we follow the Microsoft development philosophy here, get it to clients on day X with an acceptable feature-to-bug ratio so they can start getting the most essential work done and we can fix the rest incrementally
Hopefully you have a better understanding of what makes an acceptable feature-to-bug ratio than Microsoft.
Save for the fact he's looking to pull the backups from Linux not push them from Windows.
The Rsync solution is definitely the best suggested for what he asked for.
However personally, I would setup a fileserver for the machines and make everyone use that for stuff they want backed up. Centralized storage is always a cleaner solution.
And where did he say he was running this as a separate fileserver?
His solution sucks because the hardware he is proposing is trash. Those 5400RPM Maxtor 160s are already very old drives or he wouldn't be able to pick them up for $70 US. They are 2 year old drives already. They are probably also grey market meaning that maxtor sold them to dell or hp with a 1 year warranty. Thus you will never be able to talk maxtor in to replacing one if it goes under warranty. 6 months from now Fry's won't even have the damn drives.
And to be blunt, promise hardware sucks. If you are going to do something do it right.
Just to clarify things no one uses RAID 3 anymore because it is too complicated. Most so called "RAID 3" configurations are actually raid 4 which is a much more workable solution.
Not the most optimal arrangement because of the bus having two drives on each channel, but it doesn't seem to affect performance too much since it is striping the data across all of the drives. I'm assuming it stripes in order, so you'd want to stagger the drives such that 1 & 2, 3 & 4 are not on the same controller.
Have you worked with a 3ware card? Believe me when I say that this solutions' performance will suck compared to using a real raid solution such as a Escalade 3ware 9500s. Even on software raid, the 3ware card will kick it's butt (Hmm I not even sure 3ware's Hardware Raid is as fast as Linux software raid on a Fast system).
1) First you are using 2 cards per channel thus it only writes to one drive at a time on each channel. An 8 port 3ware card can write to all 8 at once.
2) The Promise Card is only an ATA 133 card not raid and doesn't support command queuing.
3) You are multiple cards which requires more IRQ requests, which in turn slows down overall system performance.
4) Promise support in Linux sucks. It's better now that it has been in recent years with Libata but it's still crappy promise hardware.
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The sleep clinics run by University Hospitals in Canada generally deal with Sleep Apnea and not insomina. Though people who are not getting quality sleep may be sent to the sleep clinic to be tested for Sleep Apnea.
writing "it appears as though the Socket A based Sempron performs abysmally while dollar for dollar the Socket 754 version levels every Intel CPU."
I looked at both the TH and Antech reviews and they say that for most tests the Semptron 2800+ beats the Celeron D in performance. So if it's performance is abysmal what does that say about the Celeron D?
You guys are brainless. A 250GB 7200 RPM drive is going to compare with a 10K or 15K RPM 36 Gig Drive for speed and cost about the same. Reason being is that eventhough the platters rotate slower the data density on the platter is much much higher. That means that you read a lot more information per revolution and 250GB drive over a 36GB drive.
The performance advantages of a SCSI come from stuff like command queue which is now being added to the newest SATA drive anyway.
You can always build a bigger and compareable performance which RAID from SATA drives for a far bit less money. If you spend the same amount you can get even get better performance (as long as you haven't max PCI-X bus out).
The only time you may get an advantage with SCSI RAID is if you buy a very high performance RAID card that supports reading off both sides of a RAID 1 Array. And that's only a read advantage.
Currently the fastest RAID card under $3000 US is the 3ware Escalade 9500S -- A SATA RAID card not SCSI.
Suffice to say. SCSI is not worth the cost for a Workstation and is only an advantage in large scale Enterprise apps. But even there with Western Digital Raptors being 10K RPM drives with SCSI specs and warranty that begining to change as well.
Maybe Serial SCSI will save the technology but I wouldn't bet on it. The only thing now that is keeping SCSI on some desktops is people's ignorance and fear of change.
Using non-coms as material is never acceptable in war, guerilla or otherwise.
