I am reading Nightwatch (Terry Pratchett) right now, and it seems to me that we need a Carrot. Mind you I haven't gotten to the end yet, so I don't know what exactly happens, but as a "Man of the Watch" his affect on people and situations is whet we need through all levels of government.
"The same way we had interment camps in the 1940s. It wasn't the best course of action, but it was better than ignoring the problem completely."
What was the problem internment camps solved?
We didn't have problems with people of Japanese descent doing anything illegal (at least my history classes didn't say anything about it).
Was the problem internment camps solved that people who didn't look white enough were living successful lives? From my reading of what happened, those people lost their homes, property and businesses. When they were released, they no longer had any rights to the property/business/homes they owned, and in most cases people (most or all white AFAIK) had taken them for themselves.
Maybe I have been misinformed and that was a good thing we did.
Many do in fact have more then one ending. The games that do that typically have several branch points where your action top that point, or a choice you make at that point determines the path you go down.
Sure the whole thing is still completely on rails but more then one differeing ending is not unheard of.
Postal 2 has some bit of storyline. Get your paycheck, go get some milk from the mini mart, return some library books, mundale life kind of stuff.
Dont remember a lot of the rest. Like why I ended up in a gimp suit, or the reason I had a sniper rifle. I do thank the thugs who were hunting me for managing to line up, because in that game the sniper rifle will actually penetrate through at least 3 people. They went down in one shot.
So far it seems to be faster and makes better use of the drive array (SUN A1000) then Windows Server 2000 did with RAID5. The added bonus of raidz2 being able to survive 2 failed disks is nice. The setup (even though I had to compile stuff) was better/easier then I expected.
Those are the features I am using. There are other like snapshots and whatnot that I am not using currently but I'm sure other can share that.
There should be an sdn device but one of my drives failed and I cant find my 1 extra disk (more are on order) that was not in the array. When I find it there will be a second spare device.
I managed this all under linux. I am thinking I will migrate the system to Opensolaris once I ensure my LSI HBA has support.
Vista alows RAID levels above 0? MS reps told me that I still have to buy a server version of windows if I want raid 10 or 5. Can you point me to some documentation for that?
I hope it continues to improve on Linux. I am running it on slackware 11 via zfs-fuse.
I have a A1000 Storage array populated with 34GB drives. The only SUN box I have is an old SPARCserver chassis with 1 main board (2 procs) and a SPARCstation 20 (2 procs). It cant handle Solaris above version 8. So I took it to x86 land.
I managed to get Linux to see these drives (LASI HBA) after low leveling them to a 512 sector size (they were salvaged from arrays with 520 and 528 sector sizes). I decided to try setting up a raidz2 across 12 of them and set the last 2 as spares this is giving me 390GB of storage. I made them accessible with samba and am dumping a few gigs of video onto them as a torture test.
So far I think it is working well, but I think I need to tune samba or give the machine a bigger processor or more memory because it seems to be taking a lot longer to dump 180GB onto it then I expected. It currently has 512 MB RAM and an old 1.33 GHZ Thunderbird core Athlon.
I find it interesting that I initially made the array with 11 disks (I missed one of the drive names during creation) and only got 300GB, while across the 12 I get 390. Much better then RAID 5 so far IMO.
"For example, if I mix the "Imperial Theme" from Star Wars with "A spoon full of sugar" from Mary Poppins? And then I drop some of the notes when whistling."
In that case you are probably violating the copyright on a Prince song.
Marge: We got the popcorn! Did you get "Waiting to Exhale"? Homer: They put us on the "Waiting to Exhale" waiting list, but they said "don't hold your breath". Lisa: Did you get Emma? Marge: What did you get? Homer: Something very close, exactly along those lines. A Dr. Who Sci-Fi series! Marge & Lisa: Hmmmm... Bart: So prepare yourself for the bloody mayhem and unholy carnage of Dr. Who Series 5! Homer: With Sontarins, I bet!
A DVD is put into a player.
EPISODE 1 "Paint your T.A.R.D.I.S."
The doctor steps out of the T.A.R.D.I.S. and a man in black is waiting there (The Master ala Ainley, or Delgado).
The Master: That's a pretty sorry looking T.A.R.D.I.S. you have there, my dear Doctor. The Doctor: I suppose it could use a coat of paint. The Master: Well, what are we waiting for!
