It's the perfect article, touches Microsoft, DRM and the evil once known as Palladium! Best of all no one can read the article because it justs links back to slashdot. Everybody can shoot from the hip on this one, because once again the only link in the article wasn't even checked to see if it works. Do stories here get reviewed and selected by a seven line perl script?
While today's supreme court has proven lackluster on the expiring copyright issue and the corporate personage issues, these are rulings that cannot stand the test of time. They merely reflect a current political climate. Conisider if you will the right of a jury to nullify a law has been to the Supreme Court 3 times, and upheld each time in the last 200 some years.
Some issues have flip flopped multiple times over the years, I see no reason why todays climate of corporate interests trumping citizen interests will endure the long term. Resentment is starting to build a general consensus and when enough people reach the consensus it will change. Think of it this way, bankruptcy was once a criminal act, but too many people had to declare it in the early 1800's and the change was made. Some backlash is already starting to build, and when enough people vote, politicians usually listen.
Bzzt, wrong. Copyrights do eventually expire, and DRM has no time based self deactivation method. 300 years from now if you want to watch an old copy of a DVD, which by then even Mickey Mouse will no longer be copyrighted, you will still have to deal with the DRM. DRM manufactures don't even consider the idea of a time limitation because they think the idea that something would ever fall out of copyright.
Today we use careful forensic techniques to examine content of centuries past. Centuries down the road, is the skill of cracking going to required in university to become an arheologist? Enormous amounts of content of modern culture could become completely lost. Films decay, even the BBC's big knowledge archive turned out to be almost unsalvagable only a couple decades after it was made, and they didn't even have to fight DRM.
DRM is fundamentally flawed, and serves only to interfere with the rights of those it is inflicted upon. It serves no purpose to anyone but a self serving company that may not even be around a few years from now. How many old games or software titles do you own in which the company is even still in existance. Guess what, once they go tit's up there is no incentive for them to help salvage DRM'd products.
It's a major pain in the ass to deal with the Indian tech support. There are accent issues, but that is only a minor point. The real issue is the training and scripting. Typical experience (of many) I had a little while back from when I had to replace a screen and hard drive on an Inspiron. Even though I had done extensive testing ahead of time, told the tech what I had done I still had to go through 2 hours of hell before they finally acknowledged that I in fact did have failed hardware.
The scripting is bad, the fact that they can't operate outside the script is abhorrant. But what really ticks me off is when they keep trying to trick people into stating something that would void their warranty. When I had to get the LCD for the laptop replaced I was asked no less than 10 times if I had dropped the notebook. The question was varied from "did you drop it even a little bit" to "now, you said you recently dropped it, right".
The reason they got so much hell from corporate customers is that they have dedicated IT professionals who've already done all the testing and can't afford two hours on the phone to get some replacement hardware sent out. The IT dept will simply switch to a new vendor if that kind of crap persists.
Since the call center people work for the call center, and not the company, they have no incentive or access to institutional knowledge - you know when you tell someone about a certain model and they don't have to look everything up? The Indian support centers also pretend to be located in America, practice American accents, have sports teams they pretend to watch, and otherwise try to fool you into thinking they are in the US. All of which to get around the issue of supporting local jobs. If we farm all of our jobs out to India, who will be left to buy anything?
This makes me wonder how hard it would be for ISP's to block DOS attacks at the router level. I've been studying my Cisco lately, and it does readily doable, especially if the source of a ping flood or the like is known.
On behalf of the State of Minnesota I apologize for the complete and utter breakdown in the brain of my Senator. At one time the email tax myth was such a widespread urban legend that the US Post Office had a link on their front page debunking it. Said link is no longer there and this idiot decided to try to make an urban legend into reality. Again, I apologize, and you have my promise to try and get this guy out of office next election.
This would be just like media play. A DRM enriched small piece of technology that will be held back by the DRM. What's different about this that makes it worth buying over the established based of hundreds of millions of CD players? Nothing at all, short of the recording industry refusing to put music out on round shiny objects that were once called CD's, it's just not gonna happen. Tech history is full of superior technology that never took off because it was either too expensive, or DRM'd. It's simply not enough to have superior technology, a superior user experience is also required.
On RAID losing multiple disks. I had a HP RS-10 Drive Array drop two disks on me inside of a few hours. A nasty lightning storm hit the plant, and I headed in early just in case. I managed to get one drive swapped out with the hot spare and had just finished rebuilding the array when drive no 2 went out. I robbed my other RS-10 in order to salvage the first array. Needless to say I had the replacements overnighted asap and Liebert out that day. My IT lead (in another state) wondered why I had reprioritized her schedule on her and stayed put through the operation.
