Dvorak is all well and good for you people with English as a first language. The Danish keyboard layout in QWERTY is fairly bad for programming, but the Danish Dvorak manages to be (barely) worse.
Hmm now I found "USA programmer Dvorak" which is totally brilliant!
I'm working for an ISP, rack units are way too expensive to waste 3 on a server. Heck they're too expensive to waste 1 on a server.
The advantage over enterprise SATA/SAS SSD's isn't large enough for us at least. We would have to go to 6 socket motherboards to get the same CPU density.
You would still have to run a sophisticated DSP, unless you kept entirely separate chips for USB1, USB2, and USB3. The DSP would eat lots of power even when working at USB1-speed.
Also, we're talking hundreds or thousands of dollars for a USB3-DSP in the USB1 era.
The lousy thing about PCIe SSD's is that modern servers don't have enough PCIe slots. 1U servers often have only one free slot, and blade servers often have zero. The only blade vendor with decent PCIe expandability is Sun, and their blade density isn't fantastic.
The needs of enterprise customers will ensure that magnetic HDDs will continue to exist for years to come.
I just don't see it happening. HDD's are lousy for the enterprise, simply because of the laughably low IOPS. Yes you can compensate by buying 10 times as many disks, but SSD's aren't 10 times as expensive as 15k disks anymore. And yes, SSD's are going to saturate the RAID controllers -- but why would it ever be an advantage for HDD's that they're too slow to even saturate the lousy 500MHz PPC chips that are sold under the pretense of making RAID faster?
Why is it so hard for developers of ports and interface standards to get it super fast, first time round? It's not like there's a power issue and there's no worry about having to make things small enough (as with say the CPU).
There IS a power issue, and most importantly there's a price issue. The interface electronics limit speed. Even today, 10Gbps ethernet (10Gbase-T) is quite expensive and power hungry. 40Gbps ethernet isn't even possible with copper right now. They couldn't have made USB 3 40 Gbps instead of 4, the technology just isn't there. In 5 years maybe, in 10 years almost certainly.
USB 1 could have been made 100Mbps, but the others were close to what was affordable at the time.
I've been really disappointed with Aruba. Our office runs on Aruba access points + controller. Coverage is universally bad even quite close to the access points, and there are occasional drop-outs. Maybe I'm just not smart enough to set it up properly.
By not maintaining grass they are only worsening region's drough issues.
Importing water and evaporating it (which is what a lawn does) is an ineffective strategy in desert regions. The slightly more humid air will be blown away.
Besides the ocean is right next door in this case. Air humidity measured in g/m3 must be quite high, even though the relative humidity is low.
Like the GP said, you make a wall of snow in front of you. It won't really work with all kinds of snow, particularly not the salt-packed greasy kind that is so common in Denmark.
Whenever I've been in snow deep enough that it works decently for non-ABS-braking I've been more worried about how to keep going than about how to stop.
The ABS can pump the brakes with at least a 90% on duty cycle. If you pump the brakes "by foot" with or without ABS I don't think you'll exceed 50% duty cycle.
That isn't what I was writing about. I was saying that if you DO pump manually but have ABS, it will be just as good as if you pump manually WITHOUT ABS. It won't be as good as just letting the ABS do its job, but the ABS isn't making anything worse.
I'm not sure how ABS would make pumping less effective, other than the fact that the jolting can be scary or surprising the first time you try it. You'll brake less effectively than if you just slammed the brake and let ABS do its job, but at least as effectively as without ABS.
It took me a while to get used to steering while slamming the brake though.
A MRI scan sounds likely to cause induction effects -- at least according to its name it's going for magnetism rather than radiation. Magnetic field strength falls rapidly with distance, as long as your distance to the poles is far larger than the distance between the poles. You aren't going to see induction from a cell phone tower, certainly not from several meters away.
So MRI scans are a poor predictor for the effects of cell phone radiation.
DDT is an extreme case where the people who benefit from it and the people who are harmed by it aren't the same people. DDT is used in the tropics, but the people affected by it are in the arctics living off of marine mammals. If you're utilitarian and therefore just trying to maximize the global utility, DDT is certainly positive: Many people are helped a lot, and few are harmed. There are other schools of ethics apart from utilitarianism however.
"Population control" is often an excuse for Westerners to not do something about our destruction of the environment.
It's also a problem we know how to solve, and one that is slowly getting solved. Look at Egypt, down from more than 6 children per woman to less than 3 children per woman. Still not down to the sustainable rate of around 2, but they'll get there.
Those crossover ethernet cables are way less secure than serial cables! Like, as soon as you plug one end into your laptop and the other end into the server, the server is going to get 7 different trojans! In the BIOS!
