RAID 1+0 is the way to go for redundancy. Unless you're unlucky enough to lose both drives in one of the pairs making up the array, you can survive more than one drive failing.
Of course you'll be unlucky enough to lose both drives in one of the pairs. The package says "Hitachi", not "Western Digital". There's a reason they were called Hitachi Deathstar drives.
Sorry to reply to myself, but my wife shared something interesting.
She said it was a regular occurance for someone to arrive home and accidentally trip their alarm. They would then call the dispatch center and tell her that it was an accidental. The alarm company would call her 20-30 minutes later to notify her of an alarm trip.
Seriously--all an alarm system does is notify law enforcement that something HAS ALREADY HAPPENED.
One of the officers told me recently that from the time you hear the glass break to the time the person breaking in finds you is about 30 seconds. That's not enough time for your alarm to even report something. But it is just enough time to grab a gun from your gun safe and be ready in case the person(s) breaking in want to harm your family.
When Halo 1 and 2 releases, my friends would get together at one of our houses, get smashed, and play Halo all weekend. This lasted for 5 years. Never once did anyone get in a car and drive while intoxicated. We parked the cars Friday night and they didn't move again until Sunday afternoon when everyone sobered up. If we needed something from the store, we walked the three blocks to get it.
I'm sure there are a bunch of people at bars getting toasted and then driving. But my friends and I can't be the only ones hanging out at home, not driving.
I didn't mean to imply that corporate desktops should be built with parts from Best Buy.
At my office, most of them are Gateway.
But like I said, VARs can get Gateway machines without an OS now. Dell provides machines with Linux, and I'm sure HP/Compaq, Lenovo, and the rest will start following suit.
And I'm not saying that everyone needs to run Linux. Hell--I think MS has the best corporate desktop for most of my customers. I'm not being a zealot. Use the right OS for the right job.
Personally I run Linux on all my home machines with one Windows XP vmware image so I can test stuff for clients...and I still can't find a decent open source replacement for MS Money.
It's much more effective to have an alarm system than it is to back up your deadbolt locks with a gun.
You sir, are a fucking idiot.
So you're saying it's better to have an alarm system which usually takes over a minute to alert the alarm company, then about 30 seconds for them to call your local dispatch center. Then another 30 seconds for the dispatcher to get the information. Then they have to give the info out to the officers...and in a lot of places (other than Big City USA) it can take 15 minutes or more for the officers to arrive.
My wife used to be a dispatcher. Most nights in our county there would be one officer on. And their policy on a break-in was to wait for another officer to get out of bed, get dressed, get in his car, and drive 30 minutes from the middle of nowhere to your house.
So you're saying you should have no defense against someone breaking in to harm you and/or your family for a minimum of 5-10 minutes?
Like I said, you sir are a fucking idiot.
I am a man, and I will stand up and defend my family.
Like it or not, most x86 machines these days come with Windows.
I had my first computer purchased for me in 1993 when I was a kid. After that I started building my own. None of the components I bought came with Windows pre-installed.
And even for the people that purchase from Dell, they can now get machines without Windows. Gateway VARs can apparently get machines without an OS. I'm sure it's the same with HP, and Lenovo--or it will be soon.
so you're really arguing one free stack against another when you presume that the base OS came with the machine.
Um...yeah. Free if you don't count having to go buy Windows XP Pro at anywhere from $145-$299 a copy.
Still, it's not like it used to be where you had to buy windows, buy VB or VC or whatever, buy a server to test it on, etc...
Buy anyways, the cost on linux? $0. $0 $145. Linux for teh win.
I hate it when they try and pass it off as a 'save the children' load of crap. Think of the children!
Yeah--go ahead, install a huge monitoring and filtering system. I'm sure no one will abuse it by monitoring and/or filtering other content.
Zark off senator asshat. I am a responsible parent. I can watch out for my own children.
investigate TM as an "unlicensed flight school". The FAA actually replied, stating that FAA jurisdiction begins at 50 feet above ground level
I live on the 8th floor...next time my kid jumps on the bed I'll have to ask to see his FAA permit since he's already over 50 feet above ground level, and he's flying through the air...
