This is issue enough to ask people on Slashdot? Just let them fucking use it. Having good people skills (IE not pissing people off over trivial things) is a far more important skill to have an develop than being a paranoid fuck when people want to use your laptop...
InfoWorld reports on the fight over open source 'leeches' -- companies that use open source technology but don't give back to the open source community.
That's bullshit. The fact that the FOSS software in question is being used in the first place is a good thing. By being a user, you find bugs. In an enterprise environment, those bugs are usually reported back to either the distribution or the upstream project itself in hopes of getting it fixed in a patch later on. All of this "your a freeloader unless you contribute code or money" mentality needs to go. It could be worse, you could be the leader of an open source project that nobody even wants to use...
Hence why I said 'in theory';). I know from experience that in practice it's certainly possible to run into a situation where references to objects can accumulate while never going out of scope, thus creating a memory leak. Be that as it may, it's the result of a design flaw of the particular algorithm in question and not necessarily an issue with forgetting to explicitly deallocate dynamic memory (as is the cause of memory leaks in non-garbage collected languages such as C and C++).
As a non-programmer, can someone give a brief explanation of what a garbage collector is as it pertains to programming.
In Java, the garbage collector runs periodically to free up memory associated with objects that are no longer needed. It' a built-in memory management system that frees the programmer from having to worry about managing dynamic memory manually. In theory, it makes it impossible for your applications to contain memory leaks, but comes at the cost of performance (historically at least, this may change that).
Not only will [this card] smooth out the jaggies on your screen, but it will anti-alias everybody elses's computer games within the surrounding five miles.
People are credulous. They won't disregard information unless it's positively absurd and they'll pass on anything that's interesting, distinctive, funny or otherwise memorable without a second thought. Like stereotypes.
Apparently you've been living on Mars, in a cave, with your eyes shut, and your fingers in your ears.
Ya know, stereotypes exist for a reason; they're a fairly accurate portrayal of peoples' observations. Am I saying it's right to use them to pre-judge people? Absolutely not.
I would imagine that many of their best and brightest are begging to explore some very cool ideas but are being held back by Microsoft's corporate culture... I feel for them...
Actually, you're quite wrong about that. Microsoft has some of the most talented people working for them in their research divisions that are free to do whatever they like for the most part. Now seeing this result in cool, innovative products is quite another thing, thanks to Microsoft's corporate culture.
So before we hang the education system I ask: Are you willing to spend more on education to attract better quality teachers? And, are you willing to take more responsibility for your own childs actions and development?
Yes and especially yes.
What parents need to realize, as obvious as it should be, is that the way you raise your kids affects them for their entire life after they've become adults. You can bet your ass I'm going to do everything I can to ensure they absorb the right information to shape them into well-mannered, productive people in society (including spending the money to send them to a school that isn't just a glorified daycare). That's you're responsibility as a parent and if you fail at this, you've failed your children.
As someone who's been 'diagnosed' with ADHD, I can confidently say that the solution to this 'problem' isn't putting kids on amphetamines, it's to fire the horrible teachers that make learning a horrible, horrible chore.
I havn't used Slackware in years, but I owe my knowledge of the nitty-gritty workings on Linux to it. It's a great environment for learning how to compile your own kernel.
Yeah, this page listing all of the security patches in every Apple update must surely not exist. You know, complete with links to knowledge base articles containing links to the CVE-IDs patched by that particular patch.
Or a slightly less pathological solution which would nevertheless fix the issue: Simply record MAC addresses and after 15 minutes (or whatever) of use, ban the address for a couple of hours. Sure, a few of us will spoof MAC addresses until we find an unbanned one but the vast majority (and it's the vast majority's asses that are causing the problem) will just mooch off to a different Maccas.
Having worked for the company that runs McDonalds wifi networks, they most certainly do record the MAC addresses of everyone that uses their wifi network. This is how it keeps track of who's allowed through their firewall and who's not. They just need to decrease their connection time from 2 hours if they're really concerned about this.
And then pray another drive doesn't fail while you take the many many hours needed to rebuild the array onto a new disk.
