Haven't these problems already been solved by large-scale cloud providers? Sure, hurricanes take out datacenters for diesel, but Google runs racks with dead nodes until it hit's a percentage where it makes sense to 'roll the truck' so-to-speak and get a tech onsite to repair the racks.
Please realize that Apple has to defend it's trademark. This means that Apple will ALWAYS file claims against anything resembling an apple, the word apple, the color red- anything that could even be slightly related to an apple.
Want to know why? Because if someone DOES actually create a trademark that's very close to theirs, and in court it's shown that they didn't respond to any other trademarks, they could lose the trademark altogether.
Straight from Wikipedia: "Unlike patents and copyrights, which in theory are granted for one-off fixed terms, trademarks remain valid as long as the owner actively uses and defends them and maintains their registrations with the applicable jurisdiction's trademarks office."
So, this is really meaningless. It will get thrown out. But Apple has to defend their trademark ALL the time, or else when it's truly threatened in court, they could lose it.
Software RAID just as fast? Please. Next you're going to tell me a software firewall is just as good as a hardware firewall, right?
What's rather humorous about this statement is that ultimately, all firewalls are implemented in software. What is firmware, again?
There are three different implementations of RAID on PC class hardware- software RAID, fake-hardware RAID, and hardware RAID. When I said that software is just as fast, I'm comparing it to fake RAID cards, cost under ~$200 US. These cards rely on drivers to get their work done, and rely on the CPU just as much as software RAID. The only benefit they bring to the table is the ability to have the RAID exist in a pre-OS environment- you can boot off the RAID no matter what OS.
Ultimately, the disadvantages (extra cost, no speed increase, buggy drivers, et al.), do not weigh out over the advantages (dedicated BIOS).
Both have their applications, but let's be honest - It makes a hell of a lot of sense to add a layer of abstraction between your operating system and your disk storage. Leave the details of arranging all your 0's and 1's, stripe sizes, etc. to your RAID controller, while your operating system sees only what it needs to - a simple logical drive. (AKA virtual disk, logical volume, etc., depending on the vendor.) Add a battery to your RAID controller, and you aren't relying on your OS to keep the logical disk intact should your system be shut down uncleanly.
The latest versions of software RAID support a snapshotting feature which makes it impossible for the array to become out-of-sync. Batteries are only required when you are caching information from the disk onto the controller for performance reasons. At this point, you're talking about a REAL hardware RAID card, which is most likely doing parity calculations on a dedicated processor. Cost is now over $200 for a *GOOD* 4-port card.
There is a cost-benefit curve that comes into play here also. But as a previous poster mentioned, the most cost-effective way of getting the most storage for the cheapest price is to get two cheap 500GB drives attached to a hardware RAID card, and you've covered the most likely failure scenarios. Total cost is less than $1000.
I bought an xSeries IBM chassis (two, infact), hacked out the SCSI backplane, and added 5 250GB drives and 2 SATA controllers. Total cost: $800. I still have room for 5 more drives. I also have two processors and 3GB of RAM. Cost-effective? You betcha. Hardware RAID? Nope. And, it's designed to handle the heat.
There's no need to get fancy here - I cant help laugh when I hear horror stories from my "hardcore" computer gaming friends who have highly tedious and unnecessary media setups - RAID-10 with hot spares, 5 fans to manage all the heat, and the bi-monthly critical meltdowns associated with it - all to store movies and porn. Overkill? You tell me.
Sounds like they may not have thought through their implementation. Cost-effective means maximizing space, maximizing life, and maximizing versatility. Cost isn't just initial outlay- it's the life of the implementation. I'll take my 4TB array for $1700US over anything custom. Did I mention that my quad-Xeon 700MHZ can stream 1080p?
Sure, it's expensive in electricity. But over the life of the server, I'll get more use out of it than just storage. I'll have excess processor capacity when writes are not occuring. And I have a vendor independent implementation that can be moved to any system, any time, for any purpose, including data recovery. Using fake RAID or hardware RAID will just encumber that, and add unnecessary cost.
Hardware RAID cards, including expensive ASIC-based cards: Don't do it. Unless you think you're actually going to be serving up a database, you only have to think about yourself. Fortunately, you will not be writing to the array as much as you will be READING. This means that you can take the CPU hit, especially if you will have a dedicated server, on the parity calculations during writes. RAID5 reads are JUST AS FAST as RAID0, if not slightly slower.
