It's been nice playing, and we're now in the dangerous area where this becomes a last-to-post contest.
You explain where the confusion comes from: the marketers, a (class-action?) legal case, products on shelves, and I agree with you because I have to deal with non-technical family members getting confused. On top of that, I say that I'm confused -- about which you claim I'm wrong -- and that we need a system where the 'ol' bullshit about SI units' can't cloud the issue or where 'marketers' can't lie to us -- which you claim I'm wrong about, but it's your terms and your posts that show we need this.
As a result of the court case and the claim that SI units are appropriate to use, there is confusion. And so we need a system to tell which is powers-of-10 and which is powers-of-2.
K M B G T P E etc followed by a B or b means binary
Not on my hard disk they don't. Not on my broadband bandwidth or download quota allocation, nor on my mobile phone data contract. Each example is from a business which makes more money when it claims a bigger number than is really sold, and who benefit from the confusion. So I want a way that has no room for confusion, and the MeBi/GiBi/TeBi (and other powers of 2^(10n) ) system does just that.
My point is that there's a difference between a SI Giga (10^9) of bytes and 2^30 of bytes. As a consumer, I don't want to be ripped off by someone promising me that these things are the same, and as a programmer I also want an accurate marker for values which are 2^(10n). I'm grateful that there is this naming convention.
Did you find any significant performance improvements compared to ext3?
The extents mean that a large contiguous read is faster and files are more likely to be written in contiguous chunks, giving a bit of a boost to the filesystem. That's the explanation I have for my system and its 5400-rpm laptop disks seeming quicker (note that the appearance of greater performance isn't greater performance).
I've long thought that if software developers had liability for their software, there would be fewer bugs and a higher quality in the software. It's not bullshit to try and change the market conditions so that losses of data and working time caused by flaky software are the liability of the single identifiable cause of the data loss and lost working time. Better than that, it's clearly an essential piece of progress: how can we move forward into a future where we become increasingly reliant on computers for home infrastructure and business tasks when you have little to no protection against the hazards of that infrastructure failing?
TFA kindly avoids the need for chemistry, physics or engineering laboratories to do real science in. And meeting people face-to-face is a priceless part of that collaboration.
That's my plan: use multiple VM's on a Linux Hypervisor, which will allow copying data in and out, sharing across a host clipboard, generally subverting the copyright-holder's stupidity and getting low resource requirements. Is this win?
You might be able to haggle on the hashes.
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Per-bit, with the 1's stored being stored free, and the 0's being stored at $10.00 each, payable in bunches of 100,000.
Is the build quality so bad that you expect failures after 6 months? These are the German-built Fiestas which have won the UK and European "Car of the Year" for 2008; cars that come with a 3-year warranty. If there are any faults, they'll be found by 6 months, but if no faults are present, they won't be found until the car is old enough to be junked.
I'm curious as to whether ReactOS (the clone) is something you've tried or would be interested in if your hardware dies and you find that Win2K won't run on newer equipment.
Fact checks: Debian is different to Ubuntu (but both were involved in the pRNG cockup), and Fedora is the community-run testbed which had a compromised package signing system for a few hours. Fedora is the feeder system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are not the same thing. You may as well mention that the Debian source repository was compromised around 2003-4 timeframe.
The issue is whether you trust these outfits which admit and then rectify these issues and still let you vet the source code (if you're inclined that way), or if you want to trust the company whose press releases tell you that their software is the most secure on the planet.
Your DMCA has anti-circumvention provisions, which mean that attempting to get around technology used to stop copying, i.e. copy-protection, is illegal.
It's not immune to re-casting those sites through a proxy and replacing the data, or stepping through a virtualised instance of its host in a hypervisor debugger.
Piracy is a centuries-old term for breach of copyright. Daniel Defoe acknoweldged it in 1703.
Had I wrote it for the gain of the press, I should have been concerned at its being printed again and again by pirates, as they call them, and paragraph-men; but would they but do it justice and print it true according to the copy, they are welcome to sell it for a penny if they please.
I'd pick the Core i7 over the Core 2 Quad because of the single piece of silicon, integrated memory controllers and latest virtualisation assist technology from Intel which together help lower the bandwidth and latency problems that can compromise virtualisation performance (e.g. double indirection to peripherals and memory, operating systems and subsidiary tasks context switching and wiping out caches).
The journal isn't being written before the data. Nothing is written for periods between 45-120 seconds so as to batch up the writing to efficient lumps. The journal is there to make sure that the data on disk makes sense if a crash occurs.
If your system crashes after a write hasn't hit the disk, you lose either way. Ext3 was set to write at most 5 seconds later. Ext4 is looser than that, but with associated performance benefits.
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It's been nice playing, and we're now in the dangerous area where this becomes a last-to-post contest.
You explain where the confusion comes from: the marketers, a (class-action?) legal case, products on shelves, and I agree with you because I have to deal with non-technical family members getting confused. On top of that, I say that I'm confused -- about which you claim I'm wrong -- and that we need a system where the 'ol' bullshit about SI units' can't cloud the issue or where 'marketers' can't lie to us -- which you claim I'm wrong about, but it's your terms and your posts that show we need this.
