Comment NOT SPAM (Score 1) 2
How is this SPAM?
Submission + - Google Offers Encrypted Web Search
Pickens writes: "Last year Google announced making SSL the default setting for all Gmail users and today Google announced they're gradually rolling out the ability to search more securely at https://www.google.com/ to protect search terms and search results pages from being intercepted by a third party on your network. The service includes a modified logo to help indicate that you’re searching using SSL and the release comes with a “beta” label because it currently covers only the core Google web search product and because search over SSL may be slightly slower than Google's regular search. Two caveats: HTTPS only protects against eavesdropping. It doesn't prevent Google from logging your searches, or prevent a government or civil litigant from obtaining your records from Google. Second, clicking on any of the web results will probably take you out of SSL mode. Google also offers SSL as an option with its Calendar, Docs, and Sites services, and just recently, it added SSL to Google Web History and Google Bookmarks, after a security vulnerability was found in the search personalization service that taps Web History. Google hopes to add https to other services as well says The Register. A Google spokesman indicated it plans to make SSL encryption the default for search once they better understand how it affects users' search experience. "We expect that encrypted SSL search will slow down Google searches by a small degree, and we don’t like the idea of rolling this out to everyone before we’re able to test the performance effects and gather feedback from our users.""
Submission + - Declustered RAID - the Future of RAID Storage? (enterprisestorageforum.com)
storagedude writes: With disk drive capacity improving at a much faster rate than performance and reliability, RAID rebuild times keep getting longer, increasing the risk that additional failures will lead to data loss. Interestingly, some storage vendors are turning to an 18-year-old concept to keep RAID relevant: Declustered RAID, which was first described in a 1992 paper by RAID pioneer Garth Gibson and Mark Holland.
Not surprisingly, Gibson is at the forefront of the movement:
"Gibson says Panasas' parity declustering turns RAID from a local operation of one controller and a few disks into a parallel algorithm using all the controllers and disks in the storage pool. With pools of tens to hundreds of individual disk arrays, parity declustering enables recovery to be tens to hundreds of times faster. And it spreads the work so thinly per disk that concurrent user work sees far less interference from recovery.
Not surprisingly, Gibson is at the forefront of the movement:
"Gibson says Panasas' parity declustering turns RAID from a local operation of one controller and a few disks into a parallel algorithm using all the controllers and disks in the storage pool. With pools of tens to hundreds of individual disk arrays, parity declustering enables recovery to be tens to hundreds of times faster. And it spreads the work so thinly per disk that concurrent user work sees far less interference from recovery.
Comment Re:"And I laugh at how you are supposed to see..." (Score 1) 511
wow, best buy had a magic version of Avatar that was recorded in RGBY !! Neato, i would LOVE to see how they got a brdvd to play that.
^ ID10T ^
Comment Aborted BIOS update Non-Intel MB - Need Floppy (Score 1) 472
I needed a floppy on Friday. I actually have a box of them, but I didn't have a drive anymore.
Long story short I was updating the BIOS on an old Shuttle XPC
(Last ditch effort to get it to run reliably before throwing it out the window).
After a failed flash, the machine was effectively "bricked" until such a time I could get an actual floppy drive installed to to a recovery boot.
It seems the only way for this old hardware to recover from a botched BIOS update was to boot from a real floppy.
I tried countless USB sticks formatted as floppies and even an actual USB floppy drive all to no avail.
The Shuttle XPC in question is now in the dumpster.
Long story short I was updating the BIOS on an old Shuttle XPC
(Last ditch effort to get it to run reliably before throwing it out the window).
After a failed flash, the machine was effectively "bricked" until such a time I could get an actual floppy drive installed to to a recovery boot.
It seems the only way for this old hardware to recover from a botched BIOS update was to boot from a real floppy.
I tried countless USB sticks formatted as floppies and even an actual USB floppy drive all to no avail.
The Shuttle XPC in question is now in the dumpster.
Comment Try something different (Score 1) 2
try this:
man rsync
As far as scheduling the "sync" events, there is any number of ways it could be done.
For you I would suggest something highly convoluted and complex.
try this:
man cron
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I sure hope this helps you as much as it did me.
Comment Re:Can't see the first comment here... (Score 1) 4
Neither can I.
That is about the most rinky-dink excuse for a "HA" setup I have heard of.
Woman Claims Wii Fit Caused Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome
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Amanda Flowers always liked her Wii Fit but now she can't get enough of it. Amanda claims a fall from her balance board damaged a nerve and has left her suffering from persistent sexual arousal syndrome. From the article: "The catering worker said: 'It began as a twinge down below before surging through my body. Sometimes it built up into a trembling orgasm.' A doctor diagnosed her with persistent sexual arousal syndrome due to a damaged nerve."
Submission + - FCC's Has No Rights To Enforce Net Neutrality (startribune.com) 1
Comment Re:Not everyone is an Apple whore (Score 1) 532
This type of interface has existed since the very first digital mixer..
Sorry, it has not.
Show me one digital mixer under $100,000 that has a multitouch interface (I am hedging my bet that there actually IS one). THAT is the difference. The importance of touch, along with the raw speed of the UI and repertoire of "gestures" cannot be underestimated.