It always makes me nervous when I see headlines with the words RIAA, Raid, and Oregon. On the drive home from the office, I start thinking about my 'getaway' for when I pull in my driveway and see 50 guys in SWAT gear ready to greet me.
I'm going to setup a domain called no-freakin-email-gets-through.com which will block their "Guaranteed Delivery".
Sounds like a good opportunity for a lawsuit.
That's the dumbest argument ever. It's pretty easy to stand back and say "my guy would have been better". He has never been in office, so we can't know how good/bad he'll do.
I can just as easily say "Thank God we didn't vote Libertarian. Things would have been so much worse."
Up until a year ago, I had a friend that actually believed that logic and ran Windows 95 and connected to the internet via dialup. No virus protection either. He stated that is was perfectly secure because it was so old no one could hack it--and even if they could, why would they want to?
So I promptly sent him an email that tried to load an image from c:\con\con.
He promptly reformatted and installed XP.
Not much better, but at least a minor improvement.
"route the packets from point A and point B, thus making some hop in the sequence critical for delivering the message"
In a well designed network, nothing is dependent on one hop, no matter where it is. We call this a multi homed network and most ISPs utilize more than one path to a certain area of the net.
I seem to remember this coming up a few years back. ISP A has connections to backbone provider B using various paths C, D, E, and F--which while seeming redundant actually all pass through point G which is directly in the path of a backhoe blade...
Uhh... you do realize that it was only a few Deskstar models that were affect, and that was back in the day when they were owned by *a completely different company*, right?
They must have had one hell of a backstock--because I'm still running into their shitty drives. In the past 6 months I have replaced 20 deskstar drives from Gateway and Dell machines at various client sites.
For the other drive makers? 3 Seagates and 1 Western Digital.
And the best part is the Western Digital drive was a Caviar 22100 2111.8 MB drive with a date of "Feb 97".
Ten years on an old POS desktop drive? I'm a Western Digital customer for life.
Quite the opposite, they believe they are always right about who is a criminal.
...or could it be that because they've been doing the job for a while, their skills and intuition do a good job of telling them who is a criminal and who is not. And don't forget, they don't decide who is a criminal and who is not. That's a job for the courts.
Most cops will take any opportunity available to inflict violence on a suspect. Most are willing to lie or exaggerate events in order to incarcerate someone they dopn't like.
Everyone gets 'amped' up in stressful situations. I don't think they *like* to inflict violence on someone. But let's face it. If you're chasing down someone who just robbed a bank and you tackle them into the pavement--well, they did just rob a bank at gunpoint.
imagine your perception of them is shaped by the role you were playing - they treated you differently because cooperating with you was part of their job.
A lot of people believe that misconception that EMS just cooperates with the cops. In actuality we have to follow the federal HIPAA laws. Unless a patient is currently in the act of breaking the law (shooting up in the back of your ambulance, or maybe assaulting your partner) you can't go tell on them to the police. Even if they just told you they were driving drunk and slammed into a school bus full of kids, you can't tell the law enforcement office. The officer has to get the information out of the patient.
The police aren't even allowed to copy the patient's information off our charts. They have to get name, address, etc from the patient directly.
The only way we can really cooperate with the legal system is through subpoena.
It caused quite a rift between EMS and our local police department for a while until we explained to them that if we said "he was drunk", they could have their entire case thrown out of court for using federally protected information.
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Yeah--at least until the state has fixed the whole 'going bankrupt' thing...
RAID 1+0 is the way to go for redundancy. Unless you're unlucky enough to lose both drives in one of the pairs making up the array, you can survive more than one drive failing.
Of course you'll be unlucky enough to lose both drives in one of the pairs. The package says "Hitachi", not "Western Digital". There's a reason they were called Hitachi Deathstar drives.
it doesn't stop it either because that doesn't destroy the monopoly that was already made.
Yeah. Sounds familiar. Almost like another monopoly...
If the invader is insane enough to ignore the alarms going off, he's probably also insane enough to stand up to you and your firearm.
...right. If someone is insane enough to ignore the alarm and he still tries to harm my family, he can't ignore a .45.
