Takes 5 seconds on Google to find the exact command: Like right here

said no one ever

FTFY

(Filters won't let me capitalize what needs to be)

$i = 0
while $i = 0
wget ”http://www.google.com/search?q=Pressure+Cooker"
wget ”http://www.google.com/search?q=backpack"

'Nuff Said

I mostly blame the fact that my company is forced to buy standard Dell's which, despite being advertised to run Linux, have numerous driver and kernel issues that arise every time I apply updates. Every other kernel renders the system inoperable until I do some random work-around. The full size DVDs that I have ripped will take 30 minutes, while a Ubuntu 12.04 CD takes me about 10.

So without any technical details of the discs, you are going to make a grand total of 3 assumptions about how the physical hardware will be set up? Perhaps you should read my OP and notice that I said

Then you can go ahead and RTFA and notice that there was no announcement about the hardware at all. Again, this first article about these new optical discs is all about consumer shock value, not about the actual technical information surrounding the technology. I bet similar stories were made back in the 70s when LaserDisc came out. Lot of bang. No substance.

You are correct. Even so, 6 Gb/s is much faster than the mechanical write speed of a drive.

We all said the same thing about CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays when they first came out. Eventually the technology will be available for this to be a consumer device at an affordable price. While it is appealing to have a single disc for full system backups, it looses a lot of it's value if it runs at DVD drive speed. I could use a USB 3.0 external drive that is cheaper and faster.

You obviously do not understand I/O. My DVD drive is SATA 6 GB/s, but the disc cannot spin fast enough to be read at 6 GB/s. Hence the reason it takes 30 minutes to write/verify a disc. The bottleneck is not the interface, but the mechanical spin of the disc.

But what are they going to do about the I/O? It takes me about 20-30 minutes to write a single 5 GB DVD and verify the data on the disc. Now with a 300 GB disc, it will take me a full day to write a disc?

I hope they have a plan to address the bandwidth limitation of these discs, and not just focus on "EHRMAGAWD BIG DISC!" for the consumer shock value.

I have a feeling that your concept of "enabling" is closer to the concept of "The developer is always right". A good systems administrator will have a firewall running and only allow needed ports (i.e. 22, 80, 443). I have never seen e-mail inboxes limited to 1MB, I think you are either making that up or this is a story from 20 years ago. I would also imagine that your custom install scripts ignore recommended practices in terms of security, because you do not want to type in your 4-letter password each time you need to sudo. You probably have no firewall rules, and I bet that you put the /boot sector on a non-ext* partition, because RAIDs are "cool". Does your custom install script also install tools like tripwire and AV? Probably not, because it would be too much of a hassle. There are more ways to exchange files than I can count. In-house thumb drive, scp, sftp, shared network drive, etc. Why do you have to use e-mail, which generally includes absolute 0 security measures?

Everything you have described is a systems administrator task, and one worth his/her weight in salt would be able to do those in their sleep. Syslog will tell you the address of the DCHP server. Password management is in GUI form now. Bash is just a series of terminal commands.

Sounds like you need to hire some new systems administrators.

I give them virtual machines when they are using something specialized that may mess with other apps. However, most of my developers are running Java code or experimental scripts to parse/process large amounts of data. The Java devs have their own Java test server, and since Java apps are self-contained none of them actually need an independent server. The parse/process guys have their own environment with access to the RAID, and they can do whatever they want as long as they do not modify the original data.

And I have an overflow server that I use for my own parse/process experiments, and I let the developers that I like use it when they need to.

I've got to tell you JonBoy, I've tried products like these before, paid a pretty penny. And if these $1-2K/year servers work, I'll order a dozen!

Just because it takes 30 minutes to compile your code once every 2 weeks doesn't mean you require a $15,000 server so it takes 10 minutes instead. Here's a thought, how about you write up your system requirements right the first time and I will be able to create a server environment (bare metal, VM, whatever) that can satisfy all your needs? If you need python 3.3, then tell me while I am building it, instead of sending me an "EHRMAGAWD" e-mail about how the world is going to end because you cannot run your brand new script that requires it, despite the fact that you have been writing the script for weeks and never bothered to tell me that it was in a version of python that I had not installed yet.

- Root