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Over past months, I've read a lot of people commenting on ZFS who have no idea what it is. What it is, is the next generation of filesystems, not a "tweak" of current fs technology. It just happens to "look like" an ordinary POSIX fs, from a distance (if you ignore the administration/pool stuff...) But inside, it's something new under the Sun, folks.

RAID experts don't grok it, because it does things RAID can't do (end-to-end).

Devotees of ext2fs, reiserfs (yay!), NTFS (LOL!), or HFS+ don't grok it, because none of those filesystems do what ZFS does.

Read about it before you write it off as old wine in a new bottle. To ask the question, "Does OS X need a new filesystem?" is a perfect example of missing the point. Once you've looked at what ZFS really brings to the table, you'll see why it's an inevitable future, sooner or later, and you'll stop looking foolish.

Some links I posted this week:

- http://www.osnews.com/story.php/16739/Screenshot-Z FS-in-Leopard - http://mac4ever.com/news/27485/zettabyte_sur_leopa rd/ (older rumour http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=14473)

For OS X people wondering why the fuss about ZFS - summaries include: - http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/ - http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/zfs_ part1.scalable.html

"Why ZFS for home": - http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/05/why-zfs-for-hom e.html

"Here are ten reasons why you'll want to reformat all of your systems and use ZFS.": http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1446/zfs_ten_reason s_to_reformat_your_...

And some more technical explanations from Chief Engineer: - http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/zfs_end_to_end_ data - http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/smokin_mirrors

That's a bit of a trick question. For example, no applications specifically "leverage" (What's with the PHB-speak? "Use" is far more natural than "leverage".) ZFS' self-healing features, but that doesn't mean they aren't useful. Here's some features of ZFS.

Here you go..you're welcome.

http://www.tweakxp.com/Article37934.aspx

or here -
http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_tips250.html

or for the extremely lazy -

Who knows why, but XP first checks for scheduled tasks on a target machine before it will list the files and folders for that target machine.

In regedit navigate to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\ Explorer\Remote Computer\NameSpace

And delete the following key:
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

Close regedit and reboot.

This should turn off the check for scheduled tasks before browsing... and get rid of that blasted delay.

Yeah, everything kinda works.

For example, you can import your Outlook or iCal files to gooCalendar but you can't export them back again! How is that helpful? So you can switch completely over, but you can't use both in concert together?

Also, you can kinda get in... sometimes. At least this time, they put the bottleneck at the door (login page). If you get in, it works fine. It's just tough to get in.

If it synced both ways, then I think it would get adapted much more quickly. Many office types (or their secretaries) need to keep schedules on outlook. Exporting/importing to gooCalendar would be awesome... but one way just kills it.

Editor of Carotids.com Here. Sorry that dreamhost is having problems handling the traffic. We bought a dedicated server for tech-recipes.com and then carotids gets slashdotted. Bad guess on our part. :)

Here's a cut and paste of the article. Sorry for the server problems:

Dr. AA06:33 am46 comments Edit This

I am a currently practicing board-certified Internal Medicine physician in a large rapidly expanding tech-growth community. (Ed note: Verified) Our area is rapidly being filled with web development, IT, and biotechnology companies. As a doctor in this area over the last few years, I have discovered some unique health problems associated with this population. One of my patients pointed me to this site when I was discussing with her if computer use causes carpal tunnel syndrome.

I have noticed several repeating patterns in this geek lifestyle population.

I have always wanted to post my observations regarding the geek lifestyle. I affectionately call it the "geek lifestyle" because of my previous life of programming and web design. One of the best part of my job is getting to live vicariously through these young energetic people. I frequently wonder what would have happened to me if I would have stayed with my tech-life instead of transitioning to medicine.

Personal points aside, I have noticed several repeating patterns in this geek lifestyle population. Hopefully, these ideas will spark others to study this unique population.

