That doesn't backup the 20TB of Linux ISO's I have stored away on my NAS/SAN. I need reliable portable, external, removable backups that I can shuffle to another location and restore when the array inevitably fails.
I bought a Dell T4000 (48 tapes) with dual LTO-4 for $500. Ridiculous overkill for my data but you know what, it'll back everything up and I can shuffle it to another location in a fireproof box that I don't have to trust Amazon, Google, or CloudBackupVendorX to restore my data from. Everything comes on a tape.
The 3-2-1 is the best backup solution for DataHoarder's period. Follow it and you will survive your array falling on you when it finally does.
This is not for personal use, this is not meant for your home user, this is not meant to be used in a singular environment for a single user. This is a BUSINESS/ACADEMIC plan to provide a piece of hardware that if(when) it breaks that you can get immediate replacement for it and when the hardware is outdated you get a new device you can reassign to another user without having to worry about recycling and asset management when the device has to be removed from circulation.
This is the same way cell phone providers are doing with their cell phones so people can keep upgrading to the new hotness and not have a drawer full of old cell phones that are 100% worthless.
This is not meant for the Grognard. This is not meant for the Hardware Hoarder. This is not meant for the Linux person who runs Gentoo on their dual celeron Abit motherboard. This is not for you, and I'm going to enjoy reading the hate (and the inevitable -9000 Flamebait) that this will entire article will degenerate into.
Slashdot's ex parent company did that EN MASSE. People think this is a new issue and it's not. Old and dead projects are rewoken with adware built in and sent off to those who mistakenly download it.
for sticking to it's guns and giving the finger to the automakers. I hope they force innovation or the destruction of the automotive industry and give it the change it needs. This way we will FINALLY see competition for Tesla in the states.
$99/year is a common marketing tactic for these type of deals. Considering MS Office is $149/yr for EVERYTHING that's no such a bad deal if I get my OS+Office for a low price.
It's a business expense, write it off on your taxes folks, I do it every year and save a fortune.
I get lifetime upgrades for my OS, full support, full office, straight up professional support for $10/mo or $99/yr? I'm in. It's a small price to pay to keep all my PC's going strong and not have to worry about going EOL and buying a new OS license every 2-3 years.
It'll come down to the price and if it's feasible on the wallet.
This is a thing? This is needed? Why? Why not keep the firmware on the car updated more often so you don't have some tard with a bluetooth dongle open up the door in your 100k BMW?
Youtube has massive examples of this and it's more the blame of the Car Manufacturers than anything else for shitty programming.
Without a credit card we are back to paper billing, bank transfers, trading in fucking seashells.
"BUT WHUT ABOUT THE BITCOINZ!?!?!"
Not until I can pay my water bill with bitcoins will it be ready for mass consumption. Once Bitcoin reaches the low level of utilities then it'll be ready for primetime.
When the Google reader went away I scrambled to find a replacement. Feedly is by far the best replacement of the bunch and I have paid for all their services to support them.
Give me more games per month on xbox live and make sure I can play them forever on xbox live. Charge an additional 9.99$/mo to give me games on release day that I can play as long as I have an active XBL account. Honestly once I beat a game there's very little reason I need to keep it on my shelf, in my system, or other type of media. I have HORDES of old games that collect and the chance of me playing.0001% of them is slim to none.
I'll take a modern service that gives me all my content+new content for a very low monthly rate.
when i worked at a major telecom all the Indian 'developers' had Master's degrees at the minimum. This would qualify them for 'highly skilled' technical jobs as the degrees themselves state as much.
Now they couldn't code worth a damn, the libraries they included in the code ballooned the code base, and god help you if you needed documentation. They were some of the worst 'developers' I've ever met and 1/10 was decent enough to not build code that didn't melt the servers down. The whole reason we had a team of 5 System Admins supporting 2 floors of developers was because of their shoddy coding skills. It was great job security.
Oracle: We want to hire you to tell us if buying this company is a good deal Me: Sounds like you want me to be a consultant...
O: No no no Consultant is such a 90's term "Global Acquisition Specialist" is better. Me:...and you want me to tell you if spending money on something is a good idea...
O: Oh no, this has to be a SMART expenditure of capital! We can't be wasting Larry's cash that's reserved for a small Bohemian island on a Dud! Me:...even though purchasing something that is well known to be a horrible investment is a bad idea...
