User: MauriceV

Re:We may already be beyond that

On: Dragonfly-Sized Insect Spies Spotted, Denied

So is this book supposed to non-fiction or fiction?

Re:These Have Been Around Since 70's

On: Dragonfly-Sized Insect Spies Spotted, Denied

The CIA's museum entry is almost certainly fake. That thing looks way too realistic and it's thirty years in the past. Seems like what's coming out of the labs today still has a way to go to get to what "we" were at then. That makes no sense. That's why I think it's fake and it somehow just got into the museum and is being purported to have been real.

Slashdot Is Right [Was: Slashdot Ignorance]

On: Researchers May Have Found Cause of Type 2 Diabetes

No, it's really true. Type 2 diabetics NOT produce enough insulin. This is apparently an effect that occurs later in the disease progression and hence ordinary science articles only mention the insulin resistance aspect.

Here is a link to the real article,

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B7MFH-4PT7RDC-B&_user=10&_coverDate=10%2F03%2F2007&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=842a09e850c1253f0206f93a68320da0

Re:KISS it

On: RAID Vs. JBOD Vs. Standard HDDs

Here's my own example:

http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2005-A ugust/003377.html

What's going on here is that this particular 3ware card doesn't understand 64-bit and so somehow depends on the IOMMU memhole for its memory and if it doesn't have enough, the RAID is lost.

Re:KISS it

On: RAID Vs. JBOD Vs. Standard HDDs

Here is an example of a 3ware card going belly up when a single drive is was responsible for failed:

http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20070407.21080 9.f0100d3c.en.html

Re:I'm a Hardware Guy, Not a ZFS Guy

On: Does ZFS Obsolete Expensive NAS/SANs?

>Gigabit ethernet is about 20MB/s.

Gigabit ethernet is about 120 MB/s.

Re:Kind of radical, but I hope it works

On: California Proposes to Ban Incandescent Lightbulbs

Battery operated isn't the same (direct current) as wall current (alternating current). LEDs that work on alternating current do NOT work with dimmer switches.

I think every employee should be an IT person

On: What Would You Demand From Your IT Department?

American Fidelity Assurance Company 1 IT for every 11 employees.

Minnesota Life Insurance Company, 1 IT for every 6 employees.

USAA, 1 IT person for every 10 employees.

Assurant Solutions, 1 IT person for every 9 employees.

Aflac Inc., 1 IT person for every 9 employees.

Vision Service Plan, 1 IT person for every 8 employees.

Ohio Savings Bank, 1 IT person for every 9 employees.

LexusNexus Group, 1 IT person for every 9 employees.

Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance Co., 1 IT employee for every 8 employees.

Northern Trust Corp., 1 IT person for every 9 employees.

CNA Financial Corp., 1 IT person for every 6 employees.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc., 1 IT person for every 2 employees.

Is this old news?

On: `Bionic' Arm Brings Back Sense of Touch

Here's an article about the same guy from CNN two years ago.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/HEALTH/09/25/bionic.arm/

Virtual PC works on the G5

On: If Mac OS X Came to x86, Would You Switch?

Yeah, they have: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/virtualpc/vi rtualpc.aspx?pid=vpcdemo

(You could run it pretty fast if you had enough RAM to put the entire C drive in RAM with a RAM disk.)

Re:Problems with huge amounts of HDD space.

On: 320GB Hard Drives announced

I am somewhat confused about data are actually being generated here. If you need 8 new tapes each month, then your researchers generate a terabyte every month. Is that right? Why do you also need 30-60 tapes for daily backups?

On our system, I have just 2 backup sets. One on site and the other off-site. Once a backup/archive is started, I let it run it maxes out our library (19 AIT3 tapes). Then I start fresh a set.

Re:I had a "touch screen" watch in '87

On: Touchscreen Watch

I don't recall that. Where is this now?

Re:Shadow Conspiracy

On: MIT's Acrobatic Helicopter

First, there has to be someone there with a gun.

Second, the helicopter is moving through air and is spraying machine gun fire. I think it would be pretty hard for someone on the scene of such pandemonium to get a clear shot. Try to imagine it shows up right in the middle of a baseball game and sweeps along the crowd. It's moving at say 15 or 20 mph.

Third, what would shooting an armored helicopter do stop it?

Fourth, what if there were several helicopters all shooting at once?

Shadow Conspiracy

On: MIT's Acrobatic Helicopter

Am I offbase in thinking that a terrorist with one of these equipped with automatic weapons could use it for wholesale assassination? How could it be stopped? How could even one track the "pilot" if it were controlled remotely via radio and navigated via an attached camera. Shadow Conspiracy, anyone?

Re:RH/VA should begin looking at supporting XFS

On: SGI Layoffs Hit XFS For Linux Project

1.Your typical dual-NFS/SMB file server administrator

What about Macs? Doesn't anyone use netatalk?

A modified RPM set and Anaconda installer, including a bootable, pre-mastered ISO CD, that allows XFS to be installed alongside a stock RedHat distribution. This is especially sweet IMHO.

Agreed.

BTW, for people having trouble finding it, the website is at http://http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/