I think I would have each family member that wants to be part of this shared drive do something like:
- each of you buy the biggest HDD available
- setup a ssh tunnel in the form of a circle between each family member, where Alice connects to Bob, Bob connects to Charlie, and Charlie connects to Alice.
- each family member then rsync's to the next family member over, where they would do a full rsync of the shared disk, but do an rsync --delete on directories that belong to themselves, so if they delete / move files around, it makes the needed corrections on other family members shared disks without wasting space.
If you are running Windows, you can setup a scheduled task to at a time in the middle of the night to launch cygwin, open the ssh tunnel, and rsync away. If it is linux, setup a crontab. Initial coordination would need to be done to get everything right, but then it would be very automatable.
I do not suggest trying to setup a distributed filesystem across the internet. There are many pitfalls. Whereas this solution, your only concern is, 1) is ssh up? 2) did rsync run? 3) is the disk full?
This problem has been in the making for months. The reason the price was always ~$150 more than any other exchange was because you couldn't get money out of MtGox, and if you could, it would take a very long time if it ever got processed. There are many theories why this happened, several suggested that whatever bank they were using in Japan was setting some daily limits on how much money they could move. So in turn, in order to get unhitched from MtGox holding your money, you could opt to buy BTC from the exchange, and since everyones money was being held hostage, the people with BTC in the exchange could inflate the price. Watching there 30 day volume and you could clearly see things were grinding to a halt over there for a good long while now.
Anyone in the United States who deals with BTC's likely either uses Bitstamp, BTCe, or localbitcoins and has avoided MtGox like the plague they became. I personally use localbitcoins, because there is no fee's to sell, and you can get people to walk into a branch of your bank and deposit money directly to you and not have to worry about bank wire fee's in order to move your USDs out of an exchange.
Yup, if you look at the 3 big exchanges that deal with USD, you'll see $1.4 BILLION USD changing hands in the last month for bitcoins. It isn't rare to see a couple million $$$ change hands in small handful of trades.
The difference is that the antenna isn't on land that you own or lease.
(ipso facto) why does the location of the antenna matter if you are paying a local for that service? what supersedes your ability to find someone that has better reception? especially that this service is _only_ given to others from the same locale (who may not be able to get good reception)?
After friends/relatives/neighbors wanted me to work on their pos dell/gateway/emachines/sony.. I talked most of them into building one for their next upgrade instead of going back to shit companys who won't support you anyway unless you pay. alot.
Most of them went for the custom machine easy. Half the price. Better preformance. No crapware on top. And if i have to 'support' them. I don't want to do it for shitty machines. I built more than a few of them for people too. $50.. an hour of my time picking parts. an hour assembling and installing windows. $25 an hour for something i enjoy doing. Everyones happy and it ends up alot less work and downtime/problems for everyone in the future.
You sound like me ten year ago. I know everyone is different, but get out while you can. If you get more friends and family coming to you, you'll find more and more things breaking, more problems coming up, with expectations that your weekends are no longer yours. And more often than not, over time, these same friends and family will begin expecting you to just fix it, and may even get rude or cause you issues if you expect much more than a "Thank You! Till next time I my smoking causes my GPU to fail due to the dust gunk that caked over the heatsink causing it to overheat for the last few months". And somehow, again over time, they'll come to blame you for these problems that you should have been able to warn them about or prevent. I still assist close friends with anything I can help them with, because they aren't assholes, but some "friends" and definitely some family will take advantage of you. If you feel the desire to pursue this line of work, find a way to do it professionally, and only deal with customers.
Indeed. If you are unaware of Chaos Monkey or the Simian Army, look it up. I've nothing but respect how they've effectively eliminated single points of failure in their environment.
I've heard stories of their dev/qa system that is equally awesome, that allows for rapid code development, regression testing, and deployment into live systems, thousands of times a day.
How do you turn those coins into money?
All the online credit card things accepted by mtgrox or something like that look like russian scam sites.
You trade them on an exchange, like vircurex.com or others. You send your coins into the exchange and trade them for bitcoins (or litecoins if the exchange does that).
Now you take your bitcoins to some place like localbitcoins.com and find someone willing to send you $$$ for them. You find a buyer on the site, for me I find someone that'll do cash deposits into my bank, once you post the sell your bitcoins go into escrow. The buyer then confirms they can do the trade, at which point your bitcoin gets locked into escrow until you release it. The buyer then walks into a branch of your bank and deposits cash to your bank acct #. You validate you see the money hitting your account and then release the bitcoin from escrow.
It is amazing that people will walk into your banks branch and give you hundreds of dollars for fractions of a bitcoin.
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It looks like it can indeed mine fairly well.
Cool beans, I'll have to try that out. Thanks!
Care to explain why there is anything wrong with someone walking into my bank and depositing money to me?
I think I would have each family member that wants to be part of this shared drive do something like:
- each of you buy the biggest HDD available
- setup a ssh tunnel in the form of a circle between each family member, where Alice connects to Bob, Bob connects to Charlie, and Charlie connects to Alice.
- each family member then rsync's to the next family member over, where they would do a full rsync of the shared disk, but do an rsync --delete on directories that belong to themselves, so if they delete / move files around, it makes the needed corrections on other family members shared disks without wasting space.
If you are running Windows, you can setup a scheduled task to at a time in the middle of the night to launch cygwin, open the ssh tunnel, and rsync away. If it is linux, setup a crontab. Initial coordination would need to be done to get everything right, but then it would be very automatable.
