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General Software Discussion / Re: Fastest way to get files off a damaged RAID Mirror drive onto a new drive

« Last post by 40hz on August 11, 2014, 12:18 PM »

Not knowing anything about the situation, the OS, or the hardware, I can't suggest anything more than Stoic did above. I'd definitely try to get your mirror back first and then get a real backup procedure in place once you do. Because he's absolutely right. There's nothing you can do that will exercise the surviving drive less than a rebuild. A full file by file copy will definitely stress it more. So definitely re-establish your RAID. At least that way if the surviving disk goes west you'll have a good data copy on the new drive to work with. As was said, if the other drive is about to go, it'll go no matter what you do at this point.

Luck!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fastest way to get files off a damaged RAID Mirror drive onto a new drive

« Last post by 40hz on August 11, 2014, 08:05 AM »

^There is a GUI of sorts available for Robocopy.

Look here: http://technet.micro...tilityspotlight.aspx

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Living Room / Re: EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month" raises awareness, shames patent trolls

« Last post by 40hz on August 10, 2014, 06:41 PM »

So now we see it's doubly stupid because the patent still stands even though it's passing premise has been invalidated.

-Edvard (August 10, 2014, 04:44 PM)

Bingo!

Besides...you can't shame trolls or stupid legislators. They have no shame to begin with.

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Living Room / Re: Wikimedia refuses to remove animal selfie because monkey ‘owns’ the photo

« Last post by 40hz on August 10, 2014, 03:51 PM »

I think you meant:

take the money and move on run.

-40hz (August 10, 2014, 11:48 AM)

 

-Renegade (August 10, 2014, 12:22 PM)

No. Take the money and move on - to the next one.

These people aren't about to run any time soon. No pig ever quits their favorite trough voluntarily if there's even a single mouthful of swill still up for grabs.

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Living Room / Re: Wikimedia refuses to remove animal selfie because monkey ‘owns’ the photo

« Last post by 40hz on August 10, 2014, 03:45 PM »

^Exactly right. Those are called "nuisance startups."  

I suspect most tech startups these days are created with the sole intent of being bought out as quickly as possible. Hardly anybody seems to be interested in actually running a business they're creating these days. A quick cash-out is the new name of the game.

 

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by 40hz on August 10, 2014, 11:54 AM »

My GF (much to my surprise ) brought this utterly tasteless one to my attention. (Go figure! ) Definitely NFC and NSFW:

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Living Room / Re: Wikimedia refuses to remove animal selfie because monkey ‘owns’ the photo

« Last post by 40hz on August 10, 2014, 11:48 AM »

I don't think that we'll ever have copyright that makes sense though. The edge cases just push too hard.

-Renegade (August 10, 2014, 11:25 AM)

That and the fact that most of human progress (technical and cultural) is the result of creating derivative works or combining multiple works to create synergies. So how we do things as a species runs into direct conflict with the whole notion of ownership of non-physical objects.

Another problem (I think) comes from the belief of many that personal creativity is a finite resource. That you only have so many pictures or songs or whatever in you  - and once they're made pubic, you're somehow "used up." So that's one motivation behind the desire of many to milk every possible penny from everything they do for as long as possible.

I also think the other motivator is that many people simply don't like to work at their art. And don't plan on doing it any longer than absolutely necessary. They want the brass ring - that one song or book or photo that hits the jackpot and sets them up for life.

It's almost like that same short-sighted venture capital goal of an early "cash-out" has come to the art and creative world. That mindset has hurt business. Because there's no longer a long-term goal to actually build sustainable business. Just to get them to where they can be sold. Then, take the money and move on.

Now we have people that call themselves "artists" or "creatives" that have no intention of pursuing a lifetime career in their art for. They're looking for that one thing they can sell over and over so they won't have to work at it any more. Thank goodness they have increasingly insane IP laws and arguments to help them along.

To my mind, our biggest problem with IP is that, in order to have a fair and workable copyright law, we need to apply common sense. And laws and the legal system generally aren't about common sense. They're about complex definitions and tortuous semantic arguments. And an entire professional industry and branch of the government has been built upon it. And they employ tens of thousands of clever well-heeled individuals whose very livelihood is dependent upon things remaining the way they are.

I don't have much hope.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best Independent web page about security (fight against viruses, pc security...)

