This was addressed during the VMWorld 2011 conference. VMWare is only limited by the amount of hardware you throw at it just like any other x86 platform: Achieving a Million I/O Operations per Second from a Single VMware vSphere 5.0 Host http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10211
You can go with IBM/Power or Oracle/SPARC if you have exceptionally large systems, but if you're coming from x86 applications there are minimal CPU, Memory, IO limitations which can't be resolved. The only limitations for x86 virtualization are proprietary cards, clock skew and overhead (not an issue for 95% of cases).
In exchange you get hardware abstraction and portability, availability, the ability to scale much easier, consolidation, ease of deployment and management... etc etc.
If you aren't virtualized you are behind the times; that applies to RISC as well. Just make sure you architect a proper solution to handle the load you intend to run! And when you add more load, expand the infrastructure BEFORE you start having performance issues.
Netflix moves a huge amount of video on the web, so I doubt it's that unpopular. Most people seem to be accessing it on their TVs, XBoxes and Roku style set top boxes though.
Netflix FWIK is limited to the US market./me checking...:
Sorry, Netflix is not available in your country... yet
I do this. Is this really impossible for most Slashdotters? A year is nothing, really. I've waited longer than that for a game to come down to the price I care to pay. I also don't have to spend $400 every so often for the latest graphics cards.
Wow, you sound like a real "go-getter". Are you still "waiting" for your first sexual experience with a girl as well?
250GB is less than 4 hours of HD content per day, if you do nothing else with the internet at all.
This is almost an argument in favor of bandwidth caps. If there weren't some checks and balance then idiots like you would stream RAW video all day. No one streams RAW video, not even via satellite. If you want porn that realistic rent a hooker.
Meh, better to think ahead. Otherwise you'll end up retro-fitting a sex dungeon after... at greater expense. Just ask the CEO of Broadcom: "Billionaire sought secret lair for sex, drugs, complaint says"
I never graduated from college, but I taught myself PHP and 15 years later, I'm earning in excess of $150,000 in an income-tax-free state, with a very low cost of living.
College is for the unmotivated or those who have to be spoonfed their information.
Looks like you chose the hard life son. I taught myself how to sell and I average between $140-180k/yr just to sit around and spread bullshit.
A band-aid solution? After that comment, I'll presume that you aren't a depression sufferer of 40 years and multiple failed suicide attempts.
Well, let's be honest. It would only take one successful attempt and you wouldn't have 40 years of depression.
As someone afflicted with bipolar disorder, I got a nice chuckle out of that comment. It's true, suicide is very easy if you don't care about having an open casket or being in pain before you pass. Going through these turbulent states is literally hellish torture; one resorts to suicide as a way to end that.
1) Watch the BBC documentary: How to Kill a Human Being (2008)
a. There are many sources of the same information but they actually did a nice job 2) Go to a welding supply shop and rent a pressurized gas cylinder with argon or nitrogen (inert gas) 3) Go to a welding supply shop and buy a regulator (this will drop the pressure down to a usable level)
You'll feel better just knowing the option exists and you're not trapped here...
Just like computers everything has glitches; including the human body. When it comes to breathing the human body only panics when there is a build up of CO2 NOT when there is a lack of O2. If you can eliminate the CO2 and the O2 (which will convert to CO2) then the body won't panic. Breathing inert gas you'll just get tired and euphoric. Instead of pain you'll actually feel high! Eventually the lack of O2 will cause you to pass out. Everything starts to shut down. Before the brain shuts down you'll start convulsing as a last attempt to clear whatever is blocking the oxygen. When that doesn't work your brain will die.
Remember people: Don't kill yourself with helium... it is a limited resource:)
If the objective is to keep kids from seeing Pr0n, the better approach is a.kids TLD. This way you can have contractual requirements (and penalties) that the content there must be kid-safe. Of course that opens the debate as to what is "kid safe"... I don't want my kids exposed to evangelical Christian propaganda anymore than the religious retards want their kids to find out about birth control and evolution.
I had unused mod points for weeks... now that I need them they are gone. I would have to agree, this is a better approach.
The population of London and Bangkok are similar at ~7M. That chart showed up to a 30minute wait in London! I don't ever remember waiting longer than 4 minutes to take transit in Bangkok, and they're considered a developing country.
