I ready have 3 versions of Star Wars and 2 versions of the Fifth Element (which is Carbon, BTW). Now I have to get another version of Blade Runner too? *sigh* if you insist....
I could pick up a 1950's copy of Popular Mechanics
I think they are kind of thinking of stuff invented after the microprocessor was in use. I mean, the rotary phone is kind of bonehead idea now, but back in the 1950's it was about the best the average Joe could hope for.
Most of the world isn't starving or malnourished; only about 13%.
But the post said that, apparently, 100% of us are concerned with buggy software. I doubt the 800 million starving/malnourished people wonder "why is buggy software shipped"?
The future will be full of cars that only exaust water....and fueling stations brimming with switch-grass, corn-mash, stale beer, human feces, and the occasional Rhodoferax ferrireducens bateria. And I thought horses smelled bad....
I had a customer that used Excel to create a timeline for a major construction project. Nothing but dates and timelines. I told that was what MS Project was for, but he was happy with Excel. All 64,000 rows of it.
Tape can be stored longer, is easier to ship, is sturdier, in many cases faster, and has built-in compression.
Tape can only be 'stored longer' if kept in a very tightly controlled enviroment. Even find mold growing on your tape media?
Try dropping a tape onto concrete from 20 feet. The plastic housing will shatter and the tape will become useless. Do the same to a LaCie external drive (that has been properly parked) and the aluminum housing may break, but the drive will be fine.
Faster? Can you run a database or a enitre server OS or stream video directly from tape now?
Compression is done in the software, not on the tape. The tape just takes what it's given.
It's true, I am just thinking of small non-enterprise level uses.
I guess the biggest thing I am thinking of is the TCO. I mean, in order to actually use any of that data that's been backup onto a tape, it has to be 'restored' first. With an external HD, I just plug it, map it, and start accessing data right away. If my same 400GB of data is on a tape (or spread acoss several tapes), I don't think you could run a system directly from tape...could you?
But in any regard this thread has been educational for me....
Calculated on a per-gigabyte basis, tape systems are about one-fifth to one-tenth the cost of hard-disk-drive storage systems, depending on their size.
Okay, so I want to store 400 GB of data daily. I can get 5 external 500 GB HD's (about $1800) and write a simple script to backup everything daily (free). Then I take one drive home everynight, and cycle the drives through the week. I can have all my data backed-up in about 90 minutes. This gives me capacity, redundancy, off-site storage, and speed.
The middle-of-the-road Dell tape autoloader is over $3000 (plus the cost of tapes), and only has a transfer speed of 28 GB/hour. That's over 14 hours to backup my data!!!
So, I'm not real sure where that come up with thier statement about value. I just don't see it.
I remember buying the 1st edition of the "Internet Yellow Pages" back in 1994 (I think) at Costco. It even had a listing of "all" the Usenet newsgroups in the back. I still have it...
So that's what they mean when they say:
"Metho-Trimspa-Pseudo-Phedrine 5000 is clinically proven to work great!!!"?
I've often wondered what they meant by statements like that...
We use the Barracuda 300 'spam firewall' appliance. I have yet to get a legitimate email blocked entirely. But sometimes they are 'tagged' and quarentined until the user verifies they are (or are not) spam.
Americans consider Fox News the most trustworthy national news program overall (coming in at 11%
This should read: Americans, at least the ones with the time to answer surveys (i.e. old folks), consider Fox News the most trustworthy national news program overall (coming in at 11%).
All I know is this:
When I had 8 years IT exp. and no certs, I made $35000/yr
Now I have 9 years and a simple (I'd even say thow away) MCDST cert, I make $60000/yr.
Maybe I'm the excepttion though.....
So here's the rub:
"The shell exploded and two U.S. soldiers were treated for minor exposure to a nerve agent"
That certainly sounds like destruction on a massive scale.
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I ready have 3 versions of Star Wars and 2 versions of the Fifth Element (which is Carbon, BTW). Now I have to get another version of Blade Runner too? *sigh* if you insist....
Dude! I use to have one of those! It was so totally 80's! Totally.
