I'm a libertarian, which puts me more inline with republicans than democrats. In general, republicans tend to lean toward less government but want to control people's lives with the government, and democrats tend to lean toward communism and want to dominate people's lives in every respect.
I am a huge fan of star trek. I've watched every os episode many times over, and ng episodes more times than I would care to count (each). I watched all of ds9 though from it onward it spiraled into a pit of feces.
Linux disk encryption makes it just as hard for linux to dualboot windows. In fact every linux distro should just use FAT to make sure windows can be dualbooted and read the linux data.
the filesystems used in linux are free and open. MS is more than welcome to implement support for them in windows without having to pay a dime. The same is not true of the reverse situation.
MS does not support reading and writing to linux filesystems by choice to stifle interoperability. They keep their filesystems closed to the same end.
If you expect the instruction set to need changing at some point in the future, however, (like the BIOS chip in your computer) you'd cough up the extra pennies per chip and plop in an EEPROM, because the extra E stands for "erasable."
Actually, the E in EPROM stands for Erasable. The EE in EEPROM stands for Electrically Erasable. A standard EPROM is usually erased by exposure to UV light.
I can 1 up you. I got a static ip on my dsl and registered my own domain. I host it on a pentium 200 machine in my basement and run open webmail on it. I have webmail anywhere in the world hosted on my own server. I put up with noone elses crap for my webmail service.
I live in Georgia, and you can wear a loaded weapon here as well as long as it's not concealed. If you have a license (which I do) you can carry them concealed.
It's not the people that have their guns on display or the people who get a license to carry concealed legally that you should worry about.
You and pretty much everyone you know drive a lethal weapon that can kill more people, and do more physical damage, than any simple gun could every day. How many people could you run down in a car on a tank of gas? How many could you kill with a hand gun before reloading?
The point is anything can be used as a weapon. Blaming guns is like blaming the car when some moron drives the wrong way down the freeway and kills 20 people.
The person that abuses or uses it irresponsibly is to blame. Not the tool.
Of course you should always keep in mind that your profit motive does not extend to all musicians. I consider it a compliment for someone to listen to my music, and if they like it enough to pass it on I'm grateful. I'd rather have 10 million people hear my music and 10 people pay me for it than 100 people paying me and only them hearing it.
The money will come with exposure. If you have enough people who like your music then even if only 2% contribute to the cause you're going to make out just fine.
If someone likes my music, but not enough to pay for it, I'd rather they be able to listen to it than to assault them with lawyers. If they like it and want more then I'm willing to trust that they will put $5 in the pot to fund the next album. If they don't, oh well. I spent a ton of money on gear and computers. I would be recording this stuff even if no one ever paid me a dime so every cent I get is just a nice side effect of something I enjoy doing.
My parents bought me a Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with 16KB of RAM and a tape drive. circa 1981. about 1 month after that I did my 1st hardware mod by upgrading to 64KB of ram. I used that machine up to '88 when I retired it and got a CoCo3 with 512KB of RAM. That's when I started using OS/9 Level 2, the best OS I've ever had the pleasure of working with. When the CoCo3 died in '92 (while I was writing a term paper for integrated devices class in college) my parents bought my 1st x86 machine for me. An AMD 386DX-40MHz with 4MB of RAM, an 80MB hard drive running Stacker and a SVGA card that would display up to 800x600 with 16 colors.
I got my 1st modem in '84. A 300 baud beast that had a switch to select answer or originate, and a button to turn it on after you dialed the phone by hand.
To this day I tell my mom the money she spent on that CoCo2 was the best money she ever spent on me.
I distribute my work for free. I make my music available at better than iTMS quality in the form of 160Kbps+ mp3 and quality 5 vorbis files. I add value to that work for people who decide to pay for it by providing them with the flac files and/or an "official" CD.
