There is such a beast. At some 7-11's you can buy limited use AMEX cards - with a certain value so you can use it online or wherever. Certainly has the possibility for anonymizing transactions online or in the real world
ok kids - did some more research. Here's the goodies...
- i did some looking around - and one of the better raids for you would be level 2. Orielly defines it as "Data are spanned across multiple disks, and additional disks are used to store Hamming codes (to detect and correct errors or recover from failed drives). Four data disks would require three additional error detection and correction disks." They go on to say that it offers the greatest redundancy but is not commercially available because of the high cost
But we don't care about level 2, since level six is even better. By using two different dimensions of parity - you can lose more than one drive/disc and still be able to access the data. So - it's pretty much raid 5 with an extra set of parity. Obviously - the more disks you have in a set the better, minimum being 4. You can rest a lot easier knowing that even if %50 of your disks go bad, you'll be OK.
More RAID level 6 info The difference between Raid 3 and Raid 5 is where the parity information is stored. With Raid 3, the parity is stored on a dedicated disk. With Raid 5 - that information is spread over all the disks. Which is better depends on what you're storing. Large data files such as graphics/image files get better performance on raid 3, while smaller files do better on raid 5.
Oh - and i messed up in my previous comment - i meant raid 1, not raid 0. 0 is striping over 2 disks, 1 is mirroring.
So you're wondering - all this theoretical info, and no practical tools to be able to actually use it.
Well - it appears that software raid under linux currently doesn't support raid 6 - but some enterprising hacker could certainly put it in (i'd assume) IANAPY (I am not a programmer yet). But RAID-5 gives us a 33% acceptable failure not, not quite 50%, but nothing to sneer at.
I did find some references to sites with a/kernel/2.2.16-1-RAID/modules/CDROM - so i'm assuming somebody uses raid+cdrom currently.
I'll let y'all know if i find something more concrete out
Oh yeah - put your valuable data on tapes. And Save Money!!!!
Nah. I don't think so. While interning at a major telecom firm (think PacBell) a user (internal) accidently deleted a document from the server and asked me to recover it from backup.... Went through an entire case of backup tapes and couldn't recover even part of the data. They let me go, used the savings to buy a better tape drive, then re-hired me a month ago. Mind you - that "better" tape drive still didn't always make tapes that worked.
Moral of the story? Don't work for people who take their employees so lightly. And stay away from tape drives. Eventually something will go wrong with the drive or the tapes and you'll lose data. And since the drives are much less common than CD-ROM drives, you'll probably by SOL if the drive goes to that big/dev/null in the sky.
My advice? There has to be some way to do raid 5+0 with CDR Drives. That's right - parity and mirror. Sure - you'll need to do it with scsi to get the 6 drives on-line at once. And for those 6 CDR's you'll only get about 1.3G. But you'll end up with 2 sets of 3 discs, of which you only need 2 different discs to recover with.
PS: If you get this to work - let me know. It's just geeky enough that I'd kill to be able to brag about giving someone the idea.
Oh no, simple stuff is totally OK. Mechanical drip systems are - Mechanical. Cell phones don't cause many problems with winches, gears, and pulleys unless jammed into the mechanism.
And as a Insulin Pump and CellPhone user - i know my pump works just fine with a cellphone inches away. Those things have so many check and double checks, and triple-watchdog mechanisms that they rarely malfunction (and if they do malfunction - it's usually the software is double checking something while generating a tone and forgets to stop beeping.... Annoying, but not life threatening)
Now, it's the portable real-time monitors that get screwy with cell-phones and the like.
I personally think everything should run Linux. To that end - i resolve to purchase no more home entertainment devices or kitchen appliances that don't run linux. I want to be able to ask my toaster how the weather is in toledo and let my blender download a bananna shake recipie from .
And i'll use my Linux TV to switch between showing me my PS2, Dreamcast, Palm - All of course running linux.
Don't get me wrong, I love linux. From the/root of my HDA to the tip of my/home/smatthew/pron directory. But I don't need it everywhere. Just in my bedroom, living room, kitchen, car, and workplace.;-}
But seriously - If i had money for a PS2 I would love to run Linux on it.;-} Sweet!!!
