The one thing most people fail to consider is the possibility of incramental backups.
Consider that on a 200gigabyte drive, it's improbable that there will be more than a couple gigs of new content in any given week (even if you're a major porn hound.)
2 gigabytes worth of data is plenty small to do incramental archives nightly on a tape drive.
With that said, you're right... A second hard disk is far more efficent for the needs of the average consumer.
Most IT industries use tape drives as well as RAID arrays simply because it creates a sort history of the data on the drive. Where RAID won't protect you from stupid user errors and 1e3+/-/4xx04z where tapes will. Additionally, a proper backup procedure should also include a monthly backup to be taken off site in case of a fire, flood, act of god, or act of pissed off ex employee who is owed a lot of money by ex employer (you hear me, you bastards? [yes, I'm joking. Don't sue me.] ; )
People seem to forget that tapes are generally an enterprise solution... Not somthing intended for the desktop.
When the mail server is down, everything anyone wants to send is "Critical."
The company has ground to a hault and it's your fault, because "you weren't doing a good enough job."
People nag, and people bitch. When it's all over, the only people who respond with something better than "thanks" or "finally" are the fellow IT workers.
They may not be directly hostile, but (at least where I worked,) an IT tech was far more likly to be criticized for a failure than a sales guy was for fowling up a deal.
...that with the exception of the Janator, system administrators are the only people who get no appreciation for a job well done.
Keep the network running flawlessly for a year. Deal with all the stupid questions (bet your CEO doesn't have to do that,) and generally do your job perfectly...
Then the first day that the PDC goes down, everyones bitching at you.
CEOs and dentists get the occational pat on the back... Administrators are generally critical to a company but still get walked over.
I disagree to some extent with comments that Linux has a scheduler that is 'good enough.'
I ran some real time multimedia streaming applications under linux a while ago (LiveIce; very nice tool) and found that even using nice, I would occationally get glitches in the stream output during broadcasts.
Switching to FVWM helped somewhat, as did nice... But when it cames right down to it, I don't think this should have been a problem.
Seriously, I think your first step should be to check out some of the free music archives...
I'm sure a couple of slashdotters are going to hate me for this, but http://www.mp3.com/ is a great place to start.
You'll find a huge number of different artists at varying skill levels, and no cost. It'll give you a chance to look at a wide range of styles (something that even a well stocked music store may not be able to do.) Additionally, you'll find many bits of information available regarding what a particular artist used for a song, what inspired him or her...
Turn your ear on... Search through the archives... My personal favorites?
Outside of free MP3s, there are a large number of great artists. Consider looking for CDs from The Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Micronaut, Lords of Acid, The Hive, and BT (I love BT : )
Also, don't forget inspiration from gaming. System Shock 2 had some killer music, as did Need For Speed 3 and Decent 1 & 2 (CD editions. Yes, I even have a copy of the D1 Mac CD because I loved the music.)
20 console systems and 100 games... for 'research': $9000 3 years salary for 10 scientists: $1,800,000 Miscellaneou research costs: $400,000 Discovering that sitting in a lab all day playing video games just might result in social issues?
Priceless.
There are some things money can't buy... For everything else; there's research grants.
I'm close to someone involved in low level local politics... What you'll find is that news such as this is about 40% fiction (They call it creative writing, or some such in journalism schools.)
Most news agences embelish the truth, and often resort to such common argument falacies as taking quotes out of context as well as employing sensationalism and plain old fiction.
In general, stories have seeds of truth; some are just larger seeds than others... Remember that the best lies are those based on reality.
Side quote: "The US media is unique not in the ability to provide an un-tainted viewpoint; Rather, it is unique in it's ability to convince the american population that it is without bias."
Kind of reminds me of my brother, a while back... He used to be heavily into replica Katanas, and had set his eye on a particular model that cost about $300... From then on, he'd measure the value of anything else in 'swords.'
The result was comments such as: Currently I'm in the market for a used car in the range of 8-10 swords.
I admit that he did discover a good way to fuck with car salesmen. ^_^
Regarding music... I agree... Diamond sold me a MP3 advertising 90 minutes of 'CD Quality' music, and a few hours of recorded talking; both useless figures.
Slashdot really has entered a marketing mindset, hasn't it?
Consider that back in the days of the 386, people might have said the same of our current 120GB HDDs... Trust that if there are such issues, there will eventually be solutions.
Where there is a will, there *is* a way.
(I admit that arguably, such comments about 120gb drives may be correct... -_-)
I've seen several comments pointing out that reduced battery life as a serious issue...
Here's another one: Signal degradation.
