The write hole in RAID is what motivated me switch on my work servers. Before I got hit by RAID corrupting data on a bad but undetected as bad disk, I thought the scare stories about how data in RAID was not safe was just FUD.
While ZFS is not perfect and I have had my share of issues, corrupted data has not been on of the problems.
When Ebooks first came (in the 90s with the rocketbook), I expected books to be readily available and at a reasonable cost. But DRM and hardback prices for an ebook kept me from purchasing a single book (I read a lot from Gutenberg). Needless to say, enough others felt the same and the rocketbook failed.
When the second wave of ebooks with eink and better prices came along, I still bought very few books (I won't "buy" a book with DRM). Eventually, I ran across an indie author with a good story, reasonable price and no DRM. Poking around, I found that he was not alone. Those authors got my money and continue to do so today.
I have yet to buy a DRM'ed book, I have downloaded quite a few "free" DRM'ed books, but I strip the DRM and convert to epub (changing the font at the same time). At this point, a book that is traditionally published already has a strike or two against it. Between a high price and DRM, there is little chance that I will read one. Even the "free" books, if they are first of a series and the rest are DRM'ed, I usually don't bother with it.
There are a couple of publishers out there who are starting to catch on and are releasing their ebooks DRM free, but those books still usually 2 to 5 times what the indie authors are charging. The ebook industry is certainly changing and continuing to grow, it's just the publishers that aren't.
I'm using a similar solution, but I check my logs and occasionally add spam calls that did not make it through to a blacklist. If you're on the blacklist, I let Lenny take the call. This is a lot more fun when the caller is a person and not a robo caller, but Lenny did manage to get forwarded from the robot to a real person on one of these calls.
Since work has a show facility, all of us that commute are smelling fresh by the time we sit down at our desks to work.
Worth it is in the eye of the beholder.
My commute is 18 miles one way and while I don't do it every day, I do commute year round. As to the 20% grades, I have a couple of them I have to deal with each way. There is a significant investment of time to do this, but it beats going to a gym.
Living in a rural area, the death wish part really only comes into play once I it the city where I work. I've had more close calls in the final two miles than the rest of the commute by several orders of magnitude.
Having setup the Lenny bot on my phone switch for a way to deal with these guys, looks like it will be a while before I get to hear Lenny drive them to despair again. The last recording I got it sounded like the scammer was about to cry "Please sir, just turn on your computer...".
I added the following to may
message/html ; lynx -dump -force-html %s ; copiousoutput
All this tells me is that you are missing something that is provided in your multivitamin. I will agree that multivitamins provide what they say they provide. The unanswered question is do we all need what they provide?
Your vision center has shrunk. Careful or it will disappear all together.
I was going to mark this funny but, after reading the links, now I just wish
Actually, it stands for binary as in two branches. You can have an unbalanced b-tree.
Similarly, evolution is a fact. Our definitions and explanations of the mechanism of evolution are a theory, and a work in progress.
While I am willing to agree with you when it comes to micro evolution (we have observed it and use it all the time). Calling macro evolution a fact when it has not ever been observed is a different use of the word fact than I'm familiar with.
Always think of something new; this helps you forget your last rotten idea. -- Seth Frankel
