What if they send you physical junk mail? Can you call the cops then?
Actually you can IF you have gone through the OPT-OUT procedures with the the DMA. It's about as effective as the do-not-call lists (iow: mostly but not 100%). The cops in this case are the DMA, however there's advantages to being a DMA member that make it worth the while to remain compliant.
Heh, the California National Guard sold my email address. I would have thought they were reputable, but all the spam I get to calguard@ says otherwise.
Or it could be that calguard isn't exactly hard to hit while running dictionary attacks, especially given that it's a domain and a dietary supplement.
They pass a law to reduce the junk mail, and what does it do? Causes a flood of MORE junk mail.
I think you're missing part of the picture if you really believe that the CAN-SPAM act increases junk mail. After all, only a trivial portion of spam comes from inside the US as advertising for US based companies. If you look at most of your spam you'll find it generally passed through open mail relays on another continent, is advertising for a company on yet another continent, who purchased a domain from a registrar on possibly a third continent outside North America.
You might wish to think that, but realitydisagrees with you. Now had you said the kingpins were mostly non-US you might have had a point. The vast majority of source, either zombie or real servers, is from inside the United States, in either case that puts them under the jurisdiction of US laws for crimes committed inside the United States. Whether they can be extradited is an entirely different matter. In any case CAN-SPAM did in fact increase the amount of junk mail as it created a federal law wherein if you followed it you couldn't be prosecuted under the few existing state laws until those laws were rewritten. It increased the amount because CAN-SPAM is so full of loopholes and toothless that basically anyone can send whatever they want and doubly so if you're a member of government.
Windows Update does not use IE and hasn't since XP. You need to get information that isn't many years out of date.
It still uses IE in the same sense that Explorer and Help still use IE. It's still the same engine and activex controls hiding behind a shiny control panel.
ZFS will be production ready when I can take a disk out the filesystem
??? What do you mean, shrinking a filesystem? Yeah, not supported yet.
when I can set quota's
Ragu (it's in there)
when it supports HSM
Also Ragu
and when it supports clustering.
Why does it need to support clustering? That's what the clustering filesystems are for.
In the meantime both JFS and XFS offer better alternatives, and for me only GPFS (which admittedly is closed source but does run under Linux) ticks all the boxes.
Guess those are all right out as well and not ready for production with your other requirement of...
Finally it will be production ready when it has a decade of hardening in the real world.
So basically it's not production ready, in your opinion, because you can't easily shrink a storage pool without migrating the data off the vdev(s) first. Gasp! Just like other storage systems. Stop the presses! No storage solutions are production ready because you can't just rip a vdev out without moving the data off first!
So please explain to me what you do when you want to migrate that 50TB file system to new disks (because the old ones are out of support say) with no or minimal downtime?
??? You do it just like you would any other raid system; 1. swap one drive (or more depending on your pool layout). Which you can do hot. 2. let it sync (resilver) 3. repeat until disks replaced. That's assuming you have data redundancy on that 50TB file system.
If what you're after is expanding capacity, you have two options, add another raidz set to the pool, or replace all drives in a raidz set with larger capacity drives. That's assuming you followed best practices and didn't make your pool out of one raidz2 of 52 1TB drives.
p.s. If any OS/kernel developers are listening - how about implementing a standard API through which drive write-caches can be flushed+disabled whenever a system starts a shutdown procedure, gets a signal that the UPS is running on battery power, or otherwise concludes that it is in a state where a temporarily-increased risk of data loss justifies slowing down I/O?
You mean something like ATAPI and apcupsd? Welcome to 1996.
So this isn't so much MP3 with additional information as it's a lossless format which happens to use an MP3 stream as a component and is formatted such that MP3 players recognize just that stream.
I've seen some comparisons at another site. A 41 MB wave file gives a 20 MB FLAC, and 22 MB MP3HD. So if the MP3 was indeed a skeleton of the lossless portion, it isn't very efficient. It's the same size as a normal lossless format + a separate MP3, stuffed into the same file. Actually, I doubt the MP3 has any use at all in the lossless playback, but I am ready to be corrected if anyone can cite something and not just speculate.
Dunno where you're getting your numbers, but a 320kbps CBR mp3 of a 41MB wave is a lot bigger than 2MB (about 9.3MB). A 2MB mp3 of a 41MB wave would be an average of about 68kbps. So yes the lossless+lossy skeleton of mp3hd IS more efficient than FLAC+320CBR-mp3.
And you can't run a filesystem built specifically for flash on these drives, with Linux or otherwise, because they don't present a flash interface. They present an SATA interface.
