In 1998 i was working for an ISP in their NOC. One of our main AIX servers was filling. It housed home directories (and hence mail stores) for most of our customers. The engineers added a new array. I was supposed to write a script to move the directories to the new drive and change the home path in the passwd file.
I flubbed the script and while there was no data loss, i, by myself on the night shift broke about 25k email accounts. I had a long night fixing it.
I still remember the frantic calls from the help desk as I was in panic mode trying to find out how bad it was.
Chromecast + plex + Netflix + homemade db4 on the bedroom TV is our only video location. Worked fine Saturday with plex, my girlfriend binge watched some old TLC show. Will keep an eye on it.
One could argue that the fall started during the cold war, with the Red Scare and many other things. However that hearkens back to the "Good Old Days" which never really that good.
Yes the US has fallen, as do all societies. Someday we will rebel, and the Upper and Middle classes will trade places on the backs of the lower classes. Some small forward steps will be made, and the decline will begin again.
Or we will all die of of our own hubris and shortsightedness.
Hitachi is no more (they are now HGST owned by Western Digital), but I do like them.
While I do not keep count, and my shop's numbers are too small to be statistically significant, Toshiba drives make up a smaller portion of market share, but a larger portion of the failed drives I see, so my anecdotal experience leads me to distrust Toshiba drives, although I to like certain models of toshiba laptops, as the price/performance ratio is just right for many of my customers.
I work for a small repair/IT firm and our experience largely matches backblazes when looking at brands. We rarely deal with NAS drives or larger capacities so I cannot speak to those.
There is a 2007 study by google into predicting HDD failure. Per their data, about 50% of drives fail with a discernible warning in SMART. However, that warning requires manual watching as what they saw is that any type of pending or reallocated sector is indicative of failure. However, a few pending sectors may not be past the manufacturers threshold for failure. Therefore, 50% will fail with no warning, that is a given. The number probably approaches 95% or more if you are relying on tools that compare SMART stats with the manufacturer thresholds. You need tools that allow you to set your own thresholds or look at the numbers manually on a regular basis.
My personal (and uneducated) assumption about this is that most of the pending/reallcoated sectors are caused by the magnetic domains on the surface of the platters weakening over time. Given the areal density of modern disks, slight defects in the coating or other chemical degradation could be to blame. Basically this would be a form of bit rot, and makes a sort of sense given the failure rate seems to spike for all manufactures at about the same time frame.
Lastly, all drives will fail. Also other events happen, be it fire, theft, crypto viruses that encrypt your files and local backups, accidental or malicious deletion, etc. An on-site backup protects against none of those in any reliable way. Add in the fact that SSDs (which also will fail for other reasons), and are more difficult (expensive) to recover from are gaining traction, an off-site backup is the most logical solution, be it cloud, safe deposit box, etc. I am not here to advertise so I won't name names, but the solution my firm sells is cloud-based with both file and system image backups, including versioning and archiving. It also allows for a local copy of the backup set to be stored on a suitable drive. This allows for super fast recovery of large backup sets, with the online version as a backup. The backup set is fully encrypted with a choice of encryption standards and the ability to have only the customer have the encryption key (normally we keep the key as well, but we do not have to).
If you are serious about your data, you should look into features like that for yourself. Relying on manual on-site backups can only be a recipe for eventual disaster.
How about a blockchain based e-book system? Each copy of a book is like a coin in a cryptocurrency. I would love to see this direct to authors, but other 'rightsholders' will get in the way. Regardless, when a sale is made it is tracked through the blockchain. The market sets the prices. So, if you bye hot new thriller for $20, the seller gets a cut as does the storefront. Then, if you transfer that book, a small percentage of your sale goes to the original author. If you give it to your uncle ernie for free, well you transferred ownership but not money, so nothing trickles upwards.
This system would allow everyday people to sell used ebooks at whatever the market would bear. The downside is in a system like this, reading habits are traceable by all. However, if you wanted to buy "IEDs for terrorist Dummies" you probably wouldn't want to use this system.
Few vendors in the US have chip and pin readers. They are not required yet, and even when they are, not having one just shifts the burden of fraudulent transactions to the vendor. Things move glacially here.
The difference here is that he cannot charge over and over for the same stupid food. Not unless he gets it back from his patrons when they are finished with it. that alone makes this comparison void. A label or copyright holder does not have to work to reproduce or distribute the music every time it is played.