RAID6: It's nice, but it takes an additional disk away for storage. This is your home server. If you have one drive fail, down the thing until the replacement comes back. You can live without your porn, right? Well, if not, then go RAID6.
It'll take some reading and combining from multiple sources. I've been doing it for a few years, combined with a handful of upgrades, plus setting it up as an iSCSI backend- all of that lent to the pool of greyness in my head.
I recommend Gentoo to do this with. Other distro's dont include the latest mdadmtools required to manage and migrate RAID5 md devices. Ubuntu is catching up, I believe.
Go RAID5. RAID5 = Hardware failure resilience + maximum storage. Go Linux. The Linux MD driver allows you to control how you RAID- over disks or partitions. there are advantages. We will discuss.
First, don't get suckered into a hardware RAID card. They are *NOT* really a hardware card- they rely on a software driver to do calculations on your CPU for RAID5 ops. Software RAID is JUST AS FAST. Unless you blow the big bucks for a card with a real dedicated ASIC to do the work, you're fooling yourself.
Now, you want to go Linux. By using the md driver, you can stripe over PARTITIONS, and not the whole disk. By doing this, you can get MAXIMUM storage capacity out of your disks, even in upgrades.
Say you have 3 500GB disks. You create a 1TB array, with 1 disk as parity. On each of these disks is a single partition, each the size of the drive. Now, you want to upgrade? SURE! Add 3 more disks. Create three partitions of EQUAL size to the original, and tack it on to the first array. Then, with the additional space, you can create a WHOLE NEW array, and now you have two seperate RAID5's, each redundant, each fully using your space.
Another advantage with MD is flexibility. In my setup, I use 5x 250 drives right now. On each is a 245GB partition, and a 5GB partition. I use RAID1 over the 5's, and RAID5 over the rest. Why? Because each drive is now independently bootable! Plus, I can run the array off two disks, upgrade the file system on the other 3, and if there's a problem, I can always revert to the original file system. So much flexibility, it's not even funny.
I recommend using plain old SATA, in conjunction with SATA drives, and just stick with the MD device. For increased performance, watch your motherboard selection. You could grab a server oriented board, with dedicated PCI buses for slots, and split the drives over the cards. Or, you can get a multiproc rig going, and assign processor affinity to the IRQ's- one card calls proc 1 for interrupts, the other card calls proc 0. If you have multiple buses, then performance is maximized.
The last benefit? Portability. If your hardware suffers a failure, then your software RAID can move to any other system. Using ANY hardware RAID setup will require you to use the EXACT same card no matter what to recover data. Even the firmware will have to stay stable or else your data can be kissed goodbye.
Yes- precisely. This is an education issue, which cannot necessarily be blamed on BoA. Instead, they need to now recognize that their users are not fully understanding this technology, and assist them in understanding phishing. It's not just a consumer issue- it removes money from legitimate hands and from a functioning economy. (heh.).
Yes! Come on people! Keep right except to pass- is this not hard to follow?
Speeding is in of itself safe. Statisically, as speeds increased on USA highways, ACCIDENTS WENT DOWN. Now, fatalities went up, of course (faster = death in accident), but accidents as a whole went down.
In fact, tailgating IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM ON THE ROADS. Think of it this way- roads and cars are really just fluid systems. You have moving components in confined spaces. Tailgating increases the density of the road to the point where it can no longer maintain the same fluid rate- the road isn't getting bigger, and you're not getting there faster. Since the density of a road is a constant, something has to give way- you have more cars going slower, or less cars going faster.
Tailgating CAUSES stop and go traffic. If you werent so fucking close to the guy ahead of you, you wouldnt have to STOP completely and go again in traffic. If you had more room in front of you, then OTHER people could change lanes to adjust and maintain the fluid flow of the road!!!!
Try this trick next time you're in stop and go traffic: GO SLOW. Serious. determine the average speed, and let a huge space form in front of you in your lane. When assholes switch to your lane, you laugh- they are just still stuck in stop and go. But you.. with this big cushion... you EVEN OUT THE FLOW of traffic and never touch your brakes.
Cops do this alot in major areas- they'll form a line blocking all lanes, force everyone to flow evenly, and work out the 'knot' in the traffic so to speak.
So please- just dont tailgate. YOU DONT GET THERE FASTER, you just die quicker.
Hardware RAID solutions require exact hardware in case of RAID controller failure. You'll need the card replaced before you can get back at your data.
