A v90 modem gives you 31200 bps upstream, or 3.9 kB/s, or 336 960 kbytes per day, ignoring TCP/IP overhead. That gives you about 337 bytes per hit, if doing 1M a day. That doesn't even cover the HTTP headers.
A 7200 RPM hard drive can do roughly 167 seeks per second. If we had a 100 Mbps port, and 1000 users, that's roughly 10 KB/s each. If the server was configured to do read ahead on files, such as reading in 64 KB chunks, that would reduce the read needs for each connection to once every 6 seconds. If only one in 6 connections needs a read at a given moment, that 167 seeks per second drive could handle about 1000 simultaneous streaming reads. You could easily double the capacity of the system by doubling the chunk size. If you're just serving large files, disk bandwidth will be your bottleneck long before seek time.
I'm serving 1 million PHP hits a day and up to 200 MySQL queries per second (5 min avg) on a 3 GHz Celeron with 1 GB of RAM. I could do 10,000 hits per day on a 486.
Say they saved 200 bytes per front page hit. Say it gets hit 50,000,000 times per day. That's already 10 TB of bandwidth. If they're paying 10 per GB, that's $1000/day saved.
They'll send tens of thousands of young men (and women) overseas to be shot at and kill others, but not risk seven lives to fucking further humanity and human knowledge?
I don't see what the big deal is. It's not like this institution is a great source of progress or innovation. I don't think anything of value will be lost. I mean, even look at their acronym: Not Invented Here.
It should be pretty though. Iridium comes from the greek word for rainbow, iris: think of all the pretty shiny bits strewn across the sky.
It's a shame it was Iridium-33 that got pummelled. If it were Iridium-192, it would have decayed into platinum and made that rainbow so much more beautiful.
Canada has been for years, yes. The only time I have not had my ID scanned when returning to Canada was on a tour bus where the guard just looked at my passport. The US guards are particularly anal. Last time I crossed into the US, the guard accused me of trying to move there because I had crossed a week earlier. Although there is one crossing where I've never had trouble -- because there is no guard.
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Yep, it descretely walked the planck a while ago...
That would be almost as spooky as pink ponies!
As George Carlin (RIP) said, "If selling is legal, and fucking is legal, why isn't selling fucking legal?"
PbF!! Yeah right it did.
Will Slashdot receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the onomatopoeic bond?
A v90 modem gives you 31200 bps upstream, or 3.9 kB/s, or 336 960 kbytes per day, ignoring TCP/IP overhead. That gives you about 337 bytes per hit, if doing 1M a day. That doesn't even cover the HTTP headers.
Fool.
A 7200 RPM hard drive can do roughly 167 seeks per second. If we had a 100 Mbps port, and 1000 users, that's roughly 10 KB/s each. If the server was configured to do read ahead on files, such as reading in 64 KB chunks, that would reduce the read needs for each connection to once every 6 seconds. If only one in 6 connections needs a read at a given moment, that 167 seeks per second drive could handle about 1000 simultaneous streaming reads. You could easily double the capacity of the system by doubling the chunk size. If you're just serving large files, disk bandwidth will be your bottleneck long before seek time.
I'm serving 1 million PHP hits a day and up to 200 MySQL queries per second (5 min avg) on a 3 GHz Celeron with 1 GB of RAM. I could do 10,000 hits per day on a 486.
None this makes any sense to us jocks. Can you explain it using a sports analogy?
Say they saved 200 bytes per front page hit. Say it gets hit 50,000,000 times per day. That's already 10 TB of bandwidth. If they're paying 10 per GB, that's $1000/day saved.
The foil strips will make the sky even more pretty and sparkly, just like pixie dust! *taps wand*
They'll send tens of thousands of young men (and women) overseas to be shot at and kill others, but not risk seven lives to fucking further humanity and human knowledge?
I don't get it.
Yes, I was trying to be sarcastic :)
I don't see what the big deal is. It's not like this institution is a great source of progress or innovation. I don't think anything of value will be lost. I mean, even look at their acronym: Not Invented Here.
The InnoDB engine is pretty nice. The coming Falcon engine looks promising, too. MySQL will be around for a long time to come.
That's okay! I'll just rollback the transaction.... oh shit, that was a MyISAM table...
course*
Damnit, I should have hit the preview button!
Of corse he picked Gentoo. Gentoo are penguins. And penguins are cute and fuzzy. And anything cute and fuzzy must be friendly and easy to use. Right?
Iridium33 is the name of the satellite that got whacked.
It should be pretty though. Iridium comes from the greek word for rainbow, iris: think of all the pretty shiny bits strewn across the sky.
It's a shame it was Iridium-33 that got pummelled. If it were Iridium-192, it would have decayed into platinum and made that rainbow so much more beautiful.
They couldn't talk to each other because someone took out a communication satellite. Obviously.
I thought of making a witty retort to grandparent's poetry, but then I saw his nick and wrote that instead.
Dude. Chill Out. Just Be.
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Canada has been for years, yes. The only time I have not had my ID scanned when returning to Canada was on a tour bus where the guard just looked at my passport. The US guards are particularly anal. Last time I crossed into the US, the guard accused me of trying to move there because I had crossed a week earlier. Although there is one crossing where I've never had trouble -- because there is no guard.