I would think that a PS3 would survive sitting unused much longer than an Atari would, if for no other reason than at least because there are less objects inside that could fail.
I wouldn't assume that. Equipment from the 70s/80s was vastly over-engineered because AFAIK the computer industry hadn't yet adopted "optimized" manufacturing processes that produce cheaper but just-reliable-enough hardware. That's why Apple IIs are still running but many later PCs are not. Or maybe it's all an urban legend.
It's not about security; revealing the protocol hurts Skype's lock-in. For example, the Skype-Asterisk gateway is $66 per channel; imagine if someone created an open source version.
On the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_protocol I see presentations from 2004 and 2006 about reversing Skype, including its encryption. What's new here compared to the previous work?
You can't really draw any conclusions from these results. In one particular Mac, Apple ships a particular Samsung SSD that doesn't degrade, probably because its "clean" performance is already terrible (you might think of it as "pre-degraded"). In other Macs Apple ships Toshiba SSDs that may have completely different behavior. If you put a good SSD (e.g. Intel) in your Mac the behavior will be completely different.
The ARM equivalent of TPM is called TrustZone and pretty much all SoCs seem to have it these days. It's not clear whether Apple uses it considering that they never used the TPM in the Mac. Apple may be counting on security by obscurity.
About twenty companies have developed P2P streaming, but none of them could convince people to install the player. Finally Adobe has slipped P2P into a plugin that people already have.
Do port multipliers actually work? Last I heard they were quite unreliable. Besides, there are SOHO NAS boxes with 8 real SATA ports which gives you 16TB without any headaches.
I'm impressed he can afford to buy it and give it away even to their OEM vendors.
I doubt they're giving it away; AFAIK OEMs pay for Ubuntu if they want any help from Canonical.
It might also have the effect of embarrassing some of the folks who had aspirations of hurting Linux adoption by trying to lock the world into a proprietary video codec.
Nice persecution complex. MPEG-LA doesn't care about Linux at all, certainly not about hurting it.
Adaptec MaxIQ is a hardware SSD cache; just don't ask what it costs. To do SSD caching you need some DRAM to hold the metadata and a CPU to manage the cache; would you prefer to buy additional CPU/RAM or just use what's already in your computer?
I see that you haven't actually used hybrid hard drives, because they're nothing like what you describe. AFAIK only Samsung ever made them, and they've now been discontinued. The HHD itself didn't perform caching; it relied on Vista to manage the flash, which didn't really work out when no one bought Vista. HHDs also included laughably small (256MB) and slow flash that would get totally owned by the smallest slowest SSD today.
Strangely, at $90,000 a pop, this strikes me as rather cheap. I wonder if that's a "rate limited" model so that you have to pay big bux more in order to get the full capacity?
You wish. For $90K you probably get an empty chassis... the smallest available empty chassis, that is.
He's clearly talking about SAN controllers like EMC Clariion or IBM DS5000; if you don't look too carefully you might mistake them for RAID controllers.
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I've heard that patterned media will be too expensive to ever mass produce profitably so the industry will probably use HAMR instead.
Here you go: http://wiki.github.com/behlendorf/zfs/
I would think that a PS3 would survive sitting unused much longer than an Atari would, if for no other reason than at least because there are less objects inside that could fail.
I wouldn't assume that. Equipment from the 70s/80s was vastly over-engineered because AFAIK the computer industry hadn't yet adopted "optimized" manufacturing processes that produce cheaper but just-reliable-enough hardware. That's why Apple IIs are still running but many later PCs are not. Or maybe it's all an urban legend.
WAFL may be better than ZFS, but many customers may decide that it's not $20,000 better.
It's not about security; revealing the protocol hurts Skype's lock-in. For example, the Skype-Asterisk gateway is $66 per channel; imagine if someone created an open source version.
On the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_protocol I see presentations from 2004 and 2006 about reversing Skype, including its encryption. What's new here compared to the previous work?
You can't really draw any conclusions from these results. In one particular Mac, Apple ships a particular Samsung SSD that doesn't degrade, probably because its "clean" performance is already terrible (you might think of it as "pre-degraded"). In other Macs Apple ships Toshiba SSDs that may have completely different behavior. If you put a good SSD (e.g. Intel) in your Mac the behavior will be completely different.
If the iPad gets the same cameras the iPhone4 just got, plus FaceTime, it would be as good as this tablet at a minimum.
Not quite; FaceTime is not HD and doesn't integrate with CallManager and all the other Cisco stuff that the enterprise has already bought.
This tablet is meant to replace IP phones, videoconferencing gear, and thin clients in businesses.
You can run it a very short distance with fat copper cables, but almost everyone will use fiber.
That's widely known, but wrong: http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter7/tpmdrmmyth/
The ARM equivalent of TPM is called TrustZone and pretty much all SoCs seem to have it these days. It's not clear whether Apple uses it considering that they never used the TPM in the Mac. Apple may be counting on security by obscurity.
You don't need the OSI to tell you what is open source and what isn't. Read the OSD and the WebM license and see for yourself.
About twenty companies have developed P2P streaming, but none of them could convince people to install the player. Finally Adobe has slipped P2P into a plugin that people already have.
Do port multipliers actually work? Last I heard they were quite unreliable. Besides, there are SOHO NAS boxes with 8 real SATA ports which gives you 16TB without any headaches.
I'm impressed he can afford to buy it and give it away even to their OEM vendors.
I doubt they're giving it away; AFAIK OEMs pay for Ubuntu if they want any help from Canonical.
It might also have the effect of embarrassing some of the folks who had aspirations of hurting Linux adoption by trying to lock the world into a proprietary video codec.
Nice persecution complex. MPEG-LA doesn't care about Linux at all, certainly not about hurting it.
Adaptec MaxIQ is a hardware SSD cache; just don't ask what it costs. To do SSD caching you need some DRAM to hold the metadata and a CPU to manage the cache; would you prefer to buy additional CPU/RAM or just use what's already in your computer?
I see that you haven't actually used hybrid hard drives, because they're nothing like what you describe. AFAIK only Samsung ever made them, and they've now been discontinued. The HHD itself didn't perform caching; it relied on Vista to manage the flash, which didn't really work out when no one bought Vista. HHDs also included laughably small (256MB) and slow flash that would get totally owned by the smallest slowest SSD today.
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I'm a little surprised at the lack of response on linux-kernel.
Solaris and DragonFly have already implemented this feature; I'm surprised that Linux is so far behind.
Linux caches disk data in memory. The author wants to cache disk data in an SSD.
STEC has SAS SSDs for only $50/GB. That might give you some incentive to reconsider your SATA-hating ways...
The Mac Pro will use Xeon 56xx, not Core i7 (although they're basically the same chip, the 56xx hasn't been announced).
Strangely, at $90,000 a pop, this strikes me as rather cheap. I wonder if that's a "rate limited" model so that you have to pay big bux more in order to get the full capacity?
You wish. For $90K you probably get an empty chassis... the smallest available empty chassis, that is.
So its bad for the government to help support clean energy.
A fairer way to do that would be a carbon tax instead of a ton of special cases.
He's clearly talking about SAN controllers like EMC Clariion or IBM DS5000; if you don't look too carefully you might mistake them for RAID controllers.