Getting dressed up to go to work should be a thing of the past.
Part of the problem with many people working from home is it "doesn't feel like work", so they slack off. They work in their kitchen instead of a dedicated room / home office. They use the same computer for work and fun. They slack off on their personal appearance. Etc. Etc.
Getting dressed instead of sitting in your undies is part of the mental preparation for "Now I'm going to work!" I don't know how many times, when I was working from home, people would call and assume that I had all this "free time". I'd usually let them talk for a minute or two, but if it went longer, I'd tell them to call me at night - I'm working and don't want to "lose the momentum | thought | zone | whatever".
Close to 50% of the page space is ads. Very slow loading ads. And annoying javascript popups. Just start moving your mouse around and hover-triggered popups start going off like landmines.
How can people stand to go there on a regular basis?
Try this as a simple answer - people don't - or if they do, they don't go back; thus most of his traffic is probably bots or other bloggers doing a circle jerk.
The problem isn't that the drives fail at the same time. In a lot of cases, the problem is that data that hasn't been accessed from one of the surviving drives is no longer readable (bad sector), but neither the drive electronics nor the raid noticed, simply because no attempt had been made to read it in a while.
The alternative is to have a background process continually re-read and verify data over the entire disk surface, with the higher load, earlier failure rates, and reduced performance that will cause. In other words, the cure could be worse than, or even cause, the disease. And under heavy load, the process would have to be stopped anyway.
With the large disk sizes available today, why not have 3 identical drives in a RAID-1, and rotate out 1 drive each day/week/month/whatever-arbitrary-time-floats-your-boat? Or just leave all 3 in - much less wear reading data, much higher performance (3 disk caches, 3 sets of heads, platters, etc., for the same data), and when one fails, you still have a 2-drive raid, or 2 backups of your data to recover from.
he has gained 30 pounds in the last three years,,,, This is not sustainable,'
[_] Go hunting with Dick Cheney - problem solved!
[_] Dude! If you've gained 30 pounds, sustenance isn't your problem. More like "sustenance abuse."
[_] Get a bigger chair - it'll sustain your additional weight.
[_] Get up and go for a walk. There's a reason the dot-com boom had lots of dogs in offices - it forced people to get up and walk their dogs! This got them away from their computers for a bit, so that when they came back, they were refreshed, and more productive.
[_] Set your site up as Yahoo!'s "ugly sister" for when Microsoft is looking for more "sustenance".
[_] More typeing and less eating.
[_] Move to a real office instead of working from home - or LOCK THE FRIDGE!
[_] Profit from it - start a blog about how blogging makes you fat. Lots of fat people will then take up blogging, as their "excuse" for being fattarded wankers.
mixing from different batches means you've increased the odds that at least one drive fails prematurely.
but decreased the odds of a second drive failure before you can get the system back upto redundant running.
You would think so, but by the time a RAID says it's dying, theres a good chance that at least one other disk has problems too, and you won't be able to recover everything anyway. ISTR that about 15% of all attempts to recover a raid fail because another disk has errors, or dies during the recovery.
Also, what do you do if 2 or more drives fail because their controllers got zapped, or someone "accidently" "booted" the box - with their foot? Being from different batches, or different manufacturers, isn't going to help, so might as well go for the scenario that gives the best chance for a longer useable lifetime.
A lot of Windows-only programs run fine under wine - including such core products as Internet Explorer 7.
But if XP is dropped or is allowed to become unusably insecure (which is what people are trying to protect against in this discussion), then how is running the now-unavailable OS in a VM instead of a real machine going to help?
Who said anything about a VM? Wine isn't a VM. You don't need Windows to run Windows apps any more.
You're not entitled to a sense of inordinate privilege for doing nothing or the minimum possible, which is what has happened, for example, with a lot of people over the last decade. Witness the house flippers, who figured they'd just buy houses, maybe slap on a coat of paint and mow the lawn, and suddenly they had "earned" $100k. Or what are now known as RealtWhores - the people who were the first link in the chain in putting people into houses they couldn't afford, and who certainly did NOT deserve 6% for "getting the listing". fortunately, the internet, bank auctions of REO houses, etc., have put half a million of those destructive leaches out of "work".
