has always told me they had something (whether it was just being cheap or not).
Also, google put out that report a few years ago (google: "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population") and it basically proved that too cold (59F-86F) actually causes more problems early in the drives lives than too hot. Optimum temperature is something around 86F-104F for both early and late in life.
Obviously ambient temperatures effect the drives core temps, but it shows that you can run them hotter than typical data center dogma would have you believe.
Its ironic that an industry that is so 'logical' in nature doesn't use science to determine the ideal temperature. "Cold" to humans doesn't necessarily mean anything to a computer. I wish we had more large studies for this sort of stuff, we could probably save a lot of energy.
Just out of curiosity, how far could you push something like this? If you had an array of Hubble sized telescopes in space and could put them whatever distance you'd like from each other, what sort of results could you get?
The digital camera in this thing generates 15TB of data a day from its 3200megapixel camera. I'm assuming it has an array of sensors, but thats still a ridiculous amazing pixel count.
The top 34 drives all do at least 54mb/sec MINIMUM and at least ~80MB/sec maximum. The top 15kRPM cheetah doing 82.7-135MB/sec.
If i were to pull a number out of my ass I would say 78-135MB/sec (min/max) on the new 1.5TB drives.
I would say if you have 750gig seagates and you are only getting 25MB/sec you have a bottleneck. Those drives should do a MINIMUM of at least 40MB/sec...
I agree completely. No actual data from when/where the samples were taken. If you look at the coverage maps sprint and Verizon have much larger 3G networks. From my experience sprint has been very fast for me and several people I know. Obviously this to, is too small a sample size to rate a network. But, that article didn't really clarify anything. Especially considering he said several times he was not connected to a 3G network for Sprint and Verizon, did he average in non-3G network numbers?
Its going to get even worse when alternative chemistry batteries like altairnano's and others with alternative anode materials. If its still a lithium battery but is totally safe they aren't going to be able to distinguish.
Someone needs to sitdown and do safety testing and come up with a standard. Batteries stamped with the 'safe to fly' or 'safe to ship' or some such get on, others get rejected.
MD5 Benchmark took 3.38 seconds for 3000 hashes (888 hashes/second) MD4 Benchmark took 3.369 seconds for 2700 hashes (801 hashes/second) SHA1 Benchmark took 3.327 seconds for 1900 hashes (571 hashes/second)
Is it me or did everyone miss the fact that this is an ART EXHIBITION!? The guy just wants attention like every other artist. I'd say he's doing a great job at it, staying in character and everyone is talking about him. Its perfect as soon as its debunked he'll probably talk about how the whole thing was a social experiment on how people react to things they can't prove or some sh!t like that.
Computer guys: BD 25/50 gigs > 15/30gigs for HDDVD Movie guys: Sony aka Sony Pictures, Columbia, Tristar, MGM, ALL EXCLUSIVE Blu-Ray...so that leaves dualformat or BD...unless you're gonna just not watch a huge portion of the movies in HD Also, Disney, Fox, Sony, Lionsgate are exclusively only blu-ray too at the moment
Units Sold: ~300k HDDVD Players, ~2M+ Blu-ray (yes this includes PS3's)
At this moment in time, I would say its a no-brainer to go with blu-ray. I've also noticed at Fry's dozens of choices for BD media and NO HD-DVDR at all...
SpeedUp, Laramie and Chugwater, WY: Led by Robert Steinke, a former employee of NASA.s Jet Propulsion Lab, SpeedUp plan to use a non-propellant engine.
Lol, will be fun watching this one not fly! Someone should let the space.com people know the difference between a mono-propellant and a non-propellant engine.
8x400gig SATA drives $100x8 (costco special) 1 medium old PC Athlon XP1700 laying around $0 1 Rocketraid card (turns out to be mildly pointless with PCI) $200 1 Cheap PC Case/power $35 3 5.25-3.5" adapters $15 1 big fan $12.50 $1062.50 + tax ($1150.15)
Total formatted space RAID5 2.6TB (damn binary vs decimal marketing)
Performance 28-30Megs/sec (PCI Bus limited...PCI-X (64-bit or 66-133mhz slots) would probably speed things up. But I couldn't find any cheap Athlon XP PCI-X motherboards...
Backup - When I download 4gigs worth of crap I burn it to DVD-R. Other than that and the occasional system backup. I pretty much cross my fingers I don't lose more than 1 drive at once.
But i've managed not to lose anything big [insert safety superstition here] except 2 CD-Rs (physically lost), and a 60gig with some anime on it (before I did RAID), since around the late 80's. I've found the most important thing is to just keep migrating drives and media. When blue-ray gets cheap i'll consolidate all my DVD-R's and spool up the old ones.
