I've used 3ware's cards in hard-core production machines for years, and I just can't say enough nice things about them. Even bashing them with bonnie (disk throughput benchmark), they give better performance than Dell's PERC SCSI/RAID controllers. Now that I've had a need to use them at home, I'm still ecstatic with them. Smartd has had the capability to monitor drives on these controllers for a *long* time, and 3ware's own monitoring software (although a little clunky in a couple places) offers a bunch more than smartd.
If you want NAS, just throw the controller & drives into a Linux box, and export the filesystems through Samba, and all the machines on your network will be happy to connect.
No, I am not related to, nor paid by anyone related to 3ware. Just a *very* happy customer.
Having experienced acute diverticulitis some years ago, and having been treated with antibiotics that essentially killed off all the flora & fauna in my intestines, this is no surprise to me at all. The human intestines (and I presume the same for most mammals) by themselves are just amazingly inefficient at extracting nutrition. Most of the work of digestion is actually performed by the microbes & bacteria & fungus that live there (and usually, quite happily).
(The alternative to the antibiotics was surgery, and while I do appreciate my surgeon's intent to avoid surgery, I might just do it the other way around if it should ever happen again. Don't want it to happen to you? Eat *lots* of whole grain and other fiber. You *really* don't want to annoy all them living things in your intestines!)
I don't know about performance of FC3T2 (yet), but I'll throw in my 2 cents on Gentoo. Yes, it allows you to build everything from scratch with as many (or few) compiler optimization flags as you like, but from my experience, it takes way too much attention to get it installed at all.
For me, I'm not sure it's really worth spending a day or 2 of really paying attention to the install. For others, it may be worth it. I just found it to be annoying to need to spend that much effort just to get a functioning Linux running.
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And that is why it is so important to know what a slacker or what a liar a presidential candidate is. Given what we now know about our current (acting?) president's devotion to his military service, how can he possibly be permitted to be our commander-in-chief?
Oh, and the other guy is also unsuitable to hold public office, for hosts of other reasons.
Remember: it is only those who are least suited to hold elected office that are stupid/corrupt enough to even accept a nomination.
I would dearly love for either party to propose a candidate that is actually going to improve the quality of life for every US citizen -- without meddling in the lives of citizens of other countries. (In discussions with many folks many years older than myself, it has been strongly suggested that the last such candidate was John F. Kennedy. I'm not convinced, but I concede the possibility: he certainly kept his religion out of his politics better than any US president since.)
I swear, there should be an absolute moratorium on permitting links to sites with popup ads in articles (or, for that matter, posts) on Slashdot. At best, it's just rude. But perhaps congress (yeah, the opposite of progress) will wind up inadvertently making popup ads illegal in their insidious efforts to regulate the internet. Well, one can hope, anyway.
I'm not that big a fan of the whole MMO scene, though I do occasionally play BioWare's Neverwinter Nights online for free (many servers can go up to 64 participants). Largely, it depends on the sorts of players the game attracts, and I've seen my share of horror stories about PK (player killers), and generic *ssholes on the big MMO games. How can that be worth paying for?
Why do you need a hosted shell account?
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Just fire up Linux on some dusty old i386, and plug it into your home network. What's so special about having a hosted account?
Windows is only suitable for playing games, and there are many good tools in Linux that let me manipulate the data files for my favorite games. (#1 on that list of games would currently be Neverwinter Nights, et seq.)
Very simple: I will not permit any vendor to lock me in to their products, so StorageTek will not be eligible to bid on any RFPs that I'm a party to. I vote with my wallet!
Hell, I'd be happy if I could find a Linux distribution that I could install on my 6-month old AMD Athlon 64 laptop. Just what is it those folks at RedHat do, anyway?
Let's sort this out. Slashdot/Speakeasy is offering a 6 megabit DSL service; there are 86400 seconds in a day; we can average 30 days in a month. So, if all that bandwidth is dedicated to downloading pr0n, it amounts to about 1.76 TB/month.
(Of course, that same figure would apply to downloading anything at full bandwidth on such a connection, like MP3's, MPGs, etc.)
Actually, what I find is that it is harder to become an "expert" in Windows, and even when you do, Windows is so user-friendly that it is actually expert-hostile. Add to that the fact that so few administrative tasks are automatable, and any single one of those tasks takes more mouse clicks than it would take keystrokes to write a program to do it. Well, that's how *I* define expert-hostile.
