Yes, you can do more with SCSI. But I see good performance on modern IDE in the only combo I have tried, using 2.2.10 kernel, BX onboard UDMA, and Maxtor 92048D8 (20G/7200RPM/1Mcache) drives. It seems a shame to ignore the potential of adding fast, inexpensive storage on channels already available. Note that I only tried one drive per channel, so I don't know what effects lack of scsi disconnect and other features might otherwise cause. I suspect the 20MB/s+ reads from the Maxtors would make the 33MB/s UDMA a bottleneck with more than one per channel anyway.
A small Linux box has uses - even without much in resources, it can easily serve as an advanced ISDN router/firewall/masq, DNS, mail, www, ftp, print-et cetra-server - many old 386/486 boxes are now doing just that.
The problem I see with this as a general "Internet appliance" is that what is going to become the family internet appliance is going to be on the high end. It may - indeed should - have such a box between it and the actual Net, but when such a thing converges it will have functions that are on the verge but not quite implemented well yet by anyone. Besides the MP3-playing, probably essential TV tuner/DVD, and massive 3D video acceleration, digital VCR functions will soon be expected; Multicast IP? Forget it. With digital TV, the amounts of data that can be broadcast along with the video is immense and individually or group addressable, with the Internet the probable backchannel.
We're talking the family data center. Almost certainly more than one. Dad & Mom aren't going to watch their hour of news tidbits, gathered over the day from dozens of sources, at the same time as their offspring are playing Quake or doing their home schooling lessons. No one is going to want to share their 40+Gig drive(s) with the rest of the family either, or give up TV-or-better video formats to store there.
I think this is a Good Thing overall, and that it will spur the growth and usefulness of the internet immensely to extend it into the rest of the family's communications realms. I hope that the Open Source movement can use the opportunity - and need - for open standards in unifying electronic communication.
The convolutions of the brain cortex are related to brain size because of mechanical factors. Actually, dolphin (whale) brains appear more convoluted than human brains even for their size, because the have a thinner cortex to fold.
Irrelevent anyway. Different mammals have different numbers of layers in their neocortex; research has discarded any particular role for the neocortex in relative intelligence of animals; humans have greatly varying brain size with no sign of a direct relation to intelligence, and there are victims of hydrocephalus ("water on the brain") whose brain scans show only intense cognitive activity in a small amount of brain tissue, but who have relatively normal intelligence nevertheless.
So it isn't how big it is or how many ridges it has - it seems to be more a case of how skillfully you use it.
Does the warranty cover damages caused by one of these machines should it attain self-awareness?
And what about the human rights, personnel, and vacation time issues concerned with the resulting employee, should the box be owned by a corporation?
If the system had been owned by an individual, should they file manumission papers or would the former owner now be considered a parent responsible for their new cyberchild for the first eighteen years?
Be grateful that it happens in that order - with your computer, the worms have to come before last.
Seriously, people will just deal with this sort of thing. "Practicing safe computing" (I love that cybervenereal phrase) gets harder as new attack programs are written, seemingly at a more rapid rate for the "Average User" than for those using open source software. Unfortunate for all, but - that's life. As the capabilities of hardware, software, and network links get better, there will be more to be guarded against in turn.
So people will be more guarded, reasonably, dealing with the new tricks and inconveniences. The first massive parallel attacks on ADSL/cable modem users with "always on" Internet connections will be followed by appropriate firewalling, whether perpetrated against users of Microsoft Windows 9X/20XX or New Redhat Linux release ##.#.
Already all - well, most - of the users I deal with as System Admin are clued in enough to avoid most trouble using the Microsoft OS and suites. Nevertheless disaster may strike in the form of a quick attack of a novel type. Oh my. I hope it can be avoided. I issue memos. I back up. I update against root attacks on the Linux systems.
I keep spare parts too, tend the UPSes, place extra 200 volt MOV devices on incoming modem lines, watch for roof leaks. The Universe is as or more likely to deal an impersonal random blow as a malicious outsider.
Neither of these compares to the unavoidable havoc done by attempting to use the network and systems to get work done; the unravelling of anomalies, repair of data and programs damaged and destroyed - by the most careful attempts to use them in the manner intended.
That what I'm paid for, not to whine, to complain that there are bugs in the software purchased. Software development does not result in bug-free programs for any reasonable expense, and my boss won't wait for Windows 2010. I hope this type of event will spur the move towards the more robust OSS approach, but in any case... the world will go on.
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I think "hallows"!="hollows". If there are low energy state nuclear configurations possible then they would likely manifest somewhere in the structure of a neutron star with a crust of iron.
Save your money and use Linux's software RAID driver. I get much better performance, using both ide channels and one channel of a Promise ATA/33 ultra-ATA non-RAID card. And, sadly, under NT I find that somehow, with two different sets of drives and Promise FastTrak RAID cards, data corruption seems - universal - when running SMP. No problem with uniprocessor configurations, though. Or ever with thier nonRAID card.
