Don't forget that another reason to move away from SAS/SATA and towards PCIe is to break away from current restrictions in RAID controllers. This setup looks targeted at Enterprise RAID. Enterprise RAID setups, including LSI Logic's megaraid (H700/H800 from Dell) can't support things such as NCQ or SMART, which are really important features on many traditional Hard Drives or TRIM for SSDs. Support of NCQ would be required to hit higher transfer speeds in an SSD RAID setup than what we are able to hit today with current controller technology. We also only get limited SMART data from RAID controllers which pass through a fraction of this but do not support the SMART technology directly (try using smartctl in linux to query a logical drive handed out by a RAID controller). This technology seems to make that possible. I'll take the wait and see approach, but it looks promising.
The only reason that mammals with an active p21 gene and the inability to regenerate tissue continued on and p21 suppressed mammals did not is because chicks dig scars. No perfectly healthy scarless male is going to attract a hot chick who is only interested in the dummy injury prone type.
I see your point. My suggestion is that the MAIN focus right now should be getting Nuclear power in place as the primary replacement for coal/oil. Wind, Geothermal, Tidal and Solar should be pursued at the same time as a replacement/augmentation of Nuclear, but people really need to stop looking at them as equals which are ready for prime time deployment. The fact is that technologically speaking they are not and the cost to manufacture and maintain the newer technologies is much higher and they will change signifigantly in design and effectiveness before a standard is settled and costs cut.
A host of nonpartisan (I'm independant BTW) issues can be found in the wikipedia articles for Geothermal and Tidal (waveform hydroelectric) power. Ironically enough, they can generate power, but are equally horrible for the environment in other ways. Not to mention they are extremely cost prohibitive in most circumstances. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_energy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide
Worldwide we are producing about 10GW of power using geothermal today. Overall, thats not alot. And geothermal has many construction and engineering hurdles to overcome that are different with EACH installation which increases costs and can reduce overall output. Technology can solve this problem, yet again, its not there yet. Not reliably anyways.
So, about that extensive data you have seen. Want to provide some links that have hard numbers and are based in facts or do you want to sit over there and provide no helpful commentary yourself other than to say I'm wrong and you're right?
Well, if solar panels were 100% efficient then we would only have to cover 1.8% of the land on our planet for them to cover all our needs.
Wait. The earth rotates with about 38% of the surface optimally bathed in sunlight at any given time. Doing the math on that means that we have to cover somewhere in the neighborhood of 4.2% of the land on the planet in 100% efficient panels to cover our needs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Oh wait, solar panels aren't 100% efficient. As a matter of fact, they aren't even nearly 20% efficient in most cases. Eh...back to the drawing board.
I love the idea of cleaner energy as much as everyone else, however there are a few things that many people don't realize.
1. Nuclear power is a known entity with known problems however it provides the most energy at the least cost in regards to both money and pollution.
2. Covering signifigant portions of any land mass in solar panels (solar farms) leads to serious erosion problems and other issues that are not widely publicized as a large problem. It is a large problem, so much so that some solar farms are only producing at about 60% capacity due to equipment failures caused by panel foundations shifting and wind issues. Read the article in Wired.
3. Wind farms can not adequately provide enough power to the grid to support everyone. In severely windy areas it can cause serious power spikes that our current power grid cannot handle potentially causing large scale outages. It is also worth noting that if you have an unusually non-windy month, your refrigerator might not turn on some nights. That sucks.
4. Technology is not there yet with geothermal, waveform hydroelectric or any other technology you hear routinely mentioned as a solution to all our energy problems. They are at least 20-30 years off before they start providing any useful power and that is at the earliest.
We get it. We need cleaner energy. Now, listen to those of us who agree with you but are more well informed: Nuclear is your first best option for the next three decades. Do you really feel like complaining about how bad coal and oil are for another 30 years?
