Good point. They did just stick a fork in OpenSolaris. I'd be psyched if they just re-licensed ZFS as open source.
Who knows... at the same time, Oracle has relationships with vendors like EMC and NetApp. I can't imagine would be happy with the idea of pumpkin heads like me putting together very scalable storage solutions out of linux servers with a huge pile of JBOD with cheap fast disks.
We recently built a ~40TB Solaris ZFS iscsi/NFS/Samba file server that's really kickass fast and scalable. The whole thing to build was under 10k.
The other side of the coin is that ZFS brings to the table an easy way for storage companies to go after the low end without a ton of R&D on their end.
Well the interesting thing with msdn is that they give you as much documentation as they want you to see and they show you the functions they want you to use.
It's no secret that for certain API's in windows, what Microsoft shows and wants others to use is not the same as what they're using.
I'm currently using zfs in production on Solaris (not open solaris) and I'm happy with it.
However, it's currently DOA for the foreseeable future unless there's a viable stable port to linux. Yeah, there's the KQ port (possibly) coming, and we already have the posix layerless llnl port for Lustre.
The fly in the ointment for this all is btrfs. My feeling is that by the time we get a mature not slow as shit port of zfs to linux, btrfs will have matured to a point that it'll have all the features of zfs I like (which it at this point already has) such as snapshots, clones, etc, plus deduping. It'll be something that's in active development with RedHat and will be getting the shit beat out of in in Fedora so by the time I'm ready to actually put it into production, it'll be mature.
The hard question is going to be when a student comes in with an iPad and says "I use this as my notebook...".
One option is to have the student come up and demonstrate to you that the wireless is turned off.
Another option is to tell all the students that come test day, they need printed notes and then dramatically plot a 4 function calculator on the table and say "and this is what you're allowed... show up with anything else and I'll fail you, and I'm not joking!"
Exactly... I've currently got a 27TB raid50 running on OpenSolaris. Add more storage? Snap on another cabinet of disk (live) and add the space to the pool (also live)
As for this being the first native ZFS port to linux... I must be living in a time warp...
http://github.com/behlendorf/zfs/wiki has been ported for a while. All it's missing is the posix layer, which they claim is on the way...
This reactor has been built over how many years with how many different people involved? I'm sure has time has gone on the plan has been amended and amended and amended... I'm fearful that this reactor is a Chernobyl just waiting to happen.
And this makes me want to buy an iPhone for what reason? I can see it now...
Phone Rings... Customer: "Hello?" Apple Rep: "Hello [person's name] we've noticed that your using an iphone 4, you do realize the iphone 6 came out two years ago..." Customer: "Yeah, but this does everything I need it to do, I'll upgrade when this one finally dies" Apple Rep: "As a courtesy I've copied all your contacts into the iCloud just in case anything were to happen to your older model iPhone. Have great day!" Phone then instantly bricks.
I'd also have to imagine with that much mass and considering the amount of energy it's outputting that it's life span for a star would be relatively short.
If we really wanted to get our act together, what we should do is actually reprocess the tons and tons of perfectly good uranium that has traces of plutonium in it. I'm sorry... a uranium fuel rod that's gone from 99% to 96% used doesn't seem too spent to me.
Except, even if you went off and bought an island somewhere and got internet access for it, you need to have some upstream provider somewhere. That's who'd they go after...
So on your island every inhabitant would have GigE to their hut... unfortunately that's about as far as you'd get.
It's about the principle of it. You've long since stopped buying a merely a cellular phone and moved on to buying something akin to a hand held computer. Yeah, your on their network, but you own the phone. Your not leasing it, your not renting it. You slapped down several hundred dollars of your money for something that you can't modify to your liking.
If tomorrow Dell came out with a new line of computers that prevented you from putting your Linux distribution of choice on it by zeroing out the bios and the bootloader so it was rendered unbootable the fury would be cataclysmic. Even though 99 percent of the people who buy computers don't change the operating system.
Yeah, the article is horribly written. However as I read it, the titanium box is 500 lbs. Considering that they're launching it on an Atlas 5 which can put 14 tons into GEO this is going to be a really heavy probe.
Hopefully it'll bring back some great science and help us better understand Jupiter and our solar system.
