Ditch the RAID 5 man. Previous poster mentioned a performance loss if you lose one drive, however, RAID 5 writes suck no matter if you have all your drives or not.
Do a 0+1 configuration. You get the performance benefits of a stripe, and the redundancy of a mirror. 0+1 is the only way to go if you have enough drives. If you have Veritas volume manager, you can also do a Striped Pro set. It's similar to 0+1, except it will dynamically move data around in case of a failure and keep redundant data on free drive space in case you lose more than one drive. Supposedly it's better than 0+1, unfortunately, I did not benchmark it. I can say the performance was at least similar. Note that with Veritas, you are doing software RAID. Some people don't like this, but I haven't had any issues with it.
See if LVM has anything interesting. Just because it's in software doesn't mean it's going to hurt your performance. In fact, I'd say that depending on the RAID controller you're using, software RAID is probably more resilient in case of a failure of drives or the card itself. Some cards only store the RAID information internally, instead of tagging the drives with the data. So if you lose the card, your RAID set is hosed.
Several articles have been written lately about the possibility of our core being a natural nuclear reactor. Dead natural reactors have been discovered before, I believe in Nevada. It would only make sense that when the earth was forming, the heavier elements would migrate towards the core. Supposedly the reason our magnetic field changes every several thousand years is that the reactor poisons itself with byproducts and nearly stops... over time, these byproducts migrate outwards because they are lighter than the uranium, and the reactor starts up again with a magnetic field oriented differently from the one before it.
Here is a site with a ton of info on it. Interesting stuff, but it makes more sense to me than an iron core simply because of the whole mass/gravity issue.
Actually, this happened sort of.... Back in the day, a guy that was a programmer on the old 4.x code left the company and started his own. He was in business a few months, selling firewalls that acted just like the PIX. They looked at symbols in the binary firmware, and figured out it was just Cisco's code.
I have no idea what the guy's name was. He may have actually worked for the company that Cisco purchased to get the PIX.
Did they take two groups of 50, or did they do all people first with no current, and then with current? Because if it's the second option, the people had time to think about what they were doing and to mentally prepare for it. Poor experiments yield crappy results. What they need to do is get two groups of 1000 people and do one with current, and one without, and analyze the stats to see if it makes a difference.
This reminds me of the now defunct Museum of Questionable Medical devices that used to exist near downtown Minneapolis. They had this thing on the counter with two metal handles. You insert a nickel, and are treated to a soothing electrical shock which is supposed to heal any ailments you may have. I dropped a nickel in, grabbed the handles, and it almost knocked me on my ass. I've been shocked by 120v line voltage before, and it felt identical. The guy behind the counter was laughing his ass off, and he said "you should see some people. It drops them to the floor and they cry."
In any case, if this whole voltage across your head thing works, the current is low enough to where it could probably be done via an implant which wouldn't need to be replaced very often. Of course, now that this came out, it's only a matter of time before we see Darwin candidates using TENS devices and other things to make them smarter. Which might arguably work since they'd only do it once.
Look at Mimic or Wandl. I know there are a few others. I have to leave otherwise I'd post links.:(
They are not cheap, but you may be able to find someone that has a copy and will let you use it. Try consulting firms, most larger network consulting firms should have something similar to what you're looking for, and it will be cheaper than buying it.
However, even though HFS is still case-insensitive as far as file naming goes, the bash shell is still case sensitive and you need to take this into account when doing scripting.
Almost everything in my music collection was ripped from the originals using grip under linux, and I put the artist name in the song title, so the above worked for me. If you have whitespace in the filename, you will have to do some fancy quoting.
You are partially incorrect. It's true that the files are put in random directories, but the filenames remain the same.
$ cd/Volumes/iPod $ find./ -iname *portishead*
If you wanna get fancy, you can import them by checking the "copy imported music to iTunes" and do: for i in `find./ -iname *portishead*`; do open $i; done
This will reimport all of your portishead songs. I should know, I just did it because my hard drive died a couple of weeks ago and my backup was bad. This was the only way I could get some of my music back.
Could this lead to better language learning courses?
Most of the language courses I've seen do not work well for how I think. They probably work well for how the author thinks, but everyone learns differently. Design a course based around research like this might be beneficial as everyone has already learned their primary language using this method.
Well, being a geek and all, why the hell is he using PHP-Nuke? It probably has the worst security history of any CMS ever made.
I highly suggest for everyone using a Nuke based site to switch to Typo3. The security history is solid, and it's just damn nice to work with. It has way more features too.
Maybe he could even do a spot on his show about it.