However you CAN run any Log-structured file system that isn't tied to MTD devices. However that only delays the write performance hit until you've wrapped the drive, you'd still need some way to inform the drive that blocks X to Y are unused and can be erased.
Well they've got the Apple pricing figured out; charge up to 50% more for having a better looking (to some) shell than another laptop with identical specs. And the shell probably doesn't cost any more or less than the "ugly" shell.
Now, instead of that fractional T3, why not look at FIOS if its in your CO area.
Don't you love the idea of FIOS powering a cable cos internet?
If the only choices people have are them or dial-up, and they only have 400 broadband customers, what makes you think there's even fibre anywhere near them? Guaranteed they're out in the middle of nowhere and getting anything better than T1s and bonding them is going to involve a very big build-out cost.
However, I would prioritize traffic. Email, web, SSH, et al come first; after that, all p2p protocols in order of usefulness.
and when the p2p users encrypt their torrents?
Absolutely nothing, because it doesn't matter. You don't identify p2p traffic, you identify all the higher priority protocols and everything else (read: p2p, encrypted or otherwise) is best effort. Absolutely everything that needs better than best effort is trivial to positively identify without having p2p traffic appear to be that higher priority traffic (i.o.w. more than just simplistic port matching).
The only thing encryption on torrents gains you is some protection against a 3rd party with a network tap from identifying the file(s) you're transferring from chunk hashes. Of course if they have that tap they already know what you're transferring anyhow from the info hash when you talk to the tracker or DHT so it fails at even doing that. It most definitely does not protect you from throttling OR having the connections disrupted.
You don't identify the P2P traffic, you identify the higher priority traffic, which is really not that hard (examples all over Google). Anything left over is "bulk" low priority.
Attempting to work around that by using p2p over something like port 80 or 443 doesn't work either since it won't match the protocol, only the port.
Tried clicking one of the function names yet? Yup, takes you to a code search. Still not very useful unless you're someone who writes memory managers, file systems or schedulers. For someone writing a device driver for some widget it's really not all that useful to know the entire kernel structure.
And the reason for that is unlike the STB the tuner cards/sticks aren't just directly pumping the TS stream into media player. They all record to disk and have the media player start playing back from that recording so you can things like pause, rewind, and fast-forward to a few seconds behind what's currently being recorded.
If they pumped directly to a decoder you'd have the same 0.5-1s lock->video that a TV/STB has but lose all the functionality that having it on a computer gives you.
The cheapest EEE should be around $380AUD which should leave plenty for bureaucratic overhead, graft, and kickbacks. However that's the Linux version, the ones that can actually run XP would be around $530AUD which is over budget.
Used to be "Windows ain't done 'til SP1", then XP broke that and Vista followed suit. Question now is is Vista "done" like XP was with SP2 or will it be "Vista ain't for me 'til SP3"?
Performance? We're talking downloading files here, not running benchmarks or some shit like that. At 1MiB/s, wine+utorrent uses roughly 3% CPU on my machine, which is nothing.
Try moving real bandwidth with that.
Stability? It hasn't crashed so far in the 1+ year I've used it.
Your uptime must by terrible to have never run into socket problems from Wine.
Shiny progress bars? No, I've disabled them. I only see "% complete", no progress bar, among my torrents.
What's that heavy UI for then?
The GUI is well done.. blah blah blah pointless drivel that every modern client does...
All of which rtorrent does in addition to everything it does that utorrent doesn't. BTW rtorrent doesn't require you to open a terminal, even to start it, and keep it open as you seem to think it does.
Pro tip: you don't have to use a terminal to use or configure rtorrent. It too has a point and drool interface. Several in fact. It can be started as a unprivileged daemon on boot so you never have to see its curses interface ever.
So you'd rather sacrifice performance, stability, footprint, and automation for shiny progress bars. Got it. Of course you could just use one of the several XMLRPC based GUIs for rtorrent.
If they said they did it would hurt sales of the current revision.
Now if Nintendo or Sony were going to release a Wii2 or PS4 in the next year you'd have the standard MS vaporware announcement while they scramble to actually put a product together.
So while we are getting more "inexpensive" gas and we are lessening our dependencies on foreign oil,... Even that is an illusion. The cost of e85 at the pump is artificially reduced by a subsidy, its cost (production+distribution) is actually higher than gasoline currently. It also doesn't achieve a reduction in foreign oil dependency due to the oil usage in production. In addition, the impact on food/crop prices has been known ever since the introduction of gasoline/alcohol blends in the 1920's (70's for the US).
Yes, but see the *reason* that it's due to climate change we started requiring ethanol in our gasoline and so the price of corn went up which forced the farmers to change crops.
