I find this totally dumb on their thinking mirroring would save their butts. Problem it's database corruption and they didn't catch it in time so an hourly replication would have compound the problem even further.
I always trusted daily and weekly backups on both tapes and disks. This way after the backup is done it's a "snapshot" or "frozen in time" of the data which protects it from viruses or other disasters.
So whenever you see a site that is down for scheduled maintenance it means they are doing it the RIGHT WAY as opposed to other solutions.
Of course, if the site been down for days then something really fubered on their end.
That is why you always hear about towns and ancient cities being wiped out by a nearby volcano. After the town gets plastered with ash and dust the remaining in the air lingers on getting into people's lungs putting them to slow death.
We have the means to quickly get away from it but at a large scale such as Yellowstone it's going to affect ALOT of things including livestock that we feed on.
Those who survive the initial blow will have a long battle of finding food and keeping warm.
Seems the only real safe place would be aboard the international space station but can't stay there forever either.
So I would stock up on canned food and water. And plenty of seeds for replanting because you are on your own when it happens.
As the judge gleams over his PC and noticed it too uses the preview thumbnails feature and started to realize...holy crap...if I pass judgment then how the hell am I gonna find my pictures?!?!
What bothers me tho as more and more of these silly lawsuits crop up it will stifle innovation. Eventually it will choke open source software as they lack funds to fight this. Apple and Microsoft have deep pockets so they will survive, just we will end up paying for it later.
I just hope I can continue to use Ubuntu without worry.
Ever see the movie "Minority Report" with Tom Cruise? They showed a much needed transportation system that is actually personalized to the individual and yet managed by systems to keep things flowing properly.
Each have their own transport pod that ties into the rail systems for speed and efficiency.
Just wish it's here sooner because it's badly needed in large cities.
I don't mind taking the trains but be nicer if my car can drive itself and be super efficient.
Least for now my 2006 Honda Civic will have to do.
You're forgetting something about Microsoft. At least from what I've seen so far.
They don't support any flavors of Linux for virtualization other than their own products for obvious reasons. So it's not entirely a fair assessment of giving VMWare a run for their money as they still have to compete with Sun in this marketshare for Linux environments.
Microsoft came late into the game and I don't think they will ever offer support for linux. I'd be surprised if they ever do.
A side note, however, they do support OS/2 Warp in virtualization? Only thing I could figure out is cross licensing between Microsoft and IBM.
I too tried out VMWare Server 2.0 and it's web interface was buggy at first. Alot of times it would get stuck and you couldn't do anything.
They fixed most of the issues but not all of them. There is one feature I do like about 2.0 though is the ability to create shortcuts to the VM consoles. I only use the web interface to start/stop and create VM hosts. Rest I just use the shortcuts to the consoles. Works like a champ.
I'm a big fan of VMWare and will tell you it's never an easy thing to get it working right in the first place.
So after a few trial and errors I created step by step instructions on how to install VMWare Server on Ubuntu 64bit.
There is one thing always burns me is whenever there is a kernel update I have to reinstall VMWare so it can recompile the code to get it working again. I always forget to take that into account whenever I do the updates.
I've been lucky so far it only takes me a few mins to get VMWare working. No biggie long as I keep the install instructions handy.
I am too a 100% GigaByte user. I've had a high end ASUS go bad on me due to bad flash. I never had a problem with flashing their BIOS before until one day after I did a successful flash without errors the damn thing won't boot up anymore. I tried the normal troubleshooting steps and even removed the battery with no avail.
Then I went out and bought a fairly decent GigaByte board and transplanted the parts over. Volia, no problems. It even sports the Dual BIOS in case this ever happens but after owning over 15 GigaByte boards over the years I never had a bad BIOS flash. So it tells me they spent alot of time in quality control and it shows.
They may not be the cheapest around but I am willing to pay extra for good quality product that will run for years without a problem.
You are NOT alone in this gripe. But the station figures football is paying them more airtime so they see it in their eyes to say, "fuck the rest of the non-paying tv watchers of their regularly scheduled shows."
It's not. Problem is the story writers who are making them bad.
There are plenty of talent in special effects, directors, actors and so on but the story writers?
Alot of them stick to the usual routine and it's all they know. They don't look at the long term of story writing. All they know is that the hero towards the end of the story must 99% of the time win.