I put a lot of work into what I do, and yes, I would like to be compensated for it. But in the same light I'm not going to do anything to interfere with the rights of my fans (few as they may be right now) to enjoy our music any way they choose. When it comes down to it, I'd rather my music be listened to. If people choose to support it by sending some cash my way then great. Given a choice of not having my music heard by as many people as possible because I demand an entry fee for the privilege, or having my music heard by anyone who cares to listen, I'll take the people listening.
ok, so my server is now secured, but in order for my server to recognize and reject your mail, it still has to clog up my bandwidth to get to it. What you suggest would be the same as you parking 30 trucks covered in ads in my driveway blocking access to my garage. My garage is well secured so you can't get into it, but you are clogging my means of using it with your trucks, on my property.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not all about making 3000 laws that do nothing to solve the problem. No amount of laws will fix the problem. Only a revamp of the technology can.
You're hiding behind the concept of a free market and using it as an ethical shield so you can feel good about assaulting millions of people's property and lives daily.
They're also kinda buggy. I'm using them right now since I couldn't format my 120GB IDE drive for FAT32 past 32GB or so (and there was no way in hell I was splitting it up into 4 pieces), and I wasn't too sure what else I could use to format for FAT32, so I used ext2.
Microsoft forces a limit on the partition size you can format with FAT32 in windows(I suspect to force you onto NTFS). Windows is able to use a larger FAT32 partition that has already been formated via some other means though. Boot into linux and format the FAT32 partition using mkfs.vfat and it will work fine in both linux and windows.
I've supported AMD in every generation except during the p5 era (amd had no answer to the p5 for most of it's life). My 386 was an AMD, my 486 was an AMD, my pentium was Intel, my K6 was AMD, my K6-2 was AMD, my Athlon was AMD, and now my Pentium 4 is Intel only because someone threw a 2 month old HP in a dumpster and I grabbed it for the parts.
I bought AMD for 2 reasons, price/performance, and because I know what Intel will do to us if we lose the only competitor on the market. My money going to AMD was more a vote to keep competition alive than anything else.
I'll buy whatever gives the best bang for the buck. In the pentium classic era that was Intel, and intel alone. AMD released the K6 which stepped all over the Intel chips in everything but games, and I stuck with it more to support the only company capable of keeping Intel in check. If AMD had folded or left the market back in those days we would probably all still be running Pentium 3's that cost $1.5k each.
It depends on what you're testing. If your goal was to test the filesystem performance based on the default behavior of the filesystem then the test was fine.
If you're going to performance tune one of the filesystems, then you need to performance tune all of them before comparing.
Trucks have the same "I'm safer" stigma as an SUV. In many states the law doesn't require drivers and passengers in trucks to wear seatbelts (at least they used to not require it) so a lot of people don't just to stick it to the man.
You also have tons of redneck hicks that jack them up 12 feet in the air with tires bigger than a 747 wheel with a rebel flag flying from the tailgate. Taking a right at 15mph could roll one over.
I hydroplaned my 4x4 dodge ram quad cab (not jacked up beyond stock) on the freeway one rainy sunday morning (about 6am, still dark) while on the way to work and slid into the woods sideways, down an embankment, at 65mph. Totaled the truck, I didn't flip, and I walked away without a scratch.
I now drive the speed limit on the freeway when dry (limit was 65 so I wasn't really speeding). I drive no faster than 55 on a wet road. I still drive a truck because of the utility. I don't really feel safe in any vehicle anymore.
Let me start by saying I dislike SUV's. I drive a truck because I want something big but still useful.
That being said, If given a choice between my child dying and saving a family of 6 that I don't know, or my child being saved by the death of said family of 6, I'll save my child. It may sound harsh, but that's my kid and my children trump the rest of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
I'm not saying an SUV is safe by any stretch.
When most vehicles on the road were small cars and light trucks and the occasional SUV then the odds were in favor of the SUV that they would be the heavier vehicle involved in a crash and win the war of weight. Now that a large proportion of the vehicles on the road are SUV's you gain almost nothing as the odds are pretty good you're going to tangle with another SUV or full sized truck. The guy/gal in the Kia Rio is going to die.
