Well there is the GNU tool chain (aka gcc and friends) that are rather sort of important even for the BSD's for starters. This is what I took the post to be refering to myself.
Good job there are a range of low end SATA tape drives these days then! How about something like a Quantum DLT-V4 drive in a SATA variation. There have been PATA/SATA AIT drives for years, and the latest DAT drives also come in a SATA version. There are also a number of external USB tape drives, and a few firewire ones as well.
Backups need to be offline and either offsite or in a suitable fireproof datasafe. Anything less and you are not protected against external factors such as power surges, floods, fire, theft etc.
Proper backup costs because the volumes are small, something like one million DLT drives of all types ever had shipped by 2005. In the same period over a billion hard drives had shipped. If everyone took backup seriously we could get a DLT-V4 class drive for the same price as a 500GB hard drive.
You could of course just splash out on a brand new one with USB. Hey they even do them with Windows keys now and in black as well. Alternatively just buy a cheap converter. I have myself debated do a new custom PCB that is USB based, but there appear to be several different variations on the keyboard.
Most U.K. universties postumostly give firsts to students who die while studying on a degree course however. A bit of a drastic way to get a good degree though.
So when I need a disk that spins faster than 7200RPM and has a capacity bigger than 150GB which SATA drive do you suggest that I buy? Or perhaps I need a drive that spins faster than 10K RPM, which SATA drive do you suggest I buy in that scenario?
You buy a SCSI/SAS drive because you need the spindle speed to support the increased number of I/O's per second that the faster spindle speeds SCSI gives you. Do you need that on the desktop, probably not. Is it essential for large percentage of enterprise loads, absolutely.
As a side note at the moment SAS drives are still quite a bit more expensive than your old fashioned U320 SCSI drives, so I am still buying U320 SCSI drives as I cannot justify the increased cost of SAS. I am sure it will change once the SAS volumes start to increase though.
Not the ones that I have seen. There are basically two main failure modes on a hard disk. Either the bearings on the motor give out, or the reserved area for mapping out bad sectors fills up and you see bad sectors. Controller failer is *much* rarer than either of these two events. If you ask me controller failures are more likely to be down to people not taking proper ESD measures.
Funny you should say that, because here in the U.K. that is exactly what some Muslims *ARE* trying to do. Specifically they want the U.K. to adopt Sharia Law. Now personally I find Sharia law barbaric and deeply offensive. In fact the European Court of Human Rights determined that "sharia is incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy". That's the fundamental problem, there are two entirely incompatible belief systems that are on collision, and one side won't let it drop no matter what you do until you convert to their belief system.
Not quite true. The safety regulations for DC voltages over 50V are quite onerous in the U.K. at least. You have to treat it as though it where mains. Therefore 48V is the largest DC voltage that is simple to work with that can be generated from lead acid cells wired in series.
What's wrong with the PV220's? I admit to only having one at work, but it is three years old and has never missed a beat. The problem in the U.K. with the telephone support is after you have talked to the engineer and agreed that the machine is bust and it needs fixing, you get handed over to some unintelligble Indian who can't follow basic instructions.
I am not aware of any period of time in the last 20 years in which the capacity of at least one tape format has not exceeded the capacity of the largest hard drive on the market. Right now I have a Quantum DLT-S4 library at work, which is 800GB native capacity per tape. The largest hard drive I can buy is a 750GB Seagate.
The problem with AoE is it is exactly that ATA over Ethernet. So I am very limited to which drives I can attach, no 15K drives, no 10K drives bigger than 150GB, and certainly no tape drives. The routing is not at problem, as any decent highend switch/router will do layer 2 these days. For this to have been a killer application it should have been SoE, that is SCSI over Ethernet. That way I could use bigger and faster SCSI drives as well as tapes. The overhead of SCSI to ATA is minimal. Heck every Firewire drive/enclosure in existance does it.
Multiple stage rockets only made orbital flights possible because the technology was not available to achieve a single stage to orbit. That does not mean that SSTO is not a highly desirable or perminantly impossible goal that is not worth persuing.
That's alright because you can get 100GB 7200RPM laptop drives. I upgraded my 1.1GHz P3 laptop to a 7200RPM drive a couple of years ago, and can tell you that there is no way I would go back to anything less it makes that much of a difference.
You don't revoke the copyright (which would be illegal as you point out), you seize it as an asset towards paying the fine or other punishment. Courts seize "interlectual property" all the time when companies become insolvent, so clearly they have the power to do so. Remember if it is property it can be confiscated.
The Euro notes are identical throughout the Euro zone. It is only one side of the coins that countries can customize. The problem is that the smallest Euro note is 5EUR and in the U.K. the smallest note is 5GBP, both of which are substantially more than 1USD.
Wrong Cambridge, Cambridge Univeristy (fourth oldest in the world) is in the South East of England, and not in North America. Full marks you have displayed a typically parochial American outlook on the World.
