5.4% worldwide was the increase in their market share. The first link never mentions their actual worldwide marketshare percentage. The 2.0% in the second link is their actual worldwide marketshare percentage in 2006. You're not comparing them properly.
Or, have you ever heard a group of boys ages 11-14 play Halo? Yikes!!
My friends and I (all 26-28) routinely play Mario Kart Double Dash, and get *way* into it. So much so that a) little kids don't want to play with us because we "race too mean", and b) I've used a *lot* of language I wouldn't want my mother to hear me use. We are extremely competitive, and social pecking order is somewhat determined by video game prowess.
Yeah, I got to the point where it said developers listen to primarily Megadeth and Iron Maiden right as I transitioned from Maiden's Aces High to Megadeth's Tornado of Souls. "Hey, look at me! I'm a geek stereotype!"
That's the way most people do big backups: Snapshot of the LUNs, then spool the snapshots off to tape. Meanwhile, the original is brought back on-line and service resumes. If you are using space-efficient snapshots (I.E., a small space is allocated for the snapshot, and the controller knows to copy out any blocks before they're changed, otherwise point to the original blocks), you could snap those and run incrementals on those. No big copy process on the disks, and you can spool off your small incremental set.
In that case, I think we're on the same page. For under a TB, especially if it's not a lot of hosts to back up, I'd go with hard drives, too. It's hard to make an argument for tapes with backup sets that small.
Now, for 90PB, I think we'd both have a hard time finding a HD-based solution that would be anywhere near the price/performance of tape.
Tape especially DAT drives give most bang for the buck.
For SOHO businesses, I'd agree -- DAT all the way. The tapes are pretty damn cheap, and widely available. The only possible sticking point could be the cost of the drive, but when you contrast the price of under $2K (for the drive/autoloader) with the cost of a server crash/storage loss, it looks like a good investment real quick.
Right, except that if you have a good backup strategy, you've got a lot of media to deal with. You want (copies of) your backups to be stored offsite, so the ideal way is to have one medium for each day. Then you need a retention policy for how far back you want to keep your backups, so you will need that many weeks times the media per day. You're handwaving at the low cost of the bay and trays, but you neglect the cost of the hard drive itself. Also, tapes are extremely rugged and will survive harsher environments than hard drives.
Basically, if you don't have at least a TB of data to back up consistently, HDs may be a better choice. For anything bigger that I wanted to have decent restore options for, it's tapes for me.
Plus, since they should be taking backups offsite, backup-to-disk requires either a) easily removable disks, that can be reliably catalogued (so that you know what's on what disk), or b) a high-speed link to an offsite storage system (which can be muy expensivo).
Because they track how many ads are served up per day, and how many ads get click-throughs. When that count is high, they can charge an awful lot for ads. If 3 people are looking at ads, and no one's clicking through, then there's no leverage for them to charge high prices for ad space.
For the record, I am American, but this gives me a chance to relate my favorite beer-related joke (told to me by a German).
Q: How is American beer like two people having sex on the beach?
A: They're both fucking close to water.
There are some people in this country who do appreciate good beer, but the overwhelming majority do think that the beer world begins and ends with *shudder* Bud Light. Blargh.
True enough. The fact that a) there are very few road courses in a NASCAR season, and b) they are always won by one of the 5 guys who did road racing before NASCAR makes it sort of boring.
It is fun, though, to watch someone who 0wnz0rs a circle track spin out in the dirt because he didn't know how to turn right.
It's like Comedy Central bleeping "homo" in the Excuses, Excuses, Excuses, Excuses 98 commercial. Was fine to play on Fox, but not on basic cable (on the network that allows South Park to say anything they want).
The worst explanation I've heard was from a cow-orker at a helpdesk where I worked. Now, at *company*, we had field people who would drive around in their cars all day with laptops. To communicate with the home office, they had Research In Motion (RIM) modems that would connect through the ether and pull up info from our central office. One of the interesting quirks was that the software was hardcoded to look for this thing on COM3. Of course, *most* of the time, Windows would put it on COM3. Other times, they'd call us.
Of course, there were multiple tricks to get it set to COM3 (removing a serial port and re-detecting it, etc.) but the best resolution I heard was from the guy across the row: "What's it say? COM1? Keep driving around until it finds COM3."
Masterful? Incompetence? Or a beautiful combination of the two?
The best one I've heard involved a friend of mine who worked for *nameless insurance company*. They had software that they'd send out to their agents to do rate calculations, and my friend supported this. Now, most insurance agents can barely run their business, let alone their computers, so he ran into lots of screwed-up networks. On one particular call, he had the guy do something (legitimate part of a fix) that would take an hour or two, so he followed protocol and had the guy call back into the queue when he was finished. My friend proceeded to log the details into the trouble ticket database: OS, software version, and a note saying, "network is FUBAR".
