--Thumbs up for WD Black drives - I've had really good experience with them. And they typically have a 5 year warranty - worth the slight price premium. I don't think I'll buy a Blue drive again - just had one fail in less than a year with light usage, in the midle of replacing it under warranty.
--I just ordered a 3TB WD30EURS drive (somewhat reluctantly, since I have only a 2TB RAIDZ2 array, but hey extra space is always nice) but I don't really trust drives over 1-2TB. #1 reason, they take ~8 hours+ to R/W burn-in test the entire drive. #2 reason, getting all that data off a failing drive is starting to become a pain with current SATA speeds - and where do you copy it all to in the crunch? I will likely stick to 1-2TB spinning drives for the forseeable future until large-capacity SSDs start becoming affordable AND reliable. (Shoutout to Kingston Hyper-X for doing well on the 500TB reliability test!)
--How is that even REMOTELY secure?? I'm not tryna be snarky, I'm genuinely curious. It just sounds like it would be hideously easy to abuse and help others hack into your computer.
--Yep. Join.me worked fine up until a few weeks ago, when I tried logging into my Dad's laptop with him on the phone; join.me would NOT let him share his desktop and wanted him to sign up for an account before he could do anything. Since he's reluctant to give out his info (SPAM, et al) we immediately switched to a different solution (IIRC 99% sure it was Teamviewer since it's on portableapps.)
--I really like nomachine NX, but ended up having to uninstall it in order to watch Blu-Ray movies on my laptop - their custom video driver was interfering with playback.
--Plus, in the latest rev they completely changed how it works; before, you could remote into Linux and it would start a new virtual X session + window manager. Now, it will only connect to an *existing session.* X11vnc already does this, so apart from NX's faster connection speed it's kind of a loss for me.:c
--Look it up**, the *recommended* way to discover disks in Freebsd is to grep 'dmesg' for da* and ad* entries. There are multiple different ways to do this simple thing in Linux, which also provides more information as a bonus:
o ' fdisk -l ', o ' blkid ', even o ' ls -al/dev/disk/by-id|grep sdX '.
** Google " freebsd list disks ". Srsly, the mind boggles.
--Truly this is a sorry state of affairs, and nobody seems interested in making it better on the Freebsd side. This is making it difficult to have a sane naming scheme if you want to have a fairly large ZFS installation, since disk entries can change after a reboot. Even adopting Solaris' c1t1d1 method would be a start.
--That's not the point. USB3 is now becoming common hardware, and needs to be supported as such. God, I hate elitist answers like the one you just gave. " YOU'RE doing it wrong... " No!! It's 2014 FFS, Freebsd has several years of catching up just to get close to where Linux is NOW.
--Ten minutes of experimenting with the latest Freebsd10--64 DVD install ISO and Vmware Player revealed several obvious bugs in the installer. I had to trash the VMDK entirely and start over after the install bombed because it was hopelessly stuck - even after a reboot, because it DIDN'T destroy all existing data on the (aborted install) ZFS root disk like it should. Increasing the VM RAM from 1GB to 1.5GB finally got a successful basic install, but DAMN they need to do some more basic testing before releasing this stuff to the general public. PCBSD has the same (lack of testing) problem.
--Even after the install completed and switching to the new ' pkg ' system, I can't even get Xorg to install**. Still craptastic 80x25 text consoles, and the Delete key STILL doesn't even work as expected at the command prompt. They don't even install BASH by default yet. This is *pathetic.*
** What, you want me to *compile* Xorg on a 4GB RAM laptop in a VM? Sod off. And yes, I was following the official handbook.
--Don't even get me started on the lack of decent/dev/disk entries, Linux kernel has/dev/disk/by-id that is making ZFS on *Linux* way more appealing these days. And this is coming from someone who had my main RAID server running PCBSD 9.0--64 + ZFS RAIDZ3 + Samba for a year and a half with an unrecoverably broken ports tree(due to an unavoidably ^C'ed compile), until I finally converted it to ZFS on Linux a couple of weeks ago. Package manglement was a nightmare compared to apt-get. I even tried giving Kfreebsd the benefit of the doubt for a couple of years, but that distro is a long way from even being home-user ready. Nobody is going to take them seriously until they can at least have a viable install in Vmware with everything working out of the box as expected.
