OK what part of the broadcast industry gets to send a signal into my house that may or may not have adverse affects to me do people dont understand. It's invaded my property bring back the old school pre 80's it comes into your yard you can do whatever you want with it except rebroadcast it. I want to be able to record edit and generaly mess with broadcast TV my toaster should be able to display CNN on it's side while toasting my bagle while skipping commercials (saying you must watch them is like saying you must read every banner ad and billboard we going to get arrested for not reading our spam?) Guess what if your a company using advertising to pay for your product then either deal with it design a better way (product ad placement in TV may be effective) I'm going to skip the commercials when I feel like it. Streaming video on demand with targeted advertisign may be years down the road (I made one of those anybody remember Microcast?) but people dont want all that hardware yet. DVR's are pretty close to that now I'm ammazed that nobody hasent made the "free" DVR that inserts it's own commercials in that it downloads at 4am from some obscure channel. Advertizing is worth more the less that there is of it less ad space means higher price per ad and happier consumers the networks dont get it reduce the ad count and jack the prices and they will pay.
I'll second that I have been playing with several USB 2.0 and Firewire to IDE briges and USB transfer rates are abismal. But lets remember firewire was braught to us by apple land of get it right the first time (remember these guys had SCSI drives in all there machines since the SE) USB is a hack at best and designed for the cheap as posible to implement croud. IDE was allways a cheap bus the only thing it has going for it is the vast ammounts of price bloat on the SCSI side. Firewire is just SCSI over a fast serial connection and in reality just a slow version of FCAL (ok not entirly there are some technical differences FCAL is significatly better but at a huge price point comparitivly it should be the new storage standard for servers) Granted with this all said neither is fast enough for a modestly fast hard drive to not see it as a bottleneck but trust me put you noisy fan loaded PC in your closet/basement run some quality KVM extensions USB firewire and sound (SPDIF of course:) up to your work area use a USB floppy and Firewire CDR/DVD and you have a nice nearly noiseless envirnment when you not activly accessing a disk with all the comferts of home (get a remote for the power switch X10 works well if your running windows for those hard reboots:)
Hrm there is a much easier solution to this problem FCAL drives and a decent switch will allow certine HBA's to see the drive(s) as RO and others to see it as RW. On the higher level you still have to deal with a filesystem thats RO and hases changes happening (weird inode table issues) windows REALY dosent like this happening. Now with all this said there is little to stop somebody from unmounting the partition and putting up other data on the web servers RW partitions. This custom hardware dosent take into account reliability.
Actualy there lag will increase GigE cards contain buffers (they have to of the poor PC's IRQ system would destabalize the OS at 130k interups a sec) Interupt coalessing is used to just generate an interupt as the buffer is nearly full or a watchdog timer says the oldest data in there is to old. This is the big difference between gigE and say myranet for clusters gige is fast for streaming (And outgoing servers like streamign video) 100bt cards have better latency numbers as they are pretty dumb packet in packet out machines. I do wonder what MTU they will be using 4096 MTU and higher start seeing the numbers realy go up:)
It's a nice thaught that we could all play nice in war. Land mines are a great tool easly deposited via aircraft they act as supplemental forces covering the flanks of an advancing force, acting as a perimiter guard.
Now to get down to reality the best thing to do in the furture would be to utilize the self decaying mines it's reasonable to expect counties to make mines that automaticaly detonate after preprogramed or field set times this keeps the stategic benifit of mines while significantly reducing the post war "excess" mines sure some mines will fail to detonate but if it's very few and far between and a active part of there detonation system you can make a mine that if it dosent detonate it wont go off (long term stable exposives or in the case of preset natualy decaying explosives) Tell the locals they can use the field in 6 months or 6 days whatever the mines are set to go off in.
Hrm last time I checked banthwith from a carrier was still running 200 a month per megabit I severaly doubt that your paying that. Broadband as compared to a T1 is a fallicy it's a modle based on oversubscription to make money becuase consumers generaly arent willing to pay the full costs and the cable co dosent expent them to be 24/7 kaza etc users.
If we had reality in pricing (or the tier 1's would lower there costs to tier 2 but as they are going under I doubt it)
Well they can try and given enough people they will. It's the 9mm toting 7th graders that you have to worry about they will probably miss you (cant hit broad side of a barn at 10 paces) it's any other bystanders that would have to worry about.
