This is simply gross vs net measurement. There is a much bigger problem with measuring screen size in inches, it only made sense when all of the screens (a long time ago) had the same aspect ratio. Think comparing a 15 inch laptop between a 4:3 aspect ratio and 16:9. Then there is the dpi - if you these two screens are 1600x1200 and 1280x720 or if they're 800x600 vs 3200x1800, that are entirely different displays. Then you get a concepts of logical resolution, screen type (TN, IPS, OLED), subpixel arrangements... The trouble is that marketing messaging needs to be simple enough to be understandable and easy enough to be remembered by the vast majority of your potential customer base. This is the very same thing led us to megapixel race with cameras. So if we have to get there, at least let's be honest about it. Would you be happy to buy food with the marketed weight including the weight of the packaging?
I hope that this results in marketing phones with net storage space. This would actually be a useful measurement. My mum bought a phone with 8GB of storage, as she thought she does not need much storage, does she? The phone is not usable at all if you install 1 app, as it complaints constantly that it cannot upgrade the app due to lack of space. 8GB of net space on the other hand would be widely sufficient.
I don't like the easy payday part, but using gross measurements where the net vs gross ratio changes between compared products is not really helpful (screen with a notch and without).
YakYak is an unofficial, open source Hangouts client that works almost as good as GTalk client did. On top of that it works on Linux / Mac & Windows. You can find it here. Licensed under MIT license.
I used to like GTalk client a lot and used it to its last day. The switch to Hangouts was painful, both the Chrome App and Extension were terrible. I almost switched to the FB alternative, but I found YakYak and I'm pretty happy with it.
Reading what I just wrote I cannot believe that I'm not their rep;-)
The scales on this chart for the secondary vertical axis makes it unreadable. Qty of open issues would have been much easier to read if only one axis was used. If the author insists to use a secondary axis, then at least make the major points in sync with the primary vertical axis.
Every single electronic lock I've seen in a hotel has a classical handle on the inside that is not dependent on a lock. Regardless of the state of the lock you can always get out of the room, it's getting back in that is the challenge in this case.
Daily Mail? Seriously? Out of all the media that covered this story extensively over the past couple of days, you picked to link to the daily mail as the source? Also including the clickbait phrase of "paid thousands" to refer to 2 bitcoins?
The only hope is that slashdot community does what it's best at: does not read the article.
This is clear. It's both complicated to build a train tunnel and a road tunnel.
I simply don't think that the decision was taken to make this a train only tunnel because it's easier. That tunnel was build as a train only, because there was a need for a train only tunnel.
Putting cars in there makes the whole project way more challenging. Trains you can supply with electricity to move and their own internal illumination is sufficient. If you put a large number of cars or trucks through there you have to have significantly stronger ventilation systems and you need to illuminate the tunnel to a much greater degree.
On top of that you need to factor in a much higher risk of crashes and hence fire risk, which means more escape tunnels, fire bunkers, and other systems that would otherwise not be required.
...
Yeah, because a train fire never happened in a tunnel in the Alps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Each project has it's own set of challenges.
If I understand and recall correctly, this tunnel was made mainly as a part of the rolling highway, so there are going to be trucks there - just on trains!
Set up the OpenVPN server on any machine in location A, the client on router on location B, make the gateway push the routes for your son's computer (and his phone and the raspberry pi's and whatever else is desired) via the VPN. Leave the rest of the traffic alone in order not to avoid the additional latency. You might want to put your son's devices into a separate subnet.
For an enterprise environment there isn't much of an advantage of SSD.
1. You are using rather powerful servers: in general the 20/80 rule is effect 20% of the data is used 80% of the time. With Servers with hundreds of gigs of active RAM, most of the speed is going on in the RAM. With the buffered write, and the occasional lookup of data that isn't there. So you can have a slower drive because your drive isn't being used as much.
Two points here:
a) RAM is still way to expensive to manage the 20% of the data. Put the hottest 1% in RAM, 20% on an SSD and the rest on HDD
b) if your workload changes, then you start getting a lot of cache misses your performance is going to be slaughtered.
2. You should have a good RAID setup. RAID is for data protection and it also offers faster performance too.
couldn't agree more
3. Redundant servers they just don't sit idle, they do their share of the work too. splitting the usage.
This is not the point here, this is true regardless if you use SSDs or not, as you can scale out both. And redundant servers in a workload balancing setup are only acceptable if you can afford performance drop when one of the redundancy group elements fails. In some extreme cases in such setup the degraded system will not cope with full workload and will fail.
