The best way to help rebuild times is to get away from dedicated hotspares and move towards distributed guard space. That way in a large pool of disks you have say the 7 remaining members of a RAID-5 7+1 set rebuilding to the other hundred spindles in the pool. This has the side effect of avoiding a relatively common problem where a spare drive that's been sitting idle dies when it's suddenly stressed during a rebuild event. HP EVA, IBM XIV and I believe Compellent use this strategy already and I think it's definitely the way forward (though I still use RAID6 on my EVA as it's worth the small penalty in performance and capacity for our application).
Actually as areal density increases drives are getting faster, both it terms of streaming reads and average transfer time, it's only worst case performance that is not getting any better. Also the drive manufacturers aren't stupid, as physical density increases logical density isn't increasing as quickly because they are using a larger percentage of the physical bits for error correction meaning the logic BER should at worst remain constant.
Wait, are you saying that Apple demanding, and getting, better working conditions for the employees that assemble their products is somehow a bad thing?!? I mean why would you be down on Apple rather than all the other tech companies that outsource to Foxconn and don't make the same demands?
We need to bring back DDT for killing bed bugs! It's about the single best way to kill the things and there would be little concern of bioaccumulation in that application. Oh, and calling someone a moron and then linking to the freepers is about the funniest thing I've ever read on the internet and I've been here since 1993 =)
To me the much more interesting studies are those being done in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, while they are obviously not controlled or double blind they do provide better feedback about actual contamination results than the lab experiment with a fixed gamma source.
How have the AV companies not come to realize that they need to have an automated testing lab where they apply the newest update to every variant of Windows and have the machine reboot and then run a test suite? Even basic QA should have caught this level of stupidity. In the six years we ran Trend the only problem we ever had was extreme slowness on our Notes servers, it turns out they didn't have a Notes server in their lab and none of their early adopter program participants were running Notes either. We talked to the head of QA and he assured us that they would add a Notes server to their test environment, that was QA done properly.
I did RDP over dialup, though you did need to drop the color depth down to 256 to keep things reasonable and that was Windows 2000 RDP, RDP 6.1 is probably more efficient since I'm sure they've integrated more stuff from ICA by now =)
Somewhat offtopic, but while Fenec might be lighter weight than the desktop browser it's still by FAR the heaviest browser available for Android (not sure about Chrome for Android as my device doesn't have ICS). I basically only use if on sites that refuse to work with both Opera Mobile and the default browser because I have to close every other app on my phone in order to run it.
Actually that is EXACTLY why DDR4 is coming soon, Samsung has asked Intel to move up the schedule of processors with integrated DDR4 memory controllers because commodity prices on DDR3 pieces have fallen so low that they can't make money. reference
If that's their strategy then I believe they're fools, the retired folks that vote aren't likely to be too pleased that their grandchildren can't afford college. Even if it is the result of the spoiled generation that their descendants will be less well off they don't want it thrown in their face.
totally offtopic but since you brought it up....
They tried that, artificial THC is crap, there are a LOT more cannabinoids than just THC in mj. Vaporization below the ignition temperature is probably the best method from a lung health versus benefit standpoint (though there have been peer reviewed studies showing mj smokers having a lower incidence of lung cancer than the general population).
Ah, it looks like the DEA finally fixed the prescribing narcotics thing in 2005, prior to that a NP needed a physician with a DEA number to prescribe scheduled drugs.
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That's what REFS is for, no more whole disk checkdisk, only needs to check dirty blocks and that chunk of the btree.
Without parity you're going to miss certain types of corruption so RAID6 is actually superior from a data reliability standpoint.
The best way to help rebuild times is to get away from dedicated hotspares and move towards distributed guard space. That way in a large pool of disks you have say the 7 remaining members of a RAID-5 7+1 set rebuilding to the other hundred spindles in the pool. This has the side effect of avoiding a relatively common problem where a spare drive that's been sitting idle dies when it's suddenly stressed during a rebuild event. HP EVA, IBM XIV and I believe Compellent use this strategy already and I think it's definitely the way forward (though I still use RAID6 on my EVA as it's worth the small penalty in performance and capacity for our application).
