Well, you know Sony. Shit in one hand and wish in the other and see what fills up first. The press will crawl through these documents looking for juicy tidbits are in there. Now that you have issued demands like this, they will crawl through with even more zest. It makes you look like you have something to hide.
Does that explain why when I go to yahoo the home page is full of horse shit like flying saucers, sightings of bigfoot on mars, and other nonsense from the examiner?
I'm not up to date on which religion has actually killed more people. Christianity ran up a pretty impressive body count during the middle ages. Then there was the witch burnings and inquisitions, as well as was happened in the new world with the church there.
Muslims seem to have a more blood thirsty run lately though.
One would think that by the 21 century we would have at least stopped killing each other because we all don't want to believe in the same fairy tales.
The RAID-5 is not set in stone. RAID-6 is an option that has not been ruled out, odds are I will go that route.
I know about the drive failures in batchs like that. I've been bitten by it before. I usually buy drives from different sources weeks apart. That increases the odds that the drives will come from different batchs. I don't if that affects the reliability of the drives themselves but makes me feel better.
you are better off with generation-1 than generation-current.
I completely agree. I'm about to retire a rack of 1 TB drives in my NAS and replace them with three 4TB drives in a raid 5 array. The 4TB drives will had to be out a year before I started to trust them.
Live on the bleeding edge with shit your not afraid to lose. Trust your important shit with well tested 2nd or 3rd generation technology.
That was close to what I was going to suggest. Go into business for yourself. Start your own company. There are plenty of options out there if your just clever enough to figure them out.
But Wilson admits that Watson did motivate him to move beyond the stamp-collecting stage into more disruptive work in evolution.
Sometimes your greatest accomplishment in life is to inspire others to greatness. Watson seems to have other talents but inspiring others to not be like him seems to be his greatest.
I don't use it, and I don't recommend anyone else using it ether. Linux has lost its way, and I'm not the only one that thinks that. Corporations have gotten way to much say so in what happens in Linux now that the Open Source community do. Systemd is just one of those things. Being anti-corporation is one of the things that linux was founded on. But now its not really much better than microsoft or apple.
You berate me for wanting to ram my option down your throat but you let corporations like Redhat do the same thing? At least when I'm ramming my option down your throat I'll stop and listen to you scream about it. So far Redhat and the other corporation distros have ignored the community.
Vinyl is a 125 year old format and we're still producing that!
Vinyl is a nitch market mainly occupied by young urban hipsters that want the latest cool retro thing, and old hippies that want to recapture lost youth. Toss in there the occasional audiophile that thinks, form some strange reason, the pop, crackle, and hiss of records is some how superior to pure digital music, then you have the entire vinyl market. They could probably all fit in a average sports arena with room for the band.
MP3 is a data format, not a physical object you can pull out and oggle with your non tech friends. I bet these words will never be uttered at any party, "hey come look at my vintage mp3 collection." An as history has shown once a data format outlives its usefulness it is quickly forgotten.
By ripping once to a lossless format you will only have to rip it once in your entire life time. I don't know about you but my time is to precious to me to spend it redoing a process over and over that I could have been done only once.
Oh, one more thing. As far as being "out" CD are farther down the road than mp3s. Of the last 5 systems that I have built over the last years, only one of them has a physical optical drive in it. In a few years optical drives will be like floppies are today. You can still find them but have to make an effort .
Plenty of lazy wanna-bees do things poorly and put organizations at risk and expense of greater downtime; you seriously make your employer wait for fsck of terabytes of ext3 data?
Sounds like you might be one of those lazy wanna-bees.
First, ext3 is a journaled file system so if you are waiting for a fsck on a it then you probably need to run it. Second, if your in a position where you are having to run a fsck on production data then your an idiot. If the system is so hosed that you have to run fsck, then you take that system out of the rotation and bring the back up system on line. Then you can run fsck at your leisure.
ext is very non-robust, can lose entire filesystem if power goes out at wrong time. And fsck time is enormous compared to superior and more robust filesystems. I administer hundreds of servers, ext only used for boot
I can't recall losing data on a ext3/ext4 file system but I do recall losing it on a rieserfs at one point. Now, if you are in a position where you can lose data in a real production environment because of something as simple as a power outage, then you probably shouldn't be in charge of hundreds of servers. Production servers have dual powersupplies plugged in to independent power sources such as separate UPS. The UPS themselves are only there to keep the systems alive till the generator backups can come on line. Point blank, if you lose data because of a power outage you are a moron.