Hell, alot of times I want the hero to lose on that episode to make me wonder what he'll do next in the next few episodes to fix the problem.
We do know ultimately at the end the hero usually wins. That's the way story telling been for thousands of years.
This won't really apply to home users but for corporate and office users they will not pay $150 to downgrade to XP when they can use the restore WinXP SP3 CD that came with the prior PCs. Long as the PCs have a license sticker on the machine such as Vista or higher they have the right to downgrade for free.
Dell is just milking everybody much as they can and it's wrong. Makes me wonder if this is even legal?
Much as I like to see fairness of this deal but Cisco will prevail simply because they have integrated themselves tightly in several key areas including the governments and the military who uses Cisco networking equipment. Cisco will not be able to release the source code due to national security concerns, same thing with Microsoft.
Actually, it's not true. You actually have more daylight hours during the summer than in the winter so what is the point of DST?
We have grasped the fact the seasonal changes we can't control so we just deal with it.
So for construction worker that needs to work even in dark can put up lights. It's not uncommon for road construction workers to work midnight till 6am so it wouldn't disrupt traffic too much. So where does DST help? Nadda!
Are you sure about this? Most of my clocks are based on "atomic time" via radio and are over 6 years old. They always sync perfectly, even with the DST dates have changed because the radio signal is based on actual time, not on dates.
I too thought I had to replace those clocks but behold it's working perfectly with the changes.
Slashdot Mirror
I find this totally dumb on their thinking mirroring would save their butts. Problem it's database corruption and they didn't catch it in time so an hourly replication would have compound the problem even further.
I always trusted daily and weekly backups on both tapes and disks. This way after the backup is done it's a "snapshot" or "frozen in time" of the data which protects it from viruses or other disasters.
So whenever you see a site that is down for scheduled maintenance it means they are doing it the RIGHT WAY as opposed to other solutions.
Of course, if the site been down for days then something really fubered on their end.
Can't stand the constant patches from Microsoft for your keyboard?
Take a look at Zimbra:
http://www.zimbra.com/
Vista is extreme crap over anything out there.
That is why you always hear about towns and ancient cities being wiped out by a nearby volcano. After the town gets plastered with ash and dust the remaining in the air lingers on getting into people's lungs putting them to slow death.
We have the means to quickly get away from it but at a large scale such as Yellowstone it's going to affect ALOT of things including livestock that we feed on.
Those who survive the initial blow will have a long battle of finding food and keeping warm.
Seems the only real safe place would be aboard the international space station but can't stay there forever either.
So I would stock up on canned food and water. And plenty of seeds for replanting because you are on your own when it happens.
Or a tray of frozen ice cubes. It's cool as hell (pardon the pun).
As the judge gleams over his PC and noticed it too uses the preview thumbnails feature and started to realize...holy crap...if I pass judgment then how the hell am I gonna find my pictures?!?!
What bothers me tho as more and more of these silly lawsuits crop up it will stifle innovation. Eventually it will choke open source software as they lack funds to fight this. Apple and Microsoft have deep pockets so they will survive, just we will end up paying for it later.
I just hope I can continue to use Ubuntu without worry.
Ever see the movie "Minority Report" with Tom Cruise? They showed a much needed transportation system that is actually personalized to the individual and yet managed by systems to keep things flowing properly.
Each have their own transport pod that ties into the rail systems for speed and efficiency.
Just wish it's here sooner because it's badly needed in large cities.
I don't mind taking the trains but be nicer if my car can drive itself and be super efficient.
Least for now my 2006 Honda Civic will have to do.
You're forgetting something about Microsoft. At least from what I've seen so far.
They don't support any flavors of Linux for virtualization other than their own products for obvious reasons. So it's not entirely a fair assessment of giving VMWare a run for their money as they still have to compete with Sun in this marketshare for Linux environments.
Microsoft came late into the game and I don't think they will ever offer support for linux. I'd be surprised if they ever do.
A side note, however, they do support OS/2 Warp in virtualization? Only thing I could figure out is cross licensing between Microsoft and IBM.
I too tried out VMWare Server 2.0 and it's web interface was buggy at first. Alot of times it would get stuck and you couldn't do anything.
