Comment Re:NIMFY (Score 1) 136
That's strange... make installkernel does back it up to
That's strange... make installkernel does back it up to
I managed to hit this, accidentally doing an installkernel with a custom kernel config from a 9-STABLE tree just after doing a binary update to 10-RC3. The 9 kernel couldn't mount the 10 ZFS root, and I then had to find a bootable 10 CD (it turns out the machine I did this on can't boot from USB) to reinstall the 10 kernel.
Couldn't you just have booted from kernel.old?
...that's the one that's a bit like Linnux but not quite, right?
Why would it want to be Linux? Linux is the one that's not quite BSD.
I've been using 10.0-PRELEASE for most things here for a while and it works well... Watch the package system change though if you're upgrading a really old system and used to just using things like portupgrade, I'm still trying to get one of my old 8.something boxes ports all updated properly, though that's probably mostly my fault for being sloppy and not reading ports/UPDATING carefully enough
Thank you. A thoughtful, concise Anonymous post... You've just restored some of my faith in the AC.
So if someone doesn't have your level of expertise on a single isolated topic you automatically dismiss this person as unworthy of your company?
The Anonymous Cowards? Yes.
Please continue the technical discussion. Sorry for the noise.
Actually, that was a reply to THIS post, not the original question posted by timothy...
I really hope this discussion provides good answers, with practical solutions for Windows, IOS, and Linux... I think that this is the sort of thing that everyone could really use!
Are there cloud storage providers that can do this for the above example of an approx. 2 TB data set, and provide complete security?
I still think questions about basic data integrity, checksums, parity, ECC on disks etc. should be completely unnecessary and most certainly already be second nature to the slashdot crowd, but I guess I'm just living in the past.
Thanks for immediately jumping down my throat, though
What's wrong with WordPerfect for DOS? I use WordPerfect 5.0 almost every day. It is incredibly efficient, even works through a telnet connection (minus the graphical preview), and just plain works! I'll bet I can properly layout pretty much any type of document in 5.0 faster than you can using any GUI-based word processor / typesetter program, be it a more recent GUI WordPerfect (which I also use as my GUI-based WP, BTW) with strong typesetting-style heritage or some piece of utter garbage like MS Word.
Just because it's old doesn't mean it isn't good!
Excellent question
No, it's not! This is supposed to be a nerd site for people with at least SOME kind of technical ability (or at least it USED to be...) You're telling me you don't even know how to store your files?!! Do us all a favor and please stop visiting slashdot. Thank you!
If your physical media is dying, you'll get hardware errors so restore from a(nother) backup and replace the media.
If your files are being corrupted, what kind of crappy filesystem are you using to store these precious memories?!!
It had to be strapped to giant nonresuable rockets to get into space
Actually, they retrieved the booster rockets after takeoff and rebuilt and reloaded them for re-use.
This guy should take some flying lessons, if this whole thing hasn't soured him on the idea of small planes.
Actually, in one of the linked videos he says he already had a free lesson offered from a friend but hadn't been able to go up a few weeks ago when originally planned and was waiting to reschedule, essentially...
These vehicles will seat two, three of four people...
I'm not quite sure how to parse that one and/or do the math. Three of four people!? Is that like some kind of musical chairs in the car at each stop and someone rides up on the roof with the solar panels? Sign me up! Sounds like fun as long as I'm the driver!
So you freely gave your pictures to someone who turned out to be a douche-bag? Wow... That's never happened before...
It's 2013, we must support mobile devices at the same time as the high-resolution desktops.
Then go back to what HTML is supposed to be, simplify the site and let the browser do what it was originally intended to do! Stop trying to second guess everything and force a layout that may or not fit the end device! This is getting as ridiculous as the early web days when everyone starting to return completely different page content for Netscape vs IE, etc. although that was caused mostly by braindead browser choices, etc. (Poor bastardized Mosaic... Ah, Mosaic, which I actually liked back in the days of my bedroom 286 network booting Windows 3 over a SLIP serial connection from the FreeBSD version 1 box downstairs with the $200/mo dedicated 33.6K dial-up connection), but I digress....
Anyone can make an omelet with eggs. The trick is to make one with none.
