Umm there has been popular music since there has been music. But did any of them really inspire those great people or maybe they just enjoyed them. And yes they are just entertainers, of all the art forms I can really only think of one that can really lay claim to really inspiring great advancements and that is the written word. Music is just entertainment if you enjoy it then good for you but entertainers don't really change the world, they do not advance the human race, they just entertain. That is a good thing and they can be very skilled at what they do but so can a plumber or barber.
"You may not like Apple but a lot of people from day one called into question Palms legality on their faking out iTunes " I sure didn't. What law was broken? Even the DMCA has previsions for stuff like this. There is no legal question about this or as far as I can tell with Apple changing it to stop it except that it is just ugly. Palm should work with Songbird and other music players to add sync for the Palm. "Yes I know about the mass storage device option". Maybe Songbird needs to work a deal with Amazon to also intergrate the Amazon music store into Songbird as well.
Apple should allow others to sync with iTunes. Apple didn't invent the idea of syncing they pretty much copied Palm on that idea. The iTunes Store is the biggest music vendor in the US so tying it in any way to one device does seem to smell of anti-trust. Apple would be wise to open up. BTW Apple is the biggest music retailer in the US! I can no long buy the line that the iTunes store doesn't make that much money and it is only there to help sell hardware. But nothing has been done that is in any way illegal. Silly maybe but not illegal.
But the kernel wouldn't be. The idea behind Minix 3 is to move as much code as possible out of the kernel. I can see the value since the few lines of code the few bugs and give you a good solid foundation like a kernel should. I always found it a little unnerving that a serial port driver can take down an entire Linux box.
Actually those where the lines to a song by Rush. But a great artist? Maybe art is really entertainment. We all to often forget that fact. People talk about how they are so inspired by this or that artist but inspired to do what? Tell me what songs inspired Jonas Salk, Robert Goddard, Niels Bohr, and Martian Luther King? I enjoy good music as much as the next person but this really is just entertainment to call them a God is just silly. Bob Geldof, Paul David Hewson, Danny Kaye, and several others have done things worth of admiration in IMHO as well as being very good entertainers but it is what they do in addition to entertaining that makes them worth remembering. But lets face it Brian Eno is just an entertainer if you enjoy his work that is nice but over all he is no more important to the world than your barber.
I admit that find that some people really take fan way to far. I mean really why care so much for any musician? Of course I am constantly disturbed by how many people know who Maddona is but don't know who Jonas Salk was.
I guess but I don't think of people on Slashdot as my peers. Maybe I need to take a look at the effort I spend posting on Slashdot. Maybe I am just as silly thinking that my posts are worth the effort.
Actually I think that it isn't all that hard to travel outside of Iran for Iranians or own satellite TV systems. I think the current government has pushed to the limits of it's control and that the people are pushing back. Will Iran be free? Well that depends on how free is free. In the US we have a very high standard for freedom of political speech. We have less protection on things like nudity and language. In some EU countries they have more protection on things like nudity but less on political speech. For instance there are countries where printing books that say the holocaust didn't happen is illegal. While part of me loves the idea of not seeing that kind of trash it is still political speech. Different countries have different ideas of just how free they want to be. In the US we seem to feel that the best protection is get the ugly ideas out into the light and them them wither. Other nations because their history is different have different ideas. I am sure that a lot of people think that letting Hitler ever publish anything for ever speak any place was a terrible idea.
Actually a lot of population of Iran is well educated and some what more liberal than a lot of Arab nations. You might have seen the protests on the streets a while back. I think you may be under estimating the actually people. Now the current government is lower than what I scrape off my shoe but I think the people are better than you believe.
All they have to do is block the known Tor entry points or set up their own hacked TOR routers. There really isn't any technical reason why Iran couldn't stop covert communications over the Internet they could even go to a white list system if they really needed to. The only thing preventing is their own population. I just don't think they would tolerate becoming prisoners in the their own nation.
Well the logical thing IMHO is after the first year you put in a new drive and do an array rebuild after making a backup. Drives are really cheap and I would do that for as long as the array is in use. Reuse the old drives in desktops if they are SATA. Not perfect but it keeps you from having an array of old drives in your server.
She got lucky or she is going to die a pretty bad death from that choice. Really an all natural diet will not stop cancer. Cancer is all natural like most other illnesses. The microwave didn't cause it but being overweight may have made it more likely. A mastectomy and chemo just isn't that bad. I say that because a good friends mother made the same wrong choice and died a pretty bad death and I had to comfort my friend through it.
