The OP doesn't mention which OS he's on - the tools he mentions both run across multiple OS's. Would be helpful to know. I know as a group we probably assume some form of Linux but.....
I use MS Home Server at the house to back up my family's multiple Windows machines. Runs on crappy hardware, does incrementals on a schedule, allows file level or bare metal restore, keeps daily/weekly/fulls as long as I ask it to. I know we aren't a Windows friendly crowd but this product does exactly what it promises and does it pretty well.
This submission reads more like a PR guy shilling his stuff than news for nerds. There are a bunch of companies that have had this capability for some time, from very large networking and video folks down to startups. Not sure this is noteworthy.
I know most of the readership here are coders and the like, and so a lot of the questions are from that perspective, but since so many of us interview with pre-IPO or venture capital funded companies its important to find out if the company is doing well or has a future, especially if you are looking at stock options as part of your compensation (or as a lottery ticket...)
I found this blog entry useful.- http://www.mint.com/blog/how-to/guy-kawasaki-startup-tips/
You may not want to go into this level of detail but it gives you a sense of the kinds of questions that are fair game. These may not be first interview questions (as commented elsewhere first interviews are just to make the short list), however its reasonable for you to inquire about a private company's finances if you are throwing your lot in with them.
RAID is an availability play. Backups of data that you consider at all valuable (family photos, financial records, etc) should be on write once data or offline. Many of the posts here refer to issues around physical drive failure, but its important to consider data corruption (intentional or unintentional)
All of these data replication suggestions are, like RAID, availability plays. You need to have static point in time snaps or copies; or deltas from which you can recreate points in time; to be able to recover from a data disaster. Its great that you are using rsync to replicate your kids first birthday photos to a box somewhere else, but if that folder gets corrupted you are now replicating that corruption. You are now the proud owner of two sets of useless data and the endless crying from the spouse that inevitably accompanies such.
So I think this China to the moon thing deserves more scrutiny. The massive coordination of huge numbers of people at the Olympic opening ceremonies and the cultural embeddedness of high end acrobatics in China gives rise to the following possibility.
Average distance to the moon is about 384000 KM or 384000000 meters. The average height of a Chinese person (per wikipedia) is about 1.6 M (5'2"). A rough estimation gives us a floor to shoulder height of about 1.3 M. Therefore 277,333,333 Chinese people standing on each other shoulders could reach the moon. Its just a matter of time....
I recently gave a box of motherboards/nics/videocards, an old Cisco ISDN router, and some other junk I had lying around to a Technical program at the local high school. I went there with the intention that they'd cull out the good stuff and I'd figure out what to do with the rest but they were excited to have it all. The instructor said that between the electronics kids looking for components for projects and the computer kids who needed stuff that they could break without repercussions it was almost all useful.
YMMV.
"to come over and lick the sweat off my balls."
Please don't offer that up. The RIAA may decide they own the copyright on ball licking and sue everyone who has either licked or been licked if they don't pay a 3500.00 settlement fee.
That the last 3 articles I have read on Slashdot about porn industry technology challenges and advances have all referenced kink.com. As many porn sites as there are, this seems like an odd coincidence. Sounds like a subtle advertising campaign to me.
NASA could upgrade from stereo to the googlephonic system with the moonrock needle - it'll still sound like shit but this is basically a car stereo right?
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One out of three people decided they looked like a dork with that awful thing on their wrist.
The OP doesn't mention which OS he's on - the tools he mentions both run across multiple OS's. Would be helpful to know. I know as a group we probably assume some form of Linux but..... I use MS Home Server at the house to back up my family's multiple Windows machines. Runs on crappy hardware, does incrementals on a schedule, allows file level or bare metal restore, keeps daily/weekly/fulls as long as I ask it to. I know we aren't a Windows friendly crowd but this product does exactly what it promises and does it pretty well.
This submission reads more like a PR guy shilling his stuff than news for nerds. There are a bunch of companies that have had this capability for some time, from very large networking and video folks down to startups. Not sure this is noteworthy.
Not sure why you didn't link to the actual article on Skype http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/cio_update.html Instead of the blogspam site.
Or Branigan's Law.
Living in Texas I can ASSURE you that with this group, given the choice between religion and science, science loses.
FWIW Computrace is Absolute Software.
A better question might be 'How does ANYTHING that DHS does curb terrorism?'
I know most of the readership here are coders and the like, and so a lot of the questions are from that perspective, but since so many of us interview with pre-IPO or venture capital funded companies its important to find out if the company is doing well or has a future, especially if you are looking at stock options as part of your compensation (or as a lottery ticket...) I found this blog entry useful.- http://www.mint.com/blog/how-to/guy-kawasaki-startup-tips/ You may not want to go into this level of detail but it gives you a sense of the kinds of questions that are fair game. These may not be first interview questions (as commented elsewhere first interviews are just to make the short list), however its reasonable for you to inquire about a private company's finances if you are throwing your lot in with them.
RAID is an availability play. Backups of data that you consider at all valuable (family photos, financial records, etc) should be on write once data or offline. Many of the posts here refer to issues around physical drive failure, but its important to consider data corruption (intentional or unintentional) All of these data replication suggestions are, like RAID, availability plays. You need to have static point in time snaps or copies; or deltas from which you can recreate points in time; to be able to recover from a data disaster. Its great that you are using rsync to replicate your kids first birthday photos to a box somewhere else, but if that folder gets corrupted you are now replicating that corruption. You are now the proud owner of two sets of useless data and the endless crying from the spouse that inevitably accompanies such.
One Ping Only dammit
Taking a page from the major IT thought leaders I have moved my porn to the cloud - all of it is on BitTorrent.
The Carpenter's house is the one with the really skinny dead chick in it.
In an age of IP Telephony it seems kind of silly and ends up just being vandalism
So I think this China to the moon thing deserves more scrutiny. The massive coordination of huge numbers of people at the Olympic opening ceremonies and the cultural embeddedness of high end acrobatics in China gives rise to the following possibility. Average distance to the moon is about 384000 KM or 384000000 meters. The average height of a Chinese person (per wikipedia) is about 1.6 M (5'2"). A rough estimation gives us a floor to shoulder height of about 1.3 M. Therefore 277,333,333 Chinese people standing on each other shoulders could reach the moon. Its just a matter of time....
I recently gave a box of motherboards/nics/videocards, an old Cisco ISDN router, and some other junk I had lying around to a Technical program at the local high school. I went there with the intention that they'd cull out the good stuff and I'd figure out what to do with the rest but they were excited to have it all. The instructor said that between the electronics kids looking for components for projects and the computer kids who needed stuff that they could break without repercussions it was almost all useful. YMMV.
Developers!! Developers!! Developers!! Developers!! Developers!! Developers!!
(insert sweat stains here)
Spam - don't follow the link
Can I buy a partition of zombie PC's and use their processing power to crack the 40 bit key?
Or really stupid....
Google is your friend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Type_Definit ion
"to come over and lick the sweat off my balls." Please don't offer that up. The RIAA may decide they own the copyright on ball licking and sue everyone who has either licked or been licked if they don't pay a 3500.00 settlement fee.
That the last 3 articles I have read on Slashdot about porn industry technology challenges and advances have all referenced kink.com. As many porn sites as there are, this seems like an odd coincidence. Sounds like a subtle advertising campaign to me.
NASA could upgrade from stereo to the googlephonic system with the moonrock needle - it'll still sound like shit but this is basically a car stereo right?
where an AC talks about a cool new product, I automatically assume said AC is a marketing rep from producer of product.