Color would be "nice." But only nice. I could see the covers of the books in color. Other than that, it wouldn't mean much to me, and certainly not enough to get me to spend a big premium to get it.
I've seen the screen of the new Kindle 3, and the contrast is very nice. Noticeably better than my old Sony 500 or my Astak EZ-Reader. I haven't seen any of the newer Sonys.
If the Kindle did EPub, I'd grab one. If the Nook upgrades to Pearl, I'll probably jump on it. Not interested in an LCD reader, though, so the color Nook won't attract me.
You're talking about early 80s. By the late 80s 40MB drives were fairly affordable, and 286 processors common. And (fairly expensive) memory boards with a megabyte or more of memory were available.
My beef with PgSQL was the way it handles upgrades. Let me preface this by saying that I wasn't using it for anything "serious" -- it was purely a hobby system, running on a desktop machine. I might have a different perspective if the purpose of that machine was to run a database.
When I upgraded from PgSQL 7 to 8, the data became inaccessible. Version 8 was unable to access the version 7 tables. You have to export all your data and then import into the new version. Some time later I converted the OS from 32 bit to 64 bit -- the version of PostgreSQL did not change. The 64 bit version of PgSQL was unable to access the 32 bit tables. It turns out that you need to export all your data and then re-import it.
MySQL on that same machine handled both types of upgrade transparently.
Since this this was a hobby machine, this was an annoyance rather than a disaster. But it *was* an annoyance.
I've gotten text messages AND phone calls from a live operator (from Verizon) to warn me of this. They weren't free phone minutes (or text messages) but they were nice to get. I have an app on the phone that will show me how many minutes, messages and how much data I've used, as well as how many days left in my plan month.
AT&T didn't buy Cingular. It was the other way around. Cingular was part of SBC. SBC bought AT&T and then changed their name to AT&T.
SBC (along with some other baby Bells) were still ticked off at the original breakup of AT&T, so they were busy buying up all of the old Bell system they could in order to rebuild the old evil empire. AT&T Wireless was pretty small, I'm pretty sure the only reason they bought it was because they wanted the name back.
Pacific Bell owned Cingular. SBC bought PacBell (and other Baby Bells as well) and got Cingular. Then SBC bought AT&T, and since they really, really wanted to put things back to where they were before the Bell system was broken up, they then renamed themselves AT&T since they now owned the name.
I'm pretty sure they bought AT&T for the name alone.
No sweat. An LTO4 tape is fairly inexpensive, on the order of $50 each. A bargain, considering the capacity and ruggedness.
Only...
A drive will set you back somewhere between $1500 and $3000. Is it worth it? Well, yeah, maybe. Definitely, for a business. Not practical for the average home though, and that's where most of these TB+ drives are going. And most small businesses won't spend that kind of money, even if they should. *I* probably wouldn't, if it were my money.
LTO tape is a far safer solution than an external hard drive, but it's not more *practical* for most people.
Awesome might be pushing it a bit, but I'll agree it's gotten better. It's never quite right, but I can usually get the gist of the message even before I have a chance to listen directly.
If you believe Charlie Stross, no publisher wants DRM.
However, corporations that own publishers insist on it. So until the dinosaurs in the boardroom all die out (and that's going to happen long before they get a clue) most publishers will be using some sort of DRM.
Just keep in mind that if your PVs are separate physical devices, and one of those devices fails, the volume that spans them is toast. That increases your chances of a catastrophic failure, since each device has its own non-zero chance of failure.
If you can, make each PV a raid group. Or have good backups.
The computer I'm typing this on belongs to the university, and although I bring my laptop to work and occasionally do work on it as well, I may be the only one in my department that does so. Pretty much everybody here uses a university owned computer, exclusively. It's the same in all the departments on campus where I know anyone, so I'm going to generalize that to mean most all employees here. I can't believe we're very unusual.
Don't know the answer to that, but the first mainline kernel to have it is 2.6.33, and it looks like RH6 is using 2.6.32. However, Red Hat has a history of backporting features and bug fixes to their kernel without changing the version, so it's possible. Considering that it takes as long as it does for a major version change (kinda reminds me of Debian there) it would make sense for an Enterprise distro to make sure TRIM support is there.
Me too. I just handle my department, thank the gods. I've got two labs that are native Windows -- one with 7 machines and one 15 machine lab. These are hardware oriented labs that have vendor provided software that won't run under emulation.
The other 4 labs run Ubuntu, with VMWare, non-persistent VMs for any activities that absolutely require Windows.
My Windows only labs are in a constant reboot cycle (well, before I shut them down), the rest don't even realize there's anything going on.:) Since tomorrow is Lab day for those two labs, I'm hoping McAfee gets the problem fixed before then. If not, I'll disable boot scan until they do.
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Why not?
Pictures delete pretty easily from my Canon S20.
Color would be "nice." But only nice. I could see the covers of the books in color. Other than that, it wouldn't mean much to me, and certainly not enough to get me to spend a big premium to get it.
I've seen the screen of the new Kindle 3, and the contrast is very nice. Noticeably better than my old Sony 500 or my Astak EZ-Reader. I haven't seen any of the newer Sonys.
