The problem isn't so much the partition size limitation. It's a problem that the partition schema (fdisk in this case?) can't describe the entire drive (partition layout) of that size.
I suppose they need to be using GPT at this point.
The problem is probably a combination of (1) too many blocks on the drive, and/or nonstandard block sizes. (1024/2048/4096 instead of 512 byte) - one or the other has to increase to grow the size of the device. There's been a lot of noise lately about OSs that won't like drives that ship with nonstandard (greater than 512 byte) block sizes. Of course for anyone to consider 512 as the only 'standard size' nowadays for block sizes, those are the people that are part of the problem.
Many of the less policed servers had blatant advertisements from the people writing the hack. You'd login and start playing and every few minutes someone would just come out of nowhere and you'd just die instantly. You see them make an obnoxious ansi color text down in the public chat line something like
Scrooge just got a HEADSHOT on FreshMeat using BabyBot 2.0. visit us at www.babybot.com
They would say other things when it was the hacker "manually" killing someone while they had their wallhack on. Autoaim for headshots, autoknife, auto grenade return, and wallhacks made it a very unpleasant experience.
I saw maybe five different varieties of bots on a pretty constant basis. Google "call of duty bots" for all the bots you care (not) to see.
But you got one thing right, ya I do suck;) But this made me suck MORE and enjoy it LESS. I don't mind so much getting tooled, but when it's a script kiddie with a $15/mo subscription to one of these bots delivering me a headshot every time I so much as see them, it's really annoying. (yes, many of them work on subscription basis)
I tried to play CoD online for months and was constantly having to deal with wallhacks and other cheaters. Contacted Infinity Ward and they said "not our problem, it' s Activision not policing their servers, contact them." Contacted Activision and they said "not our problem, we didn't write the server app, contact Infinity Ward". I actually went back and forth several times but neither of them were willing to accept any responsibility for the problem, and there were a lot of people with similar complaints.
So, at least this means they may not be able to do the infinite pass-the-buck if Infinity Ward is writing the game AND running the servers?
I watched with interest through 3/4 of the video as they continuously refused to show the back side of the model, just loosely discussing the "control shafts" and couldn't get it out of my mind "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain".
Then finally at the end they showed the back and surprise, there's another motor there, but trying to explain it off that this motor requires far less energy than you're going to gain by using the rest of the system. Maybe this is true, but that's a poor way to present the design, by hiding a serious concern until the last second.
As they wrapped up the video they did admit that this little kink is going to be the determining factor in whether or not it's a useful design. "Why can't they just tap some of the power off the input shaft to manage the control rods?" I thought. Then it occurred to me, the speed would need to be continuously variable, and that's the whole problem they're trying to solve. So, what we have here is a continuously variable mechanism, so long as we can already provide a continuously variable mechanism. (all his D-Drive needs to complete it is, another D-Drive, which would of course need another D-Drive....) Sounds terribly recursive to me. But he didn't go into any detail as to the requirements of this control system, but from what I can tell, it needs to be continuously variable also. He dismissed it as being easy to achieve with something such as an electric motor, which one could argue the same is true of his entire invention...
We'll see. I'll remain skeptical until his design is complete, including the nagging little details of running the control shafts. But really it's an excellent idea even with this problem. It's solved the larger portion of the problem. One other thing that also came to mind is balance. The orbital gears could really get whipping around the sun gear, they'll have to be balanced. Using orbital gears itself at high torque will create new problems also. I'm no mechanical engineer but I also see a potential problem there with torque on the position of the planetary gears since the shaft isn't fixed. You don't usually see floating gears in transmissions.
Other unexplained contributing factors may be things like (1) how special the cake was, and (2) just how involved the fire was
1. I have vivid memory of many of my birthday cakes, as my mother always got the local bakery to make a special themed cake for me every year. One was King Kong, complete with big brown frosting gorrilla on top of what loooked like the white house, swinging at planes. (and the whole party, the cups, placemats, plates, etc were all on the theme) Saying things like this don't matter later is like saying there's no reason to take pictures at a birthday party. The kid's party was already ruined, and maybe all the gifts went up too, at least Dad saved the cake and the kid's entire day wasn't a bust. Bravo.
2. if they just ran out of the house when they heard the smoke detector go off, maybe there was all the time in the world to saunter into the kitchen and walk out with the cake. I think most readers here are interpreting this as a Schwarzenegger-esque dash through a highly involved fire with sections of wall and ceiling falling in from all sides and Dad crashing out through the front door just before the building exploded in a huge fireball. It was probably a lot less dramatic, involving dad walking through a room with some haze in the room, carefully picking up the cake, and walking out with it.
