I assume this only occurs with hardware RAID? Software RAID means you can move the drives to any machine, unlike hardware where if it dies you're left trying to find the exact same expensive controller, and from my experience reading and writing to a Linux RAID5 at full Gbs network bandwidth, CPU use was less than 1%.
If you're not running something incredibly intensive, you likely don't need hardware RAID.
Seriously though, why would you do that? Fedora and Ubuntu (and I'm sure many others) both use Red Hat's Disk Utility which notifies you about failing disks and allows for very simple RAID and drive management, SMART information and surface scan tests, benchmarking, file system checks, and other things all right there.
Rock solid file server. Use it for a centralized torrent server, too, with web access.
But hey, if you want to donate money to a monopolistic unethical megacompany, that's your choice.
Are you implying that they weren't actually downloaded, but instead he used some sort of magical data teleportation technology? HOLY CRAP, GIMMY!!!!!!!!!!
Yay, car analogies. Lets make it a correct one at least, shall we:
You buy a car which was advertised as having A/C. Suddenly one day after you took your car in to the dealer to have it repaired and cleaned, it comes back with the entire A/C system removed.
Yes, they removed it from the PS3 Slims, but that's no justification for doing so on the existing fatties, and I would complain too if I gave a damn about that feature, which I would if I had no other computers to use for a normal desktop and relied upon Linux on the PS3.
I'd like to hear what companies and individuals are doing to stop software patents and hopefully severely cripple the USPTO as a whole, though I won't get my hopes up for the latter, but the entire thing could use obliteration or revamp.
I think what is more important though is that for individuals, it's irrelevant any way. No one can stop the sharing of information between individuals and that will apply even more strongly with patents as the Maker movement really gets going and home fabricators become more common. It's sad that businesses can't also join in all that due to the money they have painting targets on themselves because of those laws.
Why must so many laws do the exact opposite of helping the world advance as a whole? Oh yeah, so the few can profit..
Sorry, okay, the *specification* may not be closed, but a moving target isn't really a standard, and even if the standard itself is completely open and was only being extended and not completely altered or something to make it hard for anything else to reimplement it, you still face the problem I noted in my other post of Adobe releasing their program first and not the spec, as well as the limitation of being able to actually *create* Flash content. Someone please tell me why it's possible that Adobe had a monopoly on PDF for so long, and why they still have a monopoly on Flash? If it was actually a good standard, the net should be buzzing with PDF and Flash creating and viewing applications, but it isn't. Open PDF-creating software is just finally getting started really it seems, while Flash creating ones don't exist AFAIK unless they're from Adobe or are closed somehow. It may be because most programs for creating SVG graphics are using the.svg format instead of PDF, and for animations? Not sure. It's still a complete mystery why HTML web standards stopped at "dynamic and moving text" instead of continuing onto "dynamic and moving verticies and lines". So many years of Flash pain could have been adverted if the standard had only continued to define SVG shapes and animation...
...and SWFdec, and others...but the reason they are all "far from implementing the full spec" is that it's closed, and the new specifications in the next version of Flash will never be implemented by the open ones. Thus, Adobe will always "lead", because they are the masters of Flash, and "the others" will always follow, and perpetually be "not as good". The thing is, many sites will always be upgrading to the newer versions of Flash as well, so part of Adobe's tactic is that by getting most sites to upgrade, they will keep the Flash world fractured and Adobe Flash will always be the "reliable one that always works with every site" while Gnash and SWFdec will always be the unreliable, crappy version.
It's pretty similar to the.NET/Mono tactic too no doubt.
Most all patents are B.S.. Even old things which have tons of "prior art" are re-patented. Math shouldn't be patented any way, and in my opinion nothing should. Companies should have to use other mechanisms which help promote new products, like cooperation among companies wanting to sell them, and the fact that new products means new sales for them any way. Monetary system aside though, there will always be a want and need for improving things, collaboration largely being key, even if the reward only applies to someone else.
And they test on mice, because you can kill it and examine all the bones in detail. I'm sure they do checks of the astronaut's bones as well, but you can do much more invasive examinations of a mouse.
Ah science at it's worst, humans murdering and torturing other species and somehow justifying it on bettering themselves.
Insightful? Regardless of how you actually meant that and what you were attacking, I'll take the bait as though you were attacking Linux and/or Linux on iPads specifically.
I doubt Apple really wanted the iPad to be jailbroken in less than a day after release, nor do I think Apple expects the average computer user to jailbreak it even if certain individuals do figure out how to.
If you want Linux pre-installed on an iPad-like, or really simply a touch-screen computer, then you shouldn't be paying for some hardware and software combination and trying to jailbreak and unlock it and whatnot, you should be instead buying one with Linux pre-installed or a truly open computer which allows you to install whatever you want i.e. barebones.
