If you can, get a Nokia E72 unlocked. If you can't get the E72, get any E series Nokia phone (I have E71).
Reason for recommendation:
* WiFi roaming is painless
* 1500mAh battery: WiFi *drains* battery. You absolutely need the phone with largest battery pack or you're looking at charging it twice a day. A large screen android/iPhone is fun for a week till you get tired of looking at battery bars. Nokia will last whole 3 days on GSM and will get you through the day on WiFi.
* Integrated SIP with same dialing/receiving experience as a GSM call
* VoIP apps: Pretty much every VoIP app is available including Fring, Talkonaut and Skype apart from integrated SIP
* Excellent sound quality
Cons:
* Small screen by today's standards (you get battery life in return) * Abysmal inbuilt browser (you can have Opera Mobile and Opera Mini instead) * It's not hip in US (however, if you want nerd points it'll score many - run wordpress on your phone with downloadable port of Apache2, MySQL4 and PHP5 - no kidding) * Custom development is painful, but you get everything and the kitchen sink to write apps for the device (Python, Java, C++,......) * No touchscreen
A single low-end jury-rigged SMSC is well capable of over 5K TPS. 80K messages won't even break sweat on any telco's network.
That said, it's a pretty useless medium of communicating any significant amount of data. GPRS or even WAP are much more efficient and capable of dialup speeds. And hey, developing worlds have much better telecom networks than these kind of "for developing worlds" stories give credit for. At least in India, SMS is essentially free (costing less than $0.0001 (yes not a typo!) per SMS in volumes of a thousand.
It is important to put the size of elections in India in perspective and how they operate to understand any meaningful amount of fraud or corruption possible.
The EVMs in question are extremely simple. They only have a breakout panel with 32 buttons (expandable upto 64 buttons with an addon breakout button panel). The machine only ever knows the number of enabled buttons. The names and party symbols are affixed as paper "stickers" on the buttons.
--------------------- [B] S First Last Name --------------------- [B] S First Last Name ------...
The order and placement of stickers on the buttons changes from constituency to constituency. The machines are sealed/unsealed in presence of at least 3 officials, though in practice, it's no less than a dozen or more, as it's a public affair and often media is present.
Some numbers (courtesy http://www.indian-elections.com/facts-figures.html): Number of EVMs used: 1.023 million Max candidates per EVM: 64 Max candidates in election from one constituency: 35 Total number of candidates: 5398 (India is a multi-party democracy) Number of parties: 220 Number of registered voters: 675 million
Cost of '09 elections: Approx $2 billion
Any 'fraud' analysis needs to take the process and numbers into account. EVMs in India solve a LOT of problems with regard to elections and drastically cut down on time, effort and cost involved. There are a number of places where several miles of journey on the back of mule is needed to reach the polling booths. It's much easier to conduct an electronic poll there rather than carrying several large ballot boxes that could be snatched.
So 1.6M processors with 1.6TB RAM means just 1 MB RAM(1.6e+12/1.6e+6) per processor. That sounds bogus!
Also roughly 12 GFLOPS of processing power per processor. WTF kind of cluster/super computer architecture is that ?? Sounds more like 1.6M Cell "stream" processors or something like that, definitely not something made from AMD/Intel parts. Of course, assuming numbers reported are correct.
1. I hope you understand what you gain and lose by switching.
2. I have had to endure the pain of selecting from a few LDAP servers few months back. Just go and download Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 (DSEE). Buy a support contract of whatever level you need. Set it up (takes minutes, the docs are EXCELLENT!) and after that forget it even exists. This baby just works!
And yes: I'm well aware that the ZFS crowd is probably going to get back to "if you need a solid backup you should buy good software" or (IMO even worse:) "whats stopping you from using tar". Thats really missing the whole point here... An enterprise based filesystem, open sourced and all, and it can't even do something as simple which ext2, ext3, xfs and yes; even UFS could do for YEARS?
Pray tell me how does "ext2, ext3, xfs and even UFS" do backups ? Do they have backup and restore integrated and if yes where was it hidden for all the decade I've been looking for one ?
Repeat: Backup/Restore is NOT responsibility of the filesystem! You need something like Amanda, which works fine on ZFS/OpenSolaris.
I think what you really are talking about is a ZFS "aware" backup/restore tool that understands what snapshots and clones are, and doesn't copy things over and over again just because it stumbled on a clone or snapshot.
