Interesting stuff. I work for a small break/fix shop that is transitioning to MSP (2000 nodes and counting). I have made drive recommendations based off of your data for some time now. While our clients tend to use smaller consumer grade drives, once can make a generalization that manufacturing quality follows brand to some degree regardless of capacity and model. Anecdotally, our experience fairly closely matches the numbers you have given in past reports, but any numbers I generate are not corrected for factors like market share.
For our MSP clients we do monitor various drive factors. Currently we monitor the drives on SMART pass/fail and for other OS level errors (bad blocks, failed reads, etc). My experience also shows that many drives fail with other indicators in the SMART stats that still fall within manufacturer tolerances. Primarily with reallocated/pending/uncorrectable sector counts. Once you see any increase above 0 there, typically the drive is done and the failure proceeds fairly rapidly. So we are working on scripting to monitor those numbers too.
Interestingly, we often see failures from completely idle and powered down drives too. My suspicion is that a large portion of failures are magnetic domain issues that increase with age regardless of usage, but I have nothing to back that conjecture with.
I hope that as we grow I can collect failure data from our install base as well as it can help with many IT decisions.
This. I know many people on slow rural DSL with terrible upstream speeds. Thier ping and jitter can be bad, but downstream is enough to support streaming. This is a whole class of users that would be branded with a false positive as VPN user if delay is the only factor.
Twitter has always smelled like a drive by after burrito night. It just depends on whether your own stink overpowers others, as you can handle your own.
The only reasons to constantly record and send are nefarious. Period.
It is not hard to achieve the same functionality through a button press. Or like Google does, a locally recognized series of words. Google Now has you train your device as to how you say Okay Google, so that ostensibly it does not send data until you do this and INSTRUCT THE DEVICE THAT IT IS SAFE SHARE AUDIO.
The only reasons for this are greed, stupidity, and gvmnt back doors. It's like anal sex. Once you are desensitized, the door opens for more intrusion.
Not hurr durr because apple. It is because the more advanced features are expensive to maintain and used by only a small subset. If 95% of people do not use the advanced capabilities and just want quick backup, tagging, and filters, then that is what they get. If you want more, then be prepared to pay someone for it.
You can bat that any service that is given freely or sold cheaply will be pared down to what the most people use that is cheapest to maintain while still providing some benefit for the parent company.
If using a phone, geotagging is automatic when enabled from the phones GPS. many cameras now have GPS as well, or you can get GPS add-ons for many SLRs. If you really want to geotag, this saves bunches of time and gains accuracy.
Duke Nukem forever is still a work in progress. It will never be finished. The tripe that calls itself by that name needs to be butt raped by some pig looking cops.
I have already switched and am pushing uBlock Origin as an alternative to my customers. Having a ruleset for allowing non-intrusive ads is one thing. Taking shakedown money to allow big players through is another and unacceptable.
You cannot lawsuit your way out of a shitty product.
I do not represent Bleeping, but I have used their forums and site many times. They are a reputable source for tools and procedures that actually work, as opposed to many supposed software solutions and 'help' sites that just serve to infect you further with their tripe.
So, as far as I am concerned you can fuck right off with your shitty product and attitude. You have now insured that no matter how good your product -may- become (and I doubt it really will), I will never recommend it to any clients and will actively promote against it. Good job. Now sue me.
I try not to engage in ad hominem, but jesus christ I want to here.
Yes I read the last line. Being logged in but posting with an anon tag is not the same. There is still a record on the site that can be sold or subpoenaed. Yes, I know that not having a login still leaves IP records, but people who want to be anonymous can mitigate that with VPNs, TOR etc.
Also, with a required login, trolls and spammers will still use shill accounts.
If you want to see a shining example of required login commenting, go look at youtube comments on some popular videos. Especially ones that are political or religious in nature. Or go look at a local news stations disqus comments.
This community website HAS taken steps to deter trolling and spam. It is the moderation system and may need adjustments. It is not perfect, but it works while allowing real anonymous speech that is worthwhile to shine through. If you do not like the spam, do not browse at -1. Unless I am moderating, I browse at 2, and see very little junk.
If you think stifling speech to fail at blocking spam is a good idea, your thought process is not much different from those who would have backdoors in encryption to fail at stopping terrorism. It is a trade of liberty for false security, and in the end you WILL lose both.
Anyone who downloads and uses comodo products, expecting it to be secure. Since they are 3-6% below the average on catching well known malware, I would say they are spending more time on bells and whistles to capture data or hook users into additional services than actual security. https://www.av-test.org/en/ant...
Where have we seen this pattern before... Norton, McCaffe, AVG, etc......
