How can I mod the parent Insightful and funny at the same time?:-)
At the present time, GP's sarcastic comment is at "+2 Flamebait". So if any moderators just up-mod that post as "underrated", it could reach the elusive "+5 Flamebait" level! Perhaps a prouder achievement than anything in Gnome 3...
Actually, with the right extensions, and Docky? I quite like Gnome 3.
Are you using multiple monitors? If so, which extensions made the difference for you? I ask this because I tried Gnome 3 and gave up on it due to its nastiness towards multiple monitors. All of our PCs at home are now on xfce due to the apparent nonexistence of sane Gnome options.
Since TFS was probably submitted by someone in the US, we can only reluctantly recommend the phone he is not allowed to have. Nokia decided not to embarrass their Lumia models in the USA, UK, Japan, Germany by releasing the N9 in competition.
I've had a Lumia 800 since november and the only two things I'm really missing now is a native app for Google+ (though the mobile web version works fine) and something that can talk to the OBD2 Bluetooth dongle I have for my car.
If you want a secure phone and want it to be from Nokia, then try the Nokia N9. It's a charm, in countries where it's available (yes for Australia, Finland, Italy, Sweden, etc. but not for USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Japan, etc.).
I was curious as to how you force your family to use the mounted drives. I assume you have shares that get mounted. Did you just train them to use the mounted drives? I tried to make the music/photo/document/video folders map to shares on the nas, but was not able to on Win7. It seems the only way you can do that is if you make an iscsi share, but that has it's own problems in that is then completely separate from your other folders. Since windows apps keep defaulting to use the My documents (or whatever its called on win7), I often get sloppy and leave stuff in the local directories, and one of the biggest reasons I got a NAS was so that I would have a single place to keep all of my files and avoid duplication.
Well, "force" is entirely the wrong word, but "train" is closer. For each user, there is a directory on the NAS, and this is mounted via NFS (along with various shared directories) when they log in so it's easy to use.
All three of our PCs at home run Linux, and I encouraged everyone to use their own directory on the server for anything they want to keep. This worked partly because of the automated backup[*], and partly because files on the server are available no matter what PC they log in on. Stuff stored locally in their ~ directory is not accessible from other PCs because the/home tree is obviously not in/etc/exports, and stuff stored elsewhere on local disks is not guaranteed to be backed up regularly (every PC has a local USB disk, but backup must be manually initiated, so it does not occur very often).
The Synology boxes each have two identical disks in RAID 0, and thus are quick enough that there is generally no discernible performance hit for fairly large file operations. They can come close to saturating the LAN for reading, but are slower on writing large files after their write cache fills (slowdown is seen beyond 50-100MB file write). BTW, our LAN is mostly Gbit including to the DS211 file/media server, but the DS207 web/mail server only supports 100Mbit.
[*] The perceived value of storing on a backed-up server was enhanced by innocently commenting that Daddy might accidentally bork an upgrade on one or more PCs some day. It has never happened, but the old message of minimizing your exposure to the folly of others got through...
So a good old fashioned house-fire of lightning strike on your house/garage and it all comes tumbling down?
Not a good solution.
Why is it that only an AC is foolhardy enough to take such a great leap into the dark, thereby impaling what little sense he had?
BTW, you're quite wrong, as the garage and house are separate structures which are not adjacent, and there are no neighbors anywhere close to us. All of our buildings are separated by gaps of more than 12 meters - the planning regulations consider this the maximum distance that flames can jump in nearly all cases. As for lightning, well there are lots of spruce and pine in the 20-25 meter height range all around us (but none closer than 25 meters), and they'll pull down lightning quicker than our much lower structures. And our two NAS boxes and their attached USB backup drives are all protected by UPS so surges from remote strikes are unlikely to get them. We also have fire blankets and fire extinguishers in the house and garage, and the kids have even had practice putting out fires using blanket and extinguisher (the local fire brigade arranges free courses a couple of times per year).
