The answer is: Who cares!? That's 12mbps burst by the way, and the bursts don't last for nearly as long as they say they do. In addition, who needs over even 5mbps (which is higher than what I get with comcast) if you still have near-56k upload speads. And yes, "386k/s uprate" is rediculously low in comparison to what we should be getting for over 40/month as I pay in the monopoly ridden area of Chicago. In short, 5GB/s downrate is useless without any uprate, and that is how they choke us (that and service that goes out all of the time). In the end, 99 percent of the user base is too nieve to notice; as long as the people stay as tamed and fickle as they are in the US, my connection is going to suck.
What is with this unexamined obsession of Linux and rebellious Windows users in promoting Linux to the masses. Maybe your helping them in the short run by teaching them a few things (which is hardly necessary to use Ubuntu and Genome), and keeping their computers cleaner. But isn't there a balance? Aren't You, by senselessly promoting widespread adoption of our sacred OS, diminishing that which had actually created its greatness? Linux has been powered by the great open source development process. Note that I said "development." In layman's terms, the ratio of retard users to actual developers and highly knowledgeable users has been relatively kept in key balance (less retards). I fear that more wide-spread adoption may occur, and the trashy ubiquitousness one experiences in Windows will become more a part of Linux.
P.S. Stop promoting Linux and start using it yourself. (At least the developers I know don't go on promotion campaigns, but maybe that's because they already know it is good; they don't need to be using the same omnipresent toys their grandmas and girlfriends are using in order to heighten their self esteem).
Now how does this prevent our military from tapping into the remote controlled system in an attempt to fly the aircraft into civilian structures during war games?
There is really no best file system for every purpose.
Since you want reliability and portability, I recommend DVD+Rs. They are certainly more reliable than an external hard drive, and more portable too.
It really depends on how you use your archive. Since you carry your archive around, I would recommend against an external hard drive since they can be quite fragile.
Your file system choice depends a lot on the storage technology choice. Of course for the previously mentioned, 9660 would meet your needs the best: "reliability, future-proofing, data recovery, and availability across multiple platforms". Your going to be able to find a DVD writer for a while to come. Furthermore, there are very minimal DVD incompatibilities across the platforms.
Like I said, application matters a lot. If your using hard drives, then what your storing can have a big effect on which file system you should use. For example, if you require stationary backup of very large files on a UNIX OS, then it benefits you to store the information using JFS or another large file efficient file system. Your not going to want to change the file system once you've stored everything on it, and since a certain file system was more efficient to store the information with in the first place, then its more effective to keep it in that format for the long term.
File systems depend on the storage technology they are used with, and the utility of a file system depends on how you use it.
Might I suggest that we work on creating good Nvidia Linux drivers before we work on overclocking our poorly driven hardware.
I'm counting on nouveau http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ to save us unix/nvidia users in this respect.
Quake 3 Arena is by far the best game I have ever experienced, and I have tried nearly every computer game at one point or another.
Furthermore, If you would like to be emersed in a technologically interactive world, I would highly recommend Deus Ex (the first version only).
There are fingerprint and ocular authentication devices out there, but I wouldn't want to give anyone a reason to remove my finger (or my eye for that matter).
Many people use a usb drive with an RSA key or a smart card. Windows implemented bitlocker in vista (ultimate and corporate editions) which is basically file system encryption that can be authenticated with a password and/or external key.
The most straight forward and easy option in my opinion is to use a passphrase (something much longer than a password). A password or phrase with 25 - 45 characters would surely give you great security against brute forcing etc.
This all depends on what kind of security you need. If you use a good password, then it is probably not the weakest link in your security. If the information you are trying to protect on the hard drive can be easily taken out of the computer (physically), then you may want to look into file system encryption or steganography (if you want plausable deniability).
With all of the security issues associated with browsers today, you would think a group of developers would go out of their way to create the most secure environment possible. Mozilla, in my opinion, should use a proactive security model for Firefox. There are general changes concerning how the browser interacts with the OS that have opportunity to enhance security greatly. By working on security in Firefox independently and exclusively is sure to bring your user base to you Mozilla (I hope your reading this [-_o] [o_-]).
Let it be known that I am a dedicated Firefox user, but I would move to Opera if it was open source. I do not agree with the swiss army knife analogy either: Opera and Firefox startup in about the same time depending on the system, Opera uses less memory, and Opera is a smaller download (~4.9 vs ~9.2 for the Linux versions). Furthermore, opera has had less security problems: Compare security issues at secunia.com.
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Too bad every granny in Japan and Sweden will still have higher uprates that I will have down rates - death to asymmetric stingyness!
