FYI. 2 seconds is the legal and advertised safe gap for dry conditions in some countries, followed by a 4 second gap in wet conditions. New Zealand (where I live) is one such country.
To an extent, yes. However, the key differentiation is that anything on the internet is more accessible - sooner, to a much more wide audience. Most newspapers have microfilm archives available at your local library, so long term archiving is not a factor.
I never went to school, I was schooled at home - thanks to abusive parents. This means I was never actually schooled, so I spent all my time on my computer as a form of escapism.
That was about 18 hours a day from the time I was at least 9 to the time I started working full-time, at age 15 (I started working early so I could move out and be AWAY from the abuse)
18 hours a day * 7 days a week * 52 weeks a year * 6 years = 39,312 hours before I ever worked.
Then, work experience - I started when I'm 15, I'm now 23:
8 hours a day * 5 days a week * 50 weeks a year * 8 years = 16,000 hours commercially (or thereabouts)
Again, note that the commercial experience does not count the overtime I was working - by my calculation that'd be about 5,200 hours or so.
So, 16,000 + 39,312 = 55,312 or so. You can add another 5,200 hours for overtime and get it to about 60,000 hours, but I generally don't bother adding that into my count.
8 hours a day * 5 days a week * 50 weeks a year * 8 years = 16000 - and this is a very conservative estimate.
Note that that is not including the massive amounts of overtime I was doing as a software engineer, or the massive amounts of overtime I do now. For about 2 years I was working between 12 and 18 hour days, solid.
I myself am 23 years old. I have 16,000 hours of/commercial/ experience in my field (unix systems administration), and 55,000 hours of unix/linux experience in general (counting my pre-work years, etc). The astute people in the audience will note that 55,000 hours is roughly equivilant to 28 years of 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
I'm team leader for a team of about 12 UNIX systems administrators, all of which are far older than myself (average age is 50). Why am I the team leader? Because I'm more in touch with the technology of today, and with the business world. In other words, I provide a valuable communication channel between the business and IT. Well, that, and in terms of hours, my experience tends to outweigh theirs.
The young people of today are learning what the older people learnt, but far earlier, and at a time they can really learn it properly - kind of like learning a second language when you are a child.
That said, I must admit that most of the candidates I interview are above 40, and they do tend to have more relevant experience - but do NOT write off the younger generation - before you know it, one of them will be your boss.
So yeah, quit your discrimination - hire based on relevant experience and ability to perform, not based on age.
With the same level of assurance that the solution will operate, first time - every time?
With the same level of confidence that Some Vendor will bend over backwards to fix it if it doesn't work?
Will your solution be as well tested and engineered?
It's not like you can just grab 3 1TB SATA drives, throw them into RAID-5 and say that you've got 2TB of production ready storage. Well, you can, but you'd be an idiot.
Your "home brew" solution will not meet any of the objectives Sun are achieving with this product. Your spindle count will suck, so concurrent access will be slow. You will probably be limited to one of iSCSI, CIFS, NFS or WebDAV, I doubt your solution would have all - and if it does, the integration will suck.
Will your solution have the diagnostic tools that Sun can provide? Oh wait, you don't have the millions of dollars to invest in engineering quality diagnostics, right from disk analysis (Sector scanning, remapping, etc) through to performance related faults? Well, then your solution will suck. What about snap-cloning?
In short, yes - storage is cheap. You can grab large drives very cheaply and put together something that works. That does not mean it will be good. Production quality storage is expensive, and for good bloody reason.
As for doing this using SSD storage, that's just ridiculous. 2048GB of storage would be at least 16 128GB SSD disks - this is not counting any disks for redundancy (i.e, raid-5/6 parity), or hot-spares. Assuming 2 drives for RAID-6 parity and 2 hot swaps, you'd need 20 SSD disks - with 10 grand, you're expecting to pay $500 per disk - and no other hardware, i.e, motherboard, case, cooling (more important than you think), etc.
So, until you have a clue about designing production quality storage systems, please refrain from making statements you have no clue about, you're only serving to confuse those people who are actually interested in what this product has to offer them. Keep to building crappy 3 or 4 disk RAID-5 systems using extremely large drives for storing your music, movies and pr0n on, but don't ever ever ever ever think about using those in any situation where your financial livelihood depends on that data.
fact is, if indonesia or even friggin new zealand wanted to invade australia, they could pretty well take our cities before our 'well regulated militia' could do much about it.
While we in New Zealand appreciate your confidence, we wish to advise that while we have a small army, we have no way to get them over the ditch, since we no longer have either a navy or airforce. Nothing to fear here, please move along.
I just bought the Linux 4GB eeePC for my partner, for our anniversary - she loves it!
