That's something about the support environment I've worked in that I enjoyed, as well. I think managers who don't meddle with employees all the time and back them up are doing the right thing, and performance becomes peer/pride driven. Sounds like you guys have a good work atmosphere and management.
I flashed my 500GB ST3500320AS with SD1A, and it was rendered useless. After following the Seagate forums on this issue for a while (and noticing the firmware had been removed from the KB article), I decided to call you guys to report mine, since I figured you could use all the data in this situation. First, I was really happy to get an American English speaker who was actually from a city 1 hour away from me. That was very, VERY refreshing, and will likely keep me buying Seagate drives even after this debacle (which vendor hasn't put out a bad batch?). Second, he was really knowledgeable and wasn't condescending or rude about it, even given the enormous workload I'm sure you're all under right now. I do blame Seagate for not testing the SD1A firmware with the 500GB drives, but personally, I was only using mine to test Windows 7, and don't really care about the fresh install. The only negative I see in this situation is that Seagate hasn't provided a link to an ISO for the people who updated to SD1A to roll back to their previous firmware release. To sum it all up, I think it's great that Seagate has identified the issue, and was trying to get us a proactive firmware update before the drives went kaput, and the support folks have been really great, from my perspective.
The high price of Vista Ultimate (the only one that would have been acceptable for my typical home use) was prohibitive. They also need to ditch the retail installation limits, for those enthusiasts among us who might install Windows again several times.
Since we're playing the "my anecdote beats yours" game, I have a K8WE Thunder (S2985) in a server that is absolute crap. An Asus board at half the price is more reliable and less buggy than the Tyan. So bad, I had to buy a PCI USB card because the on-board USB won't connect devices on boot, nor with the secondary PCI Express x16 slot work with a 1-lane card with SLI disabled. It also will not allow you to use RAID without enabling it for all the SATA ports, not just the 2 you might want to use for RAID (undocumented "feature").
Remember, though, that FreeNAS is still not stable software. I had trouble with it not remembering settings and a few other things. Great concept, but I can't wait for them to iron out a few wrinkles.
After reading horrible reviews about set-top NAS boxes, I built the client a PC and threw Debian and samba on it. I use Acronis True Image Home on their PCs, and have it set to use no more than 100GB of share storage for backups. It worked great for a while, but then there was a power issue that zapped the power supply and got most of the components in the machine, and now I'm trying to get it all working right again.
In retrospect, if I had it to do all over again, I would have gone with a cheap Dell server with a warranty or something rather than building the machine myself. I believe the extremely cheap components I used were a contributing factor in the failure. Which leads me to another lesson learned: always talk to the customer about their price expectations! Don't always assume they want it as cheap as possible! In my case, I talked the customer out of manually backing up to a USB drive with a few computers into instead using imaging software to make backups to this NAS. Therefore, I assumed they would be shocked at a high sticker for the PC used as a NAS, when comparing it to the cost of a USB drive. Later, they made a comment about cost along the lines of, "Don't worry about how much it's going to cost, let's just get it working." That kind of threw me for a loop.
On the plus side, such a configuration can be used to add value later, and the customer has asked for a light website that would provide their customers with the ability to upload files that are too big for email. The server should be able to handle that small increase in activity just fine.
Keep in mind that most of the small business/home office sites don't have incredibly stable power infrastructure. Make sure that the NAS has a UPS, and a daemon running to monitor it and shut down if necessary. In my case, it's an APC 800VA UPS and the NAS server runs apcupsd.
I don't think that his disclaimer of responsibility is "evidence". If you download the actual document, you'll see that is behavior is self-contradictory. He declares "jihad" on the US, but then says "It wasn't me!" after attacks.
I don't think the responses you see are mostly from "psy-ops" of some sort, but rather people who listen to AM radio, or whose parents listen to AM radio and/or Fox News who have heard their respected right-wing mic jockey emphatically denounce "conspiracy theorists" repeatedly.
A lot of facts get distorted and dismissed in the process of building belief - on both sides.
This has already been covered.
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/21/141244
My opinion is that most of the set-top boxes you can buy are quite crappy, and FreeNAS is somewhat unreliable. I prefer a proper linux distro with disks in RAID-1 (or 5) running Samba.
I think the Air Force is actually charged with it.
Anyway, I seriously hope any "good" information is on machines physically separated from any network that has links that can even potentially route/switch to the Internet.
