If you're going to do this for anything other than experimental purposes, be sure you're using ECC RAM. You probably aren't and your current board most likely doesn't support it, so you'll need to get a new motherboard, possibly a new CPU and new RAM.
ZFS does something no other filesystem you’ll have available to you does: it checksums your data, and it checksums the metadata used by ZFS, and it checksums the checksums. If your data is corrupted in memory before it is written, ZFS will happily write (and checksum) the corrupted data. Additionally, ZFS has no pre-mount consistency checker or tool that can repair filesystem damage. [...] If a non-ECC memory module goes haywire, it can cause irreparable damage to your ZFS pool that can cause complete loss of the storage.
How safe is it to run the drive 100% busy for an extended time period? I've always heard that's a bad idea with consumer drives; they just aren't built to withstand the workload.
Even in this region where living expenses are very low, good luck paying your bills on $20k/yr.
There's a lot of students that live off of less than that.
The issue is that people making minimum wage think they are entitled to things they cannot afford. They believe they should be able to have a place all to themselves, should be able to support dependents and still have money left over for things like their own vehicle, cable tv and smartphones.
So every Monday morning, Tugas leaves at 4 a.m., says goodbye to his wife and four daughters, drives 90 miles to the city, and lugs around passengers until he earns $300 or gets too tired to keep going.
That terrible job he has is paying for a wife and four children! How can you say he's being exploited by Uber?
Same here. A 5 TB external drive stores a lot of DVD's! As a bonus you get the exact same viewing experience as putting the disc in a player.
I have considered transcoding everything, but it would be extremely time consuming to do properly. I typically just convert any content I want to watch from tablets or mobile devices.
Before working here, I worked primarily in FPGA place and route algorithms, which is a field with AFAIK exactly zero women. Please let me know if I'm wrong, and managers don't count, I mean the actual algorithms geeks. I read somewhere that we only employ something close to 15% women in engineering/software jobs, but when I look around, I see closer to 30% women.
I had breakfast at Google's newish Chicago office a few weeks ago and would have sworn I saw close to a 50/50 mix of males and females. That's way better than what I'm used to which is about a 5:1 male to female ratio. I will admit to seeing way more light colored complexions than I had expected given the make-up of Chicago.
Nintendo has already seen huge success with Super Mario Run on iOS.
Yeah, I don't think so.
Investors disappointed by early reviews and sales of the smartphone game "Super Mario Run" sold off more Nintendo Co. shares on Monday, with some analysts expressing concern over the game's payment model.
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The general public needs to learn that downloading stuff from unverified 3rd party sources is going to get you infected sooner or later.
My younger brother recently infected a tablet I had let him borrow with this malware. I wanted to smack him in the head when he called me saying that there was some FBI warning that he couldn't get rid of, and asked if it was really the FBI.
You would think that something would go off in their head telling them not to follow instructions to disable security settings, but I suppose most people are used to being sheep and doing what they're told instead of engaging their brains and doing some critical thinking. This same brother fell for a social engineering attack where someone called him up and wanted him to verify his bank account information. *sigh*
Are you telling me you'd take the position for $3 million a year, but $1.5 million just wouldn't cut it?
Why exactly would I take $1.5 million if I could get $3 million somewhere else? If the market prices talent at X, then you're going to need to offer something worth at least X in order to attract people.
The NSA is authorized to collect signals intelligence only on foreign citizens. Hence the uproar over domestics being caught up in the surveillance nets and not being redacted immediately as they are supposed to be. This isn't an arbitrary distinction, but because under US law, American citizens are entitled to the protection of the 4th amendment against unwarranted search or seizure, whereas foreign citizens are not. So the setup was that the NSA could warrant-less-ly wiretap the rest of the world, but needed to scrub out the information of Americans that got caught in the haul.
From what I understand there are rooms inside NSA facilities that are considered foreign soil and are staffed by foreign agents. It is these foreign agents who spy on American citizens and then turn the information over to American agents. Supposedly there's also a reciprocal agreement where we have staff in their intelligence facilities.
From what I've seen, the people crowing about minimum wage not being a "living wage" are the ones with little to no marketable skills and who have made poor life decisions.
It is certainly possible to live on a minimum wage income if you (a) get a roommate and (b) don't have children (you can't afford them). Tens of thousands of college students do it every year. In my area the people demanding a "living wage" aren't willing to get roommates or make other sacrifices and then complain that their cost of living is too high. They think they are entitled to a place all to themselves, can have as many kids as they want and should be able to have the same things that people making two or three times what they make are able to afford.
I checked the neighborhood paper yesterday and you can get a two-bedroom on the near-south side of Chicago for $1,200 per month. Chicago's minimum wage is $10.50 for private workers, so that's $21,000 a year gross income if you work 40 hours a week (with 2 weeks vacation). That puts you in the 15% Federal tax bracket with state taxes running 3.5%. So you've got about $1,400 a month to spend on rent, food, health insurance, transportation and clothing. $600 rent, $200 food, $300 insurance (individual market), $100 transportation (monthly pass) and say $100 for clothing. It's not going to be a fun lifestyle, but it's totally workable. It's how I lived when I first got out of school in the late 90's and I had a background in computer science with 5 years of experience doing programming and sysadmin/DBA work for a web startup.
