Is for the trash cans at TSA checkpoints to explode from TSA idiots tossing your charged battery packs into it at random. You thought one laptop exploding was bad.
This man is clearly a genius - he understands systems more as what they _are_ rather than what we've been told. He makes a very valid point. The title of this article is in itself an appeal to emotion, like something I'd expect from Fox News. Please, remove your emotional attachment to your technology and the base emotions words like "crime" and "criminal" stimulate.
Technology is power. We're walking a thin line between anarchy and enslavement. Imagine handing out guns to a zoo full of apes.
You ignore this or treat it as a passing armchair philosophical argument at humanity's peril.
The less barriers for global human communication, the better. No, we haven't lost anything important. Human language always has the same features, just different sounds and grammar.
Another PR stunt coming out of an engineering boondoggle that has tied up US (and human) spaceflight for 30 years. Might as well have made it look like a giant cricket. Let's make a space truck that looks like a plane and can only possibly go a few miles above the planet, like driving from here to Jersey but with a serious hazard of blowing up. Yes I want the 3D model of this on my desktop to remind me that people take pride in failure.
Real science is done on rockets. Politicians and bureaucrats should be kept arms length from science and engineering. NASA needs to forget the shuttle.
Because if a virus/worm does the equivalent of "rm -rf/*" you still have a copy on the other computer. For RAID anything, it is in essence gone. Undelete can be defeated by filling your drive with new data... No you simply should not run as root! But again for protection even from viruses, mistakes, and corruption from any user, this should be a feature of next gen filesystems. Myself I keep my bulk data partitions mounted read-only until I have to write to them which is rare, which is also VERY COMMON for this type of home archival use. If every directory was it's own filesystem you could be well protected from any kind host-related data loss, you would have to give a remount command before you could do any damage.
that there is no good solution I can find. Every solution is flawed for this purpose, including ZFS.
I have been giving much thought to writing yet another filesystem, which would fill the needs of home/archival/media box users. Essentially it would be like ZFS, except it would improve upon ZFS's dynamic striping. I would have dynamic parity, such that the number of disks in the stripe-set and number of recovery blocks is completely independent per-file, ala PAR2. ZFS is still just as bone-headed as older filesystem because the vdev's are still atomic, you make a raidz, and it stays that way. The integrity would be on a per-file basis only. So you could add and remove disks at will, no dangerous re-striping operations, and protection and recovery from on-disk corruption. If you lose too many disks, you only lose the information on those disks. A file need not be striped on every disk. Only when a particular file has less parity blocks than missing blocks, wherever such blocks may be, is the file gone. Files on disk should always be recoverable, regardless of "corrupt superblocks", or something similar. This could probably be done using FUSE and some quick and dirty code.
Why?
1. We want a lot of storage 2. We want it expandable, no dangerous restriping or filesystem expansion. There can be NO BACKUPS! 3. We don't want to wake up in the middle of the night and wonder if the next fsck is the last. 4. We only care about enough performance to run the media center, i.e. record TV and play movies.
FWIW, I agree that the current block/disk paradigm needs an overhaul at least for higher-end systems but I don't think that doing away with layers shared between the filesystems is the way to do it. The block paradigm has stayed the same because it works very well for most tasks and I don't see it going away for desktops, low-end servers, and the like.
Absolutely not! desktops and low-end servers is where this overhaul is even more necessary. Think about all the extra overhead dealing with fixed filesystems, partitions, and block devices right now. Theoretically if I want more storage, I should just add another block device. Data protection should take place regardless of all this, there should be no need to explicitly move blocks, create or destroy filesystems, make raid arrays, restripe raid arrays, add mirror disks, etc. A bit of filesystem corruption or a disk going bad should never mean I have lost all my data, it should mean such files that are missing blocks are marked as bad (and the computer knows this, i.e. ZFS) and any files that are still readable are marked as good. RAID is becoming more popular now with almost every low-end motherboard supporting at least raid 1 and 0, so people want are buying multiple disks and want the benefits the benefits associated with it, but the data-storage feature set is still from 1970. Filesystems as an idea should become as quaint as punch cards.
FYI MythTV users are going to get a taste of this soon, since current SVN supports storage groups. You lose a disk in the storage group, doesn't really matter that much, only those files are gone. All the overhead of dealing with arrays is gone. Need more storage, add another disk. Disk goes bad? No biggie, re-record the shows. (or you could really even make a mirror of important data on another disk, on a per file basis) Granted this is one of the simplest possible implementations of this idea and builds on existed layers, but extremely cool.