The biggest danger in an SUV is the high center of gravity. Standard trucks are better in this regard as they tend to have a lower one. Cars win hands down in this area and are typically much harder to flip.
Regardless of the vehicle, flipping and landing on the roof is the biggest danger to the passengers.
And just as an aside, a friend of the family was driving an old mid 80's suburban and was t-boned by a fully loaded gas truck that was doing 45. It was the mother and every kid (all 4 kids) in the suburban, buckled in, and they all walked away with nothing more than strap bruises. replace that suburban with a neon and I'll give you 3 guesses how many would have died.
With all 4 wheels on the ground they are safer than a Corolla.
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To calculate DC power you multiply the voltage by the current. So if it pulls 2.8A peak from the 12V rail then it draws 33.6Wpeak
You're only going to hit that peak during spin-up.
Get a controller that supports staggered spin-up (it spins each drive up sequentially) and you can reduce the overall requirements of the PS since it will not have to supply 268.8W to spin-up every drive all at once.
The biggest flaw in your idea is that the companies that control the hardware, which is not something a disconnected group of internet jockies can reproduce, are trying to institute total control over you. Who are those small and independant content creators going to peddle their creations to when the hardware everyone uses refuses to display anything but what MegaCorp(TM) approves.
Your rights to use your hardware as you see fit are what is under attack. Don't think for a minute that once these coalitions have the keys to control what you can and can't do with your gear they won't block everything else but the drivel they approve.
If I can't sell my music in mp3 format because it will cost a fortune to license it, I can sell it in vorbis format. But if these guys get what they want then that option will be eliminated because you can bet your salary they will block an open and unfettered format like vorbis from playing on every device you own. Once they get this level of lock in they will even be able to prevent people from giving away content for free by refusing to play ANYTHING that isn't signed by the MPAA/RIAA/whoever industry group.. All in the name of security/piracy/etc..
I'm much more interested in people listening to our music than in making a buck off of it. If someone likes it and wants to pay for it, great! If not, at least they listened to it.
Right now none of our music is even complete so there isn't a way to pay for it but the music is on the site for free.
To me it's a hobby that I enjoy. If others like it then I'm grateful. The only restrictions we put on the distribution of our music is to make sure that nobody else uses it to garner a profit, because if they do we want our share. We're all about letting our music be copied and distributed pretty freely as long as nobody tries to make themselves a buck on our backs. If they do they better cough up some of it.
I may be remembering incorrectly, and lack the interest to go look it up, but if IRC rambus went to JEDEC, saw what was being proposed for the standards, then ran straight to the USPTO and filed patents on key concepts. They then proceeded to try and extort the industry with those patents, which were eventually shot down.
I had my name changed by a GM in EQ back in 2001. It used to be Unix and they changed it to another name (which will remain undisclosed).. There was no recourse, nothing I could do about it. Every second I spent in the game prior to that was a total waste as my best of friends in the game now looked at me as a total stranger until I explained the whole mess. I actually left EQ for a few months over it and started to play DAoC as it had just been released. After fuguring out DAoC sucked I came back and made that new name my own. I became well known on the server under that new name and to this day use it for all kinds of things.
I even got to help kill the gm that did it one day when he went LD (we were on a pvp server).
The funniest part of it was they changed my first name because it was a trademark. To this day I still have my original last name which is a word that describes a person who accepts money to do a certain thing.
"In the early 1980s, at the dawn of the PC age, high-volume electronic storage and transmission--360-kilobyte floppy disks! 14-kilobit-per-second modems!"
I've been robbed.. Why is it I stumbled through the 80's with 300bps, 1200bps, and 2400bps(end of the decade) modems when they had 14Kbps modems available in the early 80's.. My 1200 baud modem was a $700 modem in 1988!!