Okay, I'll bite and reply to AC. Notice I said energy needs, not electrical needs. Germany is a much smaller country, transport energy requirements for both electrical transmission (minimal) and goods transportation are much less.
Can the USA do better, of course we can, and should. However, sticking your head in the mud and screaming no nukes is shortsighted at best and idiotic at worst.
The odds of any person being harmed by a nuclear accident are probably less than getting struck by lightning while suffering a shark attack.
As it currently stands, neither solar or other renewables can come close to providing the energy needs of a 1st world country, and as more of the world develops, this need will only increase. That leaves fossil and some form of nuclear. Or, reducing energy usage. Get rid of everyones appliances, vehicles, heat pumps, exotic out of season foods trucked from halfway across the globe, etc, and you may come close. Do you want to be the one to force that on people?
Washing is ultimately useless. Once one wallet in the transaction chain is known, then all of its past activity is known. With a few small information leaks, enough computing power will track it back. Even if not, the concepts involved are enough to make most judges/juries rely on the 'expert' testimony and got to sleep.
All it takes is an expert with enough jargon and some numbers (we identified the holder of this wallet to a precision of 1 in 300 million), even if not true, and convictions will be garnered.
Work:
quad-core AMD FX-4170
Asrock 990FX mobo
32 GB RAM
128 GB Ocz (crap but was on shelf) SSD - Primary
1TB RAID 5 - Storage and weekly system images.
AMD R7 260 GPU
1x 23" display, 2x 22" displays
Old Cooler Master Cosmos case
Home:
AMD FX-6300 Vishera 6-Core 3.5GHz
Asrock 990FX
16 GB RAM
256 GB Samsun 850 Evo - Primary
1TB and 750GB - Storage drives and media server. (backups on separate NAS)
AMD R9 270X GPU
1x 24" and 1x 20" displays
Cheapo gaming case
Tertiary rig - old poweredge 2950.
32 GB Ram 2x dual-core xeons
6TB storage.
Boatloads of VMS for testing
Where you can get a side of jesus with your chicken sandwich and bash gays at the same time, of course the bible thumpers have their way in districts and states that support it, why is this a surprise to anyone?
I have poor diet and a flatulence problem. Want to carpool? Ideally, the mass transit apps can let users ban co-riders and will allow matching similar to dating sites for rider compatibility. you don't want a tebagger homophobe riding with Ms Jenner.
It does if you can just summon a car with an app, and it is reused for other later trips. Even more so if the trips are shared with 2 or more passengers.
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I flubbed the script and while there was no data loss, i, by myself on the night shift broke about 25k email accounts. I had a long night fixing it.
I still remember the frantic calls from the help desk as I was in panic mode trying to find out how bad it was.
Google announce that it will change the tagging of Caucasians from 'cracker' to 'saltine'.
Chromecast + plex + Netflix + homemade db4 on the bedroom TV is our only video location. Worked fine Saturday with plex, my girlfriend binge watched some old TLC show. Will keep an eye on it.
Yes the US has fallen, as do all societies. Someday we will rebel, and the Upper and Middle classes will trade places on the backs of the lower classes. Some small forward steps will be made, and the decline will begin again.
Or we will all die of of our own hubris and shortsightedness.
While I do not keep count, and my shop's numbers are too small to be statistically significant, Toshiba drives make up a smaller portion of market share, but a larger portion of the failed drives I see, so my anecdotal experience leads me to distrust Toshiba drives, although I to like certain models of toshiba laptops, as the price/performance ratio is just right for many of my customers.