Free as in copyleft. You still have to pay a patent license if you actually use libx264 to create H.264 streams. You can make pretty posters out of the code and distribute that...
Not applicable if you are in a country which doesn't recognize software patents.
Excellent, but it's difficult to actually use it in code without a license... This code is so short that some can argue that copyright does not apply, but it is highly non-trivial and so I don't think that argument would be likely to hold up in court.
The same applies to the snippets of code you sometimes publish on comp.arch: Very interesting, but there's no mention of a license.
The default font rendering on e.g. Fedora from the last couple of years is superior to the Windows renderer, both in beauty and in legibility, as long as you're on an LCD display (and who isn't, these days?)
I can set the text in gnome-terminal to 4.5pt and it's still readable. The text in this input box in Firefox is clear and without colour fringes. The letters aren't distorted and the spacing is even (unlike the Windows rendering).
Is any of the code you have written available under a free license? I realize that what you have written for geological analysis software is likely to be kept private, but perhaps there's other bits of code which could be helpful to the rest of the world?
Designing software to do the same thing when scaling the image down is probably beyond the reach of the current state of the art in computer science, or certainly it would have to draw heavily on AI vision research.
Fail. The author of the article designed software to do the scaling correctly. He didn't use AI or anything fancy, he just changed the gamma to 1, scaled, and converted back to 2.2.
The difficulty is that you don't get as used to the Unix tools if you aren't in a Unix environment. (And the same for Windows). Also, since you can run almost every type of service on any platform you want these days, there isn't much incentive to pick something unfamiliar for servers.
There might be a case for using something non-Windows even if you prefer Windows on the desktop, just because Windows servers are such a pain to administer. However, Windows is a lot better for servers than it used to be, and in 5 or 10 years it's probably quite usable. The stability problems are gone already, which certainly helps.
They attach these to the server's serial port, which allows them to hear bootup messages. For servers that don't get all the way to bringing up internet services, this is pretty useful.
It's a bit silly to buy servers without management features these days; you can get even low end servers with serial-over-IP + remote power control. No need to mess with serial ports. Besides, this article is about Solaris. Sun hardware has ILOM.
It does suck if the Oracle/Sun merger means that the accessibility efforts in Gnome slow down.
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Dvorak is all well and good for you people with English as a first language. The Danish keyboard layout in QWERTY is fairly bad for programming, but the Danish Dvorak manages to be (barely) worse.
Hmm now I found "USA programmer Dvorak" which is totally brilliant!
I'm working for an ISP, rack units are way too expensive to waste 3 on a server. Heck they're too expensive to waste 1 on a server.
The advantage over enterprise SATA/SAS SSD's isn't large enough for us at least. We would have to go to 6 socket motherboards to get the same CPU density.
You would still have to run a sophisticated DSP, unless you kept entirely separate chips for USB1, USB2, and USB3. The DSP would eat lots of power even when working at USB1-speed.
Also, we're talking hundreds or thousands of dollars for a USB3-DSP in the USB1 era.
The lousy thing about PCIe SSD's is that modern servers don't have enough PCIe slots. 1U servers often have only one free slot, and blade servers often have zero. The only blade vendor with decent PCIe expandability is Sun, and their blade density isn't fantastic.
The needs of enterprise customers will ensure that magnetic HDDs will continue to exist for years to come.
I just don't see it happening. HDD's are lousy for the enterprise, simply because of the laughably low IOPS. Yes you can compensate by buying 10 times as many disks, but SSD's aren't 10 times as expensive as 15k disks anymore. And yes, SSD's are going to saturate the RAID controllers -- but why would it ever be an advantage for HDD's that they're too slow to even saturate the lousy 500MHz PPC chips that are sold under the pretense of making RAID faster?
Why is it so hard for developers of ports and interface standards to get it super fast, first time round? It's not like there's a power issue and there's no worry about having to make things small enough (as with say the CPU).
There IS a power issue, and most importantly there's a price issue. The interface electronics limit speed. Even today, 10Gbps ethernet (10Gbase-T) is quite expensive and power hungry. 40Gbps ethernet isn't even possible with copper right now. They couldn't have made USB 3 40 Gbps instead of 4, the technology just isn't there. In 5 years maybe, in 10 years almost certainly.
USB 1 could have been made 100Mbps, but the others were close to what was affordable at the time.
I've been really disappointed with Aruba. Our office runs on Aruba access points + controller. Coverage is universally bad even quite close to the access points, and there are occasional drop-outs. Maybe I'm just not smart enough to set it up properly.
By not maintaining grass they are only worsening region's drough issues.
Importing water and evaporating it (which is what a lawn does) is an ineffective strategy in desert regions. The slightly more humid air will be blown away.
