Really? Because I'm unable to rate or review apps in the Android Market unless I have a Google+ account. This despite the fact that this all worked perfectly fine for years, before Google+ came along.
Try reading past the first sentence of my post, and get back to me with your clever plan to easily and transparently support both ASCII and EBCDIC format.
Compaq used to sell insanely expensive and over-engineered PCs. I seem to remember my company paying $30k for a desktop PC from Compaq in the early '90s.
Compaq had very good WORKSTATIONS and SERVERS, but their PCs have always been cheap. I distinctly recall their later 90's PCs, which were non-standard over-sized motherboards, with all (cheap junk) components integrated onto them. They were right along side companies like Packard Bell in the race to the bottom.
Their workstations and servers, however, were always very nice. They used large fans, with plastic ducting, multiple thermal zones, etc, decades ago. They got the benefit of all that DEC engineering expertise and experience when they bought up the remnants of the company.
The same should be said of HP as well. Their desktop PCs were junk, but their workstations were heavily over-engineered and well-designed. I remember late 90's ~200MHz HP Workstations with numerous slots for memory, and a riser card that gave 6 PCI slots, as well as 2 ISA slots, which kept those PCs expandable and relevant far after their expected shelf life. Little touches like only two levers to pull to completely remove the case made them a pleasure to work with, as well.
And to Compaq and HP's credit, when HP bough the company, they dropped their own Netserver line, and rebranded the Compaq Proliant as the HP Proliant server, and that has now become the best selling x86 server brand out there, so they did something right. Though I'm still fairly annoyed at the licensing, limitations and clumsy proprietary tools to interface with their iLo out-of-band management.
Could it be that Dell discovered the hard way that their servers are, in-fact, too expensive? Companies like Dell and HP are seeing declining server sales due to projects like OpenCompute that are bypassing 1st tier vendors and going straight to ODMs for simpler, cheaper servers. Some of the companies buying these cheap servers include cloud service providers like Amazon.
Obviously Dell can't do that with their own in-house offerings, so perhaps they just couldn't compete with vendors running on cheaper servers.
(Iodine has been deprecated for most things. It's not terribly effective.)
Iodine is quite effective (though not the best), but it's relatively expensive. Chlorine & Alcohol are much cheaper, so they've replaced Iodine in a number of places.
Iodine is the most common antibacterial agent in surgical soap solution, but no, surgeons aren't pouring the standard liquid form of povidone-iodine on their hands. It wouldn't lather, and would leave a horrendous stain on their skin.
If Blackberry and Microsoft with their $Billions can't compete with Google and Apple, how can a tiny project like this?
Android started as a tiny project, too.
And the answer to your question is, as always, to be technically superior. In this case in particular, compatibility with Android apps is a pretty good start, too, making switching much less painful.
There is an absolute cult following for the N900, due to being basically a full Linux system on a phone, and as a result, every desktop Linux app you could want, not found on any other mobile platform, could be had with MeeGo, such as the NX Client, and many, many others.
Android isn't bad, but it honestly is more thin-client than full computer... Good SSH client, good VNC/RDP client, but no NX, and no good local terminal emulator and no included local linux command-line commands. The oh-so-nice SSH client (VX Connect Bot) is just a GUI app, so no scripting and automation, X11 forwarding, etc., etc.
There is only on kind of soap that works, the one that ALL the doctors are using, the plain, simple, normal SOAP. No artificial ingredients, no strawberry scent (who wanna to eat soap!!!) nothing.
While most medical staff do indeed use plain soap, surgeons at least, are required to use antibacterial soap.
Backwards compatibility means never adding new features such as this trendy new "ASCII" thingy...
Since plain text is so simple, there's no uniform header or similar, that the system can use to autodetect the contents and switch between the two transparently, so there's no easy way to support ASCII will staying EBCDIC compatible.
