Just because a customer demands a perfect product doesn't mean they expect it.
When you change a lightbulb, do you test it?
Of course you do, you can't resist giving that switch a flick.
It all depends of the power to weight ratio of the plane. But it's not worthwhile for production aircraft bacause the range is normally... er... very poor.
True, if your upload speed hits the ISP filter bandwidth your ping times will increase and this will impact the speed that a seeder can send to you. If it can't send to you fast enough the seeder will try someone else who can download faster.
BUT, It's rare for and ISP (or more accuratly your ADSL/Cable modem) to actually drop packets, the ping time just gets insanely long.
You need to find a torrent that has a lot of 'seeders' and few 'leachers'.
As I understand it, the speed you get from a torrent is about the average upload speed of your client plus an equal share of the combined upload speed of all the 'seeders' in the 'cloud'. However, if your upload speed is too high the other nodes may not be able to match your upload speed, OTOH, if your upload is too low the 'leachers' won't like to send to you and may 'snub' you so you'll only be able to get data from your share of the seeders bandwidth.
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> An impressive (if kind of slimy) piece of marketing sleight of hand by Intel.
Oddly enough the 486sx wasn't a really slimy move. A very large portion of the chip was the FPU and Intel noticed that they were getting a lot of chips rejected where the FPU was bad but the rest of the chip worked perfectly. Many people didn't need the FPU so a small design change later they increase their effective chip yield, decrease their prices (a little) and increase their profits.
Now the 487, that was nasty, you had a dual processor machine but could only enable one of them!
IMO "Cannot restore" is the worst failure any backup/image software can have.
I can accept "Backup failed", that is actually reasonable. But failure to a restore a physically intact backup goes directly against the promises made by the backup software.
I for one will NEVER use Acronis TrueImage, it cannot be trusted.
Even if you are mistaken in some way, it looks like other people have similar problems...
I'm not particularly interested in Java, to me it was a pain to setup and use, even with msjava, and now it looks like an "also ran". Python, Perl, Ruby, lua and javascript are higher up the list.
But prompted by this I've just had a look at those licenses and the FAQ.
Scheesh, what a mess, I very quickly got bored with Suns verbiage, my feelings can be summed up in two words.
Oh and if you even just scan TFA you'll see it's a horribly complicated hack which if you know anything about radio appears to have been designed to interfere with nearby channels.
With thepiratebay.org back online now (static content only at this moment) the political problems get even bigger. It would appear that the Police have no case against them and have stolen machines belonging to two hundred individuals and groups including political parties and international companies without cause.
Backup exec? Naa, not me I took one look at the guy trying to sell it to me and ran; I think it might have been the horns ^H^Hrims, or maybe just the "smile".
But it's not the tape that needs the contract; well not actually a contract as such; it's just the SCSI bus that connects the tape drive and it may look like it but "SCSI is NOT magic. There are fundamental technical reasons why you have to sacrifice a virgin goat to your SCSI chain every now and then."
Yup, CDs and DVDs are definitly the worst at reliability, despite the marketing they really do need caddies, a speck of dust or a worse a fingerprint will cause a lot of bit errors. It's even worse with rewritables and, of all people, Microsoft had to lead the call for defect managment on writing to RWs!!!
But tape drives are reliable... for a time, if you treat them well.
CLEAN THE DRIVES! Unlike CD-drives the tape cleaners actually work.
Retire tapes. The heads on the tape drive rub against the tape, DATs are the worst; the tape might move slowly but the heads move very very fast. DLT and LTO have multiple heads to reduce the wear problems.
The tape heads will wear out. It's possible to monitor the drive and retire it before it starts killing tapes; a dirty drive can kill a good tape. If you retire it early you can sell it on ebay:-)
Of course for PC backup people assume that they can reuse the tape that came with the drive forever; in that situation I tend to suggest something like a maxtor 'OneTouch' instead, when it dies they are told in no uncertain terms.
Still if you drop a tape out of a third floor window it'll probably be ok; try that with a disk. Hummm, anybody know where I can get some slow but very high capacity Flash drives for a good price?
Tape is the only format that can currently get anywhere near the capacity that's needed but surface area is only an indirect measurement. The point with tape is that's it's three dimensional, the tape is stored in a box where instead of the four or five layers you can get in an inch high hard disk you have over 2000 layers per inch because the tape is so thin.
These DVDv2 disks are a step in the right direction, but the max spec is only for eight (IIRC) layers and even right now hard disks are bigger than that top spec.
There are lots of people trying for three dimensions, we can only hope that they will charge cost-plus and not play the screw the customer game that many tape makers seem to have been doing recently.
My version was using a single lockfile and having any cronjob that didn't get the lock touch a 'missed tick' file. The working process then just looped if it saw a missed tick.
The other option is to used the batch command from your cron script, this will put an upper limit on the load your job will put on the machine.
It'd a dirt road that's hundreds of years old (literally) there's more than enough tarmac in the area, drivers do not have to go of into fields. The problem is there are lots of poorer roads in the area and GPS systems don't know the difference between a poor road and a farm track.
I know it might be a big radical round here but unlike some other browsers you can actually close Mozilla/Firefox without rebooting.
If you want there's even the SessionSaver extension that keeps the current windows 'open' across a restart.
