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  1. HSM (Hierarchical Storage Management) on Costs Associated with the Storage of Terabytes? · · Score: 2

    Is HSM a solution? We rarely access very old data but we still like it to be easily available. With HSM we can move data to tape or some other cheaper storage while it still appears to be on the local filesystem. Applications don't know the difference other than they have to wait about 45 seconds as the data is fetched to local storage. In the end it depends on how you access your data. http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0, ,sid5_gci214001,00.html

  2. Re:ReiserFS would be good on XFS on a Web Server? · · Score: 2, Informative

    For a butt load of small files I think you'll find ReiserFS faster but for total throughput of data XFS wins hands down. I've done some bench marks on a spare disk where I formatted it with XFS and run bonnie++ and then formatted it with ResierFS and and bonnie++. With XFS I got just shy of 20megs/sec on the bulk io tests and with ResierFS I got 17megs/sec. For lots of small files ReiserFS was faster but I don't remember by how much.

    If will have larger than usual files for a web site then I suggest XFS. If you don't then I'm less opinionated on the topic.

  3. XFS is great, 2.4.18 isn't as much on XFS on a Web Server? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've been using XFS for all my systems since the beggining of this year and I've personally had zero problems with XFS. I have heard some complaints from other people but when I asked them what they didn't like the complaint was that there were null bytes in files after a crash. Unfortunatly for them this is the intended behavior by XFS in some situations.

    I think the most common kernel with XFS is 2.4.18 which is known to have some swapping problems.

    So as long as the RedHat 7.3 kernel doesn't have that swapping problem I'd say go for it. Be sure to install the xfsdump package if it isn't already and run the xfs_fsr command weekly from a cron job to keep performance high.

  4. Re:anyone else notice the history of SAP on PostgreSQL vs. SAP? · · Score: 3, Informative

    The black bars are weird. If you use the Wayback Machine you can see what they obsure: http://web.archive.org/web/20011130142504/http://w ww.sapdb.org/history.htm

    The removed text is

    • Subsidiary of Software AG
    • Software AG quits R/3 DBMS market
    • ADABAS D
    • ADABAS D
    • ADABAS D

    I think a marketing drone just doesn't want to show any sign of weakness in the product's history.

  5. people want to belive on N.Y. Times Magazine Chats With ALICE Bot Creator · · Score: 1
    Wallace had hit upon a theory that makes educated, intelligent people squirm: Maybe conversation simply isn't that complicated.

    I've run a chatterbots since 1998 and once based on Alice 1.4 for 2+ years. I'm not going to claim to be an expert in AI but I know that the above thory is bogus. Conversation is complicated and so is how people think. What makes these chatterbots work is that people want to belive. People ask me if my chatterbot is learning and when I tell them it's not they don't belive me. Over time people learn how to pharse their questions to get a good response and they mistake this for learning or intelligence. I could go on but I need to go and can't finish all I'd like to say :(

  6. The MPEG was renmaed on Camera Flashes Kill Nanotubes · · Score: 1

    They renamed the mpeg file probably to save bandwidth. If you go to:
    http://www.rpi.edu/dept/NewsComm/sub/Pressimg s/nan oflash/
    And download the 5.2 meg file and renamed it you can watch the video. Personally, I found it to be unexciting.

  7. Where are the product delays? on Microsoft: Trust and Antitrust · · Score: 1
    [Microsoft] ordered [programmers] to stop creating new programs until they had painstakingly re-examined the millions of lines of Windows operating system software for potential vulnerabilities.

    If MS is stopping developement work then why hasn't there been any anoucements informing the world that new versions will be delayed?

  8. Just the beggining on Platform Independent Gaming? · · Score: 1

    I like the idea. I understand an accept that it will suck at first but that is how things are. It takes time to make these things good. Do you remember how horrible the 1.0 JVMs were? It may take 10 years but I'm glad sun is putting the ball in motion so to speak.

  9. doesn't income tax do this already? on Washington State Debates Taxing Software Creation · · Score: 1

    Doesn't income tax do this already? Aren't they effectivly taxing the creating of my company's work by charing me income tax? The flow of much is circular so a tax here or a tax there doesn't change the big picture.

  10. Kick start Ogg Tarkin? on VP3, Open Source Video at 200kbs · · Score: 1

    Maybe this can be used to kick start Ogg Tarkin. It'd be nice if they had a working implementation sooner than later so developers had a reason to start supporting it which will only help more when they come up with their own nifty codec.

  11. Interference maybe? on Nintendo Game Cube Crashing? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I haven't personally tested any of this but since people are getting mixed stability reports maybe it has something to do with external interference. Most people I know, including myself, tend to put all their A/V equimentment in one small area next to their TV and then on each side of the A/V unit is two large speakers. It seems to me this would increase the probablity of seemingly inconsistent crashes.

  12. man iptables on Migrating from IPChains to Netfilters? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I struggled with the conversion too and on a fluke I tried `man iptables`. There are diference but from the admin's point of view it's mostly syntax.

    Here is what I suggest: Get a list of your ipchains, preferablye the command lines. Then view/print the iptables man page then one by one write the new iptables command lines. It isn't that hard and you'll learn a bit.

