to restore: gzcat zipped_drive_image.bin.gz | dd of=[drive]
Not enough. You need to make sure the partition table is correct and that there is a working bootloader on MBR. Easy steps, yes, but forgetting those can make things even worse than they were before attempting restore.
Am I the only one who cringes at reading this? If you are dealing with someone who needs a recovery disk in the first place, do you really want them to deploy hopelessly outdated drivers and software on their machines?
It's still better than nothing, you know. Once the restore has run it's easy enough to let it download the updates.
Thank you. Every time something about 'cooling stuff in space' is posted to Slashdot, we get all these "but space is teh coldz duh" comments.
I tried to explain this once, and got modded troll since "everyone knows space is cold". Bah.
I can definitely understand that and it ticks me off, too. I'm by no means even a novice in physics, but even I understand that cold is the absence of heat: one cannot transfer cold to an object, one has to transfer heat from the object to something else in order to cool it down. And in space there is no air, no abundant particles to transfer that heat to.
There was even a study by one or another space-engineering entity a few years ago about what would happen if a human got out into space without a suit. The result was that the human would die of asphyxiation, the 2rd problem would be the damage done by the vacuum to the veins and arteries, the 3rd problem would be all the radiation received... and that it would literally take HOURS for the body temperature to drop below zero.
I was just thinking to myself that placing the solar panels in a compartment out of direct line-of-sight and then reflecting light to it should atleast help a little. After all, heat radiates from the sun in direct lines and so does all the various particles it emits, so if the panel is out of that line it won't heat up as much. Atleast that's my understanding.
I don't understand the hate. Amazon is one of tthe more customer-friendly companies around, and they actually care about their products. Similarly they aren't locking the Fire down, instead they've said they're not going to do anything special to prevent geeks from rooting and hacking around with the devices.
Tbh, I'd wish there was a few more companies like Amazon, not less.
Aye, destroying perfectly good, useable hardware is silly. Every time I hear friends or family upgrading I always ask for the overleft parts, I can always find something to use them for. And then sometimes I hear a friend or friend's friend needing a PC for surfing the web and all the stuff I've collected suddenly becomes useful for someone else, too. (No, I've never asked money for putting together a spareparts-PC for someone, I kind of figure "what comes around goes around.")
Alas, atleast here in Finland no one seems interested in giving spare parts away, they either try to sell the parts for a way too high price and then 20 years later they just throw the parts away because they didn't manage to sell them to anyone, or they destroy the hardware.
2. Spend some more of your time and a lot of computer time scrambling the bits, so that you can sell the disk at whatever people are willing to pay for a second hand harddisk
More like: hook the disk up to Linux box and issue ATA secure erase. Go watch movie, play games or whatever. (You can even use the same computer where the disk is doing the erase as it's the disk's own internal controller that does it so even using 100% CPU at all times on the machine wouldn't slow it down nor does the erase use CPU time at all.) Come back a few hours later and pick up the disk.
There are really some voodoo and black magic that can recover data if you erase disk that way. Last time my colleague has to pay ~US$600 on his own accord to recover data on a harddisk he accidentally overwrote with a ghost image. We didn't call for rocket scientists's help, just paid a specialist and the data was back.
Sounds more like that the data wasn't overwritten, the specialist just located the data on the disk and assembled it together. That's a whole lot different thing than trying to recover data that was overwritten and it sure as hell would cost a four-figure number, not ~$600.
Also, you would like to be aware of the fault-tolerant design of modern harddisk that might replicate data in hidden storage, which might be up to 15% of the published space. So, erase 7 times with patterns, degauss, or even physical destroy is really necessary for erasing sensitive data.
Not needed. A single ATA "secure erase" command is enough as that command also clears out remapped bad sectors and other areas only the drive itself can access.
"If I were developing a new platform that MPEG-LA didn't want to support, could I theoretically write an implementation myself?"
Only if you live in a country that doesn't support software patents, otherwise you could get sued; in other words, no, you couldn't write such an implementation yourself in that case.
the only way to truly learn unix commands and get comfortable with command line tools is to avoid the UI completely. try doing stuff from your tty terminals and disable x11:) learn to do word processing with latex, telnet into your routers to configure them. if your not up for doing that, forget about using the command line tools.
