i still don't understand how they're going to secure it. if one can play it, one can record it. does the movie come with a policeman standing in the room? is it going to be watermarked for each user's dick pic and name/address? having to use a special 150 dollar set top box isn't going to matter if i then feed the hdmi cable into a "certain device from alibaba.com" instead of a TV.
i know people who bought a nokia phone just for here maps. it was cheaper than buying a device from garmin or tomtom. this is a proper blow for the platform.
all i care about is: will it be fast enough for in-place execution? can we finally eliminate the need for ram AND storage? i like the idea of HP's "machine"
i honestly can't understand why americans are so aggressively against phone calls on public transport. why is it ok to talk to the person sitting next to you but not to somebody over the phone? it really puzzles me. i've never seen this in any european country.
unlikely, as SMC fan control patches were only added to kernel slightly over a year ago (i think linux 3.22?). before that, the default fan speed on free driver was 40%, and 18% on the fglrx. so on ubuntu 14.04, all i got with the original kernel (3.19) was a loud whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
my favourite side effect of ext4 is spinning laptop disks up every couple of seconds. i.e. disk wants to go into standby as APM commands, but jbd2 spins it up almost immediately. this way you end up with load_cycle_count increasing by thousands every day. death to all rotational media!
what's that noise coming out of your computer right now? it's the gpu fan spinning like crazy, because the opensource amd driver can't regulate it properly based on gpu load. i had that problem with hd6970, r9 280x and still see the same problem with my cousin's r9 390x.
even if that were true (it isn't), the advantages of SSDs far outweigh their disadvantages. to get the throughput and iops i can reach with SSDs, i wouldn't be able to get with SAS disks for 3x the cost.
i have a rack at the end of a hot aisle with a sliding door attached to it. so every time somebody wants to enter the hot aisle, they slide the door open and let it roll back behind them. and that means vibrations. when i replaced rotational hard disks with SSDs, i went from cca 30% disk failure rate within first 18 months to 3%. to me, SSDs are a Godsend.
for anyone who wants to know, the failing disks were SATA WD RE2/3/4. Seagate Constellation ES.2/3 had failure rate of about 5%. None of my SAS disks seemed affected; i guess they really are better made.
stories such as this make me smirk but also check if my backups are working properly. they are. back to smirking.
but seriously, how often do people normally back up? my/home directory is on a NAS with ZFS and keeps 24 hourly snapshots, 7 daily snapshots, 4 weekly snapshots and 6 monthly ones. this gets automatically synced to my secondary (backup) NAS and once a week i manually sync it to a nas at my parents' house. i lost all my data in the late 90s and never want to go through that experience again.
better at the substantially limited range and scope of functions. i've tried switching to BSD several times over the last 15 years. apart from speed of networking and (recently) ZFS, pretty much everything else was significantly poorer than its gnu/linux alternative. starting with gnu tools (vs bsd tools), drivers and ending with virtualisation, desktop software and clustering. unless i was building a firewall or a router, gnu/linux was the better option.
when were you last in africa? battery life is the #1 deciding factor for a phone, most people have sporadic access to sporadic power. apart from middle class, people don't respond to text messages via text messages but by ringing the sender once or twice for yes/no. i've seen this being quite elaborate - pauses, longer+shorter rings, etc. the biggest banks in africa are partnering with mobile phone operators because there was risk M-Pesa (and its various localised versions) would become the de-facto currency of the continent. people simply pay each other by transferring call credit. there is very little use for smartphones outside of richer circles in bigger cities (with supporting infrastructure).
most car analogies on/. are made in a way that works across countries. yours is useless. is chevy metro a large luxurious expensive car or a small cheap-as-chips rustbucket? or are you alluding to its age? (is it old or new?) is it reliable or known to be the opposite? your analogy did not clarify anything.
why should i expect it to be unsafe? email is via ssl/tls, chat apps are client-to-server encrypted, all eshops use ssl/tls, google search is by default via ssl/tls, cloud storage i encrypted in transit, so what could they have possibly gained by this devious man in the middle circus? list of websites i access and my http data?
once you experience boot environments properly integrated with grub, you'll never want to go back. 90% of stress from upgrades goes away. i have this on my storage servers (NexentaStor) and wish I could have it on ubuntu.
and none of that matters because Ubuntu's grub-efi doesn't even know how to boot from XFS, let alone from ZFS.
creating a separate/boot partition with ext4 defeats the purpose of ZFS and its most useful feature of boot environments. ZFS likes its disks whole, not partitioned.
from what i've read on arstechnica and ifixit, error 53 can take weeks to appear. sometimes it bricks the phone, sometimes it just stops os updates. so it isn't really what they're presenting it to be.
