Comment Is anyone still surprised by this? (Score 1) 898
After more than a decade of codified nanny-state crap of this very sort over there, is anyone still genuinely shocked by these examples of their stupidity in action?
Comment This is different from SETI@Home...how? (Score -1) 136
Seriously, why is this news?
Comment Live CD (Score 1) 622
Most distributions offer a LiveCD option that can be run from the disc (or USB stick) without installing to the hard drive.
I prefer Fedora 14 or Ubuntu 10.10, but that's just a personal preference. Functionally, they aren't very dissimilar.
Comment Re:Too fucking bad.. (Score 1) 502
This is probably one of the douchiest opinions I've seen voiced here, and that's saying something. Your lack of humanity is just appalling.
Others have already made the common-sense rebuttals vis-a-vis proportionate response, lack of actual harm inflicted, unlikelihood of danger to society, etc, so I won't belabor those points.
People like you need to step back and take stock of your philosophy on life and human society, because you're dangerously close to a belief that we're interchangeable automatons gliding through life on inflexible etched rails.
Others have already made the common-sense rebuttals vis-a-vis proportionate response, lack of actual harm inflicted, unlikelihood of danger to society, etc, so I won't belabor those points.
People like you need to step back and take stock of your philosophy on life and human society, because you're dangerously close to a belief that we're interchangeable automatons gliding through life on inflexible etched rails.
Outlook Plug-In Keeps Tone of Your Email In Check 119
Meshach writes "A new plug-in for Outlook will warn you if an email you are about to send is 'too emotional.' Basically the plug-in scans the email for emotions such as elation, humiliation, excitement and fear. A user can set how much emotion they want to allow in their messages and if exceeded the threshold a warning will pop up."
Copyright and the Games Industry 94
A recent post at the Press Start To Drink blog examined the relationship the games industry has with copyright laws. More so than in some other creative industries, the reactions of game companies to derivative works are widely varied and often unpredictable, ranging anywhere from active support to situations like the Chrono Trigger: Crimson Echoes debacle. Quoting:
"... even within the gaming industry, there is a tension between IP holders and fan producers/poachers. Some companies, such as Epic and Square Enix, remain incredibly protective of their Intellectual Property, threatening those that use their creations, even for non-profit, cultural reasons, with legal suits. Other companies, like Valve, seem to, if not embrace, at least tolerate, and perhaps even tacitly encourage this kind of fan engagement with their work. Lessig suggests, 'The opportunity to create and transform becomes weakened in a world in which creation requires permission and creativity must check with a lawyer.' Indeed, the more developers and publishers that take up Valve's position, the more creativity and innovation will emerge out of video game fan communities, already known for their intense fandom and desire to add to, alter, and re-imagine their favorite gaming universes."
Comment Re:Time to take out the old laser... (Score 1) 389
My thought was lower-tech...a moderate caliber, high-powered rifle would do the job nicely. I'm thinking .30-06, which should work well on traffic enforcement cameras, too.
Submission + - Design directives for big home RAID?
The Last Gunslinger writes: I'll preface my question by saying that I have a lot of data that I'd like to keep online...in the storage sense of the word, not the interweb sense. By a lot, I mean terabytes.
My current RAID setup is hardware based, and is on its second iteration. The controller is an old MegaRAID PCI32 4xATA/100 device from LSI. The first build used 4x250GB ATA drives, configured as a single logical RAID5 volume. The current build uses 4x500GB ATA drives, setup as two logical volumes: one 16GB RAID0 for the OS (Ubuntu Intrepid), and one 1.5TB RAID5.
I'm down to the last 50GB of that volume, and that's even after I've been shuffling data to various offline drives lying around my office...probably close to another TB or so.
As I prepare to rebuild my storage array, I'm looking to change several aspects. First off, the write performance on the RAID5 volume is bollocks...fast writes for the first 64MB, but sustained writes show the rate drops to ~4MB/sec. Most files I handle are CD ISO sized or larger, so this is a big issue. As I'm intending to use SATA-II drives this next go-round, I'm ditching the LSI controller and going to software RAID.
My questions to the community are around building and partitioning an array of this size. Assuming I use 5 or 6 drives of 1TB capacity...
My current RAID setup is hardware based, and is on its second iteration. The controller is an old MegaRAID PCI32 4xATA/100 device from LSI. The first build used 4x250GB ATA drives, configured as a single logical RAID5 volume. The current build uses 4x500GB ATA drives, setup as two logical volumes: one 16GB RAID0 for the OS (Ubuntu Intrepid), and one 1.5TB RAID5.
I'm down to the last 50GB of that volume, and that's even after I've been shuffling data to various offline drives lying around my office...probably close to another TB or so.
As I prepare to rebuild my storage array, I'm looking to change several aspects. First off, the write performance on the RAID5 volume is bollocks...fast writes for the first 64MB, but sustained writes show the rate drops to ~4MB/sec. Most files I handle are CD ISO sized or larger, so this is a big issue. As I'm intending to use SATA-II drives this next go-round, I'm ditching the LSI controller and going to software RAID.
My questions to the community are around building and partitioning an array of this size. Assuming I use 5 or 6 drives of 1TB capacity...
- Should I look for a mobo that supports RAID in the BIOS, or stick with the more portable OS-based approach?
- How should I slice up the total array into logical volumes?
- Is there any logical volume size limit I need to observe?
- I currently use EXT3...should I be looking at another FS?
Thanks!
Comment Windows-Live-searched? (Score 1) 179
In his blog about troubleshooting spinlocks in his wife's PC, Mark talks about how he "Windows-Live-searched" some term he needed to identify.
A bit later, he uses the term again and remarks parenthetically about how it "rolls off the tongue."
After forcing my gorge down, I had to ask the question: was he making an obsequious dig at the stupidity of the messaging terminology used by MS, or is he really fellating Ballmer & co.?
A bit later, he uses the term again and remarks parenthetically about how it "rolls off the tongue."
After forcing my gorge down, I had to ask the question: was he making an obsequious dig at the stupidity of the messaging terminology used by MS, or is he really fellating Ballmer & co.?
Submission + - THG pubishes detailed lab review of AMD Spider (tomshardware.com)
The Last Gunslinger writes: Tom's Hardware Guide has published detailed results of their laboratory analyses of AMD's recently released Spider platform, including the Phenom 9500 and 9600 running on 790FX chipsets. Amongst other interesting details, the 2.4GHz Phenom 9700 has been pushed back to Q1 2008. The 2.3GHz Phenom 9600 benchmarks on average 13.5% lower than Intel's Q6600 quad-core CPU...and the MSRP for the Phenom is about 13.6% less as well. Much is made of the AMD OverDrive utility, by which the THG labs were able to OC the Spider platform by 25% (3.0GHz) using air cooling alone.
