And even granite boulders are not a long term fix. I was amazed at how many of the huge (around 5 ft) rocks behind the beach were displaced by the recent storms here in Southern California.
Exactly. You can't make less than a platter worth of disk with some obsolete density, which means about 250GB per 3.5" platter and 120GB per 2.5" platter today. Some vendors may make 1/2 platter sized disks from drives with a failed head or leaving one head off, but with good yield the economics don't work out. Oh and no matter what you do, the manufacturing cost of the lowest end hard drive will always be around $50. You can't make them any cheaper. A SSD OTOH, which is just a PCB, a few chips and some plastic, has a lot of room below that. Just look at USB sticks. They are SSDs too - just very crappy ones.
I have yet to see one SSD failure (and I work with them all the time, mostly Intel X25s.) As opposed to several HD failures - either completely or bad sectors. The 160GB hard drive in my eeePC just failed to read an MP3 file. I guess I'll replace it with an SSD soon.
OTOH, USB sticks and SDHC cards do fail all the time. I guess they have less redundancy and error correction. Just for fun, I ran Ubuntu off an 8GB SDHC card in the eeePC for a while. The performance was acceptable with a fast card, but there were hard errors after a while.
My optical mouse often turns on its LED for no apparent reason. This is in SoCal so I have a feeling it's just damn sensitive. It always turns on when I walk into the room.
I don't use a mouse pad (which are usually a bit sticky so they should introduce a hysteresis) but the mouse just sits on the smooth desktop.
That happens to me at work all the time if I can get into the zone and nobody distracts me. Headphone on, email notification off, and the next time I'll eat is when my stomach *really* tells me to. Of course, that only works if your nutrition is mostly very complex carbs and fiber rich with a bit of protein and fat, otherwise your blood glucose will crash long before that.
You forgot two: "Abu'se" and "apo'strope's". As somebody else mentioned some time ago, an apostrophe means "Caution, S ahead!" After all, an S is difficult to navigate as we all know, and it's easy to fly off the track.
Yes, but if you leave them in the magazine they're more protected, and you can tell people to never remove them from magazines and "Here's how a magazine is to be handled." Iron Mountain & co also have special transport containers to protect magazines further.
Just my thought. Hardware RAID adds latency and limits throughput if you use SSDs. On the other hand, server CPUs often have cycles to spare and are much faster than the CPU on the RAID controller. I've yet to see the dual quad cores with hyperthreading going over 40% in our servers. Now all we need is a VFS layer that smartly decides where to store files and/or uses a fast disk as a cache to a slower disk. Like a unionfs with automatic migration?
Right now I read and browse mostly on an eeePC 1005. If they made a slim, really low power netbook with an e-Ink display on the outside of the lid I'd buy one right away. Keep it closed and you have an e-Ink based reader. Open it and you have a full fledged netbook.
But seriously, yes, tape drive capacity has fallen behind. That's why everybody uses libraries - you need many media to get high capacity and good $/TB value (spreading out the cost of the drives and the library.) Libraries are expensive, that's why everybody puts deduping disk based backup systems in front to get more use out of the libraries. And that's why fewer libraries sell, shrinking the tape drive market, and that's why fewer development resources go into tape drive design, keeping tape behind. The last time tape was on par with disk drives was in DLT7000 times.
I agree, when the tapes are stored in proper environmental conditions
... and don't get dropped. Avoiding tape damage from improper handling is one of the arguments for a tape library. If you use tape outside a library, make sure you have proper handling procedures in places. It wouldn't be the first time a stack of tapes fell over, looked OK, but couldn't be restored some time later.
Sounds like screwdrivers: pure ethanol from the lab and 20% OJ. That's why it was always good to have a couple chemistry and pharmacist friends (as a CS student.)
Just don't use red squares and blue triangles, but various parts of the human anatomy. They'd just have to enter gender (and sexual orientation) first so the program can select some memorable pics.
"Hey, I got the 'three large boobs' error!"
Another beneficial effect would be that the users would quickly learn how to reproduce the errors.
For me it's the exact opposite. I was raised Catholic but as I started to think for myself as a teen I found out that the emperor doesn't wear any clothes. Ever since I have wondered why other people don't see that. Now as I get older, I understand more about psychology, sociology and evolution, and start to see why religion evolved and that it did (and does) have an evolutionary fitness aspect. I still don't get it but I can see why it exists. Just like many other weird human behaviors.
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What they are not so sure about is if humans have any meaningful impact on the warming
Wrong. This is just the latest denialist spin.
And even granite boulders are not a long term fix. I was amazed at how many of the huge (around 5 ft) rocks behind the beach were displaced by the recent storms here in Southern California.
Exactly. You can't make less than a platter worth of disk with some obsolete density, which means about 250GB per 3.5" platter and 120GB per 2.5" platter today. Some vendors may make 1/2 platter sized disks from drives with a failed head or leaving one head off, but with good yield the economics don't work out.
