RAID 1 is best used for fast recovery, not backup. RAID 1 is designed for getting the OS drive back online within a few seconds after a failure, or in business situations where the data on the storage drive needs to be restored ASAP. For a home user who wants a backup solution, I recommend installing storage drives in non-RAID mode and synchronizing their data a few times per day. This way you don't have to worry about finding an identical make and model drive / motherboard / controller card if something dies. If you are using Linux / UNIX / Mac OS X you can run rsync as a cron job in the background once or twice per day. If you are in Windows, the freeware Syncback program is a very solid solution.
So we'll begin with Episode X, where Luke and Leia try to re-form the Republic from the ashes of the defeated Emire. Only their plans are thwarted by two new Sith. The most powerfully evil Sith of them all-- Darth Wicket and his apprentice, Bea Arthur.
Due to one of my ill-advised college frat-party hook-ups, followed by years of rejection / pr0n, my keyboard is now a fantastic breeding ground for Herpes Simplex 2. His official name is "Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard," though I affectionately refer to him as Ron Mexico.
Seven or eight years ago, my friend (seriously) downloaded what was supposed to be a Linux emulator that ran from within Windows 95. Pretty revolutionary stuff at the time. It started the Install Shield Wizard, and then launched a command prompt in the background, running "deltree *.*" on C:\ Luckily he was paying attention and managed to escape without any real damage.
The lesson, of course, is to be very careful about what you download, especially if it is from an unknown source. And be doubly careful if it is some anti-establishment warez d00d, who may well want to h4x0r or otherwise mess with the lusers.
Yeah, ever since the Dark Wanderer of Tristram turned Griswold into a wretched zombie, the whole blacksmithing profession's gone to shit. Frankly, I'm suprised Deckard Cain didn't outsource killing Baal to a bunch of Pakistani adventurers and used all the gold he'd save to buy a spank-ass new Pimp Cane, um, I mean "Horadric Staff."
(Incidentally, we watched the second Harry Potter movie on cable tonight. When the sixty foot basilisk first torpedoed from the sewer, scaring the crap out of everyone, I bellowed "A SNAKE, A SNAKE! AAARGH! SNAAAAAKE!" My sister shot chocolate milk from her nose.)
This would be the perfect occasion to bring back Clippy, the friendly "helper" from Microsoft Office.
Clippy:I see you are using your computer. Would you like to:
- IM a thirteen year old girl to chat about Justin Timberlake?
- Use the AOL photo archive to find JPEGs of Justin Timberlake?
- TYPE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS?
- mis-spllee evryethign baldy
- Auto-insert the phrase OMG LOL ROTFLMAO =)
- Shoot yourself in the head because you are so goddamned stupid
My dad is a real character and loves to mess with people on the telephone. More on that in a minute. The family has had an AOL account for seven years now, and the last three years no one has used it much. Dad has broadband, and my sisters have moved out and gotten their own Internet access, though they still use the e-mail and IM accounts. However, he's remained an AOL subscriber because they simply will not let him cancel.
First off, they make it very difficult to find the phone number to unsubscribe. They want you to talk to a rep in an AOL chatroom so you can watch the AOL software suddenly barf all manner of whizbang new features on your screen. Like Athena springing from the forehead of Zeus, improved Instant Messaging Capabilities suddenly emerge from the dark recesses of AOL 9.0. How cool is that? say the hard sell salespeople. You decide to keep it for a few months to explore all the new features AOL has to offer. It's optimized now, you know.
However, we have the secret digits that will put us in contact with a real live person. That's because I put up with thirty minutes of annoying AOL popups (A/S/L? A/S/L? A/S/L?) and intentionally poorly-designed navigation to find it. That was nine months ago. Whenever my dad calls to cancel, they give him a ten minute sales pitch, then offer him a few months for free. Since my sisters don't want to go through the hassle of registering for free e-mail and Instant Messager accounts, he consents. When AOL decides to bill his credit card six weeks later, we go through the same elaborate dance.
But not this time. My dad decided to cancel for good. He called the secret number and talked to a customer service representative, whom I'll call Jennifer. Mostly because I don't remember her real name, but also because I like the name Jennifer. It reminds me of Larry Appleton's girlfriend on Perfect Strangers, and she was one classy dame. Ahh, Jennifer, mon amor! Je veux baiser votre main! Um, I digress. Anyway, Customer Service Rep Jennifer spent ten minutes trying to convince him that AOL was Better! Than! Ever!!! If he stayed on, Snoop Dogg and Jerry Stiller would come party with him. He could put them on his Buddy List, which he could now access on his cell phone.
