Most decent BIOSs know how to boot from a flash drive, or if you want to be fancy you can get a PCI to Flash card with a boot prom.
Just don't put any swap on the CF card, they are limited to 10k writes/block before they start failing. If any swap winds up being used for FS caches (it will) your OS boot device will only last 2-5 years at most.
"Question: Can you still charge the new ipods via a firewire connection? With the firewire 12v supply the ipod charges faster than with usb's 5v supply. I think the pinout of the ipod docking connector still supports the 12v power supply."
Yes you can, however it does not seem to charge any faster.
I'm starting to look around in the market for a NAS box. I've been in contact with Buffalo about their Terastation, and I have pending e-mails with other companies. The Terastation uses 80 watts when fully powered. It is not perfect, however as it never spins down the drives even if they arn't being used.
My windows box for comparison uses somewhere around 180 watts when ideling with the drives on.
If I multiply 180*24*365 I get 1576 Kwh / year. 180 watts does not sound like much, but look at this quote:
"Starting in July 2001, new energy standards went into effect. Since that time all 15 cubic foot top-freezer refrigerator (with no through-the-door ice or water features) are required to have an energy rating of no more than 450 kilowatt-hours per year, a similarly featured 18 cubic foot model needed to have a rating of under 485 kilowatt-hours per year, and a 22 cubic foot unit needed to have a rating of less than 535 kilowatt-hours per year." (From here)
My fridge costs me about $20 a month to run in electricity, according to a nice little power meter I picked up from thinkgeek a while back. My Windows box uses more then twice as much. Leaving my Windows box online all the time costs me MORE THEN MY DSL.
Now, the power usage of the Terastation is not much better... 683 Kwh/year or about $23 a month.
I don't mind spending cash on hardware. Spending money on power is just dumb, especially when I could be spending less.
Most filesystems are in fact optimized for use on magnetic media. Ext3 uses algorithms to place data on the disc in order to minimize the amount of waiting done for data.
There are research filesystems that are optimized for this kind of a hybrid environment. These were written for MEMS insetead of flash, but the basic ideas are nearly the same.
Most "normal use" filesystems nowadays (FAT32, Ext3, HFS, Reiser) all use 4K blocks by default. That means that the smallest amount of data that you can change at a time is 4k, so every time you change a block, the HDD has to do 8 writes or reads. That would leave the drive preforming 8x the number of commands that it would need to.
As filesystems are slowly moving towards larger block sizes, now that the "wasted" space on drives due to unused space at the ends of blocks are not as noticable, moving up the size on the underlying hardware also makes sense. I don't think that this can make things too much faster, but it would allow SATA drives (and SCSI also) to quesu more commands in their internal buffers, as they will onyl be recieving one command per read/write that the filesystem does, instead of 8.
MRAM is a memory (RAM) technology that uses electron spin to store information.
MRAM has been called "the ideal memory" - potentially combining the density of DRAM with the speed of SRAM and non-volatility of FLASH memory or hard disk, and all this while consuming a very low amount of power.
MRAM can resist high radiation, and can operate in extreme temperature conditions. It is likely that we'll see the first MRAM in applications that need such properties.
MRAM is being researched by the SSRC at UCSC. From my understanding of what they are doing they are using the non-volatile MRAM as sort of a L3 cache between the RAM and the processor. This stuff is wicked fast, so the response time from RAM to the processor is taken down something like an order of magnitude. If the OS could prefetch things from RAM to MRAM in some intelligent way they could get the system memory access time down, and speed up things overall that use lots of memory accesses.... things like Booting, and opening Acrobat....
That one is hosted from a luthrian school somewhere that speaks Chinese. Here is there contact information, but don't speak the language so I'm not sure that they would be able to read it if I were to send one.
The.torrent file contains a "bencoded" dictionay (hash table) of information about the torrent. Some of the information in it is SHA-1 hashes of the chunks of files, but it is all UTF-8 encoded so any web browsers without UTF font supprt wouldn't be able to look at it though.
It definatly would not pass the lameness filter though.
It's interesting to see bittorrent working on such a large scale type of thing. Notice that the webserver hosting the.torrent files have gone down, and as of now 1338 (darn it I'm # 1338) people are downloading it sucessfully. While it is true that it is going to take me 2 hours to get it all, I remember the days of old 56k modems when a 200mb download would take 2 days, so this is fast enough for me.
For those of you going slower then about 30K down, make sure you have holes poked in your firewalls.
Also, for the rest of us, leave the thing running for a while after you finish getting it please, it 's sad to see the number of seeders drop as quickly as they are....
