I think too many people think of it as Adobe PDF even though it's now an ISO
standard.
It's an ISO standard now? That's cool, but is it unencumbered by patents
that would prevent a truly open *full* implementation (like, more than just
a print driver) ??
In 2008, Adobe published a Public Patent License to ISO 32000-1 granting
royalty-free rights for all patents owned by Adobe that are necessary to make,
use, sell and distribute PDF compliant implementations.
Ig: It is still a mess, if you look at the source of most pdfs, it is an unholy mess. They only began with the latest release a "block oriented" approach in favour of their previous "line oriented" approach. Ever wondered why copying text from a 2 column pdf was so hard?
I still love to send people pdf files of my finished texts, but only because it is more cross-plattform compared to office files. It also looks better than .rtf or .txt and is read only for most people.
It would be interesting to see how far one could go designing a document editor
whose native format is PDF. "Legacy" documents would have big uneditable
blobs in them, of course, but well-formed documents would have every element
selectable and editable.
Even without that, having PDF available as a universal standard for pixel-perfect WYSIWYG is a big win. Too bad Micro$oft had to shit in the punch bowl by introducing XPS. Is there *any* valid reason for the existence of XPS or is it a 100.0% NIH play?
Even without that, having PDF available as a universal standard for pixel-perfect WYSIWYG is a big win. Too bad Micro$oft had to shit in the punch bowl by introducing XPS. Is there *any* valid reason for the existence of XPS or is it a 100.0% NIH play?
Best network-attached storage EVER? http://www.storagereview.com/echostreams_flachesan2_custom_flash_array_build
Funny, it's built out of more-or-less standard PC hardware, albeit high-end hardware. So the guys wondering how much faster their games would load if striped on this array might be better off attaching a QLogic Raid controller and having at...
For some crazy reason, I want to have one of these in my living room.
Nice, but does infiniband count as "network attached?" When I see infiniband
it's a huge turn-off.
Definitely. Infiniband can be a bit pricey, but it's the highest-performance interconnect out there. They've had hardware-assisted virtualization since before it was cool, and now Intel is playing catch-up (weakly) with VT-c.
VT-c will certainly be much more cost effective, but it won't have the offload performance.
I couldn't find anywhere in that article what storage access protocol is
being used, if any. FC? FCoE? iSCSCI? Or a higher-layer like NFS or CIFS?
Given that it's Infiniband, I wouldn't be surprised if it's none of the above.
:P
Given that it's Infiniband, I wouldn't be surprised if it's none of the above.
:P
Probably SRP (SCSI RDMA Protocol) or iSER (iSCSI extensions for RDMA) but FibreChannel-over-Infiniband or plain unaccelerated iSCSI might also be options.
After a whole lot of pain with iSCSI multipath stupidness, I am swearing off
block protocols for good. Everything I put in my data center is going to
be NFS over 10 Gbps Ethernet from now on.
It Just Works (tm).
It Just Works (tm).
Can you move out of my network connection? btw, your skin is getting dark spots.
