Nobody in the corporate world actually cares about package managers. What really matters is what's supported by the important applications that they use - backup, monitoring (tivoli, openview etc.), LVM software like Veritas VXVM, agents for EMC ECC and not least of all Oracle. All of these apps can probably be shoehorned into working on most or all distributions, but the vendor will just look at you like you're a retard when you ask for support.
Today, how many distros of Linux can claim a fully supported combo of Emulex HBAs, EMC PowerPath multipathing drivers and EMC ECC agents, Oracle, Tivoli monitoring and Netbackup Oracle agents? RHEL is probably the only one, possibly SLES if you're lucky.
And no matter how good a forum is, support from the big apps/vendors is what chooses new operating in many enterprises (we were denied FreeBSD on that account, not that we listened - who cares about tivoli anyway when you have nagios? Just don't expect the same leniency from all enterprises.)
Memory caching at the disk level seems like a much more promising technology Except this is disk caching and needs to be solid state to be terribly useful. True, memory caching is good enough for reads, but to really push write caching you need a solid state cache so your file system doesn't die when the power gets knocked out by lightning. If you put write cache in memory (as many current hard drives can be told to do), you'd better be absolutely sure that they don't get turned off by accident.
Some storage systems from the big guys already use stricly controlled volatile write cache on the drives, but provide power through internal redundant batterybacked power supplies, at least long enough to destage the internal drive cache and either destage the main cache (which may go as high as half a terabyte in some systems) to disk before shutting down or just holding the main cache on battery until the power comes back on. Either way works, but destaging everything to disk and doing a clean shutdown makes it so much easier to power back on afterwards. EMC Symmetrix keeps the drives spinning and cleans up, but EMC Clariion and (IIRC) all HDS (thunder, lightning and HP XP-series) and HP's homemade all spin down the drives and take much longer to clean up and check integrity before coming back online.
Solid state write cache also makes it possible to do fancy tricks when writing to RAID5 arrays, by combining multiple writes into fewer operations. Usually, a RAID5 write consists of reading the data block and the parity block, calculating the new parity, writing data and parity. If you're writing a full stripe from write cache, you just have to write the data and the calculated parity once (N+1 IOPS instead of N*4). Vista will most likely *not* do this.
Sorry folks, I really want that Bravia 46" LCD. At least that'll support their legitimitely good hardware business, not horribly evil Sony Entertainment...
The only cost the pirate needs to worry about is the cost of blank media (cents/copy) [...] Well, they have them pressed in a proper factory using regular CD/DVD fabs. This makes it even cheaper than typical blank media.
What are you going on about? I simply feel that the quality of the currently offered music is good enough and don't want to pay extra to get the non-DRM files. Bundling these two features is only an attempt to gouge us for more cash.
Of course, this is probably just an excuse for them to be able to tell everybody that noone really wants drm-free music, since they'll still sell more DRM-infected than DRM-free songs...
Apple has announced that iTunes will make individual AAC format tracks available from EMI artists at twice the sound quality of existing downloads, with their DRM removed, at a price of $1.29/1.29/£0.99. iTunes will continue to offer consumers the ability to pay $0.99/0.99/£0.79 for standard sound quality tracks with DRM still applied. Source: http://www.emigroup.com/Press/2007/press18.htm
Ah, i knew there was a catch. Mr. Jobs, i'd like to save those 30 cents and get the non-upgraded quality without DRM, thank you.
APC makes a Fuel Cell generator for the data center. 10 kW in a medium-sized suitcase, if i understand correctly. It'll eat a six foot tall can of hydrogen an hour, though, so you'll need a pretty big tank.
I find this line humourous. In one sentance they simultaneously assume that their encryption will not be broken or circumvented while at the same time blaming piracy on the mailman! If they're a little clever, they'll give you a vpn-enabled black box that you connect to the intarweb and you'll have no real access to the content without breaking the box, costing you many thousands of dollars.
On a different subject, why are they even worrying about camcorder piracy in theatres? Who in their right mind would watch such crap anyway?