Of course my experience is only with a small sliver of IBM's product line (several mainframes). But a quick look at Wikipedia reports the following:
"All IBM mainframe and midrange peripherals and operating systems use EBCDIC as their inherent encoding,[3] but AIX running on the RS/6000 and its descendants including the IBM Power Systems, Linux running on the zSeries, and operating systems running on the IBM PC and its descendants use ASCII."
Some nice context in there as well:
"the EBCDIC alphabet is non-contiguous, interleaved with unassigned characters which may or may not be in use. Data portability is hindered by a lack of many symbols commonly used in programming and in network communications."
I just took the opportunity to throw-in one of my pet peeves. Even a simple text file needs to be converted to be readable anywhere else... Things that are absolutely trivial on every other platform, like FTP'ing a file, become complex, because of the need for character conversion... It's a constant annoyance.
IBM is more expensive, but you can be sure they have more commitment to backwards compatibility than anyone else.
Anywhere there's truck-loads of money to be had, SOMEBODY will jump-in and continue to provide compatible options, forever. See the NuVAX 3200 (DEC VAX compatible) servers for the US military weapons systems.
Even modern x86 CPUs will still run code compiled for those first 8008 CPUs.
And for IBM, you'll REALLY be paying through the nose... Paying ongoing fees just for the right to continue using your mainframe and software, even if you don't want support. And you'll know the joys of your system being based one EBCIDIC, where everything else today uses ASCII or better.
Cooling in arctic is cheaper than cooling in nevada desert.
Are you sure? In ether case, you're pumping water all over the place, and the Nevada desert is arid enough that if you just let air pass through that water it'll evaporate and cool pretty damn well (which is what all these big-name datacenters do for the bulk of their cooling). Humidity (not temperature) is the main impediment to evaporate cooling.
They're updating ff so much a release graph looks like their graphing the motion of a nervous umbrella. Enough already.
The Mozilla folks decided to make the public at-large their new beta-testers. That's not entirely unusual in the Open Source world.
But they do have a far more "stable" release you can use, instead. The ESR release works great, doesn't get all the new cruft, and generally just works. It's the version of Firefox in RHEL/CentOS repos, so most users are using it. There's no reason not-to go with ESR, except that Mozilla makes it hard to find:
No it isn't. Sure, there's one ethernet cable connected from a server to the rack switch, but even there, the packets coming in could have hundreds of different VLAN tags on them.
Everywhere else, you have multiple redundant links from everything to everything else, and deciding which one to use for each packet is the complex part.
This could get interesting... With some 3rd-world nothing of a country, they'd just be adversarial and pull out of the country if things got bad.
But since Ireland is the EU tax haven for these companies, how far are they willing to go to humor the Irish courts and keep their billions of dollars each year safely out of the hands of the governments they rightly belong to?
I'm betting Google is only too happy to be incredibly evil, to keep their tax haven happy with them...
If that's true, then APC counts as an electrical utility, too... They're CHARGING ME for their device that just takes utility power in, and pushes it back out! What a scam UPSes are!
Datacenters charge for space, security, remote-hands services, power, cooling, etc. It just so happens that power happens to be the bottleneck these days, and also the single best proxy for their operating costs...
How much power you will draw indicates how many lines they need to run, how much cooling capacity they need on-hand, how much they need to beef-up their battery-bank, and how many generators they need to have ready to go on-line.
The NYT calls it a scam that you pay for the power you have available, even if you don't use it... I'm somewhat sympathetic, having just gone through having to pay thousands for a couple new PDUs to be connected, all for the sake of one server that really needed it.
But on the other hand, power use is dynamic, and the datacenter can't closely police your usage... If power was usage-priced, I'm sure all those cloud-service providers would colo in rented datacenter space for next to nothing, with all their servers shut off, and then during peak load, network outage, or high temperatures in their own passively cooled datacenters, they could suddenly power up thousands of servers, and the datacenter would be on the hook for having the power infrastructure and cooling capacity to handle that, even though they weren't getting paid for all that standby equipment until it was put into service.
