I don't buy it, Michael. If this is the case, why aren't we still seeing Windows 98's one-user system?
We are. XP Home defaults to it. XP Pro lets you run that way as well... in fact, you have to go through a good bit to set Home up otherwise (and, admittedly, you have to convince Pro to run that way as well - but it's easily done).
Yeah, so you can setup additional users. Whoop de doo. You can do that on Lindows or any other Linux install too.
Which is, of course, bullshit. Both Windows 2000 and XP (especially XP) have great support for all of the above.
Way to take things out of context!
Read the question. Read it carefully. It was specifically asking about features missing on Linux based desktop distros. There was nothing about Windows systems. Hell, by the same token you should be flaming him over the virus protection tidbit -- since there's been virus protection for DOS/Windows systems since at least DOS 3.3!
And while there is sporadic support for everything listed, it's certainly not as clean as it is under Windows... which is what he's trying to get at.
Of course, then he has to spout off about Microsoft Office pricing
He was making a point about where MS gets its revenue from. And the prices given were MSRP. You want to bitch and kvetch about that? Then bitch at MS for absurd MSRPs. Hell, bitch at the entire freaking world, since virtually nobody has MSRPs that actually relate to reality.
Your comments about actual price and relative value stand though, and are good points. I disagree about the relative security of the two products though... I run XP and Linux at home, and while there are exploits for both, I'm far more concerned about breaches on my XP desktop than my Linux server... although since I never use Outlook and have switched to Mozilla from IE my concerns have decreased significantly.
Actually a 256-bit address header is probably sufficient - it's nearly enough to assign an IP per atom in the universe. Of course, you may decide you need to address things on a quantum level, so best to go to a 272-bit header and be done with it.
A 512-bit header is just massive overkill... unless, of course, you're talking about interfacing between parallel universes.
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Worse yet... what is "a lot of various information"? What kind of interfaces does it have, what makes it so cool, etc?
Sure, the info is available on the various websites, but we all know how well most small time sites hold up under a slashdotting.
but you might provide your neighbors with more than DHCP if you can
Why? They can use NAT. You probably are... or are you actually going to get a class C subnet for your condo association? I wouldn't bother - it's not worth the time and money.
It does screw anyone trying to serve content, but I'm not sure that I'd care that much.
More than half of your list is Microsoft specific.
Uh... no it wasn't. There were 3 points that could be considered MS specific (8, 10, 12), and I'd dispute #8. There are Mac and Linux viruses out there. If either becomes a significant user base then there will be far, far more.
No, 7, 9, and 11 are not MS related. Number 7 deals specifically with spam. Number 9 is basic security and privacy. Number 11 is true regardless of OS -- or have you never heard of script kiddies and rootkits?
The patch server wouldn't get them a BSA visit either, you're allowed to redistribute patches.
In any case, welcome to the Real World, where 95% of all systems will be Windows. If you don't take precautions against that then you're just an idiot.
Frankly, I'd rip to FLAC if I wanted to take the time to deal with the issues. The issues being primarily realtime conversion from FLAC to whatever format I need.
TiVo will only accept MP3. Period. End of story. It's what's supported in the Broadcom decoder chip, so it's a "free" decode for them.
My server isn't powerful enough to do realtime encoding of 2 MP3 streams at once, much less 3 or more, and I don't have the storage space right now for FLAC. So I'm encoding as very high bit rate MP3s (256k baseline, lame w/ alt-preset extreme).
Between that and the reality that pretty much every portable device, DVD player, and many newer car stereos will play MP3, but not anything else, it just wasn't worth the hassle. I've largely grown past treating computers as toys to play with - I'd rather treat them as tools to get things done and spend my free time in other ways (largely playing games on said computers).
Re:THis is already being done, to a certan degree.
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He basically claims that he can tell who a serial killer is just by the fact that they follow his profile.
You're talking about some seriously deranged individuals here, and it's been known for decades that serial killers do fit some rather general profiles. What's the surprise here?
Alternately, what's the issue here? We're talking about freaking murderers. Sick individuals, in pretty much every sense of the word, that need to be removed from society before they harm more people.
