So the synopsis starts by saying it doesn't degrade performance and ends with "it only causes a 6% drop in performance." Now, I might be nieve but why can't these memory aligning tricks be done in the kernel naively?
What does official "Atom" support give you? Some additional power savings? No, this was a targeted patch to kill netbooks. As other posters have pointed out, Apple doesn't have any offerings that match netbooks.
Personally, I think it's a dick move on Apple's part. Honestly, how much can it be cutting into their business? Everybody I know whose got a "Hackintosh" netbook/laptop running OSX went out and bought a legitimate copy of OSX.
I can only see upside for Apple. Yeah, it's not *their* hardware, but honestly, more OSX out in the world means less MS out in the world, I can't see how that's bad for apple.
As someone whose got a HUGE amount of data currently in ZFS (and a lot of it is redudant!) I can't wait to get my hands on this! I figure along on my backup server it's going to save me 10's of TB's worth of space.
I just wish there was more details on what release of Open Solaris or Solaris this is going to be in, or patch sets that'll include this!
This is something that I could never understand (as a space nerd...)
Would it be harder to take something like an Atlas 5 (that's got literally hundreds of flights under its belt) and modify it for human space flight then to build a completely new rocket (granted taking bits from lots of different rockets)?
Especially with the Ares 5, I think it should just be an Atlas 5.
Yeah, but in never winter nights since you could see the dice rolls/etc if you walked by someone who was a thief and pick pocketed you, you'd suddenly see that our money was reduced by 3 coins...
I always thought it was awesome that they stayed so true to D&D, even if it made the graphical game play clunky at times.
Fine then, have a mouse as well for super detail work.
I watched the video and I found in very interesting. As someone who's sitting in front of a 24" monitor and I've ~30 windows open, I totally get the clutter thing.
With that all said, what I saw was lots of talk and lots of eye candy. If you go to the 10/GUI website it's completely devoid of any details about hardware, what OS it's going to be supported on, etc.
Until there's more details, I'm calling vaporware on this...
My hope is that it'll spur on those who want to build giant wind farms to start pouring concrete pads and placing orders since their will be market for their power.
The PSP Go is aimed squarely at putting companies like GameStop out of business. What Sony is trying to do with the PSP Go is completely eliminate the game resale market and control the whole purchase cycle from both ends, which I must say... is fucking retarded.
I'm sure some Sony dumb ass up in higher management *though* it was a great idea, but they've obviously have little to no understanding of the average PSP customer. What pisses me off is there are so many cool things Sony could do with the existing hardware, or better, keep the current design and add some internal memory or whatever. I could talk at depth at all the opportunities that Sony has missed with online content with the PSP, but I won't...
Personally, I own two PSP (both series 1000) and I've been extremely happy with them. I *might* buy a PSP 3000 if one of mine were to die, but I won't buy a GO and considering the stupidity that has become Sony, I might go buy one of the nintendo hand helds.
Has anybody had to send a Wii back to NoA and then been told "You've got to pay for us to repair this?"
I'm suspecting that if you called them and said "I started the update for the latest firmware, and now the Wii won't turn on, your update broke our Wii!" That Nintendo would likely do the right thing and replace/repair your Wii.
Now, if they don't, I think someone should go to the media and tear them a new one in the court of public opinion. Just remember how quickly Microsoft changed their policy when the nightly news started reporting "Xbox 360's are breaking all the time and MS isn't fixing them!!!"
With that all said, I'm glad I haven't updated my Wii and now I won't!
Even though I'm writing this from a linux box, if you're going to be storing that much data and you want to do it cheaply, you should really look at ZFS as the filesystem of choice for the backend.
As for moving the data over there, sure use rsync and then use zfs's snapshot features so you have some rollback capability.
Why ZFS? So I'm envisioning that you're going to need a mid range machine (duel power supplies) and hanging off that you're going to have a whole pile of JBOD. You could spend the money on something that does hardware based raid, but if you're cost concious, your best route is to buy a JBOD box and fill it with 1.5TB disks. You could try to manage all of this with LVM and possibly XFS, but it would be nightmare. ZFS basically rolls RAID/LVM/FS into a single layer. Thus adding disks to your array becomes trivial. Also, I would recomment that each user/application get it's own sub filesystem on the array, that way you'll have much finer granularity for snapshots/quotas/etc.
I didn't intend this post to be an advertisement for ZFS but I have such a setup with ~14TB of disk on it right now and it works great. As for the OS on top, you could go with opensolaris, or netezza (which is just debian rolled ontop of the opensolaris kernel.
