If they ditched legacy connectors, why do they have 2 parallel ATA connectors? They have a Serial ATA connector, so obviously they have SATA capabilities.
They might have made it smaller, or kept a serial port, had they ditched the huge PATA connectors that waste so much space.
I approached a linux kernel SCSI developer once about "drive aggregation" using ATA drives (you could use SATA these days) in a full computer, and the SCSI port as the output, i.e. you'd plug the whole linux box into another computer and it'd look like one big SCSI drive (like what ACNC does with their hardware).
Anyway, he basically told me to fuck off, and spouted a bunch of highly technical stuff, in a very sarcastic way. (It doesn't surprise me that the linux SCSI code is so bad after talking with him)
I still think it would be a cool idea. In theory there should be no issue making a SCSI card connect to another SCSI card, they are both SCSI devices. You'd just have to change the SCSI ID of one of them. I know someone's used SCSI as a network card once as an experiment, so it's not unprecedented to make odd things appear on the SCSI bus from software.
It's a question of the duties of a provider of infrastructure.
There's a certain relationship between a consumer of infrastructure and a provider of it. The consumer must trust the infrastructure to do what it is supposed to do, and nothing more.
This is no different from ISPs randomly redirecting users to their own branded search engine when you type in "www.google.com", or an ISP's employee intercepting passwords and using them to steal money.
Infrastructure providers inherently have a lot of control over the services they provide. There is a duty there to provide the service as expected, without changing the content that is carried.
Verisign's position as a chartered monopoly makes this duty even more important, because consumers have no choice to use an alternative.
I'm not sure what you mean by "No one's made use of it before"... No one else could make use of it (in.com and.net), Verisign is, as I said, a monopoly.
Other CCTLDs have used wildcards before, but no one much cares about some island that is abusing the CC system to make extra money.
DC produces a field too, it's just a static field, so unless you move the conductor around physically, it's not going to cause any currents in other conductors.
Which could be as simple as a count-down timer & some interface logic).
That's what he's talking about. A watchdog timer is generally installed on a card, and queries every so often to make sure things are OK. If not, hard reboot.
What I'm saying is that if you use those, you must bow to the assumptions of the lanugage writer.
It's like saying a programmer shouldn't need to know how a linked list works, or how a sort algorithm works, he should just use the interface provided to him and be happy, even if it doesn't suit his needs.
I think you can do the full 1500 watts, but it's not like you can use the internet over it. All encrypted communications are banned, as are anything obscene. Just checking your email and getting porn spam would be illegal.
You also have to transmit your callsign every 10 minutes.
Web-development does not require a knowledge of HTTP
Ever sent a file to a browser that is dynamically generated, and isn't an inline image or a html/txt page?
Or maybe you wanted to handle file uploads, while the languages have built in functions for handling them, those functions are usually pretty bad at handling anything special, or providing feedback to the user on the progress of the upload.
It helps to know HTTP. It's not one of those things you need to know, but without knowing it, you won't be able to do anything that the language developers didn't have planned for you.
because it will be obselete in need something that a cheaper system can't offer.
I was trying to say, because it will be obselete in less than 3 years, get cheap storage unless you absolutely need something a cheaper system can't offer.
Unfortunately, I used the < without escaping it.:)
Right now you can get 3TB+ of storage in a single SATA RAID5 unit from www.acnc.com, for about $11,000.
You can get it with a SCSI or FC external interface. Use two of them hooked to two computers in two locations (preferably 300+ miles away) with rdiff-backup if you want extra redundancy. We use local and remote mirrors for maximum protection. The space is so cheap, it's easy to keep extra mirrors.
We've finally eliminated our last major SCSI and FC arrays, and I couldn't be happier. We're up to about 6 TB total ATA and SATA storage now. Get cheap storage if at all possible, because it will be obselete in need something that a cheaper system can't offer. That isn't much these days, now that 10K rpm SATA drives are out.
As far as single drive reliability, the first ATA unit we installed has been in service 2 years this month. We've only replaced two drives out of 48, and even then, the drives passed the factory recertification tests from the manufacturer when we ran them on them. And even if you think that's a higher failure rate than your experience with SCSI/FC, keep in mind that the cost is so much lower, it lets you have more mirroring redundancy, so individual drive failures are much less of an incident.
This is really not the time for that argument. This is really not a privacy issue.
Being a ham radio operator is entirely optional, there's no way to argue that not being one deprives you of livlihood. If you want to make a "free speech" argument, then you better complain about the many other ham rules that prevent you from cursing on the air, and many other rules about the types of traffic that are acceptable. Those would be much more important to address if you view ham as some sort of outlet for free speech.
The global nature of the airwaves means that unique rules apply. It's entirely possible for one person, unknowingly, to spew noise over a bunch of frequencies over a large area. You might not even know what frequency that person is listening to. With the database, you can send him a letter and let him know about the problem.