Having SSD for most cases (not all mind you) on an enterprise environment isn't really worth it.
There is a lot of enterprise workloads that require SSDs. Just look at sales figures.
SSD are good for Laptops and mobile devices. So you can access data quickly, with less power. On systems with relatively low RAM.
SSDs are good everywhere where the users can feel the performance benefit. My current desktop does not have an SSD, because I did not feel the need, but if I needed to buy a new one I would definitely use an SSD for a system drive.
Having an SSD on a Desktop PC, is kinda a crap-shoot, unless you get one of the really high performance ones, you probably won't notice much.
Assuming you're not having a 15k rpm drive in your desktop, the difference is definitely noticeable.
If you need reliability and SSD performance, then you need to pay for enterprise grade SSDs. If money is too tight for that, then you can get some of the performance distributing the workload to more spindles - this increases IOPS nicely, though nowhere near SSD levels.
First and second gen SSDs had much wider margins of error in flash. The 2 petabytes of writes are a result of that. I would expect you cannot get that kind of results with the new ones. I would be interested to see how these new consumer grade TLC SSDs handle non-consumer grade workload with a lot of writes.
I think that it's good that the consumer grade drives are getting better and better, it's just that the drives that can handle some more workload than a usual laptop and still survive a few years are going to be more and more expensive.
Does that Samsung warranty say that it's void if you exceed the write counter? YMMV?
In consumer grade SSDs and typical desktop workload, all it takes is bad luck. I've had SSDs failing in first 3 months of use and I have one which is still alive after 5 years of constant use.
In enterprise use this really depends on the workload. If you get a lot of writes, then probably TLC is not a smart idea yet, so I agree that from some angles there are reliability and write limitation uses. But for these there are drives that can handle a lot of writes - you know, you can still buy enterprise class SLC SSDs - but these cost a ton of money.
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This is simply gross vs net measurement. There is a much bigger problem with measuring screen size in inches, it only made sense when all of the screens (a long time ago) had the same aspect ratio. Think comparing a 15 inch laptop between a 4:3 aspect ratio and 16:9. Then there is the dpi - if you these two screens are 1600x1200 and 1280x720 or if they're 800x600 vs 3200x1800, that are entirely different displays. Then you get a concepts of logical resolution, screen type (TN, IPS, OLED), subpixel arrangements... The trouble is that marketing messaging needs to be simple enough to be understandable and easy enough to be remembered by the vast majority of your potential customer base. This is the very same thing led us to megapixel race with cameras. So if we have to get there, at least let's be honest about it. Would you be happy to buy food with the marketed weight including the weight of the packaging?
I hope that this results in marketing phones with net storage space. This would actually be a useful measurement. My mum bought a phone with 8GB of storage, as she thought she does not need much storage, does she? The phone is not usable at all if you install 1 app, as it complaints constantly that it cannot upgrade the app due to lack of space. 8GB of net space on the other hand would be widely sufficient.
I don't like the easy payday part, but using gross measurements where the net vs gross ratio changes between compared products is not really helpful (screen with a notch and without).
A good product almost sells itself.
A product that almost sells itself is simply priced too cheap ;)
Lenovo will pay $3.5M. Source 1 Source 2
TL;DR There was no fine by the FTC, but they will pay a settlement on another lawsuit.
Both the title and summary here, as well as the TFA are misleading. Come on /. check your facts!
YakYak is an unofficial, open source Hangouts client that works almost as good as GTalk client did. On top of that it works on Linux / Mac & Windows. You can find it here. Licensed under MIT license.
I used to like GTalk client a lot and used it to its last day. The switch to Hangouts was painful, both the Chrome App and Extension were terrible. I almost switched to the FB alternative, but I found YakYak and I'm pretty happy with it.
Reading what I just wrote I cannot believe that I'm not their rep ;-)
Systemd's issues are only getting worse with time.
The scales on this chart for the secondary vertical axis makes it unreadable. Qty of open issues would have been much easier to read if only one axis was used. If the author insists to use a secondary axis, then at least make the major points in sync with the primary vertical axis.
mod parent up! where are the modpoints when you need them
Every single electronic lock I've seen in a hotel has a classical handle on the inside that is not dependent on a lock. Regardless of the state of the lock you can always get out of the room, it's getting back in that is the challenge in this case.
