actually with all the pr0n you can watch on the internet today while munching away on your McFatty you'll end up needing a cold shower to get to grasps with reality after all the praawn
or to quote Denis Leary: "I'm trying to bring them up the right way. I'm not spanking them. I find that I don't have to spank them; I find that waving the gun around pretty much gets the same job done."
Cyanid is healthy too. Actually it's really healthy. It's eating too much of it and not balancing your diet that does bad things to you (but most people ignore that).
I've always thought that KBabel was a good name, just as good as Rosetta...
Rosetta plays on the rosetta stone while KBabel plays on the babelfish from H2G2
Can't see how oe is better than the other ?
Bringing a mobilephone when you go skiing/hiking/some-non-nerdy-activity creates a sense of false security.
Lots of people plan in advance to call somebody when they get to their destination to discover they've run out of battery or the signal is too weak to place a call all this of course leading to relatives etc. jumping the gun and calling emergency services just becase somebody didn't call as planned...
It's dangerous placing too much trust upon your mobilephone...
Or even better store them as something that is more space-efficient than JPG. JPEG is lossy and usually pretty poor at representing sharp edges which is more or less what defines the letters of the alphabet...
or just log in with
username: secret
password: secret
and for some strange reason this tends to work a lot of places that stupidly enough require registration to read otherwise free[tm] information...
A couple of months back some friends of mine opened a new bar in Norway. To attract people they wanted to have those wicked huge searchlights that they used to look for planes and stuff during WW2 outside their bar for the opening night (moth and people react the same to strong light...).
They eventually decided against it after finding out how much red tape they had to go through to get the proper permissions and stuff to use the lights...
They had to get approvals from the local airport, airforce, atc, airborn search&rescue units, blah blah blah...
But then again I guess you can transmit a bit further than 4km with a huge searchlight...
Not only illegal, but pretty dumb as the houses would have a different grounding and therefore the ethernet cable you've dropped between the houses could end up as the grounding for one of the houses (remember that part about current always taking the easiest route from HS?).
If you want to have your computer/network equipment fried, go ahead and drop what ever you like out the window. To be on the safe side, drop wireless or optical out the window as optical cables doesn't transmit electricity...
A 12-port 3ware escalade costs around $800, you could fit 12 drives @ 240gigs each making it possible to store 2.88 Tera (unformatted of course, what else;-).
Each of them drives is gonna set you back ~$200 (easy number) so for $3200 you've got a ~2.5 Tera RAID system... That's pretty cheap considering this is ONLINE data, not offline-backups...
Buying more disks would offcourse allow you to hotswap and store the disks both offline and offsite, making it a viable backup solution as it takes 200 gigs per medium, and it's fast to backup to and not at least restore from!
CTFP (Check the fscking pictures), if you look in the article (or even better) read the computerbus.com webpage you'll see that they're sponsored by ManxTelecom...
Spare 100 GB Hard Drives: $100 If you go with cheaper IDE drives, you probably aren't going to do hot swapping, so you'll have to bring the system down to remove them. SCSI would be more expensive, but would allow hot swapping. NAS is an option though, but slower. Drives are not meant to be carted around, bumped, etc like removable media is. One accidental drop and the entire backup is shot unlike tape or disc based backups. Really fast seek times though.
Well this used to be the case.
Today there are several makers that supply IDE-RAID card that support hot- and coldswapping.
You can also get drivecages that are suspended from the cabinet so the whole thing can handle transportation without being damaged.
I even heard a story of somebody having a disk-storage box returned because of damage to the chassis (the sidedoor was cracked in transport) but the disks survived like a charm;-)
Any company that backup important material to tape should either make sure they have a working restore-mechanism in place or continue to move the data to newer media every other year...
That being said, the prices of IDE-harddrives and raid-controllers like these, you might as well keep all your data online. That's a sure way not to let the media become outdated...
There are definently weak DV-tapes. Any dv/dvcam operator will tell your which brands work and doesn't work with hers/his particular setup...
Some tapes will cause digital-dropouts and worse almost instantly when used in certain cameras while work perfectly in others...
There seem to be a lack of quality in some tapes or there's some misunderstandings between some camera-makers and some tape-producers;-).
