Intel's Core technology is good. However, AMD still maintains a lead when it comes to 64bit Linux, running MySQL.
Although we're no longer buying AMD systems for our 64bit database servers... Why? Nvidia.
Almost no one uses AMD's chipsets. Finding a decent system with a Broadcom (ServerWorks) chipset is extremely hard. All of the damn "server class" chipsets are using Nvidia! And Nvidia is far from server class. In every DB server we have, in 64bit, no matter what revision of the kernel (we're had this running on 2.6.25), extremely high load on the network interface causes the interface to barf. If you look at the downloadable NIC driver from Nvidia's site, its the "forcedeth", reverse engineered driver, which doesn't work properly.
Not having a properly functioning NIC on a server class board is a problem. For one, it forces us to use up a PCIe slot and install a different NIC. So now we're down a slot, and out extra money for something already built onto the motherboard.
This futher complicates things, as you cannot use IPMI with an addin NIC. In addition, IF the stupid Nvidia NIC actually worked, the implemention of IPMI on any NIC non-Intel is flawed. Intel's IPMI implementation binds to the NIC's MAC, whereas all of the other implementations I've seen (Nvidia's and Broadcom's) use a separate MAC, thus a separate IP, for management... Without the benefit of having a secondary NIC for out-of-band management.
AMD has concentrated too much on the desktop, where there is no money to be made. They've let their server platform suffer, and as a result, are loosing money in that sector because Intel, unfortunately, delivers a better enterprise-class ecosystem.
Build a simple storage array with RAID from a barbones PC, your favorite Linux distro, configured for fault-tolerant RAID. It doesn't have to be complicated, and it doesn't have to be powered on unless you're actually pushing data to it.
I have multiple first hand experience with RAID failures - RAID is not as trustworthy as you'd want to believe. And no, I'm not talking your onboard HighPoint or ICH9 builtin RAID BS, I'm talking about $10K external fibre attached RAID cabinets.
All media eventually degrades. The problem with RAID-5, is it relies upon a single parity source for consistency checking. So, for simplicity, lets look at the XOR per bit method for parity calculations:
0 0 = 1 0 1 = 1 1 0 = 1 1 1 = 0
With that formula, you can always figure out what the missing bit is, if you were to lose one of the bits (a media error). However, if you run your RAID devices long enough, you WILL lose more than a single chunnk (most RAID cards calculate parity and distribute chunks in multiples of 32K). If you loose a few bits in chunk 1, and a few other bits in chunk 2, you have now got corrupt data, as you can only rebuild the data with parity if you have lost only part of 1 chunk.
RAID-6 is supposed to help with this, as you maintan 2 parity chunks, per data stripe. Even though its failure is less prone than RAID-5, it can still happen with RAID-6 if enough degradation happens to your media (your hard drives).
You can never have absolute , 100%, data guarantee. But you can get pretty close. Its all about expense. I would recommand two RAID-6 arrays to contain sensitive data, plus some sort of offline optical storage medium as well.
Just for reference, Google makes sure their data is online in at least 3 locations, that way, if they lose 1 set, they are still redundant, and are not solely running on their only copy.
My knowledge of firearms is just fine, thank you. I grew up using them. I also grew up using blades. You, however, need to study the reality of it more instead of behaving like you do now, thinking guns are some unstoppable thing from which one shot kills instantly, taking half the target's body with it.
Apparently all of the parent poster's opinion about firearms comes from Halo. Maybe one day he'll walk out of his mom's basement.:)
it only takes a few grams of pressure to pull a trigger, my point stands.
Actually, once again you're wrong. A "New York Trigger", is 3lbs, which is one of the lightest trigger pulls you can get. Most guns have at least a 5lb trigger, with revolvers reaching well past 8 or 9lbs.
Next time you want to argue about a topic, be informed about the topic. Now go order your latte and thank a farmer for the milk in your cup that didn't require you to dirty your city hands to get.
...Bill Gates and Craig Barrett among them, promoting the idea that there's an ever-present shortage of skilled IT workers to fill the industry's demand.
