They ARE NOT designed to handle thousands of spin up/down cycles. The manufacturers recommend that once you turn a drive on you leave it on. The best way to destroy a drive is to power it up and down a lot. Period.
The first thing to go is usually the drive mainboard, then the drive motor, then the drive head or platter.
Spinning up the platter is the hardest strain you can put on a drive motor, both in terms of power usage and physical stress. It's a great way to burn out the motor prematurely.
The head travelling in and out of the landing zone is a perilous thing, thats when you get most catastrophic head or platter failures.
I've written plenty of commercial code. I've also written some code that's in the linux kernel. Of course those facts are as irrelevant as your completely nonsequitur post.
You completely missed the point of the post. I'm not defending piracy, I'm questioning whether the feds should be spending such an incredible effort going after piracy, while letting other more serious problems go slack.
Unfortunately, as long as law enforcement is twisted by political agendas, we will see unbalanced and selective enforcement like this -- law enforcement in the name of corporate profits will take precedence over public interests.
They're spending all their time going after easy petty thieves which requires almost zero investigative work and zero effort. Then they beat their chests and toot their horns like it's some major accomplishment.
My guess is that the feds will spend 10x as much time, effort, and money prosecuting these teens than they would ever spend prosecuting murderers, rapists, or armed robbers.
And I predict they will get stiffer sentences than violent criminals too...
Wouldnt this time, money, effort, and manpower be better put to use chasing terrorists? Sheesh.
There are two ways you can go relatively cheaply, and IMHO a far better solution than CD-R or CD-RW.
Pick up a DLT2000XT (15gb native) off ebay for about $200. Tapes are dirt cheap, about $5/ea and the media is extremely durable, nearly indestructible.
Pick up a DLT1 (40gb native) off ebay, about $500. Tapes are moderately expensive at around $20/ea, but again the media is extremely durable.
DLT is industrial strength backup, the drives are built like tanks and the tapes can take incredible abuse.
Its all standard SCSI and works great with linux, no problems whatsoever.
I considered buying hard drives for backups, but they are far too fragile for long term backup and off-site storage. Most drives arent designed to be spun up and down lots of times either.
Last thing you need is for your backup harddisk to go splat when youre trying to power it up to restore your main system from a data loss.
credit cards are among the easiest systems to defraud.
And here Ellison is touting them as an example for the national ID system to follow?
It's just more proof that Ellison is hitting the crack pipe especially hard these days.
And AFAIK Ellison has still not answered those simple questions that were posed to him, eg "what terrorists, if any, would a national ID card system have stopped?"
"rendering the law making process virtually toothless.."
Eh? Doesn't seem to have prevented them from hurriedly ramming through some very broad, powerful, sweeping legislation that they'd never have been able to pass during peacetime.
I mean, in the scifi channel remake, everyone's acting was flatter than a pancake. That and the cheap-ass sets were the two most distracting points of the scifi channel remake.
Kyle MacLachlan (Paul, Lynch) had more talent in his left pinky than Alec Newman (Paul, Scifi) And what the heck was up with William Hurt (Duke Leto, Scifi)? Normally a fine actor, in the remake it was like he was on prozac the whole time! Jurgen Prochnow (Duke Leto, Lynch) might have been somewhat oddly cast for the Lynch production, but at least he had emotions!
Come on guys, be a little daring this time, try some location shots. Dont be weenies and do everything on stage sets.
The whole transparency thing screams of "1337 euro-democoders" crap, it's a complete waste of effort and time.
A GUI is supposed to enhance and make things easier -- this app just makes things a complete nightmare. You can barely make out the mess of the ruler on the left side of Word, and the transparent buttons of Calculator are a complete mess.
Can you imagine trying to read a book where all the pages were transparent celluloid? How about the desktop in your workplace where every paper you had was transparent? Can you imagine what a nightmare that would be?
Why in the world would you want to do that to your windowing system then?
And why is this a "newsworthy" item anyway?
Moderators: Please mod this post down, and demonstrate the complete and utter failure of the/. moderation system.
They are probably the most arrogant people I have ever had the displeasure of encountering. Not even the infamous djb (qmail) or tdr (openbsd) is anywhere as arrogant and insulting as this group of developers. I was really suprised, I didnt think anyone could top djb.
Just read their mailing list -- they attach headers to all mails relayed through the list telling everyone to "RTFM", and take great pleasure in treating everyone as idiots, even more pleasure in insulting them.
And the mplayer config script has a huge wild-eyed rant about redhat, if you dare to compile it with gcc 2.96 (even one known and proven to work perfectly fine, eg 2.96-85)
Oddly enough, I have experienced almost identical attitude from other hungarians. What IS it about that freaking country that makes everyone a flaming asshole?
