Give me Honda, Give me Sony Real cheap, and so phony.
At one point Frys even sold "Japanese Market" Sony. (Look for the small cardboard boxes with intricate printing. Anything in big plastic packages is intended for retarded American shoplifters.)
I agree, lets stop re-inventing the wheel. The first open source video card should be DVI output hardware, some RAM, an ARM chip, and some flashable BIOS. All on a PCI or cPCI card.
The second product should be a CD audio style DAC, some RAM, an ARM chip, and some flashable BIOS. All on a PCI or cPCI card.
The third product should be a 10/100/1000 network interface PHY, some RAM, and ARM chip, and some flashable BIOS. All on a PCI or cPCI card.
All systems are going to be SMP soon, why not dedicate small CPU to each task? Run Linux or BSD on every card in the box.
The native capacity of 3592J1A (jaguar) drives is 300GB. If you backup in parallel to 20 jag drives at approximately 200GB per hour, you can backup 4TB in just about an hour.
The FastT subsystem is remarketed LSI aka Symbios aka NCR. (Yes, as in the old SCSI card maker NCR.) FastT has a really cheap heritage, and only supports active/passive failover like other low end products like the EMC Clariion line.
For a better feel for the DS line, you have to look at the feature set of the ESS (shark) line.
The sharks have two pSeries boxes in them that act as an intermediary between the FC (fabric) host-adapters on the front end, and the IBM SSA disk loops and trays on the back end. These servers also handle caching and RAID functions for the SSA disks.
(The shark line was backended on SSA disk. But they did go to SCSI disks with an SSA-shim around the time they sold their disk business to Hitachi.)
The DS8000 appears to be based on FC-AL on the back end, much like the EMC DMX line.
In addition to the software based features of the ESS, some models in the DS8000 lineup will have enough spare CPU to host an LPAR. Presumably this LPAR will be used to run the SVC virtualization software. (And who knows what else? Maybe TSM some day?)
If the pricing is good, it could be a compelling product to VAR.
Just what we don't need in this state, more unemployed people.
Only part of Oregon requires smog checks at this point. (And the equipment for the checks are built into cars now.) There is a low income out available as well.
With a GPS system, each county would get a cut of the road taxes based on the amount of miles driven.
What is it with the endless string of poorly written articles?
Some people get addicted, deal with it. Its good for Sony's bottom line.
When some portion of the human race doesn't have to spend all its time scrounging for food, it is going to get addicted to something. Politics, religion, television, sex, alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, complaining, the web, you name it.
I couldn't have been the only person to notice that the monkey in McDougals's class was playing with itself on camera. I'm sprised that they didn't black that bit out during editing.
The profitable part of the storage market is the packaging. The disk drives are the cheap part. Why bother making disks if you can make a fortune pimping someone else's drives?
If you want proof, look at IBM's ESS product. They've gone from using their own fibre channel disks to a SEAGATE U-160 with an add-on shim that adapts the drive to FC.
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Well, how about a CD/RW with 128MB of flash onboard. Anyone wanting more storage can either add a thumb drive, or use some other USB drive type.
I'd be tempted to use a USB modem and/or network connection as well. How many people need to use both at the same time?
Give me Honda, Give me Sony
Real cheap, and so phony.
At one point Frys even sold "Japanese Market" Sony. (Look for the small cardboard boxes with intricate printing. Anything in big plastic packages is intended for retarded American shoplifters.)
I agree, lets stop re-inventing the wheel. The first open source video card should be DVI output hardware, some RAM, an ARM chip, and some flashable BIOS. All on a PCI or cPCI card.
The second product should be a CD audio style DAC, some RAM, an ARM chip, and some flashable BIOS. All on a PCI or cPCI card.
The third product should be a 10/100/1000 network interface PHY, some RAM, and ARM chip, and some flashable BIOS. All on a PCI or cPCI card.
All systems are going to be SMP soon, why not dedicate small CPU to each task? Run Linux or BSD on every card in the box.
Every time a Wal-Mart opens... and Okie moves to Seattle!
Maybe that was Walton's plan after all.
There is at least one third party vendor that does just this. (Sorry, don't remember the name at the moment.)
