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Comment Re:Spectrum (Score 1) 148

Spectrum's modems now are all-in-one appliances that are modems, routers, switches, and APs in a single box

I just received a new modem from Charter/Spectrum 2 weeks ago, because the new one supports 2.5Gb ethernet.....it has none of that stuff, it's strictly just a modem. I have the 1Gb tier of service, maybe that has something to do with it?

I have a pfSense machine running as my router, Spectrum hasn't given me any flak for that.

Comment Re: Ka-Ching... (Score 2) 77

There are a lot of companies that have widespread use of AIX. Same with Oracle Solaris.

I think you're right, I'd imagine those companies will continue using AIX as long as POWER systems are still being produced.

Solaris is a bit different tough. Didn't Oracle announce the end of SPARC production a few years ago? I know Fujitsu used to make SPARC based systems, I don't know if that's still a thing. Solaris on x86 was never really all that popular, and running stuff compiled for SPARC on Solaris x86 is crummy.

Comment Re:How is this news? (Score 1) 71

Oracle RAC (or GRID, or whatever they call it now) is also pretty unique....it works better than MS SQL AlwaysOn clustering when it comes to horizontally scaled reads, and you don't have to use replication like you would with MySQL.

I don't know enough about PostGresQL to know what the options are for that.

Comment Re: How is this news? (Score 1) 71

MS has or at least had some pretty bad terms in their licenses.

If you could get a clear picture from them on what the price actually is. I could talk to three different sales reps on how much a license would cost on a particular setup, and get three different answers. This isn't as big of a deal with their cloud offerings, though.

From the story:

Those results, analysts and company executives say, indicate businesses are using MongoDB for increasingly larger projects

If you jumped ship from Oracle to MongoDB, you shouldn't have been using an RDBMS to begin with, much less one as expensive as Oracle.

Comment Re:I can't imagine I'd like the experience.... (Score 1) 114

I'm not a part of the whole "loud pipes save lives" cliche, but some sound make sense. When I rode the LiveWire prototype back in 2014, I had pedestrians almost step right in front of me in the parking lot (I was paying attention, so I wouldn't have hit them). "holy crap, we didn't hear you".

Comment Re:Come on (Score 1) 114

I have the same general feelings. Electrics just make more sense for cars at this point in time. The range on electric bikes just isn't there, especially in the American market, where motorcycles are generally treated as pleasure craft. I have 5 motorcycles, so I'm sure I don't fit the typical user profile, but when I go for a ride, it's easy for me to knock out a hundred miles on a Saturday.

Comment Re:Meh (Score 1) 114

Too late, too expensive, too little range.

They released the prototype back in 2014, and they've been in showrooms for the past 3 years.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Nobody cares about HD

They were probably the first high-volume manufacture to release an electric motorcycle for public sale. They actually beat BMW, Honda, Yamaha, Ducati, etc to the game.

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