Use Linux md() instead. The Linux Software RAID, combined with EVMS is a fantastic multiplatform solution. Software RAID is negligably slower, and if you get some old cheap hardware, it doesn't matter. I bought a huge old IBM xSeries 4-way server and it's got 2 procs- slap IRQ affinity for the cards to one processor, and you have yourself a dedicated RAID processor.
Plus, you can recover the RAID on any linux system. Hardware agnostic.
Best part of all? It's cheap. I use regular off-the-shelf SATA cards strapped to the drives.
You know, I wish people would get this right. The Itanium was not *started* by Intel. HP created and began the work on the ISA as a successor to the PA-RISC line, and when they realized that they didn't have the design resources or manufacturing capacity to build the chip, they partenered with Intel. Since then, HP has been the big partner with Intel- first to get silicon, first to market. HP always intended to go forward with the VLIW setup, and depreciate PA-RISC. The Compaq merger just gave them another architecture, and they decided to kill it- Alpha (RIP).
So, what's absolutely hilarious is that HP isn't the one getting fucked, or making the wrong decision- they actually pawned the risk onto Intel, and now Intel is the one in trouble if this arch doesn't fly.
Yes, the poster should have used 'multithread' instead of the Intel branded and copyrighted term, 'HyperThread' which is in regards to their proprietary virtual processor technology on Pentium 4's and Xeons.
Let's not let Intel get the next 'Kleenex'ing of the English language, shall we?
So.. if no real time travelers show up to the convention, could that possibly infer that the knowledge of the convention was lost whenever the end of humanity came?
That's it! Proof that we will be extinct... before we invent time travel! drats.
"...we've seen this before on machines like the HP nw8000.."
Picking on the NW8000 is poor. At least with the HP commercial notebooks, you can CHOOSE either the Intel or the Atheros MiniPCI cards.
To set the record straight, Centrino is a brand that's applied when a notebook has three things: 1. Intel Pentium-M 2. Intel Chipset 3. Intel PRO2100/2200 Wireless
That's Centrino. The NW8000 uses a MiniPCI slot, just like a lot of other notebooks. HP offers the option to go with the Intel cards, or with Atheros a/b/g cards (the HP W400 and W500 cards). When you order the W500 instead of the Intel card, you no longer get a Centrino sticker on your notebook. That's it. It's still the same chipset and processor.
Honestly, this hub-bub is all silly. Get yourself a notebook with a MiniPCI slot, and get your own card. Want to tell Intel that they should open their drivers? Don't buy their shit. That'll tell 'em.
Doesn't the Kyoto Treaty have a clear bias for third world countries with growing industrialization and economies, ie China?
If I remember right, I thought that under the treaty, we (US) would be restricted to all hell, and China would be able to double or triple it's greenhouse gas emissions output.
When they say '80 MB per scene', they mean when you stop and look at a single frame render. A whole level will have hundreds of megs of textures to load- all while you are still trying to play the game at 60 FPS. Low-overhead or processing-offloaded storage controllers are a boon for this sort of situation- it's where SATA will shine.
The faster you can load the data, the less opportunity it has to slow down the rest of the I/O in the system.
Gates is making this statement so he can sound aligned with the content creation industry. The RIAA and MPAA would want nothing more than to be able to sell you a temporally restricted product that you will have to reconsume every time you want to experience it.
Realize this: when you buy a DVD, you now have a mostly permanent edition of that movie you love and enjoy. You can watch it when you wish, as you wish, without having to pay any more money to these companies. In their mind, this is competition. You now have a reason not to purchase any more media from them- instead of creating more content, they are simply trying to scrounge more money out of us. See: Video on Demand, EZ-DVD, DIVX.
Gates, being the head of a company that's involved in the technology of distribution, wants his product to come on top. How better a way to do this then to align yourself with the view of the media industry.
Look. Video on Demand? That's nice. However, if people don't have a physical product, then it better be an unlimited consumption mechanism, based on a subscription. If not, people will not accept it. DIVX was not accepted. EZ-DVD will not BE accepted.
It's simple: property is a right all humans feel they are entitled to. The commons is not enough for humans to feel ownership. Small communes succeed because they are simply sharing personal property amongst a small number of individuals. Marxism failed because it's an attempt at sharing property with too many. End of digression. (=
DVD's are a blazing success because they are the pinnacle of movie efficiency at this time: they store the most features, in the least amount of space, for the least amount of money per use. Media servers, hard disk arrays filled with AVI's, or Video-On-Demand- these are all inferior.