  13. Kinda funny story on Creating a High School Programming Competition? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This isn't how to set up a computer copetition. It's a true story from ~6 years ago when I was at one in high school.

    At the local commmunity college they had a science and math day every year and there was a computer programming category. After the opening ceremony the students were being led to the different types of labs where they could compete.

    Let me first say that at the time Windows 3.11 was state of the art (Ok, Mac's were but we weren't using them) and the AP computer classes used Pascal as the language of choice. It changed the next year or so to C or C++.

    Back to the story, as we were walking most people were talking. For no reason everyone when quite except fo this one guy who said "God programs in QBasic."

    That's it. Kinda weak when I re-read it but it was funny as hell at the time. Not that we were experts. We knew that we didn't know much relativitly speaking but we knew God didn't use QBasic.

  14. GPL like but not on Thoughts on the CAM Open Source License? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Section 3.2.2 says:

    Source Code Distributor may not offer or impose any terms on any Source Code of a Contributor Version that alters or restricts the applicable version of this Agreement or the licensees' rights under this Agreement; except that Source Code Distributor may offer, and charge a fee [....]

    As far as I can tell the intentions are the same as the GPL. (That any code that uses this code must use this licence.) If so then their is a small problem in that this isn't the GPL and since GPL requires uses of the GPL and CAM OSL requires use of the CAM OSL then GPL and CAM OLS code cannot be used together despite what I read to be similar intentions.

    Either allow dual license with GPL and/or some others or be more like the LGPL (which is my favorite license btw.) which doesn't try to extend it's restrictions into other code (as much as the GPL)

    Oh yea, I'm not a lawyer, I don't even claim to be smart.

  15. doc - txt on Thoughts on the CAM Open Source License? · · Score: 1

    Here is a txt version from wordpad, you'll want word wrap in your text editor. If Y! doesn't allow direct links use this.

  16. I advoid TIFF's on IETF on DRM, Internet Faxing · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you but I advoid TIFFs. This sould be solved quickly with a simple agreement on png or jpeg.

  17. hrm, Assembly line maybe? on Multitasking Harmful To Productivity · · Score: 1, Funny

    Didn't Henry Ford relize this first.

  18. Use SSH Keyrings on Managing Shared Passwords? · · Score: 1
    Use [Open]SSH keyrings or whatever it's called. I love it. Basicly you put the public key of everyone you want to be able to log into an account on local user of the box you want them to be able to log in to (In your case 'root'). Then they can use their private key to log in. I'll admit the key system is a little confusing at first but once you use it you start to love it. Start reading at `man ssh-keygen`.

    Leknor

  19. w3m on Address Book/Calendar Solutions for the Console? · · Score: 3
    Are you familar with w3m? It is a text based web browser that does tables frames and lots of good stuff. If you're like me and lynx turned you off to text browers, do yourself a favor and give w3m a try. Try it. It will turn any web application into a console application. (Except for those that use a lot of javascript but javascript sucks anyway.)

    Leknor

  20. AIM Warnings on Instant Messaging Standards that Avoid SPAM? · · Score: 3

    AIM warnings are usless and encourge negative behavior. They are an agressive action and they encourage an agressive response from who ever was warned. Blocking someone is the ultimate f-you. It implies that ther other person isn't even worth your time or enegy.

    I run a fairly popular chatterbot and the warning system used to drive me crasy until I wrote code to adapt to the aim rate limiting system and now it works like a charm. Anyway, I just wanted to say that warnings are a flawed idea that people who don't understand the full picture are easily convinced that they are good idea.

    Leknor

  21. downsides on Apache As An MP3 Server · · Score: 1
    Maybe it is me but as nifty as this is, it seems a bit over kill. To my knowledge each apache process can only serve one client and so each person that listens in will use up an apache process. I dunno just feels like using MS word to write a shell script. (but when is using the right tool for the job any fun?)

    Leknor

  22. Make an agreement w/ them. on SGI Versus "Open*" and All Things "GL"? · · Score: 1

    I have very little understanding of trademark law but I think it is something they have to activly protect else they lose it.

    That being said you could ask for permission to use the similar name. If they have an agreement with you they can claim to be defending OpenGL(TM) and you keep OpenIL. To make this valid I'm sure money would have to change hands but maybe you can agree to pay them $100 and they'll agree to buy $100 of banner ad space.

    I don't know if any of that would work but I'd like to think both partys can be happy with out being assholes to each other if they will be a little creative.

    Leknor

  23. spec sheets on How Printable Computers Will Work · · Score: 1
    Will one of the "printers" new specifications be how many mHz is can print per page?

    Leknor

  24. yes on Are Gemstar eBooks Crackable? · · Score: 1
    Is it crackable? yes!
    Does anyody know how? I don't know.
    How long will it take for people to crack? That depends on if they hired the :Cue:Cat encryption team and how many times the claim that it is completely secure. :~)

    Leknor

  25. a place to start: Click Quick on What Banner Ad Programs Are Still Worthwhile? · · Score: 3
    I'm in the same boat. I've been going down the list at http://www.clickquick.com/ and seem to be getting rejected quicker then I did back in high school. :~) Best of luck to you.

    Leknor