patrickg-zill

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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
I think there are some that are... a company called Verne Holdings was planning to build one in Iceland, but it has been delayed. http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/022309_Iceland_Data_... Remember as well, that proximity to lots of
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Look at the crap that is GNOME and the related libraries, which insidiously work their way into other GPL libraries. I then look at Mono, which will always serve as an advertisement for Microsoft and which will always be feature-poor in com
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
In the back of my mind I have played with the idea of a website for the coming "American diaspora" - the dispersion of Americans from the USA for places with less intrusive government.
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Assuming the linked chart is accurate, it seems that ruthenium is currently about half the cost of palladium, however it has in the past been much more - up to $800 per ounce. Current price of palladium: $237 per ounce Current price of rut
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Ever play the "Gorillas" game in GW-BASIC that shipped with many copies of MS-DOS. Bill Gates wrote that. And was proud of it.
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
IPMI servers and related devices like Sun's LOM and HP's iLO have little to no storage space, perhaps a few MB of flash. You can set up a limited number of users, like 16, and cannot store or access random data (i.e. you cannot use it like
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Yes, a lot of servers have this. My point was more along the idea that as long as the FBI has the drives, they don't need anything else - so they should return everything except the original drives.
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
If the FBI allowed them to have access to their data by copying the hard drives over, why not let them have the rest of the system back? After all, the original hard drive is the only part of the system that retains data/evidence.
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Ruthenium is rare, I would not be surprised if later research centered around the use of more available platinum group metals such as palladium.
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Control.
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Wow ... that is an attitude you should re-examine.
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
How many companies are reading this and wondering if their next datacenter project should involve servers located outside US jurisdiction?
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Wow, the Hopeychange flavored Kool-Aid hasn't run out yet!
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Dead cat bounce, in my opinion. How many jobs have been lost each month for the past 3 months? About the same number each time.
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
If you are dealing with the INS, chances are you are not a citizen. Therefore, congressmen and senators are much less likely to be concerned about your welfare.
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Well, 100 1U servers is about 33 per rack if you have 3 racks; switches should not be more than 2U or 4U on top of that, and they do not use a lot of power. Not sure exactly how much power, but 2x 30A power feeds will give 48A usable power
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
I have to say I am relieved ... Sun needs to focus on three areas in addition to their hardware: 1. Java - already ubiquitous (ish), Sun gets money for support and software 2. OS and pieces of OS - Sun gives away Solaris, ZFS, MySQL etc., b
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
A "destroyed career" after he made a tidy living at NASA, joined Google and got paid well, and is now doing VC? I wish my career were similarly "destroyed".
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
100 8-core servers, each 1U, figure $2K apiece as a rough guess. That is $200K. Next you are talking about 3 racks of space (you can fit 42U in a rack), plus extra power, figure $3000 per month in a less-expensive colocation space. Gigabit
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Your StorageTek business ... I DRINK IT UP! (sorry, couldn't resist.)
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
I wonder if the ECPA, Electronic Communications and Privacy Act, is still in force. If so the FBI may well be in violation of it. Also reminds me of the Steve Jackson Games case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._U
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
SGI killed themselves, just took a long time to die. They had geniuses working in their graphics side, and when they decided some 15 years ago that "Unix was dead" and WinNT was the future, those geniuses left for Nvidia and other places.
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Since the gigabit+ links they are paying for are symmetric, that is, they can move the same amount of data in both directions, I will make the assumption that Amazon's "outbound" traffic is less than their "inbound" and thus, an increase of
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
I had a client that moved to Ning... they have not grown very much since the migration from their homegrown platform.
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
I would say that sailing has always been something that rich geeks get into. There are numerous blogs and even sites (pre-blogging days) by programmers, etc. who made some money and then bought a boat and sailed away. With the recent price
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
The good ones do often go early, because they don't have the "issues" to begin with or have parental help to work them out. As I am married to someone not originally from the USA I would emphasize that there are societal issues you will hav
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Welcome to the messy, illogical thing called life. No one has exactly the "right" answer. I would point out that a good relationship should enhance your life rather than diminish it. Maybe you are dating the wrong kind or pursuing the wro
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Any official talking about this will say "Argentina" or "Russia" because it is politically incorrect to say "Weimar Republic".
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
No, for a number of reasons. One reason for American dominance after WWII was that so much of Europe's manufacturing capability was destroyed by war. America has (about) the same manufacturing base as 2 years ago. Another is that the stren
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by patrickg-zill 18y ago
Subject matter - interesting. Purple prose by author earnestly trying to convince you of his erudition, and constant asides that do nothing but distract - not interesting.

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