That was in '98, or '99? That actually was funny, and the stories were, for the most part, either good April 1 stories or just normal ones piped through jive. This year, though, it was like they didn't even try: none of the stories were particularly funny, and there were far too many of them on a day when actual news really did happen. I defy anyone who read only slashdot to tell me what did happen today in the tech world.
The key thing you forget is that a joke needs to be funny. What was funny about disabling AC posts (something slashdot has defended vehemently in the past was basically thrown in the garbage today.) What's so funny about turning a service that people now pay for into a day-long shitfest of fake, dubiously humorous stories? A few here and there peppered throughout the day is one thing, but it was a nonstop barrage of crap today. So, yes, you got flamed for it. You deserved to.
The first one is RAID 5, the second is crappy vinum-based RAID 0. The important stuff is all compressed losslessly with Shorten (SHN). The other stuff is MP3, encoded at 256+ Kbit/second. Everything gets played on another machine (Ultra 30) connected to my DJ system and a high-quality headphone amp (with either a pair of Senn 580s or a pair of ER-4Ss.
The only suggestion I have is to buy a real IDE RAID card and don't toss all your data on a single, non-mirrored disk. Also, make backups every once in a while.
...for one of my domains. It's actually pretty obvious that it's a transfer application, but I can see how it might confuse some people. It's just a single sheet of paper that you write your name on, check a couple of boxes to renew (and transfer your domain to them), and print your credit card info on.
I guess if NetSol wants "what--the--fuck.com", they can have it.
After all the money I spent to get to OT-2, you'd THINK the cult leaders^W^Wguys in charge would've sent out a more threatening letter, or at least sent it on more expensive (and, thus, more threatning) letterhead.
Guess I need to spend some more money to get to OT-3.
Another year, another "Internet Will Collapse Upon Itself" story. Haven't we been hearing this same story (albeit with players and situations changed) since the first two ARPAnet computers were linked up?
Tape drives are anything but cheap, in all my research.
What did your research consist of? Were you pricing only things larger than this? I've bought $250 tape drives that suit my backup needs perfectly. (Or are you slashdot-poor and is $250 too much to spend?)
Drives cost a lot for anything semi-reliable, and once you've got this drive, it probably won't backup a single hard drive on one tape.
Forgive me for being arrogant, but you are not so important that your most prized data cannot fit onto a single CD-R. I have a 15/30GB DLT drive and I can't even fill a single tape on it; I've started backing up unimportant data just because I have the space! There's absolutely no way you need to back up an entire 160 gig hard drive, and, if you do, any decent backup program (even tar, which isn't a decent backup program) can span tapes.
Tape drives used to be practical when you could do a compleet system backup on a tape, but that basicaly isn't possible anymore.
Sure it is. Not every system has 2 terabytes of 100%-used space, especially not someone's crappy home desktop.
Seriously. Consider this a lesson. If you do it again, we'll have to smack you around.
If it's important to you, back it up. It doesn't matter how you do it: a rdist to another machine every night, a stack of floppies, CD-Rs, another Jaz disk, printouts, or getting it included in the next Information Society single as 150 baud line noise. The three key words: back it up. You're fully free to blame whoever you want, but, if it was important, it was up to you, and nobody else, to make sure it didn't get destroyed.
*** You have joined #MovieTheater *** Topic for #MovieTheater: The Animaniacs Movie: The Best Thing Ever Ever Ever, Or Just the Best Thing Ever Ever? *** GreasyGuy has joined #MovieTheater *** Chanserv sets mode: +o GreasyGuy <Me> Hey, um, mister Greasy, could you pass the popcorn? <GreasyGuy> No! Fuck you! What the hell is wrong with you? Get it yourself! Stop making me feel insecure! *** You have been kicked off #MovieTheater by GreasyGuyMinion_1 (No popcorn-begging) *** Attempting to rejoin #MovieTheater *** GreasyGuy sets mode: +b *!*you@seat_37 *** You have been kicked off #MovieTheater by GreasyGuy (Because I'm too afraid to get up to kick your ass in person!) /quit
When will hardware sites stop writing about this? Yes, we all know IBM's IDE drives are shitty now, and that we shouldn't buy them. We've had this drilled into our heads since last June. Can we please find something else to write about??
and with cmd.exe, I can manage a machine. You don't really think that I GUI log into 300 machines to install a patch, do you?
