I'm using ext3 on a 1.2 TB array, a 2.0 TB array, a 1.9TB array, a 550GB array, another 2.0 TB array, and a 1.0 TB array (If I remembered them all right). They are all ATA or SATA arrays, some straight 3ware, some 3ware with software RAID on top to bind multiple cards together, and some are AC&C ATA-SCSI boxes.
Anyway, haven't had any trouble, which is more than I can say for when I last tried Reiser. It couldn't handle files larger than 2GB about a year ago, that's since been fixed. It also caused some strange stability problems.
The 1.9 TB and the 1.0TB array had XFS on it for a while, I'm not sure if I ever got around to changing the 1.9 to ext3, but XFS (linux) has also performed flawlessly. Of course our IRIX boxes also run XFS flawlessly on some smaller legacy SCSI-only arrays.
not including my right not to have to pay more taxes to support increased medical expenses from those idiots
You're right, you shouldn't have to pay for the medical bills of anyone else. When laws get passed that force people to pay for other people's mistakes, such as socialized health care, medicare, and medicaid, it turns the government into everyone's nanny, dictating how we should behave at every turn.
We need to get rid of the socialist stuff, and then everyone is free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.
According to most of the arguments I saw regarding the MP3.com case, unless they had permission from the owner of the copyright, they couldn't.
You are buying a single copy of the work, not a license in any way. The only things you can do with it are things permissible under copyright law, which is to say "not a whole lot".
Yes, see the mp3.com lawsuit. Even though the downloaders arguably owned a copy of the CDs that MP3.com was making available for download through their service, it was still infringement for MP3.com to make their copy of the exact same data available to the downloaders from their own CDs.
Of course, the check that the downloader owned the CD was weak, since you could borrow the CD and then "prove" to the service that you owned it, but I don't think they lost on those grounds, I think it was the more fundamental issue that even though you own a byte-for-byte copy of a work, it doesn't give you the right to download the same work, or give anyone else the right to make that work available for you to get.
Then again, MP3.com's lawyers gave really lame defenses, such as Fair Use, which have nothing to do with duplicating complete copies of a work.
Did you check to see if it's the same people saying both things?
I, for one, am happy to see that they are no longer attacking the networks themselves as much. If they would have succeeded on a larger scale, the only result is the crippling of the Internet as we know it. The Internet is designed to copy files, shutting down services that just facilitate what the Internet inherently does is stupid.
After all, we are talking about premises for a Sci-Fi book here. If the aliens could somehow come up with a technology to convert matter to anti, it would be a great shield against invasion. At least until some other race discovers it.
Secure access key is supposed to address this. The way I understand it, it is a key or key combination that will kill every program on a given session, and the apps can't intercept it.
Versions of windows that don't suck used to make you press ctrl-alt-del to login. I don't remember seeing this in 2000 and above though. Linux lets you use a magic sysrq combination to kill all programs in a terminal, letting the real login prompt respawn. I've never seen anyone use this before in practice though.
Well, from reading the source of a couple drivers, it looks like most are one or two person deals.
3ware, for example, is a company that provides open source drivers that have been accepted into the linus tree. They seem to be primarily written and maintained by Adam Radford alone.
There's also a userspace component to manage raids, would your devices also need userspace apps developed to make them useful? That's one question you have to ask.
Anyway, good job. It's always good to see devices with open source drivers that don't suck. (Make sure yours don't:)
I agree with you, it is kinda a silly idea when you can rent those washing machine sized A/C units on wheels that other people have mentioned, for not very much money. We've used them before when our server room A/C has failed.
I'm a tech worker for a manufacturing company too, I've always thought we have a pretty unique experience compared to people working for tech companies, it would be cool to make some kind of chat room for people like us.
That's not too likely. A/C units dehumidify very well.
Usually at least. Inane anecdotes follow.:)
My high school computer labs had a really screwed up HVAC system, they had to run standalone dehumidifiers all the time, and empty them every 2 hours or so. There were several times that there was actually a pretty thick hazy fog in the building.
