Worse than that, if this were to be implemented in something like a web browser, doubleclick and kind could come up with interesting statistics on which of their banner ads draw the most attention.
I find it odd that they would expect a company or institution to be required to pull unused sectors of their disk drives in the odd chance that there would be unlinked emails in the data.
If subpoenaed, how would one actually read and store unused sectors from disks on large multiuser systems like that? (Create a file, lseek out far enough to fill the entire disk, then scan it?)
We even have one at the Virtual Environment Technology Lab at the University of Houston. They've used it for various NASA training exercises, including the repair mission for the Hubble Telescope...
That would make it a bit easier to put Linux on it. Does anybody have an opinion on whether these would be really useful for beowulf cluster graphics? Perhaps real-time visualization of simulation data or to replace SGI's reality X series for running immersive VR stuff like CAVEs or ImmersaDesks? The natural problem (and still SGI's advantage) is the Reality series' shared memory structure...
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Worse than that, if this were to be implemented in something like a web browser, doubleclick and kind could come up with interesting statistics on which of their banner ads draw the most attention.
I find it odd that they would expect a company or institution to be required to pull unused sectors of their disk drives in the odd chance that there would be unlinked emails in the data.
If subpoenaed, how would one actually read and store unused sectors from disks on large multiuser systems like that? (Create a file, lseek out far enough to fill the entire disk, then scan it?)
... And just the other day I was chuckling to myself on reading a William Gibson story which included a Cray computer...
But then, it was a handheld; I doubt we're going to be seeing handheld Crays for a while...
We even have one at the Virtual Environment Technology Lab at the University of Houston. They've used it for various NASA training exercises, including the repair mission for the Hubble Telescope...
That would make it a bit easier to put Linux on it. Does anybody have an opinion on whether these would be really useful for beowulf cluster graphics? Perhaps real-time visualization of simulation data or to replace SGI's reality X series for running immersive VR stuff like CAVEs or ImmersaDesks? The natural problem (and still SGI's advantage) is the Reality series' shared memory structure...
What about a wireless connection to the FBI which would allow them to download and display more than one missing child per milk carton?