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- FTP: untrustworthy file transfer
- FTP - file transfer protocol - is the most commonly used method for moving files around Web. Now Steve Frank, a founder and developer for Mac software company Panic, has come out and recommended that people stop using FTP. I wrote about this (see If hackers don't...
- Tags: FTP, SFTP, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-14
- PS3 chip powers world's fastest computer
- Some scoffed at the 8 PS3 supercomputer. But not the scientists at Los Alamos National Labs. They used the idea to build a 1 petaflop computer named Roadrunner - the world's fastest. Here's how. 1,000 trillion floating point operations per second Fine-grained simulation of aging nuclear...
- Tags: Sony PlayStation 3, Storage, AMD Opteron, RAM, Computer, Cell, Chip, Roadrunner, PowerXCell, InfiniBand, Processors, Networking, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- Cloud computing - in your dreams
- A particularly odd bit of goofiness has hit the infosphere: cloud/utility computing mania. Nick Carr has written a book. IBM has announced, for the umpteenth time, a variation on utility computing, now called cloud computing. Somebody at Sun is claiming they'll get rid of all their data centers by 2015....
- Tags: Google Inc., Network, Computing, IBM Corp., Syllogism, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-01-27
- ZFS beta now on Mac OS X Leopard
- For all you bleeding-edge OS X warriors Noel Dellofano, part of the ZFS development team at Apple, has posted ZFS binaries and source code on Mac OS Forge. ZFS looks to be the first 21st century file system to make it to a high-volume desktop. I've...
- Tags: Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-01-09
- Mac Safari's cool new Inspector
- As a reluctant web page developer on StorageMojo and for friends, I often wonder how a page I like is done. With Safari's cool new Inspector I don't have to wonder any more. Here's is what the Inspector looks like: ...
- Tags: Web, Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Window, Web Page, Mac Safari, Construction, CSS, Channel Management, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Marketing, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- The best Windows storage isn't on Windows
- There's a dark horse coming up on the outside Isn't Sun - and Solaris - almost dead? No and they're showing quite a bit of life in the storage arena. It is amazing what a $12 billion company can do with a unique strategy and deep engineering smarts. ...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., CIFS, Microsoft Windows, Storage, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-11-29
- Leopard's Time Machine: Consider the 'bad and ugly' side of storage
- Leopard's Time Machine: Consider the 'bad and ugly' side of storageApple is PERFECT and has already thought of thisJust format your Time Machine drive to use ZFS. OS X's implementation of ZFS is far superior to Solaris' and will survive even a total physical failure of the disk.You know, the...
- Tags: RAID, SILENT DATA CORRUPTION, Apple Mac OS X, hard drive, Time Machine, Apple Inc., storage
- Discussion threads 2007-11-23
- Did Google bluff Microsoft into over paying for Facebook?
- Did Google bluff Microsoft into over paying for Facebook?Too funny!I just subscribed to your feed, somehow I missed it all these months...That's not all . . .Check out StorageMojo.com.Robin
- Tags: Facebook, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-11-01
- Build an 8 PS3 supercomputer
- Build an 8 PS3 supercomputerConsumerisation=toys not computing"On StorageMojo I’ve often addressed the consumerization of IT. The PS3 represents the consumerization of supercomputing. That will benefit us all."I'd change the last sentance to "That COULD benefit us all."But will it? Reading through a few channel 9 blogs a couple of days...
- Tags: supercomputer, Sony PlayStation 3, Sony PlayStation 2
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- Build an 8 PS3 supercomputer
- Less than a 10th the cost per GFlop of the $2500 supercomputer Take 8 PS 3 consoles, Yellow Dog Linux, a Gigabit Ethernet switch and your favorite protein folding or gravitational wave modeling codes and you're doing real science. On a Playstation! Try playing Ratchet &...
- Tags: Supercomputer, Sony PlayStation 3, Cell, Khanna, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-10-29
- Google's 650,000-core warehouse-size computer
- Google's 650,000-core warehouse-size computerAnd, that is the problem for Microsoft. Google can scale faster and cheaperthan anybody else on the planet, and has a huge head start building data centers. One huge advantage that will be difficult for Microsoft to overcome. Really, with the cost of Windows Server, and the...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Data centers, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Servers, computer, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-23
- Apple's new kick-butt file system pushes on
- Apple's new kick-butt file system pushes onSounds similarto ReiserFS 4... ]:)FINALLY!Competition in a MEANINGFUL way, not just bells and whistles!Open source seems to be good.Sun being sued for ZFS?Isn't Sun being sued by NetApp over patented idea/technology infringement in the ZFS?Article sounds a bit over-hypedalmost to the point where it...
- Tags: NetApp, open source, patent office, Beryl, ZFS, file system, Apple Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-05
- Inside Amazon
- You're running one of the world's busiest e-commerce sites, handling up to 4 million checkouts per day. Response time is critical. Every page is customized on the fly using over 150 network services. And the system must manage failures of any component, including entire data centers. ...
- Tags: Availability, QoS, Intelligence, Amazon.com Inc., Systems Management, Dynamo, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-10-03
- Build a $50 DVD burner
- Tired of your slow notebook burner? Want to rip a lot of CDs - as I have in the last week? Or maybe you've decided that, really and truly, you are going to get serious about backing up important data? Adding an external burner -...
- Tags: ATA, Pin, Headphone, Audio, DVD Burner, Burner, Connector, Video, Computer, DVD, Audio Connector, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Flash drives get a fight from disks
- Flash drives get a fight from disksBattery LifePersonally I see 30 minutes of extra battery life as being a big bonus but maybe thats just me. We've push Li Ion batteries to the breaking point just as sony how it worked out when they went past it and so...
- Tags: Engineering, Notebooks, Good Money, USB flash drive, laptop computer, battery, disk, SSD
- Discussion threads 2007-09-10
- Hybrid drives: not so fast!
- Vendors are pimping hybrid drives of flash memory and rotating disks. Disk drives and flash memory have very specific performance profiles. And they don't match up that well. Here's the scoop. The disk problem Disks are great for capacity and for reading and writing large chunks...
- Tags: Disk, Performance, Problem, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-09-04
- Seagate's visible firmware problem
- Seagate's visible firmware problemZFSI don't know if you have watched this video. Jeff Bonwick and Bill More are presenting ZFS at BayLISA. (I saw them live at a different event. It was really great!!!)http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8164805665567899891&q=ZFSAt around 1:17 they are talking about Disk Firmware. (Slide 13 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/os_user_groups/losug/zfs-technical-jeff-bonwick.pdf )Really interesting talk...Comments from article...
- Tags: firmware, Seagate Technology LLC, disk, firmware problem, ZFS
- Discussion threads 2007-08-29
- Why aren't small drives cheaper?
- Smaller Is Better, So Why Isn't It Cheaper?I've been wondering when the 2.5" form factor will replace the 3.5" drive. After all, the 100,000,000x increase in areal density has seen the extinction of 24", 14", 9", 8" and 5.25" form factors. Areal density keeps increasing, so why haven't we yet...
- Tags: Disk, Vendor, Form Factor, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Building an energy efficient home computer
- You say you want a revolution?Energy efficient data centers are in the news again, with the EPA reporting that data centers use 1.5% of US electricity - almost 6 million home's worth - and doubling in five years. But what about your home data center? My house has 2 wireless...
- Tags: Home PC, Disk, Data Center, I/O, System, CPU, Computer, Energy Efficiency, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
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