When pulling pranks like this it often has a better chance of succeeding if you don't go for the traditional 127.0.0.1. Remember the entire 127.0.0.0/8 domain is reserved by loopback and is obeyed by Windows and Linux systems alike.
although it's not going to make a beans worth of difference to most of us Athlon 64 users, since Linux systems have been running in 64-bit native mode for some time now.
That is one facet of backup. To feed you your own words: I can't get over how "backup" has come to mean "an archive of 10-year old data that is requested once in that time".
Look, of course tapes keep better on the shelf for long long term storage but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about daily incrementals, you know like when Stef from marketing barges into your office on Friday at 4:58pm and proclaims, "Ijustdeletedmymonthlyreport-putitbackputitback!!! " Are you going to rummage through your tape collection, march down to the server room, wait 5 minutes for the drive to detect the tape, realise the drive is due for a head clean... etc etc. Or just do a dar -x on/mnt/backup/daily and be home for tea.
10 times the price for later sets? Okay let's see: My institute has a mere 100GB of data to back up daily.
So I can buy a pack of 7 40GB DLT tapes for $300 (why packs of 7 I'll never know). I now have 280GB to play with, but need 3 tapes per backup cycle.
Or I can shell out $150 for a 200GB IDE and have my daily backups online. If the drive dies, big deal just chuck in another drive and run another backup. Hell, for an extra $20 I can put it in an external USB2 enclosure and keep it on a shelf if need be.
Nope, I'm just not seeing your 10x price claims.
Tape for permanent archival, hard disk for dailys. Seems like a good plan to me.
For a more fair comparison, what's the life of a tape if it's continuously online? Hard disk backups don't need to be online these days you know. With USB2 and firewire ATA enclosures there's really no reason that hard disks need to be 'fixed' disks.
Remember that hard disks these days are byte for byte significantly cheaper and of course odrers of magnitde faster than tape. If they are less reliable, then you might only use them for short-lived backups like incrementals.
Even if your USB cable explodes in a fireball from a lightning strike, the hard drive it still fine, and can be read in another computer.
5. All these extra fans brings us back to the age of the noisy PC. So passé.
Not necessarily. It's not the quantity of fans that makes noise, it's the amount of turbulent airflow. I have a server with 13 fans and you need to strain to hear it running. Another machine I saw has one fan and sounds like a hairdryer.
If you find your fans are too noisy (and your machine is being cooled effectively) just chuck a 50 ohm resistor in series with each 12V fan.
After using CUPS for over a year, I've gone back to LPRng. I tell you, it's like going back to a leather armchair after sitting on a bright orange plastic stool.
Now if only someone knew where their mailing list has disappeared to...
The ability to configure a daemon via the command-line (ie scriptable) is an absolute must for any GNU/Linux system.
CUPS really dropped the ball when they made the decision to make their system only configurable via a GUI. Sure we have/etc/cups/cupsd.conf, but the most important parts (the parts beneath the DO NOT EDIT line) are removed with every GUI interaction or package update.
"Here's a deb, but I'm never going to roll an RPM for you RedHat freaks!"
or the debian "version" of a program being several versions behind the "rpm" version because nobody's bothered updating the repository, or the third-party RPM maintainer has retired.
Finding better ways to suck excess energy of a chip is very well and good, but it might be better to reduce the energy produced by the chip in the first place.
If every time a 1 is set to a zero, why not feed that into a bank of capacitors rather than the current solution (which I believe is to sink it to ground, thus producing heat)?
That statement is categorically false. A DVD you create with dvdauthor is not encrypted. There are also studios that push out DVDs without CSS encryption.
Do you perhaps mean: After all EVERY commercial DVD player can understand CSS.
Even then there are several non-commercial DVD players (software-based ones of course) that come to mind; mplayer, xine, ogle. All of which can be compiled without libdvdcss and can play non-encrypted DVDs fine. So it is possible to create, download and watch DVDs without CSS. Of course it's not practical for everyone, since you won't be able to watch the latest hollywood blockbuster you rented from the local video library.
I'm sure you were just being funny, but I'll point out that the heat source in a CRT (coils) are set back much farther from the front than the main heat source in an LCD (backlight).
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When pulling pranks like this it often has a better chance of succeeding if you don't go for the traditional 127.0.0.1. Remember the entire 127.0.0.0/8 domain is reserved by loopback and is obeyed by Windows and Linux systems alike.
Go on, try and flood ping 127.204.38.61.
I wonder if they'll get the oscar for Most Gratuitous Use of the Word 'fuck' in a Serious Screenplay?
although it's not going to make a beans worth of difference to most of us Athlon 64 users, since Linux systems have been running in 64-bit native mode for some time now.
This was not the government, this is a single judge with more brain.
I give up. Zaphod Beeblebrox?
That is one facet of backup. To feed you your own words: I can't get over how "backup" has come to mean "an archive of 10-year old data that is requested once in that time".
! " Are you going to rummage through your tape collection, march down to the server room, wait 5 minutes for the drive to detect the tape, realise the drive is due for a head clean... etc etc. Or just do a dar -x on /mnt/backup/daily and be home for tea.
