You must not work in the storage world... We have plenty of switches with a backplane that can handle 500 Gb/s... What you speak of is nothin' for a director class switch.
TOE cards are not becoming more popular, if anything they are losing popularity. This is due to CPUs becoming more popular, the TCP overhead is not nearly as noticable.
My favorite was choosing RAID 0. Damn idiots. Raise your hand if you like to lose a TB if one drive fails... and with as much heat as that thing makes, one drive WILL fail.
Raid 5 would have performed well and given some redundancy so they don't lose their entire collection of Oprah.
Although you can't heat a typical house with 4KW, it would definately make an impact. For those of us in many areas, it also means we get to cool 4KW of heat in the summer, using even more juice!
Instead of calculating barrels of oil per person, how about calculating barells of oil per square mile? Don't forget that the US is much larger, and people tend to be spread out a lot more, which means traveling farther to get placed. Your comparison per person is just a useless statistic that has no real meaning.
I would get scared just thinking about putting one million users on a home-made storage system, on IDE drives. It is a potential disaster given the reliability. You can't go cheap on the storage here, as the databases would require some decent bandwidth. A mid-range array would probably fit the bill, attached to a small SAN with two redundant fabrics to meet the 3 nines uptime.
Heh you sound just like me. I make more money than any of my friends or my wife's friends, yet I own the oldest house, and my car is a 1989. My wife's car is newer, but not really new, and we have never made car payments. I just can't bear to finance something that just depreciates. Plus you get raped again with full coverage insurance that is requred.
Everyone around me has a nicer car, furniture, etc. But we live within our means and have no debt other than the mortgage and a student loan we are paying off. Everyone else I know is making a car payment, credit card payment, a rent payment, etc. I don't know how they do it.
You would not have twice the integrity... hard drives fail in various different ways, bottom line if you would have half the storage and still a single point of failure.
The problem is that the government is not good at doing something like this. And just imagine all the controversy it would stir up... There would need to be a whole army of judges just to decide whether a site is pr0n or not... and web sites are always changing. And there is a lot of grey areas like nude/semi-nude art, breast exam pages, etc. Hard to defince a definition of pr0n that everyone agrees to.
I also work in SAN, entirely, for the last several years.
The article was very sparse on details, but I didn't see any ports for connections except the built in 10/100/1000 ethernet.
Perhaps for archiving this is fine, but it wouldn't fly in most data centers. I doubt you could pull data off it really fast with SATA drives and the overhead of ethernet.
Also, how are faults handled? We have thousands of disks spinning in our arrays, and you can bet on one or two failing every week. What happens if a whole rack-mount server fails, or a couple of them? Do they have redundant power supplies in each component? Dual networks to have redundant paths?
As usual, you get what you pay for. If that is good enough, then they did just fine.
You have a good point. I myself am a G5 mac owner, but I don't expect the majority of the US to pay a premium for a Mac like I do. The truth is, for for most things, a Wintel box is "good enough", especially with today's CPU speeds. I paid a premium for my Mac because I like their hardware design and I like their OS. However, if I was really pinching pennies I would have built an intel system and ran Linux on it for my desktop PC at home.
This isn't the end of the world, dude. It's happened many times before. HP switched from PA-RISC to Itanium, Apple itself switched 10 years ago, they are just switching again.
They found themselves running with a horse that was past its prime. The switch will not make current macs obsolete - there are simply to many powerpc macs out there to just forget about them. Instead of making up your mind now about not buying a mac, why don't you just wait till they come out and see how they perform?
While the Stir Crazy is a cool idea, I found it too hard to clean. My favorite is the Whirley Pop. It usually pops every kernel, because you can set the burner heat on high and really cook it fast. Plus it is basically just an aluminum pot so you can just wipe it clean.
Look at countries like Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, France, etc. Do you see a lot of citizens coming over here from there to live permanently?
Setting propaganda aside for a moment, do you have any idea how much of people's income is take by the governments in these countries? If you don't please investigate. I would like better health care as well, but what goes on in the majority of these countries is nothing more than a large redistrobution of wealth. I used to live there.
It's easy to have rose colored glasses, but be realistic. Not everyone is willing to give half their paycheck to pay for everyone's problems.
Yes the best thing to do would be to press the clutch pedal in. The car more than likely has a rev limiter which may event prevent major engine damage. Once you came to a stop you could open the hood and start pulling plug wires to get the engine to stop.
If you want to be prepared, then buy some deadlocks, an alarm system, non-intrusive security doors. These will stop burglars, who just want an easy target - owning a gun will not, since the burglar will not know beforehand that you own a gun. In places where citizens are inclined to carry guns, burglars do too, where citizens do not, neither do burglars (having no reason to). The idea is to deter forced entry in the first place - burglaries happen when you are out, not while you are in, in which case having a gun in the house becomes a liability.
