I just picked up a ultrium 3 tape drive (mine is HP but i think they are all basically the same) and although the drive was costly at nearly 6k we are reaping savings in time. Our data mix allows us to get about 700-750 gig on each tape and it takes under an hour and a half to write each tape.
This might mean that you can find Ultrium 2 drives for cheap now and in my opinion the technology is worth a glance. the tapes are not cheap at around 125-140 per 400/800 cartridge and they do have restrictive humidity requirements same as the DLT family we are all used to and have mostly forgiven but at least you can drop them on concrete and usually not break your bits.
our software solution wouldnt be interesting to a small company (enterprise CA stuff mostly built around TNG and ARCserve 11.5) but if you matched Amanda up with an ultrium 3 you would not be in terrible shape. I am assuming amanda can send at least 4 streams to its tape drives - if not dont get an Ultrium 3 since you wont get the 580gb/hour writes that I am mostly excited about.
what the &^#@%$ were you thinking. Rule #1 of DBA jobs is don't talk about DBA jobs. Now back to the topic - I think people should go be games programmers.
ATX3 was about the only hayes command I ever needed to add to default dial strings. Ignore the dialtone and just dial - if I had any messages then my dial tone was changed and confused the modems.
With my luck lately, I bet i would get a buffer underrun and my 1 play would end up creating a coaster instead of a copy - doh! I just need to get better at this DVD copying thing but before these 1 play DVDs I had never needed to copy a disk. oh well:)
>> That's it? There were more grammar and spelling errors than in the average 3rd-grader's first book report.
The above text was almost inscrutable to me at first. I found that if you put in the missing space after the question mark and generously avoid fussing about the unnecessary hyphenation the posting decrypts into:
>> That's it? There were more grammar and spelling errors than in the average 3rd grader's first book report.
Which is interesting and I am glad I took the time to understand his point.
True, but O'Reilly publishes books that benefit greatly from searchability and electronic access. I think Google is not looking to limit their scope to reference and technical material.
The access to literature this will bring is double edged; searchability will make the entire published works of man into some kind of uber cliffs notes. In the end there will still be those that understand what Melville was writing and those that read a book about fighting a whale.
The robots won't help train doctors in good bedside presence and patient communication. "Its inoperable, i'm sorry - You have a month to live, at most." verses "This unit is hosed, the permission bits are screwed up and its down to 18% - i'm sorry."
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I just picked up a ultrium 3 tape drive (mine is HP but i think they are all basically the same) and although the drive was costly at nearly 6k we are reaping savings in time. Our data mix allows us to get about 700-750 gig on each tape and it takes under an hour and a half to write each tape.
This might mean that you can find Ultrium 2 drives for cheap now and in my opinion the technology is worth a glance. the tapes are not cheap at around 125-140 per 400/800 cartridge and they do have restrictive humidity requirements same as the DLT family we are all used to and have mostly forgiven but at least you can drop them on concrete and usually not break your bits.
our software solution wouldnt be interesting to a small company (enterprise CA stuff mostly built around TNG and ARCserve 11.5) but if you matched Amanda up with an ultrium 3 you would not be in terrible shape. I am assuming amanda can send at least 4 streams to its tape drives - if not dont get an Ultrium 3 since you wont get the 580gb/hour writes that I am mostly excited about.
what the &^#@%$ were you thinking. Rule #1 of DBA jobs is don't talk about DBA jobs. Now back to the topic - I think people should go be games programmers.
ATX3 was about the only hayes command I ever needed to add to default dial strings. Ignore the dialtone and just dial - if I had any messages then my dial tone was changed and confused the modems.
With my luck lately, I bet i would get a buffer underrun and my 1 play would end up creating a coaster instead of a copy - doh! I just need to get better at this DVD copying thing but before these 1 play DVDs I had never needed to copy a disk. oh well :)
>> That's it? There were more grammar and spelling errors than in the average 3rd-grader's first book report.
The above text was almost inscrutable to me at first. I found that if you put in the missing space after the question mark and generously avoid fussing about the unnecessary hyphenation the posting decrypts into:
>> That's it? There were more grammar and spelling errors than in the average 3rd grader's first book report.
Which is interesting and I am glad I took the time to understand his point.
True, but O'Reilly publishes books that benefit greatly from searchability and electronic access. I think Google is not looking to limit their scope to reference and technical material.
The access to literature this will bring is double edged; searchability will make the entire published works of man into some kind of uber cliffs notes. In the end there will still be those that understand what Melville was writing and those that read a book about fighting a whale.
The robots won't help train doctors in good bedside presence and patient communication. "Its inoperable, i'm sorry - You have a month to live, at most."
verses "This unit is hosed, the permission bits are screwed up and its down to 18% - i'm sorry."
Excited missionaries are pulling out their cold weather gear.