Anyone with experience in networking knows that while repeaters can be used to extend the maximum length of an Ethernet run, you can only repeat the signal so many times (4, for Ethernet, IIRC) before data error become an issue.
I paid for a Motorola Startac back in the day... $250 for a cell phone, and even with such a nice cell phone, loss of quality is pretty noticeable when compared to a landline... Wouldn't hoping the signal through 3 or 4 of these make for pretty horrible reception?
It's possible the loss of quality due to some other aspect of cell technology that I'm not aware of (digital signals and compression, perhaps?) I'd love to hear from someone who knows more about cell technology.
* Burning1 posts from the new 1.5 megabit per second syncronous 802.11b wirless internet connection he's been beta testing for his local ISP (at no cost...)
Um... I'll get back to you in a year or so, when I've thoroughly tested this thing. ; )
I'm surprised not to have seen any post mentioning this modded up to my threshold. AMD has already used a non MHz identification in the past, with the K5 series of microprocessors.
Not necessarily. Spammers will usually use other people's poorly configured relays, as well as random, and often invalid sender address to both evade black hole rules, and the costs associated with sending mass quantities of spam.
In these cases, they will NOT recieve bounce messages, and an unsubscribe very well may both mark your account as valid, and as active.
According to the article, unsubscribing seems to do more good than harm, however... So... *shrug*
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The one thing most people fail to consider is the possibility of incramental backups.
/-/4xx04z where tapes will. Additionally, a proper backup procedure should also include a monthly backup to be taken off site in case of a fire, flood, act of god, or act of pissed off ex employee who is owed a lot of money by ex employer (you hear me, you bastards? [yes, I'm joking. Don't sue me.] ; )
Consider that on a 200gigabyte drive, it's improbable that there will be more than a couple gigs of new content in any given week (even if you're a major porn hound.)
2 gigabytes worth of data is plenty small to do incramental archives nightly on a tape drive.
With that said, you're right... A second hard disk is far more efficent for the needs of the average consumer.
Most IT industries use tape drives as well as RAID arrays simply because it creates a sort history of the data on the drive. Where RAID won't protect you from stupid user errors and 1e3+
People seem to forget that tapes are generally an enterprise solution... Not somthing intended for the desktop.
Breaking the law is a significant source of revenue for your local police department.
When the mail server is down, everything anyone wants to send is "Critical."
The company has ground to a hault and it's your fault, because "you weren't doing a good enough job."
People nag, and people bitch. When it's all over, the only people who respond with something better than "thanks" or "finally" are the fellow IT workers.
They may not be directly hostile, but (at least where I worked,) an IT tech was far more likly to be criticized for a failure than a sales guy was for fowling up a deal.
...that with the exception of the Janator, system administrators are the only people who get no appreciation for a job well done.
Keep the network running flawlessly for a year. Deal with all the stupid questions (bet your CEO doesn't have to do that,) and generally do your job perfectly...
Then the first day that the PDC goes down, everyones bitching at you.
CEOs and dentists get the occational pat on the back... Administrators are generally critical to a company but still get walked over.
I think we could use a little appreciation. : )
I disagree to some extent with comments that Linux has a scheduler that is 'good enough.'
I ran some real time multimedia streaming applications under linux a while ago (LiveIce; very nice tool) and found that even using nice, I would occationally get glitches in the stream output during broadcasts.
Switching to FVWM helped somewhat, as did nice... But when it cames right down to it, I don't think this should have been a problem.
Someone is going to want to kill me for posting a link to this on slashdot... But... What the hell. = )
See a world class Tetris champ in action.
I'm sure a couple of slashdotters are going to hate me for this, but http://www.mp3.com/ is a great place to start.
You'll find a huge number of different artists at varying skill levels, and no cost. It'll give you a chance to look at a wide range of styles (something that even a well stocked music store may not be able to do.) Additionally, you'll find many bits of information available regarding what a particular artist used for a song, what inspired him or her...
Turn your ear on... Search through the archives... My personal favorites?
- Minister
- Kahr
- Bassic
Outside of free MP3s, there are a large number of great artists. Consider looking for CDs from The Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Micronaut, Lords of Acid, The Hive, and BT (I love BT : )Also, don't forget inspiration from gaming. System Shock 2 had some killer music, as did Need For Speed 3 and Decent 1 & 2 (CD editions. Yes, I even have a copy of the D1 Mac CD because I loved the music.)
Some great gaming inspired music can be found at (he's going to hate me...) Putzi's site, and places like remix.overclocked.org.
Best of luck.
Amen.
