Sure, but I actually like sending and receiving occasional texts. I just wish there was competition to get the rates down to where I didn't have to be stingy with them.
Yep. When we say the cell market is terrible in the US, we're not kidding. We also pay for incoming texts. You can nail people for $0.20 a pop by text bombing them. The major carriers use incompatible technologies, so it's a major hassle to take your business elsewhere... not that any of them offer a better deal anyway.
I don't know an off-the-shelf product for this, but it's easy to DIY.
Buy some hard drive power splitter or extension cables. Chop off the hard drive end. You now have four wires: +5V (red), +12V (yellow), and two grounds (black).
Now chop the wall wart off the device's power cord. If you don't want to sacrifice a wall wart, head over to Mouser or Digikey, buy the appropriate type of plug and solder a tail on it.
Strip the bitter ends of the wires and attach them with wire nuts, crimp lugs, solder + electrical tape, or any other method. Just make sure you get the polarity right - usually it's center positive, but check the diagram on the wall wart. Use a multi-meter if you're not sure.
I've done this a few times with no ill consequences.
Sometimes, never. Don't forget to add up power, cooling, sysadmin time... And that's before getting to intangibles like being able to spin up 400 cores for an hour and getting your result same-day instead of only owning 40 cores and having to wait until tomorrow.
Cloud computing really cleans up for batch computing jobs like this.
+1. It is very nice to be able to spin up 50 instances, run the hell out of your job, then delete them. It gets done faster, and you don't have to deal with maintenance, upgrades, and obsolescence. Realized you need more RAM? Just adjust it! And so on. It'll likely come out cheaper than owning your own after you add up all the hidden costs (power, cooling, space, time, etc).
The only downside is there are no GPUs. But that's not really a downside: if you do end up developing a GPU version, your cluster configuration would completely change (1x2 cores per box, 3-4U boxes with many PCI-E slots, instead of 2x8 cores or however many you can economically cram into a 1-2U pizza box), so the investment you'd make now would be completely wrong for that future development. With cloud servers you minimize sunk costs.
I use Rackspace Cloud and it performs as promised. It's definitely worth a look.
Sure, I'd love to meet one. It's easy to test for, and I wouldn't mind some fame and glory for definitively proving the existence of a rare and controversial condition.
The trouble is we've done the test a bunch of times and we're not getting any positive results. That doesn't mean we should halt all testing, but it does mean you shouldn't expect a positive result to suddenly appear.
I agree with all your philosophical questions. I occasionally check the "Post Anonymously" checkbox when I want to post some unpopular truth. Am I now a member?
Until these problems are worked out (and they may never be), I encourage you to keep a copy of the Tor Browser handy. Use it whenever you want to see the truth for yourself without having to worry about who's watching over your shoulder.
It's sad that I have to be so paranoid in a "free" country, but at least we have tools to help.
You set up a network drive at site A. You set up a network drive at site B. You install SpiderOak on both sites, and it syncs between them.
OK, if you want cheap NAS toasters that do all the functionality internally, sure, I agree that this isn't it. I wouldn't say it's completely and entirely different, though.
How does this fail anything? You set up a SpiderOak sync between the local machine and the remote one. Files are synced, old versions are backed up in the cloud. It works through any firewall, it does deltas, proper crypto, it's reasonably priced, and it works out of the box. It's exactly what was asked for.
+1 spideroak. I'm also happy with JungleDisk. Both have multi-OS support, bidirectional sync, offsite backups, solid encryption, and minimal hassles.
The downside is that you're paying per GB. Another good choice is CrashPlan which allows unlimited backups for a very reasonable price. Again, multi-OS, good crypto if you use their high security (non-password-recoverable) modes, minimal hassles. However, it doesn't have a sync feature.
For a very easy roll-your own, I have two suggestions: BackupPC (does what it says, works great); or just a simple cron job:
Create a BTRFS volume for backups. Have a cron job that rsyncs whatever you want into the volume, then creates a snapshot when it's done. If you want it to automatically delete old snapshots it takes a few more lines of shell, but if you google for btrfs snapshot rotators, there are a bunch of very simple ones out there. In the simplest case you just 'btrfs subv del/backups/snap.7', then rename the newer ones 6>7, 5>6, 4>5, etc, just like rotating logs.