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i still don't understand how they're going to secure it. if one can play it, one can record it. does the movie come with a policeman standing in the room? is it going to be watermarked for each user's dick pic and name/address? having to use a special 150 dollar set top box isn't going to matter if i then feed the hdmi cable into a "certain device from alibaba.com" instead of a TV.
i know people who bought a nokia phone just for here maps. it was cheaper than buying a device from garmin or tomtom. this is a proper blow for the platform.
all i care about is: will it be fast enough for in-place execution? can we finally eliminate the need for ram AND storage? i like the idea of HP's "machine"
at any IT conference, you can easily spot the macbook user by the bag full of adaptors they carry with them.
i thought the title of 51st state belonged to britain. their rectum is always receptive to the man from across the pond.
i honestly can't understand why americans are so aggressively against phone calls on public transport. why is it ok to talk to the person sitting next to you but not to somebody over the phone? it really puzzles me. i've never seen this in any european country.
unlikely, as SMC fan control patches were only added to kernel slightly over a year ago (i think linux 3.22?). before that, the default fan speed on free driver was 40%, and 18% on the fglrx. so on ubuntu 14.04, all i got with the original kernel (3.19) was a loud whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
my favourite side effect of ext4 is spinning laptop disks up every couple of seconds. i.e. disk wants to go into standby as APM commands, but jbd2 spins it up almost immediately. this way you end up with load_cycle_count increasing by thousands every day. death to all rotational media!
what's that noise coming out of your computer right now? it's the gpu fan spinning like crazy, because the opensource amd driver can't regulate it properly based on gpu load. i had that problem with hd6970, r9 280x and still see the same problem with my cousin's r9 390x.
have you seen an enterprise setup built in the last 5 years that used raidz instead of mirrors?
even if that were true (it isn't), the advantages of SSDs far outweigh their disadvantages. to get the throughput and iops i can reach with SSDs, i wouldn't be able to get with SAS disks for 3x the cost.
i have a rack at the end of a hot aisle with a sliding door attached to it. so every time somebody wants to enter the hot aisle, they slide the door open and let it roll back behind them. and that means vibrations. when i replaced rotational hard disks with SSDs, i went from cca 30% disk failure rate within first 18 months to 3%. to me, SSDs are a Godsend.
for anyone who wants to know, the failing disks were SATA WD RE2/3/4. Seagate Constellation ES.2/3 had failure rate of about 5%. None of my SAS disks seemed affected; i guess they really are better made.
stories such as this make me smirk but also check if my backups are working properly. they are. back to smirking.
but seriously, how often do people normally back up? my /home directory is on a NAS with ZFS and keeps 24 hourly snapshots, 7 daily snapshots, 4 weekly snapshots and 6 monthly ones. this gets automatically synced to my secondary (backup) NAS and once a week i manually sync it to a nas at my parents' house. i lost all my data in the late 90s and never want to go through that experience again.
but but but they are audibly lossless
i don't think you would. btw, are we talking about ODS-2 or ODS-5 file naming?
better at the substantially limited range and scope of functions. i've tried switching to BSD several times over the last 15 years. apart from speed of networking and (recently) ZFS, pretty much everything else was significantly poorer than its gnu/linux alternative. starting with gnu tools (vs bsd tools), drivers and ending with virtualisation, desktop software and clustering. unless i was building a firewall or a router, gnu/linux was the better option.
you Merkins are so removed from reality...
when were you last in africa? battery life is the #1 deciding factor for a phone, most people have sporadic access to sporadic power. apart from middle class, people don't respond to text messages via text messages but by ringing the sender once or twice for yes/no. i've seen this being quite elaborate - pauses, longer+shorter rings, etc. the biggest banks in africa are partnering with mobile phone operators because there was risk M-Pesa (and its various localised versions) would become the de-facto currency of the continent. people simply pay each other by transferring call credit. there is very little use for smartphones outside of richer circles in bigger cities (with supporting infrastructure).
most car analogies on /. are made in a way that works across countries. yours is useless. is chevy metro a large luxurious expensive car or a small cheap-as-chips rustbucket? or are you alluding to its age? (is it old or new?) is it reliable or known to be the opposite? your analogy did not clarify anything.
s/i encrypted/is encrypted
why should i expect it to be unsafe? email is via ssl/tls, chat apps are client-to-server encrypted, all eshops use ssl/tls, google search is by default via ssl/tls, cloud storage i encrypted in transit, so what could they have possibly gained by this devious man in the middle circus? list of websites i access and my http data?
real men don't need precision. only brute force.
once you experience boot environments properly integrated with grub, you'll never want to go back. 90% of stress from upgrades goes away. i have this on my storage servers (NexentaStor) and wish I could have it on ubuntu.
and none of that matters because Ubuntu's grub-efi doesn't even know how to boot from XFS, let alone from ZFS.
creating a separate /boot partition with ext4 defeats the purpose of ZFS and its most useful feature of boot environments. ZFS likes its disks whole, not partitioned.
sooo, they let you access interwebs mr reiser?
from what i've read on arstechnica and ifixit, error 53 can take weeks to appear. sometimes it bricks the phone, sometimes it just stops os updates. so it isn't really what they're presenting it to be.