For a fee they will burn you DVD's or put your backup on HDD's. They also support a local HDD copy for when it's a fat finger or hardware failure rather than a true disaster that takes out your data.
These days it's generally cheaper to let Mozy or one of their competitors handle it and the best part is nobody has to rotate tapes and offsite tapes and as a consultant you can get status reports on the backups and if they make you an admin on the account you can do test restores without going onsite. For my dad's small business (5 total employees including my dad and his partner) has RAID in the server, a local copy to his workstation, a remote copy to his partners workstation, and Mozy and he still insists on burning a CD of his quickbooks data and stashing it in a safety deposit box.
They were all used when I got them, the 97 had 125k when I got it, the 99 taurus (mistakenly listed at 2001) had 85k and the Sable had 65k. My dad who sold me the first two has done 100k miles in as little as 22 months before.
Sure, when the supreme court allowed civil forfeiture via eminent domain there was a bit of an uproar but no real call to action yet almost every state passed a law or amendment banning the practice and that's just a recent example.
I think we need to have an open, honest, and informed debate about the privacy issues. What I don't want is an uninformed mob storming the gates, while I happen to agree with the angry stupid mob this time I rather detest the general principal because it's been abused so many times before against the ideals of freedom and a healthy democracy.
Uh, privacy concerns are quite separate from medical concerns. I object to the intrusiveness of the scans in the strongest terms possible but I also object to uninformed anti-science and technology mumbo-jumbo.
If you're that worried about xray radiation, don't fly! The radiation from the backscatter xray is only equivalent to 4 minutes of flight time for the typical scan time so even if you are in the scanner for a full 2 minutes it's only equal to the dosage you are going to get on a short flight.
Funny enough the Essex's twin the Buick 3800 also had head gasket problems at about the same time due to a similar redesign effort despite being separated for almost 20 years (Ford copied a late 70's Buick design to make the original Essex). At least Ford didn't also have the cracking intake manifold problems that GM did. I guess that's what happens when you try to bring an engine design that started in the early 1960's into the 21st century instead of doing a clean sheet design like the Duratec though even that is getting a bit long in the tooth. I guess the ecoboost variants may give them some life through increased fuel economy by lowering needed displacement for similar power:weight ratios.
The funny thing is it wasn't the EMU10k that was the problem (that chip got used in plenty of beautiful products like the Korg Triton series of workstations) but the butchery that was the rest of the card. Glad to hear that the X-Fi corrected that stupid problem.
Let's see 1997 Taurus 225k miles, 2001 Taurus 250k miles, 2001 Sable only 185k miles so far. Of course the common thread is all three had the Duratec V6, one of the best engines ever made. It helps to do your homework =)
And also a civil case by Ford against his employer and possibly criminal penalties against the employer for inducement to steal trade secrets which can carry punitive fines.
It could also be that the design docs were from the manufacturing process rather than the product itself. The process engineering behind a plant could easily be worth significantly more than even $100M because the plants today cost upwards of $1B to design, build, and furnish and the lifetime efficiency gains for a well engineered plant can also reach into the billions.
I guess it's possible, I just never got acceptable results with any of the prosumer cards I tried until I started using external break out boxes which was either a very high end feature for internal cards or available on midrange external cards so the choice to use the external all in one boxes was a no brainer for me =)
My motherboard has optical SPDIF in and I'd never use a DAC in the PC environment, it's just too noisy. If you need high quality DAC you need to do it in a breakout box so you're either looking at a midlevel USB/Firewire card or a high level PCI(e) card. As to sample rate conversion does SB still incorrectly do automatically upscale on incoming SPDIF?
Toslink, will get you DD 5.1 with zero interference from the EMI in the case =) Of course now I've upgraded to using the codec in my 5750 so I can bitstream any format.