Oracle had one plan when they bought Sun. Kill it and pump a few extra rounds into it, just to make sure.
If these guys are smart, they should just bang the gavel, stop trying to talk to Oracle, officially fork OpenSolaris. I'm sure Oracle will probably go bat shit lawyer crazy and start yelling it's their property, but since they've given it so little interest... who knows.
There's a really obvious thing you could do as well... The secret service could just go to a bank and get a bunch of random credit cards and run them through the skimmer.
not to mention, if you stick with the.22 it doesn't leave the huge mess that blowing your head off with a.357 magnum. Hell, if you did it in your bathtub all the mess would go down the drain!
Now, you'll get a print out from your printer telling you you're out of ink and at the bottom will be a coupon you can cut out... Note: the coupon will be white lettering on a black background and will probably take an entire 8x11 sheet of paper...
Since you're in the *know*... I have a couple of questions... 1. I'm presuming the flight to the ISS will carry "real" cargo (such as food). Am I in the wrong? 2. How do you think the Russians are going to take this news? Considering they've got such a lucrative deal going supplying the ISS with cargo?
With this all said, I'm glad the launch was a success. Hopefully NASA can start focusing on the Ares 5 heavy lift (or you know... just take an Atlas 5 off the shelf!) for going into HEO and beyond.
I don't want some centralized dictatorship deciding what I can and can't have on <i>my</i> phone for applications. Apple wants a market place only because it sees it as a revenue stream and a cheap mine for ideas it can then pilfer, call it's own and then ban the original.
As for the argument about consistency, I really see that as a straw man.
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Good point. They did just stick a fork in OpenSolaris. I'd be psyched if they just re-licensed ZFS as open source.
Who knows... at the same time, Oracle has relationships with vendors like EMC and NetApp. I can't imagine would be happy with the idea of pumpkin heads like me putting together very scalable storage solutions out of linux servers with a huge pile of JBOD with cheap fast disks.
We recently built a ~40TB Solaris ZFS iscsi/NFS/Samba file server that's really kickass fast and scalable. The whole thing to build was under 10k.
The other side of the coin is that ZFS brings to the table an easy way for storage companies to go after the low end without a ton of R&D on their end.
Well the interesting thing with msdn is that they give you as much documentation as they want you to see and they show you the functions they want you to use.
It's no secret that for certain API's in windows, what Microsoft shows and wants others to use is not the same as what they're using.
I'm currently using zfs in production on Solaris (not open solaris) and I'm happy with it.
However, it's currently DOA for the foreseeable future unless there's a viable stable port to linux. Yeah, there's the KQ port (possibly) coming, and we already have the posix layerless llnl port for Lustre.
The fly in the ointment for this all is btrfs. My feeling is that by the time we get a mature not slow as shit port of zfs to linux, btrfs will have matured to a point that it'll have all the features of zfs I like (which it at this point already has) such as snapshots, clones, etc, plus deduping. It'll be something that's in active development with RedHat and will be getting the shit beat out of in in Fedora so by the time I'm ready to actually put it into production, it'll be mature.
The hard question is going to be when a student comes in with an iPad and says "I use this as my notebook...".
One option is to have the student come up and demonstrate to you that the wireless is turned off.
Another option is to tell all the students that come test day, they need printed notes and then dramatically plot a 4 function calculator on the table and say "and this is what you're allowed... show up with anything else and I'll fail you, and I'm not joking!"
Exactly... I've currently got a 27TB raid50 running on OpenSolaris. Add more storage? Snap on another cabinet of disk (live) and add the space to the pool (also live)
As for this being the first native ZFS port to linux... I must be living in a time warp...
http://github.com/behlendorf/zfs/wiki has been ported for a while. All it's missing is the posix layer, which they claim is on the way...
This reactor has been built over how many years with how many different people involved?
I'm sure has time has gone on the plan has been amended and amended and amended... I'm fearful that this reactor is a Chernobyl just waiting to happen.
And this makes me want to buy an iPhone for what reason? I can see it now...
Phone Rings...
Customer: "Hello?"
Apple Rep: "Hello [person's name] we've noticed that your using an iphone 4, you do realize the iphone 6 came out two years ago..."
