RAID 10 does help with speed. 4 disks = 2x io throughput of single disk (both read, and write) + resiliency to handle up to 2 drive failures. the only way you can get better speed than a single disk (assuming you have the fastest disk you can get) is to add more disks and stripe them...
I tell you what, the BSDs would be a lot more likely to pass than Linux, as they're directly descended from the AT&T unix code base, and continue to do things the "Unix way". Mac OS X (largely FreeBSD userland) has been certified as Unix. Linux is a clusterfuck of NIH syndrome and GPL software that is often different for the sake of being different.
And the GPL is NOT free. It contains restrictions on what others can do with the code you release (i.e., they can't close it). Just because you might not like the possibility of code being closed, restricting people from doing that is not more free than allowing people to do anything with it.
In situations like this, the problem is ignorance of management to the costs and issues involved. Done properly, you can have machines that are standardised, running the correct OS, and costing less than generic individual PC/license purchases.
Rather than simply bitch about it, work towards fixing the problem. Engage Dell/HP (or put the requirements out to tender with a bunch of them) or another large OEM, and run them through the number of PCs you have, and come up with a plan to depreciate them over 3-5 yrs (get extended warranty). Dell/HP will likely be able to give you bulk discount pricing of significantly less than RRP - like 25-50% off retail. Discuss your licensing options - being an educational institution, you should be able to get the correct software licenses for less than the cost purchasing individual licenses - and because they're perpetual "per head" or "per machine" licenses, you don't need to buy new ones every time you get a new PC - you simply pay for the count in use on an annual basis, which will save you money.
I work for a company that had been doing licensing the "dumb" way before, and we ended up getting a better selection of software, proper enterprise support and annual per-head licensing for less than the cost of buying individual machines with OEM licenses. And thats with no EDU discount.
Once you've got some numbers and a plan together, pitch it to management - ideally with a couple of suits from Dell/HP/MS at a meeting for your IT requirements.
I"m guessing you're fairly young - all this coming from some fresh out of uni kid will not get much respect, but if you have suits from Dell/HP/MS on board and saying the same thing, your opinion will have a bit more validation behind it.
If management are still not on board with the idea, leave. There's no hope, and you don't want to be stuck in a dead end job with no budget and thus no exposure to proper IT tools and procedures. It will do bad things for your career. At least you'll be able to say you tried.
Because its performance is crap, no pro-level tools generate it, and no cameras save in that format. Until you can get the software/hardware ecosystem to the point where people can use.ogg without needing to go through an additional step to transcode, it is dead in the water.
They can select whatever they like as the new spec - that ship has sailed. Everyone owns devices that generate h.264.
I for one am not going to go to the trouble of trans-coding all video I have ever captured into codec that works on none of my devices and has inferior compression.
The average end user doesn't even know or care, they just want their video to work. h.264 is what it is encoded in on the original device/video tools, so whatever they play it with had damn well better support that.
X11 = MIT, Firefox = Mozilla license and FVWM appears to be dual-licensed under BSD and GPLv2. All of these will build just fine on say, Solaris. BSD licensed libc++ for FreeBSD is 98% done, also.
Care to point them out? FreeBSD is in the process of eliminating all GNU software from base (from memory, there's not a hell of a lot left after CLANG has fully replaced GCC, and it can already build the base system and most ports).
They will comply with their SLA better than you, you mean. And if the cloud provider goes under (e.g., we have another dotcom crash), are there any guarantees you get your data back? How about the peeps with stuff on megaupload?
At the end of the day it comes down to this: who is responsible for keeping your data? With failures in amazon's cloud service, a provider over east in Australia that got hacked and lost all backups, etc - trusting your company's data to someone else is a BIG call to make and understandably, many businesses are wary of the idea.
At least if the data is stored on premises, and on backup tapes, you have options with regards to data retention/data recovery. Once you upload all your stuff to the cloud, you're at the mercy of your cloud provider. Sure, you may have an SLA, but SLAs mean shit if your company is unable to get access to it's data when required - or would like to prevent third parties from obtaining access to data (such as foreign governments) that the cloud provider may be persuaded or legally required to divulge.