Do NOT follow this articles advice - it's bad and here's why:
This is NOT the article you want to read for finding out about building a budget file server. They barely mention RAID at all, instead opting to spend money on things like a $70 video card and advising using said backup server as another gaming system. They talk about buying things like an 8 port Gigabit Ethernet switch that don't even have anything to do with a backup server. Word of advice, take that $200 for the switch and spend it on a 3ware RAID card. Your building a file server - not a network. For pete's sake they tell you to build a file server and not use RAID.
They stuff the case full of 5 hard drives, a floppy and DVD drive, but then don't even use an aluminum case. They actually tell you to pull out drives when they get full with "old" data and stick the old drives on top using USB 2.0 or Firewire. You are then supposed to buy a new set of drives to which they suggest doing this twice a year. No mention of rackmount cases at all, and there is no mention of a practical backup solution. Their backup solution consists of using a Pioneer DVR-106 4x DVD+/-R/RW. One sentence is spent telling you why they picked the drive, and two about the bloody color! This drive can burn 4.7 GB at a shot, to backup the proposed 2 Gigabytes would cost you $310 for a 500 pack of 4x DVD-R's on pricewatch (most economical purchase there). Nevermind the time spent making 436 backups.
Not really, one of the ads shows the interns in a room full of tech support people. The only way you get US based tech support anymore is if you have a server in the Enterprise group (confirmed by former techs at Dell). Since some people still make purchasing decisions based on support US employees, the ad is deceiving and dishonest as it gives the impression that joe sixpack will get American based tech support.
Nah, remember they licensed whatever unix they wanted from SCO, right at the start of the whole Linux debacle. It's not a rip off, it's licenese if they do, pretty much any unix implementation they do is, if I remember details of the story right. They (MS) then went on to claim that this wasn't related to Linux. Remember, microsoft doesn't inovate, they buy, license and pirate.
All things considered I think the killing off of the Registry is a far bigger story than a competitor of flash. This has been arguably overdue for many years, and long one of Microsofts OS weak points. Have you got a link for the registry story by chance?
Why does this make story here on slashdot? Napster is dead and buried. This is nothing more than a company that bought the name and turned napster in RIAA's wet dream. It's a pay for service that is DRM saturated, and thus no more noteworthy than any other DRM saturated service. Napster is dead, nothing more to say here.
Apple apologist are hard at work in this very thread. I have eight examples here for you, what more do you want? There isn't anything apple could do (anti-trust would prevent MS sellout) to it's users that they wouldn't defend religously. The merits are never relevant with the Mac Zealout, only the worship. I'm reminded of a battered wife who will never leave her husband despite getting beaten again and again.
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If Microsoft were pulling this stunt people would be crying bloody murder. Does anyone here understand why this is tolerated in Appleville?
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This would completely eliminate government agency piracy in Vietnam, so why do I get the feeling the BSA's equivalent in Asia isn't going to be very happy about this?
Correct. It is this compression wave that is considered by some to be the most definitve proof we have yet for the big bang. For unless everything was all once close enough togethor, it would be impossible for the CMB to be relatively consistent throughout the universe.
Raticide! Change this so it's contagious and then throw the results into a New York City Dumpster. Every rat in the world will be dead inside of a month. Remember the rats carried the fleas that carried the black plage that wiped out a fourth of Europe in Medieval times. It's time for revenge! Wonder if this strain affects politicians too?
The soundwaves that were found are an impression of quantum scale energy fluctuations carried to earth by cosmic microwave background radiation. Scientists were able to measure the waves by looking at cosmic microwave background (CMB). These early soundwaves are thought to have created super and giant clusters of galaxies with their travel. The soundwaves are actually contained in primordial plasma. They are effectively overtones or harmonics of the big bang explosion that is said to have created the universe.
I did a story that posted on Kuro5hin some time back about this that goes into just a touch more detail about ramifications for this sound.
Absolutely, RAID will very nicely delete everything you tell it to across the whole array. Just like you told it to, not that I've ever done that - ok once years ago - but I learned my lesson. This is why I mentioned the backup drives as well. Tape is nice for many things, read my response to another poster on this thread for why I didn't recommend it for this person's home use.
What I've been looking at more seriously if I can afford it are the removable hard disk trays with an extra set of backup disks. This way I could swap out a pair of trays and backups to offsite storage every couple of weeks or so. The nice thing about this option is that I can add this capability in the future when I can afford it.
I've used tape in the past, I've used DAT 20's, 40's, and rackmount jukeboxes and so on at work. I bought an Onstream SC30 drive before anybody even knew who Onstream was. I have used and supported backup software from the likes of Veritas at work for years. The key thing here being that these were all used at work. The poster wants something for home use.
