Actually almost all the banks I've seen the operations for run on IBM mainframes with a smattering of Linux and Unix. The DB's and apps they run are definitely proprietary.
I'm at a combination of ballot and jury. I work for the campaigns of candidates who I like, campaign against those I don't and inform everyone I know who will listen about their civic duty to follow their conscious and perform jury nullification when they believe the law is unjust.
I can slipstream the OEM disk with SP3 in about 30 seconds on the same type of storage MS uses in their labs (Xiotech), why does it take them months to provide a freaking ISO?
Why not just run a bunch of VM's on a workstation? Since these only have 128MB of ram any decent workstation from the last couple years could run the same easily.
Actually I was just thinking that these would be the perfect drives for a Lefthand cluster, the biggest problem I've seen with the Lefthand stuff is that the latency of the 7200RPM SATA drives is a real performance drain for certain applications whereas SAS is kind of overkill on the price/performance curve (you're looking at close to real SAN prices since storage dominates the cost of most installations).
For many applications rotational latency still matters, so yes you get more GB/$ but you have worse performance profile for some apps. You also have to consider duty cycle. I believe the Raptors are rated for a more server like duty cycle whereas that drive is probably rated only for a desktop duty cycle.
I take it you're not a fan of low budget indie films (often much more cerebral than their blockbuster cousins)? The downright cheap distribution on the internet allows for a LOT more intellectual freadom than is available from a high cost centrally run distribution system. The fact that many people enjoy the high budget, nicely polished but ultimately soulless productions should not detract from the fact that if YOU want something more creative it's VASTLY more likely to exist today thanks to the internet.
You are incorrect. Under the safe harbor provision of the DMCA ISP's are in fact listed as being common carriers and stunts like this does in fact expose them to losing the protection of the safe harbor provision. The act may not read exactly as common carrier but the language is extremely similar and grants the same type of limited immunity as common carrier status.
Yes. My current broadband is measured in megabits per second and 62.5nm fiber is capable of terrabits per second. If Bill had said 640GB of ram should be enough for anyone he would have been right for a VERY damn long time =)
Wrong, Cat6 supports 10Gbit (10GBase-T) over reasonable distances and Cat6A supports it to 100m. If you have a small number of runs you should be able to run to 100m over Cat6 so long as you can physically separate the runs so there is no alien crosstalk (inter-cable crosstalk).
10Gb ethernet is 20% more bandwidth than bleeding edge 8Gb FC and it's a fraction of the cost per port. For new installations it's a no-brainer. For places with both infrastructures it's most likely to be evaluated on a per box basis.
There are literally several orders of magnitude more ports of ethernet sold per year than fiberchannel and there are about an order of magnitude more fiberchannel than infiniband. Most of the speakers at storage networking world last week think that it's inevitable that ethernet will take over storage, the ability to spread R&D out over that many ports is just too great of an advantage for it not to win in the long run.
62.5nm fiber is pretty damn future proof. Considering they run terabits per second over it today I don't think any home network is going to outgrow it during my lifetime =)
I don't know, your numbers are pretty pessimistic. The audited numbers for my local food bank are 6% administrative overhead and 3% fundraising. From the numbers I've seen online that's pretty typical for US foodbanks.
If you have a long enough run or low impedance speakers you might need 10 gauge, but yeah standard copper wire is good enough for any setup because the physical imperfections in the rest of the system dwarf any minor electrical imperfections in the cable.
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No, I'm saying most of the bottom 90% have no idea what Ada is =)
Not necessarily, if you only get the top 10% programmers because of the job requirements then it's easy to see where a difficult to learn language could lead to better, more consistent code. I know my coding skills suck which is why I went into sysadmining instead of programming, but I would technically qualify for many programming jobs and could even stumble through making code that would pass general inspection. There really is a TON of difference between a great coder and an average or mediocre coder.
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Actually almost all the banks I've seen the operations for run on IBM mainframes with a smattering of Linux and Unix. The DB's and apps they run are definitely proprietary.
I'm at a combination of ballot and jury. I work for the campaigns of candidates who I like, campaign against those I don't and inform everyone I know who will listen about their civic duty to follow their conscious and perform jury nullification when they believe the law is unjust.