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I'm a libertarian, which puts me more inline with republicans than democrats. In general, republicans tend to lean toward less government but want to control people's lives with the government, and democrats tend to lean toward communism and want to dominate people's lives in every respect.
I am a huge fan of star trek. I've watched every os episode many times over, and ng episodes more times than I would care to count (each). I watched all of ds9 though from it onward it spiraled into a pit of feces.
as far as the movies,
wrath of khan > *
the filesystems used in linux are free and open. MS is more than welcome to implement support for them in windows without having to pay a dime. The same is not true of the reverse situation.
MS does not support reading and writing to linux filesystems by choice to stifle interoperability. They keep their filesystems closed to the same end.
I figured you knew, just wanted to clarify for any others reading it.
I bungle details far too often.
Actually, the E in EPROM stands for Erasable. The EE in EEPROM stands for Electrically Erasable. A standard EPROM is usually erased by exposure to UV light.
I can 1 up you. I got a static ip on my dsl and registered my own domain. I host it on a pentium 200 machine in my basement and run open webmail on it. I have webmail anywhere in the world hosted on my own server. I put up with noone elses crap for my webmail service.
I live in Georgia, and you can wear a loaded weapon here as well as long as it's not concealed. If you have a license (which I do) you can carry them concealed.
It's not the people that have their guns on display or the people who get a license to carry concealed legally that you should worry about.
You and pretty much everyone you know drive a lethal weapon that can kill more people, and do more physical damage, than any simple gun could every day. How many people could you run down in a car on a tank of gas? How many could you kill with a hand gun before reloading?
The point is anything can be used as a weapon. Blaming guns is like blaming the car when some moron drives the wrong way down the freeway and kills 20 people.
The person that abuses or uses it irresponsibly is to blame. Not the tool.
I remember playing a game called carmageddon.
Of course you should always keep in mind that your profit motive does not extend to all musicians. I consider it a compliment for someone to listen to my music, and if they like it enough to pass it on I'm grateful. I'd rather have 10 million people hear my music and 10 people pay me for it than 100 people paying me and only them hearing it.
The money will come with exposure. If you have enough people who like your music then even if only 2% contribute to the cause you're going to make out just fine.
If someone likes my music, but not enough to pay for it, I'd rather they be able to listen to it than to assault them with lawyers. If they like it and want more then I'm willing to trust that they will put $5 in the pot to fund the next album. If they don't, oh well. I spent a ton of money on gear and computers. I would be recording this stuff even if no one ever paid me a dime so every cent I get is just a nice side effect of something I enjoy doing.
My parents bought me a Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with 16KB of RAM and a tape drive. circa 1981. about 1 month after that I did my 1st hardware mod by upgrading to 64KB of ram. I used that machine up to '88 when I retired it and got a CoCo3 with 512KB of RAM. That's when I started using OS/9 Level 2, the best OS I've ever had the pleasure of working with. When the CoCo3 died in '92 (while I was writing a term paper for integrated devices class in college) my parents bought my 1st x86 machine for me. An AMD 386DX-40MHz with 4MB of RAM, an 80MB hard drive running Stacker and a SVGA card that would display up to 800x600 with 16 colors.
I got my 1st modem in '84. A 300 baud beast that had a switch to select answer or originate, and a button to turn it on after you dialed the phone by hand.
To this day I tell my mom the money she spent on that CoCo2 was the best money she ever spent on me.
As musician, I'm not conflicted at all.
I distribute my work for free. I make my music available at better than iTMS quality in the form of 160Kbps+ mp3 and quality 5 vorbis files. I add value to that work for people who decide to pay for it by providing them with the flac files and/or an "official" CD.
