Yes, but using NTFS would be a bad idea for this, far from "best solution" territory as mentioned by the submitter. For a massive home storage system I wouldn't recommend using Windows for the server. Set up a gigabit LAN and a samba file server with the multi-TBs of locally attached storage drives. If you want RAID, use software RAID. Add a UPS, configure NUTS, configure hardware monitoring, smartmontools and RAID monitoring (if you have RAID).
Yes it's a fair bit of work that seems unnecessary when you could just buy a NAS device, but AFAIK most don't do a full self-test at 3 am in the morning and send you an email when one of your drives fails with a CRC prob. Nor would they do an orderly shutdown when the UPS runs low on juice.
And this is Slashdot of course. If it were some other site, I'd suggest a NAS device:).
> But can you make it so that the brake lines is cut sometime later *WHEN* you want it to?
Of course, I actually thought about this "problem" when I was a kid. Not that I actually did it of course.
Just clip something to the brake lines that cuts them (most cars nowadays should have two independent hydraulic brake circuits) when you say so, or in X minutes, or the engine sounds like it has hit a certain RPM.
Each device could be attached to the brake line this way:
brake line ---------------------- cutter gripper cutter
rest of device
That way when the cutter cuts the brake line, the whole device will drop away from the car, making it harder to trace.
Alternatively you could just have the device puncture a few holes in the brake line and then release the gripper.
Works best if the target likes driving fast down hills:).
If you bothered read and understood what I wrote, you'd realize that I'm already aware of winkey+# and its limitations, and why it wouldn't be an improvement over the XP behaviour. I actually did mention it in my post.
Judging from your response, I'm sure Windows 7 is well-suited for you.
> but would it be super-strong in proportion to its super-mass?
Don't know.
> And then its magnetic field would also have to be oriented exactly right to be repelled instead of attracted or deflected...
Maybe it's related to Lenz's Law where induced currents in a moving object in a magnetic field generate a magnetic field that opposes its motion through the field.
> Middle mouse button click on the app's preview thumbnail is faster and takes one less finger!
1) The previews often get in the way if you overshoot the mouse to the taskbar, when that happens they slow me down. Also, I used to have to deal with documents that looked similar - the thumbnails then became rather useless, so in the end I turned them off - better to just distinguish them by title. 2) My left hand is already on the keyboard ready to press "C". So hovering over a task button than changing hover to the thumbnail preview then pressing middle click is not going to really be faster than right click on task button then "C". 3) Anyone who knows how to play a piano or use keyboard properly will know it is usually faster to use multiple fingers than one finger to press keys. But of course only if the fingers are already close to the right places.
So no Windows 7 is not faster at all for me.
From a "UI for skilled users" perspective, Windows 7 is worse than Windows XP. Windows 7 is better than Windows XP from a "UI for noob users" - e.g. Win7 stuff like winkey+[number] can be useful when you only have one document open per application. Otherwise that feature is not useful.
With Windows 9x/2K/XP it's easy to use "classic mode" and then create a folder named "1 Explore" in the start menu and put shortcuts like "C Explore C", "D Explore D", "E Explore E" in the "1 Explore" folder, and also create folders/shortcuts called "2 Tools", "3 Favs", "4 Command prompt" etc.
Then you end up with: winkey, 4 will launch the command prompt winkey, 1, d = Explore D drive winkey, 2, c could be calculator winkey, 3, 3 = email winkey, 5, 1 = ssh to site #1 winkey, 5, 2 = ssh to site #2
In contrast "Windows 7" it's winkey, c,a,l,c, enter key, for calculator. You cannot easily customize your start menu to use it that way anymore.
I'm all for making a GUI better for "noob users", but hey, do put in or retain features that make things better for skilled experienced users too.
Actually I have no idea whatever happens to my edits, I don't track them. I don't have an account, so when I ever edit it's anonymously (minor corrections or whatever), and if the wikipedants don't like it, it's up to them.
However when I'm looking stuff up, I sometimes look at the talk pages and history, and from what I see the wiki-culture is alive but not so well...
A few tags don't bother me at all. I'm fine with that. That's usually proper use of the tag.
But a dozen or so tags in one section/paragraph is usually an indication that the tagger is doing something wrong[1]. The tagger should instead tag the entire section with: "This section may contain original research or unverified claims." and then take the whole thing to the talk page.