So, Gates is doing the right thing for his company by coming out and saying this. He's just trying to look good, and thus, make the technology that Microsoft markets, look good.
I drive a '99 Cadillac Seville STS. I track all my gas expenses and mileage on a per mile basis. Incredibly enough, I'm pretty much on the sticker, which is 17/26hwy, and my average overall so far is 25.90mpg.
Luckily, I work nights, so I get to bypass all the traffic patterns that normally cause shitty mpg. Also, here in Colorado, the roads are all N-S or E-W, and usually 40mph, so that's right there at the low end of my 3rd gear (usually breaking 1500RPM at that point.).
Basically, it's all about how you drive, when you drive, and where you live. Hills, turns, lights, and other people affect how you drive just as much as how fast you brake and accellerate. Keep things nice and slow, and you'll do fine. Don't speed when your approaching a red light- what's the point, you're just gonna stop! Don't take-off on green lights- you're just burning extra gas. The only place I take off is on interstate onramps, and only cause it's fun AND good for my engine. But pretty much, try to drive before or after rush hour. Drive as much as possible at night if you can- being able to drive city speeds without the stop and go puts most cars right in their most efficient output ranges.
By the way, I can only recommend FULLY a program called Handy Car. I use it to track all my fill ups and mileage. Since it's on my 3650, I have it with me everywhere, even on road trips.
"It solves problems people don't have and it doesn't solve the hard problems we do have," said Mike O'Dell, an early v6 advocate who now believes the Internet has far greater problems -- like how to more efficiently route data traffic. "
That makes no sense. Y2K was a problem we didn't have yet. It was inevitible, and we fixed it. This is the same thing. If we don't get to this issue soon, the Internet will be crowded, and our problems will be even harder to fix than they are now.
What I don't understand is why noone has come up with an intelligent way to get IPv6 implemented. I'd have every router company have IPv4 and v6 on every router they sell. Have ISO or IEEE come up with a standard for a 'magic packet to switch to IPv6'. Have all PC's have IPv6 ready to go. All routers have to be upgraded in the next five years. Offer discounts for doing it. Then, at a designated date and time, send that magic packet that everyone conforms to, and instantly, the whole freaking internet is running IPv6 instead of v4. Then start working on addresses and getting things back in order, since it's so easy to switch addresses with v6. Sounds good to me.
id software, the primary force behind supporting OpenGL for gaming, has used DirectX in all of it's games since WinQuake.
IIRC, DirectSound and DirectInput were used in WinQuake, Quake II, and Quake III. Any games based off of the Quake engine with the WinQuake client are the same.
OpenGL was used by Carmack back in the day because that was the Right Thing (tm). When GLQuake was released, it was released as a testbed, a "we can do it and make this look good if you will, and we can do it faster than using DirectX for anything". Of course, then 3dfx released their half-assed OpenGL MCD for the Voodoo and GLQuake, and the rest is history.
OpenGL and DirectX are like talking about apples and fruit baskets. OpenGL is a damn great API, but DirectX covers all the basics, so programmers don't have to. Hell, last I checked, Microsoft actually licensed Monolith's LithTech engine (or a predecessor) and threw that into DirectX! All you had to do was make content, and DirectX took care of all the hard stuff. Silly, huh?
Anyone else see something analogous to the trust's and monopolies of the late 1800's and early 1900's going on here?
From what I have been reading, and what I have
seen, all these crytographic and control mechanisms are the same thing as trusts - they both combine a mechanism for control and force the masses to submit to it without choice! No matter where you look, alas, your monitor must hook up to a VIDLOCK(tm) compatible video card. And, not just that, but all monitors are VIDLOCK(tm). And, even better, all video cards are VIDLOCK(tm) embracing.
What happened to consumer choice? How can the people choose NOT TO PURCHASE THIS STANDARD, when there are no other choices in the market? When the market is supposed to be based on choice, and people vote with their dollar, how can you have a fair election with only one choice on the ballot?
This is a dictatorship through capitalism!
Perhaps we should look at lobbying our representatives? An addendum to the Sherman Anti-Trust act?
Yes, we (HP) are replacing HP-UX at one point with Linux. We're currently porting Linux to run on the PA-RISC architecture, and we're also porting HP-UX to run on EPIC as an interim solution.
IA-64/EPIC was actually our design, we didn't have
the means to implement it properly. We asked Intel for help, and voila: horribly named processor.