Open source software gets better because new people want new features to which they contribute. You can't blame Andrew Morton for disliking what ZFS is going to do, this is just how people work. This is why they say you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
That said ZFS is one of the coolest things to happen to your files in a long time. The current disk block device usage is basically the same from the beginning of computing, it is ancient and actually quite stupid. Over decades layers keep getting added to it to make it more robust, but really it's a monstrosity. Partitions are dumb, LVM is dumb, disk block RAID is dumb, monolithic filesystems are dumb. All the current linux filesystems should be thrown out.
I don't want to care how big my partitions are, what level parity protection my disks have, or any of that junk. I want to add or remove storage hardware whenever I want, and I want my files bit-exact, and I want to choose at will for each file what the speed vs protection from hardware failure is. Why shouldn't one file be mirrored, the next be stripped, and the next have parity or double parity protection? Why can't very, very important files have two or three mirrors?
From the current status of ZFS however I think this could be quickly built using GPL 2+ by one or two determined people, and it would involve gutting the linux file systems.
Well, it is (actually, about 24 fps seems to be enough, you don't find many people complaining about fps for movies, right?). The missing piece to the puzzle is that there's more to it than that. You need to simulate the motion blur accurately. I expect this is much more CPU intensive than simply upping the fps high enough that no motion blur is required to keep the brain happy. I guess I was wrong.. 24fps enough for a illusion of motion, not what emulates reality, motion blur or not. It's quite easy to see discrete frames in the movie theater. But lots of people think we found WMD too..
Anyone remember when Tom's Hardware was good? Not actually I don't, I remember when they said 30 FPS is enough for everybody and professed it as the ultimate authoritative truth. I hope by now it is clear to everyone how false that is. Like claims about WMD's. I'm still waiting for a public retraction on both fronts.
As someone who lives in Boston, I'm glad they decided to take these precautions. You have to take these all seriously, because who knows if they're threats or not? I'm mad as hell about this ad campaign because when it comes time to pay for all the police activity today, you can bet your ass Ted Turner won't offer to foot the bill. This will sound like a troll, but karma be damned - you're an idiot. So it the person who called this in - they should be charged for the mess. Also, please stop watching fox news and 24, and go read a book.
I am not a Christian, but I have read the bible (cover to cover in one version, several versions of the gospels and some other sections), and I somehow missed that part. In fact, the closest I remember Jesus coming to violence was cursing a fig tree for not bearing fruit (not the sanest of actions, I admit, although it did demonstrate that he could have just told the people who arrested him to die and they would have done). Please could you cite chapter and verse for this, and ideally which version of the bible you are quoting? King James, Luke 19:22-27 "bring them [those who preferred not to be ruled by him] hither, and slay them before me."
And doesn't Christianity say something about loving one another? I wonder where all that was lost. Yes, it does. You now have good reason to believe these people aren't actual Christians. Not according to the Old Testament, in fact if there were electric chairs around those days I'm sure they would have been used for executions as well. So you're a christian and disregard the Old Testament? Fine, perfectly well in the new testament Jesus calls for all those who will not fall to him to be killed. Yes, it's all in there. A real christian believes these things.
If you go by "the book" these people are being good christians.
The koran just takes a much more succinct approach to all the same ideas, it's just a more virulent and easier to understand version of christianity.
As for the moderates who don't believe such things your labels of "christian" and "muslim" just leads to in-group out-group fighting, like apes in the trees.
depend on who produced the CFLs. some producers are using new tech like "instant ****" ( I can not remember it). See the labels on the package when you buy them. Yes my GE bulbs from Walmart claimed to be "instant" as well. Uh-huh. False advertising.
The delay is pretty much a thing of the past. The ones in my house turn on instantaneously, as far as I can detect. I just bought 2 packs from (speak of the devil) Walmart last week.
Guess what? There is a delay.. maybe a second or so - and then on top of that it takes them about a minute to get up to full brightness. So the 100W equivalent CFL's I have put out (guesstimate) 20W of incandescent equivalent light. I keep my house at 70F. When the bulbs have been operating and are up to about (guesstimate) 100F, they turn on with about a 1/4 second delay. Who keeps their house at 100F?
This makes them inappropriate for stairwells, bathrooms, and any place with automatic light sensors.
