Hmmm... Yes a gui would be nice, and someday there may be one... but for now, on my personal Solaris system at home, I don't need one - although I'd like to get the RAM up to 64GB on that thing for a better all around ZFS experience...
It's kind of nice booting up multiple xVM virtual PCs running various operating systems and barely using the disk at all...
Windows XP (after initial load, and running, can reboot and operate with almost zero disk I/O running off the ARC) - Linux is almost none as well...
It makes a very nice virtual workstation server...
Snapshotting works for any sized file. Yes, if you remove a large file, then the snapshot gets the blocks allocated to that large file, and yes the space isn't released to the filesystem.
If your filesystem is so short on space that you are removing 5GB files to try and free up space, then you probably shouldn't be snapshotting.
Oh - you should also be able to write a simple routine to make passes through the.snapshot directories to *clean up* any of those large files permanently by removing them from the snapshot (at least I think you can - I'll have to test it again to verify it.).
I've been able to do better than time-machine feature-wise since snapshotting was online with zfs. I've had automated jobs taking snapshots every 5 minutes and keeping them for as long as I had space available for them (sitting at around 9 months worth atm).
The script rotates through the snapshots, and passes through the snapshots where no changes were made and marking them for my approval to remove, just to try and keep the listings tolerable...(12 * 24 * 275)....
From there I wrote a routine to allow me to easily (though not always speedily) look for the file that I use as a parameter and give me a listing of all the revisions available, which I can select to *restore* or copy back into place under the same name, a different name, etc...
I can do this with entire directory trees, and am working on routines to detect if trees were *moved* via SMB shares or other misadventure (or intentionally) and hopefully be able to then offer up the option to move either the current iteration of the moved directory back, or an old version.
It's been fun writing the utilities, and yes, they are all command line, and all using my old favorite scripting language, ksh.
TiVO's patent is a blatent ripoff of VCR/Beta technology...
The only difference is that they converted the ANALOG signal to digital for storage first.
That's the ONLY difference.
DVD players have had backwards / forwards skip as well as fast forward / rewind since inception.
CD players have had them since the 80s.
So there's nothing new here at all..
If they want to shout digital, then CD players (yes, audio only, but it's still digital signal skipping).
If they want to shout video, then VCR's - as they record analog. Skipping is hard to do on VCR's as the media has to stream, but they do have multi-speed FFWD/RWD which is good as you can get with streaming (tape) media.
Skipping is a digital only function, and was implemented in CD players, then DVD players and is in now way unique or non-obvious.
You mean this proprietary code? (well, I'll use pseudo-code to not violate copyright)...
check super-triple-secret-probationary-website, see which candidates have paid the most, swing percentage of votes equal to percentage of payment over that of the alternate candidate, whoever pays the most, wins....
not saying that's really the code... but hell, something to that effect *could* be in there...
All this does is allow low bandwidth usage users to take priority over high bandwidth users.
If someone bought their penultimate unlimited package allowing for 10MB/s download, 2MB/s upload or whatever the data rates are, then they should have that amount of bandwidth available on their network - or at least the major portion of it.
If they oversell their available bandwidth by 10% that's one thing. But when they oversell their bandwidth by 100% or 200% or higher, then these measures are nothing more than a bandage.
I hate to suggest this, but in reality, companies should not be allowed to oversell their bandwidth capacity.
It's false advertisement / contract breach, no matter what they do, unless they can give the end user what they contractually paid for... And no, a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo that tries to change the definition of terms by throwing conditions and other crap at it does not change what a given data rate and unlimited mean.
If they sell 6/1 unlimited, then yes, they ought to hit that rate +/- 10% or better all the time. If the sell 10/10 unlimited, the same applies.
Our society should not allow companies to claim to sell one thing, then say "oh - so sorry - read the fine print where we change the constant of gravity and the speed of light."
Interesting... I wonder what they'll think about the next time they google their name and come up with this thread - poor Mr. Becke - doesn't know what he's in for.
It's unfortunate that your mother/sister chose to fornicate with your cousin/uncle/father, as it seems to have had a very bad effect on your mind and soul. this is why first cousins shouldn't shouldn't marry each other, and there are laws against what your father did to your sister.
PFMS continued it's delusional non-existence in the lower bowels of hell, only to be picked up once again by Satan's hand itself, and placed into the next lower level, this time to be pulled apart atom by atom, without ever severing the nerve clusters - essentially making the ethereal body feel as though it was being burned, frozen, severed, acid poured over as well as stuck in a meat grinder all at once for eternity.. Every ephemeral nerve cluster afire with pain so intense that a zen master would weep and beg to be put to death. Nothing more that PFMS deserves really, it's unfortunate that eternity is such a short time.
Uncertain as to why PFMS continues to delude itself into thinking that it's alive and worth being around, Satan grabs PFMS and pushes it into an even lower, higher pain inducing level of hell to begin it's tortures all over again...
