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  1. What "Ad Nauseum extension debacle" is that? I'm familiar with the extension, and did run it for a while, but a cursory search doesn't help me.
    Thanks!

  2. Re:What took them so long? on Apple Officially Bans Scammy Antivirus Apps From iOS App Store (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm playing Devil's Advocate, but perhaps some of these could be legit and able to scan for viruses on iCloud Drive?

  3. Re:About the same thing that happens with aircraft on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If a Hyperloop Train Failed? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, but Earth is in constant orbit around the Sun. If the plane was close enough to the edge, it would simply go over and float down to one of the turtles.

  4. Crazy, just after I read this I went to Amazon and they suggested small violins to me!

    (i jest)

  5. It's easy, really. on Researchers Find New Way To Build Quantum Computers (reuters.com) · · Score: 1


    Building a quantum computer is easy, you just need to find a reliable source of quantums from which to build.

  6. Binge all the way on Binge Watching TV Makes It Less Enjoyable, Study Says (vice.com) · · Score: 1


    binge-watchers had the strongest memory performance the day after watching the show, but this retention also had the sharpest decline over 140 days

    Why do I care about the nuances of a show after nearly five months? I'll remember the general story and if I enjoyed the show or not. The fact that Jon Snow had a hairless ass when he was banging his aunt won't concern me in January.

  7. Re:Apple & Amiga on Is Apple Copying Palm's WebOS? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple had Switcher in 1985. It supported full screen programs and switched between them.

  8. Re:Hyperloop is DOA on China Plans 600 MPH Train To Rival Elon Musk's Hyperloop (shanghaiist.com) · · Score: 2, Funny


    America can't afford anything of its kind

    Sure they can! Once The Wall is built, all those job-stealing Mexicans will be stuck on the other side.
    More American Jobs = More American Tax Dollars = Hyperloops to the city edges, monorails between city cores and suburbs, and flying cars for all!

  9. Re:Thanks for the memo on APFS Is Not Optional (apple.com) · · Score: 1

    In the near future they will save even more space by simply posting the SHA256 hashes of the summaries.

  10. Good but... on China Plans 600 MPH Train To Rival Elon Musk's Hyperloop (shanghaiist.com) · · Score: 4, Funny


    An hour after exiting the train, you'll want to ride it again.

  11. Re: Facebook is creepy and needs to be stopped on Facebook Figured Out My Family Secrets, And It Won't Tell Me How (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    At least on iOS, it has to request access to your contacts which you then have to allow.

  12. Sure thing: You need lots of RAM when running deduplication as the hashes are stored in the ARC. Estimates run from 1 to 5 GB of RAM per TB of storage you have deduplication enabled on. I'm running it on a NAS4Free box (FreeBSD) with 16 GB of memory. The 2 TB I have deduped works fine, but if memory gets right for the ARC, it will go to spinning disks; you don't want that. When working with ZFS, it's my own personal rule-of-thumb to use an SSD for the ZIL and L2ARC. Your memory might get tight, but at least you'll falling back to an SSD and not any of the conventional drives in your system.

    My sysctls are tweaked with:
    vfs.zfs.txg.timeout = 2 (helps with burstiness)
    vfs.zfs.l2arc_noprefetch = 0 (enables read ahead to the L2ARC)
    vfs.zfs.l2arc_write_boost and vfs.zfs.l2arc_write_max are also tweaked well above the default (ymmv with this, test on your own rig)
    vfs.zfs.arc_max is set in loader.conf to keep memory free. Even though ZFS is pretty good at handing back memory, this helps for my situation.

    FWIW I tried ZFS on Linux and found it very slow and it would choke under high load. Even a SATA expander to a small 4 disk chassis running RAIDz1 would have the pool to detach under high load. I've been sticking with FreeBSD for any ZFS work for a few years now. ZFS is pretty good at running stock with defaults, but when you play with deduplication, it can benefit from some gentle hand-holding.

    Good luck!

  13. My only real-world experience with deduping is ZFS and NetApp, so it's limited. From my own experience/testing, the overhead of deduping 4-8 GB video files was high and gained nothing. (granted I don't keep multiple copies of videos, but this was testing)

    Deduping my local copies of all my personal data has netted decent results, but that's mainly document-type files. Like anything: YMMV :)

  14. Yes and that's mainly text. Someone mentioned deduping video, that's a whole different kettle of fish.

  15. Sure, but there is overhead to that as well. It's a matter of saving resources. Heck, Dropbox does it well too.

  16. Re: Box on Apple Is Planning a 4K Upgrade For Its TV Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    On our Apple TV 4th gen (and iPhones and iPads), we use a streaming app called Infuse. It scours our server (many TBs), fetches metadata, and presents a Netflix-like interface for all our stuff.

    It has replaced our old PopcornHour boxes.

  17. Still rocking with plasma. on Apple Is Planning a 4K Upgrade For Its TV Box (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    We have two Panasonic 1080p plasma sets. It will be a sad day when they die, the picture on them is fantastic. When that happens, I'm expecting 4k sets to be dirt cheap and, even if 'smart', they'll never be connected to the network.

  18. Answer your own question, /. on Ask Slashdot: How Much of Your Online Browsing Can Advertisers See? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How much can the trackers/advertisers on your own site see? There are enough: rpxnow.com, crsspxl.com, google-analytics.com, janrain.com, pro-market.net, taboola.com, ml314.com, and (lol) analytics.slashdotmedia.com.

  19. Deduping correctly is a fine balance of resource use. At such a grand scale, the overhead might well sink it.

    At work I found things Just Ran Better when I applied lz4 compression on large ZFS pools. Space is cheap, if more storage is needed, just buy it. At home I've experimented on a relatively small 2 TB mirror with lz4 and ZFS' dedupe enabled. It took some tweaking to eliminate most of the 'bursty-ness' associated with it. The other ~24 TB is simply lz4 with no dedupe and it has never needed any real special attention.

    tl;dr: dedupe is voodoo that can offer wonderful things, but can also bite you right in the anus. You'll be wearing Depends to soak up all that blood oozing from your sphincter, but hey, you'll have a dedupe hit of1.39!

  20. Show him how RSS works and he'll have that extra hour a day for even more masturbation!

  21. Re:"terms of" considered harmful on Should Plex Stop Allowing Users To Opt Out of Data Collection? (www.plex.tv) · · Score: 1

    We have tried several media players over the years (PopcornHour hardware, Kodi, etc.) and the best we've found is Infuse Pro for iOS. Works on AppleTV 4th gen beautifully. Presents a Netflix-like interface with fetched metadata. Ours mounts a RO NFS share on a NAS4Free server.

    No relation other than a very satisfied customer.

  22. Is that Perl?

  23. Re:Been done before... on Stream-ripping Is 'Fastest Growing' Music Piracy (bbc.com) · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Been done before... on Stream-ripping Is 'Fastest Growing' Music Piracy (bbc.com) · · Score: 1


    On one of the album covers from the black metal band Venom, they had the "Home taping is killing music" note with the logo, and below it said "So are Venom"

  25. Re:Been done before... on Stream-ripping Is 'Fastest Growing' Music Piracy (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The announcers often screwed it up by blathering at the beginning or end of a song.