I'm a former iPhone user, currently on Android. It's more customizable, all right... but "better"? I would not say that is true for the "normal" user. I like to screw around, so it has been fun for me... I'll probably get a Windows phone next, just to screw around with that. But the iPhone is ready right out of the box. The Android... works... out of the box. But it has taken me a few months to get it to where I don't feel the need, for example, to download a couple dozen keyboards until I find one that works as well as the iPhone's.
The one common criticism about the Android that I can't really agree with is App availability. Sure, there are some real stinkers... but if you Google around first, you can usually find whatever you are looking for. There are certainly some Apple-first offerings, but that should only bother the impatient. And Apple apps tend to have a bit more polish... really just a reflection of the whole system.
My biggest disappointment with Android so far has been the integration with Google Voice. It's so tantalizingly close, but things like text messaging are not fully integrated, nor does MMS have Google Voice support (but it does for Sprint customers?). Anyway... disappointing.
I'm not saying Crashplan does that, but having a check in the software to verify whether you're allowed to look at the backup would stop you from using said backup if Crashplan shut down its servers.
Right, but like I said, that only hurts you if you have a house fire or something the same day that Crashplan goes kaput. I wouldn't recommend using Crashplan as your only backup if this risk is unacceptable. On my Macs, I use Time Machine for the local backup and Crashplan only serves as my remote backup. For my PC, Crashplan is my only solution (local and remote) - but only because I consider the XP backup to be so lacking. When I eventually get around to Win 7, I'll use that built-in backup for the local copy.
I get where you are coming from... but people just don't think that deeply about wedge issues. They are "black and white" issues that are easy for a politician to spout off about. Blackmun might be a very thoughtful, considerate man. But the average person does not consider the deeper implications... they just don't want babies to be slaughtered (or the government restricting what women do with their bodies). They don't want gays to be married (or want gays to be married). That's pretty much where it stops. If you are lucky, they might have a particular bible quote they can point to or a particular Supreme Court case... but mostly it's just the same drivel you hear time and time again from talk radio.
My setup is slightly different. Nothing on the FreeBSD box gets backed up (except for the system, which I just clone to another USB stick). All other files have a primary home somewhere else or are such that I don't care if I lose them. I run Crashplan on the FreeBSD machine itself, but it is a server only. Many machines, both local and remote, use it as a target. I personally also use Crashplan's central service but some of my friends and relatives just rely on my FreeBSD ZFS backup. For my Macs, I still run Crashplan for the central service but use Time Machine for the backups to the FreeBSD server... recovery is simpler. When I switch to Windows 7, I'll almost certainly switch to the built-in backup for the same reason.
For drive management with ZFS, I don't do raidz. Instead, I just add them in mirrored pairs. To get rid of old, small drives, I just plug in a larger replacement and "zpool replace". Repeat on the other small drive. As of FreeBSD 8.2, you can then just do a zpool online -e and it will fill the drive.
Perhaps, but I think that no matter what a candidate thinks about privacy, people value other issues more: gay rights, abortion, immigration, offshore oil drilling, etc... despite these issues having very little to do with most people's living standards or the well-being of the country. Privacy just hasn't hit "wedge issue" status yet, and probably won't since God doesn't seem to inspire preachers about it and it can't be used as a tool to redirect populist anger.
I think it is actually because we are genetically predisposed not to value privacy. It's very unlikely that we had much in the way of secrets during our hunter-gathering years when the bulk of our evolution likely occurred. It's possible that we're even programmed NOT to keep secrets.
Just to be clear for people who may not understand, you can run Crashplan on ZFS in the Linux emulation environment - but really only as a server. It won't do a good job backing up the FreeBSD box.
The problem is that even the best insulator will only reduce the heat transfer rate. Assuming 200C is enough to kill a tape, the fire would only need to reach that for a long-ish period of time to defeat even the best insulator.
So, the firebox people put a phase-change material in the safe to absorb more heat. I think they use wax. Keeps the temperature relatively low so long as there is still some solid wax left... same reason all the ice needs to melt in a cup of water before it can start to heat up. When the wax all melts, the contents resume heating up. Most are rated for something like 1/2 hour.
