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Comment Re:Incorrect abstract. (Score 1) 249

by packetrat on Tuesday September 04, 2012 @05:51PM (#41228207) Attached to: Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012

The article actually states this. The abstract above was wrong, not the article—you get licenses of 2 virtual instances of Windows Server per every Standard edition license. Also, there's a standalone version of Hyper-V Server that's a free download.

Submission + - The Fastest Database One the Planet (i-programmer.info) 2

Submitted by mikejuk on Friday June 22, 2012 @07:44AM

mikejuk writes: Two former Facebook developers have created a new database that they say is the world’s fastest and it is MySQL compatible.
According to former Facebook developers Eric Frenkiel and Nikita Shamgunov, MemSQL, the database they have developed over the past year, is thirty times faster than conventional disk-based databases. MemSQL has put together a video showing MySQL versus MemSQL carrying out a sequence of queries, in which MySQL performs at around 3,500 queries per second, while MemSQL achieves around 80,000 queries per second.
The documentation says that MemSQL writes back to disk/SSD as soon as the transaction is acknowledged in memory, and that using a combination of write-ahead logging and snapshotting ensures your data is secure.
There is a free version but so far how much a full version will cost isn't given.

Submission + - USPS to Ban International Shipping on Lithium Ion Powered Gadgetry (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by sl4shd0rk on Friday May 11, 2012 @11:10AM

sl4shd0rk writes: Apparently the USPS is enacting a ban on the international shipment of all devices containing Litihium Ion batteries. The ban is expected to lift in January of 2013. Seems like this should drive more business away from the already floundering USPS financal situation. Although TFA focuses on the shipment of items _out_ of the US, I would surmise the same ban will apply to purchasing these items on Ebay from overseas sources.

Submission + - China used scientific papers to promote its territ (nature.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20, 2011 @11:11AM

An anonymous reader writes: Political and territorial disputes were leaking to scientific venues like Nature, Science and Climatic Change. Many recent scientific papers submitted to these journals promoted the highly disputed Chinese U-shaped line. One of the author refused to change her map after being requested by the journals, stating that that her published map was requested by the Chinese government.

This practice was condemned by Nature in their latest editorial pledging that political maps that seek to advance disputed territorial claims have no place in scientific papers.

Submission + - HP should sell its PC business to save it (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by packetrat on Monday October 10, 2011 @03:07PM

packetrat writes: Hewlett Packard may not be in danger as a company, but its future in the PC business is in doubt, thanks to former CEO Leo Apotheker's maneuvers to turn HP into IBM. This article at Ars says that Meg Whitman should go ahead and sell off the PC business--mostly because HP's management is so inept, it would likely do better without them. Agilent seems to be doing okay since it was spun off in 1999, but HP may have spun off its soul in the process.

Comment Re:Cult of DevOps? (Score 1) 114

by packetrat on Sunday October 02, 2011 @02:00PM (#37584166) Attached to: The Cult of DevOps

I'm not sure I can take anybody who calls an attempt to make IT and Development more aware of each other a cult, seriously. .

Actually, the people who were espousing devops were the ones who called it the "cult of devops". I'm not hating, just wondering if it's just relabeling.

Submission + - The Cult of DevOps, the pain of Amazon (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by packetrat on Friday September 30, 2011 @08:52PM

packetrat writes: I was at OmniTI's Surge conference today, which turned out to be, among other things, a meeting of the cult of DevOps. Ars Technica covered the keynote and some of the presentations, but some of the best stuff is in the comments. Google CIO Ben Fried told the tale of a really poorly engineered trading application at Morgan Stanley that he was associated with, and how the way IT was structured there contributed to that engineering and to its spectacular failure, costing the bank untold millions in stock trade processing fees from its institutional customers. He said what he learned from cleaning up the mess has informed how Google runs its IT operations, and a culture that promotes generalist skills. A lot of how he describes Google's approach sounds like the DevOps kool-aid a lot of the other speakers were serving, but it also sounds like common sense--are most IT organizations really that poorly run that developers are totally unaware their software is sending messages that are generating network storms, or network engineers are clueless enough about QoS to route leased lines into their data center through their public-facing Internet?

Submission + - Is the Sparc T4 too little too late? (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by packetrat on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @09:51PM

packetrat writes: Ars Technica reports on Monday's launch of the Sparc T4, and how it finally (nearly 20 years after everyone else) brings out-of-order execution to Sun Sparc...er, Oracle Sparc. But the benchmarks that Oracle has thrown up (surprise) are a smokescreen for the fact that the processor is still woefully behind state of the art, and it serves mostly as a placeholder to keep the remaining Sparc user base from defecting to Intel--even as Oracle is selling systems based on Intel and Oracle Linux. With the right benchmarks, my minivan outperforms a Maserati. The T4 is a minivan.

Submission + - Google Drops Cloud Lawsuit Against US Gov't (itworld.com)

Submitted by

jfruhlinger

on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @06:29PM

jfruhlinger writes: "A year ago, Google sued the U.S. government because the government's request for proposals for a cloud project mandated Microsoft Office; Google felt, for obvious reasons, that this was discriminatory. Google has now withdrawn the suit, claiming that the Feds promised to update their policies to allow Google to compete. The only problem is that the government claims it did no such thing."

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: Best longterm video/picture storage? 2

Submitted by SoylentRed on Tuesday September 27, 2011 @05:46PM

SoylentRed writes: I recently have had my first kid, a wonderful healthy daughter who is now just over 6 months old. As one can expect, we have an abundance of photos and videos, and have started to scratch our head about the best way to store these files and back them up long term. My parents have asked us (funny thing is it was my mom — the LEAST tech savvy person among our family) what our plan is to make sure these files are saved and available for her when she is older — which made me realize that we don't really have a good plan!

We are currently using TimeMachine on my wife's MacBook Pro as our back-up... so for now we are doing ok with that as a back-up. But my parents have offered to help pay for something that might be a better solution.

We could burn DVD's — but that is tedious and gets to be a pain as we would need to back those up (or recopy) them every year or so to be sure we aren't suffering from degrading dvds.

Is our best option right now to pick up 2 hard drives, back-up all our pictures and videos to the first, and then use a 3rd party app to mirror that drive to a second — just in case one of them craps out?

Is there an online solution that would be better? We are still a few years away from being able to afford the dvds/cds that are the 100+ year discs... is there a better solution I haven't thought of?

Thanks for the help and suggestions!

Submission + - Oracle may "fork itself" with MySQL moves (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by packetrat on Monday September 26, 2011 @06:35PM

packetrat writes: Ars Technica analyzes the recent commercial additions by Oracle to MySQL Enterprise and the additional unrest it's added to the community. Oracle may be throwing itself out of the community as it pushes more customers to look at fully open-source alternatives.

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