I put a lot of work into what I do, and yes, I would like to be compensated for it. But in the same light I'm not going to do anything to interfere with the rights of my fans (few as they may be right now) to enjoy our music any way they choose. When it comes down to it, I'd rather my music be listened to. If people choose to support it by sending some cash my way then great. Given a choice of not having my music heard by as many people as possible because I demand an entry fee for the privilege, or having my music heard by anyone who cares to listen, I'll take the people listening.
ok, so my server is now secured, but in order for my server to recognize and reject your mail, it still has to clog up my bandwidth to get to it. What you suggest would be the same as you parking 30 trucks covered in ads in my driveway blocking access to my garage. My garage is well secured so you can't get into it, but you are clogging my means of using it with your trucks, on my property.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not all about making 3000 laws that do nothing to solve the problem. No amount of laws will fix the problem. Only a revamp of the technology can.
You're hiding behind the concept of a free market and using it as an ethical shield so you can feel good about assaulting millions of people's property and lives daily.
Microsoft forces a limit on the partition size you can format with FAT32 in windows(I suspect to force you onto NTFS). Windows is able to use a larger FAT32 partition that has already been formated via some other means though. Boot into linux and format the FAT32 partition using mkfs.vfat and it will work fine in both linux and windows.
I've supported AMD in every generation except during the p5 era (amd had no answer to the p5 for most of it's life). My 386 was an AMD, my 486 was an AMD, my pentium was Intel, my K6 was AMD, my K6-2 was AMD, my Athlon was AMD, and now my Pentium 4 is Intel only because someone threw a 2 month old HP in a dumpster and I grabbed it for the parts.
I bought AMD for 2 reasons, price/performance, and because I know what Intel will do to us if we lose the only competitor on the market. My money going to AMD was more a vote to keep competition alive than anything else.
I'll buy whatever gives the best bang for the buck. In the pentium classic era that was Intel, and intel alone. AMD released the K6 which stepped all over the Intel chips in everything but games, and I stuck with it more to support the only company capable of keeping Intel in check. If AMD had folded or left the market back in those days we would probably all still be running Pentium 3's that cost $1.5k each.
It depends on what you're testing. If your goal was to test the filesystem performance based on the default behavior of the filesystem then the test was fine.
If you're going to performance tune one of the filesystems, then you need to performance tune all of them before comparing.
Trucks have the same "I'm safer" stigma as an SUV. In many states the law doesn't require drivers and passengers in trucks to wear seatbelts (at least they used to not require it) so a lot of people don't just to stick it to the man.
You also have tons of redneck hicks that jack them up 12 feet in the air with tires bigger than a 747 wheel with a rebel flag flying from the tailgate. Taking a right at 15mph could roll one over.
I hydroplaned my 4x4 dodge ram quad cab (not jacked up beyond stock) on the freeway one rainy sunday morning (about 6am, still dark) while on the way to work and slid into the woods sideways, down an embankment, at 65mph. Totaled the truck, I didn't flip, and I walked away without a scratch.
I now drive the speed limit on the freeway when dry (limit was 65 so I wasn't really speeding). I drive no faster than 55 on a wet road. I still drive a truck because of the utility. I don't really feel safe in any vehicle anymore.
Let me start by saying I dislike SUV's. I drive a truck because I want something big but still useful.
That being said, If given a choice between my child dying and saving a family of 6 that I don't know, or my child being saved by the death of said family of 6, I'll save my child. It may sound harsh, but that's my kid and my children trump the rest of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
I'm not saying an SUV is safe by any stretch.
When most vehicles on the road were small cars and light trucks and the occasional SUV then the odds were in favor of the SUV that they would be the heavier vehicle involved in a crash and win the war of weight. Now that a large proportion of the vehicles on the road are SUV's you gain almost nothing as the odds are pretty good you're going to tangle with another SUV or full sized truck. The guy/gal in the Kia Rio is going to die.
The biggest danger in an SUV is the high center of gravity. Standard trucks are better in this regard as they tend to have a lower one. Cars win hands down in this area and are typically much harder to flip.
Regardless of the vehicle, flipping and landing on the roof is the biggest danger to the passengers.