Yes he is an idiot. There are standards set for organic farming and this is 60,000x less. His is as big of an idiot as someone that tried to stop the people next to him from painting thier barn red because it would destroy the cosmic flow of energy his plants need to keep their auras in harmony. Really the answer should be too bad your a nut job get over it.
Can I do it for all the miss guided anti nuclear statments? What about all the nutters that protest space probes that use RTG? The nutters that throw paint people with fur coats? "I don't own one and think they are stupid, expensive, and frankly immoral but that is assault.". The people that want to ban all flights over national parks because they don't want to see a jet's contrail?
Their are people that do care about the environment and are not nutcases. I think I am one of them but I have yet to see any of them that identify themselves as a member of the "Green Movement". They all seem to be members of let's not trash the planet movement.
I would look at some different hardware. Honestly things like motherboards and raid controllers are cheap compared to data. ZFS just seems too god to not use and Solaris actually looks very interesting. If that really isn't an option I would look at OpenFiler. It runs on CentOS and makes a great NAS. I would also stick with a server Linux. Fedora updates too much for my comfort.
Take a look at the Coolmaster Centurions. You can get them without a window last time I looked and they are a nice clean black case. BTW Aluminum is more expensive than Steel. Steel cases are cheaper.
And what a lot of people seem to be missing is that it is really easy to recycle steel and aluminum. Steel has been recycled before they called it recycling! Getting the plastic out of the case is a good idea but the metal is really very easy to recycle as is.
Why bother? OpenSolaris will run rsync just fine and it is also free. There are a lot of good solutions out there so I wouldn't limit myself to just Linux. You have OpenFiler running on Linux. You have FreeNAS on BSD. And you could roll your own on OpenSolaris and use ZFS with fancy gui tools if you really want to.
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Umm there has been popular music since there has been music.
But did any of them really inspire those great people or maybe they just enjoyed them.
And yes they are just entertainers, of all the art forms I can really only think of one that can really lay claim to really inspiring great advancements and that is the written word.
Music is just entertainment if you enjoy it then good for you but entertainers don't really change the world, they do not advance the human race, they just entertain. That is a good thing and they can be very skilled at what they do but so can a plumber or barber.
"You may not like Apple but a lot of people from day one called into question Palms legality on their faking out iTunes "
I sure didn't. What law was broken? Even the DMCA has previsions for stuff like this.
There is no legal question about this or as far as I can tell with Apple changing it to stop it except that it is just ugly.
Palm should work with Songbird and other music players to add sync for the Palm. "Yes I know about the mass storage device option". Maybe Songbird needs to work a deal with Amazon to also intergrate the Amazon music store into Songbird as well.
Apple should allow others to sync with iTunes. Apple didn't invent the idea of syncing they pretty much copied Palm on that idea. The iTunes Store is the biggest music vendor in the US so tying it in any way to one device does seem to smell of anti-trust. Apple would be wise to open up. BTW Apple is the biggest music retailer in the US! I can no long buy the line that the iTunes store doesn't make that much money and it is only there to help sell hardware.
But nothing has been done that is in any way illegal. Silly maybe but not illegal.
But the kernel wouldn't be.
The idea behind Minix 3 is to move as much code as possible out of the kernel.
I can see the value since the few lines of code the few bugs and give you a good solid foundation like a kernel should.
I always found it a little unnerving that a serial port driver can take down an entire Linux box.
Actually those where the lines to a song by Rush. But a great artist? Maybe art is really entertainment. We all to often forget that fact. People talk about how they are so inspired by this or that artist but inspired to do what?
Tell me what songs inspired Jonas Salk, Robert Goddard, Niels Bohr, and Martian Luther King?
I enjoy good music as much as the next person but this really is just entertainment to call them a God is just silly. Bob Geldof, Paul David Hewson, Danny Kaye, and several others have done things worth of admiration in IMHO as well as being very good entertainers but it is what they do in addition to entertaining that makes them worth remembering. But lets face it Brian Eno is just an entertainer if you enjoy his work that is nice but over all he is no more important to the world than your barber.
But he is nobody's hero.
A hero.
Saves a drowning child
Cures a wasting disease
a Hero...lands the crippled airplane
Solves great mysteries
I admit that find that some people really take fan way to far.
I mean really why care so much for any musician? Of course I am constantly disturbed by how many people know who Maddona is but don't know who Jonas Salk was.
