Re: More internet of things
Totally agreed. Yesterday I almost poured gasoline over my toast.. Could have been disastrous!
Posts by Dwayne
31 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Apr 2008
Google's Nest halts sales of its fire alarm – because waving your hand switches it off
Friday 4th April 2014 14:35 GMT
With 10 foot ceilings, the nest wave was actually a useful feature for only one detector located in the kitchen. I had not purchased other detectors as my house has wiring for mains connected detectors with a third wire for linking them together. Burning toast in the kitchen used to set every single detector in the house screaming. Pushing a button to silence a detector is a PITA and involves a dangerous balancing act so I'm looking forward to Nest fixing this little glitch. As far as hackers and such and over the wire updates, just sensationalist journalism.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it ... Win Phone 8? No, it's APPLE'S iOS 7
Monday 23rd September 2013 05:45 GMT
The best new phone ever - For free.
I have an iPhone 5 and I'm really really impressed with iOS 7. The look and feel of the phone is so different while being intuitive and faster. The graphical elements and transitions are smooth and pretty much everyone I know who has an iPhone is raving about their iOS 7 upgrade. Well done apple for pulling this off so well.
Boeing 787 fleet grounded indefinitely as investigators stumped
Monday 28th January 2013 06:20 GMT
Re: I'd look at the Battery Power Conditioning Circuits
I believe temperatue also plays a role in this. My friendly Li battery expert who provides me with Li batteries for Dive Propulsion Vehicles has charging/load protection to stop the use of the battery when the battery is too cold. Bad stuff happens to Li batteries when they get too cold and once the battery has been frozen, its basically kaput. It is winter in the Northern Hemisphere and I have to ask what temperature cycling is occurring in the belly of an aircraft sitting for extended periods in below freezing conditions while the aircraft is powered down?
Ten four-bay NAS boxes
DIY virtual machines: Rigging up at home
Gas bill climbed £13,000 after correct online reading given
Thursday 6th October 2011 15:02 GMT 
I actually got billed...
1. Early days of bill pay - I had my gas bill set up to auto pay but bank bill pay system did not have limits.
2. Gas man read the wrong number and gas company billing system assumed I had wrapped the gas meter.
3. Gas company billed me for $7000+ dollars and bank bill pay happily obliged.
Took two weeks for the gas company to credit my account.
Apple seals $66bn in Jobsian wallet
Fukushima scaremongers becoming increasingly desperate
EMC blows benchmark away - again
Wednesday 9th March 2011 16:18 GMT
a bridge too far
http://www.spec.org/sfs2008/
Well - SPECsfs2008 is not a $/IOPS - It's performance benchmark and its pretty telling how a specific vendor solution can and will scale. When you (or I) develop an industry standard benchmark for $/IOPS against specific capacities, the benchmark would be no more real world than SPECsfs2008.... Just enjoy the fun and take it for what it is.
BT fibre-to-the-premises trial takes 7 hours per install
Thursday 3rd March 2011 16:02 GMT
Verizon FIOS - Redondo Beach, USA
Verizon FOIS to the house which provides Digital TV, 4 POTS Lines, and currently Internet at 25Mbps down, 5Mbps Up requires pulling a fiber from the splitter hanging on a pole across the street to the roof and down the side of the house to a box which splits out the various services. An install takes 4+ hours if you also figure in the TV DVR and any funky internal wiring. Certainly 7+ hours is not unusual. Once its in, its rock solid. Just takes time to pull old copper and replace with fiber.
The Woz speaks: Fusion-io plans IPO
Flash drives dangerously hard to purge of sensitive data
Police turn to extreme-sport mobe sucking
Friday 15th October 2010 15:11 GMT 
Motorola Clamshell...
Scuba diving off the coast of Southern California and found a Motorola clamshell on the bottom at 45 feet. Took it into work and dried it out and we were able ti power it up. Had been on the bottom for ~30 hours. Original owner was very surprised - He had dropped it into the ocean while fishing.
Intel needs to rethink security to profit from McAfee buy
Permabit's killer dedupe technology
Monday 7th June 2010 15:24 GMT 
Making the Connection.
From Permabit...
"http://www.permabit.com/videos/dedupe-exposed-video.asp" -
Both Archive and backup with deduplication... Inline deduplication algorithms... Where have I heard this before? Chris help me?? Where have we heard this before???
Oh gosh - Just cannot make the connection this morning but hey Permabit makes dedup and NetApp does too and NetApp does purchase advertising from my employer so lets stuff NetApp into the article!
NetApp plays out ASIS dedupe lead
Thursday 3rd June 2010 23:20 GMT
The Difference In Dedup
Anonymous - Not sure I would agree with your assertion that somehow 1.8B was a good price but $2.1B was not. Data Domain global multisite de-duplication for both an archive tier of storage and backup just makes sense. Certainly not to be compared with local (individual file system) within a single array de-duplication offered by others. A big difference in de-duping 2-60 individual file systems across multiple arrays vs global across the enterprise which is why if the job is to save on primary storage space, compression on local file systems can work just as well if not better.
Also not sure what you are getting at by saying you avoid reading the entire array to make a backup? Arrays can fail whether there is SSD, FC, SAS, SATA, Compression or Dedup. The DD approach is high speed inline global de-duplication with replication. If you combine an archive Tier with your DD environment, you basically get global archive for free since its likely the archive has been backed up.
PARIS pops down to QinetiQ
Google promises what Jobs hates in next Android
Intel investigates after retailer sold fake CPUs
Symmetrix and the death of monolithic arrays
Thursday 16th April 2009 09:16 GMT
IBM SVC Tax
What's the deal about SVC?
V-Max is intelligent storage engines that communicate over a redundant fabric - Rapid IO. No intelligence in the fabric - Just really fast switches.
SVC is the hardware tax you pay to IBM to allow rebranded netapp, ibm, and whoever elses array IBM wants to sell this week to be managed as a single array.
Th idea of dropping in a new v-max array onto the floor and it federates itself into the virtual storage environment connected by a very high speed fabric is a very compelling vision of the future for data migration, business continuity, and disaster recovery.
Pillar embraces Intel SSDs
Sunday 8th March 2009 00:39 GMT 
Intel Not Equal STEC
There is no comparison between the Intel and STEC drives - X25 IOPS much lower, single interface on X25 vs 2 IO interface on STEC, no cache or power loss cache de-staging mechanism.
I think Intel sums it up when they say in the data sheet: "The Intel X25-E SATA SSD primarily targets high-end workstations, desktops, gaming and various server/storage applications."
STEC are clearly the market leader in Enterprise Flash Drives - You get what you pay for.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