Still it is the job of backup tool providers, not the FS developers.
So a lot of fine people give a lot of their very valuable time to get Fedora going - for FREE!, so that RedHat doesn't have to spend a pretty penny hiring people to do that.
So far so good!
But then RH has got RHEL, which they won't as much let anybody use for free or make available as free download... Where is the download link for RHEL, Max ? The same RHEL that benefits from community contributions. Instead community is left to only use Fedora!
And no, don't say CentOS! That's somebody else's effort developed with their time & money! Something that they won't have to do if RH had provided free download of RHEL!
I don't have any real desire to use solaris on any of my desktop machines until/if it supports full root ZFS on raw disk (not on parts/slices as it is currently implemented)
I can only answer this part.
It is done this way because otherwise you won't be able to boot from the disk "fully" owned by ZFS. Disks fully owned by ZFS have EFI label. They do not have partition table and are fully managed as a block device by ZFS.
The BIOS and most boot loaders do not understand this scheme. They needs an MBR & partition table to be able to boot from a disk. Thus ZFS is installed into a conventional partition on a disk intended to be used as a boot disk (think/dev/hda1).
Of course, if you do not intend to boot from a disk using conventional BIOS and boot loaders (GRUB/LILO), the recommended way is to give it as whole to ZFS (think whole/dev/hda).
Uh is it a new SCO meme ? Are you done with enough of FUD already ?
Solaris (and previously SunOS) were Sun's implementation of UNIX. Right, just like Linux and FreeBSD. As such Sun owns the copyright to it. Sun got it UNIX 'certified'. Thats right, just like OSX, Tru64, HPUX and AIX. There is no UNIX. It is a trademark of the Open Group, and they certify various implementations of it. Ever heard of SUS ? SYS V ?
Now onto SCO fiasco. Sun licensed some x86 drivers from SCO for Solaris 8 (yeah that old... Its like 10 years now). SCO's SCO UNIX was x86 based. Those drivers have long since disappeared! They dont even matter!
Whats all this infighting among Open Source group ? What is that makes some fanbois do thing and spread FUD that is most anti-Open Source ?
Guess some people just can never live happily with others!
The size of the craft, at over 1300 kg, is a big honking'* thing.
Yes!, it is, and for a reason. It's carrying the largest number of payloads ever carried by a lunar mission - 11.
5 (TMC, HySI, LLRI, HEX, MIP) - ISRO 2 (C1XS, SARA) - ESA + ISRO 1 (SIR-2) - Max Planck, Germany 1 (RADOM) - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 1 (Mini-SAR) - NASA 1 (M3) - Brown University & JPL
More info here on ISRO page. So it's kinda an international mission:-)
The ZFS developers specifically wanted the open sourced code to be under a GPL incompatible license, hence it has been released under CDDL (there was a interview with the Sun open source rep, can someone provide info/links about this). So ZFS cannot be part of the kernel, but there is a FUSE port of ZFS and according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Linux Sun is investigating a Linux port, so there may be something good coming
Rather, GPL is incompatible with anything else that can't be re-licensed as GPL, and that includes GPL v2 and v3, which can't even be mixed among themselves. May first we clear that mess, right ?
ZFS is present in both Mac OSX and FreeBSD, thank you! They have no license issues whatsoever.
Reasons: * Damn good tactile feedback * Heavy * Has 15 (yes fifteen) extra function keys * Dedicated meta, compose and alt-graph keys. * 3 USB Ports (on top, not sides), including a hidden one for mouse. * Comes in a variety of native layouts
- Traditional PC
- UNIX (American)
- UNIX (British)
Country kit is $70 and comes with a keyboard and (a damn good ambidextrous) mouse. Choose carefully. Part numbers are google away.
I was an avid user of eclipse for about 3 years. I'd say avid user _and_ advocate!
Then I got sick of the direction it took around 3.1 release. Here are they in no specific order:
* No direction sense in platform development: Eclipse was supposed to be an application development platform. However, it seemed the Eclipse foundation was eager to include each and every requirement of its members (the big names!). The platform became a mess that I just can't figure out how to update my code to 3.x line. The documentation was _pathetic_ and things just don't work.
* The documentation SUCKS: Did I mention it already ? Did I mention that most of it either just doesn't exist or hasn't been updated for 3.x ? Did I mention that the members mostly try to make money around "training" people in it ?