They are hobbyist filesystems, and serious Linux installations use others.
Really? I've been in the field since day one when Linus announced the birth of linux. I've seen thousands of linux systems in the field doing real work. To this day I have never come across a 3rd party file system on linix in the field.
I actually think you have it backwards. All the other filesystems seem to be for hobbyist, because that is all I have ever seen run them.
VBR mp3's are very good, but it isn't FLAC. You don't need superhuman hearing to hear the difference, especially very dynamic music sounds better in FLAC. Hearing the difference becomes easier the better your audio equipment is.
There is another reason to keep your master music source in lossless format. Future recoding. Mp3 are excellent for every day use. I honestly can't tell the difference between high quality mp3's and the original sources.
What people don't realize is that mp3's are on the way out. That is a close to 30 year old format. AAC is the rising star but like mp3 it is a lossy format. So what happens when mp3 is no longer supported? You recode them to the new format.
Recoding mp3 to aac really isn't that big a deal. I can't tell the difference between high quality mp3 to high quality aac recode. But what happens 4 or 5 generations down the road if you keep recoding with lossy formats? Your music sounds like shit eventually.
Flac allows you to keep a master backup in perfect condition to go back to with the recodes. And if your recoding for space on your master source that is bullshit. 3 TB harddrives are around a 150 bucks. That will store a life time of music even in flac format.
As someone with Type 1, I really want to be hopeful about this.....but it seems like we've been 5 years away from a cure for the last 30 years now.
I remember when I was a kid they predicted a cure for diabetes at about 5 years. This was 30 years ago, at least. As the years roll by I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist but I don't believe they are looking for a cure. But are instead looking for other ways to treat it. There simply is no long term profits in a cure, but treatments are a different story. They can come up with new treatments every day.
This maybe just a continuation of this cycle. Now they have one more drug they can get you on. Just another treatment.
Oh, sure there is. Privacy. If I call the police to my house because it's been broken into, that doesn't mean I want the contents of my house to be on youtube. Even moreso for the victims of violent crimes. The police shouldn't be broadcasting people's worst moments for people's entertainment.
That is a very good point, and one I hadn't thought of. I'm not sure this would be a issue though with the number of people I see letting themselves be filmed for worlds dumbest and shows like Cops.
But still it is an issue that would need to be worked out. If they are standing on a public street talking to the cops then filming shouldn't be a issue. Its just when it comes to cops on private property.
It's not just nice, it should be a requirement. I recently read where cops might start wearing camera's on their uniforms. I don't think it should be might, but required. Another thing that should be required is for police officers guns to start having cameras on them. When the weapon is drawn the camera starts recording so there is no doubt where the weapons was pointed when fired. The data from both these cameras ether be stored on an encrypted ssd card or preferably uploaded over the 3g/lte network in real time.
Then it should be made public via some service like youtube to anyone on the internet. I can understand a vice officer or a detectives being excluded from this but never a uniformed cop. There is never a reason for video from a unformed cameras to not be made public available. If these video's where available like this there would be no question like Michal Brown.
I don't believe you understand the full situation. The system is broken as designed. It really donsn't matter which one you vote for, the result is the same. Go back and look at the last 100 years of presidents. Don't look at thier highlights and what the press tells you. Look very deeply and you will see that basically same, with a few minor differences like Nixion and Clinton. The only reason they where held accountable is they where caught with their hands in the cookie jar, or with the smoking cigar, so to say.
If Rommmy would have been elected it would have been the same thing. Slightly different in some ways, probably, but pretty much the same. I doubt that when the Founding Fathers envisioned this land they had a two party system in mind.