Maybe I've just had bad experiences with HVAC. Where I work now, even the new upgraded HVAC system put in the server room has failed at least twice a year since we got it. The old HVAC that covers the rest of the floor has shorted out and taken most of the building with it a couple times too (a bad breaker, and bad full-short fuse/breaker timing caused the upstream 1500amp leg fuse to blow rather than the two downstream ones)
Also, a couple times, my office windows were literally dripping with water in the winter, there was some steam leak in the heating system which was pushing the humidity up.
Anyway, maybe it's just the HVAC contractors in my town don't know what they are doing.
This is an interesting question, it's similar to the security vulnerability full disclosure arguments, but with a couple differences, a spammer that is using a technique is broadcasting how to do it to nearly everyone anyway.
It's also different from security in that the spammer has no motivation to keep the method secret, it's worthless unless it is used to send spam. Contrast that with the security disclosure problem, in that there is a large motivation to keep a vulnerability secret and use it covertly on specific targets.
I'm leaning toward the idea that this really won't help spammers much, but with the caveat that it really doesn't help spam filter writers much either, since looking at the spams you get would make it obvious what techniques were being used anyway.
Last I checked, cold things condense water out of air, not hot things.
The only danger is that once they get power back, when the A/C kicks in cooling off that air that is near 100% humidity, it's likely to get kinda foggy in the server room, and water condensing out of the air could settle on things.
The solution would be to make sure the humid air was circulated out before turning the A/C back on, and bringing the temperature down slowly to prevent dew.
I assume that you mean to say that Free Software *couldn't* use my algorithm,
Yes, that's why I said "No Free Software could use...."
Not the same as "No, Free Software could use".
I admit, it's kinda ambiguous since these days writing online has often degenerated to the point of not using punctuation.
Algorithms that truly represent legitamite scientific advances should be patentable
Why? It usually doesn't take teams of researchers thousands of hours to develop a new algorithm, it only takes one person with a few spare days, a stroke of good intellectual fortune, and maybe a little ingenuity.
To use your terms from your older message: "The invention cost is almost always near zero, the implementation cost is almost always near zero".
You ever seen LZW?
Routine LZW_COMPRESS
STRING = get input character WHILE there are still input characters DO CHARACTER = get input character IF STRING+CHARACTER is in the string table then STRING = STRING+character ELSE output the code for STRING add STRING+CHARACTER to the string table STRING = CHARACTER END of IF END of WHILE output the code for STRING
If you honestly think that deserves 17+ years of protection, encumbering it from being freely used by all programmers, then I think your view of the world is a little off.
There's a category for "The Courts". It's not a section though, they would still have to pick a section like "Developers" or "News". Of course, the whole section/topic thing is pretty screwed up anyway.
Now I have a third option. I can patent it, and set up a reasonable licensing scheme: you're free to implement my for private non-commercial use, research, etc. If you're getting paid from your implementation, then I want a cut of it, too. Now I can publish, its possible for the open- source
No Free Software could use your algorithm, since the GPL prohibits any further restrictions on the use or distribution. Software patents are inherently incompatible with Free Software.
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I'm using ext3 on a 1.2 TB array, a 2.0 TB array, a 1.9TB array, a 550GB array, another 2.0 TB array, and a 1.0 TB array (If I remembered them all right). They are all ATA or SATA arrays, some straight 3ware, some 3ware with software RAID on top to bind multiple cards together, and some are AC&C ATA-SCSI boxes.
Anyway, haven't had any trouble, which is more than I can say for when I last tried Reiser. It couldn't handle files larger than 2GB about a year ago, that's since been fixed. It also caused some strange stability problems.
The 1.9 TB and the 1.0TB array had XFS on it for a while, I'm not sure if I ever got around to changing the 1.9 to ext3, but XFS (linux) has also performed flawlessly. Of course our IRIX boxes also run XFS flawlessly on some smaller legacy SCSI-only arrays.
