It's not always the most practical thing to do, but keeping your backups offsite is probably the only way of avoiding problems like this.
You can always have a machine colocated in a seperate facility mirroring or backing up your data, depending on security level, etc. When you mail backup tapes, you're always at the mercy of UPS/FedEx/USPS or your local mail carrier
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From what I can remember, Microsoft is currently working on a p2p database. I would love to see something similar implemented in the *nix community. I know it would be hard as hell, but it'd be nice to have something that sets up easier than an openmosix cluster, preferably something that you can install once and forget about...
Isn't the power of the human brain a standard unit, like horsepower? The power of the human brain (as measured by NIST, they have a reference brain in storage) == 1 Brainpower.
Jeremy Zawodny, who works at Yahoo, wrote an interesting article in his weblog a few months ago. It chronicles his experience with MySQL under FreeBSD and MySQL's problems with threading under FreeBSD. It will be interesting to see if 5.0 improves these things significantly.
I'm about halfway though the book, and so far I think it is excellent. I've been reading it bit by bit over school and other projects. It's extremely readable, seems more informative than a 200-300 page O'Reilly book (which are great for intros, but this goes into a little more detail), and includes good coverage of JUnit testing and how it is integrated into ant.
I have to agree here. The problem with even the high-end SLR style cameras like the D100/D1X/D30/D60 is that the sensors are only 2/3 the size of full frame 35mm. Because of this all of your lenses are now more telephoto than they are on 35mm. This requires many pros to buy ultrawide angle lenses like 15-30's, 17-35's and the like in order to get something along the lines of a 28-70.
Full frame 35mm is going to be as significant as the 11 megapixel resolution.
Actually I have seen high end digital capture systems (like the leaf back and others) that are able to capture more of the tonal range including significantly more shadow and highlight detail.
The images from the D30 and D60 are close to being there, but something like that packing 11MP is going to look better than 35mm film with a better tonal rage.
Screen resolution only concerns some people. I have seen the digital camera boom from the trenches in photo retail. 11 megapixels is a huge thing to people who like to make prints, and especially to people who like to make big prints.
From various reports, I have heard that the resolution of 35mm film is anywhere between 7 and 10 megapixels. With an 11 megapixel camera, you now have something that is of higher quality than standard 35mm film.
This is huge.
From my weblog post earlier this month, Sinar announced a 22 megapixel digital back for medium format cameras.
The Canon camera will definately be more important to the mainstream.
Okay, so I was at CompUSA at midnight Eastern time last night. I wasn't buying Windows XP, I was there for a phenominal deal on a 15 inch LCD.
CompUSA announced a midnight madness 2 hour sale last night, and when I showed up at the store around 11:45 there were probably a hundred or so people there. As the store opened (yes, strobe lights AND bubble machines), most people darted to the other big deals that night and I only saw a few copies of XP sold for the 20-30 minutes I was there.
Curious.
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Go ahead and play. Grab a sugar image and fire up QEMU.
It's not always the most practical thing to do, but keeping your backups offsite is probably the only way of avoiding problems like this.
You can always have a machine colocated in a seperate facility mirroring or backing up your data, depending on security level, etc. When you mail backup tapes, you're always at the mercy of UPS/FedEx/USPS or your local mail carrier
From what I can remember, Microsoft is currently working on a p2p database. I would love to see something similar implemented in the *nix community. I know it would be hard as hell, but it'd be nice to have something that sets up easier than an openmosix cluster, preferably something that you can install once and forget about...
Isn't the power of the human brain a standard unit, like horsepower? The power of the human brain (as measured by NIST, they have a reference brain in storage) == 1 Brainpower.
Jeremy Zawodny, who works at Yahoo, wrote an interesting article in his weblog a few months ago. It chronicles his experience with MySQL under FreeBSD and MySQL's problems with threading under FreeBSD. It will be interesting to see if 5.0 improves these things significantly.
Yes, the conference rocked. Best bang for the buck, and some of the best presentations I have ever seen.
It's a small world. Slashdotsphere, Blogsphere and real life collide.
I was the quiet geek sitting to your left at the resturant the second night of the conference.
I'm about halfway though the book, and so far I think it is excellent. I've been reading it bit by bit over school and other projects. It's extremely readable, seems more informative than a 200-300 page O'Reilly book (which are great for intros, but this goes into a little more detail), and includes good coverage of JUnit testing and how it is integrated into ant.
I had a chance to meet Steve Loughran at Web Services DevCon East, and he's awesome. His website, including a great paper called When Web Services go Bad. He also has a SOAP development blog.
This camera is not for grandma and grandpa.
It's for pros.
I have to agree here. The problem with even the high-end SLR style cameras like the D100/D1X/D30/D60 is that the sensors are only 2/3 the size of full frame 35mm. Because of this all of your lenses are now more telephoto than they are on 35mm. This requires many pros to buy ultrawide angle lenses like 15-30's, 17-35's and the like in order to get something along the lines of a 28-70.
Full frame 35mm is going to be as significant as the 11 megapixel resolution.
Actually I have seen high end digital capture systems (like the leaf back and others) that are able to capture more of the tonal range including significantly more shadow and highlight detail.
The images from the D30 and D60 are close to being there, but something like that packing 11MP is going to look better than 35mm film with a better tonal rage.
In a nutshell, if you put a 2.1MP point and shoot next to 35mm film next to this 11MP image, the 11MP image would absolutely knock your socks off.
By an order of magnitude.
Screen resolution only concerns some people. I have seen the digital camera boom from the trenches in photo retail. 11 megapixels is a huge thing to people who like to make prints, and especially to people who like to make big prints.
From various reports, I have heard that the resolution of 35mm film is anywhere between 7 and 10 megapixels. With an 11 megapixel camera, you now have something that is of higher quality than standard 35mm film.
This is huge.
From my weblog post earlier this month, Sinar announced a 22 megapixel digital back for medium format cameras.
The Canon camera will definately be more important to the mainstream.
Ahh, good, so I'm not going crazy.
I was just thinking that I head read about this awhile ago and that Slashdot was falling behind, but I was wrong.
Dupe!
Interesting.
I prefer to think of snares in the context of drums. You know, the rat-a-tat-tat kind?
Okay, so I was at CompUSA at midnight Eastern time last night. I wasn't buying Windows XP, I was there for a phenominal deal on a 15 inch LCD. CompUSA announced a midnight madness 2 hour sale last night, and when I showed up at the store around 11:45 there were probably a hundred or so people there. As the store opened (yes, strobe lights AND bubble machines), most people darted to the other big deals that night and I only saw a few copies of XP sold for the 20-30 minutes I was there. Curious.