Hmm, good point; what time zone is this Nov 16 date in? UTC, or one of the US's squillion confusing ones nobody ever remembers the name of? The FAQ just mentions the date, and they seem to like using PDT..
Funnily enough, I just tried to preload HL2; their content servers are down, their forum is down, and their crappy custom client won't let me download to anywhere but C:, when all my free space is on D: and E:. Great, thanks Valve, you rock. What's the bet their servers die horribly on the 16th too?:/
Here's some logic: RAID-5 needs to write across all disks to update parity on writes, which slows them no matter how much fancy hardware you've got to improve them. RAID-5 also needs to rebuild data from parity after a drive failure, meaning your high volume server is going to crawl until you can replace and rebuild.
RAID-10/01 gives you a mirrored stripe; mirrors improve read performance by letting you balance reads across drives either to increase STR or TPS, stripes improve read performance again and also give you a boost in writes.
RAID-10/01 is generally faster (mainly on writes and rebuilds), and can sustain more drive failures than RAID-5 (which is more important to me than saving a few bucks on hardware given that these are typically on important high volume systems).
And here's a nice big document from a fairly trustworthy source to back me up. Nice try though.
Ergo the 6800 isn't enough to play HL2 (or mods which are doubtless going to be somewhat less optimized) at the settings some people desire. What's justification if not that?
This is why there's a market for SLI, and even more insanely powerful hardware:)
Mmmm, vendor lock-in. All for the want of a few plugins that probably amount to about 100k of code (or it would if QT's plugin system wasn't so hideous).
+1 for fb2k. I use it with foo_ui_columns, and it looks and feels a hell of a lot nicer than WinAmp ever did (that is; like a real application, and not an ugly picture with buttons (although you can make it look like that too)). Don't let its rather, uh, conservative default look put you off.
Yes; in my defense it was 4:11am when I wrote that, and I spotted it as soon as I hit Submit. Meh;)
The main thing holding me back atm is the lack of a PocketPC or Zaurus client (the latter's easier to deal with, but don't mistake me for someone who isn't lazy); IPSec would be better in that regard, if I could be bothered learning how to set it up.
Enterprise mode (Radius-authenticated) WPA seems interesting too, but every Radius server I've seen seems hideously overcomplex for just a little home WLAN.
What is it? Samurize seems to do a lot of what I see Konfabulator being used for (which extends way beyond system monitoring). I'm guessing Konfabulator has more of a point-and-drool interface or something *shrug*.
"OGG specification and all tools are completely public domain"
No they're not; they're BSD and LGPL licensed (not sure about the specs; but definately not public domain, which means something very different).
"I can always go from OGG->WAV in the worst-case scenario (I ripped at reasonably high quality (-q7=~220kbps), so I wouldn't even feel too bad transcoding them to 128kbps MP3 if I wanted to)"
A lossless format would let you do this without feeling bad at all, and without worries about defeciencies of the format (which Vorbis has had its fair share of, even at -q10). It also makes it relatively easy to take advantage of any future developments in lossless and lossy audio codecs. And of course if you lose a CD, you can recreate it properly; not just using an approximation which sounds about right on your current hardware (yeah; I'm probably couldn't ABX -q7 Vorbis on any hardware for the most part, but that's not the point).
"So now there is a 50% greater chance of catastrophic energy collection failure. Check."
Maybe, how do you know? Maybe the new panels have a higher MTBF; maybe Beagle 2 really needed all 4 panels, but Beagle III could run off a single new one; maybe with fewer parts the MTBF of the entire system's actually higher even if it can't survive a single failure. Of course, as a random SlashDot poster, I'm sure you're more aware of the issues surrounding it than experienced engineers.
"So now when the "fanfold mechanism" for that panel fails we lose communications along with half the power. Check."
You're probably boned if you lose either; so what? Are you somehow under the impression that having *more* parts you're dependent on makes for a more reliable system? Do you RAID-0 your HD's by any chance?
No, actually we have incremental backups going back several weeks. What, did you think tapes were the only storage devices with the magical property of supporting dump(8)?
We have similar problems with the aacraid driver and an Adaptec S2120S (4 drive RAID-10). It likes to drop a drive out of the array and then lock up every month or so (and yes, we've replaced card, drive and cable).
This isn't fun when it's your master database to your high volume website. Needless to say, it's now a slave to a FreeBSD master with the same card and drive configuration, which is rock solid. Meh.
No. RAID-5 has advantages in performance too, mainly in the ability to service multiple accesses. Of course, if you need a lot of storage, and hence a lot of disks, performance isn't that much of a concern; it's more down to the massively increased probability of one or more of your drives experiencing early failure.
"If you want the data to stay safe then use a backup, not a RAID."
Another RAID array can make a good backup solution, and with relatively unimportant data, even a single one can reduce the probability of failure to a level where not backing up is acceptable. Say you want to keep your DVD/music collection on live storage -- you already have backups, but restoring is a big job...