What about gimp?
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Didn't they port gimp to win32?
gimp is THE flagship gtk application, bar none.
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Is to find some twisted way to get a high ranking politician or law enforcement official liable under the treaty.
Use the treaty as a tool against those individuals who passed it in the first place.
The wording of the treaty is loose enough that there should be plenty of wiggle room to abuse.
Just imagine a US official being extradited to some obscure european country... the US will nullify that treaty so quickly the photons won't have time to reach your eyeballs.
1) The xbox employs copyright control mechanisms which only allow specially protected/authorized/licensed software to run on it. This could be the BIOS, the encrypted FS, you name it. Almost anything can be an excuse.
2) Hacking the xbox to allow "unprotected/unauthorized/unlicensed software" (eg Linux) to run on it implicitly requires circumvention of these "copyright control" mechanisms. This is prohibited by the DMCA.
I also bet that the shrinkwrap license for xbox is written as a "rental" or similar, and that you really don't own the box or the software.
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Nope quite sane, sorry.
They ARE NOT designed to handle thousands of spin up/down cycles. The manufacturers recommend that once you turn a drive on you leave it on. The best way to destroy a drive is to power it up and down a lot. Period.
The first thing to go is usually the drive mainboard, then the drive motor, then the drive head or platter.
Spinning up the platter is the hardest strain you can put on a drive motor, both in terms of power usage and physical stress. It's a great way to burn out the motor prematurely.
The head travelling in and out of the landing zone is a perilous thing, thats when you get most catastrophic head or platter failures.
My CPU fan and PS fan are far louder than the DLT drive, which is very quiet. Oh well...
There's no MPX benchmarks because there are no MPX boards available yet.
And the link you posted doesnt even have any MP benchmarks...
I've written plenty of commercial code. I've also written some code that's in the linux kernel. Of course those facts are as irrelevant as your completely nonsequitur post.
You completely missed the point of the post. I'm not defending piracy, I'm questioning whether the feds should be spending such an incredible effort going after piracy, while letting other more serious problems go slack.
Unfortunately, as long as law enforcement is twisted by political agendas, we will see unbalanced and selective enforcement like this -- law enforcement in the name of corporate profits will take precedence over public interests.
... will the feds start prosecuting REAL crimes?
They're spending all their time going after easy petty thieves which requires almost zero investigative work and zero effort. Then they beat their chests and toot their horns like it's some major accomplishment.
My guess is that the feds will spend 10x as much time, effort, and money prosecuting these teens than they would ever spend prosecuting murderers, rapists, or armed robbers.
And I predict they will get stiffer sentences than violent criminals too...
Wouldnt this time, money, effort, and manpower be better put to use chasing terrorists? Sheesh.
There are two ways you can go relatively cheaply, and IMHO a far better solution than CD-R or CD-RW.
Pick up a DLT2000XT (15gb native) off ebay for about $200. Tapes are dirt cheap, about $5/ea and the media is extremely durable, nearly indestructible.
Pick up a DLT1 (40gb native) off ebay, about $500. Tapes are moderately expensive at around $20/ea, but again the media is extremely durable.
DLT is industrial strength backup, the drives are built like tanks and the tapes can take incredible abuse.
Its all standard SCSI and works great with linux, no problems whatsoever.
I considered buying hard drives for backups, but they are far too fragile for long term backup and off-site storage. Most drives arent designed to be spun up and down lots of times either.
Last thing you need is for your backup harddisk to go splat when youre trying to power it up to restore your main system from a data loss.
With DLT, this isnt likely to happen.
oops. replied to the wrong post. see the one below...
So basically you are saying the microsoft presenter is a liar...
:-)
Well we knew that already
So basically you're saying the microsoft presenter was a liar...
:-)
Well we knew that already
The real open source VP3 site
The VP3 open source license
The VP3 license claims to be MPL derived. Would be interesting to see if it still fits the open source criteria.
Of course he's being opportunistic. Lots of people have been shamlessly exploiting the 9/11 attacks for their own selfish motives.
The white house is doing it, congress is doing it, spammers are doing it. I'm actually suprised m$ hasnt stepped up to the plate already...
Oh dear.
credit cards are among the easiest systems to defraud.
And here Ellison is touting them as an example for the national ID system to follow?
It's just more proof that Ellison is hitting the crack pipe especially hard these days.
And AFAIK Ellison has still not answered those simple questions that were posed to him, eg "what terrorists, if any, would a national ID card system have stopped?"
"rendering the law making process virtually toothless.."
