Just because someone else does it, doesn't mean you should too. There's such a thing as style you know....
I know some would disagree, but I don't think Shakespear made 'crap' up; some would say it was rather good, actually. Making 'underpants' into a verb is *not* good (IMO).
What does 'to underpants' actually mean? I can't even guess. It brings back images of Bill and Ted...
In this case, anal-retentiveness asside (pun intended), you're missing the point. It is clear that, as so often is the case, no one (capable) proof read the article, and the fault is actually the word 'they' which should have been 'their'.
It should be 'Does the fact' instead of 'Is the fact', IINM.
I suppose one can still understand the whole point, but too many more mistakes and it would just become guess work as to what it means.
There was a point when the MIPS processors were faster than the typical IA32, and that did switch at some point.
However, a lot of the applications on SGI hardware didn't care about just the processor speed so much as the overall speed of the hardware. Most SGI applications cared more about moving data around (quickly) - or at least just as much as processor speed.
Also (often) the lack of processor speed could be made up for by adding more processors - many of the applications were designed to scale, which is something you still can't say about applications designed to run on IA32. Of course, on the SGI desktop systems, that ability was somewhat limited.
i.e., it's not just about processor speed (though that, admittedly, is important too, esp. in a psychological sort of way).
> They already blocked Wikipedia a week or two ago, which sucked.
More like a *month* or two ago, and *majorly* sucks....but it's not the first time they've blocked it. The previous time, a group of interested Chinese did what it takes to get it unblocked. Hopefully, they can do it again. I wonder if they're trying - difficult to tell from this side of the wall.
> But I live in Venice (Venezia, Italy, not California).
Venice Beach in California would probably suffer a similar consequence (though, more than a few centimetres). I don't suppose too many people will care about that though.
I had a 4 drive RAID0 on my laptop and it worked just fine. I used Weibetech Firewire Drive Docks on 4 80GB drives to serve video (previously recorded using a ReplayTV). I had other devices on that Firewire bus too.
Who invented the light bulb? It wasn't Edison...but he did the work to make it practical. He wasn't even the first to do that work, according to Wikipedia.
The internet was practically nothing before the World Wide Web was invented, and that wasn't a USian.
Ask any non-tech-savvy person what the internet is, and they'll likely describe the WWW. Of course, that's probably just Microsoft's fault for labelling IE as 'Internet'.
Not that other parts of the internet aren't important too. Email/IM, for example, are very important too, but really that is only as a result of the popularity generated by the WWW.
> and live in a house which the Thunderbirds would be proud of! Sheer madness! > Man, if I were him, I'd take all that loot and go find myself a nice island to buy.
Eh? The Thunderbirds did live on an island - Tracey Island, IIRC.
Actually, *real* games, such as commercial flight simulators and planetariums, do benefit nicely from multiple processors. Many will use libraries that can do this almost automatically - SGI's OpenGL Performer for example.
Even some big entertainment games, like DisneyQuest, use OpenGL Performer to take advantage of the many CPUs.
I have several Wiebetech Drive Docks that work just fine.
I had the drives free standing on their side (to allow convection), or fixed to a big metal plate to distribute the heat. A desk fan would provide additional cooling
Of course, they also sell enclosures, if you must.
This is my take on RAID5 - I take it as written that I will be corrected :
You can lose one disk in a RAID5 and it still works. However, the contents of the failed disk needs to be regenerated on the spare before it's back to its 'redundant' state.
Therefore, the time between the two disks failing *must* be enough for the regeneration to complete, else you'll lose everything(?).
This can take quite some time.
On my s/w RAID5, it takes hours.
Furthermore, the process causes significantly more disk activity on the remaining disks, increasing the risk of another failure.
The time taken to regenerate the array depends on many things. The ones I can think of :
1) speed of the read performance of the disks remaining in the array, and the write performance of the spare. 2) controller performance (or interface(s)/chipset/memory/cpu performance if s/w RAID).
Of course, once the array is back to it's redundant state, it still isn't back to 'normal' because the spare is now missing and needs to be replaced.
Better to use mirroring (0+1?) in some way, IMO. If you have 3 mirrors, you can hot swap one 'reflection' and immediately replace it - keeping many off-line 'reflections' in the same way as you would tape and using it as a backup.
I think 0+1 is faster too, since the '0' is a stripe. Of course, it's also more expensive to obtain a given capacity.
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Just because someone else does it, doesn't mean you should too. There's such a thing as style you know....
I know some would disagree, but I don't think Shakespear made 'crap' up; some would say it was rather good, actually. Making 'underpants' into a verb is *not* good (IMO).
What does 'to underpants' actually mean? I can't even guess. It brings back images of Bill and Ted...
In this case, anal-retentiveness asside (pun intended), you're missing the point. It is clear that, as so often is the case, no one (capable) proof read the article, and the fault is actually the word 'they' which should have been 'their'.
It should be 'Does the fact' instead of 'Is the fact', IINM.
I suppose one can still understand the whole point, but too many more mistakes and it would just become guess work as to what it means.
You can do what and get away with it?
How are we supposed to communicate if you keep making crap up?
Since when was 'underpants' a verb?
I think you're right, mostly.
There was a point when the MIPS processors were faster than the typical IA32, and that did switch at some point.
However, a lot of the applications on SGI hardware didn't care about just the processor speed so much as the overall speed of the hardware. Most SGI applications cared more about moving data around (quickly) - or at least just as much as processor speed.