When oil companies talk about how they're "investing in green technology", it's usually in the form of buying up patents to make sure that electric vehicles don't become too practical.
In the case of NiMH, which is very robust and economical, it's courtesy of Chevron. Thus electric vehicles currently have to use Li-ion, which has very good energy density, but they're considerably more expensive. It works OK for the small packs in hybrids, but long-range pure electrics will need NiMH to be practical.
And, of course, if your insurance doesn't cover them, you're stuck with two unpleasant choices: either you pay full retail price or you do without.
... Kind of like everything in medicine. The prices are jacked up to the point where you can't afford it, but the insurance companies can because they have a huge discount. You can't afford to not have insurance.
Obamacare is going to help a lot, but it still doesn't get these scum-sucking market-manipulating sons of bitches out of the way, so expect everything to still be more difficult and expensive in the US than anywhere else in the first world.
The problem is that a currency should be stable, not a speculative investment. No one wants a currency where the value of their wallet is subject to huge market fluctuations.
Rolling releases are great for devs because it lets you put your new feature into the release cycle when it's ready instead of locking it down in whatever state if you don't want to miss the 6 month cycle.
The trouble is that this is terrible for users. The 6 month cycle is already a little aggressive (but tolerable) on support forums. Monthly releases would cause so much confusion when you're searching for other people who have experienced your problem.
Also, how does the support cycle work? Are you going to provide parallel support for 24 releases for two years? If not, do I have to upgrade monthly? I support too many computers for that to be a realistic option.
Whoa. Do we have some kind of history, or do you just randomly start off conversations by insulting people when you disagree?
Anyway, yes, I know WL has an agenda. If nothing else they're into promoting themselves and JA in particular.
The question is whether the redactions are done with a hidden agenda that conflicts with their stated one. Are the edits genuinely done to promote the truth with minimal editing to limit collateral damage, or are they misrepresenting the truth for some other purpose?
You are attempting to claim Wikileaks is 100% pure here.
No, I'm claiming that "Wikileaks [... ] realizes there's a need for secrecy/privacy in the world", and providing evidence to support that claim.
And yes, the job's too big for one person... that's why they were farming it out to reasonably respectable news organizations which are (well, should have been) capable of handling this level of journalistic ethics.
Have a look at the actual leaks. The redactions aren't like the black pages you get back on an FOIA request. They're omitting names and other specifics, but leaving the intention of the documents perfectly well intact. Sure, that can still be used to hide an agenda on WL's part, but that just calls for critical thinking skills.
I'm not giving them a free pass, but it does appear that they're trying to do the right thing. How could they even cheat at this? Tell their press partners "hey, we need to redact these documents but, uh, could you do it with this other agenda in mind?"
For better or worse, we'll find out: since the raw information is now available, we can see what was redacted and if it was done with an agenda.
There it is. That's the ten word answer my staff's been looking for for two weeks. There it is. Ten-word answers can kill you in political campaigns. They're the tip of the sword. Here's my question: What are the next ten words of your answer? Your taxes are too high? So are mine. Give me the next ten words. How are we going to do it? Give me ten after that, I'll drop out of the race right now. Every once in a while... every once in a while, there's a day with an absolute right and an absolute wrong, but those days almost always include body counts. Other than that, there aren't very many unnuanced moments in leading a country that's way too big for ten words. I'm the President of the United States, not the President of the people who agree with me. And by the way, if the left has a problem with that, they should vote for somebody else.
--President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet, from The West Wing
Sometimes exposing a secret is the right thing to do, sometimes not. That's not hypocrisy; that's just admitting that the subject is too complicated to boil down to "secrets should [not] be exposed".
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Sure, but I actually like sending and receiving occasional texts. I just wish there was competition to get the rates down to where I didn't have to be stingy with them.
Yep. When we say the cell market is terrible in the US, we're not kidding. We also pay for incoming texts. You can nail people for $0.20 a pop by text bombing them. The major carriers use incompatible technologies, so it's a major hassle to take your business elsewhere... not that any of them offer a better deal anyway.