I actually have to agree with Bill Gates for once... There is a shortable of skilled IT workers. Not of IT workers, but skilled IT workers. How many of you have to work other sysadmins from differnet companies? How many times do you want to go over there, and do it for them, because you think they're so inept that walking them through it on the phone is just too painfully slow.
I'm not sure whether I like the idea of encrypting my entire disk. I don't really like the idea of not being able to boot a live CD to fix something should the need arise. Unless I'm misunderstanding the features, it won't be possible.
I think TrueCrypt is awesome for Windows, especially now that it has whole disk encryption. But, I do not use TrueCrypt for anything Linux based.
I use LUKS/dm-crypt. I'm sure if you google for it, there is some info on how to do this, but I encrypted my root partition, and modified 'mkinitrd' so it included the necessary things to prompt for password, de-crypt and mount my encrypted volume.
Now my Linux install is encrypted (all but the/boot partition, because initrd needs to be unencrypted). But, since I'm using dm-crypt, I can boot with things like Knoppix and view my files should SHTF.
Remember that statement next time you drive along a road. Where TF did that road come from?
I'll stop complaining about having to pay my taxes when I know my taxes are used in the best interest of American citizens. I'm tired of foreign aid, bureaus that don't do crap (Homeland security, dept of education, IRS, etc).. Most of those organizations either don't need to be there, or need to be drastically downsized. I'm tired of paying those peoples' salaries with my tax dollars. The tax system is so complicated, that we need thousands of IRS employees PER STATE to handle it. Thats BS. This entire system could be one nice flat tax, and nearly automated with day's technology.
Cut government waste, and we'll talk about that road you're driving on.
My local sheriff last year cleared $400,000. WTF!!? He gets a 'bonus' every time a warrant is issued and fulfilled. Let me get this right - he gets a bonus, FOR DOING HIS JOB? Thats crap. Thats MAJOR crap that he makes THAT MUCH MONEY. Thats insane. THAT, my friends, is government waste.
Anyone pick up on the very obvious communist statement:
Dr. Rosenfeld said. If you can control rotating outages by letting everyone in the state share the pain, he said, theres a lot less pain to go around.
First they're going to tell us what lightbulbs we're allowed to use, now this?
You know how many old/infirm people die every year due to the heat or cold?
Another poster had it right: We pay for a service, make the #(*& service perform like its supposed to. Stop being afraid of atom energy and build more reactors. Right now, its the safest form of energy with the greatest amount of return we can produce.
I bet they'd save a lot of bandwidth if they'd simply cleanup their network. I'm sure a lot of people here have linux routers with their comcast setup.. You ever tcpdump your comcast interface? Wonder why your lights are always going crazy on their modem? I'm in a 20 bit network (thats a lot of IPs) with Comcast, and get a FLOOD of ARP requests ALL DAY LONG to my modem. There is no reason all of those ARPs need to be broadcast like that. Thats poor management, and costly in terms of bandwidth as well.
This battle isn't over yet by far, because in addition to the few states that have explicitly refused to participate, many others are discussing it in their legislatures, and some of those are leaning towards saying "drop dead" to the Feds as well. Sooner or later, we will reach a critical mass of states that represent a significant enough percentage of the U.S. population (and, hence, of voters) that would be classified as second-class citizens, and that will put the kibosh on the whole mess. I just hope those legislatures have some backbone....
I wanted to add, that I think Lincoln was wrong with his war with the South. I'm not abdicating slavery, but what I am abdicating here is States Rights, something Jefferson and a lot of the founding fathers believed in.
Those states left the union because of differences in opinion on how the federal governemnt was trying to run things. Keep in mind, the federal government was created for a very limited set of duties: 1) Regulate commerce, 2) Regulate international trade, 3) regulate inter-state transportation. It had no other jobs. Everything since then has been created by power-hungry politicians who think they know best for you and me.
Either way, those states left, exercising their States Rights. I don't believe Lincoln had any "authority" to force the back. State participation within the union should be voluntary, not forced. Same with the real id crap. The federal government has no original autority to create something like this. We need to return the original constitution, and downsize this behemoth of a government back into something that actually works for the people, not the other way around.