If you don't want to emphasize your formal education, don't put that as the first thing. Resume's are not set in stone. Yes - there are things that one should follow in order to have an attractive resume, but you don't have to put the sections in the order that the template you started with with.
Conversly, put the section you want to show off the most at the front. If you learned while on the job, put your skills section first (well, after your objective statement).
Please, nobody cares about your last 15million jobs. If they want a full employment list, they'll ask. Keep the previous employment to under a page
No "References available upon request" shit. Of course they want your references - so either put them on your resume or have another sheet that shows them
I have to back up the previous poster, CUSTOMIZE YOUR RESUME. But I'll add on this, customize your Cover Letter too. If there's info on there that I don't need to see, i'll probably wonder why you're wasting my time. Arrgh
Don't list your hobbies, unless they are soo completely and totally relevant. For example - president of a LUG and you're applying to VA Linux? Then you can show it. But 99.99736% of the time they don't care/want to know.
Any other hints? Check out all the stupid sites out there....
There are very few things a prospective employer can ask an old/current employer and they are
*WAIT - IANAL (I am not a Lawyer)
1. Were you employed by this company
2. What was your position
3. What was your first and last day there
4. Did they leave or were they fired (and reason for firing)
and i belive you can ask....
5. What was their salary
Granted, they don't have to tell you diddly squat if they don't want to. But, fudging info, is the quickest way to get your application/resume/ass thrown out with the trash. And you'd better believe that they'll tell your next employer "We fired him for lying on his application."
Relearn ADA? What are you talking about. My Comp-Sci professor says we'll be able to get plenty of jobs with all the ADA we're learning.
PS: I'm not kidding. My Comp Sci department teaches ADA. And it sucks
PPS: The school also admits that as soon as a certain professor dies - they're changing the curriculum and getting rid of ADA
PPPS: Who would guess that the chair of the CS department is also the Education chair of SIG-ADA. Hmmmm - he even wrote all the demo progs that come with the free linux compiler. Aarrrggghhhh
Seriously - go see a doctor. Perhaps you need new drugs or need the doses on your old ones changed. If you can't be outside upwind from a smoker, then you have problems. I'm also assuming that with asthma that bad, you can't climb stairs, clean your house, or even go to work.
So why should your serious handicap 'cause others to stop smoking? Especially if they're outside of a building?
PS: Ever given any thought to how hard it is it quit smoking? I'm trying like hell (haven't had a cigarette in 4or5 days) and i'm craving one but not giving in. Most of those smokers want to quit, but can't. (don't give me any arguments about how they're weak-willed or they could if they wanted.) Cigarettes are very addictive
I'm sorry, but if your asthma is soo bad and out of control that you can't be in any shared airspace with a smoker, perhaps you should remove yourself from the situation. That's right, get the heck out of that restaurant and cook at home. Or go someplace that doesn't having a smoking section.
We're all glad to see your eloquent use of Ad Hominem. I know i much prefer attacking people than their arguments, but can't we be adults?
That's funny - i could have sworn that you were unable to turn dollars in for gold - and it had been that way for a long time.....
And yes - coins are notes of tender. Nowdays - the materials in the coins are worth less than the value of the coin itself - sure - you can melt down your quarters, but don't expect to get $.25 for each of em.....
I'm paid to read slashdot. My employer doesn't know it - but I am;-}
Look at all the subtractive and additive colors
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Well - as everyone knows (or maybe i'm a big dork and only I care about this stuff) - the printed world (which had been around longer than the projected world (such as computer monitors, tv, movies)) uses subtractive color. In Subtractive color - you use Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. Technically, C, M and Y produce black when mixed, but it usually ends up muddy brown because of dye imperfections, so they use the color Black. So - there is a color black, and white is just assumed to exist.
In the additive color world (projected light) black is assumed to exist, while white is the combination of all the colors (Red, Blue, and Green)
You have to remember, that when the phrase "colored" started to be used - there weren't many computers, movie theatres, or TV's around - so the world was used to subtractive color which states that white is not a color, and black is.
Not saying anything about calling people names or anything is right - just providing some info
Re: the heat buildup and reboot problems. Have you ever noticed that your car fan keeps on running after you shut off the car? That's because there's all that residual heat left in the engine block. Same thing happens with computers.
