Our file server just got an upgrade....
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That's why you should use Quickformat! :)
I'm the cautious sort when it comes to new hardware. :rolleyes:
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I'm the cautious sort when it comes to new hardware. :rolleyes:
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That makes me curious... How long DID it take to format 1.5TB? :D
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OK, I have to ask, and its quite probable that I missed this in a post in the past, but what do you do for a living that lets you play with all these different toys? I've known you to discuss with particular insight the details of the latest C++ specifications, and actively participated in discussion of grid computing, mobile development and applications amongst others such as hardware issues. I know devs are jacks of all trades as well as specialists in something(s) (I know I'm like that). Also, please note that I am duly quite impressed.
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
OK, I have to ask, and its quite probable that I missed this in a post in the past, but what do you do for a living that lets you play with all these different toys?
It's quite simple really...I'm one of those mad "47 hats" developers who also act as Founder, Company Admin, Product Manager, Developer and whatever else needs doing. :doh: FWIW this is my organisation: http://www.riverblade.co.uk/[^] It's been an interesting (and scary) ride so far, but as we've been running 4 years now I'm reasonably hopeful we'll be around for quite a while. Visual Lint[^] (my pet project - it's something I've wanted to do for a long time) seems to be getting quite well known now, although so far we've done minimal advertising.
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
I've known you to discuss with particular insight the details of the latest C++ specifications, and actively participated in discussion of grid computing, mobile development and applications amongst others such as hardware issues. I know devs are jacks of all trades as well as specialists in something(s) (I know I'm like that).
All of those are mostly because I hang around with interesting people. Being involved (albeit mainly as a delegate) in the ACCU Conference[^] is a great way to open your eyes to interesting stuff (we did a one day workshop on Erlang last year, and ACCU is where I finally got the message about TDD and development processes that work). The grid computing bit came about purely because we've spent the last three months working with Xoreax to integrate Visual Lint with IncrediBuild[^] so we could use it to accelerate PC-Lint analysis runs (which works brilliantly - it's really impressive to watch, too). As for hardware - if you're paying for it yourself, it pays to research it a bit before pressing the "Buy Now" button.... :-\
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That makes me curious... How long DID it take to format 1.5TB? :D
I think it was about 4 hours.
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...but I didn't realise that formatting three 1.5TB NTFS disks would take quite that long. :doh: (On the plus side, the three 500GB disks which came out are now free for dev machine use. :) ) In the same order we received a pair of 320GB Buffalo Ministation drives for "mobile overspill and general backup stuff" use for something like £47 each. I still think that it's pretty damn amazing that you can get 320GB drives in a 2.5" form factor (I've actually also seen 500s, but the 320s were at the sweet spot) - never mind at that price. Incredible, really. :cool: Next up we're on the hunt for a pair of affordable quad core SFF machines to use as mobile grid computing demonstrators (we've a couple of conferences coming up in the spring they'd be ideal for). Shuttle is still naffly expensive for a decent spec, so if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears. :)
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Tech Blog | Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
Does that mean you now have 4.5TB of main storage, but only 640GB of backup?
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Does that mean you now have 4.5TB of main storage, but only 640GB of backup?
Not quite! 1.5TB of main storage and two backups in swappable caddies. At any time at least one of them is offsite. The most critical stuff is on automated online backup too - but I really don't see the point in uploading (for example) installer ISOs to an online backup service with current bandwidth and storage costs.
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Tech Blog | Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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...but I didn't realise that formatting three 1.5TB NTFS disks would take quite that long. :doh: (On the plus side, the three 500GB disks which came out are now free for dev machine use. :) ) In the same order we received a pair of 320GB Buffalo Ministation drives for "mobile overspill and general backup stuff" use for something like £47 each. I still think that it's pretty damn amazing that you can get 320GB drives in a 2.5" form factor (I've actually also seen 500s, but the 320s were at the sweet spot) - never mind at that price. Incredible, really. :cool: Next up we're on the hunt for a pair of affordable quad core SFF machines to use as mobile grid computing demonstrators (we've a couple of conferences coming up in the spring they'd be ideal for). Shuttle is still naffly expensive for a decent spec, so if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears. :)
Anna :rose: Having a bad bug day? Tech Blog | Anna's Place | Tears and Laughter "If mushy peas are the food of the devil, the stotty cake is the frisbee of God"
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OK, I have to ask, and its quite probable that I missed this in a post in the past, but what do you do for a living that lets you play with all these different toys? I've known you to discuss with particular insight the details of the latest C++ specifications, and actively participated in discussion of grid computing, mobile development and applications amongst others such as hardware issues. I know devs are jacks of all trades as well as specialists in something(s) (I know I'm like that). Also, please note that I am duly quite impressed.
