Oh, USB connected disks don't exist in your universe?
Sure, but using one basically defeats the purpose of this device, since now you have additional cabling to connect to your drive, probably another power supply for the drive plus more power draw fpr the drive. You may as well just buy a small atom-based "server" and have a single box with dramatically more capability and a lot less screwing around.
Firewalls, Torrent Slaves, Front end for a "remote desktop" style connection, small traveling computer for a hotel that has a flat screen, etc.
Firewalling with only a single NIC is difficult when most consumer level switches don't support vlan tagging.
You're not going to be torrenting much with that little computing power and especially that little storage.
Not sure what a "remote desktop" style connection is that can't be done just as easily with a port forward or something like TeamViewer.
"Travelling computer" ? Isn't that what a laptop is ?
These things are kinda cool, in a geeky way, but I don't see what they achieve that can't be done _much_ better with a cheap PC and/or VMs.
how does it crash? HDD: Painfully and irrevocably. SSD: Read only
If you think this is the only way an SSD can "crash", you may be in for a rude shock one day.
And when you look at the performance difference between a massive SAS drive and a single SSD, there's hardly any reason to use RAID for SSD, as you can often replace 8 HDDs with a single SSD, when all you need is IO.
You use RAID with SSDs for the same reason you use them on regular hard disks - availability. The primary purpose of RAID is not to avoid data loss, it's to avoid a whole system failure because a single component broke.
Although that's an exploitable component for social engineers, social engineering is fairly rare, and it doesn't scale well.
What ? Most major (and minor) malware outbreaks in the last decade were utterly reliant on social engineering to be effective. What do you think the standard "run this attachment is to see the dancing bunnies" is, if not a form of social engineering ? Heck, that latest Facebook scam only a few stories below this one is a perfect example of social engineering, and it's but one more in a long list to have hit that community.
Social engineering, as an exploit vector, is not only extremely common and scalable, but becoming more so every day.
I think the whole driving/road system is based on trust and it works quite well. It's potentially a very dangerous environment where the penalties for being reckless are not as bad as the potential damage you can cause. And yet it somehow works.
Driving recklessly is something that tends to have very fast, very real and frequently irrevocable consequences. There's not really any aspect of using a computer that can come even close, for the average person.
Although, I was basically done at the point I heard Darth Fucking Vader say, "Is Padme all right?".
You mean you managed to get past the point where he went from a standard-issue angst-ridden teenager to a bloodthirsty, child-murdering psychopath in around 30 minutes, without laughing ?
Keeping MSIE in place AND keeping pieces of it throughout the OS show that there is no intention of MSIE being there to benefit the end-user in anyway.
Every other remotely mainstream platform copied Microsoft and now does the same thing - and has for the better part of a decade, if not longer. What's their excuse(s) ?
One of my co-workers got curious about the unlabeled big red button in the server room. Because he lied about hitting it [...]
At a previous job we had one of these (albeit with a "Do not push this, ever" label above it) that did nothing more than set off a siren and snap a photo of the offender with a hidden camera. Much amusement was had by all when some new employee's curiosity inevitably got the better of them.
The thing that I want to avoid is mind altering chemicals involuntarily entering my body or those of others.
Your mind is not going to be "altered" by half a lungful of second-hand marijuana smoke. Hell, you can walk through a room so full of the stuff you can't even see the other side, and the worst you'll suffer is a coughing fit.
To say nothing of alcohol being at least as "mind altering" as marijuana, yet perfectly legal.
If a grown adult wants to harm themselves, that I would allow. I don't think you should ever be able to legally harm innocent people.
If that's your measure of "harm" then, damn, it's hard to see how half the things we interact with on a daily basis could be considered legal (especially given how many children are doped up these days in the name of ADD).
The term "technical" is far to often used for things that are clearly not technical (like UIs), just because they are used on electronic devices like phones and computers.
There is a great deal of research, development, design and testing that goes into creating a good UI. How is that not a "technical" achievement ?
I think you're missing my point, which is that ALL filesystems require you to keep backups, and therefore "but ZFS means you need to keep backups" is not really a valid criticism.
I'm not aware of Sun - or anyone else - saying that ZFS removes the need for disaster recovery backups.
The iPod was game changing at the time. Apple got an exclusive agreement to use the 1.8" drives for about a year - no other players at the time could store a sizeable fraction of your music collection (5GB!) in something small enough to fit into a pocket. You had Flash players that had space for one or two albums, or players that used the bigger 2.5" drives and didn't fit into a pocket.
"Holds more stuff" isn't game-changing. Unless you think that every subsequent iPod was also "game changing" because it held more stuff ?
