Wrong. Movies and music are generally already compressed and 7zip or other similar file compression tools won't do much besides waste your time. That's why you should generally turn off backup compression on video and music backups.
There's no reason to be backing up 20TB of data if you're not Amazon or Google. Separate out the essential data that you can't live without. Your music collection, your work files and your photos. The rest is disposable. Then go get yourself 2 nice identical hardware RAID cards, set up a 4+ drive RAID5 fileserver using 1.5 or 2TB drives, with 3 active drives and one drive as a hot spare. Buy at least one extra drive for when you need to put your hot spare into action and replace a dead drive. Put all your important data on that raid, put it in a closet somewhere, put in a ventilation fan of some sort, set up email alerts to tell you when there's SMART errors or the raid is degraded, then check your raid status software once a month just to be sure it's all good. Then get another cheap external RAID enclosure with built-in raid5, (something like a StarTech SAT3540U3ER - which is iffy, but works for me) and fill it with 3TB or 4TB drives (plus another spare for when THAT raid fails) and use that to back up your first raid. The backup raid should be large enough to hold at least 2 full backups of the first raid -- choose your drive sizes accordingly. Then back up your first raid onto the 2nd and smile because you've finally achieved relative safety for your important data. Then take a deep breath and say to yourself "I can live without all those videos if something goes wrong. It will suck, but it won't be life-ending, after all that's what bittorrent is for". If you know where to go, you can find almost any movie or tv show and download it in under an hour via bittorrent. Hell, you can download 15 seasons of South Park in h264 format in under an hour. Most HD movies in 1080p format take 30 minutes or less over a decent connection. And if you really care about saving your videos, make an offline library and burn them to DVDs. Not really feasible if you've waited until you filled 20TB of drive space with movies and tv shows, but I have a series of 4 filing cabinets with DVD-sized drawers full of around 2000 CD-Rs and DVD+Rs (and a few BD+Rs for my 170GB collection of BBC Horizon documentaries) I've burned since about the year 2000 when DIVX and XVID format movies started to appear en masse. Every few months I'd spend an evening or two burning my latest batch of movies to DVD and then removing them from my hard drives. But I've found that most of the time these days I don't even touch my archives when I want to watch one of my movies because it's easier just to download a fresh copy in 1080p which is generally better than the archived version I downloaded years earlier. I expect that trend will continue, which is why I've recently stopped burning my movies altogether and now I just add hard another shared hard drive to one of my HTPCs as they fill up, or delete stuff I know I'll never watch again. And last, but not least, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention unRAID. Though I don't use it myself because I've long-since gone down the path of the aforementioned RAID5 setup, unRAID could be the best option if you're starting from scratch. unRAID gives you RAID5-like redundancy, but with arbitrary disks, and with the benefit of only losing the data from specific failed drives in the rare event that it can't be rebuilt from parity data. If you want to know more about unRAID, google it. And forget about backing up 20TB of data for at least another 5 years. No one has that kind of time.
I always run 3 antivirus progs on my PC and have found the following setup to work fine with minimal impact on system performance:
ClamwinAV - The gold standard for linux server admins, ported to Windows - the smallest memory footprint of any of them and doesn't interfere with other antivirus progs.
Avast - You're crazy if you think it's any harder to get their free version than it ever was. You've always had to re-register for a new key every year. Been using it for over 5 years. Other posters are correct, the voice that alerts you to your daily updates really kills the mood when you're trying to get jiggy with your lady friends. I always turn off that voice first thing.
Microsoft Security Essentials - This also runs fine with the other antivirus progs.
The only caveat I've found running these 3 progs together is that sometimes one virus prog will flag the automatic virus updates of another prog and try to quarantine them, but all you have to do is add the relevant folder to the list of excluded dirs in whichever program flags the updates.