Do you have a problem with domain names requiring contact info that is publicly available? It's a similar situation, where one site operator can adversely affect many other sites. Do you advocate a system where there are no listed abuse contacts for a domain?
We run an FCC lookup on our site, Electronicschat. Warning though, the data's out of date, I never programmed it to pull nightlies from the FCC ftp site.
Basically, such openness is necessary. If you hear someone on the air that is breaking a rule (maybe inadvertantly), then you need to be able to locate where they are transmitting from. Having the FCC database helps.
If you know where they are, you might try contacting them and asking them to stop using ham frequencies for commercial use. Sometimes they aren't aware that someone sold them radios that use a ham band.
It's not just hams, it's all callsigns that are available.
Maybe some large commercial radio station is making a mess on the air, you can look them up too, and contact their broadcast engineer with a description of the problem.
It takes a huge load off the FCC that ham radio is self-policing, and in general an asset to the airwaves. If the FCC had to constantly broker requests for information, and petty enforcement requests that might be handled civilly with some polite chat with the problem causer, then ham is a lot less likely to exist in 10 years.
about a decade ago JC was making a minimum of $35,000 a night playing shows.
Well, people pay a lot to see the son of God.
(Seriously though, what's with the facination all of a sudden with Johnny Cash. Most people couldn't give two fucks about him a month ago. Did people think he was going to live forever?)
Free software isn't neccessarily no-cost software. The GPL says nothing about monetary cost. In any case, a proportional fine would be good to protect all small software developers, free or non-free.
The hard disk manufacturer will not appreciate you damaging the platters like that. There's no way to degauss the data without also erasing the servo info off the platters, i.e. they will know you degaussed the drive, and might refuse your RMA because you destroyed the drive.
Besides, today's media would require a huge magnetic field to degauss. The way I understand it, as the density gets higher, the coersivity gets proportionally higher.
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But it will stop. Just don't get in so deep that you can't deal with a 100-500% spike.
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If they ditched legacy connectors, why do they have 2 parallel ATA connectors? They have a Serial ATA connector, so obviously they have SATA capabilities.
They might have made it smaller, or kept a serial port, had they ditched the huge PATA connectors that waste so much space.
I approached a linux kernel SCSI developer once about "drive aggregation" using ATA drives (you could use SATA these days) in a full computer, and the SCSI port as the output, i.e. you'd plug the whole linux box into another computer and it'd look like one big SCSI drive (like what ACNC does with their hardware).
Anyway, he basically told me to fuck off, and spouted a bunch of highly technical stuff, in a very sarcastic way. (It doesn't surprise me that the linux SCSI code is so bad after talking with him)
I still think it would be a cool idea. In theory there should be no issue making a SCSI card connect to another SCSI card, they are both SCSI devices. You'd just have to change the SCSI ID of one of them. I know someone's used SCSI as a network card once as an experiment, so it's not unprecedented to make odd things appear on the SCSI bus from software.
Sudbury had more to do with harmful mining techniques, than the nickel itself.
Their main problem was that they cut down all the trees to smelt the metal in open fires.
It's a question of the duties of a provider of infrastructure.
.com and .net), Verisign is, as I said, a monopoly.
There's a certain relationship between a consumer of infrastructure and a provider of it. The consumer must trust the infrastructure to do what it is supposed to do, and nothing more.
This is no different from ISPs randomly redirecting users to their own branded search engine when you type in "www.google.com", or an ISP's employee intercepting passwords and using them to steal money.
Infrastructure providers inherently have a lot of control over the services they provide. There is a duty there to provide the service as expected, without changing the content that is carried.
Verisign's position as a chartered monopoly makes this duty even more important, because consumers have no choice to use an alternative.
I'm not sure what you mean by "No one's made use of it before"... No one else could make use of it (in
Other CCTLDs have used wildcards before, but no one much cares about some island that is abusing the CC system to make extra money.
Nickel is toxic? Since when?
Bluetooth Manufacturer: "And we'd have gotten away with it, if it weren't for those meddling kids!"
DC produces a field too, it's just a static field, so unless you move the conductor around physically, it's not going to cause any currents in other conductors.
emissions equal to zero
How much emission does manufacturing 6800 lithium-ion batteries produce?
Which could be as simple as a count-down timer & some interface logic).
That's what he's talking about. A watchdog timer is generally installed on a card, and queries every so often to make sure things are OK. If not, hard reboot.
A tachyon pulse, of course.
"If a tachyon pulse can't fix it, it ain't worth fixin"
I think were mostly in agreement. It comes down to: Don't reinvent the wheel, but it's good to know how to build a wheel if you need to. :)
What I'm saying is that if you use those, you must bow to the assumptions of the lanugage writer.
It's like saying a programmer shouldn't need to know how a linked list works, or how a sort algorithm works, he should just use the interface provided to him and be happy, even if it doesn't suit his needs.
