Basically, I don't trust any enclosure to be a hard drive controller as well. Even higher-end boxes. If I want a controller, I'll use my motherboard, or a dedicated storage PC/server. Yes, I have tried many.
Even if they were trustworthy, I would want to avoid them. It's just one more thing to fail, have to update firmware for, track down drivers for, worry about, etc.
This is for your backups, right? Take a minimalistic approach. Just get shit that works. Hard drives work. You're just putting them in a case outside your case with my method.
And I wasn't joking about SAS either: (Random links for fun. Always fun to look at site other than newegg.)
Why do you need an enclosure that does JBOD? In my opinion you need an enclosure that does 2 things.
Encloses your drives. Provides power (since current eSata doesn't, LOL).
Let your system handle the JBOD. Everything supports JBOD. Or, you know, just have them as 4 separate drives and be organized, so you can deal with them as raw drives if need be, and so if one goes dead, it'll be a lot easier to get your shit from the others.
I have yet to see a multi-drive enclosure that DOESN'T force it's shitty controller on you, unfortunately.
I would get 4 enclosures and 4 drives. Stack them on top of each other. Strap them together with masking tape (less residue than duct tape, provides a good space to write a label, etc.). Split the output of a single 12v AC adapter (make sure it can put out enough amps) to all 4 inputs. Run 4 eSata cables to the back of your PC.
Success. The only issue is splitting the power lead (not hard, but you will need to find the jacks and you'll have to do it yourself) and running 4 eSata cables.
Yes, I'd be willing to do that just to get away from the shitty controllers in external enclosures. Now, if this were SCSI, you could daisy chain the power and the data for the drives.
If only there was a serial-attached version of SCSI.
The other guy said it, but it was long. I'll keep it short.
Offer training.
When someone gets out of college they have no experience. If you offer training (informal, learn-as-you-go), you'll get applicants who want to do well.
A lot of places want to find someone with x years in this and x years in that, and guess what, they're not gonna find anyone.
Anyone can learn <language>, <environment>, or <whatever>. You need to find people who are willing to learn. By offering training, you'll get better results.
Oh please, if slashdot obeyed my preferences, the stupid slider bar would be a box on the left, and my main page wouldn't have that box I made that says "Fuck this box" (it was the only way to get rid of all the other boxes - disable all but the custom one and put SOMETHING in it).
Oh, Windows updates work just fine with regards to what I want.
It's the application updates I hate.
Adobe, Apple, Google, Java, etc. are all varying degrees of in your face, shitty options, shitty deployment routines, and outright ignoring my preferences.
You don't get to look at once clause and ignore the rest. Read the whole contract. I'll bet it also says "no tethering". Or perhaps it simply says you aren't allowed to modify the firmware of your handset which is programmed to disable tethering. Either way, one way or another, you are outside the rules of your contract.
You assumed a lot of shit about me not being allowed contractually to tether.
You're the one who's going on about it. I'm saying the contract has no bearing on tethering at all, not can AT&T tell that I am, nor is there any difference between a phone pulling data and a phone pulling data and forwarding it to a PC. AT&T's broken business model and deceptive advertising are not my concern. My concern is the contract I have with them.
Damn thing doesn't let me kill it if I have google toolbar installed. Every run of the browser reenables it, so google toolbar went bye bye (who the fuck needs it anymore anyway?)
Similar to Apple's updater. Install quicktime. No I would not like to keep my apple software up to date. Next week: "Updates are available for your appler software" Next restart: "You have Shitfari!"
So, Quicktime is gone now (no, I don't use iTunes) too. (I tolerated qttask.exe for ages, I wasn't about to put up with anymore shit.)
Do NOT get me started on java quickstart or adobe's piece of shit updater.
Every 5 hours? Fraction? Probability? Set by the developer? Verify the quality?
Yeah, no thanks.
I want updater services to DIE.
Check for an update when I launch your program, and give me the option to turn it off. Don't run in the background all the time.
Give me the option to manually check for updates. If there are updates, list them and let me choose whether not to install them. Also supply details about the update, preferably without making me launch your web page.
Tell me which updates will require restarting the program. Tell me how large they are. Give me the option to download now, and install later.
Quality test the fucking updates yourself. All users should be able to get the update at the same time, with a probability of 1.
The terms do not exclude tethering. The terms do not mention tethering. At. All.
Yeah, I don't use NTP on my PC at all anyway dude. (I may have it set on my router...)
You keep assuming things with no basis.
If they don't want me as a customer, that's fine.
But the point is there is no difference, they can't tell, they don't know what applications I run on my phone, and they have no legitimate reason to sell tethering service on top of an unlimited plan that is already sold as unlimited @ 3G speeds.
MY contract does not have the word tethering or anything related to it. MY contract does not mention modifying my phone. MY phone comes with the option enabled by default.
Custom firmware? Boy, you don't know shit. I'm running the official ROM image from Samsung, for AT&T. I haven't had to crack or alter anything.