Rich assholes want everyone else to need to work so they won't have to.
I don't know an off-the-shelf product for this, but it's easy to DIY.
Buy some hard drive power splitter or extension cables. Chop off the hard drive end. You now have four wires: +5V (red), +12V (yellow), and two grounds (black).
Now chop the wall wart off the device's power cord. If you don't want to sacrifice a wall wart, head over to Mouser or Digikey, buy the appropriate type of plug and solder a tail on it.
Strip the bitter ends of the wires and attach them with wire nuts, crimp lugs, solder + electrical tape, or any other method. Just make sure you get the polarity right - usually it's center positive, but check the diagram on the wall wart. Use a multi-meter if you're not sure.
I've done this a few times with no ill consequences.
I did just say "batch computing jobs".
Sweet!
Sometimes, never. Don't forget to add up power, cooling, sysadmin time... And that's before getting to intangibles like being able to spin up 400 cores for an hour and getting your result same-day instead of only owning 40 cores and having to wait until tomorrow.
Cloud computing really cleans up for batch computing jobs like this.
+1. It is very nice to be able to spin up 50 instances, run the hell out of your job, then delete them. It gets done faster, and you don't have to deal with maintenance, upgrades, and obsolescence. Realized you need more RAM? Just adjust it! And so on. It'll likely come out cheaper than owning your own after you add up all the hidden costs (power, cooling, space, time, etc).
The only downside is there are no GPUs. But that's not really a downside: if you do end up developing a GPU version, your cluster configuration would completely change (1x2 cores per box, 3-4U boxes with many PCI-E slots, instead of 2x8 cores or however many you can economically cram into a 1-2U pizza box), so the investment you'd make now would be completely wrong for that future development. With cloud servers you minimize sunk costs.
I use Rackspace Cloud and it performs as promised. It's definitely worth a look.
Sure, I'd love to meet one. It's easy to test for, and I wouldn't mind some fame and glory for definitively proving the existence of a rare and controversial condition.
The trouble is we've done the test a bunch of times and we're not getting any positive results. That doesn't mean we should halt all testing, but it does mean you shouldn't expect a positive result to suddenly appear.
I agree with all your philosophical questions. I occasionally check the "Post Anonymously" checkbox when I want to post some unpopular truth. Am I now a member?
Until these problems are worked out (and they may never be), I encourage you to keep a copy of the Tor Browser handy. Use it whenever you want to see the truth for yourself without having to worry about who's watching over your shoulder.
It's sad that I have to be so paranoid in a "free" country, but at least we have tools to help.
You set up a network drive at site A. You set up a network drive at site B. You install SpiderOak on both sites, and it syncs between them.
OK, if you want cheap NAS toasters that do all the functionality internally, sure, I agree that this isn't it. I wouldn't say it's completely and entirely different, though.
WTF you too.
This response meets literally none of the OPs requirements
I just listed a bunch of requirements that it did meet. Which do you think it doesn't?
How does this fail anything? You set up a SpiderOak sync between the local machine and the remote one. Files are synced, old versions are backed up in the cloud. It works through any firewall, it does deltas, proper crypto, it's reasonably priced, and it works out of the box. It's exactly what was asked for.
+1 spideroak. I'm also happy with JungleDisk. Both have multi-OS support, bidirectional sync, offsite backups, solid encryption, and minimal hassles.
The downside is that you're paying per GB. Another good choice is CrashPlan which allows unlimited backups for a very reasonable price. Again, multi-OS, good crypto if you use their high security (non-password-recoverable) modes, minimal hassles. However, it doesn't have a sync feature.
For a very easy roll-your own, I have two suggestions: BackupPC (does what it says, works great); or just a simple cron job:
Create a BTRFS volume for backups. Have a cron job that rsyncs whatever you want into the volume, then creates a snapshot when it's done. If you want it to automatically delete old snapshots it takes a few more lines of shell, but if you google for btrfs snapshot rotators, there are a bunch of very simple ones out there. In the simplest case you just 'btrfs subv del /backups/snap.7', then rename the newer ones 6>7, 5>6, 4>5, etc, just like rotating logs.