Dell DRAC 4 and up controllers work fine with firefox provided you set the console to use Java in the Remote Console -> Configuration screen. Most of the DRAC firmwares dont have a native console plugin that works with firefox though I have found a few variations that do. Your best bet is just to use the.jnlp version with Java Webstart.
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The only AMD chips lacking this support that are currently on the market are the Semprons and some Turions. AMD doesn't market the old Athlon 64s without this support anymore though it still looks like you can pick them up OEM from NewEgg.
Honestly though, if you are running a Sempron/Turion, you are probably not looking to run VM's on your machine.
"Of cats that live into their teen years the average life expectancy is...."
Now, if you enter 'fucking some teenage pussy', you will probably get something along the lines of the average prison term served for doing such a thing, how likely you are to be able to do it while living in your mom's basement, or maybe even some Debbie LaFave links.
Adobe can spend the time to put Flash on TV's right after they spend the time to accelerate its playback on GPU's via CUDA or some other interface language.
I'd really like to be able to play back Hulu, YouTube, etc... on an Ion powered Atom media center box. That would be far more useful than having it on a television where 90% of customers would never use it. 100% of those people who design and build their own HTPC's would use it and get something out of it once it has GPU accelerated playback.
You have to wonder that with this thing running a native version of linux on the card itself if you could place linux based game hacking utilities on the card that make use of packet hacks to hack your games. This would allow you to bypass things like Blizzards hack checking utility and things like that.
I wonder if anyone has examined those possibilities.
I think I can decrease my gas consumption by up to 75% by throwing square wheels on my car! Of course the reason would be because i would be 75% less likely to use a car that really cant go anywhere.
Intel will be announcing Yamhill at IDF this week. The funny thing about this subject is that you have a whole lot of people who have no idea what they are talking about posting about facts they cant back up.
I got a look at Intels NDA ppt that they have been handing out to sales folks at different companies (ASUS, Abit, etc.) and it clearly states the areas where they are making money and the markets they are going after. Right now AMD is squarely centered in the $10,000 and under market with the Opteron. This shows that their main market penetration is against the Xeon and the P4. However, this is NOT where their main focus is. The problem with AMD right now is that all the main tier1 manufacturers have not put forward servers that fully support the AMD64 platform. Most of them are 2cpu systems or workstations.
For AMD to clearly move ahead, they need the backing of IBM, Sun, and HP in the 4+ cpu market to really make a dent in Intel or even have a possibility at Itanium. Word on the street is that Sun and HP/Compaq will be putting forward 8-way systems in the near future. The problem is that if they do not get on the ball, Yamhill will be out and could steal much of the thunder away from such a release.
The announced Opteron parts do not have dual DDR memory channels. They would need even more pins on the package, and it already has 940!
Thats not really true. For one...not all pins on the die are in use. Some of the dead ones could be relocated over to pick up the slack. And if I remember reading correctly Opteron is initially being released this way but in late 2003 or early 2004 they are completely switching memory to DDR2, but since DDR2 is as hard to come by as Jesus in a Bottle, it kinda doesn't make sense to release the chip supporting that standard.
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Don't forget that another reason to move away from SAS/SATA and towards PCIe is to break away from current restrictions in RAID controllers. This setup looks targeted at Enterprise RAID. Enterprise RAID setups, including LSI Logic's megaraid (H700/H800 from Dell) can't support things such as NCQ or SMART, which are really important features on many traditional Hard Drives or TRIM for SSDs. Support of NCQ would be required to hit higher transfer speeds in an SSD RAID setup than what we are able to hit today with current controller technology. We also only get limited SMART data from RAID controllers which pass through a fraction of this but do not support the SMART technology directly (try using smartctl in linux to query a logical drive handed out by a RAID controller). This technology seems to make that possible. I'll take the wait and see approach, but it looks promising.
The only reason that mammals with an active p21 gene and the inability to regenerate tissue continued on and p21 suppressed mammals did not is because chicks dig scars. No perfectly healthy scarless male is going to attract a hot chick who is only interested in the dummy injury prone type.
