Also, while the incident was terrible, people really need to have a sense of perspective. The risk that any given person will be involved in a mass shooting is vanishingly small. If we really must do something to "save the children," there are some much better places to focus. For example, this is from the US Federal Govt. CDC website:
From 2005-2009, there were an average of 3,533 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day. An additional 347 people died each year from drowning in boating-related incidents.
About one in five people who die from drowning are children 14 and younger. For every child who dies from drowning, another five receive emergency department care for nonfatal submersion injuries.
Nobody "needs" a swimming pool, and there's no Constitutional protection for swimming pools. Why don't we ban private swimming pools instead of writing new laws about about guns or games. We'd save more lives that way.
Don't use btrfs. My approach (I only have 8Tb) was two low-powered linux file servers. The "main" one was running btrfs over a mixed set of disks with a nightly rsync to the backup server. A power outage that was more than my UPS could handle resulted in a corrupted btrfs filesystem. After a couple days of trying to fix the btrfs filesystem, I gave up and restored from the backup server. Fortunately it was using LVM and ext4.
Now I have the "main" fileserver running LVM and ext4, and a backup server running FreeBSD with zfs. The two are in physically different locations, and I use rsync with --only-create-batch and a USB hard drive to move changes from the main server to the backup.
I know I manage to fire a few thousand rounds a year without killing anybody, family or otherwise. Eliminated lots of dangerous cans and bottles, though! Every single person who has visited my place and shot some of my guns has claimed it was great fun, and none of them killed anybody, either.
So there's the solution: no need for yet another complex system in the car that can fail. Just stop selling cars with automatic transmissions. That would have all kinds of benefits. People would have to pay more attention to driving, which would result in fewer accents of all types. Overall gas mileage would improve. Maybe some people who shouldn't be driving, anyway, would quit trying to. Manufacturers would focus on making better manual transmissions..... the list just goes on and on.
Exactly. This "nanny state" we live in, where all the normal people pay to try to keep stupid people from hurting themselves is not making things better. There's only one result from trying to make things idiot-proof: better idiots.
Fine in theory, but I've tried that with several different mid-range displays. The rotated sub pixel orientation plus the variation in brightness from top to bottom makes working with text unpleasant. Maybe an IPS display would be better, but I haven't been able to afford one.
More importantly, most 16:9 monitors are 1080 pixels tall, which gives you just 1080 wide when turned 90. That's barely better than the old-fashioned 1024x786 that wasn't wide enough a decade ago.
Don't kid yourselves. Since Capone, there's only been one crime in the US: hiding money from the government. The bodog takedown had nothing to go with gambling. It was money laundering, and the US federal govt. doesn't let anybody get away from paying their taxes. The case law is actually very clear on gambling: if you have any winnings from illegal gambling, you must report them to the IRS and pay taxes, and that tax report will not be used to prosecute you.
As long as big businesses give lots of money to the Federal govt, they'll be allowed to do whatever they want, and will be bailed out if they run into trouble.
Did you read about the revolutionary new idea Facebook had, recently? They're going to split the RAM and storage off from the CPU to make it easier to upgrade each, independently. Wonder if they're going to start calling the disk DASD, and add a DAT box to help the CPU address the real memory?
You probably can't find one, any more, but I bought a used HP ScanJet 5, and installed BSD on it. This page has a lot of info on the process: http://www.berklix.com/scanjet/
It's still working far better than any other scanner I've used.
I'd like a way to use these "cloud" storage services to make a really safe encrypted filesystem. Imagine that 95% of my data was on my own fileserver, but a critical 5% of the data was only stored on a "cloud" server (mirrored across several, for safety and performance). The FBI confiscates my server and a judge orders me to give them the passwords. "Fine," I say, "the password is 'pass1234,' good luck!"
You could probably do something with RAID-5 over loop-mounted files to simulate this, but I'm not sure that would necessarily ensure that no files were recoverable without access the off-site part.
I think this a very realistic and worrying possibility. I can easily imagine a scenario:
Workday runs Payroll for hundreds of customers in a single environment. Each company has its own "tenant," but all the data is stored, together, in Workday's one big in-memory database. Workday is entirely responsible for backups, disaster recovery, etc.
Assume your company uses Workday for payroll services. Now imagine that some other company that is also using Workday is using fake employees in the Payroll system to launder money. We all know "money laundering" is all the FBI really cares about, so they eventually figure out this is happening. What is keeping the FBI from shutting down Workday, entirely? If they do shut Workday down, I'll bet your company will be destroyed by the fact it can't pay it's employees, and by the penalties the IRS will impose when you can't file your taxes.