* The plugin nightmare: The plugin and update system just doesn't work! Yes there are a lot of plugins available, but trying to keep track of them and their dependencies is a nightmare. Some plugin needs GEF 2.1 an other needs 2.3. The dependency hell was unmanageable. Mostly it was like that - I would create an installation and once I got it working "somehow", I wouldn't touch it! Updating it would really mean creating another eclipse installation and mucking about there till I got things "right" and only then switching to it.
* J2EE Support - rather the lack of it: MyEclipse was best then. It sucked.
I went there just yesterday, and for life of me couldn't figure out why they split it into so many distros... and over that if I need a GUIDE to tell me what is right for me - well they're not doing it right then!
I tried Netbeans 6 once. Now with Netbeans 6.1 - It's just perfect. It *just* works and DOES NOT nag me! When I'm doing my work I want my tools to work right.
Play when playtime, work when time to work! Netbeans 6.1 fits that *perfectly*. Oh, that and the jVi plugin for netbeans which provides "optional" Vi/Vim mode for Netbeans editor and I'm just set.
Did I mention that Netbeans is best when it comes to J2EE/Web development ?
Please keep in mind that stock price inflation is due to "premium" put up MS and speculators have driven up the price which *would* fall down if the deal doesn't go through.
I'd expect a lot of speculators to actually short the stock.
All in all, for a serious business, it's *not* a good thing to be in this situation. Even in best case it'd rock the boat and cause heart-burns and unrest whether the deal goes through or not.
Among all jokes, it seems that the most interesting part has been missed.
Half way through the movie, the robot is pushed through its left side. It eerily performs an extremely human like side-stepping movement to rebalance itself.
I have been replaying the sequence over and over again for last 15 minutes, it's the most un-fuckin'-believable amazing foot movement I've seen in bi-pedal robots!!!
Sun and Google are good partners, and I don't see them getting into legal minefield over this issue. Heck, Sun has never been a litigious, two main cases being MIcrosoft (bastardizing Java) and NetApp (counter-suing them... in California vis-a-vis NetApp filing in lower Texas court).
However, there *definitely* would be issues raised by Sun over this issue. You can fork and modify their Java implementation all nilly-willy you want but you CANNOT call it Java unless it passes *all* the certification tests.
So unless Google certifies their implementation, it cannot be called Java, and if Google doesn't - there *would* definitely be issues. Sun doesn't take bastardization of Java lightly!
The GPL states that they may only distribute the code if they accompany it with the rights for any derivatives to use any patents it infringes. No. Only GPL v3 has that clause. GPL v2 (which is what the kernel is under) does not have such a clause and as such can be threatened by patent claims and DRM restrictions.
Why not make a satellite hitch ride on one of these comets to the outer reaches of the solar system. Assuming they go there once every round, even hitching Halley's comet will get us further than Pioneer 1&2 have been in a shorter time, without wasting any precious fuel.
Lesser energy wasted means more energy available to scientific equipments onboard! So they can possibly carry many more equipments and more powerful transmitters.
Or hell, just hitch a ride on one of these for pretty much anywhere in the solar system. No need to wait 7 yrs to reach Saturn. Hitching a ride on one of these could get us there in months. They move *really* fast!
Um, Pa Sun already outputs around 1 kW/sq.m on earth's surface. Over 1 square-km that would be 1 GW... give or take ~300MW for particularly cloudy/sunny days.
Said 50 MW might look a lot to you, but in nature's terms, it's just peanuts:P
A fraction of a big fricking gargutan number is still a big fricking gargutan number!
It is easy to imagine that it takes a small push to disbalance a speeding rider... but now try to do that with a speeding bullet, then imagine doing it with something a several orders of magnitude more energy!
Sorry, no array of any space based energy beamers are going to cut it anytime soon! We're talking about an act of nature that just right embarrases whole world's stockpile of nuclear arsenal to shame in a single season in terms of energy output!
Sounds awfully like a scam to get government funding for research, actually.
A typical hurricane packs a punch worth an "ordinary" atomic bomb exploding every minute. It would take an insane amount of energy to add/remove to even make a statistically significant difference.
Mother nature is *really* powerful and not to be messed with!
Ah, now if they could figure out how to remove some energy and convert into electricity, now THAT would be useful... a season's worth of storms can solve whole world's energy problem;-)
You're actually exactly right on data integrity issue. RAID controllers are iffy and will not protect you in most of the scenarios you listed above.
