Backup time is not the issue in this case. However, restore time might be. Unless you run a full backup every night, running a restore from a full and several incremental backups takes a lot of time.
He has a point though. The capacity of disk drives is growing way faster than their throughput. But then he didn't mention that we have SSDs for throughput now and disk drives are the slow storage tier. Tape has removable media so it's good for offsite storage. That's it.
That's why you do disk to disk to tape and keep a month or so worth of backup data on disk and only write to tape what needs to go offsite or into the safe.
I wrote a tape file management program for the PET 2001 and built an external drive. Load the management program from one drive, let it handle the motor of the other drive. Tell the user which buttons to press on the drive. Voila, fast file access. And the transfer rate was hundreds of bytes per second! Good times.
Tape is cheap... if you can amortize the cost of a drive over at least 100 or so media. Given that tape has fallen behind in capacity, the only way for you to back up a decent home system is with a high end tape drive. I don't know what an LTO-6 drive is going to cost initially but my hunch i at least $3k.
Yes! Quick, get Africans hooked on fertilizers right before minerals like phosphorus and fossil fuels reach their peaks, after which prices skyrocket. Then their farmers will all go bankrupt and their land can be had for a song. Smart idea. We need to get rid of a couple billion people anyway.
Why would the US military buy parts made in China? And if they do, why wouldn't they do it with strict specs and quality controls? Everybody knows that you get crap from China if you don't look very closely. We have quality people traveling to China all the time. Those backplanes that started to overheat and smolder from ions left in the material due to rinsing with tap water and the resultant 100% recall were fun.
End user power costs around.15 Euro/kWh and the feed-in tariff is between.24 and.10 Euro/kWh today. Comparing the cost of electric power at the consumer with production cost at a power plant is not valid.
Because some of it is genetic. This is often used as an excuse, "it's in my genes", while in most cases it's your own damn fault if you get cancer. Oh and it's not just chemicals. It can also be ionizing radiation, in particular UV.
Yield at high latitudes is not a big deal even for conventional solar arrays. Solar PV is huge in Germany (basically due to federally mandated feed-in tariffs for over a decade.) Now consider that Berlin is at the latitude of South Hudson Bay.
When every switch and router does DPI and knows what's good for you. Hey, there could be a new standard for network cables that only allows approved devices to communicate. Hmm, where have I seen this before?
At least the benefit of helping kids with the grandchildren outweighs the benefit of having more children at that age. It is well known that genetic defects like Down Syndrome rise dramatically once a woman is past her mid- to late 30s. You also have significantly rising mortality without medicine so as long as it's not pretty much ensured that you'll last for another 10+ years the high investment in a pregnancy isn't worth it any more. Evolution is always right.
Yup. We have a range of successful products based on Linux with all sorts of packages under GPL and other licenses. Our legal department keeps track of all licenses and we all know that if/when we introduce a new piece of external code we'd better document where it's from and what license it comes under. They're prepared to send out CDs if anybody asks for a batch of sources for the GPL licensed parts but that has never happened AFAIK.
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Nonsense. Modern tapes are specified with hundreds of thousands of passes and hundreds to thousands of loads/unloads.
Backup time is not the issue in this case. However, restore time might be. Unless you run a full backup every night, running a restore from a full and several incremental backups takes a lot of time.
He has a point though. The capacity of disk drives is growing way faster than their throughput.
But then he didn't mention that we have SSDs for throughput now and disk drives are the slow storage tier.
Tape has removable media so it's good for offsite storage. That's it.
That's why you do disk to disk to tape and keep a month or so worth of backup data on disk and only write to tape what needs to go offsite or into the safe.
I wrote a tape file management program for the PET 2001 and built an external drive.
Load the management program from one drive, let it handle the motor of the other drive. Tell the user which buttons to press on the drive. Voila, fast file access. And the transfer rate was hundreds of bytes per second!
Good times.
Tape is cheap... if you can amortize the cost of a drive over at least 100 or so media.
Given that tape has fallen behind in capacity, the only way for you to back up a decent home system is with a high end tape drive. I don't know what an LTO-6 drive is going to cost initially but my hunch i at least $3k.
Yes! Quick, get Africans hooked on fertilizers right before minerals like phosphorus and fossil fuels reach their peaks, after which prices skyrocket. Then their farmers will all go bankrupt and their land can be had for a song. Smart idea. We need to get rid of a couple billion people anyway.
You're just not masochistic enough for Microsoft standards.
Why would the US military buy parts made in China?
And if they do, why wouldn't they do it with strict specs and quality controls?
Everybody knows that you get crap from China if you don't look very closely. We have quality people traveling to China all the time.
Those backplanes that started to overheat and smolder from ions left in the material due to rinsing with tap water and the resultant 100% recall were fun.
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In Soviet Russia, politicians control corporations!
Price per kWh: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strompreis#J.C3.A4hrlicher_Durchschnittsstrompreis_in_Deutschland
Feed-in tariffs: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz#Photovoltaik
End user power costs around .15 Euro/kWh and the feed-in tariff is between .24 and .10 Euro/kWh today.
Comparing the cost of electric power at the consumer with production cost at a power plant is not valid.
That 10x must have come from Fox News.
Because some of it is genetic. This is often used as an excuse, "it's in my genes", while in most cases it's your own damn fault if you get cancer.
Oh and it's not just chemicals. It can also be ionizing radiation, in particular UV.
Yield at high latitudes is not a big deal even for conventional solar arrays. Solar PV is huge in Germany (basically due to federally mandated feed-in tariffs for over a decade.)
Now consider that Berlin is at the latitude of South Hudson Bay.
It's turds all the way down!
Or bull patties or some other shit.
More importantly where does it end?
When every switch and router does DPI and knows what's good for you. Hey, there could be a new standard for network cables that only allows approved devices to communicate. Hmm, where have I seen this before?
Hint: Drinking is OK as long as it's beer or wine and it's not so much that you damage your liver. It's the hard stuff that damages mucous membranes.
Remember that over 60% of cancers are environmentally caused (eating, drinking, smoking, sun, exposure to chemicals) and live accordingly.
I heard they had a bit of reheating in the UK last year.
"The US has one party with two right wings."
- Gore Vidal
One of the researchers spilled wine on the samples. "Sheriously, I'm j-just addin a n-new ingredient!" That was his story and he stuck with it.
At least the benefit of helping kids with the grandchildren outweighs the benefit of having more children at that age. It is well known that genetic defects like Down Syndrome rise dramatically once a woman is past her mid- to late 30s.
You also have significantly rising mortality without medicine so as long as it's not pretty much ensured that you'll last for another 10+ years the high investment in a pregnancy isn't worth it any more.
Evolution is always right.
Yup. We have a range of successful products based on Linux with all sorts of packages under GPL and other licenses. Our legal department keeps track of all licenses and we all know that if/when we introduce a new piece of external code we'd better document where it's from and what license it comes under. They're prepared to send out CDs if anybody asks for a batch of sources for the GPL licensed parts but that has never happened AFAIK.
I have a feeling that China nourishes its hackers and pays them well.