Most EFI implementations have a BIOS personality mode so they could boot DOS just fine. In fact I've used FreeDOS boot disks to flash firmware on EFI machines.
Cable management arms are the work of the devil. They do nothing but stress cables beyond the minimum bend radius and block airflow out of the back of the server. If you are messing with a server enough for the time spent installing the cable management arm is less than the time you spend disconnecting and reattaching cables you are doing something wrong. The only time I thought they were warranted was back when some higher end x86 servers came with hot replace PCI slots so a dead addon card didn't mean a system reboot but I haven't seen that feature in any PCIe system and besides it's easier to just build redundancy in and replace the failed hardware during a maintenance window (or even better do everything in VM's and just evacuate the host, fix the problem and migrate them back =)
We have our setpoint at 72 and even without hot aisle containment (but proper hot/cold design) everything is fine. We only lose about 1.5% per year on HDD's and basically no other components in a statistically significant number (maybe 3 PSU's in 5 years).
No, it's a real ISO spec with multiple conforming (well as much as anything can conform to a spec that complex!) implementations from multiple vendors.
Harder some period after erase IF the drive and OS support TRIM. Easier immediately after a secure erase because there is currently no such concept on an SSD currently. I expect that you will see a SCSI extension for secure block erase that enterprise class drives will obey to alleviate the fear for enterprises and governments about recoverable data existing, whether that will make it into consumer class drives using SATA is anyones guess.
For most of modern computing it's meant unlink the inode or remove the FAT entry which makes the blocks available. This was done because it was too expensive to actually cleanse the data in 99+% of situations. Now with SSD's there is a performance gain to be had by pre-wiping the block in the background so deletes eventually mean actually cleansing the data. The flip side is with most current SSD's there's no way to force a particular physical address to be wiped because of sector to block mapping (though this is actually true to some extent on all modern HDD's due to sector re-mapping for bad areas).
It's been almost 30 months since the X-25e was launched and now the max 64GB capacity looks pathetic next to the competition so when will Intel launch their next generation SLC based SSD?
Try Chrome Beta 10 as well, now that adblock and flashblock can actually stop stuff instead of just hiding them it's awesome. Extremely fast, memory use appears to be the same as FF 3.6 for the same number of tabs yet when I close a tab the memory really gets released.
Oops, guess I was misinformed by yet another AAPL rumor. Don't use the itunes store myself and assumed since I had heard it was coming and the player supports it that they would actually offer the files, silly me =)
Apple already sells Apple Lossless files so that's a non-issue. If Apple *actually* wanted to improve the quality of music they would demand remastered tracks with actual audio engineers doing the work instead of rap "producers" using the compression widget in Protools to make it sound "better".
The dude has even used different spelling in his own written material over the years so any semi-similar transliteration is ok as long as it's obvious which specimen of completely pure evil you are talking about. I mean it takes a really sick bastard to order the airforce to bomb and strafe a funeral!
Exact same, ha. Of the 460 SciFi TV seasons they have available only 60 are available through prime right now and most of those (42) are from the BBC. Big content really is shooting itself in the foot. As you point out if I want to watch a current tv series it's MUCH easier to go grab it off TPB or some other download site than it is for me to watch it electronically.
My coworker had a tree snap the pole in front of his house and the messed up voltage caused a power strip at his neighbors to ignite, fire department and electric company were dispatched just fine despite it being the middle of a massive ice storm and blizzard. That's a good enough reason to keep a land line around IMHO. Of course for me it's VoIP and my cable modem, router, and TA are all on UPS plus we have two cell phones, the landline is mostly for when neither my wife or I are home (rare but it does happen).
My car battery can keep a cellphone going for weeks without even affecting its ability to cold start the car, and if it starts to get a bit low I can just start the car up and run it for an hour to return it to full charge.
Very quickly? I turned off my heat on Sunday and the temp only dropped 1.5 degrees F per hour while I was away. It would become a problem in a day but a call not completing 'right now' isn't a big deal for heat. A MUCH bigger problem would be someone shoveling their driveway and having a heart attack.
Dude, we weren't budgeted for ANY redundancy, we just happened to have the other line that we had been using for separation of guest traffic. Now for about the same amount of money we're getting a line that can probably provide full services during a failure. The expense of trying to get global failover working between two ISP's and the risk of having AT&T change something (service has been rock stable except when they try to do any kind of change ticket) is just unwarranted. That's the only downtime we've had on that line in over 5 years so it's been good enough./shrug
MSSE and Forefront Endpoint Protection are the same base engine and since MS is giving it away to companies with an enterprise agreement you can bet companies are at least considering it.
Stop it before it ever gets to the client, IDS/IPS and an intelligent filtering proxy running a different engine than the desktop. It's not foolproof but it blocks the vast, vast majority of threats. Same with email (though that seems to be dying as a vector) use a different AV engine on the email gateway than you run on the desktop and servers.
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Most EFI implementations have a BIOS personality mode so they could boot DOS just fine. In fact I've used FreeDOS boot disks to flash firmware on EFI machines.
IBM, Dell, and HP's arms ALL fold at an angle that is less than the minimum bend radius for fiber and CAT6a cables.