If you've got a small computer running at the limit of it's thermal capacity when then fan is on - if it's turned off the temperature can quickly rise if the fan isn't left running. Then the temperature is too warm and problems ensue. You don't see this problem on most machines because they either let the fan run for a little after it's shut off or they can deal with the excess heat (ie big boxen with their (relatively) massive fans and lots of space inside)
wow - you are soo full of BS. I worked at the San Ramon facility (you know, people generally refer to a facility by it's city name, not street address). I had a cut-out of dilbert sitting on my computer monitor and a calendar on the wall. Everybody loved it.
Now - SBC doesn't like Dilbert, but it's not like they do anything about it (or at least they weren't when i was still there).
But come on now - what do you expect from a sexist texas based company? SBC has a ranch in texas - staffed entirely by large-breasted women. And they like to tell women executive of companies they've swallowed who wear $5000 chanel pant-suits "Here in Texas our women wear dresses"
Of course - those women usually quit right then. Can you blame them.
PS: So does saying this mean PacBell won't hire me back when i go back to CA?
PPS: Call me crazy - but the death star reference is about AT&T. PacBell's headquarter are sweet. Nicest place I've ever worked. Hell, they got fined by the PUC for building a place too nice. A lot of high school drive 2 hours to use the facility for their senior prom.
I rue the day when./ers start doing a little research on their own before crying to the masses for help. Anyways - here it is:
If the problem is with the TOC, you might have a chance. Were you editing the disk when the problem happened? If the TOC hasn't been written - then there are methods to get to the old TOC.
Anyways - check out minidisc.org or do a Google search. I'd reccomend a search string of "minidisc audio lost file recover" or something like that.
Good luck on recorvering the file. Hope it was something you can record again.
What - nobody has ever died from improper dental procedures - or from extreme neglect of their teeth while coding 24hrs a day continuously drinking jolt and eating cheese puffs?
At very least she can help Dr. Glickman save the social lives of people;-] (look at the smile on that one!)
There is built-in support in XFree86 for touchpads - gives you the nifty features like touching to click and stuff..... With their newer models you lose the zoom in/out, scroll up/down left/right features (last time i checked), but they work great except for that.
I have a new model on one linux box, and an older no-frills model on my other linux box - and they work great. Especially good for the Sofa-Side-Computer, where the keyboard is on your lap and there's no place to roll a mouse......
Slashdot Mirror
hey - even nerds like to f**k ;-}
How cynical. As an elected official - he will surely look out for the best interests of the people he serves - not some big faceless corporation.
Oh wait - let me take my rose colored glasses off.....
There is such a beast. At some 7-11's you can buy limited use AMEX cards - with a certain value so you can use it online or wherever. Certainly has the possibility for anonymizing transactions online or in the real world
- i did some looking around - and one of the better raids for you would be level 2. Orielly defines it as "Data are spanned across multiple disks, and additional disks are used to store Hamming codes (to detect and correct errors or recover from failed drives). Four data disks would require three additional error detection and correction disks." They go on to say that it offers the greatest redundancy but is not commercially available because of the high cost
But we don't care about level 2, since level six is even better. By using two different dimensions of parity - you can lose more than one drive/disc and still be able to access the data. So - it's pretty much raid 5 with an extra set of parity. Obviously - the more disks you have in a set the better, minimum being 4. You can rest a lot easier knowing that even if %50 of your disks go bad, you'll be OK.
More RAID level 6 info
/kernel/2.2.16-1-RAID/modules/CDROM - so i'm assuming somebody uses raid+cdrom currently.
The difference between Raid 3 and Raid 5 is where the parity information is stored. With Raid 3, the parity is stored on a dedicated disk. With Raid 5 - that information is spread over all the disks. Which is better depends on what you're storing. Large data files such as graphics/image files get better performance on raid 3, while smaller files do better on raid 5.
Oh - and i messed up in my previous comment - i meant raid 1, not raid 0. 0 is striping over 2 disks, 1 is mirroring.
So you're wondering - all this theoretical info, and no practical tools to be able to actually use it.
Well - it appears that software raid under linux currently doesn't support raid 6 - but some enterprising hacker could certainly put it in (i'd assume) IANAPY (I am not a programmer yet). But RAID-5 gives us a 33% acceptable failure not, not quite 50%, but nothing to sneer at.