In many cases of fire, first priority of "get everyone out safe" can easily be followed by more calm, rational decisions. Think of all the fire drills you had in school.
looks like another case of "can't have your cake and eat it too". They just want money to magically fly itself into their bank accounts. Time for them to start working for it. So, you want to abuse the law, and you want the entire world to waste their time looking out for your "rights"? silly people.
The military sure wigged out when one of their shiney new spy sats went DOA on them right after launch, and blew it up from the ground with a laser. Wonder why they're not nearly so anxious to get this one?
Or is Microsoft just trying to firmly establish its OOXML standard,
I doubt that's the case at all. When you're going against other software such as Google Documents, you either have to offer a better product, tight lock-in, or better pricing. Free is hard to beat, you've committed (on paper anyway) to open standards which greatly hobbles your lock-in, and so you're left having to offer at least a good chunk of the features the competition is giving that you currently are not.
Right now, Google Documents is offering a powerful new online service. I use Google Spreadsheet daily. It ain't perfect, but considering how new it is, it works amazingly well. It's easy to forget you're using a web browser when you just hit certain key combos for example out of habit, and to your surprise, they work perfect. Some of my spreadsheets can't be used with it, but the ability to collaborate online with others maintaining the same spreadsheets, at the exact same time, no emailing files back and forth all day or fighting over update locks on the LAN (or possible file corruption / data loss from an update war) it provides a unique, powerful, useful feature that my current use can't live without, and that MS Office doesn't offer. And my needs are far from unique. Everyone I tell about this is amazed and wants to try it because it gives them a useful option that MS Office just can't deliver.
This is it for Office, this is their shot to either keep or lose a market. It's not surprising in the least that they're rushing to get something available asap for online collaboration.
And if it were anybody but google, you can bet your last dollar that MS would have a whole herd of lawyers at someone's door with fistfuls of litigation trying to put a stop to it or at least stall it a year or two to give them a chance to catch up.
IMHO Google Documents is one of THE best things to come out of Google Labs. In the end, who knows, maybe MS will be offering a superior product. But there's simply no way this could happen without the necessary motivation.
it almost sounds like you're asking how you should pretend to be. Nothing wrong with adapting, just don't try to be something that you're not, or give people a false impression of yourself. If your true personality and behavior don't mesh with those you work with, unless you can make permanent changes, it's a waste of time.
should be possible to add a sensor (probably even on silicon) that can warn of higher vibration and slow the stepping, but I bet they don't do that right now.
It's a lot easier to interfere with a moving head arm than it is to mess one up that's locked on a track, so this isn't surprising in the least for vibration to affect reads that require numerous long seeks. I'm surprised it's not worse than they've found.
Moving the head requires accelerated head stepping to top speed, stepping to close to the track, slowing down, stopping at the destination track, waiting for the head to settle, and reading an address block to find out where you managed to land. If you find you missed the track, you have to go through the whole seek process again. (usually only once more, those short adjustment hops are pretty reliable because they're lower speed) But that really hurts your single block read time.
Add to that the fact that the "high performance" drives are making more risky higher speed track changes, which increase the odds of missing your target and make the operation more sensitive to vibration. I've written direct HDD io code before, and sure, you can up the step speed to get very nice seek time boosts, but then you start missing your track and start getting reseeks. Usually you go with the fastest that's acceptably reliable, and that puts you on the bleeding edge of having problems, where things like vibration can run you off the deep end of the bell curve.
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if 50% of the "high performance drive" better speed is due to faster spindle speed, and the other half is faster (riskier) seek speed.
I thought about that too, what could a robot with a knife accomplish with collision avoidance active? Answer is simple, limit the scope of when the detection is active. For example, lets say the robot is switching from a short blade to a long blade. It does this by dropping off one blade in a holder and grabbing another one. While this swap is taking place, there should be NO collisions. If a stupid meatbag walks up to it to try to figure out why "it just stopped", not knowing that it's pausing while loading new commands, and gets between it and the blade caddy, now he doesn't get impaled when the robot suddenly reactivates and goes to switch blades for the next task.
Collision detection of course would be off while it's actually doing the carving and expects there to be material at that location to carve.
the swiss army knife (swisshcamp) is in a holster here. I also have a smallish digital camera pouch on my belt where I keep not a camera but my ipod touch, usb flash drive, and a few other small odds and ends.
in the pants pocket is a keyfob and key for the truck, a housekey, and a bike lock key. (deadbolt and knob use same key) That's it. Never worn a hole in my pocket with that. But then I have a specific way I drop my keys into my pocket so they're pointy-end-up when they hit bottom. I can also hit the unlock button easily from outside the pocket.
