Read what spectecjr was saying. He was saying "hard disks use the residual power from an abrupt power-off to park their heads." Well, that's true and a useful feature, but it helps didly squat when you've got unflushed caches.
Some assumptions have to be made of the hardware, or you really can't build much of anything. How do you work around the problem that any sector can suddenly turn bad? Write two copies of the journal? What if you happen to hit two bad sectors, one in your primary journal, one in the secondary journal? Keep a third journal? Madness, I tell you!
Sorry, but sometimes you have to make assumptions. Hell, people make those kinds of assumptions in critical systems, where errors can cost lives!
Crusade started out vastly different from what Straczynski originally wanted. It's easy to argue that the TV execs killed the show by fucking with it so much.
Ironically, that's evidence in favour of mis-management. Since the first episode wasn't actually the pilot and had to be rushed together at a moment's notice, it's a relatively weak episode compared to the others.
When I moved into my new place last summer, the previous residents had failed to cancel the BT phone line along with their broadband. Not only that, they had run up a debt with BT and in order to get a phone line put in my name, I had to prove I wasn't them. Far, far too many faxes later, we had a phone line. Great, time to order tasty, tasty 2Mb ADSL from none other than the same Metronet in the article. Alas, 'twas not to be, for the line already had ADSL on it. "But, but..." I cried. "Sorry sir, you need to get BT to put a cease order on the line."
Before I continue, I should point out that Metronet did nothing wrong, it was BT messing both myself and Metronet around.
I phoned up BT and complained. "Sir, you need to call the ISP and tell them to put a cease on the line." "But Mr. ignorant sales support, I don't know the ISP because I've just taken over the line and want to get broadband on it." "Ah, well, sir, then a cease order will have automatically been made." "OK, cool. How long will it take, out of interest?" "Forever. Sometimes longer, depending on how long the engineer takes on his tea break." "But, but..."
Eventually, I got a date for the cease, which came and went. The next day, I tried to order ADSL, but alas no! "Sorry sir, BT say you already have broadband on the line" "But, but..." Time for more angry calls to BT. "Sir, the cease has gone through." "But, but..." "Oh, wait, sir, it turns out that the broadband has been ceased, but there was an error or something updating the line's status." "Then why didn't the 'engineer' try again later or something?" "He was probably on his tea break, sir."
All in all, it took over a month to get something that really should have taken about a week, all because the previous tennents were complete shits and BT's engineers spend too long on their tea breaks*.
* Some of the tea breaks may be slightly exagerated or made up, depending on the whims of the author.
"Code signing certificates were created my corporate entities like Microsoft to make open source look insecure." That's a rather unfair statement. It was created as a way for you to know exactly who a piece of code came from, that's all. You can then decide whether to trust it or not. The problem arises because people started to assume signed code is safe to run just because it's signed.
Debian, a non-profit volunteer-based organisation in "not having lots of money" shocker! Seriously, Debian is a bad example to use because they're not out to make money.
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I'm curious, are you talking about me in that statement? It's just that if you are, I can back up my statements relatively easily.
Read what spectecjr was saying. He was saying "hard disks use the residual power from an abrupt power-off to park their heads." Well, that's true and a useful feature, but it helps didly squat when you've got unflushed caches.
Some assumptions have to be made of the hardware, or you really can't build much of anything. How do you work around the problem that any sector can suddenly turn bad? Write two copies of the journal? What if you happen to hit two bad sectors, one in your primary journal, one in the secondary journal? Keep a third journal? Madness, I tell you!
Sorry, but sometimes you have to make assumptions. Hell, people make those kinds of assumptions in critical systems, where errors can cost lives!
And that's got what to do with the price of fish? Filesystem corruption is a software problem, not a hardware problem (in principle, that is).
Crusade started out vastly different from what Straczynski originally wanted. It's easy to argue that the TV execs killed the show by fucking with it so much.
Microsoft doesn't agree, they let you.
'For a TV show (SF/Space Opera) to work there has to be lots of "boldly going" and "kicking ET butt".'
Err...why?
Ironically, that's evidence in favour of mis-management. Since the first episode wasn't actually the pilot and had to be rushed together at a moment's notice, it's a relatively weak episode compared to the others.
I thought so.
Asking an American to be subtle is akin to trying to fit an elephant through the eye of a needle. /me sits back and watches his karma burn.
In capitalist America, faults are features!
When I moved into my new place last summer, the previous residents had failed to cancel the BT phone line along with their broadband. Not only that, they had run up a debt with BT and in order to get a phone line put in my name, I had to prove I wasn't them. Far, far too many faxes later, we had a phone line. Great, time to order tasty, tasty 2Mb ADSL from none other than the same Metronet in the article. Alas, 'twas not to be, for the line already had ADSL on it. "But, but..." I cried. "Sorry sir, you need to get BT to put a cease order on the line."
Before I continue, I should point out that Metronet did nothing wrong, it was BT messing both myself and Metronet around.
I phoned up BT and complained. "Sir, you need to call the ISP and tell them to put a cease on the line." "But Mr. ignorant sales support, I don't know the ISP because I've just taken over the line and want to get broadband on it." "Ah, well, sir, then a cease order will have automatically been made." "OK, cool. How long will it take, out of interest?" "Forever. Sometimes longer, depending on how long the engineer takes on his tea break." "But, but..."
Eventually, I got a date for the cease, which came and went. The next day, I tried to order ADSL, but alas no! "Sorry sir, BT say you already have broadband on the line" "But, but..." Time for more angry calls to BT. "Sir, the cease has gone through." "But, but..." "Oh, wait, sir, it turns out that the broadband has been ceased, but there was an error or something updating the line's status." "Then why didn't the 'engineer' try again later or something?" "He was probably on his tea break, sir."
All in all, it took over a month to get something that really should have taken about a week, all because the previous tennents were complete shits and BT's engineers spend too long on their tea breaks*.
* Some of the tea breaks may be slightly exagerated or made up, depending on the whims of the author.
I think so dawnread, but where will we get a bright-pink tutu at this time of night?
But it's not really protected, is it? After all, it feels like programs to remove the limitations are a dime a dozen these days.
"Code signing certificates were created my corporate entities like Microsoft to make open source look insecure."
That's a rather unfair statement. It was created as a way for you to know exactly who a piece of code came from, that's all. You can then decide whether to trust it or not. The problem arises because people started to assume signed code is safe to run just because it's signed.
Eh? Debian doesn't represent the entire of the open source community, not by a long shot.
Debian, a non-profit volunteer-based organisation in "not having lots of money" shocker! Seriously, Debian is a bad example to use because they're not out to make money.
GMail provides a POP3 interface, so there's a handy and interoperable way to get your e-mail there.
I encourage you to bite my proper-English-speaking arse.
You are aware that you could just do "£", aren't you? It's how I wrote £ earlier (and just now).
"(darn pund symbol =oP)"
Here's a few, try not to spend them all at once:
£££££££
My housemate and I have a theory that the BBC was issuing it's own little "fuck you" to the government over them Andrew Gilligan.
They're all things George Bush claims Saddam could do in 45 minutes?
Candidate Recommendations aren't what you think they are:
http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1111107793&count=1
Well, yes, but what if profiling reveals performance problems that can only be solved by re-designing entire modules and interfaces?