Every benchmark I've seen on SSD's have shown random IOPS of between 20 and 120/sec, ranging between cheaper consumer drives and more expensive enterprisey models; writing single blocks to random locations completely demolish their performance because such small writes often require the drive to erase huge blocks.
New techniques try to avoid this by basically turning random writes into sequential ones; once you've erased a 4+MB block, you put all new writes into that block (you can turn a 0 into a 1 without an expensive erase cycle) and remap it similarly to how it's done with wear leveling. I'm not aware of anyone actually doing this yet, though.
pen can perform some configuration changes on the fly using an optional control service; you can set server weightings at least. It's also event driven rather than the thread-per-connection model I believe pound uses, so it should scale better.
Huh? I thought they just throttled you at 350MB/750MB/3GB depending what package you were on, and they have business cable which doesn't even have that. They do have the ubiquitous "we reserve the right to throttle/disconnect you if you're completely unreasonable" in their AUP but even most heavy users shouldn't get close to that. Since it's normally worded as "if you're degrading the service for others" a hard cap on it probably isn't definable.
How much over 1000 a week? I get on the order of 1500 a *day*. Am I really getting ~10x as much spam as you, or do you just filter it more proactively with greylisting and stuff?
This needs to be a poll; quantity of received/filtered spam in an average day:)
As I recall, Clarke used the intense pressure from the moon's mantle/core to propel the molten metal; the magnets were just to aim it. Somehow I don't see DARPA replicating the exact nature of the design for quite some time.
Not exactly a double-blind test, but in my experience the artifacts introduced are negligible. It depends on the track, and the sound system, and the environment, and on whether you know what various types of artifact sound like. Ultimately, I'm not willing to pay for lossy music anyway, because there's always going to be some track where the compression fails to be transparent, and there's just no need for it.
Still less time than traveling to a store, and less cost than buying the full albums ($10 per song on average versus $0.99) $10 per song? Did inflation get really bad in the US while I wasn't looking?;)
Also, here in the UK we seem to get to pay something like £1.20 per track, which is over $2. I'm *definitely* not willing to pay for lossy music at that price.
I'm glad you've had good experiences with buying music online. Not really; in my experience it's slow, stupid, buggy, overpriced and has limited choice, especially if like me you demand FLAC. Things are moving slowly in the right direction at least, especially when it comes to independents, but there's still a long way to go.
But, it's not as big of a deal as people make it out to be - the DRM can be circumvented by burning to and ripping from a CD.
"But, this reduces audio quality!" you say? I figure if you were that concerned about audio quality, you wouldn't be buying compressed music from MSN, iTunes, etc. You figure wrong. Modest bitrate lossy files are made to be transparent to most people, but recompressing it is probably going to introduce noticable artifacts for many people who would otherwise be perfectly happy.
Also, what the fuck? You find it reasonable to dig out a CD(-R, erase), burn, rip, encode, and tag every album or track you buy? Especially when you're already paying most of the price of a physical copy? Excuse me if I find that a completely idiotic suggestion; I buy music online because it's convenient and fast, this oft brought up suggestion makes it neither.
Why does installing the nvidia driver need a reboot? Just install the module, modprobe, restart X, surely? Even upgrades shouldn't need a reboot; you just close X, rmmod the old driver and insert the new one. Is that too awkward to make a.deb do automagically?
These ones look pretty awesome; they're quieter than pretty much every other drive (including a bunch of laptop drives), bar only a Samsung Spinpoint and WD's low RPM GreenPower drives (which are great if you're not bothered by slow seeks, btw; the first drives I'm happy to passively cool in about 8 years).
And even a passing understanding of how their model numbers work should make it obvious that an 8600 isn't necessarily even as good as a 7900; yes, it's a newer generation (7 -> 8), but it's a much cheaper part (900 -> 600).
TBH given that restriction I'm really surprised web hosts still ship it, as they're opening themselves up to all sorts of liability issues if one of their customers uses/builds a non-gpl app using it. Why would *they* be opened up to liability issues? It's not exactly their concern if one of their clients links libmysql to their closed source app and distributes it. On the other hand it's completely irrelevent when it comes to the vast majority of web applications, because they're written on top of a runtime that is license compatible with libmysql, and even if it isn't, it's not like a web host is likely to be distributing their builds to third parties.
Yes, and I was replying to "Xiph [xiph.org] has a pretty good container format", hence comparing it to Ogg. I've seen way more.mkv's than I have.ogv and.ogm's, and those I have seen have tended to be more akward to make work than a mkv.
Cable customers get phone and internet without even going near BT Unfortunately, this means they get Virgin Media, who have awful customer service and can't even get basics like billing right. Apparantly they're going to stop overcharging us and refund what they have taken in the next couple of months, when they're done merging millions of accounts they've for some reason had registered seperately.
When I tried getting my cable modem service upgraded a couple of months ago, it turned out they'd *lost* all record of the one I'd been using for the past 5 years. They sent an engineer to swap out my old one, and then charged me £25 for the privilege of letting them fix their stupid mistake. When I tried to get them to remove the charge, they eventually fobbed me off by only making me pay £5 for their incompetence.