Primarily because it's small enough to fit in her purse, big enough to touch type on, and due to the SSD, can take the knocks that inevitably happen when the rest of creation is inside her purse with the laptop.
Even better, she likes that it doesn't run Windows!
That's why IOS-XR on the CRS-1 is micro-kernel based. If any components fail or need to be restarted it can happen without affecting the rest of the system.
I don't see a whole lot of security advantages WRT micro vs. monolithic, but I do see huge advantages with availability. Mmm - remember the CIA scale?
Granted, there are security wins too, but there are also losses.
I don't really see much use/for me/ for a microkernel on my desktop - yet. Of course, 10 years ago I wouldn't have thought that my laptop would have 1gb RAM or a fingerprint reader...
Using GPS to track, for example, a security guard might skew the figures a bit
Depends. In a real world environment, that security guard may well be spreading the disease further, as he interacts with people (say, low-life criminals) and passes it onto them, who in turn take it to jail, etc etc...
Like the one typically on the wall?
Or, if you're using a multiboard and you really want your PVR on, use a double adapter with individual powerswitches and get a second multiboard, and have all "turn-off" devices on one, and all "standby" devices on the other.
Just because the manufacturer was too cheap doesn't mean it's expensive or hard to do yourself...
I actually click quite a few adverts. For example, I was looking for a diabetic-safe cake for my mothers birthday. Couldn't find any local, so I searched for recipes, and saw a few adverts.
I clicked on a couple to see what they offered. After all, it didn't cost me anything - and it gave me a great way to come up with a recipe I was able to get a local company to make up for it.
Sure, I probably should have ordered it from the website I clicked to, but then again - I don't really think that a cake would ship all that well from the USA to lil' old New Zealand....
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FYI. 2 seconds is the legal and advertised safe gap for dry conditions in some countries, followed by a 4 second gap in wet conditions. New Zealand (where I live) is one such country.
All valid points.
However:
> You brush your teeth every morning and night, why not check your account at the same time.
Do you want to clean toothpaste out of your keyboard morning and night?
But then you'd miss out on all the fun of mining it out of the Earth...
To an extent, yes. However, the key differentiation is that anything on the internet is more accessible - sooner, to a much more wide audience. Most newspapers have microfilm archives available at your local library, so long term archiving is not a factor.
Yes. And have done so in the past. Mainly because it was causing issues with their own Wifi as well.
Yeah, have a look at this post I made in reply to another comment:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1035321&cid=25853963
Lets see.
I never went to school, I was schooled at home - thanks to abusive parents. This means I was never actually schooled, so I spent all my time on my computer as a form of escapism.
That was about 18 hours a day from the time I was at least 9 to the time I started working full-time, at age 15 (I started working early so I could move out and be AWAY from the abuse)
18 hours a day * 7 days a week * 52 weeks a year * 6 years = 39,312 hours before I ever worked.
Then, work experience - I started when I'm 15, I'm now 23:
8 hours a day * 5 days a week * 50 weeks a year * 8 years = 16,000 hours commercially (or thereabouts)
Again, note that the commercial experience does not count the overtime I was working - by my calculation that'd be about 5,200 hours or so.
So, 16,000 + 39,312 = 55,312 or so. You can add another 5,200 hours for overtime and get it to about 60,000 hours, but I generally don't bother adding that into my count.
Next question please.
Ahem, no. 8 years employed full time, not 12.
8 hours a day * 5 days a week * 50 weeks a year * 8 years = 16000 - and this is a very conservative estimate.
Note that that is not including the massive amounts of overtime I was doing as a software engineer, or the massive amounts of overtime I do now. For about 2 years I was working between 12 and 18 hour days, solid.
Dude. Get over the "age" issue.
I myself am 23 years old. I have 16,000 hours of /commercial/ experience in my field (unix systems administration), and 55,000 hours of unix/linux experience in general (counting my pre-work years, etc). The astute people in the audience will note that 55,000 hours is roughly equivilant to 28 years of 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
I'm team leader for a team of about 12 UNIX systems administrators, all of which are far older than myself (average age is 50). Why am I the team leader? Because I'm more in touch with the technology of today, and with the business world. In other words, I provide a valuable communication channel between the business and IT. Well, that, and in terms of hours, my experience tends to outweigh theirs.
The young people of today are learning what the older people learnt, but far earlier, and at a time they can really learn it properly - kind of like learning a second language when you are a child.
That said, I must admit that most of the candidates I interview are above 40, and they do tend to have more relevant experience - but do NOT write off the younger generation - before you know it, one of them will be your boss.
So yeah, quit your discrimination - hire based on relevant experience and ability to perform, not based on age.
With the same level of assurance that the solution will operate, first time - every time?
With the same level of confidence that Some Vendor will bend over backwards to fix it if it doesn't work?
