Probably not the *best* but lightweight,sturdy enough for me, cheap and with a great battery life. I never used it more than 6 hours off the wall but I never experienced a dead battery. At start the WiFi was bad and the trackpad nonfunctional but with Ubuntu 16.10 the WiFi is usable and the trackpad working. It's the basic model with the FullHD display.
For the FS format, definitively go for ext4. It shall save you a huge amount of time when fsck, it's easier to undelete from. For a media server usage you don't even need to understand the old delayed sync controversy, it's not relevant. For films, you're certainly right with Matroska. For the rest I wont comment (I use x264 myself).
Just shows once to your (young) nephew who is basically trustworthy how to get the very powerful magnet inside the drive. Switch nephew when he become tired to play with magnets. It worked for me for more than 30 drives so far.
Handbrake burns the subtitle into the film and doesn't allow to easily include several audio languages and subtitles. I'm multilingual and enjoy to see films with friends speaking various languages. The recent versions of OGMrip doesn't set the sound out of sync unless you jump back and forth inside the film.
There is a more flexible solution, though admittedly more complicated. The trick lies in the fact that OS X needs a GPT at the installation stage, but not later.
So you create up to 4 partitions in GPT mode with BIOS compatibility. You install OS X in the third partition, the first being the EFI one and the second the sum of the space you'll give to the first and second later.
You install refit in the OS X partition to be able to boot later on and then you suppress the first, second and fourth partition after having carefully recorded the start and end of the third.
You then initialize a new (BIOS) partition table on the disk and you create 3 primary partitions and one extended. On the two first primary you can install any windows you want, and if you recreated the third exactly where the OS X one existed, your OS X shall be fully functional.
On the extended partition, you create then as many logical partition you want, each able to host a linux OS or a NTFS or HFS data store.
The only caveat is that refit seems to not fully honor all the partition mbr after you write on the disk mbr. So don't write on the disk mbr, but always on the partition one or otherwise, only the last installed mbr will be used (which is fine if it contains a jump to all the OS like Ubuntu does).
If you wanted to stay on top, you read Slashdot. I think that's why I started to use Google in September 1998. Before or later, but around that time for sure.
What about people who can see the pulses from a 60hz lightbulb? Flourescent bulbs give me headaches, because I CAN see the pulses. So me, and millions like me are going to have to suffer headaches so you can feel better about yourself?
The new fluorescent bulbs pulses at 30kHz, at least in Europe. Because the North American base pulse is 60 Hz, instead of 50 Hz here, it may be different there. They also have a second envelop with special coating that somewhat correct the emission spectrum, quite well IMO.
Do you not think that Iranians living around the world would not try to retaliate? Do you not think that most middle easterners would not try to retaliate?
Why do you think that the urge to retaliate should be limited to muslims? The whole world is - wrongly or rightly - very wary of the USA, and not only for their 2-neurones president.
More than a Boycott needs to be done to the members of the BSA. There needs to be a trial that addresses flagrant violations of the constitutional rights of individuals all over the United States, and an appropiate punishment needs to be given.
If my memory is good, they already lost in belgium in the '90 against Sema Group. I don't find trace of it on the net though (probably lost when sema was bought by schlumberger). Anyway, they lost on the ground that they were using unlawful tactics and were fined and/or had to pay damages to civil parties.
We use heavily Linux Ram disk in at least 2 subsidiaries of my company.
All the box boot using dhcp, and get an OS ram image dedicated to a job (web server, mail server...). The data are coming from a NetApp. So a box function is only related to a MAC address.
When the kind of processing needed or the configuration doesn't imply concurrent write access, the benefit is twofold:
- easy hot swapping of boxes (just boot an another box using the failing one OS config);
- easy and cheap computing power expansion (clone the OS config, add a MAC address, an IP and a DNS entry and you're set.
The boxes of course don't have swap, and the performance is not a problem when you consider the gain in ease of maintenance.
An other usage I plan for it is splitting my home computer in 3 boxes: a super silent stripped down box with just a good sound card next to the hifi; a super silent stripped down box with a good graphic card, keyboard and screen as console; and a fat server with lot of disks and CPUs (at least 2, the 8ways Xeon are a bit expensives) in some place where the noise is not a problem. Now if someone knows about power supplies which are quieter than 34db, that's interesting me!
Beside a few classical sci-fi thought, and some considerations on the increasing power of cpu, I don't find in that article anything interresting.
Well, the author use the word consciousness, but doesn't say a worthing word about it.
Here is a few questions that are left unanswered if mentionned:
- is the brain a turing machine? It's admitted that all the artificials computing devices we have (digitals or analogics) are turing machine. The simple idea that a human brain could be a turing machine regarding properties like consciousness, intelligence or awarness is VERY controversial, and simply false for someone like Roger Penrose.
- is consciousness only a state of the brain, the whole body, any subpart of those? Is the way you feel your body in space part of consciousness? If yes you have to add stuffs like the way the nerves terminations located in your ankles feed info to your brain, or maybe not, but on what do you base your decission? If your body is not needed to be part of the simulation, is a body needed? "yes, we copied the whole Ray's brain in that fancy computer, but of course we didn't copied the body and he is just completly mad."
