It's a shame seagate is/was so secretive about the actual problems with the 1.5 TB drives. I specifically went looking on your website to get information about the problem so I could assess how bad the problem was and whether or not we'd be affected (yes, we run Linux). The only thing I found was mass censorship on the forums by moderators, and any discussion about the problem was locked away. Since I couldn't find out *easily* whether or not we'd be affected, I opted to buy a set of drives from another manufacturer.
Why are people so worried about hardware key loggers? You mean your computer does not send you mail when it detects they keyboard has been disconnected?
Most understand perfectly well, the users of these tags however apparently don't get that even though the phrase is true, that does not mean there's no causation at all in this case or other cases. It's highly likely there's causation when two subjects are closely related.
You don't realize apparently that as for as music companies are concerned, that is the same thing. Since piracy does not cause them direct harm, pirates do as much harm as people who don't care about their music.
As long as I never missed the car, and you returned it in its original state, why would I care? Do I have to worry at night because little green men might have used my car and left it exactly where I left it with just as much fuel in it?
Paying money for any kind of service that has a near zero cost to mass produce is throwing money into a black hole anyway.
In my opinion, money that slowly flows through the poorest layers of a society upwards to the wealthiest has far more economic value than money that goes straight to the top as is usually the case with most forms of entertainment spendings, so having more money to spend on other products than entertainment will have a positive economic influence.
I'm getting tired of this stupid "correlation does not equal causation" phrase. It's a phrase people add to any article these days when it has any kind of statistics in it, probably because it looks cool.
While in general it is true, especially when comparing two completely unrelated subjects, that does not mean that there's no causation at all when comparing two sets of statistics. Chances are pretty good for example that downloading music and buying music are related, although it is of course unclear as to how much.
It has always been claimed Ext was so good at keeping files defragmented that there was no need for a defragmentation tool. I call bullshit on that. Ext fragments just like any other filesystem, and it can get very bad. The worst cases are log files and slowly progressing downloads. I usually keep a separate partition just for those purposes since IT WILL fragment.
This bullshit with "reserving" space for files so they can be extended later can only go so far. For files that are just copied (and thus will never be extended), reserving this extra space is unnecessary and will end up fragmenting free space instead (which arguable is very important to keep unfragmented as well). For files that do keep growing slowly, how much do you reserve? 10k? 100k? 1MB? So I download 2 DVD's at the same time, and I end up with 2 files that consist of how many fragments?
At some point, stuff gets fragmented, it's completely unavoidable once the disk is nearing full capacity. Every little bit of space the Filesystem skipped before for "extending files later" will get filled by that last huge file you copied to the drive, splitting it up into thousands of fragments. Even if you clean up the drive to make some more space (as it was full), it is unlikely you'll remove the last few files you copied to it (which are fragmented all over the place). This in turn will make the fragmentation worse and worse.
This happens, even on ext, and any other filesystem that does not actively defragment itself.
They'll lose. Internet without encryption will never work. And there will be ways to do without ISP's soon enough as well, using technology comparable to the old BBS days, but using wifi networks instead. And there's always snail mail, it's only a recent development that the internet is faster than just sending a few CD's around...
Let's hope so... one of the things keeping me on Windows is the crappy GTK interface Eclipse is using on Linux. For some reason, GTK manages to take up almost twice the space in displaying a simple tree control than the Windows equivalent.. spacing all around is way too large and no way to change it.
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Not only those, but also open source programs using a different license than GPL, like Eclipse. Eclipse was forced to use GTK even though QT would have been a far better choice.
I'd rather face someone with a hammer than a gun. I cannot dodge a bullet, but I can block or dodge a hammer blow giving me at least a chance. For one thing, they'll need to come close to use a hammer. Sure, I might hurt an arm by blocking the blow, but that's non-fatal, unlike taking a bullet in the chest.
There's more effort involved in using a hammer as a deadly weapon, that fact alone will prevent many murders attempted in the heat of the moment. Seeing someone non-fatally wounded crying out in pain from a hammer blow is usually quite a shock.