This appears to be exactly the problem. The architecture/scalability is superior on paper, yet in benchmarks it's worse off than slower AMD processors. Take a look at the memory benchmarks. I bet XP is spending a lot of time moving threads between memory banks. All these tests are handicapped by inadequate OS support. Not great press for AMD, but I'm waiting to see what it will do on an OS that supports NUMA.
The masses will never appreciate the fine distinctions of liberty, let the act pass and ordinary people like soccer moms be prosecuted, and then they will do something and force a very public re-examination of "intellectual property".
The first reason MythTV commercial flagging works is because you don't talk about MythTV commercial flagging.
The instant something cool and anti-corporate becomes too popular it becomes dangerous to use and/or effectively dies. If MythTV becomes big enough the same will happen to it.
Yes this is an elitist view where only those with the ability to get something are entitled to it. The rest can get what the corporations care to give them.
If India had any sort of self-respect they'd invest in them.
In Canada and the states we had to fight hard for decent working conditions. If they're just pussies and don't want to rock the boat they'll never get any better.
*cough* are you a software engineer in the US or Canada? *ahem*
Can you really engineer freedom from stupidity? If you are trapped in the prison of your own mind no one can help you (and so we all are, but some cells are bigger than others)
The "breakage" charge has been bogus for quite some time. It really applied in the days of actual records, a lot of which wouldn't survive shipment. How many CD's (or tapes for that matter) end up broken per shipment? Definitely not 15%. So far they have been able to make this stick regardless. Now it's just completely ridiculous, versus just mostly.
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Is for the trash cans at TSA checkpoints to explode from TSA idiots tossing your charged battery packs into it at random. You thought one laptop exploding was bad.
You can't cure stupid.
greatly concerns me...
This man is clearly a genius - he understands systems more as what they _are_ rather than what we've been told. He makes a very valid point. The title of this article is in itself an appeal to emotion, like something I'd expect from Fox News. Please, remove your emotional attachment to your technology and the base emotions words like "crime" and "criminal" stimulate.
Technology is power. We're walking a thin line between anarchy and enslavement. Imagine handing out guns to a zoo full of apes.
You ignore this or treat it as a passing armchair philosophical argument at humanity's peril.
The less barriers for global human communication, the better. No, we haven't lost anything important. Human language always has the same features, just different sounds and grammar.
Another PR stunt coming out of an engineering boondoggle that has tied up US (and human) spaceflight for 30 years. Might as well have made it look like a giant cricket. Let's make a space truck that looks like a plane and can only possibly go a few miles above the planet, like driving from here to Jersey but with a serious hazard of blowing up. Yes I want the 3D model of this on my desktop to remind me that people take pride in failure.
Real science is done on rockets. Politicians and bureaucrats should be kept arms length from science and engineering. NASA needs to forget the shuttle.
that there is no good solution I can find. Every solution is flawed for this purpose, including ZFS.
I have been giving much thought to writing yet another filesystem, which would fill the needs of home/archival/media box users. Essentially it would be like ZFS, except it would improve upon ZFS's dynamic striping. I would have dynamic parity, such that the number of disks in the stripe-set and number of recovery blocks is completely independent per-file, ala PAR2. ZFS is still just as bone-headed as older filesystem because the vdev's are still atomic, you make a raidz, and it stays that way. The integrity would be on a per-file basis only. So you could add and remove disks at will, no dangerous re-striping operations, and protection and recovery from on-disk corruption. If you lose too many disks, you only lose the information on those disks. A file need not be striped on every disk. Only when a particular file has less parity blocks than missing blocks, wherever such blocks may be, is the file gone. Files on disk should always be recoverable, regardless of "corrupt superblocks", or something similar. This could probably be done using FUSE and some quick and dirty code.
Why?
1. We want a lot of storage
2. We want it expandable, no dangerous restriping or filesystem expansion. There can be NO BACKUPS!
3. We don't want to wake up in the middle of the night and wonder if the next fsck is the last.
4. We only care about enough performance to run the media center, i.e. record TV and play movies.
Absolutely not! desktops and low-end servers is where this overhaul is even more necessary. Think about all the extra overhead dealing with fixed filesystems, partitions, and block devices right now. Theoretically if I want more storage, I should just add another block device. Data protection should take place regardless of all this, there should be no need to explicitly move blocks, create or destroy filesystems, make raid arrays, restripe raid arrays, add mirror disks, etc. A bit of filesystem corruption or a disk going bad should never mean I have lost all my data, it should mean such files that are missing blocks are marked as bad (and the computer knows this, i.e. ZFS) and any files that are still readable are marked as good. RAID is becoming more popular now with almost every low-end motherboard supporting at least raid 1 and 0, so people want are buying multiple disks and want the benefits the benefits associated with it, but the data-storage feature set is still from 1970. Filesystems as an idea should become as quaint as punch cards.
