So Debian is supporting all security fixes for a tree that will not be maintained by the mainline developers? That to me is the real problem with the new Mozilla strategy, there is no trunk build that security fixes can be backported to, ALL development goes on against the beta branch even security fixes for the previous version. Not maintaining separate security and feature change trains may speed up their development cycle but it results in a constantly breaking browser with some security fixes and probably just as many new security holes introduced by the new features. For many businesses this is just going to push them back to MS and IE where they can have security fixes for nearly a decade instead of six weeks.
You think the engineers were happy working for Motorola?!? No, a change in management to Google style would almost assuredly be met with applause from the cubicle farms and labs.
AFAIK any partner could gain access to whatever development stream they wanted, it was only hobbyists and non-partners (those make Android devices without the with Google mark) that had to wait for the public updates.
Almost all cells that are infected will be destroyed anyways once the virus takes it over and uses it as a replication factory so it should be a net win if it is administered before the virus has really had a chance to take off.
Depends on your needs, if you need capacity only occasionally or have a workload where the peak is an order of magnitude or more from the base then it can make perfect sense to use a cloud provider, it's not like multisite replication and large amounts of bandwidth are cheap when you do them yourself.
Dude, if you follow proper procedures then your EC2 instance is mirrored in another availability zone and is using multizone S3 replication. It's not cheap but it's available. If you were really a solutions architect you'd know this =)
That's the point of the CRL, you don't need to verify your code runs on those platforms unlike with the morass of DLL's that you need to verify with native code. I've never had a.Net program fail to run as long as the version of.Net on the machine was equal to the minimum version required by the application, and you can update.Net without a reboot.
Nope, MS, Google, and others have all release numbers which show SATA at an AFR of ~4.5% and FC/SAS at ~1.5%, NL SAS drive split the difference according to MS numbers. My own datacenter with about a thousand datapoints mirrors those numbers.
There will still be a market, tape still exists even though there is essentially 0% consumer use of tape. Heck with tape there are actually more manufacturers than there are in the HDD business.
Amending a contract is normally a very formal process involving lawyers and signatures or at least initials, an email asking "hey, can we change the list price of this for today" is very informal and not likely to cause the responding party to think that it would affect the contract. I think a judge would likely side with the developers were it to go to trial but the problem is you could never litigate a contract dispute for less than $50k so even if you won you would lose. Public shaming is probably the only way to make Amazon live up to their agreement.
$/GB is still about 1/10th for HDD's vs SSD so there will still be a market for spinning rust. We only have a few process nodes left before we start to hit some fundamental limits with etching silicon so simply shrinking features isn't going to get them to parity (and it's not like HDD manufacturers are sitting on their laurels, they have a few more generations of their own already proven out in the lab). Also any of the techniques that significantly improve the storage per chip area in SSD's also significantly decrease the average cell life. Because of these factors most enterprises will have a variety of solutions in their datacenter, each trying to optimize the IOPS/$ and GB/$ for the data being stored.
The pricing from most vendors is more like $1,000 for a 450GB 15k FC drive or $500-600 for a 2TB NL SAS drive, the FC drive will provide ~7x more worst case IOPS and have 1/3rd to 1/2 the annual failure rate. It really depends on if you need more IOPS or more storage as to which you use. We've found that by using a large striping array our workload tends to meet a balance between IOPS required and storage space about where the 450GB FC drives are. Our next array will probably contain a mix of SSD's, 15k FC drives, and NL SAS drives with intelligent array software to move things around between the tiers and using the SSD's for cache.
That's only 200W per hour, I guess that's possible in an extremely temperate climate like the UK but not many places in the US are going to be able to do that. I have a very modest house by US standards (102m^2 living area for 4 people) and even if built to a completely modern design criteria it would use ~1,500kWh per year just for heating a cooling. That kind of construction cost five times what my house is worth, so even over a 40-50 year horizon it makes little economic sense to build to that kind of standard. Would I prefer my house be more efficient than it is? Certainly I would and almost every year I've lived in it I've done something to improve it but trying to get down to the level you've achieved just isn't practical here.
924kWh *total* or per month? Because I could absolutely believe 924kWh per month, it puts you just above the US average of 908kWh/month but over six months I find that VERY hard to believe as that's 1/6th the normal which would be like some of the very extreme solar powered off grid houses I've seen using DC appliances.
Actually if you put the money in a 5% vehicle then lump sum vs 30 year payoff usually works in your favor, not to mention that some lotteries aren't assumable by your heirs which means they get screwed if you die before the end of the payoff period. Regardless of the hypotheticals your best bet if you win the big one is to contact an attorney and a certified financial planner who can do all that analysis and protection work for you.
Yep, Ohio did the same thing, the first tight budget the state senate wrote a bill which automatically offset the money going into the education budget from the general fund by the amount being contributed by the lottery. Basically sell the population on the lottery as being good for education and then through accounting tricks use it as a slush fund for whatever projects they wanted to fund (money is fungible!)
I swear the prosecution must not like the law because that's an obvious setup to have it struck down on first amendment grounds. It's like the perfect test case to get the law thrown out, especially with the current supreme court and their love of allowing anything under the auspices of political speech.
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So Debian is supporting all security fixes for a tree that will not be maintained by the mainline developers? That to me is the real problem with the new Mozilla strategy, there is no trunk build that security fixes can be backported to, ALL development goes on against the beta branch even security fixes for the previous version. Not maintaining separate security and feature change trains may speed up their development cycle but it results in a constantly breaking browser with some security fixes and probably just as many new security holes introduced by the new features. For many businesses this is just going to push them back to MS and IE where they can have security fixes for nearly a decade instead of six weeks.