Its getting to the point where any variaton from the median of society is being seen as wrong, or a disease. Speaking as an outlier, fuck you.
Gee... such angst. And such a load of crap too. Variations from the median of society are far more accepted now than they were during most of the past. How would you like to be shunned, or stoned, or hung, or crucified, or killed in any number of other interesting ways for being an "outlier"? Because that's generally what happened throughout most of history. Heck, go to the wrong area of the world and it can still happen to you.
The past is not as idyllic as people seem to think - modern communications have caused far more acceptance for a far wider range of thoughts, feelings, and actions -- largely because it allows people to find others with similar behaviors and discover that they are not alone.
According to CNet, Apple appears to be looking for a developer to help create iTunes for Windows. Seems like a smart move to me -- the Windows user base is clearly vastly larger than Mac, and Apple will still be getting a slice of online music sales -- plus they give another reason for Windows users to buy an iPod.
I keep hearing great things about iTunes too, in that it's apparantly quite a bit better than most music database software. Personally I'm still looking for a good music db/organizing program for either Linux (preferred) or Windows (thank you samba) - I'm in the process of ripping ~1000 CDs to high bitrate MP3 for my TiVo and am in desperate need for some cataloging and playlist creation tools. From what little I've heard iTunes would fit the bill and do it well... but obviously I still need to find something until then (suggestions welcome).
I agree... but I don't even want one for video encoders or gaming. But the MP3 encoding times are so bad that even my Athlon 750 (current server system) will be faster for that.
Like I said, if I was building just an office PC or general usage PC it'd be a cinch - they're perfect for just web surfing.
I recently checked into the VIA boards... I'm setting up a home media server and wouldn't mind it using less power and making less noise (not as much of an issue since it'll be relegated to a closet eventually). But the Via chips don't cut it - they may be fine at office tasks, but their MP3 encoding times are abysmal (as is anything else requiring floating point).
Q3 may play on it just fine (for you... looking at the benchmarks I sure wouldn't call it acceptable), but Q3 is 3.5 years old now. The Via processors are not going to be up to running Doom3 - as stated they're really not up to running Q3.
No doubt, Via is great for playback only HTPCs, office workstations, and a lot of other tasks... but if you need to do audio or video processing (as in creation or editing) or play games, forget it. I'm not saying you need the top of the line Athlon or P4 either, but there is a happy (and inexpensive) medium.
It's not a huge issue on the MB side - most boards have allowed for a 200 MHz FSB for awhile now, although only usable if you wanted to overclock.
Of course, now they'll need to make sure their boards can exceed 200 MHz, otherwise the overclockers will start whining about not getting an additional 0.5% performance.
Why do people seem to assume that IE is incapable of blocking popups?
Ok, yeah, it can't do it by default. So what? There are innumerable popup blockers which vary from blocking all new windows unless you hold down some key (like Popup Stopper) to COM wrappers that do pretty much what Mozilla does (one of which is Crazy Browser) to proxy filters that filter out unwanted popups, ads, and more (such as Proxomitron. The last of which filters out far, far more than what Mozilla does, although it could be used with Mozilla as well if you wished.
Go ahead... whine about them being addons. The fact of the matter is that they're considerably smaller than Mozilla or even Firebird and they don't require the user to lose all their cookies or form data.
Honestly though, I switched from using IE+Proxomitron to Mozilla (at home) and Firebird (at work). And I do rather prefer it, since it gives me more flexibility on what I do and don't block (ok... Proxomitron is technically far, far more flexible... but that flexibility is painful to access - Mozilla/FB give me flexibility and ease of applying that flexibility). But that doesn't mean that they're not valid options to use.
Perhaps this should be submitted as a separate story, but heck, Google News is lumping it in with this.
According to CNet, Apple appears to be looking for a developer to help create iTunes for Windows. Seems like a smart move to me -- the Windows user base is clearly vastly larger than Mac, and Apple will still be getting a slice of online music sales -- plus they give another reason for Windows users to buy an iPod.