I did find some references to sites with a
I'll let y'all know if i find something more concrete out
Oh yeah - put your valuable data on tapes. And Save Money!!!!
/dev/null in the sky.
Nah. I don't think so. While interning at a major telecom firm (think PacBell) a user (internal) accidently deleted a document from the server and asked me to recover it from backup.... Went through an entire case of backup tapes and couldn't recover even part of the data. They let me go, used the savings to buy a better tape drive, then re-hired me a month ago. Mind you - that "better" tape drive still didn't always make tapes that worked.
Moral of the story? Don't work for people who take their employees so lightly. And stay away from tape drives. Eventually something will go wrong with the drive or the tapes and you'll lose data. And since the drives are much less common than CD-ROM drives, you'll probably by SOL if the drive goes to that big
My advice? There has to be some way to do raid 5+0 with CDR Drives. That's right - parity and mirror. Sure - you'll need to do it with scsi to get the 6 drives on-line at once. And for those 6 CDR's you'll only get about 1.3G. But you'll end up with 2 sets of 3 discs, of which you only need 2 different discs to recover with.
PS: If you get this to work - let me know. It's just geeky enough that I'd kill to be able to brag about giving someone the idea.
work it out mary
work
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out
Oh no, simple stuff is totally OK. Mechanical drip systems are - Mechanical. Cell phones don't cause many problems with winches, gears, and pulleys unless jammed into the mechanism.
And as a Insulin Pump and CellPhone user - i know my pump works just fine with a cellphone inches away. Those things have so many check and double checks, and triple-watchdog mechanisms that they rarely malfunction (and if they do malfunction - it's usually the software is double checking something while generating a tone and forgets to stop beeping.... Annoying, but not life threatening)
Now, it's the portable real-time monitors that get screwy with cell-phones and the like.
No wonder my phone always rings in class......
sorry, forgot preview mode ;-}
I personally think everything should run Linux. To that end - i resolve to purchase no more home entertainment devices or kitchen appliances that don't run linux. I want to be able to ask my toaster how the weather is in toledo and let my blender download a bananna shake recipie from .
/root of my HDA to the tip of my /home/smatthew/pron directory. But I don't need it everywhere. Just in my bedroom, living room, kitchen, car, and workplace. ;-}
;-} Sweet!!!
And i'll use my Linux TV to switch between showing me my PS2, Dreamcast, Palm - All of course running linux.
Don't get me wrong, I love linux. From the
But seriously - If i had money for a PS2 I would love to run Linux on it.
mmmm - a beowulf cluster of PS2s and Dreamcasts
Any other hints? Check out all the stupid sites out there....
There's plenty of other resources out there - just look.
Danger Will Robinsons
There are very few things a prospective employer can ask an old/current employer and they are
*WAIT - IANAL (I am not a Lawyer)
1. Were you employed by this company
2. What was your position
3. What was your first and last day there
4. Did they leave or were they fired (and reason for firing)
and i belive you can ask....
5. What was their salary
Granted, they don't have to tell you diddly squat if they don't want to. But, fudging info, is the quickest way to get your application/resume/ass thrown out with the trash. And you'd better believe that they'll tell your next employer "We fired him for lying on his application."
So be careful with fudging information.
Relearn ADA? What are you talking about. My Comp-Sci professor says we'll be able to get plenty of jobs with all the ADA we're learning.
PS: I'm not kidding. My Comp Sci department teaches ADA. And it sucks
PPS: The school also admits that as soon as a certain professor dies - they're changing the curriculum and getting rid of ADA
PPPS: Who would guess that the chair of the CS department is also the Education chair of SIG-ADA. Hmmmm - he even wrote all the demo progs that come with the free linux compiler. Aarrrggghhhh
Seriously - go see a doctor. Perhaps you need new drugs or need the doses on your old ones changed. If you can't be outside upwind from a smoker, then you have problems. I'm also assuming that with asthma that bad, you can't climb stairs, clean your house, or even go to work.
So why should your serious handicap 'cause others to stop smoking? Especially if they're outside of a building?
