Just as usable is an understatement. As above, its about the applications. Discarding compatibility with previous versions of application frameworks means that anyone developing a commercial project that will take several years to write is probably not going to bother.
Time machine for me generally "just works". Set and forget - it will do wireless backups of all my stuff to my time machine data store if it is in range (or plugged in, if i have it on an external drive). If my backup destination is not available, it will do hourly snapshots locally, and then roll them up to the backup store when it becomes available. Previous versions may have been a little flaky, but so far in Lion, it Just Works.
Windows really needs something similar to time machine. Windows backup in 7 is almost there, but it needs to be more intelligent, so you can have it automatically just work without popping up dialog boxes, etc. when the destination becomes available or if it is not available.
The brainwashing over there in the states is sufficiently complete enough that you have enough xenophobic ass-clowns available to do it themselves WITHOUT pay.
I don't even care about them anymore. I'm just sad that such big country and yet they are living in paranoia, investing almost nothing in infrastructure, but in same time waste their money to play hardliners and allow people to die (yeah, about Syria), and meddling with politics in their neighborhood countries. You can't get your respect in such way
Sounds pretty much exactly the same as the USA to me. Replace Syria with, oh I dunno... Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, Same shit, different media spin. If you think you lot living over there in the US are currently living in a *legitimate* democracy, you're fucking kidding yourselves. Obama (new bush) = same as the old bush, pretty much. Just has charisma.
Not sure if you realise, but the 5th amendment has been taken away over there in the states with the circumvention of habeas corpus by the military commissions act.
Thats partly my point. "indefinite detention" (i.e., until you give us the key) is potentially longer than whatever the charge of destruction of evidence is....
By "protect against drive failure" i mean keep running. I still back the stuff up manually and run snapshots for the "oh shit i deleted my stuff" event(s). The RAID is to keep running while waiting for RMA or replacement disk without needing to reinstall/restore from backup.
And this is where ZFS (or some other intelligent filesystem that is aware of the notion of heterogeneous storage) is going to be a win. Use spinning rust discs for the storage, and an SSD for accelerating read/write. Unfortunately neither Windows nor OS X have the facility to make use of this in most machines.
Superfetch is all well and good, but USB flash is still slow, and RAM is limited.
I'm keen to see the performance of the current/next generation of seagate hybrid drives. If they can get to something like 2tb with 40gb of SSD cache with intelligent enough caching they should be fairly attractive.
And yes of course everyone should have backups. But as you mention, A: your backups may not be up to the second and B: even if you have the data backed up, you're still without a drive to work with until the RMA comes back. Which can be weeks.
There's an oracle DB tuning document floating around that has been relevant since forever ago, the theory being "SAME" - Stripe And Mirror Everything.
I'm building RAID 1 or RAID 10 or ZFS into all my file storage boxes to protect against drive failure irrespective of storage medium. Disk is cheap enough now that running a single disk, or cheaping out with RAID5 just isn't worth it any more.
store strong passphrase / key file on USB media... if it all goes pear shaped, destroy USB media.
Now, how long do I get jailed for if the key is not retrievable? Surely "indefinite detention" is a violation of human rights somewhere/somehow? Murderers don't even get that.
on average 1 update every 2 years, over 8 years for OS X = $120. Windows upgrade for non-crippled version = ~$200-300. And yes, any computer older than 8 years is pretty useless for modern software, anyway, whether its a PC or a Mac.
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Just as usable is an understatement. As above, its about the applications. Discarding compatibility with previous versions of application frameworks means that anyone developing a commercial project that will take several years to write is probably not going to bother.
They're attempting to copy Apple and steal ideas from iOS. Except, they're stealing the wrong fucking ideas.
Given that he was talking 2006, you could probably do it on a laptop running a server in vmware workstation in a reasonable time-frame in 2012.
Neither is the price.
Windows really needs something similar to time machine. Windows backup in 7 is almost there, but it needs to be more intelligent, so you can have it automatically just work without popping up dialog boxes, etc. when the destination becomes available or if it is not available.
Hmm. Law must be different in the USA then. You can't do that here.
Given the history of drug use and ability/intent to distort reality, he's the ideal new age US president.
Except for fox news. They're america's most fair and balanced news source.
The brainwashing over there in the states is sufficiently complete enough that you have enough xenophobic ass-clowns available to do it themselves WITHOUT pay.
I take issue with your use of "democracy". Military coup installed puppet governments don't really count.
Sounds pretty much exactly the same as the USA to me. Replace Syria with, oh I dunno... Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, Same shit, different media spin. If you think you lot living over there in the US are currently living in a *legitimate* democracy, you're fucking kidding yourselves. Obama (new bush) = same as the old bush, pretty much. Just has charisma.
... the last 50-60 years of western anti-soviet propaganda, its only fair.
You can't claim a loss on shares that go tits up, so you shoudn't pay tax on them when they're held.
Yup, my strategy for laptops is store anything important on a server with RAID1. :)
Not sure if you realise, but the 5th amendment has been taken away over there in the states with the circumvention of habeas corpus by the military commissions act.
Thats partly my point. "indefinite detention" (i.e., until you give us the key) is potentially longer than whatever the charge of destruction of evidence is....
By "protect against drive failure" i mean keep running. I still back the stuff up manually and run snapshots for the "oh shit i deleted my stuff" event(s). The RAID is to keep running while waiting for RMA or replacement disk without needing to reinstall/restore from backup.
And this is where ZFS (or some other intelligent filesystem that is aware of the notion of heterogeneous storage) is going to be a win. Use spinning rust discs for the storage, and an SSD for accelerating read/write. Unfortunately neither Windows nor OS X have the facility to make use of this in most machines.
Superfetch is all well and good, but USB flash is still slow, and RAM is limited.
I'm keen to see the performance of the current/next generation of seagate hybrid drives. If they can get to something like 2tb with 40gb of SSD cache with intelligent enough caching they should be fairly attractive.
And yes of course everyone should have backups. But as you mention, A: your backups may not be up to the second and B: even if you have the data backed up, you're still without a drive to work with until the RMA comes back. Which can be weeks.
There's an oracle DB tuning document floating around that has been relevant since forever ago, the theory being "SAME" - Stripe And Mirror Everything.
I'm building RAID 1 or RAID 10 or ZFS into all my file storage boxes to protect against drive failure irrespective of storage medium. Disk is cheap enough now that running a single disk, or cheaping out with RAID5 just isn't worth it any more.
store strong passphrase / key file on USB media... if it all goes pear shaped, destroy USB media.
Now, how long do I get jailed for if the key is not retrievable? Surely "indefinite detention" is a violation of human rights somewhere/somehow? Murderers don't even get that.
Where "semi-official" = not official at all and unsupported by the hardware manufacturer.
Support to get a replacement drive doesn't mean dick if your data is gone. And warranty won't recover that.
... where software patents are bad, evil, etc. unless they're being used against apple.
... that our entire security infrastructure for the internet is in the hands of such honest, open and competent individuals.
on average 1 update every 2 years, over 8 years for OS X = $120. Windows upgrade for non-crippled version = ~$200-300. And yes, any computer older than 8 years is pretty useless for modern software, anyway, whether its a PC or a Mac.