- what time frame do you have to scan successfully a person? Imagine scanning the memory of a working computer at the speed of 1 MB/hour, what's the value of the result? If you do it at 1GB/ minutes, will it be enough? Probably not, and there we hit another limitation which is bandwidth. And if you try to turn the problem by saying that the nano thingies will store the whole info at a said time, how complexe will they need to be and how many of them will you need? What volume will they need? What mass will they have? What amount of energy will they need? How will they dissipate that energy? Just throwing a word in an article isn't enough for me.
I believe that one can continue on that topic. And I love it when well used in a sci-fi novel, so just change the categorie from science to sci-fi:-)
Nicolas
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We are running a medium sized ISP, and I'm on guard to{day|night}. Every services are running fine.
What did we to prepare ourself to Y2K? Honestly not much, the more important part of our preparation was to not be dumb (hardware and software). The information available on the net was more than enough to be reasonably informed of what to really avoid (hard & soft).
Do I think that our problems are over? Certainly not, I beg that "real" Y2K problem - real meaning: non obvious either by the symptoms or either by the cause) will emearge in the following days/month et even years.
AFAIK, in belgium crypto is theorically and pratically not illegal. There is a law against it, _but_ the application texts where never published, so it's perfectly legal up to that time, which will probably never occur. The current trend is to make crypto non only legal, but to make digital signatures having a legal value.
I'm currently working on the feasability of a mail cluster for 100 000 accounts. It's not done yet, but our various experiments gave us various answers.
We use exim, Qpopper with mysql patche, mon, fake and rsync. Each base box hold 88 GB of data and are fully duplicated (double delivery with exim, and further syncronization with rsync). The switch between a main base box and his double are handled by mon and fake. A hot spare then reconstruct a new double, delivery and popper deletions are blocked during the reconstruction.
Two problems aren't solved yet: - raid 1 between boxes - imap
I hope that imap will work when nfs locking will be reliable. For raid 1 over boxes I have a very tiny hope that nbd could be a solution.
Anyway, we made some tests, and it somewhat works already. We are now tuning various parts and writing procedure to handle the beast and react to failures (our current estimate is one major but handable failure every month).
If you have ideas of working solutions for my 2 problems don't hesitate to share:-)
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Probably not the *best* but lightweight,sturdy enough for me, cheap and with a great battery life. I never used it more than 6 hours off the wall but I never experienced a dead battery. At start the WiFi was bad and the trackpad nonfunctional but with Ubuntu 16.10 the WiFi is usable and the trackpad working. It's the basic model with the FullHD display.
For the FS format, definitively go for ext4. It shall save you a huge amount of time when fsck, it's easier to undelete from. For a media server usage you don't even need to understand the old delayed sync controversy, it's not relevant. For films, you're certainly right with Matroska. For the rest I wont comment (I use x264 myself).
Just shows once to your (young) nephew who is basically trustworthy how to get the very powerful magnet inside the drive. Switch nephew when he become tired to play with magnets. It worked for me for more than 30 drives so far.
Handbrake burns the subtitle into the film and doesn't allow to easily include several audio languages and subtitles. I'm multilingual and enjoy to see films with friends speaking various languages. The recent versions of OGMrip doesn't set the sound out of sync unless you jump back and forth inside the film.
Two things that I left out:
Obviously after that all OS X update of the Apple Efi shall fail because there isn't an Apple Efi anymore.
The second one is way more tough: how to format that disk, how many partition of which size?
There is a more flexible solution, though admittedly more complicated. The trick lies in the fact that OS X needs a GPT at the installation stage, but not later.
So you create up to 4 partitions in GPT mode with BIOS compatibility. You install OS X in the third partition, the first being the EFI one and the second the sum of the space you'll give to the first and second later.
You install refit in the OS X partition to be able to boot later on and then you suppress the first, second and fourth partition after having carefully recorded the start and end of the third.
You then initialize a new (BIOS) partition table on the disk and you create 3 primary partitions and one extended. On the two first primary you can install any windows you want, and if you recreated the third exactly where the OS X one existed, your OS X shall be fully functional.
On the extended partition, you create then as many logical partition you want, each able to host a linux OS or a NTFS or HFS data store.
The only caveat is that refit seems to not fully honor all the partition mbr after you write on the disk mbr. So don't write on the disk mbr, but always on the partition one or otherwise, only the last installed mbr will be used (which is fine if it contains a jump to all the OS like Ubuntu does).
If you wanted to stay on top, you read Slashdot. I think that's why I started to use Google in September 1998. Before or later, but around that time for sure.
What about people who can see the pulses from a 60hz lightbulb? Flourescent bulbs give me headaches, because I CAN see the pulses. So me, and millions like me are going to have to suffer headaches so you can feel better about yourself?