The only decent point the NYT article makes is that datacenters are trying to use a loophole to get out of paying taxes. Sucks wherever it happens, and the solution is to close those loopholes, not forcibly reclassify various businesses that don't nicely fit into previous definitions.
Chromebooks are like tablets. They are generally complementary products for desktops and laptops, not replacement products.
Putting pedals on a motorcycle doesn't make it a bicycle.
Chromebooks are interesting only because they're known-working with Linux, and cheaper due to no Windows license. Right now I'd still go for an EeePC, but Asus has said they'll stop making them pretty soon, so a $200 Chromebook ready to be reinstalled with some form of Linux is a pretty good deal.
any good reason not to use UDF for large flash cards? it has read and write support in linux, mac and windows. I use it for USB sticks.
I'd suggest Ext2 as a far better alternative. Have one small partition with Ext2Fsd or other software for Windows users, and every other popular platform will be able to just natively mount it. If it caught on, Microsoft would look positively user-UN-friendly, and would soon recant and include native Ext2 support, probably copied from FreeBSD like they've done in the past...
One of Netflixâ(TM)s mathematicians is known as 10-Foot User Interface Guy because the average person watching the service via TV sits 10 feet away. His job is to arrange the box art of videos in the most appealing way on a big screen. Thereâ(TM)s also Two-Foot Guy, who deals with laptops, and 18-Inch Guy for tablets.
They call me "18-Inch Guy", too... Probably for different reasons.
I would never go with either MySQL or PostgreSQL for that application (not even MS-SQL). They basically don't have the necessary tools and capabilities (hot backup, two way transactions, SAN clustering,...) for the purpose.
and PostgreSQL can do all three of those. Sounds like your information is more than a decade out of date. IT skills sure do stagnate that way...
Which is great really, because only a few years ago it was top of the list for power consumption.
That's utter nonsense. Displays (backlights in particular) have always consumed several times as much as the CPU being used. This is true at least back to 386 laptops, and I haven't ever seen an exception... I supposed some idiot, somewhere, might have crammed a Pentium-4 Extreme Edition in a tiny laptop, but I'm doubtful you can find a salable device anywhere, where the CPU was the biggest power consumer.
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Really? Because I'm unable to rate or review apps in the Android Market unless I have a Google+ account. This despite the fact that this all worked perfectly fine for years, before Google+ came along.
Try reading past the first sentence of my post, and get back to me with your clever plan to easily and transparently support both ASCII and EBCDIC format.
Compaq had very good WORKSTATIONS and SERVERS, but their PCs have always been cheap. I distinctly recall their later 90's PCs, which were non-standard over-sized motherboards, with all (cheap junk) components integrated onto them. They were right along side companies like Packard Bell in the race to the bottom.
Their workstations and servers, however, were always very nice. They used large fans, with plastic ducting, multiple thermal zones, etc, decades ago. They got the benefit of all that DEC engineering expertise and experience when they bought up the remnants of the company.
The same should be said of HP as well. Their desktop PCs were junk, but their workstations were heavily over-engineered and well-designed. I remember late 90's ~200MHz HP Workstations with numerous slots for memory, and a riser card that gave 6 PCI slots, as well as 2 ISA slots, which kept those PCs expandable and relevant far after their expected shelf life. Little touches like only two levers to pull to completely remove the case made them a pleasure to work with, as well.
And to Compaq and HP's credit, when HP bough the company, they dropped their own Netserver line, and rebranded the Compaq Proliant as the HP Proliant server, and that has now become the best selling x86 server brand out there, so they did something right. Though I'm still fairly annoyed at the licensing, limitations and clumsy proprietary tools to interface with their iLo out-of-band management.
