Depending on the network it was attached to, or the processing load it was under, you might never know the difference. The throughput of the whole system is restricted by the slowest link.
Drives spinning at 7200 rpm will still kick data out at the same speed, and will still be as prone to failure, regardless of capacity. For performance and redundancy (I can't imagine that nothing in your 128GB dataset is not valuable), you need to go multi-spindle, i.e. RAID. Case in point:
Local screwdriver shop has 40GB deskstars for $120. They have a 75 GB for $240. The obvious solution = buy 2x40 and stripe them. Same $$, more capacity, and 2x the speed.
The main problem related to loud PCs, esp with the giant heaters otherwise known as x86 processors, is heat and airflow. The P4 and Athlon chips produce insane amounts of heat and video cards and northbridges now have THEIR own fans. A 128MB stick of PC133 RAM pumps out 10W of heat. Add case fans, and all you do is push hot air over all the heatsinks in the system.
The trick is to get the heat out of the box, then exchange it into the environment. Watercooling is the answer. (Or buy a Mac cube, with no fans).
Imagine if you could micropay for 12 songs, and burn your own Metallica CD, like the guy at PayLars.com was trying to do? Even great band put out CDs with some crap songs, why not prune out the bad ones?
I spoke with a musician who said that the musician is lucky to make.75 USD on a CD, regardless of sale price. Imagine if a musician could record.WAV files of his songs (no quality loss like MP3) and sell them for.75 USD apiece. You win, since a 12-song CD becomes 8 USD, and the musician wins, because he gets it all, a 12x increase in his profit by not using a record company distribution channel.
Email disclaimers are a good thing, IMNSHO, but there seems to be a sort of haughtiness arms race when it comes to them, ESPECIALLY lawyers. It seems to me that they assume everyone in the world is out to steal their data, or misquote them, or misdirect their oh-so-vital documents.
Are emails, from lawyers in particular, important? Yes.
Is everything a lawyer says a pearl of wisdom? No
If something is so important, either MD5 hash it for veracity, or encrypt it for privacy! This seems like an archaic solution to a new problem.
My favorite quote is the part about Stallman refusing to allow public access to this "summit". Firstly, who is Perens to summon such a summit, and secondly, who is Stallman to dictate terms? Per the GPL, if you release code and people use it, those users are bound to release code to THEIR users. So if you purport to represent a movement, you'd better let the movement have its voice too.
Who has a real story of an IP address shortage? I mean, something like an ISP saying "Sorry, we'd like to give you a DSL line, but we've just run out of IP addresses". Until I hear a real story of a lack of IP space, it all sounds like FUD to me. @Home and other large networks use 10.x.y.z. networks internally, and many compnaies (like mine) go NAT for security/configuration reasons.
Try posting once. And try reading Hemos' comment. "Now if only they would run this to my curb."He was the one who brought up the last mile. Incidentally, if you knew who those websites were, doesn't that make you a PC cluebie too?
And what would you do with all this bandwidth? Download ISO images at 30 K/sec because the mirrors are swamped? Read Slashdot, slowly, because its all in Perl? Try and pull up pages on TomsHardware, and lag because the web bugs and banner ads come from a dozen over-subscribed servers? 3MBit cable access isn't even that fast sometimes. Speeding up the last mile will only swamp the NAPs more than they are now. It's all a chain, as strong as its weakest link.
Yes, its an invasion of privacy. Is it malicious? Probably not. Will it help Earthlink monitor their service, make it more efficient, and potentially more usable (display depth, etc.)? Yes. While I think it's crummy of Earthlink to keep quiet about this, it's no big deal. The average user is going to end up with better service or potentially lower prices because of more efficient use of Earthlink's resources. The average AOLer doesn't think about privacy the way Slashdotters do, witness Smartmouth, an online service which references the database of Stop&Shop, a grocery store, to provide calorie and fat content info on all your groceries. 99 44/100 % of users will think this is a Good Thing.