I keep hearing great things about iTunes too, in that it's apparantly quite a bit better than most music database software. Personally I'm still looking for a good music db/organizing program for either Linux (preferred) or Windows (thank you samba) - I'm in the process of ripping ~1000 CDs to high bitrate MP3 for my TiVo and am in desperate need for some cataloging and playlist creation tools. From what little I've heard iTunes would fit the bill and do it well... but obviously I still need to find something until then (suggestions welcome).
Re:Anyone seen real specs for Apple's format?
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TiVo supports Rendezvous natively, thus it doesn't require specific server software for Mac as it does for Windows.
It most certainly does. Try seeing a server w/o installing the TiVoServer software on your Mac... you can have iTunes, Rendezvous, etc. all you want and it won't help.
All Rendezvous does is help you find servers on a subnet... it doesn't make them magically serve you data if they don't have the service running.
I understand what you mean though, but I think you deeply misunderstand what the Windows server software does (and what the TiVoServer software does in general).
It's a holdover convention from DOS/Win3.x, VMS, and a few esoteric Unix FS's. No reason to keep it now beyond historical convention... and floppies. Floppies are still FAT16 and don't do well with extended filenames. I'm not sure about the Redbook standard (CD-Data), it may limit extentions as well.
I wanna name it.vorbis
So do so.
maybe I just need a Mac so I can say goodbye to file extentions.
You'll just say hello to sidecar files instead, which are osteniably worse than extentions... although really it's merely a case of choose your poison. Sidecar files certainly have advantages as well.
Re:Anyone seen real specs for Apple's format?
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Note that you cannot stream AAC's directly to TiVo -- there is no support (and I doubt support will be forthcoming). You'd have to re-rip them to MP3 first or do it on the fly - TiVo can only play MP3's natively since that's what's supported on the MPEG decoder.
I suppose that someone will get around to writing a wrapper to do this on Macs... it's a shame that TiVo didn't just release the source to the TiVoServer (for both Windows and Mac) so people could just hack support into it directly.
Logged in users can choose to consolidate Games content to the main page
Ok, I'm apparantly dense since I see no way under Preferences to do this... unless it's through the User Code bit in Preferences.
There's an easy way to exclude moderators/sections/topics, an easy way to setup slashboxes, but no easy way (as best I can see) to integrate sections into the main page. What am I missing (and yes, I did check the FAQ).
The problem with any kind of "public" resource is that it doesn't belong to everyone -- it belongs to noone. Noone cares enough about it to protect or conserve it. Everyone just wants to grab as big a piece as possible.
What an... interesting view of things.
So, I presume that you'd like to argue that Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, etc. should be privatized - because obviously them being National Parks (which are de facto public property managed by the National Park Service) means that nobody cares about them.
Frankly, when it comes to individuals they generally act in the most self improving way possible. If I owned a few hundred acres of trees I may be tempted to sell the rights to log them to someone for a few million. After all, they're my trees, and I can do what I want with them.
On the otherhand, there's some very large swaths of land near my house that won't ever be logged... they're part of the Chatahoochee National Park system. While other greenspace all around is being cut down to put in new subdivisions, this land (which was either purchased by the Federal government, or by local interest groups and then donated to the government) isn't going to sprout McMansions anytime soon.
I'm not a fan of big government, but claiming that individual rights would solve everything is a load of crap. I can choose to pollute my bit of land afterall, and then say that I was within my rights to do so since it was my land. Funny thing though, eco systems don't respect legal borders.
You're claiming 30GB/sec sustained with Super-AIT, but Sony's announcement of Super-AIT only claims 78Mbps (around 10MB/sec).
Show me the announcement. Every press release and data sheet I've read (including this one, this one, and this one) states 30 MBps uncompressed, not 30 Mbps.
That'll easily outpace your IDE setup, since, again, that discounts the onboard (read: no CPU impact) compression.
Even a 300GB IDE drive is larger than 2 or 3 tapes, which have more capacity. And that isn't even counting the insulation and padding you'll need to provide for transport of the drive.
