IIRC all compact flash cards have an ATA interface anyway, so really, we are already there in terms of hardware. Just need to stick a little bracket in the front panel, and make sure the software knows that the ATA drives are hot swappable.
You know, John Stossel should run for office under the Libertarian party. He reaches enough old people by being on 20/20, and mostly old people vote....
Why do people in industries with strict uptime or reliability requirements always act holier-than-thou about the whole issue, as if their way is the only right way?
Not all companies need five 9's. Not all companies lose much money if data or systems are not available for a short time. In fact, I'd say it's the majority of companies that fall into that category.
Extreme reliability and availability are extremely expensive. For most companies, it's not worth it.
I agree with you, Large ATA RAID probably isn't for your industry, it's not right for everyone. It does work fine for lots of people though. I expect to see it cover much of the 5TB range of near-line backups in the next few years.
They probably didn't think they would recoup the investment in packaging and boxes and distribution, support, etc, etc that making the game retail would require.
It's better they do this, than the standard option in a situation like this, just shelving the game and never releasing anything.
Why waste 802.11b spectrum on voice communications? There are already many chunks of spectrum available for voice communications, but very little available for unlicensed digital use.
That's what I don't get, it isn't DRM if you don't have secret keys that are embeddeded the in the binary, and also secret algorithms to hide those keys, etc, etc. Otherwise, there is nothing to stop the end user from just decrypting the data and copying it all they want.
Wow, you are not just not a lawyer, you also don't seem to have a very good grasp on technology.
Google has complete knowledge that they are facilitating crimes(ie, copyright violation, intellectual theft, etc.)
Google is doing nothing to stop said crime.
Google is ENCOURAGING said crime by promoting their business as(surprise!) a search engine service, even going as far as copying whole copyrighted web sites onto their own servers and then making them available to the public.
Google has probably all been told as much by their lawyers and charged ahead regardless.... So, I guess in your world everything is black and white, but in the real world, everything is a shade of grey.
2 minutes between postings on any 1 story = OK. 2 minutes between postings on different stories != OK.
Yeah, no shit. I mean, when someone goes to pick up their messages from the message system, they usually reply to all their replies all at once. I guess Taco et al must type about 5 wpm so he doesn't notice how obnoxious the system is.
Or one could read the article.:) She said much of what she does is rescue data caused by several severe Borland Interbase bugs, bugs that aren't in Firebird.
No one is going to take your challenge, because there is nothing on the site that indicates the site owners consent to such action. No one is going to risk being sued to win $100.
I read the article, I just misunderstood it. It was a poorly written article.
The hope is that gene therapy might offer an alternative to another promising but still rare treatment which is undergoing trials in Britain. This involves transplanting cells from other people's pancreases into patients. But patients, even if freed from insulin injections, would have to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives and there is a shortage of potential donors.
Pretty much, and it pisses me off. There are about 5 projects, all in alpha or beta. There is still no official replication, and definitely no production quality replication.
I've decided I'm just going to have to write an abstraction layer for all database operations that will implement replication.
Previously, I just did an automated dump/import every hour to the mirrored DB, which is obviously less than optimal. Also, this eventually trashed the mirrored DB (don't know why).
That's true, but really, tapes don't have much on high end ATA these days. The biggest tapes only run about the same size as the biggest ATA drives, and the tapes require a $2500-$3000 tape drive to work. Even if it did make sense price wise, do you really want to wait 10 minutes to get that file you don't use very often? Or 20 minutes if someone else requests another file that was on the same tape before you?
To me, tape has really lost it's edge. It's not much more reliable than an ATA drive (in my experience with DLT robots and DAT), it's sequential, slow, and it costs a hell of a lot more than an ATA drive.
Only situation I see is if you have massive archives that you very rarely need data from (so you can leverage the higher price of the tape drives vs. the lower cost per MB of the tape itslf). This would be the case in something like bank transaction record keeping and applications like that.
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IIRC all compact flash cards have an ATA interface anyway, so really, we are already there in terms of hardware. Just need to stick a little bracket in the front panel, and make sure the software knows that the ATA drives are hot swappable.
That was supposed to say <5TB but I forgot to entity it.
You know, John Stossel should run for office under the Libertarian party. He reaches enough old people by being on 20/20, and mostly old people vote....
Most file formats are already compressed these days, so call that what it is, 500GB.
Also, searching around mostly shows press releases, very little actual product. Do you know what the MSRP is going to be on the drives/libraries?
Why do people in industries with strict uptime or reliability requirements always act holier-than-thou about the whole issue, as if their way is the only right way?
