Re:drobo + drobo share
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What NAS To Buy?
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I agree and disagree. If you want high performance NAS like you'd get in a data center, then drobo definitely isn't the way to go, but if you are just looking for a simple home unit for backups and maybe storing media on, then it's not all that bad.
Think of it like an apple product, simple, elegant, streamlined, but still missing some of the advanced features you could get if you built your own.
Yes, the slow speed sucks, no, it doesn't affect streaming video / music to something like mythtv or itunes. The biggest PITA for me is that when it sleeps it takes a few seconds to wake up and spin up the disks.
I've had one for about a month and have no problem with it streaming video (divx) to my mythtv or having my mp3 collection on it for itunes, or storing all my pictures on it and accessing it from lightroom. I chose it because I had gone the "build your own" before using linux + lvm + evms + raid and decided I wanted something I didn't have to maintain or worry about. YMMV of course, depending on what you're looking for:)
Yes, but knowing that your camera is accurate *allows* you to have that creative control. If you want to focus on the background instead of the forground, but when you do your camera focuses on the middle ground, how does that help? I'm all for creative effects, and yes, people use odd and strange cameras for fun (my dad is a fan of the Fez, a Russian leica knock off), but to have that creative control you need control first.
E6600 (Dual core 2.40) / 2G / Vista ultimate. Even a single file of under 1mb can take several seconds. However, I've noticed that this doesn't seem to happen if you're copying files in your own space, ie: desktop / documents folder / pictures folder / etc. However, copying a file from your own space to either a network drive of (heaven forbid) into your c: or somewhere else on the system, there seems to be a stupidly slow amount of time.
Sometimes it also seems that another process asking for UAC rights will completely stop a copy. I had one where I was copying a small file around and it took literally five minutes before I cancelled it, then I noticed that a program I was installing was asking for UAC rights. Not sure if they were related.
This definately isn't an issue of copying a million 1 byte files slowing the sytem down. This is copying a single 600k file around taking 20-30 seconds of 'caculating' and then it copies it.
I can understand that there's a lot of extra crap going on in the background with checking DRM rights, file permissions, ACLs, etc, but come on, programs are supposed to get faster as they come along, not slower.
obOfftopic: Wonder when someone will release a Vista-Lite with all the extra crap (processes / services) stripped out?
1. SMB2: Vista introduces a new variant of the SMB protocol called SMB2, which may pose problems for those connecting to non-Microsoft networks, such as Samba on Linux.
Purely speculative.
An interview with the samba guys on FLOSS weekly (twit.tv) said they had talked to someone in the SMB group at microsoft and the only reason for smb2 was to "f*ck with samba".
7. Five Versions: The array of Vista editions could prove to be three too many, and upgrades between versions remain an unknown.
8. Activation: The need to activate the product via the Web could prove to be a time-waster during mass deployments.
More guesswork.
Guesswork to which? There are definitely 7 versions, which is too many depending on your point of view:) From the reports I've read, at least three of those versions are not even worth considering (ie: one of the EU only, one is so stripped down it's not even worth considering, etc.
I think what he means is that a screenshot tour of slackware is about the same as one for mandrake, gentoo, etc, past the install. Who wants to see a bunch of kde screenshots, seriously.
IIRC Apple does/did that with the U2 ipod version (4th gen?) where it came with their latest album and either all their other albums or a selection of other U2 albums pre-loaded. A cool bonus, but not something that'll give me a reason to buy something. If I'm really a U2 fan I'll have a fair selection of their music already, and unless they are better quality or lossless copies...
Games which require direct X 10 (vista only) should be able to degrade nicely just like current games can operate dx 7 or dx 9 pathways.
"Should" being the operative word. Unless MS wants you to buy their latest OS and makes this a requirement. Or their strategic partners are convinced to do it, or do it on their own to help their relationship with B-B-B-Bill.
The issue of course is that if there are too many the user is numb to them and just clicks 'ok' each time, and eventually doesn't notice that foobar24.js is doing something instead of rundll32.exe (and to the common user, who can tell the difference between those filenames?).