Besides the ocean is right next door in this case. Air humidity measured in g/m3 must be quite high, even though the relative humidity is low.
Like the GP said, you make a wall of snow in front of you. It won't really work with all kinds of snow, particularly not the salt-packed greasy kind that is so common in Denmark.
Whenever I've been in snow deep enough that it works decently for non-ABS-braking I've been more worried about how to keep going than about how to stop.
The ABS can pump the brakes with at least a 90% on duty cycle. If you pump the brakes "by foot" with or without ABS I don't think you'll exceed 50% duty cycle.
That isn't what I was writing about. I was saying that if you DO pump manually but have ABS, it will be just as good as if you pump manually WITHOUT ABS. It won't be as good as just letting the ABS do its job, but the ABS isn't making anything worse.
I'm not sure how ABS would make pumping less effective, other than the fact that the jolting can be scary or surprising the first time you try it. You'll brake less effectively than if you just slammed the brake and let ABS do its job, but at least as effectively as without ABS.
It took me a while to get used to steering while slamming the brake though.
Yes, don't believe scientists, believe the Italian courts!
I suppose there's a chance they're better at science than at law though.
A MRI scan sounds likely to cause induction effects -- at least according to its name it's going for magnetism rather than radiation. Magnetic field strength falls rapidly with distance, as long as your distance to the poles is far larger than the distance between the poles. You aren't going to see induction from a cell phone tower, certainly not from several meters away.
So MRI scans are a poor predictor for the effects of cell phone radiation.
DDT is an extreme case where the people who benefit from it and the people who are harmed by it aren't the same people. DDT is used in the tropics, but the people affected by it are in the arctics living off of marine mammals. If you're utilitarian and therefore just trying to maximize the global utility, DDT is certainly positive: Many people are helped a lot, and few are harmed. There are other schools of ethics apart from utilitarianism however.
Hams use obsolete analog communication on huge swaths of valuable spectrum
One of the stupidities of ham rules is that there are limits on which modulations you can use on which frequencies. This obviously limits innovation.
I'm licensed but I don't use the license.
"Population control" is often an excuse for Westerners to not do something about our destruction of the environment.
It's also a problem we know how to solve, and one that is slowly getting solved. Look at Egypt, down from more than 6 children per woman to less than 3 children per woman. Still not down to the sustainable rate of around 2, but they'll get there.
Those crossover ethernet cables are way less secure than serial cables! Like, as soon as you plug one end into your laptop and the other end into the server, the server is going to get 7 different trojans! In the BIOS!
Right.
Free as in copyleft. You still have to pay a patent license if you actually use libx264 to create H.264 streams. You can make pretty posters out of the code and distribute that...
Not applicable if you are in a country which doesn't recognize software patents.
Excellent, but it's difficult to actually use it in code without a license... This code is so short that some can argue that copyright does not apply, but it is highly non-trivial and so I don't think that argument would be likely to hold up in court.
The same applies to the snippets of code you sometimes publish on comp.arch: Very interesting, but there's no mention of a license.
The default font rendering on e.g. Fedora from the last couple of years is superior to the Windows renderer, both in beauty and in legibility, as long as you're on an LCD display (and who isn't, these days?)
I can set the text in gnome-terminal to 4.5pt and it's still readable. The text in this input box in Firefox is clear and without colour fringes. The letters aren't distorted and the spacing is even (unlike the Windows rendering).
Is any of the code you have written available under a free license? I realize that what you have written for geological analysis software is likely to be kept private, but perhaps there's other bits of code which could be helpful to the rest of the world?
Designing software to do the same thing when scaling the image down is probably beyond the reach of the current state of the art in computer science, or certainly it would have to draw heavily on AI vision research.
Fail. The author of the article designed software to do the scaling correctly. He didn't use AI or anything fancy, he just changed the gamma to 1, scaled, and converted back to 2.2.
JPEG doesn't store RGB at all...
The difficulty is that you don't get as used to the Unix tools if you aren't in a Unix environment. (And the same for Windows). Also, since you can run almost every type of service on any platform you want these days, there isn't much incentive to pick something unfamiliar for servers.
There might be a case for using something non-Windows even if you prefer Windows on the desktop, just because Windows servers are such a pain to administer. However, Windows is a lot better for servers than it used to be, and in 5 or 10 years it's probably quite usable. The stability problems are gone already, which certainly helps.
They attach these to the server's serial port, which allows them to hear bootup messages. For servers that don't get all the way to bringing up internet services, this is pretty useful.
It's a bit silly to buy servers without management features these days; you can get even low end servers with serial-over-IP + remote power control. No need to mess with serial ports. Besides, this article is about Solaris. Sun hardware has ILOM.
It does suck if the Oracle/Sun merger means that the accessibility efforts in Gnome slow down.