Though I would like to have an RFID'ish way to unlock my house door. I don't think I want to have multiple keyfobs though, I wonder if anyone makes one that works on car alarms and house doors at the same time?
OP may be more interested in a fanny pack though that attaches to the belt. Won't be tossing that off to the side and forget it when you destinate somewhere so easily. (manpurse)
Lol remembering from high school one girl had a beach bag for a purse. I know we're all aware of the "woman that has everything in her purse", but she took it to a whole new level. A full set of hair curlers and hair dryer were just two of the more interesting items she had with her always.
I'd love to have had my eye on the boards at that time, there was major money to be made in those brief minutes between when the B was bought and when it was immediately resold. This is not so much a problem of insanity on the stock exchange floor, as it is the automated stock trading programs running continually looking to take small advantages on micro market fluctuations. This one just tripped a few too many of them all at once, causing something of a domino effect. I'd expect 80%+ of the "very high volume" of that time period was done entirely by automated trade programs.
Then one has to ask, was the mistake in the fat finger that hit "B" instead of "M", the (popular option) "are you sure you want to do that?", OR can we look at the trading apps that haven't been told to do a sanity check when they see a very unusual trade occur. IMHO this entire fiasco is a collection of bugs (ok we'll call them "oversights") in the auto trade programs on wallstreet. The people on the floor were just looking at the board with their jaws dropped open trying to figure out what was going on -- what the programs SHOULD have been doing. Should have been throwing up a flashy window on someone's screen saying HEY COME TAKE A LOOK AT THIS! Instead they just went wild selling and buying, thinking they were reacting to market conditions, not able to consider fat fingers.
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Does opposing douchebaggery cancel out and leave the world a happy place?
It's probably best compared with say, USA and Russia going to nuclear war. If they're going to go down, they're taking the whole planet with them.
Have you tried returning software lately? Especially, software with a network play registration number?
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The problem isn't so much the partition size limitation. It's a problem that the partition schema (fdisk in this case?) can't describe the entire drive (partition layout) of that size.
I suppose they need to be using GPT at this point.
The problem is probably a combination of (1) too many blocks on the drive, and/or nonstandard block sizes. (1024/2048/4096 instead of 512 byte) - one or the other has to increase to grow the size of the device. There's been a lot of noise lately about OSs that won't like drives that ship with nonstandard (greater than 512 byte) block sizes. Of course for anyone to consider 512 as the only 'standard size' nowadays for block sizes, those are the people that are part of the problem.
WHOOOSH
. . . as a pubic service?
Sounds to me more of a pubic service
Many of the less policed servers had blatant advertisements from the people writing the hack. You'd login and start playing and every few minutes someone would just come out of nowhere and you'd just die instantly. You see them make an obnoxious ansi color text down in the public chat line something like
Scrooge just got a HEADSHOT on FreshMeat using BabyBot 2.0. visit us at www.babybot.com
They would say other things when it was the hacker "manually" killing someone while they had their wallhack on. Autoaim for headshots, autoknife, auto grenade return, and wallhacks made it a very unpleasant experience.
I saw maybe five different varieties of bots on a pretty constant basis. Google "call of duty bots" for all the bots you care (not) to see.
But you got one thing right, ya I do suck ;) But this made me suck MORE and enjoy it LESS. I don't mind so much getting tooled, but when it's a script kiddie with a $15/mo subscription to one of these bots delivering me a headshot every time I so much as see them, it's really annoying. (yes, many of them work on subscription basis)
I wonder if this will quell the cheaters?
I tried to play CoD online for months and was constantly having to deal with wallhacks and other cheaters. Contacted Infinity Ward and they said "not our problem, it' s Activision not policing their servers, contact them." Contacted Activision and they said "not our problem, we didn't write the server app, contact Infinity Ward". I actually went back and forth several times but neither of them were willing to accept any responsibility for the problem, and there were a lot of people with similar complaints.
So, at least this means they may not be able to do the infinite pass-the-buck if Infinity Ward is writing the game AND running the servers?
I watched with interest through 3/4 of the video as they continuously refused to show the back side of the model, just loosely discussing the "control shafts" and couldn't get it out of my mind
"pay no attention to the man behind the curtain".
Then finally at the end they showed the back and surprise, there's another motor there, but trying to explain it off that this motor requires far less energy than you're going to gain by using the rest of the system. Maybe this is true, but that's a poor way to present the design, by hiding a serious concern until the last second.
