A common mistake in multi-server builds is that bandwidth is free.
Bandwidth Costs Money and Time. Both are reduced by having the network closer to the processing. This is one of the reasons google bought all that "dark fiber" left around after the.com bust.
Another flaw is that computation of data is difficult to provide "good results" in blocks unless they're doing relativity matrices (Think PageRank).
Something to think about: If I'm sending names to your pc, what can I derive from that list without having the entire list?
I'll try to answer your question without the key info needed: "What is the data your modeling?"
You're on the right track...
Either way, from experience i'd say you're answer is "this just one of those situations where customization has to fill a gap"
Be warned though, out of the box solutions do exactly what's on the box. Anything else is going to be modeled by you, or customized (usually at a high rate), by the vendor.
At the end of the day, I like using my own custom solution. And by the fact that you're familiar with Ruby (I checked out your site), I'd say you're on the right track already.
In NYC my 1st Gen iPhone has become unusable. It's so obvious I'm glad someone else is noticing.
- Pandora for the iPhone used to work, now it doesn't (Too slow). - Loading map searches on google maps takes a minute plus.
The constants are my apt location and my desk location at work. I haven't changed a thing, but the network has definitely slowed down with the same "signal strength"/Bars.
I have a similar site that I wrote (pre-audioscrobbler). Granted it's crap, but I have mountains of data also. Closer to 1 tb than hundreds of tb. The question is, how do you monetize the data?
I just don't see how this data is "worth" 200 million bucks. I have some amazing algorithms to do similar cleaning, caching, and recommendations, but still what is that worth?
This is a fairly legit question. If you can figure it out, I can explain to my wife why I have 3 servers in my closet.
I've been looking for some good cheap or open source security camera software for a while now.
It seems this would be a common need: 1. Stream from a simple cheap Webcam & PC setup (Assumed to be stolen in the actual break-in) 2. Record the stream remotely, this would be kept on my home PC w/a big cheap hd. Days of data would be deleted as needed.
One problem is that most software that streams goes out of its way to make it impossible to save the data.
You would think that this would be easier to find.
I just got a tivo a month ago based on everyone's rave reviews.
Frankly, I'm hugely disappointed in that every new "Feature" is just another way for me to buy more stuff.
- Podcasts!: Want to get the ones worth watching? You have to upgrade the pc software for 30 bucks. - Amazon Unbox!: Wow. Now I can buy an old movie that HBO won't even bother showing. - Now this: Amazon Unbox 2.0: Now I can fight the slow menus to buy a book. I can use that book to read during the long pauses between when I select an option and when they show up on the screen.
I also hate the fact that I can't watch tv while using the slow as hell menu. I've found it's faster to go to their slow flash-based website and schedule a show than use the menu on the TV.
I just wanted to say, I've loved reading you for the last few years. I'm sure I clicked on an ad or two to make up for it. I just can't stand the duplicates, unjust bias, and inability for the site to "grow up."
We're just not the same anymore. I don't have time for linux. have a job. I have money to buy a new pc when my old one breaks. I just don't agree with 90% of what you say anymore.
"Roughly 450,000 people read it, and they represent a young, affluent and savvy demographic."
The Metro is handed out before you get on the Subway in the morning. This is how they get the 450k. NO ONE takes it outside of the subway. I would be embarassed to be seen with one.
"Young" - This I agree on. Odds are good on this.
"Affluent" - Not really, it's the subway. The affluent, switch-my office-to-this-software, don't live in the city. They will just buy MS Office with their Dell, or get it from their office.
"savvy" - Maybe, but these are the same people that buy macs, ipods, and OFFICE with their Dells because they don't want to deal with installing.
This is new york, don't waste my time when I can just buy a quick solution.
My mother lives on the northeast shore of Lake Ponchartrain. Power is being restored there without a problem. Traffic is hours for what took 20 minutes. So bring gas.
Also, Slidell got hit so hard there's nothing to recover. It all was blown into the lake. People don't know how bad slidell was really hit. The news didn't show anything, because there was nothing to show... It's all gone. And the lake washed over it.
I would recommend Gas, a chainsaw, some rope, and pain killers. My house had a tree on it, my step-father's house WAS in slidell. Nothing found but 1 pontoon of my pontoon boat, 6 miles away.
Seems like the average economics student could figure out this is bullshit.
Supply of msft admins = high Supply of non-msft admins = low
Replacing all msft admins with the low # of non-msft admins = high demand for a low amount of resources.
Which makes the non-msft admins outrageously expensive. Thus, negating the savings...
Seriously, where is the average school in po-dunk Mississippi going to find a quality non-msft admin cheaply when a drop-out could do msft administration?
Slashdot Mirror
Story Length: 86 words
Slashdot Summary: 111 words
System: TI-85
Location: In Class, 7-12th grade.
It was still more fun than paying attention.
Most PEOPLE stated they won't TRY A NEW OPERATING SYSTEM for A year BECAUSE THEY THINK IT won't WORK with their software...
I don't know, this _is_ anti-obama... Ahem...
If only GOOGLE had a way to search your DESKTOP, that would be perfect.
I'm watching tv right now. I hope it's ok... I just read it's dying.
A common mistake in multi-server builds is that bandwidth is free.
Bandwidth Costs Money and Time. Both are reduced by having the network closer to the processing. This is one of the reasons google bought all that "dark fiber" left around after the .com bust.
Another flaw is that computation of data is difficult to provide "good results" in blocks unless they're doing relativity matrices (Think PageRank).
Something to think about:
If I'm sending names to your pc, what can I derive from that list without having the entire list?
