OP doesn't even state what the total amount on data is. If it's under 3TB, single 3TB HD, twice for redundancy, cost $300. If it's under 6GB, dual HDD enclosure + 2 HDDs, twice, costs $800
After that things get really expensive: 3TB drives @130, 4-HD enclosure @300
I think this is more about PC vs network: Nobody cares if a handset crashes, which is what Google, and the users, deal with. Even I don't care if my telephone crashes (which happens about 1 a month). Carriers are more afraid of one buggy device, or a whole series of buggy devices, bringing down / overtaxing their network. This justifies the carriers' validation process. Not the crapware !
I actually have more faith in Android graduating to WIMP than on Ubuntu getting things right. Android seems to be run as a business, with customers needs wants and likes paramount. Ubuntu seems to be run like some hacker's project, where the latest tech shiny wins the day, regardless of whether it's actually useful, user-friendly, feature complete, and reliable. Cases in point: Grub2, Unity...
My one worry is Google limiting Android in the desktop space to leave room for Chrome OS, even though Chrome OS seems, at best, only Entreprise: no way I'm buying the HTML flavor of a dumb terminal for my personal use.
Here we go again... Backups are: - Off-line, which RAID isn't - Off-site, which RAID isn't - several, which RAID isn't - tested, which RAID can be
RAID is NOT backups. It's a high-availability, sometimes high-performance solution, that gets destroyed by anything that destroys your hardware (water, fire, power surge, theft...) or your data (viruses, user error, hacking, sabotage...), and introduces its own set of problems (faulty software, controller, enclosure, PSU...)
RAID is NOT backups. I've had a handful of customers ruined because they thought so, including 2 that went under when their RAID setup burned same as the rest of their data.
I was thinking, indeed, of a very small SSD delivering most of the performance of a full-size one, at a fraction of the cost. Something along the lines of 80% of the performance for 20% of the size, and cost.
I'm trying out USB3 readyboost, 7 seems to grab 4GB max.
most news IS ignorance, most media do not touch the important stuff. They'll blab for 5 minutes about a 10-deaths accident, or a 5-victims killer. Do YOU know how many people die each year in the US, and of what causes ? They'll rag on about 5% extra taxes.. do you know how much of those taxes are either wasted, or counterproductive ? etc, etc...
News is entertainment at best, political indoctrination at worst.
News is not culture, is not knowledge, is not wisdom. Especially the way it's done now.
Actually, that Grub2 shit pisses me off more. Tried 11.04 on 4 PCs, Grub2 by itself made it fail on alf of them. On one, a very vanilla mb+CPU/IGP+RAM.HD (no fancy dual-booting stuff, mind you), Grub2 just hung. On the other one, a Nettop with too many partitions for its own good, Grub2 just listed at least one entry for each partition, including the data ones, the restore ones, in a random order. Talk about user-repulsing wall of text as a first impresison of Linux... and don't even dream about firing gedit and editing that menu into shape: it's the new, better grub ! You can't do that anymore !
It ain't broke... Let's fix it !
Then, and only then, do you get to that Unity other shit, where the dock just HAS to be smack in the middle of my dual-screen setup, 'coz letting put it on the side would just be...would just be... would just BE ! Next version will put the dock across the middle of the screen, 'coz it's so nice, people need to see it more ! And don't try and put folders on there, 'coz no one needs shortcuts to folders !
Is 4G so irrelevant people don't even know if they have it or not ? My Interwebz are working, Skype would if my carrier allowed it, I can't blow my monthly data allotment on one movie... What's that 4G you're taling about good for, young man ?
I went to Business School; my dad and brother are engineers, several friends of my brother's created small companies. "Build it and they'll come" doesn't work too well, and there are issues at 4 levels: 1- company strategy: it's not enough to build something good, you've got to make sure there's a market, that you're not missing a big neighbouring market, that you do have some info about what your customers want/need, what your competition offers... 2- marketing: once you know that, you've got to decide which segments you'll target, and create the appropriate marketing strategy (price, distribution, cimmunication, product/services packages...) 3- sales: cold-calling, understanding customers requirements and constraints (expressed or hidden), doing nice writeups and presentations, hanging in there, closing sales, being a pain to internal project managers... is a job by itself 4- playing nice with banks and investors is a whole game by itself.
I find that engineers are not very well equipped, nor motivated, neither technically nor personality-wise, to deal with all that.
Know, there is a real issue with short-termism, and lack of leaderhip. I'm not sure it's about MBAs vs engineers, more about shareholders wanting quick paybacks to start with, and compounding the issue by putting in charge and incentizing business leaders to have short-term goals, too.
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OP doesn't even state what the total amount on data is.
If it's under 3TB, single 3TB HD, twice for redundancy, cost $300.
If it's under 6GB, dual HDD enclosure + 2 HDDs, twice, costs $800
After that things get really expensive: 3TB drives @130, 4-HD enclosure @300
I think this is more about PC vs network: Nobody cares if a handset crashes, which is what Google, and the users, deal with. Even I don't care if my telephone crashes (which happens about 1 a month). Carriers are more afraid of one buggy device, or a whole series of buggy devices, bringing down / overtaxing their network. This justifies the carriers' validation process. Not the crapware !