How does this get legitamized as a front page story? This is the real problem, posts about old security news make the front page, while links to projects to clone humans don't make it.
What about SDRAM on your memory bus? Why take a Gig of RAM and throttle it down to SCSI-bus speeds? Just give it to the OS instead. I'm sure it will make better use of a statically-assigned chunk of RAM acting as a disk.
Samba has support for "kernel level oplocks" on both Linux and (I think) IRIX. This allows the OS to enforce locks, even in a multi-server setup like you describe.
In a free market, where international talent, and non-local talent can be as valuable as local brick-and-mortar style talent, it makes no sense to stick to the old fashioned "my gang is bigger than your gang" style of unions. In a world where communication is quick and valid, the market can move at a fast enough pace that companies with poor management practices will quickly wither on the vine. Laissez faire!
Free is great, but why not get something for it? I have an old AT case, that I'm swapping a buddy for a P5 fan/heatsink combo. Why does everything have to be free? When both traders benefit, who loses?
This is an ominous sign. Of course they didn't expect it to be accepted, the first time. What this does, however, is build the expectation and acceptance of increasing taxation and enlargement of the list of things the government can meddle in. They're not taxing, which is good, but people have accepted the premise that they could, if they wanted to.
It's a neat tool, very useful indeed. The trouble I see, is that it won't make it into distributions soon. For Linux to be Out There, it has to be on the shelf/downloadable. For about 90% of the users, if it doesn't come on the RH/Slack/Mandrake/etc. CD, it doesn't exist.
Can someone please nmap one of these babies so we can know which hosts on the Net are DC? My guess is that the IP stack will respond identically to the dinky one in Win98.
Slashdot Mirror
Depending on the network it was attached to, or the processing load it was under, you might never know the difference. The throughput of the whole system is restricted by the slowest link.
Drives spinning at 7200 rpm will still kick data out at the same speed, and will still be as prone to failure, regardless of capacity. For performance and redundancy (I can't imagine that nothing in your 128GB dataset is not valuable), you need to go multi-spindle, i.e. RAID. Case in point:
Local screwdriver shop has 40GB deskstars for $120. They have a 75 GB for $240. The obvious solution = buy 2x40 and stripe them. Same $$, more capacity, and 2x the speed.
The main problem related to loud PCs, esp with the giant heaters otherwise known as x86 processors, is heat and airflow. The P4 and Athlon chips produce insane amounts of heat and video cards and northbridges now have THEIR own fans. A 128MB stick of PC133 RAM pumps out 10W of heat. Add case fans, and all you do is push hot air over all the heatsinks in the system.
The trick is to get the heat out of the box, then exchange it into the environment. Watercooling is the answer. (Or buy a Mac cube, with no fans).
"The Loch never gives up its dead".
The cold water, coupled with the low pH due to runoff, causes all corpses to sink.
Imagine if you could micropay for 12 songs, and burn your own Metallica CD, like the guy at PayLars.com was trying to do? Even great band put out CDs with some crap songs, why not prune out the bad ones? .75 USD on a CD, regardless of sale price. Imagine if a musician could record .WAV files of his songs (no quality loss like MP3) and sell them for .75 USD apiece. You win, since a 12-song CD becomes 8 USD, and the musician wins, because he gets it all, a 12x increase in his profit by not using a record company distribution channel.
I spoke with a musician who said that the musician is lucky to make
Email disclaimers are a good thing, IMNSHO, but there seems to be a sort of haughtiness arms race when it comes to them, ESPECIALLY lawyers. It seems to me that they assume everyone in the world is out to steal their data, or misquote them, or misdirect their oh-so-vital documents.
Are emails, from lawyers in particular, important?
Yes.
Is everything a lawyer says a pearl of wisdom?
No
If something is so important, either MD5 hash it for veracity, or encrypt it for privacy! This seems like an archaic solution to a new problem.