So, Mr. Agent calls back and gets someone else. Helpdesk jockey #2 is trying to do his job, and had obviously never run into this acronym, so he starts reading back the ticket details. "Okay, I see you're running Windows 95, you've got version X of our software, and you're on a FUBAR network." The caller goes ballistic: "WHAT? I know what that means! How dare you say that to me?!?!"
Long story short(er), this was at least 3.5 years ago. However, this tale has spread so far throughout that helpdesk that I meet people who work there, and (after a couple beers), I invariably hear this story. Then I get to tell them, "Yeah, I went to college with the guy that put that in the ticket."
I'm sure I'm not the only one willing to bet my life savings that this type of thing will only raise rates.
You're crazy. This is just like when we got CDs and DVDs. They were more expensive at first, but once they got the manufacturing issues worked out, the prices came down just as promised.
Go have a chat with the owner of your local homebrew supply store, and s/he will tell you what you need to make whatever kind of beer want.
Well, right. Unless you want to make a lager. In which case, you need a fridge/freezer set damn-ass cold, space for said device, and power to make the whole thing cold. If this is electrically more efficient, this could be the answer to my lagering prayers!
And FWIW, I do swear by Wyeast's shampoo-style bottles of yeast. Proofing, my ass!
(Disclaimer: I am a casual-at-best homebrewer. I believe the info below to be basically correct, but I am sure true zymurgists could crucify me on details. Please don't. I'm delicate.)
Well, for the most part you're right. I ferment my ales for about 1 week in my primary fermenter, 1 week in my glass carboy, and 2 weeks in the bottles (for CO2 generation), all at about 60F. However, lagers are kept in cold storage after primary fermentation for weeks or months. During this time (where the beer is kept quite cold), the yeast is mostly inactive, but the flavor mellows and evens out. Eventually, you get that crisp, clean flavor evident in lagers like Heineken, St. Pauli Girl, and other German Lager-style beers (yes, I know Heineken isn't made in Germany).
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Um, then what? The police get to just confiscate your car because some "magic box" says so?
No, they investigate it as normal, which may or may not include confiscating your car if there is sufficient evidence. Are you purposely thick?
5.4% worldwide was the increase in their market share. The first link never mentions their actual worldwide marketshare percentage. The 2.0% in the second link is their actual worldwide marketshare percentage in 2006. You're not comparing them properly.
Exactly. It's Adobe's bloatware free reader that's the problem, not the format.
Or, have you ever heard a group of boys ages 11-14 play Halo? Yikes!!
My friends and I (all 26-28) routinely play Mario Kart Double Dash, and get *way* into it. So much so that a) little kids don't want to play with us because we "race too mean", and b) I've used a *lot* of language I wouldn't want my mother to hear me use. We are extremely competitive, and social pecking order is somewhat determined by video game prowess.
We're such nerds.
To steal/paraphrase from Family Guy,
. ...Damn!
Stewie: Well, only one thing to try!
1.1.1.1....Damn!
1.1.1.2....Damn!
1.1.1.3
1.1.1.4....Damn!
etc.
Yeah, I got to the point where it said developers listen to primarily Megadeth and Iron Maiden right as I transitioned from Maiden's Aces High to Megadeth's Tornado of Souls. "Hey, look at me! I'm a geek stereotype!"
That's the way most people do big backups: Snapshot of the LUNs, then spool the snapshots off to tape. Meanwhile, the original is brought back on-line and service resumes. If you are using space-efficient snapshots (I.E., a small space is allocated for the snapshot, and the controller knows to copy out any blocks before they're changed, otherwise point to the original blocks), you could snap those and run incrementals on those. No big copy process on the disks, and you can spool off your small incremental set.
Oh. Well then. Carry on!
In that case, I think we're on the same page. For under a TB, especially if it's not a lot of hosts to back up, I'd go with hard drives, too. It's hard to make an argument for tapes with backup sets that small.
Now, for 90PB, I think we'd both have a hard time finding a HD-based solution that would be anywhere near the price/performance of tape.
Tape especially DAT drives give most bang for the buck.
For SOHO businesses, I'd agree -- DAT all the way. The tapes are pretty damn cheap, and widely available. The only possible sticking point could be the cost of the drive, but when you contrast the price of under $2K (for the drive/autoloader) with the cost of a server crash/storage loss, it looks like a good investment real quick.
Right, except that if you have a good backup strategy, you've got a lot of media to deal with. You want (copies of) your backups to be stored offsite, so the ideal way is to have one medium for each day. Then you need a retention policy for how far back you want to keep your backups, so you will need that many weeks times the media per day. You're handwaving at the low cost of the bay and trays, but you neglect the cost of the hard drive itself. Also, tapes are extremely rugged and will survive harsher environments than hard drives.
Basically, if you don't have at least a TB of data to back up consistently, HDs may be a better choice. For anything bigger that I wanted to have decent restore options for, it's tapes for me.
