I've had a bunch of maxtors running on a 3ware controller (in raid 5) for the last 2 years straight and I've only ever had one fail. They replaced it right away and thats honestly the only problems I've ever had with a maxtor disk drive.
I've had people who say seagate sucks, or western digital sucks too. I've had good luck with those however as well.
The only drives I've actually seen that are consistantly having problems anymore were IBM drives and they sold all that off to Hitachi.
I used to have a job at a company called Rulespace "training" content recognition engines (a cluster of linux machines called the ontobot). Basically (and yes I really got paid for this) all I did was sift through mountains of porn clicking accept/decline all day long. There was other content too, but 90% of it was porn.
Ultimately what it did was desensitize me to porn:(.
One fun thing to do to fundamentalists is to state that radio is in fact a theory - its true. Fact is we know enough about it to build transmitters so they can watch Nascar events in real time as they happen. How or why it works is what understanding the electromagnetic spectrum is all about - and there are theories to how that came into existance.
Even more fun there are at least two theories on why it rains (colescense, and radiation effects from the sun as I recall from college). Fine they'll say right? Fact is it still rains.
Can you point out what they have done to emule? I still use it (although I rarely download anything the mpaa or riaa is interested in) and there's still tons of "their" files on there. In fact I would go as far as to say its stronger and better than ever.
If you look at any ipod actually there all made in Taiwan - I highly doubt its an Apple manufacturing concern in Formosa however. It wouldn't be too hard for some company to take the blueprints from their assembly line and start making their own ipods.
Except I've never met a regular user that knows how to apply half the patches they get for Linux apps. On windows you just run windows update and forget about it. I've only ever seen one case personally where a microsoft patch has broken a 3rd party app. Ironically it was a patch microsoft wrote to fix a login issue with Citrix Metaframe...
I've run patches on linux and broken applications all the time - a lot of time it requires upgrading or fixing (in source) the application that has been broken.
Last time I looked at it was a year ago when all I did was reboot a file server and I could never mount that raid file system again:(. 500+ gigs gone, and no-one seemed to be able to help.
I've actually swapped 3ware controllers of similar (not entirely exact) make and model and it has always been able to rebuild the raid and just work. Same with my ICP (scsi) raid controllers.
My biggest problem with software raid is that it is very alpha software. Problems occur, and there's little documentation for the new tools when you need help - and trust me - when you're data is on the line you won't want to putz around with something that isn't well documented if you don't have a support network to help out.
Both are nice cards, but I would not recommend them to anyone who does not have extensive PC hardware knowledge. They are fussy, carpicious and very hard to troubleshoot when they go wrong.
I wouldn't say that. For one thing I had my 3ware controller running just fine with debian out of the box and I didn't have to tweak anything. While it might not be the best performing it at the very least has excellent support in Linux, for example smartctl can work with 3ware (but not any other raid controller) not to mention all the 3ware management tools run in Linux as well.
Also - 3ware's support group is second to none. They answer the phones right away, have excellent warrenty service and they speak english.
Even though this fly by night review site gave 3ware poor marks they will always get my business because I've always had good experience with their hardware and service/support.
Also - on a side note - 3ware is very very very good about maintaining compatibility with firmware. I've never seen a firmware release break a raid controlled by 3ware.
You know they said the same thing about Dr. Who in the 70's and 80's. But we loved it - it was sure wierd, and not convential by any means, but it had an audience viewership large enough that warrented its own conventions in the US.
Probably the same reason Japanese anime is so popular here. Its different.
What is the fundamental difference with the "cluster version" of Windows? OS X clusters just fine and there are no "special editions" other than a few software additions that hardly count as a different OS. And Linux requires very little to get it in a cluster compute configuration.
A lot of times the "edition" versions are just differently licensed. I know thats not the answer you wanted, mostly because your post wants to rip on microsoft pulling off something kinda neat with Windows.
Also there are special versions of Mac OSX. There's the workstation edition (which I'm typing this message on), the OSX server 10 client edition, and the OSX server unlimited client edition.
As someone who does support for a Microsoft solutions provider I think this is a neat piece of technology and could help run our distributed applications run faster over a series of machines instead of using load balancers. It answers a problem for people who rely on windows for their business and I wouldn't expect less from Microsoft.
Then again I talk to people like you all the time - whatever my company releases is never good enough. It always needs more features.
Personally I'm getting sick of the anti-microsoft-technology on slashdot. You can complain about the company all day long (I agree they are evil) but their software is really quite good - it delivers really good results, for very little effort (which unix geeks really hate). You can complain about bluescreens of death, but I can literally count the number of windows bluescreens I've seen since 2000/XP came out on one hand and they've all been related to hardware issues.
