Another good way to kill people is clubbing them on the head with a big hammer or baton or other such blunt object.
Though my personal favourite is an airtight room. After a while you fall asleep and die. It's slow, but at least there's no shock factor. Seems pretty humane. Perhaps too humane.
Anyone know the real-world performance numbers of IoDrives?
I realize most SSDs perform worse than advertised, but they have quite a bit going against them.
Lots of them are MLC; with sustained write workloads they run out of erased clusters. Suddenly their write speed drops to half.
Most SSDs are also limited by the SATA controller, which is a massive limiting factor in IOps and latency.
And the SSDs themselves have shoddy controllers with hardly any cache, that are too slow to maintain high performance under demanding erase-rewrite workloads.
But the IoDrive's specs are so absurdly high, that even if they aren't real-world, it's surely faster than a meagre 350 IOps, or even a meagre 20,000 IOps. They benchmark at almost 200,000 IOps, so I'd assume real-world performance would be at least a third to a half of that.
Using six of them to get over a million IOps seems to indicate they scale well, and real-world performance may actually be pretty close to the benchmarks.
What you have to remember is some companies like to push technology. Others will try to sell you crap better than your current crap, but crappy enough that in a year they can put out better crap for you to upgrade to.
Electric cars are quite cheap to make; the cost of parts and assembly is a fraction of what you'd actually pay for one. They technically cost less than regular gasoline cars, assuming you use quality parts for both. (I'm not talking about that $3000 car from India, obviously)
Right now electric cars are expensive because they're new; a lot of very smart people designing them have to be paid a decent wage, which drives their prices up a lot. If mass produced in the millions, their cost to manufacture might hit 4 digits.
We could also save a lot of money on our cars by paying the guys on the assembly lines less than $70/hr; but I digress... we're not India.;)
Is that supposed to make me feel better about North Korea being one step closer to global nuclear capability?
Nope. What should make you feel better though, is their leader isn't a suicidal fool. I seriously doubt he'd attack another country - if he did, North Korea would be bombed into the ground shortly thereafter.
Contrary to popular belief, evil tyrants actually require a country in order to be an evil tyrant, and thus their actions tend towards preserving their country rather than ensuring its utter destruction.
Nobody that makes it to the top is a complete idiot. Regardless of his motives, he must know the result of nuking any other country, and that result is very bad for him and his people.
And you're aware the US does shit that makes no sense, right? Like sending submarines into the territory of sovereign nations, just to laugh at them? Or detaining Canadians, then sending them to Syria or Guantanamo Bay?
Also: Killing Canadian troops.
"friendly fire" - oops
My point? Bush didn't put the North Koreans up to anything, but your description is remarkably close to fitting your own country.
Either they're not as bad as they sound or your own country is way worse than you think.
Maybe every government is that screwed up, and we just don't realize it. Or maybe our governments select less noticeable types of propaganda.
I picked up a fanless VIA Eden board for exactly this reason - running legacy DOS applications for the next X years. I chose fanless so that it won't overheat if the two quiet fans I stuck in there fail.
It's running Ubuntu Linux with VirtualBox installed and Win98SE inside that.
One piece of advice for you - if you have a parallel port licensing dongle for your DOS software, pick virtualization software with "Parallel port passthrough", like VMWare. VirtualBox is free, but last I checked it doesn't support direct access to parallel port devices.
I would think the most likely parts to fail are the HDD, memory, and fans. Pick up at least one backup stick of RAM. I would buy two HDDs, and either RAID them, or have a cron job backup everything at the end of the day.
Go for Hitachi or Western Digital drives. Hitachi ones are supposed to be very quiet. Don't bother with SSDs or flash - they cost too much for what they offer, and may not warn you when data starts getting corrupted. I prefer backup scripts to RAID so that stupid on-board controllers reading SMART data can warn you in big red text upon POSTing. With Hardware+Software RAID, you often don't get that benefit until one drive completely fails.
If these computers are going to be internet connected, make sure you stick a good firewall in front of them. My favourite is a WRT54GL (or similar router) running Tomato or another open firmware varient.
I've only ever had to virtualize single workstations, so I'm not sure how well VirtualBox will work for getting two virtual OS's talking to each other - but I firmly believe this is the safest and most manageable way to go. They don't make a lot of Win95 compatible hardware anymore(if any), and in 15 years, DDR2 memory may not even be available anymore. Virtualized, you can upgrade the hardware if you need to.
