Be honest with us - two or three terabytes of data in a year - break that down for us. You can post anonymous coward if you like, in case someone knows who you are... but really, be honest.
What percentages were : Movies that you paid for / have a license for Movies that you didn't pay for / don't have a license for Music, legit w/ licenses Music, no license Linux distros Warez Legit software downloads Regular interactive Internet surfing, including MMORPG traffic
You know, the name wouldn't really be an issue if it hadn't been for the movie Pulp Fiction. But since I have seen that movie more than once, every time one of us OSS guys says something to the effect of 'bring out The GIMP' - a little part of me dies inside.
The funny thing is - in the past two weeks I have fired up GIMP about a dozen times, and haven't used anything else for photo-editing (mostly resizing pictures from 5 megapixel down to something more manageable.)
US Navy Diver Charts say something to the effect of 'don't worry about decompression until you spend time below 32 feet (about 10 meters.)' Your tanks will run out of air before you've been down long enough (at 10 meters) to even consider decompression.
For the record, 32 feet is roughly 1 atmosphere of pressure. If I recall correctly (which means 'maybe'.)
Ever consider that jocks are some dumb motherfuckers to start with? Unlike the 1337 Crew kids that eventually become guys like us?
(Just kidding - I was a high school athlete too - swimming and water polo. Less head trauma, unless you are not paying attention doing the backstroke and swim right into the wall.)
Drink one glass of your favorite 80 proof adult beverage, turn off the lights and fire up LOMAC and you will have a hard time discerning it from reality (at least with respect to visuals.)
The combat is also absolutely amazing.
Pick it up for under $20 in the bargain bin - it's worth it.
Is there any case where a 64G SATA ramdrive performs better than 64G of main memory?
Sure - unplug the computer for half an hour. Actually, simply power cycle the box (say... after installing a service pack on Windows, or once each year in Unix just so you don't forget what the boot sequence looks like.) Or - on a machine that's already running a ton of processes and using 32G of memory in the first place, adding an additional 64G of memory means having a machine that can hold 96G of memory - I've got some nifty toys, but nothing I have right now will let me stuff 96G onto the motherboard. This $400 device gives me almost the same thing, has a battery backup and the ability to back up to CF, and I can drop it in a machine running XP Pro or Windows 2000 if I want.
Don't get me wrong - I run a ramdrive (ramdrive.tk) at home and I love it. I'm a big proponent of ramdrives. I've been using them to optimize systems since the first time I loaded COMMAND.COM onto one on a dual floppy 386sx machine with no hard drive, circa DOS 3.31. It's just that all my current machines hold a max of 4G of physical memory (four slots - although I haven't actually tried to stuff 2G chips in one, so I might be able to go to 8G if the BIOS doesn't choke on it.) So I can consider dropping the memory in this thing and be able to move it from machine to machine if I want, or upgrade my personal hardware inventory to all new computers... and as much as I want new machines, they are not in my budget this quarter (and next quarter isn't looking good fiscally either.)
I really wanted to get an iRAM, but the 4 Gig limit sort of dissuaded me (plus DDR is about twice as expensive as DDR2 right now.) If you could put 2G chips in the iRAM for a total of 8G per iRAM, I'd totally consider getting a few of those instead - but this SATA box, for the cost of about two iRAMs, will let me fill it with twice as much memory for about the same price. I'm considering getting one, to tell the truth.
Actually in the real world benchmarks the only place that it really shined was in transactional processing of multiple client streams. In single threaded, single activity processing it isn't really that much faster than even regular hard drives. Save 10 seconds copying a few gigs of files or making a tar file from your existing data - what good is that? Shave 12 seconds from your boot time - again, what good is that? Now enabling your transaction processing system to handle 10x as many transactions in a given time frame with a simple hardware bolt-on - THAT is significant. Having your back end able to serve up 10x the number of end users at the same time - that's MONSTER gains.
Given that your application servers are on UPS infrastructure and you rarely boot them at all, much less leave them off overnight - this thing is a god-send to transactional processing systems in large-scale environments. For your average home user (or even 'leet home user) - maybe / maybe not.