Hrm I can see it now a little sign that says this game system will ceace to function in 12 hours to keep kids from stealing them.
Hrm obviously you have never looked at a real SAN. They have multiple FCAL connections that generaly connect up to a large raid controller(s) with gobs of memory (especialy EMC gear 8 gigs of cache is pretty standard) and repending on the ability of the cluster nodes to make data you can further expand those connections.
Now at the same token as FCAL pretty much takes the physical layer for ethernet as it is it would be fairly trivial to get a new line of gear out.
But what this all comes down to is less cables you can run 10 gige connections point ot point as a backbone or one 10gige connection no single peice of commodity hardware would fill that with usefull data.
Your correct that no single drive will eat up ata66 yet (but close think the 50's are here now) What everybody is missing is the difference between home PC and office PC drives vs server and workstation drives.
Home Drives are supposed to be relitivly quiet deal with a wide range of temperature and heat fluxuations and be acceptly fast.
Server drives generaly are looking for lower latency rather than raw speed. Latency makes a HUGE difference in multiple user setups (No you linux box in your basement that you call a server and supports a few people is not being used as a real server real servers have NIC utilizations in the 70+% range) Speed can allways be gained via making the numbe of channels and drives wider in the RAID servers dont do anything thats no on a RAID includig boot. RAID can increase speed and reliability but latency when you get down to it is a factor of where that bit is when it's requested vs where the head is.
Yes it would save them bandwith ISP's make money on bandwith thus bandwith is scarce as it cost money. Multicast is a great thing and I beleive it's REQUIRED to work in IPv6 and thats one of the reasons it's taking so long. Nobody wants a user with a t1 connection for 1k a month to use up say 30mb a sec in peering bandwith that could cost that ISP real money if they are a tier 2 or below. We as end users want Mcast the streamign peopel want Mcast the top ISP's dont want it going anywhere past there boarders (you cang et mcast connections ot top ISp's it just wont go anywhere from there)
While niether article has anything technical I have worked in this industry for awhile now. I'm going to assume some things first off this is primarly for live streams only or simulated live as a router has no place mucking with vod streams it dosent have the memory to help besides some QOS things. OK now assuming it's live the best way to get the data out is multicast it but unfortunatly the Tier 1 ISP's cant figure out how to bill for Mcast and it dosent reach far enough like past an ISP and nearly never to anything like dialup or broadband it's a college toy. Now insert a router that can take multicast live streams and do a unicast conversion (it's not much harder than nat and just about everything that can load Cisco IOS can run NAT) Now that changes the math on the head end the servers only need to support the stream 1 time and the additional connections for authentication (non scalable multicast as real would term it) this would be a wonderfull thing to the source people and the end user (especialy if the cable head ends can convert back to multicast) and AOL has the size to get the teir 1's to play ball AOL is a huge installed base.
But like I said this is all conjecture on my part. It may just be them whalking the arrowpoint boxes again they are routers of sorts (load ballancers realy) that can accept drive space.
In a pure Unix shop NFS is great for diskless boxen (and about your only choice for some) now if you want to get something done try Coda it rocks there is something about be able to get to your files on the network server on a disconnected laptop and a disk based cache does wonders to migrating network latencys away from the interactive side (read CAD shops)
Lets face it guys not everybody is a gamer people do still have real work to do and lets face it a lot of the nvida stuff out there is about average for clarity and high end connectivity. This card is set right for the low end DTp and the high end corprate people (for those corps that try not to give all there emploies headaches from looking at those blurry intergrated video on tiny monitors)
Personaly I have a rig for productivity a few rigs for games and the laptops for running around. Productivty machines get multiple monitors and nice cards with soso procs and should be nice and quiet. Gaming machines hey if it sounds like a 747 it's ok as long as you cant hear it over the rocket jumps.
It would seem that everybody is assuming for purposes of a legal definition that all networks are clasical hubed Ethernet as far as gathering infomation. In a switched network all packets do not end up at every NIC and lets face it bobody building a modern network is going to utilize hubs if they can avoid it. So you must invasavly tap the trunk of the dataflow to gather the data it is not simple there for you to easedrop. It would seem that this technology is planned to be deployed to tap trunks and then discriminate that data wich as previously stated is not legal. To make a true wiretap this sort of thing would have to be placed on the individuals network connection not so frar upstream as inside the network provider.