Oh yeah - replace your PSUs before they fail, every half-decade or so. It'd suck if the PSU took a stick of RAM with it when it goes.;) One $30 PSU every 5 years is probably cheaper than one day of downtime when it fails.
You got modded informative because you had nVidia in a link.
TI always pairs their Cortex CPUs with beefy DSPs capable of very complex decoding. The OMAP 3530(in use in devices right now) is able to decode 720p h.264 by offloading it to the DSP. A DSP is similar to a GPU, but this one lacks floating point capabilities. It's just really fast for integer stuff.
They'll probably pair an even faster one for the Cortex A9's, enabling 1080p h.264.
Google seems to have a lot of moral/intelligent employees. Many read slashdot, and said they'd quit if Google abused usage of all the data it collects.
Google was the only company that didn't hand over their search data upon request.
Most ARM SoCs are designed so components not in use can have their power shut off. This means you can leave them in "standby" for a long time - maybe a few weeks to a month - as long as your system/OS doesn't forget to shut off the big power drainers and any unused devices.
So realistically, you won't have to boot it between July and early August...
Looks like you got those numbers from the article rather than the spec sheet.
The power consumption listed is off a bit. That 100k transistor CPU only uses ~5 miliwatts load (less when idle), which is 0.005 watts - or averaged, ~0.002 watts.
However, most companies designing SoCs from it would embed tons of other stuff in the chip, like a GPU, USB controller, networking, etc. etc., so power consumption might increase to almost a watt when they're done, if everything is active.
I know Intel likes to boast about its roughly-one-watt CPUs, but they really have nothing on ARM as far as power consumption... and ARM has nothing on them as far as performance - but luckily Intel's stuff is so insanely fast that even at 1/20th the speed, speedy ARM SoCs are fast enough to run a desktop OS.
It's a tad ironic, but most of what you listed is stored in the registry, on Windows. That means that technically it is scriptable(if you don't mind working with huge batch scripts), and technically you can do it all via command line.
I say "most" because Windows doesn't have stuff like Spotlight, but search tools and automated backups can be scripted/configured easily enough.
Don't forget that they have nearly every game demo and patch out there. If you can't find it elsewhere, there's a good chance it's on FileFront.
Some games have lame version to version updaters, requiring a patch_2.x.xx.xxxx_to_2.x.xx.xxx.exe; sometimes those can be a pain to track down, especially if it's an older game and the developer's update servers went down.
I think this is a more limited type of thought. The scope is limited to thinking about genes, genetic material, and identifying similarities between genetic code from multiple species, then trying experiments before proceeding and trying another experiment.
Effectively it is guessing, examining the result, comparing it in fancy statistical ways, then making another guess. The end result is it discovers something faster than humans could.
Now... pair it with object recognition, and you're one step closer to Skynet!
I have to agree with the guy that replied to you. You're looking at Linux through rose coloured glasses, and looking at Windows through a toilet bowl.
Most software shipped with hardware is utter crap. Go online, search out some software for your task, and read reviews. There's very good chances that you'll find either free, shareware, or commercial software of higher quality than what's available on Linux. Windows is very consistent, in that for every task there is at least one high quality program. Some programs may suck - but you just uninstall those. Linux doesn't have this. Some tasks just don't have a good equivalent on Linux.
I'd rather not derail my post with specifics, but if you know of a great torrent client other than Transmission/Deluge, let me know.
Now, don't get me wrong - Linux does have some really great stuff, far better than what Windows offers. I like Ubuntu's "Install New Programs" thing in the start menu. It's handy being able to type in "OpenOffice" or "Abiword" or "Seamonkey", and actually install that software painlessly and quickly. I like it.
"Add/Remove Programs" is slow and clunky in Windows. I use myuninst myself. Just drop a shortcut to it in system32, and you can bring it up from the run box.;)
I agree that Windows has a lot of crap attached to it by default. Like you, I personally want a system that does what I want (even if it takes a little hacking), rather than choosing from what it allows me to do. Therefore, I choose Windows.
