There is/was one near Chicago, it was along I-294 north to Milwaulkee. It got remade, and the towers removed, and was used for AT&T something or another, as it still had a AT&T sign on last time I saw it, which was years ago.
You then have the problem of housing, and cabling up over 400 drives.
I can't thing of any individual system that can put many dozens of IDE drives into a single raid volume. You might get several dozen, but not several gross.
At that level, one is going have to pay the bux for real iron.
The once promised object orientated operating system?
Oh, yeah, thats right, that was back when they had OS/2 to kick around, which handled multiple applications per file type much better than Windows, and that was the promised hope.
The concept that here is a file of a certain type, and you have the following programs that say they can handle it, which one would you like to open, with this one as a default?
The fight over file types in Windows is more about control of the user by the corporations involved than any thing else.
I get a copy of the same nigerian 409 scam for each domain I own, so it is pretty clear that they are culling the domain registrars.
Yes, the FTC could go a long way with a couple of intern type "consumer users", at minimum wage to surf the net, and open a hotmail account or two, and register a domain or two.
Once the addresses are on a few CDROMs full of addys sold to spammers, they will be up to their hips in spam.
Airspace is controlled around major airports, in fact most of the Chicago area (north side) is under the O'hare TCA (tower controlled airspace). It is shaped like a funnel, centered on the airport.
This I know, cause I live near one corner of it, and all the lowflying craft including ambulance copters come around my area. I can see a steady stream of planes coming in at night.
I remember flying around downtown with a buddy in small plane, and we had to fly between the sky scrapers, cause the space above them was controlled. Really cool to do, but I beleive they have closed that airspace further after 9/11.
You have to read the legalese in the EULA to see what the end consumer is left with, the big flashy headlines are pretty meaningless when you have to sign those very rights away.
That was my response to the article, it made me (US citizen) glad for the seperation of church and state, even though it is some what un popular these days.
Government shouldn't be allocating resources based on folks faith beliefs.
The source should be published, and compiled with a standard (GCC) compiler.
The CPU vendor, or any other compiler vendor can compile the same code, and publish the benchmark as well.
This then opens up the competitive market in compilers.
What I'd like to see is the same code, compled with cross cpu options, IE what happens when the code optomizes for Intel but runs on AMD. How much does that penalize you, useing the wrong optimizations?
As long as the compiler, and options used are disclosed, I don't see a problem.
Digital used to put out a document, called the software product description (SPD), and then warrantied that the software would perform as the SPD said.
Users would either get a problem reported as a bug, and fixed, or could get their money back.
Linux should do the same, each distribution should have such a document, stating what Linux does, and warrants against it. If a problem is found, either accept the problem as a bug, and promise a resolution. Or give the money back, that was paid for the distro.
It isn't that far from the current Linux model, in that there is an army of people looking to fix various bugs, IE things that don't work as documented.
I seem to remember a story about how the speed is relative to the track being read, depending on being the inside or outside of the disk.
In that the disc itself can't handle being spun at more than a certain RPM before it comes apart.
If the speed issue is that big of a deal for you, a stand alone burning machine is probably for you. In that you can use your other machine while it burns away. Drives are cheap enough these days.
And if your redundant carriers were MCI and UUnet?
is your CURRENT redundant connection going to buy what is left of Worldcom? (or global crossing, or etc, etc)
It is easy to talk about redundancy when there are options that you can make use of.
We are heading towards a world where there just aren't any alternatives to choose from. Try and configure service that DOESN'T go through the local phone company CO.
The rest of the world backs up products they want to inspire trust in with warranties or some guarantee that the product is actually usable for its intended purpose.
This is something that is notably lacking from MS, their trustworthy intiative seems more about making their EULA more legally binding, without delivering anything to the consumer.
It certainly is a gaunlet tossed at the community, in that if they only release a binary, it is going to be one of the most reversed engineered in history.
Given the relative success that NSA SE Linux has had to date, yes making the tool open source would only benefit everyone.
From the bsd world, there is the concept of "backport" which is where a feature in the development kernal is ported back to a previous stable kernal series.
Great for bug fixes, and other things in the middle ground.
Certainly if there is interest, a set of patches to a stable kernel, or even another -someone kernel series can be developed. If these turn out to be in demand, and stable enoug, they can be officially included.
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There is/was one near Chicago, it was along I-294 north to Milwaulkee. It got remade, and the towers removed, and was used for AT&T something or another, as it still had a AT&T sign on last time I saw it, which was years ago.
You then have the problem of housing, and cabling up over 400 drives.
I can't thing of any individual system that can put many dozens of IDE drives into a single raid volume. You might get several dozen, but not several gross.
At that level, one is going have to pay the bux for real iron.
The once promised object orientated operating system?
Oh, yeah, thats right, that was back when they had OS/2 to kick around, which handled multiple applications per file type much better than Windows, and that was the promised hope.
The concept that here is a file of a certain type, and you have the following programs that say they can handle it, which one would you like to open, with this one as a default?
The fight over file types in Windows is more about control of the user by the corporations involved than any thing else.
