...the only time Vista has managed to crash on me was when I first installed it onto a machine with dodgey ram. Once readyboost filled that area of the ram up the machine would crash.
And who's fault is that?
Computer hardware is the most important foundation of your system. Running anything on faulty silicon is bound to cause problems sooner or later. So why mention it?
This car will never see the light of day in the US. You can thank heavy government regulation and lobbying.
As for enabling more people to drive? Umm, why is it fair to prevent others from enjoying the same quality of life that you or I have? I mean, if people are going to start worrying about the environment, perhaps the solution is to nuke ourselves off this rock for "Urth Mother"?
Look folks. The rest of the world wants to have the same same standard of living that US and Europe enjoys today. You can't stop or prevent its progression. What you can do however, is develop more efficient ways of achieving that goal.
The Rush Limbaughs and Shawn Hannitys warned everyone that would listen that Obama is an epic failure. But it doesn't matter. Your fellow citizen's though electing the first black president was more important than is voting record
In fact Obama isn't the real problem, but rather the symptom of how fucking stupid your average American is. We *will* all fall togeather just like Rome did.
Which is sad. I mean, here we have the potential of a great tool for improving our personal health only for it to abused by political and economic entities.
Part of me agrees with you. We shouldn't use this technology because of the slippery slope we will all inevitably go down. The other part of me says "fuck em", I will be ever vigilant and not allow myself to abused by the system. So in a manor of speaking, we have let our government and society become an oppressive environment. I guess that in lays the real hazard to our health above and beyond anything else.
You're assuming my boss would know that I even have such a device...
No. This data is for me and only me. It's not for my company, insurance, government, or anyone else for that matter. The only person other than myself to get this data would be my doctor. Even then, he/she would have to ask my explicit permission. We are talking about some very intimate knowledge about myself here. I literally guard it with my life.
Our servers and networks have continuous monitoring. Sure, sometimes you get some strange read-outs and "spikes" in the data but overall you can track trends and be on the lookout for pending disasters.
So while we got along well enough without continuous monitoring, imagine how much better we could be with it.
Let's just assume for a moment that a 2nd Earth was discovered with life an all. Would this be a turning point for actually dropping vast amounts of money in R&D for interstellar travel? Iâ(TM)m talking about developing some really exotic technologies ranging from point-to-point FTL travel to wormhole-like jump drives.
If the laws of physics permits, such a discovery might be what provides the justification for investors and government agencies alike.
As someone who often tries to remove infestations with Autoruns and Process Explorer; don't bother with this one as it won't work. The days of easy malware and virus removal are over.
My solution for infected computers? Backup user data and nuke it from orbit! It's the only way to be 100% sure (format/reinstall). It's cheaper and quicker for the client. It also teaches them a lesson to not click on every god-damn window without reading it first.
Would it be possible to pin-point the location of impact to the Earth that formed our Moon? I would think the impacted site would be more dense from compression.
Screw the iPod. Just give me a DIY kit on making a vacuum tube AM radio (I'm a talk radio buff). Sometimes it's nice to get away from the digital realm for awhile.
In short, the entire industry would be F.U.C.K.E.D!
I'm willing to bet Washington DC would pull both CEO's behind close doors and slap some sense into them. As far as they are concerned, keeping this high-tech industry from imploding is for the sake of national security.
I think what Knowbuddy is getting at is that you don't want government getting involved in a free economy through legislation. Every time they do, they create these bubbles that crash harder than the lift they create. It was miracle the moonshot program in the 60's worked. Consider it an exception to the rule.
I think we all can agree that the era of cheap oil is over. Coal, while is very clean with current technologies, still pumps out C02. An excess of C02 might actually be healthy for the planet (an increased vegetation growth) despite with the doom-sayers say. None the less, the insatiable appetite Humanity has for energy will never dwindle, and we will need lots of it now and in the future.
That said, the last thing we need is another "Great Leap" legislated by our government. God help us, it will thrust us into another Great Leap Back.
You fucking scare me! Government enforced communism *IS* a violation of human rights!!! No place in the history of all humanity has communism led to freedom and prosperity; in fact quite the opposite.
Communists should be shot on site as a form of collateral damage to spare the rest of humanity from the pain and suffering they inflict.
Oh and since you consider debt relief to be a human rights violation I can't wait to hear what you call forced homelessness and starvation.
I would call it an incentive. You know, to find or create a job to support one's self. But naw, that would make too much sense! We are supposed to be a land of the FREE and LAZY damnit! Right?