What I did some years ago was recognize that "manual backups" were not done often enough, and important stuff was scattered around a few PCs. So I got a NAS, stuck a pair of disks into it (RAID 0 for speed), and set up its automated incremental backup to run 3 times per week to an external USB drive. The PCs now mount the NAS at login, and that's where all data files are stored by default (even the kids use it).
We're up to 2 NAS units now, with 7TB[*] of disk space between them, all backed up on schedule. The USB backup drives are rotated every few weeks with another set kept in a secure place in the garage.
[*] One NAS unit doubles up as media server, so it's got a load of movies & music in addition to user files in its 6TB. The other one is our web server and email server with only 1TB of disk space.
Now I'm almost tempted to get onto Facebook. Except I'd never use a real name/address/email/etc., so maybe I'm still not tempted at all.
But let's see who tries to add 800 million or so to their list of enemies (minus a few who might even be actual friends)...
On a side note, I too have a Synology NAS (411J) and what do you think of the new gui? I love it but was still surprised that they didn't include DNS as a supported package, I know that someone repackaged DNSMasq but I would prefer to have it from the company.
We have a DS207 which is outward-facing (1 TB, web server, mail server, etc.) and a DS211 which is inward-facing (6 TB, file server, media server, etc.). I'll probably upgrade the DS211 from DSM 3.2 to DSM 4.0 soon enough. The DS207 can't be upgraded past DSM 3.1, due to its age. However, I'm very happy with both of them; they give excellent bang for the buck, despite not being the cheapest of NAS boxes. Since we're in a rural area, they share a small UPS with the router and with their external USB backup disks.
DNS is not a big issue for me, but if it were available, I'd probably stick it on one of them. Similarly, I wouldn't mind seeing a few domain support and user authentication packages. But these are not an issue for me and would be very low priority items.
One thing which would be sort-of useful would be a utility for changing UID and GID per user and group or of defining UID/GID when adding users. At present, users have to be added in the same sequence on both Synology boxes, to get matching UIDs, and then the corresponding UIDs must be set on the Linux desktops to match. Alternatively, I'd have to do a little binary editing on the Synology to get its UIDs in line with those existing on the workstations (I actually did this once - it was quite an annoyance).
99% of my library is in MKV format, which WMC does not care for
Apparently, WMC as-shipped lacks MKV support (how dumb can MS get?), but it can be added later. Use this Google-obtained advice at your own risk, etc. Our media server is a Synology box which runs Linux and handles many formats.
I have an old Dell from 2007 with a 15" 1920x1200 screen.
And I have a laptop from 2004 with a 17" 1920x1200 resolution LCD built-in. A replacement with similar resolution is nigh on impossible to find - they all seem to have the 1920x1080 shortscreen instead. It's been due for replacement, but I have found nothing suitable (in this case, suitable means similar or better resolution).
"You will not use our copyrights or trademarks (including Facebook, the Facebook and F Logos, FB, Face, Poke, Book and Wall), or any confusingly similar marks, except as expressly permitted by our Brand Usage Guidelines or with our prior written permission."
I guess Lady Gaga has to close her Facebook page, or re-record Poker Face.
Screw her (but don't "Poke" her, for legal reasons).
I have more than one "Wall" lined with "Books" at home, have my own "Face" which I even show in public places, and "Poke" my wife regularly. Do I need a lawyer for these things now?
And yes companies are "forced" to lower their prices because of pressure from the customers (the "invisible hand"). If we think $20 for a Bluray is outrageous, we'll buy it somewhere else (like the DVD for $5). That forces companies to lower their Bluray prices to remain competitive.
Unfortunately, they seem to be going a different path where I live. Fairly decent newly released movies on BluRay tend to cost euro25 (or euro30 even). Fine, I thought, I can wait a while for the price to drop. But the price point appears to be very sticky, and instead of cheaper BluRay disks, they start bundling BluRay+DVD for euro25, then BluRay+2DVDs (theatrical + director's cut or "behind the scenes" interview trash) for euro25, or sometimes 2 BluRays (regular release + "collector's" release) for euro25.
