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  1. running shows on Student Creates World's Fastest Shoe With a Printer · · Score: 1

    ahem, I don't mean to be pedantic but you've got a semantic error in your summary.

  2. Re:7-inch? on Google's Nexus Tablet To Be Unveiled Next Week · · Score: 1

    They own motarola now so why compete with the Xoom; which as an owner I am happy with.

  3. Re:From a buffoon on Diesel-Like Engine Could Boost Fuel Economy By 50% · · Score: 1

    Diesel engines are simple and need to be built more ruggedly to withstand the additional pressures. This also makes them more durable and who wants to sell a car that will run for 20 years?

  4. roll your own. on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 2

    make a closet, get two peices of 2"x2" angle aluminium, drill your holes, get self taping screws and firmly bolt it to your closet frame. Cantilever your equipment; just avoid heavy long 1u equipment. Option 2, go to a computer recycler, I can get a full sun rack for $150.

  5. p4tw on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Personal Data? · · Score: 1

    I was given a p4 optiplex desktop which I am using for my fileserver. I have a pair of 1.5tb disks and a pair of 2tb disks in mirrors running freeNAS on a usb thumbdrive. The optiplex is great because is quiet, fast enough and the case conveniently fits 4 drives(and free). I have a cheap 4 sata card for the drives and I splurged on a decent intel gigabit nic after couple other cheap ones with no luck (asus and dlink I believe). If you do the thumbdrive thing, make sure and buy two and dd the contents over, one failed on me and now I have to manually manage my raid via cli. Of course this does not protect me from myself, but I haven't lost too much due to my own stupidity. I used to have a larger fileserver with all sorts of little drives, but I replaced them with a couple big ones and I'm much happier for it. Lots of people swear by drobos. One person I know plugs a decent usb drive into his hacked router. Rsnapshot is good for automatic incremental backups.

  6. Re:What a surprise on Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing Is Booming · · Score: 1

    lets say we did exist in such an Orwellian society where this could happen; encrypted communications would be made to mimic existing systems, such as skype or youtube.

  7. Re:So, to translate: on How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work · · Score: 0

    I worked 10-12 hours per day 10-18 days in a row as a skilled construction worker in the Oil Sands of Alberta Canada. My government and union invested in me to get the small amount of training required for the position. Some companies import foreign workers who will work for less, but they also make more mistakes which can be very very expensive. I lived in remote camps, I was attentive and always ready to work. I was paid $90k in my first 10months. What this article is describing is an American problem, not a western one. Train your youth in trades and technical certs. It will pay itself back with bucket fulls of income tax.

  8. Re:FreeBSD & ZFS on FreeBSD 9.0 Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I never noticed any of this /w dedup and compress on. it chugged along and responded just fine. Manual "memory tuning" is not required, my 5tb file server w/ 48gb ram has no problem addressing memory whenever it wants /wo any tuning. ZFS is a beast, regardless of os or hardware but that is the point. You don't get bit loss protection, ram caching, compression or de-dup hash tables for free.

  9. Re:ZFS v28 on FreeBSD 9.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I wasn't very scientific with my testing but I don't think duplicates were any faster. I believe the bottleneck is the CPU (a single $500 xeon). I am mostly interested in read speeds which were more or less unaffected. Capacity, bit rot protection and ease of array management(zfs labels drives for easy importing) are also very nice features.

  10. Re:ZFS v28 on FreeBSD 9.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I put 48gb in it. Ram is cheap. I have yet to see it "wire" more then half that, but I am slowly deploying it.

  11. ZFS v28 on FreeBSD 9.0 Released · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ZFS v28 not a highlight? I just finished testing a 5tb Freebsd 9.0rc2 Supermicro server. ZFS v28 adds de-duplication and a removes rather nasty failure when an intent log device is removed. It also had built in support for the LSI HBA controller card I used, which made installation much easier. We'll save at least %40 with compression and de-dup but it does half write speeds with our xeon 5600(200MB/s down to 80MB/s) .

