Comment Numonyx will probably make it happen (Score 4, Informative) 130
Numonyx announced some good advances in PCM a few months back:
http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=7930
Allyn Malventano
Storage Editor, PC Perspective
Comment Re:So only XP is out of luck? (Score 1) 442
The 'compatibility mode' you speak of will be no slower than the same drive being used under a newer OS. All it does is shift the mapping so that a non-aligned XP partition functions in an aligned manner as far as the physical sectors go.
http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=8113
Allyn Malventano
Storage Editor, PC Percpective
Submission + - US FTC Sues Intel for Anti-Competitive Practices (pcper.com)
Vigile writes: And here Intel was about to get out of 2009 with only a modestly embarrassing year. While Intel and AMD settled their own antitrust and patent lawsuits in November, the FTC didn't think that was good enough and has decided to sue Intel for anti-competitive practices. While the suits in Europe and in the US civil courts have hurt Intel's pocketbook and its reputation, the FTC lawsuit could very likely be the most damaging towards the company's ability to practice business as they see fit. The official hearing is set for September of 2010 but we will likely here news filtering out about the evidence and charges well before that. One interest charge that has already arisen: that Intel systematically changed its widely used compiler to stunt the performance of competing processors!
Submission + - AT&T Cellular Network Fails in San Francisco a 4
datapharmer writes: Reports are coming in that the AT&T cellular network in San Francisco has failed. Users are reporting that both data and voice are non-responsive as they scramble for landlines. It is unclear at this time what has caused the outage.
Submission + - Peter Watts Beaten, Charged, Returning to Canada
JoeGee writes: On December 8th, Canadian sci fi author Peter Watts, author of the Rifters trilogy and recently, Blindsight, was crossing the US/Canadian border at Port Huron, Michigan when he was involved in an altercation with US Border Patrol agents. According to Watts he was beaten, left half-naked in a cold cell, and finally dumped on the Canadian side of the border with no coat. Blogger, journalist, and author Cory Doctorow was accompanying Watts on the crossing, and gives his account here. A legal consultant from the Electronic Frontier Foundation was successful in helping a civil rights lawyer in Michigan free Watts. Watts faces US charges of assaulting a federal officer. Based on the accounts one can assume Watts did so by hitting the officer's hand with his face. If convicted Watts faces two years in a US Federal prison.
Submission + - First SATA 6.0 Gb/s SSD expands solid state's lead (pcper.com)
Vigile writes: Even though the unit is a read-only engineering prototype, the guys at PC Perspective were impressed with the performance the first SATA 6.0 Gb/s SSD offered over the competition. The Marvell drive was meant to demonstrate the controller technology the company has developed as an end-to-end SATA 6G proponent, and it does so nicely. With burst speeds as high as 350 MB/s (which is 90 MB/s faster than the current stop SSDs) and sustained read speeds going as much as 175% faster than the best spindle-based hard drives available today, the SATA 6.0 Gb/s spec looks to extend the performance lead for solid state drives greatly in 2010.
Submission + - Intel Shows 48-core x86 Processor (pcper.com)
Vigile writes: Intel unveiled a completely new processor design today the company is dubbing the "Single-chip Cloud Computer" (but was previously codenamed Bangalore). Justin Rattner, the company's CTO, discussed the new product at a press event in Santa Clara and revealed some interesting information about the goals and design of the new CPU. While terascale processing has been discussed for some time, this new CPU is the first to integrate full IA x86 cores rather than simple floating point units. The 48 cores are set 2 to a "tile" and each tile communicates with others via a 2D mesh networking capable of 256 GB/s rather than a large cache structure. There are more details on the design and its massive die size in this summary at PC Perspective.
Comment AFNA (Score 1) 327
NSSC = Naval Submarine Support Center
Naval Sea Systems Command = NAVSEA
Comment error in submission (Score 1) 1
/me passes Vigile more coffee. DroboPro doesn't have eSATA. Editors: if you pick this up please correct accordingly.
Submission + - Steve Jobs in standover against app developer (theage.com.au)
BrokenHalo writes: The Age has an article showing us another unsavoury aspect of Apple's business model.
A long-time Apple software developer from Sydney fears he may have to lay off most of his staff after draconian Apple legal threats and a rare personal email from Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs.