So nowadays, I rarely ever buy a BluRay, because I refuse to pay more than euro15 even for the few relatively good movies on BluRay, and there is generally only crap at that price. However, the DVD is usually available within a year of release for less than euro10, even for so-called blockbuster movies. Amazingly, my price point for a good movie on DVD is about euro10...
I'm aware of the measurement limitations in and before the early iron age, and understand your point on consequent inaccuracy or imprecision (which is quite plausible).
The real giggle is from those who claim that biblical text is error-free, and that thus the 10 and 30 are accurate and correct. They then start arguing that the 10 cubits is the diameter of the outside of the rim, but the circumference is for the inside of the rim and other squirming attempts to get 3.0 for the ratio between them, ignoring the fact that this amounts to inserting additional unstated conditions or assumptions independent of the text. You see, any admission of error or inaccuracy would undermine all the other arguments they derive from other bits of the bible written on topics on which the authors were understandably ignorant. Curiously, they see nothing wrong in interposing additional unstated parameters, despite also asserting that the bible is complete (caution: believers may become somewhat irate and even less rational when this is pointed out).
I think everybody who's pro evolution is just as closed minded as those who follow the christian beliefs.
What you think is utterly and completely irrelevant to the reality of the Universe. Impartial reproducible observations are relevant. Our incomplete knowledge of how reality operates is obtained and refined through application of the Scientific method. The observable evidence is overwhelmingly that evolution has occurred and continues to occur, and overwhelmingly that there is no "intelligent designer".
Don't forget we should be teaching biblical Pi instead of heathen devil math.
"And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." — First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26
Clearly Pi = 3
Sinners.
Yep, that's one of my favorite bible-giggles. Because it clearly states that Pi is 3.0 and not 3.1 even if it's just presumed to be an approximation. Those who claim the old testament of the bible is literally true tend to wriggle quite amusingly when that one comes up.
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How can I mod the parent Insightful and funny at the same time? :-)
At the present time, GP's sarcastic comment is at "+2 Flamebait". So if any moderators just up-mod that post as "underrated", it could reach the elusive "+5 Flamebait" level! Perhaps a prouder achievement than anything in Gnome 3...
They did the same thing years ago with Totem, which is just called "Movie Player" (to considerable annoyance).
Actually, with the right extensions, and Docky? I quite like Gnome 3.
Are you using multiple monitors? If so, which extensions made the difference for you? I ask this because I tried Gnome 3 and gave up on it due to its nastiness towards multiple monitors. All of our PCs at home are now on xfce due to the apparent nonexistence of sane Gnome options.
Since TFS was probably submitted by someone in the US, we can only reluctantly recommend the phone he is not allowed to have. Nokia decided not to embarrass their Lumia models in the USA, UK, Japan, Germany by releasing the N9 in competition.
I've had a Lumia 800 since november and the only two things I'm really missing now is a native app for Google+ (though the mobile web version works fine) and something that can talk to the OBD2 Bluetooth dongle I have for my car.
If you want a secure phone and want it to be from Nokia, then try the Nokia N9. It's a charm, in countries where it's available (yes for Australia, Finland, Italy, Sweden, etc. but not for USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Japan, etc.).
and don't live in a town called Dorking.
Could be worse...
And we can look forward to an aptly-named lager also.
On a side note, I spent a few weeks here, back in the 80s (the job was exhausting work, too).
I was curious as to how you force your family to use the mounted drives. I assume you have shares that get mounted. Did you just train them to use the mounted drives? I tried to make the music/photo/document/video folders map to shares on the nas, but was not able to on Win7. It seems the only way you can do that is if you make an iscsi share, but that has it's own problems in that is then completely separate from your other folders. Since windows apps keep defaulting to use the My documents (or whatever its called on win7), I often get sloppy and leave stuff in the local directories, and one of the biggest reasons I got a NAS was so that I would have a single place to keep all of my files and avoid duplication.
Well, "force" is entirely the wrong word, but "train" is closer. For each user, there is a directory on the NAS, and this is mounted via NFS (along with various shared directories) when they log in so it's easy to use.
