Last time I called an ocean-going vessel a "barge" on Slashdot, I got crucified for it by people who believe that "barges" can only be flat-bottomed devices suitable only for calm water.
News flash: the idiots have mod points. They also make conflation errors, so watch this comment sink like an LNG barge that just got hit by an airplane.
And a fine example of yellow journalism, at that. I read an earlier, more balanced new source that said the truck was a nice cargo truck, one with a crane, and it was stolen at a truck stop. Everybody thinks they wanted the truck and had no idea what it was carrying. The hysterics about terrorism in the summary are unfounded.
And I won't admit any relation to my cunning plan to manufacture refrigerators that open a Cobalt 60 door when the light goes out to keep food from ever going bad!
Yep, and there's enough information in this description to figure out which one, when correlated with a popular website survey tool that shows that they recently underwent a server platform change. But it's one we're not all too fond of here, so I don't pity the fool who enables them. I am, however, aware of how insanely litigious they are, so it's not worth it for me to call out which company is in violation of COPPA.
If this was a very subtle whistleblowing, then hat's off, I suppose.
Yes, and a Federal Judge just ruled this way (that air travel is a constitutional right because it's the common means of travel). 9th Circuit, I think, then remanded to the lower court to proceed. Check the recent Democracy Now! segment on this case for details.
TLER is just the correct behavior for RAID - if there's a media error on one drive, the right thing to do is immediately read the redundant copy from another drive, and re-write the problem block at the RAID controller level.
Your RAID doesn't issue simultaneous reads and return whichever one gets in faster? ZFS waits forever - if the driver layer wants to fail a block read at n seconds, it's good with that. Fortunately we can tune our OS's to meet whatever requirements we need.
That's only if you absolutely cannot run a drive outside of its warranty period
Right, but most of the consumer drives (and perhaps enterprise drives - forget which Google used in its report) fail before five years.
The big "if" is whether that drive is still worth running in four years, even if you get it replaced. I've done a bunch of warranty work with Seagate between 3 & 5 years. Some of those drives I wound up giving to friends with less reckless data requirements.
they have minor differences to keep lubrication from migrating out of the spindle bearing under continuous operation. I don't know but I imagine loss of spindle bearing lube
Yeah? Where does the lube leak to? If it were into platter space, the drive would instantly die. If it were outside of the drive, we'd see it.
The Coraid folks seem to know their game, so I'm curious how they think this failure mode works.
Good point. When the floods hit Thailand and drive prices increased by about 20%, most people cried, but when they almost simultaneously reduced warranties from 5 years to 1-2 years, effective prices nearly doubled and hardly anybody complained.
You can't use a consumer drive in a RAID array if that drive will spend 90 seconds trying to recover a normal read error before sparing the sector out. TLER means "give up almost immediately" on media errors.
That's only for crummy RAID controllers with no memory to speak of. Use ZFS with simple host adapters - you'll be happier and save a bunch of money.
SAS IDENTIFY is the only useful feature missing from SATA. Well, full duplex too, but you better be buying $$$ SSD's if you have those concerns, so SAS vs. SATA shouldn't matter that much.
I find if I go to plug in a USB connector, it's best to change your mind at the last minute and turn it over because you're *always* wrong first time.
You're right, of course, but it's also true that the times you think this through and do it the way you suggest, you're *ALSO* wrong. USB connectors bring about a superposition of wrongness. You can't be sure you're wrong until you try it, but then you'll always be wrong.
By proposing a sort of "worm hole" which, in effect, creates a single particle string with just the endpoints noticable by us as distinct particles, the entangled endpoint-tunnel-endpoint can transfer information outside the four-dimensional universe' ligh-speed limitation.
It seems like they're getting closer, but isn't it still harder to think of an infinitely long wormhole connecting the two ends than to consider that the topology we experience isn't the fundamental one and those ends are still local in the 'real' topology, and not stretched to the bounds of the universe?
Some of his arms can touch the walls, where you can feed your data in, then in his mealballs you can put some patch panels, suspend the whole thing from the ceiling, and then have a noodly appendage reach out to touch each of the cubicles, and run cable through them.
Seriously, we have no idea what your decorating motif is. Somebody else can do the steampunk version of above, it can be a fantastic idea and completely inappropriate for your office decor. Talk to your designer.