Heck, by the same logic the number of working hard drives is significantly larger than the number of hard drives currently having data retrieval problems. Based on that I'd say the failure of a hard drive is a rare thing. Of the hard drives that are failing at this moment, I don't believe I have any data on them.
Uh, I think you better look at tapes again. AIT-3 is 100GB uncompressed. Super-AIT is 500GB uncompressed. Transfer rates for Super-AIT are in the 30 GB/s range uncompressed. All of these numbers go up with compression, which is built into the tape drive hardware -- assuming you're storing compressable data.
All in all, they're likely to have a higher sustained transfer rate than IDE drives, and are going to be more reliable, less costly in bulk, and easier to handle.
Of course they're silly for small systems... but that's not what we're talking about at all.
Are fires also rare? What about earthquakes, mudslides, floods, terrorist attacks, or anything else that can effectively destroy a building?
however, a backup system like this protects you from (accidental) deletion of files and hardware failures. thats enough for many people..
Well then the spec'd system is vastly overdesigned for THAT. There are far easier ways to solve both.
It is possible to do off-site storage with drive arrays, but you have to design it into the system. As it is, this system solves little more than spending money.
Uh, if you have enough voltage differential to be creating microwave level effects in free space then data backup has ceased to be a concern.
In all likelihood the entire human race has also ceased to be a concern.
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You don't want morals? You don't want politics?
Don't use the GPL
Ah... I see. Apparantly the only way you can have morals is to use the GPL. Righto.
And, apparantly, Linus's refusal to go off the deep end on zealotry means that he's "wimped out". Got it.
It must be nice to view the world in black and white... so easy, so simple... so naive and foolish.
Linus is making the right call here... there are valid reasons for DRM-like policies. There are lots of invalid ones too. But if you want it to be free, then it needs to be free. Trying to contort the GPL or other free license to fit your world view is bullshit, and it undermines the entire point of the license.
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I don't buy it, Michael. If this is the case, why aren't we still seeing Windows 98's one-user system?
We are. XP Home defaults to it. XP Pro lets you run that way as well... in fact, you have to go through a good bit to set Home up otherwise (and, admittedly, you have to convince Pro to run that way as well - but it's easily done).
Yeah, so you can setup additional users. Whoop de doo. You can do that on Lindows or any other Linux install too.
Which is, of course, bullshit. Both Windows 2000 and XP (especially XP) have great support for all of the above.
Way to take things out of context!
Read the question. Read it carefully. It was specifically asking about features missing on Linux based desktop distros. There was nothing about Windows systems. Hell, by the same token you should be flaming him over the virus protection tidbit -- since there's been virus protection for DOS/Windows systems since at least DOS 3.3!
And while there is sporadic support for everything listed, it's certainly not as clean as it is under Windows... which is what he's trying to get at.
Of course, then he has to spout off about Microsoft Office pricing
He was making a point about where MS gets its revenue from. And the prices given were MSRP. You want to bitch and kvetch about that? Then bitch at MS for absurd MSRPs. Hell, bitch at the entire freaking world, since virtually nobody has MSRPs that actually relate to reality.
Your comments about actual price and relative value stand though, and are good points. I disagree about the relative security of the two products though... I run XP and Linux at home, and while there are exploits for both, I'm far more concerned about breaches on my XP desktop than my Linux server... although since I never use Outlook and have switched to Mozilla from IE my concerns have decreased significantly.
Actually a 256-bit address header is probably sufficient - it's nearly enough to assign an IP per atom in the universe. Of course, you may decide you need to address things on a quantum level, so best to go to a 272-bit header and be done with it.
A 512-bit header is just massive overkill... unless, of course, you're talking about interfacing between parallel universes.
Worse yet... what is "a lot of various information"? What kind of interfaces does it have, what makes it so cool, etc?
Sure, the info is available on the various websites, but we all know how well most small time sites hold up under a slashdotting.
I was never into Gothic music, but my wife is (as evidenced by her collection of Bauhaus, SoM, and others).
h tm l
For those actually interested:
http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~rviau/GothicIm.
