considering how much/tmp gets used, having it in memory is one of the quickest ways to boost the performance of your system...
I'm sure I'm the millionth person to say this...
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While I own a tablet (from the a company that's named after a fruit) I also own a kindle, for exactly this reason. In fact I owned the kindle first because I knew, if I had an tablet and not an ereader, I'd play angry birds, not read books.
Now, when it comes to reading comics... the tablet is fucking awesome.
I agree with the wiki idea. You should also diagram your whole environment. Both the physical machines and also the applications and how they fit together. Then, unless you're going to let the guy follow you around for two weeks, you're going to have to provide support.
A couple of years ago here in Massachusetts, all the service stations had to retrofit to duel hulled gas tanks. MA provided all kinds of zero or low interest loans. Apparently in the bill there was a line item that would have required any service station that had street access to NG to make one NG pump slot available. However, there weren't many NG vehicles on the road at the time and the gas station owners go together and lobbied to get it stripped from the bill with the argument that it would effectively deprive them of income. As someone who heats / cooks with NG, I'd be very happy to buy a NG equipped car. I could fill it up at my house!
I remember in high school chemistry we took a penny and filed off one edge to get to the zinc. We then submerged the penny in HCL so we ended up with a hollow penny.
I wonder if that experiment would still work with the new pennys/nickles.
Good luck... when they look in my directory this is what they'll see...... f252c384-f52f-40fe-b28b-50b08404685f 070c9c71-429a-4c56-a195-c803189a3ce5...
All file names will be obfuscated using uuid and all contents will be encrypted using aes-256.
That's the same reason as well. I've got a 4TB san at home and I'm using ZFS on linux (kernel modules, not fuse) to manage it. Certain parts of it are also backed up other places, but I run a zfs scrub on it once a week. One reason I chose ZFS over ext4 was that I wanted to be able to add disks and grow the filesystems as painlessly as possible. Since the disks are hanging off a mediocre onboard controller, the idea of having to fsck 4TB in the case of power outage / crash seemed craptastic. So far I've been very happy.
I would think 294k would make it the MOST expensive drug... I have to imagine there is some chemotherapy that are expensive... but that seems insane... considering that it doesn't cure the problem, just mitigates it.
1. Quite likely that airframe has thousands of hours on it. Attempting to repair the airframe makes little sense when you've got 100's of identical airframes sitting in the dessert in shrink wrap. The $200M isn't for the airframe but all the electronics on it, which can be moved to another airframe.
2. When you repair an aircraft it's got to go through some very rigorous testing to ensure that other structural components (like the main spar, etc) haven't been damaged.
3. Yes they did. And they've got enough mothballed spares that they'll be flying them for decades to come.
4. I'm sure there's liability up to some amount... but no company is going to do business with the government if it has to carry that much liability insurance, it would be unprofitable.
Zynga has a well storied and much written history of taking other people's games, cloning them and then making a bundle of cash. Basically every *ville game they make is a virtual ripoff of someone else's initial idea.
This does not surprise me, not one bit.
Somewhere, a lawyer is filling his fountain pen and getting a hungry gleam in his eye... a hunger for suing that is...
The only problem I could see with a coffer dam is that I believe the whole ship isn't sitting on the ocean floor, a portion of it is afloat still. If the idea is that they're going to salvage the ship the moment you pump the water out of the coffer the ship is likely to settle further possibly damaging it more.
Here's what I would do.
1. Remove all the fuel, most likely through hot tapping. 2. Since the ship has a 70 meter gash in it, work to make that spot as water tight as possible and move some very large and powerful water pumps onto the ship, or at least hoses connected to ships with very large pumps on them. 3. Spin up the pumps and pull the ship off the rocks, repair more damage on the spot 4. Use the pumps and the empty fuel tanks to ballast the ship to make it upright. systematically pump water out of the ship to slowly bring it to an even keel.
This is Massachusetts... out the mid west you can go those speeds and not get yourself into trouble, but around here, you'll ended up just crashing... Though the story being spun now is that the fell asleep at the wheel.
On a side note, if I read that document right, he didn't have his seat belt buckled...
