Absolutely understandable, especially in that situation.
I built my current workstation ~5 years ago, and haven't really paid much attention to the newer filesystems. At the time JFS seemed like the best option for my use (basic workstation, some programming/compiling but nothing crazy) and because it is what I used on my previous workstation.
Did some looking around, and EXT4 looks really nice in the benchmarks I've come across. Going to have to try it out.
My preferred setup for a while now (~8 years) has been JFS for/, XFS for/Media (where I store 1.2TB of Photos, Music, Movies and TV episodes. Not to be confused with/media).
When I first chose this setup, JFS was still considered the new kid on the block, and its reliability had yet to be proven.
I took a risk but it seems to have worked out for me.
Everyone seems to forget about JFS for some reason. Is there something I am missing?
I am inclinded to think that Google has is manipulating their search results but opposite from what they are assuming in the article.
Think about it this way: Googles algorithm bumps up the most popular results page rank. If people are using Google Search to find other Google products (very common, seeing as how Google Search is integrated in most browsers by default) then the PageRank for those products will be higher. One way around this (as mentioned above by someone else) is to use what is called "google minus google". Essentially when you search using Hoogle Search you append a "-google" to the end of your query. This will filter out any Google related results.
I moved away from Google a while ago, now using DuckDuckGo. Tried StartPage but it just seemed like they were trying too hard to be google, not taking their own direction.
My post was to indicate it was very difficult to purchase 4 at one time from a single vendor over the 3d Quarter.
Now they are rolling out the Opteron 6274, which you can get about the same price as the 6272 was.
As I mentioned to SQL Error above, I live in Canada so my searching efforts were certainly skewed as certain vendors are not available here unless I want to pay gobs of money in duties/import fees. Amazon Canada is not the same as Amazon USA. My last experience with Tiger was not great a few years ago so I have overlooked them. I should give them another shot.
I should note I live in Canada. While that doesn't mean I cannot order from US shops, I do have a tendency to only search businesses that have some form of operation within Canada to avoid duties/import fee's.
I did find the odd Canadian online shop that only had 1 or two in stock (or on order). My primary "goto" is NCIX. They still do not have 12/16 core in stock.
I am not in any immediate hurry to get them, it's actually worked out to my benefit by holding off as now I have access to the latest revision.:-)
And virtually all through Q3 I've been trying to get my hands on 4 Opterons 16-core (model 6272 I think).
Only last week Newegg finally received some of the new revised version but were out of stock for months.
Either they overcommitted to OEMs or they simply did not provision enough for people like me. If they were quicker to get the revision out I am sure they could have made up for that 10% drop.
I do understand this article is referring to desktop CPU's but the Opterons are still a part of their bottom line.
There seem to be 3 classes for SSD. - Consumer (what the article is referring to) - good speeds for a good price. - Business - reliable drive w/ good speed for about double the price - Server/Power Users (PCI-E drives) - insane performance/IO for an insane price.
I do agree, but the 120-128GB range will do the average Joe now.
Its been a while since I've used Windows but the OS only takes around 20GB. 100GB is useful for most peoples word documents, some music, movies, etc.
Its the media hoarders like myself that need the big "Media" drives.
I am personally looking ti move to an SSD. Even with my workload an amount of data in my/home partition a 128GB drive is more than enought for my OS/personal data/work data. I currently have about 1.3TB of movies, music and Televison episodes I've collected over the past 10 years or so. A lot of them purchased or gifts from friends/family on dvd/bluray that I have ripped for use on my media center somy kids don't destroy the discs. I have most of the discs still packed away. The kids ruined a few of them though.
I use a voip service over wifi on my android phone. I get better quality with that than my cell service, its not so great over 4G but I think that is moreso my provider's proxy they pass everything through.
The main reason for doing so is because my cell service is non-existant in my office of my house. I have my cell set to call forward to my voip DID when my cell is out of range. Works pretty well.
While I don't understand the point of this comment, I will bite. *.ca is open in the same was of *.com, *.net, *.org, *.info, and so on and so forth.