Also as the article noted, there is no STFU checkbox:( Oh well, they have 9 more months to fix things like this.
This issue is that on a linux or mac desktop you can delete icons from the desktop or change your desktop background without nag screens. Vista pops up auth dialogs for these seemingly simple operations (and as the flickr link posted earlier in this thread shows, it goes way overboard).
I have no problem for vista prompting me if a program tries to change my homepage, or install a new device driver, or when I'm installing a new application. That I agree is wanted behaviour (though not when I change my homepage by hand of course, only if done programatically:)
The thing is, their browser doesn't even support PNG properly yet (even ie7 I believe), so why would I believe that a) they could support this properly or b) everyone else would.
My other reaction is regarding the photography side of it. Professional photographers aren't going to stop using tiff/raw formats anytime soon, and non-pros are happy enough with jpg because they don't know or care about the format, and really just want something they can get at easily and share/print easily.
Oh, and I don't trust MS not to mess up a potentially good format (if it is that) with licensing issues or other such trickery.
That's just dumb. We won't throw out compression just because we have big drives.
I say yes and no. I agree that stupidly throwing away disk space is silly, however, if you look at any uhmm... "less than legal" sites where "video files" are traded, a year or two ago everything was ripped from DVD to AVI, a single (or in special cases, 2) 700mb files. These days movies, I mean, video files, are ripped to fit on a 4.5G disk. Dual layer DVDs are coming down I'm sure, and it won't be long until you get DVD9 rips. Take that a bit farther with superbit and HD-DVD and so on. Now take the person who has a media center/mythbox or whatever and wants fast digital access to movies, much easier to just navigate to the 'dvd' directory on your fileserver and load your full and complete DVD9 rip than grab the dvd, *walk* to the player, etc.
Personally I've started ripping my own CDs to FLAC instead of mp3 or ogg because if I have a lossless copy of them, I can then transcode that to mp3 or ogg or mp4 or whatever the format that my current player take. I really don't want to re-rip them all (again) to the latest format of choice. Course, instead of flac I should be ripping right to wav or raw data, but that's a discussion for another day.
I'm just saying that with that amount of space available, people will find ways to fill it up, and movies and music are good candidates for the dedicated to store losslessly, and will start getting bigger now that the HD-DVD days are upon us.
And yes, I have no idea how you'd back that up except to a similar drive(s) on an external chassis or a SAN:)
The poster is under the false impression that (in this case) microsoft is trying to provide a better operating environment for users and not trying to
a) make money by selling their OS b) make money by selling hardware and therefor selling their OS
Linux and non-commercial varients are at least not making money, but unfortunately a lot of times they are just keeping up with the commercial OSs to not be left behind and "look old".
[...] an analogy can be a spoken or textual comparison between two words (or sets of words) to highlight some form of semantic similarity between them. Linguistic analogies can be used to strengthen political and philosophical arguments, even when the semantic similarity is weak or non-existent (if crafted carefully for the audience).
Man it's been ages since I've seen that... thanks for the nostalgia. SLS with the floppy disk sets was my first as well, set it up on a machine at work until I was confident enough about it to put it on my home machine, and been a linux guy ever since.
Sadly this app doesn't seem to handle my rather large (90G-ish) library. Crashes on import, or if it imports completely, crashes on subsequent loading:( Too bad, it does look nice (high praise from a GNOME guy:)
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Vim 6.4 Released
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Nothing is wrong with those, however generally speaking, they aren't installed by default on a unix box, while vi/vim/elvis or some other vi-type editor is installed on pretty much 100% of every unix box I've been on, from linux to solaris to *bsd to hpux. Personally I love vi, however I understand it's not for everyone.
Everyone who works with unix should learn how to use vi though, for the simple reason that it's on pretty much every unix box out there, and is the editor you're pretty much guarenteed to be able to have available if $random_person asks you to quick jump on their $unix_box to [do something].
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Are the Mozilla developers giving them a cake?
With the recipe?
"The cake is a lie" jokes in 3...2...1...