I get a copy of the same nigerian 409 scam for each domain I own, so it is pretty clear that they are culling the domain registrars.
Yes, the FTC could go a long way with a couple of intern type "consumer users", at minimum wage to surf the net, and open a hotmail account or two, and register a domain or two.
Once the addresses are on a few CDROMs full of addys sold to spammers, they will be up to their hips in spam.
Cornstarch, a length of plastic hose, and a bunsen burner, or other flame source.
Fill one end of the tube with cornstarch, and blow on the other end, directing the cloud towards the flame source.
You'll want a tube that is arms length or better, if you value your eyebrows.
Fun with cornstarch in science class.
Airspace is controlled around major airports, in fact most of the Chicago area (north side) is under the O'hare TCA (tower controlled airspace). It is shaped like a funnel, centered on the airport.
This I know, cause I live near one corner of it, and all the lowflying craft including ambulance copters come around my area. I can see a steady stream of planes coming in at night.
I remember flying around downtown with a buddy in small plane, and we had to fly between the sky scrapers, cause the space above them was controlled. Really cool to do, but I beleive they have closed that airspace further after 9/11.
You have to read the legalese in the EULA to see what the end consumer is left with, the big flashy headlines are pretty meaningless when you have to sign those very rights away.
That was my response to the article, it made me (US citizen) glad for the seperation of church and state, even though it is some what un popular these days.
Government shouldn't be allocating resources based on folks faith beliefs.
The source should be published, and compiled with a standard (GCC) compiler.
The CPU vendor, or any other compiler vendor can compile the same code, and publish the benchmark as well.
This then opens up the competitive market in compilers.
What I'd like to see is the same code, compled with cross cpu options, IE what happens when the code optomizes for Intel but runs on AMD. How much does that penalize you, useing the wrong optimizations?
As long as the compiler, and options used are disclosed, I don't see a problem.
Have you tried Pricewatch? It now has a barcode selection for input devices. I find wands with keyboard wedges starting at USD$55.
Perhaps that is a place to start, better Metafont support in X and Linux.
Digital used to put out a document, called the software product description (SPD), and then warrantied that the software would perform as the SPD said.
Users would either get a problem reported as a bug, and fixed, or could get their money back.
Linux should do the same, each distribution should have such a document, stating what Linux does, and warrants against it. If a problem is found, either accept the problem as a bug, and promise a resolution. Or give the money back, that was paid for the distro.
It isn't that far from the current Linux model, in that there is an army of people looking to fix various bugs, IE things that don't work as documented.
The RIAA and MPAA. Their clampdown is the reason for the diminishment of growth in network traffic.
I have a Highpoint Rocket Raid 100 in my stereo, working fine so far, with 4 drives in 0+1 config for 160 Gb under NT 4sp6a.
Haven't (yet) tried to replace one of the drives, but the initial install was ez.
No, it now performs NOPs at an infinite rate, thus the null loop is over, and it has nothing to do.
I do now Thread
no the web site had the results posted. They also glued kelvar threads like spokes. It was an effort to find out the max speed.
/. as well, I don't know how to search for old articles.
I think it was on
I seem to remember a story about how the speed is relative to the track being read, depending on being the inside or outside of the disk.
In that the disc itself can't handle being spun at more than a certain RPM before it comes apart.
If the speed issue is that big of a deal for you, a stand alone burning machine is probably for you. In that you can use your other machine while it burns away. Drives are cheap enough these days.
And if your redundant carriers were MCI and UUnet?
is your CURRENT redundant connection going to buy what is left of Worldcom? (or global crossing, or etc, etc)
It is easy to talk about redundancy when there are options that you can make use of.
We are heading towards a world where there just aren't any alternatives to choose from. Try and configure service that DOESN'T go through the local phone company CO.
The rest of the world backs up products they want to inspire trust in with warranties or some guarantee that the product is actually usable for its intended purpose.
This is something that is notably lacking from MS, their trustworthy intiative seems more about making their EULA more legally binding, without delivering anything to the consumer.
It certainly is a gaunlet tossed at the community, in that if they only release a binary, it is going to be one of the most reversed engineered in history.
Given the relative success that NSA SE Linux has had to date, yes making the tool open source would only benefit everyone.
Don Knuth's language web had an interesting feature, the ability to generate documentation from the same source code.
I think coders would be a lot better at commenting their code, and writing documentation if it was all integrated.
The ability to easily document a functions purpose, used data, and other information would be nice.
In the case of BSD, many of the changes are for other than kernel items, which doesn't apply to Linux.
For the kernel itself, it would have to be fairly minor changes, or possibly stub or future compatiblity reasons.
I certainly agree that the average administrator needs to be able to rely on as stable.
Again, the most common need would be a bug that affected both stable and development versions.
From the bsd world, there is the concept of "backport" which is where a feature in the development kernal is ported back to a previous stable kernal series.
Great for bug fixes, and other things in the middle ground.
Certainly if there is interest, a set of patches to a stable kernel, or even another -someone kernel series can be developed. If these turn out to be in demand, and stable enoug, they can be officially included.
Its called Windows.