My Windows XP is using a modified kernel with some XP Embedded system files and a 3D-accelerated desktop. It uses up 400MB on my HDD, and has support for everything. (Games,.net, java, my programming software, all decent quality win32 apps, etc.)
Stuff that I cut out was... extra drivers/hardware support (which I don't need), the 16bit compatibility layers, everything required for MS Office, IE, and other Microsoft software to run, plus anything where I have a replacement already. I even cut the registry down to about 8MB.
The result was a WinXP that does not automatically load viruses or spyware. It's about as locked down as Linux. I can't even get Securom to install on it. I run as an admin all the time(technically my modded XP only supports a single user), but it has been remarkably hard to fark up. Most stuff that silently tries to install will fail, probably due to the modified kernel - though I can't be certain.
That does mean that installing programs is more complicated. If a game requires updated DirectX components, it'll fail when it runs Microsoft's installer. Then I run it manually, and it works fine. It seems to deny silent access to a lot of stuff, despite clearly being logged in as "admin". If I install new videocard drivers, the drivers don't get updated. I have to go to the device manager and pick "update drivers" then select the correct version. Drivers for devices can't be automatically updated/installed.
I like that security feature, but I don't know what caused it. It seems to have been a side effect of heavy gpedit.msc policies, nlite mods, kernel mods, registry-hive shaving, and system file replacement.
Oh yeah, and because of the XP embedded stuff, it boots in 14 seconds and shuts down in 2-4. I couldn't be happier with it.
I'm glad you're just as happy with your linux box.
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I've seen this behaviour too, on a board with a craptastic Via Unichrome Pro IGP.
I suspect something locks down the CPU while screen redrawing is occuring.
like the closest officer with silver bullets during a werewolf attack.
Silver bullets don't actually hurt werewolves. The only way we'll defeat them is by eliminating their source of power - the moon!
*beep* *beep* *beep* Just *beep* let *beep* me *beep* check *beep* my *beep* Tricorder. *beep* *beep*
Another good way to kill people is clubbing them on the head with a big hammer or baton or other such blunt object.
Though my personal favourite is an airtight room. After a while you fall asleep and die. It's slow, but at least there's no shock factor. Seems pretty humane. Perhaps too humane.
*whoops*. Misread. 11 drives - Five 320GB, and six 160GB IoDrives. Still, it's impressive - 8GB/sec throughput!
Anyone know the real-world performance numbers of IoDrives?
I realize most SSDs perform worse than advertised, but they have quite a bit going against them.
Lots of them are MLC; with sustained write workloads they run out of erased clusters. Suddenly their write speed drops to half.
Most SSDs are also limited by the SATA controller, which is a massive limiting factor in IOps and latency.
And the SSDs themselves have shoddy controllers with hardly any cache, that are too slow to maintain high performance under demanding erase-rewrite workloads.
But the IoDrive's specs are so absurdly high, that even if they aren't real-world, it's surely faster than a meagre 350 IOps, or even a meagre 20,000 IOps. They benchmark at almost 200,000 IOps, so I'd assume real-world performance would be at least a third to a half of that.
Using six of them to get over a million IOps seems to indicate they scale well, and real-world performance may actually be pretty close to the benchmarks.
What you have to remember is some companies like to push technology. Others will try to sell you crap better than your current crap, but crappy enough that in a year they can put out better crap for you to upgrade to.
At least the devil is on top.
I'd prefer to be one of the devil's demons, rather than a demon's bitch!
More importantly, they're losing aerodynamics.
Electric cars are quite cheap to make; the cost of parts and assembly is a fraction of what you'd actually pay for one. They technically cost less than regular gasoline cars, assuming you use quality parts for both. (I'm not talking about that $3000 car from India, obviously)
Right now electric cars are expensive because they're new; a lot of very smart people designing them have to be paid a decent wage, which drives their prices up a lot. If mass produced in the millions, their cost to manufacture might hit 4 digits.
We could also save a lot of money on our cars by paying the guys on the assembly lines less than $70/hr; but I digress... we're not India. ;)
Is that supposed to make me feel better about North Korea being one step closer to global nuclear capability?
Nope. What should make you feel better though, is their leader isn't a suicidal fool. I seriously doubt he'd attack another country - if he did, North Korea would be bombed into the ground shortly thereafter.
