Any psych-turned-CS person will tell you that the hardest behaviors to break are partial reinforcement.
Behaviors that don't pay off all the time, but sometimes do.
Anyone who has saved hours of time by pulling out an obscure manual from the bottom of a pile, or recovered data with the help of a rare connector type from the junk closet, is getting partially reinforced.
And therefore, will continue to collect.
...and maybe that is because it is a valid behaviour?
Considering that Pepper spray is considered a chemical weapon and is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention (which India signed & ratified). I'd assume that this would fall under the same ban.
Read it again and look at the pictures. The caddy is the size of a 3.5" drive, in which you install a 2.5" SSD. That is what they mean by a "2.5in to 3.5in hard disk caddy".
AGAIN!? How dare you accuse me of reading TFA. Are you trying to ruin my/. cred?
Also helps to comprehend WTF you are reading. The excerpt you quoted from the article states the availability of a 3.5in hard disk caddy for chrissakes!!?
If that is the case then we have already failed. Any number of bacteria could have survived on the rovers could now be contaminating the surface. With no known competition they could be flourishing. I see little that can be done to figure out what is now native bacteria (if any) and what was brought via the rovers.
Wow! Too bad the NASA/ESA scientists weren't as smart as you, because if they were they would have put policies in place to mitigate the risks of contamination.
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If there is a conflict on two files with the same name but different case, it will refuse to sync that file; but it will sync all other files that don't have an error.
Error: Two or more files on a case-sensitive system have names identical except for case. They cannot be synchronized to a case-insensitive file system.
Thus leaving it up to the user to manually handle the situation. I have never encountered a situation on a case-sensistive FS where I would want two files named with the same sequence of letters, but differing case. To me it would just be confusing.
2) Be careful syncing between case-sensitive and case-insensitive filesystems. Unison will start failing out if you ever create two files differing only in case.
Not sure if you were aware, but unison has a "-ignorecase yes" option.
My current setup is a combo of unison/sshfs/rsync.. I've been using it for quite a while at this point, and it works so well that I don't even give it any thought anymore.
I have a Media Center/Fileserver box at my house that is always on, and acts as the 'master' copy of the home directory, on all my workstations my.xinitrc/.xsession calls unison to sync my home dir with the server root as the preferred copy, then calls my WM, after my WM exits, unison is called again with the local homedir as the authoritative copy. A well-crafted ignore list is crucial, ignoring things like temporary file patterns, mozilla cache, machine-specific data, obscenely large files, etc.
I use sshfs-fuse for any of the above mentioned ignored files, sshfs allws you to mount remote filesystems locally, tunneling through ssh (or something like that).
Finally, rsync can be used to give time machine like backups. In my case, I backup to USB drive connected to the fileserver, which I only turn on when running backups.
This is for the most part Linux-only, but unison has a windows binary available, and could probably be used to sync to windows automagically.
No you're not. Unless the collapsing thing was a design failure. I am having a hard time finding a case where collapsing would be considered a design feature, rather than a design failure.
Well, it's just a variation of what people used to say when their OS got corrupted and they said "my hard drive crashed". It just meant "My PC wouldn't boot". On the other hand, most people are so mystified by computers that the difference between software and hardware is not obvious and they don't care.
"Most people" don't read slashdot, next excuse for the misuse of the term brick on slashdot in 3... 2... 1...
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Well, I'll say that there is a definite phonetic connection between gypped & gypsy, but further than that I'm not convinced. FWIW, your on my 'exclusive' friends list now, be excited!
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There's some disagreement. But shoving wiktionary in my face is hardly a winning tactic. I suppose you've never heard people say they got "gypsied" out of something, used instead of "gypped." Lucky you. Regardless of the etymological root, it is undeniably linked to gypsies.
Apparently a definition that says "probably short for Gypsy" as well as a quote of a forum post that quotes only one of at least 2 definitions of the term from a Random House publication counts as undeniable proof.
I'm not pissed, just thought it was funny that one of the bases of your argument included that a Wiki entry would back you up, and upon googling for "wiki gypped" I was returned a page that took a shit on your argument instead.
