More density also means smaller magnetic domains, which are more likely to spontaneously change state, and more-closely-packed magnetic domains, which will tend to interfere with each other. It also requires higher precision in positioning the read/write heads.
Current technology is running into reliablity problems with all of these; expect the rate of size increases to drop greatly in the near future.
Most users don't have any use for more than one button. Those of us who do can go out and buy whatever we want. (Right now, I'm using a mouse with five buttons plus a wheel button)
There are assorted patches and service packs for WinXP that allow it to get past the 137GB barrier. Since I don't use XP, I don't have links to any of them.
we should start seeing IDE drives reaching the speeds of 10,000rpm soon (if there aren't a few already)
There are. It's the "Raptor" hard drive (made by Western Digital, IIRC). It's available in 18GB and 36GB models. It's essentially a 10k RPM SCSI drive packaged with an IDE interface, and is priced accordingly.
They're pushing capacity because they don't know how to push speed. Current hard drives come in 5400, 7200, 10k, and 15k RPM speeds. The only ways to increase speed with spinning magnetic disk storage are to increase rotation speed (+noise, +heat, -reliablity), or to increase storage density (-reliablity), and hard drive manufacturers are running into barriers in both.
If you're doing video editing, you need the speed and space more than the reliability. Once you're done with the project, you back things up to a stack of CDs, and you've got the space available for the next project.
The Microsoft EULA doesn't let you release any benchmark numbers on their product without permission from Microsoft. So, these guys could either say "Samba is 2.5x faster than MS Server 2k3", or they could say "Samba was this fast. Microsoft won't let us say how fast Server 2k3 was". Which is more useful?
The article makes repeated, general forecasts of "doom and gloom", but does not mention any specific pending decisions that might threaten the Internet. What are these threats?
It's easier on Linux than on any other OS. Just highlight it, open a new browser tab (to let it load in the background while you read the rest of the comments), and click the middle mouse button.
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Blasted code. That last quote should be "My is running Linux!"
Why would you want Linux on a Cube, anyway? No hard drive, no mouse, non-standard media format, etc...
Why would you want Linux on a C64, or a Palm PDA, or any other piece of oddball hardware? For the sole purpose of saying "My is running Linux!"
Linux on GameCube anyone?
For the love of god, no. Can't we have a (modern) console that just stays as a gaming machine?
Where's the hack value in that?
More density also means smaller magnetic domains, which are more likely to spontaneously change state, and more-closely-packed magnetic domains, which will tend to interfere with each other. It also requires higher precision in positioning the read/write heads.
Current technology is running into reliablity problems with all of these; expect the rate of size increases to drop greatly in the near future.
Most users don't have any use for more than one button. Those of us who do can go out and buy whatever we want. (Right now, I'm using a mouse with five buttons plus a wheel button)
There are assorted patches and service packs for WinXP that allow it to get past the 137GB barrier. Since I don't use XP, I don't have links to any of them.
With FAT16, you'd need 150 partitions. Every other filesystem in common use has limits in the terabyte range or larger.
we should start seeing IDE drives reaching the speeds of 10,000rpm soon (if there aren't a few already)
There are. It's the "Raptor" hard drive (made by Western Digital, IIRC). It's available in 18GB and 36GB models. It's essentially a 10k RPM SCSI drive packaged with an IDE interface, and is priced accordingly.
BTW, anyone know what this is useable formatted ext2 or ntfs?
It should be. I've yet to see an IDE hard drive that cared what format the data was in.
They're pushing capacity because they don't know how to push speed. Current hard drives come in 5400, 7200, 10k, and 15k RPM speeds. The only ways to increase speed with spinning magnetic disk storage are to increase rotation speed (+noise, +heat, -reliablity), or to increase storage density (-reliablity), and hard drive manufacturers are running into barriers in both.
If you're doing video editing, you need the speed and space more than the reliability. Once you're done with the project, you back things up to a stack of CDs, and you've got the space available for the next project.
"All your base are belong to us"
For bulk storage, you don't need speed.
I tried installing it on my Linux box, but it didn't work! What should I do?
Viruses are probably the main culprit; I don't see any reason why the volume of spam would suddenly increase.
A SCUD-B isn't reusable.
And this is the real reason why space exploration is having trouble getting started -- all sorts of limits on commercial and national exploitation.
The Microsoft EULA doesn't let you release any benchmark numbers on their product without permission from Microsoft. So, these guys could either say "Samba is 2.5x faster than MS Server 2k3", or they could say "Samba was this fast. Microsoft won't let us say how fast Server 2k3 was". Which is more useful?
Is anyone else reading this article running into a massive flood of 500 Server errors?
The count hasn't reached 500 yet, but I am getting a lot of errors.
The article makes repeated, general forecasts of "doom and gloom", but does not mention any specific pending decisions that might threaten the Internet. What are these threats?
An 80GB hard drive can be had for $71, shipped. An HDTV tuner card runs $200-$300. Which is cheaper?
It's easier on Linux than on any other OS. Just highlight it, open a new browser tab (to let it load in the background while you read the rest of the comments), and click the middle mouse button.
I guess that means sadistic moderators have more reason than ever to mod people down.
Forget supporting DRM -- it needs support for bypassing DRM!
You will probably find that there are more /.'rs that claim to have programed 6502's by typing in hex codes.
I've programmed a 6510 that way, does that count?