Comment Re:Rule 263 (Score 1) 179
Never allow doubt to tarnish your lust for wealth
Which rule of acquisition is that?
Never allow doubt to tarnish your lust for wealth
Which rule of acquisition is that?
Exactly. A quick look at his little history (especially with Yahoo a few years back) shows that he's only in it to score some meat from a dying company while the victim is still breathing. Notice that he doesn't really go after healthy, growing companies - only those which show signs of being in serious trouble.
Netflix doesn't seem to be showing signs of trouble, or serious trouble. They had a big bump in the road with Quickster, but seem to be all stream ahead now.
Lets you use any SSD as a cache in front of another filesystem.
It would be niftier if it would let you use it as a block cache in front of any filesystem, instead of just one located on a specially-prepared partition. dm-cache will do this but isn't up to date.
Maybe Flashcache would be a better choice for some. I use this as a read-cache on several VPS nodes and the results are impressive.
What Wikipedia doesn't tell you is that Skynet had humble beginnings as a network clock...
Bow to your Cyberdyn Overlords.
Any idea how much bandwidth this would involve?
About 1kbit on average, so nothing really. I've provided a pool server for a couple of years now, you have to run ntpd anyway, might as well join it to the pool if it is not going anywhere (IPwise) any time soon.
And when that happens, you are no longer in a 'free Democracy', if the USA was ever one to begin with.
Why would you ever think it was? The United States of America has always been a Republic.
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide a test load.