Back in the day *.ca used to offer the two-char code for each of the provinces/territories as second level domains, eg: *.bc.ca for British Coloumbia, *.on.ca for Ontario. However this model has been abandoned and new registrations for the second leve TLD's are no longer accepted. Previously registered second level dot CA's are protected in that if I want to register crazydomain.ca but crazydomain.on.ca is already registered, the top level domain cannot be registered. It may be possible if you can prove you are not a direct competitor to crazydomain.on.ca, trying to steal visitors away (anti-competitive), but that sounds like a lot of work and a total pain.
Disclaimer: I am Canadian and own a handful of *.ca domain names. That's about it.
Just the first thought that popped in my head (without checking), but it's possible they are using squashfs or similar. Very efficient and designed for this type of situation. Gentoo uses it for their LiveDVD and it's pretty similar in size.
+1. Install gentoo if you want to edit files and play with the terminal.
I think there is a GUI installer on the LiveDVD:-/. Download the minimal CD instead (also works as a pretty competent rescue disc if you don't have SystemRescueCD kicking around).
When you first start out everything is so new and exciting. You first just want to try anything and everything. You try a few things, learn some new tricks with every distro. Eventually you find one you love, and stick with it. After a few years you see all these hott young distros and get curious and give them a good fsck under a VM or an old box. Every single time you think to yourself "never again", but they always lure you back in because the old ball and chain isn't quite as flexible. As you get older you realize you prefer the comfort of one distro but like to spice things up with one or two on the side.
Attempted Redhat (version 6, I think). Didn't like it. Tried Mandrake, didn't like it. SUSE 9 Personal, used it about 8 months. Upgraded to Gentoo, haven't looked back.
I've fiddled with other distros under VMs... like CentOS, Ubuntu, Slackware, etc. but I just feel at home on Gentoo.
Thats about par with low end Android phones and tablets. My phone and tablet (each $150 or so) have around that 256MB RAM mark. Both seem to run the latest Firefox Mobile Beta fine.
Optimization is always necessary, especially when something is written for x86 and compiled to ARM.
However the two provinces in the best economic climate has the coldest winters. Alberta and Saskatchewan. -40C in the winter is normal around here. This is not including "the wind chill factor". I personally think that is a load of BS. If it measures at -45 on a thermometer that is the temp.
I think Mozilla is absolutely insane coming in to the market so late, but I welcome the competition. As others have pointed out, I am not sure how well it will go over as a Phone OS, but I can absolutely see it as a hobbyist OS. It would be great on tablets, set top boxes (or flash the firmware on your Smart TV), Raspberry Pi.
I already have a few idea's I could use it for. Small personal projects, mostly based around a Raspberry Pi. I use and like Android but FirefoxOS would be better suited from what I have read so far.
I do web development for a living. The idea of HTML5 apps excites me as it is a system I know very well.
Huge win if they come out with an easy to install distro for Raspberry Pi.
Thank you for your insight. I will keep it in mind.
My problem is that I do not trust root. If your data is on a KVM/XEN VPS somewhere (even with whole disk encryption), root on the host machine still has access if your VM is running. You simply don't know how well that host machine is secured. Someone gains root access to the host, everyone on there is screwed.
Upon further thinking this through, it would seem (on the surface) I would have to build an SSH server and emulate the FS calls through to an archival storage library that supports a moderate level of encryption. While this does sound doable it is certainly a lot of work, especially if you were to want to handle multiple, concurrent users. I might play with this idea when I have some spare time. I did find a quite capable SSH2 daemon that is written in PHP with a class to handle FS calls already implemented... could be a starting point to play with : http://blog.magicaltux.net/2010/06/27/php-can-do-anything-what-about-some-ssh/
Something to look into if someone were interested!
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Absolutely understandable, especially in that situation.
I built my current workstation ~5 years ago, and haven't really paid much attention to the newer filesystems. At the time JFS seemed like the best option for my use (basic workstation, some programming/compiling but nothing crazy) and because it is what I used on my previous workstation.
Did some looking around, and EXT4 looks really nice in the benchmarks I've come across. Going to have to try it out.
