A DDS is for *backup*. Separate from the computer. You don't skip backup, even if you use RAID to the nuts.
Yes... a raid controller may have made good sense... but your logic about 1 drive being better than two is flawed.. that's rediculous. Sure.. you have half the chance of a drive failing, but if it does, you lose ALL your data.. that's the point.
And mirroring doesn't make anything faster, it just provides redundancy.
Plus.. how much increased performance would he get -vs- what he's doing now for the cost?
The card he mentions is more than just some 'ide expansion'.
It provides a separate channel directly from the card for each drive, and handles IDE stuff itself instead of the CPU.
The article you talk about compares standard SCSI setups with standard IDE setups. This is completely, totally different.
seek time is a factor in the size of the platter and the head mechanism.. not the RPM rating of the drive, as indicated in the article. RPM will affect the average time it takes for a given sector to re-appear under the head... but that's not as important.
If you look at single-drive systems, IDE can be arguably just as good as SCSI. Certainly, it's an order of magnituded cheaper.
IF you go to multiple disk systems, right away, you start getting increases in perfromance on scsi, and drastic decreases in IDE. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't tried it.
Now.. I don't know how well IDE performs under such things as the 3ware IDE raid controllers... that may be a different story... (separate channel for each drive, etc).. but that's not that common.
Remember, part of this guy's goal was future-proofing his system. SCSI is more expandable in the long run.. he can add a new drive later. SCSI also has longer-range... so external high-speed devices are not out of the question.
Most poeple building a new 'killer box' will probably opt for some big, fast, cheap IDE drives than the scsi setup given the huge price difference.
1) If you are using a normal scsi bus, and unless I missed something in all my years, you better NOT be hot-plugging scsi devices, unless you have connectors built for hot-plugging. On that note, you can get hot-plug kits for IDE as well, believe it or not.
2) Cable length... okay. You win that one for sure.
3) Again.. not sure what you mean. You aren't supposed to hot-plug scsi devices unless the ports are specifically built for it.
That's because the emphasis on X-plane is on realistic flight modelling, not realistic scenery.
Yes.. MS Flight Sim (I have it) has excellent scenery. I had fun flying small planes around my hometown (Central B.C.) by landmarks alone.. quite interesting.
Apparently, the X-plane flight model is second to none.
And Open-source may be a fantastic idea for some stuff...
The fact remains: if software has value, people will pay for it.
Dynamic industries such as software? Hmm.
IP laws are overbroad and rediculous, in this I agree. Anyone should be free to write their own version of something.. patents are rediculous...
I do feel copyright still holds, though, at least, for the actual work. (not necessarily the design).
Yes. Many things that are somewhat necessary in today's society (office apps, etc) should be OSS and free to all. That benefits society.
But.. games are entertainment.. they have a short shelf-life in general...they usually don't have long-term profits for a particular game (except perhaps quake and diablo)... and.. you get the picture (maybe).
Depending on the number of apps, a very realistic solution, in some cases, is to roll out a few large NT/2000 servers, using Citrix Metaframe, and using the metaframe client in linux. This allows you to permit launching of various NT-only apps from the linux desktop.
SQL server works fine, until you have to scale it.
Out of sincere curiosity.. why did they go with OS X for servers, and not linux?
Is that a problem, or a benefit though?
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Is a proximity mine with a strong magnet not cabable of such a feat in real life? is it not at least somewhat realistic.
I witness Urban Terror - Rommel.. this map has a number of interesting locations that possibly the designer did not intend for people to reach.. but through, say, standing on another player's shoulders, you can reach them. This is not unrealistic.. it simply requires teamwork.
Now.. using the shotgun to 'launch' someone really high... that's not realistic.. but still.
It's exactly this mix of things that can make a good game GREAT. Witness Streetfighter 2... yes, it was well designed... but was everything in it intended? Some of the combinations? The timing that made certain combinations of movements unbeatable? I know in later games they were intentional.... There were also a few 'elite' tricks with a few characters.. essentially bugs in the game, but they simply made it that much more interesting.
I think a realistic game engine MUST allow for things the game designer didn't intend.
OH.. no.. not at all.
They simply need an admin who is diligent about applying patches and staying informed.
Why does the CTO or CIO have to be involved? that's rediculous.
