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Comment Re:It's a bit more complex than this article... (Score 1) 159

I was reading that the ARM chips support Big and Little endian. Is this selected by the OS or by the firmware? Also does this make a difference for compiled software, such as a binary for a Linux application?

It depends on which ARM... Older armv4, you could load a BE or LE kernel (your userland would have to match the kernel)... For newer versions, you're mostly stuck with LE.

Comment Re:What? (Score 4, Insightful) 594

To me it just doesn't make logical sense to have a $50/hour doctor doing appendectomies when a $25/hour tech could do the job just as well.

what are you smoking? there's a damn good reason you don't have people with a bachelor's degree doing surgery! (nurses make $25-$30/hour) there are so many things that can go wrong, so many complications, so many drug interactions and allergies...

your example only holds if the technician is working on a live circuit where people DIE if he messes up!

Comment Re:HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool (Score 1) 252

While I love me some /dev/zero, zeroing out most flash chips just forces an erase next time you want to write a block. Most flash starts out at 1 and write operations only write the zero. Smart chips don't erase unless they have to. There's also wear leveling to account for. What you really need is a utility to tell the flash to erase itself.

Comment Re:2+ TB Hard Drives (Score 1) 952

The MBR should've been tossed a long time ago. Extented partitions are an annoyance I have to deal with on a continual basis. On the other hand, I'm used to the MBR way of doing things. I setup a 6TB array the other day and kept trying to get fdisk -l to show me the size of my partition. What the heck... Every time I ran it I was annoyed that it was showing my 2TB. I knew from a technical standpoint that fdisk doesn't support GUID, but my fingers were so used to typing that command to see the partition size.

Comment 2+ TB Hard Drives (Score 1) 952

What I want to know is... why are hard drives stuck at 2TB? Did we reach some theoretical limit? Does the laws of physics start to fail at higher data densities? Don't get me wrong, I love my 2TB hard drive, but I want more!

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