About once a year (or whenever I disregard my own security knowledge and download some infected software), I run several anti-malware progs (spybot,adaware,etc.) and also run a trial of whatever seems like the highest rated commercial antivirus product at the time. This year it was Avira, which I'm still running, but getting sick of the daily pop-up ads. Avira recently did a great job of removing a pesky trojan that other progs had trouble with after I installed an infected bittorrent download. So right now I'm actually running Clamwin, Avira and MSFT Security Essentials. The only time it bogs down my system is when doing a full scan, but that's to be expected.
I regret to inform you that you can't buy talent or creativity...so you're going to need a backup plan. You are so far out of your league here you don't even know what game you're playing. I will now let my dog handle further replies just to make it fair. It may take him a while to reply though, he's still learning to type.
Thanks, but I haven't the time or the inclination...I already got my degree in English which means I'm qualified to ignore paragraphs and all other good writing advice. I fart better prose most pros. God damn that's a good pun! (blush)
I actually thought this guy sounded pretty cool until I read the "Why" section of his site and realized that this all about a woman. Sigh. Oh to be young again.
The best advice you could ever get regarding women is to not marry one until you are AT LEAST 30 years old, preferably older. By then you might be a wise enough man that a woman won't be able to destroy your life just by waving her vagina at someone new. I'm at the point in my life where virtually ALL of my friends are married and almost all of them regret it or are already divorced because they didn't realize you don't treat a woman like a princess if you want be able to live with her for the rest of your life. As an older guy (37) who has finally figured women out (took 35 years), I just have to say "When will you guys learn?" There's soooooo many women out there, but they generally don't like moody melodramatic man-boys like this guy that's selling his life on Ebay. If there's anything most women hate in a man, it's indecision and moodiness. Actually, they can handle some moodiness too, but they really hate wishy-washy indecisive people who don't know where they are going or why. However, if you as a man just worry more about pursuing your own goals in life and stay on track and actually succeed at something...anything...the woman problem will generally work itself out. It's when you spend too much time worrying about what women want you to do and not enough time worrying about what YOU want to do that you start getting into trouble. You end up being endlessly manipulated by one pretty face after another. Women just don't respect men that they can treat like bitches. I mean come on, do you respect a guy living a supposedly ideal life in a supposed paradise who decides to chuck it all over marital infidelity? My guess is that this guy spent too much time fawning over his beautiful wife and not enough time handling his bid-ness. I think he actually says something about "living a lie". Oh the horror.... pathetic. The best revenge on a cheating woman is to give so little of a shit that you are able to get on with your life right in front of her, with our without your slutty new girlfriend in the spike heels. Go be good at something. Some woman will eventually think you're cool for it and want to have sex and eventually babies. The older you get, the truer this is. Also realize that as you get older, the tables of human sexuality turn. Older women are just as horny, and they are far more desperate. In youth, women have a clear sexual advantage because men of all ages are after them. As they get older this changes...they get fatter, they get older and they realize that their pretty face just isn't getting the attention that it used to and that if they ever want someone to help them raise kids they'd better stop acting like useless primadonnas and grow up and maybe even acquire some skills that a grown man might not be able to find in a 19-year old. They realize that men their own age now have an advantage over them, that young women are still competing for the attention of the few men that are still interested in them, and as older women they are on the losing end of the competition...this is why eventually most women settle down by about age 30-32 if they haven't already revealed themselves to be psychotic alcoholics or coke-heads. This is probably the single greatest thing about male aging (possibly the ONLY good thing about male aging). I firmly believe that if women didn't get less attractive as they aged, no man would ever be happy because the women in his life would just turn into bigger an bigger bitches/sluts every year. Instead, women tend to get less attractive and nicer as they age. By about age 35 you can stop pretending they are princesses and just start behaving like normal people...you know, like your parents...or maybe not. In my experience, if you want a young, hottie, you'll either have to completely shed your jealousy and accept some level of infidelity (admit that you'd be just as big a slut if you looked as good as she does), or you'll have
That's good info to know, but I think there's two easy solutions to this problem.