Now I don't speak for all of HP, but I'm pretty
darned happy and impressed that we hired him. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy that we're making a positive effort to help Open Source. It's also a Smart Move(tm), considering Linux's gaining power in the market.
Oh yeah, my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, etc...
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Haven't these problems already been solved by large-scale cloud providers? Sure, hurricanes take out datacenters for diesel, but Google runs racks with dead nodes until it hit's a percentage where it makes sense to 'roll the truck' so-to-speak and get a tech onsite to repair the racks.
Okay, this is getting out of hand.
Please realize that Apple has to defend it's trademark. This means that Apple will ALWAYS file claims against anything resembling an apple, the word apple, the color red- anything that could even be slightly related to an apple.
Want to know why? Because if someone DOES actually create a trademark that's very close to theirs, and in court it's shown that they didn't respond to any other trademarks, they could lose the trademark altogether.
Straight from Wikipedia:
"Unlike patents and copyrights, which in theory are granted for one-off fixed terms, trademarks remain valid as long as the owner actively uses and defends them and maintains their registrations with the applicable jurisdiction's trademarks office."
So, this is really meaningless. It will get thrown out. But Apple has to defend their trademark ALL the time, or else when it's truly threatened in court, they could lose it.
What's rather humorous about this statement is that ultimately, all firewalls are implemented in software. What is firmware, again?
There are three different implementations of RAID on PC class hardware- software RAID, fake-hardware RAID, and hardware RAID.
When I said that software is just as fast, I'm comparing it to fake RAID cards, cost under ~$200 US. These cards rely on drivers to get their work done, and rely on the CPU just as much as software RAID. The only benefit they bring to the table is the ability to have the RAID exist in a pre-OS environment- you can boot off the RAID no matter what OS.
Ultimately, the disadvantages (extra cost, no speed increase, buggy drivers, et al.), do not weigh out over the advantages (dedicated BIOS).
The latest versions of software RAID support a snapshotting feature which makes it impossible for the array to become out-of-sync. Batteries are only required when you are caching information from the disk onto the controller for performance reasons. At this point, you're talking about a REAL hardware RAID card, which is most likely doing parity calculations on a dedicated processor. Cost is now over $200 for a *GOOD* 4-port card.
I bought an xSeries IBM chassis (two, infact), hacked out the SCSI backplane, and added 5 250GB drives and 2 SATA controllers. Total cost: $800. I still have room for 5 more drives. I also have two processors and 3GB of RAM. Cost-effective? You betcha. Hardware RAID? Nope. And, it's designed to handle the heat.
Sounds like they may not have thought through their implementation. Cost-effective means maximizing space, maximizing life, and maximizing versatility. Cost isn't just initial outlay- it's the life of the implementation. I'll take my 4TB array for $1700US over anything custom. Did I mention that my quad-Xeon 700MHZ can stream 1080p?
Sure, it's expensive in electricity. But over the life of the server, I'll get more use out of it than just storage. I'll have excess processor capacity when writes are not occuring. And I have a vendor independent implementation that can be moved to any system, any time, for any purpose, including data recovery. Using fake RAID or hardware RAID will just encumber that, and add unnecessary cost.
Some more info:
Hardware RAID cards, including expensive ASIC-based cards: Don't do it. Unless you think you're actually going to be serving up a database, you only have to think about yourself. Fortunately, you will not be writing to the array as much as you will be READING. This means that you can take the CPU hit, especially if you will have a dedicated server, on the parity calculations during writes. RAID5 reads are JUST AS FAST as RAID0, if not slightly slower.
RAID6: It's nice, but it takes an additional disk away for storage. This is your home server. If you have one drive fail, down the thing until the replacement comes back. You can live without your porn, right? Well, if not, then go RAID6.
It'll take some reading and combining from multiple sources. I've been doing it for a few years, combined with a handful of upgrades, plus setting it up as an iSCSI backend- all of that lent to the pool of greyness in my head.
f tware_RAID- quickinstall.xmlD .htmll
I recommend Gentoo to do this with. Other distro's dont include the latest mdadmtools required to manage and migrate RAID5 md devices. Ubuntu is catching up, I believe.
Here are some places to start:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Install_on_So
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2
http://linas.org/linux/Software-RAID/Software-RAI
http://linas.org/linux/raid.html
http://evms.sourceforge.net/
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.htm
Go RAID5. RAID5 = Hardware failure resilience + maximum storage.
Go Linux. The Linux MD driver allows you to control how you RAID- over disks or partitions. there are advantages. We will discuss.
