APC has something like a $25,000 guarantee for power surges. I personally have seen an APC surge protector melted to a puddle of goo, and the equipment plugged into it was just fine after a new power cord. (The end melted into the surge protector.) I am absolutely sure that the $50 more you spend on a good surge protector is worth every penny. APC also makes UPS units with the same capability (as far as surge protection), as well as other line protectors such as CAT5, phone, and COAX. Protect every line going into your datacenter and if anthing gets hit by lightning, APC will write you a check to repair the equipment. See their site for the details.
Since we know that
Knowlege=Power
and we know that
Time=Money
we can go back to high school to get
Work=Power/Time
Substituting variables we get
Work=Knowledge/Money
Now solving for Money we get
Money=Knowledge/Work
This tells us that the more you know, the more money you will make, but you must keep work to an absolute minimum to increase profits. As every MBA will tell you, skip the MBA and enjoy being a low-paid hard worker that knows nothing. It just means less work and more money for them!
(Shamelessly paraphrased from Dilbert's Salary Theorem)
Why bother with a shim when you can get an Adaptec UDMA/66 RAID (AAA-UDMA) card or a Promise SuperTrak 100 RAID card and handle the storage natively? Both products have been available for a little while and are past version 1 drivers, so they should be fairly stable. Both products will do RAID 5 with 8 or so drives (4 controllers, 2 drives each). At 8 80GB drives in a RAID 5 configuration with one hot-spare, you wind up with 480G of safe storage. Put two cards in a system and you're almost at the terabyte mark. I've used many Promise FastTrak cards in small servers to mirror the data drives, and I've never had one card fail yet. (I did have a drive go bad and the product worked as advertised...) I wouldn't bother with a SCSI solution unless you're going with SCSI drives. As usual, use the right technology for the job.
..but I don't know where. When I heard about this a year or so ago, the application was in retail stores - grocery, clothing, etc. The application was to put price tags (solar powered with a cheap, efficient LCD readout, somewhat like calculator display) next to all the items and send out price updates to merchandice through the lighting system. Transmit a new price with the item's barcode and wherever the item(s) was(were) in the store, the prices would adjust accordingly. Since the e-tags (catchy name) were solar powered, they could be encased in plastic so if they were hit by a shopping cart or dropped, they wouldn't need to be replaced.
At the time, I thought this was a great idea since it would save a stock person from having to lug around a printer and try to get the prices right. Instead, you program the barcode of the item into the electronic price tag, then put it with the merchandice, and all your stock people have to do now is go around looking at inventory.
A quick search on Google reveals several places that sell laptop hard drive to desktop IDE interface converters - usually around $15. Someone please explain to me why I would spend a few hundred dollars for a proprietary (-sp?) solution, or spend that same money (or a little less) on a much smaller laptop hard drive with a desktop converter. Maybe someone even makes hot-swap bays for them?
While NTFS may be faster at finding files (not by much, though), it is painfully slower at creating new files/folders becuase of the many writes it does to ensure consistencty. If you're a home user running games and other applications that won't benefit from the security or you don't need the compression, you will be pleasently surprised at the speed increase you get from a FAT32 volume. I'm guessing that since FAT32 isn't journaled/logged/whatevered it can make more efficient use of the write caching 2K does under the hood.
Just saw this custom clear case over at HardOCP. Very nice, clean work. URL is "http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?threadid= 132652" for the goatse.cx weary...
At the vehicle's normal orbit speed (25,000 Mph), you rather quickly blow the extra grand ($1,000 U.S.) you paid for the 100,000 mile extended warranty. This is obviously a rip-off.
Send this to all your friends and you'll be shot in the back by a psycotic African wood-weevil.:) Locked, cocked, and off my medication!
In the past, we've used Advantech, mainly becuase they have a solid foundation (been in the industry for a while) and provide decent customer support. Their prices are a little high compared to do-it-yourself PC's, but they offer some nice embedded equipment (biscuit PC's, PC/104, wall-mount boxes...) that makes installations look good.