1. Don't use a browser to read your email. All browsers have security flaws that can be exploited if a web developer makes any number of possible mistakes and quite frankly, there are very few web developers who are capable of writing web apps that aren't vulnerable to one or more attacks. If you read your email in a browser, you are always opening yourself up to potential browser security problems. Instead of using your browser, always use a dedicated email program such as the awesome new Spicebird (which I've been using instead of Outlook for 3 weeks now), or Outlook, or any number of other email programs that can be configured to use IMAP or POP3. If you like keeping everything in sync, use IMAP.
2. If you don't want to switch to a dedicated email reader, then just remember to always completely close all your browser windows before you do anything online that could compromise your security, such as entering your CC info, or visiting your online bank. I'm pretty sure that would keep you safe from this (potential) Google problem.
How can someone review a laptop and not even mention the battery life. Maybe I skimmed it too fast, but if there's no battery life tests then this review is a total waste of my time. I will literally sprint to the store to buy the first 17"+ laptop that can run for 5+ hours on a charge and includes a decent gaming graphics card. Until that day, I will not waste my money on a new laptop. My Dell Inspiron 7500 is still kicking despite the case disintegrating due to heat and age. It still works fine for 99% of what I need a laptop for. The one and only innovation I care about in laptops these days is BATTERY LIFE. When are we going to start seeing manufacturers using all this new battery technology that I've been reading about for years? ATTENTION MANUFACTURERS: If your laptop can't run for 5 hours on a single standard battery charge then you have FAILED to make a decent portable computer.
Jeez. You people work waaaay too hard. There are times when long days are warranted and I can certainly sympathize with the desire to know more than everyone else, and have lived the late-night hacker-wannabe lifestyle for years on end trying to learn more than my competition in the job market, raising the bar for them. But it shouldn't be your goal to keep living like that. People in the US need to stop looking at working themselves to death as some kind of badge of honor. Those people have lost sight of the goal. Tehnology is supposed to help us work less, not more. If you find yourself working more than 8 hours a day to make someone else rich, you probably need to better organize your time or your project or find a new job that doesn't suck so much. I used to think it was cool to work 12 and 14 hour days until I finally learned that if you do too much of anything you end up not enjoying it and then you end up producing uninspired crap, not to mention that you end up taking longer to do the job...leading to longer, less productive days at work, more sick days, etc. I've watched companies implode for this simple reason. People who glamorize coding for 14 hours a day are a lot like the people who idolize self-destructive rock stars whose lifestyles end up killing them.
You: "Dude, I coded for 14 hours straight last night and fixed that bug. I'm a hardcore programming man!" Me: "Cool. I finished up early last night, cooked pasta, drank wine, watched B-Star with friends and had sex my girlfriend."
Which one of us do you think will be better prepared to get something done at the office tomorrow? Which one of us do you think will live longer? Which one of us do you think will die with the fewest regrets?
With the prices of virtual private servers (VPS) these days, there's abosolutely no reason to be held hostage to your web host's old version of PHP if you want to upgrade. Move your server to a $29/month virtual private server and install whatever the hell you want. After a little less than a year of running a VPS from www.dinix.com, I will never go back to cheap shared hosts. So if you can't find a good host with PHP5, then get a VPS account and host yourself! And no, I don't work for Dinix.
Actually, dipshit, they did analyze the competition's code, line by line. 35 million lines to be exact. Here's a quote from the brief article, you can find more information in the actual whitepaper, not that you bother finding out any facts before you post:
"Through its analysis, Reasoning concluded that the commercial average defect density--covering 200 recent projects and totaling 35 million lines of commercial code--came to 0.57 defects per thousand lines of code."
Most "Eurotrash", as you call them, don't have to piss and moan about being thrown in jail...they don't keep 3% of their population in prison for recreational drug use.