Could it be that Dell discovered the hard way that their servers are, in-fact, too expensive? Companies like Dell and HP are seeing declining server sales due to projects like OpenCompute that are bypassing 1st tier vendors and going straight to ODMs for simpler, cheaper servers. Some of the companies buying these cheap servers include cloud service providers like Amazon.
Obviously Dell can't do that with their own in-house offerings, so perhaps they just couldn't compete with vendors running on cheaper servers.
That depends... Are you using it to wash strawberries?
Iodine is quite effective (though not the best), but it's relatively expensive. Chlorine & Alcohol are much cheaper, so they've replaced Iodine in a number of places.
Betadine surgical scrub consists of:
Active Ingredients
Povidone-iodine, 7.5% (0.75% available iodine)
Inactive Ingredients
Ammonium Nonoxynol-4 Sulfate, Nonoxynol-9, Purified Water, and Sodium Hydroxide.
http://www.purduepharma.com/PI/NonPrescription/A6910B16.pdf
Iodine is the most common antibacterial agent in surgical soap solution, but no, surgeons aren't pouring the standard liquid form of povidone-iodine on their hands. It wouldn't lather, and would leave a horrendous stain on their skin.
Running a Linux system in a Chroot, and X11 available only via VNC, is a far cry from a native system.
Android started as a tiny project, too.
And the answer to your question is, as always, to be technically superior. In this case in particular, compatibility with Android apps is a pretty good start, too, making switching much less painful.
There is an absolute cult following for the N900, due to being basically a full Linux system on a phone, and as a result, every desktop Linux app you could want, not found on any other mobile platform, could be had with MeeGo, such as the NX Client, and many, many others.
Android isn't bad, but it honestly is more thin-client than full computer... Good SSH client, good VNC/RDP client, but no NX, and no good local terminal emulator and no included local linux command-line commands. The oh-so-nice SSH client (VX Connect Bot) is just a GUI app, so no scripting and automation, X11 forwarding, etc., etc.
While most medical staff do indeed use plain soap, surgeons at least, are required to use antibacterial soap.
Backwards compatibility means never adding new features such as this trendy new "ASCII" thingy...
Since plain text is so simple, there's no uniform header or similar, that the system can use to autodetect the contents and switch between the two transparently, so there's no easy way to support ASCII will staying EBCDIC compatible.
Of course my experience is only with a small sliver of IBM's product line (several mainframes). But a quick look at Wikipedia reports the following:
"All IBM mainframe and midrange peripherals and operating systems use EBCDIC as their inherent encoding,[3] but AIX running on the RS/6000 and its descendants including the IBM Power Systems, Linux running on the zSeries, and operating systems running on the IBM PC and its descendants use ASCII."
Some nice context in there as well:
"the EBCDIC alphabet is non-contiguous, interleaved with unassigned characters which may or may not be in use. Data portability is hindered by a lack of many symbols commonly used in programming and in network communications."
I just took the opportunity to throw-in one of my pet peeves. Even a simple text file needs to be converted to be readable anywhere else... Things that are absolutely trivial on every other platform, like FTP'ing a file, become complex, because of the need for character conversion... It's a constant annoyance.
Anywhere there's truck-loads of money to be had, SOMEBODY will jump-in and continue to provide compatible options, forever. See the NuVAX 3200 (DEC VAX compatible) servers for the US military weapons systems.
Even modern x86 CPUs will still run code compiled for those first 8008 CPUs.
And for IBM, you'll REALLY be paying through the nose... Paying ongoing fees just for the right to continue using your mainframe and software, even if you don't want support. And you'll know the joys of your system being based one EBCIDIC, where everything else today uses ASCII or better.
Are you sure? In ether case, you're pumping water all over the place, and the Nevada desert is arid enough that if you just let air pass through that water it'll evaporate and cool pretty damn well (which is what all these big-name datacenters do for the bulk of their cooling). Humidity (not temperature) is the main impediment to evaporate cooling.
The Mozilla folks decided to make the public at-large their new beta-testers. That's not entirely unusual in the Open Source world.