The new fluorescent bulbs pulses at 30kHz, at least in Europe. Because the North American base pulse is 60 Hz, instead of 50 Hz here, it may be different there. They also have a second envelop with special coating that somewhat correct the emission spectrum, quite well IMO.
Do you not think that Iranians living around the world would not try to retaliate? Do you not think that most middle easterners would not try to retaliate?
Why do you think that the urge to retaliate should be limited to muslims? The whole world is - wrongly or rightly - very wary of the USA, and not only for their 2-neurones president.
If my memory is good, they already lost in belgium in the '90 against Sema Group. I don't find trace of it on the net though (probably lost when sema was bought by schlumberger). Anyway, they lost on the ground that they were using unlawful tactics and were fined and/or had to pay damages to civil parties.
A more fundamental difference lies in the fact that TeX is a language that's turing complete. It can (will) be uggly, but you can do it in TeX.
We use heavily Linux Ram disk in at least 2 subsidiaries of my company.
...). The data are coming from a NetApp. So a box function is only related to a MAC address.
All the box boot using dhcp, and get an OS ram image dedicated to a job (web server, mail server
When the kind of processing needed or the configuration doesn't imply concurrent write access, the benefit is twofold:
- easy hot swapping of boxes (just boot an another box using the failing one OS config);
- easy and cheap computing power expansion (clone the OS config, add a MAC address, an IP and a DNS entry and you're set.
The boxes of course don't have swap, and the performance is not a problem when you consider the gain in ease of maintenance.
An other usage I plan for it is splitting my home computer in 3 boxes: a super silent stripped down box with just a good sound card next to the hifi; a super silent stripped down box with a good graphic card, keyboard and screen as console; and a fat server with lot of disks and CPUs (at least 2, the 8ways Xeon are a bit expensives) in some place where the noise is not a problem. Now if someone knows about power supplies which are quieter than 34db, that's interesting me!
Nicolas
Beside a few classical sci-fi thought, and some considerations on the increasing power of cpu, I don't find in that article anything interresting.
:-)
Well, the author use the word consciousness, but doesn't say a worthing word about it.
Here is a few questions that are left unanswered if mentionned:
- is the brain a turing machine?
It's admitted that all the artificials computing devices we have (digitals or analogics) are turing machine. The simple idea that a human brain could be a turing machine regarding properties like consciousness, intelligence or awarness is VERY controversial, and simply false for someone like Roger Penrose.
- is consciousness only a state of the brain, the whole body, any subpart of those?
Is the way you feel your body in space part of consciousness? If yes you have to add stuffs like the way the nerves terminations located in your ankles feed info to your brain, or maybe not, but on what do you base your decission? If your body is not needed to be part of the simulation, is a body needed? "yes, we copied the whole Ray's brain in that fancy computer, but of course we didn't copied the body and he is just completly mad."
- what time frame do you have to scan successfully a person?
Imagine scanning the memory of a working computer at the speed of 1 MB/hour, what's the value of the result? If you do it at 1GB/ minutes, will it be enough? Probably not, and there we hit another limitation which is bandwidth. And if you try to turn the problem by saying that the nano thingies will store the whole info at a said time, how complexe will they need to be and how many of them will you need? What volume will they need? What mass will they have? What amount of energy will they need? How will they dissipate that energy? Just throwing a word in an article isn't enough for me.
I believe that one can continue on that topic. And I love it when well used in a sci-fi novel, so just change the categorie from science to sci-fi
Nicolas
We are running a medium sized ISP, and I'm on guard to{day|night}. Every services are running fine.
What did we to prepare ourself to Y2K? Honestly not much, the more important part of our preparation was to not be dumb (hardware and software). The information available on the net was more than enough to be reasonably informed of what to really avoid (hard & soft).
Do I think that our problems are over? Certainly not, I beg that "real" Y2K problem - real meaning: non obvious either by the symptoms or either by the cause) will emearge in the following days/month et even years.
Nicolas
AFAIK, in belgium crypto is theorically and pratically not illegal. There is a law against it, _but_ the application texts where never published, so it's perfectly legal up to that time, which will probably never occur. The current trend is to make crypto non only legal, but to make digital signatures having a legal value.
I'm currently working on the feasability of a mail cluster for 100 000 accounts. It's not done yet, but our various experiments gave us various answers.
:-)
We use exim, Qpopper with mysql patche, mon, fake and rsync. Each base box hold 88 GB of data and are fully duplicated (double delivery with exim, and further syncronization with rsync). The switch between a main base box and his double are handled by mon and fake. A hot spare then reconstruct a new double, delivery and popper deletions are blocked during the reconstruction.
Two problems aren't solved yet:
- raid 1 between boxes
- imap
I hope that imap will work when nfs locking will be reliable. For raid 1 over boxes I have a very tiny hope that nbd could be a solution.
Anyway, we made some tests, and it somewhat works already. We are now tuning various parts and writing procedure to handle the beast and react to failures (our current estimate is one major but handable failure every month).
If you have ideas of working solutions for my 2 problems don't hesitate to share
Nicolas