I read the bug report at your link and I don't see any indication that a) this has any relation to the size of the directory, or b) that this one bug makes NFS a flaky POS. I have a 1TB+ NFS volume to/from which I write/read several GB per day. Never in years has it given me one problem, but hey, that's just me.
As I recall, XFS is particularly good with large files. I use it for a media volume on my NAS. It's major down side from my point of view is lack of TRIM support, which only matters if it's on an SSD of course. The other thing to consider would be the occasional defrag.
The GGGP was waxing about MS's contributions, when no evidence of any contribution has been forthcoming, save that which was required by law after they were caught infringing. That's ironic enough.
I don't see how preferring "free software" over "open source software" makes one touchy or pedantic, given that RMS has stated his reasons for said preference. You may not agree with him, but it doesn't add anything to the discussion to label him.
2) Acer Live Update -- it's a small application that periodically checks Acer's servers for updated software, drivers and BIOS. Again, quite useful.
I have to disagree with you there. I set up an Acer last week, and as usual, just wiped and did a fresh install, as it's usually quicker and cleaner than decrapifying. After Windows, the first piece of software I installed was Acer Live Update. It found zero updates, despite several unknown devices in the device manager. Useless.
As for the other Acer software you mentioned, I've yet to see a vendor-supplied backup or other utility that works well enough to justify not tearing it out by the roots.
Secure Boot closes off one nowadays almost completely irrelevant vector for malware
Of course if that were really true then MS would look very silly for all the effort they've dumped into it. In fact, their efforts only really make sense once you redefine Linux and other alternative-to-Windows OSes as malware. When you consider that free software (especially operating systems, web browsers and office suites) have proven a far bigger threat to MS's bottom line than any or all real malware combined, the secure boot campaign starts to really make a lot of sense.
I personally believe the hipster fashion is simply a way of liking thinks and pretending they are irony [although to be fair I'm the only one that thinks so].
So let it be noted that you though so before it was cool to think so.
Exactly right. I've used, sold and supported dozens of SSDs. Most were Vertex or Agility (1, 2, 3 and 4), and I've yet to see a single one fail. By contrast, I sold exactly three OCZ Petrols and had 4 failures! The last two were RMA replaced by Agility 3 and Octane, repectively, so obviously OCZ has seen a problem there.
Similarly, I sold a batch of a dozen or so Kingston budget drives and saw nearly half of them fail around the 1 year mark. I've used a couple Corsair drives and had issues with them not coming out of sleep. I tried a handful of early Intel MLC drives and while they worked ok, performance was lacklustre for the high price.
These days I stick with the tried and true Vertex and Agility series for good value and flawless performance.
As for the OP's question of how they fail: you name it. Some develop bad blocks resulting in lost data or failure to boot. Others disappear suddenly from the BIOS altogether and refuse to be recognized by any OS. I had one that spontaneously (or so the customer claimed. It was a Kingston, after all) set itself an ATA password and was thus useless.
GPL licensors demand that others don't redistribute GPL code as their own. Proprietary licensors demand that others don't use their code at all without their express permission, full stop. Who's the fanatic here?
Vista, even with SP2 and all updates, is dog slow sometimes. I work with W7 machines daily at work, and every time I have to use a Vista machine (even on a fresh install with SP2), I'm amazed at how slow some things respond compared to what I'm used to.
Win 7 removed those 2 problems and suddenly everything is wonderful.
Your assertion implies that if I were to run Vista today with well-supported drivers and UAC disabled then it would suck no more than Windows 7. Sorry, but that isn't true by a long shot. Have you touched Vista in the last two or three years? I assure you, it still sucks--decidedly more than Windows 7.
They keep them so that the country doesn't grind to a halt the next time there's a significant supply disruption.
He was wrong about the maple syrup too, since that is exactly our reason for keeping reserves in Canada (although perhaps not on the global scale of oil).
I can't run the newest 12.xx releases with Unity, since it says I need graphics acceleration and my machine can't handle it; it's probably looking at my Intel card and concluding it's not good enough, while ignoring my ATi card.
More likely it's detecting the ATi card and using the free driver. Try installing fglrx or whatever the non-free AMD driver is these days and see what that does. Low performing they may be, but I can't say I've seen an Intel vid driver perform below expectations in a very long time.
The article doesn't talk about how they're actually measuring the speed of a "connection". Is it all the concurrent bandwidth to a unique IP address? If so, they're not necessarily measuring my bandwidth, but that of me and a few dozen of my nieghbours, thanks to CGN.
Marat however pulled through, taking a bus approximately 2000 kilometers to make it in time...The project would like to thank...Marat for making the day long bus ride back to Seliger
ReactOS is just a cover. The real story here is a bus that doesn't stop every hour so the driver can get out and smoke cigarettes.
Up here in the frozen wastes of central Alberta in the winter the indoor humidity drops to incredibly low values of 10-20% because there is no moisture in the outside air because it is at -40C and even then has low humidity. This means that condensation is never really a problem
Static electricity on the other hand... Seriously, every had a drink from the water cooler when it's that cold outside? Be sure to touch the water with your finger first, or you will discover first hand that the tooth is possibly the worst place on the body to experience a static shock. And if you think your tooth is sensitive, imagine how the electronics feel.
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I read the bug report at your link and I don't see any indication that a) this has any relation to the size of the directory, or b) that this one bug makes NFS a flaky POS. I have a 1TB+ NFS volume to/from which I write/read several GB per day. Never in years has it given me one problem, but hey, that's just me.
