It's not a breeder though. If everyone made a switch to nuclear, we'd be running out of uranium pretty soon. Breeders solve that but at the cost of making interesting and useful nuclear waste. Breeders also have a reputation for being less safe.
Another reason the X-prize was so succesful is that it was a problem noone had thought needed solving. There really isn't much of a point in going 100km up and then back down. It is simply done for fun, which is fine, but there are severe limits to how much society can spend on fun for a few.
Just like there are no cards which work directly with nonHDTV encrypted content. That won't ever happen so put that out of your mind.
Over here in old Europe we have plenty of cards which take a digital cable, satellite, or terrestrial feed and hand the decrypted (but not decoded) media stream to the computer.
This treaty isn't about cleaning up the environment, it's about holding back America so the rest of the world can catch up economically.
Yeah, that's why Denmark has committed itself to cut CO2-emissions to 18% below the 1990 level, which was only half the US emission level per capita. It's a really subtle ploy, and I haven't figured out how it will do its dirty deed and ruin US economy, but I'm sure I'll work it out soon.
A picture comes to mind. A birthday party, where one child has already eaten a large quantity of cake, but wants all the rest subdivided equally. Not getting this result from the adults present, she throws a tantrum....
It's worse than that. The child thought the cake was infinite, and now that it turns out that the cake isn't infinite, it argues that since it ate a quarter of all cake eaten so far, it should be allotted a quarter of the cake that is left. Then when people pretty much allow that, it throws another tantrum saying that it should just be allowed to have as much cake as it can grab.
When it comes to CO2 emissions, Europe and the US totally outclass China. Chinas air pollution is mostly sulphur and nitrates and similar, which is nasty for them, but really doesn't affect me much over here in Europe.
Everyone thought it should have handled more than 7 writes per second. This was with Windows NT 4 Server, whatever drivers/firmware was current in 2001. Note that the writes were synchronous, I am sure that performance with asynchronous writes would have been much higher.
The application with the problem was a DHCP/DNS server. It had its own proprietary database, and for each DHCP-address given out it had to do a synchronous write to disk (so it would not reuse addresses). Doing disk profiling showed that the system performed great for 3-4 requests per second (with the 4200, less with the slower controllers), but as soon you went beyond that the writes took a long time to complete. Of course the system should have been using RAID-1 instead of RAID-5, but getting that changed was a long slow process.
The whole point of Altix is that it's a single system image, not a cluster. Every processor can access all 13TB. That doesn't mean communication is free, of course, but it's vastly faster than your favourite Beowulf cluster.
Your example "foo7bar+" is pretty easy to crack. LM breaks passwords into 7-character parts, so you just need to break "foo7bar", which is reasonably easy to do, and "+", which is trivial. (Yes I had my password broken this way once. I kept the complexity at the end. Bad move. Now I know better.)
The last time I dealt with RAID was Compaq stuff, up to and including the SA-4200. Disappointing performance was, say, fewer than 7 small synchronous writes per second to a RAID-5 volume. And fewer than 3 per second with the low-end cards.
The 5i is dead slow for small writes on RAID-5. On the order of 5 writes/sec. Most often the OS caching papers over the problem, but if you do small synchronous writes you get performance breakdown. Hardware RAID controllers with non-volatile memory are supposed to shine at small writes (just write to memory, wait till you have a multimegabyte batch, push the batch to the disks.)
Anyway, unless you're doing video or you're low on disk capacity, go with RAID-10. And if you're willing to trade performance for disk capacity, you shouldn't be using SCSI RAID in the first place.
Hardware raid is slower since the cards have damn slow CPUs on them. And yes, most of them use regular CPUs. The best RAID accelerators you can buy are sold by AMD and Intel. They have names like "Xeon" and "Opteron".
USB2 has higher theoretical bandwidth (480Mbps vs 400Mbps of firewire-400). In practice firewire is faster, particularly under Linux. Also, there's firewire-800.
Nobody's going to get in the way of a European coming over here to spend their money, after all.