O: You have to look at it TODAY not how it was THEN! Things change you know this! Me:...and this purchase price will still be in the billions...
O: That's only a few Oracle Database Enterprise licenses. Pocket change Me:..and you want to wrap this up in the next Quarter.
O: Sooner the better, due diligence and all that. Me: I'll submit my invoices straight away starting with this conversation.
O: CAPITAL! I knew we hired the right team! Me: <looks around at the empty chairs only person in the room>
Worth every damn penny I paid for that product plus add-ons. It's by FAR the best character builder and resource tool that one can use. Their iPad app makes using those characters and playing them a breeze. It's stupidly simple, and it's a single price that gives you everything you need. If you can afford an IOS device you can afford the pittance that is HeroLab to 100% manage your character creation. I haven't used the rest of the tools that HeroLab offers so I can't speak to them.
WOTC's approach is going to trickle out after a year, no updates, and then vanish into the mists of time. Can you even imagine having WOTC keep a company around long enough with the upgrade cycles of Android and IOS? Never happen. Capcom has a better track record at updates than WOTC.
Great, hire all the programmers, but what about the folks who build the series of tubes that these hobbit loving keyboard warriors mash their face on with their LOLCats code? You need those folks too.
Let's talk brass tacks here: What's the fastest internet speed I can get for my house there in NZ and how much does it cost per month? This is what matters.
The Nokia 3010 just came back on the market for $50. This sucker will have a battery life for MONTHS. If all you need is a phone and you travel and don't want the bad man looking at your email just carry a crappy phone that you don't mind losing and forward all your phone calls to that other number.
I'd love to see the look on the security person's face when they try to figure that device out. It'll be insanely hilarious.
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That doesn't backup the 20TB of Linux ISO's I have stored away on my NAS/SAN. I need reliable portable, external, removable backups that I can shuffle to another location and restore when the array inevitably fails.
I bought a Dell T4000 (48 tapes) with dual LTO-4 for $500. Ridiculous overkill for my data but you know what, it'll back everything up and I can shuffle it to another location in a fireproof box that I don't have to trust Amazon, Google, or CloudBackupVendorX to restore my data from. Everything comes on a tape.
The 3-2-1 is the best backup solution for DataHoarder's period. Follow it and you will survive your array falling on you when it finally does.
This is not for personal use, this is not meant for your home user, this is not meant to be used in a singular environment for a single user. This is a BUSINESS/ACADEMIC plan to provide a piece of hardware that if(when) it breaks that you can get immediate replacement for it and when the hardware is outdated you get a new device you can reassign to another user without having to worry about recycling and asset management when the device has to be removed from circulation.
This is the same way cell phone providers are doing with their cell phones so people can keep upgrading to the new hotness and not have a drawer full of old cell phones that are 100% worthless.
This is not meant for the Grognard. This is not meant for the Hardware Hoarder. This is not meant for the Linux person who runs Gentoo on their dual celeron Abit motherboard. This is not for you, and I'm going to enjoy reading the hate (and the inevitable -9000 Flamebait) that this will entire article will degenerate into.
Slashdot's ex parent company did that EN MASSE. People think this is a new issue and it's not. Old and dead projects are rewoken with adware built in and sent off to those who mistakenly download it.
move along. Apple is 'winning'.
for sticking to it's guns and giving the finger to the automakers. I hope they force innovation or the destruction of the automotive industry and give it the change it needs. This way we will FINALLY see competition for Tesla in the states.
.02% to .04% is a HUUUUUGE market boost...
$99/year is a common marketing tactic for these type of deals. Considering MS Office is $149/yr for EVERYTHING that's no such a bad deal if I get my OS+Office for a low price.
It's a business expense, write it off on your taxes folks, I do it every year and save a fortune.
I get lifetime upgrades for my OS, full support, full office, straight up professional support for $10/mo or $99/yr? I'm in. It's a small price to pay to keep all my PC's going strong and not have to worry about going EOL and buying a new OS license every 2-3 years.
It'll come down to the price and if it's feasible on the wallet.
like a mechanic? You don't say.
It is? Seriously? Which CxO thought up THAT braintrust idea?
Since when? Oh people still browse without an AdBlocker. Silly people.
I had to check our AWS systems as I was curious
All our systems are on 4.9 which is a bit more than CentOS 7 but not fully into RH8 land.