As of 1994, which were the most recent DOJ statistics I could find. More than 5.1 million Americans -- almost 2.7 percent of the adult population -- were under some form of correctional supervision at the end of 1994. As of 2002, I believe it's closer to 5%. I personally find it laughable that the nation which considers itself the most free, has the highest percentage of its population in prison of any industrialized nation including the former USSR or South Africa. The only conclusion I can find is that either Americans are generally uneducated and unconcerned with both the facts AND morality, or they just love to live like hippocrites. Either way, I'm not proud to be called one. I'd rather move to Canada and pay 40% tax rates and be certain I could see a doctor and afford healthcare, than pay 15%-20% taxes here in the US and be 100% certain it would be used to put my friends in jail and kill people thousands of miles away. It's a very sad state of affairs. As far as I'm concerned, the US government was overthrown when George Bush and his idiot brother Jeb (or is it the other way around) stole an otherwise perfectly decent election from the American people....which sort of makes the legitimacy of America's silly little laws a moot point. So feel free to smoke some heroin and go on a shooting spree. MUAAAHAAAHAAAHhaaaahaaha...!
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Wrong. Movies and music are generally already compressed and 7zip or other similar file compression tools won't do much besides waste your time. That's why you should generally turn off backup compression on video and music backups.
There's no reason to be backing up 20TB of data if you're not Amazon or Google. Separate out the essential data that you can't live without. Your music collection, your work files and your photos. The rest is disposable. Then go get yourself 2 nice identical hardware RAID cards, set up a 4+ drive RAID5 fileserver using 1.5 or 2TB drives, with 3 active drives and one drive as a hot spare. Buy at least one extra drive for when you need to put your hot spare into action and replace a dead drive. Put all your important data on that raid, put it in a closet somewhere, put in a ventilation fan of some sort, set up email alerts to tell you when there's SMART errors or the raid is degraded, then check your raid status software once a month just to be sure it's all good. Then get another cheap external RAID enclosure with built-in raid5, (something like a StarTech SAT3540U3ER - which is iffy, but works for me) and fill it with 3TB or 4TB drives (plus another spare for when THAT raid fails) and use that to back up your first raid. The backup raid should be large enough to hold at least 2 full backups of the first raid -- choose your drive sizes accordingly. Then back up your first raid onto the 2nd and smile because you've finally achieved relative safety for your important data. Then take a deep breath and say to yourself "I can live without all those videos if something goes wrong. It will suck, but it won't be life-ending, after all that's what bittorrent is for". If you know where to go, you can find almost any movie or tv show and download it in under an hour via bittorrent. Hell, you can download 15 seasons of South Park in h264 format in under an hour. Most HD movies in 1080p format take 30 minutes or less over a decent connection. And if you really care about saving your videos, make an offline library and burn them to DVDs. Not really feasible if you've waited until you filled 20TB of drive space with movies and tv shows, but I have a series of 4 filing cabinets with DVD-sized drawers full of around 2000 CD-Rs and DVD+Rs (and a few BD+Rs for my 170GB collection of BBC Horizon documentaries) I've burned since about the year 2000 when DIVX and XVID format movies started to appear en masse. Every few months I'd spend an evening or two burning my latest batch of movies to DVD and then removing them from my hard drives. But I've found that most of the time these days I don't even touch my archives when I want to watch one of my movies because it's easier just to download a fresh copy in 1080p which is generally better than the archived version I downloaded years earlier. I expect that trend will continue, which is why I've recently stopped burning my movies altogether and now I just add hard another shared hard drive to one of my HTPCs as they fill up, or delete stuff I know I'll never watch again. And last, but not least, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention unRAID. Though I don't use it myself because I've long-since gone down the path of the aforementioned RAID5 setup, unRAID could be the best option if you're starting from scratch. unRAID gives you RAID5-like redundancy, but with arbitrary disks, and with the benefit of only losing the data from specific failed drives in the rare event that it can't be rebuilt from parity data. If you want to know more about unRAID, google it. And forget about backing up 20TB of data for at least another 5 years. No one has that kind of time.
