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  1. Re:frist on Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2012 · · Score: 1

    Windows 2008 backup is already obsolete.

    "Note: You cannot use Windows Server Backup to back up file and folders on volumes that require more than 2040 GB (or 2 TB). However, as long as the data size is less than 2 TB, you can perform a file or folder backup. For example, you can back up 1.5 TB of data from a 3-TB volume. But, a full server or volume recovery using the backup will recreate a 2-TB volume instead of a 3-TB volume."

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753528.aspx

    Also, Windows 2008 Backup does not support 4k sector external backup drive. It will support the standard 512 or newer 512e sectors however (emulated and formatted with a vendor provided utility).

    Basically to sum it all up, you *must* go with another backup solution. Even if you keep your internal server partitions under 2TB in size, almost all newer external drives are now designed with 4k sector sizes.

    Yes, I'm a Windows Server admin. And yes, this fact is frustrating as hell having to inform clients they will need to go with Backup Exec or some other 3rd party backup solution. Especially if they desire BMR functionality.

  2. Re:Here be no surprises on Obama and Romney Respond To ScienceDebate.org Questionnaire · · Score: 2

    Except all Obama and his party have done is move money in all the wrong fucking places. We have nothing to show for our infrastructure because nothing was really spent on it. Corporate welfare to the too-big-too-fail banks helps who exactly? That, and the feds blank check to print money which in turn devalues savings held by the private citizen. The Keynesian opportunity has been an epic failure!

    And I don't care if Republicans get elected, the damage has been done. Russia, China, Iran, and N Korea could launch an ICBM at Washington DC and I can bet you that a large percentage of America wouldn't give two shits. In fact, many might silently cheer. Put that in your pipe and smoke it! Ya, our nation is fucked!

  3. Re:Why don't they put datacenters in cold places? on Intel Embraces Oil Immersion Cooling For Servers · · Score: 1

    Cold arctic air is often dry. And if you must extract humidity even lower, the compressors aren't going to have to work as hard due to the difference in Delta T. Either way, hosting data centers in colder climate is better than someplace in the sub tropics.

  4. Re:Finally, somebody gets it on Estonia To Teach Programming In Schools From Age 6 · · Score: 1

    By the time those kids grow up, programming as an idea would be obsolete. Not just the language/s, but only used in specialized cases. To get to the point, computers could be cognitive and perhaps self-aware. "Programming" would but nothing more than holding a conversation with it. It would turn your ideas and concepts into real work to render the results for you.

    Perhaps we should be teaching these kids history and philosophy instead. Let the computers do all the logical grunt work for us.

  5. Beyond Compare on Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files? · · Score: 1

    A co-worker and I used a program called Beyond Compare to match data stored on tape with a live Archive directory on a file server. Actually, it was his idea and it worked out pretty well. Check it out, it may be of some use.

    http://www.scootersoftware.com/

  6. Re:this is good! on Windows Has a Future In RAM: AgigaTech Samples DDR3+Flash DIMM · · Score: 1

    Ditto for clearing out rootkits and other forms of malware. Even if you swap the internal drive. You'll end up having to swap the RAM too.

  7. Re:Something isn't right on Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From Strategic Reserve · · Score: 1

    I think that new oil pipeline got routed to the wrong place.

  8. Re:In other news... on Police Probing Theft of Millions of Pounds of Maple Syrup From Strategic Reserve · · Score: 1

    Really? I always though that all greasy spoons provided fake maple syrup which was nothing more than HFCS (high fructose corn syrup), food coloring, and artificial flavoring.

  9. Re:Unless you can give everyone birth control.... on Promising New Drug May Cure Malaria · · Score: 1

    Overpopulation correlates with poverty and a high mortality rate. That seems like a contradiction, but it's not. What you want in a society is quality, not quantity in a society. Keep them safe and educated with a high standard of living and watch the population rate drop.

