Yes. Much like the OS on a computer being installed on an SSD is a lot like the TRS80, Commodore, Apple2, Atari, etc with the OS built into a ROM-- except this time around we get to write to it freely.
Solid state storage should be very interesting in the coming years. Especially if there becomes a way to issue more writes before failure.
Not to be picky, but I loathe stardock's applications.
Nothing like having employees run up and say "Hey, look at this neat program which makes my Windows desktop look like your Linux box!" a few days before having to get helpdesk to drop a new image of the system because everything starts crashing.
Besides "fanboy" being considered a derogatory term, thus why you probably got the moderator hate, all the OS/2 "enthusiasts" I know switched to Linux in 1994-1995 and never looked back.
Ah. It sounded like an open source project by the name.
After looking at their site, I'd probably rather run my own or just keep staggering across other ISPs. They seem a little too interested in making DNS a commodity for me. All I need is an IP back for hosts I request.
It's cheaper and easier just to stagger your DNS across several ISPs. I've been doing this for years, as it seems most DNS servers do not care where requests are coming from.
Often you'll also find choosing a DNS server in your region is less hops than the ones your the ones your ISP hosts.
While there's no real problem with running your own DNS, it's still just another service to get owned, and until then, eat cpu/ram. Mind you, if stuck on bi-directional satellite for Internet access, yeah, this would be a requirement.
If you scroll back through the archives, when the US threatened to invade Iraq, every Slashdot thread from top-to-bottom was on fire with Europeans, Indians, Canadians, etc screaming bloody murder.
But several countries have invaded each other since then, even with overtly evil intentions in mind, but you'll see people defend China and Russia into the ground, or simply mod you down, if you've got a blurb to speak about either.
The way I see things, Europe really should be worried about what happened in Georgia. It was an expansionist move and who's to say where they will plan to expand next? It could be Poland for all we know. Of course, the conversations about missile systems in Poland will get a lot of anti-American screaming, as well. That is, until they are needed.
Just think of Russia as a Mac and the US as a PC.:)
As your initial post said, they did not have that drive anymore.
For example, I bought a 200G drive a few years ago, which failed after six months. "Sorry", they said, "We can't replace that.
Which is what I was responding to. If they gave a different type of drive, I guess that's okay, but I would rather stick with the same model number drives in an array.
Of course, your solution also requires there be the computer shop you bought your stuff from between work and home. For those of us who work at home and live in the boonies, FedEx is a much better option than spending $20 on gas, sit in traffic, etc, to get a $90 drive replaced.
The evil problem with data collections is it's fairly obvious it will be in the hands of the public, criminals, or government at some point in the future.
It's very short-sighted to think otherwise, especially if Google ever fell on hard times. They could sell that information, legally, for a wad of money to advertisers. Don't think they wouldn't? Imagine shareholders demanding it and suing until it happens. That's what happens with "assets" when a company runs short on cash.
After several real-life friends began working for Google, their views on the company have been extreme. It much reminds me of my time at some early mid-90's startups that, no matter what, said company could do no wrong.
With that in mind, I would not be surprised at all to a lot of the Google hype on/., especially when it comes to blindly justifying possible "evils" of this corporate entity, are simply a bunch of Google employees operating independently in their off-time.
The drive behind my thoughts on this was one company I worked for ended up having a lot of controversy when multiple employees were doing this, but made the mistake of doing it from the corp lan, and got exposed internally, but when news hit other sites, it was considered some kind of evil campaign funded by said company while actually just frenzied staff operating on their own.
Yeah, I picked up my last cpu/mobo combo for home at MicroCenter. It wasn't be best deal I ever got, but they did have nice things like OCZ ram in stock and a good selection of popular motherboards for sale.
I was impressed with their sales people. The lady didn't really have a whole lot to say about my selection except to show me where things were and mention ways to get discounts. It was a lot better than the pseudo-geek babble one has come to expect from places like CompUSA, where I'd be getting a PCI video card to go with my dual core gaming rig if I listen to them, along with $100 worth of extended protection plans if gullible enough to fall for it.