My favorite quote is the part about Stallman refusing to allow public access to this "summit". Firstly, who is Perens to summon such a summit, and secondly, who is Stallman to dictate terms? Per the GPL, if you release code and people use it, those users are bound to release code to THEIR users. So if you purport to represent a movement, you'd better let the movement have its voice too.
Who has a real story of an IP address shortage? I mean, something like an ISP saying "Sorry, we'd like to give you a DSL line, but we've just run out of IP addresses". Until I hear a real story of a lack of IP space, it all sounds like FUD to me. @Home and other large networks use 10.x.y.z. networks internally, and many compnaies (like mine) go NAT for security/configuration reasons.
But your RAM, NIC, video card, SCSI card, sound card, HD, CD-ROM and case all work, correct?
Try posting once. And try reading Hemos' comment. "Now if only they would run this to my curb."He was the one who brought up the last mile. Incidentally, if you knew who those websites were, doesn't that make you a PC cluebie too?
And what would you do with all this bandwidth? Download ISO images at 30 K/sec because the mirrors are swamped? Read Slashdot, slowly, because its all in Perl? Try and pull up pages on TomsHardware, and lag because the web bugs and banner ads come from a dozen over-subscribed servers? 3MBit cable access isn't even that fast sometimes. Speeding up the last mile will only swamp the NAPs more than they are now. It's all a chain, as strong as its weakest link.
Yes, its an invasion of privacy. Is it malicious? Probably not. Will it help Earthlink monitor their service, make it more efficient, and potentially more usable (display depth, etc.)? Yes. While I think it's crummy of Earthlink to keep quiet about this, it's no big deal. The average user is going to end up with better service or potentially lower prices because of more efficient use of Earthlink's resources. The average AOLer doesn't think about privacy the way Slashdotters do, witness Smartmouth, an online service which references the database of Stop&Shop, a grocery store, to provide calorie and fat content info on all your groceries. 99 44/100 % of users will think this is a Good Thing.
Since when is ZDNet an authority on anything?
How does this get legitamized as a front page story? This is the real problem, posts about old security news make the front page, while links to projects to clone humans don't make it.
What about SDRAM on your memory bus? Why take a Gig of RAM and throttle it down to SCSI-bus speeds? Just give it to the OS instead. I'm sure it will make better use of a statically-assigned chunk of RAM acting as a disk.
First they ignore you,
Then they laugh at you,
Then they fight you,
Then you win.
Samba has support for "kernel level oplocks" on both Linux and (I think) IRIX. This allows the OS to enforce locks, even in a multi-server setup like you describe.
In a free market, where international talent, and non-local talent can be as valuable as local brick-and-mortar style talent, it makes no sense to stick to the old fashioned "my gang is bigger than your gang" style of unions. In a world where communication is quick and valid, the market can move at a fast enough pace that companies with poor management practices will quickly wither on the vine. Laissez faire!
Free is great, but why not get something for it?
I have an old AT case, that I'm swapping a buddy for a P5 fan/heatsink combo. Why does everything have to be free? When both traders benefit, who loses?
www.hushmail.com Great if you're worried about people snooping. Of course, once mail leaves there, its clear-text all the way over the Net.
This is an ominous sign. Of course they didn't expect it to be accepted, the first time. What this does, however, is build the expectation and acceptance of increasing taxation and enlargement of the list of things the government can meddle in. They're not taxing, which is good, but people have accepted the premise that they could, if they wanted to.
It's a neat tool, very useful indeed. The trouble I see, is that it won't make it into distributions soon. For Linux to be Out There, it has to be on the shelf/downloadable. For about 90% of the users, if it doesn't come on the RH/Slack/Mandrake/etc. CD, it doesn't exist.
Joshua5?
Can someone please nmap one of these babies so we can know which hosts on the Net are DC? My guess is that the IP stack will respond identically to the dinky one in Win98.
"whole" milk is 4%
At Starbucks, "lowfat" is 2% - I know, I worked there, dumbass.