It brings any machine to its knees as it consumes every available resource while rendering a simple document Not seen that. I did try FoxIt Reader when I found a rather complex pdf of a world map of submarine optical fibre connections was rendered painfully slowly, but FoxIt was even slower. I upgraded to Adobe Reader 8, and now it's actually fairly smooth; something that'd take FoxIt or Adobe Reader 7 a good 3-10 seconds to render will take under a second and once drawn, scroll smoothly.
At the same time, I've not seen it go beyond about 150MB of memory, and more commonly manages a third of that. Startup time was rubbish a couple of years ago when it'd sit there loading about 20 different plugins for no particular reason, but that's not been a problem for a while now.
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Every benchmark I've seen on SSD's have shown random IOPS of between 20 and 120/sec, ranging between cheaper consumer drives and more expensive enterprisey models; writing single blocks to random locations completely demolish their performance because such small writes often require the drive to erase huge blocks.
New techniques try to avoid this by basically turning random writes into sequential ones; once you've erased a 4+MB block, you put all new writes into that block (you can turn a 0 into a 1 without an expensive erase cycle) and remap it similarly to how it's done with wear leveling. I'm not aware of anyone actually doing this yet, though.
So, can this one push more than 20 random writes per second?
Known problem on *BSD.
So, er, is it OK if I say shutting down most media services isn't a natural and healthy response? WTF?
And yes, much of America's response to 9/11 wasn't exactly what I'd term "healthy" either. One nation being batshit insane does not disregard another.
pen can perform some configuration changes on the fly using an optional control service; you can set server weightings at least. It's also event driven rather than the thread-per-connection model I believe pound uses, so it should scale better.
Huh? I thought they just throttled you at 350MB/750MB/3GB depending what package you were on, and they have business cable which doesn't even have that. They do have the ubiquitous "we reserve the right to throttle/disconnect you if you're completely unreasonable" in their AUP but even most heavy users shouldn't get close to that. Since it's normally worded as "if you're degrading the service for others" a hard cap on it probably isn't definable.
How much over 1000 a week? I get on the order of 1500 a *day*. Am I really getting ~10x as much spam as you, or do you just filter it more proactively with greylisting and stuff?
:)
This needs to be a poll; quantity of received/filtered spam in an average day
Just get some wormholes; keep all your bulky equipment elsewhere :p
As I recall, Clarke used the intense pressure from the moon's mantle/core to propel the molten metal; the magnets were just to aim it. Somehow I don't see DARPA replicating the exact nature of the design for quite some time.
Also, here in the UK we seem to get to pay something like £1.20 per track, which is over $2. I'm *definitely* not willing to pay for lossy music at that price. I'm glad you've had good experiences with buying music online. Not really; in my experience it's slow, stupid, buggy, overpriced and has limited choice, especially if like me you demand FLAC. Things are moving slowly in the right direction at least, especially when it comes to independents, but there's still a long way to go.
"But, this reduces audio quality!" you say? I figure if you were that concerned about audio quality, you wouldn't be buying compressed music from MSN, iTunes, etc. You figure wrong. Modest bitrate lossy files are made to be transparent to most people, but recompressing it is probably going to introduce noticable artifacts for many people who would otherwise be perfectly happy.
Also, what the fuck? You find it reasonable to dig out a CD(-R, erase), burn, rip, encode, and tag every album or track you buy? Especially when you're already paying most of the price of a physical copy? Excuse me if I find that a completely idiotic suggestion; I buy music online because it's convenient and fast, this oft brought up suggestion makes it neither.
Why does installing the nvidia driver need a reboot? Just install the module, modprobe, restart X, surely? Even upgrades shouldn't need a reboot; you just close X, rmmod the old driver and insert the new one. Is that too awkward to make a .deb do automagically?
These ones look pretty awesome; they're quieter than pretty much every other drive (including a bunch of laptop drives), bar only a Samsung Spinpoint and WD's low RPM GreenPower drives (which are great if you're not bothered by slow seeks, btw; the first drives I'm happy to passively cool in about 8 years).
Very tempting.
Try Tom's VGA Charts.
And even a passing understanding of how their model numbers work should make it obvious that an 8600 isn't necessarily even as good as a 7900; yes, it's a newer generation (7 -> 8), but it's a much cheaper part (900 -> 600).
Yes, and I was replying to "Xiph [xiph.org] has a pretty good container format", hence comparing it to Ogg. I've seen way more .mkv's than I have .ogv and .ogm's, and those I have seen have tended to be more akward to make work than a mkv.
And let's not forget Matroska, which has done considerably better than Ogg when it comes to video.
(Or indeed, Here, which really lets you do it yourself)
It's not a leak, the .pyc's have just been decompiled and distributed. Here - go do it yourself.
php-mysqlnd is a replacement for libmysql, under the PHP license.
HEAD PHP became PHP6 over a year ago. You can get snapshots if you're so inclined.
On the other hand, another study found FC drives to have a 10 times lower bit error rate than SATA drives.
When I tried getting my cable modem service upgraded a couple of months ago, it turned out they'd *lost* all record of the one I'd been using for the past 5 years. They sent an engineer to swap out my old one, and then charged me £25 for the privilege of letting them fix their stupid mistake. When I tried to get them to remove the charge, they eventually fobbed me off by only making me pay £5 for their incompetence.
At the same time, I've not seen it go beyond about 150MB of memory, and more commonly manages a third of that. Startup time was rubbish a couple of years ago when it'd sit there loading about 20 different plugins for no particular reason, but that's not been a problem for a while now.