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Yes, you can do more with SCSI. But I see good performance on modern IDE in the only combo I have tried, using 2.2.10 kernel, BX onboard UDMA, and Maxtor 92048D8 (20G/7200RPM/1Mcache) drives. It seems a shame to ignore the potential of adding fast, inexpensive storage on channels already available. Note that I only tried one drive per channel, so I don't know what effects lack of scsi disconnect and other features might otherwise cause. I suspect the 20MB/s+ reads from the Maxtors would make the 33MB/s UDMA a bottleneck with more than one per channel anyway.
And ABSOLUTELY NO LINUX SUPPORT!
A small Linux box has uses - even without much in resources, it can easily serve as an advanced ISDN router/firewall/masq, DNS, mail, www, ftp, print-et cetra-server - many old 386/486 boxes are now doing just that.
The problem I see with this as a general "Internet appliance" is that what is going to become the family internet appliance is going to be on the high end. It may - indeed should - have such a box between it and the actual Net, but when such a thing converges it will have functions that are on the verge but not quite implemented well yet by anyone. Besides the MP3-playing, probably essential TV tuner/DVD, and massive 3D video acceleration, digital VCR functions will soon be expected; Multicast IP? Forget it. With digital TV, the amounts of data that can be broadcast along with the video is immense and individually or group addressable, with the Internet the probable backchannel.
We're talking the family data center. Almost certainly more than one. Dad & Mom aren't going to watch their hour of news tidbits, gathered over the day from dozens of sources, at the same time as their offspring are playing Quake or doing their home schooling lessons. No one is going to want to share their 40+Gig drive(s) with the rest of the family either, or give up TV-or-better video formats to store there.
I think this is a Good Thing overall, and that it will spur the growth and usefulness of the internet immensely to extend it into the rest of the family's communications realms. I hope that the Open Source movement can use the opportunity - and need - for open standards in unifying electronic communication.
The convolutions of the brain cortex are related to brain size because of mechanical factors. Actually, dolphin (whale) brains appear more convoluted than human brains even for their size, because the have a thinner cortex to fold.
Irrelevent anyway. Different mammals have different numbers of layers in their neocortex; research has discarded any particular role for the neocortex in relative intelligence of animals; humans have greatly varying brain size with no sign of a direct relation to intelligence, and there are victims of hydrocephalus ("water on the brain") whose brain scans show only intense cognitive activity in a small amount of brain tissue, but who have relatively normal intelligence nevertheless.
So it isn't how big it is or how many ridges it has - it seems to be more a case of how skillfully you use it.
Does the warranty cover damages caused by one of these machines should it attain self-awareness?
And what about the human rights, personnel, and vacation time issues concerned with the resulting employee, should the box be owned by a corporation?
If the system had been owned by an individual, should they file manumission papers or would the former owner now be considered a parent responsible for their new cyberchild for the first eighteen years?
And would you want one to marry your sister?
Be grateful that it happens in that order - with your computer, the worms have to come before last.
Seriously, people will just deal with this sort of thing. "Practicing safe computing" (I love that cybervenereal phrase) gets harder as new attack programs are written, seemingly at a more rapid rate for the "Average User" than for those using open source software. Unfortunate for all, but - that's life. As the capabilities of hardware, software, and network links get better, there will be more to be guarded against in turn.
So people will be more guarded, reasonably, dealing with the new tricks and inconveniences. The first massive parallel attacks on ADSL/cable modem users with "always on" Internet connections will be followed by appropriate firewalling, whether perpetrated against users of Microsoft Windows 9X/20XX or New Redhat Linux release ##.#.
Already all - well, most - of the users I deal with as System Admin are clued in enough to avoid most trouble using the Microsoft OS and suites. Nevertheless disaster may strike in the form of a quick attack of a novel type. Oh my. I hope it can be avoided. I issue memos. I back up. I update against root attacks on the Linux systems.
I keep spare parts too, tend the UPSes, place extra 200 volt MOV devices on incoming modem lines, watch for roof leaks. The Universe is as or more likely to deal an impersonal random blow as a malicious outsider.
Neither of these compares to the unavoidable havoc done by attempting to use the network and systems to get work done; the unravelling of anomalies, repair of data and programs damaged and destroyed - by the most careful attempts to use them in the manner intended.
That what I'm paid for, not to whine, to complain that there are bugs in the software purchased. Software development does not result in bug-free programs for any reasonable expense, and my boss won't wait for Windows 2010. I hope this type of event will spur the move towards the more robust OSS approach, but in any case... the world will go on.
--
[all incoming email will be automatically delayed 24 hours until further notice..]
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Huh? If the year is 2050, and you don't have a direct input to wire your internal PCs into the global net you'll be sorry.
I think I just figured out why this library's filters keep me from searching for "linear accelerators"...
I think "hallows"!="hollows". If there are low energy state nuclear configurations possible then they would likely manifest somewhere in the structure of a neutron star with a crust of iron.
Save your money and use Linux's software RAID driver. I get much better performance, using both ide channels and one channel of a Promise ATA/33 ultra-ATA non-RAID card. And, sadly, under NT I find that somehow, with two different sets of drives and Promise FastTrak RAID cards, data corruption seems - universal - when running SMP. No problem with uniprocessor configurations, though. Or ever with thier nonRAID card.