No it's easy to believe, returning hulls from the deep often cracks them along some seam, if one part of the ship had its center of gravity within the cradle while the other part did not it's easy to imagine how they could recover a part of the ship with contents in tact while the other part would be lost
I wonder if IBM's chipkill chips are flexible enough to do the RAID for flash, those are already in large volume production and can do full bandwidth RAID for RAM so they could easily keep up with flash. That would probably lower the cost significantly.
It'd be like the old IRC days, those people on high bandwidth connections (T1+) ping flooding the guys on dialup to drop them, only now the people who you cheese off online can cost you LOTS of real money simply by sending traffic your way!
PRTG works with any SNMP aware router including most Linksys models. They have a free version for non-commercial use which can monitor one device. link
I'm not sure, the big ones for tv data seem to either go down or revamp their site to defeat scrapers every 6 months or so. For financial data like that I have no clue. Since the IMF provides the data for free the websites costs shouldn't be too much, but you will probably still want to randomize the download time and use a normal agent string to keep your traffic kind of below the radar. Since it's not too much data and you probably won't have millions of people using the app the websites probably won't notice and it mostly be site redesigns and sites folding that will make them unavailable.
Currency source offers the IMF data as a series of RSS feeds:
link
You could also write a screen scraper for yahoo finance like this post explains how to do from google spreadsheet.
Ultimately you are best off writing a spec and an interface like the xmltv people did, sources of free data come and go, especially those which are abused through automation, but if you have a good framework people who want the information will find a way. I personally choose to pay for my tv data today because it's easier than hassling with a screen scaper that breaks every few weeks/months, but I still use the xmltv format, so a good framework doesn't have to just support leechers from free data sources =)
Streaming the entire ticker used to be done over a system more primitive than teletype, I imagine the bandwidth requirements for your person portfolio are minuscule.
Actually this is really cool since you can call google finance tickers from a google apps spreadsheet. You can now easily do some advanced data manipulation with realtime data for free.
No, a 4 drive array that will do 200MB/s can be had for a couple grand and will store at least a TB. The equivalent in an SSD will cost you tens of thousands and will probably take up nearly as much space. SSD's are great for niche applications like log files for a high transaction DB or for a laptop where the idle power savings are significant, but they have a long way to go before they eliminate spinning disks.
Uh, the 120K IOPS is great (about what I can get per shelf from my SAN vendor with their current offering) but the estimated cost of $30/GB is insane! Not to mention I don't see any management software for running large numbers of them so they are in no way a replacement for a real SAN.
I don't know about SATA drives as I only have a few in my datacenter but our Seagate SCSI/SAS drives have a failure rate of about.5% per year, that's pretty damn low.
Hmm, government has basically always funded basic science research, whether that be a strong central government or the local lord. There isn't a huge amount of incentive for businesses to fund basic science research as it infrequently leads to a positive ROI in the nearterm. That doesn't mean that there isn't a societal good from basic science research, the last 100 years of technological advances are proof to the contrary, but the private sector just doesn't have the right conditions to do it so the only place left are private foundations and government and private foundations don't have nearly the resources to do it (I guess you can argue that the foundations would have more resources if the government took less but I don't buy it).
"The other oft-quoted statistic, the average number of years between moves, can be calculated by dividing life expectancy (which was 74 years in 1982) by the number of lifetime moves (10.5). The answer, 7.0, suggests that the average American moves once every seven years" link.
The stat I have always heard is 7 years on average and this was the first Google quote I could find backing it with actual data =)
They are probably lightweight cores, much like those on the Sun coolthreads processors. Plus if you are paying for a system with 700+ cores you probably have an app that can keep 700+ threads busy =)
Java GC sucks in general. I use quite a number of different JVM's and the tuning advice I see most often and have experienced is don't allow any given JVM to go above ~1.5GB of ram or GC performance will bring down overall system performance. That's just stupid on modern machines with up to hundreds of GB of ram. Sure there are frontends that allow you to spawn additional JVM's automatically, but that just means there's more processes and more overhead.
