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Comment Someone mashup... (Score 1) 555

by koali on Tuesday June 05, 2007 @02:11PM (#19400557) Attached to: RAID Vs. JBOD Vs. Standard HDDs

* Drobo
* ZFS
* Starfish Distributed Filesystem
* NSLU or one of those fancy small boxes with USB ports
* Openfiler

What do we want.

A small appliance that you plug into your network. You can add plug in USB drives (or your preferred interface). The box automatically detects the new drive and expands the flexible RAID arrays (see Drobo), giving you redundancy with the minimal overhead hit. Add a nice OS that lets you create block devices SAN-style, create shares, etc. Use ZFS for all its nice features. Use a Distributed FS so that you can have several of those devices in your network for added security.

Paypal Won't Release Funds To Slain Soldier's Family 337

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday January 10, 2007 @09:42PM from the why-think-when-you-have-policy dept.

robustyoungsoul writes "Popular sports blog Deadspin established the Adam Knox Fund for the purpose of raising money in honor of the fallen soldier who was killed in Iraq. They took the donations through a PayPal account. Turns out now, however, PayPal will not release the money due to the way the account was set up on their end."

Microsoft Insists IE7 is Standards Compliant 389

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday August 16, 2006 @10:01AM from the believe-when-it-renders-stuff-right dept.

ReadWriteWeb writes "Microsoft's Chris Wilson, the Group Program Manager for IE addresses the issue of whether IE7 is CSS and Web standards compliant. Last week a Slashdot post claimed that IE7 was basically non-compliant with CSS standards. But Chris Wilson says that isn't true and that standards improvements is a big part of IE7. He admits that there were a ton of bugs from IE6 that have caused web developers a lot of pain, but says that IE7 will address those and be standards compliant. He goes as far to say that IE7 supports Web standards even at the expense of more backwards compatibility."

Comment Re:Brand new look? (Score 1) 229

by Wonko42 on Thursday July 27, 2006 @11:19PM (#15796363) Attached to: Google Announces Open Source Repository

SourceForge is littered with ads. Why not whine about that? Those ads are actually there right now. Google's are hypothetical and in the future.

Even if they do throw some ads on the site, what's the big deal? Are you so far behind the times that you don't have AdBlock installed?

Gamer's Kryptonite 72

Posted by Zonk on Monday July 03, 2006 @03:22PM from the truly-bad-gaming dept.

1up has a feature, in honor of the excellent Superman Returns, discussing the unfortunate history of Superman licensed games across the many consoles. The worst is, of course, Superman 64. From the article: "Superman 64 isn't completely without redeeming features. It serves as an invaluable object lesson in how not to make a videogame. Try to build your characters with more than three polygons. Do not pad out your game by forcing players to fly through rings at two miles an hour in between each stage. Do not make your superheroes less physically imposing than a one-legged, asthmatic kitten with a concussion."

Windows Nag Windows to Counter Piracy 548

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 26, 2006 @12:03PM from the pirate-vein-rupture dept.

Vicegrip writes "Microsoft is enhancing its Genuine Advantage program in the US, Australia, UK, Malaysia and NZ to now include persistent nag screens to remind that your version of Windows is not licensed. These nag screens will keep appearing until you license your version of Windows or, presumably, convince Microsoft they've made a mistake."

Website Accessibility a Legal Issue? 218

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday March 22, 2006 @06:24PM from the possible-consequences-if-it-is dept.

geekwithsoul asks: "Target is being sued because its website is not usable by the sight-impaired. While this story from the San Francisco Chronicle is from February, I've seen surprising little coverage of it in either mainstream or tech-focused media. Is the threat of legal action the only really effective way to get companies to create accessible (and thus standard-compliant) websites?"

Comment OOG SPEECHLESS!!! (Score 5) 232

by OOG_THE_CAVEMAN on Thursday July 26, 2001 @06:48PM (#2190268) Attached to: Iceman Murdered by Arrow in the Back

OOG ALWAYS WONDER WHAT HAPPEN TO COUSIN THARG SINCE HE DISAPPEAR IN MOUNTAIN!!! OOG THINK THARG FREEZE TO DEATH OR EATEN BY MAMOUTH BUT NOW ANGRY TO LEARN THARG MURDERED!!!

OOG THINK CAVEMAN GROK BEHIND MURDER (SINCE OJ SIMPSON NOT ALIVE AT THAT TIME AND USE KNIFE INSTEAD OF ARROW), BUT OOG PROBABLY HAVE TO HIRE UNFROZEN CAVEMAN LAWYER CIRROC TO BE ABLE TO BRING REAL KILLER TO JUSTICE!!! OOG AVENGE DEAD COUSIN THARG!!!

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