I see your point. My suggestion is that the MAIN focus right now should be getting Nuclear power in place as the primary replacement for coal/oil. Wind, Geothermal, Tidal and Solar should be pursued at the same time as a replacement/augmentation of Nuclear, but people really need to stop looking at them as equals which are ready for prime time deployment. The fact is that technologically speaking they are not and the cost to manufacture and maintain the newer technologies is much higher and they will change signifigantly in design and effectiveness before a standard is settled and costs cut.
Eh. I thought you replied to me. Ooops.
Ok. Quick list before I head home from my engineering job.
Solar cell (photovoltaic) efficiencies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell
Power grid issues with Wind and Solar.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/10grid.html?_r=4&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/business/27grid.html
A host of nonpartisan (I'm independant BTW) issues can be found in the wikipedia articles for Geothermal and Tidal (waveform hydroelectric) power. Ironically enough, they can generate power, but are equally horrible for the environment in other ways. Not to mention they are extremely cost prohibitive in most circumstances.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_energy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_sulfide
Worldwide we are producing about 10GW of power using geothermal today. Overall, thats not alot. And geothermal has many construction and engineering hurdles to overcome that are different with EACH installation which increases costs and can reduce overall output. Technology can solve this problem, yet again, its not there yet. Not reliably anyways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_power
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn_Barrage
http://www.reuk.co.uk/Severn-Barrage-Tidal-Power.htm
Even if they start the Severn Barrage right this second, it would not be fully operational and completed until 2020 at the earliest. The construction costs are nearly $40 billion (24bn. pounds), and the total power output would be around 8.6GW under ideal circumstances. Output is dependant on variable scenarious such as weather (which can also cause damage) and current. Expected average output is about 2GW. Current nuclear technology can generate upwards of 1.4-1.5GW of power per reactor with multiple reactors built at each plant.
http://www.reuk.co.uk/Severn-Barrage-Tidal-Power.htm
So, about that extensive data you have seen. Want to provide some links that have hard numbers and are based in facts or do you want to sit over there and provide no helpful commentary yourself other than to say I'm wrong and you're right?
Well, if solar panels were 100% efficient then we would only have to cover 1.8% of the land on our planet for them to cover all our needs.
Wait. The earth rotates with about 38% of the surface optimally bathed in sunlight at any given time. Doing the math on that means that we have to cover somewhere in the neighborhood of 4.2% of the land on the planet in 100% efficient panels to cover our needs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Oh wait, solar panels aren't 100% efficient. As a matter of fact, they aren't even nearly 20% efficient in most cases. Eh...back to the drawing board.
I love the idea of cleaner energy as much as everyone else, however there are a few things that many people don't realize.
1. Nuclear power is a known entity with known problems however it provides the most energy at the least cost in regards to both money and pollution.
2. Covering signifigant portions of any land mass in solar panels (solar farms) leads to serious erosion problems and other issues that are not widely publicized as a large problem. It is a large problem, so much so that some solar farms are only producing at about 60% capacity due to equipment failures caused by panel foundations shifting and wind issues. Read the article in Wired.
3. Wind farms can not adequately provide enough power to the grid to support everyone. In severely windy areas it can cause serious power spikes that our current power grid cannot handle potentially causing large scale outages. It is also worth noting that if you have an unusually non-windy month, your refrigerator might not turn on some nights. That sucks.
4. Technology is not there yet with geothermal, waveform hydroelectric or any other technology you hear routinely mentioned as a solution to all our energy problems. They are at least 20-30 years off before they start providing any useful power and that is at the earliest.
We get it. We need cleaner energy. Now, listen to those of us who agree with you but are more well informed: Nuclear is your first best option for the next three decades. Do you really feel like complaining about how bad coal and oil are for another 30 years?