Are you looking to cool the equipment or the whole room? I've seen several water cooling units that would cool to an external radiator, and I've seen some rack-mount chassis that have integrated air-conditioners. Please explain the details of your scenario a little further.
I used to work at a computer store and we actually had people bring in dead drives to see if they could be recovered (cheaply). About 4 hours in the freezer did the trick for about 75% of those drives! Boot up with a secondary drive and xcopy away... It's neat to see that trick wasn't just local to our store.
It's nice to finally see a PDA with a screen covering the whole display area. I've always been a little tuned off by the Palm (-like) devices becuase of the graffiti writing area. If the screen was just extended to that area as well, developers would have that much more real-estate to work with.
For now, I'm using a Xircom REX 6000. The PCMCIA form factor and touch screen make it the perfect companion to my laptop, carrying names, numbers, notes, etc. It doesn't run every application ever written, but I can't complain becuase the size simply rocks.
Speaking of real-estate, what's the purpose of putting buttons on the units anyway? Every PDA I've ever seen (iPaq, Cassio, Palm, REX, etc.) has buttons - several. Why? Doesn't a touch screen provide the same functionality (even soft-power...) as the buttons, and if you did need a button, why couldn't it be an edge button like the Nokia 82?0 phones or the m505's power button? A PDA the size of a large post-it note (and as thick as a pad of them) with a full-touch-screen would be dandy. As long as the "normal" applications are supported (read email, addresses, calculator, notes, yadda yadda yadda), that's just about the right form factor.
It's actually a NAND gate. Every combination of NOT, AND, OR, XOR, and so on can be represented by combinations of NAND gates. Any [logic] circuit could be built with significant numbers of them. That seems to be what Altera and Xilinx do for a living. I know that Xilinx has some pretty great educational prices, and you can pick up a PCI board with FPGA onboard for around $270 if memory serves.
For a web-pad to sell well, it needs to be simple. I don't want a word processor, schedule, notes, whatever... What I want and will pay good money for is a tablet (a'la StarTrek) that is simply a web browser with a couple of favorites. No print capability, no stupid "channels", no "email to my friends", none of that extravagant crap that every "internet appliance" I've seen seems to include. I want to walk around my house surfing at a couple of megs or so speed (not 10 or 100, it's a frigging cable modem) and simply be able to jump to a url (google, yahoo, slashdot) by using an onscreen keyboard or just a favorites list. Give it good battery life (say an hour or two) and I'll let it rest permanently on my coffee table in it's cradle while I'm not using it. 10.4" or 11.?" would be fine. A 12" would be dandy, but I'm not picky. Hell, I don't even thing I need color. Just make the thing thin enough to carry from the living room to the kitchen with one hand. If I want house remote control or anything else, I'll build a damn server in my basement with X10 and a web server with some CGI code.
Just this morning I was joking with my wife about buying an alarm clock that snoozed when I yelled 'shut up', 'piss off', 'go away', or 'it's saturday'... Maybe this technology will lend itself to alarm clocks in the future:)
I don't see what the fuss is all about. I can put a couple of gigs of RAM in my main machine, bot up the OS, and load a gig or so RAM drive, and I've effectively got what everyone's talking about here, without any extra hardware (save the ram that is). What's the big deal? Am I just missing somehting? I'm really not trying to start a flame war here, I just don't get it...
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APC has something like a $25,000 guarantee for power surges. I personally have seen an APC surge protector melted to a puddle of goo, and the equipment plugged into it was just fine after a new power cord. (The end melted into the surge protector.) I am absolutely sure that the $50 more you spend on a good surge protector is worth every penny. APC also makes UPS units with the same capability (as far as surge protection), as well as other line protectors such as CAT5, phone, and COAX. Protect every line going into your datacenter and if anthing gets hit by lightning, APC will write you a check to repair the equipment. See their site for the details.
Just eBay the card you have for a grand or so and purchase a new machine. It's simple, really... :)
Follow along with your slide-rule kiddies...