Internet access is expensive enough already without the government trying to skim off the top
Awesome way to describe their racketeering efforts. The government already taxes the land line, cable line, what-not on how the internet is delivered. Their desire to tax 'email' or even sales tax by definition is racketeering. Its like a mob boss wanting "protection money" for your business in his neighborhood.
Now, if the telephone lines, dsl lines, etc weren't taxed by the government they would have MORE of a leg to stand on, but it'd still be sketchy. Its not like its a public utility like sewer or the interstates.
I'm still pissed about being taxed for MAKING money, and being taxed when I SPEND that money. That is BS. We don't need more lawmakers in government. We have enough laws. We just need more enforcement. If our governments (local, federal, state) would stop trying to squeeze more money out of us and having to hire people to do the squeezing, we could downsize dramatically, have less taxes, and happier people. Never happen, which is why I'm bitter.
One of the coolest thing I recall seeing - I forget if it was on the Military Channel or Discovery - was body armor made from a material (sorry forgot what it is/was might have been spider silk) that would act as a body of water and ripple off the impact of a bullet to reduce the point of entry thereby leaving the target (person wearing the armor) safe. I personally think we are maybe 10 years away from finding an impenetrable body armor solution. My wonders are, how much will it cost when it does come out. Sadly instead of attempting to assist military and LEO's, the makers will let greed get in the way.
I remember seeing that technology on a Modern Marvels episode on the History Channel.
The stuff was a liquid polymer that nano-engineered (gotta love buzz words) that would stay flexible until struck. I forgot the name of that cool phenomenon - a state change from liquid to solid during compression - but either way, the stuff looked really cool. Although its still a lab experiement, they say it should be to market by 2012.
Get off of the couch. You have no idea how much fuller my life is, now that I have given up 90% of my TV time and actually do something else. TV is a huge waste of time, and for what? Mindless entertainment, and something to BS about around the water cooler at work? I'd rather be outside.
Which is why, especially in the IT security business, there needs to be a code of conduct with regard to responsible disclosure.' Do you think there's any truth to this? Or is it a better idea to find the vulnerabilities as fast as possible, damn the consequences?"
Considering how quickly companies tend to SUE you for disclosing a vulnerability, I don't think there can be any true code of conduct between hackers and companies.. Not unless the companies start making it (public) policy that they WILL NOT sue you as long as you disclose a vulnerability to them first, and give them a reasonable time to fix it before going public.
I think that'll never happen though, and the only way to safeguard a hacker is to make legislation against those type of lawsuits.
I also think that'll never happen either, considering how firmly planted the lips of those companies are to the politician's ass... So *#@& 'em, we just need a good way to disclose anonymously.
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I run a server with a RAID-1 setup. After a few months a disk fails. I remove it and want to get it replaced under warranty. The problem is that the disk isn't in a good enough condition to be able to fully overwrite it, and something sensitive could remain in some obscure area, like reallocated sectors. Server stores a quite large amount of rather private data I feel really uncomfortable letting go. What if it gets fixed and somebody else ends up recovering my stuff?
Easy solution: Run RAID-5, or RAID-6. There isn't enough data on one drive to reconstruct its contents.
'I have traveled around the world, and every nation is thinking how it can model [intellectual property governance] after the U.S,' Dudas said. 'It's a proven system, over 200 years old. The Supreme Court, Congress and policy makers are involved [in cases and legal reforms] not because the system is broken.'"
From his point of view, its an awesome system. Everyone wants to have a system like ours. The reason: we won't do trade with them if they don't have strong IP laws, look at Russia and AllofMP3.com
He also forgets that most of congress is bought by big media and their involvement in the patent system is purely a puppet event because they're getting paid money from special interest groups.
I think its time we demand an election for the head of the patent system. Appointing or hiring someone to be the head isn't working.
This really is crap. According to the government, ANY thing you sell, you need to be taxed on it. That is complete BS, but it'll never change unless we start fighting these insane tax laws. Anything I sell on eBay (individual here, not a business) has already had taxes paid the first time I bought it. I'm sorry, but I do NOT agree with having to have tax collected AGAIN for something that I already own.