My dad remained calm and told them that he did not own a computer anymore.
They informed him that that wasn't a problem,: they'd give him a computer.
Okay... That's when my dad rolled out the big guns. He didn't need a computer, he explained, because he'd gotten rid of the old one for religious reasons. He was sick of decadent, sinful "English" society and was moving to farm country to live with the Amish. Yea, verily he would have no electricity for their Internet-ready computer, or cell phone IM's, or anything like that. He wanted to ride a buggy, not surf AOL 9.0 Optimized.
Jennifer was nonplussed, since nobody resisted the siren call of free service and Snoop Doggy Dogg. She put Dad on hold while she got her manager to set him straight. My dad reiterated that he wanted to cancel, he had no computer and did not want one, he was moving to farm country to live with the Amish. Would Snoop help churn butter, would Jerry Stiller help raise a barn? Nay, he thought not. Eventually the manager gave in and agreed to cancel the account.
However, he asked, since Dad was so religious, perhaps America Online could offer him a Great Deal on a church website?
Heathen! Thou art truly clueless, and will surely burn in hell. Click.
Leia: Luke, I am your mother!
Luke: Wait, you said you were my sister. I want the truth! (slap)
Leia: I'm your mother! (slap) I'm your sister! (slap) Your mother, your sister-- I'm both! ...
Luke: Leia, put the blaster down, let the stormtroopers take care of this!
Leia: But don't you see? Vader owns the stormtroopers! (Leia mounts a speeder, goes about ten feet and dies gruesomely.)
Luke: Noooooo!!! Noooooo!!!
Han: Forget it Luke-- it's Tatooine.
(Roll credits.)
You don't have to download anything, though. Searching a music catalog is limited by your memory: instead of thinking, "gee I want to listen to that obscure Twisted Sister B-side from the early eighties," you can tune in to XM's hair metal channel and it will probably come on. On my vacation, I kept the rental car's radio tuned in to that very channel, and I couldn't believe how many times I heard something that I only vaguely remembered but liked, and never would have thought of searching for. (Especially when it comes to one hit wonders whose names you don't recall.) For this reason, some people prefer paying professionals in the given genre to find content for them.
What are your thoughts on moving manufacturing jobs to countries such as China? On the one hand, it's embracing a worldwide free market as to the value of labor. On the other, the foreign governments-- not the workers-- get the bulk of the profit since the countries are under statist, one party rule. Is it acceptable for Americans to take advantage of this situation, or is there a philospohical imperative for the consumer to pay more money for goods from enlightened second- and third- world countries in order to guarantee their citizens' eventual freedom?
The same underlying argument can be made against the Libertarian stance on hard drugs. While a person's original decision to smoke crack or shoot heroin is a personal choice the government shouldn't interfere with, subsequent decisions are so heavily influenced by chemical dependency that they cannot be considered rational. In these situations, should the government intervene or is personal-- albiet drug-coerced-- choice so sacrosant that it can justify destroying oneself?
In the recent Venezuelan "election," exit polls were 2 to 1 against the current strongman, err, president Hugo Chavez. However, the voting machines and software were designed by Venezuelan businessmen in Miami who at one point had one of Chavez's cronies on their board and had sold 25% of the company to the regime, err, government. When people voted against Chavez, they received a paper printout of the vote they cast, so they felt confident that things were legit. However, the software recorded it as a vote for him.
After he won in a landslide, the state police began rounding up the opposition, not only for payback but to ensure people would "lose" their voting printouts before a third party could check them against actual results. (Jimmy Carter et. al were only able to review a sample of the ballots, and the software was off limits.)
I work at an online computer parts seller. Just today we finally finished a lengthy e-mail correspondence with a thirteen year old customer (we didn't know his age until later.) He had ordered an OEM CPU that arrived with bent pins and he wanted to return it. We sent him our standard e-mail outlining our Return Merchandise procedure and instructions to fill out our online form to begin the return process.
He responded with a filthy e-mail calling us all sorts of names, complaining that we were making it too f@#king hard to return his God@@mned processor.
Again we explained that he needed to fill out the RMA form and that we would be happy to accept his return, but there were certain reasonable procedures that he needed to follow. Again more profanity. Another civilized response, and the pattern continued.
