Bullshit. If you're going to do the intentional-typo kind of post, you do it with multiple and obvious words, not 1. This was a legitimate crow-eating moment.
Also hilarious.
There was more than one typo. "Retart" and "works". Not to mention iOS will autocorrect "ipad" to "iPad".
Double woosh.
I originally had a RAID 0 with 2 Seagate X15s. I bumped up to the RAID 5 since an extra 18GB of space was needed and I was concerned about striping 3 drives without any redundancy.
I haven't noticed much, if any, difference in speed between the 2 disk RAID 0 and the 4 disk RAID 5.
I built the computer for use at home since I did most of my work from home at the time. Now I use it for different purposes and the RAID 5 is definitely overkill.
-Berylium
For the past 3 years I've had a RAID array set up on my home computer. It is a RAID 5 array with four 18GB Seagate X15 hard drives on an AcceleRAID 170 PCI card. I'm on the computer several hours a day during which time I play various video games, program in visual studio, and transfer a bunch of MP3 sized files and very large video files (~2GB). From my experience, the RAID 5 is definitely faster in some tasks than a high-performance ATA drive (like game loads) but for the types of activities I'm doing the expense of the SCSI drives and the noise they generate is more costly to me than the (perceived) slight speed disadvantage of a single disk serial ATA drive.
Don't get me wrong, the RAID 5 array is sweet and certainly amps up geek appeal, but I don't have enough friends who know what the hell a RAID array is to really impressive them.
PILOT STATUS 5/2004
* The first 100TB Rack is up and running!
* The second 100TB Rack will be up by the end of May
* Thermal Targets have been met
* Systems Booted from USB Dongle
* Reiser FS running
* PC-based Router running
Maybe I'm missing something but this looks to me like they don't really have a Petabyte of storage working but plans to incorporate a Petabyte of storage with only 100 TB up and running now. Not that 100 TB is anything to brush off.
I may have had too many beers to see the obvious, but why wouldn't Apple want to do this? If it only meant that Real would convert it's music to be compatible with Fairplay then wouldn't that mean any customers of Real's music service would need to buy an iPod to play their music on the go since.m4p files are only playable on iPods? Isn't that why iTMS exists, to sell iPods? What's wrong with another online store that would, essentially, help sell iPods?
Well, one good thing about being version 0.0.7e is that nothing much can be expected from it which gives people alot less power to bitch.
Example:/.1 "This program is a piece! It doesn't do a damn thing and my mom writes cleaner code! Booya!"/.2 "Sir, I think you've been misinformed. As this is version 0.0.7e you have no right to bitch, it's alpha code. If you want something better code it yourself. -1 troll."...eh, or somethin' liek that.
For those of you who don't want to pop over to the site. Or if it get's slashdotted (which would be odd).
What is Gnutella2?
Gnutella2 is a modern and efficient peer-to-peer network standard and architecture designed to provide a solid foundation for distributed global services such as person to person communication, data location and transfer and other future services.
Why is it needed?
Peer to peer technologies have become mainstream over recent years, and there are already a significant number of P2P networks in various stages of development and operation.
How does yet another network help?
Gnutella2 is unique amongst the currently operating peer to peer networks in several important ways:
* Many of the most successful networks are "closed", owned by a single entity with restrictions or fees constituting a barrier to participation. This is not a viable model for an open, general purpose network. Gnutella2 is an open architecture where anyone is welcome to participate and contribute. The network has been designed to allow such diversity without the need for messy hacks or compromises in integrity.
* The majority of networks are devoted to a single purpose, often the sharing of files. This is certainly a popular application for peer to peer technology, but it is by no means the only application. Gnutella2 is designed as a general purpose network which can be used as a solid foundation for any number of different peer to peer applications - vanilla file sharing, communications tools or other ideas which are yet to be conceived.
* Some peer to peer networks have been developed with similar general purpose goals, however they have been unable to compete in the most popular application of the day, which is file sharing. For a general purpose network to succeed, it must be able to compete with purpose-specific networks in the most popular purpose. Gnutella2 is not only able to compete with the current popular file sharing specific networks, it outperforms them.
What About "Old Gnutella"?
The original "Gnutella" was created several years ago as a very simple, single vendor file-sharing specific network. Its simplicity made it a popular platform for file sharing application developers; however this simplicity also critically limited its effectiveness. As a result, competing file-sharing specific networks slowly but surely took over as the tools of choice as Gnutella users became frustrated with poor performance and turned elsewhere.
The original Gnutella[1] network was designed for a very limited purpose and, despite many changes over the years, remains limited today. Efforts to make it a better file sharing network continue with mixed success.
Gnutella2 shares the "Gnutella" name, striving to create the network that Gnutella should have been from the beginning. It shares the adopted ideals of openness and cooperation, but offers a fresh start that was sorely needed. The crippling limitations of the old network have been left behind and replaced with an entirely new network architecture ready to grow and develop through the creative efforts of many.
What is the Scope of Gnutella2?
The single name "Gnutella2" really refers to two separate components: Gnutella2 the Standard and Gnutella2 the Network.