He's just an idiot troll - nobody can pull a million miles a year without a helicopter.:) I did a building in Cat 6 almost a decade ago and the cost difference over Cat5e was 20%.
Cheap 10GE to the desktop will come with some of the new signalling stuff that's in the lab now, and it will replace having to put drives in desktop computers. My clients aren't going to have to rewire.
When it's really not possible for any human being to use any commonly-available bicycle to ride the hill, it's "uncycleable". A hill that can't be ridden by 99% of the public is de facto "uncyclable".
Right. What the GP post fails to accept is that any hill that is uncycleable for that person on the bike that they own is uncyclable for them. Which is why they might buy a power wheel.
If I remember my history, there were 5 Justices for a population of 3.5 million and a very small federal government and now there are 9 justices for a population of 300 million, a monstrous federal government, and a much more complex Constitution.
Failing to review nearly all of the requested cases is not a feature, if the system has any credibility left, it's a failure.
You can have the same laser and the same detector and still have a new camera. Those are all different things in a parts/whole relationship. I seem to recall one of the DSLR manufacturers has sold the same body with different firmware to different markets with different model numbers and much different capabilities.
Complete guess, but I would guess he'd be fine in there, since he's used to the feeling.
I went in one at the old Army testing lab at Ft. Monmouth a couple decades back. I found it extremely relaxing and that got better, not worse over time. I didn't get a half hour in there, but I still enjoy quiet spaces - our neighbors are a ways away and when the power fails at night that's also very calming for me - just darkness, no mechanical hums (OK, after I shut off the blasted UPS'es) and if the wind isn't blowing then it's entirely quiet (during the winter).
People pay good money for massages and spas - those don't interest me but I'd be tempted to rent time in an anechoic chamber to get a similar effect.
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Doesn't the concept of "effective" mean that code breaking the DRM cannot exist?
The very concept of DRM is a form of corporate welfare. It's as 'effective' as the enforcing government wants it to be.
What if I knew those 9,999,999 other people were going to be sending their letters
10 year minimum under RICO. *Everything* can be prosecuted under RICO these days.
Last time I called an ocean-going vessel a "barge" on Slashdot, I got crucified for it by people who believe that "barges" can only be flat-bottomed devices suitable only for calm water.
News flash: the idiots have mod points. They also make conflation errors, so watch this comment sink like an LNG barge that just got hit by an airplane.
You'll be called a hippy also
+5 - Cuts like a Knife.
It was in a locked container but the combination was 1234.
No, no, this was radioactive - 0000000.
And a fine example of yellow journalism, at that. I read an earlier, more balanced new source that said the truck was a nice cargo truck, one with a crane, and it was stolen at a truck stop. Everybody thinks they wanted the truck and had no idea what it was carrying. The hysterics about terrorism in the summary are unfounded.
And I won't admit any relation to my cunning plan to manufacture refrigerators that open a Cobalt 60 door when the light goes out to keep food from ever going bad!
Yep, and there's enough information in this description to figure out which one, when correlated with a popular website survey tool that shows that they recently underwent a server platform change. But it's one we're not all too fond of here, so I don't pity the fool who enables them. I am, however, aware of how insanely litigious they are, so it's not worth it for me to call out which company is in violation of COPPA.
If this was a very subtle whistleblowing, then hat's off, I suppose.
Yes, and a Federal Judge just ruled this way (that air travel is a constitutional right because it's the common means of travel). 9th Circuit, I think, then remanded to the lower court to proceed. Check the recent Democracy Now! segment on this case for details.
What are your usage and environment patterns like? Your results certainly are much better than average, even among the big data center studies!
TLER is just the correct behavior for RAID - if there's a media error on one drive, the right thing to do is immediately read the redundant copy from another drive, and re-write the problem block at the RAID controller level.
Your RAID doesn't issue simultaneous reads and return whichever one gets in faster? ZFS waits forever - if the driver layer wants to fail a block read at n seconds, it's good with that. Fortunately we can tune our OS's to meet whatever requirements we need.
That's only if you absolutely cannot run a drive outside of its warranty period
Right, but most of the consumer drives (and perhaps enterprise drives - forget which Google used in its report) fail before five years.