Since we know that
Knowlege=Power
and we know that
Time=Money
we can go back to high school to get
Work=Power/Time
Substituting variables we get
Work=Knowledge/Money
Now solving for Money we get
Money=Knowledge/Work
This tells us that the more you know, the more money you will make, but you must keep work to an absolute minimum to increase profits. As every MBA will tell you, skip the MBA and enjoy being a low-paid hard worker that knows nothing. It just means less work and more money for them!
(Shamelessly paraphrased from Dilbert's Salary Theorem)
Why bother with a shim when you can get an Adaptec UDMA/66 RAID (AAA-UDMA) card or a Promise SuperTrak 100 RAID card and handle the storage natively? Both products have been available for a little while and are past version 1 drivers, so they should be fairly stable. Both products will do RAID 5 with 8 or so drives (4 controllers, 2 drives each). At 8 80GB drives in a RAID 5 configuration with one hot-spare, you wind up with 480G of safe storage. Put two cards in a system and you're almost at the terabyte mark. I've used many Promise FastTrak cards in small servers to mirror the data drives, and I've never had one card fail yet. (I did have a drive go bad and the product worked as advertised...) I wouldn't bother with a SCSI solution unless you're going with SCSI drives. As usual, use the right technology for the job.
..but I don't know where. When I heard about this a year or so ago, the application was in retail stores - grocery, clothing, etc. The application was to put price tags (solar powered with a cheap, efficient LCD readout, somewhat like calculator display) next to all the items and send out price updates to merchandice through the lighting system. Transmit a new price with the item's barcode and wherever the item(s) was(were) in the store, the prices would adjust accordingly. Since the e-tags (catchy name) were solar powered, they could be encased in plastic so if they were hit by a shopping cart or dropped, they wouldn't need to be replaced.
At the time, I thought this was a great idea since it would save a stock person from having to lug around a printer and try to get the prices right. Instead, you program the barcode of the item into the electronic price tag, then put it with the merchandice, and all your stock people have to do now is go around looking at inventory.
Anyone have some venture capital to spare?
I have a Rainbow dongle for my copy of Lightwave. AutoCAD in the single user version (not networked) also comes with a dongle.
A quick search on Google reveals several places that sell laptop hard drive to desktop IDE interface converters - usually around $15. Someone please explain to me why I would spend a few hundred dollars for a proprietary (-sp?) solution, or spend that same money (or a little less) on a much smaller laptop hard drive with a desktop converter. Maybe someone even makes hot-swap bays for them?
Trollin', trollin', trollin'
Keep that AC trollin', rawhide
Write 'em up, post 'em out, send 'em in
Keep 'em coming, Rawhiiiiiiiide
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Yet another day at the funny farm.
While NTFS may be faster at finding files (not by much, though), it is painfully slower at creating new files/folders becuase of the many writes it does to ensure consistencty. If you're a home user running games and other applications that won't benefit from the security or you don't need the compression, you will be pleasently surprised at the speed increase you get from a FAT32 volume. I'm guessing that since FAT32 isn't journaled/logged/whatevered it can make more efficient use of the write caching 2K does under the hood.
So does anyone know (benchmark wise that is) how XFS performs compared to reiser, ext3, etc.?
Just saw this custom clear case over at HardOCP. Very nice, clean work. URL is "http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?threadid= 132652" for the goatse.cx weary...
Karma whoring? Gimmie the KY!
At the vehicle's normal orbit speed (25,000 Mph), you rather quickly blow the extra grand ($1,000 U.S.) you paid for the 100,000 mile extended warranty. This is obviously a rip-off.
:)
Send this to all your friends and you'll be shot in the back by a psycotic African wood-weevil.
Locked, cocked, and off my medication!
In the past, we've used Advantech, mainly becuase they have a solid foundation (been in the industry for a while) and provide decent customer support. Their prices are a little high compared to do-it-yourself PC's, but they offer some nice embedded equipment (biscuit PC's, PC/104, wall-mount boxes...) that makes installations look good.