As they wrapped up the video they did admit that this little kink is going to be the determining factor in whether or not it's a useful design. "Why can't they just tap some of the power off the input shaft to manage the control rods?" I thought. Then it occurred to me, the speed would need to be continuously variable, and that's the whole problem they're trying to solve. So, what we have here is a continuously variable mechanism, so long as we can already provide a continuously variable mechanism. (all his D-Drive needs to complete it is, another D-Drive, which would of course need another D-Drive....) Sounds terribly recursive to me. But he didn't go into any detail as to the requirements of this control system, but from what I can tell, it needs to be continuously variable also. He dismissed it as being easy to achieve with something such as an electric motor, which one could argue the same is true of his entire invention...
We'll see. I'll remain skeptical until his design is complete, including the nagging little details of running the control shafts. But really it's an excellent idea even with this problem. It's solved the larger portion of the problem. One other thing that also came to mind is balance. The orbital gears could really get whipping around the sun gear, they'll have to be balanced. Using orbital gears itself at high torque will create new problems also. I'm no mechanical engineer but I also see a potential problem there with torque on the position of the planetary gears since the shaft isn't fixed. You don't usually see floating gears in transmissions.
nice unit but entirely too much work for most people. this isn't a casemod, it's more like a "build your own car" kind of project.
I vote for the drobo elite. All that time and materials and tools that dwarf requires easily covers the cost.
Software Theft Exceeded $51B ...captialistic translator engaged...
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If every pirate in the world actually bought our overpriced product, we'd have had an additional $51B in sales
they warn us continually of imminent crashes with snowflakes.
They just don't want you to plow (haha) into any innocent snowmen.
Other unexplained contributing factors may be things like (1) how special the cake was, and (2) just how involved the fire was
1. I have vivid memory of many of my birthday cakes, as my mother always got the local bakery to make a special themed cake for me every year. One was King Kong, complete with big brown frosting gorrilla on top of what loooked like the white house, swinging at planes. (and the whole party, the cups, placemats, plates, etc were all on the theme) Saying things like this don't matter later is like saying there's no reason to take pictures at a birthday party. The kid's party was already ruined, and maybe all the gifts went up too, at least Dad saved the cake and the kid's entire day wasn't a bust. Bravo.
2. if they just ran out of the house when they heard the smoke detector go off, maybe there was all the time in the world to saunter into the kitchen and walk out with the cake. I think most readers here are interpreting this as a Schwarzenegger-esque dash through a highly involved fire with sections of wall and ceiling falling in from all sides and Dad crashing out through the front door just before the building exploded in a huge fireball. It was probably a lot less dramatic, involving dad walking through a room with some haze in the room, carefully picking up the cake, and walking out with it.
In many cases of fire, first priority of "get everyone out safe" can easily be followed by more calm, rational decisions. Think of all the fire drills you had in school.
looks like another case of "can't have your cake and eat it too". They just want money to magically fly itself into their bank accounts. Time for them to start working for it. So, you want to abuse the law, and you want the entire world to waste their time looking out for your "rights"? silly people.
And it hasn't been sued into oblivion by Microsoft, despite by your claim.
That's only because it's nowhere near as popular as Google Documents.
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There's the magic words keeping them out of the crosshairs. They're no threat.
The military sure wigged out when one of their shiney new spy sats went DOA on them right after launch, and blew it up from the ground with a laser. Wonder why they're not nearly so anxious to get this one?
Or is Microsoft just trying to firmly establish its OOXML standard,
I doubt that's the case at all. When you're going against other software such as Google Documents, you either have to offer a better product, tight lock-in, or better pricing. Free is hard to beat, you've committed (on paper anyway) to open standards which greatly hobbles your lock-in, and so you're left having to offer at least a good chunk of the features the competition is giving that you currently are not.
Right now, Google Documents is offering a powerful new online service. I use Google Spreadsheet daily. It ain't perfect, but considering how new it is, it works amazingly well. It's easy to forget you're using a web browser when you just hit certain key combos for example out of habit, and to your surprise, they work perfect. Some of my spreadsheets can't be used with it, but the ability to collaborate online with others maintaining the same spreadsheets, at the exact same time, no emailing files back and forth all day or fighting over update locks on the LAN (or possible file corruption / data loss from an update war) it provides a unique, powerful, useful feature that my current use can't live without, and that MS Office doesn't offer. And my needs are far from unique. Everyone I tell about this is amazed and wants to try it because it gives them a useful option that MS Office just can't deliver.
This is it for Office, this is their shot to either keep or lose a market. It's not surprising in the least that they're rushing to get something available asap for online collaboration.