If you foolishly actually expected to be able to easily install Linux or whatever you wanted to on an iPad, then you need to understand the difference between a "normal computer" i.e. "PC", and an "appliance". The difference is non-standardization at some point, locking you out on purpose. The iPad could function like a normal computer, the BIOS could look for and allow booting from a different device in order to install a new operating system like normal computers, but it has been artificially barred from doing so. The solution is to buy and support open devices which do give you this freedom, because having to install custom-tailored images to devices once, and if, you can get them unlocked is B.S.. Now, if part of the reason was due to having small embedded memory chips in the past, there's no excuse now days for that when you have tiny microSD cards with 16GBs on them, and there never was much of an excuse with Linux any way since you can have functional Linux environments (kernel and shell) as small as a few MBs, and fully graphical X environments for only what, 100 MBs? 50?
So you're saying RPM packages are more difficult to make than DEBs? I have an idea. Why not make the packages agnostic to the package managers, so you can choose the packaging format you like the best along with the manager you like the best? You know, freedom? All you have to do is load the package up with metadata to cover everyone's needs, and viola, a package that can be installed on any distro. That should help cut down on silly customized and tweaked builds of developer's software, and force the software to learn how to play nicer with other programs and come up with sane default configurations. Sure, come out with "distros" which come with certain packages pre-installed, or which slightly change this or that setting, but a lack of the freedom from a cross-distro Linux software ecosystem is going to continue to stifle Linux's progress. You'd think that kind of standardization would be at the forefront of a movement which is all about freedom and standards supposedly.
Because consumers are used to being fucked over, because they usually GET fucked over. Capitalism is directly contrary to morality. If you care about your customers, you will be replaced by the next asshole in line who is willing to fuck them over. The world then fills up with corporations like that, which slowly become more and more able to fuck them over as they become monopolies and thus the only choice, allowing their products and services to suck more, and themselves to profit more. Unless governments or other forces help to break this process, or at least don't help to promote it, it will only continue, and once these corporate monopolies go international, like they have, they can remove competition and choice from you even when you try a last ditch effort at buying products from other countries.
Your only options are protesting against the government, fighting monopolies every way you can in every form they're in (agreements between individuals, groups, or companies, as well as the monopolies themselves), or to simply not take part in the monetary system.
-1) Sue the U.S. government for allowing illegal monopolistic tactics by Microsoft to run rampant, and for those supposed to be keeping tabs on them for falling asleep at the wheel. Give citizens back their choice of software on the computers they purchase. If not Linux, at least allow a no-OS option.
...and is the result of vendor lock-in. Specifically, Microsoft locking themselves into basically ALL consumer hardware sold in stores. Why settle for an overpriced computer which is marked up simply because it caters to a niche market when it should be costing less, or why settle with a severe lack of options and models when you can have a much bigger selection if you pick a "Windows" computer and then fight off Microsoft, reject the EULA, etc, until they give you a refund for software you're not using? Of course there's no reason they can't wipe the drive for you or "invalidate" the install or whatnot.
It's one of the biggest anti-competitive anti-consumer crimes against U.S. citizens since the DMCA. Well, okay, you can probably think of lots of other big ones, but you get my point.
I would love seeing Microsoft should be sued into oblivion over such cruel anti-competitive monopolistic practices, but too many sheeple don't seem to care it seems like, they go to stores to be abused and only see what's in front of them instead of what they could have. They need to get their Interweb research skillz up to par I guess.
Mostly agreed, and one could even dream of HTPCs taking a big piece of console market share, but as mentioned earlier you'd be competing with DRMed/controlled systems which are what the consoles are for the most part, so good luck DRMing things up or finding ways of making money off non-DRMed programs or open source games. But, at least there will always be open source games regardless!
I still like dreaming about pre-paid open source gaming collaborative networks, and for programs in general, but alas lack the point A to Z knowledge.
I'm not feeling the love. Besides, you don't have to reproduce to be helpful. Try telling a scientist who studies bees that 99.999% of bees are genetic dead ends because they don't reproduce and that bees should thus no longer exist as a species and see what they have to say about that.
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I find your post an excellent reason to say "up yours ARM". A lack of standards means a lack of freedom, and ARM sounds way too unstable to be usable.
Standards (and thus competition, interoperability, and freedom) need to come first.
Anyone want to speculate why NewEgg is hiding the prices for the ones with Windows?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=EEE+1201&x=0&y=0
The polite thing would be to say that it's simply because it's "high". At least they aren't doing the reverse and hiding the price of the no-OS one.
I assume this only occurs with hardware RAID? Software RAID means you can move the drives to any machine, unlike hardware where if it dies you're left trying to find the exact same expensive controller, and from my experience reading and writing to a Linux RAID5 at full Gbs network bandwidth, CPU use was less than 1%.