Maybe you people with locked down phones need to think about the shit you buy into.
AT&T does not have control over my phone, actually. AT&T can not actually modify my phone to have it tell them when I'm tethering.
Sniffing my data, is not actually legal, you know. Regardless, I could just tell my browser to say something else. Hell, I do it right now the other way with Opera mobile to make websites think I'm a PC, not a cell phone, so I don't get the shitty mobile site.
DNS and port monitoring? Now you're stretching. I'd be using the same damned ports for http https ftp sftp imap smtp etc. on my phone and on my pc. Ubuntu NTP servers? Why would I even have that when I don't run Ubuntu? Regardless, what does "OH NO HE'S GOT TRAFFIC TO SERVER X!" mean? Is it proof of anything? I can generate traffic to any server from my phone, just as I can from my PC.
So let's look: I'm not violating my contract in anyway. My phone comes with this ability by default, my data plan is unlimited, and there's no clause about tethering.
My phone doesn't tell them shit when I'm tethering. They can't legally spy on my communications, and if they did, the examples you give are easily avoidable. In fact, I have Opera Mobile report itself as a full fledged PC client all the time. Port monitoring? DNS? NTP? You're stretching, and you're still wrong.
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No, sorry.
JBOD actually in fact means getting a bunch of disks and presenting them as a single logical volume.
It does NOT mean presenting individual disks.
It never has and it never will.
The term JBOD comes from the fact that it is NOT RAID (no redundancy, and unlike RAID 0, which is also NOT RAID, no performance benefits).
Informative? WHAT THE FUCK.
You're 100% WRONG, dipshit.
Spanning IS JBOD! JBOD IS spanning!
http://www.yourdictionary.com/telecom/jbod
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci343350,00.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#Concatenation_.28SPAN.29
Basically, I don't trust any enclosure to be a hard drive controller as well. Even higher-end boxes. If I want a controller, I'll use my motherboard, or a dedicated storage PC/server. Yes, I have tried many.
Even if they were trustworthy, I would want to avoid them. It's just one more thing to fail, have to update firmware for, track down drivers for, worry about, etc.
This is for your backups, right? Take a minimalistic approach. Just get shit that works. Hard drives work. You're just putting them in a case outside your case with my method.
And I wasn't joking about SAS either:
(Random links for fun. Always fun to look at site other than newegg.)
http://www.shopwiki.com/External+Mini-SAS+to+eSATA+Cable
http://www.pc-pitstop.com/sas_controllers/
http://www.vantecusa.com/front/product/view_detail/354
Slap in some drives and rig up (or find on some Chinese site) a 12v AC adapter with 4 outputs and a few amps.
Uh, no.
JBOD is when you link all disks together.
JBOD means "just a bunch of disks" strung together.
http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/raid/levels/jbod.htm
Have never had that issue.
And old duct tape residue (several years) will require significant work to remove.
Why do you need an enclosure that does JBOD?
In my opinion you need an enclosure that does 2 things.
Encloses your drives.
Provides power (since current eSata doesn't, LOL).
Let your system handle the JBOD. Everything supports JBOD. Or, you know, just have them as 4 separate drives and be organized, so you can deal with them as raw drives if need be, and so if one goes dead, it'll be a lot easier to get your shit from the others.
I have yet to see a multi-drive enclosure that DOESN'T force it's shitty controller on you, unfortunately.
I would get 4 enclosures and 4 drives.
Stack them on top of each other.
Strap them together with masking tape (less residue than duct tape, provides a good space to write a label, etc.).
Split the output of a single 12v AC adapter (make sure it can put out enough amps) to all 4 inputs.
Run 4 eSata cables to the back of your PC.
Success.
The only issue is splitting the power lead (not hard, but you will need to find the jacks and you'll have to do it yourself) and running 4 eSata cables.
Yes, I'd be willing to do that just to get away from the shitty controllers in external enclosures. Now, if this were SCSI, you could daisy chain the power and the data for the drives.
If only there was a serial-attached version of SCSI.
In before concrete vs cement.
You jest, but it's actually easier than an iPod.
Pacemaker people often get leads for recharging, or an easy-access flap for replacement. You can even charge through the skin.
Pacemakers lol?
Seriously, this is nothing more than a simple application of a simple science experiment.
Wireless fields / broadcasts are a joke, and until we change the laws of physics, always will be. (Directed transmissions are not a joke.)
The other guy said it, but it was long.
I'll keep it short.
Offer training.
When someone gets out of college they have no experience. If you offer training (informal, learn-as-you-go), you'll get applicants who want to do well.
A lot of places want to find someone with x years in this and x years in that, and guess what, they're not gonna find anyone.
Anyone can learn <language>, <environment>, or <whatever>. You need to find people who are willing to learn. By offering training, you'll get better results.
Oh please, if slashdot obeyed my preferences, the stupid slider bar would be a box on the left, and my main page wouldn't have that box I made that says "Fuck this box" (it was the only way to get rid of all the other boxes - disable all but the custom one and put SOMETHING in it).