I agree. If he'd just acted like an adult, apologized for the delay and said he was going to look into the issue and get back to him, there wouldn't have been such an issue. Then when he got back to Dave he could have politely said "We're having a sourcing problem, let me refund your money and I'll let you know when we actually get them in".
Dave would have gone away with the feeling that while the situation was shitty at least these Ocean guys did their best to fix the situation up.
Instead he was met with insults and threats. What's even sadder is that the guy could have salvaged the situation but instead decided to up the ante, probably not totally realizing that he was dealing with someone (the dude from PA) who could, would and did decide to go thermonuclear.
Needless to say, I'm not surprised that the internet has engaged the digital kill switch on th[is|ese] loser[s].
I guess I have to agree. At this point, if I build a desktop, it's raid1 to start with. The price of drives are so cheap, I start by assuming I'm getting what I'm paying for and buy two of them and then mirror.
As for servers, as the size of drives has gone up, my interest in parity based raid solutions has proportionally gone down. Lots of drives in a raid10, either smart raid controllers or ZFS make my interest in a single drive basically nil.
I worked in a helpdesk many years ago where we were all measured on the number of calls per week we closed. There was no consideration towards the complexity of the call given.
Our boss at the time, started giving a $100 incentive to the most number of closed calls. One of the guys in there consistently got the prize. One day, while looking up a call I fat fingered a digit and found myself looking at one of his tickets... it was a ticket, opened and closed about receiving a phone call from X. $ticketnum +1 was the actual ticket for X.
In a nutshell with some sorting/filtering I saw that the guy was not only gaming the system, but hiding the fact that he was grossly incompetent. I wrote everything up and showed it to our boss. Needless to say, he was less than happy not only with this guy, but with me. He was being pushed on from his boss to generate metrics and basically was complicate.
Long story short, I went to his bosses boss i.e. the CIO and voiced my frustration. I pointed out that fallacy of this metric that me imaging a laptop (which back then took hours) vs. Answering the phone both being basically equal to the same measure of productivity made the metric useless. Not to mention the fact that it provided zero incentive to provide better support, just incentive to close tickets.
Obviously, this caused some huge changes. Not the least of which was a much more comprehensive analysis of what people were actually doing. This made quite a few people unhappy because it exposed them for being the incompetent hacks they were. Not the least of which were my boss at the time and that employee.
So, United Russian wants to make themselves look "legitimate"?
How is releasing results that confirm blatant voter fraud helping their argument? This is only going to bolster the opposition who'll hold these results up and say "See... see how they fucked us all!"
It appears to me that Putin and his political machine are if anything, not stupid. They want to stay in power, indefinitely. This does not achieve this aim.
I can only imagine that there's an angle to this story that my westernized perspective and extremely poor understanding of Russian culture/politics can't quite grasp.
The Dell what? Dell's selling a tablet? Honestly Dells marketing department totally dropped the ball on this one. I've been looking around for cheaper android tablets and this NEVER made my radar screen.
A buddy of mine remotes 2-3 days a week and I asked him about the separation of work/life. Initially he basically worked 24/7 but eventually it burned him out. He finally created a dedicated office in his house for which he keeps the door shut. When it's a work day, he gets up, takes a shower and acts as though he's going to work, only instead of going out the front door and hopping in his car, he goes to his home office, shuts the door and works. He says on occasion if he's pushing a deadline or tracking down some customer critical bug he'll basically go into a eat/work/shower/nap/eat/work/shower/nap cycle until the issue is resolved but he really tries to draw a clear distinction between working to live and living to work.
Wasn't there a network attached printer that had a small nas device built into it a couple of years ago and the nas contained infected printer drivers? There are all kinds of stories about printers being used as vectors of attack for isolated networks.
I guess this research just goes from the realm of allegory to the realm of reality.
At this point, if you're not treating every device you attach to your network as a potential threat... you're doing it wrong.
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considering how much /tmp gets used, having it in memory is one of the quickest ways to boost the performance of your system...
While I own a tablet (from the a company that's named after a fruit) I also own a kindle, for exactly this reason. In fact I owned the kindle first because I knew, if I had an tablet and not an ereader, I'd play angry birds, not read books.