Once or twice is a mistake, but google have been doing "evil" things repeatedly for a while now. I'm moving my stuff to iCloud (don't laugh). As a paid service (with mac purchase, subscription for additional data, etc) the payment is not my privacy.
Blaming it on the browser is a cop out. if you're NOT evil, you wouldn't exploit it. I'm sure if the shoe was on the other foot (and someone was exploiting say, a hole in google's network to steal trade secrets) google would be mighty pissed.
You evidently don't play games, use new hardware or work in a business that requires the use of software that is only released for Windows then (examples: mine24d, Surpac, Autocad, Inventor, etc).
If all you're doing is browsing the net and playing media, you can do that on a tablet.
Yup. He wrote systemd that redhat is fully on board with. Despite apple havign released launchd for free, thereby ensuring, yet again, that Linux is going to be incompatible with others for the sake of it.
Also... there's ZERO reason an X server can't be laid on top of wayland. OS X does this. Windows does this if i install one of the many free X servers. This is preferable IMHO to dealing with 20 years of legacy crap that is holding back things like proper 3d acceleration. Get the high performance stuff done at a lower level in the stack, layer the low bandwidth network stuff on top. When and if it is needed.
Or spent 18 years waiting for the year of the Linux desktop, and realised that OS X is plenty good enough and actually works. Linux (or preferably FreeBSD) has it's place and is good for networking appliances. The lack of direction, polish and desktop hardware/software support is just a continual pain in the arse however.
I have better things to do with my free time (like watch retarded cats on youtube, drink beer, and socialise) than re-learn Linux UI flavour of the month, wonder why my favorite apps broke or beta-test kernel schedulers or try and figure out how to get my shiny new hardware to work.
I use Linux/FreeBSD for server stuff, but on the desktop its a waste of my time. Been there, done that, since 1995.
Some people like driver support on day 1 of hardware ownership. Not multiple years down the track. Commercial operating systems are not going anywhere any time soon.
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Tuition fees are not for internet service provision.
NO, school isn't free. However, the money pays for tuition and course materials, not free internet porn.
Oh wait... you expect unlimited access to the network for free? Hahaha...
RAID 10 does help with speed. 4 disks = 2x io throughput of single disk (both read, and write) + resiliency to handle up to 2 drive failures. the only way you can get better speed than a single disk (assuming you have the fastest disk you can get) is to add more disks and stripe them...
I tell you what, the BSDs would be a lot more likely to pass than Linux, as they're directly descended from the AT&T unix code base, and continue to do things the "Unix way". Mac OS X (largely FreeBSD userland) has been certified as Unix. Linux is a clusterfuck of NIH syndrome and GPL software that is often different for the sake of being different.
And the GPL is NOT free. It contains restrictions on what others can do with the code you release (i.e., they can't close it). Just because you might not like the possibility of code being closed, restricting people from doing that is not more free than allowing people to do anything with it.
In situations like this, the problem is ignorance of management to the costs and issues involved. Done properly, you can have machines that are standardised, running the correct OS, and costing less than generic individual PC/license purchases.
Rather than simply bitch about it, work towards fixing the problem. Engage Dell/HP (or put the requirements out to tender with a bunch of them) or another large OEM, and run them through the number of PCs you have, and come up with a plan to depreciate them over 3-5 yrs (get extended warranty). Dell/HP will likely be able to give you bulk discount pricing of significantly less than RRP - like 25-50% off retail. Discuss your licensing options - being an educational institution, you should be able to get the correct software licenses for less than the cost purchasing individual licenses - and because they're perpetual "per head" or "per machine" licenses, you don't need to buy new ones every time you get a new PC - you simply pay for the count in use on an annual basis, which will save you money.
I work for a company that had been doing licensing the "dumb" way before, and we ended up getting a better selection of software, proper enterprise support and annual per-head licensing for less than the cost of buying individual machines with OEM licenses. And thats with no EDU discount.
Once you've got some numbers and a plan together, pitch it to management - ideally with a couple of suits from Dell/HP/MS at a meeting for your IT requirements.
I"m guessing you're fairly young - all this coming from some fresh out of uni kid will not get much respect, but if you have suits from Dell/HP/MS on board and saying the same thing, your opinion will have a bit more validation behind it.
