I have a RAID 5 array that gets me about 3 Tb of space on 4 drives (and a hot spare).
Then I hope your backup solution works because the day one of those disks shits itself, odds are you'll lose the entire array. Rebuilding large disks with a parity count is long and brutal on the spindle, and those 5 drives you bought are quite possibly coming from the same manufacturing batch and are exposed to the same environmental conditions as the one who failed. You're playing with fire.
DIsks are cheap, there's no reason to use anything but RAID-10.
And btw your "bring a backup to the office" scheme is not an alternative to using cloud storage. It's just a way to make it easier for someone to steal your backup more easily than if it was encrypted and stored on OneDrive or glacier.
Right now the "Comments" badge shows 744 but there's 250 comments in the filter box. Where are the other 499 comments? Is there an amazing underground Slashdot I don't have access to?
That "Slashdot Deals" box is extremely annoying. On desktops and laptops it shows up 1-2 seconds after the page has loaded, bringing down the right sidebar a few inches. I often click by mistake on it as I'm about to click on something else in the sidebar.
Also I think it's the reason why I can no longer read Slashdot on my android phone using Firefox. It makes the browser crash. I would have to switch back to Chrome and it's not going to happen.
You sir made the worst joke of 2016 so far. And I'm saying that just following a GOP presidential candidate debate that didn't include Trump, so that's quite an achievement.
The last talk posted on they link I gave was in 2015.
Are you talking about the March 2015 video of her talk at the "Lesbian Who Tech 2015 SF Summit" (no kidding)? Because that's the only activity on her blog or Youtube channel in 2015. Before that there's ONE post in 2014, and before that it's all Donglegate and before.
I don't know what you're trying to prove but someone who gave ONE talk in the 3 years since her SJW moment and who does Zendesk training for a living is not someone who leveraged her 15 minutes of fame successfully. How the fuck do you go from an important role at Sendgrid to doing Zendesk macros tutorials, that's a nosedive if I've ever seen one.
You'd think that she learned from all of this, but no. When she was interviewed by Jon Ronson recently she said that the guy who was fired following her public shaming should have kept his mouth shut about it, that he's the one to blame for her becoming a social pariah.
Just to recap: the guy made a joke to his friend during a conference, she overhead and took a picture and posted it (without ever talking to them) because she felt "threatened" (in the 400+ crowd), the guys apologized but she went on, prancing around on TV and blogs and panels to discuss the incident, and when the guy got fired he made ONE short statement about it on Reddit (mostly an apology) and she's blaming her downfall on that.
I don't think shaming the shamer is a proper response, but really, fuck her.
Look again. In her speaking engagements there's nothing since 2013, and most of the stuff on her blog and youtube channel is at least a year old. Check her resume; nowadays she's doing stuff like part-time Zendesk training.
The Donglegate destroyed her corporate career and she didn't turn her 15 minutes into a lasting business either.
The book goes further than just rehashing the shaming events. As an example the author also investigates the reputation management business; those companies flood Google with fake blog posts and articles about their client to push down the damaging results to page 3 or 4 in search results.
Hate to sound like his publicist but really any book by Jon Ronson is worth reading. I don't know to what extent everything he writes is accurate (as an example ICP deny most of what he said about their coming out) but he's quite thorough in his research and he writes well.
What about the relentless left-wing social justice stories that blame nerds for everything wrong in the world?
I would like to point out something. In many SJW situations the perpetrators enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame but later paid dearly.
Examples: -Adria Richards (the PyCon Donglegate photo and tweet): after getting fired from Sendgrid during that incident she didn't find another job. Almost 3 years already.
-Jerelyn Luther (the shrieking bitch who screamed at a Yale teacher because he didn't agree with the "no offensive costume" policy of Yale): she closed all her online accounts, and her own mom removed her name from her company website...
In those cases the aftermath is a lot worse for the SJW than for the people they "shamed".
I strongly recommend Jon Ronson book about public shaming, it's fascinating.
we are talking about a place run by egotistical losers who get Star Trek set designers to do office layouts
I didn't know that. I just googled it and wtf. Sad part is that it's not even cool. My cousin's basement is more hi-tech and he earns like $45,000 a year.
I mean, did you see the Commander's Console? It looks like they took the seat from a 2003 Toyota Tercel and bolted it on a freezer that was painted silver. All the furniture around looks like stuff they bought from a failed bakery.
Not saying some aren't as you put it, but contracting for the gov't is a real thing that solid people do.
Working on a government gig as a subcontractor makes sense, even if the consulting firm that places you there takes a 25% cut. It's as an employee of that consulting firm that it makes no sense because they give you shit money.
Anyone with a decent resume will open their incorp and subcontract, not become a rental employee. That's why I'm saying it's a red flag for Snowden.