#1 Horrible Sleep Hygiene
Insomnia and altered sleep patterns is one of the most common complaints to my office. Frequently the complaint is of light sleep or of multiple awakening throughout the night. Although this can be a symptom of depression, this is typically caused by poor sleep habits. It typically starts with somebody waking up in the middle of the night and turning on the laptop or TV. This begins to happen more and more frequently until the patient starts to worry about waking up as soon as they go to bed at night. This stress makes the sleep worse and worse until they finally come to see me.

The bed should only be used for two things-sex and sleep.

The fix is typically easy if the habit is not too ingrained. The bed should only be used for two things-sex and sleep. If one is awake in bed for more than 10-15 minutes, one should get up and do something non-stimulating. Listening to music or reading are excellent choices. Lying in bed and watching TV or using the laptop are the worst. These stimulate the brain to wake up even more. If this happens repeatedly, the habit will be formed.

A few of my patients have tried "sleep hacking" and it almost always fails. The dangers of hacking sleep have been explored by a physician elsewhere.

#2 Headaches

Poor screen position, too small font, screen too bright/too dark, poor sitting posture are all commonly reported causes of chronic headache.
Recurrent headaches are a very frequent complaint among heavy computer users. Typically these are caused by a multitude of issues regarding computer use. If they occur the same time every day or if they do not appear on non-work days, these are the clues that point me to a computer cause.

Often when I tell my patients that I suspect it is their work environment, they come back and tell me me how they fixed it. Poor screen position, too small font, screen too bright/too dark, poor sitting posture are all commonly reported causes of chronic headache. When in doubt, I just tell them to trade offices for a couple of days. If they feel better in the other office, then it suggests that it is related to their personal work environment.

Poor eyesight is frequently believed to be a cause of chronic headaches although I believe that is very overrated. What I have seen a few times is that people with glasses having too strong of a prescription. Type-A people when getting refracted for glasses will mistakenly report that higher and higher powers make them

> though of course you can't have both IE7 and IE6 on the same system at the same time

Yes you can.

The Windows Vista sidebar has already been ported to Windows XP. You can find a download link here along with installation instructions. More widgets and gadgets for the sidebar can be found here.

I tried it and it just doesn't do anything for me that can't already be done in Windows XP without taking up more screen-space.

While accepting that there's no good reason except pushing the UMD format for crippling the video, there's plenty of good software out there to convert from DVD to a format suitable (and eminently watchable) for the PSP. Sounds like you need DVD Decrypter and PSP Video 9. These might help: http://seamonkey420.tech-recipes.com/psp/dvd_to_ps p.html http://www.pspvideo9.com/ I live in a country that allows me to view the video as I please, having bought a copy of it. Just make sure you do to... (And yes, I advocate emigrating)

The real "smackdown" should be that most slashdot users should be able to craft a pretty nice blog out of php and mysql alone. This isn't difficult stuff to do. The best I can tell that's what most big sites like tech-recipes do.

Even if you are going to use one of these blogging tools, why limit yourself to the default code. You are the most geeky of the gurus! Hack the crap out of that code. These are in easy php code. Use their work as a building point... and rip out your own version of it.

What the heck has slashdot come to?

ATB

Ask Slashdot.

We are currently designing two huge web services projects. The problem with them both is that they need to be available 24/7. Large backbone blackouts like this one give us a huge problem. How do we provide services without having multiple servers scattered throughout the internet?

So you might say, "Well, have servers scattered throughout the internet!" That's expensive for a project that is built out of our own pockets with adsense money. Plus, keeping databases in sync across multiple long-distance servers is painful/expensive as well.

If the web structure was more dependable, this wouldn't be as much of an issue. Local redundancy is easy compared to nationwide/worldwide redundancy.

How have some of you jedi developers tackled this problem?

If you want to get to the main version of Google and skip the localized version, here's a page that describes how to do it without allowing cookies.
http://www.tech-recipes.com/google_tips769.html
Hope that helps; if you want to search without a cookie, that's fine with us. :)
GoogleGuy

When will ebooks become mainstream?

Publishers will more quickly adopt ebooks once someone can not find almost every ebook ever released by forming a proper ebook google search.