Yes. But unless the company charter specifies other goals, profit is king.
All the other 'duties' you mention have to do with the law... not morals. Yes, you have to pay your employees, but of course, you can also lay them off to incrase profits.
Yes, you have to pay your suppliers, but you can always pick a supplier from India who is cheaper to increase profits.
Yes, you can hire out of the community, but unless local law requires it, you can farm the work out to Mexico for a tenth of the price.
I think a lot of people (me included) still get confused regarding the GPL (or other licenses.. but let's talk about the GPL), and open-source projects.
If I start a project to build Gnu-App-X.. and release it, and someone submits some changes to me... and I incorporate those changes into the product.. those changes are not the 'property' of the submitter.. they were given to me, for inclusion in my project. I would guess that I now 'own' the resulting work. I can still re-license if I want. The GPL has nothing to do with this situation, though many probably think it does.
THE GPL only comes into play when someone other than me wants to distribute the software.
First. Anarchy does not mean 'you can do whatever you want'. It just means a lack of centralized law. What is 'acceptable' behavior is determined by those around you, not by the police/government, that's al. Living in an Anarchy does not mean nobody is allowed to interfere with what you are doing.
but it doesn't really change anything. The changes are freely available to the creator anyway, because of the GPL.. he just wants to be informed about them, rather than have to go looking.
Well.... I know in Canada, at least one of the major cable companies (Shaw Cable) who, of course, runs Shaw@HOME, has told customers that it will be continuing service regardless of what happens to @HOME.
Network service will stay.. what will go are the @home specific services: email addresses, website, etc. They are already transitioning existing users, and signing new users up, using @shaw.ca email addresses I believe.
As for DSL.. It's widely available in Canada... and doens't appear to be going bankrupt.. perhaps because it's actually run, for the most part, by our phone companies, not by middlemen (which, if you ask me, is the real problem)
Corporations aren't known for doing the right thing.. becuase it's illegal for them to do so. No, really, it is.
You see, public corporations have a duty to protect the interests of their shareholders. They cannot do something because it's 'right'. IF wha they are doing is legal, and profitable, they cannot go and STOP doing it just because it's not 'right'.
THat's the problem.
I've often thought... what I picture in my house someday (when I get a house) is that there will be a rack in the basement with all my servers, backup, telecom, etc.... and then just lightweight terminals here and there in the house, plus appliances like this one. THAT would be idea.
Some of us like the convenience of something we don't have to fuck with. I fuck with computers all day long.. I just don't have the time to build something to do this. This thing is cheap, looks sharp, and is useful...
You also seem to assume that everyone in the world knows how to mess with an old PC to re-vamp it for there stereo system. I can assure you, they coulnd't be bothered. THey'd much rather drop $300, and set up a share on their Windows PC where all their napster downloads are, and have something their freinds will be jealous of.
Can it handle live streaming.. that's the one thing I'd really like to see in a component like this. I want to be able to listen to shoutcast from the living room.
Or at least, you could. I would suspect that, regardless of what's legal, you probably can't get on a plane without ID since the horrific acts of Sept. 11.
On the books, though, barring any very recent legislation, there is an FAA security directive with very clear and concise instructions on what to do if a passenger cannot or will not show valid ID, or if the ID they show cannot be validated. It says absolutely NOTHING about forbidding them from boarding the aircraft; it only deals with either making sure you thoroughly check all their baggage, or make sure their baggage is only on the plane if they are also on the plane (ie: take it off if they aren't on the plane at takeoff time)
It may actually be illegal to refuse to allow an American citizen to fly on a domestic flight without presenting ID.
Of course.. I'm sure tha'ts been changed recently.
You know.. this is something funny. I love digital.. I love computers, electronics.. all that.
But one thing I really love is my watch. I only wish it was wind-up instead of electric.
It's one of those Navy-Seals Luminox dive watches.. with the tritium gas-lights. Very tough, very robust.. glows in the dark for 25 years.. and it's analog.. jewels and everything.
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A DDS is for *backup*. Separate from the computer. You don't skip backup, even if you use RAID to the nuts.
Yes... a raid controller may have made good sense... but your logic about 1 drive being better than two is flawed.. that's rediculous. Sure.. you have half the chance of a drive failing, but if it does, you lose ALL your data.. that's the point.
