The freeBSD box is just a headless NAS server, not a desktop. Crashplan uses the ZFS file space to back up data from the desktop and both laptops via a LAN backup.. Anything I put on the protected mount of the NAS will also get backed up to Crashplan eventually.
Why have both files and backups on the NAS? Well, if I unintentionally delete something on the NAS, it is gone for good. But with real time backups with Crashplan of Desktop local files I can restore a deleted or corrupted file quickly.
With Crashplan if I save a new doc it gets backed up in less than a minute to the BSD server, and later it goes to Crashplans cloud.
Files I put on the NAS are generally read only in nature, like DVD rips, weekly OS drive backups, or installation media. They go up to the cloud eventually as well.
ZFS lets me plug in another drive and add it to the pool quickly. No need to reorg the space, it just grows by the size minus the parity overhead.
The only annoying weakness with ZFS is getting rid of old drives. The only way I have been able to do it is to carve out a like size partition of the new drive and put it in as a replacement and let it resliver... then add the rest of the drive as a separate partition. So if wanted to replace a 1gb drive with a 3tb, I have to make a 1gb and a 2gb partition. Otherwise, if I just add all 3 as a replacement, it will ignore the remaining 2Tb
And if you run a server that runs a Crashplan compatable OS like Linux or Windows, you can put that somewhere and back up via Crashplan to that server. Personally I use a BSD box with ZFS as the repository.
You can mix and match al the options, backup local, backup to friend, backup to the Crashplan cloud. Crashplan does a good job of compressing and de duping data, so you might not have to upload all 8TB.
Oh, and you can pre-seed by sending data on a portable drive to Crashplan and then just catch up.
Except that is exactly what IBM is doing in the GDF centers (Fishkill, Dubuque, Colombia)
They are hiring high school grads and putting them in first line jobs. If they stick with it, and get their certs/education (certs are provided by IBM) they can move up in the system. (I joined with no degree, although I have one now. I was not a entry level position either)
The pay is somewhere in the $10 to $15 range, and yes, it is hard to get people to sign on at that wage.
These resources are replacing India resources as those resources are getting harder to get. Not surprisingly, years of outsourcing to India has built an in country demand. The best and brightest head there because the hours are better, and often the pay is better too.
As for the Indian work quality... it varies. I have worked with some that were as good as any US tech, and some that are mere chair warmers. It definitely takes 2 to 4 to match a quality US resources, but you can afford to do that.
Any customer can demand US only resources if they are willing to pay for it... but they are willing to do so.
The GDF centers get US resources in close parity, a 15 to 25% premium. Many customers are opting to use those resources in place of overseas resources. Work is still shipped over there in "backoffice" type support of the US based teams, such as provisioning of disk, etc, but the customer is not in contact with them.
There is also a growing need for "US Only" based on regulations. Governments are expanding regulations to require data and systems are handled by US citizens only because of the nature of the data. That is a fast growing quarter.
There are sect of Christianity that have no issue with gays, even some of the larger ones. Catholics do have the Newman society, although the formal position is that it does not. Lutheran, angelician and presbyterians come to mind.
List the Muslim sects that do, there is only one i can confirm, and it is tiny.
Muslims match or exceed Christians in number, and there are plenty of Islamic theocraticies, so the focus is on Islam.
Prehaps then you will realize how far of a struggle it will be. Convincing Catholics will seem a breeze by comparison.
Not exactly true, the State Department's argument, (and the State Department represents the Administration) which was sort of a cascading argument along the lines of "My client was not there and did not do it, and if he did, it was self defense."
They argued it was under the Commerce Clause, and if not it was Necessary and Proper, and if not, then it was a Tax.
So the Obama administration, after claiming it is not a tax, then makes the argument it is a tax so that the SCOTUS had a path to consider the law constitutional.
Could they have run down that path without a formal argument? I am sure they could, but they were led there by the Administration.
I am also interested in how this impacts the legality of the law. The law was passed using the budgeting reconciliation, which was only valid if there was no taxes in the budget. Otherwise, they could never have overcome the filibuster, so no law would have been passed.
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Except... OBL took credit for the deaths on 9/11.
He did not just admit it, but made videos just short of "PWND JOO!" and teabagging the corpse ilk and rubbed it in our face.
He declared war on the US, and however crazy that sounds, it did make him a combatant, not a criminal.
And the latency does not get any better, which sucks on 3G and 4G.
Yeah, don't give them any ideas.
Plagiarism == copying == piracy ...
Death penalty for pirating music, movies and software!
QED.
Necronomicon?
This is why I live in California. We can pass initatives to ban this sort of nonsense.
That is, unless it is considered a conservative viewpoint, then it usually gets overturned by the state supreme court...
Oh, and Jerry Brown is trying to overturn prop 13 again, but I doubt people are stupid enough to allow that.
Clearly the solution is to replace Biden with Bieber.
The freeBSD box is just a headless NAS server, not a desktop. Crashplan uses the ZFS file space to back up data from the desktop and both laptops via a LAN backup.. Anything I put on the protected mount of the NAS will also get backed up to Crashplan eventually.
Why have both files and backups on the NAS? Well, if I unintentionally delete something on the NAS, it is gone for good. But with real time backups with Crashplan of Desktop local files I can restore a deleted or corrupted file quickly.
With Crashplan if I save a new doc it gets backed up in less than a minute to the BSD server, and later it goes to Crashplans cloud.
Files I put on the NAS are generally read only in nature, like DVD rips, weekly OS drive backups, or installation media. They go up to the cloud eventually as well.