I already have an alarm, and dead bolts on all exterior doors.
If a burglar broke into my house and I was there, and I yelled "I've called the police", I somehow can't imagine that they would hang around to rape my wife. They would run away. If on the other hand, I shot one of them, I would go to gaol. Who then would protect my wife? Would I even retain a wife, let alone my possessions?
Not sure where you live, but if someone breaks into my house and I shoot them, in my state this is legal. They should not have broken in. Also, you are fortunate if the police respond in such a quick manner. Many times they do not.
If I see a policeman carrying a gun, I feel secure because I know that they are trained and employed by me for my own protection and that of my family. If OTOH I saw YOU with a gun, I would not feel safe at all - I have no idea why you have a gun, nor what you are likely to do with it.
I have guns because it is my right to own them. I use them for fun, for hunting, and for protection. I am very qualified to use all of them. I have passed significant background checks, and my state deems my qualified to posess a concealed weapon permit. I think you misunderstand me - I never want to have to shoot anyone, for any reason. But, I am prepared if that day ever comes. If my, or my family's safety are ever threatened, I can depend on myself, and the law to do what is necessary.
Yes I do realize that (obviously the smart criminal would break in when nobody is home). But not all criminals are smart, and many just don't care. And, no I do not leave my guns out in the open. Rifles and such are in a locked locker, and my handgun, for personal protection, is in a quick-open safe near my bed. If they want to steal my gun safe they will probably need about 10 other criminals to help lift it out of my house, as well as a tommy lift to get it in their truck.
Has anyone's house in your town, city, province, etc. ever been broken into or robbed? Has anyone ever been assualted in their own house?
It doesn't happen often, and it will probably never happen to me, but I like being prepared. Because it does happen to people, and their is a chance it could happen to me.
Let's say your house and my house was broken into. I guess you can call the police and wait for them to show up while criminals are raping your wife or stealing your belongings. I will call the police and defend myself, my family, and my property with a gun that I know how to use properly, if need be. Good luck to you.
The main advantage I see, as a current netflix customer, is no late fees. I am notorious for racking up huge late fees at the video rental places and at libraries. Netflix helps me avoid this.
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You must not work in the storage world... We have plenty of switches with a backplane that can handle 500 Gb/s... What you speak of is nothin' for a director class switch.
TOE cards are not becoming more popular, if anything they are losing popularity. This is due to CPUs becoming more popular, the TCP overhead is not nearly as noticable.
Minimum wage is for hourly work. They are on salary and thus are exempt.
My favorite was choosing RAID 0. Damn idiots. Raise your hand if you like to lose a TB if one drive fails... and with as much heat as that thing makes, one drive WILL fail.
Raid 5 would have performed well and given some redundancy so they don't lose their entire collection of Oprah.
Although you can't heat a typical house with 4KW, it would definately make an impact. For those of us in many areas, it also means we get to cool 4KW of heat in the summer, using even more juice!
heh... maybe if he is using Windows help synax he shouldn't have root access by default?
Instead of calculating barrels of oil per person, how about calculating barells of oil per square mile? Don't forget that the US is much larger, and people tend to be spread out a lot more, which means traveling farther to get placed. Your comparison per person is just a useless statistic that has no real meaning.
I would get scared just thinking about putting one million users on a home-made storage system, on IDE drives. It is a potential disaster given the reliability. You can't go cheap on the storage here, as the databases would require some decent bandwidth. A mid-range array would probably fit the bill, attached to a small SAN with two redundant fabrics to meet the 3 nines uptime.
Heh you sound just like me. I make more money than any of my friends or my wife's friends, yet I own the oldest house, and my car is a 1989. My wife's car is newer, but not really new, and we have never made car payments. I just can't bear to finance something that just depreciates. Plus you get raped again with full coverage insurance that is requred. Everyone around me has a nicer car, furniture, etc. But we live within our means and have no debt other than the mortgage and a student loan we are paying off. Everyone else I know is making a car payment, credit card payment, a rent payment, etc. I don't know how they do it.
You would not have twice the integrity... hard drives fail in various different ways, bottom line if you would have half the storage and still a single point of failure.
The problem is that the government is not good at doing something like this. And just imagine all the controversy it would stir up... There would need to be a whole army of judges just to decide whether a site is pr0n or not... and web sites are always changing. And there is a lot of grey areas like nude/semi-nude art, breast exam pages, etc. Hard to defince a definition of pr0n that everyone agrees to.
The shuttle is a glider. They have one change to land, unpowered. Better to be conservative.
I am just curious how you would go about changing a regime? Or are you one of those people who think the UN really does have power?
