Missing points today... But please mod parent up, even if myself I use TB and cry in frustration when it slowly draws on getting the focus back, I know quite a lot of people that use pine everywhere, even on Android phones via ssh... If there's one mail client that will outlive all others, it is pine...
We have replaced a few 8x 15K RPM RAID5 with OCZ PCI cards of 0.5TB and 1TB. They were serving databases with high update frequency (~500Hz average in the long run). At first they were fantastic, iowait was gone, great performance, just as expected, enough to get us hooked on them and order more:)
However in a few months the performance has deteriorated dramatically, to the point where they were much worse than the disks they were replacing. Writing/dev/zero to them a few times restored for a short time the performance but finally one card died dramatically, another lost 2 of the 8 slots... Finally we moved back to the disks and as much RAM as fitted the servers and called it a failed, very costly, experiment. I'd argue that the SSDs are probably good only for PCs since one can fit a comparable amount of memory in a server for read performance and if you need high write rates you would anyway destroy them quickly...
Sure, you can even run it under Wine and do an online check of your / . It's amazingly fast in fixing your disk, much more so than even rm -rf. Then you can upgrade your Wine to a bottle and wonder wth you just did.
How about they concentrate on performance? I mean, it's not that they render PDFs any quicker now on an i7 and 500-core GPU than, say, on a P2. If you want to give yourself a task that would make a difference, do that, you will be spared by a lot of curses coming your way every time somebody presses DOWN ! And waits...
Oh, but then what does the mighty IT department do? Actually many devices support the Exchange-only servers, but enabling IMAP+SSL would probably cover all devices currently on the market (even my 2y old HTCs). And it's not a single user usually, once enable many could profit. And updates come automatically these days. So, dear admins, do the magic of checking the box and then you can get back to reading/.
The computing center is impressive, if only for 5 minutes:) While you must also go to see the experiments, prepare yourself to be a bit disappointed. Since most of the electronics is installed you don't get to have a full perspective of how big they are any more.
I can only assume that MySQL keeps it's large market share because it has commercial backing and therefore good support. No, it's because people are used to LAMP, and tons of easy-to-install apps only have MySQL support. But there is hope, I see more and more PHP apps allowing you to choose PostgreSQL instead. I think this is the turning point, once they reach the critical mass needed to turn the developers' heads it will become THE open source database. And for a good reason, it beats MySQL in every way you imagine, including the obvious features and not so obvious performance. Well, maybe for two queries in a 10 rows table MySQL will see an edge and enjoy, but let's face it, it never scaled up to more than that:)
I guess we will have to get used to saying LAPP from now on and not grin when we do.:D
Being a CMS researcher I guess you have already heard about http://monalisa.cern.ch/FDT/ that was especially developed for this purpose (high speed transfer over paths with large RTT). It goes to the maximum possible transfer rate in a matter of seconds and can pipe multiple files through the same channel especially to avoid situations like you describe.
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And why there is never one of these normal individuals around to put a quick stop to the idiot?
It should be either forbidden for everybody to own guns, or mandatory for everybody to carry it, nothing in between is ok.
Missing points today ... But please mod parent up, even if myself I use TB and cry in frustration when it slowly draws on getting the focus back, I know quite a lot of people that use pine everywhere, even on Android phones via ssh ... If there's one mail client that will outlive all others, it is pine ...
We have replaced a few 8x 15K RPM RAID5 with OCZ PCI cards of 0.5TB and 1TB. They were serving databases with high update frequency (~500Hz average in the long run). At first they were fantastic, iowait was gone, great performance, just as expected, enough to get us hooked on them and order more :)
However in a few months the performance has deteriorated dramatically, to the point where they were much worse than the disks they were replacing. Writing /dev/zero to them a few times restored for a short time the performance but finally one card died dramatically, another lost 2 of the 8 slots ... Finally we moved back to the disks and as much RAM as fitted the servers and called it a failed, very costly, experiment. I'd argue that the SSDs are probably good only for PCs since one can fit a comparable amount of memory in a server for read performance and if you need high write rates you would anyway destroy them quickly...
Sure, you can even run it under Wine and do an online check of your / . It's amazingly fast in fixing your disk, much more so than even rm -rf. Then you can upgrade your Wine to a bottle and wonder wth you just did.
How about they concentrate on performance? I mean, it's not that they render PDFs any quicker now on an i7 and 500-core GPU than, say, on a P2. If you want to give yourself a task that would make a difference, do that, you will be spared by a lot of curses coming your way every time somebody presses DOWN ! And waits ...
... or keep being ignorant, as you prefer
But is it truly?
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Oh, but then what does the mighty IT department do? Actually many devices support the Exchange-only servers, but enabling IMAP+SSL would probably cover all devices currently on the market (even my 2y old HTCs). And it's not a single user usually, once enable many could profit. And updates come automatically these days. So, dear admins, do the magic of checking the box and then you can get back to reading /.
The computing center is impressive, if only for 5 minutes :) While you must also go to see the experiments, prepare yourself to be a bit disappointed. Since most of the electronics is installed you don't get to have a full perspective of how big they are any more.
I guess we will have to get used to saying LAPP from now on and not grin when we do.
Is it only me or somebody else thinks too this is like reinventing Java all over again ?!
Being a CMS researcher I guess you have already heard about http://monalisa.cern.ch/FDT/ that was especially developed for this purpose (high speed transfer over paths with large RTT). It goes to the maximum possible transfer rate in a matter of seconds and can pipe multiple files through the same channel especially to avoid situations like you describe.
They also have a nice map with the Internet2 traffic:
http://boson.cacr.caltech.edu:8080/
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