At the expense of my Mod points, I must point out, sir, that you are wrong.
anti-terrorism legislation requires hotels retain a photocopy of your driver's license. I find it highly unlikely that the hotel will accept a license in one name and payment via another name with only a credit card number.
This is how businesses normally pay for rooms when employees go on trips. Most companies do not give a card with each employees name on it, unless they are of the "enterprise" level.
Second, credit card companies don't get details about a charge for 2-3 days after the charge is made, so there's no way that the CC company could have known that the charge was made at Denny's or what zip code that Denny's was in.
Ummmmmm. No. Credit card companies know about a charge the instant it is made. Otherwise there would be no way to deny the charge if the card has been canceled or expired. At least my credit card company (Wells Fargo) has all charges show up on the web interface within about three minutes of the charge being processed. Yes, I have timed it.
Also, batch processing of credit card transactions is not legal in the state of California. It would allow companies to have "mystery money" in their accounting that has been "paid" to them, but they have not yet retrieved from your account. I'm not sure if this is from California, but I'm sure there is very similar laws in the rest of the US. Also, these laws were not around two years ago.
Unless they release the source code under some OSS friendly license I doubt this will make a big diffrence. We already have real player for linux, but from what I see at my univ, most people are using mplayer or kaffeine.
If they release it under BSD or GPL, then I'm interested.
Slashdot Mirror
Most decent BIOSs know how to boot from a flash drive, or if you want to be fancy you can get a PCI to Flash card with a boot prom.
Just don't put any swap on the CF card, they are limited to 10k writes/block before they start failing. If any swap winds up being used for FS caches (it will) your OS boot device will only last 2-5 years at most.
Hrm, for some reason, both the website and the CG in the trailer look like they belong in the late 90's...
:(
Geez that website reminds me of myspace
Come on editors, the original is still on the mainpage!
5 21201
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/30/1
Darn you broken video hyperlink!
1984 called... It wants it's news story back.
"Question: Can you still charge the new ipods via a firewire
connection? With the firewire 12v supply the ipod charges faster than with usb's
5v supply. I think the pinout of the ipod docking connector still supports the
12v power supply."
Yes you can, however it does not seem to charge any faster.
I'm sorry. I just have to reply to this.
/year or about $23 a month.
I'm starting to look around in the market for a NAS box. I've been in contact with Buffalo about their Terastation, and I have pending e-mails with other companies. The Terastation uses 80 watts when fully powered. It is not perfect, however as it never spins down the drives even if they arn't being used.
My windows box for comparison uses somewhere around 180 watts when ideling with the drives on.
If I multiply 180*24*365 I get 1576 Kwh / year. 180 watts does not sound like much, but look at this quote:
"Starting in July 2001, new energy standards went into effect. Since that time all 15 cubic foot top-freezer refrigerator (with no through-the-door ice or water features) are required to have an energy rating of no more than 450 kilowatt-hours per year, a similarly featured 18 cubic foot model needed to have a rating of under 485 kilowatt-hours per year, and a 22 cubic foot unit needed to have a rating of less than 535 kilowatt-hours per year." (From here)
My fridge costs me about $20 a month to run in electricity, according to a nice little power meter I picked up from thinkgeek a while back. My Windows box uses more then twice as much. Leaving my Windows box online all the time costs me MORE THEN MY DSL.
Now, the power usage of the Terastation is not much better... 683 Kwh
I don't mind spending cash on hardware. Spending money on power is just dumb, especially when I could be spending less.
Most filesystems are in fact optimized for use on magnetic media. Ext3 uses algorithms to place data on the disc in order to minimize the amount of waiting done for data.
There are research filesystems that are optimized for this kind of a hybrid environment. These were written for MEMS insetead of flash, but the basic ideas are nearly the same.
http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/proj/mems.html
Disclaimer: I work there. I may be biased.
I thought a microcup is what your girlfriend has...
Wow...
...
They just invented something really new that nobody else could have ever thought of
errrr...
X11 forwarding anyone?
Most "normal use" filesystems nowadays (FAT32, Ext3, HFS, Reiser) all use 4K blocks by default. That means that the smallest amount of data that you can change at a time is 4k, so every time you change a block, the HDD has to do 8 writes or reads. That would leave the drive preforming 8x the number of commands that it would need to.
As filesystems are slowly moving towards larger block sizes, now that the "wasted" space on drives due to unused space at the ends of blocks are not as noticable, moving up the size on the underlying hardware also makes sense. I don't think that this can make things too much faster, but it would allow SATA drives (and SCSI also) to quesu more commands in their internal buffers, as they will onyl be recieving one command per read/write that the filesystem does, instead of 8.