First, don't get suckered into a hardware RAID card. They are *NOT* really a hardware card- they rely on a software driver to do calculations on your CPU for RAID5 ops. Software RAID is JUST AS FAST. Unless you blow the big bucks for a card with a real dedicated ASIC to do the work, you're fooling yourself.
Now, you want to go Linux. By using the md driver, you can stripe over PARTITIONS, and not the whole disk. By doing this, you can get MAXIMUM storage capacity out of your disks, even in upgrades.
Say you have 3 500GB disks. You create a 1TB array, with 1 disk as parity. On each of these disks is a single partition, each the size of the drive. Now, you want to upgrade? SURE! Add 3 more disks. Create three partitions of EQUAL size to the original, and tack it on to the first array. Then, with the additional space, you can create a WHOLE NEW array, and now you have two seperate RAID5's, each redundant, each fully using your space.
Another advantage with MD is flexibility. In my setup, I use 5x 250 drives right now. On each is a 245GB partition, and a 5GB partition. I use RAID1 over the 5's, and RAID5 over the rest. Why? Because each drive is now independently bootable! Plus, I can run the array off two disks, upgrade the file system on the other 3, and if there's a problem, I can always revert to the original file system. So much flexibility, it's not even funny.
I recommend using plain old SATA, in conjunction with SATA drives, and just stick with the MD device. For increased performance, watch your motherboard selection. You could grab a server oriented board, with dedicated PCI buses for slots, and split the drives over the cards. Or, you can get a multiproc rig going, and assign processor affinity to the IRQ's- one card calls proc 1 for interrupts, the other card calls proc 0. If you have multiple buses, then performance is maximized.
The last benefit? Portability. If your hardware suffers a failure, then your software RAID can move to any other system. Using ANY hardware RAID setup will require you to use the EXACT same card no matter what to recover data. Even the firmware will have to stay stable or else your data can be kissed goodbye.
Windows? Forget about it.
Good luck!
Yes- precisely. This is an education issue, which cannot necessarily be blamed on BoA. Instead, they need to now recognize that their users are not fully understanding this technology, and assist them in understanding phishing. It's not just a consumer issue- it removes money from legitimate hands and from a functioning economy. (heh.).
Yes! Come on people! Keep right except to pass- is this not hard to follow?
Speeding is in of itself safe. Statisically, as speeds increased on USA highways, ACCIDENTS WENT DOWN. Now, fatalities went up, of course (faster = death in accident), but accidents as a whole went down.
In fact, tailgating IS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM ON THE ROADS. Think of it this way- roads and cars are really just fluid systems. You have moving components in confined spaces. Tailgating increases the density of the road to the point where it can no longer maintain the same fluid rate- the road isn't getting bigger, and you're not getting there faster. Since the density of a road is a constant, something has to give way- you have more cars going slower, or less cars going faster.
Tailgating CAUSES stop and go traffic. If you werent so fucking close to the guy ahead of you, you wouldnt have to STOP completely and go again in traffic. If you had more room in front of you, then OTHER people could change lanes to adjust and maintain the fluid flow of the road!!!!
Try this trick next time you're in stop and go traffic: GO SLOW. Serious. determine the average speed, and let a huge space form in front of you in your lane. When assholes switch to your lane, you laugh- they are just still stuck in stop and go. But you.. with this big cushion... you EVEN OUT THE FLOW of traffic and never touch your brakes.
Cops do this alot in major areas- they'll form a line blocking all lanes, force everyone to flow evenly, and work out the 'knot' in the traffic so to speak.
So please- just dont tailgate. YOU DONT GET THERE FASTER, you just die quicker.
Hardware RAID solutions require exact hardware in case of RAID controller failure. You'll need the card replaced before you can get back at your data.
Use Linux md() instead. The Linux Software RAID, combined with EVMS is a fantastic multiplatform solution. Software RAID is negligably slower, and if you get some old cheap hardware, it doesn't matter. I bought a huge old IBM xSeries 4-way server and it's got 2 procs- slap IRQ affinity for the cards to one processor, and you have yourself a dedicated RAID processor.
Plus, you can recover the RAID on any linux system. Hardware agnostic.
Best part of all? It's cheap. I use regular off-the-shelf SATA cards strapped to the drives.
You know, I wish people would get this right. The Itanium was not *started* by Intel. HP created and began the work on the ISA as a successor to the PA-RISC line, and when they realized that they didn't have the design resources or manufacturing capacity to build the chip, they partenered with Intel. Since then, HP has been the big partner with Intel- first to get silicon, first to market. HP always intended to go forward with the VLIW setup, and depreciate PA-RISC. The Compaq merger just gave them another architecture, and they decided to kill it- Alpha (RIP).