I used to work in a large manufacturing organization where janitors and cafeteria workers were outsourced. It was expensive, and they were doing a terrible job, and it would have been incredibly easy and cost-effective to do it in-house.
I was in good terms with someone in HR and I finally found out from her why they kept the outsourcing: working around a clause in the collective agreement that required proportional layoffs. If the company had 800 production workers and 200 support workers (supervisors, managers, HR, receptionist, etc), whenever you wanted to lay off 100 people you had to let go 80 production workers and 20 support workers.
Layoffs are typical in manufacturing. Business is slow? Lay off workers. Business is ramping up? Call them back.
But guess what: you can't get rid of janitors and cafeteria workers (your plant isn't 20% less dirty when you have 20% less production workers). So if those people are part of your support staff, you have to fire engineers or bookkeepers or HR clerks with every layoff to respect the proportional clause, and that can cripple your organization, especially if you're already running a lean support crew; those people also tend to find another job and don't come back. If you keep the support staff to a minimum via outsourcing, however, you have less of them to let go.
I don't know if that's the same exact reason why they use so many private contractors in the NSA and other agencies, but I'd bet a dollar it's something similar.
Re: Snowden: Wasn't he an employee of an agency that contracted with the govn't, not an independent contractor himself? And still, in whatever case, I can imagine the exorbitant amount that the middleman contracting company was charging the govn't.
Yes. He was making $122,000 as an employee of a consulting firm. Right there's it's a red flag: people with a solid resume don't go in consulting for other people because that's getting the worst of both world: -> If you're an employee in the public sector you get shit pay and a dysfunctional work environment, but at least you get gold-plated benefits. -> As a self-employed contractor working for public sector clients you get awesome money but you suffer the bad work environment. -> As an employee of a consulting firm sending you to work for a client in the public sector, you get shit pay, the bad environment and no benefits.
As for the rate: whenever it's middle to high end IT consulting, here's a good rule of thumb: -a self-employed contractor sent to a client by a consulting firm (i.e. subcontractor): 25% of the client's invoice goes to the firm -an employee of a consulting firm sent to a client: 75% of the client's invoice goes to the firm
Many firms have a mix of employees and subcontractors, and this leads to very unpleasant situations with crooked firms. A typical scam is for such firm to "lock in" a subcontractor for a juicy gig for a client; once the subcontractor agrees not to apply for that gig elsewhere, the firm pretends that their resume has been rejected while they're actually sending some of their permanent staff. This is more common than you would expect.
If that's the worst you could find, you basically made my point for me.
By the way, science (and feminists) say I'm right and you're wrong.
A new survey out of UCLA found that female politicians with "stereotypical feminine facial features" are more likely to be Republicans than women with gender-ambiguous or masculine facial features. The more gender-atypical the woman, in fact, the more likely she is to vote Democrat. Simplistic? Sure. Gross? Yeah. But super fascinating.
Funny enough, the theory of those pussy-whipped and feminazis is that conservative female politicians are prettier because the evil people of the GOP prevent ugly ones to rise in the party. So there we go. We have the gender-neutral cream of the liberal crop (which explains the uglies) versus the gender-role biased natural selection in GOP (which explains the hotties).
In a nutshell, you sir can keep your gender-atypical women, and I'll stick with those with stereotypical feminine facial features. To each his own!
I find it sickening that my government employs thousands of people like him to violate our civil rights and these people are living the high life in places like Hawaii.
Yes and no. The pay scale for employees of intelligence agencies is not very high; you won't find a lot of people making more thank $80,000 in the CIA or NSA, unless they complement it with stuff like speaking engagements or book deals.
For subcontractors the salary is higher but there's less benefits. In his last job before working for the Russians, Edward Snowden made $122,000 a year. Once you put aside money for pension, co-pays and such, it's not hookers, coke & vegas money. It's more like, good car salesman money.
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I have a RAID 5 array that gets me about 3 Tb of space on 4 drives (and a hot spare).
Then I hope your backup solution works because the day one of those disks shits itself, odds are you'll lose the entire array. Rebuilding large disks with a parity count is long and brutal on the spindle, and those 5 drives you bought are quite possibly coming from the same manufacturing batch and are exposed to the same environmental conditions as the one who failed. You're playing with fire.
DIsks are cheap, there's no reason to use anything but RAID-10.
And btw your "bring a backup to the office" scheme is not an alternative to using cloud storage. It's just a way to make it easier for someone to steal your backup more easily than if it was encrypted and stored on OneDrive or glacier.
Right now the "Comments" badge shows 744 but there's 250 comments in the filter box. Where are the other 499 comments? Is there an amazing underground Slashdot I don't have access to?
Can I have my pony?
What for? interspecies pedophilia?