  10. Re:apple just doesn't want to touch that on Apple Rejects Drone Strike App · · Score: 2

    It still bug the hell out of me that I can't find any WiFi diagnostic utilities for iOS. Something like an android version of "WiFi Analyzer" would have been nice. But, Apple banned them all.

    http://wlanbook.com/iphone-wifi-scanner-apps-banned-by-apple/

  11. Re:Too little too late on Oracle Patches Java 7 Vulnerability · · Score: 2

    Hopefully those users with local admin rights also have some form of managed AV software. Norton, Trend Micro, Vipre, anything that will report back to a central server with full logging of malware hits. I actually called one of the owners of of a company over to my computer and showed him the logs of two laptop users that have systemically been abusing their rights. That ended that crap in a hurry :)

  12. Re:Can they? on Can the UK Create Something To Rival Silicon Valley? · · Score: 1

    In the US; you can be arrested for making threats.
    In the UK; you can be arrested for making not only threats, but opinions deemed as hate speech.

    There is a massive difference between the US and the UK (and much of the world for that matter) when it comes to freedom of speech.

  13. Re:But actually living in London is a challenge on Can the UK Create Something To Rival Silicon Valley? · · Score: 2

    I want a place that is: - Close to the office - Got decent standards - Is affordable - I can have for a long term In London I can only choose two from that list.

    Oh please! That problem is as ancient as civilization has been recorded. You simply want what everyone else wants. It doesn't matter if it's Rome, Shanghai, Houston, NewYork, Paris...etc. It's fits right along with Cheaper-Faster-Better. You can only pick two.

  14. Re:I am more worried about the 49%... on Survey Reveals a Majority Believe "the Cloud" Is Affected by Weather · · Score: 1

    It's in Heaven. How can death and failure happen in Heaven?!

    j/k

  15. Re:I am more worried about the 49%... on Survey Reveals a Majority Believe "the Cloud" Is Affected by Weather · · Score: 1

    Fuck the cloud. All my data is in Heaven administered by God! Nothing can go wrong. Everything is where it should be. Simply perfect.

    "Heaven. Are you good enough?"

  16. Re:HS cruise missiles on Russia Wants a Hypersonic Bomber · · Score: 1

    I guess. I would think however that when you're pulling the ticker and launching warhead, you intend to get it there as quickly as possible without fear of it being intercepted in flight. I view it's usage like I do with a gun. If you going to pull a gun on someone, you better damn well aim carefully and not miss your target or else don't use it in first place.

  17. HS cruise missiles on Russia Wants a Hypersonic Bomber · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it make more sense to develop hypersonic nuclear armed cruise missiles instead? Why do they want to pack meat in a tin can with wings these days?

  18. It was even available to begin with? on Iranian Players Blocked From World of Warcraft Due To Trade Sanctions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Given the hardline stance in Iran, I would think all western games would be banned for being un islamic in the first place.

  19. Re:Why Einstein? on How Long Do You Want To Live? · · Score: 0

    If a scientist opted for genocide to clean the gene pool, would you argue in favor of this opinion above the teachings of Jesus?

  20. Re:No on Would You Pay an Internet Broadband Tax? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I am European, and I think %anything% free should be available to anyone in EU, as part of basic human rights.

    And this is why much of Europe is broke and and the EU is on the verge of breaking up. Of course, we American's are not doing much better. But the point is that our priorities are all out of whack. Everyone seems to want something for nothing. This attitude will not last the test of time.

  21. Re:Throttling bandwidth on Stanford Researchers Discover the 'Anternet' · · Score: 1

    They will just route around the damage.

  22. Re:This is what you get... on Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study · · Score: 1

    And you base this universal metric of progress on, exactly what now?

  23. Re:well... about that... on Greatfire Keeps Tabs On Chinese Censorship, Automatically · · Score: 1

    The moment an islamofascism rams a jet through a building inside China is the moment they win the war for us. The Chinese do not fear political correctness like American's do. I'm sure if George S. Patton was alive today, he would agree.

  24. Re:It's even worse on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 0

    First you make a racist rant about how "white people" are annoying. Then you proceed to tell us how the father in tears (unknown race) has a son of middle eastern descent. And now you proceed to tell us that Delta Airlines is racist and in all caps by finishing it off with the white/rich diatribe. Nice! Now I've seen everything on Slashdot.

  25. Re:Farm Animals on Do Antibiotics Contribute To Obesity? · · Score: 1

    I was 275 pounds on March 13 this year. I'm now at 225 and still falling

    Dropping 8 pounds a month isn't bad. But yes, the GI will be irregular as it gets used to a change in diet. Also, the process is physically stressful. Diarrhea under these conditions are not that unusual.