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

    You don't install outside the supported distro you paid support for. Anything outside that isn't production ready. Unless zfs ships as a supported addon with RHEL it's not production ready in any meaningful sense of the word - stability has nothing to do with it.

  2. Re: Ooooh Flamey on Btrfs Is Getting There, But Not Quite Ready For Production · · Score: 1

    If you get a client with your network, it comes preconfigured.. so that's not a difference.

    There *are* a lot of sucky sip clients. There are also some excellent ones.

  3. Re:Happy with XFS on Btrfs Is Getting There, But Not Quite Ready For Production · · Score: 1

    zfs doesn't support volume reshaping, which is fine for large datacentres with huge budgets but no use for smaller setups.. even at work if I were to say 'to add an extra Tb to the array we're going to have to spend $5000 to buy a duplicate one and recreate it' I'd be laughed at. So it's a nonstarter.

    btrfs does, but it's not ready yet.. so like Urban Garlic, I'm still waiting, since things like dedup will make a huge difference.

  4. Need a better source than some hack reporter on Smartphone Used To Scan Data From Chip-Enabled Credit Cards · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'd be intrigued to know what app they're using that's returning the code and expiry date.. that information is encrypted on the card and none of the free nfc tag readers I've tried even attempt to decrypt it (I don't trust the banking system to use half decent encryption so not discounting the possibility entirely).

    Of course it could just be the typical bullshit scare story that newspapers come out with..

  5. Re:On the cusp of a sea change on Smartphones More Dangerous Than Alcohol, When Driving · · Score: 2

    Gives a whole new meaning to 'my computer crashed' though...

  6. Re:Seriously? on Protect Your Pre-1997 IP Address · · Score: 5, Informative

    The world is consuming a /8 - 16 million addresses - roughly every 3 weeks.

    Your piddling 65k addresses for a class B? 2 hours, tops.

  7. Re:Never! on Protect Your Pre-1997 IP Address · · Score: 1

    Here, have a ::1

  8. Re:I got one on Protect Your Pre-1997 IP Address · · Score: 2

    "But what's going to happen? Will IANA stop giving out numbers and say, "sorry, nothing we can do. No more numbers."

    Yes. Quite possibly in less than a month.

    When we're down to 5 /8's they're distributed to the RIRs automatically and IANA shuts down its ipv4 operations forever.

    The RIRs then have until their v4 pool runs dry - they won't get any more - which may be quite quick for some (like apnic) and slower for others.

    After that it's down to what ISPs have - they'll probably ramp up their prices for v4 an instigate such horrors as carrier grade NAT, just to stretch it out, but it's just postponing the inevitable.

    And yeah, potentially this is bigger than y2k and the great unwashe don't even know it's happening - even though it *will* affect them.

  9. Re:Battery availability might be a concern. on Recycling an Android Phone As a Handheld GPS? · · Score: 1

    BS. I used to use my old N95 as a GPS without any connection at all. It works fine.

  10. Re:Seriously? on Sound As the New Illegal Narcotic? · · Score: 1

    Damn those entertainers...

  11. Re:I can't believe..... on UK ISP Spots a File-Sharing Loophole, Implements It · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It was voted in by about 200 pissed up MPs who had been dragged out of the pub to make sure it passed. Only about 40 actually attended the debate.

    Watching it happen was an eye opener to say the least. Any illusions that we have actual representation died that day.

  12. Re:That'll work on UK ISP Spots a File-Sharing Loophole, Implements It · · Score: 2, Interesting

    2*[branches of the ISP]*[Family members/friends/dog]

    Also the act says nothing about keeping a count for *ex* subscribers.. so pingponging between two may be enough.

  13. Re:Why bother, there's always opera on Mozilla Accepts Chinese CNNIC Root CA Certificate · · Score: 1

    As does OSX, and by extension Safari.

    It's not really news.. Mozilla is even late to the party.

  14. Re:Science? on "Doomsday Clock" Moves Away From Midnight · · Score: 1

    They're just a bunch of fear-mongering wackos with an agenda.

    That'll be why it's listed under science :p

    I miss the days when science as about the scientific method and discovering stuff.. now it's about what gets the biggest headline and the biggest research grants.

  15. Re:The value of an education. on "Doomsday Clock" Moves Away From Midnight · · Score: 1

    No, because even bums know about news management. Bad news sells. Keep quiet about the good stuff.

  16. Re:First thought... on "Doomsday Clock" Moves Away From Midnight · · Score: 1

    Someone hasn't been taking their medication.

  17. Re:First thought... on "Doomsday Clock" Moves Away From Midnight · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nuclear winter has been pretty much debunked now. It was a nice scare story 20 years ago but we have better scare stories now :p

  18. Re:why Java? on An Android Developer's Top 10 Gripes · · Score: 1

    That's going to mean you have to produce a different app every time a new phone comes out with a slightly different CPU. Or you'll force the platform onto a single CPU model which would in the long term kill it.

  19. Re:Unix way on An Android Developer's Top 10 Gripes · · Score: 1

    Android has had push email for years.. 2.1 even has a little desktop widget to turn the syncing on and off.

    The exchange features are somewhat lacking (although you can buy some very nice apps to make up for that). I don't think that's android's market though.. RIM have the business market sewn up.

    I reckon they're looking to usurp Nokia, who are very vulnerable either now, especially now their marketshare has dropped below 50% for the first time.. they've put out a series of smart phones that quite frankly suck (Symbian is beyond help and it's about time they ditched it)... they keep putting shitty resistive touch screens on everything.

  20. Re:Awful Story + great effects = Blockbuster on Avatar Soars Into $1-Billion Territory · · Score: 1

    No you're not alone. The story was too generic to carry the movie.. it's all about the graphics.

    Tie that quality of rendering to a decent story then you've got a winner - possibly next year.

  21. Re:Science Fiction? on Avatar Soars Into $1-Billion Territory · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The story was very generic.. I think it was aimed at the American market (possibly still guilty at killing all the indians or something) but it didn't engage me and like you the plot was obvious after about the first 10 minutes.

    I liked the graphics.. I saw it in 3D but wasn't impressed with the 3d (creating depth by making the background blurry doesn't impress me it just gives me a headache). 2D would probably have been a better option.

  22. Re:Well, at least the rest don't do this. on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That's because they were dealing with a real threat not just playing at it. If there's a risk of bombs the last thing you want to do is cause a choke point meaning large numbers of people congregate in a single area - you keep the checks as efficient and fast as possible.

  23. Re:Well, at least the rest don't do this. on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 1

    A refinement of that the used on occasion was to issue a bomb warning in one place then blow up the place people were most likely to evacuate to.

  24. Re:buy compatible cartridges on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 2, Informative

    I've come across this before. It's *way* cheaper to buy a new printer each time ebay the new one & keep the ink (sold as new, get more money) than to keep buying new ink.

  25. Re:That cloud word again on The Cloud Ate My Homework · · Score: 1

    You just described a LAN (more like a workgroup). That is *not* cloud computing.

    Cloud computing is just client/server. It's where you store the documents 'in the cloud' (remote server) rather than locally. Hence google docs (the subject of this article), in fact a lot of the google stuff is 'cloud' based.