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  1. Re:So what did it do all that time? on Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what you mean by failover. For me failover is active-passive. So one node just sits there and starts the applicaiton when the other node fails.
    If it's some sort of always-live where the data needs to be replicated realtime to all nodes, I confirm that the complexitiy is not worth the gain in uptime. Such constructions often experience more downtime because of the complexity, not because of the failures they should protect against.

  2. My mac is only doing VNC to my linux box on Ask Slashdot: Mac To Linux Return Flow? · · Score: 1

    I never upgraded the powerbook as the next versions of the OS felt like being a regression.
    I kept it only because some software is not available on linux. But wine may be a way out of that.
    Currently another laptop made it's appearance. That one has windows and linux. But I only use linux and never had the need to boot into windows.
    The smartphone I bought was not iOS but android.
    So yes, the Apple adventure was nice but I did not get hooked.

  3. Re:same on Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files? · · Score: 1

    have you run findup (from fslint package) against same. Who wins?

    Note: fslint is a shell script, so porting to windows could be a problem. Or simple by installing cygwin.

  4. fslint's findup deduplicator on Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files? · · Score: 1

    Well yes, this is a linux tool, but still I was quite pleased with it's results for 800k files. It took some time but it had an end.
    It's basically a shellscript doing what others have suggested: sort by size, same size files are checksummed. /usr/share/fslint/fslint/findup
    find dUPlicate files.
    Usage: findup [[[-t [-m|-d]] | [--summary]] [-r] [-f] paths(s) ...]
    If no path(s) specified then the currrent directory is assumed.
    When -m is specified any found duplicates will be merged (using hardlinks).
    When -d is specified any found duplicates will be deleted (leaving just 1).
    When -t is specfied, only report what -m or -d would do.

    When --summary is specified change output format to include file sizes.
    You can also pipe this summary format to /usr/share/fslint/fslint/fstool/dupwaste
    to get a total of the wastage due to duplicates.

    As it's a single command line with dozens of pipes, it should use all cores if needed.
    some text from the source:

    Description

          will show duplicate files in the specified directories
          (and their subdirectories), in the format:

                  file1
                  file2

                  file3
                  file4
                  file5

          or if the --summary option is specified:

                  2 * 2048 file1 file2
                  3 * 1024 file3 file4 file5

          Where the number is the disk usage in bytes of each of the
          duplicate files on that line, and all duplicate files are
          shown on the same line.
                  Output it ordered by largest disk usage first and
          then by the number of duplicate files.
    Caveats/Notes:
          I compared this to any equivalent utils I could find (as of Nov 2000)
          and it's (by far) the fastest, has the most functionality (thanks to
          find) and has no (known) bugs. In my opinion fdupes is the next best but
          is slower (even though written in C), and has a bug where hard links
          in different directories are reported as duplicates sometimes.

          This script requires uniq > V2.0.21 (part of GNU textutils|coreutils)
          dir/file names containing \n are ignored
          undefined operation for dir/file names containing \1
          sparse files are not treated differently.
          Don't specify params to find that affect output etc. (e.g -printf etc.)
          zero length files are ignored.
          symbolic links are ignored.
          path1 & path2 can be files &/or directories

    and the code has optimizations like this one
    sort -k2,2n -k3,3n | #NB sort inodes so md5sum does less seeking all over disk

  5. ultimaker beat them all on Cubify 3D Printers Aren't Just for Squares (Video) · · Score: 1

    For the same price (or less) you get this beast
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2cgGTLMeCQ

  6. Re:Are you sure SHA-1+salt is enough for passwords on MD5crypt Password Scrambler Is No Longer Considered Safe · · Score: 1

    it is not MD5 we are talking but MD5crypt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypt_(Unix)#MD5-based_scheme
    Which is 1000 times MD5, so you get not 50 billion attempts on your rig but 0.05 billion

  7. unison is bi-directional on Ask Slashdot: Temporary Backup Pouch? · · Score: 1

    unison has already been suggested multiple times.

    I used unison. It's perfect to sync from A to B (it only syncs the diffs) then modify B and later sync B to A
    You also can modify A and B at the same time as long as it's not the same file, then sync and then A and B are identical.
    You can even sync in cycles: A->B->C->A with modifications on all three directory trees and it still works
    Unison also handles deletions on both sides fine.
    Hint: use the -group -owner -times flags

  8. in other news: adobe security updates are payware on Apple Auto-Disables Old Flash Players In Mac OS X 10.7.4 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, go for it.
    paying for security patches is the way to go.

