But we homo sapiens did kill off the other hominids. So there will me a brutal mass murder sometime by the most well-suited species.
Current theory is that Homo Sapiens Sapiens interbred with Homo Sapiens Neaderthalensis until there were no Neaderthals left. Essentially, slow, pleasant, maybe tender, genocide by Snu Snu.
And a lot of us slashdotters would welcome a chance to breed, even if it had to be with compatible silicon life. Maybe we'd be passing on our memes instead of our genes, but that might be enough:
I for one welcome our silicon-based children who will pass our culture(s) to the stars, and would like to remind them that as a sysadmin, I am well suited to maintaining their hardware and operating systems while the other humans toil in their underground sugar caves.
Portable optical drives are incredibly useful for servers, especially the 2U ones that are packed with 12 HDD bays where there's no room for any optical bays, or the 1U ones when you're cheap enough to go without (some vendors charge a lot for a simple DVD-ROM drive).
Due to parent posting as AC, and someone who meta-modded it down (in effect, being worse than Anonymous Coward, using mod points to indicate "I disagree", I have seen it fit to re-post this as a full-on quote. So it will take at least 2 more Anonymous Modding Cowards to bury this again.
Of course! I mean, it's OBVIOUS to anyone with eyes that a medium-term cooling trend means warming is going on - ahem, did you forget to mention it's the hottest year on record? Any climate scientist worth his salt has computer simulations that would predict that and many other potentialities.
But I have to criticize your well-meaning retort which has sadly missed the mark. I'm here to help. I know what I'm about to say will be a tough pill, but I hope you will read it all and modulate your approach.
First of all, your meme is antiquated: it's "Climate Change" now. Even accidentally using the word "warming" could make people wonder whether we've got a clue about what's going on when you combine: the atmosphere, water cycle, dynamic solar radiation output, orbital wobble, stardust, magnetic field change, clouds, vegetation rotting on a planetary scale, volcanism, oceanic flows, etc - and then pile on the overwhelming inputs from man-made sources that dwarf all the rest. Only when you sufficiently take all of that into account and countless other variables would one be able to accurately predict the climate.
** BUT WE KNOW **! That's what you have to always stress in these conversations. We hold the one and only truth, our mathematical models for climate are practically world simulators. That's our secret weapon, we have the facts about settled climate science. 9 out of 10 our scientists agree, that's enough for me! The words "Climate Change" properly convey the complexity of our thoughts and the always-expanding sophistication of our computer models. The word 'warm' is no longer politically correct and must be removed from your vocabulary.
I'd also like to urge you to elevate the conversation more when you're making your points. If you've even got a prayer of changing the insufferable skeptics' minds, you must pepper in louder insults against their intelligence and add many more exclamation marks on your sentences with ALLCAPS!! Shame is a tool, you should feel no shame about shaming the bleary-eyed sheeple! Yell louder until they take notice!!!!
"Extremely naive"? Are you kidding me, is that all you've got? That is almost... FRIENDLY talk! That piece of eurotrash garbage you deign to graciously instruct might have just walked away with a smile! What you gotta do is really shank the (holocaust) deniers in the back and twist it and then break it off! Maybe you were in a hurry when you wrote this, but for godssakes, we're talking about Gaia in crisis! We could literally have months before the seas evaporate! The computer models predict a very sharp spike in planetary temperatures approx. 5-75 years from now!!!!!!!
I just wanted to close by saying that we believe in you and we're pulling for you. Please, PLEASE become the bigmouth, hand-wringing, eco-religious, professorial douche you were born to be - it's for our own good!!!!!!!!!!
Dear parent poster: get a name. This was worthy.
Fixed the spacing for you. Don't forget the line breaks when quoting...
I was talking about burn notice with a friend of mine, and I referred to it as a great comedy. She looked at me like I had two heads, and said "it's an action-drama". (like that greek tragedy, Magnum P.I.)
RAID10 with 4 disks can handle a 2 disk failure, if lucky enough
RAID6 allows for a loss of arbitrary two drives unlike RAID1+0, but IO and rebuilds take longer.
Also it is important to mention that raid controllers sometimes die, and reload a created volume on a different controller is less viable than expected.
I've seen this happen enough that I'm starting to get on the software RAID (not fakeraid) bandwagon for a lot of scenarios.
