I've heard of LVM, and used it in all of my linux servers. It's a life saver when it comes to dynamically resizing storage pools. But it's in no way comparable to drive extender. Read the post you replied to and tell me which of the points LVM ticks off. I know which ones, but i'll leave it to you to decide.
Sweet, so LVM provides redundancy? Or I still need to use software raid for that, which reqires all disks to be the same size in order to get full usage out of them?
And if I create an LVM array, and 1 disk dies, I no longer lose everything, the filesystem is easily mounutable and I only lose the files that were on that disk and weren't redundant (which you've also assured me LVM handles for you?)
And who mentioned drive letters? You're telling me that every unix will combine all of my storage devices into one pool, as opposed to having to mount them discretely in mount points? So if I have 5 disks, by default all of my files, regardless of location in the filesystem, will get nicely distributed across said disks? That's great to know as well! Last time I checked (about 2 seconds ago, from the ubuntu box I'm posting this from) you have to choose a mount point for any volume (logical or physical), and it only provides storage to that section of the filesystem. If my/var/log is full, and I just throw in another 1tb disk,/var/log does not get access to that new storage.
I asked a serious question. I really am interested in a set of technologies that have the same capabilities as unraid (which is linux based but NOT open nor free) and drive extender. LVM and software raid are in no way comparable.
-What happens if you lose a disk? So you look to install raid -what if all your disks aren't the same size? and -what if you want to upgrade just one disk? Or add a new disk? (I know both are possible with the raid-5 tools, but adding new disks takes HOURS, if not DAYS, depending on the size of your array.... not something I'd call usable to a home user)
MS drive extender and Unraid both have a home-user solution that open source does not match right now. I hope this changes soon!
Please name a linux based solution, apart from 100% proprietary Unraid, which allow for me to do what drive extender does. I'm serious. I refuse to install WHS, and thus far the closest I can find is going Unraid, which feels dirty to me, or nexentastor.
What drive extender does, in a nutshell: -all of your hard drives show up as one big storage pool. -100% of disparate drive sizes can be used (excluding copies/parity obviously). So if you have 3 old 1tb drives, 2 old 1.5tb drives, and 1 2tb drive you'll have 8gb of storage -configurable redundancy such that any single disk failure, no matter the size, all files are still available -if two drives fail, you only lose the files that were on those two drives, not the entire array -take any one drive out of the array, plug it into ANY windows vista or higher PC (new NTFS version), have access to all the files that were stored in that drive. -add a drive, get that much more storage (excluding copies/parity obviously)
ZFS comes DAMNED close, but you cannot grow the number of disks in a raidz array, you have to add an entire extra array (meaning 3+ disks) to the pool. You also lose the entire array if 2 (or 3 with raidz2, or 4 with raidz3) disks die, and cannot have direct file access just by plugging in 1 disk of the array, but that honestly doesn't bother me that much.
So is your vendor refusing to support you? If not, what's your problem? If your car has a recall, do you take it to the dealer (who is likely his own business), or call up corporate HQ and demand they ship you the new part?
They are using vendors as the channel of distribution. There's nothing wrong with that, and genrally ensures everyone gets served more quickly.
I think that you, like many people who enjoy bashing popular things, haven't actually done any reading to learn what you're talking about.
Kinect IS a camera with a 640x480 (not simply a swiviling spot rangefinder) IR rangefinder built in. And it's well under $200. And it supports USB using a protocol so simple an outsider, with no documentation, was able to build a driver in 1 week.
So what competes with it? Where is a 640x480 IR rangefinder for under $200 with an easy to use interface (not a single spot using a pedantic and difficult to debug 1wire interface), with or without an integrated color camera?
Oh... you mean you assumed kinect was simply a $20 webcam rebranded and resold for $149 or whatever it goes for in the USA?
You cannot downsample a raw and still have it be a raw as a "raw" is the literal sensor data, unmodified. It's not even in color-combined pixels, but is the matrixed B&W data from behind the bayer (or other) mask.
You could downsample (and process) a raw into a tiff, which is basically a non-mosiaced "raw".
If you're not taking in RAW then you're not a pro photographer, part time or otherwise. The point of having originals at a high resolution and lossless is so that you can correct, crop, and publish them into a lower resolution format.
Having full resolution photos up on flickr/etc is a bit silly I'll admit, but if you're taking photos then you need much more than 5mp of data for your SOURCE.
Please read the entire thread you're replying to. The post you replied to is replying to someone suggesting you simply buy new flash storage every time you fill the old card up, and use that as your backup scheme.
So you cannot "reuse those MB" if you are not reusing cards.
look, man, I've got certain information, all right? Certain things have come to light. And, you know, has it ever occurred to you, that, instead of, uh, you know, running around, uh, uh, blaming me, you know, given the nature of all this new shit, you know,
Nonsense. The problem is a licensing problem, not a content distribution problem. If VLC would fix their license, the problem would go away, even if external contributions couldn't actually be distributed under the more permissilve license.