I wonder how long it will be till AWS pushes out 4.11.
This is a thing? This is needed? Why? Why not keep the firmware on the car updated more often so you don't have some tard with a bluetooth dongle open up the door in your 100k BMW?
Youtube has massive examples of this and it's more the blame of the Car Manufacturers than anything else for shitty programming.
debit cards are tied to one of the major vendors. You COULD get one from your bank as an ATM card but that's getting harder and harder to do.
There's no way in hell to manage any form payment system without having one of the big 4 as a vendor and support. Paypal is getting closer.
Without a credit card we are back to paper billing, bank transfers, trading in fucking seashells.
"BUT WHUT ABOUT THE BITCOINZ!?!?!"
Not until I can pay my water bill with bitcoins will it be ready for mass consumption. Once Bitcoin reaches the low level of utilities then it'll be ready for primetime.
That's like Terraquads of GigaRAM for sure!
When the Google reader went away I scrambled to find a replacement. Feedly is by far the best replacement of the bunch and I have paid for all their services to support them.
RSS is far from dead.
Give me more games per month on xbox live and make sure I can play them forever on xbox live. Charge an additional 9.99$/mo to give me games on release day that I can play as long as I have an active XBL account. Honestly once I beat a game there's very little reason I need to keep it on my shelf, in my system, or other type of media. I have HORDES of old games that collect and the chance of me playing .0001% of them is slim to none.
I'll take a modern service that gives me all my content+new content for a very low monthly rate.
you get an @aol.com address. I bet you can't wait to put that one on your resume....
when i worked at a major telecom all the Indian 'developers' had Master's degrees at the minimum. This would qualify them for 'highly skilled' technical jobs as the degrees themselves state as much.
Now they couldn't code worth a damn, the libraries they included in the code ballooned the code base, and god help you if you needed documentation. They were some of the worst 'developers' I've ever met and 1/10 was decent enough to not build code that didn't melt the servers down. The whole reason we had a team of 5 System Admins supporting 2 floors of developers was because of their shoddy coding skills. It was great job security.
Oracle: We want to hire you to tell us if buying this company is a good deal
...and you want me to tell you if spending money on something is a good idea...
...and this purchase price will still be in the billions...
Me: Sounds like you want me to be a consultant...
O: No no no Consultant is such a 90's term "Global Acquisition Specialist" is better.
Me:
O: Oh no, this has to be a SMART expenditure of capital! We can't be wasting Larry's cash that's reserved for a small Bohemian island on a Dud!
Me:...even though purchasing something that is well known to be a horrible investment is a bad idea...
O: You have to look at it TODAY not how it was THEN! Things change you know this!
Me:
O: That's only a few Oracle Database Enterprise licenses. Pocket change
Me:..and you want to wrap this up in the next Quarter.
O: Sooner the better, due diligence and all that.
Me: I'll submit my invoices straight away starting with this conversation.
O: CAPITAL! I knew we hired the right team!
Me: <looks around at the empty chairs only person in the room>
Worth every damn penny I paid for that product plus add-ons. It's by FAR the best character builder and resource tool that one can use. Their iPad app makes using those characters and playing them a breeze. It's stupidly simple, and it's a single price that gives you everything you need. If you can afford an IOS device you can afford the pittance that is HeroLab to 100% manage your character creation. I haven't used the rest of the tools that HeroLab offers so I can't speak to them.
WOTC's approach is going to trickle out after a year, no updates, and then vanish into the mists of time. Can you even imagine having WOTC keep a company around long enough with the upgrade cycles of Android and IOS? Never happen. Capcom has a better track record at updates than WOTC.
begins it so does /me repeats in the story //snarky mcsnarkface
Great, hire all the programmers, but what about the folks who build the series of tubes that these hobbit loving keyboard warriors mash their face on with their LOLCats code? You need those folks too.
Let's talk brass tacks here: What's the fastest internet speed I can get for my house there in NZ and how much does it cost per month? This is what matters.
The Nokia 3010 just came back on the market for $50. This sucker will have a battery life for MONTHS. If all you need is a phone and you travel and don't want the bad man looking at your email just carry a crappy phone that you don't mind losing and forward all your phone calls to that other number.
I'd love to see the look on the security person's face when they try to figure that device out. It'll be insanely hilarious.