While the tapes themselves have a 30+ year shelf life expectancy with minimal data loss, the tape drives do not.
Five years ago, I tried backing up everything at home on a DAT72 tape drive. I have now on 24 tapes redundant backups of everything that will be even readable after i'm dead, but it's useless. After three years, one of the spindle motors of the tape drive burned out. It's not replaceable or fixable. A replacement tape drive on e-Bay (cheaper that the original price) to read back those 24 tapes of ~40Gb each costs now way more than the cost of 3.5" 1 TB sATA HDD.
We tried and failed to contact K'Brell, official speaker for the Council of Elders thus, for the moment we have no news of this new alleged attempt of the filthy eartlings to attack our planet with their diabollical mechanical devices.
It's not nice to say this about Google & Samsung. But they should really licence the patents required to keep the full functionality of the phone and not take away features from the end users. If Samsung's profit margins are so slim on those devices that they cannot afford a few pennies for this patent, they are doing something wrong.
Try a Dell server. Official Linux support - check Redundant power supplies - check Remote LAN console - check Server-class motherboard with loads of bandwidth - check Rack-mountable - check
How do you define "internal use" ? One subnet ? One building ? One department ? One company ? Multiple subsidiaries registered in different counties ? And what if someone not considered "internal" in one of the above ways sccesses (by mistake or unlawfuly) your software ?
How do you persuade a company legal team that GPLv3 is not poison and let the techies use GPLv3-licenced software ?
I see that i have been modded down - but that's the truth.
In the "real world" GPL3 is restrictive. At many corporations, the legal teams have forbade usage of any GPL3 software. I am also impacted by this at my work place - we have to do with older versions or commercial software as according to the "suits" a Microsoft Server licence & support contract are way cheaper than a lawsuit.
And this goes especially true for Samba - as GPL3 is worded, you are not allowed to use-it to serve protected files, or, if you do, it's fair game to anyone to steal your data as this whole "domain authentication" stuff is Digital Rights Management. So the lawyers say, and management will listen to the lawyers and not the engineers.
For home use - GPL3 is peachy - but noone has the need at home for AD & other advanced stuff that Samba 4 brings. The large networks - who could have benefited from Samba - will will keep making Microsoft rich because of the above reasons - and that's a friggin' shame.
Under what licence is Samba 4 published ? Still the restrictive GPLv3 or they adopted a more permissive licence that won't scare the legal teams everywhere ?
You seem to be a techie who never had to deal with NORMAL PEOPLE - the 99% - who count being able to log into Yahoo webmail & Facebook as major technical acomplishments. I'm a techie, i managed to teach my dad how to read emails, but for sending them, he still has to call me. And you're talking about VirtualBox.
Also, most of the kids today have NO IDEA that a computer can be programmed to do your bidding and do more that web, boring office stuff & games and there's no one to tell them this.
I understand the man's position given that all the copies of Elite i and my friends played over the years on diferent platforms were pirated and has not seen a dime from us for his work. I don't think anyone in Easter Europe has ever paid for Elite.
Don't confuse digital freedoms with blatant piracy.
> A more realistic way of teaching kids to program is to use Scratch, Python or (insert language of choice) on a regular desktop or a tablet - sandboxing it as a web app or a virtual machine if you worry about kids "breaking" things.
99% of the parents owning a PC would not be able to do this for their kid. Even if they did, there's nothing preventing the kid to delete daddy's documents or install a trojan from some flash games site. A RPi is bulled-proof. The kid messed up ? Reflash the SD card using a card reader and a one-click application (which is being developed by the people on the RPi forums).
If you were too lazy to face the DDoS on February 29, you have to wait. It took me one hour of refreshing, swearing and entering my address & CC number again & again in that morning but i managed to order one. I will receive-it next week. Shame you got such a low UID and no RPi...:-)
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While the tapes themselves have a 30+ year shelf life expectancy with minimal data loss, the tape drives do not.
Five years ago, I tried backing up everything at home on a DAT72 tape drive. I have now on 24 tapes redundant backups of everything that will be even readable after i'm dead, but it's useless. After three years, one of the spindle motors of the tape drive burned out. It's not replaceable or fixable. A replacement tape drive on e-Bay (cheaper that the original price) to read back those 24 tapes of ~40Gb each costs now way more than the cost of 3.5" 1 TB sATA HDD.
Tape backup is not price-efficient for home use.
It's "Matei Ciocârlie", not "Matei Ciocarlie"
"â" is not "a". The same way as "w" is not replaceable with "vv" in english names.
The letter "â" can be easily written in HTML as "â"
We tried and failed to contact K'Brell, official speaker for the Council of Elders thus, for the moment we have no news of this new alleged attempt of the filthy eartlings to attack our planet with their diabollical mechanical devices.