If the Kindle did EPub, I'd grab one. If the Nook upgrades to Pearl, I'll probably jump on it. Not interested in an LCD reader, though, so the color Nook won't attract me.
Multisync appears to be dead. The same people are working on Opensync which does seem to have current activity.
This punishment sounds a lot like, "You are so grounded."
You're talking about early 80s. By the late 80s 40MB drives were fairly affordable, and 286 processors common. And (fairly expensive) memory boards with a megabyte or more of memory were available.
My beef with PgSQL was the way it handles upgrades. Let me preface this by saying that I wasn't using it for anything "serious" -- it was purely a hobby system, running on a desktop machine. I might have a different perspective if the purpose of that machine was to run a database.
When I upgraded from PgSQL 7 to 8, the data became inaccessible. Version 8 was unable to access the version 7 tables. You have to export all your data and then import into the new version. Some time later I converted the OS from 32 bit to 64 bit -- the version of PostgreSQL did not change. The 64 bit version of PgSQL was unable to access the 32 bit tables. It turns out that you need to export all your data and then re-import it.
MySQL on that same machine handled both types of upgrade transparently.
Since this this was a hobby machine, this was an annoyance rather than a disaster. But it *was* an annoyance.
Google Voice. I'm not sure if it uses an email gateway or not, but it would be a logical way to do it.
I've gotten text messages AND phone calls from a live operator (from Verizon) to warn me of this. They weren't free phone minutes (or text messages) but they were nice to get. I have an app on the phone that will show me how many minutes, messages and how much data I've used, as well as how many days left in my plan month.
AT&T didn't buy Cingular. It was the other way around. Cingular was part of SBC. SBC bought AT&T and then changed their name to AT&T.
SBC (along with some other baby Bells) were still ticked off at the original breakup of AT&T, so they were busy buying up all of the old Bell system they could in order to rebuild the old evil empire. AT&T Wireless was pretty small, I'm pretty sure the only reason they bought it was because they wanted the name back.
Pacific Bell owned Cingular. SBC bought PacBell (and other Baby Bells as well) and got Cingular. Then SBC bought AT&T, and since they really, really wanted to put things back to where they were before the Bell system was broken up, they then renamed themselves AT&T since they now owned the name.
I'm pretty sure they bought AT&T for the name alone.
The burn mark where the RFID chip died might look a little suspicious.
Much better to bend your passport over a table edge, etc.
No sweat. An LTO4 tape is fairly inexpensive, on the order of $50 each. A bargain, considering the capacity and ruggedness.
Only...
A drive will set you back somewhere between $1500 and $3000. Is it worth it? Well, yeah, maybe. Definitely, for a business. Not practical for the average home though, and that's where most of these TB+ drives are going. And most small businesses won't spend that kind of money, even if they should. *I* probably wouldn't, if it were my money.
LTO tape is a far safer solution than an external hard drive, but it's not more *practical* for most people.
Awesome might be pushing it a bit, but I'll agree it's gotten better. It's never quite right, but I can usually get the gist of the message even before I have a chance to listen directly.
Whereas Mr Anonymous Coward has been here from the beginning.
Um. Whoosh?
If you believe Charlie Stross, no publisher wants DRM.
However, corporations that own publishers insist on it. So until the dinosaurs in the boardroom all die out (and that's going to happen long before they get a clue) most publishers will be using some sort of DRM.
Even better Strawberry Perl
Just keep in mind that if your PVs are separate physical devices, and one of those devices fails, the volume that spans them is toast. That increases your chances of a catastrophic failure, since each device has its own non-zero chance of failure.
If you can, make each PV a raid group. Or have good backups.
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General Philip Sheridan, 1855
Huh? What university are you talking about?
The computer I'm typing this on belongs to the university, and although I bring my laptop to work and occasionally do work on it as well, I may be the only one in my department that does so. Pretty much everybody here uses a university owned computer, exclusively. It's the same in all the departments on campus where I know anyone, so I'm going to generalize that to mean most all employees here. I can't believe we're very unusual.
Don't know the answer to that, but the first mainline kernel to have it is 2.6.33, and it looks like RH6 is using 2.6.32. However, Red Hat has a history of backporting features and bug fixes to their kernel without changing the version, so it's possible. Considering that it takes as long as it does for a major version change (kinda reminds me of Debian there) it would make sense for an Enterprise distro to make sure TRIM support is there.
Me too. I just handle my department, thank the gods. I've got two labs that are native Windows -- one with 7 machines and one 15 machine lab. These are hardware oriented labs that have vendor provided software that won't run under emulation.
The other 4 labs run Ubuntu, with VMWare, non-persistent VMs for any activities that absolutely require Windows.
My Windows only labs are in a constant reboot cycle (well, before I shut them down), the rest don't even realize there's anything going on. :) Since tomorrow is Lab day for those two labs, I'm hoping McAfee gets the problem fixed before then. If not, I'll disable boot scan until they do.
Are you assuming this was an empty can?
Maybe it was. The article didn't say, as far as I could see. But I'm not sure you can assume that it *was* empty.
If you can find me a $300 LTO4 drive, give me an address. I'll jump on it.
Last I looked they were in the $2-3K range. They may have come down some, but to $300?