The Gnutella2 Network is perhaps the most easily recognised component. It is a new high-performance peer to peer network architecture upon which a variety of distributed applications can be built, such as file sharing applications, communication tools, etc.
The Gnutella2 Standard is a set of requirements for building applications which operate on the Gnutella2 network in different capacities. It specifies the minimum compliance level required to be recognised as a Gnutella2-compatible application. Compliance with a Gnutella2 Standard ensures participating applications provide a minimum acceptable level of service to other network participants.
It's what they do with their power. Sony has not been found to abuse theirs. Microsoft has.
I disagree with your point. While what Microsoft has done (and is doing) is certainly questionable ethicly I wouldn't put Sony on a pedestal. Sony, despite its size and influence does not have a position in any of its fields as powerful as Microsoft's position in the PC world. Sony is covered up in competition and I believe that's the reason you don't see them "abuse" their power. I would argue that Sony already exploits its customers through its brand name. For instance, Sony Television (while excellent) are overpriced because they are Sony. Remember Sony's first MP3 players? Not only did they use Sony's proprietary MemoryStick they also forced the user into using the Sony software that prohibited the direct copy of MP3s onto the device.
There are plenty of instances where Sony created their own standard and tried to force it down everyone's throat (Betamax). Sony doesn't act like Microsoft because they can't due to competition. Believe me, if Sony could they probably would because it would make them more money. And for a business, particularly big business, profit is the bottom line.
This will enable the makers of printers to almost charge whatever they want for their cartridges.
Having worked at Best Buy I can tell you that the markup on toner is how they make their money. Buying at 5% above cost an employee may save a couple bucks on the printer itself, but on ink you save almost half. Not that this is really news to anybody but it's certainly the reason Lexmark doesn't want anyone else selling ink for their printers: it invades their revenue stream.
The new MS Office Keyboard from Micrsoft not only includes multimedia and office launching buttons above the function keys but also buttons to the left of the standard buttons dedicated to cut, copy, past, backwards, and forwards. Aside from Undo/redo that accounts for the extra functions you wanted. It even includes an extra large scroll wheel.
Now if I could blow $4k on my car and make it a battery driven beast that could handke 85 as I commute down Parmer Lane in Austin... You'd be lucky to get up to 25 with all the new stop lights they're putting up on Parmer. Too bad, Parmer used to be a really good 183 substitute.
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Most awesome typo ever.
It wasn't a typo.
In other words: wooosh!
Bullshit. If you're going to do the intentional-typo kind of post, you do it with multiple and obvious words, not 1. This was a legitimate crow-eating moment.
Also hilarious. There was more than one typo. "Retart" and "works". Not to mention iOS will autocorrect "ipad" to "iPad". Double woosh.
I originally had a RAID 0 with 2 Seagate X15s. I bumped up to the RAID 5 since an extra 18GB of space was needed and I was concerned about striping 3 drives without any redundancy.
I haven't noticed much, if any, difference in speed between the 2 disk RAID 0 and the 4 disk RAID 5.
I built the computer for use at home since I did most of my work from home at the time. Now I use it for different purposes and the RAID 5 is definitely overkill. -Berylium
For the past 3 years I've had a RAID array set up on my home computer. It is a RAID 5 array with four 18GB Seagate X15 hard drives on an AcceleRAID 170 PCI card. I'm on the computer several hours a day during which time I play various video games, program in visual studio, and transfer a bunch of MP3 sized files and very large video files (~2GB). From my experience, the RAID 5 is definitely faster in some tasks than a high-performance ATA drive (like game loads) but for the types of activities I'm doing the expense of the SCSI drives and the noise they generate is more costly to me than the (perceived) slight speed disadvantage of a single disk serial ATA drive.
Don't get me wrong, the RAID 5 array is sweet and certainly amps up geek appeal, but I don't have enough friends who know what the hell a RAID array is to really impressive them.
-Berylium
From the site:
PILOT STATUS 5/2004
* The first 100TB Rack is up and running!
* The second 100TB Rack will be up by the end of May
* Thermal Targets have been met
* Systems Booted from USB Dongle
* Reiser FS running
* PC-based Router running
Maybe I'm missing something but this looks to me like they don't really have a Petabyte of storage working but plans to incorporate a Petabyte of storage with only 100 TB up and running now. Not that 100 TB is anything to brush off.
I may have had too many beers to see the obvious, but why wouldn't Apple want to do this? If it only meant that Real would convert it's music to be compatible with Fairplay then wouldn't that mean any customers of Real's music service would need to buy an iPod to play their music on the go since .m4p files are only playable on iPods? Isn't that why iTMS exists, to sell iPods? What's wrong with another online store that would, essentially, help sell iPods?
A Gizmodo reader wrote in, throwing some water on the magic motor. -Berylium
but Bleen is so much better! I guess if I wait 15 minutes it will stop being Grue and be delicious Bleen.
Well, one good thing about being version 0.0.7e is that nothing much can be expected from it which gives people alot less power to bitch. Example: /.1 "This program is a piece! It doesn't do a damn thing and my mom writes cleaner code! Booya!" /.2 "Sir, I think you've been misinformed. As this is version 0.0.7e you have no right to bitch, it's alpha code. If you want something better code it yourself. -1 troll." ...eh, or somethin' liek that.
