I want to say that in 5 years the mechanical, magnetic hard drive will be dead, but something tells me that the density will give it an edge for quite a while longer than that unless some major breakthrough occurs in the manufacture of SSD.
Actually in 5 years' time they might be back with a vengeance. See this guy's thesis about Laser-Induced Femtosecond Magnetic Recording
He proved in 2007 that it's possible to use an ultrafast pulsing lasers for demagnetization and magnetization reversal, unleashing a potential recording rate of magnetic media higher than 100 Tbits/second.
Of course, packing femtosecond lasers inside HDDs is nowhere near feasible in the foreseeable future, and neither could the plasmon antennae keep up with the high density (plasmon antennae were expected to be used for polarizing light below its wavelength)
However, according to TFOT, during his Seagate internship Stanciu proved the technology is viable, mostly because of recent developments in plasmon antennae. He also chose to use picosecond lasers instead, which are substantially cheaper and smaller, but slower, at "only" 1 Tbits/s.
IIRC laser-reading from magnetic media was already possible a few years ago, at huge speeds as well. That makes the potential of magnetic storage already hundreds of times faster than the expected maximum throughput of NAND-based SSDs.
I never understand why it [ext3] needs checking anyway; I thought the point of journaling was that it can recover if there is a power outage or whatever whilst writing, so FS integrity is assured?
First, there always could be some hidden bug triggered by an infinitely improbable combination of circumstances lurking around ready to eat half the data you commit to disk.
Second, even if the software were perfect, bad memory, a bad sata/raid controller, or even a bad cable can cause a filesystem to get screwed.
But I guess I'm missing something!:D
Yeah, hardware is flaky. Periodic checking is the right thing to do for the overwhelming majority of users (e.g. the GP that couldn't figure out to man tune2fs). Those that need their servers online fast after a reboot, and properly mitigate against hardware failure (backup their data _incrementally_) are likely to know how to tune2fs.
One of my biggest beefs with ext3 in the data center is the required fsck periodically.
It doesn't require it, and never did (ext2 included). It's just some defaults various people consider sane. Do you really trust your hardware? Then:
tune2fs -c 0 -i 0
Redhat won't support jfs or xfs
One of my biggest beefs with xfs is that fsck.xfs does nothing. Nada. Simply returns 0. You want to actually check your filesystem you say? Then go have fun with xfs_check and xfs_repair.
All in all, it's nice that Fedora pushes ext4 forward. But I'd rather let some time pass before I replace any of my xfs partitions..
I'd be willing to pay money for any program that filters out adds (without making too many mistakes).
I've always wondered why this doesn't exist for TV.
Sorry to disappoint you, but you don't need to pay for MythTV. From the features list:
Completely automatic commercial detection/skipping, with manual correction via an intuitive cutlist editor.
[...] in that only one website requires Silverlight to watch the inauguration, whereas [...]
Yeah, it just so happens that the "one website" is the official presidential inaugural committee site, which pompously dares to call it the most open inauguration in history.
Ghosts I-IV was released online on March 2, 2008 on the official Nine Inch Nails website, without any prior advertisement or notice. [...]
The album is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license, in effect allowing anyone to use or rework the material for any non-profit purpose, as long as credit is provided and the resulting work is released under an identical license. Reznor explained this move by saying "It's a stance we're taking that we feel is appropriate... with digital technology, and outdated copyright laws, and all the nonsense that's going on these days".
And how come the parent was modded down as redundant? RIAA spinners on slashdot?
Parent's links definitely go to prove the *AA business model is obsolete, even moreso if TFA's numbers are correct: people like to try before they buy... unbelievable, innit?
And they damn well know it, hence the mafia-like bullying tactics...
From 1996 Yorktown was used as the test bed for the Navy's Smart Ship program. The ship was equipped with [...] machines running Windows NT 4.0 [...]