I work for a small repair/IT firm and our experience largely matches backblazes when looking at brands. We rarely deal with NAS drives or larger capacities so I cannot speak to those. There is a 2007 study by google into predicting HDD failure. Per their data, about 50% of drives fail with a discernible warning in SMART. However, that warning requires manual watching as what they saw is that any type of pending or reallocated sector is indicative of failure. However, a few pending sectors may not be past the manufacturers threshold for failure. Therefore, 50% will fail with no warning, that is a given. The number probably approaches 95% or more if you are relying on tools that compare SMART stats with the manufacturer thresholds. You need tools that allow you to set your own thresholds or look at the numbers manually on a regular basis. My personal (and uneducated) assumption about this is that most of the pending/reallcoated sectors are caused by the magnetic domains on the surface of the platters weakening over time. Given the areal density of modern disks, slight defects in the coating or other chemical degradation could be to blame. Basically this would be a form of bit rot, and makes a sort of sense given the failure rate seems to spike for all manufactures at about the same time frame. Lastly, all drives will fail. Also other events happen, be it fire, theft, crypto viruses that encrypt your files and local backups, accidental or malicious deletion, etc. An on-site backup protects against none of those in any reliable way. Add in the fact that SSDs (which also will fail for other reasons), and are more difficult (expensive) to recover from are gaining traction, an off-site backup is the most logical solution, be it cloud, safe deposit box, etc. I am not here to advertise so I won't name names, but the solution my firm sells is cloud-based with both file and system image backups, including versioning and archiving. It also allows for a local copy of the backup set to be stored on a suitable drive. This allows for super fast recovery of large backup sets, with the online version as a backup. The backup set is fully encrypted with a choice of encryption standards and the ability to have only the customer have the encryption key (normally we keep the key as well, but we do not have to). If you are serious about your data, you should look into features like that for yourself. Relying on manual on-site backups can only be a recipe for eventual disaster.
This system would allow everyday people to sell used ebooks at whatever the market would bear. The downside is in a system like this, reading habits are traceable by all. However, if you wanted to buy "IEDs for terrorist Dummies" you probably wouldn't want to use this system.
"We've always been at war with Eastasia"
sourceforge.net
cnet.com and download.com
softpedia.com
Few vendors in the US have chip and pin readers. They are not required yet, and even when they are, not having one just shifts the burden of fraudulent transactions to the vendor. Things move glacially here.
The difference here is that he cannot charge over and over for the same stupid food. Not unless he gets it back from his patrons when they are finished with it. that alone makes this comparison void. A label or copyright holder does not have to work to reproduce or distribute the music every time it is played.
Can the USA do better, of course we can, and should. However, sticking your head in the mud and screaming no nukes is shortsighted at best and idiotic at worst.
As it currently stands, neither solar or other renewables can come close to providing the energy needs of a 1st world country, and as more of the world develops, this need will only increase. That leaves fossil and some form of nuclear. Or, reducing energy usage. Get rid of everyones appliances, vehicles, heat pumps, exotic out of season foods trucked from halfway across the globe, etc, and you may come close. Do you want to be the one to force that on people?
No, mobile and landline are two different beasts. Current net neutrality rules only apply to land line based ISPs.
All it takes is an expert with enough jargon and some numbers (we identified the holder of this wallet to a precision of 1 in 300 million), even if not true, and convictions will be garnered.
quad-core AMD FX-4170
Asrock 990FX mobo
32 GB RAM
128 GB Ocz (crap but was on shelf) SSD - Primary
1TB RAID 5 - Storage and weekly system images.
AMD R7 260 GPU
1x 23" display, 2x 22" displays
Old Cooler Master Cosmos case
Home:
AMD FX-6300 Vishera 6-Core 3.5GHz
Asrock 990FX
16 GB RAM
256 GB Samsun 850 Evo - Primary
1TB and 750GB - Storage drives and media server. (backups on separate NAS)
AMD R9 270X GPU
1x 24" and 1x 20" displays
Cheapo gaming case
Tertiary rig - old poweredge 2950.
32 GB Ram 2x dual-core xeons
6TB storage.
Boatloads of VMS for testing
There are about 10^27 ultra-cold molecules in my ex-wife.
or this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
Just as real. Perhaps we should agitate for it and show these zealots who cry for fairness what they are really about.
Where you can get a side of jesus with your chicken sandwich and bash gays at the same time, of course the bible thumpers have their way in districts and states that support it, why is this a surprise to anyone?
Why reuse something when you can trick governments to pay for it again. That make perfect economic sense until someone reveals the fraud.
I have poor diet and a flatulence problem. Want to carpool? Ideally, the mass transit apps can let users ban co-riders and will allow matching similar to dating sites for rider compatibility. you don't want a tebagger homophobe riding with Ms Jenner.
Ahh yes, accordion freeway heading inland for miles. I love it. Will be going to the outer banks this weekend, and look forward to it on the way back.
It does if you can just summon a car with an app, and it is reused for other later trips. Even more so if the trips are shared with 2 or more passengers.
most notably Interstates 95 and 495
NOVA I can handle most days (excepting Tysons Corner). You should try 64 at the Hampton tunnel for fun.
Here is the key: 0000-0000-0000-0000