--I'm gonna undo my moderation in this thread to let you know about a WordStar key-compatible text editor for Linux. It's called " joe ". I use it every day.
' apt-cache show joe ' Description: user friendly full screen text editor
Joe, the Joe's Own Editor, has the feel of most PC text editors: the key
sequences are reminiscent of WordStar and Turbo C editors, but the feature
set is much larger than of those. Joe has all of the features a Unix
user should expect: full use of termcap/terminfo, complete VI-style Unix
integration, a powerful configuration file, and regular expression search
system. It also has six help reference cards which are always available,
and an intuitive, simple, and well thought-out user interface.
.
Joe has a great screen update optimization algorithm, multiple windows
(through/between which you can scroll) and lacks the confusing notion of
named buffers. It has command history, TAB expansion in file selection
menus, undo and redo functions, (un)indenting and paragraph formatting,
filtering highlighted blocks through any external Unix command, editing
a pipe into or out of a command, and block move, copy, delete or filter.
.
Through simple QEdit-style configuration files, Joe can be set up to
emulate editors such as Pico and Emacs, along with a complete imitation
of WordStar, and a restricted mode version (lets you edit only the files
specified on the command line). Joe also has a deferred screen update to
handle typeahead, and it ensures that deferral is not bypassed by tty
buffering. It's usable even at 2400 baud, and it will work on any
kind of sane terminal. Homepage: http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/
---
--Install the joe package (also available in Cygwin!) and use ' jstar ' for Wordstar-key-compatible file editing. Works fine in text consoles - it's not a GUI program. Enjoy.
--5 seconds of Googling comes up with plenty of justification for NASA's existence and continued funding. If we would get the f--k out of Afghanistan and give that money to space exploration and development, we might actually have a shot at **surviving as a species** if Terra goes down the drain.
--And yes, I did consider !friending you, but I actually did some research into your previous posts and you seemed decent otherwise. So I replied instead of blindly marking your ID with a red dot. I hope this edifies you.
--I find your comment interesting, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.;-)
--Your "home server market" is definitely worth a +1. Building a 64-bit ZFS server is all fine well and good (and I have), but it would be nice if someone made it easier for the average home user (FreeNAS is making some strides here.)
--Sorry, but that attitude is really rather stupid. I have an old(er - ~2005, 2GHz) laptop that has a 40GB IDE drive in it, running Linux kernel 3.x. I also have an ancient late-90's--early-2000's laptop @ 750MHz running Linux that has an IDE drive. Most P4-era hardware has IDE, some don't have SATA support on the motherboard AT ALL.
--Bottom line: We can't drop support for IDE for at least the next 10-15 years. The drives are still being made*, and some of them last FOREVER.
--Yah; you know, I've been giving it some thought after reading up on some of the ZFS lists, and wonder if mirroring wouldn't be a better long-term use of the disks for 4x2TB.
--Consider:
RAIDZ2 = 4x2TB = 4TB of usable space (8TB -2 disks for parity), Striped across the whole pool, with 2-disk "failsafe" - possibly faster
Mirror = (2x2TB) + (2x2TB) = same 4TB of usable space, but easier to expand (+2x2TB) / replace disks (?) and can be built up over time by adding groups of mirrors to the pool; however, only 1-disk "failsafe"
--Hmmmmm... I may have to do some testing before populating that hypothetical new pool:D
--No, I agree you did the right thing given your circumstances (various disks of different sizes.)
>> The other side of the coin is that while I pay for 2 extra disks up-front, I can add larger disks in pairs whereas you need to buy 6 at a time.
--Nope. With RAIDZ, you can add (2) same-sized extra disks at a time to the pool and expand it almost automagically; with RAIDZ2 I'll have to test the theory in a VM, but I believe you can add (1) disk at a time to expand it.