Perhaps London isn't suitable for the Olympics, or living...
From description...it sounds like the London transportation system may be overwhelmed and they simply may not be able to get replacement staff in the center in a timely manner.
If these guys are "soooo" important then maybe they should get the appropriate "rock star" treatment.
They could have spent money on load testing and/or extra redundancy before hand to reduce the risk of issues. There are some things that can't be solved by throwing money at it, and this isn't one of them. It just so happened that taking advantage of IT staff was the cheapest solution. Sadly, it usually is.
The first solution would of had long lasting positive implications. What are they going to do during the next big event or even a crisis?... call in more IT staff again?
Turns out the drivers never set any mechanical brake, did not leave the engine stop lever in the stop position (which cuts fuel) and parked on a slight incline or hill.
Now picture this, a butterfly lands on the truck which is the tipping point. Now the weight of the butterfly and truck overcomes the friction of the drive line, begin to roll and crank the engine causing it to fire up and run away.
Haha what a douche! He totally had something he enjoyed but was a poor financial choice, and then when the time came to be responsible he got rid of it for a (presumably) more sensible ride! What a loser!
The parent poster is pissed because driving a Mercedes has nothing to do with the actual car and everything to do with flaunting wealth. Unfortunately, the lower the income bracket capable of affording a Mercedes through leasing, etc just diminishes this effect.
The sad part is, most wealthy people are cheap. In the book "The Millionaire Next Door" they analyzed the habits of actual self-made millionaires. One of the items they touched on was houses and cars. The most common car driven by self-made millionaires: FORD!!!
Even with the best of tools and setups, pure streaming is not always an option. My synology NAS barfs on.mp4s sometimes. Flat out, dont use DLNA, it sucks, it has always sucked, it will always suck. Streaming is great, but it still not a universal thing that always works unless you very tightly control the media you feed into the system. You got things like the netatalk devs playing games, Apple messing around, its still complicated. LOVE my synology NAS, but DLNA sucks donkey dick. Im typing this as im waiting for handbrake to finish another pass trying to find the optimal format/size for xbox, android (nook color, hrdwre lmtd) and iOS.
To say DLNA sucks donkey dick is an understatement. I have an DNS-323 and if the indexing messes up it takes 20 minutes to re-index my MP3s. I stopped using DLNA 2 weeks after I tried it.
I have no problem with CIFs though.
Another tip: instead of letting XBMC store all the artwork/covers/nfo/etc locally, leave it on the NAS. Then any new XBMC connection is ready to go from the start.
This story only has 2 comments right now. One recommending XBMC and another recommending RaspberryPi. Correct on both counts. I don't think you need to reinvent the wheel on this...
Also, "USB hard-drive"? Do you really want to transfer media to a drive? Build a home NAS and stream everything to the media player. The media player should be small and quiet. There is no need for an HDD.
I'm fairly certain that people in the computer/IT world eventually go insane once they hit a critical age. Every once in a while you see bat-shit crazy posts. They usually come from ACs or users with really low UIDs. Someone should do a study on this; with government funding of course.
...incompetents with degrees that didn't have the information they needed to do their fucking jobs from the retard that didn't know how to do the job well enough to _have_a_job_ other than teaching. I mean my god, if you even touch on a topic involving asynchronous logic it takes a solid day for 50% of the dumb-shits with a fresh CS major to even know what it means - with a god damn 4 year study on the subject?!
It sounds like you're agreeing with me. Take all those dumb-shits with degrees and think of how exponentially more frustrating it would be to explain concepts to self-taught programmers. Then it would take a solid week for 2% to understand anything.
I wonder it doctors have to explain basic biochemistry and drug interactions to their dumb-shit peers everyday. I would think not. Probably because the field is much better regulated.
Perhaps the problems isn't that regulation exists; the problem is the regulation isn't adequate.
Many of the other fields are regulated, with high barriers to entry, and that hasn't necessarily improved the quality of service. It has only limited the field to those with enough resources to play in it.
We can agree that from the buyer's perspective, barriers to entry, may not have improved the quality of service. But I think we can also agree they have raised the seller's quality of life.