It was just a single experience, so I don't know if they are trained to spot geeks and not annoy them, or just have good hiring standards. Still, though, it was nice not to be told three-four times about the protection plans.
On the other hand, I do purchase those extended protection plans on things like laser mice where I know for a fact the contacts on the charger base, and built-in batteries will be hosed long before the plan is up. I'm on my third $70 mouse for the price of one, plus 10 bucks. The lesson there is to make sure any time you get one, you'll have a net gain from it. But I'd recommend steering clear of them on anything like monitors or components. Especially things like hard drives which already have very long manufacturer warranties.
For example, I bought a 200G drive a few years ago, which failed after six months. "Sorry", they said, "We can't replace that.
You should have called the HDD warranty people. It would have taken probably five minutes to get an RMA number and box it up to mail off for a replacement.
People tend to act like complete flipper babies when it comes to warranty failure. Not that I have anything to complain about, I've gotten plenty of free "broken" Western Digital drives and sent them off for warranty and got a fresh one in the mail a few days later.
It'll definitely be up to you to take care of your own warranty returns after 30 days or so with any online retailer, too. But honestly, it's often a waste to just not deal with the manufacturer directly in most cases, since they'll be less likely to ask a million questions and waste your time.
I used to buy from Monarch Computers in Georgia; shame they're not around any more.
Monarch had cheap prices, but they were idiots.
They lost accounts with two companies I did work for over repeatedly sending different model motherboards while ordering one model number.
The old sales guy would always tell us "All motherboards are the same", when no, on FreeBSD, when you order a part, you need that part and not some random shit out of the warehouse. Especially on big deployments.
I'm guessing they were okay if you were building a game rig with one of their many Lian Li knockoff towers, but they stunk at b2b sales.
The only thing I'll give them. They did have an original Pacman arcade machine on free play in the store. God help you if that old salesman actually saw anyone playing it, though.
True. I went more of the "middle finger" route on Doom-Quake wads/paks since I bought all those games once, long ago, and have since lost the install media.
But, I was just speaking of game art in general. I've seen one project stick mostly with "coder art" (noooo) because everyone he interviews wants to forever own rights to a few pixels, thus hindering the free distribution of a package.
I'm guessing it has something to do with what their teachers told them at the art institute or whatever. Because the only people I ever find who will contribute a model or skin is always younger than college age.
It was more mental floss about the attitudes of people in different professions and not a "oh god, i can't afford Hexen" statement.
My point is, you probably aren't going to be recovering your recording on any of these file systems if you are actively writing when the power is yanked.
Stable power and redundancy will get you much further than any file system choice.
Being around a few open projects, I've seen more artists demand proprietary licensing for their art work and content, often things they spent a few hours on. Making certain it will never be "free".
Then, there's coders who poured months of sleepless nights working difficult bugs out of their complicated engine, then hand it out for the community to learn from. Often without a second though.
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Photoshopping.
That's one I forgot in my last post. I use Gimp, but in casual conversation, "photoshopping" sounds so much sexier than "gimping".
It also keeps from having to explain wth Gimp is. Since once they find out it's free, the conversation will turn to "hey, can you help me download that?" and then a hundred emails about how to do this or that. No thanks.:)
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Yes. Much like the OS on a computer being installed on an SSD is a lot like the TRS80, Commodore, Apple2, Atari, etc with the OS built into a ROM-- except this time around we get to write to it freely.
Solid state storage should be very interesting in the coming years. Especially if there becomes a way to issue more writes before failure.
Well, looks like it's time for you to walk down to the local 'pirated stuff' shop and get your $5 copy.
How dare you take the hype and charm out of a Apple article by stating facts.
If I had a goatee and a latte, I'd be using Safari to mod you as a troll with my only mouse button.
I think he's saying he has teh mad cow.
Not to be picky, but I loathe stardock's applications.
