I agree. The Internet is so good, it's almost hard to see how it could have come about in our business culture. We need to draw a line and make a fuss about crap like this or the goodness will slip away.
he already has a backup system in place and he said nothing about removing it. He wants to supplement it.
I wouldn't equate "I was able to find copies of most of my files" with an adequate backup system. The problem is he's not organized and his files are scattered over various computers.
I'm afraid he's proposing he get organized and secure by storing all his files in a unified place - a RAID network volume. But if he uses this for primary storage instead of just backups, he'll only have one logical copy of each file.
I think he's right about the need to for a unified storage place. But the unified storage needs to be backed up, and not just a RAID volume. And so long as he backs it up, RAID offers little additional value.
Now if he were running some online business on this computer, avoiding any downtime would justify RAID.
RAID is quicker, but it doesn't solve the problem. It gives you two physical copies but only one logical copy. A single errant command can (quickly and efficiently) erase or corrupt your files. The downtime of copying from a hard drive backup (I never suggested tape) is a whole lot less than the downtime of recreating the data, which is what you're asking for if you only keep one copy (even if on a RAID volume).
The loss of a single drive can kill
the entire LVM.
That's what the backup is for. What's much more dangerous than having copies on two separate LVMs, is only having one logical copy in a RAID volume, which is what most of the people here are recommending.
The reason I never want to buy a bunch of identical disks at once is because I never have a sudden need for a huge amount of new storage (more than a single disk would provide). As my needs gradually increase, I buy a new drive in the sweet spot of $$/MB at that point in time.
Are you saying you use external firewire drives in a RAID? That sounds fine so long as you pay the premium to have matched drives, rather than buying a new drive just as you need more space.
Whatever you do, you MUST be protected from accidental deletion and corruption. That means you need a backup, which RAID is not. Now assuming you maintain a separate backup, why waste disk space on a separate "hot" backup, which RAID (not 0) provides? If this is home use, you don't care about the downtime required to restore from background in event of a disk failure.
If you're like me, you don't want to buy a bunch of identical disks at once for home use. Instead, you have a range of larger newer disks, and smaller older disks. . This means the disks you want to use are NOT all the same size, as required by RAID (AFAIK). Instead, you can use LVM with linear mapping to combine smaller drives into one larger one, even if the physical drives are mismatched sizes. Create one logical volume for live, and one for backup, and do nightly updates of the backup. You probably don't want/need to compress the backup if the bulk of your files are already compressed media files.
$300 for a graphics card is still way too much for me. Isn't that exactly the MSRP of the baseline XBox?
Unless PC gaming has changed drastically since I quit about 3 years ago, it's still a pain in the butt. Now that my son is getting old enough to play, I just want something we can have fun with together, with some good shared-screen multiplayer games, and which actually functions properly. I don't plan to get back into sitting alone in a darkened computer room playing games for hours on end, ever.
I'm sure there's plagiarism going on, but there's never been a more dangerous time to do it. It's much easier to cross-check articles on the Internet for plagiarism than for any previous medium. Educators have already access to a variety of tools to catch cheaters.
What this has shown is that Apple was viable back then, and that Michael Dell doesn't have the necessary vision to run a company such as Apple.
Maybe. Probably. But remember, Dell wasn't Apple's CEO back then, Jobs was. Don't you think a competitor is more likely to sound the deathknell for a company than its own leadership is? Michael Dell would have been singing a different tune had he really been in charge at Apple.
Apple's iPod sales have been amazing... they really hit a hole in one there. But is there really that much room for growth in iPod sales this year, as the summary suggests? Now that they've been out for a few years, and who is left to buy one?
As it is I look forward to plane flights as a chance to do some serious reading, writing, or coding with no interruptions. Having people sitting all around me and yelling (airplanes are loud) certainly wouldn't boost my productivity.
Maybe they should repurpose all those "No-Smoking" indicators to mean "no loud talking," and just let people yak for 5 minutes of every hour.
What's news is that someone expects respondants in a self-reporting survey to honest answer questions about possible illegal activity.
That's irrelevant to the assertion that IPod owners do fewer unlicensed downloads then other mp3 player owners. Not unless you interpret the poll results as an indication that IPod owners are at least equally likely to download, but more likely to lie about it, which would also be an interesting conclusion.
If we had to move I'd rather to somewhere more hospitable than Earth, rather than less.
Won't happen, our bodies are designed specifically to live here. And even if we figure out something like terraforming, it will be easier to use those techniques to tweak earth a little bit than to turn a lifeless dusty rock into the garden of eden.
I'm not saying we won't colonize, but I think Earth will always (i.e. for a long long time) be the prime real estate for humans, unless we wreck it.
mplayer-plugin, dude. You can watch any video you want in-browser in linux just fine (except, last I checked, a few QuickTime varieties). But wmv's are a cinch.
No. I have the mplayer plugin, which sometimes works, kinda-sorta.
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"It's kind of difficult to use your phone while using your iPod, isn't it?"
That's a good argument for integration right there... an incoming call should simply be taken through the headphones.
IPods and phones are really so similar... they're both little devices for listening... only difference is phone can transmit.
there are a lot of.wmv files floating around, and it would suck not being able to watch them on a Mac.
As a Linux user, yeah, not being able to reliably watch.wmv's does kinda stink. What with video really taking off at all the online news sites recently, it's a bummer having it fail half the time when you hit the "watch" button.
Other than being quiet, I don't see what the Mini has going for it as an HTPC.