For far too long the scale as tipped in favor of the buyer when it comes to IT services. I don't think it is considered unrealistic in asking to be treated like any other respectable profession.
both of my roommates (econ and psych) got programming jobs within the last month because they just spent all day every day for six months after they graduated learning as much javascript as they could.
So this is how shitty developers are created? What's that, you're searching through an array instead of using a hash... Or pulling an entire table in SQL instead of optimizing the query. But it works right, who cares?
Why is IT always considered the dumping grounds of careers? This is why the field is so messed-up; there is no regulation.
In your example alone you mention how anyone with a high level psychology degree is protected even from B.Sc graduates. It would be unheard of for someone outside the psychology field with no credentials to just come in and start lowering the bar; on quality of work, overtime, general working conditions and wages. Yet this happens ALL THE TIME in IT.
I see plenty of people with no proper background make simple mistakes they shouldn't. Or worse, argue about something that is completely wrong.
Why can't I start practicing medicine, prescribing drugs, charging for advice on the law, auditing financials, etc, etc. I promise to self-study really hard. I'm not saying someone can't learn these things on their own. But then how do you distinguish someone who has the fundamentals and someone who doesn't: that's what credentials are for. This is the way it is in EVERY OTHER PROFESSION. Until people stop treating IT like a dumping ground and inject some regulation and standards it will always be looked down upon.
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Shared disk does not make I/O happy.
This was addressed during the VMWorld 2011 conference. VMWare is only limited by the amount of hardware you throw at it just like any other x86 platform: Achieving a Million I/O Operations per Second from a Single VMware vSphere 5.0 Host
http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/10211
You can go with IBM/Power or Oracle/SPARC if you have exceptionally large systems, but if you're coming from x86 applications there are minimal CPU, Memory, IO limitations which can't be resolved. The only limitations for x86 virtualization are proprietary cards, clock skew and overhead (not an issue for 95% of cases).
In exchange you get hardware abstraction and portability, availability, the ability to scale much easier, consolidation, ease of deployment and management... etc etc.
If you aren't virtualized you are behind the times; that applies to RISC as well. Just make sure you architect a proper solution to handle the load you intend to run! And when you add more load, expand the infrastructure BEFORE you start having performance issues.
“Dead corpses”; Are there any other kind of corpses?
Have you ever worked in a government office?
Netflix moves a huge amount of video on the web, so I doubt it's that unpopular. Most people seem to be accessing it on their TVs, XBoxes and Roku style set top boxes though.
Netflix FWIK is limited to the US market. /me checking... :
Sorry, Netflix is not available in your country... yet
(I'm in EU)
It is available in Canada as well.
Option 3 is wait a year for the DVD release.
I do this. Is this really impossible for most Slashdotters? A year is nothing, really. I've waited longer than that for a game to come down to the price I care to pay. I also don't have to spend $400 every so often for the latest graphics cards.
Wow, you sound like a real "go-getter". Are you still "waiting" for your first sexual experience with a girl as well?
Who cares? Quebec isn't part of this discussion.
250GB is less than 4 hours of HD content per day, if you do nothing else with the internet at all.
This is almost an argument in favor of bandwidth caps. If there weren't some checks and balance then idiots like you would stream RAW video all day. No one streams RAW video, not even via satellite. If you want porn that realistic rent a hooker.
He's talking about a server, not a sex dungeon.
Meh, better to think ahead. Otherwise you'll end up retro-fitting a sex dungeon after... at greater expense. Just ask the CEO of Broadcom: "Billionaire sought secret lair for sex, drugs, complaint says"
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nicholas18jul18,0,7022711.story
I never graduated from college, but I taught myself PHP and 15 years later, I'm earning in excess of $150,000 in an income-tax-free state, with a very low cost of living.
College is for the unmotivated or those who have to be spoonfed their information.
Looks like you chose the hard life son. I taught myself how to sell and I average between $140-180k/yr just to sit around and spread bullshit.
Except there are more native Americans alive now then when Columbus landed.
It seams our gifts of germ theory, steel etc are worth more, in the long run, then our gifts of smallpox, whiskey, bullets etc.
Is this true? If so, it is an interesting fact. Can you provide a link to the numbers...
A band-aid solution? After that comment, I'll presume that you aren't a depression sufferer of 40 years and multiple failed suicide attempts.