Nothing like having employees run up and say "Hey, look at this neat program which makes my Windows desktop look like your Linux box!" a few days before having to get helpdesk to drop a new image of the system because everything starts crashing.
Besides "fanboy" being considered a derogatory term, thus why you probably got the moderator hate, all the OS/2 "enthusiasts" I know switched to Linux in 1994-1995 and never looked back.
Ah. It sounded like an open source project by the name.
After looking at their site, I'd probably rather run my own or just keep staggering across other ISPs. They seem a little too interested in making DNS a commodity for me. All I need is an IP back for hosts I request.
That in the US it's far too easy to terminate customers that you don't want
If they were terminating these customers, then they wouldn't be bitching about them.
here in Norway
But yet an expert on life in the US. I guess I'm wrong and have just been lucky hosting torrents for years.
It's cheaper and easier just to stagger your DNS across several ISPs. I've been doing this for years, as it seems most DNS servers do not care where requests are coming from.
Often you'll also find choosing a DNS server in your region is less hops than the ones your the ones your ISP hosts.
While there's no real problem with running your own DNS, it's still just another service to get owned, and until then, eat cpu/ram. Mind you, if stuck on bi-directional satellite for Internet access, yeah, this would be a requirement.
I think someone was trying to be witty in a headline. It does appear to rank pretty high in the FAIL department.
Oh, I was being sarcastic.
If you scroll back through the archives, when the US threatened to invade Iraq, every Slashdot thread from top-to-bottom was on fire with Europeans, Indians, Canadians, etc screaming bloody murder.
But several countries have invaded each other since then, even with overtly evil intentions in mind, but you'll see people defend China and Russia into the ground, or simply mod you down, if you've got a blurb to speak about either.
The way I see things, Europe really should be worried about what happened in Georgia. It was an expansionist move and who's to say where they will plan to expand next? It could be Poland for all we know. Of course, the conversations about missile systems in Poland will get a lot of anti-American screaming, as well. That is, until they are needed.
Just think of Russia as a Mac and the US as a PC. :)
If you were shooting for +5 Insightful, your best bet on Slashdot would have been replacing "Russia" with "United States" and "Georgia" with "Iraq".
The more you know.
I often had to use a small ball-peen hammer to get seized up Quantum drives to spin back up one last time to get data off them.
Let them cool down, apply power and gently tap on them from different angles and usually the bearings would work again, at least for a while.
It's always satisfying to fix a computer problem with a hammer, even though you are being very careful.
As your initial post said, they did not have that drive anymore.
For example, I bought a 200G drive a few years ago, which failed after six months. "Sorry", they said, "We can't replace that.
Which is what I was responding to. If they gave a different type of drive, I guess that's okay, but I would rather stick with the same model number drives in an array.
Of course, your solution also requires there be the computer shop you bought your stuff from between work and home. For those of us who work at home and live in the boonies, FedEx is a much better option than spending $20 on gas, sit in traffic, etc, to get a $90 drive replaced.
The evil problem with data collections is it's fairly obvious it will be in the hands of the public, criminals, or government at some point in the future.
It's very short-sighted to think otherwise, especially if Google ever fell on hard times. They could sell that information, legally, for a wad of money to advertisers. Don't think they wouldn't? Imagine shareholders demanding it and suing until it happens. That's what happens with "assets" when a company runs short on cash.
Yes, because anyone with a different point of view lately is "twittered" by ACs. Nice try.
After several real-life friends began working for Google, their views on the company have been extreme. It much reminds me of my time at some early mid-90's startups that, no matter what, said company could do no wrong.
With that in mind, I would not be surprised at all to a lot of the Google hype on /., especially when it comes to blindly justifying possible "evils" of this corporate entity, are simply a bunch of Google employees operating independently in their off-time.
The drive behind my thoughts on this was one company I worked for ended up having a lot of controversy when multiple employees were doing this, but made the mistake of doing it from the corp lan, and got exposed internally, but when news hit other sites, it was considered some kind of evil campaign funded by said company while actually just frenzied staff operating on their own.
