After that, we took the free software references off our website and business has been great! Now I sell software and make a profit on every sale. For me, this beats the hell out of giving it away. But, I also enjoy a great deal of service revenue due to the constant need to reconfigure, patch, fix, fiddle with, reboot, etc. the commercial software solutions. The customers literally ask me to take their money and I'm happy to do so.
This is why ISVs love MSFT and Linux will not gain traction anywhere but Large Entities.
It's interesting, but wouldn't it be better to just use two of these chips at room temperature, rather than spend time/money/space on cooling the chip to 4.5 Kelvins?
You're missing the point. These are researchers. They are researching how fast the CPU can be pushed.
Personally were I work we have a 3 terrabytes worth of disk space for 2 copies of our major production database and scratch work space. The information is completely refreshed every 2-3 months. No data is kept older then that. In the back we have about 22 thousand tapes for longer term storage and backups for weekly jobs...
What kind of tape drives do you use?
After all, if there's a physical "incident" in the data center you need off-site storage of the data.
(A careless plumber caused a gush of water to dump 10,000 gallons of water into our DC last July, and the point of entry was right above one of our SAN units.)
Interesting list, I notice all the states in the green (best) section of the list do NOT have nuclear weapons.
Sure, they don't need to because they are all under NATO's nuclear umbrella. (Well, except fo A/NZ but they're under the USA/UK umbrella, which is effectively the same as the NATO umbrella.)
This is also why so many European states have spent so little on defense since WW2. Big brother USA is walking next to them.
It says the vulnerable systems are every Windows OS, so it appears to be a client side problem with Internet Exploder, although from the article it is impossible to determine this.
I was wondering this, too. Why aren't users of Firefox/Linux affected?
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Alpha sales are ending in October.
And then there's the aftermarket.
We'll be using Alpha/OpenVMS for another 2 years on most projects, migrating piecemeal to Linux+Oracle over the next 5 years.
And then, no more DCL. [sniff, sniff, blubber]
I wonder if "print to PDF" would successfully redact a document?
It will paste into any text editor, even vi-inside-an-xterm-window.
NSA? Since when does the NSA redact subpoenas for the District Attorney?
especially the Alpha (R.I.P.)
p envmsservers.html
Alpha isn't dead, yet.
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/servers/byos/o
This is why ISVs love MSFT and Linux will not gain traction anywhere but Large Entities.
You're missing the point. These are researchers. They are researching how fast the CPU can be pushed.
How difficult is that to understand?
Yeah right... the truth is probably something like an opinion.
The microkernel is a better design... for certain problem sets.
Ultra-high reliability real-time systems comes first to mind. QNX and Green Hills have shown that microkernels work great there.
Hypervisors are another good fit for microkernels and "millikernels".
OTOH, workstation and server loads run perfectly well on macrokernels.
but we know what you meant...
What kind of tape drives do you use?
After all, if there's a physical "incident" in the data center you need off-site storage of the data.
(A careless plumber caused a gush of water to dump 10,000 gallons of water into our DC last July, and the point of entry was right above one of our SAN units.)
Interesting list, I notice all the states in the green (best) section of the list do NOT have nuclear weapons.
Sure, they don't need to because they are all under NATO's nuclear umbrella. (Well, except fo A/NZ but they're under the USA/UK umbrella, which is effectively the same as the NATO umbrella.)
This is also why so many European states have spent so little on defense since WW2. Big brother USA is walking next to them.
Vaguely.
And that's just WW2.
WW1 had nothing to do with religion.
but since it lasted less than half a century
13 years. Pretty pathetic, if you ask me.
It says the vulnerable systems are every Windows OS, so it appears to be a client side problem with Internet Exploder, although from the article it is impossible to determine this.
I was wondering this, too. Why aren't users of Firefox/Linux affected?
Nonsense.
Solaris is Unix-like and Linux is Unix-like. That doesn't make Solaris any more Linux then it is today: not.
Woosh.
I noticed that you couldn't fill the cargo space more than 60% full with DLTs before the plane was too heavy to take off.
DLTs, eh? You must be a DECcie.
Good point about the weight. The -400 Freighter can carry 112,490kg of cargo, and each HDD weighs 0.6 kg, meaning 187,483 hard drives.
Bummer, that's less than 10% of the cargo space, and "only" 130.96 EiB.
Since the latest SuperDLT tapes have 300GB (279.4GiB) raw capacity, SuperDLT600 tapes would give you much better bandwidth.
Or a 747-400 Freighter full of 750GB HDDs flying at cruising speed.
2,565 HDDs fit in a cubic meter. (http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Produc
The 747-400 Freighter has 777 m^3 of cargo space. (http://www.montereypeninsulaairport.com/747specs
This gives 2565 * 777 = 1,993,005 HDDs.
750GB == 698.5GiB
This gives us a grand total of 1,392,113,992.5 GiB or 1.392 ZiB. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix)
The 747-400 flies at 1,040km/h and San Francisco to Boston is 4,340km.
So that plane carries 1.392 ZiB in ~4.5 hours (16200 seconds) for a total of 85.9PiB per second.
Unless I screwed up the math somewhere...
And by routing all traffic through this proxy in international waters,
:)
GP wrote overseas not over-the-seas!
Sometimes, like at this point, it's the right attitude. They better take action soon, or openbsd will make them look like a joke.
Oh, puh-leez. You think Red Hat & SuSE are going to drop Linux and pick up OpenBSD, just because OBSD has better wireless support?
Drivers written with docs under a NDA are the open source equivalent of a blob.
But the GPL source is still there, and that counts for a hell of a lot.
Iran was able to field 10's of candidates, some who were apparently liberal.
"Apparently" is the key word. "Hurt the Jews, but don't kill them" may be radically liberal in Iran, but isn't "liberal" by any western definition.
Sure they are open: Mullahs decide who gets to run for office.
Last time I checked, neither Pat Robertson nor Jerry Falwell got to decide whether Ted Kennedy was allowed to run for the Senate.
Less money, but more family time is a value choice that my wife and I decided on before we got engaged.
It is at LEAST as believeable as someone hijacking a plane with nothing but an eyelash curler.
I want documentation of that before even beginning to believe that.