Time for you to find education - as opposed to propaganda.
I'm from "former eastern block" so I know how things are being managed in such places.
Those who refuse get a bullet in the head.
For refusing to get EVD? Are you really SO stupid that you believe that?
Things are very simple. People aren't -forced-. Things just get arranged in such a way, that if they want otherwise, it just doesn't pay - by far. In communist countries, big monetary transactions are relatively scarce. You buy food, maybe clothes, maybe some small home equipment. People earn little, but these cost little too. No problem. But if you want luxury goods, they usually cost more than in the west. People just almost never can afford them. But there IS a "window" for them - special government coupons that allow you to purchase a luxury item from limited pool, for very decent price. You get those by communist means: "Everyone gets one", "Those who deserve get one" or by a bribe or friendship or such. The caveat is, the items are of exact specification. So an university may purchase in "internal export network" a CD drive for $50 or use a coupon for EVD for $10. A worker at a factory instead of getting a lousy $50 bonus for really superb job over several years, may get a coupon to buy a brand new, quite decent PC (conforming to government specs, from the pool) that will cost $80. Want to get DVD instead of the EVD inside? Pay $100 from your savings and enjoy! The system works quite well in promoting what the government wants. Of course, you have to be very lucky, or hard working... or have good contacts, to get such a coupon!
It's backward-compatibile with standard DVDs, so it probably should have most of its (mis)features. But once you get an EVD rip of a DVD, you're free to do whatever you desire.:)
Or at least with minor moving parts like a tiny mirror or such? IMHO following the "disk" trend is a mistake. CD and DVD could have been made i.e. rectangular, with drive that would just sweep the laser ray over immobile surface. Cheaper, faster, less error-prone... and less resembling a vinyl record, so Sony decided it should be round and rotate instead, so people would prefer to buy it.
I still hope some next generation media won't follow dumb marketing trends and prefer efficiency over "legacy looks", but it seems China failed my hopes this time.
I heard it was its major advantage above "your average jet", expensive, very fast travel for the hurried and rich? And it was certainly very substantial... until it died;)
Non-US. Other regulations, other laws. Plus by removing amps, any ISP brings all its customers offline completely. That means more or less death to them, at least in my area.
The higher the frequency, the better "available bandwidth" (signal wave must be relatively low frequency to carrier wave - you modulate the carrier wave), but then the stronger the noise to signal ratio. You can apply different counter-measures against it, but all they have a very limited effect and sooner or later it boils down to "increase signal power". And once the signal power gets increased, it adds up to other signals noise. Which forces them to increase their power. Which adds to total noise level forcing yet more to increase the power... Deadlock.
See my post a bit below, and try to understand - if you don't give a damn, you will just force people to move to equipment like you have. And would you like to have 1K/s transfers like I have? Or days with ping like this?
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=801 ttl=61 time=179.688 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=1372 ttl=61 time=69.358 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=2020 ttl=61 time=139.666 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=2411 ttl=61 time=29.708 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=2735 ttl=61 time=29.201 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=2808 ttl=61 time=119.482 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=3540 ttl=61 time=1.239 sec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=3869 ttl=61 time=29.728 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=4420 ttl=61 time=59.605 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=4814 ttl=61 time=29.677 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=4877 ttl=61 time=129.729 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=4974 ttl=61 time=59.681 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=5243 ttl=61 time=269.733 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=5645 ttl=61 time=19.729 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=6015 ttl=61 time=399.669 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=6263 ttl=61 time=69.728 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=7126 ttl=61 time=49.671 msec 64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=8205 ttl=61 time=139.727 msec
I live on a suburb with several (20+) radiomodem access points - no cables, no ground lines, just several "clusters of houses" hooked to their antennas. Connections to several ISPs.
The network connection sucks.
At first it worked fine. I'd say it worked great. People heard it works great so they began installing the equipment themselves. The lines began disturbing each other, but it still worked okay. More people installed this, and the network quality began to suck really. So some of them, to overcome the noise, installed signal amplifiers for their antennas. Result? Everyone without amplifiers simply lost their connections completely. So people began installing amplifiers en masse, which resulted in that connection sucks for everyone again. My packet loss ranges from 10 to 60%. TV signal gets disturbed. Radio mice and keyboars don't work. Great, just great. And the ISPs just can't come to agreement on putting one, good, shared ground line.
Ether is a limited resource and wireless in larger amounts will suck, no matter what.