Heck, even the very first mp3 player (whatever it might have been) wasn't "game changing" in any meaningful sense of the word - it was just doing the same thing Sony (and others) had been doing beforehand with their Walkman products, ONLY WITH MP3s.
As it stands, if somebody exposes me to their pot cloud, I can have them arrested for drug use. However if it were legal, then I would have no recourse.
What's your recourse when some drunk guy walks past you talking to loud ? Or a smoker blows their smoke in your direction ?
Which raises the perfectly relevant point that reducing transistor size is not the only method of increasing processing speed, and so keeping up with Moore and his Law.
Despite frequent misrepresentation, Moore's law is specifically about transistors, and says nothing about overall, or general, computing performance.
Todays cars are more complex. they are NOT more efficient.
Absolutely they are. At the very least, compare power and torque numbers to modern and old vehicles at the same MPG. Then take into account how much safer you are in a modern vehicle and how much more reliable they are.
zfs needs 4gb of ram (really) and multi-core cpus.
That's the price you pay for better data integrity and more features. Considering one could build a multicore/4GB RAM box for a few hundred dollars, the price doesn't seem that high.
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It's kind of like selling a limited service as "unlimited". But no one would ever do that, right?
"Unlimited internet" has, since its inception, pretty much universally referred to how how much you could download, not how fast you could do it.
Oh, USB connected disks don't exist in your universe?
Sure, but using one basically defeats the purpose of this device, since now you have additional cabling to connect to your drive, probably another power supply for the drive plus more power draw fpr the drive. You may as well just buy a small atom-based "server" and have a single box with dramatically more capability and a lot less screwing around.
Firewalls, Torrent Slaves, Front end for a "remote desktop" style connection, small traveling computer for a hotel that has a flat screen, etc.
Firewalling with only a single NIC is difficult when most consumer level switches don't support vlan tagging.
You're not going to be torrenting much with that little computing power and especially that little storage.
Not sure what a "remote desktop" style connection is that can't be done just as easily with a port forward or something like TeamViewer.
"Travelling computer" ? Isn't that what a laptop is ?
These things are kinda cool, in a geeky way, but I don't see what they achieve that can't be done _much_ better with a cheap PC and/or VMs.
Please point me to where Ubuntu keeps pieces of any particular Web browser throughout the OS - and has for the better part of a decade, if not longer.
Both KDE and GNOME include a browser component similar to IE, and have for a very long time.
I have hear this plenty, but not since the early 1970s. Then there was outrage in the 1980s when they passed an open container law for the front seat.
I must admit the reasoning behind open container laws utterly mystify me. What's the point ?
3. Price
INTEL X25-V SATA2 SSD 40GB 2.5" MLC 34NM (115 EUR, 2.9 EUR/GB)
WD VELOCIRAPTOR 300GB SATA2 10KRPM 16MB (185 EUR, 0.62 EUR/GB)
3. Price
INTEL X25-V SATA2 SSD 40GB 2.5" MLC 34NM, 4K Random Write IOPS: 2,500 (115 EUR, 21.7 IOPS/EUR)
WD VELOCIRAPTOR 300GB SATA2 10KRPM 16MB 4K Random Write IOPS: 100 (185 EUR, 0.54 IOPS/EUR)
Depending on your metric, SSDs can be a great deal.
how does it crash? HDD: Painfully and irrevocably. SSD: Read only
If you think this is the only way an SSD can "crash", you may be in for a rude shock one day.
And when you look at the performance difference between a massive SAS drive and a single SSD, there's hardly any reason to use RAID for SSD, as you can often replace 8 HDDs with a single SSD, when all you need is IO.
You use RAID with SSDs for the same reason you use them on regular hard disks - availability. The primary purpose of RAID is not to avoid data loss, it's to avoid a whole system failure because a single component broke.
Although that's an exploitable component for social engineers, social engineering is fairly rare, and it doesn't scale well.
What ? Most major (and minor) malware outbreaks in the last decade were utterly reliant on social engineering to be effective. What do you think the standard "run this attachment is to see the dancing bunnies" is, if not a form of social engineering ? Heck, that latest Facebook scam only a few stories below this one is a perfect example of social engineering, and it's but one more in a long list to have hit that community.
Social engineering, as an exploit vector, is not only extremely common and scalable, but becoming more so every day.
I think the whole driving/road system is based on trust and it works quite well. It's potentially a very dangerous environment where the penalties for being reckless are not as bad as the potential damage you can cause. And yet it somehow works.
Driving recklessly is something that tends to have very fast, very real and frequently irrevocable consequences. There's not really any aspect of using a computer that can come even close, for the average person.