At this point, after a few weeks, he was outside our warranty period. Since he contacted us within the warranty period but didn't fill out the form, we can usually bend the rules and help a customer out, but this guy was such a douchebag that the RMA Department decided not to.
Then we get an e-mail from his mom, complaining that her little boy's RMA request had been ignored. (This was the first time we realized that we were dealing with a thirteen year old instead of a really immature adult.) So we sent her an e-mail of all the correspondence we'd had with the kid, which included him calling us c@@ksucking motherf@@kers and hoping we'd all "get bent."
My friend then performed the coup de gras with a snarky comment about how this could serve as a learning experience about how to deal with people and influence others instead of cursing like a sailor. I can only imagine the ass-whoopin' this kid must have gotten.
OEM CPU: $80. UPS Ground shipping: $4.90. Finding out your thirteen year old has a vocabulary that would make Richard Pryor blush: Priceless.
Several single layer drives have firmware updates that make them dual +R compatible. I have an NEC ND2500A for example, which costs around eighty bucks U.S. (I paid $120 for it eight months ago, but that's life.) You can either install the firmware for the dual layer 2510 or use a third party firmware that supports DL and higher ripping speeds.
As a kid, I knew quite a bit about geography and stuff. However, the only reason I knew Abu Dhabi even existed was from when Garfield would take Nermal on "field trips" to the UPS Store. "Cutest Kitten in the World" my butt!
Having read a previous poster's comments re: the wikipedia Slashdot FAQ, I recognize this for what it is: a paid referrer link to Amazon disguised as an insightful comment. I am so smart. S-M-R-T-- I mean S-M-A-R-T!
I hardly ever download music. However, six months or so ago David Bowie put out a new album. I love Bowie (in a Platonic way), so I downloaded "Reality." I was impressed by it, and bought the album a few weeks later. This hurts the music industry how?
Several of the albums I have (none of them mainstream) I downloaded first. Then again, by previewing the music I didn't purchase several crappy records that had one hit single. Maybe that's what the RIAA is afraid of.
The problem with Kerry is that he's always stuck to his convictions: he hated the Vietnam war, then went to Vietnam, then lectured on how his experience there transformed him and made him a pacifist. This upcoming election is about trust: I'm not thrilled with the Bush team, but I trust their foreign policy significantly more than John Kerry and the anti-war-on-terror wing of the Democratic party. Christopher Hitchens' essays shows it is possible to be left-of-center and still believe that Islamic Fundamentalism is a threat to our way of life instead of some "issue" to score political points with. Maybe if the party was pro-war but offered the same domestic agenda I'd lean that way in November.
Given the success of the tv shows American Chopper and Monster Garage, I wouldn't be surprised if this company gets a ton of business from newbie hot rod designers.
(By the way, your sig loses points for failing to mention Natalie Portman, hot grits, goatse, and AYBABTU. A good effort nonetheless.)
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RAID 1 is best used for fast recovery, not backup. RAID 1 is designed for getting the OS drive back online within a few seconds after a failure, or in business situations where the data on the storage drive needs to be restored ASAP. For a home user who wants a backup solution, I recommend installing storage drives in non-RAID mode and synchronizing their data a few times per day. This way you don't have to worry about finding an identical make and model drive / motherboard / controller card if something dies. If you are using Linux / UNIX / Mac OS X you can run rsync as a cron job in the background once or twice per day. If you are in Windows, the freeware Syncback program is a very solid solution.
So we'll begin with Episode X, where Luke and Leia try to re-form the Republic from the ashes of the defeated Emire. Only their plans are thwarted by two new Sith. The most powerfully evil Sith of them all-- Darth Wicket and his apprentice, Bea Arthur.
Now I'm fairly open-minded, but I doubt that Church-going Joe Average from Iowa would support LSBian adoption...
Due to one of my ill-advised college frat-party hook-ups, followed by years of rejection / pr0n, my keyboard is now a fantastic breeding ground for Herpes Simplex 2. His official name is "Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard," though I affectionately refer to him as Ron Mexico.
I'm still waiting for the secret cow level.
The lesson, of course, is to be very careful about what you download, especially if it is from an unknown source. And be doubly careful if it is some anti-establishment warez d00d, who may well want to h4x0r or otherwise mess with the lusers.
Yeah, ever since the Dark Wanderer of Tristram turned Griswold into a wretched zombie, the whole blacksmithing profession's gone to shit. Frankly, I'm suprised Deckard Cain didn't outsource killing Baal to a bunch of Pakistani adventurers and used all the gold he'd save to buy a spank-ass new Pimp Cane, um, I mean "Horadric Staff."
