Last time I looked at LED stagelights about a year ago, the LED PAR64 can seemed to be a drop in replacement for 300W PAR56 lamps. Unfortunately, until intensity catches up to their higher wattage cousins, most of the stages I've worked on are going to keep dropping in 750W HPL, 1KW BVT, and 1K PAR64 lamps. The biggest advantage is its easier to get a blue of out an LED than a halogen, for obvious reasons, but losing the light among the other fixtures isn't really desired all the time.
Some of that is the custom gear that goes into making those beasts. Yes, it might eliminate the hardware raid card, but in the case of the 7210, the hardware to drive 48 SATA drives and not saturate the bus still isn't cheap. Plus hotswap everything, and the price quickly rises to something close to what Sun is charging. I use 4 x4500s at work for a single cluster, and they are a hell of a lot cheaper for that capacity than the traditional rack of fiber arrays/raid controllers/etc. The 4 of them cost me what another vendor wanted for half the raw storage (and far less usable storage).
If you want a versioning file system, go use VMS for a while. They've been doing it since at least the early '90s. Not sure if ADVFS has that feature or not, never got a chance to use Tru64.
A four cubic foot box for 1 NIC + 2 3 foot power cords? With 95% of the internal volume filled with packing material? I know why they came seperate, the volume of the shipping box was close to the size of the 4U server the parts were destined for.
I recently ordered a pair of servers from Sun.
The power cords and the addon nic each came in seperate boxes in a 2'x2'x1' box for each server. At least the outer box wasn't filled with peanuts.
For long term storage, rent a film recorder and write the data out to the original optical media. Assuming the media isn't destroyed, it will still be readable/recoverable 50-60 years from now. This isn't exactly cheap, but its probably the least work long term. All it needs it proper storage, no pesky format conversions every 5-10 years, and as long as the Mark I eyeball remains in use, the images will be recoverable.
If you're running Maya, would should be running the drivers/distro that Autodesk blesses. Last I checked, that was 2-3 year old drivers on RHEL 4/SLES 9/Fedora Core 5. I run the blessed packages for a small animation studio and only have problems when people out of memory their system (8GB RAM should be enough for anybody).
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=9683256 has the list of blessed stuff.
Piped through a concert hall system, the difference between MP3 and CD audio is fairly obvious. Besides audio differences, one just needs to look at the crossover/amps to see that certain bands have little to no signal on the MP3 while the CD/live covers a lot more of the audio spectrum.
What the parent was refering to where virtual machines that had been suspended using VMware. Those machines are host CPU dependent. Any VM can be booted on either platform, but once its running, its state is tied to the host CPU's capabilities.
The reason FreeBSD doesn't have to subject its base to package management is simple. There is only 1 package that makes up a FreeBSD base system. Linux, on the other hand, is not developed as a coherent whole and is instead the aggregation of lots of little projects that are not developed as part of a coherent whole. Some big ones off the top of my head are glibc, the kernel, gnu coreutils, gnu fileutils, etc. The BSDs are developed as a coherent whole and it shows.
Not every architecture they support can take a DVD drive. Also, can you imagine trying to get a single DVD that is bootable on PPC, i386/amd64, and sparc/sparc64? A lot of us run OBSD on Sun gear.
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It got MIPS too. At least in the high end server/workstation market. Though I don't miss IRIX.
Last time I looked at LED stagelights about a year ago, the LED PAR64 can seemed to be a drop in replacement for 300W PAR56 lamps. Unfortunately, until intensity catches up to their higher wattage cousins, most of the stages I've worked on are going to keep dropping in 750W HPL, 1KW BVT, and 1K PAR64 lamps. The biggest advantage is its easier to get a blue of out an LED than a halogen, for obvious reasons, but losing the light among the other fixtures isn't really desired all the time.
Some of that is the custom gear that goes into making those beasts. Yes, it might eliminate the hardware raid card, but in the case of the 7210, the hardware to drive 48 SATA drives and not saturate the bus still isn't cheap. Plus hotswap everything, and the price quickly rises to something close to what Sun is charging. I use 4 x4500s at work for a single cluster, and they are a hell of a lot cheaper for that capacity than the traditional rack of fiber arrays/raid controllers/etc. The 4 of them cost me what another vendor wanted for half the raw storage (and far less usable storage).
If you want a versioning file system, go use VMS for a while. They've been doing it since at least the early '90s. Not sure if ADVFS has that feature or not, never got a chance to use Tru64.
You know, I can't tell if you are serious or not.
If the system lacks a TPM, it is probably too old to run Vista anyways.
A four cubic foot box for 1 NIC + 2 3 foot power cords? With 95% of the internal volume filled with packing material? I know why they came seperate, the volume of the shipping box was close to the size of the 4U server the parts were destined for.
I recently ordered a pair of servers from Sun. The power cords and the addon nic each came in seperate boxes in a 2'x2'x1' box for each server. At least the outer box wasn't filled with peanuts.
For long term storage, rent a film recorder and write the data out to the original optical media. Assuming the media isn't destroyed, it will still be readable/recoverable 50-60 years from now. This isn't exactly cheap, but its probably the least work long term. All it needs it proper storage, no pesky format conversions every 5-10 years, and as long as the Mark I eyeball remains in use, the images will be recoverable.
127.0.0.1 Have at me.
If you're running Maya, would should be running the drivers/distro that Autodesk blesses. Last I checked, that was 2-3 year old drivers on RHEL 4/SLES 9/Fedora Core 5. I run the blessed packages for a small animation studio and only have problems when people out of memory their system (8GB RAM should be enough for anybody). http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=9683256 has the list of blessed stuff.
True, but generally those are not casually powered down either.
What sort of server uses half a megawatt?
2001 was shot in the HD of film formats (70mm), and the difference between 70mm and 35mm prints in a theater is also night and day too.
2.5" 10K RPM drives do exist, I don't know if they are all SAS though since my machine with them has SAS drives.
Piped through a concert hall system, the difference between MP3 and CD audio is fairly obvious. Besides audio differences, one just needs to look at the crossover/amps to see that certain bands have little to no signal on the MP3 while the CD/live covers a lot more of the audio spectrum.
What the parent was refering to where virtual machines that had been suspended using VMware. Those machines are host CPU dependent. Any VM can be booted on either platform, but once its running, its state is tied to the host CPU's capabilities.
Quicklaunch has been in there since Windows 98. So, its not exactly a "new" thing in XP.
The reason FreeBSD doesn't have to subject its base to package management is simple. There is only 1 package that makes up a FreeBSD base system. Linux, on the other hand, is not developed as a coherent whole and is instead the aggregation of lots of little projects that are not developed as part of a coherent whole. Some big ones off the top of my head are glibc, the kernel, gnu coreutils, gnu fileutils, etc. The BSDs are developed as a coherent whole and it shows.
I don't know enough about it to write a coherent Wikipedia entry for it. I just know of its existence.
You missed libkvm found in many BSD releases. Kernel Virtual Memory interface.
And XP is 6 years old. Your point?
Not every architecture they support can take a DVD drive. Also, can you imagine trying to get a single DVD that is bootable on PPC, i386/amd64, and sparc/sparc64? A lot of us run OBSD on Sun gear.
Might be better off with RT-11 or RSX-11
Enough people commented on it being there that I figured I was missing something. And since its a port I could use, figured I'd ask.