--I've already jacked in an extra PCI-E 4-port SATA controller; if I wanted to expand, I could just buy +1 extra SATA controller and 4x2TB disks, and copy everything over (or create the 4x2TB pool on another box that has the SATA ports.) It might be worth doing just with a PCBSD live-dvd over the network.:-)// mental note: buy another UPS to handle all these disks...:b
--Interesting; feel free to check my math here, but I currently have 6*500GB drives configured in a RAIDZ2.
--The array can suffer up to (2) simultaneous disk failures without losing data, and gets ~175MB/sec I/O sustained (due to mixed manufacturers [Seagate, WD Black,WD Blue] and drive caches [16 and 32MB] so it's limited to the slowest link in the chain) or sometimes a bit more. For my little home backup rig, it's good enough to fill up a Gigabit ethernet link @ ~111MB/sec over FTP, which is fine given limited $$.
--I have a little less than 2TB of space available to write on, total. If I reconfigured in mirrored pairs, it might be more flexible in the future for adding larger disks, but I would actually have less space to write on:
Theoretical: 6*500 = 3500/2 = ~1750 GB across 3 pools, instead of (1) big pool
470*3 = ~1410GB - so if the goal is to have both redundancy AND utilize the available disk space efficiently, the RAIDZ2 would seem to be a better choice (and it's all 1 big pool):
470*4 = 1880 GB
--As I said, please check my math - it's an honest question, see my sig;-)
--Dude - ZFS has been ported to FreeBSD, and has been running on that OS for some years now. And as ZFS is the best thing to come along since the invention of the hard drive, Oracle would have to be completely insane in the membrane to try and drop it.
--LVM is not RAID. Trust me on this, I speak from experience. LVM in a virtual machine can be nice. However, after having an entire Linux LVM fail IRL, I switched to Freebsd + ZFS and never looked back.
--You're telling me. I use google and yahoo email for completely separate things, and have had my primary email on Yahoo since the late 90's. With yahoo's recent TOS change, I'm going to have to migrate my email somewhere else now because they've started bot-searching it(!) - just like effing Google.:(
--Yah, c0rporate a-holes - I didn't NEED to have Yahoo become just like google... Thanks for nothing!!
Yes, but what is the point of saving it if the management is toxic, selling the "extended warranty" matters more to them than customer satisfaction, and the workers are both ignorant and unhappy?
They've been digging their own grave for years now.
Well, I certainly hope he can help them out - since I remember the K6 was one of the worst abortions I've ever seen for a CPU chip. Honestly, it was pretty godawful. Nothing against AMD the company tho, but I really wish their Linux drivers were at least up to PAR with Nvidia's.
--Thank you. Half my kingdom for mod points, but I already posted... Personally, I almost never stream. I hope they *never* get rid of DVD by mail, and the available content for my Q stays high.
--Netflix telephone customer support is US-based (Oregon) - which is the reason I signed up with them in the 1st place (I HATE outsourcing - and wanted to support them for making that conscious decision to keep support in the US.) I'm having some difficulty finding the original/. article that mentioned this, but here's a reference:
Slashdot Mirror
--Yah; kids these days, can't even get the logo right... :b
--I'm gonna undo my moderation in this thread to let you know about a WordStar key-compatible text editor for Linux. It's called " joe ". I use it every day.
' apt-cache show joe '
Description: user friendly full screen text editor
Joe, the Joe's Own Editor, has the feel of most PC text editors: the key
sequences are reminiscent of WordStar and Turbo C editors, but the feature
set is much larger than of those. Joe has all of the features a Unix
user should expect: full use of termcap/terminfo, complete VI-style Unix
integration, a powerful configuration file, and regular expression search
system. It also has six help reference cards which are always available,
and an intuitive, simple, and well thought-out user interface.
.
Joe has a great screen update optimization algorithm, multiple windows
(through/between which you can scroll) and lacks the confusing notion of
named buffers. It has command history, TAB expansion in file selection
menus, undo and redo functions, (un)indenting and paragraph formatting,
filtering highlighted blocks through any external Unix command, editing
a pipe into or out of a command, and block move, copy, delete or filter.