This is a great thing, until the patch requires a reboot and some of your applications have dialog boxes that need clicking before the machine'll shut itself down. Actually, VNC is just as shitty for this reason, though.
You haven't shown me how cmd.exe can fix many problems you'll encounter when remote-managing an NT box, though. (IPKVM switches are probably the closest way...)
NT just wasn't designed for easy remote-management; this fact is woefully apparent in my experience.
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That was in '98, or '99? That actually was funny, and the stories were, for the most part, either good April 1 stories or just normal ones piped through jive. This year, though, it was like they didn't even try: none of the stories were particularly funny, and there were far too many of them on a day when actual news really did happen. I defy anyone who read only slashdot to tell me what did happen today in the tech world.
- A.P.
The key thing you forget is that a joke needs to be funny. What was funny about disabling AC posts (something slashdot has defended vehemently in the past was basically thrown in the garbage today.) What's so funny about turning a service that people now pay for into a day-long shitfest of fake, dubiously humorous stories? A few here and there peppered throughout the day is one thing, but it was a nonstop barrage of crap today. So, yes, you got flamed for it. You deserved to.
- A.P.
...but it requires you to have rooted the machine first.
That having been said, has anyone converted this to RPM yet?
- A.P.
You take half-hour showers? Is it too hard to bring a radio into the bathroom? Why on earth would you need an MP3 player in the shower?
- A.P.
I prefer to drop all my deuces right here in the comments section of slashdot.
I haven't used anything else as a toilet in years.
- A.P.
3jane:/shn 291891992 146780768 121759872 55% /store/shn /mp3
3jane:/mp3 116358328 64690856 42358808 60%
The first one is RAID 5, the second is crappy vinum-based RAID 0. The important stuff is all compressed losslessly with Shorten (SHN). The other stuff is MP3, encoded at 256+ Kbit/second. Everything gets played on another machine (Ultra 30) connected to my DJ system and a high-quality headphone amp (with either a pair of Senn 580s or a pair of ER-4Ss.
The only suggestion I have is to buy a real IDE RAID card and don't toss all your data on a single, non-mirrored disk. Also, make backups every once in a while.
- A.P.
...is to buy a SCSI RAID card and a hot swap SCSI enclosure.
If you try this kind of shit with IDE, prepare for Deep Hurting.
Sometimes (and I know this is going to really upset a lot of slashdroids) you need to spend money to get certain features.
- A.P.
YHBT.
YHL.
HTH, HAND.
- A.P.
Unfortunately, the sony Memory Stick Vagina is about 6 months late to market.
- A.P.
You can't swing a dead cat around without hitting a few dozen.
- A.P.
...for one of my domains. It's actually pretty obvious that it's a transfer application, but I can see how it might confuse some people. It's just a single sheet of paper that you write your name on, check a couple of boxes to renew (and transfer your domain to them), and print your credit card info on.
I guess if NetSol wants "what--the--fuck.com", they can have it.
The key theme here is that people on usenet whine. A Universal Truth, as it were.
- A.P.
After all the money I spent to get to OT-2, you'd THINK the cult leaders^W^Wguys in charge would've sent out a more threatening letter, or at least sent it on more expensive (and, thus, more threatning) letterhead.
Guess I need to spend some more money to get to OT-3.
- A.P.
Another year, another "Internet Will Collapse Upon Itself" story. Haven't we been hearing this same story (albeit with players and situations changed) since the first two ARPAnet computers were linked up?
yawn.
- A.P.
How does one do that? Stop off at 7-11 after work for a box of Trojans and some Astroglide before visiting kde.org?
- A.P.