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
so if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears.
More earrings for your birthday? :rolleyes:
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
To be honest I very rarely wear them. :rolleyes:
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
OK, I have to ask, and its quite probable that I missed this in a post in the past, but what do you do for a living that lets you play with all these different toys?
It's quite simple really...I'm one of those mad "47 hats" developers who also act as Founder, Company Admin, Product Manager, Developer and whatever else needs doing. :doh: FWIW this is my organisation: http://www.riverblade.co.uk/[^] It's been an interesting (and scary) ride so far, but as we've been running 4 years now I'm reasonably hopeful we'll be around for quite a while. Visual Lint[^] (my pet project - it's something I've wanted to do for a long time) seems to be getting quite well known now, although so far we've done minimal advertising.
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
I've known you to discuss with particular insight the details of the latest C++ specifications, and actively participated in discussion of grid computing, mobile development and applications amongst others such as hardware issues. I know devs are jacks of all trades as well as specialists in something(s) (I know I'm like that).
All of those are mostly because I hang around with interesting people. Being involved (albeit mainly as a delegate) in the ACCU Conference[^] is a great way to open your eyes to interesting stuff (we did a one day workshop on Erlang last year, and ACCU is where I finally got the message about TDD and development processes that work). The grid computing bit came about purely because we've spent the last three months working with Xoreax to integrate Visual Lint with IncrediBuild[^] so we could use it to accelerate PC-Lint analysis runs (which works brilliantly - it's really impressive to watch, too). As for hardware - if you're paying for it yourself, it pays to research it a bit before pressing the "Buy Now" button.... :-\
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Fascinating, positively fascinating!
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
It's been an interesting (and scary) ride so far, but as we've been running 4 years now I'm reasonably hopeful we'll be around for quite a while. Visual Lint[^] (my pet project - it's something I've wanted to do for a long time) seems to be getting quite well known now, although so far we've done minimal advertising.
That sounds great. My own, Netvareas (don't look up the website, I was in the middle of moving it to another host when I got bogged down with exams :doh:) will be closing its doors in Amman, Jordan and will be placed on the backburner until such a time when I deem its worth resurrecting because of the impending move to back to NA. Jordan/Arab world is a pathetically small market and what worthwhile projects exist are mostly controlled by the major players. The freelance market is nonexistent really. My pet project is an ultra-fast, SMSC (SMS Center) that I hope one day I'll be able to finish and cell sell.
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
All of those are mostly because I hang around with interesting people. Being involved (albeit mainly as a delegate) in the ACCU Conference[^] is a great way to open your eyes to interesting stuff (we did a one day workshop on Erlang last year, and ACCU is where I finally got the message about TDD and development processes that work).
Erlang. Yummy :) That's really cool, I've only been a speaker at the local INETA group twice and it sucked, simply because the developers in Jordan aren't really interested which I find completely bonkers.
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
As for hardware - if you're paying for it yourself, it pays to research it a bit before pressing the "Buy Now" button....
True. My hardware interests arise from my CEE background but really I'm more of a consumer than a designer/builder (not counting my home systems)
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Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
:laugh: I'm trying to imagine the look on your face :laugh:
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...but I didn't realise that formatting three 1.5TB NTFS disks would take quite that long. :doh: (On the plus side, the three 500GB disks which came out are now free for dev machine use. :) ) In the same order we received a pair of 320GB Buffalo Ministation drives for "mobile overspill and general backup stuff" use for something like £47 each. I still think that it's pretty damn amazing that you can get 320GB drives in a 2.5" form factor (I've actually also seen 500s, but the 320s were at the sweet spot) - never mind at that price. Incredible, really. :cool: Next up we're on the hunt for a pair of affordable quad core SFF machines to use as mobile grid computing demonstrators (we've a couple of conferences coming up in the spring they'd be ideal for). Shuttle is still naffly expensive for a decent spec, so if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears. :)
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Before you go to far, if they are Seagate Drives, i hope you have the latest firmwares before you get hit by the latest bugs.....
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When Anna and Beth visited me once I got up to find both of them working on their laptops while waiting for me to wake up and sort breakfast!
