This is fantastic news, I applaude the ATI management for realizing this is a good thing to do. I stopped buying ATI in about 2000 because of the issues in getting driver support for Linux. Now that ATI is stepping up to the plate, I am adding ATI products that use this driver to my buy list!
....It's not strange in this country to live in a major city today and still be unable to get an upload rate above 512kbps for under $100 a month. That's retarded.
I agree. But that is because in North America we operate unregulated monopolies and pay the price. Oh, they may say they are being regulated, but not for us, for city profits, franchise fees. It is the system of how they operate that is not in our interests.
.. the problem is that no one knows the best way to make the internet more resilient, accessible and secure, since there's no just no public data.
I dispute that. The internet is a collective effort by many technical people past and present that develop it's potential. The only hinderance is politics, useless patents, corporate monopolies and the like. It is a truly free media, unencumbered by undue influence by anyone or any special interest group.
Keep the internet free, and it will serve mankind very well. The interent does not need stimulus, it needs net equality of access not dominated by any one.
Any solutions for reliability, useability will be provided as needed. Very efficient model too. For example, it does not depend on any one operation system for it's existance, even though some would have it otherwise. Maybe even open up some of that TV channel bandwidth for the internet without the ownership and licensing issues, allowing any company to provide WAN access.
The internet is truly a democratic collective. Work with it and don't let secular forces pervert it. Doesn't cost much either to do this.
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for knowing how important the Library of Congress metric is to us nerds!
But at least now we know Google can sort out petafiles.
Will your solution be as well tested and engineered?
Sun doesn't do much engineering here. Grab a bunch of SATA drives engineered by someone else, put them on a SATA chipset engineered by someone else, skip adding RAID to cut engineering costs and you have a storage array. Someone in China crimps the cables and packs it in a box, one metal and then one cardboard.
But I could go to my local PC enthusiast store buy a pair of 800W or 1200W power supplies, a mobo with quad core, 8GB of RAM, 6 SATA ports built in, 2 x 12 port SATA add ons, 30 1.5TB Seagate drives. Then load Linux (or Solaris) for 45TB of the good stuff and RAID it the way you want. Cost, a fraction of Sun box per TB. BTW, 1.5TB of Seagate SATA is under $200 right now. I am sure I would get a discount if I said I wanted weekly orders of 300 to build 10 per week. Oh, add 2 x 1000BT for bonded Ethernet, need that I/O.
For just 2TB, you really only need 3 1.5TB Seagate drives, use on board ICH9R or ICR19R RAID 5, on the cheap. Might even be able to do that for not much more than $1000 with 8GB of RAM cache. Ooops, Solaris doesn't support many ICH9 configs, use Linux.
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.
