chiantii - Slashdot User

Comment DIY? Why... (Score 1) 260

by chiantii on Friday May 04, 2012 @12:24PM (#39891573) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: DIY NAS For a Variety of Legacy Drives?

Synology products are so cheap these days, and synology has a proprietary SHR (synology hybrid raid) structure that allows you to mix and match any kind of drive you want, from 100 gigs all the way to 3tb as you mentioned with redundancy built in - consider it a modified raid 5 that allows you to mix and match drives from different sizes and vendors.

Comment ziphone ftw (Score 3, Informative) 379

by chiantii on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @04:54PM (#23005234) Attached to: Apple Error Leaves iPhone Developers In the Lurch

This whole thing can be fixed with ziphone. I was able to restore my phone back to 1.1.4 in less than a minute. simply downgrade you bootloader and you're golden.

Sudo vs. Root 327

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 21, 2006 @11:37AM from the security-comes-first dept.

lessthan0 writes "In Mac OS X, the root account is disabled by default. The first user account created is added to the admin group and that user can use the sudo command to execute other commands as root. The conventional wisdom is that sudo is the most secure way to run root commands, but a closer look reveals a picture that is not so clear." The article is about OSX but the debate is a little older ;)

NVIDIA Launches New SLI Physics Technology 299

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 20, 2006 @04:07PM from the volunteer-rendering dept.

Thomas Hines writes "NVIDIA just launched a new SLI Physics technology. It offloads the physics processing from the CPU to the graphics card. According to the benchmark, it improves the frame rate by more than 10x. Certainly worth investing in SLI if it works."

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