"why anyone would need the additional uptime in an in-home setting"
I dunno about you, but my time's pretty precious. If I can avoid spending a few hours rebuilding a drive, or my entire OS every year or so, even a moderately expensive setup will more than pay for itself.
As for hotswap; SATA supports it natively, and there are plenty of cases about which include hotswap drive bays. You can even get racks/caddies which fit in 5.25" bays. They're a bit pricy, but then so are big monitors and powerful graphics cards and top end CPU's; so what?
If you're going to "educate", might I suggest introducing them to Opera too? And any other decent browser on $platform_of_choice? Otherwise you're not educating, you're just being a fanboi. It's worse than all the Linux users who talk about it as if it's the only free *ix that's worth thinking about, when it's really part of a sizable group with different strenths and weaknesses:/
Too much work for too little payback, I imagine; especially with regard to things like comments and stories, which would easily tear said XHTML to shreds without significant work (just *testing* that work is a challange, never mind writing it).
Oh, and please stop associating XHTML with CSS; HTML 4.01 Strict is *JUST AS GOOD* as XHTML, if not better, since it doesn't ask the browser to stop rendering if you mess up some trivial little detail (and a site like this has a *lot* of trivial little details), nor does it have these silly Content-Type issues (why are you serving XML as text/html, a (pseudo)-SGML format? That's a huge hack if ever I saw one), and it's actually *supported* in IE et all.</pointless-rant type="nobody cares, not even me">
If you paid using a bank account, you sent what PayPal call an eChe{que,ck} which will take a few days to clear. If you didn't use a CC, and didn't have a balance with PayPal, that'll be why.
That PayPal don't make this clear to you is a small demonstration of how much they suck.
The keywords meta content: "suicide, girls, suicidegirls, members, runelateralus".
As for the offending page content, imagine this:
"FAVORITE BOOKS: Screw books! Video games: Ninja Gaiden, Halo, Zelda, Final Fantasy I-VI, Dead or Alive, Mortal Kombat, Castlevania, Silent Hill, Earthworm Jim, Mega Man, Unreal, Metroid, Doom, Soul Caliber, Guilty Gear, F-Zero GX, Eternal Darkness, KOTOR, WarCraft"
Along with tonnes of other bio stuff, next to a guy's blog, with a few pictures of cute goth girls he likes, and a few suggestive but tame adverts for the site in place of some member-only content. I'll let you be the judge.
So? Almost every Opera user is on v7 by now, and its DOM support is very good. Either way, matching on/Opera/ and refusing access is about as far from the correct fix as it's possible to go.
Pet bug I keep running into: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18738 4 (not bothering to link, since Bugzilla blocks/. referrers). Gecko's *full* of annoying little bugs like this, moreso than any other browser I develop for:/
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Hmm, good point; what time zone is this Nov 16 date in? UTC, or one of the US's squillion confusing ones nobody ever remembers the name of? The FAQ just mentions the date, and they seem to like using PDT..
:/
Funnily enough, I just tried to preload HL2; their content servers are down, their forum is down, and their crappy custom client won't let me download to anywhere but C:, when all my free space is on D: and E:. Great, thanks Valve, you rock. What's the bet their servers die horribly on the 16th too?
Here's some logic: RAID-5 needs to write across all disks to update parity on writes, which slows them no matter how much fancy hardware you've got to improve them. RAID-5 also needs to rebuild data from parity after a drive failure, meaning your high volume server is going to crawl until you can replace and rebuild.
RAID-10/01 gives you a mirrored stripe; mirrors improve read performance by letting you balance reads across drives either to increase STR or TPS, stripes improve read performance again and also give you a boost in writes.
RAID-10/01 is generally faster (mainly on writes and rebuilds), and can sustain more drive failures than RAID-5 (which is more important to me than saving a few bucks on hardware given that these are typically on important high volume systems).
And here's a nice big document from a fairly trustworthy source to back me up. Nice try though.
Why would you use RAID 01 over RAID 10?
(Answer appears to be that your controller sucks).
Ergo the 6800 isn't enough to play HL2 (or mods which are doubtless going to be somewhat less optimized) at the settings some people desire. What's justification if not that?
:)
This is why there's a market for SLI, and even more insanely powerful hardware
Mmmm, vendor lock-in. All for the want of a few plugins that probably amount to about 100k of code (or it would if QT's plugin system wasn't so hideous).
+1 for fb2k. I use it with foo_ui_columns, and it looks and feels a hell of a lot nicer than WinAmp ever did (that is; like a real application, and not an ugly picture with buttons (although you can make it look like that too)). Don't let its rather, uh, conservative default look put you off.
Yes; in my defense it was 4:11am when I wrote that, and I spotted it as soon as I hit Submit. Meh ;)
The main thing holding me back atm is the lack of a PocketPC or Zaurus client (the latter's easier to deal with, but don't mistake me for someone who isn't lazy); IPSec would be better in that regard, if I could be bothered learning how to set it up.
