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Comment Re:Not a good sign (Score 1) 98

by mr_rarr on Monday February 20, 2023 @01:41PM (#63308755) Attached to: Meta Announces Paid Subscriptions Offering Extra Verification, Promotion, Protection, Support

I asked my high school kids is they know anyone at school that uses Facebook.

They started to laugh at me. They said no, Facebook is for old people .

Comment Re:Just a matter of time (Score 1) 174

by mr_rarr on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @10:49PM (#28118629) Attached to: Fluorescent Monkeys Cast Light On Human Disease

So, how long do you think it'll be before decedents of these 'somehow' hit the exotic pet trade.

Already done... GlowFish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GloFish

Comment Not true by my experience... (Score 1) 803

by mr_rarr on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @07:57PM (#25462029) Attached to: Why RAID 5 Stops Working In 2009

Well what the author is saying is not true by my experience..

When I configure a new server with RAID, before handing over the box, I will test every single RAID 1/5/10 sets by pulling one drive out at a time for a couple of minutes then I would put it back in until the rebuild is complete.

I worked with multiple Dell PowerVault MD1000 using 15 1TB SATA drives and never have I ran into an issue of not being able to complet the rebuild because of the issue mentioned in the article.

I can tell you that drives will fail but if you have the right monitoring in place and catch when a drive fails or about to fails and with the right RAID solution in place, you can consider your data pretty safe. RAID is not a backup not 100% but chances are that a RAID solution will surly save your butt when a disk dies and you just don't have the time to rebuild / restore a box.

Microsoft's HD Photo to Become JPEG Standard? 369

Posted by Zonk on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:22PM from the what's-wrong-with-jpeg dept.

Mortimer.CA writes "Ars Technica is reporting that Microsoft has submitted their HD Photo to the JPEG committee: 'Microsoft's ongoing attempt to establish its own photo format as a JPEG alternative (and potential successor) took another step forward today when the JPEG standards group agreed to consider HD Photo (originally named Windows Media Photo) as a standard. If successful, the new file standard will be known as JPEG XR.' Microsoft has made a 'commitment to make its patents that are required to implement the specification available without charge.' While JPEG 2000 exists, HD Photo has several advantages (not the least of which is a lot less CPU power is needed). Is this a big of an issue as ODF/OOXML?"

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