"It also tends to get misused by management who see it as a way to micro-manage developers thereby pissing off the very developers upon whom they are depending."
This really sums up my experience with scrum meetings..
You may want to try this with a live Linux USB key or CD. It varies based on the Hw RAID controller, but most of the time the physical disks that are part of the RAID are visible in Linux (for example with a LSI HW Raid controller). Not as block devices (/dev/sda,...), but as generic SCSI devices (/dev/sg0,/dev/sg1). It is possible to run the smartctl tool on those directly.
SMART provides a lot of data, some of which is crap:-) but some of which is very useful. In particular, the error log:
# smartctl -l error/dev/sg0
Any disk with a non-empty error log you should consider replacing. Also, always run the short diagnostic tests:
What the manufacturer's test programs do is *precisely* run the SMART diagnostic test, so save yourself a CD-R. All they do is run the long self test. All SMART-friendly HDDs support the short (1 to 2 minutes) and long (1 to 2 hours) diagnostic tests, the latter doing an exhaustive sector scan. Boot a Linux live CD and type "sudo smartctl -t long/dev/sda", and voila.
A damaged disk cannot pass that test, not unless something is utterly borked with the firmware (*cough* seagate *cough*).
The latest Internet Operating System Usage survey revealed yesterday was not without surprise: the Linux Operating System, a free project maintained by a community of volunteers around the world, saw its usage percentage drop from 1.5% to a stunning 0.0%. This is a unexpected turn-around for the open-source community and a severe blow to what was previously considered an increasingly popular product.
The survey also showed an increase in popularity of the Opera browser by abount 1.5%, a significant victory for the upstart web browser company from Norway.
Look at nvidias drivers on linux! Always well behind other drivers, and filled with bugs because we have to wait for nvidia to get off thier asses and fix the damn thing.
You have no idea what you're talking about. No other drivers come even close to NVidia's Linux binary driver both in terms of quality, stability and performance. There's a reason it's so popular.
Of course we all wish it was open source, it'd get fixed quicker when the fine kernel folks decide to change the module API. But there's not ONE open-source graphics driver that comes even close it terms of quality. That's worth a few weeks of delay before upgrading to the latest greatest linux kernel.
He also complains about the "Conversation" view of e-mails (threaded view). I like the conversation view. But, I can see his point that it should be an option (even though I still think threaded/conversation view is a better way to use e-mail, because it allows for better context).
I was excited when i first read about the new Yahoo beta mail, but now that it appears it doesn't support threaded views, i'm having second thoughts. How can you seriously work with a mail client without threads ??? (or conversations, or whatever they're called). Managing through a busy mailing list (hunderds of msgs per day) is basically completely impossible without threads! (which is why i love thunderbird, on a side note).
Thanks for the insight, i can see how it can be useful in certain situations or for instruments. I just wish they'd stop abusing from the technology, even on bands that don't really need it. But i think there's a trend factor going on here...
The problem with pitch correction is: people with good music ears can hear it, and it's very very unpleasant. Basically, nobody can sing perfectly, and the beauty of a voice is in its inperfection. A pitch corrected voice have a completely unnatural and eerie tone to it that's incredbily annoying and unpleasant. I hate it i hate it i hate it:-(
I completely agree with this, and that's where i hope we're headed.
The problem seems to be the lack of a "market place": how do you connect the "music producers" (the musicians and bands) with the "music consumers" ? There are way too many bands out there to listen to them all and pick the ones you like. Basically, somebody has to do the work for you. In the old days, those people were often radio DJs. You picked a radio station that you liked and would follow the recommendation of that particular DJ (because you were attracted to that radio in the first place and therefore enjoyed that music style). This system no longer works now, because the DJs are controlled by monopolies (ClearChannel, the Big 4, etc...) who have an iron grip over all distribution channels.