And make them do one good clean dose of each illegal drug before they pass any more drug war laws.
I think a lot of them would be thinking "That's it? I can't believe we were going to spend all that money on something so stupid."
Do they wake up in a hotel bathtub and see a card that say "Don't get up, call 911"?
But is the cure really worse than the problem?
These days, we have a facade of equal access, but the truth of it is, if you have a lot of money, you will probably get the transplant.
not including my right not to have to pay more taxes to support increased medical expenses from those idiots
You're right, you shouldn't have to pay for the medical bills of anyone else. When laws get passed that force people to pay for other people's mistakes, such as socialized health care, medicare, and medicaid, it turns the government into everyone's nanny, dictating how we should behave at every turn.
We need to get rid of the socialist stuff, and then everyone is free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.
According to most of the arguments I saw regarding the MP3.com case, unless they had permission from the owner of the copyright, they couldn't.
You are buying a single copy of the work, not a license in any way. The only things you can do with it are things permissible under copyright law, which is to say "not a whole lot".
Does anyone have a definitive answer on that?
Yes, see the mp3.com lawsuit. Even though the downloaders arguably owned a copy of the CDs that MP3.com was making available for download through their service, it was still infringement for MP3.com to make their copy of the exact same data available to the downloaders from their own CDs.
Of course, the check that the downloader owned the CD was weak, since you could borrow the CD and then "prove" to the service that you owned it, but I don't think they lost on those grounds, I think it was the more fundamental issue that even though you own a byte-for-byte copy of a work, it doesn't give you the right to download the same work, or give anyone else the right to make that work available for you to get.
Then again, MP3.com's lawyers gave really lame defenses, such as Fair Use, which have nothing to do with duplicating complete copies of a work.
Did you check to see if it's the same people saying both things?
I, for one, am happy to see that they are no longer attacking the networks themselves as much. If they would have succeeded on a larger scale, the only result is the crippling of the Internet as we know it. The Internet is designed to copy files, shutting down services that just facilitate what the Internet inherently does is stupid.
Because modern bumpers don't even work at 5mph, much less highway speeds. They are more a decoration these days.
As a permanant defense against war and invasion?
After all, we are talking about premises for a Sci-Fi book here. If the aliens could somehow come up with a technology to convert matter to anti, it would be a great shield against invasion. At least until some other race discovers it.
These influenced a video game displayed on a screen, which the students learned to control by altering particular thought patterns.
Does anyone else think it would look badass to go to an arcade, put a helmet on, and use your brainwaves to kick someone's ass at a fighting game?
We are one step closer to using the force!
Doh, I posted almost the exact same message, we must have been writing them at nearly the same time, except I typed slower. :)
Mods, give my other message a redundant score.
Secure access key is supposed to address this. The way I understand it, it is a key or key combination that will kill every program on a given session, and the apps can't intercept it.
Versions of windows that don't suck used to make you press ctrl-alt-del to login. I don't remember seeing this in 2000 and above though. Linux lets you use a magic sysrq combination to kill all programs in a terminal, letting the real login prompt respawn. I've never seen anyone use this before in practice though.
Well, from reading the source of a couple drivers, it looks like most are one or two person deals.
:)
3ware, for example, is a company that provides open source drivers that have been accepted into the linus tree. They seem to be primarily written and maintained by Adam Radford alone.
There's also a userspace component to manage raids, would your devices also need userspace apps developed to make them useful? That's one question you have to ask.
Anyway, good job. It's always good to see devices with open source drivers that don't suck. (Make sure yours don't
I agree with you, it is kinda a silly idea when you can rent those washing machine sized A/C units on wheels that other people have mentioned, for not very much money. We've used them before when our server room A/C has failed.
