1. umount a hard-disk & partition(s), 2. backed up the hard-disk to an image file stored on a remote samba server, 3. hdparm to power down the hard-disk, 4. swap out the hard-disk with a new one, 5. power up the new disk drive and image the disk with the backed up copy, and then 6. mount the new hdx & partition(s)
All via a remote SSH console while the system is running. No harm to the up-time records.
I have to say that hearing the new disk-drive spin-up and seeing it mounting successfully has been the most THRILLING experience I've experienced in the course of my consulting works.
It's an experience I'd recommend everyone to try out at least once in their entire career life. The worst thing you can do is end up is either stuff the hard-disks and/or fry the system. A small price to pay for such a thrill (in my belief anyways).
My thoughts on copyright are it should not be transferable. Meaning that the creator is the soul owner of the copyright, not the record company or their family hundreds of years after the original creator is dead. I also believe that it should last the lifetime of the creator, but they can waive it and put their creation into the public domain at any time.
Well, that's exactly what it is now in Australia. Research patents by academics and researchers (unless the project was very very specifically commissioned by a corporation) lies with the academics and researchers.
However, I do't quite agree with it lasting for the whole lifetime of the creator. Because what happens if a genius aged 23 somehow invented a way of economical cold-fusion - does that mean he/she'll be able to charge whatever he/she wants for the next 100yrs (if he/she lives till 123)? Or what happens if you found a cure for cancer today, but dies tomorrow in a car accident - wouldn't you want your family to be well cared for after your passing away?
IMHO, a predetermined duration of patent sole excludability is vital in encouraging people to R&D. However, I agree that the current duration of 25(?) years is simply far too long for the ever-evolving nature of society today. I'll second the motion of the other dude who suggested 10 years. That should be ample time for anyone to develop a market for his/her patent.
Here in Australia, about 18months ago, there was a similar proposal to have a "Storage Medium Tax". The idea was that for every blank CD or DVD you buy in store, there will be like a 20cents tax made payable to record/movie industries. But in exchange, you are able to copy copyrighted CDs and DVDs for personal use only. Personally I think that is quite a good idea as then there will be no lawsuites by Record companies or the Movie Industry on end users.
Unfortunately, this "Tax" was never introduced, because too many people complained by saying "I don't pirate stuffs, why should I be taxed?"
I have always wondered why Microsoft had never wanted to buy out MM, especially Adobe. Think about it, how difficult will it be for MS to implement an open standard such as PDF into its Windows/Office systems? If so, why hasn't MS done so thus-far? Is it because Adobe is already an unknown subsidiary of MS???
I think that pretty much goes for every software in development. The BETA is only a phase of programming. And it is not clearly defined.
IMHO, all softwares remains in beta stages until they are abandoned. This is because bug-fixing and feature-adding are on-going processes, and are never fully completed.
Just last week, I lodged many many complaints to Telstra Bigpond regarding zombies sending excessive spams to my network. I even went to the trouble of submitting over 400+ zombie IP addresses (dynamic IPs with session times).
Good to see that they are listening to their complaints hotline for once.
Keeping the computer in your basement sounds like a great idea for reducing noise... until you have to switch to disc 2 of that DVD movie... then its a hike down to the basement.
That's news to me! The majority of people I know actually leave their workstations ON when they're finished with it. Hell, it's even the de-facto policy at all my work places to leave your workstations running, even when you leave for the day.
Microsoft, with so much petty cash on its hands, will most likely settle out of court with the other litigants. And for those who are not willing to settle, Gates & Co will just simply buy them out in the typical Microsoft fashion.
Bah!
Trillion is just as bloated as MSN Messenger. I opt for the slim and open source Miranda-IM anyday. It's less resource intensive and has the same necessary features as Trillion.
"...meteors are covered the same as airplanes under home insurance..."
Well, I have to disagree with you here. Here in Australia, there is a piece of legislation called Damage by Aircraft Act 1999 [http://scaleplus.law.gov.au]. What this statute entails is that whereby any damage caused by an aircraft, the airline will automatically be liable for the damage (no questions asked), and the the damages would be sought by the insurance company on the behalf of the insured (the person being insured). However, this piece of legislation does not extend to cover non-aircraft-parts related damages. So, where there is damage to a premise caused by meteors, if the Insurer (insurance company) choses to hide behind the insurance clause of "Act of God", then the poor unlucky house-owner can't do anything about it. And will have to pay for the damages him/herself.
Now, similarly, over in New Zealand, there was this very interesting case back around '97, where a piece of scrap metal from a commercial airliner did fall onto the roof of a suburban home just after takeoff. As a result, few roof-tiles were damaged, and the New Zealand Court of Appeal held that the airline was automatically liable for any damage caused by one of its aircrafts.
So, if in the present circumstance, a piece of meteor fell out of the sky and damaged a home, who would the insurer sue on the behalf of the insured? There is no airlines involved. God? As if! In such scenario, the insured can only pray that the insurer would "out of the kindness of their hearts" allow compensation to be awarded.
Slashdot Mirror
I take it that you've never...
1. umount a hard-disk & partition(s),
2. backed up the hard-disk to an image file stored on a remote samba server,
3. hdparm to power down the hard-disk,
4. swap out the hard-disk with a new one,
5. power up the new disk drive and image the disk with the backed up copy, and then
6. mount the new hdx & partition(s)
All via a remote SSH console while the system is running. No harm to the up-time records.
I have to say that hearing the new disk-drive spin-up and seeing it mounting successfully has been the most THRILLING experience I've experienced in the course of my consulting works.
