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  1. Re:Bacula is your friend on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    Well, now I know what bacula calls it.

    It's still not quite what I was hoping to do (something like sending the same data to two storage daemons at once to write two tapes at once) since I can't copy from a broken tape (and honestly, I could copy from a non-broken tape just fine without bacula's help).

  2. Re:Breakdown by age? on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 1

    He's not questioning the results, he just wants the breakdown by age, which the other poll results provided.

  3. Re:RAID on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    In this case, RAID is a method of reducing the chances of a disk failure being fatal to the backup.

  4. Re:Bacula is your friend on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    Did I mention it supports backup archiving as well if you want duplicate copies for Tapes being shipped off site...

    We had a DLT tape break inside the drive about 8 years ago and we had no other backup of the backup. Back then I wasn't able to figure out how to get bacula to mirror backups so we switched to mirrored USB drives to ensure that it never happened again.

    Any links to a guide for this? Googling bacula "backup archive" or "backup mirror" isn't coming up with anything helpful and I'm not seeing anything like it described in the bacula manual. I've got two very expensive tape drives just sitting idle that I could be putting back to use...

  5. Re:Simple solution on Secret Security Questions Are a Joke · · Score: 4, Informative

    I once had an account on a site that asked me to select three questions from a list of a couple dozen then answer them.

    When I needed to recover my password, it asked me to select the same three questions from a list of a couple dozen then answer them again.

    I never managed to recover my password.

  6. Re:Of course they will not on US Gov't Can't Be Sued For Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    Your only chance this round to help at all is to vote with Republicans or other conservatives

    Further, we urge Congress to withhold Supreme Court jurisdiction in cases involving abortion, religious freedom, and the Bill of Rights.

    -- Texas Republicans, 2012 Platform, pg. 5

    Good luck with that.

  7. Re:God DAMN you BOOOSH!!!! on US Gov't Can't Be Sued For Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    George Bush didn't make any laws.

    You're right, he didn't make any laws. Members of his administration just did the wiretapping without any law in place permitting it, then when they were discovered, congress passed a law providing retroactive immunity to the people involved, after the fact.

  8. Re:And in countries where it's legal? on Bitcoin-Based Drug Market Silk Road Thriving With $2 Million In Monthly Sales · · Score: 1

    Give them their fair trial. Then off to the public hanging or firing squad. Maybe the electric chair

    The Zetas thank you for doing their dirty work.

  9. Re:I had someone file under my SSN this year. on Identity Theft May Cost IRS $21 Billion Over Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Because the mandatory personal SSN worked so well.

  10. Re:The IRS also gains money from identity theft on Identity Theft May Cost IRS $21 Billion Over Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    Unless the illegal put 50 exemptions on his W-4 and had no withholding.

    Then the sucker whose SSN was stolen has to explain why the government has more W-2 forms than he does.

  11. Re:Hipster hole on Scientists Record Signal of Distant Black Hole Consuming Star · · Score: 1

    And now that everyone knows about it, it's passé.

  12. Re:The real reason on ICANN Backflips Again · · Score: 1

    HAH! I just didn't try enough weird country codes. I stand corrected.

  13. Re:The real reason on ICANN Backflips Again · · Score: 2

    Somebody reigsters the gTLD "apple", and sets up his website at http://apple/ [apple] and his email somebody@apple

    There is no A or MX record for "com", "net","org","us","uk","info","museum","biz","mobi"... I'm going to say that none of them work that way. If anyone thought they would work that way, that's their own damn fault.

  14. Re:yes on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 1

    I actually thought about telling the poster that, but then I actually thought "nah, I wouldn't require a 5-8 year old to understand unit conversion and cancellation". Then I thought the poster was probably not 5-8 years old, but by then I had to get back to work.