Pricewatch has the DLTIV 40/80's around $40 each, and a drive for about $952. A seven pack of said tapes DLT IV tapes is $440. This doesn't take into account the SCSI card. It also doesn't take into account the fact that tapes wear out after about a year. Rough cost for this setup would be one set of seven tapes for $440 (you never get the full claimed compressed rate) for a full backup and probably another $440 for a set of differentials with a couple of spares. Figure another $150 for a SCSI card. All told your looking at just under $1800 to $2000 for the setup depending on how many tapes you want for incrementals. And this doesn't cover the storage factor, just the backup cost. For the cost differential your way ahead on the money even if you have an IDE drive die every year.
This also doesn't take into account the sheer time and babysit factor. With the IDE solution I gave you can have a script do your backup for you. You don't have to deal with it, which can get real old real quick when your not getting paid.
I've also had to send backup tapes for repair before - expensive because places like Ontrack have you by the balls and they know it. Without question, SCSI is always best, except for that whole cost thing. IDE RAID controllers have finally gotten real (not that Promise crap) and IDE drives have simply achieved a price point that for a small office / home use can't be ignored. Now if I'm back in the Enterprise environment we'll start talking about RAID arrays backed up by Storage Jukeboxes, but that isn't the environment at hand.
I've been looking into something like this for a little while. What I'd like to do when I have the fundage is get a fileserver/backup box. The ideal is to run 4 160 GB IDE drives in RAID 5. This will give me a bit over 450 GB in usable network storage. I then want to add a pair of 250 GB 5400 drives for backup. I can then set up a the server to backup the data from the raid drives to the backup drives on a daily basis.
According to pricewatch the 4 160's could be had for around $400 total with about another $400 for the backup. Add a 3ware RAID controller for another $245 bucks and your looking at about $1045 to convert a system into supporting 450 GB of usuable network storage and backup.
From all indications IDE harddrives are now the cheapest form of backup there is. I've looked at CD, DVD, Tape, but it keeps coming back to IDE hard drives. This is far cheaper than a similiar storage and backup would be on tape.
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It's the perfect article, touches Microsoft, DRM and the evil once known as Palladium! Best of all no one can read the article because it justs links back to slashdot. Everybody can shoot from the hip on this one, because once again the only link in the article wasn't even checked to see if it works. Do stories here get reviewed and selected by a seven line perl script?
While today's supreme court has proven lackluster on the expiring copyright issue and the corporate personage issues, these are rulings that cannot stand the test of time. They merely reflect a current political climate. Conisider if you will the right of a jury to nullify a law has been to the Supreme Court 3 times, and upheld each time in the last 200 some years.
Some issues have flip flopped multiple times over the years, I see no reason why todays climate of corporate interests trumping citizen interests will endure the long term. Resentment is starting to build a general consensus and when enough people reach the consensus it will change. Think of it this way, bankruptcy was once a criminal act, but too many people had to declare it in the early 1800's and the change was made. Some backlash is already starting to build, and when enough people vote, politicians usually listen.
Bzzt, wrong. Copyrights do eventually expire, and DRM has no time based self deactivation method. 300 years from now if you want to watch an old copy of a DVD, which by then even Mickey Mouse will no longer be copyrighted, you will still have to deal with the DRM. DRM manufactures don't even consider the idea of a time limitation because they think the idea that something would ever fall out of copyright.
Today we use careful forensic techniques to examine content of centuries past. Centuries down the road, is the skill of cracking going to required in university to become an arheologist? Enormous amounts of content of modern culture could become completely lost. Films decay, even the BBC's big knowledge archive turned out to be almost unsalvagable only a couple decades after it was made, and they didn't even have to fight DRM.
DRM is fundamentally flawed, and serves only to interfere with the rights of those it is inflicted upon. It serves no purpose to anyone but a self serving company that may not even be around a few years from now. How many old games or software titles do you own in which the company is even still in existance. Guess what, once they go tit's up there is no incentive for them to help salvage DRM'd products.
It's a major pain in the ass to deal with the Indian tech support. There are accent issues, but that is only a minor point. The real issue is the training and scripting. Typical experience (of many) I had a little while back from when I had to replace a screen and hard drive on an Inspiron. Even though I had done extensive testing ahead of time, told the tech what I had done I still had to go through 2 hours of hell before they finally acknowledged that I in fact did have failed hardware.
