This accidentally fell out of her pocket when I bumped into her. Took me four goes.
Saturday, July 24
Dear Dell, Your Pricing Makes No Sense
It is cheaper to buy an
entire server - with 8 CPUs, 24GB of RAM, 6 x GbE, and 24TB of disk - than it is to buy a 24TB direct-attach storage array.
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Probably economy of scale. I bet the DAS is a special order, which has to be sheperded all the way through the production line, whereas the server is off-the-shelf.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Saturday, July 24 2010 12:02 PM (+rSRq)
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I don't know which DAS you were looking at, but if it's the one we build which they rebadge (or heck, most any DAS)... there is quite a bit more to the thing than just a stack of drives.
Dual redundant smart power supply modules, ditto fans, redundant enclosure services modules, redundant internal loops, lots and lots of R&D. It is far more likely to choke itself on some silly internal coding error, than it is to lose your data due to hardware malfunctions... and it is very very unlikely to trip itself on coding errors. Not that they're not there... just that they exist primarily in remote boundary conditions.
Also, the drives will have special firmware, and possibly be the pick of the litter, so to speak.
Posted by: dkallen99 at Wednesday, July 28 2010 02:31 AM (1PFDl)
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I don't think Dell do special drive versions, though enterprise-class drives certainly do have different firmware than commodity drives.
It does offer redundant controllers as an option, though I didn't configure that. Just having the option increases the complexity and price, of course.
The most expensive component, though, is the drives - Dell's drive prices on their US site are hugely inflated. They're actually about 40% cheaper if you buy them in Australia (though in Australia the rest of the server is more expensive).
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, July 28 2010 03:58 AM (PiXy!)
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Thursday, July 15
Moratorium
No science fiction author is to write any work involving online games until they have been dead for 28 years.
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The games or the author?
Posted by: Mob at Friday, July 16 2010 12:31 AM (8c34o)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, July 16 2010 04:39 AM (PiXy!)
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Who burned you? Walter Jon Williams just did a
pretty good murder-mystery about that stupid craze from about six years back that featured large-scale email-style interactive puzzle-rollplaying. I'm not sure if it qualifies as science-fiction, since the only thing even remotely implausible is a rogue HVT widget which strikes me as more of a "five-minutes-into-the-future" than real SF. Especially since nobody's really talking about what exactly happened last May with that five-minute crash in the US markets.
Posted by: Mitch H. at Saturday, July 17 2010 01:15 AM (jwKxK)
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I was reading the monthly newsletter from Galaxy Bookshop here in Sydney. Greg Egan, Ken MacLeod, and Walter Jon Williams all have books out this month with the same basic premise, and that's just from the authors I was actually looking for. Charlie Stross did it recently too.
So the new rule is, unless your name is Philip K. Dick, the topic is off limits.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, July 17 2010 03:34 AM (PiXy!)
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How about movie adaptions ? Could we declare a moratorium on adaptions of P.K. Dick ?
Have you read Daemon by Daniel Suarez ? I've just started it. Pretty good so far.
Posted by: Andrew at Sunday, July 18 2010 12:07 AM (cB03i)
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