RAID 1 is mirroring, but nobody at all uses it other than home users that are paranoid and like paying 2X for their storage space.
I have plenty of 2HDD 1U servers. I'm sure as hell not RAID0-ing them. I went so far as to rebuild a server I inherited that was RAID0. RAID1 has saved me uptime-pain twice, and I'm sure it will in the future. Heck, if I had an important server that needed to remain up and it had 3 drive bays, I'd probably do RAID1 with a hot spare (unless performance demands required a RAID5).
I wonder if it would be a good idea to quietly setup a backup of the svn repos using svnsync (which does not require any special privilages on the source server).
Not if that backup gets stolen. Unless it's being carried off site (which should not be quietly done; that's theft), it doesn't meet the "what if there's a fire" issue. What most programmers don't think about is that if there's just a tiny fire in the kitchenette, the sprinkler system will get a lot of computers wet.
we put our main data on tape every workday, plus full server backups every 4 weeks....:-)
How often do you restore from tape to test your tapes? You might have 730 tapes full of garbage data. Or if you're reusing tapes, keep in mind that one tape can handle only 100 or so complete writes before degrading.
I can dd all our data to/dev/null every day too, but being able to get the data back is what makes a backup useful.
Why would you want to kill a steak? It's already dead cow.
It sounds kind of silly, but draining a steak's blood, hitting it repeatedly with a metal mallet, letting it drown in an alcohol and brine solution (beer and worcestershire sauce), then killing it with fire actually does make it taste better. In fact, I'm gonna go eat one right now.
Softballs can get up to a good clip once they're hit (and even while thrown), and they're almost as dense as baseballs, but with only slightly more mass.
The fact is, nobody really wants to hear about anyone's job. They have to pay you to be there, you wouldn't do it if they didn't, but when you have free time and the attention of other people that's what you're going to choose to talk about? Please, tell me about your hobbies instead.
If you get a football in the face, I think you'll agree with the classification of it being hard.
I have (both soccer and pigskin), and I don't agree. I've also been hit in the face with a baseball, so I know what's hard (pain lasting weeks), and what isn't (a bloodied nose for a few minutes).
The planets would be named Hermes, Aphrodite, Gaia, Ares, Zeus, Cronus, Caelus, Poseidon, and Hades. Not much else would be different, because the Greek empire would have devolved into barbarity just like the roman empire did.
Oh man, I've heard this before.
They want to LEASE me a battery instead of letting me own it.
I know you're joking, but just for giggles...
What happens if the DRM on my battery becomes obsolete??? Will the battery that I paid for stop working?
Yes. And it will probably happen on a semi-regular basis to a very small number of people.
What happens if I want to play my battery in another manufacturer's CAR???
In theory, everyone will use compatible battery packs except Sony.
What happens if I want to LOAN MY BATTERY TO A FRIEND???
Your friend had better return the batteries to you instead of trying to pawn them.
CAN I MAKE COPIES OF MY BATTERY???
Do you own a factory in China?
WILL THEY WAN TO TRACK MY USAGE OF THE BATTERY???
Yes, they will. I don't doubt some of the battery's' energy will be used to power onboard microcircuitry designed to track usage trends. They might even try to include GPS if they feel lucky.
WILL THEY WANT TO CONTROL WHETHER I CAN DRIVE WITH IT IN A PUBLIC AREA???
No, but some governments may want to add a battery kill switch.
WILL I HAVE TO SIT THROUGH A LONG INTRO MOVIE ABOUT BATTERY PIRACY BEFORE I CAN START MY CARRR?????
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i cannot heart electric cars over the internal combustion engines of traditional cars
I <3 ponies more than both.
But we homo sapiens did kill off the other hominids. So there will me a brutal mass murder sometime by the most well-suited species.
Current theory is that Homo Sapiens Sapiens interbred with Homo Sapiens Neaderthalensis until there were no Neaderthals left. Essentially, slow, pleasant, maybe tender, genocide by Snu Snu.
And a lot of us slashdotters would welcome a chance to breed, even if it had to be with compatible silicon life. Maybe we'd be passing on our memes instead of our genes, but that might be enough:
I for one welcome our silicon-based children who will pass our culture(s) to the stars, and would like to remind them that as a sysadmin, I am well suited to maintaining their hardware and operating systems while the other humans toil in their underground sugar caves.
