Well, I'll have to respectfully disagree with you though; the fact that they're either "cheap" or "common" does not make them less powerfull. Take the example of cellphones: they're common, they're cheap, they're powerfull.
Now I would agree with you that the original "powerfull" sounded a bit like extraordinaire exoctic hardware, which it is not.
...remember that two failures in three years can be very little or a lot, obviously directly depending on the number of disks your deal with everyday.
If the MTBF of a given disk is, say, 5 years (out of my imagination, I have no real data for this now) and you own 10 of those, you can expect to have a disk fail you every six months -- statistically, of course. Now, think large datacenters with several large disk arrays with hundreds of disks each one...
All in all disks do fail. If you work at a place with lots of disks you know that and you accept it. Most importantly, you are prepared for it. Anyway, if they can fail less often, good.
This is a press release where HP is announcing (among other things) Linux-compatible drivers [...] for more than 30 HP Deskjet color inkjet printers, including models from the 600, 800 and 900 series. What kind of quality and functionality one will get from these is something we'll probably have to wait and see...
The "nobody-listens-to-what-I-have-to-say sindrome " happens, to a certain extent, under every business or organization.
However skillfull one can technically be and thus perform high-quality delivery under such scope and circunstances, one is nothing but informative (as per the Slashdot moderation guidelines, if you allow me the comparison).
Insightfullness is paired with certain not-so-technical abilities like sensitiveness and awareness, broadness of visison, maturity, lead-, present- and argue-capabilities, etc, etc, that, inevitably, you develop as you live throughout your life; not only as a professional but most importantly as an individual.
Hmmm, there is clear evidence of a typo in the article. I certainly believe they meant...
'This one is a dual CPU system with PentiumIII 900-GHz processors and 768 GBs of RAM. The disks are under a RAID controller, letting the five 18.2-TB disks be visible under RAID5.'
...these boxes wouldn't scale otherwise, would they ?:)
"Sure, in the perfect world nobody would be intimidated, and everybody would understand implicity that they really don't need to pay attention to most of those messages in most cases."
Nice logic about 'perfection' but, in such a 'perfect world', you simply wouldn't need the messages.
You might want them, but you wouln'd need them.
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...hiring a web designer ?!
http://www.metrics.com/WinFAQ/winver.htm
It has some versions, some dates, some features...
Not exactly a timeline but interesting, anyhow:
http://pla-netx.com/linebackn/guis/index.html
http://www.windrivers.com/TIMELINE/1.htm
...they're essentially the same, I believe, so someone must be copying/mirroring/whatever someone.
error - parse.c (223): 'inexpensive' and 'terrabyte' detected in the same sentence
Well, I'll have to respectfully disagree with you though; the fact that they're either "cheap" or "common" does not make them less powerfull. Take the example of cellphones: they're common, they're cheap, they're powerfull.
Now I would agree with you that the original "powerfull" sounded a bit like extraordinaire exoctic hardware, which it is not.
...sure, 2000-8 = 1998; lots of "room" before reaching the "version bloat" red-line ! :)
...remember that two failures in three years can be very little or a lot, obviously directly depending on the number of disks your deal with everyday.
If the MTBF of a given disk is, say, 5 years (out of my imagination, I have no real data for this now) and you own 10 of those, you can expect to have a disk fail you every six months -- statistically, of course. Now, think large datacenters with several large disk arrays with hundreds of disks each one...
All in all disks do fail. If you work at a place with lots of disks you know that and you accept it. Most importantly, you are prepared for it. Anyway, if they can fail less often, good.
This is a press release where HP is announcing (among other things) Linux-compatible drivers [...] for more than 30 HP Deskjet color inkjet printers, including models from the 600, 800 and 900 series. What kind of quality and functionality one will get from these is something we'll probably have to wait and see...
The "nobody-listens-to-what-I-have-to-say sindrome " happens, to a certain extent, under every business or organization.
However skillfull one can technically be and thus perform high-quality delivery under such scope and circunstances, one is nothing but informative (as per the Slashdot moderation guidelines, if you allow me the comparison).
Insightfullness is paired with certain not-so-technical abilities like sensitiveness and awareness, broadness of visison, maturity, lead-, present- and argue-capabilities, etc, etc, that, inevitably, you develop as you live throughout your life; not only as a professional but most importantly as an individual.
Fortunatelly, living takes time.
Hmmm, there is clear evidence of a typo in the article. I certainly believe they meant...
'This one is a dual CPU system with PentiumIII 900-GHz processors and 768 GBs of RAM. The disks are under a RAID controller, letting the five 18.2-TB disks be visible under RAID5.'
...these boxes wouldn't scale otherwise, would they ?:)
65,535 simultaneous open sockets.
...per IP address on the system ! Be it associated with a physical network interface or a logical one !
"Sure, in the perfect world nobody would be intimidated, and everybody would understand implicity that they really don't need to pay attention to most of those messages in most cases."
Nice logic about 'perfection' but, in such a 'perfect world', you simply wouldn't need the messages.
You might want them, but you wouln'd need them.