Also (often) the lack of processor speed could be made up for by adding more processors - many of the applications were designed to scale, which is something you still can't say about applications designed to run on IA32. Of course, on the SGI desktop systems, that ability was somewhat limited.
i.e., it's not just about processor speed (though that, admittedly, is important too, esp. in a psychological sort of way).
> They already blocked Wikipedia a week or two ago, which sucked.
...but it's not the first time they've blocked it. The previous time, a group of interested Chinese did what it takes to get it unblocked. Hopefully, they can do it again. I wonder if they're trying - difficult to tell from this side of the wall.
More like a *month* or two ago, and *majorly* sucks.
Wow, with all those bug fixes^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hnew features, I am surprised they didn't make it OS X 10.5 aka 'Kitten'.
"Universal Time"? Hrmm, I can't help but wonder if they that it'll be 3:25am there too.
I often wondered why it wasn't more appropriately named...
> But I live in Venice (Venezia, Italy, not California).
Venice Beach in California would probably suffer a similar consequence (though, more than a few centimetres). I don't suppose too many people will care about that though.
I worked for a company where vlc was used to very good effect for a number of (departmental) meetings.
It'd be easier just not to say anything, don't you think?
Without the foil....I wonder what happens when you turn on the microwave oven. Do they get deafened?
Wouldn't the sound in the room vibrate the foil on the wall? Said foil would reflect microwaves very nicely, I suspect...
Wow. I've worked in this industry for many many years for many many different companies. Never *once* has AOL even offered to send me for training.
All I ever got from them is free coasters.
Hrm. Nice system.... ...but, oh, soooooo boring.
I hope they got permission; as was necessary for FAB1, which was (previously) the smallest rolls.
I had a 4 drive RAID0 on my laptop and it worked just fine. I used Weibetech Firewire Drive Docks on 4 80GB drives to serve video (previously recorded using a ReplayTV). I had other devices on that Firewire bus too.
> The US originated the Internet.
So what?
Who invented the light bulb? It wasn't Edison...but he did the work to make it practical. He wasn't even the first to do that work, according to Wikipedia.
The internet was practically nothing before the World Wide Web was invented, and that wasn't a USian.
Ask any non-tech-savvy person what the internet is, and they'll likely describe the WWW. Of course, that's probably just Microsoft's fault for labelling IE as 'Internet'.
Not that other parts of the internet aren't important too. Email/IM, for example, are very important too, but really that is only as a result of the popularity generated by the WWW.
> and live in a house which the Thunderbirds would be proud of! Sheer madness!
> Man, if I were him, I'd take all that loot and go find myself a nice island to buy.
Eh? The Thunderbirds did live on an island - Tracey Island, IIRC.
> How can you get screwed by a Virgin?
/.; I forgot.
There's always a first time.
Actually, there's *only* a first time.
Er, ah, right this is
No, there's never a first time
In my mind at least, it's not the amount of money that counts, so much as the percentage of his/their worth and the reason you he/they it.
Of course, I'm not the one receiving it...
Actually, *real* games, such as commercial flight simulators and planetariums, do benefit nicely from multiple processors. Many will use libraries that can do this almost automatically - SGI's OpenGL Performer for example.
Even some big entertainment games, like DisneyQuest, use OpenGL Performer to take advantage of the many CPUs.
Consider not having an enclosure.
I have several Wiebetech Drive Docks that work just fine.
I had the drives free standing on their side (to allow convection), or fixed to a big metal plate to distribute the heat. A desk fan would provide additional cooling
Of course, they also sell enclosures, if you must.
> ...in less than half the current time Concorde would take...
Well, half of infinity is still infinity, so, yes.
However, IIRC, Concorde wasn't allowed to fly supersonic over land anyway...
why not use a 10/100 switch, but configure the network cards of the 'other 4' to be 10/half?
or even, use cables with only 4 wires in them so they autonegotiate a slower speed? (can be unreliable, in my experience).
This is my take on RAID5 - I take it as written that I will be corrected :
You can lose one disk in a RAID5 and it still works. However, the contents of the failed disk needs to be regenerated on the spare before it's back to its 'redundant' state.
Therefore, the time between the two disks failing *must* be enough for the regeneration to complete, else you'll lose everything(?).
This can take quite some time.
On my s/w RAID5, it takes hours.
Furthermore, the process causes significantly more disk activity on the remaining disks, increasing the risk of another failure.
The time taken to regenerate the array depends on many things. The ones I can think of :
1) speed of the read performance of the disks remaining in the array, and the write performance of the spare.
2) controller performance (or interface(s)/chipset/memory/cpu performance if s/w RAID).
Of course, once the array is back to it's redundant state, it still isn't back to 'normal' because the spare is now missing and needs to be replaced.
Better to use mirroring (0+1?) in some way, IMO. If you have 3 mirrors, you can hot swap one 'reflection' and immediately replace it - keeping many off-line 'reflections' in the same way as you would tape and using it as a backup.
I think 0+1 is faster too, since the '0' is a stripe. Of course, it's also more expensive to obtain a given capacity.
> So I wonder if the satellite in this picture is just a mockup to make a testfit of the equipment (never trust the drawings).
Perhaps they were worried they'd mix up imperial with metric again. My memory is fading - is this the only notable time?