PSMF continued to float around in it's non-corporeal existence in hell. Being spoon fed baby kitten soup, by one hand and eating the other hand for between bite snacks. Once it's vaporous hellform was eaten, it reformed, only to continute repeating it's punishment for all eternity, forever alone and in pain, constant, unbearably intense pain, just as it deserved. It's delusional mind developing crude and ficticious worlds to pretend it was alive and not alone. Almost sad in a way, but nothing more than it deserved. Too bad it will never again have a chance at a real life....
As PSMF continues to think that it is eating itself (since there is no one around it - never was, never will be), it doesn't even realize that it's already dead, been dead for eons, existing within the bounds of hell, to repeat it's own self evisceration, and engorgement - literally eating itself until it no longer has any mass, only to suddenly reappear in hell and resume eating itself, in a never ending punishment for making baby stew while it lived.
Historically, doctors have put patients first. It seems that mindset is going by the wayside with the "it's all about me" society of today, which I think is unfortunate.
My father-in-law has been fighting cancer for the past 2 years, and we're about to term with our next child. He told the doctor that he was fighting to be around to see it.
Instead of the doctor telling him "We'll do our best to help you meet that goal.", all he got in response was "I don't think you're going to make it. oh our time's up - I've got a tee-off time to meet.".
It seems that more and more, doctors (like engineers, administrators, etc) are becoming specialists, rather than generalists.
Unfortunately, this sometimes has the effect of giving the specialist tunnel vision. ie - they only see things from the perspective of their specialty. They tend to ignore the sometimes obvious things that a generalist would notice.
There are definitely reasons for becoming a specialist, but being a generalist, and having the broadest based education that you can has a lot to offer as well.
35 years ago, neighbors looked out for each other, kids didn't run around with both parents at work all day, parents set limits on their kids activities, and were allowed to give appropriate levels of punishment, and there was no internet.
And why is it that with more and more *protective* technologies having been developed, and implemented that there are *more* children that have been harmed, abducted or otherwise in trouble than ever before?
Because the technologies proposed to help save children, aren't being used to save children, but other nefarious purposes.
I was safer as a child 35 years ago, than kids today with all their protective, identification and
locator devices are.
PSMF floated in non-existent state through hell, tortured every moment of time for it's vile deeds and thoughts. Every component of it's non-corporeal body in a flux of pain and suffering, knowing in it's own thoughts (whatever they may be) that it will forever be alone, in pain, and never to be re-born. It wasted it's existence on trivial pleasures and torture, now it receives that back a thousand fold.
I'd almost feel sorry for PSMF, but it brought it upon itself. It will be ignored, reviled and alone for eternity.
Apparently the cops interrupted it's version of fight club, in this case, it would be more like self mutilation club, as PSMF continued to nail itself to everything in sight. First the floor, then the door, then by it's own ideas, to a passing amoeba. The amoeba pulled with such force that PSMF was pulled apart, into 3 or 4 sections, oozing what little puss it had left inside it's hideously deformed outer shell. It giggled and laughed as it watched it's life's blood spill out over the floor of lichen covered cave that it lived in. The lichen started to die off, the mutagenic properties of PSMF's puss seemed to be causing everything around it to wither and fall to ashes. It turns out that the knock at the door wasn't police, but PSMF's detached ass which had split into two pieces and were coming back to eat the rest of itself. The bullets of the gun had no effect, and they wandered into it's cave, finding the pieces of itself scattered all over. They weren't paying attention and stepped into the puddle of puss still dripping from the self-mutilated remains of PSMF's body, and slowly started to melt into a congealed mess with the remainder of itself. After minutes (of what seemed like hours) bleeding out, whatever life there was inside of it's body left it, and started on it's journey straight to hell. The remains drying up, yet never completely dried due to the damp surroundings.... Alas, another poor soul awaiting it's next turn on the wheel of life. Hopefully PSMF might actually take a step up on it's next life, and make it to the form of a bacteria. Let's certainly hope so... This was PSMF's 5000th attempt at life as a virus, and so far, it hadn't learned it's lessons yet, so chances are, it will be turn 5001 as a virus, or possibly, it will not come back...
Either case, this is the sad ending of the story as there's nothing left of PSMF, unless you count the screams from hell that echo throughout the cave.
Don't look now, the cops are at PSMF's front door. Apparently what it's been doing to itself (think fight club), is illegal where it lives. Soon it will be all scooped up and placed into a mason jar for storage in a toxic waste dump.
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Hmmm... Yes a gui would be nice, and someday there may be one... but for now, on my personal Solaris system at home, I don't need one - although I'd like to get the RAM up to 64GB on that thing for a better all around ZFS experience...
It's kind of nice booting up multiple xVM virtual PCs running various operating systems and barely using the disk at all...