[1] When that happens, if you go and check the history or talk page, usually one or more are fighting some sort of personal war. And to the "wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a repo of OR/trivia" folks, guess what, encyclopedias should not be littered with [citation please] tags.
Seems a pretty good endorsement of such cracks. Despite all those FUD claims of malware infestation.
If I were myth, I wouldn't be bothered about getting official recognition etc from Rockstar. The fact that Rockstar shipped "our version" on steam is official enough;).
Bad move by Rockstar strategically, so they'll have to pull it.
On the subject of looking stuff up, is there an easy way for me to blacklist many of those sites that appear in Google when I search for that word?
To me the "offending word" is useful for finding sites that I do not want in my google search results ever.
Just Google search for that word and you'll see evidence that Google is not providing good search results...
Yes, I tried using Google's custom Search engine feature, and no it doesn't seem to allow excluding of websites. And no, inserting -sitename for dozens of sites is not what I want to do.
The wikipedia is important, not the most important thing in the world but it is important. However too many admins and editors seem to think they and their individual opinions are more important than they should be.
Have you seen those pages vandalized with dozens of [citation please]? Too often it's a result of an asshole or douchebag putting the numerous [citation please] tags, just because he (usually a he) either refuses to use his brains properly, or has some personal vendetta against the contributor. Because the asshole could easily have used: "This section may contain original research or unverified claims.".
Just because you're doing it for free doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't slag you off for not doing it properly. If you let your personal issues reduce the efficiency of a "soup kitchen" you won't be welcome for long, even if you're doing it for free and supposedly for a good cause. You're a voluntary cog in a wheel, you want to do your job? Leave your ego at the door. Few people like noisy wheels.
I'd go "WTF" at people who install XP64 for nonexperimental use.
Hard for me to say which is worse: XP64 or vista. Like choosing which way to be tortured slowly to death.
FWIW, I use Windows 7 64 bit at work (boss's bright idea), and I still prefer Windows XP SP3. Windows 7 had this annoying problem: "Windows Explorer may stop responding for 30 seconds when a file or a directory is created or renamed after certain applications are installed." It sure was longer than 30 seconds for me. I hope it's really fixed now: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980408 There are lots of other annoyances: it still takes a while to display certain folders, you can probably press Esc or something. You can't quickly close windows by right clicking on the task button and pressing C. And I currently can't think of any way it helps me do things faster or be more productive. The only thing that might be useful is the per app volume control, however this is a work machine so I normally just mute the sound or have everything at a low sound level.
A super-strong magnetic field may not be so surprising when you already have a singularity:).
Strange, unless my memory fails me, that Pace VanDevender guy used to have a website which displayed the Donegal site, and asked people to submit reports of similar incidents. But I can't find traces of that site anymore. Can't find it in archive.org either. Maybe my memory is bad.
But the Pace VanDevender guy definitely exists, is a scientist and he definitely did write about it. And none of his peers have gone out and said he's a raving lunatic...
Maybe he was really on to something and the military asked him to shut up:).
They could easily just show the video where the "combined algorithm" succeeds, even if there were times where it failed.
Anyone seen the endings of those Jackie Chan movies? In the movie proper you see the fancy successes. The ending is where you see some of the other clips where stuff went "different".
Since they have resorted to "open loop" control, it means the robot is about as likely to make as many mistakes as humans. It's progress I guess, but really, if it can only get within 2 feet of actual spot, I think I could do as well with that many tries - same car, same exact parking spot.
Whereas you have those "pro" drivers who can get into a random car and within a few minutes (or even less) figure out its characteristics well enough to drive it far better than us "normals".
What he did is exactly why insurance companies charge much higher premiums for young male drivers, and why parental guidance is highly recommended.
Lots of people here like to say "censorship= evil" etc, but basically you don't want to make it so easy for teenagers to get stupid ideas - they can come up with plenty by themselves. Once they've survived that period, then sure.
Interaction with the Earth's magnetic field? It's got to generate a very strong magnetic field to slow the descent of the estimated 20 tons it weighs...
Anyway I don't think the scientists are sure what exactly happened there, but they know something rather unusual happened.
What else could it be? It seems even more unlikely that lightning did it. And hallucinations by themselves do not cause 90 meter trenches to be formed:).
Yeah there are laws limiting what you can and cannot do when repossessing a car or property. Heck even squatters have rights in many countries.
There's probably a fair bit of history behind those laws. Just hope we don't have to go through it all over again. Or worse, we get stuck back in the crap old days.