The scripting is bad, the fact that they can't operate outside the script is abhorrant. But what really ticks me off is when they keep trying to trick people into stating something that would void their warranty. When I had to get the LCD for the laptop replaced I was asked no less than 10 times if I had dropped the notebook. The question was varied from "did you drop it even a little bit" to "now, you said you recently dropped it, right".
The reason they got so much hell from corporate customers is that they have dedicated IT professionals who've already done all the testing and can't afford two hours on the phone to get some replacement hardware sent out. The IT dept will simply switch to a new vendor if that kind of crap persists.
Since the call center people work for the call center, and not the company, they have no incentive or access to institutional knowledge - you know when you tell someone about a certain model and they don't have to look everything up? The Indian support centers also pretend to be located in America, practice American accents, have sports teams they pretend to watch, and otherwise try to fool you into thinking they are in the US. All of which to get around the issue of supporting local jobs. If we farm all of our jobs out to India, who will be left to buy anything?
This makes me wonder how hard it would be for ISP's to block DOS attacks at the router level. I've been studying my Cisco lately, and it does readily doable, especially if the source of a ping flood or the like is known.
On behalf of the State of Minnesota I apologize for the complete and utter breakdown in the brain of my Senator. At one time the email tax myth was such a widespread urban legend that the US Post Office had a link on their front page debunking it. Said link is no longer there and this idiot decided to try to make an urban legend into reality. Again, I apologize, and you have my promise to try and get this guy out of office next election.
This would be just like media play. A DRM enriched small piece of technology that will be held back by the DRM. What's different about this that makes it worth buying over the established based of hundreds of millions of CD players? Nothing at all, short of the recording industry refusing to put music out on round shiny objects that were once called CD's, it's just not gonna happen. Tech history is full of superior technology that never took off because it was either too expensive, or DRM'd. It's simply not enough to have superior technology, a superior user experience is also required.
On RAID losing multiple disks. I had a HP RS-10 Drive Array drop two disks on me inside of a few hours. A nasty lightning storm hit the plant, and I headed in early just in case. I managed to get one drive swapped out with the hot spare and had just finished rebuilding the array when drive no 2 went out. I robbed my other RS-10 in order to salvage the first array. Needless to say I had the replacements overnighted asap and Liebert out that day. My IT lead (in another state) wondered why I had reprioritized her schedule on her and stayed put through the operation.
Do NOT follow this articles advice - it's bad and here's why:
This is NOT the article you want to read for finding out about building a budget file server. They barely mention RAID at all, instead opting to spend money on things like a $70 video card and advising using said backup server as another gaming system. They talk about buying things like an 8 port Gigabit Ethernet switch that don't even have anything to do with a backup server. Word of advice, take that $200 for the switch and spend it on a 3ware RAID card. Your building a file server - not a network. For pete's sake they tell you to build a file server and not use RAID.
They stuff the case full of 5 hard drives, a floppy and DVD drive, but then don't even use an aluminum case. They actually tell you to pull out drives when they get full with "old" data and stick the old drives on top using USB 2.0 or Firewire. You are then supposed to buy a new set of drives to which they suggest doing this twice a year. No mention of rackmount cases at all, and there is no mention of a practical backup solution. Their backup solution consists of using a Pioneer DVR-106 4x DVD+/-R/RW. One sentence is spent telling you why they picked the drive, and two about the bloody color! This drive can burn 4.7 GB at a shot, to backup the proposed 2 Gigabytes would cost you $310 for a 500 pack of 4x DVD-R's on pricewatch (most economical purchase there). Nevermind the time spent making 436 backups.
Not really, one of the ads shows the interns in a room full of tech support people. The only way you get US based tech support anymore is if you have a server in the Enterprise group (confirmed by former techs at Dell). Since some people still make purchasing decisions based on support US employees, the ad is deceiving and dishonest as it gives the impression that joe sixpack will get American based tech support.
So is it hacking or cracking when someone breaks in and overtakes the paralyzed person limbs?
Nah, remember they licensed whatever unix they wanted from SCO, right at the start of the whole Linux debacle. It's not a rip off, it's licenese if they do, pretty much any unix implementation they do is, if I remember details of the story right. They (MS) then went on to claim that this wasn't related to Linux. Remember, microsoft doesn't inovate, they buy, license and pirate.
All things considered I think the killing off of the Registry is a far bigger story than a competitor of flash. This has been arguably overdue for many years, and long one of Microsofts OS weak points. Have you got a link for the registry story by chance?
Yahoo!, I'm excited, google is safe, who'll they buy though, I better ask Jeeves?
Why does this make story here on slashdot? Napster is dead and buried. This is nothing more than a company that bought the name and turned napster in RIAA's wet dream. It's a pay for service that is DRM saturated, and thus no more noteworthy than any other DRM saturated service. Napster is dead, nothing more to say here.
