I hate an arms-race as much as the next guy, but imagine if all the showmanship from whose nukepeen was bigger in the cold war could go towards supercomputing or fuel efficiency as the primary goal instead of a spin-off.
No cold war fear, just politicians whipping out their huge... processors... as part of a rallying call.
So, drop the gauntlet Medvedev, or e-trousers as the case may be.
Most print companies like Xerox have their own proprietary Document management tools you can buy, and a bunch of CRM and ERP solutions (like OpenERP - it's free AND Open Source) provide some good simple document searching and indexing tools.
Really it comes down to how complex you want searching to be? Are there specific keys in the document you could index by? Do you require the full-text search capabilities of a Google search appliance?
A really good solution I've come across for some clients in Edmonton is Called MetalTrace by Trace Applications. Don't let the name fool you about the specificity, software like this can Scan, Index, and even read barcodes on all sorts of documents then let people search for it via the web. Their "killer-app" has multiple user-defined document types with multiple search fields, combined with some back-filing (digital and scanning) really saved the day.
Do your research though on "Document managment" and see what product best fits your needs. It's a really well established field so reinventing the wheel is a little masochistic... not that there's anything wrong with that.;)
Remember that the first terminators were made of rubber and could easily be identified as robots from close range. Arnie should totally reprise the role: old, wrinkly and saggy parts would make for an awesome first generation terminator.
The big problem with your argument is: once you throw a reasonable answer at the problem it's no longer news-worthy. It's so easy to keep a search engine off your site the article would quickly become a technical how-to... and uninteresting to the non-slashdot masses.
If you don't want to share then take your ball and go home. Google thugs aren't shaking-down editors, nor in the case of common feeds like the AP are taking anything beyond what they are allowed to. Close your doors, create a consortium-only system for sharing across "approved" sites, and you're good to go. The perceived money you're losing from not doing this already would easily cover the costs of developing and maintaining the system.
Just hope enough people are willing to come over and only play with your ball that it pays the bills. I would have never found places like the Guardian without Google, and if they remove their content would never go back.
As we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take my penis away, I want to say those words again for everyone within the sounds of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you, Mr. Locke:
Not really. It's a well-known fact a lot of innovation is driven by the porn industry. This stuff is probably being sponsored by the Ultraporn coalition to put their digital media online.
Imagine streaming video so clear you can actually sense the actresses' emotional issues!
I think the surprise doesn't come from the fact it was a security guy, but the idea that someone like a lot of slashdotters is that capable of hurting others. Outside of the money and women, part of what we do as IT is helping and protecting people in the wild west that is networks. The fact a "good guy" could be bad is an extra sucker punch because a lot of folks here deep down probably wouldn't do that, and would have a tough time associating with the reasons why.
Idealistic, eh? Still, sucks when John Wayne saves the girl only to go rob the bank one town over.
Lastly, when you fix the issue you should remove your wife from the administrators group and just make her a user or power user. When she needs to install software or whatever just have her log in as admin.
Good point, make sure ALL your peripherals are working properly before taking the system apart.
Though be careful how you bring up RMA, or upgrade.
That's the same place I'm in. Business stuff has redundant backups (sometimes doubly so;)). I'm just concerned about this particular case because I have a lot of the exact model/fw drives out there, purchased and installed as system drives for friends and relatives in the past 6 months. Worst-case scenario on business stuff is mirrored, often times remotely with versioning for important data.
What's worse is Seagate's own forum seemed to be constantly proving them wrong on the scope of affected drives. This thread in particular had enough "me-too's" to worry me. Add to that I've had 4 drives die out of 18 with totally different hardware setups brought this a little too close to home.
My concern was with inevitably dying meaning within the next month on most of these. Maxtorman's been very up-front in his answers though, so I'll trust his knowledge and wait a week.
I appreciate the concern. You might get a cohort in buying WD if things don't pan out.
Yeah, I'm not so much a fan of RAID0 either. It works for what it does - speed at the cost of reliability - on a system that'll be reformatted a couple times a year as hardware's rearranged.
Again, you've put my concerns to rest. I'll wait the week for a patch content there's a low chance of hitting that magic number.
Maxtorman, I'd mod you up if I had the points. Your comments are the first ones to alleviate a very significant knot that formed in my stomach after reading this. I'm still a little concerned though, and have some questions at the bottom I hope you could answer.
I'm a little late to the party because I only use these only for non-critical stuff like home office and family PC's, but the prospect of having all my drives inevitably die really scares me. I've bought 18 drives (ST31000340AS and ST3500320AS all w/ FW SD15) in the last half of 2008 that sound like they match those reported to fail on the forum.