You want to reform the system, you can't do it inside the system, you will have to do it outside the system. The only way for that to happen is for the states to call for a constitutional convention. That is where the states and only the states get together and change the constitution. Since it is a state affair the current federal system can't do anything about it but sit back and watch. If enough of the states say "enough of this shit" and pass the appropriate amendments to the consitution there isn't a damn thing the federal government can do about it.
Ironic that as we move towards a cashless society, cash remains the most secure form of payment.
Because no-one's ever been able to steal cash before right?
I believe what he meant to say, don't hold me to this though, is "The more we move towards a cashless society, the more we should be using cash."
Next week's your big chance. Use it or lose it... All these "scandals" have been coming fast &furious. Let's see if it means anything. Clean the House, if you want it to. If not, I got a bucket of tomatoes just waiting for the first complainers.
How cute. I used to be this way, believe in the system. They only talk about change and doing what is right around election time. Once they get all the votes its back to business as usual. Look at O'bama. Promised change but what we got was pretty much more of the same and then some.
The system isn't gong to change till elected official can be held legally accountable for the laws they sponsor and vote on. If a elected official could be fined, lose his office, or even be jailed for sponsoring a bill that is later found to be unconstitutional then things would change. When ever the government does something unconstitutional against a citizen, someone should held accountable.
I'm never allowing that again. I don't care about the final solution, but it is never going to be to give anyone access to my bank account. I personally think CurrentC will fail because it's not what Apple or Google wants, but whatever, they can all duke it out.
Damn straight. Once I let a insurance company set up auto drafts from my bank account with the checking account numbers so I could get a discount. They naturally decided that I wasn't paying them enough and extracted 4 times the amount the next time. Took a letter from a lawyer to get my money back, and 3 months.
Never again. I will not use CurrentC for anything. If I can't swipe a card and run it as credit I take my business else where. I also will not use apple pay, but that is because I don't own a iphone.
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Well, you know Sony. Shit in one hand and wish in the other and see what fills up first. The press will crawl through these documents looking for juicy tidbits are in there. Now that you have issued demands like this, they will crawl through with even more zest. It makes you look like you have something to hide.
Does that explain why when I go to yahoo the home page is full of horse shit like flying saucers, sightings of bigfoot on mars, and other nonsense from the examiner?
I'm not up to date on which religion has actually killed more people. Christianity ran up a pretty impressive body count during the middle ages. Then there was the witch burnings and inquisitions, as well as was happened in the new world with the church there.
Muslims seem to have a more blood thirsty run lately though.
One would think that by the 21 century we would have at least stopped killing each other because we all don't want to believe in the same fairy tales.
The RAID-5 is not set in stone. RAID-6 is an option that has not been ruled out, odds are I will go that route.
I know about the drive failures in batchs like that. I've been bitten by it before. I usually buy drives from different sources weeks apart. That increases the odds that the drives will come from different batchs. I don't if that affects the reliability of the drives themselves but makes me feel better.
you are better off with generation-1 than generation-current.
I completely agree. I'm about to retire a rack of 1 TB drives in my NAS and replace them with three 4TB drives in a raid 5 array. The 4TB drives will had to be out a year before I started to trust them.
Live on the bleeding edge with shit your not afraid to lose. Trust your important shit with well tested 2nd or 3rd generation technology.
Agreed. Pretty much the only thing steam on linux is good for is to browse the games you could be playing if you had steam on windows.
That was close to what I was going to suggest. Go into business for yourself. Start your own company. There are plenty of options out there if your just clever enough to figure them out.
But Wilson admits that Watson did motivate him to move beyond the stamp-collecting stage into more disruptive work in evolution.
Sometimes your greatest accomplishment in life is to inspire others to greatness. Watson seems to have other talents but inspiring others to not be like him seems to be his greatest.
Hardware ban this son of a bitch.
Can I be any clearer?
I don't use it, and I don't recommend anyone else using it ether. Linux has lost its way, and I'm not the only one that thinks that. Corporations have gotten way to much say so in what happens in Linux now that the Open Source community do. Systemd is just one of those things. Being anti-corporation is one of the things that linux was founded on. But now its not really much better than microsoft or apple.