Hope this helps!
Are you looking to cool the equipment or the whole room? I've seen several water cooling units that would cool to an external radiator, and I've seen some rack-mount chassis that have integrated air-conditioners. Please explain the details of your scenario a little further.
I used to work at a computer store and we actually had people bring in dead drives to see if they could be recovered (cheaply). About 4 hours in the freezer did the trick for about 75% of those drives! Boot up with a secondary drive and xcopy away... It's neat to see that trick wasn't just local to our store.
Damn Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V. I hate Windows.
It's nice to finally see a PDA with a screen covering the whole display area. I've always been a little tuned off by the Palm (-like) devices becuase of the graffiti writing area. If the screen was just extended to that area as well, developers would have that much more real-estate to work with.
For now, I'm using a Xircom REX 6000. The PCMCIA form factor and touch screen make it the perfect companion to my laptop, carrying names, numbers, notes, etc. It doesn't run every application ever written, but I can't complain becuase the size simply rocks.
Speaking of real-estate, what's the purpose of putting buttons on the units anyway? Every PDA I've ever seen (iPaq, Cassio, Palm, REX, etc.) has buttons - several. Why? Doesn't a touch screen provide the same functionality (even soft-power...) as the buttons, and if you did need a button, why couldn't it be an edge button like the Nokia 82?0 phones or the m505's power button? A PDA the size of a large post-it note (and as thick as a pad of them) with a full-touch-screen would be dandy. As long as the "normal" applications are supported (read email, addresses, calculator, notes, yadda yadda yadda), that's just about the right form factor.
</RANT>
I'll get back to work now.
It's actually a NAND gate. Every combination of NOT, AND, OR, XOR, and so on can be represented by combinations of NAND gates. Any [logic] circuit could be built with significant numbers of them. That seems to be what Altera and Xilinx do for a living. I know that Xilinx has some pretty great educational prices, and you can pick up a PCI board with FPGA onboard for around $270 if memory serves.
So what you're saying is I missed out on my free taco...
;-)
For a web-pad to sell well, it needs to be simple. I don't want a word processor, schedule, notes, whatever... What I want and will pay good money for is a tablet (a'la StarTrek) that is simply a web browser with a couple of favorites. No print capability, no stupid "channels", no "email to my friends", none of that extravagant crap that every "internet appliance" I've seen seems to include. I want to walk around my house surfing at a couple of megs or so speed (not 10 or 100, it's a frigging cable modem) and simply be able to jump to a url (google, yahoo, slashdot) by using an onscreen keyboard or just a favorites list. Give it good battery life (say an hour or two) and I'll let it rest permanently on my coffee table in it's cradle while I'm not using it. 10.4" or 11.?" would be fine. A 12" would be dandy, but I'm not picky. Hell, I don't even thing I need color. Just make the thing thin enough to carry from the living room to the kitchen with one hand. If I want house remote control or anything else, I'll build a damn server in my basement with X10 and a web server with some CGI code.
Dammit.
I was reading comments about the paper phone, and the ad banner at the top of /. was the following:
Vote for America's National Tree: arborday.org
Isn't it a bit ironic that a technology using paper would have a "save a tree" ad at the top of the page?
Just this morning I was joking with my wife about buying an alarm clock that snoozed when I yelled 'shut up', 'piss off', 'go away', or 'it's saturday'... Maybe this technology will lend itself to alarm clocks in the future :)
Morning sarcasm. I'll get back to work.
I thing the sysop needs to go get the fire extinguisher off the wall and sit it next to the server. He'll need it with this article...
But 4GB of RAM should be enough for anyone! ;)
I don't see what the fuss is all about. I can put a couple of gigs of RAM in my main machine, bot up the OS, and load a gig or so RAM drive, and I've effectively got what everyone's talking about here, without any extra hardware (save the ram that is). What's the big deal? Am I just missing somehting? I'm really not trying to start a flame war here, I just don't get it...