I'll try to answer your question without the key info needed: "What is the data your modeling?"
You're on the right track...
Either way, from experience i'd say you're answer is "this just one of those situations where customization has to fill a gap"
Be warned though, out of the box solutions do exactly what's on the box. Anything else is going to be modeled by you, or customized (usually at a high rate), by the vendor.
That being said, I've used oracles' solution http://www.oracle.com/solutions/business_intelligence/index.html for financial data (10TB data), and used my own solution to my music recommendation database http://www.egusta.com/ (43gb Data).
At the end of the day, I like using my own custom solution. And by the fact that you're familiar with Ruby (I checked out your site), I'd say you're on the right track already.
Anyone else read the headline and think
"Finally, a new/good keyboard for the EEE netbook."
In NYC my 1st Gen iPhone has become unusable. It's so obvious I'm glad someone else is noticing.
- Pandora for the iPhone used to work, now it doesn't (Too slow).
- Loading map searches on google maps takes a minute plus.
The constants are my apt location and my desk location at work. I haven't changed a thing, but the network has definitely slowed down with the same "signal strength"/Bars.
I have a similar site that I wrote (pre-audioscrobbler). Granted it's crap, but I have mountains of data also. Closer to 1 tb than hundreds of tb. The question is, how do you monetize the data?
I just don't see how this data is "worth" 200 million bucks. I have some amazing algorithms to do similar cleaning, caching, and recommendations, but still what is that worth?
This is a fairly legit question. If you can figure it out, I can explain to my wife why I have 3 servers in my closet.
I've been looking for some good cheap or open source security camera software for a while now.
It seems this would be a common need:
1. Stream from a simple cheap Webcam & PC setup (Assumed to be stolen in the actual break-in)
2. Record the stream remotely, this would be kept on my home PC w/a big cheap hd. Days of data would be deleted as needed.
One problem is that most software that streams goes out of its way to make it impossible to save the data.
You would think that this would be easier to find.
I just got a tivo a month ago based on everyone's rave reviews.
Frankly, I'm hugely disappointed in that every new "Feature" is just another way for me to buy more stuff.
- Podcasts!: Want to get the ones worth watching? You have to upgrade the pc software for 30 bucks.
- Amazon Unbox!: Wow. Now I can buy an old movie that HBO won't even bother showing.
- Now this: Amazon Unbox 2.0: Now I can fight the slow menus to buy a book. I can use that book to read during the long pauses between when I select an option and when they show up on the screen.
I also hate the fact that I can't watch tv while using the slow as hell menu. I've found it's faster to go to their slow flash-based website and schedule a show than use the menu on the TV.
I changed it to "SlashN0t" That's a Zero.
Have at it
Dear Slashdot,
I just wanted to say, I've loved reading you for the last few years. I'm sure I clicked on an ad or two to make up for it. I just can't stand the duplicates, unjust bias, and inability for the site to "grow up."
We're just not the same anymore. I don't have time for linux. have a job. I have money to buy a new pc when my old one breaks. I just don't agree with 90% of what you say anymore.
It's been great,
-Clinko
"Roughly 450,000 people read it, and they represent a young, affluent and savvy demographic."
The Metro is handed out before you get on the Subway in the morning. This is how they get the 450k. NO ONE takes it outside of the subway. I would be embarassed to be seen with one.
"Young" - This I agree on. Odds are good on this.
"Affluent" - Not really, it's the subway. The affluent, switch-my office-to-this-software, don't live in the city. They will just buy MS Office with their Dell, or get it from their office.
"savvy" - Maybe, but these are the same people that buy macs, ipods, and OFFICE with their Dells because they don't want to deal with installing.
This is new york, don't waste my time when I can just buy a quick solution.
I've been using Clinko for years.
:)
In fact, I wrote it
I wrote Clinko Music to do this a few years ago with itunes & Winamp and actively update it.
Give it a try. It's pretty kool.
I don't like this story. Only if there were a method where everyone could vote on good stories.
No Digg.
The problem with the .NET Framework is that it has to be installed on the PC for any .NET apps to work (Seems obvious, but that's the catch...)
.NET framework. (This was the same in 1.0 vs. 1.1)
All XP SP2 Machines have 1.1 finally, so I can make an app and distribute it easily now...
Because of this, your best bet is to always program in the previous version of the
I'll be excited about the 2.0 release in about 3 years, when Vista is on a good share of PCs...
My mother lives on the northeast shore of Lake Ponchartrain. Power is being restored there without a problem. Traffic is hours for what took 20 minutes. So bring gas.
Also, Slidell got hit so hard there's nothing to recover. It all was blown into the lake. People don't know how bad slidell was really hit. The news didn't show anything, because there was nothing to show... It's all gone. And the lake washed over it.
I would recommend Gas, a chainsaw, some rope, and pain killers. My house had a tree on it, my step-father's house WAS in slidell. Nothing found but 1 pontoon of my pontoon boat, 6 miles away.
Not surprisingly, it doesn't work unless you're in that area :)
Here is a link to a CNN article about it.
I managed to grab a mirror with images here: Oil Computer
Seems like the average economics student could figure out this is bullshit.
Supply of msft admins = high
Supply of non-msft admins = low
Replacing all msft admins with the low # of non-msft admins = high demand for a low amount of resources.
Which makes the non-msft admins outrageously expensive. Thus, negating the savings...
Seriously, where is the average school in po-dunk Mississippi going to find a quality non-msft admin cheaply when a drop-out could do msft administration?
I'm giving myself a self inflicted prefetch denial of service attack by including:
Then including my url which you should see double underlined here: Clinko!