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Comment Official Torrent (Score 2) 193

From Other Files -- torrent, or the generated Magnet

It's still One Big File, but at least you might reduce the load on archive.org. Neighborly, y'know?

Or you could always donate (3 to 1 match until EOY) to help with the upcoming lawsuit. (Oh there'll be one, well, just because. These bits USED to be owned, and I'm sure there are some people who still think they are -- whether they truly are or not.)

Comment Re:Mac has superior model (Score 1) 829

I have hardware that's been running for over a decade, and is still working just fine.

(Can't .... resist ... Sorry, not meaning to play the one-upmanship card, but in this case I just have to.)

Just one decade? One? I've got a friend (Hi George!) who runs his local accounting software on 8080 CP/M systems with multiple 8" floppy drives. Really. (I think the media is DSDD -- LARGE amounts of storage.)

He's also got current systems to play games and do what-all with, but he's got a working accounting system that doesn't break, he knows how to use and support both the software and hardware (at the chip replacement desoldering level), and doesn't feel the need to migrate.

And, well, plus: *I* think he thinks it's just fun doing it that way.

Like people, just because they're old doesn't mean they can't work or are worthless.

Comment Re:PAR2? No, MultiPar. (Score 1) 321

Try again, but this time with subdirectories

PAR2 with subs: Multipar and alternate

I've been using it for well over a year, it works great. Was using this for a while -- it's OK, but Multipar is much better.

Or just continue to use PAR on single directories with subs placed in some type of archive (zip, 7z, tar) file.

None of these holds a candle to ZFS as a live file system, but these all work great when archiving files to DVD/BD.

Heck, I'm currently copying multiple dirs to BD and using Multipar as "only" a checksumming and renaming repair tool -- not even bothering with the file content recovery option. For that matter, I've even created a (single) disc with 300% recovery -- if I lose all of the primary files and over half of the recovery content bits, I can STILL recover the contents. (I've tested this by manually damaging the file contents. I have multiple copies in different places, too -- there are just a few static files that I do *NOT* want to lose.)

Comment Re:I want the "cloud" term to DIE. (Score 2) 152

"The cloud" just means you're putting all of that data on hard drives owned someone else you don't know.

No, you're missing the point. Not JUST. The cloud is Nifty, Wonderful, Magical Stuff, and Everyone's Using It Except You, Stupid.

Why? Because look at it from a Senior Manager's standpoint: you're offloading responsibility for control, access, and intrusion detection to the companies data "Somewhere Out There" as someone's else's responsibility. You've got an ironclad contract that even includes 9x 9's of uptime. Your data stays available to the world no matter what. Why you even make backup costs go away, with absolutely no need to ever restore. That's just one more thing off your plate, and the bean counters will LOVE you! After all, internal providers are exactly the same as the outside ones, and the latter are much cheaper. Any lawsuit issues will be fielded by Legal just like normal, so no problem there, either. It's golden!

And if your company can't say you're "in the cloud", you're obviously a stupid piddly Luddite computer company (!) that can't stay up with the times and will soon fold -- since you're not following the other rushing lemmings onwards and upwards. [at 3:49, or watch the entire thing if you need context.]

Comment Re:You are barking at the wrong tree (Score 0) 383

But don't forget about: Point 8)

Learn

How

To

Insert

White

Space

In

Your

Documents.

