Hard drives are hardly unreliable. I've never had one die on me yet.
They've worked fabulously until now and there is no reason why they will die overnight. Price, raw speed (as opposed to seek) and size are the main factors.
Your caching ideas sound awfully like what Linux does out of the box with RAM. And you want to *reduce* writes to SSDs, not increase them.
Correct me if I'm wrong but arent hard drives faster than flash when it comes to raw speed? Flash obviously has better seek of course.
Oh and as a guy with a 4 drive RAID 5 array which can hit 200mb/s, hard drive speeds are not a big bottleneck.
And hard drives will always beat flash when it comes to raw data storage. My raid array gives me a terrabyte of usable space with redundancy for a few hundred bucks (back 2 years). Flash today would cost thousands for the same amount of storage.
Isnt a single box running thousands of virtual environments which are then running clustering software just a tad redundant?
Anyway its far cheaper and has better bang for buck for Google to use cheap nasty hardware than your exotic stuff. Remember that even if they did use what your suggesting, they'd still need thousands of them.
And if Google is providing services to the NSA, how does that make them different from any other ISP?:P
Use your common sense. What can they possibly do with my email that I would actually mind? They cant get someone full time to read it and I dont mind them analyzing it digitally to improve the service.
Sure NT is a nice kernel. My point is its still there and its very much intact.
On that Wikipedia page I cant find very many true kernel changes at all. A few ACPI things and some process and file system changes. Nothing really major or low level.
Linux on the other hand has made drastic changes. ATA stuff was completely rewritten a few versions back. NO_HZ was added, improved preemption and so on. And they are still going strong. There is a slashdot article every now and then outlining new things.
Vista WAS the radical change, or didnt you notice all the driver incompatibilities? Erm, that just means that they fucked up badly. It doesnt mean anything radical has been changed.
NT's kernel is still in there. There hasnt been anything radical since then.
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Good. I'll snag your site as well with the block. :P
Hard drives are hardly unreliable.
I've never had one die on me yet.
They've worked fabulously until now and there is no reason why they will die overnight.
Price, raw speed (as opposed to seek) and size are the main factors.
Your caching ideas sound awfully like what Linux does out of the box with RAM.
And you want to *reduce* writes to SSDs, not increase them.
Why did I just *know* that some idiot would post with something stupid like that? :P
Australia can have quakes - they are just extremely rare and usually arent very powerful.
5.9 is a baby quake by world standards.
If you dont believe in them then your a freaking loony anyway. :)
Australia. :)
Yeah PHP 6 will be good.
;)
Storing no metadata about the strings is far better than what the GP was talking about with his Ruby pains.
Its technically superior as well as having a better UI. :P
I have actually used it with popups. It handles javascript to a certain extent.
PHP also can support other character sets with more or less ease.
All the reencoding libraries are easy to use and you wont get the weird errors that the GP got.
Yep. It would track external torrents, but not host them.
To increase speed, their tracker would track for any torrent id.
They wouldn't host arbitrary torrents, only track them.
They saw it was being used by other people so they disabled that.
You know the rest.
Apart from the DNS and control panel stuff ups, I dont think they had any other flaws.
When the firemen tell you to turn the power off, you really need to do it.
Although I'm not sure why they cant get the generators back online now.
The explosion must have knocked out some important equipment.
Correct me if I'm wrong but arent hard drives faster than flash when it comes to raw speed?
Flash obviously has better seek of course.
Oh and as a guy with a 4 drive RAID 5 array which can hit 200mb/s, hard drive speeds are not a big bottleneck.
And hard drives will always beat flash when it comes to raw data storage.
My raid array gives me a terrabyte of usable space with redundancy for a few hundred bucks (back 2 years).
Flash today would cost thousands for the same amount of storage.
If 'a handful' is has less than 5 digits in its number then your sorely mistaken.
Isnt a single box running thousands of virtual environments which are then running clustering software just a tad redundant?
Anyway its far cheaper and has better bang for buck for Google to use cheap nasty hardware than your exotic stuff.
Remember that even if they did use what your suggesting, they'd still need thousands of them.
They use 10 GigE.
Its the ACCC, not ACC. :)
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
They call the phone 'free' when you still pay for They do it purely for marketing and its misleading and ridiculous
Its a bit pointless.
For most people, running a 100% free system isnt really a option.
There is usually something 'tainting' the system.
There arent any real advantages to running a free system anyway from a usability aspect.
Erm. What poor security track record?
The only thing I've heard about are a couple of XSS flaws which have been fixed nearly immediately.
Maybe we should just make some honeypot trackers and see what they do about it.
And if Google is providing services to the NSA, how does that make them different from any other ISP? :P
Use your common sense. What can they possibly do with my email that I would actually mind?
They cant get someone full time to read it and I dont mind them analyzing it digitally to improve the service.
Sure NT is a nice kernel.
My point is its still there and its very much intact.
On that Wikipedia page I cant find very many true kernel changes at all.
A few ACPI things and some process and file system changes.
Nothing really major or low level.
Linux on the other hand has made drastic changes.
ATA stuff was completely rewritten a few versions back.
NO_HZ was added, improved preemption and so on.
And they are still going strong. There is a slashdot article every now and then outlining new things.
There are some things KDE 4.1 doesnt have yet but damn the things it does have make up for it. :)
It might be a Gentoo patch but my KDE 4 uses .kde4.0 and .kde is a symlink.
It doesnt mean anything radical has been changed.
NT's kernel is still in there.
There hasnt been anything radical since then.