I saw a display over Christmas at a Best Buy or similar store with some albums and singles for sale on SD cards. I'm sure the DRM was put to use in those.
A more fitting analogy would be a normal person not "wasting mental bandwidth" on his vehicle's valve timing adjustment because there are mechanics around to do that for him.
The government is bailing-out these foolish bankers/investors, and they are doing it by printing lots of money.
Monetary policy is controlled by The Fed, which not print money. It raises or lowers the Federal Funds Rate, which affects the interest charged for banks to borrow each others' money.
That means my OWN savings will be devalued by the gradual deflation of the paper dollar.
When the Fed lowers interest rates to encourage interbank spending (increasing the amount of effective money), it causes inflation, or at the very least combats deflation.
Oh, and the SCSI/SAS drives. SATA doesn't handle multiple IOs very well as it turns out, even with NCQ. If all you're doing is running a fileserver, fine, SATA will do. Databases or virtualization? SAS/SCSI is the only way to go.
Nobody is against the people doing the research being compensated. I highly doubt a medical biologist is incapable of choosing a job based upon his compensation, financial, altruistic, or otherwise.
I assume what most people are against is a megagiant pharmaceutical (or other) corporation exploiting a global medical breakthrough to enhance their "bottom line" at the cost of human life.
They could probably ship you off to a federal holding facility for refusal to cooperate with a federal investigation. They can hold you indefinitely if they feel that by your actions they can reasonably suspect you of being in some way with anti-government (read: terrorist).
It's not really about Conservatives versus Liberals or Republicans versus Democrats, even though the ACLU historically supports liberal Democrats. It's about the erosion of civil liberties by the current incarnation of the federal government.
Especially absurd is the recurring theory that private guns prevent the national government from becoming dictatorship. Unless you're one of those fringe idiots who advocates private ownership of nukes and other WMDs, the idea of a some plucky band of guerillas restoring democracy is pure fantasy.
In order for America to turn into a dictatorship, civil unrest must be quashed by those in power. The obvious agent to perform that would be the military. It would be quite easy for the military to corral an unarmed populace with tear gas and riot gear. It would be nearly impossible, though, to convince many service members to start shooting at armed citizens that look and speak just like them, in their own country. Soldiers/etc have a hard enough time dealing with killing dehumanized enemies in foreign countries. Orders to kill Joe the Plumber would result in a quick mutiny.
It's funny, I've noticed that most people who are complaining about bandwidth caps are subjects of HM Queen Elizabeth II. England, Australia, Canada, etc. Is this just a coincidence?
Feel free to not back up your data. Recovery specialists love to charge you up the arse to get bits and pieces of your precious data back after you accidentally deleted it.
You are without question correct in an enterprise setting. Raid 5 isn't too bad with a good hardware controller and offers a good compromise of speed and size for a small departmental server. I would still use RAID 10 but I know people that are just too cheap for their own good.
"Just too cheap" is a bit harsh. Let's compare, say, 3TB (decimal scale) of usable space, assuming 200 per drive for roundness' sake. We can break the redundancy into minimum and maximum drive failures (Min/Max) Obviously, having a higher minimum is best, but having a higher max can't hurt either.
RAID 5 - you need to have 3 drives, which costs $600. In order to lose your data, you need to lose any two drives. That's a 2/2 min/max out of 3 drives for $600. RAID 1+0 - you need to have 4 drives, which costs $800. You can lose your data with the failure of 2 drives within the same mirror, which there are two of. That gives us a min/max of 2/3, for $800.
In all likelihood, you will have time between the failure of the first and second drives to replace the failed drive. So, RAID 10 only buys you a 66% chance to keep your data in case of a second drive failure during that time window. On the other hand, the initial investment is also 33% higher, and it won't necessarily be available on the same controllers. Even then, the controller might actually be doing RAID 01 (damned mislabeling), which downgrades you back to a 2/2 min/max drive failure tolerance.
Of course, if you're REALLY concerned about write speed, RAID 10 or 01 is the way to go. Otherwise, if you're on a budget (who isn't), RAID 5 will do just fine.
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Tapes suck. No, really. Even the new, improved, 100 GB tapes suck.
You haven't used tape backup in a long time, have you?
Keep all the data that you are backing up on redundant storage (RAID or clustered file systems) in the first place.
Funny, that. What about the cost of disks versus tape? What about disaster recovery requirements that mandate offsite backups?
Most IT "professionals" are only extended the ass end of that deal, not the sweet yearly salary part.
I saw a display over Christmas at a Best Buy or similar store with some albums and singles for sale on SD cards. I'm sure the DRM was put to use in those.
A more fitting analogy would be a normal person not "wasting mental bandwidth" on his vehicle's valve timing adjustment because there are mechanics around to do that for him.