Huh? "non-coms" refers to non-commissioned personel. That includes privates and sargents. Are you saying that only commissioned officers should fight? Great lets call home all the enlisted men and women.
Okay, it seems that the original spelling coming out of IBM in the 60's may have been nybble. However since that spelling makes no sense in British English (the spelling doesn't match the pronounciation), the word is spelt nibble in Commonwealth countries such as Canada.
Since British English is the only true and proper English, we must come to the conclusion that the proper accepted spelling is nibble. This is confirmed by my 1997 Edition of the Oxford Dictionary.
Yeah I worked in the IT Field 16 years ago. I have been using computers for alot more. I wrote my first program on a Commodore Pet.
Either way, I wouldn't take consider the user's manual for an Apple II+ to be the most reliable source of computer terminology. The first Apple computer was built in a garage.
I have been in the computing field for 16 years and I have never seen nibble spelt with an y. That includes my instructors at university and my text books.
By the way my modern (not old) Oxford Dictionary spells it with an i.
Soil created through natural processes requires erosion. God is not a natural process. He can make soil out of nothing. He doesn't need sedimentary layers to make the earth support plants.
This comment proves you're a complete idiot. The soil required by the plants becomes a sedimentary layer. All I meant was that even created soil implies the occurrence erosion. That doesn't mean the implication is correct.
How doesn't it add up? The debate is whether the methods used to determine the age of the earth are correct. The fact of the matter is that if you accept the biblical story of the flood that changes the dating tremendously as you have a massive amount of sedimentary deposit over a short period of time. Also if the world was created to support plant life as the bible story goes then some sedimentary deposits must have been created. This of course makes to world look older than it really is. You can't have much plant life with out soil and soil comes from erosion. Thus the earth when it was created had an apparent age. Just like Adam who wasn't created as a new born would have had an apparent age.
Of course the view that the earth was created with an apparent age doesn't explain when the dinosaur died but that I assume was sometime before the flood.
my computer is making a copy of it for you, and sending that copy over the internet to your computer.
That would fall under the same argument as me loaning you my computer to copy one of my cds. Which is give as a legal example of copying. Just because my computer is in Vancouver and your's is in halifax doesn't change that.
"communicating to the public by telecommunication"
A private communication between to individuals does not constitute communicating to the public. If I was offering streaming audio to a public audience maybe. But this provision is to cover radio and TV station broadcasts. Not downloading a file.
Comparing to Radio stations is completely an apples and oranges comparison. Radio stations physically send a signal out to be picked up whoever wants it.
Michael Geist says that but he has no support for his argument. Yes it is illegal to distribute copies but making them available on my Hard Drive is not distribution nor is loaning a copied CD. Distribution would require me to give them the copied cd or my harddrive and I am not doing that.
No it isn't and yes I have read the Canadian Law. It is legal to copy someone elses music for personal use. What is not legal is copying for someone else. P2P networks work in such a way that the client copies the mp3 file off the other person's computer thus fullfilling the requirement of the copyright.
It's true that I can't send a mp3 file to someone else but it is not illegal for then to download it off my computer. My hosting of the MP3 is the same as me loaning them the CD for copying which is legal.
Hmm, 30watt Opteron 240s will be sampling soon. They will go on sale in the new year.
Anyone claiming that UltraSparc is going to compete with PPC, Opteron and Itanium is out to lunch. These expensive CPUs have for a couple of years now have been slower than x86 processors in FP and Integer Calculations. They have been living on Solarius good name and popularity in the Oil industry as a database OS. If you don't believe me go look at the recent SPEC benchmarks, the sparcs stink.
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So he wants to be secure and you are suggesting that he turns file sharing on on the windows boxes. Yeah that will really work.
we follow the Microsoft development philosophy here, get it to clients on day X with an acceptable feature-to-bug ratio so they can start getting the most essential work done and we can fix the rest incrementally
Hopefully you have a better understanding of what makes an acceptable feature-to-bug ratio than Microsoft.