--I really want to be a fan of Free/PCBSD, but they arguably have a long way to go before they can even begin to match the current Linux comfort level. Srsly.
> Honestly you might as well not even have AV as its never gonna get anything to attack, infections drop right of the map
--Tell that to the FORM virus I got off an infected floppy back in the day, when I didn't even have a modem.:P Honestly, you can still get infections from PDF files, CDs, USB drives... any kind of shared media still needs to be scanned. Nice hyperbole tho;-)
--Agreed. And if you put the VM's virtual HD on SSD, most of the overhead will be mitigated. Altho I'd store snapshots on spinning HD if it's a small SSD. And definitely BACKUP frequently!
--Try inbox.com, I've been with them for about a year and haven't really had problems with them. Has a Web interface like yahoo/gmail, and haven't personally had issues with spam there.
Not necessarily true. My motorcycle was ticketed once for not having current plates, and all it was doing was sitting in my apt. parking lot - I had not been riding it.:(
--Personally, I think tapping your left/right big toe to act as a mouse click would be more useful (and quicker) then winking or blinking a certain way. Plus, I'm one of those people who gets a damn eyelash caught in my eye on a semi-frequent basis, causing me to blink furiously and my eye(s) to tear up. Not to mention allergies...
--Man, when I was passing thru Decatur in the 70's and 80's, the smell of old "Stinky Staley" always used to remind me of McDonald's french fries... mmmm
--I'll give you an AMEN for that one.:-) I don't really care if it's 200MB/sec or 500MB/sec, I just don't want it to die allofasudden with no SMART warning, or corrupt my data. If I need SPEEED, I can RAID them together.
--I'm willing to bet you can still buy a new PC with Win7 - you prolly have to go to a local mom-n-pop shop to do it, though. Anyone willing to test this?
> I'm sorry, but tell me an easy way for a non-technical business (e.g. a dentist's office) to shut off Internet access in most consumer-grade VMs (VMWare Player, Hyper-V, Win7's VirtualPC, etc.) while keeping network access alive.
--AC already replied to you, but how many dentists do you know that are using VMs? Dentists and the like usually hire consultants/tech people to do their networking stuff, AFAIK.
--Another way of doing what you suggest is to put the office PCs on a Class A network, and put (1) machine running a Squid proxy on the DHCP/Class C that talks to the Router. Every machine/VM talks to Squid to get their Web content, Win updates, etc.
--Bonus: You get caching AND filtering, PLUS you use less Internet bandwidth overall.:-)
> Generally, economics dictates it's cheaper to buy a new car than extensively maintain an old car
My 2003 Eclipse is still running well after 10+ years. Granted I got a good deal on it and put about $3K worth of maint into it. But if you keep the fluids changed, avoid stupid driving (like 1st-gear dropdowns / burnouts) and have a good mechanic, Japanese cars will generally last quite a bit longer than their American counterparts. I expect to get at least 5 more years out of mine; plus it's still under 100K miles. Keeping it running is much cheaper (so far) than paying $10K+ over the next 5 years into a loan for a *new* car.
--I think the quoted price (which you can buy a pretty good motorcycle for) would be more appealing if they actually applied some ARTWORK to these "art pieces" - i.e. Scrimshaw.
--I'll give you an AMEN for that! Never liked ethanol in my gas. E10 also has issues with common fuel stabilizers, which can be somewhat problematic if you want to store your motorcycle over the winter.
--I just want someone to also start building more Refineries in the US, which will help drive gas prices down below $3 again (we lightheartedly hope)
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--Thumbs up for WD Black drives - I've had really good experience with them. And they typically have a 5 year warranty - worth the slight price premium. I don't think I'll buy a Blue drive again - just had one fail in less than a year with light usage, in the midle of replacing it under warranty.