I can slipstream the OEM disk with SP3 in about 30 seconds on the same type of storage MS uses in their labs (Xiotech), why does it take them months to provide a freaking ISO?
WTF? Why do MSDN and VL customers get this later than Windows Update? What exactly are we paying for?
Why not just run a bunch of VM's on a workstation? Since these only have 128MB of ram any decent workstation from the last couple years could run the same easily.
Eh, to do POE it better run at a LOT less than 30-50W, 802.3af only offers 12.95W (37V @ 350mA = 12.95W, 48V @ 270mA = 12.95W link ) guaranteed power.
since the former is soon to be only M$.
And Oracle and SAP, if you think big companies are going to run their financials on open source you're insane.
Actually I was just thinking that these would be the perfect drives for a Lefthand cluster, the biggest problem I've seen with the Lefthand stuff is that the latency of the 7200RPM SATA drives is a real performance drain for certain applications whereas SAS is kind of overkill on the price/performance curve (you're looking at close to real SAN prices since storage dominates the cost of most installations).
Not if the game programmers have done their job. Why do you think things like the WAD file were invented?
Sure, it's called PXE boot and there are plenty of organizations doing it today.
Actually modern RAID1/10 setups can decrease access times by dispatching reads to the drive that has a head nearest the data being requested.
For many applications rotational latency still matters, so yes you get more GB/$ but you have worse performance profile for some apps. You also have to consider duty cycle. I believe the Raptors are rated for a more server like duty cycle whereas that drive is probably rated only for a desktop duty cycle.
I take it you're not a fan of low budget indie films (often much more cerebral than their blockbuster cousins)? The downright cheap distribution on the internet allows for a LOT more intellectual freadom than is available from a high cost centrally run distribution system. The fact that many people enjoy the high budget, nicely polished but ultimately soulless productions should not detract from the fact that if YOU want something more creative it's VASTLY more likely to exist today thanks to the internet.
You are incorrect. Under the safe harbor provision of the DMCA ISP's are in fact listed as being common carriers and stunts like this does in fact expose them to losing the protection of the safe harbor provision. The act may not read exactly as common carrier but the language is extremely similar and grants the same type of limited immunity as common carrier status.
Yes. My current broadband is measured in megabits per second and 62.5nm fiber is capable of terrabits per second. If Bill had said 640GB of ram should be enough for anyone he would have been right for a VERY damn long time =)
Wrong, Cat6 supports 10Gbit (10GBase-T) over reasonable distances and Cat6A supports it to 100m. If you have a small number of runs you should be able to run to 100m over Cat6 so long as you can physically separate the runs so there is no alien crosstalk (inter-cable crosstalk).
MM is ok for short runs with a single wavelength but single mode is what's used for the truly high speed stuff =)
20% more usable, there's more overhead for ethernet =)
10Gb ethernet is 20% more bandwidth than bleeding edge 8Gb FC and it's a fraction of the cost per port. For new installations it's a no-brainer. For places with both infrastructures it's most likely to be evaluated on a per box basis.
There are literally several orders of magnitude more ports of ethernet sold per year than fiberchannel and there are about an order of magnitude more fiberchannel than infiniband. Most of the speakers at storage networking world last week think that it's inevitable that ethernet will take over storage, the ability to spread R&D out over that many ports is just too great of an advantage for it not to win in the long run.
62.5nm fiber is pretty damn future proof. Considering they run terabits per second over it today I don't think any home network is going to outgrow it during my lifetime =)
I don't know, your numbers are pretty pessimistic. The audited numbers for my local food bank are 6% administrative overhead and 3% fundraising. From the numbers I've seen online that's pretty typical for US foodbanks.
If you have a long enough run or low impedance speakers you might need 10 gauge, but yeah standard copper wire is good enough for any setup because the physical imperfections in the rest of the system dwarf any minor electrical imperfections in the cable.
No, I'm saying most of the bottom 90% have no idea what Ada is =)
Not necessarily, if you only get the top 10% programmers because of the job requirements then it's easy to see where a difficult to learn language could lead to better, more consistent code. I know my coding skills suck which is why I went into sysadmining instead of programming, but I would technically qualify for many programming jobs and could even stumble through making code that would pass general inspection. There really is a TON of difference between a great coder and an average or mediocre coder.