I think the P800 is only available in Tri-band GSM. So yea, it will work well in everywhere but the US. (and OK in the US, for that matter)
He's talking about building a PVR that does all the functions of a TiVo without actually being a TiVo.
Evil Dupe Added to Slashdot News-post
And two and a half hours later at that. Impressive.
For those of you who don't want to pop over to the site. Or if it get's slashdotted (which would be odd).
What is Gnutella2?
Gnutella2 is a modern and efficient peer-to-peer network standard and architecture designed to provide a solid foundation for distributed global services such as person to person communication, data location and transfer and other future services.
Why is it needed?
Peer to peer technologies have become mainstream over recent years, and there are already a significant number of P2P networks in various stages of development and operation.
How does yet another network help?
Gnutella2 is unique amongst the currently operating peer to peer networks in several important ways:
* Many of the most successful networks are "closed", owned by a single entity with restrictions or fees constituting a barrier to participation. This is not a viable model for an open, general purpose network. Gnutella2 is an open architecture where anyone is welcome to participate and contribute. The network has been designed to allow such diversity without the need for messy hacks or compromises in integrity.
* The majority of networks are devoted to a single purpose, often the sharing of files. This is certainly a popular application for peer to peer technology, but it is by no means the only application. Gnutella2 is designed as a general purpose network which can be used as a solid foundation for any number of different peer to peer applications - vanilla file sharing, communications tools or other ideas which are yet to be conceived.
* Some peer to peer networks have been developed with similar general purpose goals, however they have been unable to compete in the most popular application of the day, which is file sharing. For a general purpose network to succeed, it must be able to compete with purpose-specific networks in the most popular purpose. Gnutella2 is not only able to compete with the current popular file sharing specific networks, it outperforms them.
What About "Old Gnutella"?
The original "Gnutella" was created several years ago as a very simple, single vendor file-sharing specific network. Its simplicity made it a popular platform for file sharing application developers; however this simplicity also critically limited its effectiveness. As a result, competing file-sharing specific networks slowly but surely took over as the tools of choice as Gnutella users became frustrated with poor performance and turned elsewhere.
The original Gnutella[1] network was designed for a very limited purpose and, despite many changes over the years, remains limited today. Efforts to make it a better file sharing network continue with mixed success.
Gnutella2 shares the "Gnutella" name, striving to create the network that Gnutella should have been from the beginning. It shares the adopted ideals of openness and cooperation, but offers a fresh start that was sorely needed. The crippling limitations of the old network have been left behind and replaced with an entirely new network architecture ready to grow and develop through the creative efforts of many.
What is the Scope of Gnutella2?
The single name "Gnutella2" really refers to two separate components: Gnutella2 the Standard and Gnutella2 the Network.
The Gnutella2 Network is perhaps the most easily recognised component. It is a new high-performance peer to peer network architecture upon which a variety of distributed applications can be built, such as file sharing applications, communication tools, etc.
The Gnutella2 Standard is a set of requirements for building applications which operate on the Gnutella2 network in different capacities. It specifies the minimum compliance level required to be recognised as a Gnutella2-compatible application. Compliance with a Gnutella2 Standard ensures participating applications provide a minimum acceptable level of service to other network participants.
It's what they do with their power. Sony has not been found to abuse theirs. Microsoft has.
I disagree with your point. While what Microsoft has done (and is doing) is certainly questionable ethicly I wouldn't put Sony on a pedestal. Sony, despite its size and influence does not have a position in any of its fields as powerful as Microsoft's position in the PC world. Sony is covered up in competition and I believe that's the reason you don't see them "abuse" their power. I would argue that Sony already exploits its customers through its brand name. For instance, Sony Television (while excellent) are overpriced because they are Sony. Remember Sony's first MP3 players? Not only did they use Sony's proprietary MemoryStick they also forced the user into using the Sony software that prohibited the direct copy of MP3s onto the device.
There are plenty of instances where Sony created their own standard and tried to force it down everyone's throat (Betamax). Sony doesn't act like Microsoft because they can't due to competition. Believe me, if Sony could they probably would because it would make them more money. And for a business, particularly big business, profit is the bottom line.
-Berylium
This will enable the makers of printers to almost charge whatever they want for their cartridges.
Having worked at Best Buy I can tell you that the markup on toner is how they make their money. Buying at 5% above cost an employee may save a couple bucks on the printer itself, but on ink you save almost half. Not that this is really news to anybody but it's certainly the reason Lexmark doesn't want anyone else selling ink for their printers: it invades their revenue stream.
The new MS Office Keyboard from Micrsoft not only includes multimedia and office launching buttons above the function keys but also buttons to the left of the standard buttons dedicated to cut, copy, past, backwards, and forwards. Aside from Undo/redo that accounts for the extra functions you wanted. It even includes an extra large scroll wheel.
Now if I could blow $4k on my car and make it a battery driven beast that could handke 85 as I commute down Parmer Lane in Austin...
You'd be lucky to get up to 25 with all the new stop lights they're putting up on Parmer. Too bad, Parmer used to be a really good 183 substitute.