That "Slashdot Deals" box is extremely annoying. On desktops and laptops it shows up 1-2 seconds after the page has loaded, bringing down the right sidebar a few inches. I often click by mistake on it as I'm about to click on something else in the sidebar.
Also I think it's the reason why I can no longer read Slashdot on my android phone using Firefox. It makes the browser crash. I would have to switch back to Chrome and it's not going to happen.
It is an election year, are you suggesting the elections don't matter, or that there is no impact of technology on elections?
He must be a Democrat and he's afraid that people will talk about the Clinton email scandal.
Liberals are always in favor of free speech but only as long as they agree with the speech.
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What you describes already exists, it's called "Yahoo! Answers"
Eurabia
*giggles*
This post makes me worried, since I can't tell if it's socially acceptable to find that joke funny, or one needs to be a sperglord to do so
Learn to march to the beat of your own drum.
"If you have enough push, you don't have to worry about the pull".
- Zig Ziglar
Not OP here, but I actually thought it was funny. o.o
Maybe your sense of humor is poorly calibrated. Here's a quick test. Do you find this joke funny?
I wondered why the frisbee was getting bigger, and then it hit me.
[Cessna Citation needed]
You sir made the worst joke of 2016 so far. And I'm saying that just following a GOP presidential candidate debate that didn't include Trump, so that's quite an achievement.
The last talk posted on they link I gave was in 2015.
Are you talking about the March 2015 video of her talk at the "Lesbian Who Tech 2015 SF Summit" (no kidding)? Because that's the only activity on her blog or Youtube channel in 2015. Before that there's ONE post in 2014, and before that it's all Donglegate and before.
I don't know what you're trying to prove but someone who gave ONE talk in the 3 years since her SJW moment and who does Zendesk training for a living is not someone who leveraged her 15 minutes of fame successfully. How the fuck do you go from an important role at Sendgrid to doing Zendesk macros tutorials, that's a nosedive if I've ever seen one.
You'd think that she learned from all of this, but no. When she was interviewed by Jon Ronson recently she said that the guy who was fired following her public shaming should have kept his mouth shut about it, that he's the one to blame for her becoming a social pariah.
Just to recap: the guy made a joke to his friend during a conference, she overhead and took a picture and posted it (without ever talking to them) because she felt "threatened" (in the 400+ crowd), the guys apologized but she went on, prancing around on TV and blogs and panels to discuss the incident, and when the guy got fired he made ONE short statement about it on Reddit (mostly an apology) and she's blaming her downfall on that.
I don't think shaming the shamer is a proper response, but really, fuck her.
Look again. In her speaking engagements there's nothing since 2013, and most of the stuff on her blog and youtube channel is at least a year old. Check her resume; nowadays she's doing stuff like part-time Zendesk training.
The Donglegate destroyed her corporate career and she didn't turn her 15 minutes into a lasting business either.
The book goes further than just rehashing the shaming events. As an example the author also investigates the reputation management business; those companies flood Google with fake blog posts and articles about their client to push down the damaging results to page 3 or 4 in search results.
Hate to sound like his publicist but really any book by Jon Ronson is worth reading. I don't know to what extent everything he writes is accurate (as an example ICP deny most of what he said about their coming out) but he's quite thorough in his research and he writes well.
What about the relentless left-wing social justice stories that blame nerds for everything wrong in the world?
I would like to point out something. In many SJW situations the perpetrators enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame but later paid dearly.
Examples:
-Adria Richards (the PyCon Donglegate photo and tweet): after getting fired from Sendgrid during that incident she didn't find another job. Almost 3 years already.
-Jerelyn Luther (the shrieking bitch who screamed at a Yale teacher because he didn't agree with the "no offensive costume" policy of Yale): she closed all her online accounts, and her own mom removed her name from her company website...
In those cases the aftermath is a lot worse for the SJW than for the people they "shamed".
I strongly recommend Jon Ronson book about public shaming, it's fascinating.
Where's the cows guy when you really need him?
How can you be sure it's a guy? Are you saying that women can't be cows?
#cowsgate
Funny thing is, most of the time on the days after a layoff people had to work overtime because the company mistakenly let too many workers go.
we are talking about a place run by egotistical losers who get Star Trek set designers to do office layouts
I didn't know that. I just googled it and wtf. Sad part is that it's not even cool. My cousin's basement is more hi-tech and he earns like $45,000 a year.
I mean, did you see the Commander's Console? It looks like they took the seat from a 2003 Toyota Tercel and bolted it on a freezer that was painted silver. All the furniture around looks like stuff they bought from a failed bakery.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites...
Fuck that guy.
Not saying some aren't as you put it, but contracting for the gov't is a real thing that solid people do.