If ebooks are copied this easily without punishment, publishers have no reason to push forward.

Is DRM the answer? (Well, I can't even suggest that on slashdot, can I?)

I buy programming books like candy. I've noticed that recently the quality of the printed texts are going way, way down. More errors in code, more misspellings, cheaper paper, etc. When you combine the decreasing quality with real books along with ebooks features of easy storage and searching, it'll happen.

You can install OSX on x86 platforms! Until Apple is finally successful in legally forcing users to take down the directions, you can install OSX on your x86 platform right now!

You may not be able to buy it off the shelf yet... but the overwealming popularity of people's interest in installing OSX on intel boxes shows that x86 people are interested in "the other side."

News? You want real nerd news?

Here's how to find the easter egg (remember wumpus?) in google talk

If that's not enough... how about
a video of a goldfish being shocked back to life with a 9 volt battery.

Nobody on slashdot would ever need directions on
how to use a vagina

Enough real news for nerds?

Piracy? Google makes it easy to search for directories filled with unprotected music files or ebooks or whatever...

Google is just a search engine for the internet. The internet is full of warez, pirated files, and evil information... any search engine worth its salt should happily help me... err, the users find that information.

Piracy? Google makes it easy to search for directories filled with unprotected music files or ebooks or whatever...

Google is just a search engine for the internet. The internet is full of warez, pirated files, and evil information... any search engine worth its salt should happily help me... err, the users find that information.

I am not a huge privacy kind of guy, but google is getting a little crazy with what they save about you now.

They are now recording click-throughs on their search pages. Why do they need this information? It wasn't too long ago that links on google.com went straight to the link... not back through the google servers...

Just remember to clean out your google desktop index history.

Is our privacy now worth more than free software?

(Tin-foil hat mode off)

He just did advertise on slashdot! For free.

He is greatly mistaken by the amount of traffic that he belives he has. Compare the alexa data at trmag with the alexa data for tech-recipes.com.

Tech-recipes.com takes all their "profits" and sends t-shirts to its users. Nobody there is making a living off the site... I don't know how you expect to either.

Sorry. Traffic is the answer.

(Don't whine that alexa traffic isn't accurate. It isn't. However, the same people that will install alexa toolbar as the same people that will click on ads. It's good measure...)

  Here are the instructions I used to get it running on my USB drive in my Intel system.

I would never have tried OSX except for this challenge. Obviously, it's not the most stable thing in the world... but it's mainly the challenge of hacking this little project together.

Is it practical? Only that people will explore OSX... and yes, some people will like it and switch. For me, however, it was just the challenge of showing my apple fan-boy buddies that I too can run OSx.

Many long-term users were troubled when people like MickeyMouse publically described the the recent duping cheat. I think many WoW users would like to know what steps the administration and code gurus took to correct the problem. Do you get a call from your pissed-off boss at 3 am in the morning?

At least give me credit, when you report my hack. :)

Use Google to Find Free MP3s, WMAs, OGGs, and Other Music Files

As much as the WoW guys would like for us to believe it not to be true, the duping certainly exists. Guys like MickeyMouse describe the process in great detail. I know that he has buying/selling items for quite a while now to spread the money through the system to prevent getting tagged and booted. He sold several things to me. Heck, before this blew up, several other users reported people just handing them large amounts of money for no obvious reason (to hide the guilty among with innocent.)

Screenshots show this as well.

I know WoW needs some good press to balance out the bad... but don't deny the problem exists.

The chinese connection is even odder... because most of them are FARMERS in WoW. Therefore, they are hurt the most by this dupe bug! These guys have been just working and working to farm-in cash... and others have been just getting the gold for free.

This may be enough to break my WoW addiction... if I don't get booted and banned first.

Everybody's too busy looking for mirrored instructions.

Here are some while they last...

Tutorial: (WoW) World of Warcraft Duping Bug and Cheat

Who knows what will happen to all this gold tomorrow?

Money, money, money...