  9. Ill? 3? three? |lI|II|ll|!i!i! :-) on Richard Stallman Falls Ill At Conference · · Score: 1

    Sometimes gonna hate arial
    ARlAL
    ariaI

    IoI

  10. Re:More to it than that on Fly-By-Wire Contributed To Air France 447 Disaster · · Score: 1

    yeah, like it's done for "TERRAIN - PULL UP" or something like that.

  11. Thare is no quaterback in football on The Science of Handedness · · Score: 1

    where are you living. What's a quaterback?

    oh, american? LOL

    Thanks for marking as troll :-)

  12. reverse the priorities on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Priorities Inflation In IT Projects? · · Score: 1

    1=lowest
    2=medium
    3=high

    If there is over 20% at level 3, just add one level, so you get this:
    1=lowest
    2=medium
    3=hich
    4=top

    And in some years the top priority will be at level 10 etc...
    That way you will never have 50% of high, and never have to purge the list to start from scratch.

  13. so now their revenues goes up $500M? on Megaupload.com Shut Down, Founder Charged With Piracy · · Score: 1

    I bet their revenue will stay the same, or just fall tremendously as there are more people who will boycott the movies and music.

  14. Donate them to hackerspaces around the world on 7000 e-Voting Machines Now Deemed Worthless By Irish Government · · Score: 1

    that would be really nice

  15. Re:It would be good to have optional GUI on Windows Admins Need To Prepare For GUI-Less Server · · Score: 1

    on recent gnome the FULL gnome session is running with a lot of deamons because it has to account for power saving stuff, accessibility and more. It was one of the complaints on one of the 27c3 talks given.

  16. This has not been the first time. Can't they test? on Could a Dirty Rag Take Out a $2 Billion Satellite? · · Score: 1

    several space projects have failed because of blocked fuel lines or similar problems due to forgotten items.
    Can't they "simply" test the full operation of the sattelite, including the engine, before mounting it on the rocket?
    Othe solutin would be to have every item, even rugs, fitted with serial numbers and rfid chips so you can easily and fast account of the whereabouts (or not) of everything.

  17. by using true binary logic in a marble adder on Want To Get Kids Interested In Programming? Teach Them Computer History · · Score: 1

    See the marble operated 4 bit adder here
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jV5fyTwOOo
    it uses mechanical AND and XOR gates instead of the classic flip-flop rockers you usually find in such models.

  18. thes should simply track the shopping carts on Shopping Center Tracking System Condemned by Civil Rights Campaigners · · Score: 1

    it's their carts, so they can track them.
    Oh, this center does not have carts? Baskets?
    Or hand out to random people "would you mind being tracked, carry this device until you exit"

  19. Don't watch future of cryptology on Chaos Communication Congress Releases Talks · · Score: 1

    I could only watch 20 minutes, then after a felt dozens of "titanic" mentions I finally changed to the other stream...

  20. use it for the ARdrone on Liquid Metal Capsules Used To Make Self-Healing Electronics · · Score: 1

    just a heavier crash, and the main board of the drone has problems. No idea what exactly breaks.

  21. in other news, the MPAA has severely affected lives of people just because they shared a song via... uh torrent.

  22. Re:Requires things he said he couldn't do on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 1

    It's always good to be able to restart the exam program and recover where you were before the crash.
    But you could add into the exam binary a routine which simply checks if no other windows are present and if it's running on :1
    If not, core dump.

  23. Re:Depends how locked-down on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 1

    and then not being able to run the exam? You can set up the boot media in a fashion that it's only useable with a lot of difficulty when not booting from the media. Special version of kernel which is checked by the software. You'll need to do library hacking or copy the kernel from the DVD onto the system (need root). Before all that is achieved, the exam time is over.

  24. with very tiny system modif and you're all set on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 1

    In the file /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config make the line
    allowed_users=console
    into
    allowed_users=anybody

    Create a file /etc/X11/kiosk.conf which contains
    Section "ServerFlags"
    Option "DontVTSwitch" "true"
    EndSection

    Now you can start your kiosk (no system access needed):

    X -config kiosk.conf :1 & metacity --display=:1 & your_program

    To kill the session: alt-sysrq-k alt-f7
    or use the power button

    one issue to solve: the "print screen" button brings up a dialog which can be used to browse the filesystem. But you can't read files or access the internet with that.

  25. Re:Depends how locked-down on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 1

    hmm, if I use my own xorg.conf in my home directory which uses a dumb video driver (ok, it's slow) and run that on display :1 it should be possible.