Comment Re:dban followed by smartctl (Score 1) 348
I'm interested in using your technique, but I don't understand it well enough to give it a go on someone else's data. Can you explain it a bit please?
I'm interested in using your technique, but I don't understand it well enough to give it a go on someone else's data. Can you explain it a bit please?
That seems impossible to truly do. They are mutually exclusive - to accept one requires a sacrifice in understanding or acceptance in the other.
I understand that some people are willing to do that; I however, am not.
Also, what Obarthelemy said.
I had a laptop drive right in the middle of booting into Linux once. That was cool. Typed in my password, boomheadcrash.
"What was that noise? Why is it taking so long to load?"
I have no idea if the B is bad or not, but I'll keep an eye out as more of my friends invariably buy it. Perhaps we all have A series? -
-Red
Take a look at prices, by now the DIR-655 should be cheaper - we've had ours for over a year now I'm guessing.
Anything but the highest, most brutal usage brings it down. You do need to tune your Vuze settings - if you have more than 1 computer downloading torrents at a atime (try to avoid that...), setting each of their Max Simultaneous Connections to 100 and testing should work. Drop it by 25 if you're still having trouble.
Don't forget, wireless devices cannot send and receive at the same time. The DIR-655 is MIMO (IIRC), so it minimizes the drawbacks, but any individual device can still only send or receive at a time, so torrents are kinda a nightmare for wireless in general.
-Red
They may not be selling the cheap one anymore, which would be good, because it was vastly inadequate for any real N-style usage.
Redstone can be used to power items with "electricity", like a Minecart Booster Rail, among tons of other things. Some of them may require a mod to facilitate (the Better Than Wolves mod adds mechanical power to the game, for example).
-Red
Right now, there's no precedent that a government organisation could effectively deal with a situation like this without breaking everything. Is it ok if they do a drug bust, and 1 out of 23 innocent people die? Collateral damage by the government has to be mitigated as much as possible.
I'm not saying that we can't trust the government to do anything. I think the FBI is doing a good job so far, and I'm looking forward to their results. But caution on the part of commentators, I think, is a good idea. It's far from a simple, surefire action. It is likely it will be, but there are variables that they can't control for.
Oversight of government actions is what is critical - not avoiding government action or permitting excessive government action.
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