(I live in NZ) Who cares really if the Police will be able to read email, considering that 75% of NZ's international traffic is brought in over satellite (in some cases using Cisco's weak export grade encryption) does it really matter when the Echelon station in Waiopai has been reading our email since before there was email? Not only that, but our Government doesnt even have access to this data - they let the US and Australia snoop our private communications and cant even check to see that it's not being abused! Much more frightening that someone reading my personal mail (usually innane messages to my friends anyway) is the thought of other countries using this information to make sure that the next international contract my company is tendering for goes to someone else!
I worked for a major ISP here in New Zealand up until last week (yay!), and we found that our transparent squid farm eats Ultra-LVD SCSI drives at a rate of about 1 a month, however running on IDE drives eats about 1 CPU a month. IDE just generates too many interrupts for something under that much load, if your looking for something to thrash the shite out of then go SCSI, move as much logic as you can off the CPU (even if Linux's SCSI API is bollocks), but if your looking for something to do loads of slow linear reads (icecast server for example) then IDE is your bag, I'm sure.
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(I live in NZ) Who cares really if the Police will be able to read email, considering that 75% of NZ's international traffic is brought in over satellite (in some cases using Cisco's weak export grade encryption) does it really matter when the Echelon station in Waiopai has been reading our email since before there was email?
Not only that, but our Government doesnt even have access to this data - they let the US and Australia snoop our private communications and cant even check to see that it's not being abused!
Much more frightening that someone reading my personal mail (usually innane messages to my friends anyway) is the thought of other countries using this information to make sure that the next international contract my company is tendering for goes to someone else!
That will be all.
Unix print spooling has worked fine until now - why change it?
"Eww hard copy"
- Mr The Plague, Hackers
I worked for a major ISP here in New Zealand up until last week (yay!), and we found that our transparent squid farm eats Ultra-LVD SCSI drives at a rate of about 1 a month, however running on IDE drives eats about 1 CPU a month.
IDE just generates too many interrupts for something under that much load, if your looking for something to thrash the shite out of then go SCSI, move as much logic as you can off the CPU (even if Linux's SCSI API is bollocks), but if your looking for something to do loads of slow linear reads (icecast server for example) then IDE is your bag, I'm sure.