No you had it close, sorry my message wasn't clear about it although that is what I meant;-))
it sounds pretty much like eee-ron or more like eee-rawn.. maybe;-)
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He NEEDS another computer on his network.
With only one computer/disk controller if one of them fails, all FS might end up toasted.
He also needs incremental backups, just overwriting a snapshot of you data is no good when you realize that you have just overwritten your data with corrupted data because your main computing is failing slowly.
Thanks for the tip, I have never used external enclosures with "shitty controllers" but I have been tempted by them. I've only used file/backups servers that I would setup myself with computers running Linux.
Have you actually tried any of these external enclosures with "shitty controllers" ?
Please note that RAID and such are not "backup solutions" ! If your FS get screwed, you loose info.
Think of a backup solution as independent from the media where the info is kept. Then you decide if you want to use RAID, tapes, etc.
My backup solution: incremental backups every half-hour. And full backup once a month.
Now for the media I use to store the backups : RAID mirroring for incremental and hard drives put in a safe at the bank with rotation for full backups. (NO RAID used for full backups).
I wrote: "There is much more subtle ways to influence the outcome"
The "best" ways are the ones where you cannot track the author or which even see like something that occurred independently of any "agent intervention".
I was talking about intelligence and special forces jobs, where agents act in the shade. Their elements can switch side pretty quickly because nobody should know which side they are on in the first place. Otherwise they would be burned. !;-(
Heck ! Nobody should know they exist ! They probably succeeded with you because you do not seem to know what I am referring too.;-)))
> Why would the US need to interfere, when it's already reap what you sow time? I doubt 'CIA assassins' could raise the body count if they tried.
There is much more subtle ways to influence the outcome, but if I tell you, I will have to kill myself;-))
I am just having doubts that agents are told to do absolutely nothing that can influence the outcome;-)) Heck ! why not have them help the ayatollahs while at it just to make sure it is really Iran people that decide autonomously ?;-)))
> "One problem is that Iranian leaders are trying to delegitimize the reform movement by pretending that they're puppets of foreign powers, so special discretion is required for anyone wanting to help the Iranian people."
I agree with this idea but should we think that foreign intelligence agents in Iran are currently seriously told to stay put and do nothing ?;-))
Or even believe that there is no foreign intelligence agents in Iran ?
There definitely seems to be a momentum from the people of Iran taking place although, pendulum effect at work again ?
Did they state in the form that you had to notify them of password changes ?
I they didn't, they couldn't hold anything against you. Password changes are a standard procedure in most secured systems so they couldn't assume that you add any wrong intentions...
I installed asterisk and opened accounts with several business grade VOIP provider. You can reach me through an 1-800 number, I have local phone numbers in 3 major canadian cities and it costs me in average 30$ a month in total for my phone bills. I manage to almost eliminate that cost by reselling services to a few people.
The call quality is "business grade" not "Skype grade";-)))
Skype survives because it "borrows" bandwidth from its users, without this fact, Skype has no business model, you would have to pay for every call you make, they currently offload costs to others so they don't have to pay for it, see my other post:
Skype does eat your bandwidth even when you are not talking over it, it is a well known fact. Your computer might be used by Skype as a gateway for other people talking together which could not reach each other otherwise. I have a 1GB a month cap on an EVDO wireless connection and I would just about eat it all just by letting skype always on 24/7, even without ever talking to anybody.
Knowing this, I could understand the total cost of Skype might be non-negligible for ISPs.
Of course, it's kind of net non-neutrality, like idling torrents. I guess every customer should pay with regards to the share of bandwidth he uses, same as when you go buy some beer. It would solve a lot of problems;-)))
Skype wouldn't see so free anymore, their business model is technically based on "borrowing" bandwidth from its user. Most users wouldn't keep skype on if they had to pay for the bandwidth it uses, even if you never actually talk to anybody.
I totally agree with you, just different analogies.
I wrote:
Like nature, society sometimes seem to TEND to come back to an equilibrium by itself !!