That's just a load of bull. Learning to use Latex or Telnetin to routers has nothing to do with learning to use command-line.
Bullshit. You can't get sued for USING ffmpeg. That's not how the law works. You can get sued for DISTRIBUTING it in the without a proper license in areas in which the software patents are in effect, but that's a completely different thing.
Incorrect. Copyright law handles distribution of software, patent laws apply even when you aren't distributing something. You are mixing the two things.
This would be the proverbial sh*t hitting the fan, but it's a magic fan that doesn't throw the stuff back on the rich, political or famous figures, only the common folk. The first-mentioned group will just have all charges dropped behind the scenes automatically, with no mention to the public at all, while the common folk will lose Internet access even for minor stuff.
Surely Apple did not think that they were the only ones in the market with a patent portfolio.
That's what I've been wondering about. Apple are suing all kinds of mobile device manufacturers left and right in hopes of being able to bar them from markets and to remain on top themselves. But they MUST have known that once they start suing the other big players they'll start pushing back and not only the ones being sued but also all the others too just to ensure that Apple won't win, otherwise Apple would just come after the rest later on. And well, gee, that's exactly what's happening: companies that haven't yet been sued are taking the initiative and suing first. Offense is the best defense and so on.
So what's Apple's angle here? They stand to lose quite a lot of money, and if the sh*t really hits the fan their stuff could be barred from the market and a large portion of their patent portfolio could get invalidated. So is there a plan behind this, or was it just simply we've-grown-so-big-we-think-we-can-do-anything - type of brainfart? I personally believe it's more towards the brainfart - situation here and things just got out of hand, but I suppose we'll see how this giant game of chess plays out.
You don't need them all at once. Just stream in the background.
The whole game itself weighs in at about 25 gigabytes, you still load about 2 gigabytes of stuff at once. That's way, way too much for even the fastest connections still.
I think you missed the "long-term" part of the statement. If you have a computer that's 1000x as fast as the current top of the line and a 10GBit/s-connection to the internet, it's definitely possible.
Sure, in about 10-15 years. But it won't be HTML5/JS then, and the claim here is all about HTML5/JS, ie. right now.
I actually doubt it will do that even for MMOs, unless those MMOs are really, REALLY light both graphically and geographically. I mean, take for example WoW and Rift: even just the map data itself takes closer to one gigabyte of space, not to mention textures and all the data and textures needed by all the models in the world. Not to mention all the OTHER data an MMO these days takes. If the game ran in the browser and just dynamically downloaded all the data it needs from the game servers it would be totally unplayable unless it was something along the lines of current Flash-based "MMOs."
Not to mention that 3D-graphics in the browser is several orders of magnitude slower than native binaries which is always a consideration on non-desktop PCs.
Basically, yes, crappy-looking, light-weight Flash-like games sure will run with a combination of HTML5 and JS and without Flash, but then again, they're still crappy-looking, light-weight Flash-like games.
This article is nothing more than yet-another-attempt at selling HTML5 to incompetent people.
The gist of it: 3D capabilities of open source drivers still suck, and the newer cards suck worse.
The 10 years that I ran Linux I realized that if there's closed-source drivers available use them; you'll get more features and performance. You're just gimping yourself willingly by using open-source ones.
Tampons don't relieve the pain in any way or form, they're only there to block the blood from going everywhere. And it isn't "pussy" itself that is really aching, it's the womb and the musculature needed for childbirth.
Say, what was your point again: making the OP look stupid or making yourself look stupid?;)
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to restore:
gzcat zipped_drive_image.bin.gz | dd of=[drive]
Not enough. You need to make sure the partition table is correct and that there is a working bootloader on MBR. Easy steps, yes, but forgetting those can make things even worse than they were before attempting restore.
MS-Windows is the only system that needs this kind of tools. The others can simply use backup-tools like dump, tar etc.
And how do you use those if the system is borked and needs to be restored from a backup, eh? Oh, that's right: you can't.
Am I the only one who cringes at reading this? If you are dealing with someone who needs a recovery disk in the first place, do you really want them to deploy hopelessly outdated drivers and software on their machines?