And if your argument is that he could take the weapon away and use it against me--well, I'd rather have some chance of stopping him than no chance.
Sorry to reply to myself, but my wife shared something interesting.
She said it was a regular occurance for someone to arrive home and accidentally trip their alarm. They would then call the dispatch center and tell her that it was an accidental. The alarm company would call her 20-30 minutes later to notify her of an alarm trip.
Seriously--all an alarm system does is notify law enforcement that something HAS ALREADY HAPPENED.
One of the officers told me recently that from the time you hear the glass break to the time the person breaking in finds you is about 30 seconds. That's not enough time for your alarm to even report something. But it is just enough time to grab a gun from your gun safe and be ready in case the person(s) breaking in want to harm your family.
When Halo 1 and 2 releases, my friends would get together at one of our houses, get smashed, and play Halo all weekend. This lasted for 5 years. Never once did anyone get in a car and drive while intoxicated. We parked the cars Friday night and they didn't move again until Sunday afternoon when everyone sobered up. If we needed something from the store, we walked the three blocks to get it.
I'm sure there are a bunch of people at bars getting toasted and then driving. But my friends and I can't be the only ones hanging out at home, not driving.
I didn't mean to imply that corporate desktops should be built with parts from Best Buy.
At my office, most of them are Gateway.
But like I said, VARs can get Gateway machines without an OS now. Dell provides machines with Linux, and I'm sure HP/Compaq, Lenovo, and the rest will start following suit.
And I'm not saying that everyone needs to run Linux. Hell--I think MS has the best corporate desktop for most of my customers. I'm not being a zealot. Use the right OS for the right job.
Personally I run Linux on all my home machines with one Windows XP vmware image so I can test stuff for clients...and I still can't find a decent open source replacement for MS Money.
It's much more effective to have an alarm system than it is to back up your deadbolt locks with a gun.
You sir, are a fucking idiot.
So you're saying it's better to have an alarm system which usually takes over a minute to alert the alarm company, then about 30 seconds for them to call your local dispatch center. Then another 30 seconds for the dispatcher to get the information. Then they have to give the info out to the officers...and in a lot of places (other than Big City USA) it can take 15 minutes or more for the officers to arrive.
My wife used to be a dispatcher. Most nights in our county there would be one officer on. And their policy on a break-in was to wait for another officer to get out of bed, get dressed, get in his car, and drive 30 minutes from the middle of nowhere to your house.
So you're saying you should have no defense against someone breaking in to harm you and/or your family for a minimum of 5-10 minutes?
Like I said, you sir are a fucking idiot.
I am a man, and I will stand up and defend my family.
Like it or not, most x86 machines these days come with Windows.
I had my first computer purchased for me in 1993 when I was a kid. After that I started building my own. None of the components I bought came with Windows pre-installed.
And even for the people that purchase from Dell, they can now get machines without Windows. Gateway VARs can apparently get machines without an OS. I'm sure it's the same with HP, and Lenovo--or it will be soon.
so you're really arguing one free stack against another when you presume that the base OS came with the machine.
Um...yeah. Free if you don't count having to go buy Windows XP Pro at anywhere from $145-$299 a copy.
Still, it's not like it used to be where you had to buy windows, buy VB or VC or whatever, buy a server to test it on, etc...
Buy anyways, the cost on linux? $0. $0 $145. Linux for teh win.
I think most people who drink have personal responsibility.
I'm sure a huge chuck of the population gets drunk on a Friday night--but only X of them drive drunk.
I don't know the actual numbers, but a few bad eggs give everyone a bad name.
Yeah, I'll just right click on the exchange server and hit "Encrypt my data".
I love how Microsoft is so fucking secure like that.
I hate it when they try and pass it off as a 'save the children' load of crap.
Think of the children!
Yeah--go ahead, install a huge monitoring and filtering system. I'm sure no one will abuse it by monitoring and/or filtering other content.
Zark off senator asshat. I am a responsible parent. I can watch out for my own children.
Time to upgrade the cardswipe system to also require a brethalyzer..
*swipe*
*bip* *beep* *beep* *boop* *bleep*
[deep breath]
*whoosh*
Alcohol Level: 0.15
*beeeeeeeep*
Damnit!!