This is solely for backups, as my primary data is sitting on an entirely different volume. There would have to be 3 disk failures within a 24 hour period for me to lose everything (2 disks fail in the backup RAID5 volume, and another in my primary data store), which isn't likely to happen.
Just attach a couple of extra cheap external USB/eSATA drives to the thing and rsync backups to that periodically.
Lol...that actually was my first backup method (using an external 1 TB drive), but my media eventually surpassed that capacity (I'm at roughly 1.5 TB now), so I needed another backup solution that was capable of holding more data that I wasn't going to run out of space on for awhile. I have 4 TB to work with now that should last me for many years.
Eventually a drive in the box is going to fail, and then I'll have to do a rebuild, but that's not too bad. If another drive fails during the rebuild, I'll just swap it out and do a full rebuild with the data from the external backups.
Well duh...that's why I RAID5'd them. Should one fail, I mark it failed, replace, and rebuild. In the unlikely event another drive does fail during the rebuild I still have my primary data store to create a backup from after I resolve the issue of failed drives in my backup system. Remember, this RAID5 setup is solely used for backup purposes...my primary data store runs on an entirely different volume. It's highly unlikely that 2 disks from the backup volume and another disk from my primary volume would all fail within a day.
P.S. Use a UPS for your NAS if you care for your data.
Everything in my server room is powered via an APC Smart-UPS 1500VA;)
I just recently addressed this problem myself. My solution, although a little pricey compared to just stuffing an old box with hard drives, was to get one of these guys and put 5 1 TB drives into it. I have it running in a software RAID5, backing up everything from my server (media, subversion repository, etc) via a nightly cron job rsyncing between the server disks and the enclosure. So far it's been working like a charm.
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This is issue enough to ask people on Slashdot? Just let them fucking use it. Having good people skills (IE not pissing people off over trivial things) is a far more important skill to have an develop than being a paranoid fuck when people want to use your laptop...
InfoWorld reports on the fight over open source 'leeches' -- companies that use open source technology but don't give back to the open source community.
That's bullshit. The fact that the FOSS software in question is being used in the first place is a good thing. By being a user, you find bugs. In an enterprise environment, those bugs are usually reported back to either the distribution or the upstream project itself in hopes of getting it fixed in a patch later on. All of this "your a freeloader unless you contribute code or money" mentality needs to go. It could be worse, you could be the leader of an open source project that nobody even wants to use...
Hence why I said 'in theory' ;). I know from experience that in practice it's certainly possible to run into a situation where references to objects can accumulate while never going out of scope, thus creating a memory leak. Be that as it may, it's the result of a design flaw of the particular algorithm in question and not necessarily an issue with forgetting to explicitly deallocate dynamic memory (as is the cause of memory leaks in non-garbage collected languages such as C and C++).
As a non-programmer, can someone give a brief explanation of what a garbage collector is as it pertains to programming.
In Java, the garbage collector runs periodically to free up memory associated with objects that are no longer needed. It' a built-in memory management system that frees the programmer from having to worry about managing dynamic memory manually. In theory, it makes it impossible for your applications to contain memory leaks, but comes at the cost of performance (historically at least, this may change that).
Not only will [this card] smooth out the jaggies on your screen, but it will anti-alias everybody elses's computer games within the surrounding five miles.
I'm working on my game, called Titanographic, and it requires a 16GB graphics card.
Coincidentally, so will directX 12 *ducks*
People are credulous. They won't disregard information unless it's positively absurd and they'll pass on anything that's interesting, distinctive, funny or otherwise memorable without a second thought. Like stereotypes.
Apparently you've been living on Mars, in a cave, with your eyes shut, and your fingers in your ears.
Ya know, stereotypes exist for a reason; they're a fairly accurate portrayal of peoples' observations. Am I saying it's right to use them to pre-judge people? Absolutely not.
So, is this an effective replacement for ECC memory?
I would imagine that many of their best and brightest are begging to explore some very cool ideas but are being held back by Microsoft's corporate culture... I feel for them...