What you're looking for is ZFS that guarantees to cover those scenarios and can protect from faulty cables, controllers, bit rot and more. Linus isn't excited about ZFS for nothing!
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If you can, get a Nokia E72 unlocked. If you can't get the E72, get any E series Nokia phone (I have E71).
Reason for recommendation:
* WiFi roaming is painless
* 1500mAh battery: WiFi *drains* battery. You absolutely need the phone with largest battery pack or you're looking at charging it twice a day. A large screen android/iPhone is fun for a week till you get tired of looking at battery bars. Nokia will last whole 3 days on GSM and will get you through the day on WiFi.
* Integrated SIP with same dialing/receiving experience as a GSM call
* VoIP apps: Pretty much every VoIP app is available including Fring, Talkonaut and Skype apart from integrated SIP
* Excellent sound quality
Cons:
* Small screen by today's standards (you get battery life in return) ......)
* Abysmal inbuilt browser (you can have Opera Mobile and Opera Mini instead)
* It's not hip in US (however, if you want nerd points it'll score many - run wordpress on your phone with downloadable port of Apache2, MySQL4 and PHP5 - no kidding)
* Custom development is painful, but you get everything and the kitchen sink to write apps for the device (Python, Java, C++,
* No touchscreen
A single low-end jury-rigged SMSC is well capable of over 5K TPS. 80K messages won't even break sweat on any telco's network.
That said, it's a pretty useless medium of communicating any significant amount of data. GPRS or even WAP are much more efficient and capable of dialup speeds. And hey, developing worlds have much better telecom networks than these kind of "for developing worlds" stories give credit for. At least in India, SMS is essentially free (costing less than $0.0001 (yes not a typo!) per SMS in volumes of a thousand.
Folks,
It is important to put the size of elections in India in perspective and how they operate to understand any meaningful amount of fraud or corruption possible.
The EVMs in question are extremely simple. They only have a breakout panel with 32 buttons (expandable upto 64 buttons with an addon breakout button panel). The machine only ever knows the number of enabled buttons. The names and party symbols are affixed as paper "stickers" on the buttons.
---------------------
[B] S First Last Name
---------------------
[B] S First Last Name
------...
The order and placement of stickers on the buttons changes from constituency to constituency. The machines are sealed/unsealed in presence of at least 3 officials, though in practice, it's no less than a dozen or more, as it's a public affair and often media is present.
Some numbers (courtesy http://www.indian-elections.com/facts-figures.html):
Number of EVMs used: 1.023 million
Max candidates per EVM: 64
Max candidates in election from one constituency: 35
Total number of candidates: 5398 (India is a multi-party democracy)
Number of parties: 220
Number of registered voters: 675 million
Cost of '09 elections: Approx $2 billion
Any 'fraud' analysis needs to take the process and numbers into account. EVMs in India solve a LOT of problems with regard to elections and drastically cut down on time, effort and cost involved. There are a number of places where several miles of journey on the back of mule is needed to reach the polling booths. It's much easier to conduct an electronic poll there rather than carrying several large ballot boxes that could be snatched.
So 1.6M processors with 1.6TB RAM means just 1 MB RAM(1.6e+12/1.6e+6) per processor. That sounds bogus!
Also roughly 12 GFLOPS of processing power per processor. WTF kind of cluster/super computer architecture is that ?? Sounds more like 1.6M Cell "stream" processors or something like that, definitely not something made from AMD/Intel parts. Of course, assuming numbers reported are correct.
1. I hope you understand what you gain and lose by switching.
2. I have had to endure the pain of selecting from a few LDAP servers few months back. Just go and download Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 (DSEE). Buy a support contract of whatever level you need. Set it up (takes minutes, the docs are EXCELLENT!) and after that forget it even exists. This baby just works!
Who'd 've thought :-)
Google for visicalc.com and download from the second link.
BEWARE: DO NOT run it on your main computer. Use a windows virtual machine or dosbox on *nix. It runs perfectly in both even after these years.
Pray tell me how does "ext2, ext3, xfs and even UFS" do backups ? Do they have backup and restore integrated and if yes where was it hidden for all the decade I've been looking for one ?
Repeat: Backup/Restore is NOT responsibility of the filesystem! You need something like Amanda, which works fine on ZFS/OpenSolaris.