Yeah, I picked up my last cpu/mobo combo for home at MicroCenter. It wasn't be best deal I ever got, but they did have nice things like OCZ ram in stock and a good selection of popular motherboards for sale.
I was impressed with their sales people. The lady didn't really have a whole lot to say about my selection except to show me where things were and mention ways to get discounts. It was a lot better than the pseudo-geek babble one has come to expect from places like CompUSA, where I'd be getting a PCI video card to go with my dual core gaming rig if I listen to them, along with $100 worth of extended protection plans if gullible enough to fall for it.
It was just a single experience, so I don't know if they are trained to spot geeks and not annoy them, or just have good hiring standards. Still, though, it was nice not to be told three-four times about the protection plans.
On the other hand, I do purchase those extended protection plans on things like laser mice where I know for a fact the contacts on the charger base, and built-in batteries will be hosed long before the plan is up. I'm on my third $70 mouse for the price of one, plus 10 bucks. The lesson there is to make sure any time you get one, you'll have a net gain from it. But I'd recommend steering clear of them on anything like monitors or components. Especially things like hard drives which already have very long manufacturer warranties.
For example, I bought a 200G drive a few years ago, which failed after six months. "Sorry", they said, "We can't replace that.
You should have called the HDD warranty people. It would have taken probably five minutes to get an RMA number and box it up to mail off for a replacement.
People tend to act like complete flipper babies when it comes to warranty failure. Not that I have anything to complain about, I've gotten plenty of free "broken" Western Digital drives and sent them off for warranty and got a fresh one in the mail a few days later.
It'll definitely be up to you to take care of your own warranty returns after 30 days or so with any online retailer, too. But honestly, it's often a waste to just not deal with the manufacturer directly in most cases, since they'll be less likely to ask a million questions and waste your time.
I used to buy from Monarch Computers in Georgia; shame they're not around any more.
Monarch had cheap prices, but they were idiots.
They lost accounts with two companies I did work for over repeatedly sending different model motherboards while ordering one model number.
The old sales guy would always tell us "All motherboards are the same", when no, on FreeBSD, when you order a part, you need that part and not some random shit out of the warehouse. Especially on big deployments.
I'm guessing they were okay if you were building a game rig with one of their many Lian Li knockoff towers, but they stunk at b2b sales.
The only thing I'll give them. They did have an original Pacman arcade machine on free play in the store. God help you if that old salesman actually saw anyone playing it, though.
True. I went more of the "middle finger" route on Doom-Quake wads/paks since I bought all those games once, long ago, and have since lost the install media.
But, I was just speaking of game art in general. I've seen one project stick mostly with "coder art" (noooo) because everyone he interviews wants to forever own rights to a few pixels, thus hindering the free distribution of a package.
I'm guessing it has something to do with what their teachers told them at the art institute or whatever. Because the only people I ever find who will contribute a model or skin is always younger than college age.
It was more mental floss about the attitudes of people in different professions and not a "oh god, i can't afford Hexen" statement.
Another alternative term to "dumping" is explained, in much greater depth, by googling "2girls1cup".
My point is, you probably aren't going to be recovering your recording on any of these file systems if you are actively writing when the power is yanked.
Stable power and redundancy will get you much further than any file system choice.
Isn't that a booger?
Being around a few open projects, I've seen more artists demand proprietary licensing for their art work and content, often things they spent a few hours on. Making certain it will never be "free".
Then, there's coders who poured months of sleepless nights working difficult bugs out of their complicated engine, then hand it out for the community to learn from. Often without a second though.
Photoshopping.
That's one I forgot in my last post. I use Gimp, but in casual conversation, "photoshopping" sounds so much sexier than "gimping".
It also keeps from having to explain wth Gimp is. Since once they find out it's free, the conversation will turn to "hey, can you help me download that?" and then a hundred emails about how to do this or that. No thanks. :)