Comment Re:Insert obligatory XKCD here (Score 2) 169
That's because I only posted the raw image. The links all went to http://blog.xkcd.com/2014/07/2...
Comment Re:Insert obligatory XKCD here (Score 4, Funny) 169
Comment Re:What I remember (Score 1) 136
... 6 TB hard disks?
6 TB hard disks are going to be significantly less efficient. 6TB of 64GB MicroSD cards would be 96 cards which will take up 7.92 cm^3. A 6TB hard drive is huge by comparison, close to 400 cm^3 (though the actual number varies by drive manufacturer).
Comment Re:What I remember (Score 1) 136
OK. My curiosity got the better of me, so here it is.
First, using his number of 82.5 cubic millimeters for the volume of a Micro SD card, and Wikipedia's 1,134 cubic meters for the cargo volume of an A380 (in freight configuration), I get 13745454545 cards. Using his 20% density reduction, I'll bring that down to 10996363636. 128GB MicroSD cards exist, but they aren't mainstream yet, so let's go with 64GB. The total data capacity of the plane is therefore 610.4 EiB (exbibytes), which Wolfram Alpha helpfully says is about 0.7 times the estimated global IP data traffic per year by 2015, and around 59 times the estimated information content of all human knowledge as of mid-1999.
I looked around to see if I could find anything higher-density than MicroSD, but there isn't really anything. Full-size SD cards are readily available up to 256GB, but they are significantly more than the volume of 4 MicroSD cards. mSATA SSDs are even worse - they are available up to 1 TB, but they are way too big.
Comment What I remember (Score 4, Interesting) 136
I'm sorry, but the best quote from that book is actually this one:
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.
In my networks class, we extended the calculation to a 747 full of DVDs (the best we could do at the time). Maybe one of these days, if I have a minute, I'll go back and do an A380 full of flash drives.
Comment Mod This Up!!! (Score 1) 89
This. Having a separate app for editing makes sense.
Submission + - Lenovo Announces Grand Opening of US Manufacturing Facility (lenovo.com) 1
Kohenkatz writes: Chinese PC maker Lenovo had a ceremony today to mark the official grand opening of their new manufacturing facility in Whitsett, North Carolina. The 240,000-square-foot facility, located approximately 10 miles east of Greensboro, NC, was already being used as a Logistics Center, Customer Solutions Center, and National Returns Center, and is now also being used for Production. While actual line operations began in January 2013, the facility is on track to reach full operation by the end of June. The facility is equipped to build several types of Think-branded products, including desktops, tablets, and ultrabooks. Note that due to the extensive use of automation, the factory only adds 115 manufacturing jobs at the facility.
Submission + - New Cloud Storage Provider Tresorit Offers 10,000 USD for Cracking Encryption (tresorit.com)
Kohenkatz writes: One of the major complaints about storing data "in the cloud" is the security of the data if the service provider is compromised. New provider Tresorit hopes to attract customers worried about their data by offering data encryption done only on the client. In order to promote this new service and to test its security, Tresorit is running a series of challenges for people to test the security of the service. The first contest, cracking the client-side encryption, opens on April 15.
Comment Re:Why not use EC2? (Score 2) 160
In theory, Microsoft runs NTP at time.windows.com. In practice, it seems very flaky. Search for it and you'll find countless forum posts about outages.
Comment Re:No Gov. help? (Score 1) 160
The OP was asking if the NIST time servers were part of the pool.ntp.org group.
They aren't. However, NIST does have Stratum 1 Servers.
Submission + - Last.fm Passwords Possibly Leaked (www.last.fm)
Kohenkatz writes: I received an email from Last.fm today warning me to change my password. The full text of the message is also at http://www.last.fm/passwordsecurity. It's nice to see a company being proactive about a possible breach.
It would have been nicer if they had given some technical details about their security practices though.
It would have been nicer if they had given some technical details about their security practices though.
Comment Re:Those poor rats (Score 1) 103
Sorry, I think Jonathan Swift got there before you... kind of.
Comment Late to the game (Score 1, Informative) 202
HP (and the OP) seem to think that they have something revolutionary here.
Actually, this has been around for over five years already: http://www.chippc.com/thin-clients/jack-pc/
Comment Re:Visual Studio is decent, nothing more (Score 1) 177
Ever have to chase down an issue running PHP with IIS? It used to be a snap with 5. 6 made it more difficult. 7 made it impossible, if you were able to get the non-MS platform to work with it at all.
Funny you should say that. It has never been easier to get PHP running than it is on IIS 7. Two clicks in the Web Platform Installer and you have a working PHP installation. Three more clicks in IIS Manager and you have a working, and pretty well-configured, PHP installation. Need to run two versions of PHP for different sites on the same server? Guess what? It's just a few more clicks. Enable and Disable PHP extensions? One click. Since we updated to IIS 7.5 (Server 2008 R2) from IIS 5 (Server 2K), we have moved several sites running on old LAMP servers over to three Windows Servers and have had no trouble at all with any of the PHP installations or any of the site migrations. It is true that it is now harder to install PHP by hand in IIS - but it makes no sense to do it that way anymore.
Comment Asimov (Score 2) 458
So basically, Asimov was right when he predicted that any interstellar travel would require death. See I, Robot chapter "Escape!" (or short story "Paradoxical Escape") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape!
He was just wrong about whose death it would be.