I bet they have plenty of time to watch/listen to all that media while putting together said arrays, too. Always funny how media "collectors" probably couldn't cite half of the stuff they have stored.
I think that's a bit of a slippery slope, since you can't prove intent. However, I will agree with you that it is slimy. Maybe a subjective sampling of domains owned by the same entity could be checked for duplicate or "spammy" content, such as fake search engines and keyword packing.
Figuring out an implementation based on Windows is friggin INSANE.
1) Figure out which of the (now 8?) different versions fit your needs.
2) Feed money into a random number generating claw machine, grab some licenses. There's no telling which ones will "keep you legal" while giving you the fabled "Genuine Advantage".
3) Install and try to figure out the reasoning behind such strange and oftentimes obscure configuration methods. Curse Microsoft for not really understanding what you really need, and then find out there's a new version of the software you're using with the functionality you need - it's just a $1k+ license away.
4) Find out that not only is the legality of your deployment in question, but the stability as well.
5) Unleash people on the server, ignoring the "At least one service failed to start" pop-up at the CTRL-ALT-DEL screen.
Ahh...that was refreshing.
Exactly, squatting can be easily stopped. I think the problem is going to turn into one of registrars having some profit in it, which will politicize and slow the process of having it abolished.
I would warn people against FreeNAS for the time being, it's not mature enough yet to handle things like pictures you can't replace, or gigs of music you collected over the years. Linux + Samba is the best way, IMO. The set-top miniature NAS boxes all suck; the transfer rates are slow and they have high rates of failure.
Freshman composition would have taught the writer to consider the comprehensibility of the sentence, which is just as important as being grammatically correct. If the reader has to review your wording more than twice to grasp the concept you're trying to convey, you have failed.
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That's something about the support environment I've worked in that I enjoyed, as well. I think managers who don't meddle with employees all the time and back them up are doing the right thing, and performance becomes peer/pride driven. Sounds like you guys have a good work atmosphere and management.
I flashed my 500GB ST3500320AS with SD1A, and it was rendered useless. After following the Seagate forums on this issue for a while (and noticing the firmware had been removed from the KB article), I decided to call you guys to report mine, since I figured you could use all the data in this situation. First, I was really happy to get an American English speaker who was actually from a city 1 hour away from me. That was very, VERY refreshing, and will likely keep me buying Seagate drives even after this debacle (which vendor hasn't put out a bad batch?). Second, he was really knowledgeable and wasn't condescending or rude about it, even given the enormous workload I'm sure you're all under right now. I do blame Seagate for not testing the SD1A firmware with the 500GB drives, but personally, I was only using mine to test Windows 7, and don't really care about the fresh install. The only negative I see in this situation is that Seagate hasn't provided a link to an ISO for the people who updated to SD1A to roll back to their previous firmware release. To sum it all up, I think it's great that Seagate has identified the issue, and was trying to get us a proactive firmware update before the drives went kaput, and the support folks have been really great, from my perspective.
BigDog was the only one of those that really made me sit up and think, "That thing CANNOT become sentient, or we are DOOMED!"
Yes. Yes, yes, yes, yes, YES.
The high price of Vista Ultimate (the only one that would have been acceptable for my typical home use) was prohibitive. They also need to ditch the retail installation limits, for those enthusiasts among us who might install Windows again several times.
Since we're playing the "my anecdote beats yours" game, I have a K8WE Thunder (S2985) in a server that is absolute crap. An Asus board at half the price is more reliable and less buggy than the Tyan. So bad, I had to buy a PCI USB card because the on-board USB won't connect devices on boot, nor with the secondary PCI Express x16 slot work with a 1-lane card with SLI disabled. It also will not allow you to use RAID without enabling it for all the SATA ports, not just the 2 you might want to use for RAID (undocumented "feature").
Remember, though, that FreeNAS is still not stable software. I had trouble with it not remembering settings and a few other things. Great concept, but I can't wait for them to iron out a few wrinkles.
After reading horrible reviews about set-top NAS boxes, I built the client a PC and threw Debian and samba on it. I use Acronis True Image Home on their PCs, and have it set to use no more than 100GB of share storage for backups. It worked great for a while, but then there was a power issue that zapped the power supply and got most of the components in the machine, and now I'm trying to get it all working right again.