I had a home server with 6TB of disk using btrfs and a second server with the same amount of disk, also using btrfs for backup. I had a power failure while the rsync backup was running, and both btrfs filesytems were mangled. I managed to recover most of the stuff after a couple days' worth of work, but I definitely changed back to xfs on LVM2.
Btrfs was so much simpler, and I was able to maintain > 60 Mb/s write speeds to a set of crapy disks that only manage 12-14 Mb/s writes, now. I know I could RAID my disks to get back to those speeds, but with btrfs I was able to grow my server by replacing one disk at a time. With RAID and LVM2, it's not worth that much effort for a home media server.
My wife doesn't know anything about networking. When I tried to tell her about the problem, she asked, "Have you tried calling Al Gore? Since he invented the Internet, he can probably fix it."
I tried to explain the news blurb to my wife, who know nothing about networking. She said, "well, you'd better call Al Gore and tell him you need some more addresses. He invented the internet, surely he can fix it."
That's not a very useful argument. I buy _really_ cheap incandescent bulbs at Wal-Mart, and they last about as long as the package claims. I buy significantly more expensive CFLs from Wal-Mart, and they don't last any longer than the cheap incandescent bulbs, even though the package claims they will last 10 years. Wal-Mart didn't _make_ either of them.
I agree: make sure it has postscript and built-in networking.
I've been completely satisfied with my HP LaserJet 6MP for many years. I'm starting to look for a new printer, now, though, because Apple has finally dropped support for AppleTalk in Snow Leopard! So while the printer still works fine, I can no longer print to it from my main Macs. I have an always-on Linux server, so I used CUPS to set it up as a shared printer, and am able to print through the Linux box, for now. It's not ideal, though, since printing via CUPS gets me an extra page with a postscript error after every print job.
Slashdot Mirror
Now we know why that US DOD mini shuttle was up for so long, recently. It was hacking into the Russian satellites.
The NRA doesn't represent the gun manufacturers. It's an association of dues-paying individual members.
Well, you'll get charged with something, unless you work for the government. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57568368/christopher-dorner-manhunt-two-innocent-women-shot-by-lapd-officers-had-no-warning/
If you're a cop, it's just a "tragic mistake," and you go back to abusing civilians.
Also, while the incident was terrible, people really need to have a sense of perspective. The risk that any given person will be involved in a mass shooting is vanishingly small. If we really must do something to "save the children," there are some much better places to focus. For example, this is from the US Federal Govt. CDC website:
From 2005-2009, there were an average of 3,533 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day. An additional 347 people died each year from drowning in boating-related incidents.
About one in five people who die from drowning are children 14 and younger. For every child who dies from drowning, another five receive emergency department care for nonfatal submersion injuries.
Nobody "needs" a swimming pool, and there's no Constitutional protection for swimming pools. Why don't we ban private swimming pools instead of writing new laws about about guns or games. We'd save more lives that way.
Damn! I just migrated all my stuff from a Linux server to a FreeBSD one. I've been extremely impressed, but now you make me wish I'd gone to OpenBSD.
Have you bought any recently? I'm not sure about the "cheaper than gold," part, but I agree it will only increase in value in the future!
Don't use btrfs. My approach (I only have 8Tb) was two low-powered linux file servers. The "main" one was running btrfs over a mixed set of disks with a nightly rsync to the backup server. A power outage that was more than my UPS could handle resulted in a corrupted btrfs filesystem. After a couple days of trying to fix the btrfs filesystem, I gave up and restored from the backup server. Fortunately it was using LVM and ext4.
Now I have the "main" fileserver running LVM and ext4, and a backup server running FreeBSD with zfs. The two are in physically different locations, and I use rsync with --only-create-batch and a USB hard drive to move changes from the main server to the backup.
I know I manage to fire a few thousand rounds a year without killing anybody, family or otherwise. Eliminated lots of dangerous cans and bottles, though! Every single person who has visited my place and shot some of my guns has claimed it was great fun, and none of them killed anybody, either.
And that somehow makes it OK? What kind of argument is that?
So there's the solution: no need for yet another complex system in the car that can fail. Just stop selling cars with automatic transmissions. That would have all kinds of benefits. People would have to pay more attention to driving, which would result in fewer accents of all types. Overall gas mileage would improve. Maybe some people who shouldn't be driving, anyway, would quit trying to. Manufacturers would focus on making better manual transmissions..... the list just goes on and on.
Exactly. This "nanny state" we live in, where all the normal people pay to try to keep stupid people from hurting themselves is not making things better. There's only one result from trying to make things idiot-proof: better idiots.
