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  1. Re:Software Licensing Costs? on AMD's 12-Core Chip Cuts Software Licensing Costs · · Score: 1

    Yes because my Oracle and Mentor Graphics software running on Linux is free.....

  2. Re:That's a silly question. on AMD's 12-Core Chip Cuts Software Licensing Costs · · Score: 1

    SAN's can use SSD.s and have large mirrored caches which can survive a node failure, Openfiler does not.

  3. Re:Opposite problem with Oracle licensing on AMD's 12-Core Chip Cuts Software Licensing Costs · · Score: 1

    And per core for OBIEE and a bunch of other stuff, JDE licensing is fun since it's based on users and company revenue (wtf?).

  4. Re:Per-core licensing? on AMD's 12-Core Chip Cuts Software Licensing Costs · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, on x86/x64 it's core count/2 for Oracle software licensed per CPU (no additional license is needed for the first core).

  5. Re:Per-core licensing? on AMD's 12-Core Chip Cuts Software Licensing Costs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nope, Server Standard and Enterprise are per system, Datacenter is per socket (not core). Enterprise allows for 4 additional OS images on the same hardware, datacenter allows unlimited.

  6. Re:Nvidia can only hope... on Nvidia's GF100 Turns Into GeForce GTX 480 and 470 · · Score: 1

    It's a non-reference design using a superior voltage regulator module and it slightly undervolts the core and has no cooling fan to power. Here's the charts.

  7. Re:why is the Via C7 not more popular? on Atom Processors Set New Record For Power-Efficient Sorting · · Score: 1

    50W idle is frankly unimpressive for such an underpowered rig. I'm running an Athlon x2 4200, 4GB of ram, 2x HDD's, tv tuner, NVidia 9600 GSO and I idle under 50W (max is about 150W).

  8. Re:Not much in the article on Atom Processors Set New Record For Power-Efficient Sorting · · Score: 1

    Dude, the 3 year power and cooling cost of the whole server is less than the difference between the HDD and the SSD at this point. In a couple years when a 128GB SLC SSD can be had for the same cost as a 146GB SFF HDD it will make sense, but that's definitely not where we are today (Intel x-25e 64GB is ~$750, HP 146GB 10k is ~$200). Heck even the consumer grade x25m isn't there yet at ~$450 for the 160GB model.

  9. Re:Now we can have... on Atom Processors Set New Record For Power-Efficient Sorting · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you have low CPU needs why not virtualize? You can fit one heck of a lot of ITX sized VM's on a blade chassis full of modern equipment. If fact it would be on the order of 1500 in a 10U C7000 using 8GB dimm's if your VM's were 1GB and you had no memory overcommit. One c7000 is going to be a heck of a lot more power efficient than 1500 ITX boards, cheaper and more reliable besides.

  10. Re:This is the way we are headed on Atom Processors Set New Record For Power-Efficient Sorting · · Score: 1

    This is definitely NOT true for MLC cells, for the very largest SLC arrays it might be true (Intel x-25e 64GB at max write rate would last ~3 years at rated cell life). I guess it really depends on your usage pattern.

  11. Re:Interesting number of bombers on US and Russia Conclude Arms-Control Treaty · · Score: 1

    There's also 20 B2 Spirit's and 66 B1 Lancers, but yeah it actually seems it's more likely that number is for Russia since as a sibling said there are only 94 active B52's.

  12. Re:redundant if saving large amounts of data to SA on Open Source Deduplication For Linux With Opendedup · · Score: 1

    Not every SAN has dedupe, for instance my HP EVA doesn't. Also many of the lowend Netapp boxes have too anemic processors to be able to do dedupe. Most of the lowend iSCSI boxes also lack dedupe.

  13. Re:ISPs are not wild about the idea. on Major 'Net Players Mulling IPv6 Whitelist · · Score: 1

    IPSEC supports proxies just fine:
    Desktop{--}Proxy{--}Proxy{--}Server
    or
    Desktop{--}Proxy{--}Server
    Heck you can do this with SSL as well if the Proxy's certificate is trusted by the desktop. Many places with high security requirements already do this as it's trivial for a trojan or other malware to be hosted on an HTTPS site.