Windows XP (after initial load, and running, can reboot and operate with almost zero disk I/O running off the ARC) - Linux is almost none as well...
It makes a very nice virtual workstation server...
Snapshotting works for any sized file.
Yes, if you remove a large file, then the snapshot gets the blocks allocated to that large file, and yes the space isn't released to the filesystem.
If your filesystem is so short on space that you are removing 5GB files to try and free up space, then you probably shouldn't be snapshotting.
Oh - you should also be able to write a simple routine to make passes through the .snapshot directories to *clean up* any of those large files permanently by removing them from the snapshot (at least I think you can - I'll have to test it again to verify it.).
I've been able to do better than time-machine feature-wise since snapshotting was online with zfs.
I've had automated jobs taking snapshots every 5 minutes and keeping them for as long as I had space available for them (sitting at around 9 months worth atm).
The script rotates through the snapshots, and passes through the snapshots where no changes were made and marking them for my approval to remove, just to try and keep the listings tolerable...(12 * 24 * 275)....
From there I wrote a routine to allow me to easily (though not always speedily) look for the file that I use as a parameter and give me a listing of all the revisions available, which I can select to *restore* or copy back into place under the same name, a different name, etc...
I can do this with entire directory trees, and am working on routines to detect if trees were *moved* via SMB shares or other misadventure (or intentionally) and hopefully be able to then offer up the option to move either the current iteration of the moved directory back, or an old version.
It's been fun writing the utilities, and yes, they are all command line, and all using my old favorite scripting language, ksh.
TiVO's patent is a blatent ripoff of VCR/Beta technology...
The only difference is that they converted the ANALOG signal to digital for storage first.
That's the ONLY difference.
DVD players have had backwards / forwards skip as well as fast forward / rewind since inception.
CD players have had them since the 80s.
So there's nothing new here at all..
If they want to shout digital, then CD players (yes, audio only, but it's still digital signal skipping).
If they want to shout video, then VCR's - as they record analog. Skipping is hard to do on VCR's as the media has to stream, but they do have multi-speed FFWD/RWD which is good as you can get with streaming (tape) media.
Skipping is a digital only function, and was implemented in CD players, then DVD players and is in now way unique or non-obvious.
If I recall correctly, it has been a while...
You mean this proprietary code? (well, I'll use pseudo-code to not violate copyright)...
check super-triple-secret-probationary-website, see which candidates have paid the most, swing percentage of votes equal to percentage of payment over that of the alternate candidate, whoever pays the most, wins....
not saying that's really the code... but hell, something to that effect *could* be in there...
All this does is allow low bandwidth usage users to take priority over high bandwidth users.
If someone bought their penultimate unlimited package allowing for 10MB/s download, 2MB/s upload or whatever the data rates are, then they should have that amount of bandwidth available on their network - or at least the major portion of it.
If they oversell their available bandwidth by 10% that's one thing. But when they oversell their bandwidth by 100% or 200% or higher, then these measures are nothing more than a bandage.
I hate to suggest this, but in reality, companies should not be allowed to oversell their bandwidth capacity.
It's false advertisement / contract breach, no matter what they do, unless they can give the end user what they contractually paid for... And no, a bunch of legal mumbo jumbo that tries to change the definition of terms by throwing conditions and other crap at it does not change what a given data rate and unlimited mean.
If they sell 6/1 unlimited, then yes, they ought to hit that rate +/- 10% or better all the time.
If the sell 10/10 unlimited, the same applies.
Our society should not allow companies to claim to sell one thing, then say "oh - so sorry - read the fine print where we change the constant of gravity and the speed of light."
Interesting... I wonder what they'll think about the next time they google their name and come up with this thread - poor Mr. Becke - doesn't know what he's in for.
It's unfortunate that your mother/sister chose to fornicate with your cousin/uncle/father, as it seems to have had a very bad effect on your mind and soul. this is why first cousins shouldn't shouldn't marry each other, and there are laws against what your father did to your sister.
PFMS continued it's delusional non-existence in the lower bowels of hell, only to be picked up once again by Satan's hand itself, and placed into the next lower level, this time to be pulled apart atom by atom, without ever severing the nerve clusters - essentially making the ethereal body feel as though it was being burned, frozen, severed, acid poured over as well as stuck in a meat grinder all at once for eternity.. Every ephemeral nerve cluster afire with pain so intense that a zen master would weep and beg to be put to death. Nothing more that PFMS deserves really, it's unfortunate that eternity is such a short time.
Uncertain as to why PFMS continues to delude itself into thinking that it's alive and worth being around, Satan grabs PFMS and pushes it into an even lower, higher pain inducing level of hell to begin it's tortures all over again...