*crickets*
Hmm..... :)
I agree and disagree. If you want high performance NAS like you'd get in a data center, then drobo definitely isn't the way to go, but if you are just looking for a simple home unit for backups and maybe storing media on, then it's not all that bad.
Think of it like an apple product, simple, elegant, streamlined, but still missing some of the advanced features you could get if you built your own.
Yes, the slow speed sucks, no, it doesn't affect streaming video / music to something like mythtv or itunes. The biggest PITA for me is that when it sleeps it takes a few seconds to wake up and spin up the disks.
I've had one for about a month and have no problem with it streaming video (divx) to my mythtv or having my mp3 collection on it for itunes, or storing all my pictures on it and accessing it from lightroom. I chose it because I had gone the "build your own" before using linux + lvm + evms + raid and decided I wanted something I didn't have to maintain or worry about. YMMV of course, depending on what you're looking for :)
Yes, but knowing that your camera is accurate *allows* you to have that creative control. If you want to focus on the background instead of the forground, but when you do your camera focuses on the middle ground, how does that help? I'm all for creative effects, and yes, people use odd and strange cameras for fun (my dad is a fan of the Fez, a Russian leica knock off), but to have that creative control you need control first.
E6600 (Dual core 2.40) / 2G / Vista ultimate. Even a single file of under 1mb can take several seconds. However, I've noticed that this doesn't seem to happen if you're copying files in your own space, ie: desktop / documents folder / pictures folder / etc. However, copying a file from your own space to either a network drive of (heaven forbid) into your c: or somewhere else on the system, there seems to be a stupidly slow amount of time.
Sometimes it also seems that another process asking for UAC rights will completely stop a copy. I had one where I was copying a small file around and it took literally five minutes before I cancelled it, then I noticed that a program I was installing was asking for UAC rights. Not sure if they were related.
This definately isn't an issue of copying a million 1 byte files slowing the sytem down. This is copying a single 600k file around taking 20-30 seconds of 'caculating' and then it copies it.
I can understand that there's a lot of extra crap going on in the background with checking DRM rights, file permissions, ACLs, etc, but come on, programs are supposed to get faster as they come along, not slower.
obOfftopic: Wonder when someone will release a Vista-Lite with all the extra crap (processes / services) stripped out?
Four digit UID?
Bah, kids these days.
1. SMB2: Vista introduces a new variant of the SMB protocol called SMB2, which may pose problems for those connecting to non-Microsoft networks, such as Samba on Linux.
:) From the reports I've read, at least three of those versions are not even worth considering (ie: one of the EU only, one is so stripped down it's not even worth considering, etc.
Purely speculative.
An interview with the samba guys on FLOSS weekly (twit.tv) said they had talked to someone in the SMB group at microsoft and the only reason for smb2 was to "f*ck with samba".
7. Five Versions: The array of Vista editions could prove to be three too many, and upgrades between versions remain an unknown.
8. Activation: The need to activate the product via the Web could prove to be a time-waster during mass deployments.
More guesswork.
Guesswork to which? There are definitely 7 versions, which is too many depending on your point of view
I think by that point we'll be digitizing our pron *people*, not pictures and storing them..... think holodeck.
I think what he means is that a screenshot tour of slackware is about the same as one for mandrake, gentoo, etc, past the install. Who wants to see a bunch of kde screenshots, seriously.
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IIRC Apple does/did that with the U2 ipod version (4th gen?) where it came with their latest album and either all their other albums or a selection of other U2 albums pre-loaded. A cool bonus, but not something that'll give me a reason to buy something. If I'm really a U2 fan I'll have a fair selection of their music already, and unless they are better quality or lossless copies...
The issue of course is that if there are too many the user is numb to them and just clicks 'ok' each time, and eventually doesn't notice that foobar24.js is doing something instead of rundll32.exe (and to the common user, who can tell the difference between those filenames?).
:( Oh well, they have 9 more months to fix things like this.