I think you can do the full 1500 watts, but it's not like you can use the internet over it. All encrypted communications are banned, as are anything obscene. Just checking your email and getting porn spam would be illegal.
You also have to transmit your callsign every 10 minutes.
Web-development does not require a knowledge of HTTP
Ever sent a file to a browser that is dynamically generated, and isn't an inline image or a html/txt page?
Or maybe you wanted to handle file uploads, while the languages have built in functions for handling them, those functions are usually pretty bad at handling anything special, or providing feedback to the user on the progress of the upload.
It helps to know HTTP. It's not one of those things you need to know, but without knowing it, you won't be able to do anything that the language developers didn't have planned for you.
Ack, in the US, at least in theory, it's considered the people's spectrum, not the government's.
because it will be obselete in need something that a cheaper system can't offer.
:)
I was trying to say, because it will be obselete in less than 3 years, get cheap storage unless you absolutely need something a cheaper system can't offer.
Unfortunately, I used the < without escaping it.
I'd have to go against the well-funded flow here.
Right now you can get 3TB+ of storage in a single SATA RAID5 unit from www.acnc.com, for about $11,000.
You can get it with a SCSI or FC external interface. Use two of them hooked to two computers in two locations (preferably 300+ miles away) with rdiff-backup if you want extra redundancy. We use local and remote mirrors for maximum protection. The space is so cheap, it's easy to keep extra mirrors.
We've finally eliminated our last major SCSI and FC arrays, and I couldn't be happier. We're up to about 6 TB total ATA and SATA storage now. Get cheap storage if at all possible, because it will be obselete in need something that a cheaper system can't offer. That isn't much these days, now that 10K rpm SATA drives are out.
As far as single drive reliability, the first ATA unit we installed has been in service 2 years this month. We've only replaced two drives out of 48, and even then, the drives passed the factory recertification tests from the manufacturer when we ran them on them. And even if you think that's a higher failure rate than your experience with SCSI/FC, keep in mind that the cost is so much lower, it lets you have more mirroring redundancy, so individual drive failures are much less of an incident.
This is really not the time for that argument. This is really not a privacy issue.
Being a ham radio operator is entirely optional, there's no way to argue that not being one deprives you of livlihood. If you want to make a "free speech" argument, then you better complain about the many other ham rules that prevent you from cursing on the air, and many other rules about the types of traffic that are acceptable. Those would be much more important to address if you view ham as some sort of outlet for free speech.
The global nature of the airwaves means that unique rules apply. It's entirely possible for one person, unknowingly, to spew noise over a bunch of frequencies over a large area. You might not even know what frequency that person is listening to. With the database, you can send him a letter and let him know about the problem.
Do you have a problem with domain names requiring contact info that is publicly available? It's a similar situation, where one site operator can adversely affect many other sites. Do you advocate a system where there are no listed abuse contacts for a domain?
We run an FCC lookup on our site, Electronicschat. Warning though, the data's out of date, I never programmed it to pull nightlies from the FCC ftp site.
Basically, such openness is necessary. If you hear someone on the air that is breaking a rule (maybe inadvertantly), then you need to be able to locate where they are transmitting from. Having the FCC database helps.
If you know where they are, you might try contacting them and asking them to stop using ham frequencies for commercial use. Sometimes they aren't aware that someone sold them radios that use a ham band.
It's not just hams, it's all callsigns that are available.
Maybe some large commercial radio station is making a mess on the air, you can look them up too, and contact their broadcast engineer with a description of the problem.
It takes a huge load off the FCC that ham radio is self-policing, and in general an asset to the airwaves. If the FCC had to constantly broker requests for information, and petty enforcement requests that might be handled civilly with some polite chat with the problem causer, then ham is a lot less likely to exist in 10 years.
about a decade ago JC was making a minimum of $35,000 a night playing shows.
Well, people pay a lot to see the son of God.
(Seriously though, what's with the facination all of a sudden with Johnny Cash. Most people couldn't give two fucks about him a month ago. Did people think he was going to live forever?)
You get all that on broadcast? Or maybe you are referring to cable, which as far as I know, the FCC doesn't even regulate really.
Or maybe they do things on the weekend, like normal people? And don't feel like getting much work done on Monday, like normal people?
:)
I bet if you graphed legitimate business email, it would show the exact same trends.
Spammers are people too, just barely.
Free software isn't neccessarily no-cost software. The GPL says nothing about monetary cost. In any case, a proportional fine would be good to protect all small software developers, free or non-free.
The hard disk manufacturer will not appreciate you damaging the platters like that. There's no way to degauss the data without also erasing the servo info off the platters, i.e. they will know you degaussed the drive, and might refuse your RMA because you destroyed the drive.
Besides, today's media would require a huge magnetic field to degauss. The way I understand it, as the density gets higher, the coersivity gets proportionally higher.
But it will stop. Just don't get in so deep that you can't deal with a 100-500% spike.