That wouldn't be fraudulent if you sent it to a few of your friends, but when you send it to 7.7 million complete strangers, there's definitely some intent there.
I used to have to deal with these scams at a previous job, and I talked to the SEC regularly.
Well, if they don't get a conviction for the above via the spam laws, they can certainly go after them for a pump and dump scam with those penny stocks.
Sending millions of emails with the intent to make tons of people buy a stock to drive it's price up is illegal. All they would need to do is show that the person had purchased the stock when it was low, or put some sort of order on it. Or just prove intent. The SEC frowns upon this practice. People who are being investigated for it get their assets frozen, and that makes me very happy.
Spammers with money they can't use, it's brilliant.
I live in Minnesota, and Qwest is our LEC here. There's no way they'll roll that out, and even if they try, they will probably fail. By far probably the worst phone company I've ever worked with.
Cable companies here are more likely to run it than Qwest is, because they don't need to go through all of the permits and crap to lay things along side pre-existing cable. They were granted right-of-way back in the early 80's for the push to get cable to everyone's home, and they still have it. Time Warner Telecom uses Time Warner Cable's right-of-way when laying new fiber. The result is fiber a few weeks from when you order it rather than a few months.
Some communities here are serviced by sprint, and sprint ran fiber to a ton of new homes about 4 years ago in northern Brooklyn Park. As far as I know, they aren't using it yet. If you live in that area, go take the cover off the box at the end of your driveway and see if there's some in there.
But yeah, Qwest sucks. I hope they go bankrupt. They've screwed me way too many times, both for residential service, and for big fat commercial pipes.
Admit to your true usage of this distiller. You are putting mash through it and making moonshine. And even if you're not, you could be, so the ATF is at your door right now. Run!
Could it be something else that they haven't thought of? Like possibly due to inductive friction caused by the interaction of earth's magnetic field and non-ferrous metals in these satellites?
The reason is that some Universities have their own Apple store prices which are significantly less than the normal edu discount. University of Minnesota is one of these. My first iBook was through the U of MN store, and it was $100 less than the normal discount, I got like $300 off of it.
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day, and he brought up the very real possiblity that people under or around 30 years old today, may very well live to be 200-300 years old.
With as much medical knowledge we've gaining in just the last 20 years because of the advent of computers and better collaboration, it's acceptable to belive that the rate at which we make new discoveries is only going to increase.
Scientists have found the gene that turns aging on and off. If 10 years down the road someone develops a way to actually turn it off safely in humans, it will likely increase our lifespan. Also, stem cell research looks to be a promising method of growing replacement organs and body parts.
If both of these things are possible within the next 50 years, it's well within reason that people under 30 could use them to live nearly forever.
Surely a major hurdle will be governments, but I would suspect that because of the potential demand for such things, purchasing procedures like this will simply move underground. Instead of drug dealers, we could very well have gene dealers.
You look at things which might kill you off now, like cancer and other diseases, and more and more discoveries are being made every day to combat these things (viruses that kill cancer, etc).
Why they didn't build in Wifi is beyond me. However, they could at least put GSM on it. The reason I don't have a PDA is because I don't want to carry a phone AND a pda. I only have so many pockets, and I don't want a bat belt full of crap.
The sidekick II was almost there. Other than the fact it was missing bluetooth, and that t-mobile crippled the thing. I had one for about a week, but the lack of bluetooth (or any sync functionality with iSync) has forced me to revert to my K700i.
For a PDA/phone, the clamshell design is far superior, as I think I would destroy a touchscreen by toting it around in my pocket all day long. If I could get ahold of that new motorola E780 or whatever it is, I might be happy. But it's not clamshell, and it doesn't have Wifi.
Is this really that much of a problem? I've gone to a ton of movies, and maybe heard someone's phone ring twice during a movie. Maybe these theaters should just ruthlessly enforce a rule that if your phone rings during a performance, you will be kicked out without a refund.
You put up a sign that tells people to turn their phones off or to silent mode, listing the consequences if you don't.
Signs are cheap. Cell phone jammers are not. Plus, what about the people that rely on their cell phones or pagers for their job? IT people, or more importantly, doctors. Cell phone jamming is simply a poor idea since our society has come to rely on it.
In any case, I certainly would not give any theater my money that chose to do this. I would encourage others to boycott them also.
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Ditch the RAID 5 man. Previous poster mentioned a performance loss if you lose one drive, however, RAID 5 writes suck no matter if you have all your drives or not.