And just as an aside, a friend of the family was driving an old mid 80's suburban and was t-boned by a fully loaded gas truck that was doing 45. It was the mother and every kid (all 4 kids) in the suburban, buckled in, and they all walked away with nothing more than strap bruises. replace that suburban with a neon and I'll give you 3 guesses how many would have died.
With all 4 wheels on the ground they are safer than a Corolla.
To calculate DC power you multiply the voltage by the current. So if it pulls 2.8A peak from the 12V rail then it draws 33.6Wpeak
You're only going to hit that peak during spin-up.
Get a controller that supports staggered spin-up (it spins each drive up sequentially) and you can reduce the overall requirements of the PS since it will not have to supply 268.8W to spin-up every drive all at once.
The biggest flaw in your idea is that the companies that control the hardware, which is not something a disconnected group of internet jockies can reproduce, are trying to institute total control over you. Who are those small and independant content creators going to peddle their creations to when the hardware everyone uses refuses to display anything but what MegaCorp(TM) approves.
Your rights to use your hardware as you see fit are what is under attack. Don't think for a minute that once these coalitions have the keys to control what you can and can't do with your gear they won't block everything else but the drivel they approve.
If I can't sell my music in mp3 format because it will cost a fortune to license it, I can sell it in vorbis format. But if these guys get what they want then that option will be eliminated because you can bet your salary they will block an open and unfettered format like vorbis from playing on every device you own. Once they get this level of lock in they will even be able to prevent people from giving away content for free by refusing to play ANYTHING that isn't signed by the MPAA/RIAA/whoever industry group.. All in the name of security/piracy/etc..
Welcome to the new order. Here's your number.
not that this has anything to do with the subject at hand but if you scroll a little down the myspace page you will find this:
Band Website lykachamp.com
click that and you go to their website where what you asked for is available.
I'm much more interested in people listening to our music than in making a buck off of it. If someone likes it and wants to pay for it, great! If not, at least they listened to it.
Right now none of our music is even complete so there isn't a way to pay for it but the music is on the site for free.
To me it's a hobby that I enjoy. If others like it then I'm grateful. The only restrictions we put on the distribution of our music is to make sure that nobody else uses it to garner a profit, because if they do we want our share. We're all about letting our music be copied and distributed pretty freely as long as nobody tries to make themselves a buck on our backs. If they do they better cough up some of it.
You can never post your website on slashdot without someone trying to find how it's broken. I'll confess. Mine is broken. But, it works in FF!
embrace and extend.
I may be remembering incorrectly, and lack the interest to go look it up, but if IRC rambus went to JEDEC, saw what was being proposed for the standards, then ran straight to the USPTO and filed patents on key concepts. They then proceeded to try and extort the industry with those patents, which were eventually shot down.
I had my name changed by a GM in EQ back in 2001. It used to be Unix and they changed it to another name (which will remain undisclosed).. There was no recourse, nothing I could do about it. Every second I spent in the game prior to that was a total waste as my best of friends in the game now looked at me as a total stranger until I explained the whole mess. I actually left EQ for a few months over it and started to play DAoC as it had just been released. After fuguring out DAoC sucked I came back and made that new name my own. I became well known on the server under that new name and to this day use it for all kinds of things.
I even got to help kill the gm that did it one day when he went LD (we were on a pvp server).
The funniest part of it was they changed my first name because it was a trademark. To this day I still have my original last name which is a word that describes a person who accepts money to do a certain thing.
WTG naming policy.
nice article about space elevator research for those who are members.
A Hoist to the Heavens
"In the early 1980s, at the dawn of the PC age, high-volume electronic storage and transmission--360-kilobyte floppy disks! 14-kilobit-per-second modems!"
I've been robbed.. Why is it I stumbled through the 80's with 300bps, 1200bps, and 2400bps(end of the decade) modems when they had 14Kbps modems available in the early 80's.. My 1200 baud modem was a $700 modem in 1988!!