My preferred setup for a while now (~8 years) has been JFS for /, XFS for /Media (where I store 1.2TB of Photos, Music, Movies and TV episodes. Not to be confused with /media).
When I first chose this setup, JFS was still considered the new kid on the block, and its reliability had yet to be proven.
I took a risk but it seems to have worked out for me.
Everyone seems to forget about JFS for some reason. Is there something I am missing?
I am inclinded to think that Google has is manipulating their search results but opposite from what they are assuming in the article.
Think about it this way: Googles algorithm bumps up the most popular results page rank. If people are using Google Search to find other Google products (very common, seeing as how Google Search is integrated in most browsers by default) then the PageRank for those products will be higher. One way around this (as mentioned above by someone else) is to use what is called "google minus google". Essentially when you search using Hoogle Search you append a "-google" to the end of your query. This will filter out any Google related results.
I moved away from Google a while ago, now using DuckDuckGo. Tried StartPage but it just seemed like they were trying too hard to be google, not taking their own direction.
Yes Amazon has some now.
My post was to indicate it was very difficult to purchase 4 at one time from a single vendor over the 3d Quarter.
Now they are rolling out the Opteron 6274, which you can get about the same price as the 6272 was.
As I mentioned to SQL Error above, I live in Canada so my searching efforts were certainly skewed as certain vendors are not available here unless I want to pay gobs of money in duties/import fees. Amazon Canada is not the same as Amazon USA. My last experience with Tiger was not great a few years ago so I have overlooked them. I should give them another shot.
I should note I live in Canada. While that doesn't mean I cannot order from US shops, I do have a tendency to only search businesses that have some form of operation within Canada to avoid duties/import fee's.
I did find the odd Canadian online shop that only had 1 or two in stock (or on order). My primary "goto" is NCIX. They still do not have 12/16 core in stock.
I am not in any immediate hurry to get them, it's actually worked out to my benefit by holding off as now I have access to the latest revision. :-)
And virtually all through Q3 I've been trying to get my hands on 4 Opterons 16-core (model 6272 I think).
Only last week Newegg finally received some of the new revised version but were out of stock for months.
Either they overcommitted to OEMs or they simply did not provision enough for people like me. If they were quicker to get the revision out I am sure they could have made up for that 10% drop.
I do understand this article is referring to desktop CPU's but the Opterons are still a part of their bottom line.
This whole thing from day one has been about one thing and one thing only: money.
I didn't like this gTLD crap when they first announced it and I think this just confirms how bad of a joke this whole thing is.
If this raffle idea goes through I urge everyone to just ignore it. ICANN needs to get their head out of their ass.
I see you didn't bother to read the summary...
that's without the special coupon codes and mail-in rebates usually attached to weekly deals.
There seem to be 3 classes for SSD.
- Consumer (what the article is referring to) - good speeds for a good price.
- Business - reliable drive w/ good speed for about double the price
- Server/Power Users (PCI-E drives) - insane performance/IO for an insane price.
I do agree, but the 120-128GB range will do the average Joe now.
Its been a while since I've used Windows but the OS only takes around 20GB. 100GB is useful for most peoples word documents, some music, movies, etc.
Its the media hoarders like myself that need the big "Media" drives.
I am personally looking ti move to an SSD. Even with my workload an amount of data in my /home partition a 128GB drive is more than enought for my OS/personal data/work data. I currently have about 1.3TB of movies, music and Televison episodes I've collected over the past 10 years or so. A lot of them purchased or gifts from friends/family on dvd/bluray that I have ripped for use on my media center somy kids don't destroy the discs. I have most of the discs still packed away. The kids ruined a few of them though.
I use a voip service over wifi on my android phone. I get better quality with that than my cell service, its not so great over 4G but I think that is moreso my provider's proxy they pass everything through.
The main reason for doing so is because my cell service is non-existant in my office of my house. I have my cell set to call forward to my voip DID when my cell is out of range. Works pretty well.
While I don't understand the point of this comment, I will bite. *.ca is open in the same was of *.com, *.net, *.org, *.info, and so on and so forth.