Customer: "Yeah, but this does everything I need it to do, I'll upgrade when this one finally dies"
Apple Rep: "As a courtesy I've copied all your contacts into the iCloud just in case anything were to happen to your older model iPhone. Have great day!"
Phone then instantly bricks.
This is one of the arguments that's made for using a SAN. Consolidate to make better use of the disk space. Smaller footprint, less power, etc.
I'd also have to imagine with that much mass and considering the amount of energy it's outputting that it's life span for a star would be relatively short.
If we really wanted to get our act together, what we should do is actually reprocess the tons and tons of perfectly good uranium that has traces of plutonium in it. I'm sorry... a uranium fuel rod that's gone from 99% to 96% used doesn't seem too spent to me.
Except, even if you went off and bought an island somewhere and got internet access for it, you need to have some upstream provider somewhere. That's who'd they go after...
So on your island every inhabitant would have GigE to their hut... unfortunately that's about as far as you'd get.
I think other companies like Verizon are aware of this issue. My HTC Eris Android phone came with a free case and screen protector. Now I know why...
That actually makes a lot of sense, though their ambivalence towards OpenSolaris is a bit troubling.
It's about the principle of it. You've long since stopped buying a merely a cellular phone and moved on to buying something akin to a hand held computer. Yeah, your on their network, but you own the phone. Your not leasing it, your not renting it. You slapped down several hundred dollars of your money for something that you can't modify to your liking.
If tomorrow Dell came out with a new line of computers that prevented you from putting your Linux distribution of choice on it by zeroing out the bios and the bootloader so it was rendered unbootable the fury would be cataclysmic. Even though 99 percent of the people who buy computers don't change the operating system.
Yeah, the article is horribly written. However as I read it, the titanium box is 500 lbs. Considering that they're launching it on an Atlas 5 which can put 14 tons into GEO this is going to be a really heavy probe.
Hopefully it'll bring back some great science and help us better understand Jupiter and our solar system.
Oracle had one plan when they bought Sun. Kill it and pump a few extra rounds into it, just to make sure.
If these guys are smart, they should just bang the gavel, stop trying to talk to Oracle, officially fork OpenSolaris. I'm sure Oracle will probably go bat shit lawyer crazy and start yelling it's their property, but since they've given it so little interest... who knows.
There's a really obvious thing you could do as well... The secret service could just go to a bank and get a bunch of random credit cards and run them through the skimmer.
Then sit back and follow the trail...
not to mention, if you stick with the .22 it doesn't leave the huge mess that blowing your head off with a .357 magnum. Hell, if you did it in your bathtub all the mess would go down the drain!
I thought that shit pile was dead years ago?!? They have paying customers? Who the fuck are these people that are still even pulling a paycheck?
I thought they were off chilling with the altavista people... drinking... Boonesfarm under a bridge in some rust belt city.
Now, you'll get a print out from your printer telling you you're out of ink and at the bottom will be a coupon you can cut out... Note: the coupon will be white lettering on a black background and will probably take an entire 8x11 sheet of paper...
1. Spambots sending your printer garbage...
2. DDOS somebody's printer with a combo of tubgirl / lemonparty / goat.se
3. ???
4. Profit?
Built by nano assemblers on my desk.
Since you're in the *know* ... I have a couple of questions...
1. I'm presuming the flight to the ISS will carry "real" cargo (such as food). Am I in the wrong?
2. How do you think the Russians are going to take this news? Considering they've got such a lucrative deal going supplying the ISS with cargo?
With this all said, I'm glad the launch was a success. Hopefully NASA can start focusing on the Ares 5 heavy lift (or you know... just take an Atlas 5 off the shelf!) for going into HEO and beyond.
Honestly.... I want the Wild West.
I don't want some centralized dictatorship deciding what I can and can't have on <i>my</i> phone for applications. Apple wants a market place only because it sees it as a revenue stream and a cheap mine for ideas it can then pilfer, call it's own and then ban the original.
As for the argument about consistency, I really see that as a straw man.
People also forget that Johnny Mnemonic was a short story that they turned into a film... so they had to take some license with it.
*shrugs* I liked it. Though I'm a big Rollins.