The big "if" is whether that drive is still worth running in four years, even if you get it replaced. I've done a bunch of warranty work with Seagate between 3 & 5 years. Some of those drives I wound up giving to friends with less reckless data requirements.
plug their travel trailers into outlets in the nearby house
Oh, I use that outlet for experiments - that's why I have an ignition coil hooked up to the leads...
they have minor differences to keep lubrication from migrating out of the spindle bearing under continuous operation. I don't know but I imagine loss of spindle bearing lube
Yeah? Where does the lube leak to? If it were into platter space, the drive would instantly die. If it were outside of the drive, we'd see it.
The Coraid folks seem to know their game, so I'm curious how they think this failure mode works.
Good point. When the floods hit Thailand and drive prices increased by about 20%, most people cried, but when they almost simultaneously reduced warranties from 5 years to 1-2 years, effective prices nearly doubled and hardly anybody complained.
You can't use a consumer drive in a RAID array if that drive will spend 90 seconds trying to recover a normal read error before sparing the sector out. TLER means "give up almost immediately" on media errors.
That's only for crummy RAID controllers with no memory to speak of. Use ZFS with simple host adapters - you'll be happier and save a bunch of money.
SAS IDENTIFY is the only useful feature missing from SATA. Well, full duplex too, but you better be buying $$$ SSD's if you have those concerns, so SAS vs. SATA shouldn't matter that much.
I find if I go to plug in a USB connector, it's best to change your mind at the last minute and turn it over because you're *always* wrong first time.
You're right, of course, but it's also true that the times you think this through and do it the way you suggest, you're *ALSO* wrong. USB connectors bring about a superposition of wrongness. You can't be sure you're wrong until you try it, but then you'll always be wrong.
By proposing a sort of "worm hole" which, in effect, creates a single particle string with just the endpoints noticable by us as distinct particles, the entangled endpoint-tunnel-endpoint can transfer information outside the four-dimensional universe' ligh-speed limitation.
It seems like they're getting closer, but isn't it still harder to think of an infinitely long wormhole connecting the two ends than to consider that the topology we experience isn't the fundamental one and those ends are still local in the 'real' topology, and not stretched to the bounds of the universe?
Some of his arms can touch the walls, where you can feed your data in, then in his mealballs you can put some patch panels, suspend the whole thing from the ceiling, and then have a noodly appendage reach out to touch each of the cubicles, and run cable through them.
Seriously, we have no idea what your decorating motif is. Somebody else can do the steampunk version of above, it can be a fantastic idea and completely inappropriate for your office decor. Talk to your designer.
He's just an idiot troll - nobody can pull a million miles a year without a helicopter. :) I did a building in Cat 6 almost a decade ago and the cost difference over Cat5e was 20%.
Cheap 10GE to the desktop will come with some of the new signalling stuff that's in the lab now, and it will replace having to put drives in desktop computers. My clients aren't going to have to rewire.
When it's really not possible for any human being to use any commonly-available bicycle to ride the hill, it's "uncycleable". A hill that can't be ridden by 99% of the public is de facto "uncyclable".
Right. What the GP post fails to accept is that any hill that is uncycleable for that person on the bike that they own is uncyclable for them. Which is why they might buy a power wheel.
If I remember my history, there were 5 Justices for a population of 3.5 million and a very small federal government and now there are 9 justices for a population of 300 million, a monstrous federal government, and a much more complex Constitution.
Failing to review nearly all of the requested cases is not a feature, if the system has any credibility left, it's a failure.
And when your HDMI cable hit the US border you can enjoy paying any duties, taxes & customs brokerage fees that apply to a shipment from Antigua.
Still 90% cheaper than Best Buy.
You can have the same laser and the same detector and still have a new camera. Those are all different things in a parts/whole relationship. I seem to recall one of the DSLR manufacturers has sold the same body with different firmware to different markets with different model numbers and much different capabilities.
Not too bad, except they also limited you to 6 chr only.
How nice of them to completely reduce the complexity space of the 6-character search!
Complete guess, but I would guess he'd be fine in there, since he's used to the feeling.
I went in one at the old Army testing lab at Ft. Monmouth a couple decades back. I found it extremely relaxing and that got better, not worse over time. I didn't get a half hour in there, but I still enjoy quiet spaces - our neighbors are a ways away and when the power fails at night that's also very calming for me - just darkness, no mechanical hums (OK, after I shut off the blasted UPS'es) and if the wind isn't blowing then it's entirely quiet (during the winter).
People pay good money for massages and spas - those don't interest me but I'd be tempted to rent time in an anechoic chamber to get a similar effect.