Contrary to popular belief, evil tyrants actually require a country in order to be an evil tyrant, and thus their actions tend towards preserving their country rather than ensuring its utter destruction.
Nobody that makes it to the top is a complete idiot. Regardless of his motives, he must know the result of nuking any other country, and that result is very bad for him and his people.
And you're aware the US does shit that makes no sense, right? Like sending submarines into the territory of sovereign nations, just to laugh at them? Or detaining Canadians, then sending them to Syria or Guantanamo Bay?
Also: Killing Canadian troops.
"friendly fire" - oops
My point? Bush didn't put the North Koreans up to anything, but your description is remarkably close to fitting your own country.
Either they're not as bad as they sound or your own country is way worse than you think.
Maybe every government is that screwed up, and we just don't realize it. Or maybe our governments select less noticeable types of propaganda.
I picked up a fanless VIA Eden board for exactly this reason - running legacy DOS applications for the next X years. I chose fanless so that it won't overheat if the two quiet fans I stuck in there fail.
(With a case)
It's running Ubuntu Linux with VirtualBox installed and Win98SE inside that.
One piece of advice for you - if you have a parallel port licensing dongle for your DOS software, pick virtualization software with "Parallel port passthrough", like VMWare. VirtualBox is free, but last I checked it doesn't support direct access to parallel port devices.
I would think the most likely parts to fail are the HDD, memory, and fans. Pick up at least one backup stick of RAM. I would buy two HDDs, and either RAID them, or have a cron job backup everything at the end of the day.
Go for Hitachi or Western Digital drives. Hitachi ones are supposed to be very quiet. Don't bother with SSDs or flash - they cost too much for what they offer, and may not warn you when data starts getting corrupted. I prefer backup scripts to RAID so that stupid on-board controllers reading SMART data can warn you in big red text upon POSTing. With Hardware+Software RAID, you often don't get that benefit until one drive completely fails.
If these computers are going to be internet connected, make sure you stick a good firewall in front of them. My favourite is a WRT54GL (or similar router) running Tomato or another open firmware varient.
I've only ever had to virtualize single workstations, so I'm not sure how well VirtualBox will work for getting two virtual OS's talking to each other - but I firmly believe this is the safest and most manageable way to go. They don't make a lot of Win95 compatible hardware anymore(if any), and in 15 years, DDR2 memory may not even be available anymore. Virtualized, you can upgrade the hardware if you need to.
Oh yeah - replace your PSUs before they fail, every half-decade or so. It'd suck if the PSU took a stick of RAM with it when it goes. ;) One $30 PSU every 5 years is probably cheaper than one day of downtime when it fails.
It has to meet strict security guidelines and undergo expensive independent security audits before it's approved for use?
You got modded informative because you had nVidia in a link.
TI always pairs their Cortex CPUs with beefy DSPs capable of very complex decoding. The OMAP 3530(in use in devices right now) is able to decode 720p h.264 by offloading it to the DSP. A DSP is similar to a GPU, but this one lacks floating point capabilities. It's just really fast for integer stuff.
They'll probably pair an even faster one for the Cortex A9's, enabling 1080p h.264.
Google seems to have a lot of moral/intelligent employees. Many read slashdot, and said they'd quit if Google abused usage of all the data it collects.
Google was the only company that didn't hand over their search data upon request.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/19/1332207
http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39155785,00.htm
Why can't I download this softwares off Ziddu? D:
Red box. D:
Most ARM SoCs are designed so components not in use can have their power shut off. This means you can leave them in "standby" for a long time - maybe a few weeks to a month - as long as your system/OS doesn't forget to shut off the big power drainers and any unused devices.
So realistically, you won't have to boot it between July and early August...
Looks like you got those numbers from the article rather than the spec sheet.
The power consumption listed is off a bit. That 100k transistor CPU only uses ~5 miliwatts load (less when idle), which is 0.005 watts - or averaged, ~0.002 watts.
However, most companies designing SoCs from it would embed tons of other stuff in the chip, like a GPU, USB controller, networking, etc. etc., so power consumption might increase to almost a watt when they're done, if everything is active.
I know Intel likes to boast about its roughly-one-watt CPUs, but they really have nothing on ARM as far as power consumption... and ARM has nothing on them as far as performance - but luckily Intel's stuff is so insanely fast that even at 1/20th the speed, speedy ARM SoCs are fast enough to run a desktop OS.