  15. Re:The first rule of controlling a market... on Author Claims Apple Won't Carry Her ebook Because It Mentions Amazon · · Score: 1

    Your argument that the author is responsible to this is basically like saying it's my fault if I write an article declaring the sky to be blue, and people interpret it as being a defense of neo-Nazi propaganda.

    Heh. If you're creating something where you can be called an author, it's your job to communicate clearly. If you cannot write an article about the sky being blue without people reacting that badly to it, that is indeed your fault.

    This example didn't serve you like you thought it would.

    Damn, I hate it when neo-Nazis try to defend themselves.

  16. Re:The first rule of reading comprehension... on Author Claims Apple Won't Carry Her ebook Because It Mentions Amazon · · Score: 1

    They reviewed the text, and based on the content of the text (according to the author, anyway), they decided not to publish it.

  17. Re:yes on Political Science Prof Asks: Is Algebra Necessary? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I think you are confusing algebra with arithmetic.

    "You bought ten Silly Bands for [whatever] dollars... how much did you pay for each one?"

    10bands * x = $5, solve for x .

  18. Re:gun safe? on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    I include the folks who bolt knives onto glocks and maglights onto ARs in this.

    Who the hell would bolt a knife onto their Glock?

    Use duct tape!

  19. Re:Good luck... on Why Valve Wants To Port Games To Linux: Because Windows 8 Is a Catastrophe · · Score: 4, Informative

    To be fair, the windows client isn't all that hot either. It takes several seconds to switch between tabs, pressing the forward and back buttons takes a while to work (apparently its internal browser has no cache), skips pages, etc. The downloads screen is completely unresponsive, there isn't even visual feedback that you've clicked the pause or resume buttons, you just click then wait for it to decide if it's going to start or stop.

  20. Re:Justification of Apathy on The Nation Is Losing Its Toolbox · · Score: 1

    I can pretty much say without a doubt that nobody, including him is going to be "making" their own windows without a few million dollars worth of equipment and several engineers.

    Fancy windows, maybe. But the windows on my ex-house were single panes glued to aluminum strips, and when I finally sold it, I moved into an apartment whose windows are single panes glued to aluminum strips.

  21. Re:BUT DOES IT RAG-DOLL ?? on Neuroscience May Cure Videogames Industry's Obsession With Guns · · Score: 1

    Just get me more rag-doll !!

    Sounds like you need some stair dismount.

  22. Re:It also says they fire bad managers... on Being Honest In Exit Interviews Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    But if your boss was a total dick and you know he's not going to help you in the future anyway, go ahead and tell on him.

    This is where all that documentation that you kept comes into play. After all, those notes are company property and you can't take it with you, right? ;-)

  23. Re:Not just jobs on Being Honest In Exit Interviews Is Pointless · · Score: 1

    My university had an "Exit Seminar" for seniors. Once a week we had someone come in, tell us all about their job, and then we wrote essentially a book report on that plus one other topic set by the prof.

    One of the essays was on the worst class we ever took. I chose the exit seminar, on the grounds that the class could have been redesigned as a freshman technical writing course and given everyone in the major a lot of help. Aside from the writing skills, every week, we got to listen to awesome people doing awesome things, but since we hadn't taken classes X, Y, and Z, most of the people in the class probably never get to be as awesome as that guy.

    The professor sent me an email telling me I had 24 hours to rewrite the essay or fail.

  24. Re:critical thinking on Obama Wants $1 Billion For "Master Teachers Corps" · · Score: 1

    Further, we urge Congress to withhold Supreme Court jurisdiction in cases involving abortion, religious freedom, and the Bill of Rights.

    I am aware that the Constitution allows Congress to do so. That doesn't make it an incredibly bad idea.

  25. Re:IPV6 == no security on Sale of IPv4 Addresses Hindering IPv6 Adoption · · Score: 1

    Maybe that's why it was invented, but once it was invented, we found all sorts of cool uses for it. Like load balancing, multi-homing, relocating networks between ISPs without having to renumber everything internally, etc.