Exactly. That's how UUCP mail worked. Store & forward between the modem-connected nodes then over the internet to the destination MX.
What 'the cloud' has to do with pira^H^H^H^Hsharing some MP3s ?
Maybe if you cared enough to actually order one on February 29 or on March 1st, you'd had one. It's been 2 months since i received both my RPis.
Whoever really wanted an Raspberry Pi already has one - the rest are the typical /. trolls.
Sugru. Lots of it :)
"Interviews: Ask Physicist Giovanni Organtini About the Possible Higgs Boson Disc"
Is the Higgs Boson disc-shaped or is Timothy too lazy to use the preview button before posting ?
Sherlock on MacOS had this feature long before Google was a company.
It's not nice to say this about Google & Samsung.
But they should really licence the patents required to keep the full functionality of the phone and not take away features from the end users.
If Samsung's profit margins are so slim on those devices that they cannot afford a few pennies for this patent, they are doing something wrong.
Itanium ? That sell-out of a processor ? PA-RISC foreva' !!! No-one will prevent me from booting anything i want on that platform ... :-)
Also, according to their site, the software needed to convert the "3d object" files in a format that this printer will understand is Windows-only.
Unfortunatelly /. is missing a moderation option for the articles themselves.
Try a Dell server.
Official Linux support - check
Redundant power supplies - check
Remote LAN console - check
Server-class motherboard with loads of bandwidth - check
Rack-mountable - check
It's called "corporate empoyment" and you can find in there magcal pieces of paper called "paychecks". Feel free to join the madness when you grow up.
> Your legal team is incompetent
Could be. And it seems it is contagious - i know a lot of other companies who have the same policies regarding GPL3 software :-(
How do you define "internal use" ? One subnet ? One building ? One department ? One company ? Multiple subsidiaries registered in different counties ? And what if someone not considered "internal" in one of the above ways sccesses (by mistake or unlawfuly) your software ?
How do you persuade a company legal team that GPLv3 is not poison and let the techies use GPLv3-licenced software ?
I see that i have been modded down - but that's the truth.
In the "real world" GPL3 is restrictive. At many corporations, the legal teams have forbade usage of any GPL3 software. I am also impacted by this at my work place - we have to do with older versions or commercial software as according to the "suits" a Microsoft Server licence & support contract are way cheaper than a lawsuit.
And this goes especially true for Samba - as GPL3 is worded, you are not allowed to use-it to serve protected files, or, if you do, it's fair game to anyone to steal your data as this whole "domain authentication" stuff is Digital Rights Management. So the lawyers say, and management will listen to the lawyers and not the engineers.
For home use - GPL3 is peachy - but noone has the need at home for AD & other advanced stuff that Samba 4 brings. The large networks - who could have benefited from Samba - will will keep making Microsoft rich because of the above reasons - and that's a friggin' shame.
Under what licence is Samba 4 published ? Still the restrictive GPLv3 or they adopted a more permissive licence that won't scare the legal teams everywhere ?
For my RPi, I dusted off my soldering skills and built a clone of
http://www.olimex.com/dev/mod-rtc.html
Two, actually :)
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=6012
You seem to be a techie who never had to deal with NORMAL PEOPLE - the 99% - who count being able to log into Yahoo webmail & Facebook as major technical acomplishments.
I'm a techie, i managed to teach my dad how to read emails, but for sending them, he still has to call me.
And you're talking about VirtualBox.
Also, most of the kids today have NO IDEA that a computer can be programmed to do your bidding and do more that web, boring office stuff & games and there's no one to tell them this.
I understand the man's position given that all the copies of Elite i and my friends played over the years on diferent platforms were pirated and has not seen a dime from us for his work. I don't think anyone in Easter Europe has ever paid for Elite.
Don't confuse digital freedoms with blatant piracy.
> A more realistic way of teaching kids to program is to use Scratch, Python or (insert language of choice) on a regular desktop or a tablet - sandboxing it as a web app or a virtual machine if you worry about kids "breaking" things.
99% of the parents owning a PC would not be able to do this for their kid. Even if they did, there's nothing preventing the kid to delete daddy's documents or install a trojan from some flash games site.
A RPi is bulled-proof. The kid messed up ? Reflash the SD card using a card reader and a one-click application (which is being developed by the people on the RPi forums).
If you were too lazy to face the DDoS on February 29, you have to wait. It took me one hour of refreshing, swearing and entering my address & CC number again & again in that morning but i managed to order one. I will receive-it next week. ... :-)
Shame you got such a low UID and no RPi