Fine in theory, but I've tried that with several different mid-range displays. The rotated sub pixel orientation plus the variation in brightness from top to bottom makes working with text unpleasant. Maybe an IPS display would be better, but I haven't been able to afford one.
More importantly, most 16:9 monitors are 1080 pixels tall, which gives you just 1080 wide when turned 90. That's barely better than the old-fashioned 1024x786 that wasn't wide enough a decade ago.
Don't kid yourselves. Since Capone, there's only been one crime in the US: hiding money from the government. The bodog takedown had nothing to go with gambling. It was money laundering, and the US federal govt. doesn't let anybody get away from paying their taxes. The case law is actually very clear on gambling: if you have any winnings from illegal gambling, you must report them to the IRS and pay taxes, and that tax report will not be used to prosecute you.
As long as big businesses give lots of money to the Federal govt, they'll be allowed to do whatever they want, and will be bailed out if they run into trouble.
Are you kidding? Whittling requires knives, and only terrorists would have such dangerous weapons.
This story just reminded me how long it's been since I saw a Natalie Portman/hot grits post!
Did you read about the revolutionary new idea Facebook had, recently? They're going to split the RAM and storage off from the CPU to make it easier to upgrade each, independently. Wonder if they're going to start calling the disk DASD, and add a DAT box to help the CPU address the real memory?
You probably can't find one, any more, but I bought a used HP ScanJet 5, and installed BSD on it. This page has a lot of info on the process: http://www.berklix.com/scanjet/
It's still working far better than any other scanner I've used.
I'd like a way to use these "cloud" storage services to make a really safe encrypted filesystem. Imagine that 95% of my data was on my own fileserver, but a critical 5% of the data was only stored on a "cloud" server (mirrored across several, for safety and performance). The FBI confiscates my server and a judge orders me to give them the passwords. "Fine," I say, "the password is 'pass1234,' good luck!"
You could probably do something with RAID-5 over loop-mounted files to simulate this, but I'm not sure that would necessarily ensure that no files were recoverable without access the off-site part.
I think this a very realistic and worrying possibility. I can easily imagine a scenario:
Workday runs Payroll for hundreds of customers in a single environment. Each company has its own "tenant," but all the data is stored, together, in Workday's one big in-memory database. Workday is entirely responsible for backups, disaster recovery, etc.
Assume your company uses Workday for payroll services. Now imagine that some other company that is also using Workday is using fake employees in the Payroll system to launder money. We all know "money laundering" is all the FBI really cares about, so they eventually figure out this is happening. What is keeping the FBI from shutting down Workday, entirely? If they do shut Workday down, I'll bet your company will be destroyed by the fact it can't pay it's employees, and by the penalties the IRS will impose when you can't file your taxes.
I MISS btrsf!
I had a home server with 6TB of disk using btrfs and a second server with the same amount of disk, also using btrfs for backup. I had a power failure while the rsync backup was running, and both btrfs filesytems were mangled. I managed to recover most of the stuff after a couple days' worth of work, but I definitely changed back to xfs on LVM2.
Btrfs was so much simpler, and I was able to maintain > 60 Mb/s write speeds to a set of crapy disks that only manage 12-14 Mb/s writes, now. I know I could RAID my disks to get back to those speeds, but with btrfs I was able to grow my server by replacing one disk at a time. With RAID and LVM2, it's not worth that much effort for a home media server.
My wife doesn't know anything about networking. When I tried to tell her about the problem, she asked, "Have you tried calling Al Gore? Since he invented the Internet, he can probably fix it."
I tried to explain the news blurb to my wife, who know nothing about networking. She said, "well, you'd better call Al Gore and tell him you need some more addresses. He invented the internet, surely he can fix it."
Yikes! I have collection of CDs that I bought in the mid to late 80s. Thanks for making me feel old!
That's not a very useful argument. I buy _really_ cheap incandescent bulbs at Wal-Mart, and they last about as long as the package claims. I buy significantly more expensive CFLs from Wal-Mart, and they don't last any longer than the cheap incandescent bulbs, even though the package claims they will last 10 years. Wal-Mart didn't _make_ either of them.
I agree: make sure it has postscript and built-in networking.
I've been completely satisfied with my HP LaserJet 6MP for many years. I'm starting to look for a new printer, now, though, because Apple has finally dropped support for AppleTalk in Snow Leopard! So while the printer still works fine, I can no longer print to it from my main Macs. I have an always-on Linux server, so I used CUPS to set it up as a shared printer, and am able to print through the Linux box, for now. It's not ideal, though, since printing via CUPS gets me an extra page with a postscript error after every print job.