It's still better than nothing, you know. Once the restore has run it's easy enough to let it download the updates.
Thank you. Every time something about 'cooling stuff in space' is posted to Slashdot, we get all these "but space is teh coldz duh" comments.
I tried to explain this once, and got modded troll since "everyone knows space is cold". Bah.
I can definitely understand that and it ticks me off, too. I'm by no means even a novice in physics, but even I understand that cold is the absence of heat: one cannot transfer cold to an object, one has to transfer heat from the object to something else in order to cool it down. And in space there is no air, no abundant particles to transfer that heat to.
There was even a study by one or another space-engineering entity a few years ago about what would happen if a human got out into space without a suit. The result was that the human would die of asphyxiation, the 2rd problem would be the damage done by the vacuum to the veins and arteries, the 3rd problem would be all the radiation received... and that it would literally take HOURS for the body temperature to drop below zero.
I was just thinking to myself that placing the solar panels in a compartment out of direct line-of-sight and then reflecting light to it should atleast help a little. After all, heat radiates from the sun in direct lines and so does all the various particles it emits, so if the panel is out of that line it won't heat up as much. Atleast that's my understanding.
I don't understand the hate. Amazon is one of tthe more customer-friendly companies around, and they actually care about their products. Similarly they aren't locking the Fire down, instead they've said they're not going to do anything special to prevent geeks from rooting and hacking around with the devices.
Tbh, I'd wish there was a few more companies like Amazon, not less.
I'm poor and destroying useful hardware hurts me.
Aye, destroying perfectly good, useable hardware is silly. Every time I hear friends or family upgrading I always ask for the overleft parts, I can always find something to use them for. And then sometimes I hear a friend or friend's friend needing a PC for surfing the web and all the stuff I've collected suddenly becomes useful for someone else, too. (No, I've never asked money for putting together a spareparts-PC for someone, I kind of figure "what comes around goes around.")
Alas, atleast here in Finland no one seems interested in giving spare parts away, they either try to sell the parts for a way too high price and then 20 years later they just throw the parts away because they didn't manage to sell them to anyone, or they destroy the hardware.
2. Spend some more of your time and a lot of computer time scrambling the bits, so that you can sell the disk at whatever people are willing to pay for a second hand harddisk
More like: hook the disk up to Linux box and issue ATA secure erase. Go watch movie, play games or whatever. (You can even use the same computer where the disk is doing the erase as it's the disk's own internal controller that does it so even using 100% CPU at all times on the machine wouldn't slow it down nor does the erase use CPU time at all.) Come back a few hours later and pick up the disk.
There are really some voodoo and black magic that can recover data if you erase disk that way. Last time my colleague has to pay ~US$600 on his own accord to recover data on a harddisk he accidentally overwrote with a ghost image. We didn't call for rocket scientists's help, just paid a specialist and the data was back.
Sounds more like that the data wasn't overwritten, the specialist just located the data on the disk and assembled it together. That's a whole lot different thing than trying to recover data that was overwritten and it sure as hell would cost a four-figure number, not ~$600.
Also, you would like to be aware of the fault-tolerant design of modern harddisk that might replicate data in hidden storage, which might be up to 15% of the published space. So, erase 7 times with patterns, degauss, or even physical destroy is really necessary for erasing sensitive data.
Not needed. A single ATA "secure erase" command is enough as that command also clears out remapped bad sectors and other areas only the drive itself can access.
You're sick.
Luckily it's possible to be both sick AND funny!
"If I were developing a new platform that MPEG-LA didn't want to support, could I theoretically write an implementation myself?"
Only if you live in a country that doesn't support software patents, otherwise you could get sued; in other words, no, you couldn't write such an implementation yourself in that case.
the only way to truly learn unix commands and get comfortable with command line tools is to avoid the UI completely. try doing stuff from your tty terminals and disable x11 :) learn to do word processing with latex, telnet into your routers to configure them. if your not up for doing that, forget about using the command line tools.
That's just a load of bull. Learning to use Latex or Telnetin to routers has nothing to do with learning to use command-line.