Anyone know how to make a PocketPC phone do this?
Other then being a big money hole, and a way to play solitare I'm trying to figure out what to do with mine....
Relpying to my own comment here, and having RTFA...
Wow. This *IS* MRAM.
From the MRAM site:
MRAM is a memory (RAM) technology that uses electron spin to store information. MRAM has been called "the ideal memory" - potentially combining the density of DRAM with the speed of SRAM and non-volatility of FLASH memory or hard disk, and all this while consuming a very low amount of power. MRAM can resist high radiation, and can operate in extreme temperature conditions. It is likely that we'll see the first MRAM in applications that need such properties.
MRAM is being researched by the SSRC at UCSC. From my understanding of what they are doing they are using the non-volatile MRAM as sort of a L3 cache between the RAM and the processor. This stuff is wicked fast, so the response time from RAM to the processor is taken down something like an order of magnitude. If the OS could prefetch things from RAM to MRAM in some intelligent way they could get the system memory access time down, and speed up things overall that use lots of memory accesses.... things like Booting, and opening Acrobat....
This could be quite neet if they release it....
GO SLUGS!
Not having RTFA, I wonder if this is somehow related to MRAM? Linky
I know the ssrc (which I am sort of affiliated with) has been doing some research into it, and I think Intel may be involved with it...
Just a thought...
Perhaps they are not done with it yet?
I can not seem to connect as of yet.
Ginormous is a word: lookie
Here isa mirror of the files, it on a university so you can *try* to slashdot it:
http://people.ucsc.edu/~jhagen/portable1.swf
http://people.ucsc.edu/~jhagen/bureau1.swf
http://people.ucsc.edu/~jhagen/jeune1.swf
That one is hosted from a luthrian school somewhere that speaks Chinese. Here is there contact information, but don't speak the language so I'm not sure that they would be able to read it if I were to send one.
mailto:lck@lck.mysch.net
Try a diffrent client. BT clients play tit-for-tat with each other. Maybe your client is simply losing the "game"?
No it isn't binary. !!
.torrent file contains a "bencoded" dictionay (hash table) of information about the torrent. Some of the information in it is SHA-1 hashes of the chunks of files, but it is all UTF-8 encoded so any web browsers without UTF font supprt wouldn't be able to look at it though.
The
It definatly would not pass the lameness filter though.
It's interesting to see bittorrent working on such a large scale type of thing. Notice that the webserver hosting the .torrent files have gone down, and as of now 1338 (darn it I'm # 1338) people are downloading it sucessfully. While it is true that it is going to take me 2 hours to get it all, I remember the days of old 56k modems when a 200mb download would take 2 days, so this is fast enough for me.
For those of you going slower then about 30K down, make sure you have holes poked in your firewalls.
Also, for the rest of us, leave the thing running for a while after you finish getting it please, it 's sad to see the number of seeders drop as quickly as they are....
At the expense of my Mod points, I must point out, sir, that you are wrong.
anti-terrorism legislation requires hotels retain a photocopy of your driver's license. I find it highly unlikely that the hotel will accept a license in one name and payment via another name with only a credit card number.
This is how businesses normally pay for rooms when employees go on trips. Most companies do not give a card with each employees name on it, unless they are of the "enterprise" level.
Second, credit card companies don't get details about a charge for 2-3 days after the charge is made, so there's no way that the CC company could have known that the charge was made at Denny's or what zip code that Denny's was in.
Ummmmmm. No. Credit card companies know about a charge the instant it is made. Otherwise there would be no way to deny the charge if the card has been canceled or expired. At least my credit card company (Wells Fargo) has all charges show up on the web interface within about three minutes of the charge being processed. Yes, I have timed it.
Also, batch processing of credit card transactions is not legal in the state of California. It would allow companies to have "mystery money" in their accounting that has been "paid" to them, but they have not yet retrieved from your account. I'm not sure if this is from California, but I'm sure there is very similar laws in the rest of the US. Also, these laws were not around two years ago.
Unless they release the source code under some OSS friendly license I doubt this will make a big diffrence. We already have real player for linux, but from what I see at my univ, most people are using mplayer or kaffeine.
If they release it under BSD or GPL, then I'm interested.
Instead of seeing a review, I get a Norton Firewall popup saying that the resulting page is invected with a javascript virus.
It seems more then just the product is snake-oil.
Given that I did RTFA, and that it is exactly the same as the post...
Who are they negoating with, and when will my DSLExtreme connection become blazingly faster?
Does anyone here have this service that wants to share their experance?