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
Pah! that was sometime ago, we're rather more organised nowadays. Usually when we have friends over these days. I prefer to make sure different kinds of breakfast are already presented on the table before waking up.
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Before you go to far, if they are Seagate Drives, i hope you have the latest firmwares before you get hit by the latest bugs.....
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They are (as were their predecessors, FWIW). Do you have a link?
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They are (as were their predecessors, FWIW). Do you have a link?
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Do you have a link?
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/01/21/seagates_second_fault_fix/[^]
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Fascinating, positively fascinating!
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
It's been an interesting (and scary) ride so far, but as we've been running 4 years now I'm reasonably hopeful we'll be around for quite a while. Visual Lint[^] (my pet project - it's something I've wanted to do for a long time) seems to be getting quite well known now, although so far we've done minimal advertising.
That sounds great. My own, Netvareas (don't look up the website, I was in the middle of moving it to another host when I got bogged down with exams :doh:) will be closing its doors in Amman, Jordan and will be placed on the backburner until such a time when I deem its worth resurrecting because of the impending move to back to NA. Jordan/Arab world is a pathetically small market and what worthwhile projects exist are mostly controlled by the major players. The freelance market is nonexistent really. My pet project is an ultra-fast, SMSC (SMS Center) that I hope one day I'll be able to finish and cell sell.
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
All of those are mostly because I hang around with interesting people. Being involved (albeit mainly as a delegate) in the ACCU Conference[^] is a great way to open your eyes to interesting stuff (we did a one day workshop on Erlang last year, and ACCU is where I finally got the message about TDD and development processes that work).
Erlang. Yummy :) That's really cool, I've only been a speaker at the local INETA group twice and it sucked, simply because the developers in Jordan aren't really interested which I find completely bonkers.
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
As for hardware - if you're paying for it yourself, it pays to research it a bit before pressing the "Buy Now" button....
True. My hardware interests arise from my CEE background but really I'm more of a consumer than a designer/builder (not counting my home systems)
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
My pet project is an ultra-fast, SMSC (SMS Center) that I hope one day I'll be able to finish and cell sell.
Sounds good. For what it's worth I can recommend a couple of great places to hang out and learn about relevant "stuff" in the meantime: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz[^] http://businessofsoftware.ning.com/[^]
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Erlang. Yummy Smile That's really cool, I've only been a speaker at the local INETA group twice and it sucked, simply because the developers in Jordan aren't really interested which I find completely bonkers.
I found Erlang fascinating - probably because I've a little bit of Prolog in my past! To be honest far too many developers don't care to learn anything new - it's certainly not just a problem in Jordan - The Two Types of Programmers[^] is just one commentary on the subject. When I visit companies I always run up against disinterested "80%" developers. You won't find them (for example) here in the Lounge. They're the ones who only register here to download code, and never even think of introducing themselves or writing an article. That's not to say that they are stupid or uneducated (often far from it) - merely disinterested in getting involved and/or (potentially) learning anything they don't have to. It's a real shame, but changing it is I suspect beyond us mere mortals.
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
True. My hardware interests arise from my CEE background but really I'm more of a consumer than a designer/builder (not counting my home systems)
No worries. I've got an Electronic Engineering background myself. :cool:
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Do you have a link?
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/01/21/seagates_second_fault_fix/[^]
Thanks. I'll look into it. :beer:
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
My pet project is an ultra-fast, SMSC (SMS Center) that I hope one day I'll be able to finish and cell sell.
Sounds good. For what it's worth I can recommend a couple of great places to hang out and learn about relevant "stuff" in the meantime: http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?biz[^] http://businessofsoftware.ning.com/[^]
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Erlang. Yummy Smile That's really cool, I've only been a speaker at the local INETA group twice and it sucked, simply because the developers in Jordan aren't really interested which I find completely bonkers.
I found Erlang fascinating - probably because I've a little bit of Prolog in my past! To be honest far too many developers don't care to learn anything new - it's certainly not just a problem in Jordan - The Two Types of Programmers[^] is just one commentary on the subject. When I visit companies I always run up against disinterested "80%" developers. You won't find them (for example) here in the Lounge. They're the ones who only register here to download code, and never even think of introducing themselves or writing an article. That's not to say that they are stupid or uneducated (often far from it) - merely disinterested in getting involved and/or (potentially) learning anything they don't have to. It's a real shame, but changing it is I suspect beyond us mere mortals.