Yeah, he'd need a business-grade Comcast connection or FIOS or some other uncapped connection. Regular Comcast won't cut it, depending on how many 64GB shoots he does in a month. We were kind of given a limited amount of information.
Though it's advantages are greatly diminished when run locally, Crashplan is still a useful local backup solution. One of the nice things it does is monitor the data integrity of the backup. Unison is another free solution which does this. Unison actually caught some corruption in my family photos collection, so I'll always sing it's praises:)
I've only recovered one system with Crashplan, and that was my mother-in-law's Windows laptop that was backed up onto my basement FreeBSD server.
I have to throw in my non-anonymous endorsement of Crashplan. You can pay their reasonable unlimited rate or work out an agreement with a friend, family member, or other person in a similar situation to backup to their instance while they backup to yours. At the same time, you can have it direct a backup to an attached USB drive or NAS... everything except their cloud storage is free. And cloud storage is a whopping $5/month for unlimited.
You have a ton of existing data, and that would take a lot of time to upload - but fortunately Crashplan allows you to seed your backup by sending in a hard drive.
So if you don't agree then we'll just have to agree to disagree.
I think we largely do agree.
I'm just pointing out that kids running into the street already get plowed down, and while I'm sure you can come up with scenarios that computers won't be good at, I'd put good money on overall injuries and fatalities going down. So, yeah, there might be the occasional hot air balloon collision, and that would be tragic. But meanwhile probably 100 (a number I completely pulled out of my ass) other lives would be saved. Yes, the kite-flying kid might meet his demise on the hood of a robot car... but 100 other pedestrians won't get smooshed by over-eager cars at busy intersections.
In short, I'm willing to take some "collateral damage". No amount of technology will ever render thousands of pounds of metal safe, but on balance, I'd wager that robot cars would produce less carnage than human-driven cars.
You mean like heart attacks, strokes, seizures, or just falling asleep?:)
If the thing maintains a safe distance between it and other cars (what we currently call defensive driving), I don't see how the unexpected couldn't be handled.
We also have to look at cost-benefit. Sure, you might be at a slightly higher risk of driving off the edge of a collapsed bridge. In the last 10 years, we've had one major bridge failure that killed 8 (IIRC) and injured 100. In contrast, 100 people die in car crashes every day - most due to human error. I am willing to "kill" a few hundred people in robot cars due to poorly handled rare events if it saves tens of thousands due to human error.
All automated vehicles would have to have some sort of human override on them.
No. Do you have the ability to override the pilots on an aircraft? Can you take the wheel from a bus driver? At some point you have to accept that the car is the driver.
Unless you mean an e-stop or emergency button - but that would presumably just stop the vehicle.
Google also gives you some pre-printed codes to use to carry around in your wallet in case your phone is on the fritz. You can also setup callbacks instead of just relying on the SMS.
But important stuff does use metric units, and many people in America working with them aren't as familiar with them as they could be.
I've yet to meet an engineer who cannot grok metric. In fact, most of us seem to prefer working in metric. I still shudder at the unit "slugs". If you work with metrics on a day-to-day basis, it becomes second nature.
Really? Many people seem to struggle with fractions
Well, I made the point about construction workers in jest - but in American construction, we still use inches, feet, and fractions thereof. Tape measures are all in 64ths of inches. People in construction are good at fractions:) I find them to be a PITA.
Temperature is completely arbitrary no matter which system you use... probably the least useful metric measure. I've never seen a kilo-degree or a milli-degree. And even in engineering, the conversion between C and K or F and K is only slightly easier. C is mostly useless in engineering, though you can often use it in delta calculations (since delta K is equal to delta C).
At the same time, expecting people to be security experts is not going to be successful. You might have a good grasp of it, but chances are you have some exposure to it. It might not occur to your proverbial grandma that people can track down her mother's name.
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I'm a former iPhone user, currently on Android. It's more customizable, all right... but "better"? I would not say that is true for the "normal" user. I like to screw around, so it has been fun for me... I'll probably get a Windows phone next, just to screw around with that. But the iPhone is ready right out of the box. The Android... works... out of the box. But it has taken me a few months to get it to where I don't feel the need, for example, to download a couple dozen keyboards until I find one that works as well as the iPhone's.
