Well if we can't prove MyLongNickName is wrong, then clearly the original poster is correct, and it's valid legal advice! Your logic is amazing! Thanks!
never thought I'd see the day where the general consensus was "just rent it!". this is slashdot, how can we not do this better, cheaper, faster and "free" than amazong's ec2?
When you have that much money you start considering your legacy. Look at what Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are doing these days. Ego can be one HELL of a motivator.
By the time its even modestly deployed it'll be 10 years after we need gigabit networks. Start building it now so we're only marginally behind the curve instead of decades.
This is something I've wanted to try but I'm too scared to. What has your failure rate on the MLC drives been like? Is that a big concern for you? Can you provide more details of the setup/configuration, I would be EXTREMELY interested!
Spin them as fast as you want, you still have seek latency on top of the rotational latency. HDD will never touch read latency of SSD. No question that spinning HDDs still have a long life ahead of them, but SSDs will start at the high performance end and work there way down into mainstream.
Just so we have anecdotal evidence from the other side of the fence, I've had SSDs in my last 4 machines and I've never had a single problem, and they're all _insanely_ fast after installing SSDs.
And the only reason that 60x HDD beat 3x SSD is because of the throughput of the host interface, most likely. We're seeing SSDs now in the 550MB/s read range (latest generation, like OCZ Vertex 3). When you put it on a PCie bus we're seeing i think 1.5-2GB/s. But 60x FC disks we're looking at probably 150MB/s/disk, or approaching 10GB/s (80Gb/s) of throughput. So I'd say SSDs had about 1/6th the total throughput, so are SSDs 6x more expensive per gigabyte? Don't forget to include the cost of powering them, additional disk shelves, san switch ports for those shelves, etc.
It works great, I do it all the time. The only thing that sucks is using the guest console, but you're usually only in it long enough to put a network address on something and ssh/rdp into it. But to answer your question, I assume like everyone else who doesn't write linux software, it doesn't represent a large enough base of their users to justify the expenditure.
you dont have to run it locally, we run a windows 7 guest in vmware and load any windows tools we need. it also means i can access it from home when I vpn in if I need to.
People (not you, the person you're responding to) assume it exists to replace a computer, and I think that's just a false premise. It replaces your books, newspaper, portable dvd player, handheld video game devices, etc, all in one piece of equipment. But it can also, in some cases, replace a notebook for a certain percentage of people. Now what percentage is the interesting question, turns out it was a lot more than most people thought.
I've been considering using some free time to play around writing Android apps for fun (I have no ambitions of trying to make any money at it) but I'm really nervous about the time investment with all the uncertainty around java. I have literally zero experience programming in Java, but I've played with C++ a little bit and several other higher level object oriented languages.
Can anyone give me some advice here? Is my time better spent just brushing up on HTML5 and Python?
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If your solution is for people to be smarter then you might as well throw in the towel now.
Don't forget to check out Aerohive, another decent option.
Well if we can't prove MyLongNickName is wrong, then clearly the original poster is correct, and it's valid legal advice! Your logic is amazing! Thanks!
That's what port security is for.
never thought I'd see the day where the general consensus was "just rent it!". this is slashdot, how can we not do this better, cheaper, faster and "free" than amazong's ec2?
When you have that much money you start considering your legacy. Look at what Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are doing these days. Ego can be one HELL of a motivator.
By the time its even modestly deployed it'll be 10 years after we need gigabit networks. Start building it now so we're only marginally behind the curve instead of decades.
they do if you throw them
Or a celestial navigation system like the one used in the sr-71.
This is something I've wanted to try but I'm too scared to. What has your failure rate on the MLC drives been like? Is that a big concern for you? Can you provide more details of the setup/configuration, I would be EXTREMELY interested!
Spin them as fast as you want, you still have seek latency on top of the rotational latency. HDD will never touch read latency of SSD. No question that spinning HDDs still have a long life ahead of them, but SSDs will start at the high performance end and work there way down into mainstream.
Just so we have anecdotal evidence from the other side of the fence, I've had SSDs in my last 4 machines and I've never had a single problem, and they're all _insanely_ fast after installing SSDs.
And the only reason that 60x HDD beat 3x SSD is because of the throughput of the host interface, most likely. We're seeing SSDs now in the 550MB/s read range (latest generation, like OCZ Vertex 3). When you put it on a PCie bus we're seeing i think 1.5-2GB/s. But 60x FC disks we're looking at probably 150MB/s/disk, or approaching 10GB/s (80Gb/s) of throughput. So I'd say SSDs had about 1/6th the total throughput, so are SSDs 6x more expensive per gigabyte? Don't forget to include the cost of powering them, additional disk shelves, san switch ports for those shelves, etc.
Please don't feed the trolls.
I dont have to pay a licensing fee to anyone to build a desk.
Right, and I'll just run it on my free copy of Windows. Of course.
Anonymous usually makes up a reason afterwards.
Therefore by definition it is a complete failure.
Define "complete failure".
It works great, I do it all the time. The only thing that sucks is using the guest console, but you're usually only in it long enough to put a network address on something and ssh/rdp into it. But to answer your question, I assume like everyone else who doesn't write linux software, it doesn't represent a large enough base of their users to justify the expenditure.
you dont have to run it locally, we run a windows 7 guest in vmware and load any windows tools we need. it also means i can access it from home when I vpn in if I need to.
now they can steal all your source code! awesome! i have an ide in "the cloud" too its called ssh+screen+bash+python
So do what everyone else does, run a virtualized copy of Windows 7 on your workstation and install the Virtual Infrastructure Client.
People (not you, the person you're responding to) assume it exists to replace a computer, and I think that's just a false premise. It replaces your books, newspaper, portable dvd player, handheld video game devices, etc, all in one piece of equipment. But it can also, in some cases, replace a notebook for a certain percentage of people. Now what percentage is the interesting question, turns out it was a lot more than most people thought.
I have always believed that tablets were a very small niche application.
You are shockingly wrong.
They can not, and will not replace real computers.
Wrong again.
Theoe apple fanboys really can distort perceptions when they get going.
So after selling a hundreds of millions of iDevices - is everyone in the world beside you an "Apple Fanboy" ?
I've been considering using some free time to play around writing Android apps for fun (I have no ambitions of trying to make any money at it) but I'm really nervous about the time investment with all the uncertainty around java. I have literally zero experience programming in Java, but I've played with C++ a little bit and several other higher level object oriented languages.
Can anyone give me some advice here? Is my time better spent just brushing up on HTML5 and Python?