Comment Re:Empire was not the best of the movies. (Score 1) 167
Three words: Battle of Hoth.
Real Reason Why the White iPhone 4 Is Delayed 182
tekgoblin writes "There have been numerous reasons why the White iPhone 4 may be delayed with one reason being the color mismatch between the home button and the body. Well this time there is another reason. A source has told CultofMac that the reason for the delay is a light leakage issue caused by the case being clear. Light from the case leaks into pictures taken by the back and front camera on the white iPhone 4, causing distorted pictures. This problem is non-existent on the black iPhone 4, because of its already black case, so Apple has been looking for a solution to this problem, thus the delay of the White iPhone 4 till spring of next year."
Comment Screen? (Score 1) 302
Whenever I've taught or trained remotely I've always used screen to multiplex the session. That takes care of the coding part. For communication I usually use something like skype or google talk. Pick your poison there.
http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/
Comment Power consumption and heat dissipation (Score 4, Interesting) 113
I work in a company that has a few thousand servers running in a few regional data centers. We are looking into SSDs not because of their superior IOPs (this is a mitigating factor vs HDD performance) but because of their low power consumption and low heat dissipation. When you scale your operations reach a scale where you are using an entire data center, heating and power become more and more of a cost issue. Right now we are trying to build some hard data on actual sabings, but there's lots of spin out there that gives you an idea of what potential savings could be. Here are a few interesting links, google around for more information, there's plenty to be had:
http://www.stec-inc.com/green/storage_casestudy.php
http://www.stec-inc.com/green/green_ssdsavings.php (You have to request the whitepaper to see this one.)
http://www.stec-inc.com/green/storage_casestudy.php
http://www.stec-inc.com/green/green_ssdsavings.php (You have to request the whitepaper to see this one.)
