True, we have a ram hog reporting package that we only support about 15 users per server, but running that on the desktop would be a non-starter due to ram and network requirements.
Almost 100% of base load generation growth in the last 20 years has been coal fired plants, that means if you are wasting energy you ARE contributing to the mercury in the environment. Through the three national grids electricity is fungible which means even if your local power source is hydro, you wasting energy requires more coal base load plants to be built (at least until we start stamping out nuclear plants which we should be doing today).
The ppm in your house is 0ppm unless you happen to break one while it's on, and even then it's still going to be quite low. Compare that to breathing x ppm every day on your way to and from work and every minute you are outdoors, I would say the rational choice is to reduce the ppm in the environment. Oh, and don't forget that a significant amount of that x ppm ends up concentrated in your food supply.
As to you other rants, all of those have been negated by modern CFL's, you can get them in just about any color temperature you like with a CRI of 90+, instant on bulbs are easy to find, as are dimmable CFL's (though they don't get quite as dim as incandescants so if you need really dim light they might not work for you).
You're a very odd case then, I was listening to NPR this morning and the stat they quoted was 96% of Americans live within 15 miles of a Walmart (something like 84% live within 5 miles). Walmart also carries the pretty good GE Energy Smart line of CFL's which match incandescents fairly well for color spectrum.
You're doing it wrong, we support ~30 users per server and they are mostly 4 core boxes with 4GB of ram, not exactly beefy servers by today's standards. We'd easily be doing 4x that if we could go to x64 with 16GB per box but IE has this bad habit of loading the 64bit executable even when you explicitly launch it from the x86 directory causing all 32bit plugins and ActiveX controls to not work.
It even happens on windows if you are passing through to another ICA/RDP session. I've had significantly better luck with the new 11 client, is that available for Linux yet?
Huh? TPM 1.2 chips are merely a hardware keystore, they don't do anything to lock out 'unapproved' software. In fact the spec is fully open and open source applications can make use of them to securely hold keys just as easily as Vista does. My biggest gripe about TPM at this point is that only Dell ships servers with them, I want to use the keystore for automatic booting of Bitlocker encrypted 2008 remote domain controllers but can't bring myself to use Dell hardware.
Are you really that dense or just being obtuse? They took the spectrum that was being used forcing a cost on the public to accommodate the taking, in order to make us whole they gave us new spectrum but utilizing that new spectrum comes at a cost of a converter box so the government is using some of the proceeds from the sale of the original spectrum to help the public make use of the new spectrum. You can argue that there are better uses for the funds, but I bet there are a lot of people with rabbit ears that would disagree with you and since those are the people that are directly affected by the taking they get to decide (through their elected officials) that the funds are used to make them whole.
From about 8-10ish most of the US news sites were melted down on 9/11. I went into the office after hearing about the second crash on Howard Stern thinking it was a joke, but CNN.com, nytimes.com, washingtonpost.com all wouldn't load. I finally got to bbc.co.uk and that loaded fine and had pictures of the burning WTC. The Internet didn't have any problems but the major media sites sure didn't. Of course since that was such a watershed moment for the commercial internet much of the technology that brought online to bring those sites back has since been automated for high traffic spike events. Heck CNN was able to stream Obama's inauguration without any issues =)
The whole reason for doing this was that the FCC slapped them around about their last plan which was that all traffic for high bandwidth users was throttled, except COX digital cable and VoIP was excepted because they used different channels, not the bulk IP transports. This is probably the best possible solution to oversubscription without favoring COX's own offerings over 3rd party providers.
Because the government seized a public asset (the radio spectrum) and sold it to a private entity (the entertainment and telecommunications companies) and so they have some responsibility to make the public whole.
When you are going to eventually write something to a (flash) ROM responsible for booting your computer, that is not an acceptable risk.
Sure it is, modern motherboards have one or more of the following features: fallback ROM (non-flash), secondary flash ROM location, ROM recovery method. Basically on a decent modern computer it's not really possible to brick them, there's always a way to get back to a working ROM image.
In your first example a modern compiler will do loop unrolling and will automatically vectorize the instruction so it will run faster then even your 16 subtotals since you have multiple SIMD units and each is more powerful then the ALU.
My HP servers test 128GB is a tolerable time. They probably do a very rudimentary check, but they seem to be using all 16 cores to do the check so that it completed in a reasonable timeframe.