Just like the game where you make almost any food sound nutritional, you can make anything caused by global climate change!
It's that sort of circular logic that makes the world go round!:D Money makes the world go round, and that's the real reason for ethanol/e85. It's a scheme to hide a farm subsidy as an alternative "green" fuel that is nothing of the sort.
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What if they send you physical junk mail? Can you call the cops then?
Actually you can IF you have gone through the OPT-OUT procedures with the the DMA. It's about as effective as the do-not-call lists (iow: mostly but not 100%). The cops in this case are the DMA, however there's advantages to being a DMA member that make it worth the while to remain compliant.
Heh, the California National Guard sold my email address. I would have thought they were reputable, but all the spam I get to calguard@ says otherwise.
Or it could be that calguard isn't exactly hard to hit while running dictionary attacks, especially given that it's a domain and a dietary supplement.
They pass a law to reduce the junk mail, and what does it do? Causes a flood of MORE junk mail.
I think you're missing part of the picture if you really believe that the CAN-SPAM act increases junk mail. After all, only a trivial portion of spam comes from inside the US as advertising for US based companies. If you look at most of your spam you'll find it generally passed through open mail relays on another continent, is advertising for a company on yet another continent, who purchased a domain from a registrar on possibly a third continent outside North America.
You might wish to think that, but reality disagrees with you. Now had you said the kingpins were mostly non-US you might have had a point. The vast majority of source, either zombie or real servers, is from inside the United States, in either case that puts them under the jurisdiction of US laws for crimes committed inside the United States. Whether they can be extradited is an entirely different matter.
In any case CAN-SPAM did in fact increase the amount of junk mail as it created a federal law wherein if you followed it you couldn't be prosecuted under the few existing state laws until those laws were rewritten. It increased the amount because CAN-SPAM is so full of loopholes and toothless that basically anyone can send whatever they want and doubly so if you're a member of government.
Expect there to be a run on the Q-Tip market.
Windows Update does not use IE and hasn't since XP. You need to get information that isn't many years out of date.
It still uses IE in the same sense that Explorer and Help still use IE. It's still the same engine and activex controls hiding behind a shiny control panel.
ZFS will be production ready when I can take a disk out the filesystem
??? What do you mean, shrinking a filesystem? Yeah, not supported yet.
when I can set quota's
Ragu (it's in there)
when it supports HSM
Also Ragu
and when it supports clustering.
Why does it need to support clustering? That's what the clustering filesystems are for.
In the meantime both JFS and XFS offer better alternatives, and for me only GPFS (which admittedly is closed source but does run under Linux) ticks all the boxes.
Guess those are all right out as well and not ready for production with your other requirement of...
Finally it will be production ready when it has a decade of hardening in the real world.
So basically it's not production ready, in your opinion, because you can't easily shrink a storage pool without migrating the data off the vdev(s) first. Gasp! Just like other storage systems. Stop the presses! No storage solutions are production ready because you can't just rip a vdev out without moving the data off first!
But you can't remove a disk from a file system.
So please explain to me what you do when you want to migrate that 50TB file system to new disks (because the old ones are out of support say) with no or minimal downtime?
??? You do it just like you would any other raid system;
1. swap one drive (or more depending on your pool layout). Which you can do hot.
2. let it sync (resilver)
3. repeat until disks replaced.
That's assuming you have data redundancy on that 50TB file system.
If what you're after is expanding capacity, you have two options, add another raidz set to the pool, or replace all drives in a raidz set with larger capacity drives. That's assuming you followed best practices and didn't make your pool out of one raidz2 of 52 1TB drives.
p.s. If any OS/kernel developers are listening - how about implementing a standard API through which drive write-caches can be flushed+disabled whenever a system starts a shutdown procedure, gets a signal that the UPS is running on battery power, or otherwise concludes that it is in a state where a temporarily-increased risk of data loss justifies slowing down I/O?
You mean something like ATAPI and apcupsd? Welcome to 1996.
So this isn't so much MP3 with additional information as it's a lossless format which happens to use an MP3 stream as a component and is formatted such that MP3 players recognize just that stream.
I've seen some comparisons at another site. A 41 MB wave file gives a 20 MB FLAC, and 22 MB MP3HD. So if the MP3 was indeed a skeleton of the lossless portion, it isn't very efficient. It's the same size as a normal lossless format + a separate MP3, stuffed into the same file. Actually, I doubt the MP3 has any use at all in the lossless playback, but I am ready to be corrected if anyone can cite something and not just speculate.