Save for the fact he's looking to pull the backups from Linux not push them from Windows.
The Rsync solution is definitely the best suggested for what he asked for.
However personally, I would setup a fileserver for the machines and make everyone use that for stuff they want backed up. Centralized storage is always a cleaner solution.
And where did he say he was running this as a separate fileserver?
His solution sucks because the hardware he is proposing is trash. Those 5400RPM Maxtor 160s are already very old drives or he wouldn't be able to pick them up for $70 US. They are 2 year old drives already. They are probably also grey market meaning that maxtor sold them to dell or hp with a 1 year warranty. Thus you will never be able to talk maxtor in to replacing one if it goes under warranty. 6 months from now Fry's won't even have the damn drives.
And to be blunt, promise hardware sucks. If you are going to do something do it right.
Just to clarify things no one uses RAID 3 anymore because it is too complicated. Most so called "RAID 3" configurations are actually raid 4 which is a much more workable solution.
Not the most optimal arrangement because of the bus having two drives on each channel, but it doesn't seem to affect performance too much since it is striping the data across all of the drives. I'm assuming it stripes in order, so you'd want to stagger the drives such that 1 & 2, 3 & 4 are not on the same controller.
Have you worked with a 3ware card? Believe me when I say that this solutions' performance will suck compared to using a real raid solution such as a Escalade 3ware 9500s. Even on software raid, the 3ware card will kick it's butt (Hmm I not even sure 3ware's Hardware Raid is as fast as Linux software raid on a Fast system).
1) First you are using 2 cards per channel thus it only writes to one drive at a time on each channel. An 8 port 3ware card can write to all 8 at once.
2) The Promise Card is only an ATA 133 card not raid and doesn't support command queuing.
3) You are multiple cards which requires more IRQ requests, which in turn slows down overall system performance.
4) Promise support in Linux sucks. It's better now that it has been in recent years with Libata but it's still crappy promise hardware.
The sleep clinics run by University Hospitals in Canada generally deal with Sleep Apnea and not insomina. Though people who are not getting quality sleep may be sent to the sleep clinic to be tested for Sleep Apnea.
writing "it appears as though the Socket A based Sempron performs abysmally while dollar for dollar the Socket 754 version levels every Intel CPU."
I looked at both the TH and Antech reviews and they say that for most tests the Semptron 2800+ beats the Celeron D in performance. So if it's performance is abysmal what does that say about the Celeron D?
That doesn't prove Evote is unreliable. Just because one company's solution is bad doesn't make the concept or premise of evoting unreliable.
How has evoting been "proven unreliable"?
Support your statement.
You guys are brainless. A 250GB 7200 RPM drive is going to compare with a 10K or 15K RPM 36 Gig Drive for speed and cost about the same. Reason being is that eventhough the platters rotate slower the data density on the platter is much much higher. That means that you read a lot more information per revolution and 250GB drive over a 36GB drive.
The performance advantages of a SCSI come from stuff like command queue which is now being added to the newest SATA drive anyway.
You can always build a bigger and compareable performance which RAID from SATA drives for a far bit less money. If you spend the same amount you can get even get better performance (as long as you haven't max PCI-X bus out).
The only time you may get an advantage with SCSI RAID is if you buy a very high performance RAID card that supports reading off both sides of a RAID 1 Array. And that's only a read advantage.
Currently the fastest RAID card under $3000 US is the 3ware Escalade 9500S -- A SATA RAID card not SCSI.
Suffice to say. SCSI is not worth the cost for a Workstation and is only an advantage in large scale Enterprise apps. But even there with Western Digital Raptors being 10K RPM drives with SCSI specs and warranty that begining to change as well.
Maybe Serial SCSI will save the technology but I wouldn't bet on it. The only thing now that is keeping SCSI on some desktops is people's ignorance and fear of change.
Using non-coms as material is never acceptable in war, guerilla or otherwise.