...depends on what sort of rating said match gets. I'll stick with three stars and above.
ThunderStorm Cloud!
...and let's not forget their similarly named "HailStorm" which completely failed to do anything after a *lot* of hype.
investigate TM as an "unlicensed flight school". The FAA actually replied, stating that FAA jurisdiction begins at 50 feet above ground level
I live on the 8th floor...next time my kid jumps on the bed I'll have to ask to see his FAA permit since he's already over 50 feet above ground level, and he's flying through the air...
It always makes me nervous when I see headlines with the words RIAA, Raid, and Oregon. On the drive home from the office, I start thinking about my 'getaway' for when I pull in my driveway and see 50 guys in SWAT gear ready to greet me.
I'm going to setup a domain called no-freakin-email-gets-through.com which will block their "Guaranteed Delivery".
Sounds like a good opportunity for a lawsuit.
That's the dumbest argument ever. It's pretty easy to stand back and say "my guy would have been better". He has never been in office, so we can't know how good/bad he'll do.
I can just as easily say "Thank God we didn't vote Libertarian. Things would have been so much worse."
Meh. I hate politics.
Up until a year ago, I had a friend that actually believed that logic and ran Windows 95 and connected to the internet via dialup. No virus protection either. He stated that is was perfectly secure because it was so old no one could hack it--and even if they could, why would they want to?
So I promptly sent him an email that tried to load an image from c:\con\con.
He promptly reformatted and installed XP.
Not much better, but at least a minor improvement.
Increasing the number of Western occupying soldiers to 400,000...
Will cause serious overflow problems.
Everyone knows, 65,535 soldiers ought to be enough for everyone...
"route the packets from point A and point B, thus making some hop in the sequence critical for delivering the message"
In a well designed network, nothing is dependent on one hop, no matter where it is. We call this a multi homed network and most ISPs utilize more than one path to a certain area of the net.
I seem to remember this coming up a few years back. ISP A has connections to backbone provider B using various paths C, D, E, and F--which while seeming redundant actually all pass through point G which is directly in the path of a backhoe blade...
Uhh... you do realize that it was only a few Deskstar models that were affect, and that was back in the day when they were owned by *a completely different company*, right?
They must have had one hell of a backstock--because I'm still running into their shitty drives. In the past 6 months I have replaced 20 deskstar drives from Gateway and Dell machines at various client sites.
For the other drive makers? 3 Seagates and 1 Western Digital.
And the best part is the Western Digital drive was a Caviar 22100 2111.8 MB drive with a date of "Feb 97".
Ten years on an old POS desktop drive? I'm a Western Digital customer for life.
Quite the opposite, they believe they are always right about who is a criminal.
...or could it be that because they've been doing the job for a while, their skills and intuition do a good job of telling them who is a criminal and who is not. And don't forget, they don't decide who is a criminal and who is not. That's a job for the courts.
Most cops will take any opportunity available to inflict violence on a suspect. Most are willing to lie or exaggerate events in order to incarcerate someone they dopn't like.
Everyone gets 'amped' up in stressful situations. I don't think they *like* to inflict violence on someone. But let's face it. If you're chasing down someone who just robbed a bank and you tackle them into the pavement--well, they did just rob a bank at gunpoint.
imagine your perception of them is shaped by the role you were playing - they treated you differently because cooperating with you was part of their job.
A lot of people believe that misconception that EMS just cooperates with the cops. In actuality we have to follow the federal HIPAA laws. Unless a patient is currently in the act of breaking the law (shooting up in the back of your ambulance, or maybe assaulting your partner) you can't go tell on them to the police. Even if they just told you they were driving drunk and slammed into a school bus full of kids, you can't tell the law enforcement office. The officer has to get the information out of the patient.
The police aren't even allowed to copy the patient's information off our charts. They have to get name, address, etc from the patient directly.
The only way we can really cooperate with the legal system is through subpoena.
It caused quite a rift between EMS and our local police department for a while until we explained to them that if we said "he was drunk", they could have their entire case thrown out of court for using federally protected information.