It's an experience I'd recommend everyone to try out at least once in their entire career life. The worst thing you can do is end up is either stuff the hard-disks and/or fry the system. A small price to pay for such a thrill (in my belief anyways).
[Sarcasm] It's about as ridiculous as you being personally liable for murder because your next of kin killed someone! [/Sarcasm]
Just when will these compulsive litigents stop?
That's right!
And another way to look at this statistic is to infer that 85% of the test sample has a boring and repetitive lifestyle!
MirrorDot.
And if your name is Norman, why not try "batesmo.tel"
Having to waste 5 seconds looking through my wallet for my Credit Card, and having to manually swipe it...
vs.
Having my Credit Card details stolen and sold.
I think the choice is easy.
Why use telnet when there is NetCat?
Yeah... So does "compulsory euthnasia" for everyone with IQ below 100.
Well, that's exactly what it is now in Australia. Research patents by academics and researchers (unless the project was very very specifically commissioned by a corporation) lies with the academics and researchers.
However, I do't quite agree with it lasting for the whole lifetime of the creator. Because what happens if a genius aged 23 somehow invented a way of economical cold-fusion - does that mean he/she'll be able to charge whatever he/she wants for the next 100yrs (if he/she lives till 123)? Or what happens if you found a cure for cancer today, but dies tomorrow in a car accident - wouldn't you want your family to be well cared for after your passing away?
IMHO, a predetermined duration of patent sole excludability is vital in encouraging people to R&D. However, I agree that the current duration of 25(?) years is simply far too long for the ever-evolving nature of society today. I'll second the motion of the other dude who suggested 10 years. That should be ample time for anyone to develop a market for his/her patent.
Grab it off mirrordot.
Umm... to me, it looks like one is Class 9 and the other is Class 42?
Aliens had it installed on their UFO's since first contact.
You know, this is nothing new...
Here in Australia, about 18months ago, there was a similar proposal to have a "Storage Medium Tax". The idea was that for every blank CD or DVD you buy in store, there will be like a 20cents tax made payable to record/movie industries. But in exchange, you are able to copy copyrighted CDs and DVDs for personal use only. Personally I think that is quite a good idea as then there will be no lawsuites by Record companies or the Movie Industry on end users.
Unfortunately, this "Tax" was never introduced, because too many people complained by saying "I don't pirate stuffs, why should I be taxed?"
Well, that's my 2cents for the day.
Haha, conspiracy theory at its best...
I have always wondered why Microsoft had never wanted to buy out MM, especially Adobe. Think about it, how difficult will it be for MS to implement an open standard such as PDF into its Windows/Office systems? If so, why hasn't MS done so thus-far? Is it because Adobe is already an unknown subsidiary of MS???
Well, that's just my 2 cents for the day.
I think that pretty much goes for every software in development. The BETA is only a phase of programming. And it is not clearly defined. IMHO, all softwares remains in beta stages until they are abandoned. This is because bug-fixing and feature-adding are on-going processes, and are never fully completed.
It sure is about time.
Just last week, I lodged many many complaints to Telstra Bigpond regarding zombies sending excessive spams to my network. I even went to the trouble of submitting over 400+ zombie IP addresses (dynamic IPs with session times).
Good to see that they are listening to their complaints hotline for once.
Keeping the computer in your basement sounds like a great idea for reducing noise... until you have to switch to disc 2 of that DVD movie... then its a hike down to the basement.
That's news to me! The majority of people I know actually leave their workstations ON when they're finished with it. Hell, it's even the de-facto policy at all my work places to leave your workstations running, even when you leave for the day.
Reboot? What's that?
My Linux server has a current uptime of over 1000+ days. I've long forgotten how long it takes to boot up.
That's right. LycheeOS here we come!
Where there is a supply - there is a demand.
You have a very interesting point there.
Microsoft, with so much petty cash on its hands, will most likely settle out of court with the other litigants. And for those who are not willing to settle, Gates & Co will just simply buy them out in the typical Microsoft fashion.
Bah! Trillion is just as bloated as MSN Messenger. I opt for the slim and open source Miranda-IM anyday. It's less resource intensive and has the same necessary features as Trillion.
Well, I have to disagree with you here. Here in Australia, there is a piece of legislation called Damage by Aircraft Act 1999 [http://scaleplus.law.gov.au]. What this statute entails is that whereby any damage caused by an aircraft, the airline will automatically be liable for the damage (no questions asked), and the the damages would be sought by the insurance company on the behalf of the insured (the person being insured). However, this piece of legislation does not extend to cover non-aircraft-parts related damages. So, where there is damage to a premise caused by meteors, if the Insurer (insurance company) choses to hide behind the insurance clause of "Act of God", then the poor unlucky house-owner can't do anything about it. And will have to pay for the damages him/herself.
Now, similarly, over in New Zealand, there was this very interesting case back around '97, where a piece of scrap metal from a commercial airliner did fall onto the roof of a suburban home just after takeoff. As a result, few roof-tiles were damaged, and the New Zealand Court of Appeal held that the airline was automatically liable for any damage caused by one of its aircrafts.
So, if in the present circumstance, a piece of meteor fell out of the sky and damaged a home, who would the insurer sue on the behalf of the insured? There is no airlines involved. God? As if! In such scenario, the insured can only pray that the insurer would "out of the kindness of their hearts" allow compensation to be awarded.
What about the floor-board? Doesn't insurance cover that as well? Or would that be classified as "structural damage"?