All three of our PCs at home run Linux, and I encouraged everyone to use their own directory on the server for anything they want to keep. This worked partly because of the automated backup[*], and partly because files on the server are available no matter what PC they log in on. Stuff stored locally in their ~ directory is not accessible from other PCs because the /home tree is obviously not in /etc/exports, and stuff stored elsewhere on local disks is not guaranteed to be backed up regularly (every PC has a local USB disk, but backup must be manually initiated, so it does not occur very often).
The Synology boxes each have two identical disks in RAID 0, and thus are quick enough that there is generally no discernible performance hit for fairly large file operations. They can come close to saturating the LAN for reading, but are slower on writing large files after their write cache fills (slowdown is seen beyond 50-100MB file write). BTW, our LAN is mostly Gbit including to the DS211 file/media server, but the DS207 web/mail server only supports 100Mbit.
[*] The perceived value of storing on a backed-up server was enhanced by innocently commenting that Daddy might accidentally bork an upgrade on one or more PCs some day. It has never happened, but the old message of minimizing your exposure to the folly of others got through...
That's no moon.
You're right, it's really a Godwin!
That's no moon!
What, no goatse link either?
So a good old fashioned house-fire of lightning strike on your house/garage and it all comes tumbling down?
Not a good solution.
Why is it that only an AC is foolhardy enough to take such a great leap into the dark, thereby impaling what little sense he had?
BTW, you're quite wrong, as the garage and house are separate structures which are not adjacent, and there are no neighbors anywhere close to us. All of our buildings are separated by gaps of more than 12 meters - the planning regulations consider this the maximum distance that flames can jump in nearly all cases. As for lightning, well there are lots of spruce and pine in the 20-25 meter height range all around us (but none closer than 25 meters), and they'll pull down lightning quicker than our much lower structures. And our two NAS boxes and their attached USB backup drives are all protected by UPS so surges from remote strikes are unlikely to get them. We also have fire blankets and fire extinguishers in the house and garage, and the kids have even had practice putting out fires using blanket and extinguisher (the local fire brigade arranges free courses a couple of times per year).
One hand holding a cognac, the other holding the girl...
The chauffeur sits in the front and drives whatever way he wants.
We're up to 2 NAS units now, with 7TB[*] of disk space between them, all backed up on schedule. The USB backup drives are rotated every few weeks with another set kept in a secure place in the garage.
[*] One NAS unit doubles up as media server, so it's got a load of movies & music in addition to user files in its 6TB. The other one is our web server and email server with only 1TB of disk space.
Now I'm almost tempted to get onto Facebook. Except I'd never use a real name/address/email/etc., so maybe I'm still not tempted at all.
But let's see who tries to add 800 million or so to their list of enemies (minus a few who might even be actual friends)...
On a side note, I too have a Synology NAS (411J) and what do you think of the new gui? I love it but was still surprised that they didn't include DNS as a supported package, I know that someone repackaged DNSMasq but I would prefer to have it from the company.
We have a DS207 which is outward-facing (1 TB, web server, mail server, etc.) and a DS211 which is inward-facing (6 TB, file server, media server, etc.). I'll probably upgrade the DS211 from DSM 3.2 to DSM 4.0 soon enough. The DS207 can't be upgraded past DSM 3.1, due to its age. However, I'm very happy with both of them; they give excellent bang for the buck, despite not being the cheapest of NAS boxes. Since we're in a rural area, they share a small UPS with the router and with their external USB backup disks.
DNS is not a big issue for me, but if it were available, I'd probably stick it on one of them. Similarly, I wouldn't mind seeing a few domain support and user authentication packages. But these are not an issue for me and would be very low priority items.
One thing which would be sort-of useful would be a utility for changing UID and GID per user and group or of defining UID/GID when adding users. At present, users have to be added in the same sequence on both Synology boxes, to get matching UIDs, and then the corresponding UIDs must be set on the Linux desktops to match. Alternatively, I'd have to do a little binary editing on the Synology to get its UIDs in line with those existing on the workstations (I actually did this once - it was quite an annoyance).
99% of my library is in MKV format, which WMC does not care for
Apparently, WMC as-shipped lacks MKV support (how dumb can MS get?), but it can be added later. Use this Google-obtained advice at your own risk, etc. Our media server is a Synology box which runs Linux and handles many formats.