They either need income tax, or sales tax, but not both. If they made our tax laws sane, the size of the government could be reduced enough that the loss of one of those tax categories would not negatively affect income to the government.
A preventive cure to autism may be as simple as a 'therapeutic cocktail' of fatty acids. Human trials could start later this year."
Its about time we get the medical community looking into "natural" fixes for our problems, rather than big pharma trying to make billions off of us with man-made chemical symptom fixers.
It would be far more cost effective to spend the money in a way that reduces energy use, like replacing incandescent light bulbs with compact-flourescent or funding ways of making cities less car dependent.
There is one good idea out of California - there are a LOT more motorcycles there than most places, and they get special privilege on the roads as well, which helps enlist people as daily commuters on them. Plus, they're more space efficient, more gas efficient, pollute far less, and do less damage to the roads. It could potentially be a big win (environmentally as well as poltiically) if some politician would do a "get on your bike and ride" campaign for their community, and push for more daily commutes on motorcycles.
the problem is, they don't realize the massive hardware costs that would be involved.
No, actually the problem is, is when they are told that this would cost the average sized ISP an additional $100,000 a year, they said "Hell, thats nothing!", as they're used to spending millions on pork barrel projects all of the time. They have no concept what $100,000 is anymore. They think $100,000 is 3 hammers and a toilet seat.
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Intel's Core technology is good. However, AMD still maintains a lead when it comes to 64bit Linux, running MySQL.
Although we're no longer buying AMD systems for our 64bit database servers... Why? Nvidia.
Almost no one uses AMD's chipsets. Finding a decent system with a Broadcom (ServerWorks) chipset is extremely hard. All of the damn "server class" chipsets are using Nvidia! And Nvidia is far from server class. In every DB server we have, in 64bit, no matter what revision of the kernel (we're had this running on 2.6.25), extremely high load on the network interface causes the interface to barf. If you look at the downloadable NIC driver from Nvidia's site, its the "forcedeth", reverse engineered driver, which doesn't work properly.
Not having a properly functioning NIC on a server class board is a problem. For one, it forces us to use up a PCIe slot and install a different NIC. So now we're down a slot, and out extra money for something already built onto the motherboard.
This futher complicates things, as you cannot use IPMI with an addin NIC. In addition, IF the stupid Nvidia NIC actually worked, the implemention of IPMI on any NIC non-Intel is flawed. Intel's IPMI implementation binds to the NIC's MAC, whereas all of the other implementations I've seen (Nvidia's and Broadcom's) use a separate MAC, thus a separate IP, for management... Without the benefit of having a secondary NIC for out-of-band management.
AMD has concentrated too much on the desktop, where there is no money to be made. They've let their server platform suffer, and as a result, are loosing money in that sector because Intel, unfortunately, delivers a better enterprise-class ecosystem.
Build a simple storage array with RAID from a barbones PC, your favorite Linux distro, configured for fault-tolerant RAID. It doesn't have to be complicated, and it doesn't have to be powered on unless you're actually pushing data to it.
I have multiple first hand experience with RAID failures - RAID is not as trustworthy as you'd want to believe. And no, I'm not talking your onboard HighPoint or ICH9 builtin RAID BS, I'm talking about $10K external fibre attached RAID cabinets.
All media eventually degrades. The problem with RAID-5, is it relies upon a single parity source for consistency checking. So, for simplicity, lets look at the XOR per bit method for parity calculations:
0 0 = 1
0 1 = 1
1 0 = 1
1 1 = 0
With that formula, you can always figure out what the missing bit is, if you were to lose one of the bits (a media error). However, if you run your RAID devices long enough, you WILL lose more than a single chunnk (most RAID cards calculate parity and distribute chunks in multiples of 32K). If you loose a few bits in chunk 1, and a few other bits in chunk 2, you have now got corrupt data, as you can only rebuild the data with parity if you have lost only part of 1 chunk.