--I just ordered a 3TB WD30EURS drive (somewhat reluctantly, since I have only a 2TB RAIDZ2 array, but hey extra space is always nice) but I don't really trust drives over 1-2TB. #1 reason, they take ~8 hours+ to R/W burn-in test the entire drive. #2 reason, getting all that data off a failing drive is starting to become a pain with current SATA speeds - and where do you copy it all to in the crunch? I will likely stick to 1-2TB spinning drives for the forseeable future until large-capacity SSDs start becoming affordable AND reliable. (Shoutout to Kingston Hyper-X for doing well on the 500TB reliability test!)
Look into Teamviewer Portable - you might be able to extract it and run it off a CD/DVD.
--How is that even REMOTELY secure?? I'm not tryna be snarky, I'm genuinely curious. It just sounds like it would be hideously easy to abuse and help others hack into your computer.
--Yep. Join.me worked fine up until a few weeks ago, when I tried logging into my Dad's laptop with him on the phone; join.me would NOT let him share his desktop and wanted him to sign up for an account before he could do anything. Since he's reluctant to give out his info (SPAM, et al) we immediately switched to a different solution (IIRC 99% sure it was Teamviewer since it's on portableapps.)
--I really like nomachine NX, but ended up having to uninstall it in order to watch Blu-Ray movies on my laptop - their custom video driver was interfering with playback.
--Plus, in the latest rev they completely changed how it works; before, you could remote into Linux and it would start a new virtual X session + window manager. Now, it will only connect to an *existing session.* X11vnc already does this, so apart from NX's faster connection speed it's kind of a loss for me. :c
csh. (shudderz)
p.s. - more on Freebsd's /dev/disk.
--Look it up**, the *recommended* way to discover disks in Freebsd is to grep 'dmesg' for da* and ad* entries. There are multiple different ways to do this simple thing in Linux, which also provides more information as a bonus:
o ' fdisk -l ', /dev/disk/by-id|grep sdX '.
o ' blkid ', even
o ' ls -al
** Google " freebsd list disks ". Srsly, the mind boggles.
--Truly this is a sorry state of affairs, and nobody seems interested in making it better on the Freebsd side. This is making it difficult to have a sane naming scheme if you want to have a fairly large ZFS installation, since disk entries can change after a reboot. Even adopting Solaris' c1t1d1 method would be a start.
--That's not the point. USB3 is now becoming common hardware, and needs to be supported as such. God, I hate elitist answers like the one you just gave. " YOU'RE doing it wrong... " No!! It's 2014 FFS, Freebsd has several years of catching up just to get close to where Linux is NOW.
--Ten minutes of experimenting with the latest Freebsd10--64 DVD install ISO and Vmware Player revealed several obvious bugs in the installer. I had to trash the VMDK entirely and start over after the install bombed because it was hopelessly stuck - even after a reboot, because it DIDN'T destroy all existing data on the (aborted install) ZFS root disk like it should. Increasing the VM RAM from 1GB to 1.5GB finally got a successful basic install, but DAMN they need to do some more basic testing before releasing this stuff to the general public. PCBSD has the same (lack of testing) problem.
--Even after the install completed and switching to the new ' pkg ' system, I can't even get Xorg to install**. Still craptastic 80x25 text consoles, and the Delete key STILL doesn't even work as expected at the command prompt. They don't even install BASH by default yet. This is *pathetic.*
** What, you want me to *compile* Xorg on a 4GB RAM laptop in a VM? Sod off. And yes, I was following the official handbook.
--Don't even get me started on the lack of decent /dev/disk entries, Linux kernel has /dev/disk/by-id that is making ZFS on *Linux* way more appealing these days. And this is coming from someone who had my main RAID server running PCBSD 9.0--64 + ZFS RAIDZ3 + Samba for a year and a half with an unrecoverably broken ports tree(due to an unavoidably ^C'ed compile), until I finally converted it to ZFS on Linux a couple of weeks ago. Package manglement was a nightmare compared to apt-get. I even tried giving Kfreebsd the benefit of the doubt for a couple of years, but that distro is a long way from even being home-user ready. Nobody is going to take them seriously until they can at least have a viable install in Vmware with everything working out of the box as expected.