If all you do is write long run-on sentences, then point 9) you look like an idiot and more to the point, Point 10) no one is going to bother reading them no matter how interesting and insightful it is. You could write things all day long and even though it might be spelled rite and ain't got no many atrocious grammar missteaks, as long as no one reads it then all you've done is waste both your time and theirs. Also, you've increased global warming by breathing and expending energy while you wrote your War and Peace masterpiece and it didn't make any difference in the long run. So in other words: white space on the page is just like air in your lungs, if you don't have any white space in any or your paragraphs you should just stop breathing while you write it so that you remember not to do that. Blank space also creates a slight sense of restfulness for the eyes since you don't have a giant wall of black text staring at you that you have to parse. Instead of having a massive square of text, you might try a more artistic approach for your choo-choo (See marshall). If you just don't care though, you can write as much as you want, even try to write the Great American Novel. All you're doing though is taking low-paying jobs from a million monkeys, and now-a-days putting them on the unemployment line since they're people too. I suppose that's better than being served up as Soylent Green, though. And yes I know that in slashdot you can make things look as pretty as you want in the Comment section, but if you don't delimit them and add the internal markup, then you end up with stuff that looks a lot like this, I'm the only one still here, aren't I? Gee, this is just like back in grammar school when I was the last one picked for dodge-ball, as I couldn't dodge very well. That mean old Tommy always kept picking on me and throwing the ball as hard as he could; he even broke my arm one time and then stood over me and laughed and laughed. I hated him, I've hated him for years. He was always better than I was in almost everything, but just exactly like you he didn't bother to use white space and paragraphs while writing and ... TOMMY? TOMMY, IS THAT YOU?!!? I'm going to find out where you live and we'll just see how you like to be hit with a wrecking ball instead of a hard rubber ball.

So use white space or a wrecking ball might soon come your way. Oh, and those are all good points by the way, once you find them.

Comment And so THERE'S a new angle for the RIAA... (Score 1) 60

To Judge: Your Honor, the defendant PURPOSELY and MALICIOUSLY obtained our client's, ah-herm, music, and proceeded to produce an in-tune, harmonic, and lyrics-actually-make-sense version of her song. This Is Intolerable for the future integrity of music!

Just THINK of the embarrassment and harassment endured by our client as someone rendered a better melodic performance than her. For Lady Gaga, this corruption of her musical interpretation is outrageous and must be stopped at all costs to uphold the honor of our client.



And besides that, we're not getting a cut of anything from the new version.

Comment WHO-HOO!!! (Score 1) 161

... if the drone would be smart enough to land on pavement or miss entirely and drop packages on a customer roof or balcony

I've *ALWAYS* wanted to call up Domino's / Pizza Hut and say, "I'm traveling down the freeway -- deliver a large pizza to me." And with a (fast enough) drone flying beside me, now I can!

Finding me in real time is no problem anymore -- just ask my phone's GPS or bug(!) the NSA. I'm sure those taps in the data center are all BI-directional.

After all, what's a few packet swaps between friends?

Comment Re:Cool Story Bro Time (Score 1) 312

The Details of an ANAL FONT

Go here instead -- it's meta and safe.

I went there to see if it was the real tubgirl, or a clone of goatse, or what. Tubgirl seems to have changed position a little from when I saw her last decade. Hopefully it'll be another decade or three before I see here again. Now I'll have to start drinking heavily again just to get that out of my head -- sigh...

The iGOOGLES! They do NOTHING!

Comment Re:Teaching programmer? (Score 2) 381

the only documented bias that exist these days is against male students ... and it is a bias reinforced by initiatives like this.

Bias? Why there's no bias here -- just my own individual thoughts, reinforced by friends who think as I do. Away with thee, uncouth non-PC heathen!

Here's all of the support *I* had growing up. (Me, by myself, a coupon, and $5 of my parent's money. (I suspect -- I really don't remember.) The other "support" I had was my parents letting me have time to fool with it. That, of course, led to other things.

If you're really interested, you'll learn. If not, you won't. Why would you want to coerce people into doing a job they don't like? (Just for the money -- really? You're/they're that desperate?) Now force-introducing them to different jobs is a whole different story. I presume most people wouldn't like most jobs, but that's still a good thing -- you cut down on where to look for things you DO like.

All that being said, I posit that I'm a competent programmer, even if I still don't (want to know) Java.

Comment ST3: Keep Spock Dead. SW4: Han Shot First. (Score 2) 211

ROT-13: Tnyyvserl Oheaf.

Quit REWRITING "History" .... damnit!

Last EP of Newhart: ... ended with a scene in which Newhart wakes up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette, who had played Emily, his wife from The Bob Newhart Show. He realizes (in a satire of a famous plot element in the television series Dallas a few years earlier) that the entire eight-year Newhart series had been a single nightmare of Dr. Bob Hartley's, provoked by "eating too much Japanese food before going to bed."

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