You're also not "entitled" to 2 airplane seats for the price of one as a consequence of stuffing your face for the last 20 years. Yes, "a waist is a terrible thing to mind" as the NAAFP (National Association for the Advancement of Fat People) keeps reminding us, but hey - "You made your Wonderbread - you eat it!" has its' consequences.
Entitlement means fairness - you're entitled to that which is just or fair. Not that which, without justification or merit, seeks to impose an unfair burden, or obtain unjust compensation, or unearned enrichment from others.
People don't need a valid reason to sue nowadays... the level of sense of "entitlement" is obscene. Of course, it's always fun to have someone end up spending $15,000.00 suing you and losing...
The "mix-n-match" thing is counter-intuitive with raids.
If one drive fails, you're going to want to migrate your data asap, no matter what, and put the old drives on the shelf "just in case." More than likely, you'll also be upsizing the drives (You can buy a 750 gig for what a 250 gig cost 2 years ago).
If you get 4 drives, and half last 2 years, and the other half 4, you'll be pulling them at the 2-year point.
Same scenario as above, but the drives are all from one batch, and they all last 2 years - net result is the same - the drives are retired at 2 years.
Same scenario as above, but the drives are all from one batch, and they all last 4 years - the drives are retired at 4 years.
Since you're going to retire the array at the first failure, mixing from different batches means you've increased the odds that at least one drive fails prematurely.
I bought the original batch of 4 drives from 2 different retailers in 2 different cities - 3 of them STILL ended up being the same batch. Go figure...
I'd adopt Heinlein's thinking (mutis mutandi) and buy all the drives for one raid from 1 batch. Either they fail, or they don't. If you're lucky, they all last a long time. If you're not, you won't end up with a raid that you have to junk because you can't replace one obsolete bad disk.
Of course, raid is no replacement for backing up, just as svn isn't (but try to explain that to someone who hasn't been bitten in the you-know-whats:-)
If you're not developing for Windows, you can junk Visual Studio. None of the devs where I work use it (even the ones who use Windows).
Even if you ARE developing for Windows, you don't need Visual Studio. Many of the alternatives run fine under wine (better than they do natively in Windows).
Also, those who have switched to linux from xp have found the kde desktop to be superior to the windows desktop. Switching chat programs was just a matter of entering their icq and/or msn info. As for media playing, try playing 3gp files from your cell phone under windows. Or accessing your cell phone w/o special software. Under linux, just plug it in and start transfering the data.
If you really need hand-holding (*real* developers don't need no stinking IDE:-) eclipse supports java/c/c++, and there are IDEs for pretty much everything else if you really need them.
For the average user, linux is easily the better solution for one reason - updates for ALL the software for the thousands of optional apps is centralized - just hit your distro's update servers or let the auto-updater take care of everyting, unlike Windows, which only updates Windows.
There's no registry, no HK_KEY crap, backing up user data is as simple as making a tarball of the/home/joe or/home/mary, and those hundreds of thousands of Windows viruses just don't run...
BTW, GIMP can handle hundreds of layers, no problem. When I first switched, I found it klunky, but part of that was that its different. For many people, it's overkill, same as photoshop, and size is, like always, dependent on ram and cpu.
Ideally when MS really drops support a crack/patch will become readily available that MS won't bother to patch away.
*cough* reset5.exe *cough*
Or just wipe it down and install a real operating system... the one that Microsoft is so afraid of that it will continue to offer xp on the cheap at the bottom end.
Microsoft would be better off splitting themselves into 3 or more businesses, each able to properly compete in their area of competence, rather than the "horizontally disintegrating" Microsoft they are now.
Buying Yahoo! won't help them. Not where they're hurting the most - Vista and Office. Everyone calls it VistaME, and the OOXML gimmick is backfiring. In the meantime, Microsoft is seeing even more pressure from cheap PCs, by having to extend XP's eol *again* to compete with linux. How long before a distro takes them to court for even more anti-competitive behaviour? (Your honour, they're selling XP only to our target market, in violation of the Sherman Act."
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No, it'd be more like 2.5 kilos - people in metric countries don't gain as much weight as Americans.
Because one blogger accidently copied his own shit and disappeared in an infinite loop.
The "ability to type" is purely optional. Cut-n-paste from [ other blogs | teh InnerToobs | whatever ] seems to be the norm.