Do a 0+1 configuration. You get the performance benefits of a stripe, and the redundancy of a mirror. 0+1 is the only way to go if you have enough drives. If you have Veritas volume manager, you can also do a Striped Pro set. It's similar to 0+1, except it will dynamically move data around in case of a failure and keep redundant data on free drive space in case you lose more than one drive. Supposedly it's better than 0+1, unfortunately, I did not benchmark it. I can say the performance was at least similar. Note that with Veritas, you are doing software RAID. Some people don't like this, but I haven't had any issues with it.
See if LVM has anything interesting. Just because it's in software doesn't mean it's going to hurt your performance. In fact, I'd say that depending on the RAID controller you're using, software RAID is probably more resilient in case of a failure of drives or the card itself. Some cards only store the RAID information internally, instead of tagging the drives with the data. So if you lose the card, your RAID set is hosed.
I notice that one of their products says it's "suitable for projection". Can I project a hologram into thin air? How?
Several articles have been written lately about the possibility of our core being a natural nuclear reactor. Dead natural reactors have been discovered before, I believe in Nevada. It would only make sense that when the earth was forming, the heavier elements would migrate towards the core. Supposedly the reason our magnetic field changes every several thousand years is that the reactor poisons itself with byproducts and nearly stops... over time, these byproducts migrate outwards because they are lighter than the uranium, and the reactor starts up again with a magnetic field oriented differently from the one before it.
Here is a site with a ton of info on it. Interesting stuff, but it makes more sense to me than an iron core simply because of the whole mass/gravity issue.
With his track record, maybe he thinks god will save us.
Finally, maybe I can actually divide stuff by zero. I hated that bug.
Actually, this happened sort of.... Back in the day, a guy that was a programmer on the old 4.x code left the company and started his own. He was in business a few months, selling firewalls that acted just like the PIX. They looked at symbols in the binary firmware, and figured out it was just Cisco's code.
I have no idea what the guy's name was. He may have actually worked for the company that Cisco purchased to get the PIX.
Did they take two groups of 50, or did they do all people first with no current, and then with current? Because if it's the second option, the people had time to think about what they were doing and to mentally prepare for it. Poor experiments yield crappy results. What they need to do is get two groups of 1000 people and do one with current, and one without, and analyze the stats to see if it makes a difference.
This reminds me of the now defunct Museum of Questionable Medical devices that used to exist near downtown Minneapolis. They had this thing on the counter with two metal handles. You insert a nickel, and are treated to a soothing electrical shock which is supposed to heal any ailments you may have. I dropped a nickel in, grabbed the handles, and it almost knocked me on my ass. I've been shocked by 120v line voltage before, and it felt identical. The guy behind the counter was laughing his ass off, and he said "you should see some people. It drops them to the floor and they cry."
In any case, if this whole voltage across your head thing works, the current is low enough to where it could probably be done via an implant which wouldn't need to be replaced very often. Of course, now that this came out, it's only a matter of time before we see Darwin candidates using TENS devices and other things to make them smarter. Which might arguably work since they'd only do it once.
Look at Mimic or Wandl. I know there are a few others. I have to leave otherwise I'd post links. :(
They are not cheap, but you may be able to find someone that has a copy and will let you use it. Try consulting firms, most larger network consulting firms should have something similar to what you're looking for, and it will be cheaper than buying it.
However, even though HFS is still case-insensitive as far as file naming goes, the bash shell is still case sensitive and you need to take this into account when doing scripting.
Almost everything in my music collection was ripped from the originals using grip under linux, and I put the artist name in the song title, so the above worked for me. If you have whitespace in the filename, you will have to do some fancy quoting.
You are partially incorrect. It's true that the files are put in random directories, but the filenames remain the same.
/Volumes/iPod ./ -iname *portishead*
./ -iname *portishead*`; do open $i; done
$ cd
$ find
If you wanna get fancy, you can import them by checking the "copy imported music to iTunes" and do:
for i in `find
This will reimport all of your portishead songs. I should know, I just did it because my hard drive died a couple of weeks ago and my backup was bad. This was the only way I could get some of my music back.
Could this lead to better language learning courses?
Most of the language courses I've seen do not work well for how I think. They probably work well for how the author thinks, but everyone learns differently. Design a course based around research like this might be beneficial as everyone has already learned their primary language using this method.
He could make typo3 look like PHP-Nuke. :)
Well, being a geek and all, why the hell is he using PHP-Nuke? It probably has the worst security history of any CMS ever made.
I highly suggest for everyone using a Nuke based site to switch to Typo3. The security history is solid, and it's just damn nice to work with. It has way more features too.
Maybe he could even do a spot on his show about it.