« Last post by 40hz on August 10, 2014, 11:23 AM »

P.D. I am searching for guvernamental web pages about security....

-Contro (August 10, 2014, 06:09 AM)

@C - Um...it should be P.S. (as in 'postscript') not P.D.

And try your search with the term "governmental" or just plain "government." Guvernamental isn't a word.

Or (for US government resources) just look here and here. That's where nearly all the publicly available information is shared.
 

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Living Room / Re: Wikimedia refuses to remove animal selfie because monkey ‘owns’ the photo

« Last post by 40hz on August 10, 2014, 11:16 AM »

In the building trade, the problem is 'gentleman's agreements' all the time.

-Fred Nerd (August 10, 2014, 09:54 AM)

Unfortunately, there are very few 'gentlemen' to be found in the business end of art.

Most who deal in art as a business are has-beens, wannabes, and opportunistic middle-men.

It used to be said that "Those who can - do! Those who can't - teach."

Today it's more and more the case that those who can't simply put themselves in charge - and attempt to license everything.

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Living Room / Re: Wikimedia refuses to remove animal selfie because monkey ‘owns’ the photo

« Last post by 40hz on August 09, 2014, 09:29 PM »

It's all kind of silly. I doubt any court will extend IP legal protections to a non-human at this stage of the game.

-40hz (August 08, 2014, 05:28 PM)

I don't think Wikimedia is trying to argue that the copyright belongs to the ape. I think the point of Wikimedia's argument is that the image is essentially in the public domain because the camera's owner doesn't own the copyright (as he didn't take the picture, or even supervise/direct the photograph in any way), and the photographer (the person/creature/thing that took the photo) is not a human, so the ape can't own the copyright either.

-Deozaan (August 09, 2014, 09:08 AM)

Um...I think most of us got both the joke and the point the Wikimedia Foundation was trying to make. I doubt anybody took the argument that the ape held the copyright very seriously. 

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Living Room / Re: Celluloid vs digital: what are the REAL differences?

« Last post by 40hz on August 09, 2014, 04:05 PM »

And yes - I've been out of touch with modern Satanic death metal lately.

-Renegade (August 09, 2014, 12:18 AM)

Why you poor thing! You've missed sooooo much...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Application memory limiter

« Last post by 40hz on August 09, 2014, 03:44 PM »

Please anybody know about such thing

-ruskiem (August 09, 2014, 10:33 AM)

IIRC there used to be something called a "job object" where you could do something similar.

My infobase has something from CodeProject that a coder might be able to use for ideas about ways to accomplish it.

Here's the link to the CodeProject page. But from the looks of it, it's a 32-bit solution and it's pretty old.

Can't comment beyond that. The CodeProject page was part of some research I was doing for a client for something I've long since forgotten about. Apologies.


Funny thing...the old Macintosh operations systems (Prior to OSX) used to have that capability. If you requested "info" on an app (equivalent to "properties" in Windows) you got this window (see below) where you could easily set the min/max amount of RAM use allowed per application...



With heavyweight graphic apps like Photoshop and Quark you often had to fiddle with those values to find a setting that minimized app crashes on your machine. Otherwise you'd get one of those dreaded "bomb" notifications.




Back when 8Mb was considered a full RAM complement, futzing with RAM settings was a big - and necessary -  deal.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Enough with the text editors... let's talk Terminal Emulators!

« Last post by 40hz on August 09, 2014, 02:49 PM »

"Multi-terminal needs" can easily be solved with tmux.

-Tuxman (August 09, 2014, 08:14 AM)

"Easily solved" just so long as everyone's needs are the same.  

I'm familiar with tmux btw. It's a very sweet bit of code if you don't mind one more client/server running on your system. But tmux's design goals are somewhat different than Terminator's.

Nice we have so many choices.

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Living Room / Don't be afraid Arthur Dent. Be VERY afraid!

« Last post by 40hz on August 09, 2014, 02:38 PM »

A self-folding origami inspired robot...

I'm sure the military planners are salivating already...

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Enough with the text editors... let's talk Terminal Emulators!

« Last post by 40hz on August 09, 2014, 07:27 AM »

This isn't limited to *nix TE's I presume?

-Ath (August 09, 2014, 04:27 AM)

Doesn't have to be. Share what you've got. We're all friends here.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: Enough with the text editors... let's talk Terminal Emulators!