You forgot clowns.
(Incidentally, we watched the second Harry Potter movie on cable tonight. When the sixty foot basilisk first torpedoed from the sewer, scaring the crap out of everyone, I bellowed "A SNAKE, A SNAKE! AAARGH! SNAAAAAKE!" My sister shot chocolate milk from her nose.)
Michael Badnarik, is that you?
Clippy: I see you are using your computer. Would you like to:
- IM a thirteen year old girl to chat about Justin Timberlake?
- Use the AOL photo archive to find JPEGs of Justin Timberlake?
- TYPE IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS?
- mis-spllee evryethign baldy
- Auto-insert the phrase OMG LOL ROTFLMAO =)
- Shoot yourself in the head because you are so goddamned stupid
My dad is a real character and loves to mess with people on the telephone. More on that in a minute. The family has had an AOL account for seven years now, and the last three years no one has used it much. Dad has broadband, and my sisters have moved out and gotten their own Internet access, though they still use the e-mail and IM accounts. However, he's remained an AOL subscriber because they simply will not let him cancel.
First off, they make it very difficult to find the phone number to unsubscribe. They want you to talk to a rep in an AOL chatroom so you can watch the AOL software suddenly barf all manner of whizbang new features on your screen. Like Athena springing from the forehead of Zeus, improved Instant Messaging Capabilities suddenly emerge from the dark recesses of AOL 9.0. How cool is that? say the hard sell salespeople. You decide to keep it for a few months to explore all the new features AOL has to offer. It's optimized now, you know.
However, we have the secret digits that will put us in contact with a real live person. That's because I put up with thirty minutes of annoying AOL popups (A/S/L? A/S/L? A/S/L?) and intentionally poorly-designed navigation to find it. That was nine months ago. Whenever my dad calls to cancel, they give him a ten minute sales pitch, then offer him a few months for free. Since my sisters don't want to go through the hassle of registering for free e-mail and Instant Messager accounts, he consents. When AOL decides to bill his credit card six weeks later, we go through the same elaborate dance.
But not this time. My dad decided to cancel for good. He called the secret number and talked to a customer service representative, whom I'll call Jennifer. Mostly because I don't remember her real name, but also because I like the name Jennifer. It reminds me of Larry Appleton's girlfriend on Perfect Strangers, and she was one classy dame. Ahh, Jennifer, mon amor! Je veux baiser votre main! Um, I digress. Anyway, Customer Service Rep Jennifer spent ten minutes trying to convince him that AOL was Better! Than! Ever!!! If he stayed on, Snoop Dogg and Jerry Stiller would come party with him. He could put them on his Buddy List, which he could now access on his cell phone.
My dad remained calm and told them that he did not own a computer anymore.
They informed him that that wasn't a problem,: they'd give him a computer.
Okay... That's when my dad rolled out the big guns. He didn't need a computer, he explained, because he'd gotten rid of the old one for religious reasons. He was sick of decadent, sinful "English" society and was moving to farm country to live with the Amish. Yea, verily he would have no electricity for their Internet-ready computer, or cell phone IM's, or anything like that. He wanted to ride a buggy, not surf AOL 9.0 Optimized.
Jennifer was nonplussed, since nobody resisted the siren call of free service and Snoop Doggy Dogg. She put Dad on hold while she got her manager to set him straight. My dad reiterated that he wanted to cancel, he had no computer and did not want one, he was moving to farm country to live with the Amish. Would Snoop help churn butter, would Jerry Stiller help raise a barn? Nay, he thought not. Eventually the manager gave in and agreed to cancel the account.
However, he asked, since Dad was so religious, perhaps America Online could offer him a Great Deal on a church website?
Heathen! Thou art truly clueless, and will surely burn in hell. Click.
Leia: Luke, I am your mother!
...
Luke: Wait, you said you were my sister. I want the truth! (slap)
Leia: I'm your mother! (slap) I'm your sister! (slap) Your mother, your sister-- I'm both!
Luke: Leia, put the blaster down, let the stormtroopers take care of this!
Leia: But don't you see? Vader owns the stormtroopers! (Leia mounts a speeder, goes about ten feet and dies gruesomely.)
Luke: Noooooo!!! Noooooo!!!
Han: Forget it Luke-- it's Tatooine.
(Roll credits.)