Now, when it comes to reading comics... the tablet is fucking awesome.
I agree with the wiki idea. You should also diagram your whole environment. Both the physical machines and also the applications and how they fit together. Then, unless you're going to let the guy follow you around for two weeks, you're going to have to provide support.
A couple of years ago here in Massachusetts, all the service stations had to retrofit to duel hulled gas tanks. MA provided all kinds of zero or low interest loans. Apparently in the bill there was a line item that would have required any service station that had street access to NG to make one NG pump slot available. However, there weren't many NG vehicles on the road at the time and the gas station owners go together and lobbied to get it stripped from the bill with the argument that it would effectively deprive them of income. As someone who heats / cooks with NG, I'd be very happy to buy a NG equipped car. I could fill it up at my house!
I remember in high school chemistry we took a penny and filed off one edge to get to the zinc. We then submerged the penny in HCL so we ended up with a hollow penny.
I wonder if that experiment would still work with the new pennys/nickles.
I doubt the DEA has a lab somewhere that's creating this material... or maybe they do...
When did the DEA get into the chemical production business?
Good luck... when they look in my directory this is what they'll see... ... ...
f252c384-f52f-40fe-b28b-50b08404685f
070c9c71-429a-4c56-a195-c803189a3ce5
All file names will be obfuscated using uuid and all contents will be encrypted using aes-256.
Good luck figuring what I've got stored there!
How many miles long? Consider the fact that run way for the shuttle land on is actually 15,000 feet long (4572m)
That's the same reason as well. I've got a 4TB san at home and I'm using ZFS on linux (kernel modules, not fuse) to manage it. Certain parts of it are also backed up other places, but I run a zfs scrub on it once a week. One reason I chose ZFS over ext4 was that I wanted to be able to add disks and grow the filesystems as painlessly as possible. Since the disks are hanging off a mediocre onboard controller, the idea of having to fsck 4TB in the case of power outage / crash seemed craptastic. So far I've been very happy.
I would think 294k would make it the MOST expensive drug... I have to imagine there is some chemotherapy that are expensive... but that seems insane... considering that it doesn't cure the problem, just mitigates it.
Well, now we just have to up the ante and actually simulate the entire ZX81 using legos, then get the 1K chess program to run on it.
1. Quite likely that airframe has thousands of hours on it. Attempting to repair the airframe makes little sense when you've got 100's of identical airframes sitting in the dessert in shrink wrap. The $200M isn't for the airframe but all the electronics on it, which can be moved to another airframe.
2. When you repair an aircraft it's got to go through some very rigorous testing to ensure that other structural components (like the main spar, etc) haven't been damaged.
3. Yes they did. And they've got enough mothballed spares that they'll be flying them for decades to come.
4. I'm sure there's liability up to some amount... but no company is going to do business with the government if it has to carry that much liability insurance, it would be unprofitable.
Zynga has a well storied and much written history of taking other people's games, cloning them and then making a bundle of cash. Basically every *ville game they make is a virtual ripoff of someone else's initial idea.
This does not surprise me, not one bit.
Somewhere, a lawyer is filling his fountain pen and getting a hungry gleam in his eye... a hunger for suing that is...
The only problem I could see with a coffer dam is that I believe the whole ship isn't sitting on the ocean floor, a portion of it is afloat still. If the idea is that they're going to salvage the ship the moment you pump the water out of the coffer the ship is likely to settle further possibly damaging it more.
Here's what I would do.
1. Remove all the fuel, most likely through hot tapping.
2. Since the ship has a 70 meter gash in it, work to make that spot as water tight as possible and move some very large and powerful water pumps onto the ship, or at least hoses connected to ships with very large pumps on them.
3. Spin up the pumps and pull the ship off the rocks, repair more damage on the spot
4. Use the pumps and the empty fuel tanks to ballast the ship to make it upright. systematically pump water out of the ship to slowly bring it to an even keel.
This is Massachusetts... out the mid west you can go those speeds and not get yourself into trouble, but around here, you'll ended up just crashing... Though the story being spun now is that the fell asleep at the wheel.
On a side note, if I read that document right, he didn't have his seat belt buckled...