It's going to be shut off in about 2 months, and they reassigned the entire team to other projects and the creator left to go to facebook, who just days ago announced an effort on a project "to replace email" with something more collaborative and real time.
Check youtube for the IR google videos of how kinect works. It's not just two webcams, it's also an IR projector to do depth mapping much more successfully than just "two webcams". It's really quite a clever tech, and means that localized contrast issues (dark room, etc) won't matter for depth mapping (but will matter for image recognition).
I think he's saying there would be a eula (or you'd sign when you buy a dvd, just like you sign for credit card?) you would agree to when receiving the movie. So if one company starts upping no-copy from say 5 years to 50, you stop buying that company's movies. Etc.
No need for copyright law if you don't mind signing a contract to receive media of any sort.
Self publishing is only really viable the last 2 or so years, so there's going to be ZERO stats on the subject, but I wonder if that's actually true at all?
Take 100 starting out authors today (50 self publishing, 50 submitting drafts to big publishing houses). Check their average earnings from books in 2, 5, and 10 years.
You really think the ones just starting submitting, as opposed to publishing NOW (and for cheap), will wind up better on average?
Do you actually think that a single author out of those 50 just starting submitting manuscripts will make it at all in the standard writing game? (by make it I mean earn a living family wage from books alone)
A quick look at the music industry hints this is not the case. They're not the same, but there are too many similarities to simply ignore. I'd be betting on more out of the self publishing crowd doing well.
This is only possible because of the proliferance of ereaders, which even 2 years ago were new and the to average person unheard of.
If you start out trying to get a big publishing deal with a big6 house you would likely take many, many years to even get a legitimate read of your draft, let alone a single book published. And after you get that first book published you'll likely not make any money apart from your advance. 5 books later you may be sitting pretty, but only if the publisher decides to non-publish your latest effort because they have too many books in X genre this quarter, and the bigger fish gets more attention.
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This sounds EXACTLY like what I"m looking for. Googling/etc now, I appreciate the info.
I've heard of LVM, and used it in all of my linux servers. It's a life saver when it comes to dynamically resizing storage pools. But it's in no way comparable to drive extender. Read the post you replied to and tell me which of the points LVM ticks off. I know which ones, but i'll leave it to you to decide.
Sweet, so LVM provides redundancy? Or I still need to use software raid for that, which reqires all disks to be the same size in order to get full usage out of them?
And if I create an LVM array, and 1 disk dies, I no longer lose everything, the filesystem is easily mounutable and I only lose the files that were on that disk and weren't redundant (which you've also assured me LVM handles for you?)
And who mentioned drive letters? You're telling me that every unix will combine all of my storage devices into one pool, as opposed to having to mount them discretely in mount points? So if I have 5 disks, by default all of my files, regardless of location in the filesystem, will get nicely distributed across said disks? That's great to know as well! Last time I checked (about 2 seconds ago, from the ubuntu box I'm posting this from) you have to choose a mount point for any volume (logical or physical), and it only provides storage to that section of the filesystem. If my /var/log is full, and I just throw in another 1tb disk, /var/log does not get access to that new storage.
I asked a serious question. I really am interested in a set of technologies that have the same capabilities as unraid (which is linux based but NOT open nor free) and drive extender. LVM and software raid are in no way comparable.
-What happens if you lose a disk?
So you look to install raid
-what if all your disks aren't the same size?
and
-what if you want to upgrade just one disk? Or add a new disk? (I know both are possible with the raid-5 tools, but adding new disks takes HOURS, if not DAYS, depending on the size of your array.... not something I'd call usable to a home user)
MS drive extender and Unraid both have a home-user solution that open source does not match right now. I hope this changes soon!
Please name a linux based solution, apart from 100% proprietary Unraid, which allow for me to do what drive extender does. I'm serious. I refuse to install WHS, and thus far the closest I can find is going Unraid, which feels dirty to me, or nexentastor.
What drive extender does, in a nutshell:
-all of your hard drives show up as one big storage pool.
-100% of disparate drive sizes can be used (excluding copies/parity obviously). So if you have 3 old 1tb drives, 2 old 1.5tb drives, and 1 2tb drive you'll have 8gb of storage
-configurable redundancy such that any single disk failure, no matter the size, all files are still available
-if two drives fail, you only lose the files that were on those two drives, not the entire array
-take any one drive out of the array, plug it into ANY windows vista or higher PC (new NTFS version), have access to all the files that were stored in that drive.
-add a drive, get that much more storage (excluding copies/parity obviously)
ZFS comes DAMNED close, but you cannot grow the number of disks in a raidz array, you have to add an entire extra array (meaning 3+ disks) to the pool. You also lose the entire array if 2 (or 3 with raidz2, or 4 with raidz3) disks die, and cannot have direct file access just by plugging in 1 disk of the array, but that honestly doesn't bother me that much.