Not all companies need five 9's. Not all companies lose much money if data or systems are not available for a short time. In fact, I'd say it's the majority of companies that fall into that category.
Extreme reliability and availability are extremely expensive. For most companies, it's not worth it.
I agree with you, Large ATA RAID probably isn't for your industry, it's not right for everyone. It does work fine for lots of people though. I expect to see it cover much of the 5TB range of near-line backups in the next few years.
What are you talking about? How exactly does it use 802.11b without using spectrum?
Where can we get these magical TB tapes again?
They probably didn't think they would recoup the investment in packaging and boxes and distribution, support, etc, etc that making the game retail would require.
It's better they do this, than the standard option in a situation like this, just shelving the game and never releasing anything.
Why waste 802.11b spectrum on voice communications? There are already many chunks of spectrum available for voice communications, but very little available for unlicensed digital use.
That's what I don't get, it isn't DRM if you don't have secret keys that are embeddeded the in the binary, and also secret algorithms to hide those keys, etc, etc. Otherwise, there is nothing to stop the end user from just decrypting the data and copying it all they want.
Whatever Linus is supporting here, it isn't DRM.
not really, more like a few milliseconds
I guess we should really come up with some standard system for measurement in news articles, the JI (Journalist Idiots) System of measurement.
Time - camera flashs
Small physical size - human hairs
Large information - Library of congresses
Meteor size - VW Bugs
Any more?
Oh, I thought we were talking about watermarks on tracks from physical CDs, due to the last part of the original message which was about physical CDs.
Do you really think two MP3s compressed with two different ripping programs are going to be bit for bit identical?
Don't worry, the recently passed RAVE act will put an end to all clubbing.
Can you get a tattoo on your wrist of a snake eating its tail that will tell you when your quicksil... uh bloodsugar is low?
Wow, you are not just not a lawyer, you also don't seem to have a very good grasp on technology.
...
Google has complete knowledge that they are facilitating crimes(ie, copyright violation, intellectual theft, etc.)
Google is doing nothing to stop said crime.
Google is ENCOURAGING said crime by promoting their business as(surprise!) a search engine service, even going as far as copying whole copyrighted web sites onto their own servers and then making them available to the public.
Google has probably all been told as much by their lawyers and charged ahead regardless.
So, I guess in your world everything is black and white, but in the real world, everything is a shade of grey.
2 minutes between postings on any 1 story = OK. 2 minutes between postings on different stories != OK.
Yeah, no shit. I mean, when someone goes to pick up their messages from the message system, they usually reply to all their replies all at once. I guess Taco et al must type about 5 wpm so he doesn't notice how obnoxious the system is.
Crashes Opera 6.11 linux on each page load.
And they even admit that their readers probably include Linux users!
(to their defense, it might be weird javascript coming from some of their obnoxious ads)
switching over to ...sodium methoxide
Why? NaOH is incredibly cheap, and not too difficult to handle, at least as long as you keep it dry until you are ready to use it.
Or one could read the article. :) She said much of what she does is rescue data caused by several severe Borland Interbase bugs, bugs that aren't in Firebird.
No one is going to take your challenge, because there is nothing on the site that indicates the site owners consent to such action. No one is going to risk being sued to win $100.
Don't forget there's also nonfree as in BSD.
I read the article, I just misunderstood it. It was a poorly written article.
The hope is that gene therapy might offer an alternative to another promising but still rare treatment which is undergoing trials in Britain. This involves transplanting cells from other people's pancreases into patients. But patients, even if freed from insulin injections, would have to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their lives and there is a shortage of potential donors.
Replication is working. Kind of. (no details)
Pretty much, and it pisses me off. There are about 5 projects, all in alpha or beta. There is still no official replication, and definitely no production quality replication.
I've decided I'm just going to have to write an abstraction layer for all database operations that will implement replication.
Previously, I just did an automated dump/import every hour to the mirrored DB, which is obviously less than optimal. Also, this eventually trashed the mirrored DB (don't know why).
That's true, but really, tapes don't have much on high end ATA these days. The biggest tapes only run about the same size as the biggest ATA drives, and the tapes require a $2500-$3000 tape drive to work. Even if it did make sense price wise, do you really want to wait 10 minutes to get that file you don't use very often? Or 20 minutes if someone else requests another file that was on the same tape before you?
To me, tape has really lost it's edge. It's not much more reliable than an ATA drive (in my experience with DLT robots and DAT), it's sequential, slow, and it costs a hell of a lot more than an ATA drive.
Only situation I see is if you have massive archives that you very rarely need data from (so you can leverage the higher price of the tape drives vs. the lower cost per MB of the tape itslf). This would be the case in something like bank transaction record keeping and applications like that.