In 21 September 1997 while on maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, Virginia, a crew member entered a zero into a database field causing a divide by zero error in the ship's Remote Data Base Manager which brought down all the machines on the network, causing the ship's propulsion system to fail.
Anthony DiGiorgio, a civilian contractor with a 26-year history of working on Navy control systems, reported in 1998 that the Yorktown had to be towed back to Norfolk Naval Station. Ron Redman, a deputy technical director with the Aegis Program Executive Office, backed this claim up, suggesting that such system failures had required Yorktown to be towed back to port several times.
As SVG is simple, open, and easy to author, it obviously stands no chance of going mainstream anytime soon.
The situation right now? Adobe finally figured out they were cannibalising their flash market with the bugged SVG viewer and killed it. MS obviously has no plans of supporting it, as they want a piece of Adobe's cake, and it needs to be proprietary...
The only complete SVG implementation you'll find is Apache's Batik. Yey for java, but unfortunately that's rather irrelevant for the internet today.
Microsoft should urge manufacturers to open up their specs so they could write proper drivers themselves.
Umm, wait, Microsoft can't afford to do that.. there's just too many devices out there. Maybe what they need is 300 developers eager to do their work for free.
When I got an Eee 1000H for the wife in August, I asked the reseller how many Linux Eees they sell. The guy said more than a quarter, which seemed quite a lot to me.
About my choice of the 1000H (it has a HDD), that was simply so I could swap it with a SSD when they become affordable / have better random write speeds. But I did get Linux on it, and the dreaded xandros got swiftly replaced with gentoo.
I don't think there's any spin to the numbers. 30% of sales being Linux is simply huge, especially since a lot of "sales" come from deals like Vodafone bundling a ridiculously underpriced windows Eee with a ridiculously overpriced 3G subscription.
I do however find Asus's decision to give up linux to be either braindead, or microsoft influence. 30% of sales means a lot of money lost to the competition that holds its ground, given there's a lot of geeks out there buying a nettop for themselves or family that will use Linux on it, but simply don't want to pay the microsoft tax.
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I want to say that in 5 years the mechanical, magnetic hard drive will be dead, but something tells me that the density will give it an edge for quite a while longer than that unless some major breakthrough occurs in the manufacture of SSD.
Actually in 5 years' time they might be back with a vengeance. See this guy's thesis about Laser-Induced Femtosecond Magnetic Recording
He proved in 2007 that it's possible to use an ultrafast pulsing lasers for demagnetization and magnetization reversal, unleashing a potential recording rate of magnetic media higher than 100 Tbits/second.
Of course, packing femtosecond lasers inside HDDs is nowhere near feasible in the foreseeable future, and neither could the plasmon antennae keep up with the high density (plasmon antennae were expected to be used for polarizing light below its wavelength)
However, according to TFOT, during his Seagate internship Stanciu proved the technology is viable, mostly because of recent developments in plasmon antennae. He also chose to use picosecond lasers instead, which are substantially cheaper and smaller, but slower, at "only" 1 Tbits/s.
IIRC laser-reading from magnetic media was already possible a few years ago, at huge speeds as well. That makes the potential of magnetic storage already hundreds of times faster than the expected maximum throughput of NAND-based SSDs.
How about the Palm gestures?
I never understand why it [ext3] needs checking anyway; I thought the point of journaling was that it can recover if there is a power outage or whatever whilst writing, so FS integrity is assured?
First, there always could be some hidden bug triggered by an infinitely improbable combination of circumstances lurking around ready to eat half the data you commit to disk.
Second, even if the software were perfect, bad memory, a bad sata/raid controller, or even a bad cable can cause a filesystem to get screwed.
But I guess I'm missing something! :D
Yeah, hardware is flaky. Periodic checking is the right thing to do for the overwhelming majority of users (e.g. the GP that couldn't figure out to man tune2fs). Those that need their servers online fast after a reboot, and properly mitigate against hardware failure (backup their data _incrementally_) are likely to know how to tune2fs.