When oil companies talk about how they're "investing in green technology", it's usually in the form of buying up patents to make sure that electric vehicles don't become too practical.
In the case of NiMH, which is very robust and economical, it's courtesy of Chevron. Thus electric vehicles currently have to use Li-ion, which has very good energy density, but they're considerably more expensive. It works OK for the small packs in hybrids, but long-range pure electrics will need NiMH to be practical.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_encumbrance_of_large_automotive_NiMH_batteries
And, of course, if your insurance doesn't cover them, you're stuck with two unpleasant choices: either you pay full retail price or you do without.
... Kind of like everything in medicine. The prices are jacked up to the point where you can't afford it, but the insurance companies can because they have a huge discount. You can't afford to not have insurance.
Obamacare is going to help a lot, but it still doesn't get these scum-sucking market-manipulating sons of bitches out of the way, so expect everything to still be more difficult and expensive in the US than anywhere else in the first world.
The problem is that a currency should be stable, not a speculative investment. No one wants a currency where the value of their wallet is subject to huge market fluctuations.
Rolling releases are great for devs because it lets you put your new feature into the release cycle when it's ready instead of locking it down in whatever state if you don't want to miss the 6 month cycle.
The trouble is that this is terrible for users. The 6 month cycle is already a little aggressive (but tolerable) on support forums. Monthly releases would cause so much confusion when you're searching for other people who have experienced your problem.
Also, how does the support cycle work? Are you going to provide parallel support for 24 releases for two years? If not, do I have to upgrade monthly? I support too many computers for that to be a realistic option.
Whoa. Do we have some kind of history, or do you just randomly start off conversations by insulting people when you disagree?
Anyway, yes, I know WL has an agenda. If nothing else they're into promoting themselves and JA in particular.
The question is whether the redactions are done with a hidden agenda that conflicts with their stated one. Are the edits genuinely done to promote the truth with minimal editing to limit collateral damage, or are they misrepresenting the truth for some other purpose?
That's a good point. We'll have to see if it's true after the diffs are analyzed.
Every once in a while, there's a day with an absolute right and an absolute wrong, but those days almost always include body counts.
--Aaron Sorkin
It's a hell of a lot more insightful than most of the things coming out of real politicians' mouths.
how much actual enforcement is likely to happen
If this were the US, I'd expect it to be like the War on Drugs: Plenty of enforcement, very little justice.
You are attempting to claim Wikileaks is 100% pure here.
No, I'm claiming that "Wikileaks [ ... ] realizes there's a need for secrecy/privacy in the world", and providing evidence to support that claim.
And yes, the job's too big for one person... that's why they were farming it out to reasonably respectable news organizations which are (well, should have been) capable of handling this level of journalistic ethics.
Have a look at the actual leaks. The redactions aren't like the black pages you get back on an FOIA request. They're omitting names and other specifics, but leaving the intention of the documents perfectly well intact. Sure, that can still be used to hide an agenda on WL's part, but that just calls for critical thinking skills.
I'm not giving them a free pass, but it does appear that they're trying to do the right thing. How could they even cheat at this? Tell their press partners "hey, we need to redact these documents but, uh, could you do it with this other agenda in mind?"
For better or worse, we'll find out: since the raw information is now available, we can see what was redacted and if it was done with an agenda.
After I wrote this, a great quote came to mind:
There it is. That's the ten word answer my staff's been looking for for two weeks. There it is. Ten-word answers can kill you in political campaigns. They're the tip of the sword. Here's my question: What are the next ten words of your answer? Your taxes are too high? So are mine. Give me the next ten words. How are we going to do it? Give me ten after that, I'll drop out of the race right now. Every once in a while... every once in a while, there's a day with an absolute right and an absolute wrong, but those days almost always include body counts. Other than that, there aren't very many unnuanced moments in leading a country that's way too big for ten words. I'm the President of the United States, not the President of the people who agree with me. And by the way, if the left has a problem with that, they should vote for somebody else.
--President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet, from The West Wing
Speaking of people with black and white morals...
Sometimes exposing a secret is the right thing to do, sometimes not. That's not hypocrisy; that's just admitting that the subject is too complicated to boil down to "secrets should [not] be exposed".