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  1. Re:Because you're an idiot? on New Seagate Shingled Hard Drive Teardown · · Score: 1

    Maybe, But I doubt if the demand for bigger spinners is high enough for that.
    The prices haven't really come down since the 2010 flood and we lost Samsung as a competitor.
    8 TB might be the last (premium) drive of the spinners.

  2. Re:Because you're an idiot? on New Seagate Shingled Hard Drive Teardown · · Score: 1

    Find me an 8TB SSD that is even within spitting disttance (hell, within ICBM distance) of $300 and you win the prize

    I think that will be available in 6 years.
    Bear in mind though that this SMR drive is an exception. The other manufacturers are still producing 4-6 TB drives for that price.

  3. They gain a planet capable of sustaining life !

  4. Re:I doubt it on PC-BSD: Set For Serious Growth? · · Score: 1

    Well ... https://github.com/freenas/fre... here we've got iXsystems as COMPANY :D.

  5. Re:I doubt it on PC-BSD: Set For Serious Growth? · · Score: 1

    So the people of FreeNAS also work on PC-BSD ?

  6. Re:That clinches it. on PC-BSD: Set For Serious Growth? · · Score: 1

    C'mon let's be fair. OSS GUI apps are pretty buggy.
    For instance on KDE 4.10.5 the clock/calendar still clobbers the system tray frequently.
    Applications started with krunner sometimes just won't start while the sandtimer keeps spinning until a timeout is passed.

  7. Re:It's a vast field.... on Ask Slashdot: What Portion of Developers Are Bad At What They Do? · · Score: 1

    FWIW, I think that's a mistake. Why trust the opaque "encryption" feature of the application like Excel or acrobat when you can use something well-proven?

    Ease of use and the fact those applications are ubiquitous.

  8. Re:It's a vast field.... on Ask Slashdot: What Portion of Developers Are Bad At What They Do? · · Score: 1

    I would be horrified by an interview like that. Having to switch from the dull expected but studied standard questions to
    full battlemode with a potential boss isn't something I would be comfortable with.

  9. Re:It's a vast field.... on Ask Slashdot: What Portion of Developers Are Bad At What They Do? · · Score: 1

    Bear in mind that was just one question of many that we asked. We do offer up a lot of general questions such as "describe some ways that web services can be secured". We get good answers from some candidates, while others answer with responses like "it's handled in the configuration"

    What's wrong with hardening apache directives ? Not everyone groks mod_security.

  10. Re:Naive to say the least. on Proposed Disk Array With 99.999% Availablity For 4 Years, Sans Maintenance · · Score: 1

    Most should make it to their second year (>=8640 hours).
    In our small 24 bay array I've seen a lot of those bad Seagate ST3000DM001 fail at ~15000-19000 hours.

  11. Re:If it's accessing your X server, it's elevated on Why Screen Lockers On X11 Cannot Be Secure · · Score: 1

    I'm not familiar with writing apps for X, but are you saying that every program that displays a window in X can log all keystrokes including in windows that are not associated with that program?

    Well try this:
    - Find the id of your window of interest (xwininfo).
    - Attach to it with xev -id $id

    Now that you know ... Ctrl-Alt-Backspace zaps X.

  12. Re: UFS vs ZFS on Book Review: FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials · · Score: 1

    But the protection is not perfect. Throw random data into a few adjacent blocks the way a head crash does, and if those blocks happen to be structural metadata, think about how extensive the data loss could be. In most cases, e2fsck and repair damage like that. ZFS can't.

    True I've wondered this myself lately with btrfs. Ext? has backup copies of the superblock. Which it uses during repair I presume.
    There is no reason ZFS shouldn't have redundant copies of the critical structures. How foolproof is ZFS data protection for normal data and structural data ? Can anyone shed light on this ?

    Now fsck utilities aren't perfect and can worsen your situation. I myself have been bitten by xfs_repair and e2fsck (ext3 fs) in the past for example.

  13. Re: UFS vs ZFS on Book Review: FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials · · Score: 1

    I don't think so. ZFS protects all data blocks and data pointers with checksums. Not only the special filesystem structures (superblock, inodes, metadata tables, ...).