We're migrating about 250 TB (no, not GB) from Legato^WEMC Networker to NetBackup because some bean counter made a better deal with Symantec and have so far only found drawbacks to that move. Worst of all, Symantec is requiring us to install full (including X, open office and every single piece of software known to man) Solaris packages if we want support from them...
Hopefully, this might put an end to the silly idea that occasionally rears its head about sending supertankers into the Great Lakes to take on lake water to ship back to Asia. I never saw how something like this would be economically feasible. They're already sending supertankers to the UAE to pick up loads of desalinated water that they can then sell cheaper than tap water in Europe. Apparently, cheap power is all you need.
From what I can tell, there's three camps of consumers when it comes to DRM:
1. The camp that can't stand it, won't buy it, and goes without the content.
2. The camp that doesn't like it all that much, but buys it anyway.
3. The camp that won't pay no matter what you do, and pirates the content instead. You forgot:
4. The camp who doesn't give a crap, as long as it looks good on their new TV.
5. The camp who doesn't give a crap, as long as my 'illegal' player will kill the protection and play it anyway.
Personally, i'm a 5. Consequently, i haven't bought any of the HD medias yet.
Actually, 2.5" drives is for all high-performance servers to. Within the next few years, expect to see most (if not all) server hardware move to 2.5" SAS drives. They're cheaper to make, take up less space, use less power and are faster... What's not to like? EMC has already voiced their intention to make 2.5" drive shelves/systems.
SATA 3.5" drives will of course make up the bulk of archival data storage. Modular storage systems will let you mix and match 15-drive 3U SATA and 10-drive 1U SAS shelves.
I watched the Cars DVD on a 720p plasma screen and was absolutely astonished by the quality. It's going to take a lot to make a noticable difference from that...
"Thousands of pounds"... How much do you think it costs to build the rolodex-style board? I'm willing to bet that you can buy many plasmas for the same price.
Other than that, i would probably pick a nice consumer item like a 30" Dell LCD for the application, if i were to make something similar now.
This is the exact same thing that was put into service by most major ISPs in Denmark in late 2005. The list is maintained by Red Barnet ("Save the child") and the danish police.
It is now being "abused" by our version of the RIAA to block access to allofmp3.com.
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Nobody in the corporate world actually cares about package managers. What really matters is what's supported by the important applications that they use - backup, monitoring (tivoli, openview etc.), LVM software like Veritas VXVM, agents for EMC ECC and not least of all Oracle. All of these apps can probably be shoehorned into working on most or all distributions, but the vendor will just look at you like you're a retard when you ask for support.
Today, how many distros of Linux can claim a fully supported combo of Emulex HBAs, EMC PowerPath multipathing drivers and EMC ECC agents, Oracle, Tivoli monitoring and Netbackup Oracle agents? RHEL is probably the only one, possibly SLES if you're lucky.
And no matter how good a forum is, support from the big apps/vendors is what chooses new operating in many enterprises (we were denied FreeBSD on that account, not that we listened - who cares about tivoli anyway when you have nagios? Just don't expect the same leniency from all enterprises.)
Ok, i'll make sure to get a HD player by 2018 when DVDs should be scheduled to die ;)
Have they even phased out VHS yet?
Some storage systems from the big guys already use stricly controlled volatile write cache on the drives, but provide power through internal redundant batterybacked power supplies, at least long enough to destage the internal drive cache and either destage the main cache (which may go as high as half a terabyte in some systems) to disk before shutting down or just holding the main cache on battery until the power comes back on. Either way works, but destaging everything to disk and doing a clean shutdown makes it so much easier to power back on afterwards. EMC Symmetrix keeps the drives spinning and cleans up, but EMC Clariion and (IIRC) all HDS (thunder, lightning and HP XP-series) and HP's homemade all spin down the drives and take much longer to clean up and check integrity before coming back online.