I have an old Dell from 2007 with a 15" 1920x1200 screen.
And I have a laptop from 2004 with a 17" 1920x1200 resolution LCD built-in. A replacement with similar resolution is nigh on impossible to find - they all seem to have the 1920x1080 shortscreen instead. It's been due for replacement, but I have found nothing suitable (in this case, suitable means similar or better resolution).
Now this is brash. Read what they actually say:
"You will not use our copyrights or trademarks (including Facebook, the Facebook and F Logos, FB, Face, Poke, Book and Wall), or any confusingly similar marks, except as expressly permitted by our Brand Usage Guidelines or with our prior written permission."
I guess Lady Gaga has to close her Facebook page, or re-record Poker Face.
Screw her (but don't "Poke" her, for legal reasons).
I have more than one "Wall" lined with "Books" at home, have my own "Face" which I even show in public places, and "Poke" my wife regularly. Do I need a lawyer for these things now?
There's the first complaint, right there...
Dans ce pays-ci, il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral^H^H^H^H^H^H CEO pour encourager les autres.
Si seulement... Et donc d'améliorer le monde!
And yes companies are "forced" to lower their prices because of pressure from the customers (the "invisible hand"). If we think $20 for a Bluray is outrageous, we'll buy it somewhere else (like the DVD for $5). That forces companies to lower their Bluray prices to remain competitive.
Unfortunately, they seem to be going a different path where I live. Fairly decent newly released movies on BluRay tend to cost euro25 (or euro30 even). Fine, I thought, I can wait a while for the price to drop. But the price point appears to be very sticky, and instead of cheaper BluRay disks, they start bundling BluRay+DVD for euro25, then BluRay+2DVDs (theatrical + director's cut or "behind the scenes" interview trash) for euro25, or sometimes 2 BluRays (regular release + "collector's" release) for euro25.
So nowadays, I rarely ever buy a BluRay, because I refuse to pay more than euro15 even for the few relatively good movies on BluRay, and there is generally only crap at that price. However, the DVD is usually available within a year of release for less than euro10, even for so-called blockbuster movies. Amazingly, my price point for a good movie on DVD is about euro10...
Hey! Not all evil dicks are as bad as Cheney....
At least, they gave a bit of an X feel to Windows 3.1
If you allow for some measurement error:
I'm aware of the measurement limitations in and before the early iron age, and understand your point on consequent inaccuracy or imprecision (which is quite plausible).
The real giggle is from those who claim that biblical text is error-free, and that thus the 10 and 30 are accurate and correct. They then start arguing that the 10 cubits is the diameter of the outside of the rim, but the circumference is for the inside of the rim and other squirming attempts to get 3.0 for the ratio between them, ignoring the fact that this amounts to inserting additional unstated conditions or assumptions independent of the text. You see, any admission of error or inaccuracy would undermine all the other arguments they derive from other bits of the bible written on topics on which the authors were understandably ignorant. Curiously, they see nothing wrong in interposing additional unstated parameters, despite also asserting that the bible is complete (caution: believers may become somewhat irate and even less rational when this is pointed out).
I think everybody who's pro evolution is just as closed minded as those who follow the christian beliefs.
What you think is utterly and completely irrelevant to the reality of the Universe. Impartial reproducible observations are relevant. Our incomplete knowledge of how reality operates is obtained and refined through application of the Scientific method. The observable evidence is overwhelmingly that evolution has occurred and continues to occur, and overwhelmingly that there is no "intelligent designer".
Don't forget we should be teaching biblical Pi instead of heathen devil math.
"And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one rim to the other it was round all about, and...a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about....And it was an hand breadth thick...." — First Kings, chapter 7, verses 23 and 26
Clearly Pi = 3
Sinners.
Yep, that's one of my favorite bible-giggles. Because it clearly states that Pi is 3.0 and not 3.1 even if it's just presumed to be an approximation. Those who claim the old testament of the bible is literally true tend to wriggle quite amusingly when that one comes up.