Please Mozilla, go back to real CPUs please. And to fixing bugs, instead of playing with fancy servers.
I actually have more faith in Android graduating to WIMP than on Ubuntu getting things right. Android seems to be run as a business, with customers needs wants and likes paramount. Ubuntu seems to be run like some hacker's project, where the latest tech shiny wins the day, regardless of whether it's actually useful, user-friendly, feature complete, and reliable. Cases in point: Grub2, Unity...
My one worry is Google limiting Android in the desktop space to leave room for Chrome OS, even though Chrome OS seems, at best, only Entreprise: no way I'm buying the HTML flavor of a dumb terminal for my personal use.
Wrong, HP have said they're looking to license it.
Here we go again... Backups are:
- Off-line, which RAID isn't
- Off-site, which RAID isn't
- several, which RAID isn't
- tested, which RAID can be
RAID is NOT backups. It's a high-availability, sometimes high-performance solution, that gets destroyed by anything that destroys your hardware (water, fire, power surge, theft...) or your data (viruses, user error, hacking, sabotage...), and introduces its own set of problems (faulty software, controller, enclosure, PSU...)
RAID is NOT backups. I've had a handful of customers ruined because they thought so, including 2 that went under when their RAID setup burned same as the rest of their data.
it's a bit hard to recommend backups for an unknown backup size ....
or even my phone.
I'm not using them when I'm on my PC... They might as well do something useful !
I was thinking, indeed, of a very small SSD delivering most of the performance of a full-size one, at a fraction of the cost. Something along the lines of 80% of the performance for 20% of the size, and cost.
I'm trying out USB3 readyboost, 7 seems to grab 4GB max.
I'm assuming MS is keeping an SSD version of ReadyBoost as a Windows 8 "new feature". This should offer a very good price/performance ratio.
the Google+ mobile app does that: it automatically uploads your photos to our google account, if you have a net connection.
"Unleashing the Killer App", 1998. You may go now.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/087584801X?ie=UTF8&tag=larrydownes-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=087584801X
The next 10 versions of FireFox will still support XP. That should cover us till the end of next week.
may be like, you know, insulating your house would, kinda, make the snow on top of it stay longer ?
In Old Europe, snow on roofs tends to stay almost as long as sow on lawns.
most news IS ignorance, most media do not touch the important stuff. They'll blab for 5 minutes about a 10-deaths accident, or a 5-victims killer. Do YOU know how many people die each year in the US, and of what causes ? They'll rag on about 5% extra taxes.. do you know how much of those taxes are either wasted, or counterproductive ? etc, etc...
News is entertainment at best, political indoctrination at worst.
News is not culture, is not knowledge, is not wisdom. Especially the way it's done now.
I do: they do.
Actually, that Grub2 shit pisses me off more. Tried 11.04 on 4 PCs, Grub2 by itself made it fail on alf of them. On one, a very vanilla mb+CPU/IGP+RAM.HD (no fancy dual-booting stuff, mind you), Grub2 just hung. On the other one, a Nettop with too many partitions for its own good, Grub2 just listed at least one entry for each partition, including the data ones, the restore ones, in a random order. Talk about user-repulsing wall of text as a first impresison of Linux... and don't even dream about firing gedit and editing that menu into shape: it's the new, better grub ! You can't do that anymore !
It ain't broke... Let's fix it !
Then, and only then, do you get to that Unity other shit, where the dock just HAS to be smack in the middle of my dual-screen setup, 'coz letting put it on the side would just be.. .would just be... would just BE ! Next version will put the dock across the middle of the screen, 'coz it's so nice, people need to see it more ! And don't try and put folders on there, 'coz no one needs shortcuts to folders !
I create fake emails even when I trust the site !
Seconded. US != the whole world && != /. readership
If you're gaming, you're not using an IGP/APU, and won't be anytime soon.
Is 4G so irrelevant people don't even know if they have it or not ? My Interwebz are working, Skype would if my carrier allowed it, I can't blow my monthly data allotment on one movie... What's that 4G you're taling about good for, young man ?
not enough people died for pastafarianism.
let's make the Mother of all Bolognesas !
Red wine will fix most anything, yessssir, here have a little more !
I went to Business School; my dad and brother are engineers, several friends of my brother's created small companies. "Build it and they'll come" doesn't work too well, and there are issues at 4 levels:
1- company strategy: it's not enough to build something good, you've got to make sure there's a market, that you're not missing a big neighbouring market, that you do have some info about what your customers want/need, what your competition offers...
2- marketing: once you know that, you've got to decide which segments you'll target, and create the appropriate marketing strategy (price, distribution, cimmunication, product/services packages...)
3- sales: cold-calling, understanding customers requirements and constraints (expressed or hidden), doing nice writeups and presentations, hanging in there, closing sales, being a pain to internal project managers... is a job by itself
4- playing nice with banks and investors is a whole game by itself.
I find that engineers are not very well equipped, nor motivated, neither technically nor personality-wise, to deal with all that.
Know, there is a real issue with short-termism, and lack of leaderhip. I'm not sure it's about MBAs vs engineers, more about shareholders wanting quick paybacks to start with, and compounding the issue by putting in charge and incentizing business leaders to have short-term goals, too.
ooops, you're right.
I meant: that, too: the end is at the beginning. damn yankees.