One of my biggest beefs with ext3 in the data center is the required fsck periodically.
It doesn't require it, and never did (ext2 included). It's just some defaults various people consider sane. Do you really trust your hardware? Then:
tune2fs -c 0 -i 0
Redhat won't support jfs or xfs
One of my biggest beefs with xfs is that fsck.xfs does nothing. Nada. Simply returns 0. You want to actually check your filesystem you say? Then go have fun with xfs_check and xfs_repair.
All in all, it's nice that Fedora pushes ext4 forward. But I'd rather let some time pass before I replace any of my xfs partitions..
But isn't Windows 7 just a service pack for Vista?
Of course it isn't. You can't cash billions from a service pack.
I'd be willing to pay money for any program that filters out adds (without making too many mistakes). I've always wondered why this doesn't exist for TV.
Sorry to disappoint you, but you don't need to pay for MythTV. From the features list:
[...] in that only one website requires Silverlight to watch the inauguration, whereas [...]
Yeah, it just so happens that the "one website" is the official presidential inaugural committee site, which pompously dares to call it the most open inauguration in history.
Welcome to the change.
From wikipedia(emphasis mine):
And how come the parent was modded down as redundant? RIAA spinners on slashdot?
Parent's links definitely go to prove the *AA business model is obsolete, even moreso if TFA's numbers are correct: people like to try before they buy... unbelievable, innit?
And they damn well know it, hence the mafia-like bullying tactics...
So, how does one tow a submarine?
It got recently benchmarked, quite unusually as they put it on a "general purpose computing review site".
And there's obviously a market for such devices since Intel/Micron are trying to compete with them.
Or instead of hunting for a 20+MB download...
ffmpeg -i in.flv -acodec copy out.mp3
mplayer in.flv -dumpaudio -dumpfile out.mp3
...or just listen to it in the flash player already and buy it if you like it.
I've sampled it and I find it good-ish, but not impressive. Still, I am tempted to buy it just to "make a statement"... I know. Silly me.
"...There's nothing to be gained down that path other than possibly to expand the wallets of a few companies."
That's precisely the reason the government would back it. Corporations have created governments and have conducted wars for exactly that reason.
Yes, sometimes lives depend on software working correctly.
And sometimes world economy.
You mean here
As SVG is simple, open, and easy to author, it obviously stands no chance of going mainstream anytime soon.
The situation right now? Adobe finally figured out they were cannibalising their flash market with the bugged SVG viewer and killed it. MS obviously has no plans of supporting it, as they want a piece of Adobe's cake, and it needs to be proprietary...
The only complete SVG implementation you'll find is Apache's Batik. Yey for java, but unfortunately that's rather irrelevant for the internet today.
Microsoft should urge manufacturers to open up their specs so they could write proper drivers themselves.
Umm, wait, Microsoft can't afford to do that.. there's just too many devices out there. Maybe what they need is 300 developers eager to do their work for free.
So says the developer himself: http://hoegsberg.blogspot.com/2008/11/premature-publicity-is-better-than-no.html
Because they're smart they won't pay $450 for a celeron, no 802.11n and no bluetooth.
When I got an Eee 1000H for the wife in August, I asked the reseller how many Linux Eees they sell. The guy said more than a quarter, which seemed quite a lot to me.
About my choice of the 1000H (it has a HDD), that was simply so I could swap it with a SSD when they become affordable / have better random write speeds. But I did get Linux on it, and the dreaded xandros got swiftly replaced with gentoo.
I don't think there's any spin to the numbers. 30% of sales being Linux is simply huge, especially since a lot of "sales" come from deals like Vodafone bundling a ridiculously underpriced windows Eee with a ridiculously overpriced 3G subscription.
I do however find Asus's decision to give up linux to be either braindead, or microsoft influence. 30% of sales means a lot of money lost to the competition that holds its ground, given there's a lot of geeks out there buying a nettop for themselves or family that will use Linux on it, but simply don't want to pay the microsoft tax.