I think the solution could be like this: 1 Find a security flaw 2 Keep it secret until next elections. 3 Exploit it to promote a candidate that was without chance. Just make some really mad wacko win. 4 Leave the note on the machines: "Go opensource or your candidates never win". 5 Vanish until next elections.
No matter if they cancel the results, if they investigate, if they say you're a terrorist or whatever, they will just HAVE to make the process secure. Simply the public will NOT allow them to go on with such a flawed system.
Yes, I've seen one of Microsoft's slogans in one of their flyers:
Our software makes your daily work more interesting
Yes, that's exactly it. Not "easier". Not "more effective". Not "fun". Not "better quality". Exactly, "more interesting". When opening your email is connected with all the thrills "Does it contain a virus or not?", when setting up some network is a challenge, when finding TCP/IP networking in the bunch of "non-technical-sounding" wizards in XP takes half a hour, it certainly makes your work more interesting... to anyone who happens to watch you fuming over that stuff.
You people really need to pick one of the two: A) bumbling, incompetent retard who can't pick his nose without someone dusting cocaine on his finger first, or B) cunning, devious, criminal mastermind of Illuminati-like proportions and power
Those two caricatures are mutually exclusive, but a lot of you seem to see Bush as both.
The problem is while Bush himself is A), there are quite a few B's that do his finger dusting while whispering what he should do next.
I thought of another thing yet. You may write down your partition settings (so you could recreate a partition table of the same sizes, it's pretty deterministic, so if you give the same number of sectors etc on new hdd, it will be just like old), then make image-backup of your "system volume" (where all the "evil unreadable" files reside) - say, it's a 10G partition. And backup the remaining 70G using old-fashioned "CD copy" or whatever - non-native-windows stuff should be backupable by any standard means. Just dd if=/dev/hda1...
dd if=/dev/hda | bzip2 >backup.raw.bz2 (or something around that threads. YMMW-RTFManPages.)
Note empty disk space is not necessarily zeros and thus not really good to compress. ("deleted" files get just 'unlinked' as opposed to 'wiped'). It may be a good idea to stuff the harddrive with a big zeros-filled file (dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/windows/zeros.nul) or use some "anti-undelete security tools" that actually zero the empty space.
Sure. You just boot to VGA16 mode instead of text mode. What a great improvement.
So if it has so many built-in backup options, why are you posting this as AC? Just list them all because that's an "ask slashdot" article on this very topic and that's exactly what you're supposed to do.
It happens I was using a dual boot Linux/NT system at work for over a year. You can't imagine my joy when my boss allowed me to reformat all NT partitions for Linux and run this as 24/7 Linux workstation... because it never found any decent use in NT and worked great as backup server for everything. Need WWW? 10 mins later we have WWW. Need to boot a Solaris box with broken bootsector? TFTP up and running. Need to recover crashed SCSI disk contents? The CD writer card has 6 spare SCSI IDs yet. And of course my infamous backup system which was a billant design nobody used.:) For the NT box, I found one decent use over these years: Networked Quake2.
Classic problem of "non-representative statistic sample".
Maybe they haven't talked with anyone who claims Free Software is better, simply because those who say Free Software is better just don't talk with people like them?
Legacy from MS-DoS, "system files" get screwed up that way. Same as you can't move vmlinuz around the harddrive without running 'lilo' (or whatever) later, plain 'cp' doesn't give warranty that files copied back to harddrive land exactly in the same disk sectors...where some system tools could expect them. So rather go with 'dd' than 'cp'.
dd if=/dev/hda of=/backup/today/hda.raw where/backup/ is a removable harddrive for backups - possibly one from which you booted the system to Linux to make the backup. Then eventually run "gzip" or "bzip2" over that. You get a perfect mirror, that recovers everything, including MBR, partition tables, deleted files for undelete and empty diskspace (which is lucklily very compressable). Recovery? dd if=/backup/thatday/hda.raw of=/dev/hda
Slashdot Mirror
And some $30/drive.
Time for you to find education - as opposed to propaganda.
I'm from "former eastern block" so I know how things are being managed in such places.
Those who refuse get a bullet in the head.
For refusing to get EVD? Are you really SO stupid that you believe that?
Things are very simple. People aren't -forced-. Things just get arranged in such a way, that if they want otherwise, it just doesn't pay - by far.
