RAID is not a substitute for backups. RAID addresses the problem of hard drive failure, but that's about it.
RAID cannot restore a critical file that someone accidentally deleted. Yes, I know, lusers deserve what they get, but what happens once the luser has been demoted/fired and the CEO still wants the file recovered?
RAID cannot help when the hard drive controller goes bad and corrupts every disk in the array.
>we'd have to high-tail it outta here at close to the speed of light in order to get far enough away for the inverse-square law to have an effect.
Actually you don't need to worry about the inverse square law if you are going that fast. Red shift will make the gamma's harmless.
Good point. For that matter, any vehicle capable of moving near the speed of light is already going to have to deal with the starlight in front of it being blue shifted up into gamma rays.
If it's got enough shielding to handle that, it can handle a puny little gamma ray burst. Why bother moving at all?:)
I think many people are missing the point that white hat exploits are necessary in order to get the vendor to take the vulnerability report seriously.
How many crackpot vulnerability warnings do you suppose Microsoft gets on any given day? Ten? One hundred? One thousand? All of them from lunatics asserting that the vulnerability will lead to one gagillion dollars in damage, the extinction of at least one animal species, and the destruction of the entire internet.
In a situation like that, the one serious vulnerability report that comes through is just not going to get any attention. Not unless it comes with proof that the vulnerability actually exists.
Yes, it could be argued that BugTraq now has enough credibility to be taken seriously without doing proofs. On the other hand, how do you suppose they acquired that credibility? And how are they to maintain it?
I wish I had mod points to mod this up. This has often seemed to me to be an ideal solution, and not just for telecom. Imagine if natural gas was split into a regulated monopoly local delivery mechanism, and unregulated suppliers. Or what about power? A locally controlled monopoly regulates the local lines, and people can buy power from whomever they want.
So many of our problems seem to come from combining a free market product and a monopoly delivery mechanism within a single company.
"The clothes that we wear might not look like the uniforms on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, but they will be able to do the same things," DuPont product manager Stacey Burr says.
Hmm... shirts that come with a toggle switch that flips the integral girdle and chestplate from "buff" to "buxum" depending on your gender?
You know, almost all of the posts I have seen have had nothing to do with cheaper, and everything to do with quality.
People complain because 1) the case is cracked, 2) the case is not expandable, 3) it runs too hot, 4) Apple was not able to ship when the orders came in.
Interestingly, every single one of these complains is a quality issue.
What really gripes me is that some muttonheaded marketing "genius" at Apple is going to decide that price was the issue, when in fact the issue was quality. Price had nothing to do with it. People very much want what Apple was selling, they simply want it a) now, and b) not broken.
Fujitsu has had Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) technology for years. Just look for a Fujistsu drive whose model number ends with -A.
And yes, they're really quiet. Quieter than a regular drive with a SilentDrive kit. It's gotten so that I won't buy anything else anymore.
They're not totally silent though- remember that 2.4 bels is 24 decibels (a lot of people don't make the connection), and is undeniably audible. It's just really quiet. You generally have to listen for it to notice it.
Linux is fragmented in the same way that Chevy is fragmented.
Chevy sells cars, trucks, vans, minivans and commercial trucks. Not only that, they sell different kinds of cars- the Camero, the Cavalier, the Corvette, the Malabu, the Monte Carlo, the Prism, etc.
Wow, that's a lot of options.
Think there's any danger they'll be wiped out by a company that offers only one type of car, only one type of truck, and only one type of van? You have to admit, it would be less confusing that way... and everybody knows that Camero sales just scavenge sales that would otherwise go to Cavaliers...
For quiet power supplies, check out www.pcpowerandcooling.com. They have a section for quiet power supplies. I own two of the 225 watt models, and both are as quiet as advertised.
Once you have the power supply fan tamed, you will begin to notice how loud the hard drive is. Time to go buy a "Silent Drive" kit from New England Digital Computers (www.nedcomp.com). Molex makes the kit, NED sells them. I own two of these as well, and they work as advertised. Another option is to buy a fujitsu hard drive with the Fluid Dynamic Bearing technology. I own one of these, and it's as quiet as they claim it is. It's quiet enough that it doesn't even need a silent drive enclosure, though it is slightly louder than a silent drive'd disk.
Once you have the power supply fan and the disk drive under control, you will begin to notice the awful banshee howl of your CPU fan. You have two choices here: go back to wwwpcpowerandcooling.com and get one of their quiet CPU fans, or go to www.quietpc.com and get one of their fancy radial fin CPU fans. I've got one of the pcpowerandcooling CPU fans, and I'm not entirely satisfied with it. I think next time I may go with the radial fin fan from quietpc.com.
