i'm one of those loonies that thinks the brain is a reducible machine (of the dennett variety) and that it's possible that memory can be erased in such a manner.
what seems sillier is the idea that in a quasi near future that there is such a thing as a "reverse engineer" [whips out his business card mini cd]. hearing that job title made me nearly choke up my popcorn during the preview (or maybe it was just the fact that very non-nerdy affleck was cast in such a role).
unless said brain manipulation is used to augment the human brain's capacity for interdisciplinary science and engineering knowledge, i predict that a metrosexual frat boy like affleck couldn't even get an interview for such a position in any quasi-futuristic timeline.
it depends on how exotic the psu or fan is and how good your backups are. i think the original point is missed anyway - mom an pop don't have any desire or clue when it comes to swapping out components. they just want a new black box to replace the broken black box.
raid-1 won't save you from your 400W power supply frying, it won't save you from you replacing your CPU fan every 10 months, and it won't provide total n+1. why use raid-1 when the MTBF of the other components is much lower?
You can set it up yourself, with minimal costs, and skills.
1) most of the neighborhood kids working on the local widget shop's computer do not have experience using or maintaining hw or sw raid systems.
2) if a drive fails, you have to know about it and no how to replace it.
3) no shit, but ma and pa can't send it back the vendor when you break the cupholder or fry a drive because they have no clue
4) don't tell me what to do, and btw it has nothing to do with trends, but common sense and experience working with people who have no clue. you are giving joe six-pack too much credit.
With raid-1, you dont even have to make backups. au contraire, mon frere. raid != backup. what if a sector fails, corrupts a file and the raid duplicates the corrupt blocks to the other disk? looks like you're really fucked now.
you don't need a 2+ GHz P4 to run common net svcs. you need a cold-running reliable box, preferably with no fans or drive spindles to wear out.
for small businesses, appliances make a lot of sense. they just want stuff to work and be simple to understand from a high level - they don't want a custom hack job (as fun as that may be).
these boxes (along with the slew of thin client appliances out there) often run open-source software, and not all are as expensive as this baby. i, for one, welcome our black box toaster overlords - at least at the mom&pop level.
for a small business, fault tolerance is having a spare appliance complete w/ flash image.
you wouldn't be smart to use an appliance like this for file serving applications, but for DC/AD/NIS/DNS/BOOTP/DHCP, static web content, it would be a good choice for a small business if you skip the HDD and use a bigger CF card. no moving parts, longer useful lifetime and poor-man's N+1. perfect for a no-nonsense small bus.
The law is never helpful from the perspective of someone who has lost a case. If MS/SCO/whoever wins and the opposition exhausts appeals, then I'm willing to let a particular case drop.
As for the precedent the decision establishes - it can also be fought an argued against or nullified without ddos and cracking. Granted, it's difficult and often seems hopeless at that point.
I'm all for fighting the good fight, but there is no use in 1) exacting vigilante justice because you are impatient or 2) exacting vengeance because you stand to lose from a judgement. The republic (what's left of it) provides legal avenues from which to punish violators, establish new legislation, and overturn precedent. I'm not sure those avenues are completely shut just yet. With many citizens, such methods are not practical to effect an individual's desires in the short term, but they at least provide long-term potential. Think of your kids, and think of the rights you enjoy now because people fought for them despite the fact that they would probably not see their efforts through to fruition.
17 m GBP, not dollars... for a minute there, i thought the euro got a lot weaker real fast. good thing i didn't order plane tickets before realizeing my mistake.
different numbers of drives is not a fair comparison, but if you're just talking about failure of the volume...
if you have raid 5 with 4 drives (no spare), you have a volume failure rate of
1/(disk MTBF)^2 (not counting the controller)
in a 2 disk RAID 1, you have the same failure rate.
yes you have double the failure chance in the RAID 5, but you have double the disks. so the probability is, in a way, distributed among the disks. the system's failure rate stays the same as the two disk RAID 1 system.
aside from read performance, you use RAID 1 for high availability (reduce MTBF, eliminate MTTR from the equation). but already, RAID 5 gives you more h.a.