What in the world ever happened to building a web site to help people, to spread information, and to build a "community." Even more so, when did money become the primary goal of a web structure?

For example, slashdot was built for fun and information spread first. Only after it became successful did it start making lots of money. Now people do just the opposite... they design the web site for money first and if the site turns out to be useful, then it's an accident.

In college, I designed the Moan and Groan Page (now very dead) where people could bitch about their hardware. It was the hardware/software explosion time and all the major players were pushing a ton of junk into the marketplace. People could search my site before they purchased anything. I got threatened my tons of companies... and lawyers who used the site came to my defense. The hosting was donated, etc. Then I started my real life (job, family) and had to leave it all behind.

Once I established all of that, I returned to the web to start another project. What a difference those few years made. I wanted to start a similar site helping people with computer problems and tech-recipes.com was born. No thrills, no fluff, no pop-ups... just helpful computer hints. We make enough money from google to pay our server costs... nothing more.

Despite the fact that we just provide raw information, we have never developed a huge community around us. Sure we receive a ton of hits from the search engines, but I miss that feeling of having tons of users helping and supporting each other.

Now I have to worry about everybody stealing my information and slapping their ads all over it...

What a difference a few years make...

AC

by our l337 h4x0r friends from the scene:

Mac.OS.X.Tiger.X86.READNFO-XISO

Gogling for DRM-free music files or e-books is a well known way for people to copy files.

Who fault is this? Is it my responsibility not to leave my directories of music files open for the public to copy? Or is it my responsibility not to copy files from open directories?

Either way, google is the tool. As liberal as I am... guns do not kill without a person pulling the trigger.

Google (and MSN too) provide a service. It is not their fault if people use it for evil.

Gogling for DRM-free music files or e-books is a well known way for people to copy files.

Who fault is this? Is it my responsibility not to leave my directories of music files open for the public to copy? Or is it my responsibility not to copy files from open directories?

Either way, google is the tool. As liberal as I am... guns do not kill without a person pulling the trigger.

Google (and MSN too) provide a service. It is not their fault if people use it for evil.

Gogling for DRM-free music files or e-books is a well known way for people to copy files.

Who fault is this? Is it my responsibility not to leave my directories of music files open for the public to copy? Or is it my responsibility not to copy files from open directories?

Either way, google is the tool. As liberal as I am... guns do not kill without a person pulling the trigger.

Google (and MSN too) provide a service. It is not their fault if people use it for evil.

http://www.tech-recipes.com/windows_monad_msh_tips 629.html

So you can move files off/on your iPod with this plug-in... you still can't play them any where else very easily!

Sure they are a few techniques out there that sometimes (depending on how quickly it is patched) allows you to copy the DRM protected files... but you are still locked in with evil DRM.

Copying the files around is not the problem, removing the DRM is the challenge.

Gesh people... this hack has been around forever. Just "Change Indexing Service Settings" in XP's search... and it will happily search through every file on your computer...

The default XP just expects people to always name their text files either *.txt, *.doc, or whatever. For the rest of us... you need to tell it to search everything:

XP: Have Windows Perform Word or Phrase Searches within Unknown Filetypes

If you name your text files with non-standard extensions (not *.txt), then the default search leaves them alone. Here's the hack one would need to get XP's default search to search all files...

XP: Have Windows Perform Word or Phrase Searches within Unknown Filetypes

Unless you prefer not using spyware. Let's not forget that eXeem is laden with some nasty little spyware of its own. eXeem has spyware Another story Use Lite if anything.

Blogging anonymously is the only way to go. Hide your tracks. Say what you want.

However, nobody wants their personal infomation listed on the internet. I think we all agree that we wouldn't want that. Just posting somebody's email gets them spam.

I know that if somebody posted my son or daughter's picture, address, and phone number... I would want it removed. What if somebody posted your address and said, "They are always gone by 8:30 in the am."

We all want freedom... and that's why we hide ourselves on slashdot and in blogs. The things we say can hurt us. However, it can be used for evil too...

Kinda like everything else in life.