Problem:
Police don't give a fuck about you or your phone.
Oh, Windows updates work just fine with regards to what I want.
It's the application updates I hate.
Adobe, Apple, Google, Java, etc. are all varying degrees of in your face, shitty options, shitty deployment routines, and outright ignoring my preferences.
You don't get to look at once clause and ignore the rest. Read the whole contract. I'll bet it also says "no tethering". Or perhaps it simply says you aren't allowed to modify the firmware of your handset which is programmed to disable tethering. Either way, one way or another, you are outside the rules of your contract.
You assumed a lot of shit about me not being allowed contractually to tether.
You're the one who's going on about it.
I'm saying the contract has no bearing on tethering at all, not can AT&T tell that I am, nor is there any difference between a phone pulling data and a phone pulling data and forwarding it to a PC.
AT&T's broken business model and deceptive advertising are not my concern. My concern is the contract I have with them.
I do not have tethering service dip shit.
Here's what my contract (effectively) says:
Unlimited nation-wide internet access.
I got my fucking plan before anyone started bitching about tethering.
Now I KNOW I'm not the only one who read it as "Omaha".
How much do they pay Obama for this?
Damn thing doesn't let me kill it if I have google toolbar installed.
Every run of the browser reenables it, so google toolbar went bye bye (who the fuck needs it anymore anyway?)
Similar to Apple's updater.
Install quicktime. No I would not like to keep my apple software up to date.
Next week: "Updates are available for your appler software"
Next restart: "You have Shitfari!"
So, Quicktime is gone now (no, I don't use iTunes) too. (I tolerated qttask.exe for ages, I wasn't about to put up with anymore shit.)
Do NOT get me started on java quickstart or adobe's piece of shit updater.
Updaters can die in a digital fire.
Every 5 hours?
Fraction?
Probability?
Set by the developer?
Verify the quality?
Yeah, no thanks.
I want updater services to DIE.
Check for an update when I launch your program, and give me the option to turn it off.
Don't run in the background all the time.
Give me the option to manually check for updates.
If there are updates, list them and let me choose whether not to install them. Also supply details about the update, preferably without making me launch your web page.
Tell me which updates will require restarting the program. Tell me how large they are. Give me the option to download now, and install later.
Quality test the fucking updates yourself.
All users should be able to get the update at the same time, with a probability of 1.
Then it would be pretty dumb of them to not tell players the cheat codes.
(Of course, EVERYONE knows that particular code since it was used in so many of their games.)
The terms do not exclude tethering.
The terms do not mention tethering.
At. All.
Yeah, I don't use NTP on my PC at all anyway dude.
(I may have it set on my router...)
You keep assuming things with no basis.
If they don't want me as a customer, that's fine.
But the point is there is no difference, they can't tell, they don't know what applications I run on my phone, and they have no legitimate reason to sell tethering service on top of an unlimited plan that is already sold as unlimited @ 3G speeds.
Holy shit it actually says punitive doesn't it?
(Which I have more of a problem with!)
1) the degree of reprehensibility of the defendant's actions
Reprehensibility? That's sure to be objectively defined and fairly applied. Is it illegal to be reprehensible now?
2) the disparity between the harm to the plaintiff and the punitive award
Seems to me that this difference should always be $0.
3) the similarity or difference between the punitive award and civil penalties authorized or imposed in comparable situations.
We have these things separated out for a reason.
Wrong wrong wrong.
MY contract does not have the word tethering or anything related to it.
MY contract does not mention modifying my phone.
MY phone comes with the option enabled by default.
Custom firmware? Boy, you don't know shit. I'm running the official ROM image from Samsung, for AT&T. I haven't had to crack or alter anything.
Maybe you people with locked down phones need to think about the shit you buy into.
AT&T does not have control over my phone, actually.
AT&T can not actually modify my phone to have it tell them when I'm tethering.
Sniffing my data, is not actually legal, you know. Regardless, I could just tell my browser to say something else. Hell, I do it right now the other way with Opera mobile to make websites think I'm a PC, not a cell phone, so I don't get the shitty mobile site.
DNS and port monitoring? Now you're stretching. I'd be using the same damned ports for http https ftp sftp imap smtp etc. on my phone and on my pc. Ubuntu NTP servers? Why would I even have that when I don't run Ubuntu? Regardless, what does "OH NO HE'S GOT TRAFFIC TO SERVER X!" mean? Is it proof of anything? I can generate traffic to any server from my phone, just as I can from my PC.
So let's look:
I'm not violating my contract in anyway.
My phone comes with this ability by default, my data plan is unlimited, and there's no clause about tethering.
My phone doesn't tell them shit when I'm tethering.
They can't legally spy on my communications, and if they did, the examples you give are easily avoidable. In fact, I have Opera Mobile report itself as a full fledged PC client all the time.
Port monitoring? DNS? NTP? You're stretching, and you're still wrong.
up up down down left right left right b a b a select start is about the only way to make Contra playable.