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  1. Re:Get what you need for *NOW* not for later on RAID Vs. JBOD Vs. Standard HDDs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    By the way RAID 5 is a pain in the ass unless you have physical hotswap capability, which I highly doubt.

    With recent kernels, you can hotswap drives on nvidia sata controllers (common onboard). I believe several other chipsets had support for this added in recent kernels too. Then you can swap drives live and rebuild as needed.

    One more important note - if you're using more than about 8 drives (I personally recommend 6), I would use raid 6 instead of 5. You often get read errors from one of your "good" drives during a rebuild after a single drive failure. Having a 2nd parity drive (that's what raid 6 gives you) solves this problem.

  2. Re:Phew! on Who's Trading Your E-mail Addresses? · · Score: 1

    Or maybe the submitter could have cut down on the rambling and windy post.

    Or maybe an editor could have actually done his job and edited it!

  3. Re:So how much did NVidia pay them for this? on Affordable DX10 - GeForce 8600 GTS and 8600 GT · · Score: 1

    You mean PCIe right? PCIX is regular pci, only 64bit and running at either 66, 100, or 133MHz. I've seen people confused by this a lot lately...

  4. Re:Damn. on All Blood Converted to Type O? · · Score: 1

    AB+ is the universal recipient. O- is the universal donor. People with Rh positive blood can receive negative or positive. People with Rh neg blood can only receive Rh neg blood.

  5. Re:And aside from that... Balmer is right on Ballmer Says Google's Growth Is 'Insane' · · Score: 1

    Then try to install Windows on a system with a raid controller and no floppy drive. See if you still agree then.

  6. Re:Embed a Wiimote on World's First Lego Autopilot · · Score: 1

    Except bluetooth only has a 30ft range... real smart.

  7. Re:TiVo wins of course... on MythTV Vs. TiVo, Round 2 · · Score: 1

    Use automount. It will perform the nfs mount when it's accessed, and unmount it when idle. Problem solved.

  8. Re:It's not hard on An Overview of Parallelism · · Score: 1

    No, it actually does use parallelization. I tested with the stream memory benchmark on an smp opteron system and got more bandwidth than one cpu could actually deliver, and that was testing without using the openmp options.

  9. Re:It's not hard on An Overview of Parallelism · · Score: 1

    The Intel C/C++ and Fortran compilers both support auto parallelization. I've never benchmarked their effectiveness though. I'm sure a quick googling could get some results.

  10. Re:Why is this under Linux? on VLC 0.8.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Nope. You're wrong mythtv has it's own internal dvd and movie player that works VERY well. Full support for dvd menus (which mplayer doesn't have), and also allows you to do time streching, etc on dvd's and regular movie files.

  11. Re:Tailgating on Detecting Tailgaters With Lasers · · Score: 1

    It's asshole moves like that causing road rage. What if the guy's wife had just been in an accident and he was trying to get to the hospital? What if his house was burning down and he was trying to save his dog? There are countless GOOD reasons to be speeding like that, but there is never a good reason to pull what you did.

    I tailgate people, but only if there is no one in front of them and I've already given them a chance to move over. I do drive fairly quickly, but not too bad (do ~80 in a 65 usually).

    When someone comes up behind me and tailgates me, guess what I do? I move the hell over and let them by!

  12. Re:Moo on Detecting Tailgaters With Lasers · · Score: 1

    People like that are the ones that should be ticketed. I only tailgate people when I can't pass them another way, and they have the ability to move out of my way.

    Tailgating 18 wheelers is a little bit different though. Some people do it to 'draft'. By staying close behind a large truck, the air currents will actually pull you along, greatly improving mileage. Plus, an 18 wheeler stops a LOT slower than a regular car can, so the danger from tailgating them is minimized.

  13. Re:Moo on Detecting Tailgaters With Lasers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree completely!

    People don't tailgate just for fun (at least not most of them)! I feel that if the car in front of me can get the hell out of my way, then the driver is obligated to. Tailgating someone when they have no where else to go is pointless and rude too though.