But they do have a far more "stable" release you can use, instead. The ESR release works great, doesn't get all the new cruft, and generally just works. It's the version of Firefox in RHEL/CentOS repos, so most users are using it. There's no reason not-to go with ESR, except that Mozilla makes it hard to find:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html
No it isn't. Sure, there's one ethernet cable connected from a server to the rack switch, but even there, the packets coming in could have hundreds of different VLAN tags on them.
Everywhere else, you have multiple redundant links from everything to everything else, and deciding which one to use for each packet is the complex part.
This could get interesting... With some 3rd-world nothing of a country, they'd just be adversarial and pull out of the country if things got bad.
But since Ireland is the EU tax haven for these companies, how far are they willing to go to humor the Irish courts and keep their billions of dollars each year safely out of the hands of the governments they rightly belong to?
I'm betting Google is only too happy to be incredibly evil, to keep their tax haven happy with them...
If that's true, then APC counts as an electrical utility, too... They're CHARGING ME for their device that just takes utility power in, and pushes it back out! What a scam UPSes are!
Datacenters charge for space, security, remote-hands services, power, cooling, etc. It just so happens that power happens to be the bottleneck these days, and also the single best proxy for their operating costs...
How much power you will draw indicates how many lines they need to run, how much cooling capacity they need on-hand, how much they need to beef-up their battery-bank, and how many generators they need to have ready to go on-line.
The NYT calls it a scam that you pay for the power you have available, even if you don't use it... I'm somewhat sympathetic, having just gone through having to pay thousands for a couple new PDUs to be connected, all for the sake of one server that really needed it.
But on the other hand, power use is dynamic, and the datacenter can't closely police your usage... If power was usage-priced, I'm sure all those cloud-service providers would colo in rented datacenter space for next to nothing, with all their servers shut off, and then during peak load, network outage, or high temperatures in their own passively cooled datacenters, they could suddenly power up thousands of servers, and the datacenter would be on the hook for having the power infrastructure and cooling capacity to handle that, even though they weren't getting paid for all that standby equipment until it was put into service.
The only decent point the NYT article makes is that datacenters are trying to use a loophole to get out of paying taxes. Sucks wherever it happens, and the solution is to close those loopholes, not forcibly reclassify various businesses that don't nicely fit into previous definitions.
Putting pedals on a motorcycle doesn't make it a bicycle.
Chromebooks are interesting only because they're known-working with Linux, and cheaper due to no Windows license. Right now I'd still go for an EeePC, but Asus has said they'll stop making them pretty soon, so a $200 Chromebook ready to be reinstalled with some form of Linux is a pretty good deal.
I'd suggest Ext2 as a far better alternative. Have one small partition with Ext2Fsd or other software for Windows users, and every other popular platform will be able to just natively mount it. If it caught on, Microsoft would look positively user-UN-friendly, and would soon recant and include native Ext2 support, probably copied from FreeBSD like they've done in the past...
From TFA:
They call me "18-Inch Guy", too... Probably for different reasons.
Nice try... Troll all you want.
A number of large and important organizations are using PostgreSQL quite extensively for critical transaction processing:
http://www.postgresql.org/about/users/
And EnterpriseDB:
http://www.enterprisedb.com/success-stories/customers
It's not always the best fit, but it's very mature, and can handle most workloads you could want to use it for.
and PostgreSQL can do all three of those. Sounds like your information is more than a decade out of date. IT skills sure do stagnate that way...
You'll also want to look up EnterpriseDB.
That's utter nonsense. Displays (backlights in particular) have always consumed several times as much as the CPU being used. This is true at least back to 386 laptops, and I haven't ever seen an exception... I supposed some idiot, somewhere, might have crammed a Pentium-4 Extreme Edition in a tiny laptop, but I'm doubtful you can find a salable device anywhere, where the CPU was the biggest power consumer.