Bullshit. You can't get sued for USING ffmpeg. That's not how the law works. You can get sued for DISTRIBUTING it in the without a proper license in areas in which the software patents are in effect, but that's a completely different thing.
Incorrect. Copyright law handles distribution of software, patent laws apply even when you aren't distributing something. You are mixing the two things.
Tell that to x264 and FFmpeg.
They aren't located in a place where software patents are valid.
I don't know what it will take to get people straight on this. H.264 is open and is a standard, but patented.
In practice it's the same thing as you still cannot implement H.264 encoding or decoding without a license.
Seriously, who gives a shit? Patents are for lawyers. FFMPEG will play just about anything.
That is not a rescue. If you are using FFMPEG you can be sued for patent violations.
This would be the proverbial sh*t hitting the fan, but it's a magic fan that doesn't throw the stuff back on the rich, political or famous figures, only the common folk. The first-mentioned group will just have all charges dropped behind the scenes automatically, with no mention to the public at all, while the common folk will lose Internet access even for minor stuff.
Surely Apple did not think that they were the only ones in the market with a patent portfolio.
That's what I've been wondering about. Apple are suing all kinds of mobile device manufacturers left and right in hopes of being able to bar them from markets and to remain on top themselves. But they MUST have known that once they start suing the other big players they'll start pushing back and not only the ones being sued but also all the others too just to ensure that Apple won't win, otherwise Apple would just come after the rest later on. And well, gee, that's exactly what's happening: companies that haven't yet been sued are taking the initiative and suing first. Offense is the best defense and so on.
So what's Apple's angle here? They stand to lose quite a lot of money, and if the sh*t really hits the fan their stuff could be barred from the market and a large portion of their patent portfolio could get invalidated. So is there a plan behind this, or was it just simply we've-grown-so-big-we-think-we-can-do-anything - type of brainfart? I personally believe it's more towards the brainfart - situation here and things just got out of hand, but I suppose we'll see how this giant game of chess plays out.
While small independent developers rise up and do beautiful things with gameplay and story in the most limited environments.
I unfortunately have yet to see a single such indie game.
You don't need them all at once. Just stream in the background.
The whole game itself weighs in at about 25 gigabytes, you still load about 2 gigabytes of stuff at once. That's way, way too much for even the fastest connections still.
I think you missed the "long-term" part of the statement. If you have a computer that's 1000x as fast as the current top of the line and a 10GBit/s-connection to the internet, it's definitely possible.
Sure, in about 10-15 years. But it won't be HTML5/JS then, and the claim here is all about HTML5/JS, ie. right now.
That is, unless Javascript evolves to a real object-oriented language and provides a way to distribute bytecode instead of source code.
You just proved you've missed the whole point of using HTML5/JS: if you're going to use bytecode you can just as well just use Flash or Java...
About that part, yeah fair enough.
I actually doubt it will do that even for MMOs, unless those MMOs are really, REALLY light both graphically and geographically. I mean, take for example WoW and Rift: even just the map data itself takes closer to one gigabyte of space, not to mention textures and all the data and textures needed by all the models in the world. Not to mention all the OTHER data an MMO these days takes. If the game ran in the browser and just dynamically downloaded all the data it needs from the game servers it would be totally unplayable unless it was something along the lines of current Flash-based "MMOs."
Not to mention that 3D-graphics in the browser is several orders of magnitude slower than native binaries which is always a consideration on non-desktop PCs.
Basically, yes, crappy-looking, light-weight Flash-like games sure will run with a combination of HTML5 and JS and without Flash, but then again, they're still crappy-looking, light-weight Flash-like games.
This article is nothing more than yet-another-attempt at selling HTML5 to incompetent people.
they'll go for whoever swims by.
I draw the line at 6 legs, myself.
The gist of it: 3D capabilities of open source drivers still suck, and the newer cards suck worse.
The 10 years that I ran Linux I realized that if there's closed-source drivers available use them; you'll get more features and performance. You're just gimping yourself willingly by using open-source ones.
Tampons don't relieve the pain in any way or form, they're only there to block the blood from going everywhere. And it isn't "pussy" itself that is really aching, it's the womb and the musculature needed for childbirth.
Say, what was your point again: making the OP look stupid or making yourself look stupid? ;)