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Dell DRAC 4 and up controllers work fine with firefox provided you set the console to use Java in the Remote Console -> Configuration screen. Most of the DRAC firmwares dont have a native console plugin that works with firefox though I have found a few variations that do. Your best bet is just to use the .jnlp version with Java Webstart.
--X
What is the equivalent of that in unladen swallows?
The only AMD chips lacking this support that are currently on the market are the Semprons and some Turions. AMD doesn't market the old Athlon 64s without this support anymore though it still looks like you can pick them up OEM from NewEgg. Honestly though, if you are running a Sempron/Turion, you are probably not looking to run VM's on your machine.
It's a testament to the collective brilliance of /. that this is not modded 'Flamebait.'
Yeah. All their teeth have been kicked out by /. posters and Fark readers.
You might get something along the lines of:
"Of cats that live into their teen years the average life expectancy is...."
Now, if you enter 'fucking some teenage pussy', you will probably get something along the lines of the average prison term served for doing such a thing, how likely you are to be able to do it while living in your mom's basement, or maybe even some Debbie LaFave links.
Adobe can spend the time to put Flash on TV's right after they spend the time to accelerate its playback on GPU's via CUDA or some other interface language. I'd really like to be able to play back Hulu, YouTube, etc... on an Ion powered Atom media center box. That would be far more useful than having it on a television where 90% of customers would never use it. 100% of those people who design and build their own HTPC's would use it and get something out of it once it has GPU accelerated playback.
You have to wonder that with this thing running a native version of linux on the card itself if you could place linux based game hacking utilities on the card that make use of packet hacks to hack your games. This would allow you to bypass things like Blizzards hack checking utility and things like that. I wonder if anyone has examined those possibilities.
It rubs the lotion on its chip or else it gets no packet round trip.
I think I can decrease my gas consumption by up to 75% by throwing square wheels on my car! Of course the reason would be because i would be 75% less likely to use a car that really cant go anywhere.
I guess I'll have to move in to a Storage USA container and wait for the Snow Crash virus to hit. Sweet.
Well, I know we all hope SCO is dying.
Intel will be announcing Yamhill at IDF this week. The funny thing about this subject is that you have a whole lot of people who have no idea what they are talking about posting about facts they cant back up.
I got a look at Intels NDA ppt that they have been handing out to sales folks at different companies (ASUS, Abit, etc.) and it clearly states the areas where they are making money and the markets they are going after. Right now AMD is squarely centered in the $10,000 and under market with the Opteron. This shows that their main market penetration is against the Xeon and the P4. However, this is NOT where their main focus is. The problem with AMD right now is that all the main tier1 manufacturers have not put forward servers that fully support the AMD64 platform. Most of them are 2cpu systems or workstations.
For AMD to clearly move ahead, they need the backing of IBM, Sun, and HP in the 4+ cpu market to really make a dent in Intel or even have a possibility at Itanium. Word on the street is that Sun and HP/Compaq will be putting forward 8-way systems in the near future. The problem is that if they do not get on the ball, Yamhill will be out and could steal much of the thunder away from such a release.
Yeah, but the condensation in it crystalizes at freezing. So you would see a vapor as it leaked.
why? so you can crash into the ground and see if it kills you. brings a whole new meaning to 'force feedback'
Sidney Bristow arrived back in Los Angeles today and SD-6 is now the owner of a non-working prototype of the same Super Drone.
Slashdot Collective Sigh: "Whoa! Very Uncool!"
http://www.newisys.com http://www.racksavers.com http://www.pssclabs.com
The announced Opteron parts do not have dual DDR memory channels. They would need even more pins on the package, and it already has 940!
Thats not really true. For one...not all pins on the die are in use. Some of the dead ones could be relocated over to pick up the slack. And if I remember reading correctly Opteron is initially being released this way but in late 2003 or early 2004 they are completely switching memory to DDR2, but since DDR2 is as hard to come by as Jesus in a Bottle, it kinda doesn't make sense to release the chip supporting that standard.