Daily Mail? Seriously? Out of all the media that covered this story extensively over the past couple of days, you picked to link to the daily mail as the source? Also including the clickbait phrase of "paid thousands" to refer to 2 bitcoins? The only hope is that slashdot community does what it's best at: does not read the article.
Javascript requirement is sad if like me, you're blocking it by default on non-whitelisted sites.
If I had mod points, I couldn't decide if I wanted to mod parent up as funny or insightful!
This is clear. It's both complicated to build a train tunnel and a road tunnel. I simply don't think that the decision was taken to make this a train only tunnel because it's easier. That tunnel was build as a train only, because there was a need for a train only tunnel.
Putting cars in there makes the whole project way more challenging. Trains you can supply with electricity to move and their own internal illumination is sufficient. If you put a large number of cars or trucks through there you have to have significantly stronger ventilation systems and you need to illuminate the tunnel to a much greater degree.
On top of that you need to factor in a much higher risk of crashes and hence fire risk, which means more escape tunnels, fire bunkers, and other systems that would otherwise not be required.
...
Yeah, because a train fire never happened in a tunnel in the Alps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Each project has it's own set of challenges.
If I understand and recall correctly, this tunnel was made mainly as a part of the rolling highway, so there are going to be trucks there - just on trains!
It's a feature! It is a wrist warming device! Make sure you buy another one for your other wrist!
OpenVPN +1.
Set up the OpenVPN server on any machine in location A, the client on router on location B, make the gateway push the routes for your son's computer (and his phone and the raspberry pi's and whatever else is desired) via the VPN. Leave the rest of the traffic alone in order not to avoid the additional latency. You might want to put your son's devices into a separate subnet.
Once all is set up, it's easy to maintain.
For an enterprise environment there isn't much of an advantage of SSD. 1. You are using rather powerful servers: in general the 20/80 rule is effect 20% of the data is used 80% of the time. With Servers with hundreds of gigs of active RAM, most of the speed is going on in the RAM. With the buffered write, and the occasional lookup of data that isn't there. So you can have a slower drive because your drive isn't being used as much.
Two points here:
a) RAM is still way to expensive to manage the 20% of the data. Put the hottest 1% in RAM, 20% on an SSD and the rest on HDD
b) if your workload changes, then you start getting a lot of cache misses your performance is going to be slaughtered.
2. You should have a good RAID setup. RAID is for data protection and it also offers faster performance too.
couldn't agree more
3. Redundant servers they just don't sit idle, they do their share of the work too. splitting the usage.
This is not the point here, this is true regardless if you use SSDs or not, as you can scale out both. And redundant servers in a workload balancing setup are only acceptable if you can afford performance drop when one of the redundancy group elements fails. In some extreme cases in such setup the degraded system will not cope with full workload and will fail.
Having SSD for most cases (not all mind you) on an enterprise environment isn't really worth it.
There is a lot of enterprise workloads that require SSDs. Just look at sales figures.
SSD are good for Laptops and mobile devices. So you can access data quickly, with less power. On systems with relatively low RAM.
SSDs are good everywhere where the users can feel the performance benefit. My current desktop does not have an SSD, because I did not feel the need, but if I needed to buy a new one I would definitely use an SSD for a system drive.
Having an SSD on a Desktop PC, is kinda a crap-shoot, unless you get one of the really high performance ones, you probably won't notice much.
Assuming you're not having a 15k rpm drive in your desktop, the difference is definitely noticeable.
If you need reliability and SSD performance, then you need to pay for enterprise grade SSDs. If money is too tight for that, then you can get some of the performance distributing the workload to more spindles - this increases IOPS nicely, though nowhere near SSD levels.
First and second gen SSDs had much wider margins of error in flash. The 2 petabytes of writes are a result of that. I would expect you cannot get that kind of results with the new ones. I would be interested to see how these new consumer grade TLC SSDs handle non-consumer grade workload with a lot of writes. I think that it's good that the consumer grade drives are getting better and better, it's just that the drives that can handle some more workload than a usual laptop and still survive a few years are going to be more and more expensive. Does that Samsung warranty say that it's void if you exceed the write counter? YMMV?
In consumer grade SSDs and typical desktop workload, all it takes is bad luck. I've had SSDs failing in first 3 months of use and I have one which is still alive after 5 years of constant use. In enterprise use this really depends on the workload. If you get a lot of writes, then probably TLC is not a smart idea yet, so I agree that from some angles there are reliability and write limitation uses. But for these there are drives that can handle a lot of writes - you know, you can still buy enterprise class SLC SSDs - but these cost a ton of money.