I don't recall the case, but someone requested some documentation from IBM as part of disclosure in a lawsuit and big blue returned a truckfull of paperwork for the other guys $400/hr lawyers to sort through.
Is that not a viable disk failure mode too? If the controller locks up then you could certainly get in that position.
However, given that the characteristics of flash failure are quite different from disk failure, it may justify some slightly different filesystem implementations.
Firstly, "getting the exact same SD card" might be a challenge. I've bought various cards from the same manufacturers and they tend to have subtle variations.
Secondly I believe there isn't really much on an SD card except for the flash chip. CF cards have more of a traditional controller on there. A lot of the early criticism of SD was that a poorly made reader could screw up your card.
On a modern filesystem, your writes should essentially be atomic and in theory it shouldn't be possible to leave the drive in an inconsistent state when the write fails.
Of course most camera memory cards end up being formatted with fat32 which can be a little less forgiving.
I feel like i've heard a lot of grumbling about the quality of redhats support. Ultimately they are supporting something they didn't build so I find it hard to believe they can provide the same level of enterprise support as someone like ibm or sun would provide (though plenty grumble about their support level)
I have to admit i've always been at a total loss as to why redhat could have the same sort of market cap as someone like Sun (at least pre-takeover rumours).
I suppose it's certainly more profitable to take other people's work and package it up, but what does that offer to a buyer?
I had a situation once where my bandwidth was metering during regular hours but free from midnight - 7am. Any smart heavy user will set up their downloads to happen during the free period and take the load off the network during peak hours. I've never understood why more ISPs don't do that.
If you just tell people they have a 40G cap then they'll feel entitled to use it whenever they want, and you really can't argue with that.
I came from a similar background. I graduated top of my class in university and 2nd in the country in high school and I've been programming since in basic since i was 6 (and since I accidentally told my employer that, i still do occasionally).
Fortunately that's translated pretty well into the workplace for me and (once i'm hired) it's generally recognized. However expectations on our generation and pretty low to start with - one place I interned was surprised that I could actually code stuff.
That said, the most exciting place i've traveled on business was Tampa, so go figure
Figured maybe in the throes of final clearance, i might be able to snag a decent deal on something.
Found a nice sony bravia TV, only a couple left and marked down some $800. Did a quick check on google and it turned out that the sears next door was selling the same tv for $20 less.
I don't think i found a single price that was less than the same item would have cost brand new online. Open box tomtoms in plastic bags with half the parts missing were still more than amazon was charging new.
The sad thing is that people were snapping this stuff up like it was going out of style. How did we end up with such an ill-informed customer base?
I've been with them for about 8 years and they are consistently a solid performer. I get a really strong signal at work, at home and really anywhere i visit frequently.
Their customer service leaves verizon sitting in the dust.
Sure there are places that don't have a strong signal, but that's true of any cellular network.
Not to mention the headaches recovering a failed machine. Random software will decide that you've moved it to a new machine and will deactivate your serial number.
The last thing you need when everything's smoldering around you is to sit on hold with the vendor while they deactivate you old serial so you can reinstall the software you've paid for.
Linux has its flaws but being able to easily install a pile of software on a freshly deployed machine is a godsend.
One of the engineering departments had a room full of (at the time) fairly high end sun workstations, and these were used both interactively and for people running longer compute jobs overnight.
To facilitate overnight jobs, the admins had set up a round robin dns alias that updated every couple of seconds to point to the machine reporting the lowest load average.
One of the students in my class had the bright idea of "If put 'ssh lowest' in my bashrc file, every time i open a terminal window it'll automatically pick the least loaded machine".
Fast forward a few minutes and we've got 80 sun workstations which have all systematically ssh'd to each other and none of which will accept any new connections...
I get about 3.8mbps down and 1.8mpbs up and tech support that seem to have noted that I know what i'm talking about.
Try calling up comcasts first tier tech support and saying "I'd like you to set the RDNS for my static IP to X". I'll bet the response won't be "Sure sir, we'll have that done by the end of the day but it may take some time to propagate".
The only major downtime i had was when the antenna blew off my roof. They sent an engineering out to the house on the weekend and within a couple of hours of my call.
It costs significantly more than qwest or comcast (both of whom i have other services from) but as far as i'm concerned, it's worth it.
Whereas android have that down. It took all of about 15 minutes to make the hotplug config changes to my linux box, install the eclipse extensions and I had full insitu debugging on a t-mobile g1.
I've seen it done. Thieves backed a truck up to one of the homes in my neighborhood, opened the garage door, wheeled out the appliances and left.
I saw it happen as did several other neighbors, but it was one of the showhomes the builder was trying to sell and we figured that they buyer probably wanted a different appliance option and they were just going to switch them out. In retrospect they probably went into the home when it was showing on the weekend and left a window unlatched.
They did it on a weekday afternoon, broad daylight and wearing somewhat matching uniforms and they just blended in.
But if you have a program that perhaps finds song lyrics, can you attach that to Shazam as one of the options to do with what's found? Or would you need to go back to the developer and have them do it?
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I don't recall the case, but someone requested some documentation from IBM as part of disclosure in a lawsuit and big blue returned a truckfull of paperwork for the other guys $400/hr lawyers to sort through.
Is that not a viable disk failure mode too? If the controller locks up then you could certainly get in that position.
However, given that the characteristics of flash failure are quite different from disk failure, it may justify some slightly different filesystem implementations.
Firstly, "getting the exact same SD card" might be a challenge. I've bought various cards from the same manufacturers and they tend to have subtle variations.
Secondly I believe there isn't really much on an SD card except for the flash chip. CF cards have more of a traditional controller on there. A lot of the early criticism of SD was that a poorly made reader could screw up your card.