Mathew Peterson, 25, has been creating Mac software since he was 17 and one of his most popular products has been "iPodRip", which allows people to back up their music collections from their iPods on to their computers. It was an instant hit and particularly useful in emergencies because, if a user's computer dies and they attempt to connect their iPod to their new machine, all music and videos on the device are usually wiped... Peterson's Manly-based company, The Little App Factory, now employs eight staff members, makes two other Apple-related software tools and claims to have approximately 6 million customers. But iPodRip, which sells for $US19.95, pulls in the lion's share of revenue.
Despite iPodRip being available for the past six years, about 2 weeks ago, Peterson received a cease and desist letter from Apple's lawyers, Baker & McKenzie. It asked him to stop using "iPod" in his software's name, remove any Apple-related logos from his product and relinquish control of his domain name, ipodrip.com.
A long-time Apple software developer from Sydney fears he may have to lay off most of his staff after draconian Apple legal threats and a rare personal email from Apple chief executive officer Steve Jobs.
Mathew Peterson, 25, has been creating Mac software since he was 17 and one of his most popular products has been "iPodRip", which allows people to back up their music collections from their iPods on to their computers. It was an instant hit and particularly useful in emergencies because, if a user's computer dies and they attempt to connect their iPod to their new machine, all music and videos on the device are usually wiped... Peterson's Manly-based company, The Little App Factory, now employs eight staff members, makes two other Apple-related software tools and claims to have approximately 6 million customers. But iPodRip, which sells for $US19.95, pulls in the lion's share of revenue.
Despite iPodRip being available for the past six years, about 2 weeks ago, Peterson received a cease and desist letter from Apple's lawyers, Baker & McKenzie. It asked him to stop using "iPod" in his software's name, remove any Apple-related logos from his product and relinquish control of his domain name, ipodrip.com.
Submission + - DroboPro 8-Bay In-depth: Hardware RAID at its Best 1
Vigile writes: Everyone seems to love Drobo storage products, especially the new additions to their line, but some remain hesitant to move to an external solution using a non-standard RAID level. PC Perspective's destroyer of SSD's took a crack at the DroboPro, doing his best to trip it up, and exploring all of its features in detail. As it turns out the DroboPro got the better of the tester and was able to survive all sorts of simulated destruction including yanking out the power cord during streaming writes to the unit. The unfortunate part is that the DroboPro is limited to iSCSI, Firewire, USB and eSATA connections for a steep $1495 retail price.
Submission + - Student arrested for "terroristic mischief" (whdh.com)
cohensh writes: A Purdue engineering student was arrested for terroristic mischief. After receiving a parking ticket and having a boot put on his car he but the ticket, boot and payment in a box and left it at parking services. Someone thought the box was suspicious and the building was evacuated. Eventually it was traced back to the student who was arrested for "leaving something that a reasonable person may think is a weapon of mass destruction."
Comment Re:Random write speed? (Score 2, Interesting) 160
I think you're missing something about IOPS. With a 256K block size, you'd be lucky to crack 1000 IOPS over a SATA 3Gb/sec link. At such a large block size you hit the interface bandwidth limit way before you hit any IOPS limit.
Multithreaded database applications do not hit a drive with sequential 256K block requests. Under load, there will be several of those requests occurring simultaneously. Given the timing, a non-NCQ drive may receive the parallel requests rapidly alternating among multiple 256K streams in differing locations. The now highly random stream will bring non-NCQ drives to their knees, while an X25 will just keep right on cruising at very close to 100 MB/sec.
Allyn Malventano
Storage Editor, PC Perspective
Comment Re:Random write speed? (Score 1) 160
Righto - I had Y-axis on the brain. The typical configuration for IOMeter has it ramp queue depth logarithmically. I could shift the axis to linear, but there would be missing data points. Adding tests to fill in those points adds greater risk of fragmenting the drive during the test.
Excellent observation on the file copy test. I'll take that on board as well.
evanbd - if you see this, lets continue via email.
Allyn Malventano
Storage Editor, PC Perspective
Comment Re:UltraVNC single-click (Score 1) 454
Why don't comments from the story submission carry over to the article when posted? Most of the answers here were already commented on under the submission:
http://slashdot.org/submission/1120256/Simple-Free-Web-Remote-PC-Control
If comments don't carry over when the submission gets picked up, what is their real purpose?