To me the way that Firefox eats memory is expected, it's a big complicated program trying to follow a lot of very silly 'standards' and 'normal practices'. What surprises me is that it's very difficult to crash in a program this size and complexity that's a VERY good job.
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Just because a customer demands a perfect product doesn't mean they expect it. When you change a lightbulb, do you test it? Of course you do, you can't resist giving that switch a flick.
>anonynous
Sorry, that should be "anonymous"
You may need some nous to use it but you won't get anywhere without the "mous".
PS: Try the user ftp next time (it's easier to spell!)
CoLinux itself works as if it's a driver, the entire linux kernel runs in 'kernel mode'.
Now just how are we supposed to get all those linux kernels signed ?
How about a nice linux loader driver ... FUBAR!!!
Plus even if you do get the right 100 patches "slipstreaming" a patch into a windows CD is an unsupported PAIN IN THE ARSE.
... not including this month ... oh, er, okay 100 then!
Sorry, that's only 80 patches since SP2
This is true for the GPL in total, it is after all in spirit just
"I release this into the public domain AND I WANT IT TO STAY THERE!"
It's that last part that the people who give weasels a bad name have a problem understanding. So the FSF are constantly in a sticky bun fight.
An example http://www.unrealaircraft.com/gravity/xfy1.php
I don't think I like "leap of faith" any better, "splat" seems a lot more messy.
True, if your upload speed hits the ISP filter bandwidth your ping times will increase and this will impact the speed that a seeder can send to you. If it can't send to you fast enough the seeder will try someone else who can download faster.
BUT, It's rare for and ISP (or more accuratly your ADSL/Cable modem) to actually drop packets, the ping time just gets insanely long.
You need to find a torrent that has a lot of 'seeders' and few 'leachers'.
As I understand it, the speed you get from a torrent is about the average upload speed of your client plus an equal share of the combined upload speed of all the 'seeders' in the 'cloud'. However, if your upload speed is too high the other nodes may not be able to match your upload speed, OTOH, if your upload is too low the 'leachers' won't like to send to you and may 'snub' you so you'll only be able to get data from your share of the seeders bandwidth.
Oddly enough the 486sx wasn't a really slimy move. A very large portion of the chip was the FPU and Intel noticed that they were getting a lot of chips rejected where the FPU was bad but the rest of the chip worked perfectly. Many people didn't need the FPU so a small design change later they increase their effective chip yield, decrease their prices (a little) and increase their profits.
Now the 487, that was nasty, you had a dual processor machine but could only enable one of them!
Or better still how about these links ...
http://www.google.com/search?btnI&q=slashdot
http://www.google.com/search?btnI&q=casino+royale
I can accept "Backup failed", that is actually reasonable. But failure to a restore a physically intact backup goes directly against the promises made by the backup software.
I for one will NEVER use Acronis TrueImage, it cannot be trusted.
Even if you are mistaken in some way, it looks like other people have similar problems ...
But prompted by this I've just had a look at those licenses and the FAQ.
Scheesh, what a mess, I very quickly got bored with Suns verbiage, my feelings can be summed up in two words.
Fuck them!
Oh and if you even just scan TFA you'll see it's a horribly complicated hack which if you know anything about radio appears to have been designed to interfere with nearby channels.
No explosive hydrogen, no poisonus radioactive isotopes, all using existing infrastructure and linked directly into the natural carbon cycle.
The only problem I can see might be the patents ...
"Oh shit!" doesn't even begin to cover it!
http://tpbeng.blogspot.com/
But it's not the tape that needs the contract; well not actually a contract as such; it's just the SCSI bus that connects the tape drive and it may look like it but "SCSI is NOT magic. There are fundamental technical reasons why you have to sacrifice a virgin goat to your SCSI chain every now and then."
Oy! Slashdot you need to RTFM!
But tape drives are reliable ... for a time, if you treat them well.
Of course for PC backup people assume that they can reuse the tape that came with the drive forever; in that situation I tend to suggest something like a maxtor 'OneTouch' instead, when it dies they are told in no uncertain terms.
Still if you drop a tape out of a third floor window it'll probably be ok; try that with a disk.
Hummm, anybody know where I can get some slow but very high capacity Flash drives for a good price?
I understand corn starch DVDs are already in the works.
These DVDv2 disks are a step in the right direction, but the max spec is only for eight (IIRC) layers and even right now hard disks are bigger than that top spec.
There are lots of people trying for three dimensions, we can only hope that they will charge cost-plus and not play the screw the customer game that many tape makers seem to have been doing recently.
My version was using a single lockfile and having any cronjob that didn't get the lock touch a 'missed tick' file. The working process then just looped if it saw a missed tick.
The other option is to used the batch command from your cron script, this will put an upper limit on the load your job will put on the machine.
It'd a dirt road that's hundreds of years old (literally) there's more than enough tarmac in the area, drivers do not have to go of into fields. The problem is there are lots of poorer roads in the area and GPS systems don't know the difference between a poor road and a farm track.
All the need is a sign saying:
NOT THIS WAY, YOUR GPS IS WRONG -- RTFM! (MAP!).
Of course the amount of 'compression' you get is firmly under YMMV.
If you want there's even the SessionSaver extension that keeps the current windows 'open' across a restart.
To me the way that Firefox eats memory is expected, it's a big complicated program trying to follow a lot of very silly 'standards' and 'normal practices'. What surprises me is that it's very difficult to crash in a program this size and complexity that's a VERY good job.