The ability to "skim" disproportionate amounts of wealth from the rest of society is what allows some people escape the rat race slavery called money and steady employment to be able to pay off car, rent/mortgage and food, and truly enjoy their life.
Removing the ability for some to earn more (or "skimming" as you prefer) would essentially mean going back to full slavery.
You might argue we are not slaves, but consider what happens to your lifestyle if you quit your job, or what happens if you change to 3 day work weeks, or the amount of work is at your preferred level. The ability to choose what kind of slavery we commit to does not mean it's not slavery. Almost all people on this earth are subject to this slavery.
We work in one of these "high bandwidth" fields, and we see Cisco's determination to be pretty much right.
They might have a conflict of interest to promote new network equipment, but then again it's also their job to know these things. The ultimate question is that is Cisco trustworthy? Yes, they've proven to be, unlike MAFIAA.
Imho, to determine the validity of this research is the same as suspecting Cisco's reputation and honesty. Certainly they have different perspective on things, but that doesn't make things different.
It's pretty much common knowledge how much BW usage keeps on growing, how fast. You can draw pretty much same conclusions as Cisco by just thinking about what's been happening in the past couple of years in technology.
I don't understand this determination to compare Cisco's research to MAFIAAs "research". Part of Cisco's core business is research and estimating where the business is going on, developing better products based on this research. MAFIAAs core business is blackmail, threatening and protecting old business models, so MAFIAAs business is exactly painting a picture where each file copied is a lost sale and theft. Hell, i've even heard that on the other hand they are trying to shutdown piracy sites etc, while on other hand feeding them advertising revenue. Funny thing, isn't it?
and due to the ease of use of the VM systems there are more and more "sysadmins" who have never buried deep into the internals, or are not sysadmins in traditional sense. ie. the barrier has become lower.
Pretty much the samething as with PHP we have tons of "web developers" who are pretty much clueless. Entry barrier is so low, and they think of themselves of being capable, while having no idea of basic internals, good practices etc.
I get 110M/s write speed on magnetic SATA 2 drives:P Infact, can't supply data fast enough for them to write X) Theorethically capable of atleast 180M/s write speed, but can't test as i don't have source fast enough.
Now i'm looking to increase that to 240M/s write speed and about 400-440M/s read speed, with approximately 370-440 IOPS (I/O Operations per second). Yes, on magnetic drives.
How? Very easy: Striped RAID. And yes, that works on windows too.
This is backed up by the limited amount available, and people using it. The BTC is splittable into as many smaller pieces as you want, so the decimal point can be transferred millions of times to the right.
The only thing which it means if BTC becomes really popular: Owning even a single BTC right now, might make it valued at 200$ one day, or 0.00000001$
Infact, in many ways BTC is what a currency should be: Valuable only because people use it, and no more can be introduced, thus inflation does not really exist.
I acquired 330BTC like 6months back, in exchange for 10€. Now it's valued at 330$? Wow.
But it is not google specific, it's based on the toolbar. If it's not google specific - It's not targeted, and an general measure to make results better - thus not cheating, just good service, to try and use every method possible to bring better results.
Maybe i'm lucky, or just was wise enough to stay the hell out of any apple products for this krazeee period "Apple is the GOD!", "iPhone is the best phone ever"(with which you cannot make calls, or send MMS, or type easily or a plethora of other basic tasks)
Apple: The most evil company The Earth has ever faced.
It's total junk and annoyaance. I wish i could install years upon years old skype, i hate it how Skype acts like it has total privilege to do anything on my computer, hijacking port 80 for routing some calls, the toolbar crap, the new UI is crap, it's bloat ware and you can't actually shut it down from anywhere else but task manager. Ouch!
I try to avoid Skype as much as possible. Unfortunately i do got some friends who won't use anything except skype, and that sucks. I'm forced to keep skype for merely a couple people:(
and this is bullshit thing to reduce emissions. Individual's driving make very small part of the total emissions/pollution in the world, so small it doesn't matter at all in grand scale...
Uhm yeah, i wish being an IT professional would be easier than driving a taxi in 12hr shifts!
I used to do that JUST FOR FUN. You know, i didn't see it even hard to drive 1100km during 16hrs and keep nice good coffee breaks etc.
Yes, 1100km of which about 150km-200km only was highway. During 16hrs.
Infact, i was pretty relaxed after that and only went to home sleep because didn't get anymore calls at 9-10AM in the morning to take anyone anywhere.
"unskilled" jobs are the most relaxing, believe me, i've done plenty of those, and even 23hr shifts (construction site final cleanup gigs can get hectic), with 2 week stints with 1 day off and minimum working day 15hrs, was less demanding than being a coder.
If it's the least demanding job you've ever had, i bet you do nothing actually productive in your whole day, or you have pretty much zero responsibility over what you produce.
Under linux this is so true, but under *BSD the Deduplication portion works too, and that is an excellent feature if you are running a huge amount of storage.
ZFS is slow on linux and Lustre runs on EXT3/EXT4 by default. Infact, Lustre is quite a big contributor to making ext4 in to existence by optimizing Ext3.