Eh? Doesn't seem to have prevented them from hurriedly ramming through some very broad, powerful, sweeping legislation that they'd never have been able to pass during peacetime.
If anything, it seems to have greased the wheels!
... they hire actors who can act?!?!
I mean, in the scifi channel remake, everyone's acting was flatter than a pancake. That and the cheap-ass sets were the two most distracting points of the scifi channel remake.
Kyle MacLachlan (Paul, Lynch) had more talent in his left pinky than Alec Newman (Paul, Scifi) And what the heck was up with William Hurt (Duke Leto, Scifi)? Normally a fine actor, in the remake it was like he was on prozac the whole time! Jurgen Prochnow (Duke Leto, Lynch) might have been somewhat oddly cast for the Lynch production, but at least he had emotions!
Come on guys, be a little daring this time, try some location shots. Dont be weenies and do everything on stage sets.
The record industry is hell bent on alienating their customer base by treating every single one of them, without exception, as criminals
saddling consumers with all sorts of stupid shit-broken protection mechanisms
slandering and libeling customers and consumer's advocacy groups and basically anyone who dares question the supreme truth of the RIAA
Releasing vacuous drivel like "backstreet boys", "britney spears", "n'sync"... I get horrible flashbacks of "Menudo", "George Michael" etc...
And then they have the gall to whine "record sales are down". Gee I wonder why, you stupid fuckwits...
The whole transparency thing screams of "1337 euro-democoders" crap, it's a complete waste of effort and time.
/. moderation system.
A GUI is supposed to enhance and make things easier -- this app just makes things a complete nightmare. You can barely make out the mess of the ruler on the left side of Word, and the transparent buttons of Calculator are a complete mess.
Can you imagine trying to read a book where all the pages were transparent celluloid? How about the desktop in your workplace where every paper you had was transparent? Can you imagine what a nightmare that would be?
Why in the world would you want to do that to your windowing system then?
And why is this a "newsworthy" item anyway?
Moderators: Please mod this post down, and demonstrate the complete and utter failure of the
... like assuming the virus checker uses md5 ...
For all you know, it uses a simple 8-bit checksum.
The mplayer developers have HUGE social problems.
They are probably the most arrogant people I have ever had the displeasure of encountering. Not even the infamous djb (qmail) or tdr (openbsd) is anywhere as arrogant and insulting as this group of developers. I was really suprised, I didnt think anyone could top djb.
Just read their mailing list -- they attach headers to all mails relayed through the list telling everyone to "RTFM", and take great pleasure in treating everyone as idiots, even more pleasure in insulting them.
And the mplayer config script has a huge wild-eyed rant about redhat, if you dare to compile it with gcc 2.96 (even one known and proven to work perfectly fine, eg 2.96-85)
Oddly enough, I have experienced almost identical attitude from other hungarians. What IS it about that freaking country that makes everyone a flaming asshole?
Didn't they port gimp to win32?
gimp is THE flagship gtk application, bar none.
... a "flamebait" or "troll" story category ...
Is to find some twisted way to get a high ranking politician or law enforcement official liable under the treaty.
Use the treaty as a tool against those individuals who passed it in the first place.
The wording of the treaty is loose enough that there should be plenty of wiggle room to abuse.
Just imagine a US official being extradited to some obscure european country... the US will nullify that treaty so quickly the photons won't have time to reach your eyeballs.
The reason intel is hated is the same reason m$ is hated -- they illegally abused their monopoly position repeatedly.
If you have examples of AMD violating the law, I'm all ears.
A CERT advisory about 1337 h4x0rz in the FBI who are attacking the net with email worms...
;)
I wonder if mcafee etc will be updated to catch these viruses
If the FBI virus gets out of hand and e.g. destroys corporate, governmental, or military data, could the FBI be held criminally liable?
Which individuals are writing this software anyway? That's what I'd really like to know.
Software doesn't write itself, individual programmers do. So who are these individuals?
My guess is they're hiding under a rock somewhere, too cowardly and ashamed to show their faces in public.
Here's how it would be argued:
1) The xbox employs copyright control mechanisms which only allow specially protected/authorized/licensed software to run on it. This could be the BIOS, the encrypted FS, you name it. Almost anything can be an excuse.
2) Hacking the xbox to allow "unprotected/unauthorized/unlicensed software" (eg Linux) to run on it implicitly requires circumvention of these "copyright control" mechanisms. This is prohibited by the DMCA.
I also bet that the shrinkwrap license for xbox is written as a "rental" or similar, and that you really don't own the box or the software.
I've submitted the details of my success twice to slashdot but my stories are always rejected.
Yep. slashdot is just B R O K E N .
I suggest you try kuro5hin.org instead.