Lots of supposed answers, for sure, but they tend to be riddled with assumptions, eg. that data is written sequentially, and in large blocks.
Filesystems tend to not work that way. I've yet to see an analysis of flash drive lifetime with a real-world UFS (or whatever) filesytem on it.
Another problem is that the cars would quickly becoming disgusting inside, which I figure is one reason why car rental companies turn their fleet over every year. Between people smoking, eating corpses, etc. in the cars I certainly wouldn't want to participate in such a scheme.
Thank you for recognizing that simple alcohols as a general-purpose energy source aren't end-to-end efficient. I'd presume that the ethanol, like that that the Bush regime mistakes for transportation fuel, is to come from extremely inefficient corn production / fermentation. More toxic fertilizers dumped into the ground and thus into the Gulf of Mexico. Marvy.
If you're paying $20 for a CD, you must be shopping at storefront retailers. Their markups have been outrageous for years, and alternatives that are both legal and cheaper have been widely available, also for years.
DRM'd CD? Sony put out like a dozen titles, right? This is hardly a widespread thing.
Hardware RAID is a bad idea anyway. You get some proprietary layout that probably isn't transportable, and the monitoring/admin utils suck bigtime.
The x4100 eg. has some flinky hw RAID but it's not worth using.
Mainframes? Hard to say. The article says they put them on "trolleys" after all, which I'm guessing is Australian for a cart. More likely they ripped off a pair of Mac Minis or such.
The Wikipedia article that I guess you're looking at says "LVM is a logical volume manager for the Linux kernel". The fact that Linux types happen to name a particular implementation after the concept is a non-sequitor with respect to what I wrote.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_volume_management
"In computer storage, logical volume management or LVM is a method of allocating space on mass storage devices that is more flexible than conventional partitioning schemes. In particular, a volume manager can concatenate, stripe together or otherwise combine partitions into larger virtual ones that can be resized or moved, possibly while it is being used"...
"Normally, PEs are simply mapped one-to-one to logical extents (LEs). With mirroring, multiple PEs are mapped onto each LE. "
Crawl out of your mom's basement, grow out of your Linux solipsism, and realize that there's a big wide world out there.
Stay away from the brown acid, "Lord".
LVM = Logical Volume Manager. An umbrella term. SVM (Solaris Volume Manager) for example allows one to create mirrors and (if you're a masochist) RAID5 volumes.
Your data belongs on a RAID. That NEVER degrades EVER.. unless a power spike fries your flinky RAID-chip-added-onto-a-SATA-controller and your disks are useless. I'm amazed at how many people use those things because they feel that somehow they're better than software LVM.
The completeness of the *ix environment (real X11 port, vectorizing ANSI C compiler, etc) was one thing that drew customers to Convex vector machines back in the day.
I submit that the hourly rates of consultants don't compare 1:1 with the hourly rates paid to full-time employees. You have to factor in vacation/sick time, medical insurance, etc.
Competitive with *what*? The few people who live in dense areas where FIOS is available already have plenty of options for more bandwidth than than need.
I'd like to see a flash fanboy present a longevity curve for present-day flash (which is assumed but not shown to do write leveling) *that takes into account the fact that real-world filesystem writes are not sequential 1M blocks*.
This is the same airline, after all, that has jammed coach/economy seats closer together than ever before, and charges extra for "premium economy", which is the same cramped spacing that used to be just plain economy. I was subjected to this on flights to/from Denver this past May (with inconsiderate carnies in the row in front of us), and the experience was the last straw for United in my book - I won't fly them again.
Another poster mentioned America West. I flew them once - never again. The interior was *dirty* and a number of the panels with the lights, air, and presumably O2 masks weren't fastened and were hanging at odd angles. They played a goofy game with my "meal" too. As for meals, I'm happy to see them go, as the rate of airlines providing the requested meal had decreased to maybe 20%.
can pitch in on identifying files, labelling them (tags, etc)
Look at what's available on any p2p net. People routinely botch file extensions, butcher track names, spell things incorrectly etc.
I've often wished there was an auto-sorting program in which you can mark or flag directories or files and it will automatically sort them intelligently without your intervention.
*cough* *cough* OSX *cough*
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Bonjour is AFAICT pretty much undocumented, so blocking it is no big deal.
Lots of supposed answers, for sure, but they tend to be riddled with assumptions, eg. that data is written sequentially, and in large blocks. Filesystems tend to not work that way. I've yet to see an analysis of flash drive lifetime with a real-world UFS (or whatever) filesytem on it.