Apple apologist are hard at work in this very thread. I have eight examples here for you, what more do you want? There isn't anything apple could do (anti-trust would prevent MS sellout) to it's users that they wouldn't defend religously. The merits are never relevant with the Mac Zealout, only the worship. I'm reminded of a battered wife who will never leave her husband despite getting beaten again and again.
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If Microsoft were pulling this stunt people would be crying bloody murder. Does anyone here understand why this is tolerated in Appleville?
This would completely eliminate government agency piracy in Vietnam, so why do I get the feeling the BSA's equivalent in Asia isn't going to be very happy about this?
I'm guessing you've never played Dungoens of Moria then.
Correct. It is this compression wave that is considered by some to be the most definitve proof we have yet for the big bang. For unless everything was all once close enough togethor, it would be impossible for the CMB to be relatively consistent throughout the universe.
Raticide! Change this so it's contagious and then throw the results into a New York City Dumpster. Every rat in the world will be dead inside of a month. Remember the rats carried the fleas that carried the black plage that wiped out a fourth of Europe in Medieval times. It's time for revenge! Wonder if this strain affects politicians too?
The soundwaves that were found are an impression of quantum scale energy fluctuations carried to earth by cosmic microwave background radiation. Scientists were able to measure the waves by looking at cosmic microwave background (CMB). These early soundwaves are thought to have created super and giant clusters of galaxies with their travel. The soundwaves are actually contained in primordial plasma. They are effectively overtones or harmonics of the big bang explosion that is said to have created the universe.
I did a story that posted on Kuro5hin some time back about this that goes into just a touch more detail about ramifications for this sound.
Absolutely, RAID will very nicely delete everything you tell it to across the whole array. Just like you told it to, not that I've ever done that - ok once years ago - but I learned my lesson. This is why I mentioned the backup drives as well. Tape is nice for many things, read my response to another poster on this thread for why I didn't recommend it for this person's home use.
What I've been looking at more seriously if I can afford it are the removable hard disk trays with an extra set of backup disks. This way I could swap out a pair of trays and backups to offsite storage every couple of weeks or so. The nice thing about this option is that I can add this capability in the future when I can afford it.
I've used tape in the past, I've used DAT 20's, 40's, and rackmount jukeboxes and so on at work. I bought an Onstream SC30 drive before anybody even knew who Onstream was. I have used and supported backup software from the likes of Veritas at work for years. The key thing here being that these were all used at work. The poster wants something for home use.
Pricewatch has the DLTIV 40/80's around $40 each, and a drive for about $952. A seven pack of said tapes DLT IV tapes is $440. This doesn't take into account the SCSI card. It also doesn't take into account the fact that tapes wear out after about a year. Rough cost for this setup would be one set of seven tapes for $440 (you never get the full claimed compressed rate) for a full backup and probably another $440 for a set of differentials with a couple of spares. Figure another $150 for a SCSI card. All told your looking at just under $1800 to $2000 for the setup depending on how many tapes you want for incrementals. And this doesn't cover the storage factor, just the backup cost. For the cost differential your way ahead on the money even if you have an IDE drive die every year.
This also doesn't take into account the sheer time and babysit factor. With the IDE solution I gave you can have a script do your backup for you. You don't have to deal with it, which can get real old real quick when your not getting paid.
I've also had to send backup tapes for repair before - expensive because places like Ontrack have you by the balls and they know it. Without question, SCSI is always best, except for that whole cost thing. IDE RAID controllers have finally gotten real (not that Promise crap) and IDE drives have simply achieved a price point that for a small office / home use can't be ignored. Now if I'm back in the Enterprise environment we'll start talking about RAID arrays backed up by Storage Jukeboxes, but that isn't the environment at hand.
I've been looking into something like this for a little while. What I'd like to do when I have the fundage is get a fileserver/backup box. The ideal is to run 4 160 GB IDE drives in RAID 5. This will give me a bit over 450 GB in usable network storage. I then want to add a pair of 250 GB 5400 drives for backup. I can then set up a the server to backup the data from the raid drives to the backup drives on a daily basis.
According to pricewatch the 4 160's could be had for around $400 total with about another $400 for the backup. Add a 3ware RAID controller for another $245 bucks and your looking at about $1045 to convert a system into supporting 450 GB of usuable network storage and backup.
From all indications IDE harddrives are now the cheapest form of backup there is. I've looked at CD, DVD, Tape, but it keeps coming back to IDE hard drives. This is far cheaper than a similiar storage and backup would be on tape.