Have you read his book? If you have you've discounted a lot of the threat of social engineering. Not only do you have to call someone from an external phone network, but in many cases have to know enough to convince anyone from a secretary, white collar worker or IT professional/system administrator to do your bidding.
I don't think you give social engineers enough credit - because they have to have the ability to pass off as someone who knows more than you do about your own systems and from what I've read he suceeded rather well at this - not only did he convince people to do what he wanted, but he had enough knowhow to do something with that info. And it does take some knowhow - after all once you gain access to a server, telephone switch, network etc - you have to know enough to change its configuration or access it to get what you want. (actually this sounds like my job - technical support)
Long before he was ever caught I had read about his exploits in computer magazines and the paper. His capture, and the scadal about his stay in federal prision I think made him famous. He's the only one - aside from those stuck in Guantanomo Bay who have been held without trial.
Developers often have this attitude hold no reguard for the people who have to support it. I can tell you that its a nightmare to support applications, toolkits etc that half-baked features ie - things that may actually work in testing, but in a real environment are impractical and unsupportable.
I'm on the support side of a crm product and I totally believe you.
Its often a case of fix one bug create 2 more. We've got customers who refuse to upgrade because they are worried about losing data, running into strange bugs that didn't exist in previous versions etc.
I think a lot of stems from the fact that developers of this stuff tend to focus on putting new features in the program rather than stabilizing or documenting it.
But, what do you expect from a city that send bulldozers in the middle of the night to shut down an airport?
This is classic - I didn't know this happened, and the only place I found I could read about it was on bbc news site here. Gotta protect Amerika from them terraists.
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Even better in windows - go to add/remove > click change > uncheck the office components > pdfmaker is gone - and it really works.
Hardly what I call malware.
One of the problems using the quartz context in making pdf files is that they tend to be quite larger than the ones acrobat makes.
Also - pdf maker on windows converts links, styles, and bookmarks into the pdf file as well. So its not just "ease of use" - its a useful tool.
I've had a bunch of maxtors running on a 3ware controller (in raid 5) for the last 2 years straight and I've only ever had one fail. They replaced it right away and thats honestly the only problems I've ever had with a maxtor disk drive.
I've had people who say seagate sucks, or western digital sucks too. I've had good luck with those however as well.
The only drives I've actually seen that are consistantly having problems anymore were IBM drives and they sold all that off to Hitachi.
I used to have a job at a company called Rulespace "training" content recognition engines (a cluster of linux machines called the ontobot). Basically (and yes I really got paid for this) all I did was sift through mountains of porn clicking accept/decline all day long. There was other content too, but 90% of it was porn.
:(.
Ultimately what it did was desensitize me to porn
One fun thing to do to fundamentalists is to state that radio is in fact a theory - its true. Fact is we know enough about it to build transmitters so they can watch Nascar events in real time as they happen. How or why it works is what understanding the electromagnetic spectrum is all about - and there are theories to how that came into existance.
Even more fun there are at least two theories on why it rains (colescense, and radiation effects from the sun as I recall from college). Fine they'll say right? Fact is it still rains.
Can you point out what they have done to emule? I still use it (although I rarely download anything the mpaa or riaa is interested in) and there's still tons of "their" files on there. In fact I would go as far as to say its stronger and better than ever.
If you look at any ipod actually there all made in Taiwan - I highly doubt its an Apple manufacturing concern in Formosa however. It wouldn't be too hard for some company to take the blueprints from their assembly line and start making their own ipods.
Except I've never met a regular user that knows how to apply half the patches they get for Linux apps. On windows you just run windows update and forget about it. I've only ever seen one case personally where a microsoft patch has broken a 3rd party app. Ironically it was a patch microsoft wrote to fix a login issue with Citrix Metaframe...
I've run patches on linux and broken applications all the time - a lot of time it requires upgrading or fixing (in source) the application that has been broken.
Last time I looked at it was a year ago when all I did was reboot a file server and I could never mount that raid file system again :(. 500+ gigs gone, and no-one seemed to be able to help.
I've actually swapped 3ware controllers of similar (not entirely exact) make and model and it has always been able to rebuild the raid and just work. Same with my ICP (scsi) raid controllers.
My biggest problem with software raid is that it is very alpha software. Problems occur, and there's little documentation for the new tools when you need help - and trust me - when you're data is on the line you won't want to putz around with something that isn't well documented if you don't have a support network to help out.
Both are nice cards, but I would not recommend them to anyone who does not have extensive PC hardware knowledge. They are fussy, carpicious and very hard to troubleshoot when they go wrong.