There's a quotation from the movie "Monster" that's very apropos, "when the beach party is over, you don't get to say, "you know what? Now I think I'd like to have what everybody else has worked their entire life for.' It doesn't work that way."
I had big time problems trying to use my Logitech bluetooth mouse and keyboard at the same time an external spinning disk was attached via USB 3. Apparently the interference is a known issue.
I also recently purchased a WeightGurus scale that uses lower-power bluetooth to transmit reading to a companion smartphone app. When this happens there's some sort of interference between the WiFi and bluetooth receivers on my phone and I have to turn off bluetooth, then turn WiFi off/on and finally turn bluetooth back on. If I don't do that I won't be able to reconnect to my WiFi router.
A bunch of people died in a fire at the Cook County Administration Building in 2003 due to not being able to open locked doors. They had entered a stairwell that was filling with smoke and couldn't get back on to any of the floors because the door locked behind them. After that incident the city required that stairwell doors automatically unlock when the fire alarm is activated.
It seems crazy that someone would intentionally design a passenger car that you could locked into.
Yes, you can. But you can only get one credit report PER YEAR free. You probably could get one free from each of the 3 credit reporting companies, so effectively, you would get 3 reports per year, but who is to say that each report contains the exact same info?
The Equifax, TransUnion and Experian credit reports do typically contain different info and are formatted differently. The information is different because they each acquire it from different places.
Also, once you get a credit report, do you know what to look for? How do you tell what is suspicious, and what is business as normal?
They contain a list of your home addresses, typically with a bunch of bogus entries that are a mix of two valid addresses, or entries where letters or digits were transposed. There's also a list of your credit accounts, current status, account open/close dates, along with entries if you've been 30, 60, 90, etc. days past due. Just have them remove the bad addresses and look for any accounts you didn't open.
Which raises the question, why doesn't Lenovo or Dell or maybe Asus take a stab at making the same kind of hardware?
As a Unix and Linux user, I'd argue that Dell's and Lenovo's offerings already are superior to Apple's. You have many more options which means there's a better chance you can get something that closely matches your needs.
The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is nice, but I could do without the touchscreen. If you care about GPU performance you can get something from the Alienware line. You can get a Lenovo with a Xeon processor and ECC RAM so you can safely run ZFS and the chipsets are well supported on BSD and Linux distributions. Most of these laptops can be ordered with UHD IPS displays.
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If you use RAID, you need to do regular disk scrubbing, SMART surface scans, etc...
Or you could run ZFS and not worry about it.
Install ZFS on your Linux box.
If you're going to do this for anything other than experimental purposes, be sure you're using ECC RAM. You probably aren't and your current board most likely doesn't support it, so you'll need to get a new motherboard, possibly a new CPU and new RAM.
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How safe is it to run the drive 100% busy for an extended time period? I've always heard that's a bad idea with consumer drives; they just aren't built to withstand the workload.
Connecting your smart home, light bulbs, etc, to Alexa, that's when it gets rather useful.
But why would I want to _talk_ at something to control these devices versus just pushing a button on a remote control, or using a smartphone app?
Even in this region where living expenses are very low, good luck paying your bills on $20k/yr.
There's a lot of students that live off of less than that.
The issue is that people making minimum wage think they are entitled to things they cannot afford. They believe they should be able to have a place all to themselves, should be able to support dependents and still have money left over for things like their own vehicle, cable tv and smartphones.
Did you read the article?
So every Monday morning, Tugas leaves at 4 a.m., says goodbye to his wife and four daughters, drives 90 miles to the city, and lugs around passengers until he earns $300 or gets too tired to keep going.
That terrible job he has is paying for a wife and four children! How can you say he's being exploited by Uber?
Same here. A 5 TB external drive stores a lot of DVD's! As a bonus you get the exact same viewing experience as putting the disc in a player.
I have considered transcoding everything, but it would be extremely time consuming to do properly. I typically just convert any content I want to watch from tablets or mobile devices.
This is good news if you have a Chromebook. Media support isn't very good on those and the VLC player is kind of crappy.
I had breakfast at Google's newish Chicago office a few weeks ago and would have sworn I saw close to a 50/50 mix of males and females. That's way better than what I'm used to which is about a 5:1 male to female ratio. I will admit to seeing way more light colored complexions than I had expected given the make-up of Chicago.
Buy some Bolivars? Then you can haul them to market in a wheel barrow and get some exercise while you're at it!
I'm really kicking myself for not speculating another $10k into BTC when it was down around $225.
Nintendo has already seen huge success with Super Mario Run on iOS.
Yeah, I don't think so.
Nintendo shares drop on 'Super Mario Run' sales
The general public needs to learn that downloading stuff from unverified 3rd party sources is going to get you infected sooner or later.