The ESS and DS series gear does have CKD sized blocks, and ESCON/FICON type connections. So they can be used with the 390.
The native capacity of 3592J1A (jaguar) drives is 300GB. If you backup in parallel to 20 jag drives at approximately 200GB per hour, you can backup 4TB in just about an hour.
The FastT subsystem is remarketed LSI aka Symbios aka NCR. (Yes, as in the old SCSI card maker NCR.) FastT has a really cheap heritage, and only supports active/passive failover like other low end products like the EMC Clariion line.
For a better feel for the DS line, you have to look at the feature set of the ESS (shark) line.
The sharks have two pSeries boxes in them that act as an intermediary between the FC (fabric) host-adapters on the front end, and the IBM SSA disk loops and trays on the back end. These servers also handle caching and RAID functions for the SSA disks.
(The shark line was backended on SSA disk. But they did go to SCSI disks with an SSA-shim around the time they sold their disk business to Hitachi.)
The DS8000 appears to be based on FC-AL on the back end, much like the EMC DMX line.
In addition to the software based features of the ESS, some models in the DS8000 lineup will have enough spare CPU to host an LPAR. Presumably this LPAR will be used to run the SVC virtualization software. (And who knows what else? Maybe TSM some day?)
If the pricing is good, it could be a compelling product to VAR.
Sun has been in a long downward slide since they decided to go SYS V.
I have an MVP, and I wouldn't reccomend them. If Hauppage had used a CPU one model farther up the product line, they'd have AC3 decode.
The evening I figured out that all my MPEGs with AC3 audio weren't going to produce audio, I was very unhappy.
The video looked great, and people have even put together software to allow serving files from Linux, but without audio, its a waste.
Pinback
Is going on a political diatribe supposed to attract dirty American dollars?
Or are you counting on your effort to be supported by the Euro?
Is this one more example of the "writing on the wall" for the FreeBSD 5 branch?
You might check out RDMA. Interesting stuff.
Bubba refers to a southern bumpkin, aka Elvis.
Ho-Tep is the name of the mummy.
Maybe "Bubba vs Ho-Tep" would've been more intuitive. But not as catchy.
The next movie is supposedly going to be "Bubba Nosferatu".
What state do you live in that let you marry a wild monkey?
While they're at it, why doesn't someone put a Z80 and a 6502 in the same box.
Or maybe someone could put a 68000 in with an 8088.
Fun.
What we need is a chemical that you can spray on your local currency that will make it turn to dust in 48 hours.
That way both parties loose the benefits of the exchange in 48 hours.
The files have moved to:
http://www.flapdoodle.org/exeter
or
http://starshipexeter.pdox.net/exeter
Just what we don't need in this state, more unemployed people.
Only part of Oregon requires smog checks at this point. (And the equipment for the checks are built into cars now.) There is a low income out available as well.
With a GPS system, each county would get a cut of the road taxes based on the amount of miles driven.
Maybe WiFi is becoming widespread because it is note overly expensive?
The modem and fast ethernet markets have saturated as well. What widgets can companies make at a profit these days?
What is it with the endless string of poorly written articles?
Some people get addicted, deal with it. Its good for Sony's bottom line.
When some portion of the human race doesn't have to spend all its time scrounging for food, it is going to get addicted to something. Politics, religion, television, sex, alcohol, caffeine, nicotine, complaining, the web, you name it.
I couldn't have been the only person to notice that the monkey in McDougals's class was playing with itself on camera. I'm sprised that they didn't black that bit out during editing.
Talk about putting a ribbon around a turd's neck. The guy probably has flames painted on his metro as well.
Oops, yes, you are correct.
The ESS uses SSA. But are the 73GB size the only disks that are setup this way?
The profitable part of the storage market is the packaging. The disk drives are the cheap part. Why bother making disks if you can make a fortune pimping someone else's drives?
If you want proof, look at IBM's ESS product. They've gone from using their own fibre channel disks to a SEAGATE U-160 with an add-on shim that adapts the drive to FC.
Just what we don't need, a justification for raiseing prices on music.
What next, 50$ (US) music discs?
How long will their revenue model work after the product has left beta?
Will anyone pay for a product that is available as source?