PS: Ever given any thought to how hard it is it quit smoking? I'm trying like hell (haven't had a cigarette in 4or5 days) and i'm craving one but not giving in. Most of those smokers want to quit, but can't. (don't give me any arguments about how they're weak-willed or they could if they wanted.) Cigarettes are very addictive
I'm sorry, but if your asthma is soo bad and out of control that you can't be in any shared airspace with a smoker, perhaps you should remove yourself from the situation. That's right, get the heck out of that restaurant and cook at home. Or go someplace that doesn't having a smoking section.
We're all glad to see your eloquent use of Ad Hominem. I know i much prefer attacking people than their arguments, but can't we be adults?
That's funny - i could have sworn that you were unable to turn dollars in for gold - and it had been that way for a long time.....
And yes - coins are notes of tender. Nowdays - the materials in the coins are worth less than the value of the coin itself - sure - you can melt down your quarters, but don't expect to get $.25 for each of em.....
Gee - i thought it looked like Minidiscs. Oh wait - it was a minidisc.
I'm paid to read slashdot. My employer doesn't know it - but I am ;-}
Well - as everyone knows (or maybe i'm a big dork and only I care about this stuff) - the printed world (which had been around longer than the projected world (such as computer monitors, tv, movies)) uses subtractive color. In Subtractive color - you use Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. Technically, C, M and Y produce black when mixed, but it usually ends up muddy brown because of dye imperfections, so they use the color Black. So - there is a color black, and white is just assumed to exist.
In the additive color world (projected light) black is assumed to exist, while white is the combination of all the colors (Red, Blue, and Green)
You have to remember, that when the phrase "colored" started to be used - there weren't many computers, movie theatres, or TV's around - so the world was used to subtractive color which states that white is not a color, and black is.
Not saying anything about calling people names or anything is right - just providing some info
Re: the heat buildup and reboot problems. Have you ever noticed that your car fan keeps on running after you shut off the car? That's because there's all that residual heat left in the engine block. Same thing happens with computers.
If you've got a small computer running at the limit of it's thermal capacity when then fan is on - if it's turned off the temperature can quickly rise if the fan isn't left running. Then the temperature is too warm and problems ensue. You don't see this problem on most machines because they either let the fan run for a little after it's shut off or they can deal with the excess heat (ie big boxen with their (relatively) massive fans and lots of space inside)
wow - you are soo full of BS. I worked at the San Ramon facility (you know, people generally refer to a facility by it's city name, not street address). I had a cut-out of dilbert sitting on my computer monitor and a calendar on the wall. Everybody loved it.
Now - SBC doesn't like Dilbert, but it's not like they do anything about it (or at least they weren't when i was still there).
But come on now - what do you expect from a sexist texas based company? SBC has a ranch in texas - staffed entirely by large-breasted women. And they like to tell women executive of companies they've swallowed who wear $5000 chanel pant-suits "Here in Texas our women wear dresses"
Of course - those women usually quit right then. Can you blame them.
PS: So does saying this mean PacBell won't hire me back when i go back to CA?
PPS: Call me crazy - but the death star reference is about AT&T. PacBell's headquarter are sweet. Nicest place I've ever worked. Hell, they got fined by the PUC for building a place too nice. A lot of high school drive 2 hours to use the facility for their senior prom.
I rue the day when ./ers start doing a little research on their own before crying to the masses for help. Anyways - here it is:
If the problem is with the TOC, you might have a chance. Were you editing the disk when the problem happened? If the TOC hasn't been written - then there are methods to get to the old TOC.
Anyways - check out minidisc.org or do a Google search. I'd reccomend a search string of "minidisc audio lost file recover" or something like that.
Good luck on recorvering the file. Hope it was something you can record again.
What - nobody has ever died from improper dental procedures - or from extreme neglect of their teeth while coding 24hrs a day continuously drinking jolt and eating cheese puffs?
;-] (look at the smile on that one!)
At very least she can help Dr. Glickman save the social lives of people
There is built-in support in XFree86 for touchpads - gives you the nifty features like touching to click and stuff..... With their newer models you lose the zoom in/out, scroll up/down left/right features (last time i checked), but they work great except for that.
I have a new model on one linux box, and an older no-frills model on my other linux box - and they work great. Especially good for the Sofa-Side-Computer, where the keyboard is on your lap and there's no place to roll a mouse......
Hey - why isn't the international space station running Linux? I mean - it's soo superior!
;-}
You asked for it