The page you linked to contains the Trojan:JS/Gamburl.E. MSFT Security Essentials just flagged it and removed it from my browser cache.
The only caveat I've found running these 3 progs together is that sometimes one virus prog will flag the automatic virus updates of another prog and try to quarantine them, but all you have to do is add the relevant folder to the list of excluded dirs in whichever program flags the updates. About once a year (or whenever I disregard my own security knowledge and download some infected software), I run several anti-malware progs (spybot,adaware,etc.) and also run a trial of whatever seems like the highest rated commercial antivirus product at the time. This year it was Avira, which I'm still running, but getting sick of the daily pop-up ads. Avira recently did a great job of removing a pesky trojan that other progs had trouble with after I installed an infected bittorrent download. So right now I'm actually running Clamwin, Avira and MSFT Security Essentials. The only time it bogs down my system is when doing a full scan, but that's to be expected.
Woof, woof woof.
I regret to inform you that you can't buy talent or creativity...so you're going to need a backup plan. You are so far out of your league here you don't even know what game you're playing. I will now let my dog handle further replies just to make it fair. It may take him a while to reply though, he's still learning to type.
Wow, you really spent a lot of time thinking about that didn't you? I can almost smell the burning plastic from here.
Nope, still no effect. Keep trying though, I'm sure you can do better.
Nice try...go fish.
Thanks, but I haven't the time or the inclination...I already got my degree in English which means I'm qualified to ignore paragraphs and all other good writing advice. I fart better prose most pros. God damn that's a good pun! (blush)
I actually thought this guy sounded pretty cool until I read the "Why" section of his site and realized that this all about a woman. Sigh. Oh to be young again. The best advice you could ever get regarding women is to not marry one until you are AT LEAST 30 years old, preferably older. By then you might be a wise enough man that a woman won't be able to destroy your life just by waving her vagina at someone new. I'm at the point in my life where virtually ALL of my friends are married and almost all of them regret it or are already divorced because they didn't realize you don't treat a woman like a princess if you want be able to live with her for the rest of your life. As an older guy (37) who has finally figured women out (took 35 years), I just have to say "When will you guys learn?" There's soooooo many women out there, but they generally don't like moody melodramatic man-boys like this guy that's selling his life on Ebay. If there's anything most women hate in a man, it's indecision and moodiness. Actually, they can handle some moodiness too, but they really hate wishy-washy indecisive people who don't know where they are going or why. However, if you as a man just worry more about pursuing your own goals in life and stay on track and actually succeed at something...anything...the woman problem will generally work itself out. It's when you spend too much time worrying about what women want you to do and not enough time worrying about what YOU want to do that you start getting into trouble. You end up being endlessly manipulated by one pretty face after another. Women just don't respect men that they can treat like bitches. I mean come on, do you respect a guy living a supposedly ideal life in a supposed paradise who decides to chuck it all over marital infidelity? My guess is that this guy spent too much time fawning over his beautiful wife and not enough time handling his bid-ness. I think he actually says something about "living a lie". Oh the horror.... pathetic. The best revenge on a cheating woman is to give so little of a shit that you are able to get on with your life right in front of her, with our without your slutty new girlfriend in the spike heels. Go be good at something. Some woman will eventually think you're cool for it and want to have sex and eventually babies. The older you get, the truer this is. Also realize that as you get older, the tables of human sexuality turn. Older women are just as horny, and they are far more desperate. In youth, women have a clear sexual advantage because men of all ages are after them. As they get older this changes...they get fatter, they get older and they realize that their pretty face just isn't getting the attention that it used to and that if they ever want someone to help them raise kids they'd better stop acting like useless primadonnas and grow up and maybe even acquire some skills that a grown man might not be able to find in a 19-year old. They realize that men their own age now have an advantage over