Of course, now that I sometimes use Windows for work, I can't even imagine running Windows without either ActivePerl or a complete CygWin.
Alas, the 1st step is to allocate temporary email addresses for everything you participate in outside of your own domain.
The 2nd step should be public evisceration of anyone who sells an email address, or sends email to a purchased email address -- preferably after having been administered enough stimulants that they are unable to lose consciousness until they lose life.
And, yes, that is my tempered, reasoned response. You should see my knee-jerk response....
The projectionist had no other motive than to make sure that nobody else muscled in on the monopoly they already had in that theater. Of course, turning somebody else in would make it *seem* like the projectionist was on the side of the RIAA, so that side-benefit doesn't hurt, either.
In my humble opinion, those penalties are only remotely strict enough if they are assessed per instance installed. Otherwise, even the maximum fine of $5000 is a drop in the bucket for most adware/spyware perpetrators.
There's only one such cliche: "We nuke it, and take its treasure!"
Well, at least that's how it was when I played D&D (Computers? We were lucky to have abaci!)....
Ok, we all already know that Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop. Will somebody please explain how the "courts" of the USA can allow this sort of action?
I say we should each start a database of whatever "facts" we have available to us (that aren't already copyrighted, of course), and assign the copyrights to FSF or EFF for open distribution!
Exactly -- as long as they're cheaper than the equivalent tapes -- and cheaper than the IDE drives they're backing up. Right now (or at least recently), the tape media are on the order of $2/GB, whereas IDE drives are on the order of $1/GB. Go figure!
Linux Access Control Lists implement the full set of functions and utilities defined for Access Control Lists in POSIX.1e, and several extensions. The implementation is fully compliant with POSIX.1e draft 17; extensions are marked as such.
There are (as noted in other replies above) several Unix and Linux filesystems that implement ACLs with dynamic inheritance.
As for your left nut, you can keep it -- in a vice.
WSH is news to me. But that's probably because the only Windows OS I've dealt with in several years is a tiny W98se partition on my laptop for playing games while travelling. Nonetheless, back in the day when I needed to use Windows for work, my life was made tolerable by the availability of ActivePerl (the machine had just enough capacity for that, but not enough for a complete CygWin, alas).
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Excuse me? Pray, tell. Which failures are these?
I've used 3ware's cards in hard-core production machines for years, and I just can't say enough nice things about them. Even bashing them with bonnie (disk throughput benchmark), they give better performance than Dell's PERC SCSI/RAID controllers. Now that I've had a need to use them at home, I'm still ecstatic with them. Smartd has had the capability to monitor drives on these controllers for a *long* time, and 3ware's own monitoring software (although a little clunky in a couple places) offers a bunch more than smartd.
If you want NAS, just throw the controller & drives into a Linux box, and export the filesystems through Samba, and all the machines on your network will be happy to connect.
No, I am not related to, nor paid by anyone related to 3ware. Just a *very* happy customer.
Having experienced acute diverticulitis some years ago, and having been treated with antibiotics that essentially killed off all the flora & fauna in my intestines, this is no surprise to me at all. The human intestines (and I presume the same for most mammals) by themselves are just amazingly inefficient at extracting nutrition. Most of the work of digestion is actually performed by the microbes & bacteria & fungus that live there (and usually, quite happily).
(The alternative to the antibiotics was surgery, and while I do appreciate my surgeon's intent to avoid surgery, I might just do it the other way around if it should ever happen again. Don't want it to happen to you? Eat *lots* of whole grain and other fiber. You *really* don't want to annoy all them living things in your intestines!)
I don't know about performance of FC3T2 (yet), but I'll throw in my 2 cents on Gentoo. Yes, it allows you to build everything from scratch with as many (or few) compiler optimization flags as you like, but from my experience, it takes way too much attention to get it installed at all.
For me, I'm not sure it's really worth spending a day or 2 of really paying attention to the install. For others, it may be worth it. I just found it to be annoying to need to spend that much effort just to get a functioning Linux running.
And that is why it is so important to know what a slacker or what a liar a presidential candidate is. Given what we now know about our current (acting?) president's devotion to his military service, how can he possibly be permitted to be our commander-in-chief?
Oh, and the other guy is also unsuitable to hold public office, for hosts of other reasons.
Remember: it is only those who are least suited to hold elected office that are stupid/corrupt enough to even accept a nomination.