A few years ago 64G of SSD would have run you way more than $100,000. At $400 delivered (plus memory costs) this thing is practically free. I'm considering getting one, and I'm about as cheap as they come.
ramdisk.tk - I've been using it for a while and it works incredibly well. It has a freeware trial version (nagware that's not overly intrusive) so you can play with it to see if it fits your needs.
I use it for my browser cache in Firefox and as a scratch area for editing pictures (basically temporary working space for data I would discard when I was done with it anyways - so no worries about data loss in the event of a system outage.)
A clean XP Pro SP2 install boots and runs in roughly 130M. Firefox takes another 100M by the time you've hit a few pages doing your testing. Let's call it 126M for Firefox for simple math.
That's the clean OS and Firefox running in 256M. Unless he is running a LOT of other crap in the background (IM client(s), spyware cleaner, anti virus, iTunes helper, a scheduler or two, etc) then 512M ought to be plenty and the machine shouldn't be RAM-bound. Of course if his machine is loaded with all that crap and maybe even one or two spyware apps, then maybe it is RAM-bound. That's not the fault of the OS though - it's the fault of the guy behind the keyboard.
ThePhilips has a point though - all this girl had to do was find a nice computer tech and start dating him, turn him into her boyfriend and her entire life would have been saved.
Heck, it doesn't even take 100% dedication from the techie - she could have shared him with a half dozen of her other hot girlfriends, each of them spend one day out of the week with him and they could have all been saved.
Damn, someone needs to make some computer tech saves hot blond chicks porn. This would totally work.
Yea, if only there was a separate section of the airport where privately owned small (Cessna) sized planes were kept, where their owners could drive up basically right to their own area to transition from their cars into their private Cessnas, then fly off using the same runways that all the other planes use. Too bad that doesn't exist in reality. Someone should invent that.
Use your boot CD to start the netbook. fdisk and format the internal hard drive on the netbook using FAT32, make it bootable (a DOS boot, which you will get by using format c:/s). Burn a DVD of the iso you want to install. Copy as many of the files off the DVD onto the 2G USB thumbdrive you have, retaining the directory structure. Copy those files onto the netbook internal hard drive, retaining the directory structure. Erase the files from the thumbdrive, copy the remaining files from the DVD onto the thumbdrive. Copy those remaining files to the netbook internal hard drive. Boot the netbook to the internal drive - running DOS command line Run whatever install program runs on the DVD - generally setup.exe
I haven't done it with this version of Windows, but those exact steps have run with every previous version of Windows I've ever installed.
Although the speed is 1/10th that of DRAM, it appears that they can crank the density up and reduce the refresh rate. It still has effectively zero latency, which puts it squarely in the space between core memory and hard drive storage.
Personally I see this as a future replacement for the iRAM and other such 'ramdrives' - with the bandwidth limits of the SATA interface, a device of these interlaced across four or eight banks would make a very sweet solid state working storage area. It would need to be transient data, of course, such as a swapfile, temporary file storage for your browser, tempdb like space for your database, working storage for your graphics apps, etc - but still, that's where I see it coming into play.
Just out of curiosity - what do you mean when you say 'Linux won't run foreign binaries'?
If someone sends you a binary as an attachment and you save it to your file system, chmod it and try to run it, I'm pretty sure that foreign binary will run.
Granted, not every clown can write a unix / linux binary that will do something useful at the kernel level - but if you write it and copy it to a similar system and run it... I'm thinking it will run.
Or you could make the application fee on the H1-B optional in size, non-publicized, and non-refundable. And the highest 'bids' get to have the H1-B.
At this point it really becomes a matter of 'we MUST have this guy because he's the only guy in the world that can do this work' and kick in a massive $40,000 as your application fee, guaranteeing that you get him. The top 65,000 applications (ie, the ones that sent in the highest application fee) get visas. The rest of them get absolutely nothing, but they don't get their application 'processing' fee back.
Make the visa good for 1 year, and they need to repeat the process each year or the guy goes back home.
All of a sudden, the companies that really need a certain skill get it. That's what the program is all about, so lets insure it works in a strong fashion.
250,000 applications averaging $10,000 apiece = $2.5 Billion. That is a LOT of money that could be poured into the education system, teaching our next generation to do the work that needs to be done by our employers. Pretty simple.