My bet is they didn't do so due to DRM concerns. Yes, lame and all that, but we're talking about RIAA members here.
but you might provide your neighbors with more than DHCP if you can
Why? They can use NAT. You probably are... or are you actually going to get a class C subnet for your condo association? I wouldn't bother - it's not worth the time and money.
It does screw anyone trying to serve content, but I'm not sure that I'd care that much.
More than half of your list is Microsoft specific.
Uh... no it wasn't. There were 3 points that could be considered MS specific (8, 10, 12), and I'd dispute #8. There are Mac and Linux viruses out there. If either becomes a significant user base then there will be far, far more.
No, 7, 9, and 11 are not MS related. Number 7 deals specifically with spam. Number 9 is basic security and privacy. Number 11 is true regardless of OS -- or have you never heard of script kiddies and rootkits?
The patch server wouldn't get them a BSA visit either, you're allowed to redistribute patches.
In any case, welcome to the Real World, where 95% of all systems will be Windows. If you don't take precautions against that then you're just an idiot.
Less zealotry, more reality.
Frankly, I'd rip to FLAC if I wanted to take the time to deal with the issues. The issues being primarily realtime conversion from FLAC to whatever format I need.
TiVo will only accept MP3. Period. End of story. It's what's supported in the Broadcom decoder chip, so it's a "free" decode for them.
My server isn't powerful enough to do realtime encoding of 2 MP3 streams at once, much less 3 or more, and I don't have the storage space right now for FLAC. So I'm encoding as very high bit rate MP3s (256k baseline, lame w/ alt-preset extreme).
Between that and the reality that pretty much every portable device, DVD player, and many newer car stereos will play MP3, but not anything else, it just wasn't worth the hassle. I've largely grown past treating computers as toys to play with - I'd rather treat them as tools to get things done and spend my free time in other ways (largely playing games on said computers).
He basically claims that he can tell who a serial killer is just by the fact that they follow his profile.
You're talking about some seriously deranged individuals here, and it's been known for decades that serial killers do fit some rather general profiles. What's the surprise here?
Alternately, what's the issue here? We're talking about freaking murderers. Sick individuals, in pretty much every sense of the word, that need to be removed from society before they harm more people.
Its getting to the point where any variaton from the median of society is being seen as wrong, or a disease. Speaking as an outlier, fuck you.
Gee... such angst. And such a load of crap too. Variations from the median of society are far more accepted now than they were during most of the past. How would you like to be shunned, or stoned, or hung, or crucified, or killed in any number of other interesting ways for being an "outlier"? Because that's generally what happened throughout most of history. Heck, go to the wrong area of the world and it can still happen to you.
The past is not as idyllic as people seem to think - modern communications have caused far more acceptance for a far wider range of thoughts, feelings, and actions -- largely because it allows people to find others with similar behaviors and discover that they are not alone.
According to CNet, Apple appears to be looking for a developer to help create iTunes for Windows. Seems like a smart move to me -- the Windows user base is clearly vastly larger than Mac, and Apple will still be getting a slice of online music sales -- plus they give another reason for Windows users to buy an iPod.
I keep hearing great things about iTunes too, in that it's apparantly quite a bit better than most music database software. Personally I'm still looking for a good music db/organizing program for either Linux (preferred) or Windows (thank you samba) - I'm in the process of ripping ~1000 CDs to high bitrate MP3 for my TiVo and am in desperate need for some cataloging and playlist creation tools. From what little I've heard iTunes would fit the bill and do it well... but obviously I still need to find something until then (suggestions welcome).
I agree... but I don't even want one for video encoders or gaming. But the MP3 encoding times are so bad that even my Athlon 750 (current server system) will be faster for that.
Like I said, if I was building just an office PC or general usage PC it'd be a cinch - they're perfect for just web surfing.
I recently checked into the VIA boards... I'm setting up a home media server and wouldn't mind it using less power and making less noise (not as much of an issue since it'll be relegated to a closet eventually). But the Via chips don't cut it - they may be fine at office tasks, but their MP3 encoding times are abysmal (as is anything else requiring floating point).