I would dearly love for either party to propose a candidate that is actually going to improve the quality of life for every US citizen -- without meddling in the lives of citizens of other countries. (In discussions with many folks many years older than myself, it has been strongly suggested that the last such candidate was John F. Kennedy. I'm not convinced, but I concede the possibility: he certainly kept his religion out of his politics better than any US president since.)
I swear, there should be an absolute moratorium on permitting links to sites with popup ads in articles (or, for that matter, posts) on Slashdot. At best, it's just rude. But perhaps congress (yeah, the opposite of progress) will wind up inadvertently making popup ads illegal in their insidious efforts to regulate the internet. Well, one can hope, anyway.
I'm not that big a fan of the whole MMO scene, though I do occasionally play BioWare's Neverwinter Nights online for free (many servers can go up to 64 participants). Largely, it depends on the sorts of players the game attracts, and I've seen my share of horror stories about PK (player killers), and generic *ssholes on the big MMO games. How can that be worth paying for?
Just fire up Linux on some dusty old i386, and plug it into your home network. What's so special about having a hosted account?
Windows is only suitable for playing games, and there are many good tools in Linux that let me manipulate the data files for my favorite games. (#1 on that list of games would currently be Neverwinter Nights, et seq.)
Very simple: I will not permit any vendor to lock me in to their products, so StorageTek will not be eligible to bid on any RFPs that I'm a party to. I vote with my wallet!
Hell, I'd be happy if I could find a Linux distribution that I could install on my 6-month old AMD Athlon 64 laptop. Just what is it those folks at RedHat do, anyway?
Let's sort this out. Slashdot/Speakeasy is offering a 6 megabit DSL service; there are 86400 seconds in a day; we can average 30 days in a month. So, if all that bandwidth is dedicated to downloading pr0n, it amounts to about 1.76 TB/month.
(Of course, that same figure would apply to downloading anything at full bandwidth on such a connection, like MP3's, MPGs, etc.)
Actually, what I find is that it is harder to become an "expert" in Windows, and even when you do, Windows is so user-friendly that it is actually expert-hostile. Add to that the fact that so few administrative tasks are automatable, and any single one of those tasks takes more mouse clicks than it would take keystrokes to write a program to do it. Well, that's how *I* define expert-hostile.
Of course, now that I sometimes use Windows for work, I can't even imagine running Windows without either ActivePerl or a complete CygWin.
Alas, the 1st step is to allocate temporary email addresses for everything you participate in outside of your own domain.
The 2nd step should be public evisceration of anyone who sells an email address, or sends email to a purchased email address -- preferably after having been administered enough stimulants that they are unable to lose consciousness until they lose life.
And, yes, that is my tempered, reasoned response. You should see my knee-jerk response....
The projectionist had no other motive than to make sure that nobody else muscled in on the monopoly they already had in that theater. Of course, turning somebody else in would make it *seem* like the projectionist was on the side of the RIAA, so that side-benefit doesn't hurt, either.
In my humble opinion, those penalties are only remotely strict enough if they are assessed per instance installed. Otherwise, even the maximum fine of $5000 is a drop in the bucket for most adware/spyware perpetrators.
Ok, we all already know that Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop. Will somebody please explain how the "courts" of the USA can allow this sort of action?
I say we should each start a database of whatever "facts" we have available to us (that aren't already copyrighted, of course), and assign the copyrights to FSF or EFF for open distribution!
Oh, come on! Would it have killed you to type "M6805" in the SEARCH box?
Dammit. The Submit button is faster than the brain. Tapes: $0.50/GB; IDE disk: $1/GB. Still an insane ratio for backup media....
Exactly -- as long as they're cheaper than the equivalent tapes -- and cheaper than the IDE drives they're backing up. Right now (or at least recently), the tape media are on the order of $2/GB, whereas IDE drives are on the order of $1/GB. Go figure!
Hmmm. Maybe it is you who is high.
From the acl(5) man page:
Linux Access Control Lists implement the full set of functions and utilities defined for Access Control Lists in POSIX.1e, and several extensions. The implementation is fully compliant with POSIX.1e draft 17; extensions are marked as such.
There are (as noted in other replies above) several Unix and Linux filesystems that implement ACLs with dynamic inheritance.
As for your left nut, you can keep it -- in a vice.
WSH is news to me. But that's probably because the only Windows OS I've dealt with in several years is a tiny W98se partition on my laptop for playing games while travelling. Nonetheless, back in the day when I needed to use Windows for work, my life was made tolerable by the availability of ActivePerl (the machine had just enough capacity for that, but not enough for a complete CygWin, alas).