Well, let's be honest. It would only take one successful attempt and you wouldn't have 40 years of depression.
As someone afflicted with bipolar disorder, I got a nice chuckle out of that comment. It's true, suicide is very easy if you don't care about having an open casket or being in pain before you pass. Going through these turbulent states is literally hellish torture; one resorts to suicide as a way to end that.
1) Watch the BBC documentary: How to Kill a Human Being (2008)
a. There are many sources of the same information but they actually did a nice job
2) Go to a welding supply shop and rent a pressurized gas cylinder with argon or nitrogen (inert gas)
3) Go to a welding supply shop and buy a regulator (this will drop the pressure down to a usable level)
You'll feel better just knowing the option exists and you're not trapped here...
Just like computers everything has glitches; including the human body. When it comes to breathing the human body only panics when there is a build up of CO2 NOT when there is a lack of O2. If you can eliminate the CO2 and the O2 (which will convert to CO2) then the body won't panic. Breathing inert gas you'll just get tired and euphoric. Instead of pain you'll actually feel high! Eventually the lack of O2 will cause you to pass out. Everything starts to shut down. Before the brain shuts down you'll start convulsing as a last attempt to clear whatever is blocking the oxygen. When that doesn't work your brain will die.
Remember people: Don't kill yourself with helium... it is a limited resource :)
Posted non-AC so I don't get filtered out.
I see a need for .xxx
If the objective is to keep kids from seeing Pr0n, the better approach is a .kids TLD. This way you can have contractual requirements (and penalties) that the content there must be kid-safe. Of course that opens the debate as to what is "kid safe"... I don't want my kids exposed to evangelical Christian propaganda anymore than the religious retards want their kids to find out about birth control and evolution.
I had unused mod points for weeks... now that I need them they are gone. I would have to agree, this is a better approach.
The Olympics is on a far different scale than just about any other event on Earth, though...
Yes, the latest hypothesis in academic circles is "the Olympics" was the major contributing factor in the extinction of the dinosaurs.
You have over sold the Olympics as an earthly event.
What experience have you had with London 'Transport' System?
FYI
http://bit.ly/GXCpJK (from a googleusercontent.com/VeryLongUrl :( )
The population of London and Bangkok are similar at ~7M. That chart showed up to a 30minute wait in London! I don't ever remember waiting longer than 4 minutes to take transit in Bangkok, and they're considered a developing country.
Perhaps London isn't suitable for the Olympics, or living...
From description...it sounds like the London transportation system may be overwhelmed and they simply may not be able to get replacement staff in the center in a timely manner.
If these guys are "soooo" important then maybe they should get the appropriate "rock star" treatment.
I say fly them in by helicopter!
I'll take proper pay and buy my own food, thanks.
They could have spent money on load testing and/or extra redundancy before hand to reduce the risk of issues. There are some things that can't be solved by throwing money at it, and this isn't one of them. It just so happened that taking advantage of IT staff was the cheapest solution. Sadly, it usually is.
The first solution would of had long lasting positive implications. What are they going to do during the next big event or even a crisis?... call in more IT staff again?
The other level is what this guy wrote... None of the quotes are taken out of context here:
Those quotes looked a little too "made-up" to be believable so I check for myself:
(10g) Before voting for a black politician, scrutinize his/her character much more carefully than you would a white.
Sure, we're all disappointed by the lack of "change" from Obama, but statements like this are impossible to justify.
Turns out the drivers never set any mechanical brake, did not leave the engine stop lever in the stop position (which cuts fuel) and parked on a slight incline or hill.
Now picture this, a butterfly lands on the truck which is the tipping point. Now the weight of the butterfly and truck overcomes the friction of the drive line, begin to roll and crank the engine causing it to fire up and run away.
I jazzed up your story a little bit.
Haha what a douche! He totally had something he enjoyed but was a poor financial choice, and then when the time came to be responsible he got rid of it for a (presumably) more sensible ride! What a loser!
The parent poster is pissed because driving a Mercedes has nothing to do with the actual car and everything to do with flaunting wealth. Unfortunately, the lower the income bracket capable of affording a Mercedes through leasing, etc just diminishes this effect.