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*head asplodes*
Raid is not a backup, FYI.
I'm having a tough time locating in the GP where he portrayed RAID as a backup solution?
Any psych-turned-CS person will tell you that the hardest behaviors to break are partial reinforcement.
Behaviors that don't pay off all the time, but sometimes do.
Anyone who has saved hours of time by pulling out an obscure manual from the bottom of a pile, or recovered data with the help of a rare connector type from the junk closet, is getting partially reinforced.
And therefore, will continue to collect.
...and maybe that is because it is a valid behaviour?
Considering that Pepper spray is considered a chemical weapon and is banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention (which India signed & ratified). I'd assume that this would fall under the same ban.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_spray
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Weapons_Convention
Read it again and look at the pictures. The caddy is the size of a 3.5" drive, in which you install a 2.5" SSD. That is what they mean by a "2.5in to 3.5in hard disk caddy".
AGAIN!? How dare you accuse me of reading TFA. Are you trying to ruin my /. cred?
Also helps to comprehend WTF you are reading. The excerpt you quoted from the article states the availability of a 3.5in hard disk caddy for chrissakes!!?
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If that is the case then we have already failed. Any number of bacteria could have survived on the rovers could now be contaminating the surface. With no known competition they could be flourishing. I see little that can be done to figure out what is now native bacteria (if any) and what was brought via the rovers.
Wow! Too bad the NASA/ESA scientists weren't as smart as you, because if they were they would have put policies in place to mitigate the risks of contamination.
This is totally ridiculous... That news article reads as if it was posted on The Onion.
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My e-vil plan of causing a self-0wn worked!
~25% does not seem like an insignificant amount.
If there is a conflict on two files with the same name but different case, it will refuse to sync that file; but it will sync all other files that don't have an error.
Error: Two or more files on a case-sensitive system have names identical except for case. They cannot be synchronized to a case-insensitive file system.
Thus leaving it up to the user to manually handle the situation. I have never encountered a situation on a case-sensistive FS where I would want two files named with the same sequence of letters, but differing case. To me it would just be confusing.
2) Be careful syncing between case-sensitive and case-insensitive filesystems. Unison will start failing out if you ever create two files differing only in case.
Not sure if you were aware, but unison has a "-ignorecase yes" option.
My current setup is a combo of unison/sshfs/rsync.. I've been using it for quite a while at this point, and it works so well that I don't even give it any thought anymore.
I have a Media Center/Fileserver box at my house that is always on, and acts as the 'master' copy of the home directory, on all my workstations my .xinitrc/.xsession calls unison to sync my home dir with the server root as the preferred copy, then calls my WM, after my WM exits, unison is called again with the local homedir as the authoritative copy. A well-crafted ignore list is crucial, ignoring things like temporary file patterns, mozilla cache, machine-specific data, obscenely large files, etc.
I use sshfs-fuse for any of the above mentioned ignored files, sshfs allws you to mount remote filesystems locally, tunneling through ssh (or something like that).
Finally, rsync can be used to give time machine like backups. In my case, I backup to USB drive connected to the fileserver, which I only turn on when running backups.
This is for the most part Linux-only, but unison has a windows binary available, and could probably be used to sync to windows automagically.
Sabotage maybe? Doesn't that imply coming from within?
<kirk>I'm sure you mean sabataje!</kirk>
it's not a worm or a virus
its something more than a trojan
logic bomb?
Malicious Program?
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http://img515.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hhgttgxc5.png
Sweet!
Stolen login credentials leads to unauthorized access of computer resources!
I'm not sure, but this looks like it might be the answer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Sigma
Well, I'll say that there is a definite phonetic connection between gypped & gypsy, but further than that I'm not convinced. FWIW, your on my 'exclusive' friends list now, be excited!
Apparently a definition that says "probably short for Gypsy" as well as a quote of a forum post that quotes only one of at least 2 definitions of the term from a Random House publication counts as undeniable proof.
I'm not pissed, just thought it was funny that one of the bases of your argument included that a Wiki entry would back you up, and upon googling for "wiki gypped" I was returned a page that took a shit on your argument instead.
Maybe you should be the one looking it up, hmm?