And mirroring doesn't make anything faster, it just provides redundancy.
Plus.. how much increased performance would he get -vs- what he's doing now for the cost?
The card he mentions is more than just some 'ide expansion'.
It provides a separate channel directly from the card for each drive, and handles IDE stuff itself instead of the CPU.
The article you talk about compares standard SCSI setups with standard IDE setups. This is completely, totally different.
seek time is a factor in the size of the platter and the head mechanism.. not the RPM rating of the drive, as indicated in the article. RPM will affect the average time it takes for a given sector to re-appear under the head... but that's not as important.
If you look at single-drive systems, IDE can be arguably just as good as SCSI. Certainly, it's an order of magnituded cheaper.
IF you go to multiple disk systems, right away, you start getting increases in perfromance on scsi, and drastic decreases in IDE. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't tried it.
Now.. I don't know how well IDE performs under such things as the 3ware IDE raid controllers... that may be a different story... (separate channel for each drive, etc).. but that's not that common.
Remember, part of this guy's goal was future-proofing his system. SCSI is more expandable in the long run.. he can add a new drive later. SCSI also has longer-range... so external high-speed devices are not out of the question.
Most poeple building a new 'killer box' will probably opt for some big, fast, cheap IDE drives than the scsi setup given the huge price difference.
1) If you are using a normal scsi bus, and unless I missed something in all my years, you better NOT be hot-plugging scsi devices, unless you have connectors built for hot-plugging. On that note, you can get hot-plug kits for IDE as well, believe it or not.
2) Cable length... okay. You win that one for sure.
3) Again.. not sure what you mean. You aren't supposed to hot-plug scsi devices unless the ports are specifically built for it.
Very cool.. but doesn't it just translate to C?
That's because the emphasis on X-plane is on realistic flight modelling, not realistic scenery.
Yes.. MS Flight Sim (I have it) has excellent scenery. I had fun flying small planes around my hometown (Central B.C.) by landmarks alone.. quite interesting.
Apparently, the X-plane flight model is second to none.
I might be mistaken.. but dont' these guys also do some real-world flight simulation for aircraft manufacturers, etc?
Might there not be some additional long-term benefits they forsee in porting to linux? Scalability? clustering of extreme simulations?
Although that may be a viable business model.....
And Open-source may be a fantastic idea for some stuff...
The fact remains: if software has value, people will pay for it.
Dynamic industries such as software? Hmm.
IP laws are overbroad and rediculous, in this I agree. Anyone should be free to write their own version of something.. patents are rediculous...
I do feel copyright still holds, though, at least, for the actual work. (not necessarily the design).
Yes. Many things that are somewhat necessary in today's society (office apps, etc) should be OSS and free to all. That benefits society.
But.. games are entertainment.. they have a short shelf-life in general...they usually don't have long-term profits for a particular game (except perhaps quake and diablo)... and.. you get the picture (maybe).
You techno hippie anarchist geeks make me sick.
Uh.. slashdot is not just about free software.
Xplane (the world's most accurate flight simulator you can have without a military budget) being ported to linux is *fantastic* news.
Not everything needs to be free, bub. It's only free if people are willing to write it for free.
Depending on the number of apps, a very realistic solution, in some cases, is to roll out a few large NT/2000 servers, using Citrix Metaframe, and using the metaframe client in linux. This allows you to permit launching of various NT-only apps from the linux desktop.
SQL server works fine, until you have to scale it.
Out of sincere curiosity.. why did they go with OS X for servers, and not linux?
Is a proximity mine with a strong magnet not cabable of such a feat in real life? is it not at least somewhat realistic.
I witness Urban Terror - Rommel.. this map has a number of interesting locations that possibly the designer did not intend for people to reach.. but through, say, standing on another player's shoulders, you can reach them. This is not unrealistic.. it simply requires teamwork.
Now.. using the shotgun to 'launch' someone really high... that's not realistic.. but still.
It's exactly this mix of things that can make a good game GREAT. Witness Streetfighter 2... yes, it was well designed... but was everything in it intended? Some of the combinations? The timing that made certain combinations of movements unbeatable? I know in later games they were intentional.... There were also a few 'elite' tricks with a few characters.. essentially bugs in the game, but they simply made it that much more interesting.