In addition, it seems like disks are no longer the weakest link in the MTBF chain - assuming redundant PSUs, your main concern is really your CPU/RAM/bus/chipset. To improve this situation, you need n+1 redundancy, and that in most cases means a specialized piece of hardware (h.a. NAS) or a SAN that can be failed over.
If you like that minty-fresh open source, off-the-shelf hw feeling, check out drbd or help out Hr. Reisner. drbd is a linux module that provides for a mirrored block device. If it succeeds as a project, it would be a great way to provide n+1 cheaply.
a lot of parents still so this (at least, where i'm from) in a less formal sense, if they can afford it - a plot of land, a hand-me-down car, expensive-but-necessary gifts, etc.
heck, i know a couple who earn half of what i do but live at a much higher standard due to in-law support.
insulting? i don't know - it seems like the movie makers are just trying to make money, and that means pandering to the lowest common denominator, and that in turn means focusing on what nearly everyone can appreciate, versus what a select few can. it's just the capitalist system acknowledging that most people won't get it... hence, it's not worth the bother of getting right. there is a subset of movies that do, and they probably represent a market share proportional to the number of people that provide the demand for scientific accuracy.
Actually, it hasn't been that long. The latest security problems in sendmail were found in March.
Sendmail isn't awful - but some of its code is old, it's complicated, and it's richly-featured. All of these things contribute to an increased risk of bugs and vulnerabilities. In those respects, it's similar to some of those products by "that corporation," except that sendmail issues timely patches and the current developers, at least, care about security from the outset versus considering it as an afterthought.
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MIS-ter...tam-bo-RINE MAN!!!!
what seems sillier is the idea that in a quasi near future that there is such a thing as a "reverse engineer" [whips out his business card mini cd]. hearing that job title made me nearly choke up my popcorn during the preview (or maybe it was just the fact that very non-nerdy affleck was cast in such a role).
unless said brain manipulation is used to augment the human brain's capacity for interdisciplinary science and engineering knowledge, i predict that a metrosexual frat boy like affleck couldn't even get an interview for such a position in any quasi-futuristic timeline.
fah-q!
it depends on how exotic the psu or fan is and how good your backups are. i think the original point is missed anyway - mom an pop don't have any desire or clue when it comes to swapping out components. they just want a new black box to replace the broken black box.
yep, you're right
raid-1 won't save you from your 400W power supply frying, it won't save you from you replacing your CPU fan every 10 months, and it won't provide total n+1. why use raid-1 when the MTBF of the other components is much lower?
1) most of the neighborhood kids working on the local widget shop's computer do not have experience using or maintaining hw or sw raid systems.
2) if a drive fails, you have to know about it and no how to replace it.
3) no shit, but ma and pa can't send it back the vendor when you break the cupholder or fry a drive because they have no clue
4) don't tell me what to do, and btw it has nothing to do with trends, but common sense and experience working with people who have no clue. you are giving joe six-pack too much credit.
With raid-1, you dont even have to make backups.
au contraire, mon frere. raid != backup. what if a sector fails, corrupts a file and the raid duplicates the corrupt blocks to the other disk? looks like you're really fucked now.
> So make an informed choice
indeed
who would have thought - physicists on the short bus!
you don't need a 2+ GHz P4 to run common net svcs. you need a cold-running reliable box, preferably with no fans or drive spindles to wear out.
for small businesses, appliances make a lot of sense. they just want stuff to work and be simple to understand from a high level - they don't want a custom hack job (as fun as that may be).
these boxes (along with the slew of thin client appliances out there) often run open-source software, and not all are as expensive as this baby. i, for one, welcome our black box toaster overlords - at least at the mom&pop level.
for a small business, fault tolerance is having a spare appliance complete w/ flash image.
you wouldn't be smart to use an appliance like this for file serving applications, but for DC/AD/NIS/DNS/BOOTP/DHCP, static web content, it would be a good choice for a small business if you skip the HDD and use a bigger CF card. no moving parts, longer useful lifetime and poor-man's N+1. perfect for a no-nonsense small bus.