Back in the day *.ca used to offer the two-char code for each of the provinces/territories as second level domains, eg: *.bc.ca for British Coloumbia, *.on.ca for Ontario. However this model has been abandoned and new registrations for the second leve TLD's are no longer accepted. Previously registered second level dot CA's are protected in that if I want to register crazydomain.ca but crazydomain.on.ca is already registered, the top level domain cannot be registered. It may be possible if you can prove you are not a direct competitor to crazydomain.on.ca, trying to steal visitors away (anti-competitive), but that sounds like a lot of work and a total pain.
Disclaimer: I am Canadian and own a handful of *.ca domain names. That's about it.
Stick a microphone out the window, plug it unto your computers Aux or Mic in. Use /dev/mic as a random number generator.
I lied... Gentoo minimal CD is only ~150MB depending on architecture.
Just the first thought that popped in my head (without checking), but it's possible they are using squashfs or similar. Very efficient and designed for this type of situation. Gentoo uses it for their LiveDVD and it's pretty similar in size.
+1. Install gentoo if you want to edit files and play with the terminal.
I think there is a GUI installer on the LiveDVD :-/. Download the minimal CD instead (also works as a pretty competent rescue disc if you don't have SystemRescueCD kicking around).
When you first start out everything is so new and exciting. You first just want to try anything and everything. You try a few things, learn some new tricks with every distro. Eventually you find one you love, and stick with it. After a few years you see all these hott young distros and get curious and give them a good fsck under a VM or an old box. Every single time you think to yourself "never again", but they always lure you back in because the old ball and chain isn't quite as flexible.
As you get older you realize you prefer the comfort of one distro but like to spice things up with one or two on the side.
Attempted Redhat (version 6, I think). Didn't like it. Tried Mandrake, didn't like it. SUSE 9 Personal, used it about 8 months. Upgraded to Gentoo, haven't looked back.
I've fiddled with other distros under VMs... like CentOS, Ubuntu, Slackware, etc. but I just feel at home on Gentoo.
Sometime i wish i never opted out of the mod point program. This made me chuckle. +1 to you.
I have lived in Saskatchewan my entire life.
The one thing that makes up for the -45C winters is the +45C summers (if you're into that).
Thats about par with low end Android phones and tablets. My phone and tablet (each $150 or so) have around that 256MB RAM mark. Both seem to run the latest Firefox Mobile Beta fine.
Optimization is always necessary, especially when something is written for x86 and compiled to ARM.
Depends on which part of the country you are in.
However the two provinces in the best economic climate has the coldest winters. Alberta and Saskatchewan. -40C in the winter is normal around here. This is not including "the wind chill factor". I personally think that is a load of BS. If it measures at -45 on a thermometer that is the temp.
Before we have to drop giant blocks of ice in the ocean...
I think Mozilla is absolutely insane coming in to the market so late, but I welcome the competition. As others have pointed out, I am not sure how well it will go over as a Phone OS, but I can absolutely see it as a hobbyist OS. It would be great on tablets, set top boxes (or flash the firmware on your Smart TV), Raspberry Pi.
I already have a few idea's I could use it for. Small personal projects, mostly based around a Raspberry Pi. I use and like Android but FirefoxOS would be better suited from what I have read so far.
I do web development for a living. The idea of HTML5 apps excites me as it is a system I know very well.
Huge win if they come out with an easy to install distro for Raspberry Pi.
Thank you for your insight. I will keep it in mind.
My problem is that I do not trust root. If your data is on a KVM/XEN VPS somewhere (even with whole disk encryption), root on the host machine still has access if your VM is running. You simply don't know how well that host machine is secured. Someone gains root access to the host, everyone on there is screwed.
Upon further thinking this through, it would seem (on the surface) I would have to build an SSH server and emulate the FS calls through to an archival storage library that supports a moderate level of encryption. While this does sound doable it is certainly a lot of work, especially if you were to want to handle multiple, concurrent users. I might play with this idea when I have some spare time. I did find a quite capable SSH2 daemon that is written in PHP with a class to handle FS calls already implemented... could be a starting point to play with : http://blog.magicaltux.net/2010/06/27/php-can-do-anything-what-about-some-ssh/
Something to look into if someone were interested!