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OK what part of the broadcast industry gets to send a signal into my house that may or may not have adverse affects to me do people dont understand. It's invaded my property bring back the old school pre 80's it comes into your yard you can do whatever you want with it except rebroadcast it. I want to be able to record edit and generaly mess with broadcast TV my toaster should be able to display CNN on it's side while toasting my bagle while skipping commercials (saying you must watch them is like saying you must read every banner ad and billboard we going to get arrested for not reading our spam?) Guess what if your a company using advertising to pay for your product then either deal with it design a better way (product ad placement in TV may be effective) I'm going to skip the commercials when I feel like it. Streaming video on demand with targeted advertisign may be years down the road (I made one of those anybody remember Microcast?) but people dont want all that hardware yet. DVR's are pretty close to that now I'm ammazed that nobody hasent made the "free" DVR that inserts it's own commercials in that it downloads at 4am from some obscure channel. Advertizing is worth more the less that there is of it less ad space means higher price per ad and happier consumers the networks dont get it reduce the ad count and jack the prices and they will pay.
I'll second that I have been playing with several USB 2.0 and Firewire to IDE briges and USB transfer rates are abismal. But lets remember firewire was braught to us by apple land of get it right the first time (remember these guys had SCSI drives in all there machines since the SE) USB is a hack at best and designed for the cheap as posible to implement croud. IDE was allways a cheap bus the only thing it has going for it is the vast ammounts of price bloat on the SCSI side. Firewire is just SCSI over a fast serial connection and in reality just a slow version of FCAL (ok not entirly there are some technical differences FCAL is significatly better but at a huge price point comparitivly it should be the new storage standard for servers) Granted with this all said neither is fast enough for a modestly fast hard drive to not see it as a bottleneck but trust me put you noisy fan loaded PC in your closet/basement run some quality KVM extensions USB firewire and sound (SPDIF of course :) up to your work area use a USB floppy and Firewire CDR/DVD and you have a nice nearly noiseless envirnment when you not activly accessing a disk with all the comferts of home (get a remote for the power switch X10 works well if your running windows for those hard reboots :)
Hrm there is a much easier solution to this problem FCAL drives and a decent switch will allow certine HBA's to see the drive(s) as RO and others to see it as RW. On the higher level you still have to deal with a filesystem thats RO and hases changes happening (weird inode table issues) windows REALY dosent like this happening. Now with all this said there is little to stop somebody from unmounting the partition and putting up other data on the web servers RW partitions. This custom hardware dosent take into account reliability.
Actualy there lag will increase GigE cards contain buffers (they have to of the poor PC's IRQ system would destabalize the OS at 130k interups a sec) Interupt coalessing is used to just generate an interupt as the buffer is nearly full or a watchdog timer says the oldest data in there is to old. This is the big difference between gigE and say myranet for clusters gige is fast for streaming (And outgoing servers like streamign video) 100bt cards have better latency numbers as they are pretty dumb packet in packet out machines. I do wonder what MTU they will be using 4096 MTU and higher start seeing the numbers realy go up :)
It's a nice thaught that we could all play nice in war. Land mines are a great tool easly deposited via aircraft they act as supplemental forces covering the flanks of an advancing force, acting as a perimiter guard.
Now to get down to reality the best thing to do in the furture would be to utilize the self decaying mines it's reasonable to expect counties to make mines that automaticaly detonate after preprogramed or field set times this keeps the stategic benifit of mines while significantly reducing the post war "excess" mines sure some mines will fail to detonate but if it's very few and far between and a active part of there detonation system you can make a mine that if it dosent detonate it wont go off (long term stable exposives or in the case of preset natualy decaying explosives) Tell the locals they can use the field in 6 months or 6 days whatever the mines are set to go off in.
Hrm last time I checked banthwith from a carrier was still running 200 a month per megabit I severaly doubt that your paying that. Broadband as compared to a T1 is a fallicy it's a modle based on oversubscription to make money becuase consumers generaly arent willing to pay the full costs and the cable co dosent expent them to be 24/7 kaza etc users.
If we had reality in pricing (or the tier 1's would lower there costs to tier 2 but as they are going under I doubt it)
Well they can try and given enough people they will. It's the 9mm toting 7th graders that you have to worry about they will probably miss you (cant hit broad side of a barn at 10 paces) it's any other bystanders that would have to worry about.