Depends how much you need BW and how many storage nodes are you running.
What we are wanting to test out is using same system to provide OSTs and be a client, thus if we run a 8 switch stack which has switch to switch capacity of 48Gbps, and internal switch switching capacity of 176Gbps, and 48 ports in each switch + 2xModule slots for 10Gbe, i think we are going to be fine. If running fewer storage nodes we can put in Dual/Quad link NICs and LACP them if 10Gbe is not a possibility (out of ports or something).
But for our usage, the aggregate BW required to storage is probably the last in consideration unless we run huge storage nodes (think dozens upon dozens of 2Tb drives on single). Our usage is heavily dependant upon the public internet facing node's connection to internet, and storage usage will not exceed that greatly that of public internet (2-3x).
For our testing cluster of 15 frontend nodes we need only 1Gbps internet capacity, thus the 4 storage nodes with single 1Gbps links is more than enough:) Sure single node is limited to 266.66Mbps, but that is well more than enough, as we are hoping to also have local caching via other tools etc.
And we are hoping to launch this almost directly to production this spring. What is holding us back from doing this sooner is budget.
We are in process to use it in commodity hardware, research is underway to see if it is feasible to use Lustre for our needs, where high performance high capacity storage is a key figure.
And i don't see any reasons why not. Of course, getting the kind of load we have in production is extremely hard in testing environment, so only future will show.
And lustre does not need lots more expensive than consumer grade hardware with some nice switches, LACP... Of course it solely depends on your bandwidth requirements
and prolonged periods of 10+ work days is an easy cause for burnout eventually.
IT is mentally one of the most, maybe the most demanding industry, especially true for programmer's. Unfortunately people don't see a job "where you sit on your arse all day long" demanding.
Uhm, generally speaking you do not want to do any complex things or coding with your phone unless it's an emergency... In which case, as long as it can do it somewhat conveniently it's really OK.
Anything requiring more than a few simple commands, i'll find a real computer.
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no link immediately and easily visible to the software itself or the site. Veeery good journalism....
Indeed scare tactics, but this also shows two things:
A) Android is considered a threat
B) Patent system is flawed and stiffles innovation
The ability to "skim" disproportionate amounts of wealth from the rest of society is what allows some people escape the rat race slavery called money and steady employment to be able to pay off car, rent/mortgage and food, and truly enjoy their life.
Removing the ability for some to earn more (or "skimming" as you prefer) would essentially mean going back to full slavery.
You might argue we are not slaves, but consider what happens to your lifestyle if you quit your job, or what happens if you change to 3 day work weeks, or the amount of work is at your preferred level. The ability to choose what kind of slavery we commit to does not mean it's not slavery. Almost all people on this earth are subject to this slavery.
We work in one of these "high bandwidth" fields, and we see Cisco's determination to be pretty much right.
They might have a conflict of interest to promote new network equipment, but then again it's also their job to know these things. The ultimate question is that is Cisco trustworthy? Yes, they've proven to be, unlike MAFIAA.
Imho, to determine the validity of this research is the same as suspecting Cisco's reputation and honesty. Certainly they have different perspective on things, but that doesn't make things different.
It's pretty much common knowledge how much BW usage keeps on growing, how fast. You can draw pretty much same conclusions as Cisco by just thinking about what's been happening in the past couple of years in technology.
I don't understand this determination to compare Cisco's research to MAFIAAs "research". Part of Cisco's core business is research and estimating where the business is going on, developing better products based on this research. MAFIAAs core business is blackmail, threatening and protecting old business models, so MAFIAAs business is exactly painting a picture where each file copied is a lost sale and theft. Hell, i've even heard that on the other hand they are trying to shutdown piracy sites etc, while on other hand feeding them advertising revenue. Funny thing, isn't it?
Exactly.
and due to the ease of use of the VM systems there are more and more "sysadmins" who have never buried deep into the internals, or are not sysadmins in traditional sense. ie. the barrier has become lower.
Pretty much the samething as with PHP we have tons of "web developers" who are pretty much clueless. Entry barrier is so low, and they think of themselves of being capable, while having no idea of basic internals, good practices etc.
I get 110M/s write speed on magnetic SATA 2 drives :P
Infact, can't supply data fast enough for them to write X)
Theorethically capable of atleast 180M/s write speed, but can't test as i don't have source fast enough.
Now i'm looking to increase that to 240M/s write speed and about 400-440M/s read speed, with approximately 370-440 IOPS (I/O Operations per second). Yes, on magnetic drives.
How? Very easy: Striped RAID. And yes, that works on windows too.
Really hoping for that too. Many times i stop looking when i accidentally to get to spam shit fucked up crap like that.
Indeed. Things have changed.
People often use as a comparison food, ie. how much a liter of milk cost back when, or a regular day's food.
This is backed up by the limited amount available, and people using it.
The BTC is splittable into as many smaller pieces as you want, so the decimal point can be transferred millions of times to the right.
