meroliph

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by meroliph 17y ago
Sorry for breaking it, but you really should make sure you convert special characters to HTML entities.
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by meroliph 17y ago
They wouldn't, but often times certain regulations may require it.
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by meroliph 17y ago
Could be, though he speaks about MySQL, PostgreSQL as well, and in other places about MS SQL, mostly hammering the license cost, which is obviously huge. One more thing I'd add is I have no clue who these upset DBAs are and who is thinking
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by meroliph 17y ago
"Let’s say you have 10 monster DB servers and 1 DBA; you’re looking at about $500,000 in database costs." I wonder what he thinks is a "monster db server", and considering he included the DBA in the price, is this the price per year or what
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Tell HN: I'm starting up a Database-as-Service and I could use some beta testers
8 points by meroliph 17y ago|2 comments
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How to Build a Superluminal Computer(technologyreview.com)
3 points by meroliph 17y ago|0 comments
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by meroliph 17y ago
How exactly did you download them? Nvidia removed them from their website, and you should only download drivers from there.
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by meroliph 17y ago
This is true for LCDs, but plasma TVs consume a lot less on a completely black background as opposed to a completely white one.
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What to do if compromised [pdf](usa.visa.com)
1 points by meroliph 17y ago|0 comments
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by meroliph 17y ago
Using a synthetic benchmark is not exactly very accurate in order to determine price/performance, as not everyone is going to buy a processor to do Passmark's benchmark all day, not to mention the fact that certain processors might not cont
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by meroliph 17y ago
If there was some sort of adblockplus for Opera I'd jump ship from Firefox in a heartbeat.
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by meroliph 17y ago
There isn't a lot to compete on, and trying to make a table that has a lot of green checks under for our features while the competitions has less checks or "limited" features seems a bit silly. There is a larger minimum quantity, but when y
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by meroliph 17y ago
It seems like the guys at tarsnap have made their own application. The files are stored unencrypted, and it is the user's responsibility to encrypt them as the user sees fit, removing any limitation and not forcing the users to use only one
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by meroliph 17y ago
Added a link with more RAID6 info and a diagram. Speeds can go up to 100mbps, but it varies based on how busy the server is, distance between your server and RB servers. You can ping bishop.royalbackup.com to get a rough idea of latency.
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by meroliph 17y ago
No, I don't own the datacenter, as I probably wouldn't bother with backup services if I had millions to throw on a datacenter, and instead I'd be selling rack space and bandwidth ;). Regarding the encryption: the files stored are not encryp
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I've started offering an online backup service with SFTP, rsync and more.
13 points by meroliph 17y ago|10 comments
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by meroliph 17y ago
It's a custom order, they don't list everything they offer, you have to ask.
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by meroliph 17y ago
A small-ish company called 478east(www.478east.com). They offer relatively cheap high-end hardware in their LA point of presence, but lack a fancy control panel like SoftLayer.
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by meroliph 17y ago
Very expensive, unless you only need to use it during peak traffic hours. A month runs you over 700$, and I'm renting a dual quad core with 32GB of RAM, plus bandwidth for 450$ right now.