The sad part is, most wealthy people are cheap. In the book "The Millionaire Next Door" they analyzed the habits of actual self-made millionaires. One of the items they touched on was houses and cars. The most common car driven by self-made millionaires: FORD!!!
Even with the best of tools and setups, pure streaming is not always an option. My synology NAS barfs on .mp4s sometimes. Flat out, dont use DLNA, it sucks, it has always sucked, it will always suck. Streaming is great, but it still not a universal thing that always works unless you very tightly control the media you feed into the system. You got things like the netatalk devs playing games, Apple messing around, its still complicated. LOVE my synology NAS, but DLNA sucks donkey dick. Im typing this as im waiting for handbrake to finish another pass trying to find the optimal format/size for xbox, android (nook color, hrdwre lmtd) and iOS.
To say DLNA sucks donkey dick is an understatement. I have an DNS-323 and if the indexing messes up it takes 20 minutes to re-index my MP3s. I stopped using DLNA 2 weeks after I tried it.
I have no problem with CIFs though.
Another tip: instead of letting XBMC store all the artwork/covers/nfo/etc locally, leave it on the NAS. Then any new XBMC connection is ready to go from the start.
This story only has 2 comments right now. One recommending XBMC and another recommending RaspberryPi.
Correct on both counts. I don't think you need to reinvent the wheel on this...
Also, "USB hard-drive"? Do you really want to transfer media to a drive? Build a home NAS and stream everything to the media player. The media player should be small and quiet. There is no need for an HDD.
Chickety-china, the chinese chicken.
I'm fairly certain that people in the computer/IT world eventually go insane once they hit a critical age. Every once in a while you see bat-shit crazy posts. They usually come from ACs or users with really low UIDs. Someone should do a study on this; with government funding of course.
...incompetents with degrees that didn't have the information they needed to do their fucking jobs from the retard that didn't know how to do the job well enough to _have_a_job_ other than teaching. I mean my god, if you even touch on a topic involving asynchronous logic it takes a solid day for 50% of the dumb-shits with a fresh CS major to even know what it means - with a god damn 4 year study on the subject?!
It sounds like you're agreeing with me. Take all those dumb-shits with degrees and think of how exponentially more frustrating it would be to explain concepts to self-taught programmers. Then it would take a solid week for 2% to understand anything.
I wonder it doctors have to explain basic biochemistry and drug interactions to their dumb-shit peers everyday. I would think not. Probably because the field is much better regulated.
Perhaps the problems isn't that regulation exists; the problem is the regulation isn't adequate.
Many of the other fields are regulated, with high barriers to entry, and that hasn't necessarily improved the quality of service. It has only limited the field to those with enough resources to play in it.
We can agree that from the buyer's perspective, barriers to entry, may not have improved the quality of service.
But I think we can also agree they have raised the seller's quality of life.
For far too long the scale as tipped in favor of the buyer when it comes to IT services. I don't think it is considered unrealistic in asking to be treated like any other respectable profession.
both of my roommates (econ and psych) got programming jobs within the last month because they just spent all day every day for six months after they graduated learning as much javascript as they could.
So this is how shitty developers are created? What's that, you're searching through an array instead of using a hash... Or pulling an entire table in SQL instead of optimizing the query. But it works right, who cares?
Why is IT always considered the dumping grounds of careers? This is why the field is so messed-up; there is no regulation.
In your example alone you mention how anyone with a high level psychology degree is protected even from B.Sc graduates. It would be unheard of for someone outside the psychology field with no credentials to just come in and start lowering the bar; on quality of work, overtime, general working conditions and wages. Yet this happens ALL THE TIME in IT.
I see plenty of people with no proper background make simple mistakes they shouldn't. Or worse, argue about something that is completely wrong.
Why can't I start practicing medicine, prescribing drugs, charging for advice on the law, auditing financials, etc, etc. I promise to self-study really hard. I'm not saying someone can't learn these things on their own. But then how do you distinguish someone who has the fundamentals and someone who doesn't: that's what credentials are for. This is the way it is in EVERY OTHER PROFESSION. Until people stop treating IT like a dumping ground and inject some regulation and standards it will always be looked down upon.
That one was White (6000-6500K), but they sell a selection of color temperatures from 2,000K up to 20,000K.
Apparently the 20kK lights are ideal for aquarium plants..