Use iGoogle as your homepage and add a bookmark gadget, either to the main tab or to a bookmark tag. Heck you could even do a bookmark tab with multiple widgets per category. That way your bookmarks are available anywhere and if you set google as your homepage they are only a alt-home away. I love my firefox addons but Google has done as much the change the way I use the web as the Mozilla Foundation.
I'm sure the box will survive an earthquakes, but what about the contents? Most servers don't like to be shaken very hard. You also need to worry about the roof caving in.
When they talk about the blackbox they aren't talking about the container but rather the entire system. The whole floor where the equipment sits is shock isolated and the racks are further cushioned from that. They have to design it that way because these things are expected to be shipped from place to place, there is no packing material to keep the servers cushioned during transit so they have to turn the entire structure into the equivalent of foam packing for an entire datacenter.
That's an especially crappy use of SecureID! SecureID allows for the user secret to be just about anything so any sane installation uses your companies normal password rules and then adds the SecureID on as an additional security layer. Using a simple PIN is just kind of stupid.
How do they propose to enforce this. I would bet damn near 100% of data breaches are self reported by the losing party. If you are suddenly going to face criminal charges I bet it will be a damn rare case where thefts actually get reported. So the statistics will show that data loss is at an alltime low and yet people will actually be at MORE risk due to the fact that companies that would have previously reported the incident and paid the couple hundred thousand for identity protection for a year or two will now keep things quite. Beyond which I also know from published studies that lost information devices have resulted in basically no known identity theft but lack of shredding (dumpster diving) and unsecured databases have led to a heck of a lot of cases.
An interesting concept for a really fast SSD is to use the SATA/SAS software presentation layer on a card that plugs directly into PCIe. That way you have the standards support from the OS level and are not restricted by SATA physical signaling limitations.
While routers are not bug free, they are simpler and more hardened than a firewall appliance.
No, they aren't. Checkout the size of a typical firewall firmware download (not Checkpoint) vs even a minimal IOS download. You will see that the routers software is MUCH larger and more complicated. Even if Cisco isn't your preferred router vendor almost all the big boys have similar sized codebases because they try to support much the same featureset.
By definition if the waste is around for hundreds of thousands of years it's very low energy and thus not much of a problem. Sure uranium is toxic, but so are tons of other industrial inputs and byproducts. Heck we release literally TONS of uranium into the atmosphere every year by burning coal, I for one would much rather my nuclear material be in a glass block under a mountain than be inhaled into my lungs.
Only if you fail to include the externalities of environmental damage, even if you discount global warming the particulate, chemical and nuclear waste streaming out of coal plants is obviously more damaging to the environment then a correctly designed and operated nuclear plant.
More importantly one large coal burner with 1/10th the capacity of any of the generators at TMI gives off significantly more radioactivity to the environment every year then the single worst accident in US history. Even the cofounder of Greenpeace has admitted he was wrong about nuclear power. Plus today we have designs that are literally many of orders of magnitude more safe then even the very safe LWR.
Samsung's datasheet says their drive is rated to 1,000g, that's 10x better than even the best shock isolated laptop drives with physical spindles and enough shock that you'd probably break the motherboard, lcd, etc long before you damaged the drive.
Huh? the second image is definitely HD but it's a still from a motion set so not extremely clear but you can make out continents and stuff which ain't bad from lunar orbit =)
I know it's bad form to reply to myself but the #1 overall system is similar as far as overall cost percentages, the Oracle licensing is $1.5M before discount of ~40% or about $900K out of a total system cost of $12M. Again the cost of the DB licenses is less than 10% of the overall system cost. For a company that is going to run their financials on one of these DB's there's just no incentive NOT to run the commercial DB, it's drops in the bucket in the overall system cost and the support contracts and name generally make the suits happy.
Huh? only 9% of the cost of the #3 system on the price/performance listing is DB licensing ($6,000 of $68k) and that's with ZERO discount, standard open license discount is 28-33% so realistically it would only be ~6% for most companies. Granted at the high end you can pay quite a bit for CPU licenses, but then your generally going to be taking advantage of features that aren't available at any price from the OSS DB's.
If you use two separate boxes using two different vendors your are much less likely to have a single flaw expose you from the internet directly to the internal network. At least that's the way I've heard it explained. Personally I have always used a single firewall with a separate DMZ network.
Why not do a VPN? A VPN concentrator can be had for under $300 and remote sites can be connected with VPN gateways for under $100. Surely it is worth the piece of mind to not have your and your customers data exposed?
Hehe, your comment reminds me of the fact that the wood county sheriff used to have 2 APC's =) The new sheriff decided that the chances of the unit ever getting to a scene in the rural county before it was resolved was about zero so he donated it to the nearby nuclear plant.
Considering the increased radiation at 40k+ feet I would feel much worse if I had to actually worry about this thing interfering with the electronics on a plane!
They sort of make what you are describing, many datacenters have glycol cooling and companies like APC make spot cooling solutions which allow you to bring the glycol loop directly to cabinets with unusually high power densities such as a rack full of fully populated blade enclosures. Now they are generally used to cool incoming air for normal systems because the laws of mass production means it is MUCH cheaper to buy a new cooling loop for the rack then it is to buy a rack full of specialized servers.
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Use iGoogle as your homepage and add a bookmark gadget, either to the main tab or to a bookmark tag. Heck you could even do a bookmark tab with multiple widgets per category. That way your bookmarks are available anywhere and if you set google as your homepage they are only a alt-home away. I love my firefox addons but Google has done as much the change the way I use the web as the Mozilla Foundation.
I'm sure the box will survive an earthquakes, but what about the contents? Most servers don't like to be shaken very hard. You also need to worry about the roof caving in.
