This sounds very similar to VirtualBox seamless mode. I've been running XP apps under Vista for ages using Sun's VM software. My only concern will be businesses thinking Windows 7 should be faster than Vista, but with XPM it might be (significantly?) slower.
Thats nothing... My local Maplins electronics store sells gold plated optical cable... yes gold plated OPTICAL cable. I guess the photons travel through the gold better....
Is Cloud Computing a method for TPB to move servers at will between datacentres? What would it take to package up a VM and move it to a different country with different laws? All this for just $0.10 / hour!
Laptops make great low power servers. I've been using them for ages. No noise, small footprint and built in UPS. I'm suprised someone hasn't taken the technology and used it in datacentres (without the LCD's of course).
I can easily imagine someone like google with racks and racks of $99 laptops without screens being used as nodes
I had the exact same thing with a Dell XPS M1330. When I first got the laptop it was pre-installed with Vista. First thing I did was blow that away and put Ubuntu on it. Worked fairly well but for work there are too many programs I rely on that are not Linux friendly, like Outlook and Visio. So I decided to install XP as the best compromise. Hardly anything would work under XP, from the graphics card to the mouse. And no XP drivers on the Dell website. I went back to Vista and actually was pleasently suprised. It runs decently and once you configure it a bit gets out of the way and lets you run the programs you want. Which in my mind is exactly what an OS is sposed to do.
It's called "Windows Classic theme" and has been around for a while. You can even make XP look like Win95 if you want. MS isn't stupid they know people cling on to what they know like grim death.
Hang on, if you mirror them (RAID1) you wont see any speed benefits over a single drive, if anything it will go slower. Unless you use RAID0 at which point you have no redundancy. You would have to step up to a RAID10 of 4 drives to gain both speed and redundancy.
Also SAS is now up to 450Gb 15k albeit at a huge cost.
All I want is a device with a screen the size of a paperback, an SD card slot, and the ability to read anything I throw at it - pdf, txt, doc. Oh and with enough battery life to turn 1000 pages.
I dont want Wi-Fi, online services, subscription charges and I certainlly dont want any DRM. There are LOADS of books out of copyright that would make a device like this ideal. How many gzipped libraries of congress is an 8Gb SD card?
As this is a military project i'm sure the first thing they will say when you suggest balloons over satellites is that it's a lot harder to take down a satellite than it is to puncture a few balloons. Lots of people have access to 10-20 miles, but not many have access to 100-200 miles alititude - although thats changing.
I don't think it needs to be human readable as long as the compression is a well understood algorithm as computers of the (far?) future are likely able to reconstruct the original data no matter what. Even encrypted data would probably be fair game to a multi-petaflop CPU.
That being said, your idea of physically marking a surface to store the data is likely the best one. Magnetic storage is susceptible to damage without physical contact, and even the dyes used in optical storage rot over time.
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Does this mean we'll finally have to release linux kernel v3.0 to compete? :)
I'm going to skip Windows 7 and wait for the Windows 8, I've heard it's Quad OS!
Now we can all start using Itaniums..... oh wait...
This sounds very similar to VirtualBox seamless mode. I've been running XP apps under Vista for ages using Sun's VM software. My only concern will be businesses thinking Windows 7 should be faster than Vista, but with XPM it might be (significantly?) slower.
Thats nothing... My local Maplins electronics store sells gold plated optical cable... yes gold plated OPTICAL cable. I guess the photons travel through the gold better....
Sounds like "Netforce" to me... Reality echo's fiction quite often it seems.
So will they bury MySQL as a competitor or will we see a version of MyOracle released?
What if the sharks had laser beams?
Is Cloud Computing a method for TPB to move servers at will between datacentres? What would it take to package up a VM and move it to a different country with different laws? All this for just $0.10 / hour!
Laptops make great low power servers. I've been using them for ages. No noise, small footprint and built in UPS. I'm suprised someone hasn't taken the technology and used it in datacentres (without the LCD's of course). I can easily imagine someone like google with racks and racks of $99 laptops without screens being used as nodes
Looks like something made for The Great Egg Race (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Egg_Race)
Perhaps they should call have called it X26 then? :p
I had the exact same thing with a Dell XPS M1330. When I first got the laptop it was pre-installed with Vista. First thing I did was blow that away and put Ubuntu on it. Worked fairly well but for work there are too many programs I rely on that are not Linux friendly, like Outlook and Visio. So I decided to install XP as the best compromise. Hardly anything would work under XP, from the graphics card to the mouse. And no XP drivers on the Dell website. I went back to Vista and actually was pleasently suprised. It runs decently and once you configure it a bit gets out of the way and lets you run the programs you want. Which in my mind is exactly what an OS is sposed to do.
It's called "Windows Classic theme" and has been around for a while. You can even make XP look like Win95 if you want. MS isn't stupid they know people cling on to what they know like grim death.
Hang on, if you mirror them (RAID1) you wont see any speed benefits over a single drive, if anything it will go slower. Unless you use RAID0 at which point you have no redundancy. You would have to step up to a RAID10 of 4 drives to gain both speed and redundancy. Also SAS is now up to 450Gb 15k albeit at a huge cost.
Ya-who?
All I want is a device with a screen the size of a paperback, an SD card slot, and the ability to read anything I throw at it - pdf, txt, doc. Oh and with enough battery life to turn 1000 pages. I dont want Wi-Fi, online services, subscription charges and I certainlly dont want any DRM. There are LOADS of books out of copyright that would make a device like this ideal. How many gzipped libraries of congress is an 8Gb SD card?
As a network administrator, let me be the first to say, I hate you
Cheap, Powerful, Portable - Choose any 2
If it was power over ethernet that might work
As this is a military project i'm sure the first thing they will say when you suggest balloons over satellites is that it's a lot harder to take down a satellite than it is to puncture a few balloons. Lots of people have access to 10-20 miles, but not many have access to 100-200 miles alititude - although thats changing.
I guess they will just leave it on the Moon. It'll take at least the half life of the reactor before we go back!
I thought a "pure" desktop was the aim of Gobuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/gobuntu
I don't think it needs to be human readable as long as the compression is a well understood algorithm as computers of the (far?) future are likely able to reconstruct the original data no matter what. Even encrypted data would probably be fair game to a multi-petaflop CPU. That being said, your idea of physically marking a surface to store the data is likely the best one. Magnetic storage is susceptible to damage without physical contact, and even the dyes used in optical storage rot over time.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these! 100 might be as powerful as my watch!