Given how spot on he was when he wrote Snow Crash (we're about one generation of MMORPG and one instance of hyper-inflation away from everything in Snow Crash being dead on the money) I would say there's a good chance you are more correct than you imagine.
Given the kind of hardware Novell Netware 4.x was designed to use and the level of performance it saw on that hardware - I'd be very interested in seeing what kind of performance we could get from it resurrected as a NAS server (assuming you could get drivers (NLM's) for current hardware, and a decent TCP/IP stack running on it.) I imagine Netware 4.02 or 4.11 would make a ~screaming~ NAS (pretty much that's all a Netware file server did, back in the day...)
That's very odd - I'm interested in which OS you were using, server configuration (ie, how much memory), what RAID level you were using, and with how many drives (and what drives you were using.) The benchmarks show that the 9550sx should be able to move data off the hard drives more than fast enough to saturate a GigE pipe.
Sucking data off the hard drives and serving it up to a single client over the network isn't really a CPU intensive process. A 3.4GHz P4 shouldn't break a sweat doing this.
I hate to point this out, but 5G in 15 minutes is about 5 megabytes per second.
GigE peak theoretical throughput is like 125MB/s. Consumer grade hard drives can average throughput in the 60MB/s range.
If this is the fastest NAS solution they tested and CNET is thrilled with their blazing 5MB/s sustained throughput to the NAS - I don't want one.
I'm going to have to suggest going with a cheapo 2.8GHz HyperThreaded P4 based 'server' w/ GigE, 1G of RAM and a few SATA drives on a RAID controller. Use whatever OS you're familiar with, set it up as shared space and get the bandwidth your application needs.
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Be honest with us - two or three terabytes of data in a year - break that down for us. You can post anonymous coward if you like, in case someone knows who you are ... but really, be honest.
What percentages were :
Movies that you paid for / have a license for
Movies that you didn't pay for / don't have a license for
Music, legit w/ licenses
Music, no license
Linux distros
Warez
Legit software downloads
Regular interactive Internet surfing, including MMORPG traffic
You know, the name wouldn't really be an issue if it hadn't been for the movie Pulp Fiction. But since I have seen that movie more than once, every time one of us OSS guys says something to the effect of 'bring out The GIMP' - a little part of me dies inside.
The funny thing is - in the past two weeks I have fired up GIMP about a dozen times, and haven't used anything else for photo-editing (mostly resizing pictures from 5 megapixel down to something more manageable.)
US Navy Diver Charts say something to the effect of 'don't worry about decompression until you spend time below 32 feet (about 10 meters.)' Your tanks will run out of air before you've been down long enough (at 10 meters) to even consider decompression.
For the record, 32 feet is roughly 1 atmosphere of pressure. If I recall correctly (which means 'maybe'.)
Ever consider that jocks are some dumb motherfuckers to start with?
Unlike the 1337 Crew kids that eventually become guys like us?
(Just kidding - I was a high school athlete too - swimming and water polo. Less head trauma, unless you are not paying attention doing the backstroke and swim right into the wall.)
Just out of curiosity - wasn't this series originally put out by Sublogic, and then bought by MS (in the mid to late 80's)?
LOMAC. Lock-On Modern Air Combat
Drink one glass of your favorite 80 proof adult beverage, turn off the lights and fire up LOMAC and you will have a hard time discerning it from reality (at least with respect to visuals.)
The combat is also absolutely amazing.
Pick it up for under $20 in the bargain bin - it's worth it.
Is there any case where a 64G SATA ramdrive performs better than 64G of main memory?
Sure - unplug the computer for half an hour. ... after installing a service pack on Windows, or once each year in Unix just so you don't forget what the boot sequence looks like.)
Actually, simply power cycle the box (say
Or - on a machine that's already running a ton of processes and using 32G of memory in the first place, adding an additional 64G of memory means having a machine that can hold 96G of memory - I've got some nifty toys, but nothing I have right now will let me stuff 96G onto the motherboard. This $400 device gives me almost the same thing, has a battery backup and the ability to back up to CF, and I can drop it in a machine running XP Pro or Windows 2000 if I want.