POP3 doesn't remove them from gmail even if you select to remove them, what it does appear to do is clear a flag so that they won't be downloaded again. I haven't looked at the raw packets but I have to assume less data is transferred if the flags are cleared so unless you are using POP3 from multiple machines it would probably be more efficient to let your client clear them.
I would be surprised if the marketing companies don't have such pseudo-people already. The could be used for both attack campaigns as well as polishing campaigns and if an ad company had enough clients it would be hard to tell that they weren't a legit reviewer with both positive and negative feedback. Most online reviews tend to be glowing or bottom of the barrel because people who have an average experience with a product are not motivated to provide feedback which would cost them time.
Or 3 drives, RAID1+removable backup drive doing occasional sync's. Personally I like the setup I did for my dad's small business. RAID1 on the server which does VSS snapshots twice daily then the app dumps its DB nightly to his workstation which then copies the backup to his business partner via VPN and the workstation is also backed up to a Mozy Pro account. The server cost about $1K and the VPN routers were about $150 a piece, the Mozy account costs like $10/month, all in all really cheap for data protection better than many large companies =)
Or LSI, we get half the IOPS from our LSI based HP P400 than we do from the ICH in our HP workstations when using the X25-e's. Reports on the web lead me to believe that there are NO hardware raid cards that can keep up with these beasts which is a shame because I can't see using them without battery backed write cache. I'm going to look into the big boy P800 and possibly the new P410 but right now I'm kind of underwhelmed by the fact that $5-600 raid cards get beaten badly by the 'free' ICH controllers on motherboards =(
Dude, 4 of these drives can keep up with my 110 spindle FC SAN segment for IOPS. Here's a hint, 110 drives plus SAN controllers is about two orders of magnitude more expensive than 4 SSD's and a RAID card. If you need IOPS (say for the log directory on a DB server) these drives are hard to beat. The applications may be niche, but they certainly DO exist.
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True, we have a ram hog reporting package that we only support about 15 users per server, but running that on the desktop would be a non-starter due to ram and network requirements.
Look up CRI, modern CFL's can reach a CRI of 92+ for expensive bulbs and mid 80's for cheap good bulbs like the GE Energy Saver's.
Almost 100% of base load generation growth in the last 20 years has been coal fired plants, that means if you are wasting energy you ARE contributing to the mercury in the environment. Through the three national grids electricity is fungible which means even if your local power source is hydro, you wasting energy requires more coal base load plants to be built (at least until we start stamping out nuclear plants which we should be doing today).
The ppm in your house is 0ppm unless you happen to break one while it's on, and even then it's still going to be quite low. Compare that to breathing x ppm every day on your way to and from work and every minute you are outdoors, I would say the rational choice is to reduce the ppm in the environment. Oh, and don't forget that a significant amount of that x ppm ends up concentrated in your food supply.
As to you other rants, all of those have been negated by modern CFL's, you can get them in just about any color temperature you like with a CRI of 90+, instant on bulbs are easy to find, as are dimmable CFL's (though they don't get quite as dim as incandescants so if you need really dim light they might not work for you).
How do you support 100 copies of Firfox on 4GB of ram? The least I have ever seen Firefox take is ~100MB.
That's nice, your microvax probably cost as much as all of my Citrix servers to support 1,000 users and mine are infinitely more useful.
You're a very odd case then, I was listening to NPR this morning and the stat they quoted was 96% of Americans live within 15 miles of a Walmart (something like 84% live within 5 miles). Walmart also carries the pretty good GE Energy Smart line of CFL's which match incandescents fairly well for color spectrum.
You're doing it wrong, we support ~30 users per server and they are mostly 4 core boxes with 4GB of ram, not exactly beefy servers by today's standards. We'd easily be doing 4x that if we could go to x64 with 16GB per box but IE has this bad habit of loading the 64bit executable even when you explicitly launch it from the x86 directory causing all 32bit plugins and ActiveX controls to not work.
It even happens on windows if you are passing through to another ICA/RDP session. I've had significantly better luck with the new 11 client, is that available for Linux yet?
Huh? TPM 1.2 chips are merely a hardware keystore, they don't do anything to lock out 'unapproved' software. In fact the spec is fully open and open source applications can make use of them to securely hold keys just as easily as Vista does. My biggest gripe about TPM at this point is that only Dell ships servers with them, I want to use the keystore for automatic booting of Bitlocker encrypted 2008 remote domain controllers but can't bring myself to use Dell hardware.