Funny enough I was complaining to my vendor about 4 drives that had to be replaced because they died within a month of use. Thought it was a bad batch they were pawning-off on customers, but I still trusted the Seagate brand.
So, my questions:
1) Is this definitely fixable in firmware? Should I be buying new drives right now?
2) What are the honest chances of a drive dying before a working firmware patch? My critical stuff is in RAID5 so I can always rebuild, but the gaming rig is RAID0, and off-site stuff like mom's media PC is only a single drive.
I appreciate your comments. Good to know there's a guru in the Slashdot community:)
That's a ridiculously good point. Applications like Gallery 2 have remote applications that I'm sure can be tuned to your disconnected-mode needs. Simply get everything ready to upload before you login, then when you're online all the human slowness will be taken out of the equation.
55.5 seconds per day doesn't seem like a lot, but if their internet connection is worth their (sea) salt even a 1mbit satellite link is almost 7 megabytes of data per day... assuming everyone else isn't doing the same thing at the same time of course.
If you're really interested in the process, check out MessageQueuing. The idea is asynchronous communication between client/server so that you can do stuff when disconnected from the network, and saving your precious "almost" minute per day:)
Might do it. I've been reading about some directional fans that may help.
Problem is these cards tend to draw air from the face instead of the back. That's no good when your neighbours are mighty-hot already.
Zalman's got a fan I might crack the plastic case on these guys for. I figure a little more space between cards and adding a bunch of surface area might help get some air in that's not coming directly off the other cards.
No kidding! I just ran into my first Nvidia heat-o'-death situation too.
Anyone know of an after-market part to draw air directly over your PCIe cards? This is a problem that's right now solved by the turning-my-graphics-card-into-a-jet-engine solution. It works, but if there's a quieter answer that keeps the graphics power I'd be happy to hear it.
Here's the skinny:
790i comes with 3 PCIe slots so I thought to try SLI with two new cards, and an older one (in the middle thanks to the bridge) for second monitor/TV. The poor middle card just doesn't stand a chance against two 260's, it's like an oven with both elements on.
I've been using RivaTuner to adjust fan speed and watch temperature. Outer cards run ok (44 deg C), but even at Max fan speed the middle card idles at 61, and at normal speed will die if anything tries taxing the card for more than a few minutes.
Slashdot really needs to get with the times. The Navitron Autodrive System is nearly ten year-old news, though remains a little known secret known to many truckers falling asleep at the wheel.
If only it could have saved poor Red from beef poisoning at Sirloin A Lot, sadly that feature was still in beta.
IAMAQP (I am not a quantum physicist) but the theory I read explains a system gaining processing power from shared computing of a single processor replicated across multiple realities. Each qubit is a calculated answer by a machine in one reality and the culmination of those answers assumedly gives you the correct response. David Deutsch wrote a book on this called "The Fabric of Reality" that works through the concept of a basic Turing machine - where computers all come from - and how this can be re-worked into a quantum processor.
There's a lot more math to it than that, but the idea is a simpler approximation formula replicated infinitely across realities gives an accurate response much faster than any single reality calculating the absolute answer.
Cooler yet is that if they're actually making functional quantum gates does this mean the processor power is actually being derived from other realities? That would be awesome and totally Outer Limits material.
A friend of mine only first heard from Shaw when doing around the same. Apparently at worst they'll request you upgrade to a higher-level package like one of their business suites. He went to a business package and hasn't heard from anyone since.
Be careful about the not sending letters part: Companies like Telus have outright offered to turn over the second any precedent allowing them to do it is set. And it's not our copyright laws protecting us in this case, but rather privacy ones disallowing the CRIA from requesting arbitrary information based on speculative research.
Google it if you download a lot of music. The more you know.
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And what exactly are they doing with weather balloons?
-Matt
I would seriously hate to be the guy that tripped over that power cable.
On the plus side it would be interesting to time how long it took for the DC's phone lines to melt.
-Matt
(redundant, redundant power. I know, I know)
You'll feel even better next time you ask them to open a command prompt and ping something to check the network.
Silly scientists think they can out geekword us.
I hate an arms-race as much as the next guy, but imagine if all the showmanship from whose nukepeen was bigger in the cold war could go towards supercomputing or fuel efficiency as the primary goal instead of a spin-off.
No cold war fear, just politicians whipping out their huge... processors... as part of a rallying call.
So, drop the gauntlet Medvedev, or e-trousers as the case may be.