Although, I was basically done at the point I heard Darth Fucking Vader say, "Is Padme all right?".
You mean you managed to get past the point where he went from a standard-issue angst-ridden teenager to a bloodthirsty, child-murdering psychopath in around 30 minutes, without laughing ?
Keeping MSIE in place AND keeping pieces of it throughout the OS show that there is no intention of MSIE being there to benefit the end-user in anyway.
Every other remotely mainstream platform copied Microsoft and now does the same thing - and has for the better part of a decade, if not longer. What's their excuse(s) ?
The stats at w3schools are biased toward technical people, so the numbers aren't necessarily representative. There's another version here:
That gives basically the same answer - Windows Vista + Windows 7 have 28.7% (vs 31.5 from w3schools).
So around half the market share of XP, but still ~6x as much as anything that isn't Windows.
One of my co-workers got curious about the unlabeled big red button in the server room. Because he lied about hitting it [...]
At a previous job we had one of these (albeit with a "Do not push this, ever" label above it) that did nothing more than set off a siren and snap a photo of the offender with a hidden camera. Much amusement was had by all when some new employee's curiosity inevitably got the better of them.
They are going to use their budget to go after criminals who kill lots of people or do millions in damage first.
The average cop on the street is not involved in operations involving "criminals who kill lots of people or do millions in damage".
The thing that I want to avoid is mind altering chemicals involuntarily entering my body or those of others.
Your mind is not going to be "altered" by half a lungful of second-hand marijuana smoke. Hell, you can walk through a room so full of the stuff you can't even see the other side, and the worst you'll suffer is a coughing fit.
To say nothing of alcohol being at least as "mind altering" as marijuana, yet perfectly legal.
If a grown adult wants to harm themselves, that I would allow. I don't think you should ever be able to legally harm innocent people.
If that's your measure of "harm" then, damn, it's hard to see how half the things we interact with on a daily basis could be considered legal (especially given how many children are doped up these days in the name of ADD).
The term "technical" is far to often used for things that are clearly not technical (like UIs), just because they are used on electronic devices like phones and computers.
There is a great deal of research, development, design and testing that goes into creating a good UI. How is that not a "technical" achievement ?
I think you're missing my point, which is that ALL filesystems require you to keep backups, and therefore "but ZFS means you need to keep backups" is not really a valid criticism.
I'm not aware of Sun - or anyone else - saying that ZFS removes the need for disaster recovery backups.
I'm getting tired of all the trolls on here who continuously say that Apple sucks.
Observing that Apple don't "innovate" and instead just release well polished improvements to existing ideas, is not "saying Apple sucks".
Once you can get past the "you're either with us or against us" aspect of your Apple fanboyism, you might be able to understand that.
The iPod was game changing at the time. Apple got an exclusive agreement to use the 1.8" drives for about a year - no other players at the time could store a sizeable fraction of your music collection (5GB!) in something small enough to fit into a pocket. You had Flash players that had space for one or two albums, or players that used the bigger 2.5" drives and didn't fit into a pocket.
"Holds more stuff" isn't game-changing. Unless you think that every subsequent iPod was also "game changing" because it held more stuff ?
Heck, even the very first mp3 player (whatever it might have been) wasn't "game changing" in any meaningful sense of the word - it was just doing the same thing Sony (and others) had been doing beforehand with their Walkman products, ONLY WITH MP3s.
As it stands, if somebody exposes me to their pot cloud, I can have them arrested for drug use. However if it were legal, then I would have no recourse.
What's your recourse when some drunk guy walks past you talking to loud ? Or a smoker blows their smoke in your direction ?
Which raises the perfectly relevant point that reducing transistor size is not the only method of increasing processing speed, and so keeping up with Moore and his Law.
Despite frequent misrepresentation, Moore's law is specifically about transistors, and says nothing about overall, or general, computing performance.
In other words, you have it backwards.
Todays cars are more complex. they are NOT more efficient.
Absolutely they are. At the very least, compare power and torque numbers to modern and old vehicles at the same MPG. Then take into account how much safer you are in a modern vehicle and how much more reliable they are.
zfs needs 4gb of ram (really) and multi-core cpus.
That's the price you pay for better data integrity and more features. Considering one could build a multicore/4GB RAM box for a few hundred dollars, the price doesn't seem that high.
However, no matter how great ZFS is, you still need full backups of your ZFS storage [...]
Is there storage for which this doesn't apply ?
An opportunity to cleanly and distinctively fork, so there's clearly Oracle Solaris and Illumos Open Solaris.
The problem is that the market for such a product is so miniscule as to make NetBSD look healthily mainstream.