What is the point in shipping it with a PS/2 keyboard and mouse port. Complete waste of time. The space would be far more usefully be taken up with some more USB ports.
Also how about some BIOS serial redirection on these things, so you don't have to plug in a monitor to configure these babies.
Which is the point of Unattended or the Microsoft RIS/WDS. These are installs of Windows over the network. It is the same as someone sitting there feeding CD's and other stuff into the computer. The difference is that you have scripted it all up so that all you do is maybe partition the disk (depends on your preference) and off you go.
Because it is an install it matters not that your hardware is all different, provided you have added appropriate drivers to the install image.
I agree totally, the netbook concept with a Bluetooth link to my phone does it far better for me.
As an aside what's the reception like on the E51? One of the major pluses of the 6310i (you'll prise it from my cold dead hands along with my Model M) is it's ability to get signal where other phones fail. One needs something with a bit more than GPRS to mate to my Eee 901 as soon as I get my hands on it.
It's a nice switch, but for goodness sake. This switch has been obsolete for at least three years!!!
It's a 24 10/100 port managed switch, with *optional* uplink modules at 1Gbps; fibre and copper available or some propriety stacking modules. It also has a couple of fans!!
There are far better switches that are passively cooled, use less power, are cheaper and better performing...
Thats why there is HSM, the tape library at work is 1.5PB with room to scale with current tech to about 2.5PB. However that is a small tape library these days.
News to me, double checking the Sun pages tells me that two or more servers cannot mount the same pool at the same time. It is allegedly coming with Luster 1.8, but it ain't here now.
Nope it's IBM's General Parallel Filesystem, and 20TB of spinning disk, with ~50TB of migrated data is small beer. I am aware of systems with in excess of 500TB of migrated data.
With clustered Samba nearly production ready, shared disk filesystems such as GPFS, CXFS, GFS etc. will become much more important. Imagine being able to yank the power cord on one of your Samba servers and watch as the clients just keep trucking and the load is transparently taken by the other servers in the cluster.
File systems that have HSM get extra brownie points.
1. ZFS no cluster support, though perhaps coming later
2. No DMAPI support so no HSM, and not on the roadmap
I am not sure what it is with all these ZFS fan boys, but it is missing some critical enterprise features as far as I can tell. Wake me up when it acquires them.
Of if only it did. Online it stores your email in a *huge* modified Access MDB database (Exchange). Microsoft have been promising SQL storage for Exchange for nearly as long as WinFS.
The data is *VERY* useful in retrospect for tracking down criminals and terrorists after the event, and providing evidence to secure convictions. Within a couple of days of the failed 21/7 bombings in London for example telephone records had enabled them to track one of the suspects to Rome where he was promptly arrested and deported back to Britain. The whole lot where tracked down within a week.
As for anonmyization, you may be able to track individual users, but if you have scrambled the locations so they are no longer meaningful (ie. they do not represent any real coordinate system) I guess it would be pretty difficult to unpick it. That is the x,y location information is arbitrary coordinates and not the lat/long or whatever local grid is in use.
Except printers are generally assigned static IP addresses, cause it just makes life so much easier. Yeah you can do dynamic DNS updates in tandem with the DHCP offer, but it is just not worth the effort, and still has issues.
Would you put your file server on a dynamic IP address? Didn't think so, you don't put servers on dynamic IP's and a printer is effectively a server.
Some of the big severs at work take in excess of three minutes to hand over to the boot loader. Then 30 seconds later they are serving files. All this stuff about making Linux boot faster is a pointless waste of time till the BIOS is much faster.
My home server with 100GB RAID1, draws about 22W or about 30W at the wall because it has a cheap mains to 12V adapter while I do a battery backed PSU.
There are 320GB 2.5" drives at 7200RPM with a 24x7 rating coming on the market now. The power consumption for these is about 2~2.5W in use, with 5W at spin up.
If I could get an Atom based board with no audio, no video, no PS/2 etc. I could probably shave another 5W of the total.
As for CPU, I had a dual processor 2.8GHz Xeon at my last place of work, proper server kit, hardware RAID, 10kRPM SCSI disks, tripled bonded GbE, could sustain over 300MB/s serving files. It did nothing but serve files to about 50 users. Never ever got beyond 20% CPU utilization. Most of the time it was well under 5%
I don't know if it honestly saturates the dual GbE ports, but it does have either 4 or 8 SATA ports, and a compact flash socket for good measure. Unfortunately it has a Integrated VIA UniChromeâ Pro graphics with 2D/3D and MPEG-2 video accelerators, a serial console would be far more useful.
Even more unfortunately I can only find it on sale as part of a development kit for 300GBP, which is rather expensive.