Scratch a blogger, find a copyright violator.
And the other 5% is "google is ..."
Get them together and get ready to puke. I have NEVER seen a group more obsessed over PageRank, google, and "recognition".
Yeah, but only fat bloggers would read them ...
(hey, sounds like a new meme)
Just one minor nit to pick:
Part of the problem with many people working from home is it "doesn't feel like work", so they slack off. They work in their kitchen instead of a dedicated room / home office. They use the same computer for work and fun. They slack off on their personal appearance. Etc. Etc.
Getting dressed instead of sitting in your undies is part of the mental preparation for "Now I'm going to work!" I don't know how many times, when I was working from home, people would call and assume that I had all this "free time". I'd usually let them talk for a minute or two, but if it went longer, I'd tell them to call me at night - I'm working and don't want to "lose the momentum | thought | zone | whatever".
They'd be miffed the first few times.
Try this as a simple answer - people don't - or if they do, they don't go back; thus most of his traffic is probably bots or other bloggers doing a circle jerk.
The problem isn't that the drives fail at the same time. In a lot of cases, the problem is that data that hasn't been accessed from one of the surviving drives is no longer readable (bad sector), but neither the drive electronics nor the raid noticed, simply because no attempt had been made to read it in a while.
The alternative is to have a background process continually re-read and verify data over the entire disk surface, with the higher load, earlier failure rates, and reduced performance that will cause. In other words, the cure could be worse than, or even cause, the disease. And under heavy load, the process would have to be stopped anyway.
With the large disk sizes available today, why not have 3 identical drives in a RAID-1, and rotate out 1 drive each day/week/month/whatever-arbitrary-time-floats-your-boat? Or just leave all 3 in - much less wear reading data, much higher performance (3 disk caches, 3 sets of heads, platters, etc., for the same data), and when one fails, you still have a 2-drive raid, or 2 backups of your data to recover from.
[_] Go hunting with Dick Cheney - problem solved!
[_] Dude! If you've gained 30 pounds, sustenance isn't your problem. More like "sustenance abuse."
[_] Get a bigger chair - it'll sustain your additional weight.
[_] Get up and go for a walk. There's a reason the dot-com boom had lots of dogs in offices - it forced people to get up and walk their dogs! This got them away from their computers for a bit, so that when they came back, they were refreshed, and more productive.
[_] Set your site up as Yahoo!'s "ugly sister" for when Microsoft is looking for more "sustenance".
[_] More typeing and less eating.
[_] Move to a real office instead of working from home - or LOCK THE FRIDGE!
[_] Profit from it - start a blog about how blogging makes you fat. Lots of fat people will then take up blogging, as their "excuse" for being fattarded wankers.
You would think so, but by the time a RAID says it's dying, theres a good chance that at least one other disk has problems too, and you won't be able to recover everything anyway. ISTR that about 15% of all attempts to recover a raid fail because another disk has errors, or dies during the recovery.
Also, what do you do if 2 or more drives fail because their controllers got zapped, or someone "accidently" "booted" the box - with their foot? Being from different batches, or different manufacturers, isn't going to help, so might as well go for the scenario that gives the best chance for a longer useable lifetime.
Who said anything about a VM? Wine isn't a VM. You don't need Windows to run Windows apps any more.
Photoshop has run fine under linux since at least 2003 - go to codeweavers.com for more info.
Same with most games - many of which actually now run faster under wine than natively under Windows ...
BTW, Adobe is also now getting on track to put out apps that run natively under linux.
You're not entitled to a sense of inordinate privilege for doing nothing or the minimum possible, which is what has happened, for example, with a lot of people over the last decade. Witness the house flippers, who figured they'd just buy houses, maybe slap on a coat of paint and mow the lawn, and suddenly they had "earned" $100k. Or what are now known as RealtWhores - the people who were the first link in the chain in putting people into houses they couldn't afford, and who certainly did NOT deserve 6% for "getting the listing". fortunately, the internet, bank auctions of REO houses, etc., have put half a million of those destructive leaches out of "work".
You're also not "entitled" to 2 airplane seats for the price of one as a consequence of stuffing your face for the last 20 years. Yes, "a waist is a terrible thing to mind" as the NAAFP (National Association for the Advancement of Fat People) keeps reminding us, but hey - "You made your Wonderbread - you eat it!" has its' consequences.