As a result of the court case and the claim that SI units are appropriate to use, there is confusion. And so we need a system to tell which is powers-of-10 and which is powers-of-2.
Not on my hard disk they don't. Not on my broadband bandwidth or download quota allocation, nor on my mobile phone data contract. Each example is from a business which makes more money when it claims a bigger number than is really sold, and who benefit from the confusion. So I want a way that has no room for confusion, and the MeBi/GiBi/TeBi (and other powers of 2^(10n) ) system does just that.
My point is that there's a difference between a SI Giga (10^9) of bytes and 2^30 of bytes. As a consumer, I don't want to be ripped off by someone promising me that these things are the same, and as a programmer I also want an accurate marker for values which are 2^(10n). I'm grateful that there is this naming convention.
The extents mean that a large contiguous read is faster and files are more likely to be written in contiguous chunks, giving a bit of a boost to the filesystem. That's the explanation I have for my system and its 5400-rpm laptop disks seeming quicker (note that the appearance of greater performance isn't greater performance).
2 x 10^9 or 2^30 ?
I've long thought that if software developers had liability for their software, there would be fewer bugs and a higher quality in the software. It's not bullshit to try and change the market conditions so that losses of data and working time caused by flaky software are the liability of the single identifiable cause of the data loss and lost working time. Better than that, it's clearly an essential piece of progress: how can we move forward into a future where we become increasingly reliant on computers for home infrastructure and business tasks when you have little to no protection against the hazards of that infrastructure failing?
Evgeniy Polyakov's Distributed Storage (DST) and Elliptics projects are along the lines of what you're thinking. DST is available in the latest testing kernel via the staging drivers series. See http://www.ioremap.net/taxonomy/term/2 and http://www.ioremap.net/taxonomy/term/17, respectively.
He lives on the fork of spacetime where IBM bought Sun and people like using Notes.
TFA kindly avoids the need for chemistry, physics or engineering laboratories to do real science in. And meeting people face-to-face is a priceless part of that collaboration.
That's my plan: use multiple VM's on a Linux Hypervisor, which will allow copying data in and out, sharing across a host clipboard, generally subverting the copyright-holder's stupidity and getting low resource requirements. Is this win?
Per-bit, with the 1's stored being stored free, and the 0's being stored at $10.00 each, payable in bunches of 100,000.
Is the build quality so bad that you expect failures after 6 months? These are the German-built Fiestas which have won the UK and European "Car of the Year" for 2008; cars that come with a 3-year warranty. If there are any faults, they'll be found by 6 months, but if no faults are present, they won't be found until the car is old enough to be junked.
I don't think it was shown that TPB did profit from their site. Does anyone have a translation of the judgement which states that they did?
I would like to license your patent for use in my patent-pending extension: 26 characters of gzip, bz2 or other compressed communication.
I'm curious as to whether ReactOS (the clone) is something you've tried or would be interested in if your hardware dies and you find that Win2K won't run on newer equipment.
Fact checks: Debian is different to Ubuntu (but both were involved in the pRNG cockup), and Fedora is the community-run testbed which had a compromised package signing system for a few hours. Fedora is the feeder system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are not the same thing. You may as well mention that the Debian source repository was compromised around 2003-4 timeframe.
The issue is whether you trust these outfits which admit and then rectify these issues and still let you vet the source code (if you're inclined that way), or if you want to trust the company whose press releases tell you that their software is the most secure on the planet.
Your DMCA has anti-circumvention provisions, which mean that attempting to get around technology used to stop copying, i.e. copy-protection, is illegal.
It's not immune to re-casting those sites through a proxy and replacing the data, or stepping through a virtualised instance of its host in a hypervisor debugger.
Yeah. Now that your cellphone has a 3D acceleration chip in it (and can run Quake 3), the use of a 3D interface to the Web is... still stupid.
Piracy is a centuries-old term for breach of copyright. Daniel Defoe acknoweldged it in 1703.
from http://www.luminarium.org/editions/trueborn.htm
I'd pick the Core i7 over the Core 2 Quad because of the single piece of silicon, integrated memory controllers and latest virtualisation assist technology from Intel which together help lower the bandwidth and latency problems that can compromise virtualisation performance (e.g. double indirection to peripherals and memory, operating systems and subsidiary tasks context switching and wiping out caches).
The journal isn't being written before the data. Nothing is written for periods between 45-120 seconds so as to batch up the writing to efficient lumps. The journal is there to make sure that the data on disk makes sense if a crash occurs.
If your system crashes after a write hasn't hit the disk, you lose either way. Ext3 was set to write at most 5 seconds later. Ext4 is looser than that, but with associated performance benefits.
Don't know about you, but my 'thin client' can do motion video analysis, using a large amount of processing power: http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/02/mozilla-demos-impressive-firefox-31-features-at-scale.ars
...but only if you can get me an error-correcting keyboard.