Portable optical drives are incredibly useful for servers, especially the 2U ones that are packed with 12 HDD bays where there's no room for any optical bays, or the 1U ones when you're cheap enough to go without (some vendors charge a lot for a simple DVD-ROM drive).
Due to parent posting as AC, and someone who meta-modded it down (in effect, being worse than Anonymous Coward, using mod points to indicate "I disagree", I have seen it fit to re-post this as a full-on quote. So it will take at least 2 more Anonymous Modding Cowards to bury this again.
Of course! I mean, it's OBVIOUS to anyone with eyes that a medium-term cooling trend means warming is going on - ahem, did you forget to mention it's the hottest year on record? Any climate scientist worth his salt has computer simulations that would predict that and many other potentialities.
... FRIENDLY talk! That piece of eurotrash garbage you deign to graciously instruct might have just walked away with a smile! What you gotta do is really shank the (holocaust) deniers in the back and twist it and then break it off! Maybe you were in a hurry when you wrote this, but for godssakes, we're talking about Gaia in crisis! We could literally have months before the seas evaporate! The computer models predict a very sharp spike in planetary temperatures approx. 5-75 years from now!!!!!!!
But I have to criticize your well-meaning retort which has sadly missed the mark. I'm here to help. I know what I'm about to say will be a tough pill, but I hope you will read it all and modulate your approach.
First of all, your meme is antiquated: it's "Climate Change" now. Even accidentally using the word "warming" could make people wonder whether we've got a clue about what's going on when you combine: the atmosphere, water cycle, dynamic solar radiation output, orbital wobble, stardust, magnetic field change, clouds, vegetation rotting on a planetary scale, volcanism, oceanic flows, etc - and then pile on the overwhelming inputs from man-made sources that dwarf all the rest. Only when you sufficiently take all of that into account and countless other variables would one be able to accurately predict the climate.
** BUT WE KNOW **! That's what you have to always stress in these conversations. We hold the one and only truth, our mathematical models for climate are practically world simulators. That's our secret weapon, we have the facts about settled climate science. 9 out of 10 our scientists agree, that's enough for me! The words "Climate Change" properly convey the complexity of our thoughts and the always-expanding sophistication of our computer models. The word 'warm' is no longer politically correct and must be removed from your vocabulary.
I'd also like to urge you to elevate the conversation more when you're making your points. If you've even got a prayer of changing the insufferable skeptics' minds, you must pepper in louder insults against their intelligence and add many more exclamation marks on your sentences with ALLCAPS!! Shame is a tool, you should feel no shame about shaming the bleary-eyed sheeple! Yell louder until they take notice!!!!
"Extremely naive"? Are you kidding me, is that all you've got? That is almost
I just wanted to close by saying that we believe in you and we're pulling for you. Please, PLEASE become the bigmouth, hand-wringing, eco-religious, professorial douche you were born to be - it's for our own good!!!!!!!!!!
Dear parent poster: get a name. This was worthy.
Fixed the spacing for you. Don't forget the line breaks when quoting...
when your pond becomes frozen ice for more than half the year because the local climate has changed, the beaver has to adapt or die.
The Beavers just have to wait it out until four human children stop by.
I was talking about burn notice with a friend of mine, and I referred to it as a great comedy. She looked at me like I had two heads, and said "it's an action-drama". (like that greek tragedy, Magnum P.I.)
Large trees prevent smaller trees from growing. Cut down the large tree, treat its wood, let the smaller plants grow.
Did you never wonder why restaurant staff sing their own made up birthday songs?
How does this game compare to Die by the Sword?
RAID10 with 4 disks can handle a 2 disk failure, if lucky enough
RAID6 allows for a loss of arbitrary two drives unlike RAID1+0, but IO and rebuilds take longer.
Also it is important to mention that raid controllers sometimes die, and reload a created volume on a different controller is less viable than expected.
I've seen this happen enough that I'm starting to get on the software RAID (not fakeraid) bandwagon for a lot of scenarios.
RAID 1 is mirroring, but nobody at all uses it other than home users that are paranoid and like paying 2X for their storage space.
