If you really want to fork the kernel, then go for it. Hire the appropriate people if you don't have or want the necessary skills. If you haven't got the money for that, make a good business case as to why your ideas are better and get some financial backing.
I'm no expert on ABI, but it looks like there's some projects related to it that are at a higher level than the kernel (e.g. Gnome, KDE etc) which is presumably due to the difficulty of having an ABI on a kernel that supports multiple processor architectures. How would you get the same binary to run on ARM and x64 without drawing a line in the sand and hampering progress?
I'm calling bullshit on that. I use my PS3 as a media center and it's fine with all the divx/xvid movies/series that I've got, whether they're ripped or downloaded. It can get a bit fussy with some mp4 files, but a transcode to divx fixes that.
Generally, when you see lots of spam from a company, it is on behalf of that company. True, you can get people trying to give a business a bad rep, but it's exceedingly rare.
If you have a look at that company's website, I think you can judge the quality of their product and marketing for yourself and decide if someone is just out to give them a bad rep.
If you want to secure a system like that, why would you complain about not being able to install/run software as an arbitrary user? You need sudo/root access to change the mount options, so why not just install the software as root (via repositories etc)?
It makes no sense to me to lock down a system and then complain that it's locked down.
Why would you deliberately lock down a system and then complain that it won't let you do things? I've never seen/home mounted as noexec on a standard distribution.
I seem to remember that they invented gunpowder. Lucky that the "western" countries didn't take advantage of the lax intellectual property laws of the time to basically wage war (literally) on everywhere that didn't know how to use gunpowder.
There's absolutely no excuse as to why the drive wasn't encrypted. I totally blame the guy for knowingly transferring other people's data onto an unencrypted drive. Losing it is understandable (and would be forgivable if he'd encrypted it).
This is more like making a pizza with a dynamite topping and then leaving it in the oven too long (there's just no good reason to make a dynamite topped pizza).
Generally, RAID1 needs the disk sizes to be the same and usually the writes have to be committed to both drives, so you'd most likely end up with a RAID that is limited to the size of the SSD and limited to the speed of the HDD.
Rather than using RAID, you could use the SSD as a single drive and have differentials/backups copied across to the HDD every couple of minutes or so - that'd provide some protection against disk failure without overly penalising the speed.
Actually, I tend to make sure that any work I do is either replicated elsewhere (checked into SVN, stored on DropBox, cloud storage etc) or is easy to re-create. HairyFeet's customer however, lost a load of work when their drive broke without warning.
I tend to think of hard drives as temporary storage - if the data is important, have it in multiple physical places.
I've seen plenty of traditional HDDs fail without warning. I'd be wary of looking for signs of impending failure on any kind of drive.
Remember, RAID is used to protect against drive failure. Dual Raptors in RAID0 is just asking for trouble - you're doubling the chance of failure. They'd be much better off with dual SSDs in RAID1 - much better performance and power consumption and better protection against sudden failure.
I'm worried about your customers that "don't have time" to perform backups. What do they do when their laptop is stolen? Maybe their work and thus their data doesn't have much value.
You might not think that SSDs are ready yet, but there are plenty of people/companies that know differently.
It'd be great if they could do some of Warren Ellis' material, but not turn it into drivel. Transmetropolitan would work well as a film, but it wouldn't be rated for children.
I used to use unison, but it can be a bit fussy about syncing between different versions. I use rsync now instead and make sure that I know which direction I'm syncing.
He's a mobile app developer (according to a quick google).
I don't know what he has made, but it's not particularly relevant to the discussion.
You shouldn't take someone's words seriously just because of who they are (or aren't), you should judge what he has to say according to how much sense it makes.
(Also, who are you and why should I take what you say seriously?)
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Afghanistan?
If you really want to fork the kernel, then go for it. Hire the appropriate people if you don't have or want the necessary skills. If you haven't got the money for that, make a good business case as to why your ideas are better and get some financial backing.
I'm no expert on ABI, but it looks like there's some projects related to it that are at a higher level than the kernel (e.g. Gnome, KDE etc) which is presumably due to the difficulty of having an ABI on a kernel that supports multiple processor architectures. How would you get the same binary to run on ARM and x64 without drawing a line in the sand and hampering progress?