All of this put together will make for a much quieter PC. It's not completely quiet, but it's a VAST improvement.
Curses! My evil plot to sniff Cliff's keyboard and mouse connection has been foiled! The jig is up, now I'll never get the priceless slashdot root password!
You know, most scientists do look at the world with eyes of wonder. It's the wonder that arouses their curiosity and leads them to be explorers.
I think the arrogant assumption that we know it all frequently comes from non-scientists who have an axe to grind. The average scientist has far too much experience with failed hypothesis to think that they know it all. (And, of course, it's only the non-scientists who think that a failed hypothesis indicates a failure. I'll bet there are folks at NASA who are beside themselves with delight over this puzzle.)
Sorry, Arrival, if you stopped gazing at the stars with wonder. I seriously doubt that anyone at NASA ever did.
Shame on me for responding to such an obvious troll, but the contrast was hard to resist.
1. Select Settings | Configure Konqueror
2. Click the User Agent icon on the left
3. Set the fields on the right as follows:
When connecting to: wellsfargo.com (or whatever)
Send useragent string: Mozilla 4.0 compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98
4. click the "add" button
5. Enjoy
I had to play this game with Datek Online. The guys who designed Konqueror were really on the ball.
So what? Are you suggesting their conclusions are somehow invalid because they don't use a Linux-based system to draw charts?
Reread his post. He's not suggesting anything of the sort. He's suggesting that a) many people still find it easier to use Windows than Linux, and b) that's a more important benchmark than speed.
Slashdot Mirror
He wasn't so utterly naive as to base his judgment solely on a sensationalist article written by a journalist.
It just tried that and it didn'
it would collapse the first time 50,000 geeks tried to visit it.
Um... yes.
I can't even get TW cable in my area. But my neighbors and I use google every day.
Unlike the induction motors found in practically every washing machine, refrigerator and air conditioner on the planet?
I understand the theory, but if this is so...
why is it that Joe-Random-Bored-Dude can get Linux to run on his toaster oven?
RAID cannot restore a critical file that someone accidentally deleted. Yes, I know, lusers deserve what they get, but what happens once the luser has been demoted/fired and the CEO still wants the file recovered?
RAID cannot help when the hard drive controller goes bad and corrupts every disk in the array.
That woosh you mentioned was the sound of a Futurama joke going over your head.
Actually you don't need to worry about the inverse square law if you are going that fast. Red shift will make the gamma's harmless.
Good point. For that matter, any vehicle capable of moving near the speed of light is already going to have to deal with the starlight in front of it being blue shifted up into gamma rays.
If it's got enough shielding to handle that, it can handle a puny little gamma ray burst. Why bother moving at all?
Spake Timothy: you may have trouble just getting past the beautiful screenshots...
Heck, I have trouble just getting to the screenshots.
I think many people are missing the point that white hat exploits are necessary in order to get the vendor to take the vulnerability report seriously.
How many crackpot vulnerability warnings do you suppose Microsoft gets on any given day? Ten? One hundred? One thousand? All of them from lunatics asserting that the vulnerability will lead to one gagillion dollars in damage, the extinction of at least one animal species, and the destruction of the entire internet.
In a situation like that, the one serious vulnerability report that comes through is just not going to get any attention. Not unless it comes with proof that the vulnerability actually exists.
Yes, it could be argued that BugTraq now has enough credibility to be taken seriously without doing proofs. On the other hand, how do you suppose they acquired that credibility? And how are they to maintain it?
I wish I had mod points to mod this up. This has often seemed to me to be an ideal solution, and not just for telecom. Imagine if natural gas was split into a regulated monopoly local delivery mechanism, and unregulated suppliers. Or what about power? A locally controlled monopoly regulates the local lines, and people can buy power from whomever they want.
So many of our problems seem to come from combining a free market product and a monopoly delivery mechanism within a single company.
"The clothes that we wear might not look like the uniforms on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, but they will be able to do the same things," DuPont product manager Stacey Burr says.
Hmm... shirts that come with a toggle switch that flips the integral girdle and chestplate from "buff" to "buxum" depending on your gender?
Ok, ok, here, take our handhelds and visors and cellphones and other silocn baubles, just please don't hurt us!
But... but... what is this "women" you speak of?