RAID-6 is supposed to help with this, as you maintan 2 parity chunks, per data stripe. Even though its failure is less prone than RAID-5, it can still happen with RAID-6 if enough degradation happens to your media (your hard drives).
You can never have absolute , 100%, data guarantee. But you can get pretty close. Its all about expense. I would recommand two RAID-6 arrays to contain sensitive data, plus some sort of offline optical storage medium as well.
Just for reference, Google makes sure their data is online in at least 3 locations, that way, if they lose 1 set, they are still redundant, and are not solely running on their only copy.
My knowledge of firearms is just fine, thank you. I grew up using them. I also grew up using blades. You, however, need to study the reality of it more instead of behaving like you do now, thinking guns are some unstoppable thing from which one shot kills instantly, taking half the target's body with it.
:)
Apparently all of the parent poster's opinion about firearms comes from Halo. Maybe one day he'll walk out of his mom's basement.
it only takes a few grams of pressure to pull a trigger, my point stands.
Actually, once again you're wrong. A "New York Trigger", is 3lbs, which is one of the lightest trigger pulls you can get. Most guns have at least a 5lb trigger, with revolvers reaching well past 8 or 9lbs.
Next time you want to argue about a topic, be informed about the topic. Now go order your latte and thank a farmer for the milk in your cup that didn't require you to dirty your city hands to get.
From the article:
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Schear, the Baltimore security director, said only 4% of passengers decline.
"Most passengers don't think it's any big deal," Schear said. "They think it's a piece of security they're willing to do."
Can we all say "baaaa?"
"...means we must live under the rule of an omnipotent President and a dismantled constitutional framework."
Let's just see if the Dems can honor the entire Bill of Rights, not just the ones they think are important today.
...Bill Gates and Craig Barrett among them, promoting the idea that there's an ever-present shortage of skilled IT workers to fill the industry's demand.
I actually have to agree with Bill Gates for once... There is a shortable of skilled IT workers. Not of IT workers, but skilled IT workers. How many of you have to work other sysadmins from differnet companies? How many times do you want to go over there, and do it for them, because you think they're so inept that walking them through it on the phone is just too painfully slow.
Skilled, the key word for today.
I'm not sure whether I like the idea of encrypting my entire disk. I don't really like the idea of not being able to boot a live CD to fix something should the need arise. Unless I'm misunderstanding the features, it won't be possible.
/boot partition, because initrd needs to be unencrypted). But, since I'm using dm-crypt, I can boot with things like Knoppix and view my files should SHTF.
I think TrueCrypt is awesome for Windows, especially now that it has whole disk encryption. But, I do not use TrueCrypt for anything Linux based.
I use LUKS/dm-crypt. I'm sure if you google for it, there is some info on how to do this, but I encrypted my root partition, and modified 'mkinitrd' so it included the necessary things to prompt for password, de-crypt and mount my encrypted volume.
Now my Linux install is encrypted (all but the
M.
Remember that statement next time you drive along a road. Where TF did that road come from?
I'll stop complaining about having to pay my taxes when I know my taxes are used in the best interest of American citizens. I'm tired of foreign aid, bureaus that don't do crap (Homeland security, dept of education, IRS, etc).. Most of those organizations either don't need to be there, or need to be drastically downsized. I'm tired of paying those peoples' salaries with my tax dollars. The tax system is so complicated, that we need thousands of IRS employees PER STATE to handle it. Thats BS. This entire system could be one nice flat tax, and nearly automated with day's technology.
Cut government waste, and we'll talk about that road you're driving on.
My local sheriff last year cleared $400,000. WTF!!? He gets a 'bonus' every time a warrant is issued and fulfilled. Let me get this right - he gets a bonus, FOR DOING HIS JOB? Thats crap. Thats MAJOR crap that he makes THAT MUCH MONEY. Thats insane. THAT, my friends, is government waste.
Anyone pick up on the very obvious communist statement:
Dr. Rosenfeld said. If you can control rotating outages by letting everyone in the state share the pain, he said, theres a lot less pain to go around.
First they're going to tell us what lightbulbs we're allowed to use, now this?