You think the engineers were happy working for Motorola?!? No, a change in management to Google style would almost assuredly be met with applause from the cubicle farms and labs.
AFAIK any partner could gain access to whatever development stream they wanted, it was only hobbyists and non-partners (those make Android devices without the with Google mark) that had to wait for the public updates.
802.1x is easier to deal with than IPSEC because you can make exceptions for equipment that does not support the protocol.
Almost all cells that are infected will be destroyed anyways once the virus takes it over and uses it as a replication factory so it should be a net win if it is administered before the virus has really had a chance to take off.
I don't think so. I had a girlfriend that was cheep and reliable. fortunately, she was anything but good
FTFY =)
Depends on your needs, if you need capacity only occasionally or have a workload where the peak is an order of magnitude or more from the base then it can make perfect sense to use a cloud provider, it's not like multisite replication and large amounts of bandwidth are cheap when you do them yourself.
Dude, if you follow proper procedures then your EC2 instance is mirrored in another availability zone and is using multizone S3 replication. It's not cheap but it's available. If you were really a solutions architect you'd know this =)
DNSSEC solves that problem.
Nope, they used GPLv2 not GPLv3.
Doesn't help since Oracle owns both the patents and the trademarks on the JAVA brand.
That's the point of the CRL, you don't need to verify your code runs on those platforms unlike with the morass of DLL's that you need to verify with native code. I've never had a .Net program fail to run as long as the version of .Net on the machine was equal to the minimum version required by the application, and you can update .Net without a reboot.
Nope, MS, Google, and others have all release numbers which show SATA at an AFR of ~4.5% and FC/SAS at ~1.5%, NL SAS drive split the difference according to MS numbers. My own datacenter with about a thousand datapoints mirrors those numbers.
There will still be a market, tape still exists even though there is essentially 0% consumer use of tape. Heck with tape there are actually more manufacturers than there are in the HDD business.
Yeah, because you can really litigate a contract dispute for under $50k....
Amending a contract is normally a very formal process involving lawyers and signatures or at least initials, an email asking "hey, can we change the list price of this for today" is very informal and not likely to cause the responding party to think that it would affect the contract. I think a judge would likely side with the developers were it to go to trial but the problem is you could never litigate a contract dispute for less than $50k so even if you won you would lose. Public shaming is probably the only way to make Amazon live up to their agreement.
Nah, they could have gone with EMC which has FAST VP for moving data between storage tiers and FAST cache which makes makes writes hit SSD first.
$/GB is still about 1/10th for HDD's vs SSD so there will still be a market for spinning rust. We only have a few process nodes left before we start to hit some fundamental limits with etching silicon so simply shrinking features isn't going to get them to parity (and it's not like HDD manufacturers are sitting on their laurels, they have a few more generations of their own already proven out in the lab). Also any of the techniques that significantly improve the storage per chip area in SSD's also significantly decrease the average cell life. Because of these factors most enterprises will have a variety of solutions in their datacenter, each trying to optimize the IOPS/$ and GB/$ for the data being stored.
The pricing from most vendors is more like $1,000 for a 450GB 15k FC drive or $500-600 for a 2TB NL SAS drive, the FC drive will provide ~7x more worst case IOPS and have 1/3rd to 1/2 the annual failure rate. It really depends on if you need more IOPS or more storage as to which you use. We've found that by using a large striping array our workload tends to meet a balance between IOPS required and storage space about where the 450GB FC drives are. Our next array will probably contain a mix of SSD's, 15k FC drives, and NL SAS drives with intelligent array software to move things around between the tiers and using the SSD's for cache.
That's only 200W per hour, I guess that's possible in an extremely temperate climate like the UK but not many places in the US are going to be able to do that. I have a very modest house by US standards (102m^2 living area for 4 people) and even if built to a completely modern design criteria it would use ~1,500kWh per year just for heating a cooling. That kind of construction cost five times what my house is worth, so even over a 40-50 year horizon it makes little economic sense to build to that kind of standard. Would I prefer my house be more efficient than it is? Certainly I would and almost every year I've lived in it I've done something to improve it but trying to get down to the level you've achieved just isn't practical here.
924kWh *total* or per month? Because I could absolutely believe 924kWh per month, it puts you just above the US average of 908kWh/month but over six months I find that VERY hard to believe as that's 1/6th the normal which would be like some of the very extreme solar powered off grid houses I've seen using DC appliances.
Actually if you put the money in a 5% vehicle then lump sum vs 30 year payoff usually works in your favor, not to mention that some lotteries aren't assumable by your heirs which means they get screwed if you die before the end of the payoff period. Regardless of the hypotheticals your best bet if you win the big one is to contact an attorney and a certified financial planner who can do all that analysis and protection work for you.
Yep, Ohio did the same thing, the first tight budget the state senate wrote a bill which automatically offset the money going into the education budget from the general fund by the amount being contributed by the lottery. Basically sell the population on the lottery as being good for education and then through accounting tricks use it as a slush fund for whatever projects they wanted to fund (money is fungible!)
State run lotteries are almost universally untaxed, only in the US does the state double dip.
I swear the prosecution must not like the law because that's an obvious setup to have it struck down on first amendment grounds. It's like the perfect test case to get the law thrown out, especially with the current supreme court and their love of allowing anything under the auspices of political speech.