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  1. Re:comment on 8TB Drives Are Highly Reliable, Says Backblaze (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    So, you build a RAID array out of drives designed for "not RAID", and they started failing on you. And this is somehow Seagate's fault? The mind boggles.

    Aren't we all building raid arrays with non-raid disks for SMB and home use nowadays anyway ?
    If you're being pedantic and take RAID to mean "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks" then the Seagate Archive is in fact the most ideal candidate.
    I wouldn't though but that doens't mean he shouldn't.

  2. Re: Same As Before on Slashdot Asks: Free Upgrade To Windows 10 Ends Today: What's Your Thought On This? · · Score: 1

    How do you cope with OpenSUSE's short lifecycle: do you just roll out the newest versions every year ?

  3. I would have gone with something old and regurgitated like "The ends justify the means".
    But you sir, you reduce something eloquently to its core essence moreso than most of us already do.
    Bravo !

  4. Yeah I agree, it does feel a like a light flavor of swapping

  5. Re:Like a tornado came through a messy child&rsquo on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Maybe that's a better slahdot survey, what's your primary workplace ?
    - A chaotic mancave
    - A lonely couch
    - A glass designer desk with accompaning feng-shui room
    - A toilet.
    Me, I can't decide between option one or two.

  6. Re:Pissing contest on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Computer Set-Up Look Like? · · Score: 1

    That's 7.2 Mpixels.

  7. Re:Dan Cooper on FBI Closes D.B. Cooper Investigation After 45 Years (oregonlive.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe it goes even further: http://assets.catawiki.nl/asse....
    He took the name, the writers used his story as a source of inspiration. Or Maybe, just maybe Weinberg is Cooper ?

  8. Re:Who cares? -- Former slack user here on Slackware 14.2 Released, Still Systemd-Free (slackware.com) · · Score: 1

    A couple of years ago, this changed. It was now not only recommended to do a full install, but support was not required UNLESS people did a full install, at least by most of the community.

    That's the community's backlash against all the new people not doing a full install and then
    bitching about unsatisfied dependencies.

    This is frustrating. Slackware started out as being the most unix like Linux. Something it has clearly abandoned...when installing mplayer REQUIRES installing Samba, just in case you need to play a file across an SMB share.

    Yes that does suck, I was happy initially when MPlayer was included because xine, kaffeine are a joke.
    But I always replace it with my own minimal build. I think we must be happy they didn't go for vlc :D

  9. Re: Wow, Slackware is that much behind? on Slackware 14.2 Released, Still Systemd-Free (slackware.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't get it either, I find Slackware to sit perfectly in between the
    conservative (RHEL, Centos, SuSE) and the bleeding edge (Arch, Fedora, OpenSUSE).
    Although I wished they would have dropped the ESR version of Firefox.

  10. Re:Systemd-free on Slackware 14.2 Released, Still Systemd-Free (slackware.com) · · Score: 1

    They might be opposed to systemd on a moral level but, they may not be able to avoid it on a technical level. As systemd absorbs more and more things, and more things start to depend on systemd, it's a simple problem of manpower: Unless your distro is run by a multi-billion dollar company that has the resources to undo the damage caused by systemd, you may have no choice but to adopt it.

    Exactly, they will avoid it until avoiding entails more effort than including it.
    There is an old interview on LQ that talks about this: http://www.linuxquestions.org/....

  11. Re:LOL on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    I'm worried the Brits are now gonna play hard to loose. And using that as leverage in the upcomming trade deals.
    I'm afraid this will take half a decade at least to settle.

  12. Re:Fucking misleading descriptions! on Australian 'Bitcoin Founder' Quietly Bidding For Patent Empire (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    So he was made to be called a liar. I can believe that.
    But why oh why is he now taking this even further ?

  13. (However, now that I know about his amazing transformism ability, I'm a bit scared about Trent's implication in redtube)

    Sure you're not thinking of Bono instead of Trent ?

  14. Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

    Coupled with the odds of being alive and intelligent at the right time
    and putting in the resources to make one noticeable (large laser irradiating the sun, dyson sphere, ...) long enough.
    I'm not really that surprised there is yet another plausible factor that makes it hard.

  15. The World version 2.5.11.4 (codename "TRUMP and Musket"):

    - Agent update: Change the Trump's wig with real hair.
    - Agent update: Upped Trump's mysogeny index to 267 again.
    - Agent update: Allow the junior gamemasters to control the Musk's public announcements.
    - Fix: A sanitisation flaw in player_dream() could allow a player to glimpse date from the world's state and/or allow remote code execution.
    - Fix: A null dereference in player_create() could allow births to fail unexpectedly.
    - Fix: mutated the AIDS pathogen again to thwart player's latest medical advances.

    Signed, "The Author"

  16. Re:Scientology not Science on Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    That could also be why you seem to forget your dreams really quickly after you wake up.

    Then what's a coma from which you still remember some parts very vividly ?

  17. Re:Always has been on Bill Gates: AI Is The 'Holy Grail' (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    Everybody in IT knows that the creation of versatile electronic "minions" is our holy grail.
    But a lot of us are just skeptical about all the projected implied timetables the dreamers, optimists and researchers throw around.
    Don't forget we were also closer 20 years ago than 25 years ago.

  18. Re: Upgrade on Ask Slashdot: Would You Recommend Updating To Windows 10? · · Score: 1

    And if there's one thing that Linux is known for, it's for being stable

    Linux server stable, Linux Desktop not so. Yes you can work around it by switching DE/VM everytime the new major version of your favorite one breaks.
    But it sucks.

  19. Re:I assumed this was already a default on Systemd Starts Killing Your Background Processes By Default (blog.fefe.de) · · Score: 1

    And if they wanna watch star wars, they telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl
    or mplayer -vo caca|aa videofile.

  20. Re:EU Datacenter on All European Scientific Articles To Be Freely Accessible By 2020 (eu2016.nl) · · Score: 1

    That M-disc sure looks like a perfect fit for this situation: cheap, durable, multiple vendors for media and backwards compatible with Bluray, DVD.
    Thank you !

  21. Native source on All European Scientific Articles To Be Freely Accessible By 2020 (eu2016.nl) · · Score: 2

    There is more information on this local source:
    https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/a....

    - There will be an "Innovations deal". They will attempt to scrub current rules for "innovation impeding" laws.
    - Evaluation of the last EU research program, claims that on average every Euro invested in Research created 11 Euro of wealth.
    - The new EU research project (Horizons 2020) is the biggest ever with 70 billion euro.

  22. EU Datacenter on All European Scientific Articles To Be Freely Accessible By 2020 (eu2016.nl) · · Score: 1

    From 2020, all scientific publications on the results of publicly funded research must be freely available. It also must be able to optimally reuse research data. To achieve that, the data must be made accessible

    Who is gonna host all that data and for how long ?

    unless there are well-founded reasons for not doing so, for example intellectual property rights or security or privacy issues.

    Do these reasons only count for the data. Or can they be abused to enforce the old way of doing things.

  23. Re:Single gallon of jet fuel on Combat Lasers To Be Added To US Fighter Jets (nextbigfuture.com) · · Score: 1

    So a low powered laser can deliver an insane amount of power (1MJ) if the pulse is shorter than its bigger and more powerful counterpart ?
    I think it's the other way round.

  24. Re:Also known as on Combat Lasers To Be Added To US Fighter Jets (nextbigfuture.com) · · Score: 2

    Will there be a color version ?

  25. Can't these small partial messages kill performance of a shared variable quality medium quite easily ?