Sun and Imation have announced an upgrade to their tape technology that allows a native (i.e. uncompressed) capacity of 75GB per tape. Sadly, as always, it is still lagging behind disk storage, especially if notebooks are able to store the terabyte that Seagate have just announced.
With disk storage that large, it will soon make more more sense to buy a couple of 1TB laptops that you can carry around in place of multitudes of tapes.
Sun and Imation have announced an upgrade to their tape technology that allows a native (i.e. uncompressed) capacity of 75GB per tape. Sadly, as always, it is still lagging behind disk storage, especially if notebooks are able to store the terabyte that Seagate have just announced.
With disk storage that large, it will soon make more more sense to buy a couple of 1TB laptops that you can carry around in place of multitudes of tapes.
Sun and Imation have announced an upgrade to their tape technology that allows a native (i.e. uncompressed) capacity of 75GB per tape. Sadly, as always, it is still lagging behind disk storage, especially if notebooks are able to store the terabyte that Seagate have just announced.
With disk storage that large, it will soon may more more sense to buy a couple of 1TB laptops that you can carry around in place of multitudes of tapes.
The issue of open source languages and the availability of development tools is a thought process I was having the other day. One of the key tools in the GNU space is the GNU C compiler. Up until its availability on Unix (long before the Linux kernel came on the scene), developing on Unix was limited to whatever tools were made available by the Unix vendor.
The issue of open source languages and the availability of development tools is a thought process I was having the other day. One of the key tools in the GNU space is the GNU C compiler. Up until its availability on Unix (long before the Linux kernel came on the scene), developing on Unix was limited to whatever tools were made available by the Unix vendor.
I’ve had more than one occasion when I’ve had to move a live filesystem to a new partition or new disk, whether its because I’m short on space on the original partition or through disk failure. I’ve put put my experience of that into my latest developerWorks article on how to move and migrate filesystems.
ReadSystem Administrators Toolkit: Migrating and Moving UNIX filesystems.
I noticed this piece from Johan Andersson on Writing NDBAPI programs—connecting to MySQL Cluster last week, which shows you how to use the NDBAPI—the programming interface to the MySQL Cluster system. By coincidence, we enabled the NDBAPI documentation today. It consists of two elements:
I noticed this piece from Johan Andersson on Writing NDBAPI programs - connecting to MySQL Cluster last week, which shows you how to use the NDBAPI - the programming interface to the MySQL Cluster system. By coincidence, today we enabled the NDBAPI documentation today. It consists of two elements:
I get a lot of email, and about once a quarter I sit down and go through my email, archiving the stuff I no longer need (I haven't thrown away an email in 20 years) and deleting everything else. I also take the opportunity to sort out my auto-filing rules. Every email from a known source goes into an appropriate folder, anything else gets lumped into a folder so that I can check its content and move it to the Spam reporting folder, delete it, or manually move it into the right place. If I've got a new client, or subscribed to some new mailing lists then I'll add them to the rules.
I get a lot of email, and about once a quarter I sit down and go through my email, archiving the stuff I no longer need (I haven't thrown away an email in 20 years) and deleting everything else. I also take the opportunity to sort out my auto-filing rules. Every email from a known source goes into an appropriate folder, anything else gets lumped into a folder so that I can check its content and move it to the Spam reporting folder, delete it, or manually move it into the right place. If I've got a new client, or subscribed to some new mailing lists then I'll add them to the rules.