If management are still not on board with the idea, leave. There's no hope, and you don't want to be stuck in a dead end job with no budget and thus no exposure to proper IT tools and procedures. It will do bad things for your career. At least you'll be able to say you tried.
Because its performance is crap, no pro-level tools generate it, and no cameras save in that format. Until you can get the software/hardware ecosystem to the point where people can use .ogg without needing to go through an additional step to transcode, it is dead in the water.
Android "handling it just fine" doesn't mean it's alive. 99.999% of all audio out there is still either MP3 or AAC.
Exactly. .gif was patented as well, and all browsers continue to support it.
They can select whatever they like as the new spec - that ship has sailed. Everyone owns devices that generate h.264.
I for one am not going to go to the trouble of trans-coding all video I have ever captured into codec that works on none of my devices and has inferior compression.
The average end user doesn't even know or care, they just want their video to work. h.264 is what it is encoded in on the original device/video tools, so whatever they play it with had damn well better support that.
X11 = MIT, Firefox = Mozilla license and FVWM appears to be dual-licensed under BSD and GPLv2. All of these will build just fine on say, Solaris. BSD licensed libc++ for FreeBSD is 98% done, also.
Care to point them out? FreeBSD is in the process of eliminating all GNU software from base (from memory, there's not a hell of a lot left after CLANG has fully replaced GCC, and it can already build the base system and most ports).
They will comply with their SLA better than you, you mean. And if the cloud provider goes under (e.g., we have another dotcom crash), are there any guarantees you get your data back? How about the peeps with stuff on megaupload?
At the end of the day it comes down to this: who is responsible for keeping your data? With failures in amazon's cloud service, a provider over east in Australia that got hacked and lost all backups, etc - trusting your company's data to someone else is a BIG call to make and understandably, many businesses are wary of the idea.
At least if the data is stored on premises, and on backup tapes, you have options with regards to data retention/data recovery. Once you upload all your stuff to the cloud, you're at the mercy of your cloud provider. Sure, you may have an SLA, but SLAs mean shit if your company is unable to get access to it's data when required - or would like to prevent third parties from obtaining access to data (such as foreign governments) that the cloud provider may be persuaded or legally required to divulge.
Once or twice is a mistake, but google have been doing "evil" things repeatedly for a while now. I'm moving my stuff to iCloud (don't laugh). As a paid service (with mac purchase, subscription for additional data, etc) the payment is not my privacy.
Blaming it on the browser is a cop out. if you're NOT evil, you wouldn't exploit it. I'm sure if the shoe was on the other foot (and someone was exploiting say, a hole in google's network to steal trade secrets) google would be mighty pissed.
This is not about money
You know RDP can run in seamless mode, yeah?
If your app was written for wayland, presumably you'll use a new remote desktop display protocol that isn't as fat as X. Like RDP or something.
You evidently don't play games, use new hardware or work in a business that requires the use of software that is only released for Windows then (examples: mine24d, Surpac, Autocad, Inventor, etc).
If all you're doing is browsing the net and playing media, you can do that on a tablet.
Yup. He wrote systemd that redhat is fully on board with. Despite apple havign released launchd for free, thereby ensuring, yet again, that Linux is going to be incompatible with others for the sake of it.
Also... there's ZERO reason an X server can't be laid on top of wayland. OS X does this. Windows does this if i install one of the many free X servers. This is preferable IMHO to dealing with 20 years of legacy crap that is holding back things like proper 3d acceleration. Get the high performance stuff done at a lower level in the stack, layer the low bandwidth network stuff on top. When and if it is needed.
You'll still have SSH.
Or spent 18 years waiting for the year of the Linux desktop, and realised that OS X is plenty good enough and actually works. Linux (or preferably FreeBSD) has it's place and is good for networking appliances. The lack of direction, polish and desktop hardware/software support is just a continual pain in the arse however.
I have better things to do with my free time (like watch retarded cats on youtube, drink beer, and socialise) than re-learn Linux UI flavour of the month, wonder why my favorite apps broke or beta-test kernel schedulers or try and figure out how to get my shiny new hardware to work.
I use Linux/FreeBSD for server stuff, but on the desktop its a waste of my time. Been there, done that, since 1995.
Some people like driver support on day 1 of hardware ownership. Not multiple years down the track. Commercial operating systems are not going anywhere any time soon.