The one common criticism about the Android that I can't really agree with is App availability. Sure, there are some real stinkers... but if you Google around first, you can usually find whatever you are looking for. There are certainly some Apple-first offerings, but that should only bother the impatient. And Apple apps tend to have a bit more polish... really just a reflection of the whole system.
My biggest disappointment with Android so far has been the integration with Google Voice. It's so tantalizingly close, but things like text messaging are not fully integrated, nor does MMS have Google Voice support (but it does for Sprint customers?). Anyway... disappointing.
I'm not saying Crashplan does that, but having a check in the software to verify whether you're allowed to look at the backup would stop you from using said backup if Crashplan shut down its servers.
Right, but like I said, that only hurts you if you have a house fire or something the same day that Crashplan goes kaput. I wouldn't recommend using Crashplan as your only backup if this risk is unacceptable. On my Macs, I use Time Machine for the local backup and Crashplan only serves as my remote backup. For my PC, Crashplan is my only solution (local and remote) - but only because I consider the XP backup to be so lacking. When I eventually get around to Win 7, I'll use that built-in backup for the local copy.
I get where you are coming from... but people just don't think that deeply about wedge issues. They are "black and white" issues that are easy for a politician to spout off about. Blackmun might be a very thoughtful, considerate man. But the average person does not consider the deeper implications... they just don't want babies to be slaughtered (or the government restricting what women do with their bodies). They don't want gays to be married (or want gays to be married). That's pretty much where it stops. If you are lucky, they might have a particular bible quote they can point to or a particular Supreme Court case... but mostly it's just the same drivel you hear time and time again from talk radio.
My setup is slightly different. Nothing on the FreeBSD box gets backed up (except for the system, which I just clone to another USB stick). All other files have a primary home somewhere else or are such that I don't care if I lose them. I run Crashplan on the FreeBSD machine itself, but it is a server only. Many machines, both local and remote, use it as a target. I personally also use Crashplan's central service but some of my friends and relatives just rely on my FreeBSD ZFS backup. For my Macs, I still run Crashplan for the central service but use Time Machine for the backups to the FreeBSD server... recovery is simpler. When I switch to Windows 7, I'll almost certainly switch to the built-in backup for the same reason.
For drive management with ZFS, I don't do raidz. Instead, I just add them in mirrored pairs. To get rid of old, small drives, I just plug in a larger replacement and "zpool replace". Repeat on the other small drive. As of FreeBSD 8.2, you can then just do a zpool online -e and it will fill the drive.
Perhaps, but I think that no matter what a candidate thinks about privacy, people value other issues more: gay rights, abortion, immigration, offshore oil drilling, etc... despite these issues having very little to do with most people's living standards or the well-being of the country. Privacy just hasn't hit "wedge issue" status yet, and probably won't since God doesn't seem to inspire preachers about it and it can't be used as a tool to redirect populist anger.
I think it is actually because we are genetically predisposed not to value privacy. It's very unlikely that we had much in the way of secrets during our hunter-gathering years when the bulk of our evolution likely occurred. It's possible that we're even programmed NOT to keep secrets.
if the company goes away you're SOL.
Only if you are the unlucky SOB whose drive crashes the same day that Crashplan goes out of business, and your local backup is also destroyed...
Just to be clear for people who may not understand, you can run Crashplan on ZFS in the Linux emulation environment - but really only as a server. It won't do a good job backing up the FreeBSD box.
In that case, get a safe deposit box in your local Mint.
The problem is that even the best insulator will only reduce the heat transfer rate. Assuming 200C is enough to kill a tape, the fire would only need to reach that for a long-ish period of time to defeat even the best insulator.
So, the firebox people put a phase-change material in the safe to absorb more heat. I think they use wax. Keeps the temperature relatively low so long as there is still some solid wax left... same reason all the ice needs to melt in a cup of water before it can start to heat up. When the wax all melts, the contents resume heating up. Most are rated for something like 1/2 hour.
Yes, it seems like every other day some poor photographer has his photos rifled through by the local bank.
Most people don't care about privacy as much as they care about wedge issues. Sad but true.
That's brilliant.