I think the HTPC should be the "always on" PC in the home. Mine has PCI cards for dual network ethernet (it's a router), dual video cards (the kids play on the terminal while we listen to music or watch recorded movies via TV-out), a digital sound card (better to let the stereo receiver do the D->A conversion), dual hard drives (one for files, one for backups), and an IR receiver (for remote control). Much better to have everything in a single enclosed case.
The OSS world is too full of tall, shaky library dependency towers, period. In fact I'm tempted to say something rash like "dynamic linking sucks except maybe for libc." You want to upgrade a single app and can't without reinstalling a bunch of other programs that use the same library. This is why it takes 3 years to stabilize a release of debian. Saving a little disk space and RAM just isn't worth the hassle.
The problem is that you won't have any real "evidence" until after the terrorist act is committed and people are dead.
OK, so you don't like the 4th ammendment. But you can't just ignore it, even if you're the President; you'll have to get it repealed. But I and many others will oppose you. Until then (and this question is really directed to the President), what gives you the legal right to ignore what you think is a bad law?
I still think goggles will make it, simply because nothing else can do what they do. A huge 3d display in a pocketable form factor? Sorry, but there's nothing on the horizon besides goggles to do that.
If nothing else, they should revolutionize video games. Experiencing the virtual world through a small motionless rectangle is so limiting... we only accept it because we don't know better.
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I agree. The Internet is so good, it's almost hard to see how it could have come about in our business culture. We need to draw a line and make a fuss about crap like this or the goodness will slip away.
I'm afraid he's proposing he get organized and secure by storing all his files in a unified place - a RAID network volume. But if he uses this for primary storage instead of just backups, he'll only have one logical copy of each file.
I think he's right about the need to for a unified storage place. But the unified storage needs to be backed up, and not just a RAID volume. And so long as he backs it up, RAID offers little additional value.
Now if he were running some online business on this computer, avoiding any downtime would justify RAID.
RAID is quicker, but it doesn't solve the problem. It gives you two physical copies but only one logical copy. A single errant command can (quickly and efficiently) erase or corrupt your files. The downtime of copying from a hard drive backup (I never suggested tape) is a whole lot less than the downtime of recreating the data, which is what you're asking for if you only keep one copy (even if on a RAID volume).
Are you saying you use external firewire drives in a RAID? That sounds fine so long as you pay the premium to have matched drives, rather than buying a new drive just as you need more space.
Whatever you do, you MUST be protected from accidental deletion and corruption. That means you need a backup, which RAID is not. Now assuming you maintain a separate backup, why waste disk space on a separate "hot" backup, which RAID (not 0) provides? If this is home use, you don't care about the downtime required to restore from background in event of a disk failure.
If you're like me, you don't want to buy a bunch of identical disks at once for home use. Instead, you have a range of larger newer disks, and smaller older disks. . This means the disks you want to use are NOT all the same size, as required by RAID (AFAIK). Instead, you can use LVM with linear mapping to combine smaller drives into one larger one, even if the physical drives are mismatched sizes. Create one logical volume for live, and one for backup, and do nightly updates of the backup. You probably don't want/need to compress the backup if the bulk of your files are already compressed media files.
Unless PC gaming has changed drastically since I quit about 3 years ago, it's still a pain in the butt. Now that my son is getting old enough to play, I just want something we can have fun with together, with some good shared-screen multiplayer games, and which actually functions properly. I don't plan to get back into sitting alone in a darkened computer room playing games for hours on end, ever.
As it happens, this will also be good for all of us. Galileo promises sub-meter accuracy, faster acquisition, and better penetration through cover.
I'll be pleased as punch to accept this gift from Europe.
It's not reuse that's bad, it's reuse without attribution. Even the loosey-goosey BSD license requires attribution!
I'm sure there's plagiarism going on, but there's never been a more dangerous time to do it. It's much easier to cross-check articles on the Internet for plagiarism than for any previous medium. Educators have already access to a variety of tools to catch cheaters.
You have to wonder where Java might be right now if they'd gotten EJB and AWT right the first time!
Apple's iPod sales have been amazing... they really hit a hole in one there. But is there really that much room for growth in iPod sales this year, as the summary suggests? Now that they've been out for a few years, and who is left to buy one?
Maybe they should repurpose all those "No-Smoking" indicators to mean "no loud talking," and just let people yak for 5 minutes of every hour.
I'm not saying we won't colonize, but I think Earth will always (i.e. for a long long time) be the prime real estate for humans, unless we wreck it.
"It's kind of difficult to use your phone while using your iPod, isn't it?"
That's a good argument for integration right there... an incoming call should simply be taken through the headphones.
IPods and phones are really so similar... they're both little devices for listening... only difference is phone can transmit.
I think the HTPC should be the "always on" PC in the home. Mine has PCI cards for dual network ethernet (it's a router), dual video cards (the kids play on the terminal while we listen to music or watch recorded movies via TV-out), a digital sound card (better to let the stereo receiver do the D->A conversion), dual hard drives (one for files, one for backups), and an IR receiver (for remote control). Much better to have everything in a single enclosed case.
The OSS world is too full of tall, shaky library dependency towers, period. In fact I'm tempted to say something rash like "dynamic linking sucks except maybe for libc." You want to upgrade a single app and can't without reinstalling a bunch of other programs that use the same library. This is why it takes 3 years to stabilize a release of debian. Saving a little disk space and RAM just isn't worth the hassle.
Does Thunderbird support usenet at all?? I find no mention of it on the front page, or the FAQ.
Are you accusing Valerie Plame of some criminal behavior for which she was outed by someone with no other recourse? You know that's not the case.
If nothing else, they should revolutionize video games. Experiencing the virtual world through a small motionless rectangle is so limiting... we only accept it because we don't know better.