Was there some breakthrough that drastically increased the number of read/writes flash drives are rated for
About four years ago I found a PCI card that had 256megs of memory on it, and a battery that let it last 48 hours with no power to the computer.
Innodb log files! Yes, put the log files on it and watch the performance go up. It was a neat hack but for $800 a card it wasn't all that practical. The performance was nice, but it wasn't worth the
additional investment per machine for the card.
A number of months ago someone blogged about some solid state cards he was looking at. At around the same time I noticed and commented on "IDE" solid state drives coming to market.
Dinner on Tuesday night with Kevin Burton pushed this into my mind again. What was he looking at going with for his data center?
Solid state drives.
This is smart thinking, it makes a lot of sense.
The performance gain for using solid state hard drives for any database, not only MySQL, is a "no argument". Buying performance like this does require some cost analysis. You balance performance with cost. Not everyone buys fiber channel even if it buys performance.
The performance gain does not outweigh the cost.
Capacity though is a requirement. By capacity I mean the ability to put X amount of CPU in a given space.
Data center capacity is not a growing concern, it is an active concern.
Data centers need power, a lot of power. Their capacity is constrained by available power.
Green technology is common sense. Hard drives have moving parts that generate heat, eat electric, and have high failure rates.
Green technology means capacity because data centers can pack in more hardware.
Tom's Hardware gave a price of $25 per gig almost a year ago. Tom was reviewing a 32 gig drive at the time (which... at 64 I don't need a hard drive in my laptop... I keep my mp3 on my iPod not my laptop).
Today we are looking at about $19 a gig, with 128gig drives coming to market.
This is a premium, when you consider SATA half terabyte disks are at $100 (which works out to 19 cents a gig!).
Beer, being boiled water, kept people from disease
Of course beer is more efficacious than coffee or tea, no arguement from me there.
It goes without saying, however, that beer is not usually consumed immediately after it is boiled. In fact, the aftermath of boiling beer can promote pathogens in a less-than sanitary environment.
I'm not sure how serious you were. Good discussion if you're interested.
It's hardly coincidental that coffee and tea caught on in Europe just as the first factories were bringing in the industrial revolution.
The widespread use of caffeinated drinks helped transform human economies from farm to factory. Boiling water helped decrease disease among city workers. And caffeine kept them from falling asleep over the machinery.
In a sense, caffeine is the drug that made the modern world possible. And the more modern our world gets, the more we seem to need it. Without that useful jolt of coffee--or Diet Coke or Red Bull--to get us out of bed and back to work, the world of the average/.'er wouldn't exist.
Sorry to disappoint, but I am in reality a pathetic, overweight middle-aged man, a hairy stretchmarked gut resting my greasy keyboard as I write this, chewing Nicorette and choking down a few hotpockets.
So what's the difference between SVR4 and Linux? At a glance they may look the same because they're both in the Unix family, but they're actually quite different.
GNU/Linux has a wider variety of software natively written for it
the Linux kernel includes support for more hardware than SVR4
Linux is more popular as a desktop operating system than SVR4.
Another important factor to consider for many users is price, although there are inexpensive and free versions of UNIX.
Linux issues and bugs generally are often fixed extremely fast.
For a more in-depth technical reference, see this good article on the fundamental difference between BSD and UNIX (although BSD is not technically SVR4 it's still a good read).
Supported mail protocols include IMAP, POP, SMTP and Authenticated SMTP, as well as Microsoft Exchange 2000 and 2003.
Novell GroupWise support is currently in beta
That suprised me. You'd think before they ported Evolution to Windows they would have finalized integration with their own groupware suite.
Yes, and I'm sure some/.'ers will be interested in hearing about this job listing at Blue Origin. If you have an engineering degree and experience in Java, SQL, Python, Perl, C, and C++, you might find this a pretty amazing opportunity. They are rapidly expanding their staff here in Seattle.
I would categorize the X Render Extension as recommended as opposed to optional. Aren't anti-aliased fonts a basic feature of any modern desktop environment?
Real physicists like Stephen Hawking... are very cool!
I couldn't agree more. God playing dice, black holes, "A Brief History of Time"... these are not stale topics but a newcomers to physics and experts alike might find SH riveting. Check out his lectures, they're not dry, but alive and well-written.
FB: It seems that Sun Microsystems wants to release Java source code. Do you think that a language such as Java could spread more if it were covered by the GPL?
RMS: I think that's a secondary question. Whether a particular programming language becomes more or less popular is just a technical issue.
While I greatly respect RMS, this is the type of hyper-philosophical response that makes him seem a little out of touch with developers.
Programming languages are chosen for a myriad of reasons, technical being one. Many of the managed-code environments are being chosen for ubiquity, marketing appeals to management, and ease-of-use.
Sales of the machine and its software have failed to make any impact on the market at all.
I'd heard that a new version of the N-Gage hardware will be introduced before Nov. 2005 - possibly as early as September - although the platform will remain backwards compatible throughout. Although they will admit to slow sales, sounds like Nokia is not quite ready to judge the N-Gage as a success or failure.