I also work in SAN, entirely, for the last several years. The article was very sparse on details, but I didn't see any ports for connections except the built in 10/100/1000 ethernet. Perhaps for archiving this is fine, but it wouldn't fly in most data centers. I doubt you could pull data off it really fast with SATA drives and the overhead of ethernet. Also, how are faults handled? We have thousands of disks spinning in our arrays, and you can bet on one or two failing every week. What happens if a whole rack-mount server fails, or a couple of them? Do they have redundant power supplies in each component? Dual networks to have redundant paths? As usual, you get what you pay for. If that is good enough, then they did just fine.
You have a good point. I myself am a G5 mac owner, but I don't expect the majority of the US to pay a premium for a Mac like I do. The truth is, for for most things, a Wintel box is "good enough", especially with today's CPU speeds. I paid a premium for my Mac because I like their hardware design and I like their OS. However, if I was really pinching pennies I would have built an intel system and ran Linux on it for my desktop PC at home.
This isn't the end of the world, dude. It's happened many times before. HP switched from PA-RISC to Itanium, Apple itself switched 10 years ago, they are just switching again. They found themselves running with a horse that was past its prime. The switch will not make current macs obsolete - there are simply to many powerpc macs out there to just forget about them. Instead of making up your mind now about not buying a mac, why don't you just wait till they come out and see how they perform?
While the Stir Crazy is a cool idea, I found it too hard to clean. My favorite is the Whirley Pop. It usually pops every kernel, because you can set the burner heat on high and really cook it fast. Plus it is basically just an aluminum pot so you can just wipe it clean.
You guys are arguing about punctuation on slashdot.
Look at countries like Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, France, etc. Do you see a lot of citizens coming over here from there to live permanently?
Setting propaganda aside for a moment, do you have any idea how much of people's income is take by the governments in these countries? If you don't please investigate. I would like better health care as well, but what goes on in the majority of these countries is nothing more than a large redistrobution of wealth. I used to live there.
It's easy to have rose colored glasses, but be realistic. Not everyone is willing to give half their paycheck to pay for everyone's problems.
Yes the best thing to do would be to press the clutch pedal in. The car more than likely has a rev limiter which may event prevent major engine damage. Once you came to a stop you could open the hood and start pulling plug wires to get the engine to stop.
If you want to be prepared, then buy some deadlocks, an alarm system, non-intrusive security doors. These will stop burglars, who just want an easy target - owning a gun will not, since the burglar will not know beforehand that you own a gun. In places where citizens are inclined to carry guns, burglars do too, where citizens do not, neither do burglars (having no reason to). The idea is to deter forced entry in the first place - burglaries happen when you are out, not while you are in, in which case having a gun in the house becomes a liability.
I already have an alarm, and dead bolts on all exterior doors.
If a burglar broke into my house and I was there, and I yelled "I've called the police", I somehow can't imagine that they would hang around to rape my wife. They would run away. If on the other hand, I shot one of them, I would go to gaol. Who then would protect my wife? Would I even retain a wife, let alone my possessions?
Not sure where you live, but if someone breaks into my house and I shoot them, in my state this is legal. They should not have broken in. Also, you are fortunate if the police respond in such a quick manner. Many times they do not.
If I see a policeman carrying a gun, I feel secure because I know that they are trained and employed by me for my own protection and that of my family. If OTOH I saw YOU with a gun, I would not feel safe at all - I have no idea why you have a gun, nor what you are likely to do with it.
I have guns because it is my right to own them. I use them for fun, for hunting, and for protection. I am very qualified to use all of them. I have passed significant background checks, and my state deems my qualified to posess a concealed weapon permit. I think you misunderstand me - I never want to have to shoot anyone, for any reason. But, I am prepared if that day ever comes. If my, or my family's safety are ever threatened, I can depend on myself, and the law to do what is necessary.
Yes I do realize that (obviously the smart criminal would break in when nobody is home). But not all criminals are smart, and many just don't care. And, no I do not leave my guns out in the open. Rifles and such are in a locked locker, and my handgun, for personal protection, is in a quick-open safe near my bed. If they want to steal my gun safe they will probably need about 10 other criminals to help lift it out of my house, as well as a tommy lift to get it in their truck.
Not in the state I live in. If they are in my house, I can legally shoot them.
Has anyone's house in your town, city, province, etc. ever been broken into or robbed? Has anyone ever been assualted in their own house? It doesn't happen often, and it will probably never happen to me, but I like being prepared. Because it does happen to people, and their is a chance it could happen to me. Let's say your house and my house was broken into. I guess you can call the police and wait for them to show up while criminals are raping your wife or stealing your belongings. I will call the police and defend myself, my family, and my property with a gun that I know how to use properly, if need be. Good luck to you.
The main advantage I see, as a current netflix customer, is no late fees. I am notorious for racking up huge late fees at the video rental places and at libraries. Netflix helps me avoid this.