.
Through simple QEdit-style configuration files, Joe can be set up to
emulate editors such as Pico and Emacs, along with a complete imitation
of WordStar, and a restricted mode version (lets you edit only the files
specified on the command line). Joe also has a deferred screen update to
handle typeahead, and it ensures that deferral is not bypassed by tty
buffering. It's usable even at 2400 baud, and it will work on any
kind of sane terminal.
Homepage: http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/
---
--Install the joe package (also available in Cygwin!) and use ' jstar ' for Wordstar-key-compatible file editing. Works fine in text consoles - it's not a GUI program. Enjoy.
--Ham radio will still work when other services are down.
http://survivalcache.com/emergency-communications-survival-radio/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio_emergency_communications
--Those folks still know Morse code. Hardcore, mang. They can even bounce sig off the Moon.
http://www.metageek.net/forums/showthread.php?3450-Is-it-true-that-ham-radio-operators-bounce-signals-off-of-the-moon
/ Respect, yo
--LMGTFY:
http://www.sac.edu/AcademicProgs/ScienceMathHealth/Planetarium/Pages/Benefits-of-the-NASA-Space-Program.aspx
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/space_exploration/benefits.html
--5 seconds of Googling comes up with plenty of justification for NASA's existence and continued funding. If we would get the f--k out of Afghanistan and give that money to space exploration and development, we might actually have a shot at **surviving as a species** if Terra goes down the drain.
--And yes, I did consider !friending you, but I actually did some research into your previous posts and you seemed decent otherwise. So I replied instead of blindly marking your ID with a red dot. I hope this edifies you.
--I find your comment interesting, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter. ;-)
--Your "home server market" is definitely worth a +1. Building a 64-bit ZFS server is all fine well and good (and I have), but it would be nice if someone made it easier for the average home user (FreeNAS is making some strides here.)
--Half my kingdom for mod points... ;-) +5
--Sorry, but that attitude is really rather stupid. I have an old(er - ~2005, 2GHz) laptop that has a 40GB IDE drive in it, running Linux kernel 3.x. I also have an ancient late-90's--early-2000's laptop @ 750MHz running Linux that has an IDE drive. Most P4-era hardware has IDE, some don't have SATA support on the motherboard AT ALL.
--Bottom line: We can't drop support for IDE for at least the next 10-15 years. The drives are still being made*, and some of them last FOREVER.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Category/guidedSearch.asp?CatId=8&sel=Detail%3B17_158_32310_32310
--BTW, the Linux kernel still supports RLL and MFM, as well:
http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/IDE.html
--Eh? Speak up sonny, you sound like an AC... :b
--The site/article also mentions that it can be installed to a USB drive... ;-)
--Yah; you know, I've been giving it some thought after reading up on some of the ZFS lists, and wonder if mirroring wouldn't be a better long-term use of the disks for 4x2TB.
--Consider:
RAIDZ2 = 4x2TB = 4TB of usable space (8TB -2 disks for parity), Striped across the whole pool, with 2-disk "failsafe" - possibly faster
Mirror = (2x2TB) + (2x2TB) = same 4TB of usable space, but easier to expand (+2x2TB) / replace disks (?) and can be built up over time by adding groups of mirrors to the pool; however, only 1-disk "failsafe"
--Hmmmmm... I may have to do some testing before populating that hypothetical new pool :D
--No, I agree you did the right thing given your circumstances (various disks of different sizes.)
>> The other side of the coin is that while I pay for 2 extra disks up-front, I can add larger disks in pairs whereas you need to buy 6 at a time.
--Nope. With RAIDZ, you can add (2) same-sized extra disks at a time to the pool and expand it almost automagically; with RAIDZ2 I'll have to test the theory in a VM, but I believe you can add (1) disk at a time to expand it.
