- the rogue app that overwrites your data - the drive that reads back incorrectly, right into your mirror drive - the drive that croaks as you attempt to re-mirror from it
I have personally encountered all three of these.
If you don't have disconnected backup, you are just kidding yourself. Any connected media can be trashed by bad software/firmware/whatever.
Your risk factor is never broken hardware. You don't care about hardware. Your risk factor is always lost data.
These days, the database is not what it used to be. Local clients use shared memory. JVMs and entire web servers are incorporated directly into the database executables. The old concept of the separation of the database from its clients no longer applies.
When you are running a database, what business does the OS have, deciding what data is to be paged in or not? The database is in a far better position to make these decisions, and it can be based on much better rules than "5-minute" heuristics.
So you don't have any justification for your position other than "he's cool"?
You are willing to cast your own opinion aside in favor of one that clearly goes against the intent and the letter of the law, just because you like him?
Okay so I read his post. He is making economic arguments over whether or not we have a right.
Since when are judges supposed to use economic arguments to decide whether or not we have a right?
Does C# offer compelling features over Java? Why do we waste our time building the same bridge twice? Java and C# go way out of their way to have nothing to do with each other, so it's not like there is some mutual benefit or that they learn from each other.
Java is really just a spec and people are free to implement it how they want. There is tremendous opportunity for vendors to be creative under the covers and provide all manner of functionality within the Java framework. This can be done with or without Sun's blessing, and there is a healthy competitive market for Java infrastructure.
On the other hand, C# is a Microsoft Platform and you pretty much have to buy into their thing if you want to get serious.
There is a Commodore IEEE-bus floppy drive that works great with a C64 with the right adapter. It takes 1.2 Mb floppies and it makes a 1541 look really sad. It was radically expensive at the time and I remember how annoyed my boss was when I told him the price.
We actually had it pretty good even back then. We had a Kontron 6510 ICE so we could go in and figure out exactly what was going on with that weird video hardware, and it was great for finding those odd bugs.
I still cannot believe how badly those 1541 floppy drives sucked. They are the most miserable pieces of computer gear I have ever encountered. It is just beyond belief that someone has managed to keep one working after all these years!
I liked the Atari 800 much better. The video hardware had a much cleaner design and it was a lot easier to code for.
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You are neglecting:
- the rogue app that overwrites your data
- the drive that reads back incorrectly, right into your mirror drive
- the drive that croaks as you attempt to re-mirror from it
I have personally encountered all three of these.
If you don't have disconnected backup, you are just kidding yourself. Any connected media can be trashed by bad software/firmware/whatever.
Your risk factor is never broken hardware. You don't care about hardware. Your risk factor is always lost data.
Do you work for one of these online backup places?
I would sooner trust a WD drive with my valuable data.
Written in complete ignorance of other linux file systems that do not have these problems...
You can buy a real RAID controller for $400-$500 nowadays. If your data is not worth that much...
The only thing RAID will save you from is a dead drive.
There are infinitely many ways to lose your data, and a dead drive is only one of them.
If you are going to use RAID, you might as well use RAID 0 unless you can't afford the downtime.
If you start talking about data loss, then you just lose, because you should have backups.
These days, the database is not what it used to be. Local clients use shared memory. JVMs and entire web servers are incorporated directly into the database executables. The old concept of the separation of the database from its clients no longer applies.
When you are running a database, what business does the OS have, deciding what data is to be paged in or not? The database is in a far better position to make these decisions, and it can be based on much better rules than "5-minute" heuristics.
I bet their tax increase is a lot less than my broadband bill.
Venice residents will soon begin renting their accounts to tourists for 3 euros/day.
I can see how this could lead to very fast, very cheap RAID controllers.
Also, imagine if those cheap little gigabit switches were actually 8-port gigabit Routers.
This is the sort of thing you can do with this technology.
So you don't have any justification for your position other than "he's cool"?
You are willing to cast your own opinion aside in favor of one that clearly goes against the intent and the letter of the law, just because you like him?
Okay so I read his post. He is making economic arguments over whether or not we have a right.
Since when are judges supposed to use economic arguments to decide whether or not we have a right?
He woke up on the wrong side of the bed, and then he had to sign the check for the electric bill.
He's just grumpy.
HIPAA is a fact of life, it's not going anywhere. Deal with it.
Your reasons 3 and 4 contradict each other.
It would not be a setting if there were not a choice to be made. Again, "default" is what you get if you choose to not choose.
Default is what happens when you don't show up to meet your obligations, legal or otherwise. You are making the "none of the above" choice.
This is a concept that goes back a REALLY long ways.
On tearing apart this person's use of words and then basically agreeing with him.
Perhaps you could just agree with his reasoning and point out the flaws in the fine points of his logic instead.
The argument is that SLI is pointless, you both agree, and yet you MUST find ways to pick on him.
Sheeesh.
IBM wanted Motorola but they couldn't deliver in IBM's time frame. Intel had parts ready to go. What a sad way to make such an important decision.
Does C# offer compelling features over Java? Why do we waste our time building the same bridge twice? Java and C# go way out of their way to have nothing to do with each other, so it's not like there is some mutual benefit or that they learn from each other.
Java is really just a spec and people are free to implement it how they want. There is tremendous opportunity for vendors to be creative under the covers and provide all manner of functionality within the Java framework. This can be done with or without Sun's blessing, and there is a healthy competitive market for Java infrastructure.
On the other hand, C# is a Microsoft Platform and you pretty much have to buy into their thing if you want to get serious.
IOCHRDY signal is active high instead of active low. Causes no end of problems.
That would be cheating, too, because the Commodore 64 does not have an RS-232 port.
There is a Commodore IEEE-bus floppy drive that works great with a C64 with the right adapter. It takes 1.2 Mb floppies and it makes a 1541 look really sad. It was radically expensive at the time and I remember how annoyed my boss was when I told him the price.
We actually had it pretty good even back then. We had a Kontron 6510 ICE so we could go in and figure out exactly what was going on with that weird video hardware, and it was great for finding those odd bugs.
I still cannot believe how badly those 1541 floppy drives sucked. They are the most miserable pieces of computer gear I have ever encountered. It is just beyond belief that someone has managed to keep one working after all these years!
I liked the Atari 800 much better. The video hardware had a much cleaner design and it was a lot easier to code for.
The old quote: "Every time Andy gives me more horsepower, Bill takes it away."
What company in their right mind is going to upload the crown jewels into someone else's computer?
That your internal network is "safe"
Keep up those firewalls and security on all machines on a network with Internet access.
Belt-and-suspenders security is the only way if your resources are finite.
Someone will trot out a copy of the Morris worm and we can relive history all over again.