Are you really that dense or just being obtuse? They took the spectrum that was being used forcing a cost on the public to accommodate the taking, in order to make us whole they gave us new spectrum but utilizing that new spectrum comes at a cost of a converter box so the government is using some of the proceeds from the sale of the original spectrum to help the public make use of the new spectrum. You can argue that there are better uses for the funds, but I bet there are a lot of people with rabbit ears that would disagree with you and since those are the people that are directly affected by the taking they get to decide (through their elected officials) that the funds are used to make them whole.
From about 8-10ish most of the US news sites were melted down on 9/11. I went into the office after hearing about the second crash on Howard Stern thinking it was a joke, but CNN.com, nytimes.com, washingtonpost.com all wouldn't load. I finally got to bbc.co.uk and that loaded fine and had pictures of the burning WTC. The Internet didn't have any problems but the major media sites sure didn't. Of course since that was such a watershed moment for the commercial internet much of the technology that brought online to bring those sites back has since been automated for high traffic spike events. Heck CNN was able to stream Obama's inauguration without any issues =)
The whole reason for doing this was that the FCC slapped them around about their last plan which was that all traffic for high bandwidth users was throttled, except COX digital cable and VoIP was excepted because they used different channels, not the bulk IP transports. This is probably the best possible solution to oversubscription without favoring COX's own offerings over 3rd party providers.
Because the government seized a public asset (the radio spectrum) and sold it to a private entity (the entertainment and telecommunications companies) and so they have some responsibility to make the public whole.
When you are going to eventually write something to a (flash) ROM responsible for booting your computer, that is not an acceptable risk.
Sure it is, modern motherboards have one or more of the following features: fallback ROM (non-flash), secondary flash ROM location, ROM recovery method. Basically on a decent modern computer it's not really possible to brick them, there's always a way to get back to a working ROM image.
In your first example a modern compiler will do loop unrolling and will automatically vectorize the instruction so it will run faster then even your 16 subtotals since you have multiple SIMD units and each is more powerful then the ALU.
My HP servers test 128GB is a tolerable time. They probably do a very rudimentary check, but they seem to be using all 16 cores to do the check so that it completed in a reasonable timeframe.
POP3 doesn't remove them from gmail even if you select to remove them, what it does appear to do is clear a flag so that they won't be downloaded again. I haven't looked at the raw packets but I have to assume less data is transferred if the flags are cleared so unless you are using POP3 from multiple machines it would probably be more efficient to let your client clear them.
I would be surprised if the marketing companies don't have such pseudo-people already. The could be used for both attack campaigns as well as polishing campaigns and if an ad company had enough clients it would be hard to tell that they weren't a legit reviewer with both positive and negative feedback. Most online reviews tend to be glowing or bottom of the barrel because people who have an average experience with a product are not motivated to provide feedback which would cost them time.
And that's why the current crop of Atom based netbooks FAIL as netbooks, they use a 1W processor with a 45W chipset!
I'm getting 70K IOPS@ 4K 100% random write with the ICH on my HP desktop, only 35K from the P400 controller in my server though.
Or 3 drives, RAID1+removable backup drive doing occasional sync's. Personally I like the setup I did for my dad's small business. RAID1 on the server which does VSS snapshots twice daily then the app dumps its DB nightly to his workstation which then copies the backup to his business partner via VPN and the workstation is also backed up to a Mozy Pro account. The server cost about $1K and the VPN routers were about $150 a piece, the Mozy account costs like $10/month, all in all really cheap for data protection better than many large companies =)
Or LSI, we get half the IOPS from our LSI based HP P400 than we do from the ICH in our HP workstations when using the X25-e's. Reports on the web lead me to believe that there are NO hardware raid cards that can keep up with these beasts which is a shame because I can't see using them without battery backed write cache. I'm going to look into the big boy P800 and possibly the new P410 but right now I'm kind of underwhelmed by the fact that $5-600 raid cards get beaten badly by the 'free' ICH controllers on motherboards =(
Fusion-IO is about $30/GB, these are about $20/GB and get about the same IOPS/$ so unless you don't have physical space the Intel SSD's win.
Dude, 4 of these drives can keep up with my 110 spindle FC SAN segment for IOPS. Here's a hint, 110 drives plus SAN controllers is about two orders of magnitude more expensive than 4 SSD's and a RAID card. If you need IOPS (say for the log directory on a DB server) these drives are hard to beat. The applications may be niche, but they certainly DO exist.