I think what you really are talking about is a ZFS "aware" backup/restore tool that understands what snapshots and clones are, and doesn't copy things over and over again just because it stumbled on a clone or snapshot.
Still it is the job of backup tool providers, not the FS developers.
So a lot of fine people give a lot of their very valuable time to get Fedora going - for FREE!, so that RedHat doesn't have to spend a pretty penny hiring people to do that.
So far so good!
But then RH has got RHEL, which they won't as much let anybody use for free or make available as free download... Where is the download link for RHEL, Max ? The same RHEL that benefits from community contributions. Instead community is left to only use Fedora!
And no, don't say CentOS! That's somebody else's effort developed with their time & money! Something that they won't have to do if RH had provided free download of RHEL!
Again, Where is the download link of RHEL ?
I can only answer this part.
It is done this way because otherwise you won't be able to boot from the disk "fully" owned by ZFS. Disks fully owned by ZFS have EFI label. They do not have partition table and are fully managed as a block device by ZFS.
The BIOS and most boot loaders do not understand this scheme. They needs an MBR & partition table to be able to boot from a disk. Thus ZFS is installed into a conventional partition on a disk intended to be used as a boot disk (think /dev/hda1).
Of course, if you do not intend to boot from a disk using conventional BIOS and boot loaders (GRUB/LILO), the recommended way is to give it as whole to ZFS (think whole /dev/hda).
That wasn't a troll, someone's sense of humor is dysfunctional o_O
You own 100 Trillion US national debt !!!
Too bad for you :-P They aren't gonna pay it, they got nukes :-p
Uh is it a new SCO meme ? Are you done with enough of FUD already ?
Solaris (and previously SunOS) were Sun's implementation of UNIX. Right, just like Linux and FreeBSD. As such Sun owns the copyright to it. Sun got it UNIX 'certified'. Thats right, just like OSX, Tru64, HPUX and AIX. There is no UNIX. It is a trademark of the Open Group, and they certify various implementations of it. Ever heard of SUS ? SYS V ?
Now onto SCO fiasco. Sun licensed some x86 drivers from SCO for Solaris 8 (yeah that old... Its like 10 years now). SCO's SCO UNIX was x86 based. Those drivers have long since disappeared! They dont even matter!
Whats all this infighting among Open Source group ? What is that makes some fanbois do thing and spread FUD that is most anti-Open Source ?
Guess some people just can never live happily with others!
Yes!, it is, and for a reason. It's carrying the largest number of payloads ever carried by a lunar mission - 11.
5 (TMC, HySI, LLRI, HEX, MIP) - ISRO
2 (C1XS, SARA) - ESA + ISRO
1 (SIR-2) - Max Planck, Germany
1 (RADOM) - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
1 (Mini-SAR) - NASA
1 (M3) - Brown University & JPL
More info here on ISRO page. :-)
So it's kinda an international mission
Rather, GPL is incompatible with anything else that can't be re-licensed as GPL, and that includes GPL v2 and v3, which can't even be mixed among themselves. May first we clear that mess, right ?
ZFS is present in both Mac OSX and FreeBSD, thank you! They have no license issues whatsoever.
Best Keyboard for unix geek... is a Sun Type 7
Reasons:
* Damn good tactile feedback
* Heavy
* Has 15 (yes fifteen) extra function keys
* Dedicated meta, compose and alt-graph keys.
* 3 USB Ports (on top, not sides), including a hidden one for mouse.
* Comes in a variety of native layouts
- Traditional PC
- UNIX (American)
- UNIX (British)
Country kit is $70 and comes with a keyboard and (a damn good ambidextrous) mouse. Choose carefully. Part numbers are google away.
So where's the code ?
(Yeah, I know about it, played with it... lots of noise, not enough code!)
I was an avid user of eclipse for about 3 years. I'd say avid user _and_ advocate!
Then I got sick of the direction it took around 3.1 release. Here are they in no specific order:
* No direction sense in platform development: Eclipse was supposed to be an application development platform. However, it seemed the Eclipse foundation was eager to include each and every requirement of its members (the big names!). The platform became a mess that I just can't figure out how to update my code to 3.x line. The documentation was _pathetic_ and things just don't work.
* The documentation SUCKS: Did I mention it already ? Did I mention that most of it either just doesn't exist or hasn't been updated for 3.x ? Did I mention that the members mostly try to make money around "training" people in it ?