On a modern filesystem, your writes should essentially be atomic and in theory it shouldn't be possible to leave the drive in an inconsistent state when the write fails.
Of course most camera memory cards end up being formatted with fat32 which can be a little less forgiving.
I feel like i've heard a lot of grumbling about the quality of redhats support. Ultimately they are supporting something they didn't build so I find it hard to believe they can provide the same level of enterprise support as someone like ibm or sun would provide (though plenty grumble about their support level)
I have to admit i've always been at a total loss as to why redhat could have the same sort of market cap as someone like Sun (at least pre-takeover rumours).
I suppose it's certainly more profitable to take other people's work and package it up, but what does that offer to a buyer?
I had a situation once where my bandwidth was metering during regular hours but free from midnight - 7am. Any smart heavy user will set up their downloads to happen during the free period and take the load off the network during peak hours. I've never understood why more ISPs don't do that.
If you just tell people they have a 40G cap then they'll feel entitled to use it whenever they want, and you really can't argue with that.
I came from a similar background. I graduated top of my class in university and 2nd in the country in high school and I've been programming since in basic since i was 6 (and since I accidentally told my employer that, i still do occasionally).
Fortunately that's translated pretty well into the workplace for me and (once i'm hired) it's generally recognized. However expectations on our generation and pretty low to start with - one place I interned was surprised that I could actually code stuff.
That said, the most exciting place i've traveled on business was Tampa, so go figure
Figured maybe in the throes of final clearance, i might be able to snag a decent deal on something.
Found a nice sony bravia TV, only a couple left and marked down some $800. Did a quick check on google and it turned out that the sears next door was selling the same tv for $20 less.
I don't think i found a single price that was less than the same item would have cost brand new online. Open box tomtoms in plastic bags with half the parts missing were still more than amazon was charging new.
The sad thing is that people were snapping this stuff up like it was going out of style. How did we end up with such an ill-informed customer base?
I've been with them for about 8 years and they are consistently a solid performer. I get a really strong signal at work, at home and really anywhere i visit frequently.
Their customer service leaves verizon sitting in the dust.
Sure there are places that don't have a strong signal, but that's true of any cellular network.
Not to mention the headaches recovering a failed machine. Random software will decide that you've moved it to a new machine and will deactivate your serial number.
The last thing you need when everything's smoldering around you is to sit on hold with the vendor while they deactivate you old serial so you can reinstall the software you've paid for.
Linux has its flaws but being able to easily install a pile of software on a freshly deployed machine is a godsend.
They can basically replace an unpopular product and hope to get some bump in marketshare out of it?
I'm with mesa networks and they are awesome.
Had a tech out diagnosing some problem and he was quite happy with a root prompt on my laptop to test things.
Saw my router and immediately asked if i'd gone with DD-WRT or something else.
I pay a little more than comcast, but that's a small price to pay for not dealing with comcast.
I saw a weird variant on that back in university.
One of the engineering departments had a room full of (at the time) fairly high end sun workstations, and these were used both interactively and for people running longer compute jobs overnight.
To facilitate overnight jobs, the admins had set up a round robin dns alias that updated every couple of seconds to point to the machine reporting the lowest load average.
One of the students in my class had the bright idea of "If put 'ssh lowest' in my bashrc file, every time i open a terminal window it'll automatically pick the least loaded machine".
Fast forward a few minutes and we've got 80 sun workstations which have all systematically ssh'd to each other and none of which will accept any new connections...
Yeah i had to be moved to the dish too because of the signal strength.
The last technician out here was quite happy with a root prompt on a linux box to troubleshoot issues.
I second this.
I get about 3.8mbps down and 1.8mpbs up and tech support that seem to have noted that I know what i'm talking about.
Try calling up comcasts first tier tech support and saying "I'd like you to set the RDNS for my static IP to X". I'll bet the response won't be "Sure sir, we'll have that done by the end of the day but it may take some time to propagate".
The only major downtime i had was when the antenna blew off my roof. They sent an engineering out to the house on the weekend and within a couple of hours of my call.
It costs significantly more than qwest or comcast (both of whom i have other services from) but as far as i'm concerned, it's worth it.
Whereas android have that down. It took all of about 15 minutes to make the hotplug config changes to my linux box, install the eclipse extensions and I had full insitu debugging on a t-mobile g1.
Most euro operators won't bat an eyelid if you bring your own phone, and t-mobile US seems to be the same way.
T-Mo US even has an unsupported handsets division to help you get unsupported handsets onto their network.
Well Android has a permissions architecture where each application's manifest describes the permissions that it needs.
I'd be a lot more wary of an application that claimed it needed access to my contact information than one that just needed internet access alone.
Holes like this could circumvent the permissions system.
I use the data capabilities far more than the phone capabilities.
The fact that it's only EDGE here until next week isn't really a big deal because i'm scarcely ever off wifi.
This in theory means any trojan app that requests "internet access" can telnet in and root the device it runs on.
That's a sizable risk
There's a guy with a razor that wants to talk to you
D'oh - i usually spot things like that. That'll teach me to /. while i work
I've seen it done. Thieves backed a truck up to one of the homes in my neighborhood, opened the garage door, wheeled out the appliances and left.
I saw it happen as did several other neighbors, but it was one of the showhomes the builder was trying to sell and we figured that they buyer probably wanted a different appliance option and they were just going to switch them out. In retrospect they probably went into the home when it was showing on the weekend and left a window unlatched.
They did it on a weekday afternoon, broad daylight and wearing somewhat matching uniforms and they just blended in.
But if you have a program that perhaps finds song lyrics, can you attach that to Shazam as one of the options to do with what's found? Or would you need to go back to the developer and have them do it?