A nice benefit is that murdering someone like that is hard to be called an "accident" as multiple blows are likely needed, especially in a struggle.
It is simple for some setups sure, just look at the BotNets. The Police will actually be competing with the people running botnets to get their hands on your PC. However, if it was truly possible to hack any PC, then we'd all be in a BotNet right now. Of course, the police is so much smarter than the rest of the world and have hidden tricks up their sleeves we'd never dream of... NOT.
So, all I have to do is detect possible break-ins into my house... luckily that's already set up for real criminals. No wireless. Trojan's via e-mail? Well, I'm sure they will succeed where millions have not...
It's generally the fastest garbage collected language there is that allows easy refactoring and creating highly maintainable code. If you consider Java slow, than you must be programming in C/C++ which is not very well suited for the tasks the OP requires. A great many people seem to conclude that just because they've seen a few poorly performing Java applications (usually old apps with a user interface) that the language itself is slow, however the only conclusion you can draw from that is that those specific applications are slow and perhaps poorly written. The latter is quite often the case as a language with a fairly low barrier to entry attracts developers of all skill levels.
In general though, performance (and also memory consumption) is pretty much irrelevant as long as it outperforms whatever back-end your program is using (ie, the database/harddisk/network/user almost always remains the bottleneck), allowing you to focus on maintainable code. Once in a while though you get to write some clever algorithm in Java that actually is CPU bound, and the performance has never disappointed me.
It's doing things I don't want and cannot turn off in the background. Any OS that does this is thus getting in my way. Wake me when they add a switch to disable stuff like signed drivers, tilt bits and all other DRM related crap.
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You don't employ them correctly. You use suicide bombers against targets of great value, like flying a plane into an aircraft carrier.
It's a shame seagate is/was so secretive about the actual problems with the 1.5 TB drives. I specifically went looking on your website to get information about the problem so I could assess how bad the problem was and whether or not we'd be affected (yes, we run Linux). The only thing I found was mass censorship on the forums by moderators, and any discussion about the problem was locked away. Since I couldn't find out *easily* whether or not we'd be affected, I opted to buy a set of drives from another manufacturer.
Why are people so worried about hardware key loggers? You mean your computer does not send you mail when it detects they keyboard has been disconnected?
Most understand perfectly well, the users of these tags however apparently don't get that even though the phrase is true, that does not mean there's no causation at all in this case or other cases. It's highly likely there's causation when two subjects are closely related.
You don't realize apparently that as for as music companies are concerned, that is the same thing. Since piracy does not cause them direct harm, pirates do as much harm as people who don't care about their music.
As long as I never missed the car, and you returned it in its original state, why would I care? Do I have to worry at night because little green men might have used my car and left it exactly where I left it with just as much fuel in it?
Paying money for any kind of service that has a near zero cost to mass produce is throwing money into a black hole anyway.
In my opinion, money that slowly flows through the poorest layers of a society upwards to the wealthiest has far more economic value than money that goes straight to the top as is usually the case with most forms of entertainment spendings, so having more money to spend on other products than entertainment will have a positive economic influence.
I'm getting tired of this stupid "correlation does not equal causation" phrase. It's a phrase people add to any article these days when it has any kind of statistics in it, probably because it looks cool.
While in general it is true, especially when comparing two completely unrelated subjects, that does not mean that there's no causation at all when comparing two sets of statistics. Chances are pretty good for example that downloading music and buying music are related, although it is of course unclear as to how much.
Except of course that it is legal to download music in Holland.
It has always been claimed Ext was so good at keeping files defragmented that there was no need for a defragmentation tool. I call bullshit on that. Ext fragments just like any other filesystem, and it can get very bad. The worst cases are log files and slowly progressing downloads. I usually keep a separate partition just for those purposes since IT WILL fragment.