Physical motor-driven faders are multitouch
Gestures, UI speed and touch quality, however... I'm pretty sure that you're right that the iPad will pretty much rock here, probably even within a VNC client...
If I had the cash, my mixer alone would be spread across 3 30" monitors (this is, coincidentally, why I'm eyeing ATI's Eyefinity setups with interest), with another 3 stacked vertically for tracking... oh, and another three for effects.
I'd rather have 8 iPads, arrayed in portrait mode, 4 across, and 2 "rows". Seriously.
Or do you guys just want the touch interface instead of point-and-click?
DING! DING! DING!!! YES!!!! It is FAR quicker (and more intuitive) to just DIRECTLY INTERACT with an on-screen control than to MANEUVER a pointer to a control, hope that you click in the right place (a real problem with "rotary" on-screen controls!!!), and THEN do whatever.
But why would you use an iPad if all you want is a touchscreen interface? For the same price as those 8 iPads, you could probably get a single touchscreen with 10x the resolution area and 8x the actual area of the iPad... I'm sure the $500 for one iPad alone would buy you a halfway decent capacitive touchscreen (although resistive/WACOM with a stylus would probably be better for stuff like this, IMO).
This would be a lot less hassle than VNCing in, and you'd have the added advantage of being able to use a real keyboard when you need one instead of hunting and pecking on a virtual keyboard...
You know there are digital controllers with actual faders and pots and stuff, made especially for use with DAWs, right?
Yes. And those controls are NOT LABELED; and are of FINITE number and type. Are you REALLY trying to argue AGAINST a more "informative" and flexible interface?
I like grabbing a handful of faders as much as the next guy; but you just can't beat FLEXIBLE. The on-screen "virtual front-panel" concept as expressed in every modern DAW and Plugin is halfway there. But a decently fast TOUCH interface (that doesn't cost an arm and a leg!) takes that concept and actually makes it USEFUL. That's what the actual advantages would be in a studio, or live, situation.
What isn't finite about 1024x768px of screen resolution? Scrolling over to the next fader bank is _exactly_ what those physical faders+pots interfaces do... they're usually labeled either with an LCD directly on the device, or with a small window that's displayed somewhere on a monitor attached to the DAW... ideally right under the mixer.
All in all, I'm beginning to get where you're going with this. It's more than a remote control: Using the iPad as a mixing device opens up the whole world of Touchscreen mixing to anyone with $500 and some time on their hands.
My counter-argument: Spend $500 on a touchscreen and have the same experience in bigger and better
You've actually inspired me to try this with my Tablet PC
BTW, your English is quite good. FYI, In the USA, it is generally "studio" (recording space) and "control room" (mixing room).
Should be better, considering it was my first language about 15 years ago
But that's another story
Slashdot Discussions Now Include Roulette Video Chat 192
It's been a long time coming, but we're pleased to announce the latest updates to our discussion software. We've been paying a lot of attention to what other websites have been doing in the space, and as we are only too happy to steal good ideas, from now on all Slashdot stories will now be accompanied by a Roulette-style webcam video chat. In testing, we've discovered that Slashdot users are amazingly likely to engage in informative, troll-free discussion when presented with the video image of one of their peers. This new addition to Slashdot nicely rounds out and improves the discussion experience for all users.
Submission + - World's smallest superconductor discovered (thinq.co.uk)
arcticstoat writes: One of the barriers to the development of nanoscale electronics has potentially been eliminated, as scientists have discovered the world's smallest superconductor. Made up of four pairs of molecules, and measuring just 0.87nm, the superconductor could potentially be used as a nanoscale interconnect in electronic devices, but without the heat and power disspiation problems associated with standard metal conductors.
Comment Re:Sorry kids (Score 5, Funny) 739
My felony record says I'd straighten your ass out for thinking you'd even stand a chance of being a RLTG versus the ITG you're currently portraying, and you'd only bend over and take it. Especially with a name like ClownPenis! What, you gotta inflate your junk first?
Dear felon, Unless you are also rwven, WTF are you doing even responding to me? I clearly "QUOTED" the comment I was replying to. That comment didn't belong to you. You are attacking my junk unprovoked.
Comment Re:Sorry kids (Score -1, Flamebait) 739
"full capabilities of an hdtv?" I have a 24" monitor on my desk in the next room with higher resolution than my 1080P in the living room. The "full capabilities" of HDTVs were outdated years before they hit store shelves.
That said, you can surf the web right on the PS3 w/out linux at all.
You can play emulated games on the PS3 as well, or you can just use your desktop or laptop computer. They sell them on PSN all the time.
That said, You're a tool smarty pants. Are you devils advocate, dickhead, MS FanBoi or a combination? You are s snippy snide "little shit" who I would punch in the face IRL.
Comment Re:Misleading (Score 1, Interesting) 178
It's more than that. According to the post at https://lists.dns-oarc.net/pipermail/dns-operations/2010-March/005266.html someone is actively spoofing DNS replies to DNS request packets bound for entire class A and B net ranges.
The only way someone is going to "actively spoofing DNS replies" is via a sophisticated MITM attack. The problem here, is that some idiot forgot to keep his "root.hints" file current on his DHCP published name server. A "firewall" has always been understood as a bastion host and/or a packet filter. Breaking DNS doesn't break routing. The inverse may not be true, but routing doesn't depend on DNS.
