Maxtor introduces a "monster", and IBM introduces a "storage tank". Coincidence? I think not...
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Now I'll sit back and wait for the obligatory "... bah! Tank-shmank! Gimme a few of these Maxtor monsters, and I'll roll my own "storage tank" using a spare full-tower chassis, a PIC controller and some duct tape..."
One day I got one of those myriad of credit card applications. I did the following: wrote, in large black marker across the application, "DO NOT SEND ME MORE OFFERS". Nothing else. Crossed out the entire application.
A few weeks later, I get the credit card in the mail.
I asked them for a copy of my application; but all I got was a printout of the database record, which had the same information (name, address) that was there on the original application.
Even without my signature, they accepted the application and sent me the credit card.
Maybe he used Reiser not for its journalling capability, but for its handling of small files (tail packing).
This article from Oct 2002 talks about Reiserfs, and claims that "... ReiserFS is about eight to fifteen times faster than Ext2 at handling files smaller than 1K. "
Sometimes you need to step back and reimplement things from scratch. X has been a monumental achievement, no doubt; but it never hurts to take a fresh look and see if you can do it better.
This is the strength of the Open Source model. The source is out there for everyone to see; think you can do it better? Step up to the plate and take a swing!
Forget drivebay: a better place would be to mount it in a car, replacing the stock receiver (if the power supply question could be worked out, of course).
There are billions spent every day on cancer research by companies big and small, dwarfing what is spent chasing terrorists.
Lets see. "Billions" implies at least 2 billion. Multiply that by 365 ("everyday"), and you get $730 billion per year.
Slight exaggeration? I thought so.
Using your logic, billions are spent every day in fighting "terrorism" by private companies too, not to mention the states' use of National Guard and extra cops.
I hate it when the hype overshadows the technical details. Here's a snippet from the article:
By comparison, an Intel Pentium 4 processor, the fastest desktop chip, can transmit about 50 billion bits a second. But when the technology is used in complete products, the researchers say, they expect to reach speeds in excess of a trillion bits a second, which would be about 100 times the limits of today's technology.
If a P4 is already doing 50 Gbps (as they say), and this uber-technology will allow 1Tbps (which is 20x a P4's 50Gbps), then how is that "100x the limits of today's technology" ?
From the article:
The magnetic approach also consumes very little power when compared with notorious battery-draining RF techniques like Bluetooth. According to a description on the Aura Web site, Fonegear's headset can keep going for up to three months on a single AA battery, as opposed to only a number of hours for equipment outfitted with Bluetooth.
Er... $3K per 20K miles works out to $0.15/mile. Assuming gas prices of $2.00/gal, this works out to 13.3mpg, just looking at the cost. Of course, emissions are zero, which is a plus. But 13mpg is not that great a deal, especially since it doesn't include the cost of the electricity required to charge the batteries.
Here's a question. Why is it that the RIAA can (with a straight face) claim that each of their songs that a person shares is worth $150K, and yet my private information with the bank is worth zilch? Why is it that the RIAA can get $12K from a 12-year old girl and yet the general public can get nothing from these companies that share our private information?
Shouldn't customers' private information have at least as much rights as some stupid Brittany Spears song?
Er, they sent the systems to a company which was supposed to blank the disks but didn't. The data clearing company failed to do their job not the bank.
Excuuuuuse me, but just because they outsourced the job to some other company does NOT excuse the bank from their responsibility. If the customer data is with the bank, it (destruction) is the bank's responsibility, irrespective of how they go about doing it (i.e. by outsourcing it or doing it inhouse).
It is such a handy utility. I can fire off a long job, and detach the screen; go home and reattach to it, to see how its going; and then come back to work and continue. It's so beautiful. <sniff>
I think the deal with banning cellphones in movie theaters was that in case of an emergency (e.g., doctor on call; someone having a heartattack) the cellphone wouldn't work, thereby causing potential loss of life (and a humonguous lawsuit to boot).
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Now I'll sit back and wait for the obligatory "... bah! Tank-shmank! Gimme a few of these Maxtor monsters, and I'll roll my own "storage tank" using a spare full-tower chassis, a PIC controller and some duct tape..."
One day I got one of those myriad of credit card applications.
I did the following: wrote, in large black marker across the application, "DO NOT SEND ME MORE OFFERS". Nothing else. Crossed out the entire application.
A few weeks later, I get the credit card in the mail.
I asked them for a copy of my application; but all I got was a printout of the database record, which had the same information (name, address) that was there on the original application.
Even without my signature, they accepted the application and sent me the credit card.
There's _got_ to be some law against this.
This article from Oct 2002 talks about Reiserfs, and claims that "... ReiserFS is about eight to fifteen times faster than Ext2 at handling files smaller than 1K. "
--Paul Erdo"s, talking about the 3n+1 Problem.
I think NASA should have bared all...
This is the strength of the Open Source model. The source is out there for everyone to see; think you can do it better? Step up to the plate and take a swing!
IMHO, firing such a senior guy in this fashion is usually done only when your cojones are in a vice being tightened at a rapid pace...
Grab my instructions , and the patch .
Lets see. "Billions" implies at least 2 billion. Multiply that by 365 ("everyday"), and you get $730 billion per year.
Slight exaggeration? I thought so.
Using your logic, billions are spent every day in fighting "terrorism" by private companies too, not to mention the states' use of National Guard and extra cops.
By comparison, an Intel Pentium 4 processor, the fastest desktop chip, can transmit about 50 billion bits a second. But when the technology is used in complete products, the researchers say, they expect to reach speeds in excess of a trillion bits a second, which would be about 100 times the limits of today's technology.
If a P4 is already doing 50 Gbps (as they say), and this uber-technology will allow 1Tbps (which is 20x a P4's 50Gbps), then how is that "100x the limits of today's technology" ?
<shakes head>
I'll just leave it at that. :-)
The magnetic approach also consumes very little power when compared with notorious battery-draining RF techniques like Bluetooth. According to a description on the Aura Web site, Fonegear's headset can keep going for up to three months on a single AA battery, as opposed to only a number of hours for equipment outfitted with Bluetooth.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it."
;-)
-- Linus Torvalds
So, just share your files via a handy backup utility called "Kazaa(lite)", and presto! Problem solved!
Shouldn't customers' private information have at least as much rights as some stupid Brittany Spears song?
Excuuuuuse me, but just because they outsourced the job to some other company does NOT excuse the bank from their responsibility. If the customer data is with the bank, it (destruction) is the bank's responsibility, irrespective of how they go about doing it (i.e. by outsourcing it or doing it inhouse).
I call bullshit on this one. A Google search of this phrase yields nothing.
"byte under guard" indeed. Who moderated this +5 ? We need "moderation under guard" (MUG(tm)) here!
It is such a handy utility. I can fire off a long job, and detach the screen; go home and reattach to it, to see how its going; and then come back to work and continue. It's so beautiful. <sniff>
Err.. you're thinking of the Gates Building at Stanford, maybe?
Another cool project is the BookCrossing project.