This is the solution that the whole CA model of trust is built around.
We can go in and delete the offending root cert from our browsers now, but the masses are dependent on Google, Mozilla, Microsoft and Apple to choose whom to trust for them.
Repeat after me until it sinks in. RAID is not backup.
RAID is not backup.
If you want to keep your pictures, make multiple copies and keep one in a different location. Tape has a 30-year shelf-life and no logic board or mechanical parts to fail, and there will always be services available to restore them. Tape drives are unfortunately prohibitively expensive.
Remap caps lock to escape. All your vi editing mode apps (which can be a lot with proper configuration -- your shell is in emacs mode by default (ewwww)) will be much faster after you get used to it.
This is compounded by the fact that the linux community isn't what it used to be. No longer died-in-the-wool hackers and problem solvers, the community is overrun by cookbook readers just-reboot-it mentality people.
Systemd is a just-reboot-it solution for a just-reboot-it generation.
Any company that I've ever worked for that had money to spend did tape backups and stored them in a vault offsite. Tapes get verified as they're written, and don't have parts that fail like hard drives do. They have a 30-year shelf life, and you'll always be able to find a way to read them in the future. Go to ebay, buy a used LTO3 or LTO4 drive, (400GB and 800GB uncompressed, respectively). Tapes are about $25/ea for LTO3. Then put a backup somewhere safe.
Open source? Check. Multi-user? Check. Secure? Only as secure as the box it's on, and the boxes that people use to access it, just like everything else. Linux based? Check.
I moved from Linux to FreeBSD on the desktop something like 10 years ago. The same arguments apply as used to apply in the Linux vs. Windows debate. FreeBSD is more secure than Linux (but is that because it's less of a target?) Linux has better Flash support (with its attendant security holes.) FreeBSD has the ports system and ZFS though, and the system is cleaner, better integrated, easier to maintain, and I simply like it better. Use whatever OS you want for whatever you use it for. For me FreeBSD beats Linux any day.
It's not the fax machine that dies hard, it's the universe of paper documents that dies hard. What simpler, more reliable, more secure, and more point-to-point mechanism is there for transferring a piece of paper from one place to another?
Linux users growing frustrated at the increasingly superior feature set of FreeBSD can take heart that FreeBSD is also open source, and runs all of your favorite software. The adjustment necessary is roughly that of moving from one Linux distribution to another.
It's a nice thought, but with all the crazy patent litigation going around, why would moneyed corporations put themselves at risk? Too many vultures out there.
Great, you'll have a frankenstein pony, which doesn't exist yet. You know what a flamewar is though, so you must have some sort of credibility. You're certainly buzzword compliant. Nice score on that post.
Time machine over NFS over SSH? I assume you know what that entails. Wait, no I don't. ZFS over FUSE? Sounds spiffy, maybe you could put another layer of abstraction in there somewhere to make things more reliable.
For real backup needs, tape is still king. LTO4 can write 120MB/s, twice that if the data is compressible, and has a 30 year shelf life. We're talking about cheap and easy though.. Well guess what? Nothing's changed since this came up last week. Choose your cheap storage option and take your backups offline if you want them to be safer.
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This is the solution that the whole CA model of trust is built around.
We can go in and delete the offending root cert from our browsers now, but the masses are dependent on Google, Mozilla, Microsoft and Apple to choose whom to trust for them.
I had no idea there were that many blogs that nobody reads.
Repeat after me until it sinks in. RAID is not backup.
RAID is not backup.
If you want to keep your pictures, make multiple copies and keep one in a different location. Tape has a 30-year shelf-life and no logic board or mechanical parts to fail, and there will always be services available to restore them. Tape drives are unfortunately prohibitively expensive.
Find a way. But remember. RAID is not backup.
Remap caps lock to escape. All your vi editing mode apps (which can be a lot with proper configuration -- your shell is in emacs mode by default (ewwww)) will be much faster after you get used to it.
This is compounded by the fact that the linux community isn't what it used to be. No longer died-in-the-wool hackers and problem solvers, the community is overrun by cookbook readers just-reboot-it mentality people.
Systemd is a just-reboot-it solution for a just-reboot-it generation.
I have never seen a bunch of Linux users get so excited over a bug in a development branch before.
Umm, sendmail's process is called 'sendmail', postfix has no process called 'smtpd'.
That sound you just heard in the distance? The puckering of a million Linux fanboys' butts.
The framers of the constitution could not possibly have anticipated a world with such a thing as this "murder".
A whole article on their CDN boxes and not one mention of the OS. I'm surprised. It's FreeBSD.
The OS doing the heavy lifting (serving the actual video, up to 1/3 of the traffic on the net during peak hours) is FreeBSD.
Ummm, that's from March 2008. That's over five and a half years ago.
I can't imagine by what state of mental confusion would lead you to that conclusion, but it must be terrifying and uncomfortable.
I wonder how they will track non-paternity. People with random fathers pop up everywhere in studies like this, at a rate of something like 10-15%.
Any company that I've ever worked for that had money to spend did tape backups and stored them in a vault offsite. Tapes get verified as they're written, and don't have parts that fail like hard drives do. They have a 30-year shelf life, and you'll always be able to find a way to read them in the future. Go to ebay, buy a used LTO3 or LTO4 drive, (400GB and 800GB uncompressed, respectively). Tapes are about $25/ea for LTO3. Then put a backup somewhere safe.
Pretty sure that rock and roll didn't make guys unable to get laid.
Open source? Check. Multi-user? Check. Secure? Only as secure as the box it's on, and the boxes that people use to access it, just like everything else. Linux based? Check.
Gnupg and a flat text file.
I moved from Linux to FreeBSD on the desktop something like 10 years ago. The same arguments apply as used to apply in the Linux vs. Windows debate. FreeBSD is more secure than Linux (but is that because it's less of a target?) Linux has better Flash support (with its attendant security holes.) FreeBSD has the ports system and ZFS though, and the system is cleaner, better integrated, easier to maintain, and I simply like it better. Use whatever OS you want for whatever you use it for. For me FreeBSD beats Linux any day.
You can already do this with ZFS. It's called L2ARC.
It's not the fax machine that dies hard, it's the universe of paper documents that dies hard. What simpler, more reliable, more secure, and more point-to-point mechanism is there for transferring a piece of paper from one place to another?
Linux users growing frustrated at the increasingly superior feature set of FreeBSD can take heart that FreeBSD is also open source, and runs all of your favorite software. The adjustment necessary is roughly that of moving from one Linux distribution to another.
It took this long for people to figure this out? Did network sniffers go out of style or something?
It's a nice thought, but with all the crazy patent litigation going around, why would moneyed corporations put themselves at risk? Too many vultures out there.
What you seem to be describing is file-level deduplication, which is not what is being described here.
Great, you'll have a frankenstein pony, which doesn't exist yet. You know what a flamewar is though, so you must have some sort of credibility. You're certainly buzzword compliant. Nice score on that post.
Time machine over NFS over SSH? I assume you know what that entails. Wait, no I don't. ZFS over FUSE? Sounds spiffy, maybe you could put another layer of abstraction in there somewhere to make things more reliable.
For real backup needs, tape is still king. LTO4 can write 120MB/s, twice that if the data is compressible, and has a 30 year shelf life. We're talking about cheap and easy though.. Well guess what? Nothing's changed since this came up last week. Choose your cheap storage option and take your backups offline if you want them to be safer.