And OS X (at least 10.4) still can't reliably connect to a network share (the network browser is *really* bad) while I can type ftp:// or smb:// in any Linux desktop. What kind of nonsense is this? I had 10.4 on my MBP when I got it... I can connect to any of my network shares, nfs or smb, and it could even connect to a domain if I wanted to.
The network browsing in 10.5 *is* much better, with it showing my network computers in the finder automatically.
Ubuntu, OTOH, while I can browse to the network shares, I can't open files unless I copy them locally. I try to open a movie I have on the network file server, and it can't figure out the file name.
I'd never heard of Zed Shaw before this story, Zed is responsible for the webserver mongrel which is now at the heart of rails dispatching. Most deployments use mongrel, maybe with a load balancer in front of it.
It is actually a very good bit of work - if it wasn't for the attitude evident in this rant, I would think Zed would be an extremely good asset for any company.
I'm just not so sure what's better about these NAS devices than either just running your own simple Linux server or a super-simple configuration. I'm not sure I want to trust my data to some proprietary RAIDed solution. Every time one of these NAS stories come up, I just cringe. My experience with trying to buy a turnkey NAS like this was not good. Then I built my own for a whole lot more bang for buck. At the time, 500 GB drives were the right choice, but the 1TB might be a better deal now.
The point, though, is that with just a little bit of effort, you can easily build a system that is twice as powerful for less cost, and as you say, much safer as the data is in a completely open format the does not require any proprietary hardware or software to access.
Oh well. Their drives are banned here for near universal premature and catastrophic failures anyway. Yeah, screaming over this issue is just silly, since the instability and lack of features of the devices are much bigger show stoppers. (read reviews on newegg, you'll get the idea)
I decided to spend a little more and get much more space, by building my own.
Wait, are you telling me I need to get a Windows computer just so I can install a Microsoft product to help me work around another Microsoft's products bugs?!?!? If you are doing professional work, ie, getting paid to do it right, then... yes. Or use vmware, whatever.
I imagine there are still ways you could look for similarities though. Hashes are a bad idea because you only have to change one thing -- a better way would be a more straightforward compare, with a rating for how much text (pixels, whatever) is shared between the two. Oh, such as DCC, Razor, or Pyzor? Yes, it's being done, and isn't limited to checking recipients. I haven't read the article yet, (hey, this is slashdot!) but it sounds like a subset of what these three services do, since these methods compare the entire message and look for messages that go to multiple people.
They provide good information to add to the overall scoring of a message with SpamAssassin.
The difference with the article is that they appear to be using the spamminess of the recipient as a metric. I think that would be too limited except for the largest of ISPs, unless you collaborate data, and that's just asking for trouble with privacy concerns.
(Disclaimer: I am a developer of Maia Mailguard, so I've had to work with a lot of anti-spam systems)
Because their attach rate is the lowest again, just like the Gamecube. It seems a lot of people are buying as a Wii Sports machine. There are some great games, but obviously something isn't clicking when you look at the number of Wiis sold and compare the software sales charts. I think it's the price of games - I would really like to buy more games, but $50 per game is quite a bit when I also need to buy diapers and food for my boys.
I don't buy PC games until they come down to at least $30, and I prefer $20.
Guess how many hardware failures I've had? One. A dead monitor. And that was, oh, twelve frikkin' years ago.
Just lucky, I guess...
Yeah, you are lucky. Remember prior circumstance is no predictor of the future.
OTOH, I also have quite a few systems, which multiplies the risk, and as a "computer consultant" (I hate that term) I use and abuse my systems pretty heavy.
One was a total hard drive failure - a WD Raptor. The other was due to the upgrade glitch that a lot of people are having with Leopard.
If you've already got a desktop machine, buy a WD MyBook Pro or equivalent. ICK! NO! That was my first try at a backup solution, but one of the drives died in the first backup try. Judging from the reviews on newegg, I'm not alone.
See my other post for a way to get more storage and features for a better cost/feature ratio. Instead of 500GB mirrored, I got 1.4TB raid5.
That's what you get for using a proprietary hardware raid card. If OTOH, you had used Linux software raid, I think you could have done what you wanted. This is exactly why I don't use hardware raid cards.
