I use RAID1 for my linux server. I use Norton Ghost (formerly DriveImage) for my C: drive backups. Everything else (email files, media, etc.) is replicated over 2 or 3 PCs.
IMHO, 3 hard drive copies is equal to or better than spindles of backups. Why? A backup isn't a backup until it has been successfully restored. It is painfully difficult to verify backups. You also run into media decay.
All the hard drives I installed in my family's computers have failed in the last 5 years - including mine.:-(
Waaaah! They cry, when I tell them there is no hope for the family photos, barring a media reclamation service == $$$
I tell everyone: "Assume your hard drive will fail at any moment, starting now! What is on your hard drive that you would be upset if you never saw it again?"
We complain because it is perpetuating a flawed business model whose fulcrum was the monopoly on distribution. Paying a tax on something obsolete just seems silly.
What these RIAA asshats don't realize is that they have been a huge impediment to satisfying the needs of customers. They discovered a way to print money and are unwilling to admit the party is over.
As soon as consumers found a way to bypass the aging distribution model, the dam was let loose. Or to abuse a few other metaphors... the genie is out of the bottle... the cat is out of the bag...
Sirius does not run commercials on its all-music channels. Most of the talk channels have commercials, especially if it is a simulcast of an AM/FM broadcast (e.g. NFL games). Stern has commercials, but they are far fewer than when he was on FM. Consider that he and his crew cannot sit and talk for 4-5 hours without bio-breaks. Much different than queueing up a playlist on a music channel.
In general, the variety of choices cannot be found in any one traditional geographic market.
There are features that you just don't get in your typical terrestrial radios. My favorite feature is pause. With the lower-end models, you get a 45min.+ sliding buffer to record. So, if I'm listening and have to run to the bathroom, or even fetch breakfast, I can come back and resume listening. You can then skip forward or back through your recorded buffer. Higher end models have 3hrs+ recording with permanent memory. They also have a portable unit akin to an ipod.
And, yes, IAAL (I am a linguist). LOL! I was getting ready to ask if you are a linguist, but you beat me to it. I'll assume you were mostly just have fun with the language.
I had a nightmare experience with Norton. I had an incoming message in Thunderbird that it felt was infected (I never got the chance to confirm/deny). The end result was my Inbox of 2500+ messages being hijacked by Norton. Since Thunderbird was running, my poor laptop started thrashing during the quarantine procedure. After fighting with Norton for hours, I could not recover my Inbox. It was the corporate edition, which, when configured properly (?) prevents the end user from turning it off! Thankfully, I had recent backups.
Well said. This guy is nitpicking. If you are in the swarm for some copyrighted material, you are pretty damn close to being illegal. I don't think they are going to harass you for being in a swarm for Fedora DVDs.
Perhaps the more generic saying is appropriate here: Too many cooks in the kitchen spoil the broth.
The Mythical Man Month has a better principal. One really good programmer is more productive than 10 mediocre programmers. Or something to that effect.
With respect to games, there has been too much focus on whiz-bang graphics, and not so much on fun. The funnest games I have played are not very whiz-bang. Darwinia. Lemmings.
Don't get me wrong. Doom3 was great. Half-Life 2 was god-like. Painkiller was probably the most refreshing breath of fresh air in the high-quality graphics world.
If it were easy, then yes, we would have push-button frameworks that magically created programs. What bothers me more than the ignorance of the "no silver bullet" mindset, are the pushers of programming environments that supposedly will solve all our problems. Bullshit. Corba sucks. EJBs suck. All these things suck. Just write good software and stop looking for the golden chalice.
Lead to more time be spend on unless paper work then making things work better. Also taking code by lines of code leads to bloated code as no wants to end up with and - number of lines. I THINK what you were trying to say is that beauraucracy ruins companies (e.g. TPS reports). Is the other comment referring to bugs per line of code? At HP we used to joke about adding lots of useless code to improve our metrics - a variation of the Dilbert joke "I'm going to code myself a minivan!"
Fuck, I sound like some Eugenics Nazi but really stop running yourselves down, have a shower and go out and breed people!
While all you are doing is observing what is happening in the world, I'm sure there are plenty of fucktards that would try to burn you at the stake for stating the facts.
I bought a book on overclocking, which at the time was quite useful. I would have written a similarly enthusiastic review. Now that it is 4 years old, the overclocking book is an amusing historical artifact for the average, power-hungry geek.
I've aged as well.:-) I am now looking for articles on underclocking for a low heat, low-noise PC - HTPC for me. The biggest challenge is, it has to play modern games like Q4 and HL2. So it is a bit of a hybrid HTPC.
I've never met an Intel graphics solution that could play anything more intense than Solitaire. Is the G965 any good?
I just upgraded my sister's mobo + CPU. It had embedded graphics, so I figured it would be comparable to her 2 year old nVidia AGP card. Nope. I had to buy a new PCIe nVidia card to handle Sims 2.
On a side note: Has anyone noticed that the extremely popular family-friendly 3D games are the worst performers? Sims 2 and RCT3 both take eons to load - much slower than Q4 or HL2.
My PC has itunes and is hooked to TV (Home Theater). That is all fine and good. However...
I want a remote control interface to itunes - you know 10' interface and all that. That way I can sit on my couch, drink beer, and watch the visualizer full-screen on my HDTV, or watch music videos. The remote control is so I can skip songs, pause when phone rings, etc.
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I use RAID1 for my linux server.
I use Norton Ghost (formerly DriveImage) for my C: drive backups.