A friend of mine who has servers in the same data center in LA claims he's had NO POWER PROBLEMS what so ever in the last week. So unless they are on some separate power grid or separate system with no UPS, I don't see how it could be a power problem.
"Men tend to be low writers. They like their chairs lower, and to sit back in them, and they need to learn to sit higher. Men strain their arms and wrists when they sit too low. "
I'll let the readers figure out why this guy is so lame...
Focus-stealing absolutely drives me up the wall. Ironically faster computers can be even worse than slower ones with this. I can't tell you how many times I've started typing a URL only to end up in the google search box half way through.
If you are using an input box all other attempts for top focus should be put on hold unless a critical error has occurred that would prevent that input box from functioning. I'm sure there are tons of ways to get the users attention when he's finished.
In MANY types of contract negotiation the side writing the contract is compelled to advise you to seek representation to make sure you understand the agreement you are signing. If you just blindly sign, much of the time it can nullify the agreement because one side had a lawyer and you can't be expected to understand complex legalese... I mean how fair is it that a corporation can hire a team of lawyers to carefully craft a complex agreement that you as an individual have to accept completely IN FULL with zero negotiation on your side nor ANY legal representation on your side. That seems entirely wrong.
With shrink-wrap and click-through licenses you can't be expected to have a lawyer advise you every single time, which leads me to believe that if society is willing to accept this as a reasonable thing, THEN there should be some sort of public body that turns them in to PLAIN ENGLISH that any layman can read and understand.
Or, get ride of them completely. As far as I'm concerned entering in to a legal contract by opening or clicking anything is totally ridiculous.
Verizon has had that page up for at least a month or so. People have been discussing it on dslreports.com regularly in several threads and there are even a couple sites that list sightings of installation... like http://fios.3v3bizich.com/
I've also posted a lot of pictures of the verizon guys installing fiber for FIOS all over Topanga Canyon, CA where I live. Check out my site if anyone is interested...
Unfortunately, to do a real review, you would have to 'live with' each solution for at least a week to get a good feel for it.
There are a ton of solutions these days: SageTV - Windows SnapStream - Windows BeyondTV - Windows MythTV - Linux MCE - MCE... Tivo - Linux Dedicated Hardware ReplayTV - ? Dedicated Hardware EyeTV - OS X
Now THAT would be a nice roundup. Start with a feature comparison chart, price, compare the look and feel, reliability, benefits, expandability, etc... Then really get in to how living with each system was and how good the support and updates are, since PVR software is changing so rapidly.
Unfortunately, looking at some specs on a web page just doesn't give you a good feel for what you are getting with PVR's.
1. Cheap MB w/256MB RAM and XP 1800 $125 2. Brand X case/power $25 3. 80GB HD $60 4. Audio/Ethernet/Video on MB $0 5. Tuner Card + SageTV +Remote $175 6. Cheap keyboard, mouse and floppy $15 7. Optical drive $25 Total: $425
This is essentially what I run (less about 280GB of disk space) and it works great, is a breeze to install and very reliable. Remember you don't need any amazing hardware the PVR250 is doing all the hard encoding work.
And best of all, its WIFE SAFE...hand her the remote and shes good to go.
One final note if you want it to be family safe... 1. make sure IR receiver can't be tripped on 2. disable any peridic software that may pop up (virus scanners, windows clean up etc...). 3. Make sure it boots when the power comes on and SageTV auto launches
Lol, yeah they were much bigger, although there are plenty of models that still do dual mode analog/digital (just at lower power levels). Its more of a power issue than a size issue.
3-5x the power means 3-5x less battery life. But it would be nice if that much power was at least AVAILABLE. With digital cell phones they scale the power needed as you get closer and farther from cell sites.
It baffles me why they don't have exactly what you said. Car phones (or an in car adapter) should be able to use much more power and have a better antenna. Both of those would boost range a lot.
But again, with a few people at high power it may mean less callers in the same spectrum, which they don't want.
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I've noticed that often 'old-school' telco data centers often seem to be much more sparing with the AC running 70F-85F vs. the 'high-tech' data centers who tend to run 'freeze your ass off' data centers. Something has always told me they had something (whether it was just being cheap or not).
Also, google put out that report a few years ago (google: "Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population") and it basically proved that too cold (59F-86F) actually causes more problems early in the drives lives than too hot. Optimum temperature is something around 86F-104F for both early and late in life.