You berate me for wanting to ram my option down your throat but you let corporations like Redhat do the same thing? At least when I'm ramming my option down your throat I'll stop and listen to you scream about it. So far Redhat and the other corporation distros have ignored the community.
Vinyl is a 125 year old format and we're still producing that!
Vinyl is a nitch market mainly occupied by young urban hipsters that want the latest cool retro thing, and old hippies that want to recapture lost youth. Toss in there the occasional audiophile that thinks, form some strange reason, the pop, crackle, and hiss of records is some how superior to pure digital music, then you have the entire vinyl market. They could probably all fit in a average sports arena with room for the band.
MP3 is a data format, not a physical object you can pull out and oggle with your non tech friends. I bet these words will never be uttered at any party, "hey come look at my vintage mp3 collection." An as history has shown once a data format outlives its usefulness it is quickly forgotten.
By ripping once to a lossless format you will only have to rip it once in your entire life time. I don't know about you but my time is to precious to me to spend it redoing a process over and over that I could have been done only once.
Oh, one more thing. As far as being "out" CD are farther down the road than mp3s. Of the last 5 systems that I have built over the last years, only one of them has a physical optical drive in it. In a few years optical drives will be like floppies are today. You can still find them but have to make an effort .
Plenty of lazy wanna-bees do things poorly and put organizations at risk and expense of greater downtime; you seriously make your employer wait for fsck of terabytes of ext3 data?
Sounds like you might be one of those lazy wanna-bees.
First, ext3 is a journaled file system so if you are waiting for a fsck on a it then you probably need to run it. Second, if your in a position where you are having to run a fsck on production data then your an idiot. If the system is so hosed that you have to run fsck, then you take that system out of the rotation and bring the back up system on line. Then you can run fsck at your leisure.
ext is very non-robust, can lose entire filesystem if power goes out at wrong time. And fsck time is enormous compared to superior and more robust filesystems. I administer hundreds of servers, ext only used for boot
I can't recall losing data on a ext3/ext4 file system but I do recall losing it on a rieserfs at one point. Now, if you are in a position where you can lose data in a real production environment because of something as simple as a power outage, then you probably shouldn't be in charge of hundreds of servers. Production servers have dual powersupplies plugged in to independent power sources such as separate UPS. The UPS themselves are only there to keep the systems alive till the generator backups can come on line. Point blank, if you lose data because of a power outage you are a moron.
Shudup boy, this is for your own good.
Okay, systemd is modular. Let me spell it out for you and every linux developer and RH its self.
We Don't Want SystemD.
I don't think I can put it any planer for anyone.
They are hobbyist filesystems, and serious Linux installations use others.
Really? I've been in the field since day one when Linus announced the birth of linux. I've seen thousands of linux systems in the field doing real work. To this day I have never come across a 3rd party file system on linix in the field.
I actually think you have it backwards. All the other filesystems seem to be for hobbyist, because that is all I have ever seen run them.
VBR mp3's are very good, but it isn't FLAC. You don't need superhuman hearing to hear the difference, especially very dynamic music sounds better in FLAC. Hearing the difference becomes easier the better your audio equipment is.
There is another reason to keep your master music source in lossless format. Future recoding. Mp3 are excellent for every day use. I honestly can't tell the difference between high quality mp3's and the original sources.
What people don't realize is that mp3's are on the way out. That is a close to 30 year old format. AAC is the rising star but like mp3 it is a lossy format. So what happens when mp3 is no longer supported? You recode them to the new format.
Recoding mp3 to aac really isn't that big a deal. I can't tell the difference between high quality mp3 to high quality aac recode. But what happens 4 or 5 generations down the road if you keep recoding with lossy formats? Your music sounds like shit eventually.
Flac allows you to keep a master backup in perfect condition to go back to with the recodes. And if your recoding for space on your master source that is bullshit. 3 TB harddrives are around a 150 bucks. That will store a life time of music even in flac format.
As someone with Type 1, I really want to be hopeful about this.....but it seems like we've been 5 years away from a cure for the last 30 years now.