Yeah, he'd need a business-grade Comcast connection or FIOS or some other uncapped connection. Regular Comcast won't cut it, depending on how many 64GB shoots he does in a month. We were kind of given a limited amount of information.
Though it's advantages are greatly diminished when run locally, Crashplan is still a useful local backup solution. One of the nice things it does is monitor the data integrity of the backup. Unison is another free solution which does this. Unison actually caught some corruption in my family photos collection, so I'll always sing it's praises :)
I've only recovered one system with Crashplan, and that was my mother-in-law's Windows laptop that was backed up onto my basement FreeBSD server.
I have to throw in my non-anonymous endorsement of Crashplan. You can pay their reasonable unlimited rate or work out an agreement with a friend, family member, or other person in a similar situation to backup to their instance while they backup to yours. At the same time, you can have it direct a backup to an attached USB drive or NAS... everything except their cloud storage is free. And cloud storage is a whopping $5/month for unlimited.
You have a ton of existing data, and that would take a lot of time to upload - but fortunately Crashplan allows you to seed your backup by sending in a hard drive.
So if you don't agree then we'll just have to agree to disagree.
I think we largely do agree.
I'm just pointing out that kids running into the street already get plowed down, and while I'm sure you can come up with scenarios that computers won't be good at, I'd put good money on overall injuries and fatalities going down. So, yeah, there might be the occasional hot air balloon collision, and that would be tragic. But meanwhile probably 100 (a number I completely pulled out of my ass) other lives would be saved. Yes, the kite-flying kid might meet his demise on the hood of a robot car... but 100 other pedestrians won't get smooshed by over-eager cars at busy intersections.
In short, I'm willing to take some "collateral damage". No amount of technology will ever render thousands of pounds of metal safe, but on balance, I'd wager that robot cars would produce less carnage than human-driven cars.
That's true. You'd need to offer those people a secure card or something - like the gadget that PayPal uses.
Well, the issue here lies in the unexpected.
You mean like heart attacks, strokes, seizures, or just falling asleep? :)
If the thing maintains a safe distance between it and other cars (what we currently call defensive driving), I don't see how the unexpected couldn't be handled.
We also have to look at cost-benefit. Sure, you might be at a slightly higher risk of driving off the edge of a collapsed bridge. In the last 10 years, we've had one major bridge failure that killed 8 (IIRC) and injured 100. In contrast, 100 people die in car crashes every day - most due to human error. I am willing to "kill" a few hundred people in robot cars due to poorly handled rare events if it saves tens of thousands due to human error.
All automated vehicles would have to have some sort of human override on them.
No. Do you have the ability to override the pilots on an aircraft? Can you take the wheel from a bus driver? At some point you have to accept that the car is the driver.
Unless you mean an e-stop or emergency button - but that would presumably just stop the vehicle.
You need to take that up with Dr. Seuss... :)
usually i redirect it to the mx records of the server that sold me out.
That is awesome.
Google also gives you some pre-printed codes to use to carry around in your wallet in case your phone is on the fritz. You can also setup callbacks instead of just relying on the SMS.
Agreed. But obviously they have done a cost-benefit analysis and decided against this so far.
I personally like the Google 2-step authentication. Send a temporary code to my phone.
But important stuff does use metric units, and many people in America working with them aren't as familiar with them as they could be.
I've yet to meet an engineer who cannot grok metric. In fact, most of us seem to prefer working in metric. I still shudder at the unit "slugs". If you work with metrics on a day-to-day basis, it becomes second nature.
Really? Many people seem to struggle with fractions
Well, I made the point about construction workers in jest - but in American construction, we still use inches, feet, and fractions thereof. Tape measures are all in 64ths of inches. People in construction are good at fractions :) I find them to be a PITA.
Temperature is completely arbitrary no matter which system you use... probably the least useful metric measure. I've never seen a kilo-degree or a milli-degree. And even in engineering, the conversion between C and K or F and K is only slightly easier. C is mostly useless in engineering, though you can often use it in delta calculations (since delta K is equal to delta C).
At the same time, expecting people to be security experts is not going to be successful. You might have a good grasp of it, but chances are you have some exposure to it. It might not occur to your proverbial grandma that people can track down her mother's name.