I can punch in a date and see backups for each file on our SAN and various servers. "You overwrote a file and need the version from December 14? No problem." We recover files quite often and have never had a bad tape.
If the software needs a tape not in the jukebox it will tell us the tape #, we just have to fetch it and pop it in.
I can't think of an easier way to juggle many dozens of terabytes.
Tapes rarely work for restores and the degradation times are not nearly what people claim them to be. Also, have you ever tried digging for something in a mountain of tapes?
That's why tapes come with barcodes and human-readable labels. They should be stored label out, not in a "mountain". It's never been a problem and we rotate LTO2 tapes in our changer a few times a week now.
Besides, how many times have you opened a tape and had it bad before you even get files on it?
Our SGI compilers at work come with an -apo (automatic parallization optimization) command line option. That one option cost us a pretty penny. It's nice to see other people getting in on the action.
Snippet from the manpage, highlighting is mine:
-apo, -apokeep, -apolist For -n32 and -64, it invokes the Auto-Parallelizing Option (APO), which automatically converts sequential code into parallel code by inserting parallel directives where it is safe and beneficial to do so. Specifying -apo also sets the -mp option. Both -apokeep and -apolist produce a listing file, file.list. Specifying -apokeep retains file.anl and file.m, which can be used by the parallel analyzer, ProDev ProMP (see the EXAMPLES section). When the -IPA option is specified with -apokeep, the default settings for IPA suboptions are used with the exception of -IPA:inline, which is set to OFF.
APO is invoked only if you are licensed for it. For licensing information, see your sales representative.
For more information on APO, its directives, and command-line options, see MIPSpro C and C++ Pragmas.
When specifying the -o32 option on the cc command line, -apo invokes the IRIS Power C analyzer (PCA). See the -pca option description.
The fridge can launch the beer up to 20 feet, far enough to get to
his couch.
He'll have to wait a couple of minutes for the beer
to settle before opening it when using his system. A smart boozer would
realize that it would take only ~20 seconds to walk to the fridge, get
two beers and return to the couch with half of one beer chugged by
the time he returned.
Damn rookies... The Alcohol
Lifestyle isn't just fun & sloth, it's also about using your time
effectively!
/usr is for user files. Back before "home" was thought of, user directories lived right in/usr. I think we still have some antiquated SGI machines at work with that setup. (although I use/usr/home on a few machines from a few years back)
I'm surprised, I've talked to a lot of gamers who were so bored with Doom3 that they turned on God Mode and just went at it to see the end boss.
That was me. I got tired as hell of flipping between a flashlight to see in impossibly dark corners and a gun to kill whatever jumped out of the "monster closet" that passing over some point opened.
I love the first 2 in the Doom series and play Doomsday all the time with the high-res packs but Doom3 was a boring waste.
An OS should be first and foremost both secure and fast. It should have a very small footprint and... [...] It should but does one modern OS have this?
How do you explain "windows being the dominant OS (yet)", then?
When I think of shoddy crap selling well the line "The dumbest buy the mostest" from the Dead Kennedys' tune "MTV Get Off the Air" always comes to mind.
They aren't? I don't know about game output but Vista will definatly degrade your high def signals if you aren't using MS-blessed drivers and hardware.
Yep, bang on. I usually have only one Windows box and that's used just for gaming. One ran Win98 until ~2001 when I upgraded the hardware and put Win2k on it. Still running 2k on it, no XP. The thing is quite stable as these things go.
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believed to be the remnants of a 1.85-billion year old meteorite impact crater.
Wikipedia lies. Everyone knows the earth was created 6,000 years ago!
You fucking rule.
I can punch in a date and see backups for each file on our SAN and various servers. "You overwrote a file and need the version from December 14? No problem." We recover files quite often and have never had a bad tape.
If the software needs a tape not in the jukebox it will tell us the tape #, we just have to fetch it and pop it in.
I can't think of an easier way to juggle many dozens of terabytes.
Tapes rarely work for restores and the degradation times are not nearly what people claim them to be. Also, have you ever tried digging for something in a mountain of tapes?
That's why tapes come with barcodes and human-readable labels. They should be stored label out, not in a "mountain". It's never been a problem and we rotate LTO2 tapes in our changer a few times a week now.
Besides, how many times have you opened a tape and had it bad before you even get files on it?
Never.
He
Because he's a delusional kook who thinks he's working for an invisible super-being. Letters such as his give a lot of insight into his mental state.
Our SGI compilers at work come with an -apo (automatic parallization optimization) command line option. That one option cost us a pretty penny. It's nice to see other people getting in on the action.
Snippet from the manpage, highlighting is mine:
Is anyone else turned off by the idea of putting material in your body that will literally annihilate parts of you?
Like what booze is doing to my liver?
The fridge can launch the beer up to 20 feet, far enough to get to his couch.
He'll have to wait a couple of minutes for the beer to settle before opening it when using his system. A smart boozer would realize that it would take only ~20 seconds to walk to the fridge, get two beers and return to the couch with half of one beer chugged by the time he returned.
Damn rookies... The Alcohol Lifestyle isn't just fun & sloth, it's also about using your time effectively!
Leave the CDs to be found by office secretaries & receptionists. They talk to everyone and love gossip.
But they can file take-down notices against anyone hosting the thing.
They can file take-down notices against anyone in the US hosting the thing.
Heheh I've been giggling over this comment for a few minutes now. Thanks for the laugh.
I'm surprised, I've talked to a lot of gamers who were so bored with Doom3 that they turned on God Mode and just went at it to see the end boss.
That was me. I got tired as hell of flipping between a flashlight to see in impossibly dark corners and a gun to kill whatever jumped out of the "monster closet" that passing over some point opened.
I love the first 2 in the Doom series and play Doomsday all the time with the high-res packs but Doom3 was a boring waste.
An OS should be first and foremost both secure and fast. It should have a very small footprint and...
[...]
It should but does one modern OS have this?
OpenBSD
And mapping out your life until you're 84? You've just had something else take over your life instead. Not much of an improvement in my opinion.
His life plan:
Age 17-23: School
Age 23-84: Work in factory making crap for WalMart.
Headline says "Probts", story says "Probst"
I wish I had mod points, I've read this twice now and have laughed to tears. Thanks for the Sunday morning laugh.
How do you explain "windows being the dominant OS (yet)", then?
When I think of shoddy crap selling well the line "The dumbest buy the mostest" from the Dead Kennedys' tune "MTV Get Off the Air" always comes to mind.
Why is James Gosling is receiving the OoC?
I was just looking through the Java source and it says "// Author: Joyce Hatto"
Drink some funky oil cocktail and give up my hugbox? Fuck that, let's get outta here Bram!
The citizens of Kansas should be allowed to determine what their children learn
By redefining "science" to believe in supernatural rubbish? Keep that stuff in Church.
Quick... queue the "But science doesn't explain everything, there has to be a designer" kooks.
They aren't?
I don't know about game output but Vista will definatly degrade your high def signals if you aren't using MS-blessed drivers and hardware.
Yep, bang on. I usually have only one Windows box and that's used just for gaming. One ran Win98 until ~2001 when I upgraded the hardware and put Win2k on it. Still running 2k on it, no XP. The thing is quite stable as these things go.
s/we are all born atheists/we are all born agnostics/
Fixed it for you
That's wrong. No child wonders about a god or gods unless the parents indoctrinate them into a cult in the first place.
But your first point was right - atheism is a religion
Funny you mention that. See my sig.