I have had ZERO problems with my server quality SCSI drives that still have 2 years left on their 5 year warrenty.
there are two kinds of people: those who have had hard drive failures, and those that will have hard drive failures. i don't care if jesus h fucking christ himself blessed your hard drives.
I suggest looking at getting reliable drives before looking at a RAID solution.
and, if the poster is looking for the more-realtime-than-backup-restore reliability as he indicated, i suggest he look at raid BEFORE looking at drive quality.
the name of the game is redundancy. a RAID array of cheap drives (let's remember that it stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) *is* more likely to have a single hard drive failure - but it's recoverable. however, it's far less likely to have multiple, simultaneous drive failures on the same day (unrecoverable) than your one, expensive, better-quality hard drive is likely to have a single failure - which is unrecoverable.
A lot of the comments thus far are attacking the wrong issue. Microsoft is not claiming that they are the first to consider embedding comments and keywords in source code to identify needed actions. What they are claiming is that they are the first to use the information for maintaining task lists in real time.
WOW, task lists that update in "REAL-TIME"! What an incredible INVENTION! It's SO worthy to be patented so that no one else can implement this AMAZING discovery! Why, it's practically a cure for CANCER! SURELY, they obtained this EARTH-SHAKING "INVENTION" from a UFO originating from a HIGHLY ADVANCED society that crashed somewhere in the forests of redmond! Who could POSSIBLY blame redmond for protecting themselves against financial RUIN by patenting this MIND-BLOWING technology!
Tech support is hard enough already without having to deal with unknown passwords.
i don't give a shit about some company's opinions on "tech support" hassles. That's NO EXCUSE for putting a hidden back door into a product without the buyer's knowledge!
i think this should be grounds for class-action lawsuits. sue some of these fuckers into bankruptcy and we'll see how quickly the others get the message.
at some point, if the powers that be refuse to fix an unjust patent system that blatantly concentrates money, power and control to entrenched interests at the expense of the public good, you need to just refuse to comply, and be vocal about it.
government/business collusion on issues of power and wealth is a primary attribute of fascism.
widespread refusal to abide this government sanctioned extortion racket could end up being the only way to do anything about it.
time to make our own salt, and to hell with anyone who tells us we can't.
interesting how a guy with a B.A. in English becomes the President of the grand and glorious Alexis de Tocqueville Institute. makes sense i guess - his job is, afte all, to write fiction.
They do have real concerns about losing control. Usually, without too much hassle, Java can live up to its write once, (test and then) run everywhere. Will this be so if there are forked projects?
who cares? there will always be at least one branch of java whose raison d'etre will be to be cross-platform. that's the one that will see the most development, will get the "Java" label, and will continue in the same role that it exists in today. so what if there are specialty branches of the language for other narrow purposes?
surely, microsoft soothed baystar with promises of enough future business to cover their losses.
remember: this is not a business investment. it's a third-party-funded smear campaign against Free software. there's plenty of money available to keep this going, and to keep all the players happy.
they are not going to turn around the F/free commodity software on cheap(er) hardware trend, period.
if they had any sense they'd be positioning themselves to provide services and software further up the software stack, above the commodity level. unfortunately, they have no sense.
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there are two kinds of people: those who have had hard drive failures, and those that will have hard drive failures. i don't care if jesus h fucking christ himself blessed your hard drives.
I suggest looking at getting reliable drives before looking at a RAID solution.
and, if the poster is looking for the more-realtime-than-backup-restore reliability as he indicated, i suggest he look at raid BEFORE looking at drive quality.
the name of the game is redundancy. a RAID array of cheap drives (let's remember that it stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) *is* more likely to have a single hard drive failure - but it's recoverable. however, it's far less likely to have multiple, simultaneous drive failures on the same day (unrecoverable) than your one, expensive, better-quality hard drive is likely to have a single failure - which is unrecoverable.
you want to spread Theora? encode a bunch of pr0n in it and spread it out on the net.
short-sighted moron.
...or maybe you don't get the whole "humor" thing :-)
and your isp will still cap your drooling consumer connection at 256k upstream.
hmm, 132 on my calculator is:
10000100
the middle fingers are clearly there, but it seems you lost a couple in the war or something? :-)
interesting, tech-related, on-line: pick any two.
WOW, task lists that update in "REAL-TIME"! What an incredible INVENTION! It's SO worthy to be patented so that no one else can implement this AMAZING discovery! Why, it's practically a cure for CANCER! SURELY, they obtained this EARTH-SHAKING "INVENTION" from a UFO originating from a HIGHLY ADVANCED society that crashed somewhere in the forests of redmond! Who could POSSIBLY blame redmond for protecting themselves against financial RUIN by patenting this MIND-BLOWING technology!
pardon me, time for a vomit break - brb.
i don't give a shit about some company's opinions on "tech support" hassles. That's NO EXCUSE for putting a hidden back door into a product without the buyer's knowledge!
i think this should be grounds for class-action lawsuits. sue some of these fuckers into bankruptcy and we'll see how quickly the others get the message.
government/business collusion on issues of power and wealth is a primary attribute of fascism. widespread refusal to abide this government sanctioned extortion racket could end up being the only way to do anything about it.
time to make our own salt, and to hell with anyone who tells us we can't.
(and yes, this is a new sig.)
...i'm looking for a job that says "college drop-out a plus" that doesn't involve cleaning solvents.
use plenty of lighting, make sure the focus is perfect, and center the vagina smack in the middle of the composition.
then you wouldn't mind pointing out the specific arguments with which you disagree?
...that the "most inane topic" competition has started on /. ...
i'd like to see what this douchebag looks like, but there's nothing on google.
all of whom conclude their evil little conversations with him with the phrase "...now go do as you're told, of soulless, obsequious little whore."
interesting how a guy with a B.A. in English becomes the President of the grand and glorious Alexis de Tocqueville Institute. makes sense i guess - his job is, afte all, to write fiction.
Light your brain farts. [rimbosity.com]
i especially like how your sig so compliments your plea for greater education of the masses.
oh wait... um, never mind.
ads? what ads?
who cares? there will always be at least one branch of java whose raison d'etre will be to be cross-platform. that's the one that will see the most development, will get the "Java" label, and will continue in the same role that it exists in today. so what if there are specialty branches of the language for other narrow purposes?
Now wouldn't THAT be nice?
yeah, that's just what i need - all my donkey-porn bookmarks at work showing up on my machine at home for my wife to find.
remember: this is not a business investment. it's a third-party-funded smear campaign against Free software. there's plenty of money available to keep this going, and to keep all the players happy.
dance, puppets - dance on your strings.
if they had any sense they'd be positioning themselves to provide services and software further up the software stack, above the commodity level. unfortunately, they have no sense.
come on now, off to troll summer school with you.
but mod you funny first of course. :-)
so you're saying they both appear screwed up, or they both appear OK?
i'm using ff on debian unstable.