    I don't know how many nights I've driven home on our local 2 lane highway, seeing 2 cars driving side by side at the speed limit or just below, with dozens of cars lined up behind them wanting to pass. The front person in the left lane really should be ticketed for impeding traffic. If not for these bozos driving like morons, traffic would flow smoother, and there would be far less road rage.

  14. Re:It's all fun and games on MPAA Goes After Home Entertainment Systems · · Score: 1

    It wasn't a typo. A typo means an unintentional typing error, such as 'teh' instead of 'the'. It doesn't mean not knowing the right word or it's spelling.

  15. Re:Buckling springs have ergonomic advantages. on Optimus OLED Keyboard Pre-Orders Start Dec. 12 · · Score: 1

    It doesn't need to be an intermediate step. Just create your own compiler name and have it do the conversion before passing it off to the actual compiler.

  16. Re:Buckling springs have ergonomic advantages. on Optimus OLED Keyboard Pre-Orders Start Dec. 12 · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you need to implement yourself a simple preprocessor for the code then. Even something as simple as

    sed -e 's/{/BEGIN/' -e 's/}/END/' -e 's/C_S_L_V/CONV_STD_LOGIC_VECTOR/g'

    will make those 3 examples far easier to enter. Just maintain your code with your own preprocessor shorthand and run it through your simple preprocessor step to test or release it.

  17. Re:Have they fixed this issue yet? on Fedora Core 6 Review · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd say so...

    warden root # uptime
    16:00:49 up 532 days

  18. AMD still whoops Intel ass in configs with 2+ cpus on Why AMD Is Still In The Race · · Score: 2, Informative

    Intel is still using a single shared memory controller. Opterons have a memory controller in every cpu. 2+ cpu (physical, not dual core) configs are still faster with Opteron due to the higher memory bandwidth.

    Sure, 1 dual core Conroe has more memory bandwidth than 1 dual core Athlon64. But when you go to 2 sockets, the AMD numbers double while the Intel numbers stay the same. It only goes more and more in AMD's favor the more cpus you add.

  19. maxtor's diamondmax suck.. the maxline are great on My Maxtor Hard Drive Just Caught Fire! · · Score: 1

    Maxtor makes 2 lines of drives. The diamondmax are desktop class drives, with the mtbf to prove it.

    However, their maxline drives are considered raid worthy. Much higher mtbf, and a much lower failure rate in practice as well.

  20. Re:filesystem support on What's Fedora Up To? Ask the Project Leader · · Score: 1

    Then why not just provide them all regardless? Why must a boot parameter be added?

  21. Re:filesystem support on What's Fedora Up To? Ask the Project Leader · · Score: 1

    $25 for support is much better than not being able to get support at all. I've had a lingering ext3 bug that has been reported to the kernel mailing list several months ago, yet even the latest 2.6.17 still has the problem... but it works fine with any other fs I use.

  22. filesystem support on What's Fedora Up To? Ask the Project Leader · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Why is ext3 still the only filesystem available during installation? Practically every other distro is using reiserfs by default, and allowing whichever one you choose. Why does Fedora only permit ext3?

  23. If it's a hit in Sweden, US will hopefully follow on Slashback: Disney Copyright, Alaa Freed, Kelo Repealed · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If the company does well in Sweden, the service will likely be available in the US soon after. Insurance companies are always looking for more ways to make money.

  24. Re:They aren't fighting them. on Linux Hackers Reclaim the WRT54G · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, I for one did the same as he, returning the v5 router to Best Buy because it didn't run Linux. I then luckily found a v4 at Walmart (boo.. evil.. waaaah.... I know, get over it, they're cheap) covered in dust way in the back of the shelf behind the v5's.

  25. Re:another good idea. on Chinese Students' Cheating Techniques - Don't Try at Home · · Score: 1

    Holy crap! Someone mark the date!

    I think this might be the first time in /. history that someone thought about someone's response instead of starting a flame!