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Adobe Pushing For Flash TVs 345

Drivintin writes "In a move that should make cable companies nervous, Adobe announces they are going to push a Flash that runs directly on TVs. 'Adobe Systems, which owns the technology and sells the tools to create and distribute it, wants to extend Flash's reach even further. On Monday, Adobe's chief executive, Shantanu Narayen, will announce at the annual National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas that Adobe is extending Flash to the television screen. He expects TVs and set-top boxes that support the Flash format to start selling later this year.' With the ability to run Hulu, YouTube and others, the question of dropping your cable becomes a little bit more reasonable."

Comment It depends! (Score 1) 763

Can't put my finger on it right this second, but I believe that IBM did research into this back in the terminal days and came up with white on dark blue.

However, I think it comes down to what works for you and the lighting in your work area. For example, if you have a really bright environment you might choose one color scheme, but if your environment is dark, you might chose a different one.

Personally, I try to keep outside light very low and then use green text on black background.

Data Storage

Disk Drive Failures 15 Times What Vendors Say 284

jcatcw writes "A Carnegie Mellon University study indicates that customers are replacing disk drives more frequently than vendor estimates of mean time to failure (MTTF) would require.. The study examined large production systems, including high-performance computing sites and Internet services sites running SCSI, FC and SATA drives. The data sheets for the drives indicated MTTF between 1 and 1.5 million hours. That should mean annual failure rates of 0.88%, annual replacement rates were between 2% and 4%. The study also shows no evidence that Fibre Channel drives are any more reliable than SATA drives."
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Journal Journal: ToDo List: 20061114

1) T2K into production
a) Get new T2K Nic card (GigaSwift) installed.
b) Start testing.

2) New Frontend number 9 into production
a) Install cards
b) Rack 'n' stack
c) New license
d) Clone from peer server

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Journal Journal: Sun laptop

As an update, my brand new Sun Utlra 3 Portable Workstation was ordered yesterday. Let's see, that means that I should have it in my possession about 3 weeks or so from yesterday.

Sweeeeet!

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Journal Journal: Sun Ultra 3 Portable

Sweeeet! I just got the ol' seal-of-approval to get an Ultra 3 Portable Workstation! (laptop for the real world) Wet dreams are here again!

a'ight!

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Journal Journal: SAN vs 3310 Redux

OMG! I am just now finally recovered from the near-catastrophic test of using the Compaq SAN vs hanging storage in my product. It turned out that subjecting the SAN to such high I/O reflected on ALL of the servers attached to the SAN!

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Journal Journal: Sun's 3310 JBOD vs Compaq EVA (SAN)

Today, after being in the dumps on catching up with files on this server, I have decided to re-visit building the storage for these files on one of our Compaq EVA's. It is fiber attached storage basically.

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Journal Journal: Todo list: 01092006

1) Come up with itenerary for cross-training linux SAs onto Sol9 and Usenet.
a) Not started.

2) Come up with a migration plan for customers on old plan to new plans.
a) Have tentative high-level plan complete.
b) Need nitty-gritty

3) Install the 8th frontend.
a) Waiting on 15K disk and fiber card.

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Journal Journal: 10k rpm SCSI disks vs 15K rpm SCSI disks

The story thus far: two Fridays ago, I had a disk failure in a Sun 3310 DiskArray. It was a 15K rpm drive. I only had 10K rpm drives left in my emergency stash. So, I broke the mirror, cleared the stripe, replaced the drive, rebuilt the stripe, then remirrored. Sync for the mirror took over 7 HOURS to complete! (203GBytes of data) (clue number one.)

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Journal Journal: Traffic - The Game

[I wrote this one day near the end of a mercilessly, brutal summer of bad traffic in the city that I live in.]

I walk out the door and stand on the porch. The cool morning breeze seems only a butterfly lost in the heat of the sun that warms my face. I quickly load the Jeep with my equipment and hit the open road anticipating another day of that wonderful game called Traffic. As I slow to a stop at the first back-up in traffic, my mind wonders to the thrills of being off-road.

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Journal Journal: Bathroom Breakin'

I can't believe that I feel it necessary to actually have to say something about this, but here it goes anyway.

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Journal Journal: Vegas, Baby!

First work day back from training in Vegas. What a suck-ass town. I have NEVER liked Vegas for multiple reasons which I will list here whether you like it or not.

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Journal Journal: x86 Solaris

So, Last Friday I spent the day trying to install first Solaris 10 x86 on my ancient Compaq Armada M700 and then Solaris 9 x86 on the same. 10 would not get passed the first dang screen.

9 did okay, but every other boot-up after install produced missed targets, etc. Overall, I was VERY unsatisfied with Solaris x86.

I have gone back to Ubuntu - latest release - and using Blackbox as my winder's manager.

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Journal Journal: Jury Duty

Yesterday was a long waste of time. But I did find it interesting to see what people think they can say to get out of jury duty!

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