Will your solution be as well tested and engineered?
It's not like you can just grab 3 1TB SATA drives, throw them into RAID-5 and say that you've got 2TB of production ready storage. Well, you can, but you'd be an idiot.
Your "home brew" solution will not meet any of the objectives Sun are achieving with this product. Your spindle count will suck, so concurrent access will be slow. You will probably be limited to one of iSCSI, CIFS, NFS or WebDAV, I doubt your solution would have all - and if it does, the integration will suck.
Will your solution have the diagnostic tools that Sun can provide? Oh wait, you don't have the millions of dollars to invest in engineering quality diagnostics, right from disk analysis (Sector scanning, remapping, etc) through to performance related faults? Well, then your solution will suck. What about snap-cloning?
In short, yes - storage is cheap. You can grab large drives very cheaply and put together something that works. That does not mean it will be good. Production quality storage is expensive, and for good bloody reason.
As for doing this using SSD storage, that's just ridiculous. 2048GB of storage would be at least 16 128GB SSD disks - this is not counting any disks for redundancy (i.e, raid-5/6 parity), or hot-spares. Assuming 2 drives for RAID-6 parity and 2 hot swaps, you'd need 20 SSD disks - with 10 grand, you're expecting to pay $500 per disk - and no other hardware, i.e, motherboard, case, cooling (more important than you think), etc.
So, until you have a clue about designing production quality storage systems, please refrain from making statements you have no clue about, you're only serving to confuse those people who are actually interested in what this product has to offer them. Keep to building crappy 3 or 4 disk RAID-5 systems using extremely large drives for storing your music, movies and pr0n on, but don't ever ever ever ever think about using those in any situation where your financial livelihood depends on that data.
fact is, if indonesia or even friggin new zealand wanted to invade australia, they could pretty well take our cities before our 'well regulated militia' could do much about it.
While we in New Zealand appreciate your confidence, we wish to advise that while we have a small army, we have no way to get them over the ditch, since we no longer have either a navy or airforce. Nothing to fear here, please move along.
Wow, your taste doesn't match mine! What a thought!
Anne McCaffrey is definitely on the top list, along with David Eddings.
I just bought the Linux 4GB eeePC for my partner, for our anniversary - she loves it!
Primarily because it's small enough to fit in her purse, big enough to touch type on, and due to the SSD, can take the knocks that inevitably happen when the rest of creation is inside her purse with the laptop.
Even better, she likes that it doesn't run Windows!
That's why IOS-XR on the CRS-1 is micro-kernel based. If any components fail or need to be restarted it can happen without affecting the rest of the system.
/for me/ for a microkernel on my desktop - yet. Of course, 10 years ago I wouldn't have thought that my laptop would have 1gb RAM or a fingerprint reader...
I don't see a whole lot of security advantages WRT micro vs. monolithic, but I do see huge advantages with availability. Mmm - remember the CIA scale?
Granted, there are security wins too, but there are also losses.
I don't really see much use
Simple.
:)
-1 Virginity.
A death blow to most geeks.
Using GPS to track, for example, a security guard might skew the figures a bit
Depends. In a real world environment, that security guard may well be spreading the disease further, as he interacts with people (say, low-life criminals) and passes it onto them, who in turn take it to jail, etc etc...
The only solution is an external switch.
Like the one typically on the wall?
Or, if you're using a multiboard and you really want your PVR on, use a double adapter with individual powerswitches and get a second multiboard, and have all "turn-off" devices on one, and all "standby" devices on the other.
Just because the manufacturer was too cheap doesn't mean it's expensive or hard to do yourself...
Blah. HTML stipper ate my disclaimer.
DISCLAIMER: This is my own personal opinion, and is not to be taken as the opinion of IBM in any fashion. IANAL. YMMV.
I work for IBM. I'm not worried. As other posters have stated, this appears to be a non-story. In fact, this is the first I've heard of this.
I actually click quite a few adverts. For example, I was looking for a diabetic-safe cake for my mothers birthday. Couldn't find any local, so I searched for recipes, and saw a few adverts.
I clicked on a couple to see what they offered. After all, it didn't cost me anything - and it gave me a great way to come up with a recipe I was able to get a local company to make up for it.
Sure, I probably should have ordered it from the website I clicked to, but then again - I don't really think that a cake would ship all that well from the USA to lil' old New Zealand....
You must be crazy. Back in March this year I bought a Sharp GX-15i for NZD$369 - about USD$254 (was less back then if I recall correctly.)
Guess what? The Sharp GX15 has Bluetooth AND IR. And a camera (takes videos too.)
Where's the expensive part?
Depends. Would you want to be within the 0.9% that isn't successful?
I thought exactly the same thing...
Yeah, we use the British version here in NZ..