Star Trek: Make It So: Leadership Lessons from Star Trek: The Next Generation It's a good discussion of management techniques.

Trust, but verify.

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I come from the days when it was the programmer, not the compiler, that optimized the code. So nowadays, I let the compiler do its thing, but I do a lot of double-checking of the generated code.

I've thought the same thing, especially since I saw the delay go from nearly no delay to an hour delay from one month to the next. There was no "exponential Increase", it was more like a step function. That is why I think the update delay was intentional in order to push people off XP.

Perhaps you should chat with the author of the article. He seems to make that equation.

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Maybe he did it just to grab headlines, or maybe he did it for other reasons. Who knows his intent?

The bottom line is that page hits = $$

He got a lot of page hits from the story here on /.

Yeah, the writer seems to think that knowing what you need is a big problem.

HTTPS only ensures security between the browser and the web server. HTTPS is not designed to ensure security of what the browser decides to store locally.

Exactly. It is a shame that the writer does not seem to be able to understand the process of picking a vendor appropriate for the task at hand.

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What does seem absurd, however, is how magazines seem to create issues to write about.

That is not as difficult as it may sound. And it is not a question of "sensitivity". The paper bag does not generate heat, while a small animal does.

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So big deal - the car has an infrared camera on board.

Ahhh... a sample size of one. I understand now.

You state this without any substantiation as if it were a fact.

No assumption on my part. I did start with good files. :)

That's not how I read the comment. From the OP:

With the quantity of data (~2 TB at present), it's not really practical for us to examine every one of these periodically so we can manually restore them from a different copy.

That sound to me as if he wants to check the files from time to time and locate ones that have gone bad.

I use checksums to check for bitrot.

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Once a week, I use openssl to calculate a checksum for each file; and I write that checksum, along with the path/filename, to a file. The next week, I do the same thing, and I compare (diff) the prior checksum file with the current checksum file.

With about a terabyte of data, I've not seen any bitrot yet.

Long term, I plan to move to ZFS, as the server's disk capacity will be rising significantly.

The Filter Bubble

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ya need to move beyond it.

You are the problem.

So the question remains, what do you want to do to solve the problem. Technical people like to solve problems, why can't they seem to solve this one?

... that the /. crowd has lived up to the stereotype of the male-dominated computer industry. Many of the comments on this thread are little more than unprofessional and despicably sexist.

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And people wonder why there are not more women in the computer industry.

I wonder how the tally of the browser agent strings for those who took this survey compares to the votes cast? I expect there to be some differences, but the overall comparison would be interesting....