Imagine, if you will, Linux and Gnome in its current form had hit the marketplace, and become widely available, before MS Windows 3.1 had emerged
That's a very bad example.
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps Linux and Gnome in it's "current form" came about *because* of the popularity of MS Windows (market wise, not technically)?
A better example would be between Microsoft and Apple. Both had a product in place, it was just about who was better at marketing.
Why would you, a free and presumably upstanding citizen of the community call a public servant "Sir" - in a manner that's really a bit too close to groveling for comfort?
My mannerism to a public servant (be it Police, Fire, EMT, Politician, and Military) is out of respect in that they put their life on the line for me, or have been elected in a democratic fashion.
An American police officer is a very risky job and comes with shitty hours, high divorce rate, and a paycheck that doesn't match. While I may not agree with how they conduct themselves at all times, the profession has earned my respect. In no way is my mannerism toward them groveling.
Apparently, Microsoft and Intel don't think so. You can enable write-caching in both the device manager (volume) and Intel's Matrix Storage Manager (RAID), but they will both provide respective warnings about doing so when not connected to a UPS.
Granted. Write-back caching is independent of the file system in use. However, both are based on the idea "writing" the data, just not committing until a later period. It's a trade off that can be put on a sliding scale. The more often you commit the data, the less chance of data loss at the expense of performance. The less often you commit the data, the greater your chances are of data loss. Your performance improves however. The key is finding that optimum balance that suits your needs.
Sorry for any cops that read this and think they're above that kind of thing, you just might be, but too many of your brothers in blue are nothing less than what I've described above. Most of us know police only when they meet them in a bad situation and all too often the asshole cops are the ones to be the most vocal. We rarely see the cop that lets small infractions slide.
About ten years ago, I've been known to be a little speed racer on the highways here in Houston, TX (ahh, my youth). As such, I've had my fair share of run-ins with the police. Almost always they are polite but stern. They will listen so long as you don't give them a line of BS as they will always see through it. Hell, it's their job to sniff out and isolate the BS. Most of the time, an officer will have written me up a speeding ticket (I deserved it), and others they will yell at me till I formed a pile of goo in my driver seat. Yet, that same officer will have closed our little "meeting" with just a formal warning. I guess he thought yelling at me was punishment enough.
However, there has been a few times where an officer will have gave me a hard time for no good reason. Once, it was to impress how badass he was to a fellow partner that rode in the same patrol car. The other I felt he randomly pulled me over to fulfill his monthly ticket "quota". In all cases however, always prefix and end your conversations with "yes sir" and "no sir". Never get into an argument with an officer. Let me repeat... Never get into an argument with an officer. You will lose that battle every fucking time. Don't bother being sadomachoistic about it. Even if you're 101% in the right, just state your case once (politely) and let the chips fall where they may. But if you must, save your temper and proceed with a court hearing instead. Trust me; I've played this song and dance. You will not enjoy it when the tempo gets ugly.
I'm not sure if it's a fake sync or not, but RAID controllers must act as the mediator as the OS will not directly access the individual drives themselves. So in order to prevent buffer under/overruns of the RAID cache, I can imagine it faking syncs.
As for the battery. Yes, it's used for when the OS hasn't made a call to perform a shutdown. Things like a power outage or kernel panic will cause data loss without it. Data of course will be flushed from cache back to disk upon system power up.
FYI (and OT), I just learned a few days ago that I could pull the cache ECC DIMM from a Dell PERC card and install it on the motherboard. From there, memory diagnostics can be ran. Now only if they had this diag embedded in the RAID card itself, but I digress...
Wish I had mod points for you AC as I agree with you. 150 seconds is 2.5 minutes! I don't know of any file system, let alone a RAID controller that waits that longs to commit the data.
If this is a feature and not a bug, better be sure your computer is connected to a UPS. Damn!
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...the only time Vista has managed to crash on me was when I first installed it onto a machine with dodgey ram. Once readyboost filled that area of the ram up the machine would crash.
And who's fault is that?
Computer hardware is the most important foundation of your system. Running anything on faulty silicon is bound to cause problems sooner or later. So why mention it?
This car will never see the light of day in the US. You can thank heavy government regulation and lobbying.
As for enabling more people to drive? Umm, why is it fair to prevent others from enjoying the same quality of life that you or I have? I mean, if people are going to start worrying about the environment, perhaps the solution is to nuke ourselves off this rock for "Urth Mother"?