Q3 may play on it just fine (for you... looking at the benchmarks I sure wouldn't call it acceptable), but Q3 is 3.5 years old now. The Via processors are not going to be up to running Doom3 - as stated they're really not up to running Q3.
No doubt, Via is great for playback only HTPCs, office workstations, and a lot of other tasks... but if you need to do audio or video processing (as in creation or editing) or play games, forget it. I'm not saying you need the top of the line Athlon or P4 either, but there is a happy (and inexpensive) medium.
It's not a huge issue on the MB side - most boards have allowed for a 200 MHz FSB for awhile now, although only usable if you wanted to overclock.
Of course, now they'll need to make sure their boards can exceed 200 MHz, otherwise the overclockers will start whining about not getting an additional 0.5% performance.
Why do people seem to assume that IE is incapable of blocking popups?
Ok, yeah, it can't do it by default. So what? There are innumerable popup blockers which vary from blocking all new windows unless you hold down some key (like Popup Stopper) to COM wrappers that do pretty much what Mozilla does (one of which is Crazy Browser) to proxy filters that filter out unwanted popups, ads, and more (such as Proxomitron. The last of which filters out far, far more than what Mozilla does, although it could be used with Mozilla as well if you wished.
Go ahead... whine about them being addons. The fact of the matter is that they're considerably smaller than Mozilla or even Firebird and they don't require the user to lose all their cookies or form data.
Honestly though, I switched from using IE+Proxomitron to Mozilla (at home) and Firebird (at work). And I do rather prefer it, since it gives me more flexibility on what I do and don't block (ok... Proxomitron is technically far, far more flexible... but that flexibility is painful to access - Mozilla/FB give me flexibility and ease of applying that flexibility). But that doesn't mean that they're not valid options to use.
Perhaps this should be submitted as a separate story, but heck, Google News is lumping it in with this.
According to CNet, Apple appears to be looking for a developer to help create iTunes for Windows. Seems like a smart move to me -- the Windows user base is clearly vastly larger than Mac, and Apple will still be getting a slice of online music sales -- plus they give another reason for Windows users to buy an iPod.
I keep hearing great things about iTunes too, in that it's apparantly quite a bit better than most music database software. Personally I'm still looking for a good music db/organizing program for either Linux (preferred) or Windows (thank you samba) - I'm in the process of ripping ~1000 CDs to high bitrate MP3 for my TiVo and am in desperate need for some cataloging and playlist creation tools. From what little I've heard iTunes would fit the bill and do it well... but obviously I still need to find something until then (suggestions welcome).
TiVo supports Rendezvous natively, thus it doesn't require specific server software for Mac as it does for Windows.
It most certainly does. Try seeing a server w/o installing the TiVoServer software on your Mac... you can have iTunes, Rendezvous, etc. all you want and it won't help.
All Rendezvous does is help you find servers on a subnet... it doesn't make them magically serve you data if they don't have the service running.
I understand what you mean though, but I think you deeply misunderstand what the Windows server software does (and what the TiVoServer software does in general).
Whats up with x.3 anyhow?
.vorbis
It's a holdover convention from DOS/Win3.x, VMS, and a few esoteric Unix FS's. No reason to keep it now beyond historical convention... and floppies. Floppies are still FAT16 and don't do well with extended filenames. I'm not sure about the Redbook standard (CD-Data), it may limit extentions as well.
I wanna name it
So do so.
maybe I just need a Mac so I can say goodbye to file extentions.
You'll just say hello to sidecar files instead, which are osteniably worse than extentions... although really it's merely a case of choose your poison. Sidecar files certainly have advantages as well.
Note that you cannot stream AAC's directly to TiVo -- there is no support (and I doubt support will be forthcoming). You'd have to re-rip them to MP3 first or do it on the fly - TiVo can only play MP3's natively since that's what's supported on the MPEG decoder.
I suppose that someone will get around to writing a wrapper to do this on Macs... it's a shame that TiVo didn't just release the source to the TiVoServer (for both Windows and Mac) so people could just hack support into it directly.
