Personal experience - 3 DOAs out of 4 boxes, 2 then went on to die again within 3 months of being fixed. E450s and an E10K so we're not talking elcheapo workstations here. I'm still pissed off about it.
NEVER had this kind of trouble with IBM R6K systems. Given a choice, I wouldn't touch Sun hardware again.
They use an SCI network to access memory. Think of it as a beowulf system with 1000 individual workstations networked together with an amazingly fast network (Dolphin interconnect's SCI). The operating system handles making the 1000 workstations look like a single box. I'm sure Linux could be hacked to work in the same way.
BTW, Dolphin do SCI for Linux if anyone's interested.: http://www.dolphinics.com/
This is standard MS practice. They actually have no intention of producing an MSOffice for Linux, but want to damage their competitors (Corel, Star Division, Applix) by spreading rumours to the effect that they will. I'm surprised that you're all still being taken in by it.
Newspapers are a complete waste of time. The quality of reporting is absolutely abysmal. They couldn't report a fact accurately if their lives depended upon it.
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Hmm, 600MHz Pentim III, 128Mb of RAM and cheap 18Gb 5400rpm IDE drives.
Anyone else see the problem with this picture?
Especially when you're going to be wasting 6 million cycles waiting for I/O.
10/15K rpm SCSI drives. Can't use ATA interface drives.
It'd only be useful if all your files are copies of one another and that in itself is just dumb.
It's a solution looking for a problem which doesn't exist.
I just checked one of our file servers (unix) and on a 100Gb file system, ~ 60Gb used, I have 120Mb of duplicate files.
MS are inventing problems to solve.
You might want to try it.
Do you just copy files from the client to server? Why?
That's dumb. That's what tape is for. Tape is cheap storage. Why would you use disk?
You need ADSM pal.
Well, I just checked one of my boxes and I have 140 duplicate files.
I would save oohh 120Mb on a 100Gb file system. I REALLY need this software... NOT.
Why don't you check your systems? It's easy, find, checksum and sort. Then diff the duplicate checksums.
This software is just a silly toy for NT administrators to drool over.
Jeez what's the point in buying a 1GHz CPU and plugging it into a cheezy 5400rpm hard disk.
Where the hell do you all think your CPU cycles go anyway?
I'll spend £1000 on doubling the speed of my disks before doubling the speed of my CPU.
If that's all it is the god help them.
We're talking cron and a 4 line shell script to implement similar functionality on Unix.
Would I implement such functionality? Would I hell...
I don't believe for a second that significant amounts of disk space will be saved. What a waste of time.
Sun just aren't there yet. IBM are.
http://www.dolphinics.com/
Personal experience - 3 DOAs out of 4 boxes, 2 then went on to die again within 3 months of being fixed. E450s and an E10K so we're not talking elcheapo workstations here. I'm still pissed off about it.
NEVER had this kind of trouble with IBM R6K systems. Given a choice, I wouldn't touch Sun hardware again.
1000 workstations, each with it's own I/O, so yup, the I/O will scale. The difference is that the OS makes it look like a single machine.
They use an SCI network to access memory. Think of it as a beowulf system with 1000 individual workstations networked together with an amazingly fast network (Dolphin interconnect's SCI). The operating system handles making the 1000 workstations look like a single box. I'm sure Linux could be hacked to work in the same way.
BTW, Dolphin do SCI for Linux if anyone's interested.:
http://www.dolphinics.com/
This is standard MS practice. They actually have no intention of producing an MSOffice for Linux, but want to damage their competitors (Corel, Star Division, Applix) by spreading rumours to the effect that they will. I'm surprised that you're all still being taken in by it.
http://cosm.mithral.com/
Solid state heads, one per track, stationary.
No seek time, blast the data out in parallel.
What we need is one head per track!!!!
I want my disks to be able to handle 200MB/s each.
Disks are so slow it's depressing.
Newspapers are a complete waste of time. The quality of reporting is absolutely abysmal. They couldn't report a fact accurately if their lives depended upon it.
If you can prove they are not telling the truth then their credibility will be removed.
Of 4 SUN systems we've received recently 3 were DOA. Two of those three fixed then died later (within 3 months).
I've NEVER had this trouble with IBM kit.
I suspect their (SUNs) quality control is crap.
However Solaris seems reasonably stable, all the problems were hardware related. Not so with Windows. Jeez what a nightmare that is!
Groupware systems are fairly easy to implement. I mean real groupware stuff, not the bollocks that Exchange pretends to be.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pracintgr/
So many sheep go with Exchange though, when in fact it's functionally destitute.
Linux devastates the value of the OS market. Why on earth pay thousands when you can get something just as good for a few pounds.
For those of us who wish to have a quick word with their MP perhaps prior to writing to them:
Parliament:
http://www.parliament.uk/
Those MPs with email addresses and web pages:
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/almsad.htm
You could also try:
[surname][initials]@parliament.uk
Or Richar Kimber at Keele University has a good page:
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/area/uk/mps.htm
Polls like this are just stupid. 86% of Americans would call for the banning of water - Yup, H20.
Just call it DiHydrogen Monoxide and the lynch mobs will be on the streets screaming for blood.
So lets not get too caught up in a stupid poll.
So why should Apple use Motorola chips?