Entitlement means fairness - you're entitled to that which is just or fair. Not that which, without justification or merit, seeks to impose an unfair burden, or obtain unjust compensation, or unearned enrichment from others.
People don't need a valid reason to sue nowadays ... the level of sense of "entitlement" is obscene. Of course, it's always fun to have someone end up spending $15,000.00 suing you and losing ...
Rick Roll - the new MyMiniCity. Gah!
Photoshop runs fine with crossover, and has since at least 2003.
The "mix-n-match" thing is counter-intuitive with raids.
If one drive fails, you're going to want to migrate your data asap, no matter what, and put the old drives on the shelf "just in case." More than likely, you'll also be upsizing the drives (You can buy a 750 gig for what a 250 gig cost 2 years ago).
Since you're going to retire the array at the first failure, mixing from different batches means you've increased the odds that at least one drive fails prematurely.
So *that's* where the whole "Apple is teh gay" thing got started ...
The treatment of Turing is a shame - he arguably saved more lives than anyone else in WW2.
I'll see your megalopolis with one divorce lawyer, and raise you a demand for alimony.
I bought the original batch of 4 drives from 2 different retailers in 2 different cities - 3 of them STILL ended up being the same batch. Go figure ...
I'd adopt Heinlein's thinking (mutis mutandi) and buy all the drives for one raid from 1 batch. Either they fail, or they don't. If you're lucky, they all last a long time. If you're not, you won't end up with a raid that you have to junk because you can't replace one obsolete bad disk.
Of course, raid is no replacement for backing up, just as svn isn't (but try to explain that to someone who hasn't been bitten in the you-know-whats :-)
If you're not developing for Windows, you can junk Visual Studio. None of the devs where I work use it (even the ones who use Windows).
Even if you ARE developing for Windows, you don't need Visual Studio. Many of the alternatives run fine under wine (better than they do natively in Windows).
Also, those who have switched to linux from xp have found the kde desktop to be superior to the windows desktop. Switching chat programs was just a matter of entering their icq and/or msn info. As for media playing, try playing 3gp files from your cell phone under windows. Or accessing your cell phone w/o special software. Under linux, just plug it in and start transfering the data.
If you really need hand-holding (*real* developers don't need no stinking IDE :-) eclipse supports java/c/c++, and there are IDEs for pretty much everything else if you really need them.
For the average user, linux is easily the better solution for one reason - updates for ALL the software for the thousands of optional apps is centralized - just hit your distro's update servers or let the auto-updater take care of everyting, unlike Windows, which only updates Windows.
There's no registry, no HK_KEY crap, backing up user data is as simple as making a tarball of the /home/joe or /home/mary, and those hundreds of thousands of Windows viruses just don't run ...
Also, photoshop runs on linux, and has for the last 5 years - go here for support for many more Windows apps
BTW, GIMP can handle hundreds of layers, no problem. When I first switched, I found it klunky, but part of that was that its different. For many people, it's overkill, same as photoshop, and size is, like always, dependent on ram and cpu.
*cough* reset5.exe *cough*
Or just wipe it down and install a real operating system ... the one that Microsoft is so afraid of that it will continue to offer xp on the cheap at the bottom end.
A lot of Windows-only programs run fine under wine - including such core products as Internet Explorer 7.
Other products have free equivalents that can do the job for most people - OpenOffice, etc.
They should redo the logo and take a chunk out of it, and say its in memory of the World Trade Center and its' victims.
I think Apple laid a lemon on this one.
I'm still wondering at the logic of buying Yahoo!
Microsoft would be better off splitting themselves into 3 or more businesses, each able to properly compete in their area of competence, rather than the "horizontally disintegrating" Microsoft they are now.
Buying Yahoo! won't help them. Not where they're hurting the most - Vista and Office. Everyone calls it VistaME, and the OOXML gimmick is backfiring. In the meantime, Microsoft is seeing even more pressure from cheap PCs, by having to extend XP's eol *again* to compete with linux. How long before a distro takes them to court for even more anti-competitive behaviour? (Your honour, they're selling XP only to our target market, in violation of the Sherman Act."