Enterprise mode (Radius-authenticated) WPA seems interesting too, but every Radius server I've seen seems hideously overcomplex for just a little home WLAN.
Er, s/a VPN/IPSec/. *cough*
Looked at OpenVPN? Seems a lot easier to configure than a VPN.
The demo's pretty crappy, imo; the full game is *much* better than it makes out, aside from the nasty list of bugs :/
What is it? Samurize seems to do a lot of what I see Konfabulator being used for (which extends way beyond system monitoring). I'm guessing Konfabulator has more of a point-and-drool interface or something *shrug*.
No they're not; they're BSD and LGPL licensed (not sure about the specs; but definately not public domain, which means something very different).
A lossless format would let you do this without feeling bad at all, and without worries about defeciencies of the format (which Vorbis has had its fair share of, even at -q10). It also makes it relatively easy to take advantage of any future developments in lossless and lossy audio codecs. And of course if you lose a CD, you can recreate it properly; not just using an approximation which sounds about right on your current hardware (yeah; I'm probably couldn't ABX -q7 Vorbis on any hardware for the most part, but that's not the point).
Maybe, how do you know? Maybe the new panels have a higher MTBF; maybe Beagle 2 really needed all 4 panels, but Beagle III could run off a single new one; maybe with fewer parts the MTBF of the entire system's actually higher even if it can't survive a single failure. Of course, as a random SlashDot poster, I'm sure you're more aware of the issues surrounding it than experienced engineers.
You're probably boned if you lose either; so what? Are you somehow under the impression that having *more* parts you're dependent on makes for a more reliable system? Do you RAID-0 your HD's by any chance?
s/Fire/Dragon/
No, actually we have incremental backups going back several weeks. What, did you think tapes were the only storage devices with the magical property of supporting dump(8)?
We have similar problems with the aacraid driver and an Adaptec S2120S (4 drive RAID-10). It likes to drop a drive out of the array and then lock up every month or so (and yes, we've replaced card, drive and cable).
This isn't fun when it's your master database to your high volume website. Needless to say, it's now a slave to a FreeBSD master with the same card and drive configuration, which is rock solid. Meh.
No. RAID-5 has advantages in performance too, mainly in the ability to service multiple accesses. Of course, if you need a lot of storage, and hence a lot of disks, performance isn't that much of a concern; it's more down to the massively increased probability of one or more of your drives experiencing early failure.
Another RAID array can make a good backup solution, and with relatively unimportant data, even a single one can reduce the probability of failure to a level where not backing up is acceptable. Say you want to keep your DVD/music collection on live storage -- you already have backups, but restoring is a big job...
I dunno about you, but my time's pretty precious. If I can avoid spending a few hours rebuilding a drive, or my entire OS every year or so, even a moderately expensive setup will more than pay for itself.
As for hotswap; SATA supports it natively, and there are plenty of cases about which include hotswap drive bays. You can even get racks/caddies which fit in 5.25" bays. They're a bit pricy, but then so are big monitors and powerful graphics cards and top end CPU's; so what?
If you're going to "educate", might I suggest introducing them to Opera too? And any other decent browser on $platform_of_choice? Otherwise you're not educating, you're just being a fanboi. It's worse than all the Linux users who talk about it as if it's the only free *ix that's worth thinking about, when it's really part of a sizable group with different strenths and weaknesses :/
Too much work for too little payback, I imagine; especially with regard to things like comments and stories, which would easily tear said XHTML to shreds without significant work (just *testing* that work is a challange, never mind writing it).
Oh, and please stop associating XHTML with CSS; HTML 4.01 Strict is *JUST AS GOOD* as XHTML, if not better, since it doesn't ask the browser to stop rendering if you mess up some trivial little detail (and a site like this has a *lot* of trivial little details), nor does it have these silly Content-Type issues (why are you serving XML as text/html, a (pseudo)-SGML format? That's a huge hack if ever I saw one), and it's actually *supported* in IE et all.</pointless-rant type="nobody cares, not even me">
If you paid using a bank account, you sent what PayPal call an eChe{que,ck} which will take a few days to clear. If you didn't use a CC, and didn't have a balance with PayPal, that'll be why.
That PayPal don't make this clear to you is a small demonstration of how much they suck.
9GB/s ~= 72Gbps. Try again?
As for the offending page content, imagine this:
Along with tonnes of other bio stuff, next to a guy's blog, with a few pictures of cute goth girls he likes, and a few suggestive but tame adverts for the site in place of some member-only content. I'll let you be the judge.
So? Almost every Opera user is on v7 by now, and its DOM support is very good. Either way, matching on /Opera/ and refusing access is about as far from the correct fix as it's possible to go.
Pet bug I keep running into: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18738 4 (not bothering to link, since Bugzilla blocks /. referrers). Gecko's *full* of annoying little bugs like this, moreso than any other browser I develop for :/