The only thing which it means if BTC becomes really popular: Owning even a single BTC right now, might make it valued at 200$ one day, or 0.00000001$
Infact, in many ways BTC is what a currency should be: Valuable only because people use it, and no more can be introduced, thus inflation does not really exist.
I acquired 330BTC like 6months back, in exchange for 10€. Now it's valued at 330$? Wow.
But it is not google specific, it's based on the toolbar.
If it's not google specific - It's not targeted, and an general measure to make results better - thus not cheating, just good service, to try and use every method possible to bring better results.
Maybe i'm lucky, or just was wise enough to stay the hell out of any apple products for this krazeee period "Apple is the GOD!", "iPhone is the best phone ever"(with which you cannot make calls, or send MMS, or type easily or a plethora of other basic tasks)
Apple: The most evil company The Earth has ever faced.
prying on your private data probably.
It's total junk and annoyaance. I wish i could install years upon years old skype, i hate it how Skype acts like it has total privilege to do anything on my computer, hijacking port 80 for routing some calls, the toolbar crap, the new UI is crap, it's bloat ware and you can't actually shut it down from anywhere else but task manager. Ouch!
I try to avoid Skype as much as possible. Unfortunately i do got some friends who won't use anything except skype, and that sucks. I'm forced to keep skype for merely a couple people :(
Let me fix it for you:
"If you think your boss isn't paying you enough, it's probably because he's a greedy bastard"
and this is bullshit thing to reduce emissions. Individual's driving make very small part of the total emissions/pollution in the world, so small it doesn't matter at all in grand scale...
Uhm yeah, i wish being an IT professional would be easier than driving a taxi in 12hr shifts!
I used to do that JUST FOR FUN. You know, i didn't see it even hard to drive 1100km during 16hrs and keep nice good coffee breaks etc.
Yes, 1100km of which about 150km-200km only was highway. During 16hrs.
Infact, i was pretty relaxed after that and only went to home sleep because didn't get anymore calls at 9-10AM in the morning to take anyone anywhere.
"unskilled" jobs are the most relaxing, believe me, i've done plenty of those, and even 23hr shifts (construction site final cleanup gigs can get hectic), with 2 week stints with 1 day off and minimum working day 15hrs, was less demanding than being a coder.
If it's the least demanding job you've ever had, i bet you do nothing actually productive in your whole day, or you have pretty much zero responsibility over what you produce.
Under linux this is so true, but under *BSD the Deduplication portion works too, and that is an excellent feature if you are running a huge amount of storage.
Same where he thinks ZFS is fast & default for lustre, and same where he thinks Lustre and LVM/RAID is the same type of a thing :D
ZFS is slow on linux and Lustre runs on EXT3/EXT4 by default. Infact, Lustre is quite a big contributor to making ext4 in to existence by optimizing Ext3.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4
Comparing lustre to LVM/RAID is comparing Apples to Oranges. One is network cluster file system, another is local storage management.
Depends how much you need BW and how many storage nodes are you running.
What we are wanting to test out is using same system to provide OSTs and be a client, thus if we run a 8 switch stack which has switch to switch capacity of 48Gbps, and internal switch switching capacity of 176Gbps, and 48 ports in each switch + 2xModule slots for 10Gbe, i think we are going to be fine. If running fewer storage nodes we can put in Dual/Quad link NICs and LACP them if 10Gbe is not a possibility (out of ports or something).
But for our usage, the aggregate BW required to storage is probably the last in consideration unless we run huge storage nodes (think dozens upon dozens of 2Tb drives on single). Our usage is heavily dependant upon the public internet facing node's connection to internet, and storage usage will not exceed that greatly that of public internet (2-3x).
For our testing cluster of 15 frontend nodes we need only 1Gbps internet capacity, thus the 4 storage nodes with single 1Gbps links is more than enough :) Sure single node is limited to 266.66Mbps, but that is well more than enough, as we are hoping to also have local caching via other tools etc.
And we are hoping to launch this almost directly to production this spring. What is holding us back from doing this sooner is budget.
We are in process to use it in commodity hardware, research is underway to see if it is feasible to use Lustre for our needs, where high performance high capacity storage is a key figure.
And i don't see any reasons why not. Of course, getting the kind of load we have in production is extremely hard in testing environment, so only future will show.
And lustre does not need lots more expensive than consumer grade hardware with some nice switches, LACP... Of course it solely depends on your bandwidth requirements
and prolonged periods of 10+ work days is an easy cause for burnout eventually.
IT is mentally one of the most, maybe the most demanding industry, especially true for programmer's. Unfortunately people don't see a job "where you sit on your arse all day long" demanding.
Nokia N900 seems to get by fine with regular apps and touchscreen ...
Speaking of need of "jailbreak", simple mention in connection is a fail imho, therefore android is a fail.
N900 for me ty.
Uhm, generally speaking you do not want to do any complex things or coding with your phone unless it's an emergency... In which case, as long as it can do it somewhat conveniently it's really OK.
Anything requiring more than a few simple commands, i'll find a real computer.
Yes, any linux based smartphone (androids, nokia n900) and ssh.