I doubt that, eg. a nonfunctional TV that weighs 100 lbs or more will ellicit much interest on eBay.
Another problem is that the cars would quickly becoming disgusting inside, which I figure is one reason why car rental companies turn their fleet over every year. Between people smoking, eating corpses, etc. in the cars I certainly wouldn't want to participate in such a scheme.
Or Japanese-occupied China. Unit 731. There's actually a monument to these bastards in Japan.
Thank you for recognizing that simple alcohols as a general-purpose energy source aren't end-to-end efficient. I'd presume that the ethanol, like that that the Bush regime mistakes for transportation fuel, is to come from extremely inefficient corn production / fermentation. More toxic fertilizers dumped into the ground and thus into the Gulf of Mexico. Marvy.
If you're paying $20 for a CD, you must be shopping at storefront retailers. Their markups have been outrageous for years, and alternatives that are both legal and cheaper have been widely available, also for years. DRM'd CD? Sony put out like a dozen titles, right? This is hardly a widespread thing.
You don't need Bluetooth to connect your laptop to the net.
Hardware RAID is a bad idea anyway. You get some proprietary layout that probably isn't transportable, and the monitoring/admin utils suck bigtime. The x4100 eg. has some flinky hw RAID but it's not worth using.
Agreed, especially if the asshole is 6'5".
Mainframes? Hard to say. The article says they put them on "trolleys" after all, which I'm guessing is Australian for a cart. More likely they ripped off a pair of Mac Minis or such.
The Wikipedia article that I guess you're looking at says "LVM is a logical volume manager for the Linux kernel". The fact that Linux types happen to name a particular implementation after the concept is a non-sequitor with respect to what I wrote. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_volume_management "In computer storage, logical volume management or LVM is a method of allocating space on mass storage devices that is more flexible than conventional partitioning schemes. In particular, a volume manager can concatenate, stripe together or otherwise combine partitions into larger virtual ones that can be resized or moved, possibly while it is being used" ...
"Normally, PEs are simply mapped one-to-one to logical extents (LEs). With mirroring, multiple PEs are mapped onto each LE. "
Crawl out of your mom's basement, grow out of your Linux solipsism, and realize that there's a big wide world out there.
Stay away from the brown acid, "Lord". LVM = Logical Volume Manager. An umbrella term. SVM (Solaris Volume Manager) for example allows one to create mirrors and (if you're a masochist) RAID5 volumes.
What about IRMX?
Your data belongs on a RAID. That NEVER degrades EVER .. unless a power spike fries your flinky RAID-chip-added-onto-a-SATA-controller and your disks are useless. I'm amazed at how many people use those things because they feel that somehow they're better than software LVM.
The completeness of the *ix environment (real X11 port, vectorizing ANSI C compiler, etc) was one thing that drew customers to Convex vector machines back in the day.
I submit that the hourly rates of consultants don't compare 1:1 with the hourly rates paid to full-time employees. You have to factor in vacation/sick time, medical insurance, etc.
Competitive with *what*? The few people who live in dense areas where FIOS is available already have plenty of options for more bandwidth than than need.
... or unless you have a "thing" about not rubbing elbows with syphilitic heroin junkies begging for $. Yes, I've been on NYC public transit.
I'd like to see a flash fanboy present a longevity curve for present-day flash (which is assumed but not shown to do write leveling) *that takes into account the fact that real-world filesystem writes are not sequential 1M blocks*.
This is the same airline, after all, that has jammed coach/economy seats closer together than ever before, and charges extra for "premium economy", which is the same cramped spacing that used to be just plain economy. I was subjected to this on flights to/from Denver this past May (with inconsiderate carnies in the row in front of us), and the experience was the last straw for United in my book - I won't fly them again. Another poster mentioned America West. I flew them once - never again. The interior was *dirty* and a number of the panels with the lights, air, and presumably O2 masks weren't fastened and were hanging at odd angles. They played a goofy game with my "meal" too. As for meals, I'm happy to see them go, as the rate of airlines providing the requested meal had decreased to maybe 20%.
Darwinports and Fink suffer from a common problem: abandonware. Supplied versions of packages are often years out of date.
Too bad the pics are so small as to be largely useless, with illegible captions.
Try using HSDPA
With what NIC, and where? Yeah, that's what I thought.
can pitch in on identifying files, labelling them (tags, etc) Look at what's available on any p2p net. People routinely botch file extensions, butcher track names, spell things incorrectly etc. I've often wished there was an auto-sorting program in which you can mark or flag directories or files and it will automatically sort them intelligently without your intervention. *cough* *cough* OSX *cough*