You don't have to download anything, though. Searching a music catalog is limited by your memory: instead of thinking, "gee I want to listen to that obscure Twisted Sister B-side from the early eighties," you can tune in to XM's hair metal channel and it will probably come on. On my vacation, I kept the rental car's radio tuned in to that very channel, and I couldn't believe how many times I heard something that I only vaguely remembered but liked, and never would have thought of searching for. (Especially when it comes to one hit wonders whose names you don't recall.) For this reason, some people prefer paying professionals in the given genre to find content for them.
What are your thoughts on moving manufacturing jobs to countries such as China? On the one hand, it's embracing a worldwide free market as to the value of labor. On the other, the foreign governments-- not the workers-- get the bulk of the profit since the countries are under statist, one party rule. Is it acceptable for Americans to take advantage of this situation, or is there a philospohical imperative for the consumer to pay more money for goods from enlightened second- and third- world countries in order to guarantee their citizens' eventual freedom?
The same underlying argument can be made against the Libertarian stance on hard drugs. While a person's original decision to smoke crack or shoot heroin is a personal choice the government shouldn't interfere with, subsequent decisions are so heavily influenced by chemical dependency that they cannot be considered rational. In these situations, should the government intervene or is personal-- albiet drug-coerced-- choice so sacrosant that it can justify destroying oneself?
After he won in a landslide, the state police began rounding up the opposition, not only for payback but to ensure people would "lose" their voting printouts before a third party could check them against actual results. (Jimmy Carter et. al were only able to review a sample of the ballots, and the software was off limits.)
He responded with a filthy e-mail calling us all sorts of names, complaining that we were making it too f@#king hard to return his God@@mned processor.
Again we explained that he needed to fill out the RMA form and that we would be happy to accept his return, but there were certain reasonable procedures that he needed to follow. Again more profanity. Another civilized response, and the pattern continued.
At this point, after a few weeks, he was outside our warranty period. Since he contacted us within the warranty period but didn't fill out the form, we can usually bend the rules and help a customer out, but this guy was such a douchebag that the RMA Department decided not to.
Then we get an e-mail from his mom, complaining that her little boy's RMA request had been ignored. (This was the first time we realized that we were dealing with a thirteen year old instead of a really immature adult.) So we sent her an e-mail of all the correspondence we'd had with the kid, which included him calling us c@@ksucking motherf@@kers and hoping we'd all "get bent."
My friend then performed the coup de gras with a snarky comment about how this could serve as a learning experience about how to deal with people and influence others instead of cursing like a sailor. I can only imagine the ass-whoopin' this kid must have gotten.
OEM CPU: $80. UPS Ground shipping: $4.90. Finding out your thirteen year old has a vocabulary that would make Richard Pryor blush: Priceless.
Several single layer drives have firmware updates that make them dual +R compatible. I have an NEC ND2500A for example, which costs around eighty bucks U.S. (I paid $120 for it eight months ago, but that's life.) You can either install the firmware for the dual layer 2510 or use a third party firmware that supports DL and higher ripping speeds.
As a kid, I knew quite a bit about geography and stuff. However, the only reason I knew Abu Dhabi even existed was from when Garfield would take Nermal on "field trips" to the UPS Store. "Cutest Kitten in the World" my butt!
Having read a previous poster's comments re: the wikipedia Slashdot FAQ, I recognize this for what it is: a paid referrer link to Amazon disguised as an insightful comment. I am so smart. S-M-R-T-- I mean S-M-A-R-T!
Hey, if you had every Nintendo game ever made, you would have ugly, bulbous wood also.
Several of the albums I have (none of them mainstream) I downloaded first. Then again, by previewing the music I didn't purchase several crappy records that had one hit single. Maybe that's what the RIAA is afraid of.
The problem with Kerry is that he's always stuck to his convictions: he hated the Vietnam war, then went to Vietnam, then lectured on how his experience there transformed him and made him a pacifist. This upcoming election is about trust: I'm not thrilled with the Bush team, but I trust their foreign policy significantly more than John Kerry and the anti-war-on-terror wing of the Democratic party. Christopher Hitchens' essays shows it is possible to be left-of-center and still believe that Islamic Fundamentalism is a threat to our way of life instead of some "issue" to score political points with. Maybe if the party was pro-war but offered the same domestic agenda I'd lean that way in November.
(By the way, your sig loses points for failing to mention Natalie Portman, hot grits, goatse, and AYBABTU. A good effort nonetheless.)