Data backup has always been a big concern for me, but I don't have a few thousand dollars it takes for a real backup system. I believe in having data stored in three places:
A) Where you access your data
B) Backup location A - onsite
C) Backup location B - offsite
The cheapest way I found to do this was in fact to SCRAP my RAID design. The problem I found by having data in RAID is you were still suseptable to hardware failure taking out two locations for your data by having a bad power supply or a failure on the PCI card / motherboard. Instead I have a computer that my main server turns on once a week via WOL and does an rsync of all the data (about 400 gigs right now) Then about once a month, I get 2 external hard drives that sit in a safety deposit box, plug them in, and rsync changes. This covers me from fire, theft, and the ability to sustain 2 failures without loosing more then a months worth of data (which for me is acceptable, but could be adjusted to fit your needs) As well, if I run out of room, I don't have to rebuild the array or anything like that, I just throw more hard drives at it. Right now I'm using a mix mash of 60s, 120s, 200s and a 250 to spread it around as evenly as possible. It's the cheapest method (since i had most of the equipment already) and I find it to be extremely reliable. No wondering if RAID card A will work with Linux reliably or not:P
I stand corrected, I asssumed the 600 was using Dragonball, not ARM. Reason why I brought up the O/C'ng was when I researched it out (600 is sooooo slow I find) I thought I read that you can't use the same program because the CPU is different. This was quite awhile ago however.
I'm by no means an expert on this stuff, but I do own a Treo 600 (wanting a 650 or whatever comes next) however from what I've read the 600 and 650 use a different cpu architecture, so I'm pretty sure that this would not work. I know that the options for overclocking are more limited on the 600. If anyone knows this stuff better then me please correct.
In the meantime, China seems to be the only large country that's actually working on decreasing CO2 output.
I would be curious to see stats backing up this claim. I do not dispute, I just find the topic intereresting and I do not have much information outside of what we do in Canada and the pro/anti american sentiments. I know my country Canada makes noise about Kyoto and helping the world blahblah but I can't say for sure anything we're doing really is going to make a difference (other then get the current government re-elected)
I'll second (third?) AvP... Actually I think it was the sequal AvP2, there's one level I remember, wandering around in pitch dark, seeing blips on and off, thinking there's one alien, only to find out there's another 2 behind you just when your safe.
I totally agree, it's not there yet. Regardless of the install method, the interfaces are not up to snuff. I use gaim, it's perfect for me, but for people addicted to the winks / nudges / webcam / other stuff (which I agree is crap), especially the younger generation, that alone would be reason to NOT go to Linux. IM is pretty important these days like it or not, and probably going to grow. Everyone I know is constantly wondering when I'm going to "upgrade" to the new MSN so they can send winks and nudges and crap. br>
I use Gentoo, and if someone can prove me wrong I'd REALLY appreciate it. To be honest I wish there was a client that was as feature (bloated?) as MSN or Trillian just to bring in more of the non techie people, as I would like to see Linux a as a stronger desktop alternative for the normies (read, people not like me:P)
Why do I get the feeling this argument is like saying Windows sucks because it crashes all the time? I run the MX1000, with Logitech software loaded. So far my computer hasn't burst into flames, explode or even noticed any major difference in speed or "instability". I'm not sure if I need it to tell me when I get email, might be a nice feature if, say, I'm away from the computer and leave the monitor off, when I come in I don't need to turn my monitor on to quickly see if I have new emails, I just see if my mouse is "on"
Another good analogy is the "i want a cellphone that takes calls vs I want a cell phone that does everything" Pick one that makes you happy and go with it, don't bad mouth those that disagree with you.
I've stoped buying a lot of games, since games I buy now are a waste of money... I play an MMO (I don't play WoW, it's a good game, but invested too much time in FFXI) in my gaming time, so the only non MMO gaming I play now is stuff that I can pick up and play for 5-10 minutes here or there. But I don't think it will be the death of non MMO gaming... just like I'm sure FPS's like Doom took big chunks of profit from regular gaming, WoW and others will do the same, but just as we still have a lot of non FPS games, we will still have a lot of non MMO games.
That's great, of course if 80% of your users can't get to your site, they're more then likely going to go to your competitor instead of a new browser. Sad but true. Proclaming yourself 100% standard doesn't do you any good if nobody on this planet can view the page. Of course Slashdot might be able to get away with it since we're generally more tech savy then the average bear and it's not really a commerce site. When I design a site I make it as standard as possible without breaking it in any of the "big 3" (Opera, FF, IE, and Text Browsers for accessablity where possible). Heck as far as I know there isn't a 100% standards based browser, is there?
..Microsoft releasing a report that Linux has lower TCO or IBM saying Linux is more expensive to run. I mean, just because it's a "research report" makes it no less an advertisment by the company that sponsered it. All this shows is these reports are kinda pointless because you can "prove" whatever you want to believe.