My younger brother recently infected a tablet I had let him borrow with this malware. I wanted to smack him in the head when he called me saying that there was some FBI warning that he couldn't get rid of, and asked if it was really the FBI.
You would think that something would go off in their head telling them not to follow instructions to disable security settings, but I suppose most people are used to being sheep and doing what they're told instead of engaging their brains and doing some critical thinking. This same brother fell for a social engineering attack where someone called him up and wanted him to verify his bank account information. *sigh*
Are you telling me you'd take the position for $3 million a year, but $1.5 million just wouldn't cut it?
Why exactly would I take $1.5 million if I could get $3 million somewhere else? If the market prices talent at X, then you're going to need to offer something worth at least X in order to attract people.
From what I understand there are rooms inside NSA facilities that are considered foreign soil and are staffed by foreign agents. It is these foreign agents who spy on American citizens and then turn the information over to American agents. Supposedly there's also a reciprocal agreement where we have staff in their intelligence facilities.
From what I've seen, the people crowing about minimum wage not being a "living wage" are the ones with little to no marketable skills and who have made poor life decisions.
It is certainly possible to live on a minimum wage income if you (a) get a roommate and (b) don't have children (you can't afford them). Tens of thousands of college students do it every year. In my area the people demanding a "living wage" aren't willing to get roommates or make other sacrifices and then complain that their cost of living is too high. They think they are entitled to a place all to themselves, can have as many kids as they want and should be able to have the same things that people making two or three times what they make are able to afford.
I checked the neighborhood paper yesterday and you can get a two-bedroom on the near-south side of Chicago for $1,200 per month. Chicago's minimum wage is $10.50 for private workers, so that's $21,000 a year gross income if you work 40 hours a week (with 2 weeks vacation). That puts you in the 15% Federal tax bracket with state taxes running 3.5%. So you've got about $1,400 a month to spend on rent, food, health insurance, transportation and clothing. $600 rent, $200 food, $300 insurance (individual market), $100 transportation (monthly pass) and say $100 for clothing. It's not going to be a fun lifestyle, but it's totally workable. It's how I lived when I first got out of school in the late 90's and I had a background in computer science with 5 years of experience doing programming and sysadmin/DBA work for a web startup.
There's a quotation from the movie "Monster" that's very apropos, "when the beach party is over, you don't get to say, "you know what? Now I think I'd like to have what everybody else has worked their entire life for.' It doesn't work that way."
It's also worth pointing out that there's content you still have to pay for even with Amazon Prime.
I had big time problems trying to use my Logitech bluetooth mouse and keyboard at the same time an external spinning disk was attached via USB 3. Apparently the interference is a known issue.
I also recently purchased a WeightGurus scale that uses lower-power bluetooth to transmit reading to a companion smartphone app. When this happens there's some sort of interference between the WiFi and bluetooth receivers on my phone and I have to turn off bluetooth, then turn WiFi off/on and finally turn bluetooth back on. If I don't do that I won't be able to reconnect to my WiFi router.
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Republicans are very much anti-union and probably always will be.
I know Republicans typically are opposed to public-sector unions, but I didn't think they had a problem with private-sector unions?
That may all be true, but the fact is that if you've been buying Bitcoin over the past 2 years, you've been making some pretty good money.
If you got really lucky and bought when Bitcoin was down around $200, then you've almost quadrupled your investment.
A bunch of people died in a fire at the Cook County Administration Building in 2003 due to not being able to open locked doors. They had entered a stairwell that was filling with smoke and couldn't get back on to any of the floors because the door locked behind them. After that incident the city required that stairwell doors automatically unlock when the fire alarm is activated.
It seems crazy that someone would intentionally design a passenger car that you could locked into.
Yes, you can. But you can only get one credit report PER YEAR free. You probably could get one free from each of the 3 credit reporting companies, so effectively, you would get 3 reports per year, but who is to say that each report contains the exact same info?
The Equifax, TransUnion and Experian credit reports do typically contain different info and are formatted differently. The information is different because they each acquire it from different places.
Also, once you get a credit report, do you know what to look for? How do you tell what is suspicious, and what is business as normal?
They contain a list of your home addresses, typically with a bunch of bogus entries that are a mix of two valid addresses, or entries where letters or digits were transposed. There's also a list of your credit accounts, current status, account open/close dates, along with entries if you've been 30, 60, 90, etc. days past due. Just have them remove the bad addresses and look for any accounts you didn't open.
Somehow, I doubt that they were disassembling all their old MacBooks to remove the SSD before going home every night.
Who said the laptops leave the building?
Which raises the question, why doesn't Lenovo or Dell or maybe Asus take a stab at making the same kind of hardware?
As a Unix and Linux user, I'd argue that Dell's and Lenovo's offerings already are superior to Apple's. You have many more options which means there's a better chance you can get something that closely matches your needs.
The Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition is nice, but I could do without the touchscreen. If you care about GPU performance you can get something from the Alienware line. You can get a Lenovo with a Xeon processor and ECC RAM so you can safely run ZFS and the chipsets are well supported on BSD and Linux distributions. Most of these laptops can be ordered with UHD IPS displays.