Never heard of that. I've never seen the message about the media not being authorised, so I doubt that Cinavia works that well.
For the geek crowd? Cast RMS as Decker.
I'm calling bullshit on that. I use my PS3 as a media center and it's fine with all the divx/xvid movies/series that I've got, whether they're ripped or downloaded. It can get a bit fussy with some mp4 files, but a transcode to divx fixes that.
Generally, when you see lots of spam from a company, it is on behalf of that company. True, you can get people trying to give a business a bad rep, but it's exceedingly rare.
If you have a look at that company's website, I think you can judge the quality of their product and marketing for yourself and decide if someone is just out to give them a bad rep.
If you want to secure a system like that, why would you complain about not being able to install/run software as an arbitrary user? You need sudo/root access to change the mount options, so why not just install the software as root (via repositories etc)?
It makes no sense to me to lock down a system and then complain that it's locked down.
Good call
Why would you deliberately lock down a system and then complain that it won't let you do things? I've never seen /home mounted as noexec on a standard distribution.
I've just filed a complaint against this company at http://www.la.bbb.org/business-reviews/Computer-Software-Services/CyberDefender-in-Los-Angeles-CA-13196224
Anyone else want to do the same?
I seem to remember that they invented gunpowder. Lucky that the "western" countries didn't take advantage of the lax intellectual property laws of the time to basically wage war (literally) on everywhere that didn't know how to use gunpowder.
So true
There's absolutely no excuse as to why the drive wasn't encrypted. I totally blame the guy for knowingly transferring other people's data onto an unencrypted drive. Losing it is understandable (and would be forgivable if he'd encrypted it).
This is more like making a pizza with a dynamite topping and then leaving it in the oven too long (there's just no good reason to make a dynamite topped pizza).
Compromising on a moral stance is a long way from evil.
Wireless doesn't really have any "routing" between the client and the hotspot - it's just broadcast!
It would make more sense to use a separate WPA2 key for each connection, but I don't see how you'd do it without using some kind of PKI.
I'd agree with that. I prefer systems that fail fast rather than fail slow - they don't leave you wondering if things are working ok.
Generally, RAID1 needs the disk sizes to be the same and usually the writes have to be committed to both drives, so you'd most likely end up with a RAID that is limited to the size of the SSD and limited to the speed of the HDD.
Rather than using RAID, you could use the SSD as a single drive and have differentials/backups copied across to the HDD every couple of minutes or so - that'd provide some protection against disk failure without overly penalising the speed.
Actually, I tend to make sure that any work I do is either replicated elsewhere (checked into SVN, stored on DropBox, cloud storage etc) or is easy to re-create. HairyFeet's customer however, lost a load of work when their drive broke without warning.
I tend to think of hard drives as temporary storage - if the data is important, have it in multiple physical places.
I've seen plenty of traditional HDDs fail without warning. I'd be wary of looking for signs of impending failure on any kind of drive.
Remember, RAID is used to protect against drive failure. Dual Raptors in RAID0 is just asking for trouble - you're doubling the chance of failure. They'd be much better off with dual SSDs in RAID1 - much better performance and power consumption and better protection against sudden failure.
I'm worried about your customers that "don't have time" to perform backups. What do they do when their laptop is stolen? Maybe their work and thus their data doesn't have much value.
You might not think that SSDs are ready yet, but there are plenty of people/companies that know differently.
Jason Statham?
Don't forget Virgin Media and their optic fibre network
It'd be great if they could do some of Warren Ellis' material, but not turn it into drivel. Transmetropolitan would work well as a film, but it wouldn't be rated for children.
I used to use unison, but it can be a bit fussy about syncing between different versions. I use rsync now instead and make sure that I know which direction I'm syncing.
Try the Dolphin browser - it's a lot better
He's a mobile app developer (according to a quick google).
I don't know what he has made, but it's not particularly relevant to the discussion.
You shouldn't take someone's words seriously just because of who they are (or aren't), you should judge what he has to say according to how much sense it makes.
(Also, who are you and why should I take what you say seriously?)