Look folks. The rest of the world wants to have the same same standard of living that US and Europe enjoys today. You can't stop or prevent its progression. What you can do however, is develop more efficient ways of achieving that goal.
Geeks and gays are both seeking the same kind of social tolerance.
What happens if you're a redneck geek? We still love our guns, women, and technology.
Sorry, but I'm not into the whole "Brokeback mountain" community thank-you-very-much.
FYI, most (if not all) hunters eat what they kill. It's not like anything is going to waste.
The Rush Limbaughs and Shawn Hannitys warned everyone that would listen that Obama is an epic failure. But it doesn't matter. Your fellow citizen's though electing the first black president was more important than is voting record
In fact Obama isn't the real problem, but rather the symptom of how fucking stupid your average American is. We *will* all fall togeather just like Rome did.
Which is sad. I mean, here we have the potential of a great tool for improving our personal health only for it to abused by political and economic entities.
Part of me agrees with you. We shouldn't use this technology because of the slippery slope we will all inevitably go down. The other part of me says "fuck em", I will be ever vigilant and not allow myself to abused by the system. So in a manor of speaking, we have let our government and society become an oppressive environment. I guess that in lays the real hazard to our health above and beyond anything else.
Monitoring not required to make that diagnosis.
You're assuming my boss would know that I even have such a device...
No. This data is for me and only me. It's not for my company, insurance, government, or anyone else for that matter. The only person other than myself to get this data would be my doctor. Even then, he/she would have to ask my explicit permission. We are talking about some very intimate knowledge about myself here. I literally guard it with my life.
Why not?
Our servers and networks have continuous monitoring. Sure, sometimes you get some strange read-outs and "spikes" in the data but overall you can track trends and be on the lookout for pending disasters.
So while we got along well enough without continuous monitoring, imagine how much better we could be with it.
Ahh, but Obama is exactly who you should be worried of. A couple of points.
1. Obama believes the redistribution of wealth should be framed at the Judicial rather than the Legislative branch.
2. Obama stated the constitution should be interpreted as what the government should do for you, *not* what it's allowed being prevented to do.
I'm sure you heard this 4min radio interview, but in case you haven't I will post the link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
Folks, if you think the Bush administration was bad, Obama should scare the hell out of you!!!
Let's just assume for a moment that a 2nd Earth was discovered with life an all. Would this be a turning point for actually dropping vast amounts of money in R&D for interstellar travel? Iâ(TM)m talking about developing some really exotic technologies ranging from point-to-point FTL travel to wormhole-like jump drives.
If the laws of physics permits, such a discovery might be what provides the justification for investors and government agencies alike.
As someone who often tries to remove infestations with Autoruns and Process Explorer; don't bother with this one as it won't work. The days of easy malware and virus removal are over.
My solution for infected computers? Backup user data and nuke it from orbit! It's the only way to be 100% sure (format/reinstall). It's cheaper and quicker for the client. It also teaches them a lesson to not click on every god-damn window without reading it first.
Would it be possible to pin-point the location of impact to the Earth that formed our Moon? I would think the impacted site would be more dense from compression.
Then again, I'm no geologist.
Money quote right there, baby!
Screw the iPod. Just give me a DIY kit on making a vacuum tube AM radio (I'm a talk radio buff). Sometimes it's nice to get away from the digital realm for awhile.
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And here I was thinking of some small device in my backyard looking something like a mirror-ball spinning at very fast RPMs...
Not so simple, no? I guess Home Depot won't be selling them anytime soon.
In short, the entire industry would be F.U.C.K.E.D!
I'm willing to bet Washington DC would pull both CEO's behind close doors and slap some sense into them. As far as they are concerned, keeping this high-tech industry from imploding is for the sake of national security.
I think what Knowbuddy is getting at is that you don't want government getting involved in a free economy through legislation. Every time they do, they create these bubbles that crash harder than the lift they create. It was miracle the moonshot program in the 60's worked. Consider it an exception to the rule.
I think we all can agree that the era of cheap oil is over. Coal, while is very clean with current technologies, still pumps out C02. An excess of C02 might actually be healthy for the planet (an increased vegetation growth) despite with the doom-sayers say. None the less, the insatiable appetite Humanity has for energy will never dwindle, and we will need lots of it now and in the future.
That said, the last thing we need is another "Great Leap" legislated by our government. God help us, it will thrust us into another Great Leap Back.