You also have to remember this isn't going to be the only technology used to generate power. The most obvious is solar which could be used to supplement the system (thus lengthening the live of the reactors)
As for redundancy, I could envision a system where each module would have one of these that would feed a central bus so that excess power could be routed to modules that needed it. Also each module would be capable of standing on its own in terms of power.
Actually, I think it would be cool to do something like this.
Envision a ship (such as a tanker) outfitted with a thermal depolymerization plant and rigged with equipment to grapple and/or suck up large volumes of this plastic mass and convert it back into oil. Then it could use some of that oil to power the equipment, the rest it could then sell to support the operation.
Honestly, after all the money we've spent, I don't see them just plopping it into the ocean.
Firstly, if we're going to the moon and mars, the ISS seems like a pretty damn good staging/bailout option.
Secondly, we need to start thinking long term about our survival as a species. One of those strategies means long term human space flight. Currently a space station is the only thing that's giving us that.
I'm sure there will be those people who argue that it takes money away from other projects, but right now it's the only thing NASA is doing.
The problem is that obviously, a large segment of people are ODing on acetaminophen and their getting liver damage. This being America where nothing is anybody's fault, obviously the fault lies with the product.
I'm all for education. Hell make the label really explicit to say something like "DO NOT EXCEED 2000MG PER DAY OR YOUR LIVER WILL EXPLODE!!!!"
If the FDA does ban acetaminophen based pain killers, a HUGE (bigger than it already is) black market is going to spring up, which is only going to get more people maimed/killed/livers exploded
* I make this claim on the idea that some people will actually sell real acetaminophen based pain killers, the rest will just sell counterfeit crap.
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This is a completely solved problem and this whole argument about a random bit changing causing some sort of cascade failure is crap.
In any real mission critical system that would be handling this kind of data, you'd be using a fault tolerant system where the memory is mirrored and there's hardware watching the memory and if the memory suddenly changes on one side of the system and not the other, it'll dump that side of the system.
I've worked on these systems, where they've simulated this random bit flipping problem and the machine behaves properly.
We've deployed a number of ESXi boxes with mixed results. In a nutshell, if you have a underutilized server that's lightly loaded, it's a great candidate to be a VM.
Anything that needs performance should be considered off the list for a VM, unless you can convince the consumers that the speed penalty is worth the ease of management.
* Web server that servers your lunch menu and maybe your HR vacation scheduling system: VM * Build machine that pounds through 7 GB of source and takes 10hrs of solid compiling to produce output: not a good choice for a VM. * Domain Controller: VM
I like VM's because they're portable and machine agnostic. The whole virtual infrastructure stuff is polished and works.
However, people tend to think that virtualization is the right path for everthing, which it is not.
It has its place in the IT toolbox with everything else. Who knows, maybe Intel and vmware will hatch an offspring that looks like ESXi but with hardware provisioning... Though I'm sure IBM's lawyers would shit kittens!
I'm presuming each one of those nitwits probably makes ~75k...
Well, I think it's time you plan a game of musical chairs...
Better yet, get them all into a conference room, then walk in and calming explain "I've talked with the CEO and one of you is going to get let go so we can keep wasting energy on your screensaver, what's cool is that you all get to decide which one of you goes." Then look at the clock and say "I'll be back in an hour, and if there's no decision, the CEO will pick two of you to fire."
Jabber is mature, it doesn't crash and it works. Pidgin is multi platform and looks consistant across those platforms. We did have a couple of users who are Trillium holdouts.
It works great. We've just had to work on educating our users a bit in regards to what should be sent via internal IM and what's cool to be sent via AIM.
If price isn't an option, then he should get himself 4 ANS-9010's and set them up as a hardware RAID0 hanging off the back of good fast raid controller.
If he filled each of them with 4GB DIMMs he'd have 128GB of storage space.
Volatile? Hell yeah... But also just crazy fast...
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So the synopsis starts by saying it doesn't degrade performance and ends with "it only causes a 6% drop in performance." Now, I might be nieve but why can't these memory aligning tricks be done in the kernel naively?
What does official "Atom" support give you? Some additional power savings? No, this was a targeted patch to kill netbooks. As other posters have pointed out, Apple doesn't have any offerings that match netbooks.