20 console systems and 100 games... for 'research': $9000
3 years salary for 10 scientists: $1,800,000
Miscellaneou research costs: $400,000
Discovering that sitting in a lab all day playing video games just might result in social issues?
Priceless.
There are some things money can't buy... For everything else; there's research grants.
Peer to Car networking?!
Brilliant! Better pattent it now. = )
I'd attribute it if I knew who it belonged to.
Possible, but not probable...
I'm close to someone involved in low level local politics... What you'll find is that news such as this is about 40% fiction (They call it creative writing, or some such in journalism schools.)
Most news agences embelish the truth, and often resort to such common argument falacies as taking quotes out of context as well as employing sensationalism and plain old fiction.
In general, stories have seeds of truth; some are just larger seeds than others... Remember that the best lies are those based on reality.
Side quote: "The US media is unique not in the ability to provide an un-tainted viewpoint; Rather, it is unique in it's ability to convince the american population that it is without bias."
Kind of reminds me of my brother, a while back... He used to be heavily into replica Katanas, and had set his eye on a particular model that cost about $300... From then on, he'd measure the value of anything else in 'swords.'
The result was comments such as: Currently I'm in the market for a used car in the range of 8-10 swords.
I admit that he did discover a good way to fuck with car salesmen. ^_^
Regarding music... I agree... Diamond sold me a MP3 advertising 90 minutes of 'CD Quality' music, and a few hours of recorded talking; both useless figures.
Slashdot really has entered a marketing mindset, hasn't it?
Consider that back in the days of the 386, people might have said the same of our current 120GB HDDs... Trust that if there are such issues, there will eventually be solutions.
Where there is a will, there *is* a way.
(I admit that arguably, such comments about 120gb drives may be correct... -_-)
"...57,000 songs on an iPod or a terabyte on a laptop size hard drive!"
...or about 28% of my porno collection. : )
I've seen several comments pointing out that reduced battery life as a serious issue...
Here's another one: Signal degradation.
Anyone with experience in networking knows that while repeaters can be used to extend the maximum length of an Ethernet run, you can only repeat the signal so many times (4, for Ethernet, IIRC) before data error become an issue.
I paid for a Motorola Startac back in the day... $250 for a cell phone, and even with such a nice cell phone, loss of quality is pretty noticeable when compared to a landline... Wouldn't hoping the signal through 3 or 4 of these make for pretty horrible reception?
It's possible the loss of quality due to some other aspect of cell technology that I'm not aware of (digital signals and compression, perhaps?) I'd love to hear from someone who knows more about cell technology.
...computers would be obsoleted at the speed of every other technological innovation of the last 2000 years.
Can 802.11 Become A Viable Last-Mile Alternative?
* Burning1 posts from the new 1.5 megabit per second syncronous 802.11b wirless internet connection he's been beta testing for his local ISP (at no cost...)
Um... I'll get back to you in a year or so, when I've thoroughly tested this thing. ; )
Anyone remember the old tagline: "486 DX/2 66Mhz... Smell something burning?"
Look at how far we've come... O.o;
At least they are direct. : )
Good thing you asked me to read that again...
First time around, it looked like something a lady would be doing at 'this time of the month.' -_-;
Hey, I'll send you my old 386 for free...
You can't possibly beat that kind of preformance per dollar.
Does it really matter weather Linux supports USB 2.0 before manufacturer X?
Do we really need to act like a bunch of kids arguing back and forth about our toy being better than someone else's?
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Linux gets USB2 support? Great.
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Linux isn't going to be behind the curve on this new technology? Excellent.
But seriously people, do you seriously feel that it's only possible for Linux to be considered a viable operating system if we parade our wins?Microsoft will support USB 2.0 when the situation demands it.
Hey, If you want to do an item by item comparason between operating systems, and are willing to admit failures as well as success: go for it.
I'm surprised not to have seen any post mentioning this modded up to my threshold. AMD has already used a non MHz identification in the past, with the K5 series of microprocessors.
Here is a Press Release for the K5-PR100.
With the release of the K6 series, and AMD's initial clock speed lead over Intel, they seemed to have dropped the PR designation.
I support AMD and their products, but seriously people, don't try to paint this as anything other than a marketing ploy to sell more CPUs.
As soon as they have the lead again, AMD will most likely return to advertising clockspeed. Such is the way of the world.
Not necessarily. Spammers will usually use other people's poorly configured relays, as well as random, and often invalid sender address to both evade black hole rules, and the costs associated with sending mass quantities of spam.
In these cases, they will NOT recieve bounce messages, and an unsubscribe very well may both mark your account as valid, and as active.
According to the article, unsubscribing seems to do more good than harm, however... So... *shrug*