Mind you it has occurred to me recently that even if it could saturate a bonded GbE link, that only comes to 250MB/s, which is somewhat less than the 300MB/s of a SATA-II interface. In which case a SATA port multiplier would solve the issue of limited SATA ports nicely.
That was over patent issues. MIPS technologies had a patent on handling unaligned memory access. To implement a compatible MIPS processor you need to implement this required a license from MIPS technologies.
Thing is the patent is now expired. You can go nuts implementing a MIPS compatible processor without paying a penny to anyone.
That is because they where trying to ban the use of carbide lamps at the time, as they where considered dangerous. At the time the only alternative was an incandescent bulb, so by specifying the use of a filement in the light they prohibited carbide lamps and achieved their goal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbide_lamp
Oh and it was more than just bicylces it applied to, it was all vehicles on the public highway.
Most enterprise level systems (say Dell Optiplex lineup for example) provide a handy little loop, which if you fit a padlock to stops physical access to the internals in an instance without causing serious physical damage to the unit. Most employees will baulk at causing physical damage to a system.
Add if case switches with automatic over the lan signaling, so I know when systems have been opened, which combined with suitable boot defaults and BIOS passwords and control is pretty complete for all but the most determined.
The problem for Apple is this would probably fall foul of E.U. law on illegal product tying. They are already sailing close to the wind with the iPhone and exclusive network agreements. I doubt they want to push this further.
Indeed there are, every second, about 70 billion (7Ã--e10) solar neutrinos pass through every square centimeter on Earth. Even more to the point, unless we can come up with a wildly more efficient detector than current ones, because of those 70 billion in round numbers to the nearest billion 70 pass straight through and out the other side.
Summary says makes a great NAS/Firewall device. Without two NIC's it makes a poor firewall device, and without GbE it makes a poor NAS box. Lack of decent SATA is a bit poor as well for NAS.
As for DVI/VGA, a DVI-I connect can carry both analog VGA and digital DVI. Why they persist in putting HD15 connectors on Mini-ITX boards is beyond me.
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What is the point in shipping it with a PS/2 keyboard and mouse port. Complete waste of time. The space would be far more usefully be taken up with some more USB ports.
Also how about some BIOS serial redirection on these things, so you don't have to plug in a monitor to configure these babies.
Which is the point of Unattended or the Microsoft RIS/WDS. These are installs of Windows over the network. It is the same as someone sitting there feeding CD's and other stuff into the computer. The difference is that you have scripted it all up so that all you do is maybe partition the disk (depends on your preference) and off you go.
Because it is an install it matters not that your hardware is all different, provided you have added appropriate drivers to the install image.
I agree totally, the netbook concept with a Bluetooth link to my phone does it far better for me.
As an aside what's the reception like on the E51? One of the major pluses of the 6310i (you'll prise it from my cold dead hands along with my Model M) is it's ability to get signal where other phones fail. One needs something with a bit more than GPRS to mate to my Eee 901 as soon as I get my hands on it.
It's a nice switch, but for goodness sake. This switch has been obsolete for at least three years!!!
It's a 24 10/100 port managed switch, with *optional* uplink modules at 1Gbps; fibre and copper available or some propriety stacking modules. It also has a couple of fans!!
There are far better switches that are passively cooled, use less power, are cheaper and better performing...
Thats why there is HSM, the tape library at work is 1.5PB with room to scale with current tech to about 2.5PB. However that is a small tape library these days.
News to me, double checking the Sun pages tells me that two or more servers cannot mount the same pool at the same time. It is allegedly coming with Luster 1.8, but it ain't here now.
Nope it's IBM's General Parallel Filesystem, and 20TB of spinning disk, with ~50TB of migrated data is small beer. I am aware of systems with in excess of 500TB of migrated data.
With clustered Samba nearly production ready, shared disk filesystems such as GPFS, CXFS, GFS etc. will become much more important. Imagine being able to yank the power cord on one of your Samba servers and watch as the clients just keep trucking and the load is transparently taken by the other servers in the cluster.
File systems that have HSM get extra brownie points.
However missing,
1. ZFS no cluster support, though perhaps coming later
2. No DMAPI support so no HSM, and not on the roadmap
I am not sure what it is with all these ZFS fan boys, but it is missing some critical enterprise features as far as I can tell. Wake me up when it acquires them.
At work our largest filesystem is a 20TB GPFS filesystem with HSM with at least another 50TB of migrated data on tape.
Frankly until ZFS gets cluster and HSM capabilities it is rather uninteresting.
Of if only it did. Online it stores your email in a *huge* modified Access MDB database (Exchange). Microsoft have been promising SQL storage for Exchange for nearly as long as WinFS.