When they talk about the blackbox they aren't talking about the container but rather the entire system. The whole floor where the equipment sits is shock isolated and the racks are further cushioned from that. They have to design it that way because these things are expected to be shipped from place to place, there is no packing material to keep the servers cushioned during transit so they have to turn the entire structure into the equivalent of foam packing for an entire datacenter.
That's an especially crappy use of SecureID! SecureID allows for the user secret to be just about anything so any sane installation uses your companies normal password rules and then adds the SecureID on as an additional security layer. Using a simple PIN is just kind of stupid.
How do they propose to enforce this. I would bet damn near 100% of data breaches are self reported by the losing party. If you are suddenly going to face criminal charges I bet it will be a damn rare case where thefts actually get reported. So the statistics will show that data loss is at an alltime low and yet people will actually be at MORE risk due to the fact that companies that would have previously reported the incident and paid the couple hundred thousand for identity protection for a year or two will now keep things quite. Beyond which I also know from published studies that lost information devices have resulted in basically no known identity theft but lack of shredding (dumpster diving) and unsecured databases have led to a heck of a lot of cases.
An interesting concept for a really fast SSD is to use the SATA/SAS software presentation layer on a card that plugs directly into PCIe. That way you have the standards support from the OS level and are not restricted by SATA physical signaling limitations.
I think he meant in air to air combat, which is a true statement.
I don't know, if clickthrough licenses are upheld I think we lose quite a bit of rights.
While routers are not bug free, they are simpler and more hardened than a firewall appliance.
No, they aren't. Checkout the size of a typical firewall firmware download (not Checkpoint) vs even a minimal IOS download. You will see that the routers software is MUCH larger and more complicated. Even if Cisco isn't your preferred router vendor almost all the big boys have similar sized codebases because they try to support much the same featureset.
Hmm, who do I want to lose more, the idiot trying to quash fair use rights or the idiots with right click scripts and clickthrough licenses.
By definition if the waste is around for hundreds of thousands of years it's very low energy and thus not much of a problem. Sure uranium is toxic, but so are tons of other industrial inputs and byproducts. Heck we release literally TONS of uranium into the atmosphere every year by burning coal, I for one would much rather my nuclear material be in a glass block under a mountain than be inhaled into my lungs.
Only if you fail to include the externalities of environmental damage, even if you discount global warming the particulate, chemical and nuclear waste streaming out of coal plants is obviously more damaging to the environment then a correctly designed and operated nuclear plant.
More importantly one large coal burner with 1/10th the capacity of any of the generators at TMI gives off significantly more radioactivity to the environment every year then the single worst accident in US history. Even the cofounder of Greenpeace has admitted he was wrong about nuclear power. Plus today we have designs that are literally many of orders of magnitude more safe then even the very safe LWR.
Samsung's datasheet says their drive is rated to 1,000g, that's 10x better than even the best shock isolated laptop drives with physical spindles and enough shock that you'd probably break the motherboard, lcd, etc long before you damaged the drive.
Huh? the second image is definitely HD but it's a still from a motion set so not extremely clear but you can make out continents and stuff which ain't bad from lunar orbit =)
and they aren't immune to shocks damaging them.
Yes they are, for all intents and purposes. If you don't believe me see this story about a CF card that survived the collapse of the WTC.
You're off by a factor of 10 there, 1sec/5ms=200 I/O's per second which still gives only 1.6MB/s for totally random reads for 8KB blocks.
I know it's bad form to reply to myself but the #1 overall system is similar as far as overall cost percentages, the Oracle licensing is $1.5M before discount of ~40% or about $900K out of a total system cost of $12M. Again the cost of the DB licenses is less than 10% of the overall system cost. For a company that is going to run their financials on one of these DB's there's just no incentive NOT to run the commercial DB, it's drops in the bucket in the overall system cost and the support contracts and name generally make the suits happy.
Huh? only 9% of the cost of the #3 system on the price/performance listing is DB licensing ($6,000 of $68k) and that's with ZERO discount, standard open license discount is 28-33% so realistically it would only be ~6% for most companies. Granted at the high end you can pay quite a bit for CPU licenses, but then your generally going to be taking advantage of features that aren't available at any price from the OSS DB's.
If you use two separate boxes using two different vendors your are much less likely to have a single flaw expose you from the internet directly to the internal network. At least that's the way I've heard it explained. Personally I have always used a single firewall with a separate DMZ network.
Why not do a VPN? A VPN concentrator can be had for under $300 and remote sites can be connected with VPN gateways for under $100. Surely it is worth the piece of mind to not have your and your customers data exposed?
Yes, the number 8 overall and number 3,4,5,6,7,8 and 10 by price/performance database systems on the TPC transactional database benchmark is DEFINITELY not a real DB /duh
Hehe, your comment reminds me of the fact that the wood county sheriff used to have 2 APC's =) The new sheriff decided that the chances of the unit ever getting to a scene in the rural county before it was resolved was about zero so he donated it to the nearby nuclear plant.
Considering the increased radiation at 40k+ feet I would feel much worse if I had to actually worry about this thing interfering with the electronics on a plane!
I doubt you would spend 1/3rd the power to continuously dehumidify air in a once through system then to cool already coniditioned air 20-30 degrees.
They sort of make what you are describing, many datacenters have glycol cooling and companies like APC make spot cooling solutions which allow you to bring the glycol loop directly to cabinets with unusually high power densities such as a rack full of fully populated blade enclosures. Now they are generally used to cool incoming air for normal systems because the laws of mass production means it is MUCH cheaper to buy a new cooling loop for the rack then it is to buy a rack full of specialized servers.