-Matt
Most print companies like Xerox have their own proprietary Document management tools you can buy, and a bunch of CRM and ERP solutions (like OpenERP - it's free AND Open Source) provide some good simple document searching and indexing tools.
Really it comes down to how complex you want searching to be? Are there specific keys in the document you could index by? Do you require the full-text search capabilities of a Google search appliance?
A really good solution I've come across for some clients in Edmonton is Called MetalTrace by Trace Applications. Don't let the name fool you about the specificity, software like this can Scan, Index, and even read barcodes on all sorts of documents then let people search for it via the web. Their "killer-app" has multiple user-defined document types with multiple search fields, combined with some back-filing (digital and scanning) really saved the day.
Do your research though on "Document managment" and see what product best fits your needs. It's a really well established field so reinventing the wheel is a little masochistic... not that there's anything wrong with that. ;)
-Matt
Remember that the first terminators were made of rubber and could easily be identified as robots from close range. Arnie should totally reprise the role: old, wrinkly and saggy parts would make for an awesome first generation terminator.
-Matt
I was actually hoping they'd slap an internet connection to the server and run it LIVE as a museum piece. Purchased by government grant of course.
Come-on... if they can buy a strip of tape across a room or soft porn as art in Canada these Europeans should be light-years ahead of the game!
-Matt
The big problem with your argument is: once you throw a reasonable answer at the problem it's no longer news-worthy. It's so easy to keep a search engine off your site the article would quickly become a technical how-to... and uninteresting to the non-slashdot masses.
If you don't want to share then take your ball and go home. Google thugs aren't shaking-down editors, nor in the case of common feeds like the AP are taking anything beyond what they are allowed to. Close your doors, create a consortium-only system for sharing across "approved" sites, and you're good to go. The perceived money you're losing from not doing this already would easily cover the costs of developing and maintaining the system.
Just hope enough people are willing to come over and only play with your ball that it pays the bills. I would have never found places like the Guardian without Google, and if they remove their content would never go back.
-Matt
As we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take my penis away, I want to say those words again for everyone within the sounds of my voice to hear and to heed, and especially for you, Mr. Locke:
"From my cold, dead hands!"
-W
Not really. It's a well-known fact a lot of innovation is driven by the porn industry. This stuff is probably being sponsored by the Ultraporn coalition to put their digital media online.
Imagine streaming video so clear you can actually sense the actresses' emotional issues!
-Matt
I think the surprise doesn't come from the fact it was a security guy, but the idea that someone like a lot of slashdotters is that capable of hurting others. Outside of the money and women, part of what we do as IT is helping and protecting people in the wild west that is networks. The fact a "good guy" could be bad is an extra sucker punch because a lot of folks here deep down probably wouldn't do that, and would have a tough time associating with the reasons why.
Idealistic, eh? Still, sucks when John Wayne saves the girl only to go rob the bank one town over.
-Matt
Lastly, when you fix the issue you should remove your wife from the administrators group and just make her a user or power user. When she needs to install software or whatever just have her log in as admin.
Good point, make sure ALL your peripherals are working properly before taking the system apart.
Though be careful how you bring up RMA, or upgrade.
-Matt
That's the same place I'm in. Business stuff has redundant backups (sometimes doubly so ;)). I'm just concerned about this particular case because I have a lot of the exact model/fw drives out there, purchased and installed as system drives for friends and relatives in the past 6 months. Worst-case scenario on business stuff is mirrored, often times remotely with versioning for important data.
What's worse is Seagate's own forum seemed to be constantly proving them wrong on the scope of affected drives. This thread in particular had enough "me-too's" to worry me. Add to that I've had 4 drives die out of 18 with totally different hardware setups brought this a little too close to home.
My concern was with inevitably dying meaning within the next month on most of these. Maxtorman's been very up-front in his answers though, so I'll trust his knowledge and wait a week.
I appreciate the concern. You might get a cohort in buying WD if things don't pan out.
-Matt
Yeah, I'm not so much a fan of RAID0 either. It works for what it does - speed at the cost of reliability - on a system that'll be reformatted a couple times a year as hardware's rearranged.
Again, you've put my concerns to rest. I'll wait the week for a patch content there's a low chance of hitting that magic number.
Thank you!
-Matt
Maxtorman, I'd mod you up if I had the points. Your comments are the first ones to alleviate a very significant knot that formed in my stomach after reading this. I'm still a little concerned though, and have some questions at the bottom I hope you could answer.
I'm a little late to the party because I only use these only for non-critical stuff like home office and family PC's, but the prospect of having all my drives inevitably die really scares me. I've bought 18 drives (ST31000340AS and ST3500320AS all w/ FW SD15) in the last half of 2008 that sound like they match those reported to fail on the forum.