We need some sort of system where the DJs of old are replaced by online market places: online shops, online radios. A fan of metal music for example would be attracted to metal-specialized online music shops and use them to discover and buy new music.
Those record producers have to spend large amounts of money on studios, recording equipment, engineers, and, well, artists too.
I'm appalled there are still people who believe in that myth. I know bands who recorded their albums in near-pro quality for a few thousands dollars. Studios, equipment and engineers are only expensive if you want them to be. For example, if you need to use computers to pitch-correct your vocals because your fake so-called "artist" can't sing (that's 90% of the shit you hear on radio). Record producers and other middlemen get way too much control and too much credit for the work of artists.
Let's see. I'm a Linux user. I therefore have only 2 options.
1. Buy CDs
Not practical, extremely limited choice. Used CD stores are usually the best.
2. Steal music.
I'll keep doing 2 thank you, no choice here. This is what happens when a handful of large companies have absolute control over how CULTURE is "distributed" to the masses without government intervention.
How about wearing a mandatory badge shaped like a yellow star...
DZM
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AMEN. That's a classic open-source problem. Everybody wants to work on the cool features, but nobody wants to do the grunt work to turn X into a freaking usable system (which is why X still can't do things MacOS could do 15 years ago, remember those monitors you could just rotate 90 degrees and the desktop and windows would resize by magic ?).
I'm a belgian citizen, and I'm really concerned about this. I don't like where this is going, public governments should never have close ties (especially technological ones) with a specific company. What this means is, in the future belgian citizens who don't run Windows will be 2nd class citizens (can't file their taxes online, can't use online services, etc...). That's just plain terrible, what a shame.
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"It also tends to get misused by management who see it as a way to micro-manage developers thereby pissing off the very developers upon whom they are depending."
This really sums up my experience with scrum meetings..
In related news, all nuclear reactors were deemed unsafe againt a meteorite strike.
The man behind this project is Bertrand Delanoe, the mayor of Paris, who is a socialist...
How big is that community really ? And what percentage of that community is actually made out of Sun employees ?
SMART provides a lot of data, some of which is crap :-) but some of which is very useful. In particular, the error log:
# smartctl -l error /dev/sg0
Any disk with a non-empty error log you should consider replacing. Also, always run the short diagnostic tests:
# smartctl -t short /dev/sg0
/dev/sg0
# [wait 2 minutes]
# smartctl -l selftest
What the manufacturer's test programs do is *precisely* run the SMART diagnostic test, so save yourself a CD-R. All they do is run the long self test. All SMART-friendly HDDs support the short (1 to 2 minutes) and long (1 to 2 hours) diagnostic tests, the latter doing an exhaustive sector scan. Boot a Linux live CD and type "sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sda", and voila.
A damaged disk cannot pass that test, not unless something is utterly borked with the firmware (*cough* seagate *cough*).
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> hopefully Sun will decide to add something to
> the table beyond just their name.
The *Java* Sun Open Media Stack ?
Heh. Windows/KDE for the masses and MacOS/Gnome for the elite...
GTK has a very good C++ interface as well (http://www.gtkmm.org/).
The latest Internet Operating System Usage survey revealed yesterday was not without surprise: the Linux Operating System, a free project maintained by a community of volunteers around the world, saw its usage percentage drop from 1.5% to a stunning 0.0%. This is a unexpected turn-around for the open-source community and a severe blow to what was previously considered an increasingly popular product.
The survey also showed an increase in popularity of the Opera browser by abount 1.5%, a significant victory for the upstart web browser company from Norway.
Look at nvidias drivers on linux! Always well behind other drivers, and filled with bugs because we have to wait for nvidia to get off thier asses and fix the damn thing.
You have no idea what you're talking about. No other drivers come even close to NVidia's Linux binary driver both in terms of quality, stability and performance. There's a reason it's so popular.