Dunno where you're getting your numbers, but a 320kbps CBR mp3 of a 41MB wave is a lot bigger than 2MB (about 9.3MB). A 2MB mp3 of a 41MB wave would be an average of about 68kbps. So yes the lossless+lossy skeleton of mp3hd IS more efficient than FLAC+320CBR-mp3.
And you can't run a filesystem built specifically for flash on these drives, with Linux or otherwise, because they don't present a flash interface. They present an SATA interface.
However you CAN run any Log-structured file system that isn't tied to MTD devices. However that only delays the write performance hit until you've wrapped the drive, you'd still need some way to inform the drive that blocks X to Y are unused and can be erased.
Sorry, but Burgess Meredith died over a decade ago.
Somehow I think that was the point.
Well they've got the Apple pricing figured out; charge up to 50% more for having a better looking (to some) shell than another laptop with identical specs. And the shell probably doesn't cost any more or less than the "ugly" shell.
Your math sounds right to me.
Now, instead of that fractional T3, why not look at FIOS if its in your CO area.
Don't you love the idea of FIOS powering a cable cos internet?
If the only choices people have are them or dial-up, and they only have 400 broadband customers, what makes you think there's even fibre anywhere near them? Guaranteed they're out in the middle of nowhere and getting anything better than T1s and bonding them is going to involve a very big build-out cost.
However, I would prioritize traffic. Email, web, SSH, et al come first; after that, all p2p protocols in order of usefulness.
and when the p2p users encrypt their torrents?
Absolutely nothing, because it doesn't matter. You don't identify p2p traffic, you identify all the higher priority protocols and everything else (read: p2p, encrypted or otherwise) is best effort. Absolutely everything that needs better than best effort is trivial to positively identify without having p2p traffic appear to be that higher priority traffic (i.o.w. more than just simplistic port matching).
The only thing encryption on torrents gains you is some protection against a 3rd party with a network tap from identifying the file(s) you're transferring from chunk hashes. Of course if they have that tap they already know what you're transferring anyhow from the info hash when you talk to the tracker or DHT so it fails at even doing that. It most definitely does not protect you from throttling OR having the connections disrupted.
You don't identify the P2P traffic, you identify the higher priority traffic, which is really not that hard (examples all over Google). Anything left over is "bulk" low priority.
Attempting to work around that by using p2p over something like port 80 or 443 doesn't work either since it won't match the protocol, only the port.
Tried clicking one of the function names yet? Yup, takes you to a code search.
Still not very useful unless you're someone who writes memory managers, file systems or schedulers. For someone writing a device driver for some widget it's really not all that useful to know the entire kernel structure.
And the reason for that is unlike the STB the tuner cards/sticks aren't just directly pumping the TS stream into media player. They all record to disk and have the media player start playing back from that recording so you can things like pause, rewind, and fast-forward to a few seconds behind what's currently being recorded. If they pumped directly to a decoder you'd have the same 0.5-1s lock->video that a TV/STB has but lose all the functionality that having it on a computer gives you.
The cheapest EEE should be around $380AUD which should leave plenty for bureaucratic overhead, graft, and kickbacks. However that's the Linux version, the ones that can actually run XP would be around $530AUD which is over budget.
Used to be "Windows ain't done 'til SP1", then XP broke that and Vista followed suit. Question now is is Vista "done" like XP was with SP2 or will it be "Vista ain't for me 'til SP3"?
Performance? We're talking downloading files here, not running benchmarks or some shit like that. At 1MiB/s, wine+utorrent uses roughly 3% CPU on my machine, which is nothing.
Try moving real bandwidth with that.
Stability? It hasn't crashed so far in the 1+ year I've used it.
Your uptime must by terrible to have never run into socket problems from Wine.
Shiny progress bars? No, I've disabled them. I only see "% complete", no progress bar, among my torrents.
What's that heavy UI for then?
The GUI is well done.. blah blah blah pointless drivel that every modern client does...
All of which rtorrent does in addition to everything it does that utorrent doesn't. BTW rtorrent doesn't require you to open a terminal, even to start it, and keep it open as you seem to think it does.
Pro tip: you don't have to use a terminal to use or configure rtorrent. It too has a point and drool interface. Several in fact. It can be started as a unprivileged daemon on boot so you never have to see its curses interface ever.
So you'd rather sacrifice performance, stability, footprint, and automation for shiny progress bars. Got it. Of course you could just use one of the several XMLRPC based GUIs for rtorrent.
If they said they did it would hurt sales of the current revision. Now if Nintendo or Sony were going to release a Wii2 or PS4 in the next year you'd have the standard MS vaporware announcement while they scramble to actually put a product together.
Just like the game where you make almost any food sound nutritional, you can make anything caused by global climate change!
It's that sort of circular logic that makes the world go round!