  14. Re:UFS vs ZFS on Book Review: FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials · · Score: 1

    His pool has problems but I'm willing to bet it was still mountable (ONLINE) at that time.

  15. Re:What a crock on Book Review: FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials · · Score: 1

    There is absolutely nothing on my laptop that I fear anyone else reading. Nothing. There are no passwords, no legally protected or privileged information, nada. It's an old, slow Dell that works fine for web browsing and simple games, too old to run anything processor- or memory-intensive like MSwindows.

    What about saved/cached web service passwords/session cookies etc ...

  16. Re:Debian on shiny Retina Macbook Pro on Why Run Linux On Macs? · · Score: 1

    I've got a nice reproducible case here--memory-intensive command-line utility dealing with image data, run it once it takes 1.5 minutes, run it a second time, it takes 2.5 minutes. No shared memory or semaphores or anything exotic, just malloc, use memory, free memory, exit.

    I concurr that Yosemite isn't a very stable upgrade.
    But are you sure your issue is related to virtual memory and not to the CPU clocking itself down because of heat.

  17. Somehow I hoped on NSA Prepares For Future Techno-Battles By Plotting Network Takedowns · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hoped this privacy-invading mass surveillance shit would stop instead it is escalating in a new arms race.

  18. Re:Previous Gen Mac Pro on Why Run Linux On Macs? · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity can you tell me which distro you use and management tools (virt-manager) ?

  19. Re:Debian on shiny Retina Macbook Pro on Why Run Linux On Macs? · · Score: 1

    What exactly is a "residual inactive memory allocation"??? Oh, that's right, there is no such thing--it's just a phrase you pulled out of your ass to shift blame for an OS bug which you do not understand onto apps. It's a UNIX variant, app quits, allocated memory is reclaimed.

    Well Mac OS X doesn't kill applications when you press the "close" button, it only kills/detaches/hides/whatever the window
    So I think what he thinks is residual inactive memory is probably used memory from any "closed" application.
    That's kinda sad tough to keep rebooting to alleviate low memory issues because you can't figure out to properly exit a mac application.

  20. Re:MkLinux is pretty good on Why Run Linux On Macs? · · Score: 2

    Latest release: 2002 !

  21. Re:Hope and change on Obama: Gov't Shouldn't Be Hampered By Encrypted Communications · · Score: 1

    I mean shit, if you compare modern values to the Victorian era, we're all a bunch of uneducated rabble. All of us. For example, anybody who couldn't speak Latin fluently was an uneducated nobody (even though Latin was a long dead language by this era.)

    You're talking about the age where education/science was a hobby for the highly privileged (aristocracy).
    These people had servants, fortunes and real estate as support. And knowing latin isn't any different as knowing any other language.
    Frankly, you have a very romantic view of the Victorian era.

    Besides, there's been a somewhat long-standing theory that it's best to keep the vocabulary to a minimum. Using really complicated and/or obscure words doesn't benefit anybody, ever. At best, people who you need to get your message across to haven't heard the word before and misunderstand you (there are somewhere north of a million words in the English language; nobody anywhere knows all of them) and at worst you sound like a snooty asshole. It cannot benefit you in any way to constantly use them, but it can harm you and those around you. That's a fact.

    I get what you are saying. KISS right.
    The problem is sometimes you do have to use these "difficult" words since they describe more exactly what you want to mean.
    And a bunch of clarifying sub-sentences doesn't make your communication more legible anyway.

  22. Re:Equally tiny UPS? on Tiny Fanless Mini-PC Runs Linux Or Windows On Quad-core AMD SoC · · Score: 1

    I second this Trust is not to be trusted. All their gear is defective and low quality.

  23. Here it comes on Several European Countries Lay Groundwork For Heavier Internet Censorhip · · Score: 1

    The European Patriot Act.

  24. Re:So they are doing what? on Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack · · Score: 1

    Actually the one who shot up the Jewish grocery claims affiliation or at least sympathy with ISIS according to
    the leaked phone message from RTL.

  25. Re:Well Then on Tips For Securing Your Secure Shell · · Score: 1

    I think he's only talking about the exploit mitigation technologies in OpenBSD (NX, ASLR, Stack protection, ...).
    Not the overall level of OpenBSD's security which profits a lot from its secure programming processes.