Obviously ambient temperatures effect the drives core temps, but it shows that you can run them hotter than typical data center dogma would have you believe.
Its ironic that an industry that is so 'logical' in nature doesn't use science to determine the ideal temperature. "Cold" to humans doesn't necessarily mean anything to a computer. I wish we had more large studies for this sort of stuff, we could probably save a lot of energy.
Just out of curiosity, how far could you push something like this? If you had an array of Hubble sized telescopes in space and could put them whatever distance you'd like from each other, what sort of results could you get?
The digital camera in this thing generates 15TB of data a day from its 3200megapixel camera. I'm assuming it has an array of sensors, but thats still a ridiculous amazing pixel count.
Good Source is Storage Review
http://www.storagereview.com/php/benchmark/bench_sort.php
The top 34 drives all do at least 54mb/sec MINIMUM and at least ~80MB/sec maximum. The top 15kRPM cheetah doing 82.7-135MB/sec.
If i were to pull a number out of my ass I would say 78-135MB/sec (min/max) on the new 1.5TB drives.
I would say if you have 750gig seagates and you are only getting 25MB/sec you have a bottleneck. Those drives should do a MINIMUM of at least 40MB/sec...
I agree completely. No actual data from when/where the samples were taken. If you look at the coverage maps sprint and Verizon have much larger 3G networks. From my experience sprint has been very fast for me and several people I know. Obviously this to, is too small a sample size to rate a network. But, that article didn't really clarify anything. Especially considering he said several times he was not connected to a 3G network for Sprint and Verizon, did he average in non-3G network numbers?
Says it will run like 120f, but how hot do you think it would get if you stacked a few dozen of these in a few rows packed tightly together?
Its going to get even worse when alternative chemistry batteries like altairnano's and others with alternative anode materials. If its still a lithium battery but is totally safe they aren't going to be able to distinguish.
Someone needs to sitdown and do safety testing and come up with a standard. Batteries stamped with the 'safe to fly' or 'safe to ship' or some such get on, others get rejected.
Safari 3.03 2.2ghz C2D 10.4.10
MD5 Benchmark took 3.38 seconds for 3000 hashes (888 hashes/second)
MD4 Benchmark took 3.369 seconds for 2700 hashes (801 hashes/second)
SHA1 Benchmark took 3.327 seconds for 1900 hashes (571 hashes/second)
Slashdot must have a huge backlog...
Is it me or did everyone miss the fact that this is an ART EXHIBITION!? The guy just wants attention like every other artist. I'd say he's doing a great job at it, staying in character and everyone is talking about him. Its perfect as soon as its debunked he'll probably talk about how the whole thing was a social experiment on how people react to things they can't prove or some sh!t like that.
Computer guys: BD 25/50 gigs > 15/30gigs for HDDVD
Movie guys: Sony aka Sony Pictures, Columbia, Tristar, MGM, ALL EXCLUSIVE Blu-Ray...so that leaves dualformat or BD...unless you're gonna just not watch a huge portion of the movies in HD
Also, Disney, Fox, Sony, Lionsgate are exclusively only blu-ray too at the moment
Units Sold: ~300k HDDVD Players, ~2M+ Blu-ray (yes this includes PS3's)
At this moment in time, I would say its a no-brainer to go with blu-ray. I've also noticed at Fry's dozens of choices for BD media and NO HD-DVDR at all...
Lol, will be fun watching this one not fly! Someone should let the space.com people know the difference between a mono-propellant and a non-propellant engine.
8x400gig SATA drives $100x8 (costco special)
1 medium old PC Athlon XP1700 laying around $0
1 Rocketraid card (turns out to be mildly pointless with PCI) $200
1 Cheap PC Case/power $35
3 5.25-3.5" adapters $15
1 big fan $12.50
$1062.50 + tax ($1150.15)
Total formatted space RAID5 2.6TB (damn binary vs decimal marketing)
Performance 28-30Megs/sec (PCI Bus limited...PCI-X (64-bit or 66-133mhz slots) would probably speed things up. But I couldn't find any cheap Athlon XP PCI-X motherboards...
Backup - When I download 4gigs worth of crap I burn it to DVD-R. Other than that and the occasional system backup. I pretty much cross my fingers I don't lose more than 1 drive at once.
But i've managed not to lose anything big [insert safety superstition here] except 2 CD-Rs (physically lost), and a 60gig with some anime on it (before I did RAID), since around the late 80's. I've found the most important thing is to just keep migrating drives and media. When blue-ray gets cheap i'll consolidate all my DVD-R's and spool up the old ones.
They've launched a site with a few videos on it.