Oh and no matter what you do, the manufacturing cost of the lowest end hard drive will always be around $50. You can't make them any cheaper. A SSD OTOH, which is just a PCB, a few chips and some plastic, has a lot of room below that. Just look at USB sticks. They are SSDs too - just very crappy ones.
I mean really, who needs an expensive big SSD for your porn collection?
Imagine how quickly you could access any random scene in your collection.
Blu Ray and CDs are still "spinning media" aren't they?
Yes but nobody in a sane state of mind uses them for storage or backup.
I have yet to see one SSD failure (and I work with them all the time, mostly Intel X25s.) As opposed to several HD failures - either completely or bad sectors.
The 160GB hard drive in my eeePC just failed to read an MP3 file. I guess I'll replace it with an SSD soon.
OTOH, USB sticks and SDHC cards do fail all the time. I guess they have less redundancy and error correction. Just for fun, I ran Ubuntu off an 8GB SDHC card in the eeePC for a while. The performance was acceptable with a fast card, but there were hard errors after a while.
My optical mouse often turns on its LED for no apparent reason. This is in SoCal so I have a feeling it's just damn sensitive.
It always turns on when I walk into the room.
I don't use a mouse pad (which are usually a bit sticky so they should introduce a hysteresis) but the mouse just sits on the smooth desktop.
Free availability of CP on the Net should actually reduce child abuse by reducing the commercial incentive.
It's only *buying* CP that creates a market - not looking at it.
The more you try to suppress dissemination, the higher the profits and the higher the incentive to make new material - just like the war on drugs.
Falling is just flying with a bad glide angle.
Any skydiver can confirm that.
Nice karma per keystroke ratio!
That happens to me at work all the time if I can get into the zone and nobody distracts me. Headphone on, email notification off, and the next time I'll eat is when my stomach *really* tells me to.
Of course, that only works if your nutrition is mostly very complex carbs and fiber rich with a bit of protein and fat, otherwise your blood glucose will crash long before that.
You forgot two: "Abu'se" and "apo'strope's".
As somebody else mentioned some time ago, an apostrophe means "Caution, S ahead!"
After all, an S is difficult to navigate as we all know, and it's easy to fly off the track.
Yes, but if you leave them in the magazine they're more protected, and you can tell people to never remove them from magazines and "Here's how a magazine is to be handled." Iron Mountain & co also have special transport containers to protect magazines further.
Just my thought. Hardware RAID adds latency and limits throughput if you use SSDs. On the other hand, server CPUs often have cycles to spare and are much faster than the CPU on the RAID controller. I've yet to see the dual quad cores with hyperthreading going over 40% in our servers.
Now all we need is a VFS layer that smartly decides where to store files and/or uses a fast disk as a cache to a slower disk. Like a unionfs with automatic migration?
Right now I read and browse mostly on an eeePC 1005. If they made a slim, really low power netbook with an e-Ink display on the outside of the lid I'd buy one right away.
Keep it closed and you have an e-Ink based reader. Open it and you have a full fledged netbook.
LTO is a different technology than DAT.
Yes, it's the way to go for large amounts of data.
Bah. Put it out on Bittorrrent and eMule, give it a few enticing names, and it's safe for decades.
DAT is no fun for a couple of terabytes.
3.2 Tera bel (acoustic)? That's kinda loud.
But seriously, yes, tape drive capacity has fallen behind. That's why everybody uses libraries - you need many media to get high capacity and good $/TB value (spreading out the cost of the drives and the library.) Libraries are expensive, that's why everybody puts deduping disk based backup systems in front to get more use out of the libraries. And that's why fewer libraries sell, shrinking the tape drive market, and that's why fewer development resources go into tape drive design, keeping tape behind. The last time tape was on par with disk drives was in DLT7000 times.
I agree, when the tapes are stored in proper environmental conditions
... and don't get dropped. Avoiding tape damage from improper handling is one of the arguments for a tape library.
If you use tape outside a library, make sure you have proper handling procedures in places. It wouldn't be the first time a stack of tapes fell over, looked OK, but couldn't be restored some time later.
Sounds like screwdrivers: pure ethanol from the lab and 20% OJ. That's why it was always good to have a couple chemistry and pharmacist friends (as a CS student.)
Just don't use red squares and blue triangles, but various parts of the human anatomy.
They'd just have to enter gender (and sexual orientation) first so the program can select some memorable pics.
"Hey, I got the 'three large boobs' error!"
Another beneficial effect would be that the users would quickly learn how to reproduce the errors.
For me it's the exact opposite.
I was raised Catholic but as I started to think for myself as a teen I found out that the emperor doesn't wear any clothes. Ever since I have wondered why other people don't see that.
Now as I get older, I understand more about psychology, sociology and evolution, and start to see why religion evolved and that it did (and does) have an evolutionary fitness aspect. I still don't get it but I can see why it exists. Just like many other weird human behaviors.
It can't be true since God didn't make it. Obviously :)
That makes perfect sense to me.
"See, you're served much better with open PC-based gaming. Now get rid of your console."