Don't get me wrong - I run a ramdrive (ramdrive.tk) at home and I love it. I'm a big proponent of ramdrives. I've been using them to optimize systems since the first time I loaded COMMAND.COM onto one on a dual floppy 386sx machine with no hard drive, circa DOS 3.31. It's just that all my current machines hold a max of 4G of physical memory (four slots - although I haven't actually tried to stuff 2G chips in one, so I might be able to go to 8G if the BIOS doesn't choke on it.) So I can consider dropping the memory in this thing and be able to move it from machine to machine if I want, or upgrade my personal hardware inventory to all new computers ... and as much as I want new machines, they are not in my budget this quarter (and next quarter isn't looking good fiscally either.)
I really wanted to get an iRAM, but the 4 Gig limit sort of dissuaded me (plus DDR is about twice as expensive as DDR2 right now.) If you could put 2G chips in the iRAM for a total of 8G per iRAM, I'd totally consider getting a few of those instead - but this SATA box, for the cost of about two iRAMs, will let me fill it with twice as much memory for about the same price. I'm considering getting one, to tell the truth.
Actually in the real world benchmarks the only place that it really shined was in transactional processing of multiple client streams. In single threaded, single activity processing it isn't really that much faster than even regular hard drives. Save 10 seconds copying a few gigs of files or making a tar file from your existing data - what good is that? Shave 12 seconds from your boot time - again, what good is that? Now enabling your transaction processing system to handle 10x as many transactions in a given time frame with a simple hardware bolt-on - THAT is significant. Having your back end able to serve up 10x the number of end users at the same time - that's MONSTER gains.
Given that your application servers are on UPS infrastructure and you rarely boot them at all, much less leave them off overnight - this thing is a god-send to transactional processing systems in large-scale environments. For your average home user (or even 'leet home user) - maybe / maybe not.
A few years ago 64G of SSD would have run you way more than $100,000. At $400 delivered (plus memory costs) this thing is practically free. I'm considering getting one, and I'm about as cheap as they come.
ramdisk.tk - I've been using it for a while and it works incredibly well. It has a freeware trial version (nagware that's not overly intrusive) so you can play with it to see if it fits your needs.
I use it for my browser cache in Firefox and as a scratch area for editing pictures (basically temporary working space for data I would discard when I was done with it anyways - so no worries about data loss in the event of a system outage.)
it needs about 20 minutes to transfer 16GB to backup card
That's 16 megabytes per second - if I had to guess, the bottleneck is the CF transfer rate and has nothing to do with the rest of the device.
It was originally implemented in Windows 98, and it was the BSOD stack.
A clean XP Pro SP2 install boots and runs in roughly 130M. Firefox takes another 100M by the time you've hit a few pages doing your testing. Let's call it 126M for Firefox for simple math.
That's the clean OS and Firefox running in 256M. Unless he is running a LOT of other crap in the background (IM client(s), spyware cleaner, anti virus, iTunes helper, a scheduler or two, etc) then 512M ought to be plenty and the machine shouldn't be RAM-bound. Of course if his machine is loaded with all that crap and maybe even one or two spyware apps, then maybe it is RAM-bound. That's not the fault of the OS though - it's the fault of the guy behind the keyboard.
ThePhilips has a point though - all this girl had to do was find a nice computer tech and start dating him, turn him into her boyfriend and her entire life would have been saved.
Heck, it doesn't even take 100% dedication from the techie - she could have shared him with a half dozen of her other hot girlfriends, each of them spend one day out of the week with him and they could have all been saved.
Damn, someone needs to make some computer tech saves hot blond chicks porn. This would totally work.
Yea, if only there was a separate section of the airport where privately owned small (Cessna) sized planes were kept, where their owners could drive up basically right to their own area to transition from their cars into their private Cessnas, then fly off using the same runways that all the other planes use. Too bad that doesn't exist in reality. Someone should invent that.
Use your boot CD to start the netbook. /s).
fdisk and format the internal hard drive on the netbook using FAT32, make it bootable (a DOS boot, which you will get by using format c:
Burn a DVD of the iso you want to install.
Copy as many of the files off the DVD onto the 2G USB thumbdrive you have, retaining the directory structure.
Copy those files onto the netbook internal hard drive, retaining the directory structure.