Note the highlight on "TEND". When a maximum is reached in one direction, just like it is the case for the pendulum, "tending" to reach an equilibrium usually involves a step in the opposite direction, away from the equilibrium;-)
I especially like the pendulum analogy because, contrarily to an elastic band, things start to move slowly in the opposite direction as people start to realize the issues. It is slowed down by resistance from those in place that profit from the current situation. Once the momentum is reached, things move fast towards the other direction.
Well could this indicate that if they do this, someone (like linux kernel developers?) will come up with a way to masquerade several internal LAN ipv6 addresses as one ipv6 address ?
But I was just telling somebody about that possibility last week.
I had just watched an interview with an old theater actor which is pretty wealthy today. He said he made most of his money acting in theaters almost everyday, 2 or 3 shows a day. He said: "That was real work, there was almost no TV or movies in those times." He added: "Pay was god, because not that many people would be crazy enough to do it, but we had a lot of fun and I enjoyed every minute of it".
I then envisioned things like a return of the pendulum, which sometimes seems like something natural in society. Nowadays, a limited set of actors get work making movies/TV shows and get paid the big bucks. Either you get famous and make millions or you starve. A lot more actors/musicians would get work if they had to do live shows. I can see how more diversity, thus availability would benefit society. Of course, the big names would lose but this is another story already largely covered here before..
I guess the point I am trying to make is that even if technology is involved, like with nature, society seem sometimes driven by a magical hand that cause a return of the pendulum at some point when we have reached a breaking point in one direction;-)) Like nature, society sometimes seem to tend to come back to an equilibrium by itself !!
Well, my understanding is too fresh to judge the case but based on experience; standard interfaces usually emerge after a period of, say, 10 to 20 years after the raw technology with proprietary drivers emerges.
Please correct me if I am wrong but wasn't this the case for hard drives ?
Of course, the technology has to last that long for standards to emerge.;-))
This reminds me a story where the guy stole fractions of cents from each Bank Account. Nobody noticed !
Who is going to stop going to that market because of this highly imperceptible extra charge ? In this perspective it is ingenious. But can you imagine cities going this route in low speed limit zones ? Where will it stop ?
Energy saving wise, it is no good, gas motor would use that energy more efficiently, there is always a lost when you transfer one form of energy to another.
As for the guy who stole fractions of cents from the bank he was working at, he got caught by making to many expensive purchases, buying expensive cars to his family members, etc. so they finally investigated him because he was working at a bank. If I recall right, this story was borrowed by one of the Superman movies, but it occurred for real before that. It was then double fun to see it in Superman.
Are you sure their system is using cell-towers and not satellites ?
My understanding is that satellite phone are used a lot in Africa, it costs a bundle too. Weather balloons would be cheaper than satellites, which is the point TFA makes.
Good point, I just talked to my aviation expert and he recalls that incident but we haven't found any links to provide you with. This occurred a long time ago.
My experts says he thinks it wasn't a fly-by-wire system, it was the first tests ran on a prototype equipped with computer assisted ABS brakes and the prototype failed to break at all on landing. He said he thinks the airplane was built by Hawker Siddeley.
Anybody that can provide a link to this is welcomed. I do recall the teacher in school telling this example as a real story in a course for sure.
Maybe brakes were not applied because the wheels were not turning fast enough for the system to assume the plane was touching the ground. This would have occurred due to the presence of a lot of water on the tarmac. They might even have flooded the tarmac on purpose, it was prototype testing.
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Hmm... they say they ADD pressure in order to fracture the hot rocks, this added pressure would never occur otherwise.
You can also listen to Christiane Amanpour fron CNN when she pronounces it. She must know how to : ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Amanpour
No you had it close, sorry my message wasn't clear about it although that is what I meant ;-))
it sounds pretty much like eee-ron or more like eee-rawn.. maybe ;-)
He NEEDS another computer on his network.
With only one computer/disk controller if one of them fails, all FS might end up toasted.
He also needs incremental backups, just overwriting a snapshot of you data is no good when you realize that you have just overwritten your data with corrupted data because your main computing is failing slowly.
Thanks for the tip, I have never used external enclosures with "shitty controllers" but I have been tempted by them. I've only used file/backups servers that I would setup myself with computers running Linux.