Actually as areal density increases drives are getting faster, both it terms of streaming reads and average transfer time, it's only worst case performance that is not getting any better. Also the drive manufacturers aren't stupid, as physical density increases logical density isn't increasing as quickly because they are using a larger percentage of the physical bits for error correction meaning the logic BER should at worst remain constant.
Wait, are you saying that Apple demanding, and getting, better working conditions for the employees that assemble their products is somehow a bad thing?!? I mean why would you be down on Apple rather than all the other tech companies that outsource to Foxconn and don't make the same demands?
Yes, because a loan guarantee is exactly the same as what the Chinese are doing....
Exactly, think of it as economic stimulus but instead of infrastructure you end up with controlling marketshare in key growth markets.
The only one of those that makes sense is the pyramids and they're probably marginally worse that normal spikes if perhaps a bit more fashionable.
We need to bring back DDT for killing bed bugs! It's about the single best way to kill the things and there would be little concern of bioaccumulation in that application. Oh, and calling someone a moron and then linking to the freepers is about the funniest thing I've ever read on the internet and I've been here since 1993 =)
To me the much more interesting studies are those being done in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, while they are obviously not controlled or double blind they do provide better feedback about actual contamination results than the lab experiment with a fixed gamma source.
Definitely not babyproof, too many cords.
How have the AV companies not come to realize that they need to have an automated testing lab where they apply the newest update to every variant of Windows and have the machine reboot and then run a test suite? Even basic QA should have caught this level of stupidity. In the six years we ran Trend the only problem we ever had was extreme slowness on our Notes servers, it turns out they didn't have a Notes server in their lab and none of their early adopter program participants were running Notes either. We talked to the head of QA and he assured us that they would add a Notes server to their test environment, that was QA done properly.
Nope, at least not here in Ohio. We tried electronic ballot machines, ended up throwing them in a warehouse and going to scantron paper ballots.
Just google industrial motherboard ISA and you'll find plenty of options.
Considering that Fenec eats up 200MB (all available ram) on my Android phone, I'd say at least 2GB would be nice.
I did RDP over dialup, though you did need to drop the color depth down to 256 to keep things reasonable and that was Windows 2000 RDP, RDP 6.1 is probably more efficient since I'm sure they've integrated more stuff from ICA by now =)
I was talking more about RAM than CPU, even topflight phones don't have that much RAM.
Why not just use Emacs?
Somewhat offtopic, but while Fenec might be lighter weight than the desktop browser it's still by FAR the heaviest browser available for Android (not sure about Chrome for Android as my device doesn't have ICS). I basically only use if on sites that refuse to work with both Opera Mobile and the default browser because I have to close every other app on my phone in order to run it.
Actually that is EXACTLY why DDR4 is coming soon, Samsung has asked Intel to move up the schedule of processors with integrated DDR4 memory controllers because commodity prices on DDR3 pieces have fallen so low that they can't make money. reference
If that's their strategy then I believe they're fools, the retired folks that vote aren't likely to be too pleased that their grandchildren can't afford college. Even if it is the result of the spoiled generation that their descendants will be less well off they don't want it thrown in their face.
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totally offtopic but since you brought it up....
They tried that, artificial THC is crap, there are a LOT more cannabinoids than just THC in mj. Vaporization below the ignition temperature is probably the best method from a lung health versus benefit standpoint (though there have been peer reviewed studies showing mj smokers having a lower incidence of lung cancer than the general population).
Yeah, it looks like it varies by state, but prior to 2005 a NP could not register for a DEA number AFAIK.
Ah, it looks like the DEA finally fixed the prescribing narcotics thing in 2005, prior to that a NP needed a physician with a DEA number to prescribe scheduled drugs.