But make no mistake: I know the terms. And it's got nothing to do with the bus used, or whether the disks are multiplexed with LUNs.
The words "software RAID" make it damn near implicit that there's Just a Bunch Of Disks attached. Therefore, I continue to suggest that software RAID+JBOD is redundant terminology, and that just saying "software RAID" is perfectly descriptive. (What else would you be software RAIDing[1], after all?)
To use a car analogy: It's like saying "I have a car, with tires on it." It's implicit that the car must have tires, or it wouldn't be a usable car. So, the explicit specification that the car has tires is redundant.
If you still don't understand, then please look up the definition of "redundant" with regards to common English parlance.
[1]: The only exceptions I can think where one might use software RAID without JBOD are loopback-mounted files (whether over the network, or local on one disk), or perhaps something else which is beyond "Just a Bunch Of Disks," like a software RAID array of iSCSI disks located within one or more additional, otherwise-independant, machines.
The real strength of something like this (versus various otherwise-great resources such as pinouts.ru is that once you've accomplished the difficult task of locating, implementing, and verifying a pinout, you can just go ahead and post your results so that the rest of the world doesn't have to duplicate your effort.
Please don't treat wikis as just a resource to be consumed. Don't assume that someone, somewhere, is tending the light at the end of the tunnel. Contribute what you learn.
It looks like something that might, someday, become a useful resource. But: I find it annoying that the wiki doesn't allow anonymous edits. Creating a bar which folks must jump over before contributing (even if it's as simple as creating an account) does not foster creativity, nor does it encourage folks who might otherwise feel constrained by NDA to post a particular pinout.
To whomever it is who is responsible for this wiki (and I know you'll be reading this, once you wake up and your server is on fire after its slashdotting has fully taken hold): Please enable anonymous edits. I fix all kinds of things on Wikipedia anonymously, because I can't be bothered to log in just to reconstruct a difficult-to-read paragraph, fix a simple error, or add a descriptive link. I'd like to think that you'd want folks like me doing this on your pinout wiki.
Last time I mentioned this on Slashdot, I got flamed. Whatever. Different strokes for different folks.
I've been fucking the same fucking person for six fucking years, and she's fixed, so I've never used a fucking condom while fucking her.
Not too long ago, while waiting around at the fucking pharmacy, I found myself looking at condoms. Why? Because I remember back more than six years ago, when I could fuck different fucking people, and could pick out different condoms to add a little variety for times when I'd be fucking the same fucking person for a few weeks or months at a time.
Disclaimer: I do IT stuff for a regional Verizon dealer. (Please note that this is neither Sprint, nor related to a Palm Pre.)
AFAICT, in working amongst the sales staff, an SSN is required for any (non-prepaid) phone. Even if you pay for the handset outright. It's even a prerequisite for any account changes (or at least the last four digits are).
Why? Because they're going to bill you, after the fact, for the services that you've used, and they just want to make sure that you're (likely to be) good for the money when the bill comes. Hence credit checks, and/or a deposit if your credit rating is poor. (Not every company is so friendly as Dreamhost, who will send you reminders about the money you owe them for months and months while still continuing to service the wayward account as usual.)
Just like any other utility. The power company here wants to do a credit check before they'll give me service, so does the local (landline) telco, and the gas company, and my banker, and my previous landlord(s), and... It's just to establish merit. Fail the credit check, and get asked to put a deposit in. Pass, and you skip the deposit and move on with life. End of story.
Of course a credit check is in Sprint's interest to conduct whenever a phone (on a month-to-month plan) is sold, and (AFAIK) such credit checks need an SSN to complete.
Nothing to see here, folks; move along (and throw away that fucking tinfoil hat while you're at it).
Then consider a single book, good luck finding one under 200 pages, and even a moderately focused book will bind your mind to a depth of thinking quite unlike most (though certainly not all) web pages.
Remember: Wikipedia just wants to be a encyclopedia, not an in-depth reference manual on every topic known to man. Like any other encyclopedia, an article found within it often is most useful simply as a means of gathering enough basic familiarity with a topic and the terminology that goes with it to aptly proceed with more in-depth research.
It's not a textbook, and it's not meant to be. So why are you comparing the two?