Oh, and ZFS isn't on linux except through fuse.
Good to know that the US is the only country in the world.
So is your vendor refusing to support you? If not, what's your problem? If your car has a recall, do you take it to the dealer (who is likely his own business), or call up corporate HQ and demand they ship you the new part?
They are using vendors as the channel of distribution. There's nothing wrong with that, and genrally ensures everyone gets served more quickly.
It would make a good wireless media player with the right hardware. It's a shame there's no accelerated video decode chip at all.
FTFY
I think that you, like many people who enjoy bashing popular things, haven't actually done any reading to learn what you're talking about.
Kinect IS a camera with a 640x480 (not simply a swiviling spot rangefinder) IR rangefinder built in. And it's well under $200. And it supports USB using a protocol so simple an outsider, with no documentation, was able to build a driver in 1 week.
So what competes with it? Where is a 640x480 IR rangefinder for under $200 with an easy to use interface (not a single spot using a pedantic and difficult to debug 1wire interface), with or without an integrated color camera?
Oh... you mean you assumed kinect was simply a $20 webcam rebranded and resold for $149 or whatever it goes for in the USA?
It can if you load a rogue root CA, and sign your OWN certificate for a MITM to facebook.com
You cannot downsample a raw and still have it be a raw as a "raw" is the literal sensor data, unmodified. It's not even in color-combined pixels, but is the matrixed B&W data from behind the bayer (or other) mask.
You could downsample (and process) a raw into a tiff, which is basically a non-mosiaced "raw".
If you're not taking in RAW then you're not a pro photographer, part time or otherwise. The point of having originals at a high resolution and lossless is so that you can correct, crop, and publish them into a lower resolution format.
Having full resolution photos up on flickr/etc is a bit silly I'll admit, but if you're taking photos then you need much more than 5mp of data for your SOURCE.
Please read the entire thread you're replying to. The post you replied to is replying to someone suggesting you simply buy new flash storage every time you fill the old card up, and use that as your backup scheme.
So you cannot "reuse those MB" if you are not reusing cards.
WP7 has no background applications support for third party apps.
look, man, I've got certain information, all right? Certain things have come to light. And, you know, has it ever occurred to you, that, instead of, uh, you know, running around, uh, uh, blaming me, you know, given the nature of all this new shit, you know,
Nonsense. The problem is a licensing problem, not a content distribution problem. If VLC would fix their license, the problem would go away, even if external contributions couldn't actually be distributed under the more permissilve license.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/update-on-google-wave.html
It's going to be shut off in about 2 months, and they reassigned the entire team to other projects and the creator left to go to facebook, who just days ago announced an effort on a project "to replace email" with something more collaborative and real time.
Where have you been?
Check youtube for the IR google videos of how kinect works. It's not just two webcams, it's also an IR projector to do depth mapping much more successfully than just "two webcams". It's really quite a clever tech, and means that localized contrast issues (dark room, etc) won't matter for depth mapping (but will matter for image recognition).
I think he's saying there would be a eula (or you'd sign when you buy a dvd, just like you sign for credit card?) you would agree to when receiving the movie. So if one company starts upping no-copy from say 5 years to 50, you stop buying that company's movies. Etc.
No need for copyright law if you don't mind signing a contract to receive media of any sort.
Google forced Popcorn Hour to remove their youtube movie viewing capability because it hadn't been sanctioned by google.
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/11/youtube-blocks-non-partner-device-syabas-as-allegations-fly/
Self publishing is only really viable the last 2 or so years, so there's going to be ZERO stats on the subject, but I wonder if that's actually true at all?
Take 100 starting out authors today (50 self publishing, 50 submitting drafts to big publishing houses). Check their average earnings from books in 2, 5, and 10 years.
You really think the ones just starting submitting, as opposed to publishing NOW (and for cheap), will wind up better on average?
Do you actually think that a single author out of those 50 just starting submitting manuscripts will make it at all in the standard writing game? (by make it I mean earn a living family wage from books alone)
A quick look at the music industry hints this is not the case. They're not the same, but there are too many similarities to simply ignore. I'd be betting on more out of the self publishing crowd doing well.
This is only possible because of the proliferance of ereaders, which even 2 years ago were new and the to average person unheard of.
If you start out trying to get a big publishing deal with a big6 house you would likely take many, many years to even get a legitimate read of your draft, let alone a single book published. And after you get that first book published you'll likely not make any money apart from your advance. 5 books later you may be sitting pretty, but only if the publisher decides to non-publish your latest effort because they have too many books in X genre this quarter, and the bigger fish gets more attention.
Don't pay any attention to any author out there.
Your mom?
MS hosts the exchange server offsite in their datacenters for you. You pay per user instead of per server.