  14. Re:Nvidia can only hope... on Nvidia's GF100 Turns Into GeForce GTX 480 and 470 · · Score: 4, Informative

    You're missing the best card on a performance per watt basis, the HD5750. The Powercool Go!Green edition pulls 62W max, 52W in normal gaming. It's so efficient it doesn't even need a PCIe power cord. It will get you 95% of the performance of the HD5770 pulling twice as much power. Oh and for HTPC's that are on 24x7 the 14W idle is nice too =) Now if only they would come down from $160 and Newegg would get them back in stock...

  15. Interesting number of bombers on US and Russia Conclude Arms-Control Treaty · · Score: 1

    Since 744 B-52's were produced I have to assume that number was derived to match the US's current heavy bomber fleet.

  16. Re:Why not laser print? on College To Save Money By Switching Email Font · · Score: 1

    There's also thermal wax transfer, but all three cost WAY less than the numbers quoted in TFA.

  17. Re:email? on College To Save Money By Switching Email Font · · Score: 1

    That's nothing, I have a floor with 6 black and white printers that are less than a year old and have 800k-1M impressions each. There's also a couple color printers on that floor with 350k and 500k impressions (though those are a couple years old).

  18. Re:change provider on How Do You Extend Your Wireless Connection? · · Score: 1

    What retarded monkey can make a quad band PHY but can't make it work with 3G?! Perhaps having the 3G chip capable of using multiple bands makes it enough less power efficient that they are going with the specialized part. I'm pretty sure that's just a temporary problem though, eventually they will all be back to using just one radio because it really is tremendously expensive to do it that way (the photomask for the chips are millions each these days).

  19. Re:change provider on How Do You Extend Your Wireless Connection? · · Score: 1

    All the current Blackberry's are 850/900/2100 UMTS compatible, so they don't have coverage in 1700/1800/1900 3G but they should get you 3G just about everywhere.

  20. Re:Thank you Facebook on Facebook Goes After Greasemonkey Script Developer · · Score: 1

    FB can't possibly keep backups of every state of your profile

    If they consider it valuable information of COURSE they can, duh. If Mozy can backup unlimited data for $5/month then obviously valuable business data that takes almost no storage can be backed up indefinitely.

  21. Of course not on Facebook Goes After Greasemonkey Script Developer · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Of course they don't, but it doesn't matter because the developer can't possibly afford to defend himself so he'll comply because it doesn't matter if you're right if you're homeless. I wish judges were a little more liberal with SLAPP summary judgments against litigious corporations.

  22. Re:change provider on How Do You Extend Your Wireless Connection? · · Score: 1

    Dude, almost every GSM smartphone on the market is quad band/triple band UMTS so they can use either US band as well as both bands in the rest of the world. It would cost the phone manufacturers more to do custom IC's and per customer stock then it does to do it this way.

  23. Re:Wireless Extender on How Do You Extend Your Wireless Connection? · · Score: 1

    Uh, the AT&T femtocells most certainly do carry data, that's why they actually require a 3G device.

  24. Re:Simple on How Do You Extend Your Wireless Connection? · · Score: 1

    DAMPS was 5W max which is why a lot of rural folks were very sad to see AT&T turn it off, I only found one place where I didn't have signal in the 7 years I had my DAMPS phone and that was on a 80,000 acre ranch outside of Zion national park.

  25. Re:Wifi on How Do You Extend Your Wireless Connection? · · Score: 1

    Actually UMA will not roam a call from cellular to WiFi, that's to keep you from ping-ponging in fringe WiFi coverage areas. Also the unlimited minutes need Hotspot@Home AFAIK, UMA without it counts against your minutes. You can probably get Hotspot@Home added to any but the lowest tier plan for free if you ask the right questions. We had it added to our corporate plans despite the fact that technically it's not supposed to be available, as always money talks =)