If you're not running something incredibly intensive, you likely don't need hardware RAID.
doesn't cost an arm and a leg
Neither does Linux.
/., deal with it.
You're on
Seriously though, why would you do that? Fedora and Ubuntu (and I'm sure many others) both use Red Hat's Disk Utility which notifies you about failing disks and allows for very simple RAID and drive management, SMART information and surface scan tests, benchmarking, file system checks, and other things all right there.
Rock solid file server. Use it for a centralized torrent server, too, with web access.
But hey, if you want to donate money to a monopolistic unethical megacompany, that's your choice.
For his "downloaded" 720p/1080p movies...
Are you implying that they weren't actually downloaded, but instead he used some sort of magical data teleportation technology? HOLY CRAP, GIMMY!!!!!!!!!!
Yay, car analogies. Lets make it a correct one at least, shall we:
You buy a car which was advertised as having A/C. Suddenly one day after you took your car in to the dealer to have it repaired and cleaned, it comes back with the entire A/C system removed.
Yes, they removed it from the PS3 Slims, but that's no justification for doing so on the existing fatties, and I would complain too if I gave a damn about that feature, which I would if I had no other computers to use for a normal desktop and relied upon Linux on the PS3.
+1
I'd like to hear what companies and individuals are doing to stop software patents and hopefully severely cripple the USPTO as a whole, though I won't get my hopes up for the latter, but the entire thing could use obliteration or revamp.
I think what is more important though is that for individuals, it's irrelevant any way. No one can stop the sharing of information between individuals and that will apply even more strongly with patents as the Maker movement really gets going and home fabricators become more common. It's sad that businesses can't also join in all that due to the money they have painting targets on themselves because of those laws.
Why must so many laws do the exact opposite of helping the world advance as a whole? Oh yeah, so the few can profit..
Sorry, okay, the *specification* may not be closed, but a moving target isn't really a standard, and even if the standard itself is completely open and was only being extended and not completely altered or something to make it hard for anything else to reimplement it, you still face the problem I noted in my other post of Adobe releasing their program first and not the spec, as well as the limitation of being able to actually *create* Flash content. Someone please tell me why it's possible that Adobe had a monopoly on PDF for so long, and why they still have a monopoly on Flash? If it was actually a good standard, the net should be buzzing with PDF and Flash creating and viewing applications, but it isn't. Open PDF-creating software is just finally getting started really it seems, while Flash creating ones don't exist AFAIK unless they're from Adobe or are closed somehow. It may be because most programs for creating SVG graphics are using the .svg format instead of PDF, and for animations? Not sure. It's still a complete mystery why HTML web standards stopped at "dynamic and moving text" instead of continuing onto "dynamic and moving verticies and lines". So many years of Flash pain could have been adverted if the standard had only continued to define SVG shapes and animation...
...and SWFdec, and others...but the reason they are all "far from implementing the full spec" is that it's closed, and the new specifications in the next version of Flash will never be implemented by the open ones. Thus, Adobe will always "lead", because they are the masters of Flash, and "the others" will always follow, and perpetually be "not as good". The thing is, many sites will always be upgrading to the newer versions of Flash as well, so part of Adobe's tactic is that by getting most sites to upgrade, they will keep the Flash world fractured and Adobe Flash will always be the "reliable one that always works with every site" while Gnash and SWFdec will always be the unreliable, crappy version.
.NET/Mono tactic too no doubt.
It's pretty similar to the
Well hi!!!!!!! :D
Most all patents are B.S.. Even old things which have tons of "prior art" are re-patented. Math shouldn't be patented any way, and in my opinion nothing should. Companies should have to use other mechanisms which help promote new products, like cooperation among companies wanting to sell them, and the fact that new products means new sales for them any way. Monetary system aside though, there will always be a want and need for improving things, collaboration largely being key, even if the reward only applies to someone else.
And they test on mice, because you can kill it and examine all the bones in detail. I'm sure they do checks of the astronaut's bones as well, but you can do much more invasive examinations of a mouse.
Ah science at it's worst, humans murdering and torturing other species and somehow justifying it on bettering themselves.
Insightful? Regardless of how you actually meant that and what you were attacking, I'll take the bait as though you were attacking Linux and/or Linux on iPads specifically.
I doubt Apple really wanted the iPad to be jailbroken in less than a day after release, nor do I think Apple expects the average computer user to jailbreak it even if certain individuals do figure out how to.
If you want Linux pre-installed on an iPad-like, or really simply a touch-screen computer, then you shouldn't be paying for some hardware and software combination and trying to jailbreak and unlock it and whatnot, you should be instead buying one with Linux pre-installed or a truly open computer which allows you to install whatever you want i.e. barebones.