Isn't the definition of a portal something that takes you somewhere else?
50kB/sec (400kbit) is HARDLY what I could consider broadband.
I wouldn't call apple.com/trailers a broadband portal, but at least I can usually get over a 1MB/sec for their HD trailers.
A friend of mine who has servers in the same data center in LA claims he's had NO POWER PROBLEMS what so ever in the last week. So unless they are on some separate power grid or separate system with no UPS, I don't see how it could be a power problem.
"Men tend to be low writers. They like their chairs lower, and to sit back in them, and they need to learn to sit higher. Men strain their arms and wrists when they sit too low. "
I'll let the readers figure out why this guy is so lame...
From their webpage they've done that and more...
If they can really pull off even half of their claims this marks a big advance in battery technology.
http://www.a123systems.com/html/tech/safety.html
I've been using http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en/ for months...
Focus-stealing absolutely drives me up the wall. Ironically faster computers can be even worse than slower ones with this. I can't tell you how many times I've started typing a URL only to end up in the google search box half way through.
If you are using an input box all other attempts for top focus should be put on hold unless a critical error has occurred that would prevent that input box from functioning. I'm sure there are tons of ways to get the users attention when he's finished.
IANAL but...
... I mean how fair is it that a corporation can hire a team of lawyers to carefully craft a complex agreement that you as an individual have to accept completely IN FULL with zero negotiation on your side nor ANY legal representation on your side. That seems entirely wrong.
In MANY types of contract negotiation the side writing the contract is compelled to advise you to seek representation to make sure you understand the agreement you are signing. If you just blindly sign, much of the time it can nullify the agreement because one side had a lawyer and you can't be expected to understand complex legalese
With shrink-wrap and click-through licenses you can't be expected to have a lawyer advise you every single time, which leads me to believe that if society is willing to accept this as a reasonable thing, THEN there should be some sort of public body that turns them in to PLAIN ENGLISH that any layman can read and understand.
Or, get ride of them completely. As far as I'm concerned entering in to a legal contract by opening or clicking anything is totally ridiculous.
Verizon has had that page up for at least a month or so. People have been discussing it on dslreports.com regularly in several threads and there are even a couple sites that list sightings of installation... like http://fios.3v3bizich.com/
I've also posted a lot of pictures of the verizon guys installing fiber for FIOS all over Topanga Canyon, CA where I live. Check out my site if anyone is interested...
http://riskinit.com/
I clicked the image, it popped up in 'Preview' I clicked print.
Was I supposed to use a Windoze box?
Unfortunately, to do a real review, you would have to 'live with' each solution for at least a week to get a good feel for it.
There are a ton of solutions these days:
SageTV - Windows
SnapStream - Windows
BeyondTV - Windows
MythTV - Linux
MCE - MCE...
Tivo - Linux Dedicated Hardware
ReplayTV - ? Dedicated Hardware
EyeTV - OS X
Now THAT would be a nice roundup. Start with a feature comparison chart, price, compare the look and feel, reliability, benefits, expandability, etc... Then really get in to how living with each system was and how good the support and updates are, since PVR software is changing so rapidly.
Unfortunately, looking at some specs on a web page just doesn't give you a good feel for what you are getting with PVR's.
1. Cheap MB w/256MB RAM and XP 1800 $125
2. Brand X case/power $25
3. 80GB HD $60
4. Audio/Ethernet/Video on MB $0
5. Tuner Card + SageTV +Remote $175
6. Cheap keyboard, mouse and floppy $15
7. Optical drive $25
Total: $425
This is essentially what I run (less about 280GB of disk space) and it works great, is a breeze to install and very reliable. Remember you don't need any amazing hardware the PVR250 is doing all the hard encoding work.
And best of all, its WIFE SAFE...hand her the remote and shes good to go.
One final note if you want it to be family safe...
1. make sure IR receiver can't be tripped on
2. disable any peridic software that may pop up (virus scanners, windows clean up etc...).
3. Make sure it boots when the power comes on and SageTV auto launches
Lol, yeah they were much bigger, although there are plenty of models that still do dual mode analog/digital (just at lower power levels). Its more of a power issue than a size issue.
3-5x the power means 3-5x less battery life. But it would be nice if that much power was at least AVAILABLE. With digital cell phones they scale the power needed as you get closer and farther from cell sites.
It baffles me why they don't have exactly what you said. Car phones (or an in car adapter) should be able to use much more power and have a better antenna. Both of those would boost range a lot.
But again, with a few people at high power it may mean less callers in the same spectrum, which they don't want.