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  1. Re:There may be, but... on Facebook To Begin Deploying Btrfs · · Score: 1

    Isn't it still considered unstable? Maybe they think they can change it and make it stable?

  2. Seriously? on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    All joking aside... Seriously, get 20 tb of additional storage. I don't have 20 tb of data but I do have 3 tb. I did an initial "copy" at home, it took a while. Then I took that "copy" to work. I now use robocopy to copy the differential daily over vpn. Most of the time the job takes a min or less, if there are new items to copy, it takes whatever time is needed to copy over the new data. I am able to copy over 3 gigs in about 20 or so min. If your 20 tb is changing daily, yea, you're screwed. But if you only have a couple or few gigs a day that change, this will work. Granted, 20 tb of drives off site may be an issue. I just have one 3 tb drive and before I had that, I had 3 1 tb drives. Also, my upload speed at home is between 5 and 9 mbps, that's the bottleneck

  3. Re:Secure safe. on Ask Slashdot: How To Protect Your Passwords From Amnesia? · · Score: 1

    I think most folks are over-thinking this. Lets stipulate that I have lost my memory for whatever reason. All my passwords are generated using a relatively simple pattern. If I was amnesiac, I still have all those passwords saved in my browser, chat and email clients. Amnesiac me can collect email and log into sites that I use as long as my computer is intact. My wife knows the pattern but not the current passwords, if I can't get into the password lockers, my wife can give me the starting point. From there I can access my passwords with as little as 5 tries. However, as long as my email client still has useful passwords, the vast majority of my password list can be reset with a simple "I forgot my password" request. If, for whatever reason, those two options aren't good enough, I really don't care y'know? If I'm amnesiac, I have much bigger problems on my plate than whether I can access any social sites, member-only areas of sites and so on. Given the kind of brain trauma needed to get significant amnesia, I probably would not have much use for email for the first while anyway.

    I agree with this method. My wife knows the basic password and the basic pattern. With her help I could figure it out in less than 10 tries. She is an admin on our network and can manage that but the only password she does not have and that does not comply with out pattern, is our encrypted drive. Never really thought about loosing or forgetting that password. Not too concerned about it either. I could switch it to our pattern and then apply a key file from a file on our network. She and I would know which file was the key file. Eventually (and probably already) everyone loses data. My data loss in the past has been insignificant, fortunately.

  4. The stupid drone didn't knock on my door and my tablet got stolen off my porch. Then I get a knock on the door from the local PD with a complaint from my neighbor. She claims my drone flew from my front porch, flew over her backyard and was spying on her sunbathing nude. LOL, just some random thoughts

  5. SyFy channel on NASA Data Suggests Solar Magnetic Field About To Flip · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a SyFy channel movies, Solar Polarity Flip causes big electrical tornadoes that cause massive earth quakes and exposing huge underground caverns where giant snakes, spiders, mythical creatures escape to wreak havoc on Earth.

  6. Maricopa County, AZ on The City Where People Are Afraid To Breathe · · Score: 1

    "Two-thirds of all Valley Fever infections happen right here in Arizona and out of those, 80 percent occur in Maricopa County." Read more: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/weather/weather_news/changing-weather-bringing-more-cases-of-valley-fever-to-arizona#ixzz2ZL5bmBDL Maricopa County, AZ, Population of 3.88 million, had 16,472 cases in 2011, 0.0042%. This is an increase of 2,700 cases from the year before. The 1,000 ft high dust storms during the monsoon season are a major contributor. Most of the cases showed up in February, after getting a few months to grow in the host and diagnosed by doctors. Most people in the SW carry the fungus, but only some are prone to it's ill effects. I have lived here for 32 years and never had symptoms severe enough to visit a doctor. I have known people to be hospitalized within their first year living here. Yea, it sucks. We take that chance when we live here. Get over it!

  7. Re:Is daylight savings time worth saving? on Is Daylight Saving Time Worth Saving? · · Score: 1

    Lived in AZ most of my life... WTF is DST? LOL I remember going to class in HS in the dark and coming out of first period after sunrise. I remember swimming just after the sun went down, 9 pm, during the summer. Isn't it wonderful?