Personally, I think it's a dick move on Apple's part. Honestly, how much can it be cutting into their business? Everybody I know whose got a "Hackintosh" netbook/laptop running OSX went out and bought a legitimate copy of OSX.
I can only see upside for Apple. Yeah, it's not *their* hardware, but honestly, more OSX out in the world means less MS out in the world, I can't see how that's bad for apple.
Bingo!
Don't forget... it'll also jam the signal from the satellites that broadcast American Idol and Survivor...
As someone whose got a HUGE amount of data currently in ZFS (and a lot of it is redudant!) I can't wait to get my hands on this! I figure along on my backup server it's going to save me 10's of TB's worth of space.
I just wish there was more details on what release of Open Solaris or Solaris this is going to be in, or patch sets that'll include this!
This is something that I could never understand (as a space nerd...)
Would it be harder to take something like an Atlas 5 (that's got literally hundreds of flights under its belt) and modify it for human space flight then to build a completely new rocket (granted taking bits from lots of different rockets)?
Especially with the Ares 5, I think it should just be an Atlas 5.
For some reason their acronym reads and sounds in my head like "Indecent".
Yeah, but in never winter nights since you could see the dice rolls /etc if you walked by someone who was a thief and pick pocketed you, you'd suddenly see that our money was reduced by 3 coins...
I always thought it was awesome that they stayed so true to D&D, even if it made the graphical game play clunky at times.
The good part of this is that he stuck around long enough to run the company into the ground!
kill -9 `pgrep darl_mc_bride`
Fine then, have a mouse as well for super detail work.
I watched the video and I found in very interesting. As someone who's sitting in front of a 24" monitor and I've ~30 windows open, I totally get the clutter thing.
With that all said, what I saw was lots of talk and lots of eye candy. If you go to the 10/GUI website it's completely devoid of any details about hardware, what OS it's going to be supported on, etc.
Until there's more details, I'm calling vaporware on this...
My hope is that it'll spur on those who want to build giant wind farms to start pouring concrete pads and placing orders since their will be market for their power.
The PSP Go is aimed squarely at putting companies like GameStop out of business. What Sony is trying to do with the PSP Go is completely eliminate the game resale market and control the whole purchase cycle from both ends, which I must say... is fucking retarded.
I'm sure some Sony dumb ass up in higher management *though* it was a great idea, but they've obviously have little to no understanding of the average PSP customer. What pisses me off is there are so many cool things Sony could do with the existing hardware, or better, keep the current design and add some internal memory or whatever. I could talk at depth at all the opportunities that Sony has missed with online content with the PSP, but I won't...
Personally, I own two PSP (both series 1000) and I've been extremely happy with them. I *might* buy a PSP 3000 if one of mine were to die, but I won't buy a GO and considering the stupidity that has become Sony, I might go buy one of the nintendo hand helds.
Has anybody had to send a Wii back to NoA and then been told "You've got to pay for us to repair this?"
I'm suspecting that if you called them and said "I started the update for the latest firmware, and now the Wii won't turn on, your update broke our Wii!" That Nintendo would likely do the right thing and replace/repair your Wii.
Now, if they don't, I think someone should go to the media and tear them a new one in the court of public opinion. Just remember how quickly Microsoft changed their policy when the nightly news started reporting "Xbox 360's are breaking all the time and MS isn't fixing them!!!"
With that all said, I'm glad I haven't updated my Wii and now I won't!
Even though I'm writing this from a linux box, if you're going to be storing that much data and you want to do it cheaply, you should really look at ZFS as the filesystem of choice for the backend.
As for moving the data over there, sure use rsync and then use zfs's snapshot features so you have some rollback capability.
Why ZFS? So I'm envisioning that you're going to need a mid range machine (duel power supplies) and hanging off that you're going to have a whole pile of JBOD. You could spend the money on something that does hardware based raid, but if you're cost concious, your best route is to buy a JBOD box and fill it with 1.5TB disks. You could try to manage all of this with LVM and possibly XFS, but it would be nightmare. ZFS basically rolls RAID/LVM/FS into a single layer. Thus adding disks to your array becomes trivial. Also, I would recomment that each user/application get it's own sub filesystem on the array, that way you'll have much finer granularity for snapshots/quotas/etc.
I didn't intend this post to be an advertisement for ZFS but I have such a setup with ~14TB of disk on it right now and it works great. As for the OS on top, you could go with opensolaris, or netezza (which is just debian rolled ontop of the opensolaris kernel.
I knew it... we're all going to die from killer avian SARS bees.