So, what's absolutely hilarious is that HP isn't the one getting fucked, or making the wrong decision- they actually pawned the risk onto Intel, and now Intel is the one in trouble if this arch doesn't fly.
Very strange stuff.
Especially when there are good implementations ready for you to drop right onto a box, like http://www.smoothwall.org/.
I have a Pentium 266 that hums in the background and firewalls my network with Smoothwall. I'm quite pleased with it.
Yes, the poster should have used 'multithread' instead of the Intel branded and copyrighted term, 'HyperThread' which is in regards to their proprietary virtual processor technology on Pentium 4's and Xeons.
Let's not let Intel get the next 'Kleenex'ing of the English language, shall we?
Slashback should be fired-
it takes too much vacation.
So.. if no real time travelers show up to the convention, could that possibly infer that the knowledge of the convention was lost whenever the end of humanity came?
That's it! Proof that we will be extinct... before we invent time travel! drats.
"So how can you get a whole bunch of dumb small things doing something smart?"
Oh, I don't know. Ask the millions of dumb cells that make up your body. They seem to be doing a pretty good job.
"...we've seen this before on machines like the HP nw8000.."
Picking on the NW8000 is poor. At least with the HP commercial notebooks, you can CHOOSE either the Intel or the Atheros MiniPCI cards.
To set the record straight, Centrino is a brand that's applied when a notebook has three things:
1. Intel Pentium-M
2. Intel Chipset
3. Intel PRO2100/2200 Wireless
That's Centrino. The NW8000 uses a MiniPCI slot, just like a lot of other notebooks. HP offers the option to go with the Intel cards, or with Atheros a/b/g cards (the HP W400 and W500 cards). When you order the W500 instead of the Intel card, you no longer get a Centrino sticker on your notebook. That's it. It's still the same chipset and processor.
Honestly, this hub-bub is all silly. Get yourself a notebook with a MiniPCI slot, and get your own card. Want to tell Intel that they should open their drivers? Don't buy their shit. That'll tell 'em.
Doesn't the Kyoto Treaty have a clear bias for third world countries with growing industrialization and economies, ie China?
If I remember right, I thought that under the treaty, we (US) would be restricted to all hell, and China would be able to double or triple it's greenhouse gas emissions output.
Is this right?
Their families can, and will.
When they say '80 MB per scene', they mean when you stop and look at a single frame render. A whole level will have hundreds of megs of textures to load- all while you are still trying to play the game at 60 FPS. Low-overhead or processing-offloaded storage controllers are a boon for this sort of situation- it's where SATA will shine.
The faster you can load the data, the less opportunity it has to slow down the rest of the I/O in the system.
Gates is making this statement so he can sound aligned with the content creation industry. The RIAA and MPAA would want nothing more than to be able to sell you a temporally restricted product that you will have to reconsume every time you want to experience it.
Realize this: when you buy a DVD, you now have a mostly permanent edition of that movie you love and enjoy. You can watch it when you wish, as you wish, without having to pay any more money to these companies. In their mind, this is competition. You now have a reason not to purchase any more media from them- instead of creating more content, they are simply trying to scrounge more money out of us. See: Video on Demand, EZ-DVD, DIVX.
Gates, being the head of a company that's involved in the technology of distribution, wants his product to come on top. How better a way to do this then to align yourself with the view of the media industry.
Look. Video on Demand? That's nice. However, if people don't have a physical product, then it better be an unlimited consumption mechanism, based on a subscription. If not, people will not accept it. DIVX was not accepted. EZ-DVD will not BE accepted.
It's simple: property is a right all humans feel they are entitled to. The commons is not enough for humans to feel ownership. Small communes succeed because they are simply sharing personal property amongst a small number of individuals.
Marxism failed because it's an attempt at sharing property with too many. End of digression. (=
DVD's are a blazing success because they are the pinnacle of movie efficiency at this time: they store the most features, in the least amount of space, for the least amount of money per use. Media servers, hard disk arrays filled with AVI's, or Video-On-Demand- these are all inferior.
So, Gates is doing the right thing for his company by coming out and saying this. He's just trying to look good, and thus, make the technology that Microsoft markets, look good.
We need to make sure he fails.