They proceed to sing about painting the T.A.R.D.I.S., which is repeated by a the Doctors companions, much to the horror of Homer and Bart.
Homer: Agh! They're singing! They're singing, Marge! Why aren't they killing each other? Bart: Yeah, his tissue compressor is right there. Homer: Wait, wait, wait: here comes a Dalek. Thank God. They are always evil and violent.
Dalek: WHAT IS ALL THIS THEN! The Master: We are just painting this T.A.R.D.I.S. Do you have a problem with that? Dalek: AS A MATTER OF FACT I DO! YOU MISSED A SPOT! YOU MISSED A SPOT! REPAINT! REPAINT! REPAINT! The Master: Well, grab a brush and join in then!
The Dalek breaks into song on it's own, saying it will use oil based paint, because the wood is pine (Ponderosa pine, sing the companions).
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That boxing analogy reminds me of something.
So we have our political equivilant of Uwe Boll in the Conservative news/talk entertainment?
"Bush doesn't care what other people think! People who kill other people don't care what other people think. If they did, they wouldn't kill. "
/. at the same time I am reading Discworld novels.
I've got to stop reading
I cant tell who is being serious, who is pointing out a painful truth, and who is telling a joke.
My mind replaced Bush with the word Assassins and that reads like a line out ot he early parts of Night Watch.
I am reading Nightwatch (Terry Pratchett) right now, and it seems to me that we need a Carrot. Mind you I haven't gotten to the end yet, so I don't know what exactly happens, but as a "Man of the Watch" his affect on people and situations is whet we need through all levels of government.
"The same way we had interment camps in the 1940s. It wasn't the best course of action, but it was better than ignoring the problem completely."
What was the problem internment camps solved?
We didn't have problems with people of Japanese descent doing anything illegal (at least my history classes didn't say anything about it).
Was the problem internment camps solved that people who didn't look white enough were living successful lives? From my reading of what happened, those people lost their homes, property and businesses. When they were released, they no longer had any rights to the property/business/homes they owned, and in most cases people (most or all white AFAIK) had taken them for themselves.
Maybe I have been misinformed and that was a good thing we did.
"Antz" was a Dreamworks attempt to take the steam out of Pixars "A Bugs Life".
I suspect they can not use machines because they refuse to use substandard parts in their brethren.
Dont forget the dog.
I think you need to play more JRPG games then.
Many do in fact have more then one ending. The games that do that typically have several branch points where your action top that point, or a choice you make at that point determines the path you go down.
Sure the whole thing is still completely on rails but more then one differeing ending is not unheard of.
Damn you George Orr.
Postal 2 has some bit of storyline.
Get your paycheck, go get some milk from the mini mart, return some library books, mundale life kind of stuff.
Dont remember a lot of the rest. Like why I ended up in a gimp suit, or the reason I had a sniper rifle. I do thank the thugs who were hunting me for managing to line up, because in that game the sniper rifle will actually penetrate through at least 3 people. They went down in one shot.
Don't forget that 2 pedestrians who run into each other at full speed stand an equal chance of dieing.
STOP
Malk. is the only way to play.
When you get into the main city, investigate all the stop signs, I think you want to check out is the one near the car park.
Pay attention to the news as it changes due to your activities. The anchor will directly address you and other things.
They just have more fun dialog IMO.
I so was saddened by them closing down. Now where will I get "The Bread of Frankenstein"?
So far it seems to be faster and makes better use of the drive array (SUN A1000) then Windows Server 2000 did with RAID5. The added bonus of raidz2 being able to survive 2 failed disks is nice. The setup (even though I had to compile stuff) was better/easier then I expected.
Those are the features I am using.
There are other like snapshots and whatnot that I am not using currently but I'm sure other can share that.
root@linuxfc:/# zpool status
pool: share
state: ONLINE
scrub: none requested
config:
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
share ONLINE 0 0 0
raidz2 ONLINE 0 0 0
sda ONLINE 0 0 0
sdb ONLINE 0 0 0
sdc ONLINE 0 0 0
sdd ONLINE 0 0 0
sde ONLINE 0 0 0
sdf ONLINE 0 0 0
sdg ONLINE 0 0 0
sdh ONLINE 0 0 0
sdi ONLINE 0 0 0
sdj ONLINE 0 0 0
sdk ONLINE 0 0 0
sdl ONLINE 0 0 0
spares
sdm AVAIL
errors: No known data errors
root@linuxfc:/# zpool list
NAME SIZE USED AVAIL CAP HEALTH ALTROOT
share 394G 140G 254G 35% ONLINE -
There should be an sdn device but one of my drives failed and I cant find my 1 extra disk (more are on order) that was not in the array. When I find it there will be a second spare device.