In communist countries, big monetary transactions are relatively scarce. You buy food, maybe clothes, maybe some small home equipment. People earn little, but these cost little too. No problem. But if you want luxury goods, they usually cost more than in the west. People just almost never can afford them. But there IS a "window" for them - special government coupons that allow you to purchase a luxury item from limited pool, for very decent price. You get those by communist means: "Everyone gets one", "Those who deserve get one" or by a bribe or friendship or such. The caveat is, the items are of exact specification. So an university may purchase in "internal export network" a CD drive for $50 or use a coupon for EVD for $10. A worker at a factory instead of getting a lousy $50 bonus for really superb job over several years, may get a coupon to buy a brand new, quite decent PC (conforming to government specs, from the pool) that will cost $80. Want to get DVD instead of the EVD inside? Pay $100 from your savings and enjoy! The system works quite well in promoting what the government wants. Of course, you have to be very lucky, or hard working... or have good contacts, to get such a coupon!
Most probably - yes, optionally :)
:)
It's backward-compatibile with standard DVDs, so it probably should have most of its (mis)features. But once you get an EVD rip of a DVD, you're free to do whatever you desire.
Or at least with minor moving parts like a tiny mirror or such?
IMHO following the "disk" trend is a mistake. CD and DVD could have been made i.e. rectangular, with drive that would just sweep the laser ray over immobile surface. Cheaper, faster, less error-prone... and less resembling a vinyl record, so Sony decided it should be round and rotate instead, so people would prefer to buy it.
I still hope some next generation media won't follow dumb marketing trends and prefer efficiency over "legacy looks", but it seems China failed my hopes this time.
I heard it was its major advantage above "your average jet", expensive, very fast travel for the hurried and rich? ;)
And it was certainly very substantial... until it died
Ask any nerd and he will answer that Australia is the land of Samba!
go to preferences, set 100 results per page. Page 99 means 9900 results. Still need more? Get Google API and write a query app yourself.
Go to page 10, you get links 1-19. Page 19 brings pages 9-28. etc...
Please, don't blame everything on post-communist people. The "New Estabilishment" does at least as much mess.
Just for Polish status in race into space...
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Non-US. Other regulations, other laws. Plus by removing amps, any ISP brings all its customers offline completely. That means more or less death to them, at least in my area.
Background Noise.
The higher the frequency, the better "available bandwidth" (signal wave must be relatively low frequency to carrier wave - you modulate the carrier wave), but then the stronger the noise to signal ratio. You can apply different counter-measures against it, but all they have a very limited effect and sooner or later it boils down to "increase signal power". And once the signal power gets increased, it adds up to other signals noise. Which forces them to increase their power. Which adds to total noise level forcing yet more to increase the power... Deadlock.
which leads to killing the wireless transmission.
See my post a bit below, and try to understand - if you don't give a damn, you will just force people to move to equipment like you have. And would you like to have 1K/s transfers like I have? Or days with ping like this?
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=801 ttl=61 time=179.688 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=1372 ttl=61 time=69.358 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=2020 ttl=61 time=139.666 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=2411 ttl=61 time=29.708 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=2735 ttl=61 time=29.201 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=2808 ttl=61 time=119.482 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=3540 ttl=61 time=1.239 sec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=3869 ttl=61 time=29.728 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=4420 ttl=61 time=59.605 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=4814 ttl=61 time=29.677 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=4877 ttl=61 time=129.729 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=4974 ttl=61 time=59.681 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=5243 ttl=61 time=269.733 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=5645 ttl=61 time=19.729 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=6015 ttl=61 time=399.669 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=6263 ttl=61 time=69.728 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=7126 ttl=61 time=49.671 msec
64 bytes from [provider]: icmp_seq=8205 ttl=61 time=139.727 msec
I live on a suburb with several (20+) radiomodem access points - no cables, no ground lines, just several "clusters of houses" hooked to their antennas. Connections to several ISPs.
The network connection sucks.
At first it worked fine. I'd say it worked great. People heard it works great so they began installing the equipment themselves. The lines began disturbing each other, but it still worked okay. More people installed this, and the network quality began to suck really. So some of them, to overcome the noise, installed signal amplifiers for their antennas. Result? Everyone without amplifiers simply lost their connections completely. So people began installing amplifiers en masse, which resulted in that connection sucks for everyone again. My packet loss ranges from 10 to 60%. TV signal gets disturbed. Radio mice and keyboars don't work. Great, just great. And the ISPs just can't come to agreement on putting one, good, shared ground line.