As I recall, XFS is particularly good with large files. I use it for a media volume on my NAS. It's major down side from my point of view is lack of TRIM support, which only matters if it's on an SSD of course. The other thing to consider would be the occasional defrag.
The GGGP was waxing about MS's contributions, when no evidence of any contribution has been forthcoming, save that which was required by law after they were caught infringing. That's ironic enough.
I don't see how preferring "free software" over "open source software" makes one touchy or pedantic, given that RMS has stated his reasons for said preference. You may not agree with him, but it doesn't add anything to the discussion to label him.
I'm still holding out for Mojave.
2) Acer Live Update -- it's a small application that periodically checks Acer's servers for updated software, drivers and BIOS. Again, quite useful.
I have to disagree with you there. I set up an Acer last week, and as usual, just wiped and did a fresh install, as it's usually quicker and cleaner than decrapifying. After Windows, the first piece of software I installed was Acer Live Update. It found zero updates, despite several unknown devices in the device manager. Useless.
As for the other Acer software you mentioned, I've yet to see a vendor-supplied backup or other utility that works well enough to justify not tearing it out by the roots.
Secure Boot closes off one nowadays almost completely irrelevant vector for malware
Of course if that were really true then MS would look very silly for all the effort they've dumped into it. In fact, their efforts only really make sense once you redefine Linux and other alternative-to-Windows OSes as malware. When you consider that free software (especially operating systems, web browsers and office suites) have proven a far bigger threat to MS's bottom line than any or all real malware combined, the secure boot campaign starts to really make a lot of sense.
I personally believe the hipster fashion is simply a way of liking thinks and pretending they are irony [although to be fair I'm the only one that thinks so].
So let it be noted that you though so before it was cool to think so.
I love how the caption says the image is 400m wide while the scale on the image itself makes it easily 500-600m wide.
Security essentials is packaged for businesses as Forefront
You're so last month! We're calling it System Center Endpoint Protection now, because it rolls off the tongue more naturally.
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If I fly an airplane into a building, does that mean the airplane's design is broken?
Exactly right. I've used, sold and supported dozens of SSDs. Most were Vertex or Agility (1, 2, 3 and 4), and I've yet to see a single one fail. By contrast, I sold exactly three OCZ Petrols and had 4 failures! The last two were RMA replaced by Agility 3 and Octane, repectively, so obviously OCZ has seen a problem there.
Similarly, I sold a batch of a dozen or so Kingston budget drives and saw nearly half of them fail around the 1 year mark. I've used a couple Corsair drives and had issues with them not coming out of sleep. I tried a handful of early Intel MLC drives and while they worked ok, performance was lacklustre for the high price.
These days I stick with the tried and true Vertex and Agility series for good value and flawless performance.
As for the OP's question of how they fail: you name it. Some develop bad blocks resulting in lost data or failure to boot. Others disappear suddenly from the BIOS altogether and refuse to be recognized by any OS. I had one that spontaneously (or so the customer claimed. It was a Kingston, after all) set itself an ATA password and was thus useless.
Who said anything about Apple?
GPL licensors demand that others don't redistribute GPL code as their own. Proprietary licensors demand that others don't use their code at all without their express permission, full stop. Who's the fanatic here?
Vista, even with SP2 and all updates, is dog slow sometimes. I work with W7 machines daily at work, and every time I have to use a Vista machine (even on a fresh install with SP2), I'm amazed at how slow some things respond compared to what I'm used to.
Win 7 removed those 2 problems and suddenly everything is wonderful.
Your assertion implies that if I were to run Vista today with well-supported drivers and UAC disabled then it would suck no more than Windows 7. Sorry, but that isn't true by a long shot. Have you touched Vista in the last two or three years? I assure you, it still sucks--decidedly more than Windows 7.
And with proper punctuation, too. What's not to love?
They keep them so that the country doesn't grind to a halt the next time there's a significant supply disruption.
He was wrong about the maple syrup too, since that is exactly our reason for keeping reserves in Canada (although perhaps not on the global scale of oil).
I can't run the newest 12.xx releases with Unity, since it says I need graphics acceleration and my machine can't handle it; it's probably looking at my Intel card and concluding it's not good enough, while ignoring my ATi card.
More likely it's detecting the ATi card and using the free driver. Try installing fglrx or whatever the non-free AMD driver is these days and see what that does. Low performing they may be, but I can't say I've seen an Intel vid driver perform below expectations in a very long time.
IPv6 is a fantasy around here. My ISP has been testing it for as long as I've been with them (around 1.5 years), but not in my neighbourhood.
The article doesn't talk about how they're actually measuring the speed of a "connection". Is it all the concurrent bandwidth to a unique IP address? If so, they're not necessarily measuring my bandwidth, but that of me and a few dozen of my nieghbours, thanks to CGN.
Marat however pulled through, taking a bus approximately 2000 kilometers to make it in time...The project would like to thank...Marat for making the day long bus ride back to Seliger
ReactOS is just a cover. The real story here is a bus that doesn't stop every hour so the driver can get out and smoke cigarettes.
Up here in the frozen wastes of central Alberta in the winter the indoor humidity drops to incredibly low values of 10-20% because there is no moisture in the outside air because it is at -40C and even then has low humidity. This means that condensation is never really a problem
Static electricity on the other hand... Seriously, every had a drink from the water cooler when it's that cold outside? Be sure to touch the water with your finger first, or you will discover first hand that the tooth is possibly the worst place on the body to experience a static shock. And if you think your tooth is sensitive, imagine how the electronics feel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_Law_of_Headlines