Right. Because everyone's been doing selective and deterministic call forwarding with free telephony services since 5ESS hit the scene in '82. Old news. Blah blah blah. [/sarcasm]
Naw. We're all geeks here (right?) - setting up the software is the fun part. We do this shit because it's interesting to us -- and that's also the reason that we're so pale.
The real difficulty in operating one's own personal PBX is maintaining the sodden thing and the hardware that runs it, and then trying to justify paying for it.
In this context, Google Voice works just fine for a single independent user, has zero maintenance, and is free. I don't even need an Internet connection for to work -- the whole thing can be set up from a public terminal at the library or the coffee house.
On the other hand, Asterisk can work with lots of users, has non-zero maintenance, and is not free. (Oh, sure - the software's free. But the hardware isn't free. And the connectivity isn't free. And...)
I used to have a small vial of a "homeopathic" depression remedy, bought here in the States about 15 years ago, which (among a few other things) contained a small amount of arsenic.
Why is it that folks here think that homeopathic drugs should contain nothing?
Good. At least you're not a blogger, stealing every image and every writeup. Sounds like you're trying to generate your creative output, and generally succeeding.
Slashdot Mirror
Pedant.
Right. So, since you're anonymous, and you've got an audience, I should just assume that you're a fuckwad with nothing to contribute anyway.
Thanks for that, fuckwad. I couldn't have discredited you any better than you already have.
OP in no way made any reference
Context. Remember to pay attention to context.
You already know what I'm writing about, but I haven't even spelled it out for you. That's because of context. Context. Say it again: Context.
Coooonnnnnnteeeeeexxxt.
Well, yeah.
But make no mistake: I know the terms. And it's got nothing to do with the bus used, or whether the disks are multiplexed with LUNs.
The words "software RAID" make it damn near implicit that there's Just a Bunch Of Disks attached. Therefore, I continue to suggest that software RAID+JBOD is redundant terminology, and that just saying "software RAID" is perfectly descriptive. (What else would you be software RAIDing[1], after all?)
To use a car analogy: It's like saying "I have a car, with tires on it." It's implicit that the car must have tires, or it wouldn't be a usable car. So, the explicit specification that the car has tires is redundant.
If you still don't understand, then please look up the definition of "redundant" with regards to common English parlance.
[1]: The only exceptions I can think where one might use software RAID without JBOD are loopback-mounted files (whether over the network, or local on one disk), or perhaps something else which is beyond "Just a Bunch Of Disks," like a software RAID array of iSCSI disks located within one or more additional, otherwise-independant, machines.
The real strength of something like this (versus various otherwise-great resources such as pinouts.ru is that once you've accomplished the difficult task of locating, implementing, and verifying a pinout, you can just go ahead and post your results so that the rest of the world doesn't have to duplicate your effort.
Please don't treat wikis as just a resource to be consumed. Don't assume that someone, somewhere, is tending the light at the end of the tunnel. Contribute what you learn.
/.ed? Feh. It's still working for me.
It looks like something that might, someday, become a useful resource. But: I find it annoying that the wiki doesn't allow anonymous edits. Creating a bar which folks must jump over before contributing (even if it's as simple as creating an account) does not foster creativity, nor does it encourage folks who might otherwise feel constrained by NDA to post a particular pinout.
To whomever it is who is responsible for this wiki (and I know you'll be reading this, once you wake up and your server is on fire after its slashdotting has fully taken hold): Please enable anonymous edits. I fix all kinds of things on Wikipedia anonymously, because I can't be bothered to log in just to reconstruct a difficult-to-read paragraph, fix a simple error, or add a descriptive link. I'd like to think that you'd want folks like me doing this on your pinout wiki.
I'm sure that they'd have loved to make a more fair comparison, say, between XP and an 8-year-old version of Linux.
But: Firefox 3.5 RC2 won't run on 8-year-old versions of Linux.
So, there. :P
Last time I mentioned this on Slashdot, I got flamed. Whatever. Different strokes for different folks.
I've been fucking the same fucking person for six fucking years, and she's fixed, so I've never used a fucking condom while fucking her.