Well you could have an encryption offload engine that goes at full tilt, and assuming you have something that will sink 10GbE at full speed for extended periods of time you could do it in a shade under 16 minutes. Thing is you will real *BIG* iron for it to take that amount of data in that short period of time. It will nicely fit on one DLT-S4 tape, but that only goes at 60MB/s, and even RAID0 hard disk system is not going to be that fast.
Except *all* the names are clearly from the British T.V. comedy "Only Fools and Horses", and this includes the name of the police officer (who turned out corrupt in the series). In this context it would be difficulr for any U.K. based Judge/Magistrate/Sherif to convict. Remember people impersonate police officers all the time for T.V. shows without getting into problems.
What utter rubbish. He is still left with over six billion USD. Personally I would have give much more away. Put another way, if I where to live to be 100 years old (I am 35 now) I would need to spend over 275,000 USD a *day* to spent it all and that is assuming that the residue does not earn any interest. Buffet is 75, statistically if he lives another 10 years he would be going good.
It is much easier to give 85% of your wealth away when that still leaves you a very very rich person never needing to do a days work. On the other hand if I gave 85% of my personal worth away I would be in very bad shape financially.
Er, Norway is not in the EU, so frankly what Bjorn Erik Thon thinks is of no importance whatsoever to what the EU competition officials might or might not do.
I don't think so. Most of my spam is also aimed at a north American audience and my email address ends in.uk Mostly it is Viagra or similar, which would be illegal to ship to the U.K. Combined with stock manipulation stuff which is flat out illegal anyway, but pointless sending to someone in the United Kingdom when the stock they are trying to manipulate is in the U.S.A.
If all this was removed my spam volume would be less than a quarter of it's current volume. If all the other foreign language spam was removed (I ask what is the point of sending say spam in Hebrew or Chinese or Korean to a.uk address!!!) all that would be left would be phishing and AFF, at less than a tenth of the current volume.
Well my RHEL server takes longer than 60 seconds to spin up and check out the RAID array. I really should use a stop watch to see how long it takes to get from power on till OS loader.
Please explain what advantage a "tamper proof" Torx screw has over a standard one then, other than the fact a normal Torx screwdriver won't work?
Of course the thing is that the necessary screwdrivers are readily available to buy by the general public over the web if you know where to look. At least they are here in the U.K. from the likes of RS and Farnell, and special tamper proof bit sets cost less than 10USD to fit a wide range of these odd screws.
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It was not the capacitors themselves that where counterfeit, but the electorolyte that went into them.
Well there is the GNU tool chain (aka gcc and friends) that are rather sort of important even for the BSD's for starters. This is what I took the post to be refering to myself.
Good job there are a range of low end SATA tape drives these days then! How about something like a Quantum DLT-V4 drive in a SATA variation. There have been PATA/SATA AIT drives for years, and the latest DAT drives also come in a SATA version. There are also a number of external USB tape drives, and a few firewire ones as well.
Backups need to be offline and either offsite or in a suitable fireproof datasafe. Anything less and you are not protected against external factors such as power surges, floods, fire, theft etc.
Proper backup costs because the volumes are small, something like one million DLT drives of all types ever had shipped by 2005. In the same period over a billion hard drives had shipped. If everyone took backup seriously we could get a DLT-V4 class drive for the same price as a 500GB hard drive.
You could of course just splash out on a brand new one with USB. Hey they even do them with Windows keys now and in black as well. Alternatively just buy a cheap converter. I have myself debated do a new custom PCB that is USB based, but there appear to be several different variations on the keyboard.
Most U.K. universties postumostly give firsts to students who die while studying on a degree course however. A bit of a drastic way to get a good degree though.
So when I need a disk that spins faster than 7200RPM and has a capacity bigger than 150GB which SATA drive do you suggest that I buy? Or perhaps I need a drive that spins faster than 10K RPM, which SATA drive do you suggest I buy in that scenario?
You buy a SCSI/SAS drive because you need the spindle speed to support the increased number of I/O's per second that the faster spindle speeds SCSI gives you. Do you need that on the desktop, probably not. Is it essential for large percentage of enterprise loads, absolutely.
As a side note at the moment SAS drives are still quite a bit more expensive than your old fashioned U320 SCSI drives, so I am still buying U320 SCSI drives as I cannot justify the increased cost of SAS. I am sure it will change once the SAS volumes start to increase though.
Not the ones that I have seen. There are basically two main failure modes on a hard disk. Either the bearings on the motor give out, or the reserved area for mapping out bad sectors fills up and you see bad sectors. Controller failer is *much* rarer than either of these two events. If you ask me controller failures are more likely to be down to people not taking proper ESD measures.
Funny you should say that, because here in the U.K. that is exactly what some Muslims *ARE* trying to do. Specifically they want the U.K. to adopt Sharia Law. Now personally I find Sharia law barbaric and deeply offensive. In fact the European Court of Human Rights determined that "sharia is incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy". That's the fundamental problem, there are two entirely incompatible belief systems that are on collision, and one side won't let it drop no matter what you do until you convert to their belief system.
