Posts by John M. Drescher
14 posts • joined Sunday 23rd December 2007 03:03 GMT
I agree on all points. I see no point at all for Metro on the server and worse yet as an administrator I HATE when the buttons for the same operation are moved around on each version. I do however like the ribbon additions to the file explorer but certainly not the metro look..
Posted in IBM prepares to demo 125TB MONSTER tape
Re: "Three days to fill at LTO-5 speeds. This does not matter"
When this is released in 10 to 20 years the drives that would use these would certainly not be reading / writing at LTO5 speeds.
Posted in Why is solid-state storage so flimsy?
Re: SSDs and HDDs both require backup...
At work where I monitor over 100 hard drives 24/7 for at least the last 5 years I nearly always know when a drive will fail long enough to replace it. Although this is not SMART PASS / FAIL. Of the 75 or so drives we have RMA'd ( I test them thoroughly before an RMA - 4 passes of badblocks minimum) only 1 single drive had indicated a SMART FAIL status. Even drives where large portions of the drive were unreadable. Instead of the full drive SMART PASS / FAIL I look at specific SMART parameters like Reallocated sectors, Current_Pending_Sector, Offline_Uncorrectable ...
"Toss in the failure rate of SSD drives"
That would be an advantage for SSDs since they have a lower failure rate than hard drives.
Re: Windows 8 is pretty good....
I do that but this does not take care of all the ugly square windows. They may now call Aero cheesy but to me removing it is very frustrating.
Re: in a few years time only fascists will use hard discs
I would expect hard drives to still be used years after NAND flash is replaced. Remember that flash has lower write endurance and lower retention period each time it is the nodes are shrunk and as a result this prevents flash from being a viable replacement for hard drives for video and other data sets that tend to be large.
Re: A while yet
Agreed. The biggest problem with SSDs now is that shrinking them with the current materials and process makes them less reliable. There are big problems with write endurance and unpowered data retention times that get worse each process shrink. I believe for SSD to catch magnetic disks for price and size there needs to be new materials used.
Posted in Washington cop tases naked lawn sex man
ID Required?
They were committing several low level crimes. Any police officer will demand an ID in this situation. At least in PA they will. Even jaywalking requires you to show ID.
Darn..
They have paid me over $400 US to date. I really like when they sponsor my linux machines..
I only used bing for the money.
And at that most of the cashback was earned buying hardware for linux machines..
Posted in Ex-Googlers reinvent web search
They need to change that URL.
Transpose the l and i and you get a porn site. This is the second time I did that at work by accident. I hope the company network police do not contact me about this..
Posted in Microsoft pledges to fight Vista 'myths'
Haha..
Cancel or allow? That is plain annoying. I wanted to copy a file to my program files folder from a network link and I ended up getting 3 dialogs for this one action. The first was a pretty dialog asking me if I really wanted to do that. Next was a plain dialog asking the exact same question. Next was a dialog telling me that I could not do that. What a pain. Ask the question once, please or we will all have to turn this crap off.
Only sell low end machines.
I can see this easily happening. All they have to do is only sell low end machines.This is all that 90% of the users need anyways so no big deal.
Re: skipping gens
Skipping gens is does not work because each generation has its lessons to learn and new problems to overcome. The tool sets that are used to create the chips have to be refined to work with the new generation.