Plus, since they should be taking backups offsite, backup-to-disk requires either a) easily removable disks, that can be reliably catalogued (so that you know what's on what disk), or b) a high-speed link to an offsite storage system (which can be muy expensivo).
Last time I checked, neither was my computer.
Probably the same people who reply to spam. *I* sure never do it, but there are those who do.
Because they track how many ads are served up per day, and how many ads get click-throughs. When that count is high, they can charge an awful lot for ads. If 3 people are looking at ads, and no one's clicking through, then there's no leverage for them to charge high prices for ad space.
For the record, I am American, but this gives me a chance to relate my favorite beer-related joke (told to me by a German).
Q: How is American beer like two people having sex on the beach?
A: They're both fucking close to water.
There are some people in this country who do appreciate good beer, but the overwhelming majority do think that the beer world begins and ends with *shudder* Bud Light. Blargh.
True enough. The fact that a) there are very few road courses in a NASCAR season, and b) they are always won by one of the 5 guys who did road racing before NASCAR makes it sort of boring.
It is fun, though, to watch someone who 0wnz0rs a circle track spin out in the dirt because he didn't know how to turn right.
And the best part is that the old man was "Judo" Gene LeBell!
Even at older-than-dirt, that man could probably whip the ass of just about anyone.
It's like Comedy Central bleeping "homo" in the Excuses, Excuses, Excuses, Excuses 98 commercial. Was fine to play on Fox, but not on basic cable (on the network that allows South Park to say anything they want).
...how the hell are we supposed to have a discussion about something we can't even read about?
:)
The same way we have discussions when no one's read TFA regardless of availability?
We also would have accepted the term, "Packaged Hell".
The worst explanation I've heard was from a cow-orker at a helpdesk where I worked. Now, at *company*, we had field people who would drive around in their cars all day with laptops. To communicate with the home office, they had Research In Motion (RIM) modems that would connect through the ether and pull up info from our central office. One of the interesting quirks was that the software was hardcoded to look for this thing on COM3. Of course, *most* of the time, Windows would put it on COM3. Other times, they'd call us.
Of course, there were multiple tricks to get it set to COM3 (removing a serial port and re-detecting it, etc.) but the best resolution I heard was from the guy across the row: "What's it say? COM1? Keep driving around until it finds COM3."
Masterful? Incompetence? Or a beautiful combination of the two?
The best one I've heard involved a friend of mine who worked for *nameless insurance company*. They had software that they'd send out to their agents to do rate calculations, and my friend supported this. Now, most insurance agents can barely run their business, let alone their computers, so he ran into lots of screwed-up networks. On one particular call, he had the guy do something (legitimate part of a fix) that would take an hour or two, so he followed protocol and had the guy call back into the queue when he was finished. My friend proceeded to log the details into the trouble ticket database: OS, software version, and a note saying, "network is FUBAR".
So, Mr. Agent calls back and gets someone else. Helpdesk jockey #2 is trying to do his job, and had obviously never run into this acronym, so he starts reading back the ticket details. "Okay, I see you're running Windows 95, you've got version X of our software, and you're on a FUBAR network." The caller goes ballistic: "WHAT? I know what that means! How dare you say that to me?!?!"
Long story short(er), this was at least 3.5 years ago. However, this tale has spread so far throughout that helpdesk that I meet people who work there, and (after a couple beers), I invariably hear this story. Then I get to tell them, "Yeah, I went to college with the guy that put that in the ticket."
I'm sure I'm not the only one willing to bet my life savings that this type of thing will only raise rates.
You're crazy. This is just like when we got CDs and DVDs. They were more expensive at first, but once they got the manufacturing issues worked out, the prices came down just as promised.
What? They didn't? Shit.
Go have a chat with the owner of your local homebrew supply store, and s/he will tell you what you need to make whatever kind of beer want.
Well, right. Unless you want to make a lager. In which case, you need a fridge/freezer set damn-ass cold, space for said device, and power to make the whole thing cold. If this is electrically more efficient, this could be the answer to my lagering prayers!
And FWIW, I do swear by Wyeast's shampoo-style bottles of yeast. Proofing, my ass!
(Disclaimer: I am a casual-at-best homebrewer. I believe the info below to be basically correct, but I am sure true zymurgists could crucify me on details. Please don't. I'm delicate.)
Well, for the most part you're right. I ferment my ales for about 1 week in my primary fermenter, 1 week in my glass carboy, and 2 weeks in the bottles (for CO2 generation), all at about 60F. However, lagers are kept in cold storage after primary fermentation for weeks or months. During this time (where the beer is kept quite cold), the yeast is mostly inactive, but the flavor mellows and evens out. Eventually, you get that crisp, clean flavor evident in lagers like Heineken, St. Pauli Girl, and other German Lager-style beers (yes, I know Heineken isn't made in Germany).