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actually with all the pr0n you can watch on the internet today while munching away on your McFatty you'll end up needing a cold shower to get to grasps with reality after all the praawn
just get some of them McKids when ordering your McCoronary
or to quote Denis Leary:
"I'm trying to bring them up the right way. I'm not spanking them. I find that I don't have to spank them; I find that waving the gun around pretty much gets the same job done."
Cyanid is healthy too. Actually it's really healthy. It's eating too much of it and not balancing your diet that does bad things to you (but most people ignore that).
I thought KDE had this allmighty great cups-style printing support which was easy to use... ;-)
but then again *I* don't use KDE
I've always thought that KBabel was a good name, just as good as Rosetta...
Rosetta plays on the rosetta stone while KBabel plays on the babelfish from H2G2
Can't see how oe is better than the other ?
Bringing a mobilephone when you go skiing/hiking/some-non-nerdy-activity creates a sense of false security.
Lots of people plan in advance to call somebody when they get to their destination to discover they've run out of battery or the signal is too weak to place a call all this of course leading to relatives etc. jumping the gun and calling emergency services just becase somebody didn't call as planned...
It's dangerous placing too much trust upon your mobilephone...
Just wondering... what kind of servers do you access during the night?
Or even better store them as something that is more space-efficient than JPG. JPEG is lossy and usually pretty poor at representing sharp edges which is more or less what defines the letters of the alphabet...
A serial-ata drive would be feasible I guess, but probably wicked expensive (or wicked hard to get ;-).
It's called mageprime in both articles... I guess somebody (read: slashdot-editor) didn't read the article before posting...
AFAIK not all ethernet-equipment is... depends on how much money you put into stuff...
Wireless is the way to go for inter-building-networking IMHO...
Each ibook is going to have a finite life.
Where I'm from so do teachers!
or just log in with
username: secret
password: secret
and for some strange reason this tends to work a lot of places that stupidly enough require registration to read otherwise free[tm] information...
i guess somebody didn't read the article...
A couple of months back some friends of mine opened a new bar in Norway. To attract people they wanted to have those wicked huge searchlights that they used to look for planes and stuff during WW2 outside their bar for the opening night (moth and people react the same to strong light...).
They eventually decided against it after finding out how much red tape they had to go through to get the proper permissions and stuff to use the lights...
They had to get approvals from the local airport, airforce, atc, airborn search&rescue units, blah blah blah...
But then again I guess you can transmit a bit further than 4km with a huge searchlight...
But there are several other reasons to flash your lights just around the bend from a speed trap ;-))
Not only illegal, but pretty dumb as the houses would have a different grounding and therefore the ethernet cable you've dropped between the houses could end up as the grounding for one of the houses (remember that part about current always taking the easiest route from HS?).
If you want to have your computer/network equipment fried, go ahead and drop what ever you like out the window.
To be on the safe side, drop wireless or optical out the window as optical cables doesn't transmit electricity...
Not to mention all the battery all this talktime consumes... ;-)
To heck with it
Each of them drives is gonna set you back ~$200 (easy number) so for $3200 you've got a ~2.5 Tera RAID system... That's pretty cheap considering this is ONLINE data, not offline-backups...
Buying more disks would offcourse allow you to hotswap and store the disks both offline and offsite, making it a viable backup solution as it takes 200 gigs per medium, and it's fast to backup to and not at least restore from!
CTFP (Check the fscking pictures), if you look in the article (or even better) read the computerbus.com webpage you'll see that they're sponsored by ManxTelecom...
Well this used to be the case.
Today there are several makers that supply IDE-RAID card that support hot- and coldswapping.
You can also get drivecages that are suspended from the cabinet so the whole thing can handle transportation without being damaged. ;-)
I even heard a story of somebody having a disk-storage box returned because of damage to the chassis (the sidedoor was cracked in transport) but the disks survived like a charm
Any company that backup important material to tape should either make sure they have a working restore-mechanism in place or continue to move the data to newer media every other year...
That being said, the prices of IDE-harddrives and raid-controllers like these, you might as well keep all your data online. That's a sure way not to let the media become outdated...
Some tapes will cause digital-dropouts and worse almost instantly when used in certain cameras while work perfectly in others...
There seem to be a lack of quality in some tapes or there's some misunderstandings between some camera-makers and some tape-producers ;-).
Depends on how the source-tree is managed...
Too many cooks spoil the broth!