Have you actually tried any of these external enclosures with "shitty controllers" ?
Details on problems would be fun to hear about...
Please note that RAID and such are not "backup solutions" ! If your FS get screwed, you loose info.
Think of a backup solution as independent from the media where the info is kept. Then you decide if you want to use RAID, tapes, etc.
My backup solution: incremental backups every half-hour. And full backup once a month.
Now for the media I use to store the backups : RAID mirroring for incremental and hard drives put in a safe at the bank with rotation for full backups. (NO RAID used for full backups).
I wrote:
"There is much more subtle ways to influence the outcome"
The "best" ways are the ones where you cannot track the author or which even see like something that occurred independently of any "agent intervention".
I was talking about intelligence and special forces jobs, where agents act in the shade. Their elements can switch side pretty quickly because nobody should know which side they are on in the first place. Otherwise they would be burned. ! ;-(
Heck ! Nobody should know they exist ! They probably succeeded with you because you do not seem to know what I am referring too. ;-)))
This is even closer from the right pronunciation :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media:Iran_alborz.ogg
"he ran" was a follow-up on the original poster who tried to make a joke with "I ran". I wrote "it would sound more like"
NOT "it sounds like"
> Why would the US need to interfere, when it's already reap what you sow time? I doubt 'CIA assassins' could raise the body count if they tried.
There is much more subtle ways to influence the outcome, but if I tell you, I will have to kill myself ;-))
I am just having doubts that agents are told to do absolutely nothing that can influence the outcome ;-)) Heck ! why not have them help the ayatollahs while at it just to make sure it is really Iran people that decide autonomously ? ;-)))
This is not the way Iran is pronounced, for your information, it would sound more like "he ran".
> "One problem is that Iranian leaders are trying to delegitimize the reform movement by pretending that they're puppets of foreign powers, so special discretion is required for anyone wanting to help the Iranian people."
I agree with this idea but should we think that foreign intelligence agents in Iran are currently seriously told to stay put and do nothing ? ;-))
Or even believe that there is no foreign intelligence agents in Iran ?
There definitely seems to be a momentum from the people of Iran taking place although, pendulum effect at work again ?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1273015&cid=28384711&art_pos=8
Masquerading is a specific subset of NATing.
Masquerading is included in NAT.
Masquerading != NAT, stricly speaking.
Masquerading is a more specific term, thus more precise than NAT ;-)
There is much more stuff that you can do with NAT that is unrelated to masquerading several addresses as one.
Did they state in the form that you had to notify them of password changes ?
I they didn't, they couldn't hold anything against you. Password changes are a standard procedure in most secured systems so they couldn't assume that you add any wrong intentions...
This whole story sounds plain silly anyway ;-))
Just go your own way to save: http://www.asterisk.org/
I installed asterisk and opened accounts with several business grade VOIP provider. You can reach me through an 1-800 number, I have local phone numbers in 3 major canadian cities and it costs me in average 30$ a month in total for my phone bills. I manage to almost eliminate that cost by reselling services to a few people.
The call quality is "business grade" not "Skype grade" ;-)))
Skype survives because it "borrows" bandwidth from its users, without this fact, Skype has no business model, you would have to pay for every call you make, they currently offload costs to others so they don't have to pay for it, see my other post:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1275661&cid=28400331
Skype does eat your bandwidth even when you are not talking over it, it is a well known fact. Your computer might be used by Skype as a gateway for other people talking together which could not reach each other otherwise. I have a 1GB a month cap on an EVDO wireless connection and I would just about eat it all just by letting skype always on 24/7, even without ever talking to anybody.
Knowing this, I could understand the total cost of Skype might be non-negligible for ISPs.
Of course, it's kind of net non-neutrality, like idling torrents. I guess every customer should pay with regards to the share of bandwidth he uses, same as when you go buy some beer. It would solve a lot of problems ;-)))
Skype wouldn't see so free anymore, their business model is technically based on "borrowing" bandwidth from its user. Most users wouldn't keep skype on if they had to pay for the bandwidth it uses, even if you never actually talk to anybody.
I totally agree with you, just different analogies.