I think a realistic game engine MUST allow for things the game designer didn't intend.
Haven't all their games flopped miserably despite all the hype?
This is a serious question, btw...
OH.. no.. not at all.
They simply need an admin who is diligent about applying patches and staying informed.
Why does the CTO or CIO have to be involved? that's rediculous.
Yes. But unless the company charter specifies other goals, profit is king.
All the other 'duties' you mention have to do with the law... not morals. Yes, you have to pay your employees, but of course, you can also lay them off to incrase profits.
Yes, you have to pay your suppliers, but you can always pick a supplier from India who is cheaper to increase profits.
Yes, you can hire out of the community, but unless local law requires it, you can farm the work out to Mexico for a tenth of the price.
You see the point?
I think a lot of people (me included) still get confused regarding the GPL (or other licenses.. but let's talk about the GPL), and open-source projects.
If I start a project to build Gnu-App-X.. and release it, and someone submits some changes to me... and I incorporate those changes into the product.. those changes are not the 'property' of the submitter.. they were given to me, for inclusion in my project. I would guess that I now 'own' the resulting work. I can still re-license if I want. The GPL has nothing to do with this situation, though many probably think it does.
THE GPL only comes into play when someone other than me wants to distribute the software.
First. Anarchy does not mean 'you can do whatever you want'. It just means a lack of centralized law. What is 'acceptable' behavior is determined by those around you, not by the police/government, that's al. Living in an Anarchy does not mean nobody is allowed to interfere with what you are doing.
but it doesn't really change anything. The changes are freely available to the creator anyway, because of the GPL.. he just wants to be informed about them, rather than have to go looking.
Well.... I know in Canada, at least one of the major cable companies (Shaw Cable) who, of course, runs Shaw@HOME, has told customers that it will be continuing service regardless of what happens to @HOME.
Network service will stay.. what will go are the @home specific services: email addresses, website, etc. They are already transitioning existing users, and signing new users up, using @shaw.ca email addresses I believe.
As for DSL.. It's widely available in Canada... and doens't appear to be going bankrupt.. perhaps because it's actually run, for the most part, by our phone companies, not by middlemen (which, if you ask me, is the real problem)
Corporations aren't known for doing the right thing.. becuase it's illegal for them to do so. No, really, it is.
You see, public corporations have a duty to protect the interests of their shareholders. They cannot do something because it's 'right'. IF wha they are doing is legal, and profitable, they cannot go and STOP doing it just because it's not 'right'.
THat's the problem.
I've often thought... what I picture in my house someday (when I get a house) is that there will be a rack in the basement with all my servers, backup, telecom, etc.... and then just lightweight terminals here and there in the house, plus appliances like this one. THAT would be idea.
Some of us like the convenience of something we don't have to fuck with. I fuck with computers all day long.. I just don't have the time to build something to do this. This thing is cheap, looks sharp, and is useful...
You also seem to assume that everyone in the world knows how to mess with an old PC to re-vamp it for there stereo system. I can assure you, they coulnd't be bothered. THey'd much rather drop $300, and set up a share on their Windows PC where all their napster downloads are, and have something their freinds will be jealous of.
Can it handle live streaming.. that's the one thing I'd really like to see in a component like this. I want to be able to listen to shoutcast from the living room.
Or at least, you could. I would suspect that, regardless of what's legal, you probably can't get on a plane without ID since the horrific acts of Sept. 11.
On the books, though, barring any very recent legislation, there is an FAA security directive with very clear and concise instructions on what to do if a passenger cannot or will not show valid ID, or if the ID they show cannot be validated. It says absolutely NOTHING about forbidding them from boarding the aircraft; it only deals with either making sure you thoroughly check all their baggage, or make sure their baggage is only on the plane if they are also on the plane (ie: take it off if they aren't on the plane at takeoff time)
It may actually be illegal to refuse to allow an American citizen to fly on a domestic flight without presenting ID.
Of course.. I'm sure tha'ts been changed recently.
You know.. this is something funny. I love digital.. I love computers, electronics.. all that.
But one thing I really love is my watch. I only wish it was wind-up instead of electric.
It's one of those Navy-Seals Luminox dive watches.. with the tritium gas-lights. Very tough, very robust.. glows in the dark for 25 years.. and it's analog.. jewels and everything.