This bullshit with "reserving" space for files so they can be extended later can only go so far. For files that are just copied (and thus will never be extended), reserving this extra space is unnecessary and will end up fragmenting free space instead (which arguable is very important to keep unfragmented as well). For files that do keep growing slowly, how much do you reserve? 10k? 100k? 1MB? So I download 2 DVD's at the same time, and I end up with 2 files that consist of how many fragments?
At some point, stuff gets fragmented, it's completely unavoidable once the disk is nearing full capacity. Every little bit of space the Filesystem skipped before for "extending files later" will get filled by that last huge file you copied to the drive, splitting it up into thousands of fragments. Even if you clean up the drive to make some more space (as it was full), it is unlikely you'll remove the last few files you copied to it (which are fragmented all over the place). This in turn will make the fragmentation worse and worse.
This happens, even on ext, and any other filesystem that does not actively defragment itself.
They'll lose. Internet without encryption will never work. And there will be ways to do without ISP's soon enough as well, using technology comparable to the old BBS days, but using wifi networks instead. And there's always snail mail, it's only a recent development that the internet is faster than just sending a few CD's around...
You lost me at Adobe...
Let's hope so... one of the things keeping me on Windows is the crappy GTK interface Eclipse is using on Linux. For some reason, GTK manages to take up almost twice the space in displaying a simple tree control than the Windows equivalent.. spacing all around is way too large and no way to change it.
Not only those, but also open source programs using a different license than GPL, like Eclipse. Eclipse was forced to use GTK even though QT would have been a far better choice.
I'd rather face someone with a hammer than a gun. I cannot dodge a bullet, but I can block or dodge a hammer blow giving me at least a chance. For one thing, they'll need to come close to use a hammer. Sure, I might hurt an arm by blocking the blow, but that's non-fatal, unlike taking a bullet in the chest.
There's more effort involved in using a hammer as a deadly weapon, that fact alone will prevent many murders attempted in the heat of the moment. Seeing someone non-fatally wounded crying out in pain from a hammer blow is usually quite a shock.
A nice benefit is that murdering someone like that is hard to be called an "accident" as multiple blows are likely needed, especially in a struggle.
No bestowing is ever done, cause the age limit goes up by 1 every year :)
I've found though that the "stakeholders" are usually people who have no clue about software. You've covered your ass that way though atleast.
My computer has this neat feature...
It detects when a keyboard has been unplugged.
It is simple for some setups sure, just look at the BotNets. The Police will actually be competing with the people running botnets to get their hands on your PC. However, if it was truly possible to hack any PC, then we'd all be in a BotNet right now. Of course, the police is so much smarter than the rest of the world and have hidden tricks up their sleeves we'd never dream of... NOT.
So, all I have to do is detect possible break-ins into my house... luckily that's already set up for real criminals. No wireless. Trojan's via e-mail? Well, I'm sure they will succeed where millions have not...
They can't, atleast not PC's properly configured. Or do people really believe the police can do stuff that millions of hackers out there can't?
As long as they can't prove a thing, you can just hand them a faulty password. It is not a crime to have a hard disk filled with random garbage is it?
It's generally the fastest garbage collected language there is that allows easy refactoring and creating highly maintainable code. If you consider Java slow, than you must be programming in C/C++ which is not very well suited for the tasks the OP requires. A great many people seem to conclude that just because they've seen a few poorly performing Java applications (usually old apps with a user interface) that the language itself is slow, however the only conclusion you can draw from that is that those specific applications are slow and perhaps poorly written. The latter is quite often the case as a language with a fairly low barrier to entry attracts developers of all skill levels.
In general though, performance (and also memory consumption) is pretty much irrelevant as long as it outperforms whatever back-end your program is using (ie, the database/harddisk/network/user almost always remains the bottleneck), allowing you to focus on maintainable code. Once in a while though you get to write some clever algorithm in Java that actually is CPU bound, and the performance has never disappointed me.
Obviously, they want the name changed, since people are so stupid to believe the name actually means something.
It's doing things I don't want and cannot turn off in the background. Any OS that does this is thus getting in my way. Wake me when they add a switch to disable stuff like signed drivers, tilt bits and all other DRM related crap.