I agree. If he'd just acted like an adult, apologized for the delay and said he was going to look into the issue and get back to him, there wouldn't have been such an issue. Then when he got back to Dave he could have politely said "We're having a sourcing problem, let me refund your money and I'll let you know when we actually get them in".
Dave would have gone away with the feeling that while the situation was shitty at least these Ocean guys did their best to fix the situation up.
Instead he was met with insults and threats. What's even sadder is that the guy could have salvaged the situation but instead decided to up the ante, probably not totally realizing that he was dealing with someone (the dude from PA) who could, would and did decide to go thermonuclear.
Needless to say, I'm not surprised that the internet has engaged the digital kill switch on th[is|ese] loser[s].
I guess I have to agree. At this point, if I build a desktop, it's raid1 to start with. The price of drives are so cheap, I start by assuming I'm getting what I'm paying for and buy two of them and then mirror.
As for servers, as the size of drives has gone up, my interest in parity based raid solutions has proportionally gone down. Lots of drives in a raid10, either smart raid controllers or ZFS make my interest in a single drive basically nil.
Instead of coming up with yet another format that people will now have to support. I love my kindle, but they're seriously pulling a Sony on this one.
I worked in a helpdesk many years ago where we were all measured on the number of calls per week we closed. There was no consideration towards the complexity of the call given.
Our boss at the time, started giving a $100 incentive to the most number of closed calls. One of the guys in there consistently got the prize. One day, while looking up a call I fat fingered a digit and found myself looking at one of his tickets... it was a ticket, opened and closed about receiving a phone call from X. $ticketnum +1 was the actual ticket for X.
In a nutshell with some sorting/filtering I saw that the guy was not only gaming the system, but hiding the fact that he was grossly incompetent. I wrote everything up and showed it to our boss. Needless to say, he was less than happy not only with this guy, but with me. He was being pushed on from his boss to generate metrics and basically was complicate.
Long story short, I went to his bosses boss i.e. the CIO and voiced my frustration. I pointed out that fallacy of this metric that me imaging a laptop (which back then took hours) vs. Answering the phone both being basically equal to the same measure of productivity made the metric useless. Not to mention the fact that it provided zero incentive to provide better support, just incentive to close tickets.
Obviously, this caused some huge changes. Not the least of which was a much more comprehensive analysis of what people were actually doing. This made quite a few people unhappy because it exposed them for being the incompetent hacks they were. Not the least of which were my boss at the time and that employee.
So, United Russian wants to make themselves look "legitimate"?
How is releasing results that confirm blatant voter fraud helping their argument? This is only going to bolster the opposition who'll hold these results up and say "See... see how they fucked us all!"
It appears to me that Putin and his political machine are if anything, not stupid. They want to stay in power, indefinitely. This does not achieve this aim.
I can only imagine that there's an angle to this story that my westernized perspective and extremely poor understanding of Russian culture/politics can't quite grasp.
Please Russian slashdotters... please explain this!
The Dell what? Dell's selling a tablet? Honestly Dells marketing department totally dropped the ball on this one. I've been looking around for cheaper android tablets and this NEVER made my radar screen.
A buddy of mine remotes 2-3 days a week and I asked him about the separation of work/life. Initially he basically worked 24/7 but eventually it burned him out. He finally created a dedicated office in his house for which he keeps the door shut. When it's a work day, he gets up, takes a shower and acts as though he's going to work, only instead of going out the front door and hopping in his car, he goes to his home office, shuts the door and works. He says on occasion if he's pushing a deadline or tracking down some customer critical bug he'll basically go into a eat/work/shower/nap/eat/work/shower/nap cycle until the issue is resolved but he really tries to draw a clear distinction between working to live and living to work.
Wasn't there a network attached printer that had a small nas device built into it a couple of years ago and the nas contained infected printer drivers? There are all kinds of stories about printers being used as vectors of attack for isolated networks.
I guess this research just goes from the realm of allegory to the realm of reality.
At this point, if you're not treating every device you attach to your network as a potential threat... you're doing it wrong.
What's interesting is though, learning morse code is now a point of pride, not a requirement. Far more people are now learning morse than in the past.
And by fad, you mean... in the kernel since 2003.