Well that's basically part of what I'm saying. If Linux is ment for experimentation, and not for real world such as on a users Desktop, then yes don't include anything like binary drivers. However some people seem to think Linux will eventually move beyond the experimentation stage, which might prove difficult with this mentality, that's all I was saying.
And I never implied "shipping" a binary driver in the source, I just ment that if a company wants to have a Linux driver, but doesn't want to show the world what they feel is their bread and butter, well, your sol. If Linux ever is to reach the desktop (which I'm assuming from your comments you don't want) they will have to support "binary" drivers a lot easier.
I mostly agree... it basically depends on what the goal of Linux is, which varies depending on who you ask. It is my (probably uninformed) opinion that if Linux is ever to be accepted by big buisiness as well as the non technical users then some concessions, like Binary Drivers, are to be made. I don't think you can say to someone like my mom or dad that they should use linux, and, oh you have xyz video card? Well it's xyz's fault that it's slow because they refuse to release all of their information. No, my folks will say whatever, Windows XP works fine, linux is slow, I'll run Windows XP. If you wait for a company to give up what makes them money, you gonna wait a long long time. Personally I don't see supporting Binary Drivers as the death of Linux, but that's just me.
Of course, if you want to keep the linux "pure" and "clean" then for sure, binary drivers are bad. Just don't be suprised when nobody outside the tech community uses it. Personally I love it and use FVWM because I love to tinker (and because I love having a unique customized GUI) but I'm not ready to even consider moving my folks to Linux. Just my two cents.
as several studios surprisingly passed on producing a Halo movie
Right, because video games are a proven source of massive money and hi quality, why, just look at Mario, Double Dragon, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, that recent horror one (not Res Evil, that one's debatable if it's any good), etc etc etc.
I can actually see a Halo movie being plausable (even tho I consider the game massively overrated compared to anything on the PC) but it's far from a sure hit.
putting a HD in the freezer in an attempt to get it to work
Very true, I've gotten about 3 hard drives to go from dead to alive by just putting in the freezer for about 10 minutes, if only long enough to grab the data off of it.
I thought my friend was crazy when he suggested it, but damn did it work.
Is why they can't have the hard drive "look" like a memory card to the games. For example, with the PS2 hard drive: games, if not explicitly programmed for it, would act like the hard drive wasn't there. Why they can't in these next gen systems make the games think that the hard drive is in fact a memory card, with just a little bit (ok a lot) more room? I know the technologies between mem cards and hard drives are totally different, but can't they fake the games into thinking it's a card? This way at the very least you would'nt have to worry about swapping memory cards between games, since it would have an internal massive memory card? Probably not explaining myself well bleh..
(sacrasim mode on)omgwtf someone knows someone that knew something where they saw that i visisted a website. NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo
(sacrasim mode off)
Ya I don't care too much about cookies either. In all my years of "not carrying about cookies" so far I haven't caught a plague or been targeted by a sniper, so I'm pretty sure I'll survive still not carrying. I know I'm over simplying it, but in everything I worry about day to day, this isn't one of em. Nice to see I'm not the only "tinfoil hat free" person on/.;-)
but the DS as well... I bought the DS when it came out, and bought Super Mario 64 port for it... and since then.......... I bought th Atari Retro (mistake, although cool for 5 minutes) and that's it. The GBA had a better software library then either... Probably unfair considering how long the GBA has been out, but I get the feeling developers are having trouble making good portable games (excpet for a few exceptions)
It's one thing for a game to add this (your right, it's easy I'm sure), it's another to have a law stating "tho shalt not play game xyz for longer then 2 hours per day, otherwise face a penalty of zyx"
Sounds like from reading the article the government is enforcing (or trying to) how long you play these games with builtin timers. Sure we might have some crazy law's on this side of the pacific, but man. Imagine being a game developer having to put in "government issued code" like this... yesh.
I agree... the article tried to make it sound nice but that was their conclusion.
I actually own a Palm (Treo 600), and had a PocketPC device (Dell Axim) previous. I like Palm simply because I enjoy rooting for hte apparent underdog, and I really don't want to see MS (or anyone else) dominate this market segment. It works great for what I need, there's nothing that I'm saying man I wish I had a PocketPC instead (well, low color res, but I'd go with a Treo 650 if I upgraded anyways) i find the Application Library for Palm to be really great. Just wish they'd start using Cobalt as their new platform.