The government is bailing-out these foolish bankers/investors, and they are doing it by printing lots of money.
Monetary policy is controlled by The Fed, which not print money. It raises or lowers the Federal Funds Rate, which affects the interest charged for banks to borrow each others' money.
That means my OWN savings will be devalued by the gradual deflation of the paper dollar.
When the Fed lowers interest rates to encourage interbank spending (increasing the amount of effective money), it causes inflation, or at the very least combats deflation.
It also won't help much if a controller failure mangles all the disks writes.
Modded funny, but ext2 still has its uses. Journalling can be a bit of a performance breaker in the right (wrong) circumstances.
And if I bothered to RTFA, I wouldn't feel like such a moron right now. Move along, nothing to see here.
Boo on me for not RTFAing.
Oh, and the SCSI/SAS drives. SATA doesn't handle multiple IOs very well as it turns out, even with NCQ. If all you're doing is running a fileserver, fine, SATA will do. Databases or virtualization? SAS/SCSI is the only way to go.
People avoid SATA in high-IO environments for a reason.
No, US DST is in summer. Winter is standard time.
Nobody is against the people doing the research being compensated. I highly doubt a medical biologist is incapable of choosing a job based upon his compensation, financial, altruistic, or otherwise.
I assume what most people are against is a megagiant pharmaceutical (or other) corporation exploiting a global medical breakthrough to enhance their "bottom line" at the cost of human life.
There goes every Bush story that has ever been on this site.
whoosh!
The effect probably wouldn't be all too dissimilar from the effect of scraping up murder victims.
That doesn't mean that the Constitution should be ignored.
Waco and Ruby Ridge and Ted Kaczynski
One of these things is not like the others.
They could probably ship you off to a federal holding facility for refusal to cooperate with a federal investigation. They can hold you indefinitely if they feel that by your actions they can reasonably suspect you of being in some way with anti-government (read: terrorist).
It's not really about Conservatives versus Liberals or Republicans versus Democrats, even though the ACLU historically supports liberal Democrats. It's about the erosion of civil liberties by the current incarnation of the federal government.
Heck, anywhere close to any federal political figure.
Especially absurd is the recurring theory that private guns prevent the national government from becoming dictatorship. Unless you're one of those fringe idiots who advocates private ownership of nukes and other WMDs, the idea of a some plucky band of guerillas restoring democracy is pure fantasy.
In order for America to turn into a dictatorship, civil unrest must be quashed by those in power. The obvious agent to perform that would be the military. It would be quite easy for the military to corral an unarmed populace with tear gas and riot gear. It would be nearly impossible, though, to convince many service members to start shooting at armed citizens that look and speak just like them, in their own country. Soldiers/etc have a hard enough time dealing with killing dehumanized enemies in foreign countries. Orders to kill Joe the Plumber would result in a quick mutiny.
A university degree from Russia now and has always equated with a Masters in the US.
Is that so?
It's funny, I've noticed that most people who are complaining about bandwidth caps are subjects of HM Queen Elizabeth II. England, Australia, Canada, etc. Is this just a coincidence?
Feel free to not back up your data. Recovery specialists love to charge you up the arse to get bits and pieces of your precious data back after you accidentally deleted it.
I don't need a backup. I have RAID, right?
You are without question correct in an enterprise setting. Raid 5 isn't too bad with a good hardware controller and offers a good compromise of speed and size for a small departmental server. I would still use RAID 10 but I know people that are just too cheap for their own good.
"Just too cheap" is a bit harsh. Let's compare, say, 3TB (decimal scale) of usable space, assuming 200 per drive for roundness' sake. We can break the redundancy into minimum and maximum drive failures (Min/Max) Obviously, having a higher minimum is best, but having a higher max can't hurt either.
RAID 5 - you need to have 3 drives, which costs $600. In order to lose your data, you need to lose any two drives. That's a 2/2 min/max out of 3 drives for $600.
RAID 1+0 - you need to have 4 drives, which costs $800. You can lose your data with the failure of 2 drives within the same mirror, which there are two of. That gives us a min/max of 2/3, for $800.
In all likelihood, you will have time between the failure of the first and second drives to replace the failed drive. So, RAID 10 only buys you a 66% chance to keep your data in case of a second drive failure during that time window. On the other hand, the initial investment is also 33% higher, and it won't necessarily be available on the same controllers. Even then, the controller might actually be doing RAID 01 (damned mislabeling), which downgrades you back to a 2/2 min/max drive failure tolerance.
Of course, if you're REALLY concerned about write speed, RAID 10 or 01 is the way to go. Otherwise, if you're on a budget (who isn't), RAID 5 will do just fine.