Actually, you're quite wrong about that. Microsoft has some of the most talented people working for them in their research divisions that are free to do whatever they like for the most part. Now seeing this result in cool, innovative products is quite another thing, thanks to Microsoft's corporate culture.
I go with what worked for me.
So before we hang the education system I ask: Are you willing to spend more on education to attract better quality teachers? And, are you willing to take more responsibility for your own childs actions and development?
Yes and especially yes.
What parents need to realize, as obvious as it should be, is that the way you raise your kids affects them for their entire life after they've become adults. You can bet your ass I'm going to do everything I can to ensure they absorb the right information to shape them into well-mannered, productive people in society (including spending the money to send them to a school that isn't just a glorified daycare). That's you're responsibility as a parent and if you fail at this, you've failed your children.
As someone who's been 'diagnosed' with ADHD, I can confidently say that the solution to this 'problem' isn't putting kids on amphetamines, it's to fire the horrible teachers that make learning a horrible, horrible chore.
Why, plagiarism is highly illegal Cory and Trevor! You shouldn't plagiarize, Cory and Trevor!
Lynton needs to pull his head out of his ass and stop shoe-horning bad analogiwhere they don't belong.
I havn't used Slackware in years, but I owe my knowledge of the nitty-gritty workings on Linux to it. It's a great environment for learning how to compile your own kernel.
Yeah, this page listing all of the security patches in every Apple update must surely not exist. You know, complete with links to knowledge base articles containing links to the CVE-IDs patched by that particular patch.
I prefer proactive security rather than reactive.
I appease the Java gods by first sacrificing a virgin.
So...how is this any different than installing Apache through Cydia (aside from the fact that it requires being jailbroken).
Here's a solution.
Or how about this.
Or a slightly less pathological solution which would nevertheless fix the issue: Simply record MAC addresses and after 15 minutes (or whatever) of use, ban the address for a couple of hours. Sure, a few of us will spoof MAC addresses until we find an unbanned one but the vast majority (and it's the vast majority's asses that are causing the problem) will just mooch off to a different Maccas.
Having worked for the company that runs McDonalds wifi networks, they most certainly do record the MAC addresses of everyone that uses their wifi network. This is how it keeps track of who's allowed through their firewall and who's not. They just need to decrease their connection time from 2 hours if they're really concerned about this.
Pray your raid doesn't fail.
And then pray another drive doesn't fail while you take the many many hours needed to rebuild the array onto a new disk.
This is solely for backups, as my primary data is sitting on an entirely different volume. There would have to be 3 disk failures within a 24 hour period for me to lose everything (2 disks fail in the backup RAID5 volume, and another in my primary data store), which isn't likely to happen.
Just attach a couple of extra cheap external USB/eSATA drives to the thing and rsync backups to that periodically.
Lol...that actually was my first backup method (using an external 1 TB drive), but my media eventually surpassed that capacity (I'm at roughly 1.5 TB now), so I needed another backup solution that was capable of holding more data that I wasn't going to run out of space on for awhile. I have 4 TB to work with now that should last me for many years.
Eventually a drive in the box is going to fail, and then I'll have to do a rebuild, but that's not too bad. If another drive fails during the rebuild, I'll just swap it out and do a full rebuild with the data from the external backups.
Well duh...that's why I RAID5'd them. Should one fail, I mark it failed, replace, and rebuild. In the unlikely event another drive does fail during the rebuild I still have my primary data store to create a backup from after I resolve the issue of failed drives in my backup system. Remember, this RAID5 setup is solely used for backup purposes...my primary data store runs on an entirely different volume. It's highly unlikely that 2 disks from the backup volume and another disk from my primary volume would all fail within a day.
P.S. Use a UPS for your NAS if you care for your data.
Everything in my server room is powered via an APC Smart-UPS 1500VA ;)
I just recently addressed this problem myself. My solution, although a little pricey compared to just stuffing an old box with hard drives, was to get one of these guys and put 5 1 TB drives into it. I have it running in a software RAID5, backing up everything from my server (media, subversion repository, etc) via a nightly cron job rsyncing between the server disks and the enclosure. So far it's been working like a charm.