I just recently made a backup server from parts off newegg:
inexpensive AMD64, mobo with built in Gb nic and 4 SATA controllers
1GB RAM
4 x 500GB WD Caviars
case and misc parts
All for just under $700. If you really want to rock and roll, get some of the new 1TB drives!
I don't use the raid chip on the mobo, just Linux Software Raid all the way. For a home backup system, it's the way to go - I can always stick the drives in a new system and have it recognize and reconstruct the array. OTOH, I have had a hardware raid card go bad, and man, that's a world of hurt unless you have an exact duplicate card on hand. Not good for a file server! The performance of a software raid is more than adequate, given that the CPU has nothing else to do - it's a file server! The cost/risk/usefulness balance is very heavy in favor of software raid.
I divided the drives into 4 partitions each: a small one mirrored across all drives for the/boot info; a swap mirrored across all four... the third partion had two drives mirrored for the root partition and another two for the/var system. I also made sure to pair those across separate ide controllers - sda3/sdc3 and sdb2/sdd2 so if a ide chip goes out, it may still have some limited functionality. Of course, it won't help with the raid5 below.
The remaining partition on all four drives is used for the (raid 5) actual file storage, I put it on/storage, though you may have a better preference. This yields a useable storage space of nearly 1.4 TB. If you really want redundancy, you could do a raid1+0 on it, at the cost of a third more of the storage space.
For software, I see some turnkey systems that people are pushing around here, but I just went with a basic Ubuntu server 64 bit. That way I can install any number of packages from Ubuntu's massive package repository.
For backup solutions, I went with backupPC, though I am also experimenting with Bacula. Samba and Webmin round out the file services and maintenance.
The best part of the whole thing? Since I implemented this, I have had 2 complete system losses... but I didn't lose any files. Just fix the hardware, reload the OS, and restore all the files. Sweeeeeeeet.
Now Blizzard has a tool that is encrypted and can run any type of scan, transfer any file or edit any document on your computer.
You do realize that *any* software you install on your computer can do this? Unless you have read the full source code and compiled it yourself (Ignoring the possibility of a trojan'd compiler) there is a possibility that a program could do these things. So what's new?
Compared to my latest experience with windows drivers, Linux is far cry better... I tried to install and older but still useful ATI card in my wife's computer, and it works well for some games, but turns out it can't do 800x600 resolution in some bit depth, which is what the Age of Empires set needs to boot up. There's no driver that will work for it, and it is now unsupported. If only I could edit a config file to add that mode! At least with X I have an option.
Let me post a better reply: for those who don't get the joke, paco was a one shot post over on perlmonks. The post gained a lot of publicity over time, and perl monks all over await the return of paco.
I had another problem of some sort. The install proceeded to verify the DVD media, which checked out ok, and then it said it was intalling. It also said it was calculating the time remaining, and never got past that point... after a long while it said an unexpected error ocurred.
Upon rebooting it would show the startup apple for a few seconds and then power off, with and without the software dvd in the drive.
I forced it to boot off the dvd, and discovered that the hard drive was corrupt - the disk check utility couldn't fix it. I had to format and install a fresh system.
All in all, that's probably not a bad idea anyway, and I have a good backup system in place, so I didn't lose anything.
Nevertheless, corrupting my HD is not a good thing.:(
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vlc is the one that comes to mind.
It works flawlessly on my macbook.
The network browsing in 10.5 *is* much better, with it showing my network computers in the finder automatically.
Ubuntu, OTOH, while I can browse to the network shares, I can't open files unless I copy them locally. I try to open a movie I have on the network file server, and it can't figure out the file name.
Leopard, OTOH, opens it up just fine.
It is actually a very good bit of work - if it wasn't for the attitude evident in this rant, I would think Zed would be an extremely good asset for any company.
My first thought was, "How high?"
The point, though, is that with just a little bit of effort, you can easily build a system that is twice as powerful for less cost, and as you say, much safer as the data is in a completely open format the does not require any proprietary hardware or software to access.
Yes, but it's not as much as other applications such as thermometers or coal plants. It's a trade off, but I think the CFL is better, and they're working to improve it too.
when I say...