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Data backup has always been a big concern for me, but I don't have a few thousand dollars it takes for a real backup system. I believe in having data stored in three places:
:P
A) Where you access your data
B) Backup location A - onsite
C) Backup location B - offsite
The cheapest way I found to do this was in fact to SCRAP my RAID design. The problem I found by having data in RAID is you were still suseptable to hardware failure taking out two locations for your data by having a bad power supply or a failure on the PCI card / motherboard. Instead I have a computer that my main server turns on once a week via WOL and does an rsync of all the data (about 400 gigs right now) Then about once a month, I get 2 external hard drives that sit in a safety deposit box, plug them in, and rsync changes. This covers me from fire, theft, and the ability to sustain 2 failures without loosing more then a months worth of data (which for me is acceptable, but could be adjusted to fit your needs) As well, if I run out of room, I don't have to rebuild the array or anything like that, I just throw more hard drives at it. Right now I'm using a mix mash of 60s, 120s, 200s and a 250 to spread it around as evenly as possible. It's the cheapest method (since i had most of the equipment already) and I find it to be extremely reliable. No wondering if RAID card A will work with Linux reliably or not
I don't know why, but I SERIOUSLY misread that as: "So even if Google does....." I think I need to take a break from the Internet.
Maybe cuz they have to translate the whole thing into Frenc... er... Quebec?
(ducks)
I stand corrected, I asssumed the 600 was using Dragonball, not ARM. Reason why I brought up the O/C'ng was when I researched it out (600 is sooooo slow I find) I thought I read that you can't use the same program because the CPU is different. This was quite awhile ago however.
I'm by no means an expert on this stuff, but I do own a Treo 600 (wanting a 650 or whatever comes next) however from what I've read the 600 and 650 use a different cpu architecture, so I'm pretty sure that this would not work. I know that the options for overclocking are more limited on the 600. If anyone knows this stuff better then me please correct.
In the meantime, China seems to be the only large country that's actually working on decreasing CO2 output.
I would be curious to see stats backing up this claim. I do not dispute, I just find the topic intereresting and I do not have much information outside of what we do in Canada and the pro/anti american sentiments. I know my country Canada makes noise about Kyoto and helping the world blahblah but I can't say for sure anything we're doing really is going to make a difference (other then get the current government re-elected)
I'll second (third?) AvP... Actually I think it was the sequal AvP2, there's one level I remember, wandering around in pitch dark, seeing blips on and off, thinking there's one alien, only to find out there's another 2 behind you just when your safe.
I totally agree, it's not there yet. Regardless of the install method, the interfaces are not up to snuff. I use gaim, it's perfect for me, but for people addicted to the winks / nudges / webcam / other stuff (which I agree is crap), especially the younger generation, that alone would be reason to NOT go to Linux. IM is pretty important these days like it or not, and probably going to grow. Everyone I know is constantly wondering when I'm going to "upgrade" to the new MSN so they can send winks and nudges and crap. br> :P)
I use Gentoo, and if someone can prove me wrong I'd REALLY appreciate it. To be honest I wish there was a client that was as feature (bloated?) as MSN or Trillian just to bring in more of the non techie people, as I would like to see Linux a as a stronger desktop alternative for the normies (read, people not like me
Why do I get the feeling this argument is like saying Windows sucks because it crashes all the time? I run the MX1000, with Logitech software loaded. So far my computer hasn't burst into flames, explode or even noticed any major difference in speed or "instability". I'm not sure if I need it to tell me when I get email, might be a nice feature if, say, I'm away from the computer and leave the monitor off, when I come in I don't need to turn my monitor on to quickly see if I have new emails, I just see if my mouse is "on"
Another good analogy is the "i want a cellphone that takes calls vs I want a cell phone that does everything" Pick one that makes you happy and go with it, don't bad mouth those that disagree with you.
I've stoped buying a lot of games, since games I buy now are a waste of money... I play an MMO (I don't play WoW, it's a good game, but invested too much time in FFXI) in my gaming time, so the only non MMO gaming I play now is stuff that I can pick up and play for 5-10 minutes here or there. But I don't think it will be the death of non MMO gaming... just like I'm sure FPS's like Doom took big chunks of profit from regular gaming, WoW and others will do the same, but just as we still have a lot of non FPS games, we will still have a lot of non MMO games.
That's great, of course if 80% of your users can't get to your site, they're more then likely going to go to your competitor instead of a new browser. Sad but true. Proclaming yourself 100% standard doesn't do you any good if nobody on this planet can view the page. Of course Slashdot might be able to get away with it since we're generally more tech savy then the average bear and it's not really a commerce site. When I design a site I make it as standard as possible without breaking it in any of the "big 3" (Opera, FF, IE, and Text Browsers for accessablity where possible). Heck as far as I know there isn't a 100% standards based browser, is there?
..Microsoft releasing a report that Linux has lower TCO or IBM saying Linux is more expensive to run. I mean, just because it's a "research report" makes it no less an advertisment by the company that sponsered it. All this shows is these reports are kinda pointless because you can "prove" whatever you want to believe.