Would you rather know how to use google to find...

Free Music Files
or
free e-books?

Enjoy!

Would you rather know how to use google to find...

Free Music Files
or
free e-books?

Enjoy!

Napster did the same thing actually. If you remember the "winamp/napster free music hack", napster quietly stopped that hole. They have also closed the virtuosa hole without press nor fanfare.

Napster closed those holes efficently and quietly.

Napster did the same thing actually. If you remember the "winamp/napster free music hack", napster quietly stopped that hole. They have also closed the virtuosa hole without press nor fanfare.

Napster closed those holes efficently and quietly.

hah!

Actually, the DRM can be bypassed by having winamp send the audio straight to a raw WAVE file. Winamp stopped this previously by preventing DRM files from using a direct write-to-wav plug-in. However, this hack uses an additional plug-in to bypass this.

The sad thing is that the Output Stacker has been pulled from the winamp website.

Users have been posting links to sites that still contain Output Stacker in the forums.

This recipe contains the step-by-step directions for the hack and active links to the plug-ins.

As long as you can get it onto a computer, people are going to figure out how to make it copy it.

Just take the new napster mess where everybody is loading up on free music right now:

Napster/Winamp hack to get unprotected free music

Does it really matter?

You can always bring everything down to *.wav and then convert it to whatever you wish.

Converting DRM protected WMA files to WAV (and MP3s)

Longhorn originally had three major parts. It appears Microsoft has released two of those three now.

WinFX is an object-oriented API that uses the .NET framework and allows for integration into Longhorn, Microsoft's new OS.

Win -> API
FX -> Framework

WinFS is the vaporware magical file system that includes a new abstraction layer for the files for sorting, searching, indexing, etc.

Monad/MSH is the new command line/shell scipting part of longhorn. It too can be downloaded and used in beta right now. It's probably the most useful aspect of longhorn to the average power-user.

If you are going to play with something that isn't going to scrub your system, I would start with monad. It sits happy on any installed system.

Tech-recipes has had a good list for a while as well.

Google: Search for Public Online Cameras and Video Feeds

AlexTheBeast

This is just scary:

1. Release buggy browser
2. Sell antispyware software
3. Profit?

Direct and indirect download links

Do you mean that when viewing the regular old My Pictures and My Music folders on 2k that it crashes?

If so, then it is probably a corrupt thumbs.db file.

Nobody believes that Microsoft focuses on security. Nobody.

That is the reason that the passport system failed. The general computer using public is not
really tech-knowledgable... however, they do know that credit card numbers are to be protected.

(Of course, they don't realize that all of this spyware s!ht they have installed could
grab their numbers just as easily.)

Hopefully, Microsoft will turn off
that damn reminder balloon now.

The service will be free in the five Texas parks for three months; then TengoInternet, the wireless provider, will charge about $15 a day.

Err... doesn't exactly sound all that "free" to me.

"Hence, in order to have good coverage, you need to put antennas all over the park."

Just to prevent the future fires that the spelling police will start.

Antennas is correct when talking electronics.
Antennae is correct when talking biology.
- Source

AlexTheBeast
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Tech-Recipes - Leave Your Computer Knowledge for Future Generations

Well, I am not sure how great we are at predicting the weather now.

A kid at my son's school collected and analyzied common RSS weather feeds for a science project.

He collected the data and used it to judge how accurate the weatherman's predictions were.

Within 5 degrees and 25% chance of rain, he gave them credit. They got credit 50ish percent of the time.

He then analyzied other ways of predicting the weather.

By just saying that the weather today will be the same as the weather yesterday, he got credit 50ish percent of the time.

I don't say this to belittle the weather people. I do this to say that the techniques we use now are not the greatest in the world. If we need those frequencies because they are the only ones that work, then maybe the gov't should buy them back. However, if those frequencies are used because that's the old school way of doing it, well, they aren't working at that great now.

Just don't let TiVo change their 30 sec commerical skip code.

I'll miss a few shows as long as I can blast away commericals from my remote control.