If you foolishly actually expected to be able to easily install Linux or whatever you wanted to on an iPad, then you need to understand the difference between a "normal computer" i.e. "PC", and an "appliance". The difference is non-standardization at some point, locking you out on purpose. The iPad could function like a normal computer, the BIOS could look for and allow booting from a different device in order to install a new operating system like normal computers, but it has been artificially barred from doing so. The solution is to buy and support open devices which do give you this freedom, because having to install custom-tailored images to devices once, and if, you can get them unlocked is B.S.. Now, if part of the reason was due to having small embedded memory chips in the past, there's no excuse now days for that when you have tiny microSD cards with 16GBs on them, and there never was much of an excuse with Linux any way since you can have functional Linux environments (kernel and shell) as small as a few MBs, and fully graphical X environments for only what, 100 MBs? 50?
Did that long ago, even longer if you count SAT card/account cloning.
As a Linux user, what in the hell is a "restore point"?
Roll the dice to see if I'm getting drunk!!
Microsoft doesn't have dual-boot interoperability with Linux as part of it's scope? Who woulda guessed?
So you're saying RPM packages are more difficult to make than DEBs? I have an idea. Why not make the packages agnostic to the package managers, so you can choose the packaging format you like the best along with the manager you like the best? You know, freedom? All you have to do is load the package up with metadata to cover everyone's needs, and viola, a package that can be installed on any distro. That should help cut down on silly customized and tweaked builds of developer's software, and force the software to learn how to play nicer with other programs and come up with sane default configurations. Sure, come out with "distros" which come with certain packages pre-installed, or which slightly change this or that setting, but a lack of the freedom from a cross-distro Linux software ecosystem is going to continue to stifle Linux's progress. You'd think that kind of standardization would be at the forefront of a movement which is all about freedom and standards supposedly.
Because consumers are used to being fucked over, because they usually GET fucked over. Capitalism is directly contrary to morality. If you care about your customers, you will be replaced by the next asshole in line who is willing to fuck them over. The world then fills up with corporations like that, which slowly become more and more able to fuck them over as they become monopolies and thus the only choice, allowing their products and services to suck more, and themselves to profit more. Unless governments or other forces help to break this process, or at least don't help to promote it, it will only continue, and once these corporate monopolies go international, like they have, they can remove competition and choice from you even when you try a last ditch effort at buying products from other countries.
:D
Your only options are protesting against the government, fighting monopolies every way you can in every form they're in (agreements between individuals, groups, or companies, as well as the monopolies themselves), or to simply not take part in the monetary system.
I know, I'm a positive thinker. ^^
Vive la Zeitgeist!
-1) Sue the U.S. government for allowing illegal monopolistic tactics by Microsoft to run rampant, and for those supposed to be keeping tabs on them for falling asleep at the wheel. Give citizens back their choice of software on the computers they purchase. If not Linux, at least allow a no-OS option.
or if you want to backup your machine online with Ubuntu.
Only if you want over 5GBs, since it's free up until that point, and who really wants Canonical going through their 3TBs of porn any way?
"It's a tough crowd to sell to..."
...and is the result of vendor lock-in. Specifically, Microsoft locking themselves into basically ALL consumer hardware sold in stores. Why settle for an overpriced computer which is marked up simply because it caters to a niche market when it should be costing less, or why settle with a severe lack of options and models when you can have a much bigger selection if you pick a "Windows" computer and then fight off Microsoft, reject the EULA, etc, until they give you a refund for software you're not using? Of course there's no reason they can't wipe the drive for you or "invalidate" the install or whatnot.
It's one of the biggest anti-competitive anti-consumer crimes against U.S. citizens since the DMCA. Well, okay, you can probably think of lots of other big ones, but you get my point.
I would love seeing Microsoft should be sued into oblivion over such cruel anti-competitive monopolistic practices, but too many sheeple don't seem to care it seems like, they go to stores to be abused and only see what's in front of them instead of what they could have. They need to get their Interweb research skillz up to par I guess.
Mostly agreed, and one could even dream of HTPCs taking a big piece of console market share, but as mentioned earlier you'd be competing with DRMed/controlled systems which are what the consoles are for the most part, so good luck DRMing things up or finding ways of making money off non-DRMed programs or open source games. But, at least there will always be open source games regardless!
I still like dreaming about pre-paid open source gaming collaborative networks, and for programs in general, but alas lack the point A to Z knowledge.
I'm not feeling the love. Besides, you don't have to reproduce to be helpful. Try telling a scientist who studies bees that 99.999% of bees are genetic dead ends because they don't reproduce and that bees should thus no longer exist as a species and see what they have to say about that.
Yep, if Oracle can't figure out what to do with all these great projects, they'll be letting someone else pick them up who does know how.