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  1. Re:I know the government loves to lie to us... on Obamacare Software Glitch Will Limit Penalties Charged To Smokers · · Score: 1

    Ideally everybody would do whatever the hell they want to. Smoke, don't smoke, I don't care just don't blow it in my face.

  2. Re:Corporate executives are smart. on America's Second-largest Employer Is a Temp Agency · · Score: 1

    It is not your employer's job to give you health insurance. Sure, it's a nice BENEFIT but that's all it's supposed to be, a benefit.

  3. Re:Just torrent it via a VPN service... on Sharing HBO Go Accounts Could Result In Prison · · Score: 1

    Honestly the safest way is to torrent the stuff. These companies are hell bent on hating the consumer, so screw them.

    Or you could just not watch their crap.

  4. Postgres on Wikipedia Moved To MariaDB 5.5 · · Score: 1

    Should have switched to PostgreSQL instead. But that would require cleaning up shitty SQL statements that only work with MySQL/MariaDB.

  5. Re:Happy with XFS on Btrfs Is Getting There, But Not Quite Ready For Production · · Score: 1, Redundant

    XFS is not a clustered file system. For something like that you want Lustre, GPFS, GFS, etc.

  6. Re:Autonomous vehicles on Speeding Ticket Robots — Laws As Algorithms · · Score: 1

    I'm sure even automated cars will still have speed limits. You have to account for all the existing cars that will still be driven by humans, motorcycles, road hazards, etc. etc.

  7. Job Security on The Twighlight of Small In-House Data Centers · · Score: 1

    Hank Seader, managing principal of the Uptime Institute, said that it takes a 'certain set of legacy skills, a certain commitment to the less than glorious career fields to make data centers work, and it's hard to find people to do it.'"

    I guess that makes my skills more valuable since there's a shortage of skilled admins.

  8. Illumos on Ask Slashdot: Free/Open Deduplication Software? · · Score: 1

    You can still use OpenIndiana which is based on Illumos, the fork of OpenSolaris. A lot of the dev guys at Sun have left the company and now contribute code to the project.

    In fact one killer feature is that they ported KVM to Illumos. Now you can run VMs and take advantage of the many features of zfs including deduplication.

  9. Wrong on The Internet Is Killing Local News, Says the FCC · · Score: 1

    That's funny, I read all of my local news on Facebook.

  10. Firewall == False Security on Sony Running Unpatched Servers With No Firewall · · Score: 1

    Unless they're talking about an application level firewall like mod_security what the hell good is a firewall gonna do? As long as port 80 is open it's going to be exploitable.

  11. Re:Who Cares? on Will Your Super Bowl Party Anger the Copyright Gods? · · Score: 1

    Yup. Perhaps it's time to start a more fan friendly league.

  12. Re:The term itself...? on Will Your Super Bowl Party Anger the Copyright Gods? · · Score: 1

    We're having a "Souper Bowl" Sunday at my church next week and we take donations for food. Wonder if we should watch out for the copyright police.

  13. Re:Wow, you mean fads burn out? on Most Blogs Now Abandoned · · Score: 1

    I actually have records that are all about learning CB lingo.

  14. Grow some balls on Keeping a PC Personal At School? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately life requires you to be a bit rude sometimes, otherwise people will walk all over you.

    Man up and say no, or start charging for access time. Does your school have a computer lab? There is absolutely no excuse for a college student to not have a laptop these days, or at the very least a netbook.

  15. How do we define prostitution? on Craigslist Fights Back, Sues SC Atty General · · Score: 1

    Let's say you meet a woman at the bar, buy her a few drinks and end up going home with her? Is that prostitution? Obviously something of value has been exchanged for sexual services. Same thing for dinner and a movie, if she sleeps with you and then never talks to you again does that make her a prostitute?

    Escort services can argue that you're paying for time, not sex. If the escort just happens to be attracted to you what's the harm in that?

  16. Re:Safest mkfs/mount options? on Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release · · Score: 1

    I have yet to see a Solaris box crash, and it's not like Linux never crashes either. Just ask our monitoring department about that...

  17. Re:Safest mkfs/mount options? on Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release · · Score: 1

    If you're trying to say Linux never kernel panics you're dead wrong, we reboot servers all day long that have stopped responding or panicked for some reason. At least when Solaris panics it generates a crash dump so you can see WHY it crashed, on Linux servers I'm lucky if the console gives a clue.

  18. Re:Safest mkfs/mount options? on Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release · · Score: 1

    I have 2 GB in my server and ZFS works fine. Besides, RAM is cheap now, I just put 24 GB in a server yesterday.

  19. Re:Safest mkfs/mount options? on Kernel Hackers On Ext3/4 After 2.6.29 Release · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Solaris 10 with ZFS, if you actually care about your data.

  20. Re:Chuck'em out on What To Do With Old USB Keys, Low-Capacity Hard Drives? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Screw Ebay, put them on Craigslist.

  21. Re:Good Joke on Bill Would Require ISPs, Wi-Fi Users To Keep Logs · · Score: 1

    Nah, they'll just attach it to one of the Democrats' massive spending bills.

  22. Re:backups on WD's Monster 2TB Caviar Green Drive, Preview Test · · Score: 1

    I'd use RAIDZ2 with periodic snapshots.

  23. Re:Better traffic control systems would actually h on Feds To Offer Cash For Your Clunker · · Score: 1

    I keep saying we need more roundabouts. There's a few lights I always end up sitting at with no cars coming, so tempting to just run the light.

  24. Re:just went through it on Copper Thieves Jeopardize US Infrastructure · · Score: 1

    I'd just use PVC, much cheaper and pretty easy to glue together.

  25. Re:still doing fs on top of RAID :-( on On the State of Linux File Systems · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What is this we? ZFS is the fix for all of the issues you mentioned, it does checksums on every block it writes and the RAID 5 write hole is history. You can also set how many copies per file you want to keep.