Everything else (email files, media, etc.) is replicated over 2 or 3 PCs.
IMHO, 3 hard drive copies is equal to or better than spindles of backups. Why? A backup isn't a backup until it has been successfully restored. It is painfully difficult to verify backups. You also run into media decay.
So is there a MTBF for solid state drives? I'm serious.
All the hard drives I installed in my family's computers have failed in the last 5 years - including mine. :-(
Waaaah! They cry, when I tell them there is no hope for the family photos, barring a media reclamation service == $$$
I tell everyone: "Assume your hard drive will fail at any moment, starting now! What is on your hard drive that you would be upset if you never saw it again?"
We complain because it is perpetuating a flawed business model whose fulcrum was the monopoly on distribution. Paying a tax on something obsolete just seems silly.
What these RIAA asshats don't realize is that they have been a huge impediment to satisfying the needs of customers. They discovered a way to print money and are unwilling to admit the party is over.
As soon as consumers found a way to bypass the aging distribution model, the dam was let loose. Or to abuse a few other metaphors... the genie is out of the bottle... the cat is out of the bag...
Sirius does not run commercials on its all-music channels. Most of the talk channels have commercials, especially if it is a simulcast of an AM/FM broadcast (e.g. NFL games). Stern has commercials, but they are far fewer than when he was on FM. Consider that he and his crew cannot sit and talk for 4-5 hours without bio-breaks. Much different than queueing up a playlist on a music channel.
In general, the variety of choices cannot be found in any one traditional geographic market.
There are features that you just don't get in your typical terrestrial radios. My favorite feature is pause. With the lower-end models, you get a 45min.+ sliding buffer to record. So, if I'm listening and have to run to the bathroom, or even fetch breakfast, I can come back and resume listening. You can then skip forward or back through your recorded buffer. Higher end models have 3hrs+ recording with permanent memory. They also have a portable unit akin to an ipod.
Is it really an open standard if they are the only ones that developed it? It reminds me of a quote which I will paraphrase:
Reusable code is not truly reusable until it has been used more than once.
I had a nightmare experience with Norton. I had an incoming message in Thunderbird that it felt was infected (I never got the chance to confirm/deny). The end result was my Inbox of 2500+ messages being hijacked by Norton. Since Thunderbird was running, my poor laptop started thrashing during the quarantine procedure. After fighting with Norton for hours, I could not recover my Inbox. It was the corporate edition, which, when configured properly (?) prevents the end user from turning it off! Thankfully, I had recent backups.
What's your point?
Well said. This guy is nitpicking. If you are in the swarm for some copyrighted material, you are pretty damn close to being illegal. I don't think they are going to harass you for being in a swarm for Fedora DVDs.
Speaking of the sequel - how about the fact that the first level is the hardest?
Find all secret areas in some levels to gain a tarot card.
Perhaps the more generic saying is appropriate here: Too many cooks in the kitchen spoil the broth.
The Mythical Man Month has a better principal. One really good programmer is more productive than 10 mediocre programmers. Or something to that effect.
With respect to games, there has been too much focus on whiz-bang graphics, and not so much on fun. The funnest games I have played are not very whiz-bang. Darwinia. Lemmings.
Don't get me wrong. Doom3 was great. Half-Life 2 was god-like. Painkiller was probably the most refreshing breath of fresh air in the high-quality graphics world.
Read it. Know it.
Why must we rehash this over and over again.
If it were easy, then yes, we would have push-button frameworks that magically created programs. What bothers me more than the ignorance of the "no silver bullet" mindset, are the pushers of programming environments that supposedly will solve all our problems. Bullshit. Corba sucks. EJBs suck. All these things suck. Just write good software and stop looking for the golden chalice.
Or, in this case...
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The Floppy is Dead!
Long Live the (insert-soon-to-be-obsolete-portable-storage-medi
There was no deception. You are a fucktard, or work for Intel.
I am a hardcore gamer, yet I only recognized 3 of the seven series mentioned.
Fuck, I sound like some Eugenics Nazi but really stop running yourselves down, have a shower and go out and breed people!
While all you are doing is observing what is happening in the world, I'm sure there are plenty of fucktards that would try to burn you at the stake for stating the facts.I did my part - I have 4 kids of my own.
I bought a book on overclocking, which at the time was quite useful. I would have written a similarly enthusiastic review. Now that it is 4 years old, the overclocking book is an amusing historical artifact for the average, power-hungry geek.
:-) I am now looking for articles on underclocking for a low heat, low-noise PC - HTPC for me. The biggest challenge is, it has to play modern games like Q4 and HL2. So it is a bit of a hybrid HTPC.
I've aged as well.
I've never met an Intel graphics solution that could play anything more intense than Solitaire. Is the G965 any good?
I just upgraded my sister's mobo + CPU. It had embedded graphics, so I figured it would be comparable to her 2 year old nVidia AGP card. Nope. I had to buy a new PCIe nVidia card to handle Sims 2.
On a side note: Has anyone noticed that the extremely popular family-friendly 3D games are the worst performers? Sims 2 and RCT3 both take eons to load - much slower than Q4 or HL2.
My PC has itunes and is hooked to TV (Home Theater). That is all fine and good. However...
I want a remote control interface to itunes - you know 10' interface and all that. That way I can sit on my couch, drink beer, and watch the visualizer full-screen on my HDTV, or watch music videos. The remote control is so I can skip songs, pause when phone rings, etc.
That is an over-generalization. I play single player campaigns AND multiplayer. I don't kick ass in all MP games, but I am very respectable in some.