I do not suggest trying to setup a distributed filesystem across the internet. There are many pitfalls. Whereas this solution, your only concern is, 1) is ssh up? 2) did rsync run? 3) is the disk full?
tried to convert them to real money at the same time. Yeah, that would make it drop and would shut down the exchanges.
Keep mining those bitcoins!
Not in the slightest. MtGox has been in a death spiral for almost half a year. Please read my earlier response.
This problem has been in the making for months. The reason the price was always ~$150 more than any other exchange was because you couldn't get money out of MtGox, and if you could, it would take a very long time if it ever got processed. There are many theories why this happened, several suggested that whatever bank they were using in Japan was setting some daily limits on how much money they could move. So in turn, in order to get unhitched from MtGox holding your money, you could opt to buy BTC from the exchange, and since everyones money was being held hostage, the people with BTC in the exchange could inflate the price. Watching there 30 day volume and you could clearly see things were grinding to a halt over there for a good long while now.
Anyone in the United States who deals with BTC's likely either uses Bitstamp, BTCe, or localbitcoins and has avoided MtGox like the plague they became. I personally use localbitcoins, because there is no fee's to sell, and you can get people to walk into a branch of your bank and deposit money directly to you and not have to worry about bank wire fee's in order to move your USDs out of an exchange.
It is an acronym for Magic The Gathering Online eXchange. A long time ago in internet time, that was its original purpose.
Thanks, great us of that quote!
Just had 15 the other day.
Is Dice Holdings that owns /. the same Dice that creates Battlefield? Just curious.
That struck me as harsh as well, but sometimes life isn't fair. Not everyone gets to bring home the projects they work on.
Secret of Mana, on Nintendo, most (all?) of the foods that would heal you, were all candy based.
Yup, if you look at the 3 big exchanges that deal with USD, you'll see $1.4 BILLION USD changing hands in the last month for bitcoins. It isn't rare to see a couple million $$$ change hands in small handful of trades.
Thanks for the information, that does make sense, sadly.
The difference is that the antenna isn't on land that you own or lease.
(ipso facto) why does the location of the antenna matter if you are paying a local for that service? what supersedes your ability to find someone that has better reception? especially that this service is _only_ given to others from the same locale (who may not be able to get good reception)?
Whoosh? evilviper agrees with you.
After friends/relatives/neighbors wanted me to work on their pos dell/gateway/emachines/sony.. I talked most of them into building one for their next upgrade instead of going back to shit companys who won't support you anyway unless you pay. alot.
Most of them went for the custom machine easy. Half the price. Better preformance. No crapware on top. And if i have to 'support' them. I don't want to do it for shitty machines. I built more than a few of them for people too. $50.. an hour of my time picking parts. an hour assembling and installing windows. $25 an hour for something i enjoy doing. Everyones happy and it ends up alot less work and downtime/problems for everyone in the future.
You sound like me ten year ago. I know everyone is different, but get out while you can. If you get more friends and family coming to you, you'll find more and more things breaking, more problems coming up, with expectations that your weekends are no longer yours. And more often than not, over time, these same friends and family will begin expecting you to just fix it, and may even get rude or cause you issues if you expect much more than a "Thank You! Till next time I my smoking causes my GPU to fail due to the dust gunk that caked over the heatsink causing it to overheat for the last few months". And somehow, again over time, they'll come to blame you for these problems that you should have been able to warn them about or prevent. I still assist close friends with anything I can help them with, because they aren't assholes, but some "friends" and definitely some family will take advantage of you. If you feel the desire to pursue this line of work, find a way to do it professionally, and only deal with customers.
It isn't a problem, and it is already correcting itself. Currently they are at 37% network hash power and appears to still be dropping.
I expect their percentage to drop to 30% in the next month.
Yup, and it is already almost there. List of major pools
Actually...Netflix does quite a lot of research.
Indeed. If you are unaware of Chaos Monkey or the Simian Army, look it up. I've nothing but respect how they've effectively eliminated single points of failure in their environment.
I've heard stories of their dev/qa system that is equally awesome, that allows for rapid code development, regression testing, and deployment into live systems, thousands of times a day.
Any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. :-)
But honestly, that sounds plausible.
How do you turn those coins into money? All the online credit card things accepted by mtgrox or something like that look like russian scam sites.
You trade them on an exchange, like vircurex.com or others. You send your coins into the exchange and trade them for bitcoins (or litecoins if the exchange does that).
Now you take your bitcoins to some place like localbitcoins.com and find someone willing to send you $$$ for them. You find a buyer on the site, for me I find someone that'll do cash deposits into my bank, once you post the sell your bitcoins go into escrow. The buyer then confirms they can do the trade, at which point your bitcoin gets locked into escrow until you release it. The buyer then walks into a branch of your bank and deposits cash to your bank acct #. You validate you see the money hitting your account and then release the bitcoin from escrow.
It is amazing that people will walk into your banks branch and give you hundreds of dollars for fractions of a bitcoin.
Great post, great suggestion!
Where is the Nexus 5 half the price? Everyone is selling the Nexus 5 for $350 with contract while the iPhone 5s is $200 with contract.
Incorrect.
The Nexus 5 is $350 for the one with 16GB of space, $400 for the 32GB one, and that is with NO contract.
iPhone 5s is only $200 with a contact, if you want to buy it outright without a contract, it costs $650 for 16GB and $750 for 32 GB.
In other words, about 1/2 the price.
My kingdom for mod points! Well said.