I wouldn't say that. For one thing I had my 3ware controller running just fine with debian out of the box and I didn't have to tweak anything. While it might not be the best performing it at the very least has excellent support in Linux, for example smartctl can work with 3ware (but not any other raid controller) not to mention all the 3ware management tools run in Linux as well.
Also - 3ware's support group is second to none. They answer the phones right away, have excellent warrenty service and they speak english.
Even though this fly by night review site gave 3ware poor marks they will always get my business because I've always had good experience with their hardware and service/support.
Also - on a side note - 3ware is very very very good about maintaining compatibility with firmware. I've never seen a firmware release break a raid controlled by 3ware.
You know they said the same thing about Dr. Who in the 70's and 80's. But we loved it - it was sure wierd, and not convential by any means, but it had an audience viewership large enough that warrented its own conventions in the US.
Probably the same reason Japanese anime is so popular here. Its different.
I do support for a series of accounting applications made for glass shops - some of our older apps run on Novell 3 and 4 still.
Don't forget to patent the idea of patenting ideas people have already developed and suing them over it. Now thats a sound investment right?
Anything - in the context mac osx I guess.
What is the fundamental difference with the "cluster version" of Windows? OS X clusters just fine and there are no "special editions" other than a few software additions that hardly count as a different OS. And Linux requires very little to get it in a cluster compute configuration.
A lot of times the "edition" versions are just differently licensed. I know thats not the answer you wanted, mostly because your post wants to rip on microsoft pulling off something kinda neat with Windows.
Also there are special versions of Mac OSX. There's the workstation edition (which I'm typing this message on), the OSX server 10 client edition, and the OSX server unlimited client edition.
As someone who does support for a Microsoft solutions provider I think this is a neat piece of technology and could help run our distributed applications run faster over a series of machines instead of using load balancers. It answers a problem for people who rely on windows for their business and I wouldn't expect less from Microsoft.
Then again I talk to people like you all the time - whatever my company releases is never good enough. It always needs more features.
Personally I'm getting sick of the anti-microsoft-technology on slashdot. You can complain about the company all day long (I agree they are evil) but their software is really quite good - it delivers really good results, for very little effort (which unix geeks really hate). You can complain about bluescreens of death, but I can literally count the number of windows bluescreens I've seen since 2000/XP came out on one hand and they've all been related to hardware issues.
Have you read his book? If you have you've discounted a lot of the threat of social engineering. Not only do you have to call someone from an external phone network, but in many cases have to know enough to convince anyone from a secretary, white collar worker or IT professional/system administrator to do your bidding.
I don't think you give social engineers enough credit - because they have to have the ability to pass off as someone who knows more than you do about your own systems and from what I've read he suceeded rather well at this - not only did he convince people to do what he wanted, but he had enough knowhow to do something with that info. And it does take some knowhow - after all once you gain access to a server, telephone switch, network etc - you have to know enough to change its configuration or access it to get what you want. (actually this sounds like my job - technical support)
Long before he was ever caught I had read about his exploits in computer magazines and the paper. His capture, and the scadal about his stay in federal prision I think made him famous. He's the only one - aside from those stuck in Guantanomo Bay who have been held without trial.
It was Gary Kildall's claim that QDOS was ripped off from CPM internals - not written as Tim Patterson claims from the ground up.
In some ways actually the desktop (especially the dock at the bottom) reminded me of the mac.
One too many slash's there > http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlkop/auralert.html
Developers often have this attitude hold no reguard for the people who have to support it. I can tell you that its a nightmare to support applications, toolkits etc that half-baked features ie - things that may actually work in testing, but in a real environment are impractical and unsupportable.
I'm on the support side of a crm product and I totally believe you.
Its often a case of fix one bug create 2 more. We've got customers who refuse to upgrade because they are worried about losing data, running into strange bugs that didn't exist in previous versions etc.
I think a lot of stems from the fact that developers of this stuff tend to focus on putting new features in the program rather than stabilizing or documenting it.
But, what do you expect from a city that send bulldozers in the middle of the night to shut down an airport?
This is classic - I didn't know this happened, and the only place I found I could read about it was on bbc news site here. Gotta protect Amerika from them terraists.
By that logic we could dismantle foxnews overnight for the huge amount of misquoted, made up news etc that they deliberately post as news.
I give CBS credit - Dan at least thought those documents were real.
Its obvious there's far more going on here than "open source journalism"
According to the US Navy the USS Coral was scrapped in July 2nd 1993 - and according to this web page you're the victim of a urban legend.