What's even more interesting is the scores:
Moderation Totals: Troll=1, Interesting=1, Funny=1, Total=3.
I posted at +2, and the comment is currently rated 4.
2 - 1 + 1 + 1 = 4?
- A.P.
...do lists of people who opt-in for spam even exist? Are they big enough to fit on one 8.5x11" piece of paper?
Who the hell would be stupid enough to opt-in for spam?
- A.P.
Please, call them "legal live concert recordings", not "bootlegs". That's like saying "legal pirated MP3s".
- A.P.
Tape drives are anything but cheap, in all my research.
What did your research consist of? Were you pricing only things larger than this? I've bought $250 tape drives that suit my backup needs perfectly. (Or are you slashdot-poor and is $250 too much to spend?)
Drives cost a lot for anything semi-reliable, and once you've got this drive, it probably won't backup a single hard drive on one tape.
Forgive me for being arrogant, but you are not so important that your most prized data cannot fit onto a single CD-R. I have a 15/30GB DLT drive and I can't even fill a single tape on it; I've started backing up unimportant data just because I have the space! There's absolutely no way you need to back up an entire 160 gig hard drive, and, if you do, any decent backup program (even tar, which isn't a decent backup program) can span tapes.
Tape drives used to be practical when you could do a compleet system backup on a tape, but that basicaly isn't possible anymore.
Sure it is. Not every system has 2 terabytes of 100%-used space, especially not someone's crappy home desktop.
- A.P.
Seriously. Consider this a lesson. If you do it again, we'll have to smack you around.
If it's important to you, back it up. It doesn't matter how you do it: a rdist to another machine every night, a stack of floppies, CD-Rs, another Jaz disk, printouts, or getting it included in the next Information Society single as 150 baud line noise. The three key words: back it up. You're fully free to blame whoever you want, but, if it was important, it was up to you, and nobody else, to make sure it didn't get destroyed.
Life sucks. Next time, back it up.
- A.P.
...would go something like this:
*** You have joined #MovieTheater
*** Topic for #MovieTheater: The Animaniacs Movie: The Best Thing Ever Ever Ever, Or Just the Best Thing Ever Ever?
*** GreasyGuy has joined #MovieTheater
*** Chanserv sets mode: +o GreasyGuy
<Me> Hey, um, mister Greasy, could you pass the popcorn?
<GreasyGuy> No! Fuck you! What the hell is wrong with you? Get it yourself! Stop making me feel insecure!
*** You have been kicked off #MovieTheater by GreasyGuyMinion_1 (No popcorn-begging)
*** Attempting to rejoin #MovieTheater
*** GreasyGuy sets mode: +b *!*you@seat_37
*** You have been kicked off #MovieTheater by GreasyGuy (Because I'm too afraid to get up to kick your ass in person!)
/quit
bash-2.1# ping -f -s 65535 greasy_guy_seat
.......
--- greasy_guy_seat ping statistics ---
239123 packets transmitted, 103 packets received, 99% packet loss
w00t!
For SCSI? IBM.
For cheap IDE drives that don't fall apart a month after you open the box? Maxtor, oddly enough.
- A.P.
When will hardware sites stop writing about this? Yes, we all know IBM's IDE drives are shitty now, and that we shouldn't buy them. We've had this drilled into our heads since last June. Can we please find something else to write about??
- A.P.
I'm approaching it with an NT sysadmin mindset. Not everyone runs their programs on an NT box as services, either out of ignorance or necessity.
- A.P.
and with cmd.exe, I can manage a machine. You don't really think that I GUI log into 300 machines to install a patch, do you?
This is a great thing, until the patch requires a reboot and some of your applications have dialog boxes that need clicking before the machine'll shut itself down. Actually, VNC is just as shitty for this reason, though.
You haven't shown me how cmd.exe can fix many problems you'll encounter when remote-managing an NT box, though. (IPKVM switches are probably the closest way...)
NT just wasn't designed for easy remote-management; this fact is woefully apparent in my experience.
- A.P.