Look, of course tapes keep better on the shelf for long long term storage but that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about daily incrementals, you know like when Stef from marketing barges into your office on Friday at 4:58pm and proclaims, "Ijustdeletedmymonthlyreport-putitbackputitback!!
10 times the price for later sets? Okay let's see:
My institute has a mere 100GB of data to back up daily.
So I can buy a pack of 7 40GB DLT tapes for $300 (why packs of 7 I'll never know). I now have 280GB to play with, but need 3 tapes per backup cycle.
Or I can shell out $150 for a 200GB IDE and have my daily backups online. If the drive dies, big deal just chuck in another drive and run another backup. Hell, for an extra $20 I can put it in an external USB2 enclosure and keep it on a shelf if need be.
Nope, I'm just not seeing your 10x price claims.
Tape for permanent archival, hard disk for dailys. Seems like a good plan to me.
For a more fair comparison, what's the life of a tape if it's continuously online? Hard disk backups don't need to be online these days you know. With USB2 and firewire ATA enclosures there's really no reason that hard disks need to be 'fixed' disks.
Remember that hard disks these days are byte for byte significantly cheaper and of course odrers of magnitde faster than tape. If they are less reliable, then you might only use them for short-lived backups like incrementals.
Even if your USB cable explodes in a fireball from a lightning strike, the hard drive it still fine, and can be read in another computer.
He's done a lot non-entertainment-targeted work.
Back in the 70's (or was it early 80's?) he did a series of accounting training videos with Ronnie Corbett and I'm sure there have been others.
So.. does that mean they're a patent lobby group that's anti-software?
Confused,
5. All these extra fans brings us back to the age of the noisy PC. So passé.
Not necessarily. It's not the quantity of fans that makes noise, it's the amount of turbulent airflow. I have a server with 13 fans and you need to strain to hear it running. Another machine I saw has one fan and sounds like a hairdryer.
If you find your fans are too noisy (and your machine is being cooled effectively) just chuck a 50 ohm resistor in series with each 12V fan.
After using CUPS for over a year, I've gone back to LPRng. I tell you, it's like going back to a leather armchair after sitting on a bright orange plastic stool.
Now if only someone knew where their mailing list has disappeared to...
Making it mandatory.
/etc/cups/cupsd.conf, but the most important parts (the parts beneath the DO NOT EDIT line) are removed with every GUI interaction or package update.
The ability to configure a daemon via the command-line (ie scriptable) is an absolute must for any GNU/Linux system.
CUPS really dropped the ball when they made the decision to make their system only configurable via a GUI. Sure we have
developers favouring a particular distro:
"Here's a deb, but I'm never going to roll an RPM for you RedHat freaks!"
or the debian "version" of a program being several versions behind the "rpm" version because nobody's bothered updating the repository, or the third-party RPM maintainer has retired.
Firefox wouldn't let you get to that article?
That would be the new FUD Filter extension, now bundled with FF 1.0.3.
... recycling the bit-bucket?
Finding better ways to suck excess energy of a chip is very well and good, but it might be better to reduce the energy produced by the chip in the first place.
If every time a 1 is set to a zero, why not feed that into a bank of capacitors rather than the current solution (which I believe is to sink it to ground, thus producing heat)?
...but I'd just assume eat a copy of Windows XP...
I think you mean you'd just as soon eat a copy of Windows XP
Most pedantic, head-in-the-sand post ever.
Possibly, but the GP was implying that DVD technology is useless without CSS. I was merely pointing out that this is not the case.
To use your example, if gasoline was taken away tomorrow, people could and would use alternatives. Cars wouldn't suddenly become useless.
After all EVERY video DVD is encrypted with CSS.
That statement is categorically false. A DVD you create with dvdauthor is not encrypted. There are also studios that push out DVDs without CSS encryption.
Do you perhaps mean:
After all EVERY commercial DVD player can understand CSS.
Even then there are several non-commercial DVD players (software-based ones of course) that come to mind; mplayer, xine, ogle. All of which can be compiled without libdvdcss and can play non-encrypted DVDs fine. So it is possible to create, download and watch DVDs without CSS. Of course it's not practical for everyone, since you won't be able to watch the latest hollywood blockbuster you rented from the local video library.
Microsoft Windows OEM at 10% of list price? On what planet?
What does The Economist know? It's a right-wing rag.
What does Slashdot know? It's a left-wing rag.
I'm sure you were just being funny, but I'll point out that the heat source in a CRT (coils) are set back much farther from the front than the main heat source in an LCD (backlight).
What's the energy density of grass?
How about petrol?
We must remember to include plenty of JPCON and GSC capacitors to get that healthy swell and electrolyte ooze after a year or so.
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I'm pleased with the day's stories. I appreciate a good laugh, and more so a (half)day dedicated to it without being overcommercialised.
:)
So in the words of Marty McFly:
"Hey, lighten up, jerk!"
Nah, just do away with state taxes completely and have a single federal income-staggered tax for everyone.
Or would that just be too sensible?