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
True. My hardware interests arise from my CEE background but really I'm more of a consumer than a designer/builder (not counting my home systems)
No worries. I've got an Electronic Engineering background myself. :cool:
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Didn't know about the second one, but actively read Joel's. Erlang is awesome if you can actually get the hang of it. It has an insane concurrency level that just has me in complete awe of its designer. I'd like to see some of those ideas implemented in other languages especially now that it is becoming an issue with the plethora of multi-cores that are out or are coming out.
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
To be honest far too many developers don't care to learn anything new - it's certainly not just a problem in Jordan - The Two Types of Programmers[^] is just one commentary on the subject.
Yeah, I know, but it seems like its more so here. What's worse, you get some of these kids that graduate from the local schools and they think they're coding gods when in fact, they are mediocre at best. Its both funny and sad when they realize that there is so much for them to learn. Most of them end up going the sales route. I left MS middle east because they were trying to groom me for an evangelist position which would have got me out of the hardcore technical loop and into preaching the benefits of the technologies to come. No thanks.
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
No worries. I've got an Electronic Engineering background myself.
Coolness! :cool:
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Didn't know about the second one, but actively read Joel's. Erlang is awesome if you can actually get the hang of it. It has an insane concurrency level that just has me in complete awe of its designer. I'd like to see some of those ideas implemented in other languages especially now that it is becoming an issue with the plethora of multi-cores that are out or are coming out.
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
To be honest far too many developers don't care to learn anything new - it's certainly not just a problem in Jordan - The Two Types of Programmers[^] is just one commentary on the subject.
Yeah, I know, but it seems like its more so here. What's worse, you get some of these kids that graduate from the local schools and they think they're coding gods when in fact, they are mediocre at best. Its both funny and sad when they realize that there is so much for them to learn. Most of them end up going the sales route. I left MS middle east because they were trying to groom me for an evangelist position which would have got me out of the hardcore technical loop and into preaching the benefits of the technologies to come. No thanks.
Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
No worries. I've got an Electronic Engineering background myself.
Coolness! :cool:
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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Didn't know about the second one, but actively read Joel's.
The second link is a new group (started in October by the Founder of Red Gate) which already has over 600 members and has had two social/networking gatherings already. They're the same sort of crowd as Joel's Business of Software Forum (the first link) so it's worth knowing about the group. :)
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Erlang is awesome if you can actually get the hang of it. It has an insane concurrency level that just has me in complete awe of its designer. I'd like to see some of those ideas implemented in other languages especially now that it is becoming an issue with the plethora of multi-cores that are out or are coming out.
It certainly is. Joe Armstrong (the designer) is an engaging and enthusiastic person to chat to as well...we met him at last year's conference.
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Yeah, I know, but it seems like its more so here. What's worse, you get some of these kids that graduate from the local schools and they think they're coding gods when in fact, they are mediocre at best. Its both funny and sad when they realize that there is so much for them to learn. Most of them end up going the sales route. I left MS middle east because they were trying to groom me for an evangelist position which would have got me out of the hardcore technical loop and into preaching the benefits of the technologies to come. No thanks.
That's one reason the job description "Software Architect" makes me cringe. ;)
Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:
Coolness!
Anytime. Have soldering iron,* will travel. :cool: * and NATO Standard Lump Hammer, but that's another discussion entirely...
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...but I didn't realise that formatting three 1.5TB NTFS disks would take quite that long. :doh: (On the plus side, the three 500GB disks which came out are now free for dev machine use. :) ) In the same order we received a pair of 320GB Buffalo Ministation drives for "mobile overspill and general backup stuff" use for something like £47 each. I still think that it's pretty damn amazing that you can get 320GB drives in a 2.5" form factor (I've actually also seen 500s, but the 320s were at the sweet spot) - never mind at that price. Incredible, really. :cool: Next up we're on the hunt for a pair of affordable quad core SFF machines to use as mobile grid computing demonstrators (we've a couple of conferences coming up in the spring they'd be ideal for). Shuttle is still naffly expensive for a decent spec, so if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears. :)
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
Shuttle is still naffly expensive for a decent spec, so if anyone has any suggestions I'm all ears. Smile
Unfortunately shuttle has something approaching a stranglehold on the SFF market, and most smaller rivals seem to price at similar levels. I've looked off and on at it with the intent of setting up a dedicated nas, but going smaller than miniATX in a tower that supports full size cards is prohibitively expensive.
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