Like I said, under most real world workloads the L2ARC will have significant impact. There will always be edge cases and artificial benchmarks that can swamp any cache, but I run a midsized enterprise on an array with only 8GB of cache and it absorbs 99.5% of the write workload and a fair percentage of the non-database read workload so a 64GB+ SSD would just be that much better. With L2ARC you can achieve a high 95-99% IOPS watermark with a small dollar investment, and because the cache is servicing most of the hot data it also means that the available backend IOPS are more available to service the hard cases.
L2ARC is a HUGE performance improvement for many workloads, it essentially allows you to use faster disks to cache the most frequently used data. If they had combined the SSD and the 7200 RPM SATA drive and benchmarked a real world workload the ZFS implementation would have probably stomped the others because it would have used the SSD for the 'hot' data, the best you can do with btrfs is to place the metadata on the SSD.
Actually Google is doing exactly what they should, providing me with high quality links to relevant information and trying to tease out intention from a one or two word query. What the article does is astroturf against google by an employee of a competitor which does not provide me with useful information which is probably why his company is not successful in competing with google =)
I'm still not giving up my passwords on fifth amendment grounds even if I have nothing to hide. In fact I've told a TSA goon exactly that when they asked me to login to my laptop at a screening checkpoint. They could see it wasn't a bomb from the xray and by me powering it up, the only thing that logging in could have possibly done is get me into trouble for the contents of my machine.
Yes, but I worked for IBM Global Services at the time and they took the exact opposite approach, they went out and were proactively replacing affected motherboards for customers (including some that were out of warranty). In fact one of my worst experiences in IT was because of the bad caps, they almost got me capped! I was working after hours at a bank branch in a really bad area in Cleveland (2 of the top 10 worst neighborhoods for violent crime in the US are within a mile of this branch according to FBI stats) and when I left I was within a block of a driveby.
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Really? I guess you don't understand how fractional reserve banking works then...
For a fee they will burn you DVD's or put your backup on HDD's. They also support a local HDD copy for when it's a fat finger or hardware failure rather than a true disaster that takes out your data.
These days it's generally cheaper to let Mozy or one of their competitors handle it and the best part is nobody has to rotate tapes and offsite tapes and as a consultant you can get status reports on the backups and if they make you an admin on the account you can do test restores without going onsite. For my dad's small business (5 total employees including my dad and his partner) has RAID in the server, a local copy to his workstation, a remote copy to his partners workstation, and Mozy and he still insists on burning a CD of his quickbooks data and stashing it in a safety deposit box.
They were all used when I got them, the 97 had 125k when I got it, the 99 taurus (mistakenly listed at 2001) had 85k and the Sable had 65k. My dad who sold me the first two has done 100k miles in as little as 22 months before.
Sure, when the supreme court allowed civil forfeiture via eminent domain there was a bit of an uproar but no real call to action yet almost every state passed a law or amendment banning the practice and that's just a recent example.
Uh, above/in the upper troposphere there's plenty of ionizing radiation to be had.
I think we need to have an open, honest, and informed debate about the privacy issues. What I don't want is an uninformed mob storming the gates, while I happen to agree with the angry stupid mob this time I rather detest the general principal because it's been abused so many times before against the ideals of freedom and a healthy democracy.
Uh, privacy concerns are quite separate from medical concerns. I object to the intrusiveness of the scans in the strongest terms possible but I also object to uninformed anti-science and technology mumbo-jumbo.
Troll, really? I stated a fact that is on topic, how is that trolling?
If you're that worried about xray radiation, don't fly! The radiation from the backscatter xray is only equivalent to 4 minutes of flight time for the typical scan time so even if you are in the scanner for a full 2 minutes it's only equal to the dosage you are going to get on a short flight.