I live in Cville and drive through here all the time. Locust is a road that connects downtown to a highway. There are others, but this one is mostly straight and unimpeded. It is 2 lane, and largely residential. It needs to have slow speeds due to the narrowness and residential aspect. However the city classifies it as a feeder road, and does not put in slowing measures like bumps, stops or circles.
The other main roads feeding into downtown from US 250 are High to the east and Park and McIntire to the west. All three are heavily congested for various reasons. They link to other busy roads, have shopping and commercial areas, etc
I think the solution is for the city to bite the bullet and install speed bumps. It will not be a popular measure, but that is because people want to speed through there to get into or out of the downtown area. Too bad, just plan a little further ahead.
Anonymous posting has become a haven of trolls, far from it's original goal of protecting people when discussing work conditions and the like.
Allowing anyone to post as anonymous without login simply paves the way for endless trolling. The value of the comment section has diminished greatly over the years because of stupid comments.
Enforcing authenticated login, federated from elsewhere to tender to the laziest if need be, would at least allow for some accountability by weeding out repeat abusers of the comments section.
Logged-in, members could still post with anonymity to allow a return of the original intentions.
NO NO AND NO
Anonymous is a defining feature. There are tools to tune out trolls and spam and they work (they may need fine tuning but are otherwise powerful). Do not be lazy, use them. Without the freedom to post in a TRULY anonymous fashion then speech is stifled and groupthink, echo chamber like discussion worsens. I want to be challenged by viewpoints that do not met my expectations and may run afoul of social, governmental or employment considerations. I want to be able to post them should the desire arise as well.
To repeat.. the coward should remain among us with no blocking or authentication at all.
As a side note for sourceforge, can you allow direct download links instead of a redirecting landing page? There are sure to be other reasons for other people but for me I remotely manage via a command line many (1000s of) windows boxes. It would be nice to be able to easily download tools without hitting redirect roadblocks. On linux I can wget or curl around that but not so easy on windows.
To add to my other comment though, for machines without need of a GPU or where a discrete unit is used, the price/performance gap has gone more in intels favor. If you want an embedded GPU, then the AMD apus are where it is are, especially for price. You can get an A8 for 400-500 bucks. Add an SSD and you have a fair machine. Anything close in the Intel+GPU camp will smoke it with the discrete GPU but cost 300+ more.
My notebook has an nVidia 960M in it, so yes, it plays games just fine. I will not own a PC without a fairly serviceable GPU since I do game some (not as much as I used to)
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I work for a small break/fix shop that is transitioning to MSP (2000 nodes and counting). I have made drive recommendations based off of your data for some time now. While our clients tend to use smaller consumer grade drives, once can make a generalization that manufacturing quality follows brand to some degree regardless of capacity and model. Anecdotally, our experience fairly closely matches the numbers you have given in past reports, but any numbers I generate are not corrected for factors like market share.
For our MSP clients we do monitor various drive factors. Currently we monitor the drives on SMART pass/fail and for other OS level errors (bad blocks, failed reads, etc). My experience also shows that many drives fail with other indicators in the SMART stats that still fall within manufacturer tolerances. Primarily with reallocated/pending/uncorrectable sector counts. Once you see any increase above 0 there, typically the drive is done and the failure proceeds fairly rapidly. So we are working on scripting to monitor those numbers too.
Interestingly, we often see failures from completely idle and powered down drives too. My suspicion is that a large portion of failures are magnetic domain issues that increase with age regardless of usage, but I have nothing to back that conjecture with.
I hope that as we grow I can collect failure data from our install base as well as it can help with many IT decisions.
Many cheap Chinese tabs and phones come with sideloading security turned off. They also have adware baked in.
This. I know many people on slow rural DSL with terrible upstream speeds. Thier ping and jitter can be bad, but downstream is enough to support streaming. This is a whole class of users that would be branded with a false positive as VPN user if delay is the only factor.
Twitter has always smelled like a drive by after burrito night. It just depends on whether your own stink overpowers others, as you can handle your own.
Matthew 5:28 "but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart."
To think about a song means you have listened and the execs require payment. Just leave your credit card at the door.
Look up commercial displays. Not all are dumb so be careful, but many are just panels and inputs.
It is not hard to achieve the same functionality through a button press. Or like Google does, a locally recognized series of words. Google Now has you train your device as to how you say Okay Google, so that ostensibly it does not send data until you do this and INSTRUCT THE DEVICE THAT IT IS SAFE SHARE AUDIO.
The only reasons for this are greed, stupidity, and gvmnt back doors. It's like anal sex. Once you are desensitized, the door opens for more intrusion.
Thanks for the concrete example. It really cemented things in my mind.