I managed this all under linux. I am thinking I will migrate the system to Opensolaris once I ensure my LSI HBA has support.
Vista alows RAID levels above 0? MS reps told me that I still have to buy a server version of windows if I want raid 10 or 5.
Can you point me to some documentation for that?
I hope it continues to improve on Linux. I am running it on slackware 11 via zfs-fuse.
I have a A1000 Storage array populated with 34GB drives. The only SUN box I have is an old SPARCserver chassis with 1 main board (2 procs) and a SPARCstation 20 (2 procs). It cant handle Solaris above version 8. So I took it to x86 land.
I managed to get Linux to see these drives (LASI HBA) after low leveling them to a 512 sector size (they were salvaged from arrays with 520 and 528 sector sizes). I decided to try setting up a raidz2 across 12 of them and set the last 2 as spares this is giving me 390GB of storage. I made them accessible with samba and am dumping a few gigs of video onto them as a torture test.
So far I think it is working well, but I think I need to tune samba or give the machine a bigger processor or more memory because it seems to be taking a lot longer to dump 180GB onto it then I expected. It currently has 512 MB RAM and an old 1.33 GHZ Thunderbird core Athlon.
I find it interesting that I initially made the array with 11 disks (I missed one of the drive names during creation) and only got 300GB, while across the 12 I get 390. Much better then RAID 5 so far IMO.
Q was Panasonic, Nintendo had something to do with it, but it was not manufactured/sold by Nintendo AFAIK.
"And then we'll have to do it all over again for each and every online game we get."
I know it's like that for DS games but I thought Nintendo said that would NOT be the case for the wii.
They are not mutants (as in natural occuring mutations), they are GMO.
Sorry no Bioshock for the EU.
So Swamp Thing and Man-Thing are screwed?
going by his line of thinking, fish are inefficient, alge/seaweed/kelp would be more efficient.
Back then, many games ended out of the control of the creators.
Look up the history of Armada 2525.
Next you are going to tell me "Horse with no Name" is not a Neil Young song (cue the "Why do you hate America?" joke).
"For example, if I mix the "Imperial Theme" from Star Wars with "A spoon full of sugar" from Mary Poppins? And then I drop some of the notes when whistling."
In that case you are probably violating the copyright on a Prince song.
Not the exact lines, but close.
Marge: We got the popcorn! Did you get "Waiting to Exhale"?
Homer: They put us on the "Waiting to Exhale" waiting list, but they said "don't hold your breath".
Lisa: Did you get Emma?
Marge: What did you get?
Homer: Something very close, exactly along those lines. A Dr. Who Sci-Fi series!
Marge & Lisa: Hmmmm...
Bart: So prepare yourself for the bloody mayhem and unholy carnage of Dr. Who Series 5!
Homer: With Sontarins, I bet!
A DVD is put into a player.
EPISODE 1 "Paint your T.A.R.D.I.S."
The doctor steps out of the T.A.R.D.I.S. and a man in black is waiting there (The Master ala Ainley, or Delgado).
The Master: That's a pretty sorry looking T.A.R.D.I.S. you have there, my dear Doctor.
The Doctor: I suppose it could use a coat of paint.
The Master: Well, what are we waiting for!
They proceed to sing about painting the T.A.R.D.I.S., which is repeated by a
the Doctors companions, much to the horror of Homer and Bart.
Homer: Agh! They're singing! They're singing, Marge! Why aren't they killing each other?
Bart: Yeah, his tissue compressor is right there.
Homer: Wait, wait, wait: here comes a Dalek. Thank God. They are always evil and violent.
Dalek: WHAT IS ALL THIS THEN!
The Master: We are just painting this T.A.R.D.I.S. Do you have a problem with that?
Dalek: AS A MATTER OF FACT I DO! YOU MISSED A SPOT! YOU MISSED A SPOT! REPAINT! REPAINT! REPAINT!
The Master: Well, grab a brush and join in then!
The Dalek breaks into song on it's own, saying it will use oil based paint, because the wood is pine (Ponderosa pine, sing the companions).