Posts by Aremmes 85 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Dec 2007
Real SCSI, as the Lord intended it to be, uses the target (i.e., the peripheral device) to drive the transaction. Apple's SCSI as implemented in the Mac Plus, on the other hand, uses the initiator (i.e., the controller) for that function. Granted, the SCSI standard was still in development, but IIRC the roles of initiator and target were well understood back then.
"What small or medium company is going to set up a greenfield Fibre Channel SAN these days, when iSCSI is rampaging around?"
Given that it is cheaper and easier to buy a pair of Qlogic SANbox switches and set up zoning, than to buy a pair of decent wire-speed Ethernet switches and dick around with STP/QoS/trunking/VLANs/etc. to obtain equivalent performance, I'd say that any company that can crunch numbers without developing haemorrhoids would see the benefits of going the FC way.
I see this more as a competitor to LifeSize's Passport, which does only $720p and currently goes for $2k, but can do Skype video calls as well as H.323/SIP, is smaller, and doesn't require you to pay a pizzo. Either way, people aren't going to pay for HD video calls when free webcam video calls are "good enough," same as how MP3s, pirated DVDs, fast food, and Coors Light are "good enough."
-- "We might see an importation of the EVA software environment onto the 3PAR platform, giving it an EVA personality."
Given that the SOP for upgrading an EVA is to use Continuous Access to migrate LUNs, I'd hope that HP would only add the minimum amount of logic necessary to make a 3PAR system participate in CA, instead of porting that pile of cobwebs and dust that is XCS.
-- "But the 3PAR architecture can be, and probably will be, pushed up-scale and down-scale, overlapping the mid-range EVA's capabilities more and more."
What would that make of the Dot Hill-sourced MSAs then? Those always looked like a temporary solution while HP could find something else that they could maintain in-house.
Blockbuster really needs to die. Now. With Netflix posting/streaming discs directly to the home, Redbox vending machines sprouting up at every grocery store and Wal-Mart with $1-per-day rentals, and online-only video sites like Hulu, Blockbuster really has nowhere to turn to now, not even the "miracle" that their strategerists are likely depending on. Even Hollywood Video saw it fit to keep its dignity and close up shop, and they were much better. Nowadays the only brick-and-mortar video rental places that are still thriving are the small chains and private businesses that carry old, obscure, weird, and/or indie movies, and/or porn.
This side of the pond also has the Dogfish Head Brewery in Delaware, where they brew their 120-minute IPA, Fort ale, and World Wide Stout, all of which hover around 18% ABV. They also brew Chateau Jiahu, the world's oldest beer recipe still in use, based on residue from a 7th millenium archaeological site in China.
A typical superscalar processor is still a single core and executes a single thread (assuming SMT is not used), but may execute instructions out of order in order to fit as many as it can into the execution units if instruction dependencies allow it. The alternative would be a barrel processor like the UltraSPARC T1/2 cores.
It's still missing a few things: a bald eagle (red, white, and blue, of course), WTC towers, an F-14/F-15 dropping smart bombs, a NASCAR race car burning its tires, and Jesus on the cross. Maybe a Hummer or two for good measure. That would totally send the right message about the current state of affairs here.
You can make out an approximation of the outline of Mickey Mouse's head in the Magic Roundabout. I wouldn't be surprised if that's all that they took into consideration, especially given how so many people in Florida have never seen a proper roundabout.
Paris, 'cause she's a big fan of Hugh Wood.
“Our new identity is uniquely dynamic." -- The same as it was before.
"Our business is focused on creating world-class experiences for consumers." -- World+dog has experienced dial-up at least once.
"AOL is centered on creative and talented people - employees, partners, and advertisers." -- Those who have a clue will get sacked after a week.
"We have a clear strategy that we are passionate about and we plan on standing behind the AOL brand as we take the company into the next decade.” -- We haven't got a clue about what we're doing.
“AOL is a 21st century media company," -- An unpaid intern tested the AOL client software on a netbook and it worked.
"We’re delighted to have worked so closely with the AOL leadership team to create something bold and exciting that sets AOL apart.” -- Thanks for the cheque!
"But Real reckons the problem isn't that people don't like Ring Back Tones, only that they have no idea what they are."
And yet people say that being ignorant is bad, here's an example of ignorance actually providing a significant benefit. It's just too bad that the beneficiaries are ignorant of the benefit, though.
"Toyota has promised that it will launch a leccy city car in the US sometime in 2012."
Certainly not this one. With a top speed of 62 mph., it'd be quickly run over as soon as it enters an expressway. Any expressway. Even Smart drivers do around 75-80 mph. on these roads just to avoid the sight of a Freightliner in their rear view mirror.
I'd hope that the glasses and implant would be keyed so that the implant would only accept signals from the appropriate set of glasses. How long until someone starts blasting video signals from a hidden high-power transmitter into a person's implants to inject adverts into the field of view?
"[T]he ability to add apps has never been a killer feature for mobiles in the past outside of the enterprise."
Mostly because mobile phone companies require customers to agree to a dual-handed fisting before they're allowed to install 3rd-party apps on their phones. And pay an exorbitant price, too.
Why does it take a scientific study to figure out what every self-respecting todger dragger already knows? My wife occupies 90% of the talking time in our house, and she's not even American. The article's title might as well be "Girls love to talk: Bloody Obvious".
Paris, 'cause she wouldn't carry a (very hackable) mobe if she can't talk on it.
I hope that they fixed the biggest gripe that VM users have with the MSA series: its maximum of two (yes, 2) hosts using any single LUN simultaneously. This effectively limits the size of an attached VM cluster to two physical servers. HP's compatibility guide for the MSA1x00 even explicitly specifies a limit of two servers with the latest active/active firmware (7.0).
Oh, and their implementation of active/active consists of spreading the LUNs across controllers, which you get to configure manually in the ACU. LUNs cannot be served by both controllers simultaneously; instead, a controller handling a request for a LUN for which it is not configured must forward the request through an internal connection to the other controller.
If HP managed to remove both of those ugly hacks in the MSA2000, then I'll have to give it some consideration, as I really really really want to kick our MSA1500 to the kerb.
Stop. Hammertime.
Theoretically, yes; anyone using WSUS should simply be able to not approve the service pack for any given computer groups for any amount of time. At our shop, we have yet to approve IE7 for desktop computers, and we have yet to see a rogue installation. I say "theoretically" only because I cannot vouch for WSUS continuing to work in a predictable manner, being MS software and all.
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