Also as the article noted, there is no STFU checkbox
This issue is that on a linux or mac desktop you can delete icons from the desktop or change your desktop background without nag screens. Vista pops up auth dialogs for these seemingly simple operations (and as the flickr link posted earlier in this thread shows, it goes way overboard).
:)
I have no problem for vista prompting me if a program tries to change my homepage, or install a new device driver, or when I'm installing a new application. That I agree is wanted behaviour (though not when I change my homepage by hand of course, only if done programatically
The thing is, their browser doesn't even support PNG properly yet (even ie7 I believe), so why would I believe that a) they could support this properly or b) everyone else would.
My other reaction is regarding the photography side of it. Professional photographers aren't going to stop using tiff/raw formats anytime soon, and non-pros are happy enough with jpg because they don't know or care about the format, and really just want something they can get at easily and share/print easily.
Oh, and I don't trust MS not to mess up a potentially good format (if it is that) with licensing issues or other such trickery.
That's just dumb. We won't throw out compression just because we have big drives.
I say yes and no. I agree that stupidly throwing away disk space is silly, however, if you look at any uhmm... "less than legal" sites where "video files" are traded, a year or two ago everything was ripped from DVD to AVI, a single (or in special cases, 2) 700mb files. These days movies, I mean, video files, are ripped to fit on a 4.5G disk. Dual layer DVDs are coming down I'm sure, and it won't be long until you get DVD9 rips. Take that a bit farther with superbit and HD-DVD and so on. Now take the person who has a media center/mythbox or whatever and wants fast digital access to movies, much easier to just navigate to the 'dvd' directory on your fileserver and load your full and complete DVD9 rip than grab the dvd, *walk* to the player, etc.
Personally I've started ripping my own CDs to FLAC instead of mp3 or ogg because if I have a lossless copy of them, I can then transcode that to mp3 or ogg or mp4 or whatever the format that my current player take. I really don't want to re-rip them all (again) to the latest format of choice. Course, instead of flac I should be ripping right to wav or raw data, but that's a discussion for another day.
I'm just saying that with that amount of space available, people will find ways to fill it up, and movies and music are good candidates for the dedicated to store losslessly, and will start getting bigger now that the HD-DVD days are upon us.
And yes, I have no idea how you'd back that up except to a similar drive(s) on an external chassis or a SAN
The poster is under the false impression that (in this case) microsoft is trying to provide a better operating environment for users and not trying to
a) make money by selling their OS
b) make money by selling hardware and therefor selling their OS
Linux and non-commercial varients are at least not making money, but unfortunately a lot of times they are just keeping up with the commercial OSs to not be left behind and "look old".
[...] an analogy can be a spoken or textual comparison between two words (or sets of words) to highlight some form of semantic similarity between them. Linguistic analogies can be used to strengthen political and philosophical arguments, even when the semantic similarity is weak or non-existent (if crafted carefully for the audience).
#1 - expected release date is 2008(*)...
* With adjustment for slippages from expected 2006 release date
I'm glad I get my music off of p2p networks and don't have to worry about trojans and rootkits and that evil hacker stuff!
It actually reads ACP, not AGP.
Man it's been ages since I've seen that... thanks for the nostalgia. SLS with the floppy disk sets was my first as well, set it up on a machine at work until I was confident enough about it to put it on my home machine, and been a linux guy ever since.
Right now rhythmbox handles my library well enough. RB still has a way to go, however it works well enough right now.
Sadly this app doesn't seem to handle my rather large (90G-ish) library. Crashes on import, or if it imports completely, crashes on subsequent loading :( Too bad, it does look nice (high praise from a GNOME guy :)
Nothing is wrong with those, however generally speaking, they aren't installed by default on a unix box, while vi/vim/elvis or some other vi-type editor is installed on pretty much 100% of every unix box I've been on, from linux to solaris to *bsd to hpux. Personally I love vi, however I understand it's not for everyone.
Everyone who works with unix should learn how to use vi though, for the simple reason that it's on pretty much every unix box out there, and is the editor you're pretty much guarenteed to be able to have available if $random_person asks you to quick jump on their $unix_box to [do something].
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