I found going through US customs to be a pretty humiliating experience, and they didn't even hassle me much. Nowadays they even take fingerprints of European visitors. No way I'm going to go through that.
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Right, putting a 10mW signal right next to a 1W signal on the same frequency sounds like a great idea.
It's not a breeder though. If everyone made a switch to nuclear, we'd be running out of uranium pretty soon. Breeders solve that but at the cost of making interesting and useful nuclear waste. Breeders also have a reputation for being less safe.
Another reason the X-prize was so succesful is that it was a problem noone had thought needed solving. There really isn't much of a point in going 100km up and then back down. It is simply done for fun, which is fine, but there are severe limits to how much society can spend on fun for a few.
Soyuz doesn't worry too much about a landing strip.
How long did it take from the PCI bus appeared till it became common to see motherboards without ISA slots? - PCI will be with us in 2010.
Over here in old Europe we have plenty of cards which take a digital cable, satellite, or terrestrial feed and hand the decrypted (but not decoded) media stream to the computer.
I'm so tired of this myth. Go read the treaty.
Yeah, that's why Denmark has committed itself to cut CO2-emissions to 18% below the 1990 level, which was only half the US emission level per capita. It's a really subtle ploy, and I haven't figured out how it will do its dirty deed and ruin US economy, but I'm sure I'll work it out soon.
It's worse than that. The child thought the cake was infinite, and now that it turns out that the cake isn't infinite, it argues that since it ate a quarter of all cake eaten so far, it should be allotted a quarter of the cake that is left. Then when people pretty much allow that, it throws another tantrum saying that it should just be allowed to have as much cake as it can grab.
When it comes to CO2 emissions, Europe and the US totally outclass China. Chinas air pollution is mostly sulphur and nitrates and similar, which is nasty for them, but really doesn't affect me much over here in Europe.
The application with the problem was a DHCP/DNS server. It had its own proprietary database, and for each DHCP-address given out it had to do a synchronous write to disk (so it would not reuse addresses). Doing disk profiling showed that the system performed great for 3-4 requests per second (with the 4200, less with the slower controllers), but as soon you went beyond that the writes took a long time to complete. Of course the system should have been using RAID-1 instead of RAID-5, but getting that changed was a long slow process.
The whole point of Altix is that it's a single system image, not a cluster. Every processor can access all 13TB. That doesn't mean communication is free, of course, but it's vastly faster than your favourite Beowulf cluster.
Actually it's called coLinux. Binary compatibility can be very useful.
LM hashes every 7 characters separately, in order to lower the Total Cost of 0wn3rship.
Your example "foo7bar+" is pretty easy to crack. LM breaks passwords into 7-character parts, so you just need to break "foo7bar", which is reasonably easy to do, and "+", which is trivial. (Yes I had my password broken this way once. I kept the complexity at the end. Bad move. Now I know better.)
I don't find the caddies around 3 1/2" floppies a significant hassle. Why can we deal with caddies on magnetic media, but not on optical media?
This article isn't about drivers. It is about firmware.
Compaq SA. IBM Serveraid. They benchmark beautifully, but real life performance is disappointing.
Anyway, unless you're doing video or you're low on disk capacity, go with RAID-10. And if you're willing to trade performance for disk capacity, you shouldn't be using SCSI RAID in the first place.
Hardware raid is slower since the cards have damn slow CPUs on them. And yes, most of them use regular CPUs. The best RAID accelerators you can buy are sold by AMD and Intel. They have names like "Xeon" and "Opteron".
USB2 has higher theoretical bandwidth (480Mbps vs 400Mbps of firewire-400). In practice firewire is faster, particularly under Linux. Also, there's firewire-800.
There is no evidence of extinctions being more likely during times of low magnetic field strength. I personally don't worry too much.
It is my belief that you are delusional, but that you just don't know it.
I found going through US customs to be a pretty humiliating experience, and they didn't even hassle me much. Nowadays they even take fingerprints of European visitors. No way I'm going to go through that.