The law is never helpful from the perspective of someone who has lost a case. If MS/SCO/whoever wins and the opposition exhausts appeals, then I'm willing to let a particular case drop.
As for the precedent the decision establishes - it can also be fought an argued against or nullified without ddos and cracking. Granted, it's difficult and often seems hopeless at that point.
I'm all for fighting the good fight, but there is no use in 1) exacting vigilante justice because you are impatient or 2) exacting vengeance because you stand to lose from a judgement. The republic (what's left of it) provides legal avenues from which to punish violators, establish new legislation, and overturn precedent. I'm not sure those avenues are completely shut just yet. With many citizens, such methods are not practical to effect an individual's desires in the short term, but they at least provide long-term potential. Think of your kids, and think of the rights you enjoy now because people fought for them despite the fact that they would probably not see their efforts through to fruition.
this will eventually be a standard algorithm in any garden-variety cracker, if it's not in some already you may as well use "yeknom".
17 m GBP, not dollars... for a minute there, i thought the euro got a lot weaker real fast. good thing i didn't order plane tickets before realizeing my mistake.
that's interesting - i wonder if such laws are restricted to television sets - how about a dash pc?
service center is over-featured for small shops, beta quality, and too slow to be useful over anything but a LAN (I am using it from a T1).
peregrine has supported this installation actively for years and it still sucks. stay away.
different numbers of drives is not a fair comparison, but if you're just talking about failure of the volume...
if you have raid 5 with 4 drives (no spare), you have a volume failure rate of
1/(disk MTBF)^2 (not counting the controller)
in a 2 disk RAID 1, you have the same failure rate.
yes you have double the failure chance in the RAID 5, but you have double the disks. so the probability is, in a way, distributed among the disks. the system's failure rate stays the same as the two disk RAID 1 system.
doh - RAID 5 doesn't give you more reliability than RAID 1.
aside from read performance, you use RAID 1 for high availability (reduce MTBF, eliminate MTTR from the equation). but already, RAID 5 gives you more h.a.
In addition, it seems like disks are no longer the weakest link in the MTBF chain - assuming redundant PSUs, your main concern is really your CPU/RAM/bus/chipset. To improve this situation, you need n+1 redundancy, and that in most cases means a specialized piece of hardware (h.a. NAS) or a SAN that can be failed over.
If you like that minty-fresh open source, off-the-shelf hw feeling, check out drbd or help out Hr. Reisner. drbd is a linux module that provides for a mirrored block device. If it succeeds as a project, it would be a great way to provide n+1 cheaply.
reverb is just another tool used by studios to make the voice sound better. this just seems like an evolution along the same lines.
it all started with instruments, yes? congas sound better than the arms of my chair, so why not use them?
new england - where else?
a lot of parents still so this (at least, where i'm from) in a less formal sense, if they can afford it - a plot of land, a hand-me-down car, expensive-but-necessary gifts, etc.
heck, i know a couple who earn half of what i do but live at a much higher standard due to in-law support.
yeah, because the whole point of getting married, for men, is in-house pussy.
sheesh.
insulting? i don't know - it seems like the movie makers are just trying to make money, and that means pandering to the lowest common denominator, and that in turn means focusing on what nearly everyone can appreciate, versus what a select few can. it's just the capitalist system acknowledging that most people won't get it... hence, it's not worth the bother of getting right. there is a subset of movies that do, and they probably represent a market share proportional to the number of people that provide the demand for scientific accuracy.
Actually, it hasn't been that long. The latest security problems in sendmail were found in March.
Sendmail isn't awful - but some of its code is old, it's complicated, and it's richly-featured. All of these things contribute to an increased risk of bugs and vulnerabilities. In those respects, it's similar to some of those products by "that corporation," except that sendmail issues timely patches and the current developers, at least, care about security from the outset versus considering it as an afterthought.
i agree - bergamot is the bomb, why spoil it?
earl grey's funky flavor comes from bergamot essence - oil from a type of orange.