In retrospect, if I had it to do all over again, I would have gone with a cheap Dell server with a warranty or something rather than building the machine myself. I believe the extremely cheap components I used were a contributing factor in the failure. Which leads me to another lesson learned: always talk to the customer about their price expectations! Don't always assume they want it as cheap as possible! In my case, I talked the customer out of manually backing up to a USB drive with a few computers into instead using imaging software to make backups to this NAS. Therefore, I assumed they would be shocked at a high sticker for the PC used as a NAS, when comparing it to the cost of a USB drive. Later, they made a comment about cost along the lines of, "Don't worry about how much it's going to cost, let's just get it working." That kind of threw me for a loop.
On the plus side, such a configuration can be used to add value later, and the customer has asked for a light website that would provide their customers with the ability to upload files that are too big for email. The server should be able to handle that small increase in activity just fine.
Keep in mind that most of the small business/home office sites don't have incredibly stable power infrastructure. Make sure that the NAS has a UPS, and a daemon running to monitor it and shut down if necessary. In my case, it's an APC 800VA UPS and the NAS server runs apcupsd.
Is it bad that I automatically assume I'm being pranked now when someone posts a tinyurl?
Hopefully this gets off the ground before retailers, which obviously do not want in-store competition, find a way to kill it.
I don't think that his disclaimer of responsibility is "evidence". If you download the actual document, you'll see that is behavior is self-contradictory. He declares "jihad" on the US, but then says "It wasn't me!" after attacks.
I don't think the responses you see are mostly from "psy-ops" of some sort, but rather people who listen to AM radio, or whose parents listen to AM radio and/or Fox News who have heard their respected right-wing mic jockey emphatically denounce "conspiracy theorists" repeatedly. A lot of facts get distorted and dismissed in the process of building belief - on both sides.
I don't think it's unattractive, just utilitarian. Doesn't flow like the Diamond since it's got a slide-out QWERTY keyboard.
I love the M. I have a black one with a stick mouse in the middle. Fantastic, except it just makes too much noise to be used in the living room.
This has already been covered. http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/21/141244 My opinion is that most of the set-top boxes you can buy are quite crappy, and FreeNAS is somewhat unreliable. I prefer a proper linux distro with disks in RAID-1 (or 5) running Samba.
Whell, your appetite whill be dhryed, obviousleh.
I think the Air Force is actually charged with it. Anyway, I seriously hope any "good" information is on machines physically separated from any network that has links that can even potentially route/switch to the Internet.
I am amazed on a regular basis by just how hostile Comcast is toward it's customers. Hopefully my cable provider doesn't start doing this crap too.
^c^c^c
I thought the 3D printing alone was a cool story, let alone the incredible advance in paleontological technology. Truly a great advancement.
I bet they have plenty of time to watch/listen to all that media while putting together said arrays, too. Always funny how media "collectors" probably couldn't cite half of the stuff they have stored.
Lord Dark Helmet: "Comb the spectrum!"
I think that's a bit of a slippery slope, since you can't prove intent. However, I will agree with you that it is slimy. Maybe a subjective sampling of domains owned by the same entity could be checked for duplicate or "spammy" content, such as fake search engines and keyword packing.
Figuring out an implementation based on Windows is friggin INSANE. 1) Figure out which of the (now 8?) different versions fit your needs. 2) Feed money into a random number generating claw machine, grab some licenses. There's no telling which ones will "keep you legal" while giving you the fabled "Genuine Advantage". 3) Install and try to figure out the reasoning behind such strange and oftentimes obscure configuration methods. Curse Microsoft for not really understanding what you really need, and then find out there's a new version of the software you're using with the functionality you need - it's just a $1k+ license away. 4) Find out that not only is the legality of your deployment in question, but the stability as well. 5) Unleash people on the server, ignoring the "At least one service failed to start" pop-up at the CTRL-ALT-DEL screen. Ahh...that was refreshing.
Exactly, squatting can be easily stopped. I think the problem is going to turn into one of registrars having some profit in it, which will politicize and slow the process of having it abolished.
I would warn people against FreeNAS for the time being, it's not mature enough yet to handle things like pictures you can't replace, or gigs of music you collected over the years. Linux + Samba is the best way, IMO. The set-top miniature NAS boxes all suck; the transfer rates are slow and they have high rates of failure.
Freshman composition would have taught the writer to consider the comprehensibility of the sentence, which is just as important as being grammatically correct. If the reader has to review your wording more than twice to grasp the concept you're trying to convey, you have failed.