FYI MythTV users are going to get a taste of this soon, since current SVN supports storage groups. You lose a disk in the storage group, doesn't really matter that much, only those files are gone. All the overhead of dealing with arrays is gone. Need more storage, add another disk. Disk goes bad? No biggie, re-record the shows. (or you could really even make a mirror of important data on another disk, on a per file basis) Granted this is one of the simplest possible implementations of this idea and builds on existed layers, but extremely cool.
Open source software gets better because new people want new features to which they contribute. You can't blame Andrew Morton for disliking what ZFS is going to do, this is just how people work. This is why they say you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
That said ZFS is one of the coolest things to happen to your files in a long time. The current disk block device usage is basically the same from the beginning of computing, it is ancient and actually quite stupid. Over decades layers keep getting added to it to make it more robust, but really it's a monstrosity. Partitions are dumb, LVM is dumb, disk block RAID is dumb, monolithic filesystems are dumb. All the current linux filesystems should be thrown out.
I don't want to care how big my partitions are, what level parity protection my disks have, or any of that junk. I want to add or remove storage hardware whenever I want, and I want my files bit-exact, and I want to choose at will for each file what the speed vs protection from hardware failure is. Why shouldn't one file be mirrored, the next be stripped, and the next have parity or double parity protection? Why can't very, very important files have two or three mirrors?
From the current status of ZFS however I think this could be quickly built using GPL 2+ by one or two determined people, and it would involve gutting the linux file systems.
"bring them [those who preferred not to be ruled by him] hither, and slay them before me."
In other versions it refers to Jews as well.
If you go by "the book" these people are being good christians.
The koran just takes a much more succinct approach to all the same ideas, it's just a more virulent and easier to understand version of christianity.
As for the moderates who don't believe such things your labels of "christian" and "muslim" just leads to in-group out-group fighting, like apes in the trees.
Guess what? There is a delay.. maybe a second or so - and then on top of that it takes them about a minute to get up to full brightness. So the 100W equivalent CFL's I have put out (guesstimate) 20W of incandescent equivalent light. I keep my house at 70F. When the bulbs have been operating and are up to about (guesstimate) 100F, they turn on with about a 1/4 second delay. Who keeps their house at 100F?
This makes them inappropriate for stairwells, bathrooms, and any place with automatic light sensors.
This appears to be exactly the problem. The architecture/scalability is superior on paper, yet in benchmarks it's worse off than slower AMD processors. Take a look at the memory benchmarks. I bet XP is spending a lot of time moving threads between memory banks. All these tests are handicapped by inadequate OS support. Not great press for AMD, but I'm waiting to see what it will do on an OS that supports NUMA.
The masses will never appreciate the fine distinctions of liberty, let the act pass and ordinary people like soccer moms be prosecuted, and then they will do something and force a very public re-examination of "intellectual property".
The first reason MythTV commercial flagging works is because you don't talk about MythTV commercial flagging.
The instant something cool and anti-corporate becomes too popular it becomes dangerous to use and/or effectively dies. If MythTV becomes big enough the same will happen to it.
Yes this is an elitist view where only those with the ability to get something are entitled to it. The rest can get what the corporations care to give them.
If such things are successful in humans, and implemented, humanity as a species is doomed.
Nietzsche or Frank Herbert, take your pick of prophets.
The problem isn't that it happened - it's that someone dares to post it.
Now what do we all think of those who fear the truth?
How much do you want to bet that soon enough nearly every employee with access to the database is going to be a pedophile?
Collecting child porn to prevent it, it's like fucking for abstinence.
*cough* are you a software engineer in the US or Canada? *ahem*
What the earth would look like with tens of thousands of mini-suns burning on it's surface? Energy pollution :/
Can you really engineer freedom from stupidity? If you are trapped in the prison of your own mind no one can help you (and so we all are, but some cells are bigger than others)
The "breakage" charge has been bogus for quite some time. It really applied in the days of actual records, a lot of which wouldn't survive shipment. How many CD's (or tapes for that matter) end up broken per shipment? Definitely not 15%. So far they have been able to make this stick regardless. Now it's just completely ridiculous, versus just mostly.