Not hurr durr because apple. It is because the more advanced features are expensive to maintain and used by only a small subset. If 95% of people do not use the advanced capabilities and just want quick backup, tagging, and filters, then that is what they get. If you want more, then be prepared to pay someone for it.
You can bat that any service that is given freely or sold cheaply will be pared down to what the most people use that is cheapest to maintain while still providing some benefit for the parent company.
If using a phone, geotagging is automatic when enabled from the phones GPS. many cameras now have GPS as well, or you can get GPS add-ons for many SLRs. If you really want to geotag, this saves bunches of time and gains accuracy.
Duke Nukem forever is still a work in progress. It will never be finished. The tripe that calls itself by that name needs to be butt raped by some pig looking cops.
I feel so special.. I triggered APK.
I have already switched and am pushing uBlock Origin as an alternative to my customers. Having a ruleset for allowing non-intrusive ads is one thing. Taking shakedown money to allow big players through is another and unacceptable.
I do not represent Bleeping, but I have used their forums and site many times. They are a reputable source for tools and procedures that actually work, as opposed to many supposed software solutions and 'help' sites that just serve to infect you further with their tripe.
So, as far as I am concerned you can fuck right off with your shitty product and attitude. You have now insured that no matter how good your product -may- become (and I doubt it really will), I will never recommend it to any clients and will actively promote against it. Good job. Now sue me.
Yes I read the last line. Being logged in but posting with an anon tag is not the same. There is still a record on the site that can be sold or subpoenaed. Yes, I know that not having a login still leaves IP records, but people who want to be anonymous can mitigate that with VPNs, TOR etc.
Also, with a required login, trolls and spammers will still use shill accounts.
If you want to see a shining example of required login commenting, go look at youtube comments on some popular videos. Especially ones that are political or religious in nature. Or go look at a local news stations disqus comments. This community website HAS taken steps to deter trolling and spam. It is the moderation system and may need adjustments. It is not perfect, but it works while allowing real anonymous speech that is worthwhile to shine through. If you do not like the spam, do not browse at -1. Unless I am moderating, I browse at 2, and see very little junk.
If you think stifling speech to fail at blocking spam is a good idea, your thought process is not much different from those who would have backdoors in encryption to fail at stopping terrorism. It is a trade of liberty for false security, and in the end you WILL lose both.
Where have we seen this pattern before... Norton, McCaffe, AVG, etc......
Much of the area is historical. Widening the street would be met with far more resistance than speedbumps.
Paul Reynolds, http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/...
Another link: http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/...
The other main roads feeding into downtown from US 250 are High to the east and Park and McIntire to the west. All three are heavily congested for various reasons. They link to other busy roads, have shopping and commercial areas, etc
I think the solution is for the city to bite the bullet and install speed bumps. It will not be a popular measure, but that is because people want to speed through there to get into or out of the downtown area. Too bad, just plan a little further ahead.
Anonymous posting has become a haven of trolls, far from it's original goal of protecting people when discussing work conditions and the like.
Allowing anyone to post as anonymous without login simply paves the way for endless trolling. The value of the comment section has diminished greatly over the years because of stupid comments.
Enforcing authenticated login, federated from elsewhere to tender to the laziest if need be, would at least allow for some accountability by weeding out repeat abusers of the comments section.
Logged-in, members could still post with anonymity to allow a return of the original intentions.
NO NO AND NO
Anonymous is a defining feature. There are tools to tune out trolls and spam and they work (they may need fine tuning but are otherwise powerful). Do not be lazy, use them. Without the freedom to post in a TRULY anonymous fashion then speech is stifled and groupthink, echo chamber like discussion worsens. I want to be challenged by viewpoints that do not met my expectations and may run afoul of social, governmental or employment considerations. I want to be able to post them should the desire arise as well.
To repeat.. the coward should remain among us with no blocking or authentication at all.
As a side note for sourceforge, can you allow direct download links instead of a redirecting landing page? There are sure to be other reasons for other people but for me I remotely manage via a command line many (1000s of) windows boxes. It would be nice to be able to easily download tools without hitting redirect roadblocks. On linux I can wget or curl around that but not so easy on windows.
To add to my other comment though, for machines without need of a GPU or where a discrete unit is used, the price/performance gap has gone more in intels favor. If you want an embedded GPU, then the AMD apus are where it is are, especially for price. You can get an A8 for 400-500 bucks. Add an SSD and you have a fair machine. Anything close in the Intel+GPU camp will smoke it with the discrete GPU but cost 300+ more.
My notebook has an nVidia 960M in it, so yes, it plays games just fine. I will not own a PC without a fairly serviceable GPU since I do game some (not as much as I used to)
What editors? They were fired.. it is only poor lonely Timothy now. Timothy who never learned to proofread nor edit in all his years is the one kept :)