Hrm I can see it now a little sign that says this game system will ceace to function in 12 hours to keep kids from stealing them.
Hrm obviously you have never looked at a real SAN. They have multiple FCAL connections that generaly connect up to a large raid controller(s) with gobs of memory (especialy EMC gear 8 gigs of cache is pretty standard) and repending on the ability of the cluster nodes to make data you can further expand those connections.
Now at the same token as FCAL pretty much takes the physical layer for ethernet as it is it would be fairly trivial to get a new line of gear out.
But what this all comes down to is less cables you can run 10 gige connections point ot point as a backbone or one 10gige connection no single peice of commodity hardware would fill that with usefull data.
Your correct that no single drive will eat up ata66 yet (but close think the 50's are here now) What everybody is missing is the difference between home PC and office PC drives vs server and workstation drives.
Home Drives are supposed to be relitivly quiet deal with a wide range of temperature and heat fluxuations and be acceptly fast.
Server drives generaly are looking for lower latency rather than raw speed. Latency makes a HUGE difference in multiple user setups (No you linux box in your basement that you call a server and supports a few people is not being used as a real server real servers have NIC utilizations in the 70+% range) Speed can allways be gained via making the numbe of channels and drives wider in the RAID servers dont do anything thats no on a RAID includig boot. RAID can increase speed and reliability but latency when you get down to it is a factor of where that bit is when it's requested vs where the head is.
Yes it would save them bandwith ISP's make money on bandwith thus bandwith is scarce as it cost money. Multicast is a great thing and I beleive it's REQUIRED to work in IPv6 and thats one of the reasons it's taking so long. Nobody wants a user with a t1 connection for 1k a month to use up say 30mb a sec in peering bandwith that could cost that ISP real money if they are a tier 2 or below. We as end users want Mcast the streamign peopel want Mcast the top ISP's dont want it going anywhere past there boarders (you cang et mcast connections ot top ISp's it just wont go anywhere from there)
While niether article has anything technical I have worked in this industry for awhile now. I'm going to assume some things first off this is primarly for live streams only or simulated live as a router has no place mucking with vod streams it dosent have the memory to help besides some QOS things. OK now assuming it's live the best way to get the data out is multicast it but unfortunatly the Tier 1 ISP's cant figure out how to bill for Mcast and it dosent reach far enough like past an ISP and nearly never to anything like dialup or broadband it's a college toy. Now insert a router that can take multicast live streams and do a unicast conversion (it's not much harder than nat and just about everything that can load Cisco IOS can run NAT) Now that changes the math on the head end the servers only need to support the stream 1 time and the additional connections for authentication (non scalable multicast as real would term it) this would be a wonderfull thing to the source people and the end user (especialy if the cable head ends can convert back to multicast) and AOL has the size to get the teir 1's to play ball AOL is a huge installed base.
But like I said this is all conjecture on my part. It may just be them whalking the arrowpoint boxes again they are routers of sorts (load ballancers realy) that can accept drive space.
In a pure Unix shop NFS is great for diskless boxen (and about your only choice for some) now if you want to get something done try Coda it rocks there is something about be able to get to your files on the network server on a disconnected laptop and a disk based cache does wonders to migrating network latencys away from the interactive side (read CAD shops)
Lets face it guys not everybody is a gamer people do still have real work to do and lets face it a lot of the nvida stuff out there is about average for clarity and high end connectivity. This card is set right for the low end DTp and the high end corprate people (for those corps that try not to give all there emploies headaches from looking at those blurry intergrated video on tiny monitors)
Personaly I have a rig for productivity a few rigs for games and the laptops for running around. Productivty machines get multiple monitors and nice cards with soso procs and should be nice and quiet. Gaming machines hey if it sounds like a 747 it's ok as long as you cant hear it over the rocket jumps.
It would seem that everybody is assuming for purposes of a legal definition that all networks are clasical hubed Ethernet as far as gathering infomation. In a switched network all packets do not end up at every NIC and lets face it bobody building a modern network is going to utilize hubs if they can avoid it. So you must invasavly tap the trunk of the dataflow to gather the data it is not simple there for you to easedrop. It would seem that this technology is planned to be deployed to tap trunks and then discriminate that data wich as previously stated is not legal. To make a true wiretap this sort of thing would have to be placed on the individuals network connection not so frar upstream as inside the network provider.