Erase the files from the thumbdrive, copy the remaining files from the DVD onto the thumbdrive.
Copy those remaining files to the netbook internal hard drive.
Boot the netbook to the internal drive - running DOS command line
Run whatever install program runs on the DVD - generally setup.exe
I haven't done it with this version of Windows, but those exact steps have run with every previous version of Windows I've ever installed.
Although the speed is 1/10th that of DRAM, it appears that they can crank the density up and reduce the refresh rate. It still has effectively zero latency, which puts it squarely in the space between core memory and hard drive storage.
Personally I see this as a future replacement for the iRAM and other such 'ramdrives' - with the bandwidth limits of the SATA interface, a device of these interlaced across four or eight banks would make a very sweet solid state working storage area. It would need to be transient data, of course, such as a swapfile, temporary file storage for your browser, tempdb like space for your database, working storage for your graphics apps, etc - but still, that's where I see it coming into play.
Create a boot USB thumb drive and copy the files there. I had to do this to install openSuSE 11.1 on one of my machines.
Or copy the files to an SD card, boot from a bootable CD in your USB CD drive and then install the OS from the files on the SD card.
Amen.
Just out of curiosity - what do you mean when you say 'Linux won't run foreign binaries'?
If someone sends you a binary as an attachment and you save it to your file system, chmod it and try to run it, I'm pretty sure that foreign binary will run.
Granted, not every clown can write a unix / linux binary that will do something useful at the kernel level - but if you write it and copy it to a similar system and run it ... I'm thinking it will run.
Jesus this thread is pathetic.
There's a pretty good reason for all of the above : Star Trek is a damn television show. Star Wars is REAL LIFE.
Or you could make the application fee on the H1-B optional in size, non-publicized, and non-refundable. And the highest 'bids' get to have the H1-B.
At this point it really becomes a matter of 'we MUST have this guy because he's the only guy in the world that can do this work' and kick in a massive $40,000 as your application fee, guaranteeing that you get him. The top 65,000 applications (ie, the ones that sent in the highest application fee) get visas. The rest of them get absolutely nothing, but they don't get their application 'processing' fee back.
Make the visa good for 1 year, and they need to repeat the process each year or the guy goes back home.
All of a sudden, the companies that really need a certain skill get it. That's what the program is all about, so lets insure it works in a strong fashion.
250,000 applications averaging $10,000 apiece = $2.5 Billion. That is a LOT of money that could be poured into the education system, teaching our next generation to do the work that needs to be done by our employers. Pretty simple.
Read Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age.
Given how spot on he was when he wrote Snow Crash (we're about one generation of MMORPG and one instance of hyper-inflation away from everything in Snow Crash being dead on the money) I would say there's a good chance you are more correct than you imagine.
Given the kind of hardware Novell Netware 4.x was designed to use and the level of performance it saw on that hardware - I'd be very interested in seeing what kind of performance we could get from it resurrected as a NAS server (assuming you could get drivers (NLM's) for current hardware, and a decent TCP/IP stack running on it.) I imagine Netware 4.02 or 4.11 would make a ~screaming~ NAS (pretty much that's all a Netware file server did, back in the day ...)
That's very odd - I'm interested in which OS you were using, server configuration (ie, how much memory), what RAID level you were using, and with how many drives (and what drives you were using.) The benchmarks show that the 9550sx should be able to move data off the hard drives more than fast enough to saturate a GigE pipe.
Sucking data off the hard drives and serving it up to a single client over the network isn't really a CPU intensive process. A 3.4GHz P4 shouldn't break a sweat doing this.
I hate to point this out, but 5G in 15 minutes is about 5 megabytes per second.
GigE peak theoretical throughput is like 125MB/s.
Consumer grade hard drives can average throughput in the 60MB/s range.
If this is the fastest NAS solution they tested and CNET is thrilled with their blazing 5MB/s sustained throughput to the NAS - I don't want one.
I'm going to have to suggest going with a cheapo 2.8GHz HyperThreaded P4 based 'server' w/ GigE, 1G of RAM and a few SATA drives on a RAID controller. Use whatever OS you're familiar with, set it up as shared space and get the bandwidth your application needs.