I remember when I was a kid they predicted a cure for diabetes at about 5 years. This was 30 years ago, at least. As the years roll by I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist but I don't believe they are looking for a cure. But are instead looking for other ways to treat it. There simply is no long term profits in a cure, but treatments are a different story. They can come up with new treatments every day.
This maybe just a continuation of this cycle. Now they have one more drug they can get you on. Just another treatment.
Oh, sure there is. Privacy. If I call the police to my house because it's been broken into, that doesn't mean I want the contents of my house to be on youtube. Even moreso for the victims of violent crimes. The police shouldn't be broadcasting people's worst moments for people's entertainment.
That is a very good point, and one I hadn't thought of. I'm not sure this would be a issue though with the number of people I see letting themselves be filmed for worlds dumbest and shows like Cops.
But still it is an issue that would need to be worked out. If they are standing on a public street talking to the cops then filming shouldn't be a issue. Its just when it comes to cops on private property.
I am Lord Apathy, not Lord of Apathy. You are confusing me with my brother.
Transparency is nice
It's not just nice, it should be a requirement. I recently read where cops might start wearing camera's on their uniforms. I don't think it should be might, but required. Another thing that should be required is for police officers guns to start having cameras on them. When the weapon is drawn the camera starts recording so there is no doubt where the weapons was pointed when fired. The data from both these cameras ether be stored on an encrypted ssd card or preferably uploaded over the 3g/lte network in real time.
Then it should be made public via some service like youtube to anyone on the internet. I can understand a vice officer or a detectives being excluded from this but never a uniformed cop. There is never a reason for video from a unformed cameras to not be made public available. If these video's where available like this there would be no question like Michal Brown.
Who watches the watchers? We should.
I don't believe you understand the full situation. The system is broken as designed. It really donsn't matter which one you vote for, the result is the same. Go back and look at the last 100 years of presidents. Don't look at thier highlights and what the press tells you. Look very deeply and you will see that basically same, with a few minor differences like Nixion and Clinton. The only reason they where held accountable is they where caught with their hands in the cookie jar, or with the smoking cigar, so to say.
If Rommmy would have been elected it would have been the same thing. Slightly different in some ways, probably, but pretty much the same. I doubt that when the Founding Fathers envisioned this land they had a two party system in mind.
You want to reform the system, you can't do it inside the system, you will have to do it outside the system. The only way for that to happen is for the states to call for a constitutional convention. That is where the states and only the states get together and change the constitution. Since it is a state affair the current federal system can't do anything about it but sit back and watch. If enough of the states say "enough of this shit" and pass the appropriate amendments to the consitution there isn't a damn thing the federal government can do about it.
Ironic that as we move towards a cashless society, cash remains the most secure form of payment. Because no-one's ever been able to steal cash before right?
I believe what he meant to say, don't hold me to this though, is "The more we move towards a cashless society, the more we should be using cash."
Next week's your big chance. Use it or lose it... All these "scandals" have been coming fast &furious. Let's see if it means anything. Clean the House, if you want it to. If not, I got a bucket of tomatoes just waiting for the first complainers.
How cute. I used to be this way, believe in the system. They only talk about change and doing what is right around election time. Once they get all the votes its back to business as usual. Look at O'bama. Promised change but what we got was pretty much more of the same and then some.
The system isn't gong to change till elected official can be held legally accountable for the laws they sponsor and vote on. If a elected official could be fined, lose his office, or even be jailed for sponsoring a bill that is later found to be unconstitutional then things would change. When ever the government does something unconstitutional against a citizen, someone should held accountable.
I'm never allowing that again. I don't care about the final solution, but it is never going to be to give anyone access to my bank account. I personally think CurrentC will fail because it's not what Apple or Google wants, but whatever, they can all duke it out.
Damn straight. Once I let a insurance company set up auto drafts from my bank account with the checking account numbers so I could get a discount. They naturally decided that I wasn't paying them enough and extracted 4 times the amount the next time. Took a letter from a lawyer to get my money back, and 3 months.
Never again. I will not use CurrentC for anything. If I can't swipe a card and run it as credit I take my business else where. I also will not use apple pay, but that is because I don't own a iphone.