PSMF continued to float around in it's non-corporeal existence in hell. Being spoon fed baby kitten soup, by one hand and eating the other hand for between bite snacks. Once it's vaporous hellform was eaten, it reformed, only to continute repeating it's punishment for all eternity, forever alone and in pain, constant, unbearably intense pain, just as it deserved. It's delusional mind developing crude and ficticious worlds to pretend it was alive and not alone. Almost sad in a way, but nothing more than it deserved. Too bad it will never again have a chance at a real life....
As PSMF continues to think that it is eating itself (since there is no one around it - never was, never will be), it doesn't even realize that it's already dead, been dead for eons, existing within the bounds of hell, to repeat it's own self evisceration, and engorgement - literally eating itself until it no longer has any mass, only to suddenly reappear in hell and resume eating itself, in a never ending punishment for making baby stew while it lived.
http://www.freedos.org/cgi-bin/lsm.cgi?mode=dir&dir=edit
direct link for a smattering of editors for it...
should be quick - setup the autoexec.bat to start the editor of choice if want even faster...
...last word...
Which is where the problem lies...
A) care more about yourself than patients
Historically, doctors have put patients first. It seems that mindset is going by the wayside with the "it's all about me" society of today, which I think is unfortunate.
My father-in-law has been fighting cancer for the past 2 years, and we're about to term with our next child. He told the doctor that he was fighting to be around to see it.
Instead of the doctor telling him "We'll do our best to help you meet that goal.", all he got in response was "I don't think you're going to make it. oh our time's up - I've got a tee-off time to meet.".
It seems that more and more, doctors (like engineers, administrators, etc) are becoming specialists, rather than generalists.
Unfortunately, this sometimes has the effect of giving the specialist tunnel vision. ie - they only see things from the perspective of their specialty. They tend to ignore the sometimes obvious things that a generalist would notice.
There are definitely reasons for becoming a specialist, but being a generalist, and having the broadest based education that you can has a lot to offer as well.
35 years ago, neighbors looked out for each other, kids didn't run around with both parents at work all day, parents set limits on their kids activities, and were allowed to give appropriate levels of punishment, and there was no internet.
So yes, I was safer.
And why is it that with more and more *protective* technologies having been developed, and implemented that there are *more* children that have been harmed, abducted or otherwise in trouble than ever before?
Because the technologies proposed to help save children, aren't being used to save children, but other nefarious purposes.
I was safer as a child 35 years ago, than kids today with all their protective, identification and
locator devices are.
PSMF floated in non-existent state through hell, tortured every moment of time for it's vile deeds and thoughts. Every component of it's non-corporeal body in a flux of pain and suffering, knowing in it's own thoughts (whatever they may be) that it will forever be alone, in pain, and never to be re-born. It wasted it's existence on trivial pleasures and torture, now it receives that back a thousand fold.
I'd almost feel sorry for PSMF, but it brought it upon itself. It will be ignored, reviled and alone for eternity.
end of discourse.
Apparently the cops interrupted it's version of fight club, in this case, it would be more like self mutilation club, as PSMF continued to nail itself to everything in sight. First the floor, then the door, then by it's own ideas, to a passing amoeba. The amoeba pulled with such force that PSMF was pulled apart, into 3 or 4 sections, oozing what little puss it had left inside it's hideously deformed outer shell. It giggled and laughed as it watched it's life's blood spill out over the floor of lichen covered cave that it lived in. The lichen started to die off, the mutagenic properties of PSMF's puss seemed to be causing everything around it to wither and fall to ashes. It turns out that the knock at the door wasn't police, but PSMF's detached ass which had split into two pieces and were coming back to eat the rest of itself. The bullets of the gun had no effect, and they wandered into it's cave, finding the pieces of itself scattered all over. They weren't paying attention and stepped into the puddle of puss still dripping from the self-mutilated remains of PSMF's body, and slowly started to melt into a congealed mess with the remainder of itself. After minutes (of what seemed like hours) bleeding out, whatever life there was inside of it's body left it, and started on it's journey straight to hell. The remains drying up, yet never completely dried due to the damp surroundings.... Alas, another poor soul awaiting it's next turn on the wheel of life. Hopefully PSMF might actually take a step up on it's next life, and make it to the form of a bacteria. Let's certainly hope so... This was PSMF's 5000th attempt at life as a virus, and so far, it hadn't learned it's lessons yet, so chances are, it will be turn 5001 as a virus, or possibly, it will not come back...
Either case, this is the sad ending of the story as there's nothing left of PSMF, unless you count the screams from hell that echo throughout the cave.
Don't look now, the cops are at PSMF's front door. Apparently what it's been doing to itself (think fight club), is illegal where it lives. Soon it will be all scooped up and placed into a mason jar for storage in a toxic waste dump.
Last Word...
Last word.
Last Word.
Interesting dream - for something that's dead and gone. Have a restful eternity in non-existance pmf. You no longer exist, and you never mattered.