Logged in users can choose to consolidate Games content to the main page
Ok, I'm apparantly dense since I see no way under Preferences to do this... unless it's through the User Code bit in Preferences.
There's an easy way to exclude moderators/sections/topics, an easy way to setup slashboxes, but no easy way (as best I can see) to integrate sections into the main page. What am I missing (and yes, I did check the FAQ).
The problem with any kind of "public" resource is that it doesn't belong to everyone -- it belongs to noone. Noone cares enough about it to protect or conserve it. Everyone just wants to grab as big a piece as possible.
What an... interesting view of things.
So, I presume that you'd like to argue that Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, etc. should be privatized - because obviously them being National Parks (which are de facto public property managed by the National Park Service) means that nobody cares about them.
Frankly, when it comes to individuals they generally act in the most self improving way possible. If I owned a few hundred acres of trees I may be tempted to sell the rights to log them to someone for a few million. After all, they're my trees, and I can do what I want with them.
On the otherhand, there's some very large swaths of land near my house that won't ever be logged... they're part of the Chatahoochee National Park system. While other greenspace all around is being cut down to put in new subdivisions, this land (which was either purchased by the Federal government, or by local interest groups and then donated to the government) isn't going to sprout McMansions anytime soon.
I'm not a fan of big government, but claiming that individual rights would solve everything is a load of crap. I can choose to pollute my bit of land afterall, and then say that I was within my rights to do so since it was my land. Funny thing though, eco systems don't respect legal borders.
You're claiming 30GB/sec sustained with Super-AIT, but Sony's announcement of Super-AIT only claims 78Mbps (around 10MB/sec).
Show me the announcement. Every press release and data sheet I've read (including this one, this one, and this one) states 30 MBps uncompressed, not 30 Mbps.
That'll easily outpace your IDE setup, since, again, that discounts the onboard (read: no CPU impact) compression.
Even a 300GB IDE drive is larger than 2 or 3 tapes, which have more capacity. And that isn't even counting the insulation and padding you'll need to provide for transport of the drive.
Nope... tape isn't dead yet.
Heck, by the same logic the number of working hard drives is significantly larger than the number of hard drives currently having data retrieval problems. Based on that I'd say the failure of a hard drive is a rare thing. Of the hard drives that are failing at this moment, I don't believe I have any data on them.
Thus backup is clearly pointless.
How idiotic.
High end mag tape cartridges store 50GB.
Uh, I think you better look at tapes again. AIT-3 is 100GB uncompressed. Super-AIT is 500GB uncompressed. Transfer rates for Super-AIT are in the 30 GB/s range uncompressed. All of these numbers go up with compression, which is built into the tape drive hardware -- assuming you're storing compressable data.
All in all, they're likely to have a higher sustained transfer rate than IDE drives, and are going to be more reliable, less costly in bulk, and easier to handle.
Of course they're silly for small systems... but that's not what we're talking about at all.
Are fires also rare? What about earthquakes, mudslides, floods, terrorist attacks, or anything else that can effectively destroy a building?
however, a backup system like this protects you from (accidental) deletion of files and hardware failures. thats enough for many people..
Well then the spec'd system is vastly overdesigned for THAT. There are far easier ways to solve both.
It is possible to do off-site storage with drive arrays, but you have to design it into the system. As it is, this system solves little more than spending money.
Uh, if you have enough voltage differential to be creating microwave level effects in free space then data backup has ceased to be a concern.
In all likelihood the entire human race has also ceased to be a concern.
You don't want morals? You don't want politics?
Don't use the GPL
Ah... I see. Apparantly the only way you can have morals is to use the GPL. Righto.
And, apparantly, Linus's refusal to go off the deep end on zealotry means that he's "wimped out". Got it.
It must be nice to view the world in black and white... so easy, so simple... so naive and foolish.
Linus is making the right call here... there are valid reasons for DRM-like policies. There are lots of invalid ones too. But if you want it to be free, then it needs to be free. Trying to contort the GPL or other free license to fit your world view is bullshit, and it undermines the entire point of the license.