And if it were anybody but google, you can bet your last dollar that MS would have a whole herd of lawyers at someone's door with fistfuls of litigation trying to put a stop to it or at least stall it a year or two to give them a chance to catch up.
IMHO Google Documents is one of THE best things to come out of Google Labs. In the end, who knows, maybe MS will be offering a superior product. But there's simply no way this could happen without the necessary motivation.
it almost sounds like you're asking how you should pretend to be. Nothing wrong with adapting, just don't try to be something that you're not, or give people a false impression of yourself. If your true personality and behavior don't mesh with those you work with, unless you can make permanent changes, it's a waste of time.
should be possible to add a sensor (probably even on silicon) that can warn of higher vibration and slow the stepping, but I bet they don't do that right now.
It's a lot easier to interfere with a moving head arm than it is to mess one up that's locked on a track, so this isn't surprising in the least for vibration to affect reads that require numerous long seeks. I'm surprised it's not worse than they've found.
Moving the head requires accelerated head stepping to top speed, stepping to close to the track, slowing down, stopping at the destination track, waiting for the head to settle, and reading an address block to find out where you managed to land. If you find you missed the track, you have to go through the whole seek process again. (usually only once more, those short adjustment hops are pretty reliable because they're lower speed) But that really hurts your single block read time.
Add to that the fact that the "high performance" drives are making more risky higher speed track changes, which increase the odds of missing your target and make the operation more sensitive to vibration. I've written direct HDD io code before, and sure, you can up the step speed to get very nice seek time boosts, but then you start missing your track and start getting reseeks. Usually you go with the fastest that's acceptably reliable, and that puts you on the bleeding edge of having problems, where things like vibration can run you off the deep end of the bell curve.
It wouldn't surprise me one bit if 50% of the "high performance drive" better speed is due to faster spindle speed, and the other half is faster (riskier) seek speed.
very informative, thank you for the insight
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I thought about that too, what could a robot with a knife accomplish with collision avoidance active? Answer is simple, limit the scope of when the detection is active. For example, lets say the robot is switching from a short blade to a long blade. It does this by dropping off one blade in a holder and grabbing another one. While this swap is taking place, there should be NO collisions. If a stupid meatbag walks up to it to try to figure out why "it just stopped", not knowing that it's pausing while loading new commands, and gets between it and the blade caddy, now he doesn't get impaled when the robot suddenly reactivates and goes to switch blades for the next task.
Collision detection of course would be off while it's actually doing the carving and expects there to be material at that location to carve.
the swiss army knife (swisshcamp) is in a holster here. I also have a smallish digital camera pouch on my belt where I keep not a camera but my ipod touch, usb flash drive, and a few other small odds and ends.
in the pants pocket is a keyfob and key for the truck, a housekey, and a bike lock key. (deadbolt and knob use same key) That's it. Never worn a hole in my pocket with that. But then I have a specific way I drop my keys into my pocket so they're pointy-end-up when they hit bottom. I can also hit the unlock button easily from outside the pocket.
Though I would like to have an RFID'ish way to unlock my house door. I don't think I want to have multiple keyfobs though, I wonder if anyone makes one that works on car alarms and house doors at the same time?
OP may be more interested in a fanny pack though that attaches to the belt. Won't be tossing that off to the side and forget it when you destinate somewhere so easily. (manpurse)
Lol remembering from high school one girl had a beach bag for a purse. I know we're all aware of the "woman that has everything in her purse", but she took it to a whole new level. A full set of hair curlers and hair dryer were just two of the more interesting items she had with her always.
I'd love to have had my eye on the boards at that time, there was major money to be made in those brief minutes between when the B was bought and when it was immediately resold. This is not so much a problem of insanity on the stock exchange floor, as it is the automated stock trading programs running continually looking to take small advantages on micro market fluctuations. This one just tripped a few too many of them all at once, causing something of a domino effect. I'd expect 80%+ of the "very high volume" of that time period was done entirely by automated trade programs.
Then one has to ask, was the mistake in the fat finger that hit "B" instead of "M", the (popular option) "are you sure you want to do that?", OR can we look at the trading apps that haven't been told to do a sanity check when they see a very unusual trade occur. IMHO this entire fiasco is a collection of bugs (ok we'll call them "oversights") in the auto trade programs on wallstreet. The people on the floor were just looking at the board with their jaws dropped open trying to figure out what was going on -- what the programs SHOULD have been doing. Should have been throwing up a flashy window on someone's screen saying HEY COME TAKE A LOOK AT THIS! Instead they just went wild selling and buying, thinking they were reacting to market conditions, not able to consider fat fingers.
or at least a piss-poor idea.