Nowadays the law seems to be: "When you have a monopoly, it's near-absolutely yours for 120* years, muahahahaha" (* subject to future renewals). Or "When you own something, you're not liable for anything, and you can change the rules whenever you like to whatever you like, and you can kick people out for no reason whatsoever". They like to claim it's a service when it suits them, and it's property when it suits them.
I don't call it progress at all. After all even thousands of years ago there were laws like:
Deuteronomy 23:24 If you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket. 25 If you enter your neighbor's grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to his standing grain.
Deuteronomy 24:19 When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow. 21 When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow. 22 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.
Ownership was not absolute. You're a farmer who has toiled hard over the land, and you're still supposed to allow random people to walk in and eat the crops...
What if many pranksters highlight a page (or more) in a popular book in a manner that would produce an offensive image/text? Or a spoiler for the book ending;).
Individual highlights could be designed to look innocuous, but produce the target image when combined by Amazon.
Of course this may require a fair number of people getting access to a kindle. Doesn't have to be that many since I'm sure some pages are less likely to be highlighted in normal circumstances.
Near-death experiences can often be very harmful.;)
Based on common theories of how the brain learns stuff, I bet if I can cause your neurons to fire in certain patterns for long enough, I can established changes that persist. So I wouldn't be confident in saying there won't be any health problems without more tests/evidence.
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Yes, but using NTFS would be a bad idea for this, far from "best solution" territory as mentioned by the submitter. For a massive home storage system I wouldn't recommend using Windows for the server. Set up a gigabit LAN and a samba file server with the multi-TBs of locally attached storage drives. If you want RAID, use software RAID. Add a UPS, configure NUTS, configure hardware monitoring, smartmontools and RAID monitoring (if you have RAID).
:).
Yes it's a fair bit of work that seems unnecessary when you could just buy a NAS device, but AFAIK most don't do a full self-test at 3 am in the morning and send you an email when one of your drives fails with a CRC prob. Nor would they do an orderly shutdown when the UPS runs low on juice.
And this is Slashdot of course. If it were some other site, I'd suggest a NAS device
> but i bet they are equally as happy that it takes 3 days to finish xD
Boss calling up on Monday morning: "Hey are you coming yet?".
Nah she'll be a beautiful Web 2.0 developer once she gets out of her cocoon.
> But can you make it so that the brake lines is cut sometime later *WHEN* you want it to?
:).
Of course, I actually thought about this "problem" when I was a kid. Not that I actually did it of course.
Just clip something to the brake lines that cuts them (most cars nowadays should have two independent hydraulic brake circuits) when you say so, or in X minutes, or the engine sounds like it has hit a certain RPM.
Each device could be attached to the brake line this way:
brake line
----------------------
cutter gripper cutter
rest of device
That way when the cutter cuts the brake line, the whole device will drop away from the car, making it harder to trace.
Alternatively you could just have the device puncture a few holes in the brake line and then release the gripper.
Works best if the target likes driving fast down hills
If you bothered read and understood what I wrote, you'd realize that I'm already aware of winkey+# and its limitations, and why it wouldn't be an improvement over the XP behaviour. I actually did mention it in my post.
Judging from your response, I'm sure Windows 7 is well-suited for you.
OK, thanks, now I can go blacklist those sites that give useless/spammy info about malamanteau.
There are so many autogenerated spam sites nowadays cluttering up Google search.
With this search term I hope to get most of the high ranking ones.
Doesn't work with Firefox 3.6.3. :(
> but would it be super-strong in proportion to its super-mass?
Don't know.
> And then its magnetic field would also have to be oriented exactly right to be repelled instead of attracted or deflected...
Maybe it's related to Lenz's Law where induced currents in a moving object in a magnetic field generate a magnetic field that opposes its motion through the field.
> Middle mouse button click on the app's preview thumbnail is faster and takes one less finger!
1) The previews often get in the way if you overshoot the mouse to the taskbar, when that happens they slow me down. Also, I used to have to deal with documents that looked similar - the thumbnails then became rather useless, so in the end I turned them off - better to just distinguish them by title.
2) My left hand is already on the keyboard ready to press "C". So hovering over a task button than changing hover to the thumbnail preview then pressing middle click is not going to really be faster than right click on task button then "C".
3) Anyone who knows how to play a piano or use keyboard properly will know it is usually faster to use multiple fingers than one finger to press keys. But of course only if the fingers are already close to the right places.
So no Windows 7 is not faster at all for me.