  8. Re:Fact finding by dragnet. on Copyright Trolls Order Wordpress To Disclose Critics' IP Addresses · · Score: 2

    One octet per sheet of paper With each IP put a code at the bottom of the page that match each octet. Then mix up all the papers before you send them over so they have to match the code at the bottom of the page. :) Hey, just sayin

  9. Re:Portable phone charger is the way to go. on Three Low-Tech Hacks for Phones and Tablets · · Score: 2

    I agree, plus many new phones are coming with batteries that are not removable, or at least not removable by the general public. I had two spare batteries for my old phone with a wall charger for the batteries. My wife uses them now. My new phone requires the removal of 6 screws to get to the battery and plug on the motherboard. I paid $32 for a 4600 mAh battery about the size of a phone. I can charge my phone to 85% twice with it. Totally the way to go, I can also charge my iPod and other phone models with it. That hot chick with a dead phone will appreciate you letting her charge her phone with your portable charger. No I just need the cable kit so I can jump start my car with it. :D

  10. Re:Does LE have the Resources to store this data? on EFF Sues to Block New Internet Sex-Offender Law · · Score: 1

    "The Californians Against Sexual Exploitation Act would force sex offenders to fork over to law enforcement their e-mail addresses, user and screen names, or any other identifier they used for instant messaging, for social networking sites or at online forums and in internet chat rooms." I don't use IRC anymore but I would submit the info. I am not using the BBs I used in the early 90s but I would submit those too even if I can't remember them. Gaming names, heck, do you know how many online games I played? Even my bank has messaging, do we include that? I can make it painful for them to track it all

  11. Does LE have the Resources to store this data? on EFF Sues to Block New Internet Sex-Offender Law · · Score: 1

    Do they have a database in place? If I were to give up all that info it would be 10 pages long. Not to mention, it would piss me off and I would submit another 40 pages of bogus info.

  12. Re:Errr what? on Measuring Broadband America Report Released · · Score: 1

    You are correct. I know others saw different results, I was just expressing that my results did not correspond. I never said the report was not accurate. I was actually a little surprised because of results but I didn't dismiss them. If I complain to Cox I am sure they will tell me to get a new modem, which I did last year. If others in my neighbor complain maybe they will discover the bottleneck affecting all of us.

  13. Re:False advertising on Measuring Broadband America Report Released · · Score: 1

    The monthly reports we received included latency. They were pretty detailed. However in the report they broke down day and night speeds, which we did not receive in the monthly reports as far as I know.

  14. Re:False advertising on Measuring Broadband America Report Released · · Score: 1

    Agreed, however if I am paying for a 12 mbps package and the ISP also has a 7 mbps package and I consistently have a 2 mbps download, never going over 7, then I am going to complain that I am not receiving what I pay for. Drop me down the the less expensive plan and I will settle for 2mbps This is the case in my situation and I do understand that everyone will have different results. I could have a neighbor that pays for the highest package and chews up all the bandwidth in the neighborhood, though unlikely.

  15. Re:Maryland already has this on Arizona Trialing System That Lets Utility System Control Home A/Cs · · Score: 1

    One summer when I was young and stupid, my wife and i went on vacation in the middle of summer for a week. Big mistake, we came home to our candles melted all over our tables and the inside of our house at 120 degrees. I would never do that anymore, but would instead turn it up to 85 or 87. I would be concerned about my electronics now days. I have a server and several computers. They are cooled by the house A/C and a small set of fans. We set it to 80 or 82 when not home during the day and 76 or 77 when home. For extended away times I set up additional fans for the server only and shut other computers off. Arizona summers can be brutal and there is no telling how hot a house may get if they shut your A/C off for a period of time. If they were to give us the option of allowing them to bump up the temp to 85 during peak times and not allowing the temp to go above that, it may be an option I would consider.

  16. Re:I prefer Fedora on Which Linux For Non-Techie Windows Users? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As a tech for a mid to large size school district, 10,000+ hosts, we recently migrated some of our older equipment over to Fedora as well. We put together a team and they tried different flavors. After a couple of weeks, Fedora was voted in. It was chosen for several reasons, like making it look as much like windows as we could. I was not on that team and can't speak for their choice, however I can tell yo that staff have migrated over very well. We even have staff requesting their older machines be loaded with Fedora because they are tired of windows running so slow on the older equipment . Licensing for windows was costing us more than we were willing to spend as well as our equipment was aging. Instead of recycling these computers for parts or whatever, it was deiced that Fedora could keep them in service and still provide a majority of the services each machines provides. Do some experimenting. It is really all up to how the staff feels and if they can overcome the learning curve.

  17. Look at others on Facebook To Preserve Accounts of the Dead · · Score: 1

    Jodi Arias is accused of Killing Travis Alexander in Arizona. Both have myspace pages. Jodi is in jail awaiting trial and has not logged in since her arrest, however, someone logged into Travis's account 2 months after he was killed. Maybe he is not dead and she is innocent? :) No one has marked his page indicating his status. Who the heck would remove it if no one tells myspace? That girl is nutz, just watch her interview.

  18. Re:This is fubar on Storing Personal Music Online Is Illegal In Japan · · Score: 1

    In my opinion, every ISP would be guilty of this, if you lived in Japan.

    Many people I know have uploaded at least one song to their web space somewhere. Without the ISP's knowing, they are guilty as well.

    So yes, this is fubar