Working on a government gig as a subcontractor makes sense, even if the consulting firm that places you there takes a 25% cut. It's as an employee of that consulting firm that it makes no sense because they give you shit money.
Anyone with a decent resume will open their incorp and subcontract, not become a rental employee. That's why I'm saying it's a red flag for Snowden.
Maybe you somehow missed the word "politicians".
Could you please highlight the word "politicians" in that sentence from the article, because I don't see it:
The more gender-atypical the woman, in fact, the more likely she is to vote Democrat.
I used to work in a large manufacturing organization where janitors and cafeteria workers were outsourced. It was expensive, and they were doing a terrible job, and it would have been incredibly easy and cost-effective to do it in-house.
I was in good terms with someone in HR and I finally found out from her why they kept the outsourcing: working around a clause in the collective agreement that required proportional layoffs. If the company had 800 production workers and 200 support workers (supervisors, managers, HR, receptionist, etc), whenever you wanted to lay off 100 people you had to let go 80 production workers and 20 support workers.
Layoffs are typical in manufacturing. Business is slow? Lay off workers. Business is ramping up? Call them back.
But guess what: you can't get rid of janitors and cafeteria workers (your plant isn't 20% less dirty when you have 20% less production workers). So if those people are part of your support staff, you have to fire engineers or bookkeepers or HR clerks with every layoff to respect the proportional clause, and that can cripple your organization, especially if you're already running a lean support crew; those people also tend to find another job and don't come back. If you keep the support staff to a minimum via outsourcing, however, you have less of them to let go.
I don't know if that's the same exact reason why they use so many private contractors in the NSA and other agencies, but I'd bet a dollar it's something similar.
Re: Snowden: Wasn't he an employee of an agency that contracted with the govn't, not an independent contractor himself? And still, in whatever case, I can imagine the exorbitant amount that the middleman contracting company was charging the govn't.
Yes. He was making $122,000 as an employee of a consulting firm. Right there's it's a red flag: people with a solid resume don't go in consulting for other people because that's getting the worst of both world:
-> If you're an employee in the public sector you get shit pay and a dysfunctional work environment, but at least you get gold-plated benefits.
-> As a self-employed contractor working for public sector clients you get awesome money but you suffer the bad work environment.
-> As an employee of a consulting firm sending you to work for a client in the public sector, you get shit pay, the bad environment and no benefits.
As for the rate: whenever it's middle to high end IT consulting, here's a good rule of thumb:
-a self-employed contractor sent to a client by a consulting firm (i.e. subcontractor): 25% of the client's invoice goes to the firm
-an employee of a consulting firm sent to a client: 75% of the client's invoice goes to the firm
Many firms have a mix of employees and subcontractors, and this leads to very unpleasant situations with crooked firms. A typical scam is for such firm to "lock in" a subcontractor for a juicy gig for a client; once the subcontractor agrees not to apply for that gig elsewhere, the firm pretends that their resume has been rejected while they're actually sending some of their permanent staff. This is more common than you would expect.
If that's the worst you could find, you basically made my point for me.
By the way, science (and feminists) say I'm right and you're wrong.
A new survey out of UCLA found that female politicians with "stereotypical feminine facial features" are more likely to be Republicans than women with gender-ambiguous or masculine facial features. The more gender-atypical the woman, in fact, the more likely she is to vote Democrat. Simplistic? Sure. Gross? Yeah. But super fascinating.
http://jezebel.com/5950013/hot...
Funny enough, the theory of those pussy-whipped and feminazis is that conservative female politicians are prettier because the evil people of the GOP prevent ugly ones to rise in the party. So there we go. We have the gender-neutral cream of the liberal crop (which explains the uglies) versus the gender-role biased natural selection in GOP (which explains the hotties).
In a nutshell, you sir can keep your gender-atypical women, and I'll stick with those with stereotypical feminine facial features. To each his own!
The big-city liberal women have money, eat really well, and seem to all be into yoga for some reason.
Urban legend mixed with liberal media propaganda.
Look at the reality of conservative vs. liberal women:
http://www.conservativeinfidel...
So you can keep your Clintons, Sarandons and Pelosis. That's what typical big city liberal women really look like.
I find it sickening that my government employs thousands of people like him to violate our civil rights and these people are living the high life in places like Hawaii.
Yes and no. The pay scale for employees of intelligence agencies is not very high; you won't find a lot of people making more thank $80,000 in the CIA or NSA, unless they complement it with stuff like speaking engagements or book deals.
For subcontractors the salary is higher but there's less benefits. In his last job before working for the Russians, Edward Snowden made $122,000 a year. Once you put aside money for pension, co-pays and such, it's not hookers, coke & vegas money. It's more like, good car salesman money.
There's not a lot of Photoshop to do...
http://media1.popsugar-assets....