I really wish I had mod points right now. That cracked me up!
It's a tad ironic, but most of what you listed is stored in the registry, on Windows. That means that technically it is scriptable(if you don't mind working with huge batch scripts), and technically you can do it all via command line.
I say "most" because Windows doesn't have stuff like Spotlight, but search tools and automated backups can be scripted/configured easily enough.
This is why the only third-party "console" I'll buy is the Pandora. They put a lot of effort into creating a comfortable intuitive control scheme.
Even if it fails for commercial games, there's enough emus available that I won't feel like it's wasted money. And it can double as a cheap PDA.
Don't forget that they have nearly every game demo and patch out there. If you can't find it elsewhere, there's a good chance it's on FileFront.
Some games have lame version to version updaters, requiring a patch_2.x.xx.xxxx_to_2.x.xx.xxx.exe; sometimes those can be a pain to track down, especially if it's an older game and the developer's update servers went down.
I'm glad they're back!
Then it would conclude that in whatever report it generates after finishing its experiments.
I think this is a more limited type of thought. The scope is limited to thinking about genes, genetic material, and identifying similarities between genetic code from multiple species, then trying experiments before proceeding and trying another experiment.
Effectively it is guessing, examining the result, comparing it in fancy statistical ways, then making another guess. The end result is it discovers something faster than humans could.
Now... pair it with object recognition, and you're one step closer to Skynet!
T-1000, huh? Mine is T260G
I have to agree with the guy that replied to you. You're looking at Linux through rose coloured glasses, and looking at Windows through a toilet bowl.
Most software shipped with hardware is utter crap. Go online, search out some software for your task, and read reviews. There's very good chances that you'll find either free, shareware, or commercial software of higher quality than what's available on Linux. Windows is very consistent, in that for every task there is at least one high quality program. Some programs may suck - but you just uninstall those. Linux doesn't have this. Some tasks just don't have a good equivalent on Linux.
I'd rather not derail my post with specifics, but if you know of a great torrent client other than Transmission/Deluge, let me know.
Now, don't get me wrong - Linux does have some really great stuff, far better than what Windows offers. I like Ubuntu's "Install New Programs" thing in the start menu. It's handy being able to type in "OpenOffice" or "Abiword" or "Seamonkey", and actually install that software painlessly and quickly. I like it.
"Add/Remove Programs" is slow and clunky in Windows. I use myuninst myself. Just drop a shortcut to it in system32, and you can bring it up from the run box. ;)
I agree that Windows has a lot of crap attached to it by default. Like you, I personally want a system that does what I want (even if it takes a little hacking), rather than choosing from what it allows me to do. Therefore, I choose Windows.
My Windows XP is using a modified kernel with some XP Embedded system files and a 3D-accelerated desktop. It uses up 400MB on my HDD, and has support for everything. (Games, .net, java, my programming software, all decent quality win32 apps, etc.)
Stuff that I cut out was... extra drivers/hardware support (which I don't need), the 16bit compatibility layers, everything required for MS Office, IE, and other Microsoft software to run, plus anything where I have a replacement already. I even cut the registry down to about 8MB.
The result was a WinXP that does not automatically load viruses or spyware. It's about as locked down as Linux. I can't even get Securom to install on it. I run as an admin all the time(technically my modded XP only supports a single user), but it has been remarkably hard to fark up. Most stuff that silently tries to install will fail, probably due to the modified kernel - though I can't be certain.
That does mean that installing programs is more complicated. If a game requires updated DirectX components, it'll fail when it runs Microsoft's installer. Then I run it manually, and it works fine. It seems to deny silent access to a lot of stuff, despite clearly being logged in as "admin". If I install new videocard drivers, the drivers don't get updated. I have to go to the device manager and pick "update drivers" then select the correct version. Drivers for devices can't be automatically updated/installed.
I like that security feature, but I don't know what caused it. It seems to have been a side effect of heavy gpedit.msc policies, nlite mods, kernel mods, registry-hive shaving, and system file replacement.
Oh yeah, and because of the XP embedded stuff, it boots in 14 seconds and shuts down in 2-4. I couldn't be happier with it.
I'm glad you're just as happy with your linux box.