That wouldn't be fraudulent if you sent it to a few of your friends, but when you send it to 7.7 million complete strangers, there's definitely some intent there.
I used to have to deal with these scams at a previous job, and I talked to the SEC regularly.
Well, if they don't get a conviction for the above via the spam laws, they can certainly go after them for a pump and dump scam with those penny stocks.
Sending millions of emails with the intent to make tons of people buy a stock to drive it's price up is illegal. All they would need to do is show that the person had purchased the stock when it was low, or put some sort of order on it. Or just prove intent. The SEC frowns upon this practice. People who are being investigated for it get their assets frozen, and that makes me very happy.
Spammers with money they can't use, it's brilliant.
I live in Minnesota, and Qwest is our LEC here. There's no way they'll roll that out, and even if they try, they will probably fail. By far probably the worst phone company I've ever worked with.
Cable companies here are more likely to run it than Qwest is, because they don't need to go through all of the permits and crap to lay things along side pre-existing cable. They were granted right-of-way back in the early 80's for the push to get cable to everyone's home, and they still have it. Time Warner Telecom uses Time Warner Cable's right-of-way when laying new fiber. The result is fiber a few weeks from when you order it rather than a few months.
Some communities here are serviced by sprint, and sprint ran fiber to a ton of new homes about 4 years ago in northern Brooklyn Park. As far as I know, they aren't using it yet. If you live in that area, go take the cover off the box at the end of your driveway and see if there's some in there.
But yeah, Qwest sucks. I hope they go bankrupt. They've screwed me way too many times, both for residential service, and for big fat commercial pipes.
Admit to your true usage of this distiller. You are putting mash through it and making moonshine. And even if you're not, you could be, so the ATF is at your door right now. Run!
Nice trick. You can't get me to download games of the evil intarweb! I am smarter than that, naughty hacker.
Oooo... Photoshop, and it's only 150k. [click]
Could it be something else that they haven't thought of? Like possibly due to inductive friction caused by the interaction of earth's magnetic field and non-ferrous metals in these satellites?
Breast implants for flat martian women. Awesome.
The reason is that some Universities have their own Apple store prices which are significantly less than the normal edu discount. University of Minnesota is one of these. My first iBook was through the U of MN store, and it was $100 less than the normal discount, I got like $300 off of it.
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day, and he brought up the very real possiblity that people under or around 30 years old today, may very well live to be 200-300 years old.
With as much medical knowledge we've gaining in just the last 20 years because of the advent of computers and better collaboration, it's acceptable to belive that the rate at which we make new discoveries is only going to increase.
Scientists have found the gene that turns aging on and off. If 10 years down the road someone develops a way to actually turn it off safely in humans, it will likely increase our lifespan. Also, stem cell research looks to be a promising method of growing replacement organs and body parts.
If both of these things are possible within the next 50 years, it's well within reason that people under 30 could use them to live nearly forever.
Surely a major hurdle will be governments, but I would suspect that because of the potential demand for such things, purchasing procedures like this will simply move underground. Instead of drug dealers, we could very well have gene dealers.
You look at things which might kill you off now, like cancer and other diseases, and more and more discoveries are being made every day to combat these things (viruses that kill cancer, etc).
Why they didn't build in Wifi is beyond me. However, they could at least put GSM on it. The reason I don't have a PDA is because I don't want to carry a phone AND a pda. I only have so many pockets, and I don't want a bat belt full of crap.
The sidekick II was almost there. Other than the fact it was missing bluetooth, and that t-mobile crippled the thing. I had one for about a week, but the lack of bluetooth (or any sync functionality with iSync) has forced me to revert to my K700i.
For a PDA/phone, the clamshell design is far superior, as I think I would destroy a touchscreen by toting it around in my pocket all day long. If I could get ahold of that new motorola E780 or whatever it is, I might be happy. But it's not clamshell, and it doesn't have Wifi.
Is this really that much of a problem? I've gone to a ton of movies, and maybe heard someone's phone ring twice during a movie. Maybe these theaters should just ruthlessly enforce a rule that if your phone rings during a performance, you will be kicked out without a refund.
You put up a sign that tells people to turn their phones off or to silent mode, listing the consequences if you don't.
Signs are cheap. Cell phone jammers are not. Plus, what about the people that rely on their cell phones or pagers for their job? IT people, or more importantly, doctors. Cell phone jamming is simply a poor idea since our society has come to rely on it.
In any case, I certainly would not give any theater my money that chose to do this. I would encourage others to boycott them also.
Skype has a list that makes you approve people before they can call you. It's sweet.
You can disable that if you want though.