You also have to remember this isn't going to be the only technology used to generate power. The most obvious is solar which could be used to supplement the system (thus lengthening the live of the reactors)
As for redundancy, I could envision a system where each module would have one of these that would feed a central bus so that excess power could be routed to modules that needed it. Also each module would be capable of standing on its own in terms of power.
Actually, I think it would be cool to do something like this.
Envision a ship (such as a tanker) outfitted with a thermal depolymerization plant and rigged with equipment to grapple and/or suck up large volumes of this plastic mass and convert it back into oil. Then it could use some of that oil to power the equipment, the rest it could then sell to support the operation.
Honestly, after all the money we've spent, I don't see them just plopping it into the ocean.
Firstly, if we're going to the moon and mars, the ISS seems like a pretty damn good staging/bailout option.
Secondly, we need to start thinking long term about our survival as a species. One of those strategies means long term human space flight. Currently a space station is the only thing that's giving us that.
I'm sure there will be those people who argue that it takes money away from other projects, but right now it's the only thing NASA is doing.
Ding, ding, ding... you get the brass ring...
The problem is that obviously, a large segment of people are ODing on acetaminophen and their getting liver damage. This being America where nothing is anybody's fault, obviously the fault lies with the product.
I'm all for education. Hell make the label really explicit to say something like "DO NOT EXCEED 2000MG PER DAY OR YOUR LIVER WILL EXPLODE!!!!"
If the FDA does ban acetaminophen based pain killers, a HUGE (bigger than it already is) black market is going to spring up, which is only going to get more people maimed/killed/livers exploded
* I make this claim on the idea that some people will actually sell real acetaminophen based pain killers, the rest will just sell counterfeit crap.
This is a completely solved problem and this whole argument about a random bit changing causing some sort of cascade failure is crap.
In any real mission critical system that would be handling this kind of data, you'd be using a fault tolerant system where the memory is mirrored and there's hardware watching the memory and if the memory suddenly changes on one side of the system and not the other, it'll dump that side of the system.
I've worked on these systems, where they've simulated this random bit flipping problem and the machine behaves properly.
I've used testdisk more times than I can count. I've also used photorec on numerous devices large and small.
Ironically, we haven't had much luck with the commercial stuff.
We've also got a silly python script that will run the "file" command on each file and sort them into the appropriate piles.
I hear ya...
We've deployed a number of ESXi boxes with mixed results. In a nutshell, if you have a underutilized server that's lightly loaded, it's a great candidate to be a VM.
Anything that needs performance should be considered off the list for a VM, unless you can convince the consumers that the speed penalty is worth the ease of management.
* Web server that servers your lunch menu and maybe your HR vacation scheduling system: VM
* Build machine that pounds through 7 GB of source and takes 10hrs of solid compiling to produce output: not a good choice for a VM.
* Domain Controller: VM
I like VM's because they're portable and machine agnostic. The whole virtual infrastructure stuff is polished and works.
However, people tend to think that virtualization is the right path for everthing, which it is not.
It has its place in the IT toolbox with everything else. Who knows, maybe Intel and vmware will hatch an offspring that looks like ESXi but with hardware provisioning... Though I'm sure IBM's lawyers would shit kittens!
I'm presuming each one of those nitwits probably makes ~75k...
Well, I think it's time you plan a game of musical chairs...
Better yet, get them all into a conference room, then walk in and calming explain "I've talked with the CEO and one of you is going to get let go so we can keep wasting energy on your screensaver, what's cool is that you all get to decide which one of you goes." Then look at the clock and say "I'll be back in an hour, and if there's no decision, the CEO will pick two of you to fire."
Server: Jabber
Client: Pidgin
Jabber is mature, it doesn't crash and it works. Pidgin is multi platform and looks consistant across those platforms. We did have a couple of users who are Trillium holdouts.
It works great. We've just had to work on educating our users a bit in regards to what should be sent via internal IM and what's cool to be sent via AIM.
Maybe you can answer a couple of questions...
1. Have they blocked SSH access out of the country? It's hard to block a tunneled connection...
2. Have they blocked TOR access?
Maybe I'm just being naive but firewalling off an entire country (noted exception: China) seems really impractical.
If price isn't an option, then he should get himself 4 ANS-9010's and set them up as a hardware RAID0 hanging off the back of good fast raid controller.
If he filled each of them with 4GB DIMMs he'd have 128GB of storage space.
Volatile? Hell yeah... But also just crazy fast...