Funny enough I was complaining to my vendor about 4 drives that had to be replaced because they died within a month of use. Thought it was a bad batch they were pawning-off on customers, but I still trusted the Seagate brand.
So, my questions:
1) Is this definitely fixable in firmware? Should I be buying new drives right now?
2) What are the honest chances of a drive dying before a working firmware patch? My critical stuff is in RAID5 so I can always rebuild, but the gaming rig is RAID0, and off-site stuff like mom's media PC is only a single drive.
I appreciate your comments. Good to know there's a guru in the Slashdot community :)
-Matt
Lol, the only "other" profession where it can take 4 million lines of code and a dozen libraries to effectively state "Hello World".
-Matt
Wasn't this discarded years ago because of the dropped packets problem?
Or was that packet droppings?
-Matt
That's a ridiculously good point. Applications like Gallery 2 have remote applications that I'm sure can be tuned to your disconnected-mode needs. Simply get everything ready to upload before you login, then when you're online all the human slowness will be taken out of the equation.
55.5 seconds per day doesn't seem like a lot, but if their internet connection is worth their (sea) salt even a 1mbit satellite link is almost 7 megabytes of data per day... assuming everyone else isn't doing the same thing at the same time of course.
If you're really interested in the process, check out Message Queuing. The idea is asynchronous communication between client/server so that you can do stuff when disconnected from the network, and saving your precious "almost" minute per day :)
-Matt
Might do it. I've been reading about some directional fans that may help.
Problem is these cards tend to draw air from the face instead of the back. That's no good when your neighbours are mighty-hot already.
Zalman's got a fan I might crack the plastic case on these guys for. I figure a little more space between cards and adding a bunch of surface area might help get some air in that's not coming directly off the other cards.
Thanks a bunch!
Didn't you know the second power connection to your GPU is actually for the oven/space heater function? So it's actually a feature!
Nvidia realized long ago that to maximize play-time they needed a way for users to cook and stay warm near their PCs.
I've made some mean eggs on my case, recipe came from the included Nvidia cook-book.
-Matt
No kidding! I just ran into my first Nvidia heat-o'-death situation too.
Anyone know of an after-market part to draw air directly over your PCIe cards? This is a problem that's right now solved by the turning-my-graphics-card-into-a-jet-engine solution. It works, but if there's a quieter answer that keeps the graphics power I'd be happy to hear it.
Here's the skinny:
790i comes with 3 PCIe slots so I thought to try SLI with two new cards, and an older one (in the middle thanks to the bridge) for second monitor/TV. The poor middle card just doesn't stand a chance against two 260's, it's like an oven with both elements on.
I've been using RivaTuner to adjust fan speed and watch temperature. Outer cards run ok (44 deg C), but even at Max fan speed the middle card idles at 61, and at normal speed will die if anything tries taxing the card for more than a few minutes.
Slashdot really needs to get with the times. The Navitron Autodrive System is nearly ten year-old news, though remains a little known secret known to many truckers falling asleep at the wheel.
If only it could have saved poor Red from beef poisoning at Sirloin A Lot, sadly that feature was still in beta.
-Matt
viva Homer!
Screw the Space Odyssey diamond in jupiter, this "puffy" planet must be home to the universe's largest marshmallow!
Somebody grab a sun and discover the graham wafer belt already.
-Matt
IAMAQP (I am not a quantum physicist) but the theory I read explains a system gaining processing power from shared computing of a single processor replicated across multiple realities. Each qubit is a calculated answer by a machine in one reality and the culmination of those answers assumedly gives you the correct response. David Deutsch wrote a book on this called "The Fabric of Reality" that works through the concept of a basic Turing machine - where computers all come from - and how this can be re-worked into a quantum processor.
There's a lot more math to it than that, but the idea is a simpler approximation formula replicated infinitely across realities gives an accurate response much faster than any single reality calculating the absolute answer.
Cooler yet is that if they're actually making functional quantum gates does this mean the processor power is actually being derived from other realities? That would be awesome and totally Outer Limits material.
-Matt
A friend of mine only first heard from Shaw when doing around the same. Apparently at worst they'll request you upgrade to a higher-level package like one of their business suites. He went to a business package and hasn't heard from anyone since.
Be careful about the not sending letters part: Companies like Telus have outright offered to turn over the second any precedent allowing them to do it is set. And it's not our copyright laws protecting us in this case, but rather privacy ones disallowing the CRIA from requesting arbitrary information based on speculative research.
Google it if you download a lot of music. The more you know.
-Matt