You know how many old/infirm people die every year due to the heat or cold?
Another poster had it right: We pay for a service, make the #(*& service perform like its supposed to. Stop being afraid of atom energy and build more reactors. Right now, its the safest form of energy with the greatest amount of return we can produce.
I bet they'd save a lot of bandwidth if they'd simply cleanup their network. I'm sure a lot of people here have linux routers with their comcast setup.. You ever tcpdump your comcast interface? Wonder why your lights are always going crazy on their modem? I'm in a 20 bit network (thats a lot of IPs) with Comcast, and get a FLOOD of ARP requests ALL DAY LONG to my modem. There is no reason all of those ARPs need to be broadcast like that. Thats poor management, and costly in terms of bandwidth as well.
M.
This battle isn't over yet by far, because in addition to the few states that have explicitly refused to participate, many others are discussing it in their legislatures, and some of those are leaning towards saying "drop dead" to the Feds as well. Sooner or later, we will reach a critical mass of states that represent a significant enough percentage of the U.S. population (and, hence, of voters) that would be classified as second-class citizens, and that will put the kibosh on the whole mess. I just hope those legislatures have some backbone....
I wanted to add, that I think Lincoln was wrong with his war with the South. I'm not abdicating slavery, but what I am abdicating here is States Rights, something Jefferson and a lot of the founding fathers believed in.
Those states left the union because of differences in opinion on how the federal governemnt was trying to run things. Keep in mind, the federal government was created for a very limited set of duties: 1) Regulate commerce, 2) Regulate international trade, 3) regulate inter-state transportation. It had no other jobs. Everything since then has been created by power-hungry politicians who think they know best for you and me.
Either way, those states left, exercising their States Rights. I don't believe Lincoln had any "authority" to force the back. State participation within the union should be voluntary, not forced. Same with the real id crap. The federal government has no original autority to create something like this. We need to return the original constitution, and downsize this behemoth of a government back into something that actually works for the people, not the other way around.
M.
Man, it was just last week I finally decided to clear out all pre-95 taglines from my BlueWave ONELINER.TXT file. Doh!
I do have these gems still though:
Win2k: "It's not so much that it's only 65,000 bugs, it's just that they stopped at 65,535 to prevent an overflow."
Sun believes the only place for 63,000 bugs is a rain forest.
Internet access is expensive enough already without the government trying to skim off the top
Awesome way to describe their racketeering efforts. The government already taxes the land line, cable line, what-not on how the internet is delivered. Their desire to tax 'email' or even sales tax by definition is racketeering. Its like a mob boss wanting "protection money" for your business in his neighborhood.
Now, if the telephone lines, dsl lines, etc weren't taxed by the government they would have MORE of a leg to stand on, but it'd still be sketchy. Its not like its a public utility like sewer or the interstates.
I'm still pissed about being taxed for MAKING money, and being taxed when I SPEND that money. That is BS. We don't need more lawmakers in government. We have enough laws. We just need more enforcement. If our governments (local, federal, state) would stop trying to squeeze more money out of us and having to hire people to do the squeezing, we could downsize dramatically, have less taxes, and happier people. Never happen, which is why I'm bitter.
One of the coolest thing I recall seeing - I forget if it was on the Military Channel or Discovery - was body armor made from a material (sorry forgot what it is/was might have been spider silk) that would act as a body of water and ripple off the impact of a bullet to reduce the point of entry thereby leaving the target (person wearing the armor) safe. I personally think we are maybe 10 years away from finding an impenetrable body armor solution. My wonders are, how much will it cost when it does come out. Sadly instead of attempting to assist military and LEO's, the makers will let greed get in the way.
I remember seeing that technology on a Modern Marvels episode on the History Channel.
The stuff was a liquid polymer that nano-engineered (gotta love buzz words) that would stay flexible until struck. I forgot the name of that cool phenomenon - a state change from liquid to solid during compression - but either way, the stuff looked really cool. Although its still a lab experiement, they say it should be to market by 2012.
so tech-savvy people like us now have to spend time explaining to Aunt Jane that the big evil wifi will not give her cat cancer.