ZFS lets me plug in another drive and add it to the pool quickly. No need to reorg the space, it just grows by the size minus the parity overhead.
The only annoying weakness with ZFS is getting rid of old drives. The only way I have been able to do it is to carve out a like size partition of the new drive and put it in as a replacement and let it resliver... then add the rest of the drive as a separate partition. So if wanted to replace a 1gb drive with a 3tb, I have to make a 1gb and a 2gb partition.
Otherwise, if I just add all 3 as a replacement, it will ignore the remaining 2Tb
Glue some macaroni art on the drives if you think she might forget what they are...
Or don't delete them, but sort them into tiers and do a less reliable back up for them, and send the critical stuff offsite.
prioritize, or you will drown in data.
And if you run a server that runs a Crashplan compatable OS like Linux or Windows, you can put that somewhere and back up via Crashplan to that server. Personally I use a BSD box with ZFS as the repository.
You can mix and match al the options, backup local, backup to friend, backup to the Crashplan cloud.
Crashplan does a good job of compressing and de duping data, so you might not have to upload all 8TB.
Oh, and you can pre-seed by sending data on a portable drive to Crashplan and then just catch up.
My RAID goes to 11, man....
This is your brain.
This is your brain on Math...
Any Questions?
So is playing an instrument.
Unfortunately, I suck at both...
Now, if we could just get them into LEO...
The Year of the Jackpot. Short story by Heinlein
"Revelation Space" series by Alastair Reynolds.
Make Room, Make Room! -Harry Harrison (You know this book by the movie title: Soylent Green)
Ursula K. Le Guin:
The Lathe of Heaven
The Dispossessed -
And of course, HP Lovecraft:
Herbert West, Re-animator.
The Whisperer in Darkness
Shadow out of Time
The Colour out of Space
Someone mentioned Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany...
Perfectly timed for me to come out of retirement and make a killing!
But we ALLLLLL Bundle!
Come on now, I got the blue shit, the white shit, grey shit and black shit. I don't more than 4 kinds of shit to lube an airplane!
Dear old pops loves to tell the stories about working on everything from A-6 Intruders to the B-2 before retirement.
His chop is on thousands, if not tens of thousands, of such technical revisions on the repair manuals for those aircraft.
"The problem is the engineers that write the manuals, they don't work on the airplane."
His first mistake was using a company machine for private transactions.
Use your smart phone/iPad/whatever to that sort of stuff. Browse all you like at Newegg, but don't buy it at work!
Except that is exactly what IBM is doing in the GDF centers (Fishkill, Dubuque, Colombia)
They are hiring high school grads and putting them in first line jobs. If they stick with it, and get their certs/education (certs are provided by IBM) they can move up in the system. (I joined with no degree, although I have one now. I was not a entry level position either)
The pay is somewhere in the $10 to $15 range, and yes, it is hard to get people to sign on at that wage.
These resources are replacing India resources as those resources are getting harder to get. Not surprisingly, years of outsourcing to India has built an in country demand. The best and brightest head there because the hours are better, and often the pay is better too.
As for the Indian work quality... it varies. I have worked with some that were as good as any US tech, and some that are mere chair warmers.
It definitely takes 2 to 4 to match a quality US resources, but you can afford to do that.
Any customer can demand US only resources if they are willing to pay for it... but they are willing to do so.
The GDF centers get US resources in close parity, a 15 to 25% premium. Many customers are opting to use those resources in place of overseas resources. Work is still shipped over there in "backoffice" type support of the US based teams, such as provisioning of disk, etc, but the customer is not in contact with them.
There is also a growing need for "US Only" based on regulations. Governments are expanding regulations to require data and systems are handled by US citizens only because of the nature of the data. That is a fast growing quarter.
Cities in Dust - Siouxie Sioux and the Banshees.
We found you hiding we found you lying
Choking on the dirt and sand
Your former glories and all the stories
Dragged and washed with eager hands
But oh your city lies in dust, my friend
Hot and burning in your nostrils .......
Pouring down your gaping mouth
Your molten bodies blanket of cinders
Caught in the throes
And your city lies in dust
Again, show me the Muslim sects that support gays.
Heck, I will take some that don't have proclaimations to kill them.
Christianity is not the problem, it will always lag society but it will Eventually reform.
Islam? Unlikely.
Not most Christians, but Islam.
There are sect of Christianity that have no issue with gays, even some of the larger ones. Catholics do have the Newman society, although the formal position is that it does not. Lutheran, angelician and presbyterians come to mind.
List the Muslim sects that do, there is only one i can confirm, and it is tiny.
Muslims match or exceed Christians in number, and there are plenty of Islamic theocraticies, so the focus is on Islam.
Prehaps then you will realize how far of a struggle it will be. Convincing Catholics will seem a breeze by comparison.
Not exactly true, the State Department's argument, (and the State Department represents the Administration) which was sort of a cascading argument along the lines of "My client was not there and did not do it, and if he did, it was self defense."
They argued it was under the Commerce Clause, and if not it was Necessary and Proper, and if not, then it was a Tax.
So the Obama administration, after claiming it is not a tax, then makes the argument it is a tax so that the SCOTUS had a path to consider the law constitutional.
Could they have run down that path without a formal argument? I am sure they could, but they were led there by the Administration.
I am also interested in how this impacts the legality of the law. The law was passed using the budgeting reconciliation, which was only valid if there was no taxes in the budget.
Otherwise, they could never have overcome the filibuster, so no law would have been passed.
I guess we shall see.