With an article of this level, and the recent dwindling content or lack/thereof at slashdot, I can safely say slashdot.org is being removed from my favorites.
I play WoW, I am also in the tech industry. I fail to see how this reaches any sort of news worthy level, what's next... story on how you accidentally lost your 'purple' sword during a recent game update? And how it left you feeling?
-1 slashdot reader.
Goodbye.
We run volumes of Dell 2850s with RAID arrays, redundant power, etc. powering high volume websites...
I can speak first handedly that internal fault tolerance in these systems can only get you so far, where a failure of a component such as the management device in charge of the two power supplies, itself fails, resulting in both power supplies being useless.
Or a raid card going out of commission, leaving drives with mangled and unrecoverable data.
As with most solutions, a mixture of both fault tolerance and data clustering is the safest alternative.
It is unfortunate that these record industry crusaders don't allocate a small percentage of their yearly litigation budgets to research the price points that tilt the average consumer to the point of piracy.
If they could yield certain figures with relevant data, it would make their argument much more powerful when attempting to sway the likes of Apple.
At this point they are loud, obnoxious, and baseless in fact.
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With an article of this level, and the recent dwindling content or lack/thereof at slashdot, I can safely say slashdot.org is being removed from my favorites. I play WoW, I am also in the tech industry. I fail to see how this reaches any sort of news worthy level, what's next... story on how you accidentally lost your 'purple' sword during a recent game update? And how it left you feeling? -1 slashdot reader. Goodbye.
We run volumes of Dell 2850s with RAID arrays, redundant power, etc. powering high volume websites... I can speak first handedly that internal fault tolerance in these systems can only get you so far, where a failure of a component such as the management device in charge of the two power supplies, itself fails, resulting in both power supplies being useless. Or a raid card going out of commission, leaving drives with mangled and unrecoverable data. As with most solutions, a mixture of both fault tolerance and data clustering is the safest alternative.
It is unfortunate that these record industry crusaders don't allocate a small percentage of their yearly litigation budgets to research the price points that tilt the average consumer to the point of piracy. If they could yield certain figures with relevant data, it would make their argument much more powerful when attempting to sway the likes of Apple. At this point they are loud, obnoxious, and baseless in fact.