From a "UI for skilled users" perspective, Windows 7 is worse than Windows XP. Windows 7 is better than Windows XP from a "UI for noob users" - e.g. Win7 stuff like winkey+[number] can be useful when you only have one document open per application. Otherwise that feature is not useful.
With Windows 9x/2K/XP it's easy to use "classic mode" and then create a folder named "1 Explore" in the start menu and put shortcuts like "C Explore C", "D Explore D", "E Explore E" in the "1 Explore" folder, and also create folders/shortcuts called "2 Tools", "3 Favs", "4 Command prompt" etc.
Then you end up with:
winkey, 4 will launch the command prompt
winkey, 1, d = Explore D drive
winkey, 2, c could be calculator
winkey, 3, 3 = email
winkey, 5, 1 = ssh to site #1
winkey, 5, 2 = ssh to site #2
In contrast "Windows 7" it's winkey, c,a,l,c, enter key, for calculator. You cannot easily customize your start menu to use it that way anymore.
I'm all for making a GUI better for "noob users", but hey, do put in or retain features that make things better for skilled experienced users too.
Actually I have no idea whatever happens to my edits, I don't track them. I don't have an account, so when I ever edit it's anonymously (minor corrections or whatever), and if the wikipedants don't like it, it's up to them.
However when I'm looking stuff up, I sometimes look at the talk pages and history, and from what I see the wiki-culture is alive but not so well...
A few tags don't bother me at all. I'm fine with that. That's usually proper use of the tag.
But a dozen or so tags in one section/paragraph is usually an indication that the tagger is doing something wrong[1]. The tagger should instead tag the entire section with: "This section may contain original research or unverified claims." and then take the whole thing to the talk page.
[1] When that happens, if you go and check the history or talk page, usually one or more are fighting some sort of personal war. And to the "wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a repo of OR/trivia" folks, guess what, encyclopedias should not be littered with [citation please] tags.
Seems a pretty good endorsement of such cracks. Despite all those FUD claims of malware infestation.
;).
If I were myth, I wouldn't be bothered about getting official recognition etc from Rockstar. The fact that Rockstar shipped "our version" on steam is official enough
Bad move by Rockstar strategically, so they'll have to pull it.
On the subject of looking stuff up, is there an easy way for me to blacklist many of those sites that appear in Google when I search for that word?
To me the "offending word" is useful for finding sites that I do not want in my google search results ever.
Just Google search for that word and you'll see evidence that Google is not providing good search results...
Yes, I tried using Google's custom Search engine feature, and no it doesn't seem to allow excluding of websites. And no, inserting -sitename for dozens of sites is not what I want to do.
The wikipedia is important, not the most important thing in the world but it is important. However too many admins and editors seem to think they and their individual opinions are more important than they should be.
Have you seen those pages vandalized with dozens of [citation please]? Too often it's a result of an asshole or douchebag putting the numerous [citation please] tags, just because he (usually a he) either refuses to use his brains properly, or has some personal vendetta against the contributor. Because the asshole could easily have used: "This section may contain original research or unverified claims.".
Just because you're doing it for free doesn't mean the rest of us shouldn't slag you off for not doing it properly. If you let your personal issues reduce the efficiency of a "soup kitchen" you won't be welcome for long, even if you're doing it for free and supposedly for a good cause. You're a voluntary cog in a wheel, you want to do your job? Leave your ego at the door. Few people like noisy wheels.
I'd go "WTF" at people who install XP64 for nonexperimental use.
Hard for me to say which is worse: XP64 or vista. Like choosing which way to be tortured slowly to death.
FWIW, I use Windows 7 64 bit at work (boss's bright idea), and I still prefer Windows XP SP3.
Windows 7 had this annoying problem: "Windows Explorer may stop responding for 30 seconds when a file or a directory is created or renamed after certain applications are installed."
It sure was longer than 30 seconds for me. I hope it's really fixed now: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980408
There are lots of other annoyances: it still takes a while to display certain folders, you can probably press Esc or something. You can't quickly close windows by right clicking on the task button and pressing C. And I currently can't think of any way it helps me do things faster or be more productive. The only thing that might be useful is the per app volume control, however this is a work machine so I normally just mute the sound or have everything at a low sound level.
Some places allow you to pay for parking by sending an SMS.
:).
Sure not everyone always has a mobile phone handy. But not everyone always has enough coins either
A super-strong magnetic field may not be so surprising when you already have a singularity :).
