Fair warning: the "reviews" represent 5-minute excursions into the programs.
If you're planning to do any serious work, you'll find yourself recapitulating LWN's research.
That said, the reviews do make for a good list of candidate programs to try.
true remote storage transparency
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Ethernet at 10 Gbps
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· Score: 2, Informative
When your network pushes over 1 gigabyte/sec, diskless workstations become a much more interesting possibility.
Typical desktops of the past few years see roughly ~25 megabyte/sec sustained disk throughput (more for SCSI and more recent ATA models). A switched 1 gigabyte/sec network could easily and transparently support 25 remote drives virtually indistinguishable from local storage.
Steer clear of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. You're better off with a used copy of "Pay Zero Taxes" and the advice of a small business owner you know personally.
Purchasing these books only turns Robert Kiyosaki into a richer dad (because velcro wallets could not).
Why is a new release of a programming book, designed to render its predecessor obsolete, greeted with such enthusiasm here while a new release of Windows or Office, also designed to render its predecessor obsolete is greeted with derision?
You're not comparing apples to apples.
If your comparison were to be fair, Code Complete would be in its 13th edition with each new edition bringing a rearrangement of chapters for no apparent reason, 10 new pages of content at most, and entire sections devoted to tools nobody can use or figure out without purchasing the supplemental Inside Code Complete, 13th edition and subscribing to the CCDN (Code Complete Developers' Network).
You don't buy 5-year warranty drives because they won't fail (they will). You buy them because WD is REALLY good about sending advance replacements. Seagate is less good (they want the bad drive in their hands first).
Get yourself 4 or more of these drives and set up a RAID5 array with a hot spare. If a drive fails, you get a new one from WD, swap it for the old one, send the old one back in the same mailer box, and continue, with no downtime - for five years! It's really the best deal going to my knowledge.
You have a cheap DVD-player with a tiny buffer apparently.
The DVD player is only part of it.
Even with a decent-sized buffer (by consumer player standards), the DVD itself has to be mastered in such a way as to facilitate a quick layer change. For example, using opposite-track rather than parallel-track encoding, and switching to a lower bit rate just before the layer change so the read-ahead buffer can have a chance to be filled with more post-layer change frames.
On PC DVD players, this is less of an issue because the drives are fast enough (and RAM plentiful enough) that you can afford to read far enough ahead that you eliminate any chance of layer change glitch, but there are few consumer players with drive speed and buffers that rival what even a low-end PC can accomplish.
I find it hard to believe that someone familiar with the algorithms could not detect their characteristic signatures and thus determine that one of the sample.WAV files was actually encoded with, say, Ogg vs LAME.
That is a great idea in theory, however there is much debate on how psychoacoustics work, i.e. what information really "needs" to be there in music in order to be perceived.
For example, conventional wisdom says that the human ear cannot detect sounds above roughly 20kHz, yet there is at least some anecdotal evidence that higher order harmonics shape what we hear.
If "normal" human auditory capacity was a completely decoded topic, there wouldn't be nearly as much a need for different approaches to music compression (it would be a much simpler problem with fewer possible solutions)
I worry that a number of people are going to only read the summary listed above and not realize that this if for their "Adsense" program which allows you to place Google ads on your website. Nothing has been said about putting image ads on Google's own search engine site.
This is likely planned for Q2 2005. They need time to IPO and for the insider lock-out to expire, then they'll drop that bombshell.
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If you're planning to do any serious work, you'll find yourself recapitulating LWN's research.
That said, the reviews do make for a good list of candidate programs to try.
Typical desktops of the past few years see roughly ~25 megabyte/sec sustained disk throughput (more for SCSI and more recent ATA models). A switched 1 gigabyte/sec network could easily and transparently support 25 remote drives virtually indistinguishable from local storage.
Purchasing these books only turns Robert Kiyosaki into a richer dad (because velcro wallets could not).
If your comparison were to be fair, Code Complete would be in its 13th edition with each new edition bringing a rearrangement of chapters for no apparent reason, 10 new pages of content at most, and entire sections devoted to tools nobody can use or figure out without purchasing the supplemental Inside Code Complete, 13th edition and subscribing to the CCDN (Code Complete Developers' Network).
Doc I just felt I should tell you that I am watching Discovery Channel right now and there is a macaque on.
I'd like to hear some recommendations for albums to check out.
The plan is to install these on the other side of the "security fence" so Palestinians can watch as Israelis make "n'ya n'ya" faces at them.
Get yourself 4 or more of these drives and set up a RAID5 array with a hot spare. If a drive fails, you get a new one from WD, swap it for the old one, send the old one back in the same mailer box, and continue, with no downtime - for five years! It's really the best deal going to my knowledge.
Do they have cable modems in space?
"And Leon's getting laaaaaaaaarger!!!"
Oh come on we all know he's going to blow it on booze and whores.
There is a substantial functional difference between not enabling adware filtering by default, and outright preventing adware filtering.
Both are lame, but at least the former gives a nod to the observant.
You think they want to drive the price down before the IPO?
On an open test bench, at room temperature, a Prescott core P4 runs at least 70 degrees C under load using the Intel-bundled heatsink/fan.
Everyone has a threshold above which they should not push themselves with impact exercises such as running, for the reasons you mentioned.
The important thing is to listen to your body. If you are in pain when you are running, it means take a break, not try harder.
If you follow this advice you'll do fine.
Even with a decent-sized buffer (by consumer player standards), the DVD itself has to be mastered in such a way as to facilitate a quick layer change. For example, using opposite-track rather than parallel-track encoding, and switching to a lower bit rate just before the layer change so the read-ahead buffer can have a chance to be filled with more post-layer change frames.
On PC DVD players, this is less of an issue because the drives are fast enough (and RAM plentiful enough) that you can afford to read far enough ahead that you eliminate any chance of layer change glitch, but there are few consumer players with drive speed and buffers that rival what even a low-end PC can accomplish.
nicely improved
don't overanalyze unusual old scriptures,
verily always void of valuable meaning
I find it hard to believe that someone familiar with the algorithms could not detect their characteristic signatures and thus determine that one of the sample .WAV files was actually encoded with, say, Ogg vs LAME.
For example, conventional wisdom says that the human ear cannot detect sounds above roughly 20kHz, yet there is at least some anecdotal evidence that higher order harmonics shape what we hear.
If "normal" human auditory capacity was a completely decoded topic, there wouldn't be nearly as much a need for different approaches to music compression (it would be a much simpler problem with fewer possible solutions)
Good point - especially if it's one of those EPS12V jobs with extra 24" power cables. You can really get those babies swinging.