Funny enough the Essex's twin the Buick 3800 also had head gasket problems at about the same time due to a similar redesign effort despite being separated for almost 20 years (Ford copied a late 70's Buick design to make the original Essex). At least Ford didn't also have the cracking intake manifold problems that GM did. I guess that's what happens when you try to bring an engine design that started in the early 1960's into the 21st century instead of doing a clean sheet design like the Duratec though even that is getting a bit long in the tooth. I guess the ecoboost variants may give them some life through increased fuel economy by lowering needed displacement for similar power:weight ratios.
The funny thing is it wasn't the EMU10k that was the problem (that chip got used in plenty of beautiful products like the Korg Triton series of workstations) but the butchery that was the rest of the card. Glad to hear that the X-Fi corrected that stupid problem.
Let's see 1997 Taurus 225k miles, 2001 Taurus 250k miles, 2001 Sable only 185k miles so far. Of course the common thread is all three had the Duratec V6, one of the best engines ever made. It helps to do your homework =)
The U.S. Economic Espionage Act of 1996, which became effective on January 1, 1997, makes theft or misappropriation of trade secrets a federal crime.
And also a civil case by Ford against his employer and possibly criminal penalties against the employer for inducement to steal trade secrets which can carry punitive fines.
It could also be that the design docs were from the manufacturing process rather than the product itself. The process engineering behind a plant could easily be worth significantly more than even $100M because the plants today cost upwards of $1B to design, build, and furnish and the lifetime efficiency gains for a well engineered plant can also reach into the billions.
I guess it's possible, I just never got acceptable results with any of the prosumer cards I tried until I started using external break out boxes which was either a very high end feature for internal cards or available on midrange external cards so the choice to use the external all in one boxes was a no brainer for me =)
My motherboard has optical SPDIF in and I'd never use a DAC in the PC environment, it's just too noisy. If you need high quality DAC you need to do it in a breakout box so you're either looking at a midlevel USB/Firewire card or a high level PCI(e) card. As to sample rate conversion does SB still incorrectly do automatically upscale on incoming SPDIF?
Toslink, will get you DD 5.1 with zero interference from the EMI in the case =) Of course now I've upgraded to using the codec in my 5750 so I can bitstream any format.
Like I said, under most real world workloads the L2ARC will have significant impact. There will always be edge cases and artificial benchmarks that can swamp any cache, but I run a midsized enterprise on an array with only 8GB of cache and it absorbs 99.5% of the write workload and a fair percentage of the non-database read workload so a 64GB+ SSD would just be that much better. With L2ARC you can achieve a high 95-99% IOPS watermark with a small dollar investment, and because the cache is servicing most of the hot data it also means that the available backend IOPS are more available to service the hard cases.
L2ARC! Use that small SSD to improve average performance for almost all your files.
L2ARC is a HUGE performance improvement for many workloads, it essentially allows you to use faster disks to cache the most frequently used data. If they had combined the SSD and the 7200 RPM SATA drive and benchmarked a real world workload the ZFS implementation would have probably stomped the others because it would have used the SSD for the 'hot' data, the best you can do with btrfs is to place the metadata on the SSD.
Actually Google is doing exactly what they should, providing me with high quality links to relevant information and trying to tease out intention from a one or two word query. What the article does is astroturf against google by an employee of a competitor which does not provide me with useful information which is probably why his company is not successful in competing with google =)
I'm still not giving up my passwords on fifth amendment grounds even if I have nothing to hide. In fact I've told a TSA goon exactly that when they asked me to login to my laptop at a screening checkpoint. They could see it wasn't a bomb from the xray and by me powering it up, the only thing that logging in could have possibly done is get me into trouble for the contents of my machine.
Yes, but I worked for IBM Global Services at the time and they took the exact opposite approach, they went out and were proactively replacing affected motherboards for customers (including some that were out of warranty). In fact one of my worst experiences in IT was because of the bad caps, they almost got me capped! I was working after hours at a bank branch in a really bad area in Cleveland (2 of the top 10 worst neighborhoods for violent crime in the US are within a mile of this branch according to FBI stats) and when I left I was within a block of a driveby.