Well that's basically part of what I'm saying. If Linux is ment for experimentation, and not for real world such as on a users Desktop, then yes don't include anything like binary drivers. However some people seem to think Linux will eventually move beyond the experimentation stage, which might prove difficult with this mentality, that's all I was saying.
And I never implied "shipping" a binary driver in the source, I just ment that if a company wants to have a Linux driver, but doesn't want to show the world what they feel is their bread and butter, well, your sol. If Linux ever is to reach the desktop (which I'm assuming from your comments you don't want) they will have to support "binary" drivers a lot easier.
I mostly agree... it basically depends on what the goal of Linux is, which varies depending on who you ask. It is my (probably uninformed) opinion that if Linux is ever to be accepted by big buisiness as well as the non technical users then some concessions, like Binary Drivers, are to be made. I don't think you can say to someone like my mom or dad that they should use linux, and, oh you have xyz video card? Well it's xyz's fault that it's slow because they refuse to release all of their information. No, my folks will say whatever, Windows XP works fine, linux is slow, I'll run Windows XP. If you wait for a company to give up what makes them money, you gonna wait a long long time. Personally I don't see supporting Binary Drivers as the death of Linux, but that's just me.
Of course, if you want to keep the linux "pure" and "clean" then for sure, binary drivers are bad. Just don't be suprised when nobody outside the tech community uses it. Personally I love it and use FVWM because I love to tinker (and because I love having a unique customized GUI) but I'm not ready to even consider moving my folks to Linux. Just my two cents.
as several studios surprisingly passed on producing a Halo movie
Right, because video games are a proven source of massive money and hi quality, why, just look at Mario, Double Dragon, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, that recent horror one (not Res Evil, that one's debatable if it's any good), etc etc etc.
I can actually see a Halo movie being plausable (even tho I consider the game massively overrated compared to anything on the PC) but it's far from a sure hit.
Haha, nice one. Now where's my Mutton, Lettuce, and Tomato sandwich.
putting a HD in the freezer in an attempt to get it to work
Very true, I've gotten about 3 hard drives to go from dead to alive by just putting in the freezer for about 10 minutes, if only long enough to grab the data off of it.
I thought my friend was crazy when he suggested it, but damn did it work.
Is why they can't have the hard drive "look" like a memory card to the games. For example, with the PS2 hard drive: games, if not explicitly programmed for it, would act like the hard drive wasn't there. Why they can't in these next gen systems make the games think that the hard drive is in fact a memory card, with just a little bit (ok a lot) more room? I know the technologies between mem cards and hard drives are totally different, but can't they fake the games into thinking it's a card? This way at the very least you would'nt have to worry about swapping memory cards between games, since it would have an internal massive memory card? Probably not explaining myself well bleh..
because if we've showed anything in the past 1000 years or so, it's that we know how to ensure a proper balance of animals in nature (NOT)
This is total deja vue (sp?) of the dinner scene in Jurrasic Park.
(sacrasim mode on)omgwtf someone knows someone that knew something where they saw that i visisted a website. NOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooo (sacrasim mode off)
/. ;-)
Ya I don't care too much about cookies either. In all my years of "not carrying about cookies" so far I haven't caught a plague or been targeted by a sniper, so I'm pretty sure I'll survive still not carrying. I know I'm over simplying it, but in everything I worry about day to day, this isn't one of em. Nice to see I'm not the only "tinfoil hat free" person on
but the DS as well... I bought the DS when it came out, and bought Super Mario 64 port for it... and since then.......... I bought th Atari Retro (mistake, although cool for 5 minutes) and that's it. The GBA had a better software library then either... Probably unfair considering how long the GBA has been out, but I get the feeling developers are having trouble making good portable games (excpet for a few exceptions)
but then again maybe it's just me
It's one thing for a game to add this (your right, it's easy I'm sure), it's another to have a law stating "tho shalt not play game xyz for longer then 2 hours per day, otherwise face a penalty of zyx"
Sounds like from reading the article the government is enforcing (or trying to) how long you play these games with builtin timers. Sure we might have some crazy law's on this side of the pacific, but man. Imagine being a game developer having to put in "government issued code" like this... yesh.
Damn... that's probably the best summary of Canadian politics i've heard in a long, long time.
I agree... the article tried to make it sound nice but that was their conclusion.
I actually own a Palm (Treo 600), and had a PocketPC device (Dell Axim) previous. I like Palm simply because I enjoy rooting for hte apparent underdog, and I really don't want to see MS (or anyone else) dominate this market segment. It works great for what I need, there's nothing that I'm saying man I wish I had a PocketPC instead (well, low color res, but I'd go with a Treo 650 if I upgraded anyways) i find the Application Library for Palm to be really great. Just wish they'd start using Cobalt as their new platform.