They fixed most of the issues but not all of them. There is one feature I do like about 2.0 though is the ability to create shortcuts to the VM consoles. I only use the web interface to start/stop and create VM hosts. Rest I just use the shortcuts to the consoles. Works like a champ.
I'm a big fan of VMWare and will tell you it's never an easy thing to get it working right in the first place.
So after a few trial and errors I created step by step instructions on how to install VMWare Server on Ubuntu 64bit.
There is one thing always burns me is whenever there is a kernel update I have to reinstall VMWare so it can recompile the code to get it working again. I always forget to take that into account whenever I do the updates.
I've been lucky so far it only takes me a few mins to get VMWare working. No biggie long as I keep the install instructions handy.
I am too a 100% GigaByte user. I've had a high end ASUS go bad on me due to bad flash. I never had a problem with flashing their BIOS before until one day after I did a successful flash without errors the damn thing won't boot up anymore. I tried the normal troubleshooting steps and even removed the battery with no avail.
Then I went out and bought a fairly decent GigaByte board and transplanted the parts over. Volia, no problems. It even sports the Dual BIOS in case this ever happens but after owning over 15 GigaByte boards over the years I never had a bad BIOS flash. So it tells me they spent alot of time in quality control and it shows.
They may not be the cheapest around but I am willing to pay extra for good quality product that will run for years without a problem.
Whoops... I mean Yellow Dog Linux... not Red Dog
Red Dog Linux been doing this for awhile now!
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/10/ps3_supercomputer
Easy... plenty of cheap bastards who rather watch it on local tv or cable than go to PPV or pay extra for sports channels.
You are NOT alone in this gripe. But the station figures football is paying them more airtime so they see it in their eyes to say, "fuck the rest of the non-paying tv watchers of their regularly scheduled shows."
Bottom line is whoever pays the most money wins.
It's not. Problem is the story writers who are making them bad.
There are plenty of talent in special effects, directors, actors and so on but the story writers?
Alot of them stick to the usual routine and it's all they know. They don't look at the long term of story writing. All they know is that the hero towards the end of the story must 99% of the time win.
Hell, alot of times I want the hero to lose on that episode to make me wonder what he'll do next in the next few episodes to fix the problem.
We do know ultimately at the end the hero usually wins. That's the way story telling been for thousands of years.
This won't really apply to home users but for corporate and office users they will not pay $150 to downgrade to XP when they can use the restore WinXP SP3 CD that came with the prior PCs. Long as the PCs have a license sticker on the machine such as Vista or higher they have the right to downgrade for free.
Dell is just milking everybody much as they can and it's wrong. Makes me wonder if this is even legal?
Much as I like to see fairness of this deal but Cisco will prevail simply because they have integrated themselves tightly in several key areas including the governments and the military who uses Cisco networking equipment. Cisco will not be able to release the source code due to national security concerns, same thing with Microsoft.
And I think Cisco knew this from the beginning.
Sounds awfully familiar when something is turning people into a "battery" for energy.
I might as well open up a gym and hook up electric generators to the machines so it'll keep the place lit.
I too own a 80GB 5.5gen iPod and stopped using it when I bought the SanDisk 4GB Fuze MP3 player and they recently updated it's firmware to support:
FLAC, OGG and New Audible AAX format
I got it during Black Friday for under $50 and very happy with it. No restriction on it's use and no iTunes to deal with. Very happy with it.
So in a nutshell there are choices so as a consumer you are free to make them.
Microsoft should skip Windows 8 and go straight to "Cloud 9"
We can bitch..moan..and complain on slashdot.com but it's not getting anywhere.
WRITE TO CONGRESS AND BITCH AT THEM!!
Democracy at work!
Actually, it's not true. You actually have more daylight hours during the summer than in the winter so what is the point of DST?
We have grasped the fact the seasonal changes we can't control so we just deal with it.
So for construction worker that needs to work even in dark can put up lights. It's not uncommon for road construction workers to work midnight till 6am so it wouldn't disrupt traffic too much. So where does DST help? Nadda!
They really need to drop DST, period.
Are you sure about this? Most of my clocks are based on "atomic time" via radio and are over 6 years old. They always sync perfectly, even with the DST dates have changed because the radio signal is based on actual time, not on dates.
I too thought I had to replace those clocks but behold it's working perfectly with the changes.