* The plugin nightmare: The plugin and update system just doesn't work! Yes there are a lot of plugins available, but trying to keep track of them and their dependencies is a nightmare. Some plugin needs GEF 2.1 an other needs 2.3. The dependency hell was unmanageable. Mostly it was like that - I would create an installation and once I got it working "somehow", I wouldn't touch it! Updating it would really mean creating another eclipse installation and mucking about there till I got things "right" and only then switching to it.
* J2EE Support - rather the lack of it: MyEclipse was best then. It sucked.
I went there just yesterday, and for life of me couldn't figure out why they split it into so many distros... and over that if I need a GUIDE to tell me what is right for me - well they're not doing it right then!
I tried Netbeans 6 once. Now with Netbeans 6.1 - It's just perfect. It *just* works and DOES NOT nag me! When I'm doing my work I want my tools to work right.
Play when playtime, work when time to work! Netbeans 6.1 fits that *perfectly*. Oh, that and the jVi plugin for netbeans which provides "optional" Vi/Vim mode for Netbeans editor and I'm just set.
Did I mention that Netbeans is best when it comes to J2EE/Web development ?
Please keep in mind that stock price inflation is due to "premium" put up MS and speculators have driven up the price which *would* fall down if the deal doesn't go through.
I'd expect a lot of speculators to actually short the stock.
All in all, for a serious business, it's *not* a good thing to be in this situation. Even in best case it'd rock the boat and cause heart-burns and unrest whether the deal goes through or not.
Among all jokes, it seems that the most interesting part has been missed.
Half way through the movie, the robot is pushed through its left side. It eerily performs an extremely human like side-stepping movement to rebalance itself.
I have been replaying the sequence over and over again for last 15 minutes, it's the most un-fuckin'-believable amazing foot movement I've seen in bi-pedal robots!!!
Sun and Google are good partners, and I don't see them getting into legal minefield over this issue. Heck, Sun has never been a litigious, two main cases being MIcrosoft (bastardizing Java) and NetApp (counter-suing them... in California vis-a-vis NetApp filing in lower Texas court).
However, there *definitely* would be issues raised by Sun over this issue. You can fork and modify their Java implementation all nilly-willy you want but you CANNOT call it Java unless it passes *all* the certification tests.
So unless Google certifies their implementation, it cannot be called Java, and if Google doesn't - there *would* definitely be issues. Sun doesn't take bastardization of Java lightly!
This just crossed my mind -
Why not make a satellite hitch ride on one of these comets to the outer reaches of the solar system. Assuming they go there once every round, even hitching Halley's comet will get us further than Pioneer 1&2 have been in a shorter time, without wasting any precious fuel.
Lesser energy wasted means more energy available to scientific equipments onboard! So they can possibly carry many more equipments and more powerful transmitters.
Or hell, just hitch a ride on one of these for pretty much anywhere in the solar system. No need to wait 7 yrs to reach Saturn. Hitching a ride on one of these could get us there in months. They move *really* fast!
Um, Pa Sun already outputs around 1 kW/sq.m on earth's surface. Over 1 square-km that would be 1 GW... give or take ~300MW for particularly cloudy/sunny days.
:P
Said 50 MW might look a lot to you, but in nature's terms, it's just peanuts
your argument is correct, but with fallacy-
A fraction of a big fricking gargutan number is still a big fricking gargutan number!
It is easy to imagine that it takes a small push to disbalance a speeding rider... but now try to do that with a speeding bullet, then imagine doing it with something a several orders of magnitude more energy!
Sorry, no array of any space based energy beamers are going to cut it anytime soon! We're talking about an act of nature that just right embarrases whole world's stockpile of nuclear arsenal to shame in a single season in terms of energy output!
Sounds awfully like a scam to get government funding for research, actually.
;-)
A typical hurricane packs a punch worth an "ordinary" atomic bomb exploding every minute. It would take an insane amount of energy to add/remove to even make a statistically significant difference.
Mother nature is *really* powerful and not to be messed with!
Ah, now if they could figure out how to remove some energy and convert into electricity, now THAT would be useful... a season's worth of storms can solve whole world's energy problem
You're actually exactly right on data integrity issue. RAID controllers are iffy and will not protect you in most of the scenarios you listed above.
What you're looking for is ZFS that guarantees to cover those scenarios and can protect from faulty cables, controllers, bit rot and more. Linus isn't excited about ZFS for nothing!
Read about ZFS more here