I drive a '99 Cadillac Seville STS. I track all my gas expenses and mileage on a per mile basis. Incredibly enough, I'm pretty much on the sticker, which is 17/26hwy, and my average overall so far is 25.90mpg.
Luckily, I work nights, so I get to bypass all the traffic patterns that normally cause shitty mpg. Also, here in Colorado, the roads are all N-S or E-W, and usually 40mph, so that's right there at the low end of my 3rd gear (usually breaking 1500RPM at that point.).
Basically, it's all about how you drive, when you drive, and where you live. Hills, turns, lights, and other people affect how you drive just as much as how fast you brake and accellerate. Keep things nice and slow, and you'll do fine. Don't speed when your approaching a red light- what's the point, you're just gonna stop! Don't take-off on green lights- you're just burning extra gas. The only place I take off is on interstate onramps, and only cause it's fun AND good for my engine. But pretty much, try to drive before or after rush hour. Drive as much as possible at night if you can- being able to drive city speeds without the stop and go puts most cars right in their most efficient output ranges.
By the way, I can only recommend FULLY a program called Handy Car. I use it to track all my fill ups and mileage. Since it's on my 3650, I have it with me everywhere, even on road trips.
Cheap as well!
Wow. I just love this quote from the article:
"It solves problems people don't have and it doesn't solve the hard problems we do have," said Mike O'Dell, an early v6 advocate who now believes the Internet has far greater problems -- like how to more efficiently route data traffic. "
That makes no sense. Y2K was a problem we didn't have yet. It was inevitible, and we fixed it. This is the same thing. If we don't get to this issue soon, the Internet will be crowded, and our problems will be even harder to fix than they are now.
What I don't understand is why noone has come up with an intelligent way to get IPv6 implemented. I'd have every router company have IPv4 and v6 on every router they sell. Have ISO or IEEE come up with a standard for a 'magic packet to switch to IPv6'. Have all PC's have IPv6 ready to go. All routers have to be upgraded in the next five years. Offer discounts for doing it. Then, at a designated date and time, send that magic packet that everyone conforms to, and instantly, the whole freaking internet is running IPv6 instead of v4. Then start working on addresses and getting things back in order, since it's so easy to switch addresses with v6. Sounds good to me.
id software, the primary force behind supporting OpenGL for gaming, has used DirectX in all of it's games since WinQuake.
IIRC, DirectSound and DirectInput were used in WinQuake, Quake II, and Quake III. Any games based off of the Quake engine with the WinQuake client are the same.
OpenGL was used by Carmack back in the day because that was the Right Thing (tm). When GLQuake was released, it was released as a testbed, a "we can do it and make this look good if you will, and we can do it faster than using DirectX for anything". Of course, then 3dfx released their half-assed OpenGL MCD for the Voodoo and GLQuake, and the rest is history.
OpenGL and DirectX are like talking about apples and fruit baskets. OpenGL is a damn great API, but DirectX covers all the basics, so programmers don't have to. Hell, last I checked, Microsoft actually licensed Monolith's LithTech engine (or a predecessor) and threw that into DirectX! All you had to do was make content, and DirectX took care of all the hard stuff. Silly, huh?
From what I have been reading, and what I have seen, all these crytographic and control mechanisms are the same thing as trusts - they both combine a mechanism for control and force the masses to submit to it without choice! No matter where you look, alas, your monitor must hook up to a VIDLOCK(tm) compatible video card. And, not just that, but all monitors are VIDLOCK(tm). And, even better, all video cards are VIDLOCK(tm) embracing.
What happened to consumer choice? How can the people choose NOT TO PURCHASE THIS STANDARD, when there are no other choices in the market? When the market is supposed to be based on choice, and people vote with their dollar, how can you have a fair election with only one choice on the ballot?
This is a dictatorship through capitalism!
Perhaps we should look at lobbying our representatives? An addendum to the Sherman Anti-Trust act?
Yes, we (HP) are replacing HP-UX at one point with Linux. We're currently porting Linux to run on the PA-RISC architecture, and we're also porting HP-UX to run on EPIC as an interim solution.
IA-64/EPIC was actually our design, we didn't have
the means to implement it properly. We asked Intel for help, and voila: horribly named processor.
Now I don't speak for all of HP, but I'm pretty
darned happy and impressed that we hired him. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy that we're making a positive effort to help Open Source. It's also a Smart Move(tm), considering Linux's gaining power in the market.
Oh yeah, my opinions do not necessarily reflect those of my employer, etc...