Mr. Nakamura created the blue LED... A lower court had awarded 20 billion yen, nearly $200 million
Nice cut for a sweet invention--one that will change laser technology forever. Gallium Nitride LEDs have started to replace lightbulbs and fluorescent tubes for lighting.
GaN based blue lasers allow data storage with much higher density than traditional red lasers, and there are many more application areas.
Here's an interesting article from ScienceWatch (no bloodsucking reg required) which goes into more detail on the history and application of this *very* cool technology.
Philip Cummings, 35... a computer helpdesk employee...
Losses have been estimated to be between $50m (£38m) and $100m (£76m).
Cummings, who is still free on bail, must report to prison on 9 March. He is also due to pay compensation to be agreed at a later date.
Something tells me the 30,000 people he scammed aren't going to see a dime. Since Phil is not allowed to compensate with stolen funds, and he is unlikely to be returning to his lucrative helpdesk job anytime soon, I doubt he'll be able to fork over even $1 per victim.
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NO, No, no!!! They are a real company with a REAL WEBSITE.
oh... sorry.
Innodb log files! Yes, put the log files on it and watch the performance go up. It was a neat hack but for $800 a card it wasn't all that practical. The performance was nice, but it wasn't worth the additional investment per machine for the card.
A number of months ago someone blogged about some solid state cards he was looking at. At around the same time I noticed and commented on "IDE" solid state drives coming to market.
Dinner on Tuesday night with Kevin Burton pushed this into my mind again. What was he looking at going with for his data center?
Solid state drives.
This is smart thinking, it makes a lot of sense.
The performance gain for using solid state hard drives for any database, not only MySQL, is a "no argument". Buying performance like this does require some cost analysis. You balance performance with cost. Not everyone buys fiber channel even if it buys performance.
The performance gain does not outweigh the cost.
Capacity though is a requirement. By capacity I mean the ability to put X amount of CPU in a given space.
Data center capacity is not a growing concern, it is an active concern.
Data centers need power, a lot of power. Their capacity is constrained by available power.
Green technology is common sense. Hard drives have moving parts that generate heat, eat electric, and have high failure rates.
Green technology means capacity because data centers can pack in more hardware.
Tom's Hardware gave a price of $25 per gig almost a year ago. Tom was reviewing a 32 gig drive at the time (which... at 64 I don't need a hard drive in my laptop... I keep my mp3 on my iPod not my laptop).
Today we are looking at about $19 a gig, with 128gig drives coming to market.
This is a premium, when you consider SATA half terabyte disks are at $100 (which works out to 19 cents a gig!).
How much of a price tag do you put on capacity?
It goes without saying, however, that beer is not usually consumed immediately after it is boiled. In fact, the aftermath of boiling beer can promote pathogens in a less-than sanitary environment.
I'm not sure how serious you were. Good discussion if you're interested.
It's hardly coincidental that coffee and tea caught on in Europe just as the first factories were bringing in the industrial revolution.
/.'er wouldn't exist.
The widespread use of caffeinated drinks helped transform human economies from farm to factory. Boiling water helped decrease disease among city workers. And caffeine kept them from falling asleep over the machinery.
In a sense, caffeine is the drug that made the modern world possible. And the more modern our world gets, the more we seem to need it. Without that useful jolt of coffee--or Diet Coke or Red Bull--to get us out of bed and back to work, the world of the average
I'm embarrassed by your behavior. Grow up.
All of the fertilizer? Wow, how is that even possible? But I guess you made your point, even it was based more on emotion than facts.
Sorry to disappoint, but I am in reality a pathetic, overweight middle-aged man, a hairy stretchmarked gut resting my greasy keyboard as I write this, chewing Nicorette and choking down a few hotpockets.
But if you want, we can still trade emails?
I've been visualizing human anatomy in 3-D for many years.
GNU/Linux has a wider variety of software natively written for it
the Linux kernel includes support for more hardware than SVR4
Linux is more popular as a desktop operating system than SVR4.
Another important factor to consider for many users is price, although there are inexpensive and free versions of UNIX.
Linux issues and bugs generally are often fixed extremely fast.
For a more in-depth technical reference, see this good article on the fundamental difference between BSD and UNIX (although BSD is not technically SVR4 it's still a good read).
Re: the KDE 3.4 Compilation Requirements...
I would categorize the X Render Extension as recommended as opposed to optional. Aren't anti-aliased fonts a basic feature of any modern desktop environment?
Thanks, though.
Programming languages are chosen for a myriad of reasons, technical being one. Many of the managed-code environments are being chosen for ubiquity, marketing appeals to management, and ease-of-use.
I remember the same fatal pronouncements for Windows CE... four years ago.
Then again, N-Gage really could be a dying platform.
Here's an interesting article from ScienceWatch (no bloodsucking reg required) which goes into more detail on the history and application of this *very* cool technology.
I never claimed to be the "real LL"
I am not a 14 year old
I am not a boy
My name is in FACT Lindsay.
Now, next time try to post something intelligent, wouldya?