them, that young women are still competing for the attention of the few men that are still interested in them, and as older women they are on the losing end of the competition...this is why eventually most women settle down by about age 30-32 if they haven't already revealed themselves to be psychotic alcoholics or coke-heads. This is probably the single greatest thing about male aging (possibly the ONLY good thing about male aging). I firmly believe that if women didn't get less attractive as they aged, no man would ever be happy because the women in his life would just turn into bigger an bigger bitches/sluts every year. Instead, women tend to get less attractive and nicer as they age. By about age 35 you can stop pretending they are princesses and just start behaving like normal people...you know, like your parents...or maybe not. In my experience, if you want a young, hottie, you'll either have to completely shed your jealousy and accept some level of infidelity (admit that you'd be just as big a slut if you looked as good as she does), or you'll have
How can someone review a laptop and not even mention the battery life. Maybe I skimmed it too fast, but if there's no battery life tests then this review is a total waste of my time. I will literally sprint to the store to buy the first 17"+ laptop that can run for 5+ hours on a charge and includes a decent gaming graphics card. Until that day, I will not waste my money on a new laptop. My Dell Inspiron 7500 is still kicking despite the case disintegrating due to heat and age. It still works fine for 99% of what I need a laptop for. The one and only innovation I care about in laptops these days is BATTERY LIFE. When are we going to start seeing manufacturers using all this new battery technology that I've been reading about for years? ATTENTION MANUFACTURERS: If your laptop can't run for 5 hours on a single standard battery charge then you have FAILED to make a decent portable computer.
You: "Dude, I coded for 14 hours straight last night and fixed that bug. I'm a hardcore programming man!"
Me: "Cool. I finished up early last night, cooked pasta, drank wine, watched B-Star with friends and had sex my girlfriend."
Which one of us do you think will be better prepared to get something done at the office tomorrow? Which one of us do you think will live longer? Which one of us do you think will die with the fewest regrets?
Mmmmm hmmmm.
With the prices of virtual private servers (VPS) these days, there's abosolutely no reason to be held hostage to your web host's old version of PHP if you want to upgrade. Move your server to a $29/month virtual private server and install whatever the hell you want. After a little less than a year of running a VPS from www.dinix.com, I will never go back to cheap shared hosts. So if you can't find a good host with PHP5, then get a VPS account and host yourself! And no, I don't work for Dinix.
Actually, dipshit, they did analyze the competition's code, line by line. 35 million lines to be exact. Here's a quote from the brief article, you can find more information in the actual whitepaper, not that you bother finding out any facts before you post:
"Through its analysis, Reasoning concluded that the commercial average defect density--covering 200 recent projects and totaling 35 million lines of commercial code--came to 0.57 defects per thousand lines of code."
Most "Eurotrash", as you call them, don't have to piss and moan about being thrown in jail...they don't keep 3% of their population in prison for recreational drug use. As of 1994, which were the most recent DOJ statistics I could find. More than 5.1 million Americans -- almost 2.7 percent of the adult population -- were under some form of correctional supervision at the end of 1994. As of 2002, I believe it's closer to 5%. I personally find it laughable that the nation which considers itself the most free, has the highest percentage of its population in prison of any industrialized nation including the former USSR or South Africa. The only conclusion I can find is that either Americans are generally uneducated and unconcerned with both the facts AND morality, or they just love to live like hippocrites. Either way, I'm not proud to be called one. I'd rather move to Canada and pay 40% tax rates and be certain I could see a doctor and afford healthcare, than pay 15%-20% taxes here in the US and be 100% certain it would be used to put my friends in jail and kill people thousands of miles away. It's a very sad state of affairs. As far as I'm concerned, the US government was overthrown when George Bush and his idiot brother Jeb (or is it the other way around) stole an otherwise perfectly decent election from the American people....which sort of makes the legitimacy of America's silly little laws a moot point. So feel free to smoke some heroin and go on a shooting spree. MUAAAHAAAHAAAHhaaaahaaha...!