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  1. Re:You have hardware problem on Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement? · · Score: 1

    But everyone has good and bad experiences with filesystems, ReiserFS included. XFS has a good rep, my experience aside.

  2. Re:You chose ReiserFS for MythTV? on Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement? · · Score: 1

    The documentation is often out of date, but I take the point.

    At build time I hadn't seen this in the docs and hundreds of recordings later, there have been no issues. Whatever the source of this problem was, it does not appear to be an issue any more - at least for me.

  3. Re:Some facts on Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement? · · Score: 1

    1) The requirement for shrinkable remains.

    2) Ok, thanks.

    3) Perhaps things became unclear in the post edit, but I use reiser everywhere now, not just mythtv. I use drbd for critical files, running reiserfs over the top.

    4) It isn't a case of fashion. As I stated, the future of reiserfs is uncertain and I want to explore alternatives. What is there to be gained from not exploring alternatives?

    Facts are different things to opinions.

  4. Re:Why the need for shrinkable? on Best Shrinkable ReiserFS Replacement? · · Score: 1

    In all my years of asking advice from people on the forums such as this one, there are always some that want to alter the premise of the question, to make answering more straightforward, or so that it fits better into their world view.

    The "shrinkable" requirement necessity has come up a number of times.

    I figure I may as well respond to at least one. Yes I do need shrinkable. Yes. Yes I do. You'll notice I specified that in the requirements.

    Will you only feel comfortable if I explain why? Well, I am not going to. Please just accept the requirements are just that and move on.

  5. Re:First Post on Game Developer's Response To Pirates · · Score: 1

    I was using Nero + keygen for quite a while until two things coincided: 1) the quality of the product had risen making the product worth the money they were asking

    I have checked all historical references and this has never happened.

  6. Planes already have that phones people CAN TALK ON on In-flight Cell Ban Advances In Congress · · Score: 1

    Is it perhaps that people talk more loudly on mobile phones than they do the ones built into the seat of every plane I have flown on in years?

    Perhaps people speak more quietly when being charged a fortune per minute?

    Perhaps it is unacceptable for "poor" people to talk loudly about something inane in the cabin than the rich people we must suffer today?

    Frankly, I don't want someone next to me trying to talk over the white noise of a plane into a phone for an entire flight - that way leads to international incidents. But this bill is the height of hippocracy.

    As usual, follow the money to find the imperative.

  7. Re:Trust on Firefox Users Stay Ahead On the Update Curve · · Score: 1

    For sure.. but this only works as long as there is a patch administration regime in place. But what people tend to do is install for their Grandmothers with the same sensibilities. But then never ensure that Gran is instructed on which updates should be applied :)

    So the moral of this story is unless you are going to assess every patch that comes around for validity on a timely basis, then you are better just automatically applying all of them indiscriminately and dealing with the consequences.

    Or get your critical systems off windows of course.

  8. Re:Bunches of small drives on What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    There was a "suggestion" that "magnetic force microscopy may be able to recover such data".

    I am not convinced that anyone has actually done this, and the cheapo Zero Challange http://16systems.com/zero/index.html has not been attempted (perhaps because it is cheap).

    In any case the 35 writes of the DoD standard is to cater for all kinds of drives, including old MFM drives - so the whole thing is not necessary when you know the drive type.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_remanence

    DOD recommend degaussing or descruction for sanitisation, and overwriting sufficient for clearing.

    NIST say a single overwrite is sufficient for modern drives and refer to remenance recovery on a modern drives as "urban legend".

    But bear in mind, a sector marked bad by the hard drive will remain untouched during a complete overwrite with zeros, hence the degaussing method preferred by DOD.

    But essentially, a single writing of zeros is good enough for anyone unless it is ultra sensitive, then no amount of writing is good enough - you must degauss or destroy.

  9. Re:Bunches of small drives on What To Do With a Hundred Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    If you use the software approved by the DoD for 'cleaning' you should be safe.


    The whole "multiple-writes else information can be gathered from the residual magnetic domains" thing is pretty much debunked.

    Writing zeros is sufficient.
  10. Re:Deleted on Dilbert Goes Flash, Readers Revolt · · Score: 1

    He also has an irrational love of Microsoft at times, such as when he thought that Bill Gates would make a good president. Is it reallythat irrational to suggest that someone with demonstrable management skills and intellect would make a good president?

    While a good portion of US citizens voting for someone with a demonstrable absence of management skills and an almost entirely absent intellect is rational?

    While Gates as President may be a somewhat tongue in cheek suggestion, Adams is demonstrating that the current selection method is flawed - completely and utterly flawed.

    Adams likes to make people think - this is no bad thing considering the past eight years.
  11. Re:This is great news.... on Sun May Begin Close Sourcing MySQL Features · · Score: 1

    cPanel supports mysql and postgresql, and we (a hosting provider) will begin supporting Postgresql as demand requires it.