Huh? "non-coms" refers to non-commissioned personel. That includes privates and sargents. Are you saying that only commissioned officers should fight? Great lets call home all the enlisted men and women.
Okay, it seems that the original spelling coming out of IBM in the 60's may have been nybble. However since that spelling makes no sense in British English (the spelling doesn't match the pronounciation), the word is spelt nibble in Commonwealth countries such as Canada.
Since British English is the only true and proper English, we must come to the conclusion that the proper accepted spelling is nibble. This is confirmed by my 1997 Edition of the Oxford Dictionary.
Yeah I worked in the IT Field 16 years ago. I have been using computers for alot more. I wrote my first program on a Commodore Pet.
Either way, I wouldn't take consider the user's manual for an Apple II+ to be the most reliable source of computer terminology. The first Apple computer was built in a garage.
I have been in the computing field for 16 years and I have never seen nibble spelt with an y. That includes my instructors at university and my text books.
By the way my modern (not old) Oxford Dictionary spells it with an i.
Soil created through natural processes requires erosion. God is not a natural process. He can make soil out of nothing. He doesn't need sedimentary layers to make the earth support plants.
This comment proves you're a complete idiot. The soil required by the plants becomes a sedimentary layer. All I meant was that even created soil implies the occurrence erosion. That doesn't mean the implication is correct.
How doesn't it add up? The debate is whether the methods used to determine the age of the earth are correct. The fact of the matter is that if you accept the biblical story of the flood that changes the dating tremendously as you have a massive amount of sedimentary deposit over a short period of time. Also if the world was created to support plant life as the bible story goes then some sedimentary deposits must have been created. This of course makes to world look older than it really is. You can't have much plant life with out soil and soil comes from erosion. Thus the earth when it was created had an apparent age. Just like Adam who wasn't created as a new born would have had an apparent age.
Of course the view that the earth was created with an apparent age doesn't explain when the dinosaur died but that I assume was sometime before the flood.
This news came out a day or two ago. Sometimes Slashdot gets way behind on news.
my computer is making a copy of it for you, and sending that copy over the internet to your computer.
That would fall under the same argument as me loaning you my computer to copy one of my cds.
Which is give as a legal example of copying. Just because my computer is in Vancouver and your's is in halifax doesn't change that.
"communicating to the public by telecommunication"
A private communication between to individuals does not constitute communicating to the public. If I was offering streaming audio to a public audience maybe. But this provision is to cover radio and TV station broadcasts. Not downloading a file.
Comparing to Radio stations is completely an apples and oranges comparison. Radio stations physically send a signal out to be picked up whoever wants it.
Placing a file on a server is no broadcasting.
Michael Geist says that but he has no support for his argument. Yes it is illegal to distribute copies but making them available on my Hard Drive is not distribution nor is loaning a copied CD. Distribution would require me to give them the copied cd or my harddrive and I am not doing that.
No it isn't and yes I have read the Canadian Law. It is legal to copy someone elses music for personal use. What is not legal is copying for someone else. P2P networks work in such a way that the client copies the mp3 file off the other person's computer thus fullfilling the requirement of the copyright.
It's true that I can't send a mp3 file to someone else but it is not illegal for then to download it off my computer. My hosting of the MP3 is the same as me loaning them the CD for copying which is legal.
No AMD is going to release lower powered versions. That doesn't mean that the current versions run at 30watts. Can you read?
Hmm, 30watt Opteron 240s will be sampling soon. They will go on sale in the new year.
Anyone claiming that UltraSparc is going to compete with PPC, Opteron and Itanium is out to lunch. These expensive CPUs have for a couple of years now have been slower than x86 processors in FP and Integer Calculations. They have been living on Solarius good name and popularity in the Oil industry as a database OS. If you don't believe me go look at the recent SPEC benchmarks, the sparcs stink.
Hmm, we have no problem running a dual Opterons in a 1U case with 4 U320 SCSI drives.