Ether is a limited resource and wireless in larger amounts will suck, no matter what.
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I think the solution could be like this:
1 Find a security flaw
2 Keep it secret until next elections.
3 Exploit it to promote a candidate that was without chance. Just make some really mad wacko win.
4 Leave the note on the machines: "Go opensource or your candidates never win".
5 Vanish until next elections.
No matter if they cancel the results, if they investigate, if they say you're a terrorist or whatever, they will just HAVE to make the process secure. Simply the public will NOT allow them to go on with such a flawed system.
Yes, I've seen one of Microsoft's slogans in one of their flyers:
Our software makes your daily work more interesting
Yes, that's exactly it. Not "easier". Not "more effective". Not "fun". Not "better quality". Exactly, "more interesting". When opening your email is connected with all the thrills "Does it contain a virus or not?", when setting up some network is a challenge, when finding TCP/IP networking in the bunch of "non-technical-sounding" wizards in XP takes half a hour, it certainly makes your work more interesting... to anyone who happens to watch you fuming over that stuff.
You people really need to pick one of the two:
A) bumbling, incompetent retard who can't pick his nose without someone dusting cocaine on his finger first, or
B) cunning, devious, criminal mastermind of Illuminati-like proportions and power
Those two caricatures are mutually exclusive, but a lot of you seem to see Bush as both.
The problem is while Bush himself is A), there are quite a few B's that do his finger dusting while whispering what he should do next.
I thought of another thing yet. ...
You may write down your partition settings (so you could recreate a partition table of the same sizes, it's pretty deterministic, so if you give the same number of sectors etc on new hdd, it will be just like old), then make image-backup of your "system volume" (where all the "evil unreadable" files reside) - say, it's a 10G partition. And backup the remaining 70G using old-fashioned "CD copy" or whatever - non-native-windows stuff should be backupable by any standard means.
Just dd if=/dev/hda1
dd if=/dev/hda | bzip2 >backup.raw.bz2
(or something around that threads. YMMW-RTFManPages.)
Note empty disk space is not necessarily zeros and thus not really good to compress. ("deleted" files get just 'unlinked' as opposed to 'wiped'). It may be a good idea to stuff the harddrive with a big zeros-filled file (dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/windows/zeros.nul) or use some "anti-undelete security tools" that actually zero the empty space.
Embedding content in HTML pages is patented, dont you remember?
Sure. You just boot to VGA16 mode instead of text mode. What a great improvement.
:) For the NT box, I found one decent use over these years: Networked Quake2.
So if it has so many built-in backup options, why are you posting this as AC? Just list them all because that's an "ask slashdot" article on this very topic and that's exactly what you're supposed to do.
It happens I was using a dual boot Linux/NT system at work for over a year. You can't imagine my joy when my boss allowed me to reformat all NT partitions for Linux and run this as 24/7 Linux workstation... because it never found any decent use in NT and worked great as backup server for everything. Need WWW? 10 mins later we have WWW. Need to boot a Solaris box with broken bootsector? TFTP up and running. Need to recover crashed SCSI disk contents? The CD writer card has 6 spare SCSI IDs yet. And of course my infamous backup system which was a billant design nobody used.
Classic problem of "non-representative statistic sample".
Maybe they haven't talked with anyone who claims Free Software is better, simply because those who say Free Software is better just don't talk with people like them?
Legacy from MS-DoS, "system files" get screwed up that way. Same as you can't move vmlinuz around the harddrive without running 'lilo' (or whatever) later, plain 'cp' doesn't give warranty that files copied back to harddrive land exactly in the same disk sectors...where some system tools could expect them. So rather go with 'dd' than 'cp'.
Well, there are always two solutions to each problem:
1) Say "Go screw yourself, it won't work and it stays that way"
2) Fix it.
Microsoft just went for the former. At least they documented that "feature".
dd if=/dev/hda of=/backup/today/hda.raw /backup/ is a removable harddrive for backups - possibly one from which you booted the system to Linux to make the backup.
where
Then eventually run "gzip" or "bzip2" over that. You get a perfect mirror, that recovers everything, including MBR, partition tables, deleted files for undelete and empty diskspace (which is lucklily very compressable).
Recovery?
dd if=/backup/thatday/hda.raw of=/dev/hda