Solid state write cache also makes it possible to do fancy tricks when writing to RAID5 arrays, by combining multiple writes into fewer operations. Usually, a RAID5 write consists of reading the data block and the parity block, calculating the new parity, writing data and parity. If you're writing a full stripe from write cache, you just have to write the data and the calculated parity once (N+1 IOPS instead of N*4). Vista will most likely *not* do this.
Dell is doing the exact same thing as IE already does, except they point it at their site instead of msn.com.
& q=slashdoz.org which doesn't have ads but still gives MS info about my browsing habits.
A quick test on my danish IE sent me to http://sea.search.msn.dk/dnserror.aspx?FORM=DNSAS
/cry
Sorry folks, I really want that Bravia 46" LCD. At least that'll support their legitimitely good hardware business, not horribly evil Sony Entertainment...
What are you going on about? I simply feel that the quality of the currently offered music is good enough and don't want to pay extra to get the non-DRM files. Bundling these two features is only an attempt to gouge us for more cash.
Of course, this is probably just an excuse for them to be able to tell everybody that noone really wants drm-free music, since they'll still sell more DRM-infected than DRM-free songs...
Ah, i knew there was a catch. Mr. Jobs, i'd like to save those 30 cents and get the non-upgraded quality without DRM, thank you.
APC makes a Fuel Cell generator for the data center. 10 kW in a medium-sized suitcase, if i understand correctly. It'll eat a six foot tall can of hydrogen an hour, though, so you'll need a pretty big tank.
On a different subject, why are they even worrying about camcorder piracy in theatres? Who in their right mind would watch such crap anyway?
We're migrating about 250 TB (no, not GB) from Legato^WEMC Networker to NetBackup because some bean counter made a better deal with Symantec and have so far only found drawbacks to that move. Worst of all, Symantec is requiring us to install full (including X, open office and every single piece of software known to man) Solaris packages if we want support from them...
I'd prefer someone named Charles. Blu-Ray Charles!
Too bad Bang & Olufsen has done it for a few years now.
p hone-from-samsung-and-bang-olufsen-155610.php
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/serene-cell
You may now rip that patent to pieces.
You're a Barbie girl in a Barbie world?
1. The camp that can't stand it, won't buy it, and goes without the content.
2. The camp that doesn't like it all that much, but buys it anyway.
3. The camp that won't pay no matter what you do, and pirates the content instead. You forgot:
4. The camp who doesn't give a crap, as long as it looks good on their new TV.
5. The camp who doesn't give a crap, as long as my 'illegal' player will kill the protection and play it anyway.
Personally, i'm a 5. Consequently, i haven't bought any of the HD medias yet.
There were 3 hour SP tapes - they could've fit three or four episodes on each without losing quality.
Maybe people just didn't want to have to wind the tape back and forth to find so many eps on one tape?
Blu-Ray actually uses BD+ as well.
Actually, 2.5" drives is for all high-performance servers to. Within the next few years, expect to see most (if not all) server hardware move to 2.5" SAS drives. They're cheaper to make, take up less space, use less power and are faster... What's not to like? EMC has already voiced their intention to make 2.5" drive shelves/systems.
SATA 3.5" drives will of course make up the bulk of archival data storage. Modular storage systems will let you mix and match 15-drive 3U SATA and 10-drive 1U SAS shelves.
If your usage drops below 20 GB a day on a swedish internet connection, i think they come knocking on the door to check if you're still alive...
The Y2K superbike melts the asphalt behind it if it stands still too long and makes a lot of noise. I doubt that'd be acceptable in the Prius v2.0.
I watched the Cars DVD on a 720p plasma screen and was absolutely astonished by the quality. It's going to take a lot to make a noticable difference from that...
"Thousands of pounds"... How much do you think it costs to build the rolodex-style board? I'm willing to bet that you can buy many plasmas for the same price.
Other than that, i would probably pick a nice consumer item like a 30" Dell LCD for the application, if i were to make something similar now.
This is the exact same thing that was put into service by most major ISPs in Denmark in late 2005. The list is maintained by Red Barnet ("Save the child") and the danish police.
It is now being "abused" by our version of the RIAA to block access to allofmp3.com.