The problem with extra hard drives is archiving. Your system works for keeping 2 weeks worth of data. Each time you back up, you overwrite the old data. If you want an archive of the past year or two, extra hard drives are no longer so cost effective.
That is simply not true, check out: http://www.80plus.org/ If manufacturers make power supplies meeting the 80% plus standard of efficiency, they will be rewarded with cash for every unit made! There are several power supplies available that already meet these high standards of efficiency. The cost is not significantly higher, and the payback in electricity savings is short if the computer is on 24 hours a day.
I guess you didn't read the article. They are using it on roads and bridges. It can be used to form a continuous deck instead of having concrete sections with expansion joints.
Also, there already IS concrete out there that is resistant to cracking, it is just expensive. Have you ever noticed that airport runways don't develop potholes as fast as roads do? The runways have rubberized concrete that is much better than the stuff on the roads, but more costly. Maybe this new stuff has a better price/performance ratio.
I guess I'm not the only idiot still talking about this: http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10419
I just don't understand why if so many people, i.e. potential Mac customers (read above posts) complain about expensive hardware that Apple doesn't do something to reach that market. The Mac Mini has severe limitations in upgrading possibilities and the performance doesn't compare to what you can get for the same price using a different processor.
Would it be difficult to port Tiger to the amd64 platform, i686, or other architectures? It is based on FreeBSD, correct? It is clear that Apple is able to beat MS on the desktop. I just don't know why they won't compete head on. I would consider buying tiger for my group if I didn't have to buy all new hardware with it.
What I meant by the above post is...I appreciate the rapid development, but the kernel has of late become a moving target. Doesn't anyone else out there wish the releases would slow down? I would like infrequent releases of a stable kernel rather than rapid bugfixes.
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The problem with extra hard drives is archiving. Your system works for keeping 2 weeks worth of data. Each time you back up, you overwrite the old data. If you want an archive of the past year or two, extra hard drives are no longer so cost effective.
That is simply not true, check out: http://www.80plus.org/ If manufacturers make power supplies meeting the 80% plus standard of efficiency, they will be rewarded with cash for every unit made! There are several power supplies available that already meet these high standards of efficiency. The cost is not significantly higher, and the payback in electricity savings is short if the computer is on 24 hours a day.
I guess you didn't read the article. They are using it on roads and bridges. It can be used to form a continuous deck instead of having concrete sections with expansion joints. Also, there already IS concrete out there that is resistant to cracking, it is just expensive. Have you ever noticed that airport runways don't develop potholes as fast as roads do? The runways have rubberized concrete that is much better than the stuff on the roads, but more costly. Maybe this new stuff has a better price/performance ratio.
I guess I'm not the only idiot still talking about this: http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=10419 I just don't understand why if so many people, i.e. potential Mac customers (read above posts) complain about expensive hardware that Apple doesn't do something to reach that market. The Mac Mini has severe limitations in upgrading possibilities and the performance doesn't compare to what you can get for the same price using a different processor.
Would it be difficult to port Tiger to the amd64 platform, i686, or other architectures? It is based on FreeBSD, correct? It is clear that Apple is able to beat MS on the desktop. I just don't know why they won't compete head on. I would consider buying tiger for my group if I didn't have to buy all new hardware with it.
What I meant by the above post is...I appreciate the rapid development, but the kernel has of late become a moving target. Doesn't anyone else out there wish the releases would slow down? I would like infrequent releases of a stable kernel rather than rapid bugfixes.
An "sometime soon after that" will be kernel 2.6.12.1