Of course we all wish it was open source, it'd get fixed quicker when the fine kernel folks decide to change the module API. But there's not ONE open-source graphics driver that comes even close it terms of quality. That's worth a few weeks of delay before upgrading to the latest greatest linux kernel.
DZM
He also complains about the "Conversation" view of e-mails (threaded view). I like the conversation view. But, I can see his point that it should be an option (even though I still think threaded/conversation view is a better way to use e-mail, because it allows for better context).
I was excited when i first read about the new Yahoo beta mail, but now that it appears it doesn't support threaded views, i'm having second thoughts. How can you seriously work with a mail client without threads ??? (or conversations, or whatever they're called). Managing through a busy mailing list (hunderds of msgs per day) is basically completely impossible without threads! (which is why i love thunderbird, on a side note).
DZM
Thanks for the insight, i can see how it can be useful in certain situations or for instruments. I just wish they'd stop abusing from the technology, even on bands that don't really need it. But i think there's a trend factor going on here...
DZM
The problem with pitch correction is: people with good music ears can hear it, and it's very very unpleasant. Basically, nobody can sing perfectly, and the beauty of a voice is in its inperfection. A pitch corrected voice have a completely unnatural and eerie tone to it that's incredbily annoying and unpleasant. I hate it i hate it i hate it :-(
I completely agree with this, and that's where i hope we're headed.
The problem seems to be the lack of a "market place": how do you connect the "music producers" (the musicians and bands) with the "music consumers" ? There are way too many bands out there to listen to them all and pick the ones you like. Basically, somebody has to do the work for you. In the old days, those people were often radio DJs. You picked a radio station that you liked and would follow the recommendation of that particular DJ (because you were attracted to that radio in the first place and therefore enjoyed that music style). This system no longer works now, because the DJs are controlled by monopolies (ClearChannel, the Big 4, etc...) who have an iron grip over all distribution channels.
We need some sort of system where the DJs of old are replaced by online market places: online shops, online radios. A fan of metal music for example would be attracted to metal-specialized online music shops and use them to discover and buy new music.
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DZM
Those record producers have to spend large amounts of money on studios, recording equipment, engineers, and, well, artists too.
I'm appalled there are still people who believe in that myth. I know bands who recorded their albums in near-pro quality for a few thousands dollars. Studios, equipment and engineers are only expensive if you want them to be. For example, if you need to use computers to pitch-correct your vocals because your fake so-called "artist" can't sing (that's 90% of the shit you hear on radio). Record producers and other middlemen get way too much control and too much credit for the work of artists.
DZM
and also cuts off idiot americans that don't even know where Belgium is located...
-dzm
Let's see. I'm a Linux user. I therefore have only 2 options.
1. Buy CDs
Not practical, extremely limited choice. Used CD stores are usually the best.
2. Steal music.
I'll keep doing 2 thank you, no choice here. This is what happens when a handful of large companies have absolute control over how CULTURE is "distributed" to the masses without government intervention.
DZM
Yup, clearly not enough for this market...
DZM
How about wearing a mandatory badge shaped like a yellow star...
DZM
AMEN. That's a classic open-source problem. Everybody wants to work on the cool features, but nobody wants to do the grunt work to turn X into a freaking usable system (which is why X still can't do things MacOS could do 15 years ago, remember those monitors you could just rotate 90 degrees and the desktop and windows would resize by magic ?).
DZM
All I'm getting is a black screen. Is there something wrong, or am I playing the game already?
A black screen ? You're definitely playing the game already.
I'm a belgian citizen, and I'm really concerned about this. I don't like where this is going, public governments should never have close ties (especially technological ones) with a specific company. What this means is, in the future belgian citizens who don't run Windows will be 2nd class citizens (can't file their taxes online, can't use online services, etc...). That's just plain terrible, what a shame.
DZM
Last week we had a meaningless story that was literally an advertisement for Rational/IBM software.
And now this post about some low-tech closed-source proprietary Windows-only software. What the hell is going on here ?
DZM