You know, almost all of the posts I have seen have had nothing to do with cheaper, and everything to do with quality.
People complain because 1) the case is cracked, 2) the case is not expandable, 3) it runs too hot, 4) Apple was not able to ship when the orders came in.
Interestingly, every single one of these complains is a quality issue.
What really gripes me is that some muttonheaded marketing "genius" at Apple is going to decide that price was the issue, when in fact the issue was quality. Price had nothing to do with it. People very much want what Apple was selling, they simply want it a) now, and b) not broken.
Fujitsu has had Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) technology for years. Just look for a Fujistsu drive whose model number ends with -A.
And yes, they're really quiet. Quieter than a regular drive with a SilentDrive kit. It's gotten so that I won't buy anything else anymore.
They're not totally silent though- remember that 2.4 bels is 24 decibels (a lot of people don't make the connection), and is undeniably audible. It's just really quiet. You generally have to listen for it to notice it.
Linux is fragmented in the same way that Chevy is fragmented.
Chevy sells cars, trucks, vans, minivans and commercial trucks. Not only that, they sell different kinds of cars- the Camero, the Cavalier, the Corvette, the Malabu, the Monte Carlo, the Prism, etc.
Wow, that's a lot of options.
Think there's any danger they'll be wiped out by a company that offers only one type of car, only one type of truck, and only one type of van? You have to admit, it would be less confusing that way... and everybody knows that Camero sales just scavenge sales that would otherwise go to Cavaliers...
Disable javascript before going to the site. They appear to have a bug which causes continual refreshes in Konq.
Not sure about other browsers.
It just kills me that someone praises Microsoft's tech documentation and it gets modded funny.
No disagreement, no discussion, no replies, just laughter.
For quiet power supplies, check out www.pcpowerandcooling.com. They have a section for quiet power supplies. I own two of the 225 watt models, and both are as quiet as advertised.
Once you have the power supply fan tamed, you will begin to notice how loud the hard drive is. Time to go buy a "Silent Drive" kit from New England Digital Computers (www.nedcomp.com). Molex makes the kit, NED sells them. I own two of these as well, and they work as advertised. Another option is to buy a fujitsu hard drive with the Fluid Dynamic Bearing technology. I own one of these, and it's as quiet as they claim it is. It's quiet enough that it doesn't even need a silent drive enclosure, though it is slightly louder than a silent drive'd disk.
Once you have the power supply fan and the disk drive under control, you will begin to notice the awful banshee howl of your CPU fan. You have two choices here: go back to wwwpcpowerandcooling.com and get one of their quiet CPU fans, or go to www.quietpc.com and get one of their fancy radial fin CPU fans. I've got one of the pcpowerandcooling CPU fans, and I'm not entirely satisfied with it. I think next time I may go with the radial fin fan from quietpc.com.
All of this put together will make for a much quieter PC. It's not completely quiet, but it's a VAST improvement.
Curses! My evil plot to sniff Cliff's keyboard and mouse connection has been foiled! The jig is up, now I'll never get the priceless slashdot root password!
It's just not easy being an evil genius anymore.
You know, most scientists do look at the world with eyes of wonder. It's the wonder that arouses their curiosity and leads them to be explorers.
I think the arrogant assumption that we know it all frequently comes from non-scientists who have an axe to grind. The average scientist has far too much experience with failed hypothesis to think that they know it all. (And, of course, it's only the non-scientists who think that a failed hypothesis indicates a failure. I'll bet there are folks at NASA who are beside themselves with delight over this puzzle.)
Sorry, Arrival, if you stopped gazing at the stars with wonder. I seriously doubt that anyone at NASA ever did.
Shame on me for responding to such an obvious troll, but the contrast was hard to resist.
Rats. I was holding out for the Blue With Pink Stripe Book standard.
Or maybe Bluish Green With a Hint of Yellow Book.
In Konqueror:
1. Select Settings | Configure Konqueror
2. Click the User Agent icon on the left
3. Set the fields on the right as follows:
When connecting to: wellsfargo.com (or whatever)
Send useragent string: Mozilla 4.0 compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98
4. click the "add" button
5. Enjoy
I had to play this game with Datek Online. The guys who designed Konqueror were really on the ball.
So what? Are you suggesting their conclusions are somehow invalid because they don't use a Linux-based system to draw charts?
Reread his post. He's not suggesting anything of the sort. He's suggesting that a) many people still find it easier to use Windows than Linux, and b) that's a more important benchmark than speed.