Just to further confuse the issue I would point out from 1707 to 1801 Great Britain was indeed a country Kingdom of Great Britain
The data is *VERY* useful in retrospect for tracking down criminals and terrorists after the event, and providing evidence to secure convictions. Within a couple of days of the failed 21/7 bombings in London for example telephone records had enabled them to track one of the suspects to Rome where he was promptly arrested and deported back to Britain. The whole lot where tracked down within a week.
As for anonmyization, you may be able to track individual users, but if you have scrambled the locations so they are no longer meaningful (ie. they do not represent any real coordinate system) I guess it would be pretty difficult to unpick it. That is the x,y location information is arbitrary coordinates and not the lat/long or whatever local grid is in use.
Except printers are generally assigned static IP addresses, cause it just makes life so much easier. Yeah you can do dynamic DNS updates in tandem with the DHCP offer, but it is just not worth the effort, and still has issues.
Would you put your file server on a dynamic IP address? Didn't think so, you don't put servers on dynamic IP's and a printer is effectively a server.
Some of the big severs at work take in excess of three minutes to hand over to the boot loader. Then 30 seconds later they are serving files. All this stuff about making Linux boot faster is a pointless waste of time till the BIOS is much faster.
I don't think it is a Britishism either, as I have hear of it before and I am born and bread in Britain
My home server with 100GB RAID1, draws about 22W or about 30W at the wall because it has a cheap mains to 12V adapter while I do a battery backed PSU.
There are 320GB 2.5" drives at 7200RPM with a 24x7 rating coming on the market now. The power consumption for these is about 2~2.5W in use, with 5W at spin up.
If I could get an Atom based board with no audio, no video, no PS/2 etc. I could probably shave another 5W of the total.
As for CPU, I had a dual processor 2.8GHz Xeon at my last place of work, proper server kit, hardware RAID, 10kRPM SCSI disks, tripled bonded GbE, could sustain over 300MB/s serving files. It did nothing but serve files to about 50 users. Never ever got beyond 20% CPU utilization. Most of the time it was well under 5%
Have you looked at the VIA NAS 7800?
I don't know if it honestly saturates the dual GbE ports, but it does have either 4 or 8 SATA ports, and a compact flash socket for good measure. Unfortunately it has a Integrated VIA UniChromeâ Pro graphics with 2D/3D and MPEG-2 video accelerators, a serial console would be far more useful.
Even more unfortunately I can only find it on sale as part of a development kit for 300GBP, which is rather expensive.
Mind you it has occurred to me recently that even if it could saturate a bonded GbE link, that only comes to 250MB/s, which is somewhat less than the 300MB/s of a SATA-II interface. In which case a SATA port multiplier would solve the issue of limited SATA ports nicely.
What is this "English" Navy that you speak of? As a loyal subject of Her Majesty I know of a Royal Navy.
You could perhaps get away with describing it as the British Navy, but describing it as the English Navy has been completely incorrect since 1707.
That was over patent issues. MIPS technologies had a patent on handling unaligned memory access. To implement a compatible MIPS processor you need to implement this required a license from MIPS technologies.
Thing is the patent is now expired. You can go nuts implementing a MIPS compatible processor without paying a penny to anyone.
That is because they where trying to ban the use of carbide lamps at the time, as they where considered dangerous. At the time the only alternative was an incandescent bulb, so by specifying the use of a filement in the light they prohibited carbide lamps and achieved their goal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbide_lamp
Oh and it was more than just bicylces it applied to, it was all vehicles on the public highway.
Nice try but there has been now mercury in watch batteries for over a decade.
Most enterprise level systems (say Dell Optiplex lineup for example) provide a handy little loop, which if you fit a padlock to stops physical access to the internals in an instance without causing serious physical damage to the unit. Most employees will baulk at causing physical damage to a system.
Add if case switches with automatic over the lan signaling, so I know when systems have been opened, which combined with suitable boot defaults and BIOS passwords and control is pretty complete for all but the most determined.
The problem for Apple is this would probably fall foul of E.U. law on illegal product tying. They are already sailing close to the wind with the iPhone and exclusive network agreements. I doubt they want to push this further.
Indeed there are, every second, about 70 billion (7Ã--e10) solar neutrinos pass through every square centimeter on Earth. Even more to the point, unless we can come up with a wildly more efficient detector than current ones, because of those 70 billion in round numbers to the nearest billion 70 pass straight through and out the other side.
Summary says makes a great NAS/Firewall device. Without two NIC's it makes a poor firewall device, and without GbE it makes a poor NAS box. Lack of decent SATA is a bit poor as well for NAS.
As for DVI/VGA, a DVI-I connect can carry both analog VGA and digital DVI. Why they persist in putting HD15 connectors on Mini-ITX boards is beyond me.