Not too long ago, while waiting around at the fucking pharmacy, I found myself looking at condoms. Why? Because I remember back more than six years ago, when I could fuck different fucking people, and could pick out different condoms to add a little variety for times when I'd be fucking the same fucking person for a few weeks or months at a time.
And, no -- I didn't fucking buy any. But I may.
large JBOD and software RAID/quote
Isn't that redundant? What does the above text specify which could not be concisely written with just the words "software RAID"?
Disclaimer: I do IT stuff for a regional Verizon dealer. (Please note that this is neither Sprint, nor related to a Palm Pre.)
AFAICT, in working amongst the sales staff, an SSN is required for any (non-prepaid) phone. Even if you pay for the handset outright. It's even a prerequisite for any account changes (or at least the last four digits are).
Why? Because they're going to bill you, after the fact, for the services that you've used, and they just want to make sure that you're (likely to be) good for the money when the bill comes. Hence credit checks, and/or a deposit if your credit rating is poor. (Not every company is so friendly as Dreamhost, who will send you reminders about the money you owe them for months and months while still continuing to service the wayward account as usual.)
Just like any other utility. The power company here wants to do a credit check before they'll give me service, so does the local (landline) telco, and the gas company, and my banker, and my previous landlord(s), and... It's just to establish merit. Fail the credit check, and get asked to put a deposit in. Pass, and you skip the deposit and move on with life. End of story.
Of course a credit check is in Sprint's interest to conduct whenever a phone (on a month-to-month plan) is sold, and (AFAIK) such credit checks need an SSN to complete.
Nothing to see here, folks; move along (and throw away that fucking tinfoil hat while you're at it).
I think the title was supposed to say "GNU Linux."
But, you know, it's just a title. Fergetaboutit.
Then consider a single book, good luck finding one under 200 pages, and even a moderately focused book will bind your mind to a depth of thinking quite unlike most (though certainly not all) web pages.
Remember: Wikipedia just wants to be a encyclopedia, not an in-depth reference manual on every topic known to man. Like any other encyclopedia, an article found within it often is most useful simply as a means of gathering enough basic familiarity with a topic and the terminology that goes with it to aptly proceed with more in-depth research.
It's not a textbook, and it's not meant to be. So why are you comparing the two?
Vonage's base rate is free?
How nifty.
Right. Because everyone's been doing selective and deterministic call forwarding with free telephony services since 5ESS hit the scene in '82. Old news. Blah blah blah.
[/sarcasm]
Naw. We're all geeks here (right?) - setting up the software is the fun part. We do this shit because it's interesting to us -- and that's also the reason that we're so pale.
The real difficulty in operating one's own personal PBX is maintaining the sodden thing and the hardware that runs it, and then trying to justify paying for it.
In this context, Google Voice works just fine for a single independent user, has zero maintenance, and is free. I don't even need an Internet connection for to work -- the whole thing can be set up from a public terminal at the library or the coffee house.
On the other hand, Asterisk can work with lots of users, has non-zero maintenance, and is not free. (Oh, sure - the software's free. But the hardware isn't free. And the connectivity isn't free. And...)
TSIA. HAND!
Har(s).
Why, then, did it taste of arsenic? (Please don't ask me how I know this.)
*shug*
I used to have a small vial of a "homeopathic" depression remedy, bought here in the States about 15 years ago, which (among a few other things) contained a small amount of arsenic.
Why is it that folks here think that homeopathic drugs should contain nothing?
Link works for me, with Firefox 3.5RC1 (released yesterday).
Try Help -> Check for Updates in Firefox, try again, and post your findings.
Pretty please.
I just installed beta4 late last night/early this morning. Hadn't even had a chance to fire it up yet.
I'll go update it to RC1 straightaway, so we can move on with RC2 tomorrow.
(You're welcome.)
Hrm. Looks like MSFT is borking the "teen" category. The search works fine with that word removed.
Ah, well. Back to them being evil, I guess.
Good. At least you're not a blogger, stealing every image and every writeup. Sounds like you're trying to generate your creative output, and generally succeeding.
Keep up the good work.
Now now, kids: It's obvious that IBM failed to complete the design in time for Christmas.
Therefore, it's both a design problem, and a launch problem.
Who is the maker of this gem of an item?