--I really want to be a fan of Free/PCBSD, but they arguably have a long way to go before they can even begin to match the current Linux comfort level. Srsly.
--I don't have modpoints ATM, but I'll give you a +1 Funny for that :-)
> Honestly you might as well not even have AV as its never gonna get anything to attack, infections drop right of the map
--Tell that to the FORM virus I got off an infected floppy back in the day, when I didn't even have a modem. :P Honestly, you can still get infections from PDF files, CDs, USB drives... any kind of shared media still needs to be scanned. Nice hyperbole tho ;-)
--Agreed. And if you put the VM's virtual HD on SSD, most of the overhead will be mitigated. Altho I'd store snapshots on spinning HD if it's a small SSD. And definitely BACKUP frequently!
--Try inbox.com, I've been with them for about a year and haven't really had problems with them. Has a Web interface like yahoo/gmail, and haven't personally had issues with spam there.
--For that, you've gained a new friend. The ribbon and Metro are both "answers" to questions that NO ONE was asking.
Not necessarily true. My motorcycle was ticketed once for not having current plates, and all it was doing was sitting in my apt. parking lot - I had not been riding it. :(
--Ben Franklin sends you an AMEN from beyond the grave...
/ so say we all
--Personally, I think tapping your left/right big toe to act as a mouse click would be more useful (and quicker) then winking or blinking a certain way. Plus, I'm one of those people who gets a damn eyelash caught in my eye on a semi-frequent basis, causing me to blink furiously and my eye(s) to tear up. Not to mention allergies...
--Man, when I was passing thru Decatur in the 70's and 80's, the smell of old "Stinky Staley" always used to remind me of McDonald's french fries... mmmm
--I'll give you an AMEN for that one. :-) I don't really care if it's 200MB/sec or 500MB/sec, I just don't want it to die allofasudden with no SMART warning, or corrupt my data. If I need SPEEED, I can RAID them together.
--Lubuntu is prolly a good place to start; you might also want to look into AntiX and CrunchBang.
See also:
http://www.wikihow.com/Revive-an-old-PC-with-Linux
--I'm willing to bet you can still buy a new PC with Win7 - you prolly have to go to a local mom-n-pop shop to do it, though. Anyone willing to test this?
> I'm sorry, but tell me an easy way for a non-technical business (e.g. a dentist's office) to shut off Internet access in most consumer-grade VMs (VMWare Player, Hyper-V, Win7's VirtualPC, etc.) while keeping network access alive.
--AC already replied to you, but how many dentists do you know that are using VMs? Dentists and the like usually hire consultants/tech people to do their networking stuff, AFAIK.
--Another way of doing what you suggest is to put the office PCs on a Class A network, and put (1) machine running a Squid proxy on the DHCP/Class C that talks to the Router. Every machine/VM talks to Squid to get their Web content, Win updates, etc.
--Bonus: You get caching AND filtering, PLUS you use less Internet bandwidth overall. :-)
> Generally, economics dictates it's cheaper to buy a new car than extensively maintain an old car
My 2003 Eclipse is still running well after 10+ years. Granted I got a good deal on it and put about $3K worth of maint into it. But if you keep the fluids changed, avoid stupid driving (like 1st-gear dropdowns / burnouts) and have a good mechanic, Japanese cars will generally last quite a bit longer than their American counterparts. I expect to get at least 5 more years out of mine; plus it's still under 100K miles. Keeping it running is much cheaper (so far) than paying $10K+ over the next 5 years into a loan for a *new* car.
--I think the quoted price (which you can buy a pretty good motorcycle for) would be more appealing if they actually applied some ARTWORK to these "art pieces" - i.e. Scrimshaw.
> 768Kbps DSL is adequate for the vast majority of people
--So you're seriously trying to say that "768K should be enough for anybody"? On Slashdot?? Srsly?
--I'll give you an AMEN for that! Never liked ethanol in my gas. E10 also has issues with common fuel stabilizers, which can be somewhat problematic if you want to store your motorcycle over the winter.
--I just want someone to also start building more Refineries in the US, which will help drive gas prices down below $3 again (we lightheartedly hope)