    But this is a small part of the jigsaw of Postgresql becoming the de-facto standard. Ultimately it is the body of open source applications out there that are built on mysql which would need to have their reliance on a specific dbms reduce.

  12. Not who, what on EU Recommends Slashing Search Data Retention · · Score: 1

    This is dumb.

    It isn't "how long it is kept for" but "what is kept".

    Storing search criteria forever is only an issue if it can be used for identification or reveal information about someone.

    So strip the "who" and keep the "what". And you can ditch the "who" part of the data immediately for the majority of people, and let people opt-in if they want history relevant services.

  13. Breaking News on Can Architects Save Libraries from the Internet? · · Score: 1


    Businesses must adapt to changes.

  14. Re:You know what would be even better? on Dell Set to Introduce AMD's Triple-core Phenom CPU · · Score: 1

    It is borderline chicanery - the core is defective, yes, but it has to be disabled to stop it being used a producing unwanted behavour.

  15. Re:Monitoring. on Swedish Athletes Back GPS Implants to Combat Drug Use · · Score: 1

    And then of course there would be no need for GPS.

    Intelligence is clearly not a prerequisite for athletic prowess.

  16. Replace the wires with wires on USB To Go Wireless · · Score: 1


    Excellent, so now all my usb powered devices no longer need usb wires, they can be wireless except for the new wires required to power them.

    Or has something happened in the exrucatingly slow world of battery developement that I don't know about?

  17. Re:the one advantage on The eBook, Mark 2 · · Score: 2, Insightful


    Paper books have a pretty solid copyright protection built in, which is circumventable only through extensive effort and then the copied result is generally of much lower quality than the original.

    If you give a paper book to someone, you no longer have it.

  18. No way on It's OK to keep AIMing · · Score: 1

    I doubt it.

    I am finding my own once perfect capability to distinguish "there", "their" and "they're" degrading over time when reading all the poorly written crap on the net.

    Its a simply case of retraining. As I am reading more sentences that uses these words incorrectly, the ones where they are used correctly stand out less, and the rules dilute. It seems common sensical that this process would be encouraged in IM as anywhere.

  19. Failure to Launch on Duke Nukem Forever Update · · Score: 1


    I will be disappointed if DNF ever sees the light of day, and I am confident that the slashdot crown will agree with some cajoling into reflection.

    There are only two outcomes worth considering:

    1) Duke Nukem Forever will be released and will be amongst the best games ever; will be surrounded by attention and like a pitiful candle will be snuffed out before it has fully lit up the room. And the DNF vapourware storyline will be lost forever.

    2) Duke Nukem Forever will be released and be as crap as Daiketana, and we will scoff and say "I told you" ... "No, I told YOU" until the cows come home shortly after. And the DNF vapourware storyline will be lost forever.

    So frankly, DNF has a lot more mileage going for it if it is never released, as long as it is touched upon once in a while and these dialogs take place.

  20. Re:No point to this study on Prayer Does Not Help Heart Patients · · Score: 1


    I think the point to this study would be that if it showed that prayer *did* have some benefit for those being prayed for, then it would support the previous study, and lend weight to there being some geniune phenomenon going on.

    Further research would then be warrented to determine the processes behind the phenomenon and to see if it could be used as a medical practice. At the very least you could employ praying people... why not?

    Just because a study comes out negative doesn't make it pointless. And to think that a study was carried out in order to convince people to believe thing or another is plain dumb. Nobody cares.

  21. Re:Login Info on Google Enters Web-Office Market · · Score: 1


    No! Using bugmenot doesn't send the right message. We want rid of pointless password protected public websites, and each time someone uses bugmenot (let alone actually registering), it sends a positive web count to the site producer.

    If they demand registration, read the article elsewhere.

    This is the internet after all.

  22. Since When on HOWTO, Cook an Egg With Your Cell Phone · · Score: 2, Informative

    ... does phone A ever communicate with phone B?

    I know this has been debunked already, but anyways. Phone A talks to cell mast A and phone B talks to cell mast B.

    Cell mast A may or may not equal cell mast B.

  23. Re:The best, maybe, but installation? on The Debian System Explained · · Score: 1


    I have found that Ubuntu is more sensitive to hard drive Master/Slave/CS jumper positions than say Windows.

    I had no jumper on a WD drive, and it just wouldn't take it until I jumpered it as master.

    Windows didn't bat an eyelid.

  24. Re:Sombrero Galaxies and You on Galaxies Floating on a Dark Matter Stream · · Score: 1

    Damnit!

    Back in my day, it was the Giant Space Goats(tm). Whatever happened to them?

    I am finding that ID is irreducibly complex, and therefore could only have been created by a Designer.

  25. Re:Sombrero Galaxies and You on Galaxies Floating on a Dark Matter Stream · · Score: 1

    Which were created by the invisible spaggetti monster.

    Take that you ID zealots!