Anything which drives down cost in the realestate market is a good thing. With an average home cost of $200K (nationwide) and an average commission of 6% and an average stay lasting 7 years that means realtors are taking about $1,750 per year per household out of the economy, that's almost half as much as my property taxes! What value add do they bring to the system, they drive around a couple days a week and show houses to buyers or spend a couple days a week showing houses. Other than that they add a house to the MLS. True they help a bit with the paperwork, but that's really not worth 6% of the value of most peoples largest purchase.
Yeah that was my way of getting across locking your PC to a former helpdesk manager. Putting a note in 72pt font asking him to please lock his workstation didn't work repeatedly so I sent an email to the director of IT as him stating "I am an idiot who leaves my workstation unlocked, therefore anyone walking by can compromise the network". You should have seen him come running from his meeting when he saw it on his blackberry. The IT Director just laughed when he complained and told him not to be an idiot and to lock his machine as per company policy.
Hahaha, you know nothing about retail do you? Each store generally has a "server" (backroom PC) which holds the days transactions until they are batch uploaded either at the end of the day or at some regular interval. Giving a company that has been proven to be screwups when it comes to security the benefit of the doubt is just stupid.
I'll tell you in Ohio the african-american Democrats certainly didn't blindly vote for Ken Blackwell, an african-american Republican! He only garnered 20% of the african-american vote, which while high for a Republican is only 4% higher than Bush received in Ohio during his second election.
The gmail client for blackberry works fine over GPRS, it's hard to get a worse connection than that =) It's certainly more responsive over EDGE, but you can use it without the fancy address book lookup and stuff even over GPRS.
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No it's easy to believe, returning hulls from the deep often cracks them along some seam, if one part of the ship had its center of gravity within the cradle while the other part did not it's easy to imagine how they could recover a part of the ship with contents in tact while the other part would be lost
I wonder if IBM's chipkill chips are flexible enough to do the RAID for flash, those are already in large volume production and can do full bandwidth RAID for RAM so they could easily keep up with flash. That would probably lower the cost significantly.
40,000MB/1.875MB/s*3600s/hr=5.925r hours or just under 6 hours.
It'd be like the old IRC days, those people on high bandwidth connections (T1+) ping flooding the guys on dialup to drop them, only now the people who you cheese off online can cost you LOTS of real money simply by sending traffic your way!
PRTG works with any SNMP aware router including most Linksys models. They have a free version for non-commercial use which can monitor one device. link
I'm not sure, the big ones for tv data seem to either go down or revamp their site to defeat scrapers every 6 months or so. For financial data like that I have no clue. Since the IMF provides the data for free the websites costs shouldn't be too much, but you will probably still want to randomize the download time and use a normal agent string to keep your traffic kind of below the radar. Since it's not too much data and you probably won't have millions of people using the app the websites probably won't notice and it mostly be site redesigns and sites folding that will make them unavailable.
Currency source offers the IMF data as a series of RSS feeds: link
You could also write a screen scraper for yahoo finance like this post explains how to do from google spreadsheet.
Ultimately you are best off writing a spec and an interface like the xmltv people did, sources of free data come and go, especially those which are abused through automation, but if you have a good framework people who want the information will find a way. I personally choose to pay for my tv data today because it's easier than hassling with a screen scaper that breaks every few weeks/months, but I still use the xmltv format, so a good framework doesn't have to just support leechers from free data sources =)
Streaming the entire ticker used to be done over a system more primitive than teletype, I imagine the bandwidth requirements for your person portfolio are minuscule.
Actually this is really cool since you can call google finance tickers from a google apps spreadsheet. You can now easily do some advanced data manipulation with realtime data for free.
Finally all the WoW addicts can get some sunlight!