If you could set up an OTEC system as well you could also power the data center as well as cool it.
Yes I think the current government was elected not by the people but by voter fraud.
I guess but I don't think of people on Slashdot as my peers. Maybe I need to take a look at the effort I spend posting on Slashdot. Maybe I am just as silly thinking that my posts are worth the effort.
Actually I think that it isn't all that hard to travel outside of Iran for Iranians or own satellite TV systems. I think the current government has pushed to the limits of it's control and that the people are pushing back.
Will Iran be free? Well that depends on how free is free. In the US we have a very high standard for freedom of political speech. We have less protection on things like nudity and language.
In some EU countries they have more protection on things like nudity but less on political speech. For instance there are countries where printing books that say the holocaust didn't happen is illegal. While part of me loves the idea of not seeing that kind of trash it is still political speech.
Different countries have different ideas of just how free they want to be. In the US we seem to feel that the best protection is get the ugly ideas out into the light and them them wither.
Other nations because their history is different have different ideas. I am sure that a lot of people think that letting Hitler ever publish anything for ever speak any place was a terrible idea.
Well the idea that one would make an effort to get attention on slashdot makes my head hurt.
But you may be right so I will add that to the list.
Actually a lot of population of Iran is well educated and some what more liberal than a lot of Arab nations.
You might have seen the protests on the streets a while back. I think you may be under estimating the actually people. Now the current government is lower than what I scrape off my shoe but I think the people are better than you believe.
I can not tell if you just have the world's worst sense of humor are are just a complete nut job.
All they have to do is block the known Tor entry points or set up their own hacked TOR routers.
There really isn't any technical reason why Iran couldn't stop covert communications over the Internet they could even go to a white list system if they really needed to.
The only thing preventing is their own population. I just don't think they would tolerate becoming prisoners in the their own nation.
Well the logical thing IMHO is after the first year you put in a new drive and do an array rebuild after making a backup.
Drives are really cheap and I would do that for as long as the array is in use.
Reuse the old drives in desktops if they are SATA.
Not perfect but it keeps you from having an array of old drives in your server.
She got lucky or she is going to die a pretty bad death from that choice.
Really an all natural diet will not stop cancer. Cancer is all natural like most other illnesses.
The microwave didn't cause it but being overweight may have made it more likely.
A mastectomy and chemo just isn't that bad. I say that because a good friends mother made the same wrong choice and died a pretty bad death and I had to comfort my friend through it.
Yes he is an idiot.
There are standards set for organic farming and this is 60,000x less.
His is as big of an idiot as someone that tried to stop the people next to him from painting thier barn red because it would destroy the cosmic flow of energy his plants need to keep their auras in harmony.
Really the answer should be too bad your a nut job get over it.
Can I do it for all the miss guided anti nuclear statments?
What about all the nutters that protest space probes that use RTG?
The nutters that throw paint people with fur coats? "I don't own one and think they are stupid, expensive, and frankly immoral but that is assault.".
The people that want to ban all flights over national parks because they don't want to see a jet's contrail?
Their are people that do care about the environment and are not nutcases. I think I am one of them but I have yet to see any of them that identify themselves as a member of the "Green Movement". They all seem to be members of let's not trash the planet movement.
I agree with you there but it is still workable if a little slow.
I would look at some different hardware.
Honestly things like motherboards and raid controllers are cheap compared to data.
ZFS just seems too god to not use and Solaris actually looks very interesting. If that really isn't an option I would look at OpenFiler. It runs on CentOS and makes a great NAS.
I would also stick with a server Linux. Fedora updates too much for my comfort.
Take a look at the Coolmaster Centurions. You can get them without a window last time I looked and they are a nice clean black case.
BTW Aluminum is more expensive than Steel. Steel cases are cheaper.
And those people are least likely to spend money on a cardboard PC.
And what a lot of people seem to be missing is that it is really easy to recycle steel and aluminum. Steel has been recycled before they called it recycling!
Getting the plastic out of the case is a good idea but the metal is really very easy to recycle as is.
But it is a backup server not a database server. As long as they can keep up with the network it will be good enough.
Why bother?
OpenSolaris will run rsync just fine and it is also free.
There are a lot of good solutions out there so I wouldn't limit myself to just Linux.
You have OpenFiler running on Linux.
You have FreeNAS on BSD.
And you could roll your own on OpenSolaris and use ZFS with fancy gui tools if you really want to.