--I've already jacked in an extra PCI-E 4-port SATA controller; if I wanted to expand, I could just buy +1 extra SATA controller and 4x2TB disks, and copy everything over (or create the 4x2TB pool on another box that has the SATA ports.) It might be worth doing just with a PCBSD live-dvd over the network. :-) // mental note: buy another UPS to handle all these disks... :b
--Interesting; feel free to check my math here, but I currently have 6*500GB drives configured in a RAIDZ2.
--The array can suffer up to (2) simultaneous disk failures without losing data, and gets ~175MB/sec I/O sustained (due to mixed manufacturers [Seagate, WD Black,WD Blue] and drive caches [16 and 32MB] so it's limited to the slowest link in the chain) or sometimes a bit more. For my little home backup rig, it's good enough to fill up a Gigabit ethernet link @ ~111MB/sec over FTP, which is fine given limited $$.
--I have a little less than 2TB of space available to write on, total. If I reconfigured in mirrored pairs, it might be more flexible in the future for adding larger disks, but I would actually have less space to write on:
Theoretical: /2 = ~1750 GB across 3 pools, instead of (1) big pool
6*500 = 3500
Mirrored:
2x500 pool1 = ~500GB (~470GB actual, due to stupid mfr non-1024 "standards")
2x500 pool2 = 470GB
2x500 pool3 = 470GB
470*3 = ~1410GB - so if the goal is to have both redundancy AND utilize the available disk space efficiently, the RAIDZ2 would seem to be a better choice (and it's all 1 big pool):
470*4 = 1880 GB
--As I said, please check my math - it's an honest question, see my sig ;-)
--Your " 99% " is wildly overstated. There are a lot of people who -do- use X remotely.
--Hey thanks for the tip man, that's not a bad deal! I may have to check them out.
http://www.digistor.com/DIGISTOR-Mulitimedia-Blu-ray-Archive-Kit
--Dude - ZFS has been ported to FreeBSD, and has been running on that OS for some years now. And as ZFS is the best thing to come along since the invention of the hard drive, Oracle would have to be completely insane in the membrane to try and drop it.
--LVM is not RAID. Trust me on this, I speak from experience. LVM in a virtual machine can be nice. However, after having an entire Linux LVM fail IRL, I switched to Freebsd + ZFS and never looked back.
--You're telling me. I use google and yahoo email for completely separate things, and have had my primary email on Yahoo since the late 90's. With yahoo's recent TOS change, I'm going to have to migrate my email somewhere else now because they've started bot-searching it(!) - just like effing Google. :(
--Yah, c0rporate a-holes - I didn't NEED to have Yahoo become just like google... Thanks for nothing!!
Yes, but what is the point of saving it if the management is toxic, selling the "extended warranty" matters more to them than customer satisfaction, and the workers are both ignorant and unhappy?
They've been digging their own grave for years now.
--Who cares, when... Christina Hendricks is on the screen?
--I agree 100%, the US should maintain control. DARPA built the Internet, it's ours, keep your incompetent "committee" hands off of it.
Well, I certainly hope he can help them out - since I remember the K6 was one of the worst abortions I've ever seen for a CPU chip. Honestly, it was pretty godawful. Nothing against AMD the company tho, but I really wish their Linux drivers were at least up to PAR with Nvidia's.
--Eh? What u say?
" Someone fetch me a 10-year-old child! "
/ paraphrased // hopefully not obscure
--Thank you. Half my kingdom for mod points, but I already posted... Personally, I almost never stream. I hope they *never* get rid of DVD by mail, and the available content for my Q stays high.
--Netflix telephone customer support is US-based (Oregon) - which is the reason I signed up with them in the 1st place (I HATE outsourcing - and wanted to support them for making that conscious decision to keep support in the US.) I'm having some difficulty finding the original /. article that mentioned this, but here's a reference:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/31/netflix-beefing-up-service-center-in-preparation-for-globa-launc/