No, a 4 drive array that will do 200MB/s can be had for a couple grand and will store at least a TB. The equivalent in an SSD will cost you tens of thousands and will probably take up nearly as much space. SSD's are great for niche applications like log files for a high transaction DB or for a laptop where the idle power savings are significant, but they have a long way to go before they eliminate spinning disks.
Uh, the 120K IOPS is great (about what I can get per shelf from my SAN vendor with their current offering) but the estimated cost of $30/GB is insane! Not to mention I don't see any management software for running large numbers of them so they are in no way a replacement for a real SAN.
I don't know about SATA drives as I only have a few in my datacenter but our Seagate SCSI/SAS drives have a failure rate of about .5% per year, that's pretty damn low.
Compared to the 309 total US Nobel's in science from 1951-2000 it is but a small drop in the bucket.
Hmm, government has basically always funded basic science research, whether that be a strong central government or the local lord. There isn't a huge amount of incentive for businesses to fund basic science research as it infrequently leads to a positive ROI in the nearterm. That doesn't mean that there isn't a societal good from basic science research, the last 100 years of technological advances are proof to the contrary, but the private sector just doesn't have the right conditions to do it so the only place left are private foundations and government and private foundations don't have nearly the resources to do it (I guess you can argue that the foundations would have more resources if the government took less but I don't buy it).
"The other oft-quoted statistic, the average number of years between moves, can be calculated by dividing life expectancy (which was 74 years in 1982) by the number of lifetime moves (10.5). The answer, 7.0, suggests that the average American moves once every seven years" link.
The stat I have always heard is 7 years on average and this was the first Google quote I could find backing it with actual data =)
They are probably lightweight cores, much like those on the Sun coolthreads processors. Plus if you are paying for a system with 700+ cores you probably have an app that can keep 700+ threads busy =)
Java GC sucks in general. I use quite a number of different JVM's and the tuning advice I see most often and have experienced is don't allow any given JVM to go above ~1.5GB of ram or GC performance will bring down overall system performance. That's just stupid on modern machines with up to hundreds of GB of ram. Sure there are frontends that allow you to spawn additional JVM's automatically, but that just means there's more processes and more overhead.
Anything which drives down cost in the realestate market is a good thing. With an average home cost of $200K (nationwide) and an average commission of 6% and an average stay lasting 7 years that means realtors are taking about $1,750 per year per household out of the economy, that's almost half as much as my property taxes! What value add do they bring to the system, they drive around a couple days a week and show houses to buyers or spend a couple days a week showing houses. Other than that they add a house to the MLS. True they help a bit with the paperwork, but that's really not worth 6% of the value of most peoples largest purchase.
Yeah that was my way of getting across locking your PC to a former helpdesk manager. Putting a note in 72pt font asking him to please lock his workstation didn't work repeatedly so I sent an email to the director of IT as him stating "I am an idiot who leaves my workstation unlocked, therefore anyone walking by can compromise the network". You should have seen him come running from his meeting when he saw it on his blackberry. The IT Director just laughed when he complained and told him not to be an idiot and to lock his machine as per company policy.
Hahaha, you know nothing about retail do you? Each store generally has a "server" (backroom PC) which holds the days transactions until they are batch uploaded either at the end of the day or at some regular interval. Giving a company that has been proven to be screwups when it comes to security the benefit of the doubt is just stupid.
I'll tell you in Ohio the african-american Democrats certainly didn't blindly vote for Ken Blackwell, an african-american Republican! He only garnered 20% of the african-american vote, which while high for a Republican is only 4% higher than Bush received in Ohio during his second election.
The gmail client for blackberry works fine over GPRS, it's hard to get a worse connection than that =) It's certainly more responsive over EDGE, but you can use it without the fancy address book lookup and stuff even over GPRS.
Just use google apps, it gives you the ability to use the gmail interface with your own domain =)
For NT4 it was the logon screen saver, they fixed that for win2k. For win2k/xp/2003 you could use the sticky keys accessibility tool.