Strange, unless my memory fails me, that Pace VanDevender guy used to have a website which displayed the Donegal site, and asked people to submit reports of similar incidents. But I can't find traces of that site anymore. Can't find it in archive.org either. Maybe my memory is bad.
But the Pace VanDevender guy definitely exists, is a scientist and he definitely did write about it. And none of his peers have gone out and said he's a raving lunatic...
Maybe he was really on to something and the military asked him to shut up :).
Anyway here's what I dug up, I think these are pics of the site:
http://www.geologywales.co.uk/storms/autumn06b.htm
From a thread discussing it: http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=7952&start=1
And also:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~zcapc53/great_balls_of_fire.doc
http://zseltvay.com/first_installment_extreme_ball_lightning.htm
See the request for help from VanDevender at http://zseltvay.com/#A paper on (the link is #A paper on, but I'm too lazy to workaround Slashdot)
They could easily just show the video where the "combined algorithm" succeeds, even if there were times where it failed.
Anyone seen the endings of those Jackie Chan movies? In the movie proper you see the fancy successes. The ending is where you see some of the other clips where stuff went "different".
Since they have resorted to "open loop" control, it means the robot is about as likely to make as many mistakes as humans. It's progress I guess, but really, if it can only get within 2 feet of actual spot, I think I could do as well with that many tries - same car, same exact parking spot.
Whereas you have those "pro" drivers who can get into a random car and within a few minutes (or even less) figure out its characteristics well enough to drive it far better than us "normals".
What he did is exactly why insurance companies charge much higher premiums for young male drivers, and why parental guidance is highly recommended.
Lots of people here like to say "censorship= evil" etc, but basically you don't want to make it so easy for teenagers to get stupid ideas - they can come up with plenty by themselves. Once they've survived that period, then sure.
Yes that's true. But perhaps that sort of thinking would still be good nowadays.
Interaction with the Earth's magnetic field? It's got to generate a very strong magnetic field to slow the descent of the estimated 20 tons it weighs...
:).
Anyway I don't think the scientists are sure what exactly happened there, but they know something rather unusual happened.
What else could it be? It seems even more unlikely that lightning did it. And hallucinations by themselves do not cause 90 meter trenches to be formed
Yeah there are laws limiting what you can and cannot do when repossessing a car or property. Heck even squatters have rights in many countries.
There's probably a fair bit of history behind those laws. Just hope we don't have to go through it all over again. Or worse, we get stuck back in the crap old days.
Nowadays the law seems to be: "When you have a monopoly, it's near-absolutely yours for 120* years, muahahahaha" (* subject to future renewals). Or "When you own something, you're not liable for anything, and you can change the rules whenever you like to whatever you like, and you can kick people out for no reason whatsoever". They like to claim it's a service when it suits them, and it's property when it suits them.
I don't call it progress at all. After all even thousands of years ago there were laws like:
Deuteronomy 23:24 If you enter your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat all the grapes you want, but do not put any in your basket. 25 If you enter your neighbor's grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to his standing grain.
Deuteronomy 24:19 When you are harvesting in your field and you overlook a sheaf, do not go back to get it. Leave it for the alien, the fatherless and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20 When you beat the olives from your trees, do not go over the branches a second time. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow. 21 When you harvest the grapes in your vineyard, do not go over the vines again. Leave what remains for the alien, the fatherless and the widow. 22 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt. That is why I command you to do this.
Ownership was not absolute. You're a farmer who has toiled hard over the land, and you're still supposed to allow random people to walk in and eat the crops...
What if many pranksters highlight a page (or more) in a popular book in a manner that would produce an offensive image/text? Or a spoiler for the book ending ;).
Individual highlights could be designed to look innocuous, but produce the target image when combined by Amazon.
Of course this may require a fair number of people getting access to a kindle. Doesn't have to be that many since I'm sure some pages are less likely to be highlighted in normal circumstances.
Near-death experiences can often be very harmful. ;)
Based on common theories of how the brain learns stuff, I bet if I can cause your neurons to fire in certain patterns for long enough, I can established changes that persist. So I wouldn't be confident in saying there won't be any health problems without more tests/evidence.
> Well, much better than in the 70's. Ever seen much of that 70's pr0n??
From what I hear, it's likely there was more "real life" action in the 1970s than say now, at least in the "western" countries.
This was the time of the Pill, before AIDS had become common, and the antibiotics still worked well.