Not quite true. The safety regulations for DC voltages over 50V are quite onerous in the U.K. at least. You have to treat it as though it where mains. Therefore 48V is the largest DC voltage that is simple to work with that can be generated from lead acid cells wired in series.
What's wrong with the PV220's? I admit to only having one at work, but it is three years old and has never missed a beat. The problem in the U.K. with the telephone support is after you have talked to the engineer and agreed that the machine is bust and it needs fixing, you get handed over to some unintelligble Indian who can't follow basic instructions.
I am not aware of any period of time in the last 20 years in which the capacity of at least one tape format has not exceeded the capacity of the largest hard drive on the market. Right now I have a Quantum DLT-S4 library at work, which is 800GB native capacity per tape. The largest hard drive I can buy is a 750GB Seagate.
The problem with AoE is it is exactly that ATA over Ethernet. So I am very limited to which drives I can attach, no 15K drives, no 10K drives bigger than 150GB, and certainly no tape drives. The routing is not at problem, as any decent highend switch/router will do layer 2 these days. For this to have been a killer application it should have been SoE, that is SCSI over Ethernet. That way I could use bigger and faster SCSI drives as well as tapes. The overhead of SCSI to ATA is minimal. Heck every Firewire drive/enclosure in existance does it.
Multiple stage rockets only made orbital flights possible because the technology was not available to achieve a single stage to orbit. That does not mean that SSTO is not a highly desirable or perminantly impossible goal that is not worth persuing.
Have you looked into using the Matlab compiler to convert your Matlab code into C/C++. Just keep developing in Matlab and solve your problems.
That's alright because you can get 100GB 7200RPM laptop drives. I upgraded my 1.1GHz P3 laptop to a 7200RPM drive a couple of years ago, and can tell you that there is no way I would go back to anything less it makes that much of a difference.
You don't revoke the copyright (which would be illegal as you point out), you seize it as an asset towards paying the fine or other punishment. Courts seize "interlectual property" all the time when companies become insolvent, so clearly they have the power to do so. Remember if it is property it can be confiscated.
The Euro notes are identical throughout the Euro zone. It is only one side of the coins that countries can customize. The problem is that the smallest Euro note is 5EUR and in the U.K. the smallest note is 5GBP, both of which are substantially more than 1USD.
Wrong Cambridge, Cambridge Univeristy (fourth oldest in the world) is in the South East of England, and not in North America. Full marks you have displayed a typically parochial American outlook on the World.
Well you could have an encryption offload engine that goes at full tilt, and assuming you have something that will sink 10GbE at full speed for extended periods of time you could do it in a shade under 16 minutes. Thing is you will real *BIG* iron for it to take that amount of data in that short period of time. It will nicely fit on one DLT-S4 tape, but that only goes at 60MB/s, and even RAID0 hard disk system is not going to be that fast.
Except *all* the names are clearly from the British T.V. comedy "Only Fools and Horses", and this includes the name of the police officer (who turned out corrupt in the series). In this context it would be difficulr for any U.K. based Judge/Magistrate/Sherif to convict. Remember people impersonate police officers all the time for T.V. shows without getting into problems.
What utter rubbish. He is still left with over six billion USD. Personally I would have give much more away. Put another way, if I where to live to be 100 years old (I am 35 now) I would need to spend over 275,000 USD a *day* to spent it all and that is assuming that the residue does not earn any interest. Buffet is 75, statistically if he lives another 10 years he would be going good.
It is much easier to give 85% of your wealth away when that still leaves you a very very rich person never needing to do a days work. On the other hand if I gave 85% of my personal worth away I would be in very bad shape financially.
Er, Norway is not in the EU, so frankly what Bjorn Erik Thon thinks is of no importance whatsoever to what the EU competition officials might or might not do.
I don't think so. Most of my spam is also aimed at a north American audience and my email address ends in .uk Mostly it is Viagra or similar, which would be illegal to ship to the U.K. Combined with stock manipulation stuff which is flat out illegal anyway, but pointless sending to someone in the United Kingdom when the stock they are trying to manipulate is in the U.S.A.
.uk address!!!) all that would be left would be phishing and AFF, at less than a tenth of the current volume.
If all this was removed my spam volume would be less than a quarter of it's current volume. If all the other foreign language spam was removed (I ask what is the point of sending say spam in Hebrew or Chinese or Korean to a
Well my RHEL server takes longer than 60 seconds to spin up and check out the RAID array. I really should use a stop watch to see how long it takes to get from power on till OS loader.
Please explain what advantage a "tamper proof" Torx screw has over a standard one then, other than the fact a normal Torx screwdriver won't work?
Of course the thing is that the necessary screwdrivers are readily available to buy by the general public over the web if you know where to look. At least they are here in the U.K. from the likes of RS and Farnell, and special tamper proof bit sets cost less than 10USD to fit a wide range of these odd screws.