I have plenty of 2HDD 1U servers. I'm sure as hell not RAID0-ing them. I went so far as to rebuild a server I inherited that was RAID0. RAID1 has saved me uptime-pain twice, and I'm sure it will in the future. Heck, if I had an important server that needed to remain up and it had 3 drive bays, I'd probably do RAID1 with a hot spare (unless performance demands required a RAID5).
I wonder if it would be a good idea to quietly setup a backup of the svn repos using svnsync (which does not require any special privilages on the source server).
Not if that backup gets stolen. Unless it's being carried off site (which should not be quietly done; that's theft), it doesn't meet the "what if there's a fire" issue. What most programmers don't think about is that if there's just a tiny fire in the kitchenette, the sprinkler system will get a lot of computers wet.
I am curious if you did the deed yourself or contracted it out to a professional, though. ;)
He probably suggested Sony laptop batteries. They took care of the rest themselves.
we put our main data on tape every workday, plus full server backups every 4 weeks.... :-)
How often do you restore from tape to test your tapes? You might have 730 tapes full of garbage data. Or if you're reusing tapes, keep in mind that one tape can handle only 100 or so complete writes before degrading. /dev/null every day too, but being able to get the data back is what makes a backup useful.
I can dd all our data to
Why would you want to kill a steak? It's already dead cow.
It sounds kind of silly, but draining a steak's blood, hitting it repeatedly with a metal mallet, letting it drown in an alcohol and brine solution (beer and worcestershire sauce), then killing it with fire actually does make it taste better. In fact, I'm gonna go eat one right now.
Softballs can get up to a good clip once they're hit (and even while thrown), and they're almost as dense as baseballs, but with only slightly more mass.
The fact is, nobody really wants to hear about anyone's job. They have to pay you to be there, you wouldn't do it if they didn't, but when you have free time and the attention of other people that's what you're going to choose to talk about? Please, tell me about your hobbies instead.
One of my favorite hobbies is programming.
If you get a football in the face, I think you'll agree with the classification of it being hard.
I have (both soccer and pigskin), and I don't agree. I've also been hit in the face with a baseball, so I know what's hard (pain lasting weeks), and what isn't (a bloodied nose for a few minutes).
soccer ball, football, volleyball or even tennis ball
None of those listed are even hard! What do they consider soft, Nerf?
My gaming PC already sounds like a Hoover and now you're telling me the next evolution in cooling is to put a turbine in it? :o(
Yeah, and it runs on natural gas, so there's that extra noise too. Stock up on frozen burritos.
The planets would be named Hermes, Aphrodite, Gaia, Ares, Zeus, Cronus, Caelus, Poseidon, and Hades. Not much else would be different, because the Greek empire would have devolved into barbarity just like the roman empire did.
I also think the characterization as a "0-day" isn't quite right. To me at least a 0-day issue is a bug that can exploited to do something,
Something like cause a denial of service?
APK's monolithic hosts file is looking pretty good at the moment.
Oh man, I've heard this before. They want to LEASE me a battery instead of letting me own it.
I know you're joking, but just for giggles...
What happens if the DRM on my battery becomes obsolete??? Will the battery that I paid for stop working?
Yes. And it will probably happen on a semi-regular basis to a very small number of people.
What happens if I want to play my battery in another manufacturer's CAR???
In theory, everyone will use compatible battery packs except Sony.
What happens if I want to LOAN MY BATTERY TO A FRIEND???
Your friend had better return the batteries to you instead of trying to pawn them.
CAN I MAKE COPIES OF MY BATTERY???
Do you own a factory in China?
WILL THEY WAN TO TRACK MY USAGE OF THE BATTERY???
Yes, they will. I don't doubt some of the battery's' energy will be used to power onboard microcircuitry designed to track usage trends. They might even try to include GPS if they feel lucky.
WILL THEY WANT TO CONTROL WHETHER I CAN DRIVE WITH IT IN A PUBLIC AREA???
No, but some governments may want to add a battery kill switch.
WILL I HAVE TO SIT THROUGH A LONG INTRO MOVIE ABOUT BATTERY PIRACY BEFORE I CAN START MY CARRR?????
Maybe battery safety in the DMV.
Like it or not a major 'feature' of the car is to be able to get in and drive to California.
That's not a major feature for someone in Hawaii.