  12. Re:Prgmr.com on Ask Slashdot: Best Inexpensive VPS Provider? · · Score: 1

    Thats good to hear, to bad I didn't find those guys a couple years ago.

  13. linode on Ask Slashdot: Best Inexpensive VPS Provider? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I tried a cheap $5/month vps for a while, it was trouble. First they falsely claimed that I was maxing out my transfer limit and I switched to linode after a bunch of os files became corrupted. I haven't had an issue with linode and a few of my friends use them. Also 128mb a bit inconvenient for most things(watch out for orphaned ssh sessions chewing up ram at 5mb each).

  14. Re:There are actual lists ya know on Ask Slashdot: GNU/Linux Laptops? · · Score: 1

    I like Lenovo SL410/Ubuntu/SSD combo; cheap, rugged, simple and fast.

  15. JR Digs on Ask William Shatner Whatever You'd Like · · Score: 1

    Is there any validity JR Digs' claim that your ripped him off of $28K CDN? http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/eh8wq/iam_the_telemarketer_troll_jrdigs_ama/

  16. Vulcan on NASA Satellite Falls Back To Earth; Landfall in Canada · · Score: 2

    Maybe this is a *CRAZY* conspiracy theory but I think NASA was trying to take out the Enterprise in nearby Vulcan. http://www.vulcantourism.com/about-vulcan-albertas-star-ship-fx6-1995-a.html

  17. this is new? on Intel Shows RealVNC Embedded In the BIOS · · Score: 1

    I use this tech on a number of lenovo desktops. It works pretty good, though I have had some reliability issues. Isn't this standard with all vPro capable hardware. BTW this has some amazing potential when working with our India based IT support, especially for a small company.

  18. toilet paper rolls on Ask Slashdot: Clever Cable Management? · · Score: 4, Informative
  19. ted talk on Ask Slashdot: Can You Identify This UAV? · · Score: 1
  20. University of Calgary CPSC is mostly Linux on Ask Slashdot: Linux Support In Universities? · · Score: 1

    It used to be solaris, now the majority is linux. Engineering also has a large linux presence and OSX is elsewhere. This is the way it should be imo, anything less and I would question the quality of the education. They ran mostly Scientific Linux, when I graduated.

  21. Hey, I've used that on Canadian City Unveils $60k Open-Air Urinal · · Score: 2

    Its creepy as hell during the day; I could see pedestrians. It's not that bad of an idea though; low maintenance, very clean when I used it and I felt safer then in other washrooms I've been in. Lots of guys would just piss on buildings and garbage cans otherwise. In Victoria they can just let the rain clean it.

  22. ya but... on Plants Near Chernobyl Adapt To Contaminated Soil · · Score: 1

    What does this mean for the next Fallout? I don't think it will have the same appeal if it's forested.

  23. Re:Insurance on National Park Service Says Tech Is Enabling Stupidity · · Score: 1

    Land of the free eh? If your not insured to step out of your house, you damn well better not do it! You could require insurance, but then people would die, or you'd have law suits or some other bureaucracy. Letting someone die on a mountain does not make economic sense(look at the lost income tax revenue alone). Slapping the person with a $100k bill could cripple them financially which may result in lost tax revenue though surely less then death. My suggestion is EDUCATION, don't require insurance, require boy/girl scouts(or a 1 hour test). British Columbia just put in a pleasure craft boating license for the same purpose. Society shouldn't be about making people pay their way, it should be about what is most economical. If it costs 500 billion to fix a 50 billion dollar drug problem, don't do it, its a waste of time.

  24. Re:CBC radio 2 on String Quartets On the Web? · · Score: 1

    I'm 26 and listen to Classical music regularly and I also enjoy their 'pop music'(more indie really) from time to time, though I can't stand MTV pop music. I find classical excellent to work too and I've enjoyed a few live performances.

  25. Re:CBC radio 2 on String Quartets On the Web? · · Score: 1

    hm, I suppose a link might be helpful. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/