I wrote:
Like nature, society sometimes seem to TEND to come back to an equilibrium by itself !!
Note the highlight on "TEND". When a maximum is reached in one direction, just like it is the case for the pendulum, "tending" to reach an equilibrium usually involves a step in the opposite direction, away from the equilibrium ;-)
I especially like the pendulum analogy because, contrarily to an elastic band, things start to move slowly in the opposite direction as people start to realize the issues. It is slowed down by resistance from those in place that profit from the current situation. Once the momentum is reached, things move fast towards the other direction.
Well could this indicate that if they do this, someone (like linux kernel developers?) will come up with a way to masquerade several internal LAN ipv6 addresses as one ipv6 address ?
Could it be related to this ? ;-))
http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/12/1713237
Hehe... ;-)
I am not trying to defend pirates at all here.
But I was just telling somebody about that possibility last week.
I had just watched an interview with an old theater actor which is pretty wealthy today. He said he made most of his money acting in theaters almost everyday, 2 or 3 shows a day. He said: "That was real work, there was almost no TV or movies in those times."
He added: "Pay was god, because not that many people would be crazy enough to do it, but we had a lot of fun and I enjoyed every minute of it".
I then envisioned things like a return of the pendulum, which sometimes seems like something natural in society. Nowadays, a limited set of actors get work making movies/TV shows and get paid the big bucks. Either you get famous and make millions or you starve. A lot more actors/musicians would get work if they had to do live shows. I can see how more diversity, thus availability would benefit society. Of course, the big names would lose but this is another story already largely covered here before..
I guess the point I am trying to make is that even if technology is involved, like with nature, society seem sometimes driven by a magical hand that cause a return of the pendulum at some point when we have reached a breaking point in one direction ;-)) Like nature, society sometimes seem to tend to come back to an equilibrium by itself !!
Well, my understanding is too fresh to judge the case but based on experience; standard interfaces usually emerge after a period of, say, 10 to 20 years after the raw technology with proprietary drivers emerges.
Please correct me if I am wrong but wasn't this the case for hard drives ?
Of course, the technology has to last that long for standards to emerge. ;-))
This reminds me a story where the guy stole fractions of cents from each Bank Account. Nobody noticed !
Who is going to stop going to that market because of this highly imperceptible extra charge ? In this perspective it is ingenious. But can you imagine cities going this route in low speed limit zones ? Where will it stop ?
Energy saving wise, it is no good, gas motor would use that energy more efficiently, there is always a lost when you transfer one form of energy to another.
As for the guy who stole fractions of cents from the bank he was working at, he got caught by making to many expensive purchases, buying expensive cars to his family members, etc. so they finally investigated him because he was working at a bank. If I recall right, this story was borrowed by one of the Superman movies, but it occurred for real before that. It was then double fun to see it in Superman.
> Gamers, gamers, gamers and gamers.
Steve, is that you ?
Very interesting, I assumed the problem was similar to fragmentation and wondered why nobody compared it as such.
Now, your explanation makes things much more clearer, the global problem is amplified by the additional problem you described.
Now would implementing the logic to control the SSD entirely at the OS/FS level be much slower than implementing it in silicon in the SSD itself ?
As you said, I now understand that the OS/FS would now have to be aware of the underlying media ;-)
Are you sure their system is using cell-towers and not satellites ?
My understanding is that satellite phone are used a lot in Africa, it costs a bundle too. Weather balloons would be cheaper than satellites, which is the point TFA makes.
Good point, I just talked to my aviation expert and he recalls that incident but we haven't found any links to provide you with. This occurred a long time ago.
My experts says he thinks it wasn't a fly-by-wire system, it was the first tests ran on a prototype equipped with computer assisted ABS brakes and the prototype failed to break at all on landing. He said he thinks the airplane was built by Hawker Siddeley.
Anybody that can provide a link to this is welcomed. I do recall the teacher in school telling this example as a real story in a course for sure.
Maybe brakes were not applied because the wheels were not turning fast enough for the system to assume the plane was touching the ground. This would have occurred due to the presence of a lot of water on the tarmac. They might even have flooded the tarmac on purpose, it was prototype testing.