I'm a tech worker for a manufacturing company too, I've always thought we have a pretty unique experience compared to people working for tech companies, it would be cool to make some kind of chat room for people like us.
That's not too likely. A/C units dehumidify very well.
:)
Usually at least. Inane anecdotes follow.
My high school computer labs had a really screwed up HVAC system, they had to run standalone dehumidifiers all the time, and empty them every 2 hours or so. There were several times that there was actually a pretty thick hazy fog in the building.
Maybe I've just had bad experiences with HVAC. Where I work now, even the new upgraded HVAC system put in the server room has failed at least twice a year since we got it. The old HVAC that covers the rest of the floor has shorted out and taken most of the building with it a couple times too (a bad breaker, and bad full-short fuse/breaker timing caused the upstream 1500amp leg fuse to blow rather than the two downstream ones)
Also, a couple times, my office windows were literally dripping with water in the winter, there was some steam leak in the heating system which was pushing the humidity up.
Anyway, maybe it's just the HVAC contractors in my town don't know what they are doing.
This is an interesting question, it's similar to the security vulnerability full disclosure arguments, but with a couple differences, a spammer that is using a technique is broadcasting how to do it to nearly everyone anyway.
It's also different from security in that the spammer has no motivation to keep the method secret, it's worthless unless it is used to send spam. Contrast that with the security disclosure problem, in that there is a large motivation to keep a vulnerability secret and use it covertly on specific targets.
I'm leaning toward the idea that this really won't help spammers much, but with the caveat that it really doesn't help spam filter writers much either, since looking at the spams you get would make it obvious what techniques were being used anyway.
It's called a recession, man. Get over it. Nothing new is happening today that wasn't happening 20 years ago.
Or maybe the starving programmers that worked at proprietary software companies that have been made irrelevant by open source?
Adapt or die, you can't whine about protectionism while supporting another form of it.
Last I checked, cold things condense water out of air, not hot things.
The only danger is that once they get power back, when the A/C kicks in cooling off that air that is near 100% humidity, it's likely to get kinda foggy in the server room, and water condensing out of the air could settle on things.
The solution would be to make sure the humid air was circulated out before turning the A/C back on, and bringing the temperature down slowly to prevent dew.
I assume that you mean to say that Free Software *couldn't* use my algorithm,
Yes, that's why I said "No Free Software could use...."
Not the same as "No, Free Software could use".
I admit, it's kinda ambiguous since these days writing online has often degenerated to the point of not using punctuation.
Algorithms that truly represent legitamite scientific advances should be patentable
Why? It usually doesn't take teams of researchers thousands of hours to develop a new algorithm, it only takes one person with a few spare days, a stroke of good intellectual fortune, and maybe a little ingenuity.
To use your terms from your older message: "The invention cost is almost always near zero, the implementation cost is almost always near zero".
You ever seen LZW?
Routine LZW_COMPRESS
STRING = get input character
WHILE there are still input characters DO
CHARACTER = get input character
IF STRING+CHARACTER is in the string table then
STRING = STRING+character
ELSE
output the code for STRING
add STRING+CHARACTER to the string table
STRING = CHARACTER
END of IF
END of WHILE
output the code for STRING
If you honestly think that deserves 17+ years of protection, encumbering it from being freely used by all programmers, then I think your view of the world is a little off.
How much dry ice are you talking about? I'm thinking that could get dangerous pretty quickly, with massive amounts of dry ice in a windowless room.
IBM
There's a category for "The Courts". It's not a section though, they would still have to pick a section like "Developers" or "News". Of course, the whole section/topic thing is pretty screwed up anyway.
Now I have a third option. I can patent it, and set up a reasonable licensing scheme: you're free to implement my for private non-commercial use, research, etc. If you're getting paid from your implementation, then I want a cut of it, too. Now I can publish, its possible for the open- source
No Free Software could use your algorithm, since the GPL prohibits any further restrictions on the use or distribution. Software patents are inherently incompatible with Free Software.