You fucking scare me! Government enforced communism *IS* a violation of human rights!!! No place in the history of all humanity has communism led to freedom and prosperity; in fact quite the opposite.
Communists should be shot on site as a form of collateral damage to spare the rest of humanity from the pain and suffering they inflict.
Oh and since you consider debt relief to be a human rights violation I can't wait to hear what you call forced homelessness and starvation.
I would call it an incentive. You know, to find or create a job to support one's self. But naw, that would make too much sense! We are supposed to be a land of the FREE and LAZY damnit! Right?
Imagine, if you will, Linux and Gnome in its current form had hit the marketplace, and become widely available, before MS Windows 3.1 had emerged
That's a very bad example.
Did it ever occur to you that perhaps Linux and Gnome in it's "current form" came about *because* of the popularity of MS Windows (market wise, not technically)?
A better example would be between Microsoft and Apple. Both had a product in place, it was just about who was better at marketing.
Why would you, a free and presumably upstanding citizen of the community call a public servant "Sir" - in a manner that's really a bit too close to groveling for comfort?
My mannerism to a public servant (be it Police, Fire, EMT, Politician, and Military) is out of respect in that they put their life on the line for me, or have been elected in a democratic fashion.
An American police officer is a very risky job and comes with shitty hours, high divorce rate, and a paycheck that doesn't match. While I may not agree with how they conduct themselves at all times, the profession has earned my respect. In no way is my mannerism toward them groveling.
Apparently, Microsoft and Intel don't think so. You can enable write-caching in both the device manager (volume) and Intel's Matrix Storage Manager (RAID), but they will both provide respective warnings about doing so when not connected to a UPS.
Granted. Write-back caching is independent of the file system in use. However, both are based on the idea "writing" the data, just not committing until a later period. It's a trade off that can be put on a sliding scale. The more often you commit the data, the less chance of data loss at the expense of performance. The less often you commit the data, the greater your chances are of data loss. Your performance improves however. The key is finding that optimum balance that suits your needs.
Sorry for any cops that read this and think they're above that kind of thing, you just might be, but too many of your brothers in blue are nothing less than what I've described above. Most of us know police only when they meet them in a bad situation and all too often the asshole cops are the ones to be the most vocal. We rarely see the cop that lets small infractions slide.
About ten years ago, I've been known to be a little speed racer on the highways here in Houston, TX (ahh, my youth). As such, I've had my fair share of run-ins with the police. Almost always they are polite but stern. They will listen so long as you don't give them a line of BS as they will always see through it. Hell, it's their job to sniff out and isolate the BS. Most of the time, an officer will have written me up a speeding ticket (I deserved it), and others they will yell at me till I formed a pile of goo in my driver seat. Yet, that same officer will have closed our little "meeting" with just a formal warning. I guess he thought yelling at me was punishment enough.
However, there has been a few times where an officer will have gave me a hard time for no good reason. Once, it was to impress how badass he was to a fellow partner that rode in the same patrol car. The other I felt he randomly pulled me over to fulfill his monthly ticket "quota". In all cases however, always prefix and end your conversations with "yes sir" and "no sir". Never get into an argument with an officer. Let me repeat... Never get into an argument with an officer. You will lose that battle every fucking time. Don't bother being sadomachoistic about it. Even if you're 101% in the right, just state your case once (politely) and let the chips fall where they may. But if you must, save your temper and proceed with a court hearing instead. Trust me; I've played this song and dance. You will not enjoy it when the tempo gets ugly.
I'm not sure if it's a fake sync or not, but RAID controllers must act as the mediator as the OS will not directly access the individual drives themselves. So in order to prevent buffer under/overruns of the RAID cache, I can imagine it faking syncs.
As for the battery. Yes, it's used for when the OS hasn't made a call to perform a shutdown. Things like a power outage or kernel panic will cause data loss without it. Data of course will be flushed from cache back to disk upon system power up.
FYI (and OT), I just learned a few days ago that I could pull the cache ECC DIMM from a Dell PERC card and install it on the motherboard. From there, memory diagnostics can be ran. Now only if they had this diag embedded in the RAID card itself, but I digress...
Wish I had mod points for you AC as I agree with you. 150 seconds is 2.5 minutes! I don't know of any file system, let alone a RAID controller that waits that longs to commit the data.
If this is a feature and not a bug, better be sure your computer is connected to a UPS. Damn!