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  1. Re:Read their website on Btrfs Is Getting There, But Not Quite Ready For Production · · Score: 1

    Yes it does.

    Standard remove will remove and rebalance i was testing that in 3.8 last night.

  2. Re:Synopsis: Arms Waving In The Air on Australian Networks Block Community University Website · · Score: 1

    burn in hell Telstra!

    I don't think they would make it through customs.
    Some things are just too much for hell

  3. Re:Synopsis: Arms Waving In The Air on Australian Networks Block Community University Website · · Score: 1

    You're on internode or iinet i take it?

    They really don't want a filter and refused to implement one.

  4. Re:Yes on Why You Should Worry About the Future of Chromebooks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because android isn't that nice at providing a good desktop environment.
    the chromebook with normal nix running on it would allow much better interaction.
    I say this as someone with a very nice nexus 7 and an android phone.

    Though take the arm chip out of the nexus 10 and give me a linux laptop with the chromebook pixels monitor\keyboard and most importantly battery :)

  5. Re:Lesson: Licensing costs suck on PayPal To Replace VMware With OpenStack · · Score: 1

    Service isolation is a nice one.
    hardware and infrastructure abstraction and guest portability

  6. Re:Well no shit on Planescape: Torment Successor Funded In 6 Hours · · Score: 1

    Shitty annoying fucking stupid events is my preferred option

  7. Re:About time. on China Says It Is the Target of US Hack Attacks · · Score: 1

    Didn't the US get quite a significant economical boost with wholesale infringement of European IP in its early days?

  8. Re:Translate this to legalese: on Australian Govt Forces Apple, Adobe, Microsoft To Explain Price Hikes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'll take that into account the first time i see 'colour' in a manual.

  9. Re:No, it's really not. on Royal Canadian Air Force Sees More Sims In the Future of Fighter Pilot Training · · Score: 1
  10. Re:No, it's really not. on Royal Canadian Air Force Sees More Sims In the Future of Fighter Pilot Training · · Score: 1

    when you talk about the full motion sims are you talking about the ones that are effectively chairs on the end of robot arms? or different styles?

  11. Re:$3600 ship on How EVE Online Dealt With a 3,000-Player Battle · · Score: 1

    I believe one of the pirates started "locking up" the initial leviathan in an attempt to prevent it from escaping.

    and in the initial stages i would imagine that they did not anticipate meeting as many as they did so throwing in the extra ships for an extraction made sense with imperfect intelligence

  12. Re:I recall MxStream on UK ISP PlusNet Testing Carrier-Grade NAT Instead of IPv6 · · Score: 1

    So no one on a consumer grade network runs an xbox, ps3, wii or gaming pc? or uses skype? or voip?

  13. Re:In Australia this has been handled legislativel on Give Us Your Personal Data Or Pay Full Fare · · Score: 1

    I don't know of an airline in .au (other than weight challenged ones) that charge for carry-on.
    though the rest of your issues are quite valid. prices advertised are usually ones without checked luggage. Choosing a seat in advance of check in (when booking) is extra, Better seats are extra, upfront seats are better (i don't see how these are better when flying the cheaper airlines as they typically do fore and aft boarding)
    priority lanes are also not included

  14. Re:Do you guys really make that much? on If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat? · · Score: 1

    Plumbers and sparkies require licensing because when you don't you have live pipes and only a single colour of wiring for active, neutral and ground.

  15. Re:So what else is new? on Young Students Hiding Academic Talent To Avoid Bullying · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and 90s and 00s but the response shouldn't be to toughen up. it should be to take the fucking bullies and remove them.

  16. Re:Before somebody asks . . . on A Piezoelectric Pacemaker That Is Powered By Your Heartbeat · · Score: 2

    More like a usb watchdog that restarts the server if it dies.

    the UPS analogy is very wrong

  17. Re:btrfs needed the work on Linux 3.4 Released · · Score: 1

    2 i would think as it's going into the kernel but you should probably check that

  18. Re:btrfs needed the work on Linux 3.4 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    >like RAID support that doesn't cover RAID5
    Is on the way targeted for 3.5 (was held for the fast offline check code)
    >no online file system check
    btrfs scrub start /blah

  19. Re:btrfs needed the work on Linux 3.4 Released · · Score: 4, Informative

    GPL for ever.

    early in the development of BTRFS commits were sourced from vocal and stubborn devs that would protect it from being re-licensed source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxWuaozpe2I

  20. Re:btrfs needed the work on Linux 3.4 Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    no because if you lose a disk in a striped array you lose everything. (perhaps you are thinking raid1 in which case it protects you from disk failure but does not provide backups)

    but soon they will be working on a btrfs send\receive system so you would be able to take snapshots and push to another disk

    IMO there are a number of different failure states that you must cater for.
    1. Human failures (the oh shit I deleted something): a snap shot capable file system helps protect you from these (not perfect but fairly good)
    2. Hardware failures (disks are dead): traditional backup systems work here (or btrfs\zfs send\receive) disk failures can have reduced impact due to mirroring your data (or strip plus parity) checksums and COW help defend against silent failure
    3. Software failures (the OS is hosed, partition table is dead): traditional backup systems work here (or btrfs\zfs send\receive) (though COW file systems and marking shit read-only helps)
    4. oh shit the building burnt down: Hope you do offsite backups

    BTRFS helps in the first 3 by bringing awesome features to the table (snapshots, COW(so you can walk back up the tree to recover) and mirroring your data on multiple disks) but is only something that can supplement a backup system not replace it at all

    only a good backup system helps in the 4th situation.

  21. Re:btrfs needed the work on Linux 3.4 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    well comparing it to lvm ignores a significant amount of what btrfs is
    you would compare it with the entire stack
    mdadm + lvm +ext 3/4

    btrfs gets you:
    Checksums on data
    mirrored metadata on a single disk
    lots of flexibility (online resizing and reshaping(single disk to raid 1 to 0 to single disk (or some variant of it) ( additionally raid5/6 like systems are coming)
    easy striping and mirroring across different sized disks
    snapshots
    and probably more go check https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/

  22. Re:Let me get this straight... on Intel Officially Lifts the Veil On Ivy Bridge · · Score: 1

    Think of it as the manufacturing tech that is in use.

    Tick is the first in a new manufacturing tech tock is the further refinement and new micro architecture.

  23. Re:if you were stuck in Iran.. on Sanctions Or Not, Iranian Competition Yields Successful UAVs · · Score: 1

    If you're talking about the catholic hospitals they don't have to comply they just have to comply if they want to take fed dollars.

    Strings attached is not forcing

  24. Re:I see them flying weekly on Aging U-2 Will Fight On Into the Next Decade · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'd say that's because the 117 has been retired for 4 years

  25. Re:Nothing to see here.... on Proposed Mercury Ban Threatens Vaccines · · Score: 1

    That sounds a lot like wakefields bullshit study that was was retracted by the lancet and had his former co authors removing their names from their interpretation of it's results due to his deliberate fabircation of results and fraud

    Hell Wakefield lost his medical license for his malpractice in that "research" project