The answer is: Who cares!? That's 12mbps burst by the way, and the bursts don't last for nearly as long as they say they do. In addition, who needs over even 5mbps (which is higher than what I get with comcast) if you still have near-56k upload speads. And yes, "386k/s uprate" is rediculously low in comparison to what we should be getting for over 40/month as I pay in the monopoly ridden area of Chicago. In short, 5GB/s downrate is useless without any uprate, and that is how they choke us (that and service that goes out all of the time). In the end, 99 percent of the user base is too nieve to notice; as long as the people stay as tamed and fickle as they are in the US, my connection is going to suck.
Uh, does the writer know what a package manager is? Portage, apt-get, yum, pkgtools, swaret, Yast, etc...
What is with this unexamined obsession of Linux and rebellious Windows users in promoting Linux to the masses. Maybe your helping them in the short run by teaching them a few things (which is hardly necessary to use Ubuntu and Genome), and keeping their computers cleaner. But isn't there a balance? Aren't You, by senselessly promoting widespread adoption of our sacred OS, diminishing that which had actually created its greatness? Linux has been powered by the great open source development process. Note that I said "development." In layman's terms, the ratio of retard users to actual developers and highly knowledgeable users has been relatively kept in key balance (less retards). I fear that more wide-spread adoption may occur, and the trashy ubiquitousness one experiences in Windows will become more a part of Linux.
P.S. Stop promoting Linux and start using it yourself. (At least the developers I know don't go on promotion campaigns, but maybe that's because they already know it is good; they don't need to be using the same omnipresent toys their grandmas and girlfriends are using in order to heighten their self esteem).
Now how does this prevent our military from tapping into the remote controlled system in an attempt to fly the aircraft into civilian structures during war games?
There is really no best file system for every purpose.
Since you want reliability and portability, I recommend DVD+Rs. They are certainly more reliable than an external hard drive, and more portable too.
It really depends on how you use your archive. Since you carry your archive around, I would recommend against an external hard drive since they can be quite fragile.
Your file system choice depends a lot on the storage technology choice. Of course for the previously mentioned, 9660 would meet your needs the best: "reliability, future-proofing, data recovery, and availability across multiple platforms". Your going to be able to find a DVD writer for a while to come. Furthermore, there are very minimal DVD incompatibilities across the platforms.
Like I said, application matters a lot. If your using hard drives, then what your storing can have a big effect on which file system you should use. For example, if you require stationary backup of very large files on a UNIX OS, then it benefits you to store the information using JFS or another large file efficient file system. Your not going to want to change the file system once you've stored everything on it, and since a certain file system was more efficient to store the information with in the first place, then its more effective to keep it in that format for the long term.
File systems depend on the storage technology they are used with, and the utility of a file system depends on how you use it.
Might I suggest that we work on creating good Nvidia Linux drivers before we work on overclocking our poorly driven hardware. I'm counting on nouveau http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/ to save us unix/nvidia users in this respect.
Quake 3 Arena is by far the best game I have ever experienced, and I have tried nearly every computer game at one point or another. Furthermore, If you would like to be emersed in a technologically interactive world, I would highly recommend Deus Ex (the first version only).
There are fingerprint and ocular authentication devices out there, but I wouldn't want to give anyone a reason to remove my finger (or my eye for that matter).
Many people use a usb drive with an RSA key or a smart card. Windows implemented bitlocker in vista (ultimate and corporate editions) which is basically file system encryption that can be authenticated with a password and/or external key.
The most straight forward and easy option in my opinion is to use a passphrase (something much longer than a password). A password or phrase with 25 - 45 characters would surely give you great security against brute forcing etc.
This all depends on what kind of security you need. If you use a good password, then it is probably not the weakest link in your security. If the information you are trying to protect on the hard drive can be easily taken out of the computer (physically), then you may want to look into file system encryption or steganography (if you want plausable deniability).
With all of the security issues associated with browsers today, you would think a group of developers would go out of their way to create the most secure environment possible. Mozilla, in my opinion, should use a proactive security model for Firefox. There are general changes concerning how the browser interacts with the OS that have opportunity to enhance security greatly. By working on security in Firefox independently and exclusively is sure to bring your user base to you Mozilla (I hope your reading this [-_o] [o_-]).
Let it be known that I am a dedicated Firefox user, but I would move to Opera if it was open source. I do not agree with the swiss army knife analogy either: Opera and Firefox startup in about the same time depending on the system, Opera uses less memory, and Opera is a smaller download (~4.9 vs ~9.2 for the Linux versions). Furthermore, opera has had less security problems: Compare security issues at secunia.com.