I think they are kind of thinking of stuff invented after the microprocessor was in use. I mean, the rotary phone is kind of bonehead idea now, but back in the 1950's it was about the best the average Joe could hope for.
I was tired of the old amber screen too, but CGA was just not what I thought of when I thought of a "color monitor"
I mean look at this crap.
I grew up playing King's Quest and think he was just sunburned, or embarrased all the time.
I lost my token ring. Now my Interweb is broken.
Most of the world isn't starving or malnourished; only about 13%.
But the post said that, apparently, 100% of us are concerned with buggy software. I doubt the 800 million starving/malnourished people wonder "why is buggy software shipped"?
At first glace I thought this was about Semitic Web.....
Now THAT would be something.
"alcohol-powered"
"glucose and sewage"
The future will be full of cars that only exaust water....and fueling stations brimming with switch-grass, corn-mash, stale beer, human feces, and the occasional Rhodoferax ferrireducens bateria. And I thought horses smelled bad....
I had a customer that used Excel to create a timeline for a major construction project. Nothing but dates and timelines. I told that was what MS Project was for, but he was happy with Excel. All 64,000 rows of it.
Joke's on you! Ms. Cracks was my 4th grade teacher! I'm sure most of that is just my pre-adolescent journals that 'found there way' onto the net.
;)
Ah, Ms. Cracks.... she was a very important part of my youth
Tape can only be 'stored longer' if kept in a very tightly controlled enviroment.
Even find mold growing on your tape media?
Try dropping a tape onto concrete from 20 feet. The plastic housing will shatter and the tape will become useless. Do the same to a LaCie external drive (that has been properly parked) and the aluminum housing may break, but the drive will be fine.
Faster? Can you run a database or a enitre server OS or stream video directly from tape now?
Compression is done in the software, not on the tape. The tape just takes what it's given.
It's true, I am just thinking of small non-enterprise level uses.
I guess the biggest thing I am thinking of is the TCO. I mean, in order to actually use any of that data that's been backup onto a tape, it has to be 'restored' first. With an external HD, I just plug it, map it, and start accessing data right away. If my same 400GB of data is on a tape (or spread acoss several tapes), I don't think you could run a system directly from tape...could you?
But in any regard this thread has been educational for me....
How is world is 100MB/sec not considered slow? You could copy the data 10 times, onto 10 different external hard drives, in less time.
Okay, so I want to store 400 GB of data daily. I can get 5 external 500 GB HD's (about $1800) and write a simple script to backup everything daily (free). Then I take one drive home everynight, and cycle the drives through the week. I can have all my data backed-up in about 90 minutes. This gives me capacity, redundancy, off-site storage, and speed.
The middle-of-the-road Dell tape autoloader is over $3000 (plus the cost of tapes), and only has a transfer speed of 28 GB/hour. That's over 14 hours to backup my data!!!
So, I'm not real sure where that come up with thier statement about value. I just don't see it.
I remember buying the 1st edition of the "Internet Yellow Pages" back in 1994 (I think) at Costco. It even had a listing of "all" the Usenet newsgroups in the back. I still have it...
So clearly, Yahoo is also powerless to change there own business practices.
I mean, that totally makes sense, right?
So that's what they mean when they say:
"Metho-Trimspa-Pseudo-Phedrine 5000 is clinically proven to work great!!!"?
I've often wondered what they meant by statements like that...
We use the Barracuda 300 'spam firewall' appliance. I have yet to get a legitimate email blocked entirely. But sometimes they are 'tagged' and quarentined until the user verifies they are (or are not) spam.
Except it looks kind of like a dinner fork and it works more on the premise of making everyone around you blind. Same result though....
All I know is this:
When I had 8 years IT exp. and no certs, I made $35000/yr
Now I have 9 years and a simple (I'd even say thow away) MCDST cert, I make $60000/yr.
Maybe I'm the excepttion though.....
Google Maps is awesome. I can hardly wait for 6-10 years to pass so I can see what they are doing today.
"The shell exploded and two U.S. soldiers were treated for minor exposure to a nerve agent"
That certainly sounds like destruction on a massive scale.