Cable management arms are the work of the devil. They do nothing but stress cables beyond the minimum bend radius and block airflow out of the back of the server. If you are messing with a server enough for the time spent installing the cable management arm is less than the time you spend disconnecting and reattaching cables you are doing something wrong. The only time I thought they were warranted was back when some higher end x86 servers came with hot replace PCI slots so a dead addon card didn't mean a system reboot but I haven't seen that feature in any PCIe system and besides it's easier to just build redundancy in and replace the failed hardware during a maintenance window (or even better do everything in VM's and just evacuate the host, fix the problem and migrate them back =)
We have our setpoint at 72 and even without hot aisle containment (but proper hot/cold design) everything is fine. We only lose about 1.5% per year on HDD's and basically no other components in a statistically significant number (maybe 3 PSU's in 5 years).
The urban poverty rate in the US is over 20% so no for purposes of achieving high rates of dense very high speed internet we are far from rich.
That was the approach AT&T seemed to be following for a while =)
No, it's a real ISO spec with multiple conforming (well as much as anything can conform to a spec that complex!) implementations from multiple vendors.
Uh X.400 wasn't some weird protocol MS invented, it's an ISO standard.
Yeah no impact unless you want an inhaler for less than $100.
Harder some period after erase IF the drive and OS support TRIM. Easier immediately after a secure erase because there is currently no such concept on an SSD currently. I expect that you will see a SCSI extension for secure block erase that enterprise class drives will obey to alleviate the fear for enterprises and governments about recoverable data existing, whether that will make it into consumer class drives using SATA is anyones guess.
For most of modern computing it's meant unlink the inode or remove the FAT entry which makes the blocks available. This was done because it was too expensive to actually cleanse the data in 99+% of situations. Now with SSD's there is a performance gain to be had by pre-wiping the block in the background so deletes eventually mean actually cleansing the data. The flip side is with most current SSD's there's no way to force a particular physical address to be wiped because of sector to block mapping (though this is actually true to some extent on all modern HDD's due to sector re-mapping for bad areas).
BS, if they really wanted to change they wouldn't have banned all open source (including their own license!) from the WP7 app store.
It's been almost 30 months since the X-25e was launched and now the max 64GB capacity looks pathetic next to the competition so when will Intel launch their next generation SLC based SSD?
Try 32GBytes/s for a dual Nehalem system with DDR3 1333 pieces in banks 1 and 2 on each CPU.
Try Chrome Beta 10 as well, now that adblock and flashblock can actually stop stuff instead of just hiding them it's awesome. Extremely fast, memory use appears to be the same as FF 3.6 for the same number of tabs yet when I close a tab the memory really gets released.
Oops, guess I was misinformed by yet another AAPL rumor. Don't use the itunes store myself and assumed since I had heard it was coming and the player supports it that they would actually offer the files, silly me =)
Apple already sells Apple Lossless files so that's a non-issue. If Apple *actually* wanted to improve the quality of music they would demand remastered tracks with actual audio engineers doing the work instead of rap "producers" using the compression widget in Protools to make it sound "better".
The dude has even used different spelling in his own written material over the years so any semi-similar transliteration is ok as long as it's obvious which specimen of completely pure evil you are talking about. I mean it takes a really sick bastard to order the airforce to bomb and strafe a funeral!
Exact same, ha. Of the 460 SciFi TV seasons they have available only 60 are available through prime right now and most of those (42) are from the BBC. Big content really is shooting itself in the foot. As you point out if I want to watch a current tv series it's MUCH easier to go grab it off TPB or some other download site than it is for me to watch it electronically.
My coworker had a tree snap the pole in front of his house and the messed up voltage caused a power strip at his neighbors to ignite, fire department and electric company were dispatched just fine despite it being the middle of a massive ice storm and blizzard. That's a good enough reason to keep a land line around IMHO. Of course for me it's VoIP and my cable modem, router, and TA are all on UPS plus we have two cell phones, the landline is mostly for when neither my wife or I are home (rare but it does happen).
My car battery can keep a cellphone going for weeks without even affecting its ability to cold start the car, and if it starts to get a bit low I can just start the car up and run it for an hour to return it to full charge.
Very quickly? I turned off my heat on Sunday and the temp only dropped 1.5 degrees F per hour while I was away. It would become a problem in a day but a call not completing 'right now' isn't a big deal for heat. A MUCH bigger problem would be someone shoveling their driveway and having a heart attack.
Dude, we weren't budgeted for ANY redundancy, we just happened to have the other line that we had been using for separation of guest traffic. Now for about the same amount of money we're getting a line that can probably provide full services during a failure. The expense of trying to get global failover working between two ISP's and the risk of having AT&T change something (service has been rock stable except when they try to do any kind of change ticket) is just unwarranted. That's the only downtime we've had on that line in over 5 years so it's been good enough. /shrug
MSSE and Forefront Endpoint Protection are the same base engine and since MS is giving it away to companies with an enterprise agreement you can bet companies are at least considering it.
Stop it before it ever gets to the client, IDS/IPS and an intelligent filtering proxy running a different engine than the desktop. It's not foolproof but it blocks the vast, vast majority of threats. Same with email (though that seems to be dying as a vector) use a different AV engine on the email gateway than you run on the desktop and servers.