Man, that is the reason I bought my wifi AP. I don't even have a laptop. I just hate cats that much.
Get off of the couch. You have no idea how much fuller my life is, now that I have given up 90% of my TV time and actually do something else. TV is a huge waste of time, and for what? Mindless entertainment, and something to BS about around the water cooler at work? I'd rather be outside.
Which is why, especially in the IT security business, there needs to be a code of conduct with regard to responsible disclosure.' Do you think there's any truth to this? Or is it a better idea to find the vulnerabilities as fast as possible, damn the consequences?"
Considering how quickly companies tend to SUE you for disclosing a vulnerability, I don't think there can be any true code of conduct between hackers and companies.. Not unless the companies start making it (public) policy that they WILL NOT sue you as long as you disclose a vulnerability to them first, and give them a reasonable time to fix it before going public.
I think that'll never happen though, and the only way to safeguard a hacker is to make legislation against those type of lawsuits.
I also think that'll never happen either, considering how firmly planted the lips of those companies are to the politician's ass... So *#@& 'em, we just need a good way to disclose anonymously.
I run a server with a RAID-1 setup. After a few months a disk fails. I remove it and want to get it replaced under warranty. The problem is that the disk isn't in a good enough condition to be able to fully overwrite it, and something sensitive could remain in some obscure area, like reallocated sectors. Server stores a quite large amount of rather private data I feel really uncomfortable letting go. What if it gets fixed and somebody else ends up recovering my stuff?
Easy solution: Run RAID-5, or RAID-6. There isn't enough data on one drive to reconstruct its contents.
'I have traveled around the world, and every nation is thinking how it can model [intellectual property governance] after the U.S,' Dudas said. 'It's a proven system, over 200 years old. The Supreme Court, Congress and policy makers are involved [in cases and legal reforms] not because the system is broken.'"
From his point of view, its an awesome system. Everyone wants to have a system like ours. The reason: we won't do trade with them if they don't have strong IP laws, look at Russia and AllofMP3.com
He also forgets that most of congress is bought by big media and their involvement in the patent system is purely a puppet event because they're getting paid money from special interest groups.
I think its time we demand an election for the head of the patent system. Appointing or hiring someone to be the head isn't working.
This really is crap. According to the government, ANY thing you sell, you need to be taxed on it. That is complete BS, but it'll never change unless we start fighting these insane tax laws. Anything I sell on eBay (individual here, not a business) has already had taxes paid the first time I bought it. I'm sorry, but I do NOT agree with having to have tax collected AGAIN for something that I already own.
They either need income tax, or sales tax, but not both. If they made our tax laws sane, the size of the government could be reduced enough that the loss of one of those tax categories would not negatively affect income to the government.
A preventive cure to autism may be as simple as a 'therapeutic cocktail' of fatty acids. Human trials could start later this year."
Its about time we get the medical community looking into "natural" fixes for our problems, rather than big pharma trying to make billions off of us with man-made chemical symptom fixers.
I may have an overy simplistic view of things though.
Perhaps, but I think it more likely that our elected leaders have an overly complex view of things.
You're both wrong. I think our elected leaders have an overly greedy view of things.
It would be far more cost effective to spend the money in a way that reduces energy use, like replacing incandescent light bulbs with compact-flourescent or funding ways of making cities less car dependent.
There is one good idea out of California - there are a LOT more motorcycles there than most places, and they get special privilege on the roads as well, which helps enlist people as daily commuters on them. Plus, they're more space efficient, more gas efficient, pollute far less, and do less damage to the roads. It could potentially be a big win (environmentally as well as poltiically) if some politician would do a "get on your bike and ride" campaign for their community, and push for more daily commutes on motorcycles.
the problem is, they don't realize the massive hardware costs that would be involved.
No, actually the problem is, is when they are told that this would cost the average sized ISP an additional $100,000 a year, they said "Hell, thats nothing!", as they're used to spending millions on pork barrel projects all of the time. They have no concept what $100,000 is anymore. They think $100,000 is 3 hammers and a toilet seat.