Huh?
I decided to spend a little more and get much more space, by building my own.
They provide good information to add to the overall scoring of a message with SpamAssassin.
The difference with the article is that they appear to be using the spamminess of the recipient as a metric. I think that would be too limited except for the largest of ISPs, unless you collaborate data, and that's just asking for trouble with privacy concerns.
(Disclaimer: I am a developer of Maia Mailguard, so I've had to work with a lot of anti-spam systems)
I don't buy PC games until they come down to at least $30, and I prefer $20.
Just a thought, you could look for the *absence* of "Out of stock" ;)
Guess how many hardware failures I've had? One. A dead monitor. And that was, oh, twelve frikkin' years ago.
Just lucky, I guess...
Yeah, you are lucky. Remember prior circumstance is no predictor of the future.OTOH, I also have quite a few systems, which multiplies the risk, and as a "computer consultant" (I hate that term) I use and abuse my systems pretty heavy.
One was a total hard drive failure - a WD Raptor. The other was due to the upgrade glitch that a lot of people are having with Leopard.
But my backside is warm, cause I had backups.
See my other post for a way to get more storage and features for a better cost/feature ratio. Instead of 500GB mirrored, I got 1.4TB raid5.
That's what you get for using a proprietary hardware raid card. If OTOH, you had used Linux software raid, I think you could have done what you wanted. This is exactly why I don't use hardware raid cards.
All for just under $700. If you really want to rock and roll, get some of the new 1TB drives!
I don't use the raid chip on the mobo, just Linux Software Raid all the way. For a home backup system, it's the way to go - I can always stick the drives in a new system and have it recognize and reconstruct the array. OTOH, I have had a hardware raid card go bad, and man, that's a world of hurt unless you have an exact duplicate card on hand. Not good for a file server! The performance of a software raid is more than adequate, given that the CPU has nothing else to do - it's a file server! The cost/risk/usefulness balance is very heavy in favor of software raid.
I divided the drives into 4 partitions each: a small one mirrored across all drives for the
The remaining partition on all four drives is used for the (raid 5) actual file storage, I put it on
For software, I see some turnkey systems that people are pushing around here, but I just went with a basic Ubuntu server 64 bit. That way I can install any number of packages from Ubuntu's massive package repository.
For backup solutions, I went with backupPC, though I am also experimenting with Bacula. Samba and Webmin round out the file services and maintenance.
The best part of the whole thing? Since I implemented this, I have had 2 complete system losses
Now Blizzard has a tool that is encrypted and can run any type of scan, transfer any file or edit any document on your computer.
You do realize that *any* software you install on your computer can do this? Unless you have read the full source code and compiled it yourself (Ignoring the possibility of a trojan'd compiler) there is a possibility that a program could do these things. So what's new?
Probably the flag the are legally sailing under.
Advanced malice is indistinguishable from stupidity...
Compared to my latest experience with windows drivers, Linux is far cry better... I tried to install and older but still useful ATI card in my wife's computer, and it works well for some games, but turns out it can't do 800x600 resolution in some bit depth, which is what the Age of Empires set needs to boot up. There's no driver that will work for it, and it is now unsupported. If only I could edit a config file to add that mode! At least with X I have an option.
Let me post a better reply: for those who don't get the joke, paco was a one shot post over on perlmonks. The post gained a lot of publicity over time, and perl monks all over await the return of paco.
Oh man, I haven't heard about Paco in ages.
I had another problem of some sort. The install proceeded to verify the DVD media, which checked out ok, and then it said it was intalling. It also said it was calculating the time remaining, and never got past that point... after a long while it said an unexpected error ocurred.
:(
Upon rebooting it would show the startup apple for a few seconds and then power off, with and without the software dvd in the drive.
I forced it to boot off the dvd, and discovered that the hard drive was corrupt - the disk check utility couldn't fix it. I had to format and install a fresh system.
All in all, that's probably not a bad idea anyway, and I have a good backup system in place, so I didn't lose anything.
Nevertheless, corrupting my HD is not a good thing.
Lameness filter thinks this looks like ascii art. I guess that's a sad commentary on what is accepted as art these days.