« Last post by 40hz on August 08, 2014, 06:14 PM »

For simple tasks I use Guake. Can't beat the convenience of that drop-down feature.

For more complex multi-terminal needs I'll use Terminator.

I've generally found it's best to just pick a TE found in your repository and stick with it until you learn it inside out. If it gives you everything you want, stop there. If not, try another one. They're all pretty much the same under the hood.

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Living Room / Re: LinuxCon 2014

« Last post by 40hz on August 08, 2014, 05:53 PM »

I WISH I were going, does that count? 

-Edvard (August 08, 2014, 05:51 PM)

Absolutely. Welcome to the club!

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Living Room / Re: Russian hackers steal 1.2B passwords

« Last post by 40hz on August 08, 2014, 05:50 PM »

^I like the old 70s term "rip-off" (or "ripped off" if you want the verb) for everything else since that term also implied fraud - as in:

That was a complete rip-off.
We just ripped them off big time!
I just got ripped off!

...etc.

I suppose the best word for ripping off music or videos right now is pwn. (They pwned that new album right off their server Bro!)

You didn't steal or abscond - you took ownership of something. Which doesn't mean you took all of it.

Yeah...

I'm gonna stand on pwn.

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Living Room / Re: LinuxCon 2014

« Last post by 40hz on August 08, 2014, 05:44 PM »

Thanks 40hz

-Masonjar13 link=topic=38649.m :Thmbsup:sg361479#msg361479 date=1407537116

My pleasure. Go get em' Tiger!

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Living Room / Re: Celluloid vs digital: what are the REAL differences?

« Last post by 40hz on August 08, 2014, 05:40 PM »

...we now have a generation of music fans acoustically weaned on 128k mp3s  

-Edvard (August 08, 2014, 05:31 PM)

This!

And because of that, so much of what I was trained to strive for just went out the door. Because you'll never be able to hear it with most modern music reproduction tech.

Which is why I think live performance attendance is at an all time high. You can still hear the difference there. And the audiences can tell the difference even if they don't have the knowledge and vocabulary to say exactly what the difference is.

But they don't need. to. They can hear it.

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Living Room / Re: Wikimedia refuses to remove animal selfie because monkey ‘owns’ the photo

« Last post by 40hz on August 08, 2014, 05:28 PM »

It's all kind of silly. I doubt any court will extend IP legal protections to a non-human at this stage of the game.

And the fact the photographer didn't himself take the shot rules out his claiming copyright as the photographer.

However, because he owned the means (i.e. the camera that took the shot) and in the absence of any other human claiming to have been the photographer, he probably has the best claim to legal ownership of the picture.

Now perhaps the ape could file suit...but he'd need representation since (again as a non-human) he couldn't file on his own behalf - and it would be interesting to see how they could establish that he gave his informed consent for an attorney to represent him...hmmm

I suppose a judge could make him a ward of the state and appoint legal counsel on his behalf. But that would be such a career limiting move that I don't think many US judges (and certainly not any residing outside the State of California) would even consider doing such a thing.

Then there's the thorny question of jurisdiction in that this ape is a resident of Indonesia, and the photo was taken in Indonesia so it's questionable which courts would have jurisdiction. (I'm guessing it wouldn't be the United States in any event.)

Hmm...now should Indonesia decide to make this monkey a ward of the state...and file on his behalf under the international law (good) or international trade agreement (even better) there might be some kerfuffle over who was legally entitled to whatever money could be made...

Yup...it's insane.

Copyright and related IP law needs to be reformed. Pronto.

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Living Room / Re: LinuxCon 2014

« Last post by 40hz on August 08, 2014, 05:15 PM »

I don't think I'm quite good enough myself for any of those companies, but someday.

-Masonjar13 (August 08, 2014, 01:15 PM)

You never know until you try. If they won't hire you, maybe they can offer you some solid career advice.

Don't just walk around and gawk. Make it a point to try and meet some people while you're there.

Luck!

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Living Room / Re: New "censorship" technique on Youtube

« Last post by 40hz on August 08, 2014, 05:08 PM »

hmmm...is it me or did the world in general suddenly become more "active" the past couple of weeks?

-superboyac (August 08, 2014, 04:42 PM)

Well...we do have a new East-West Cold War starting to ramp up...

But that's what rattling your sabres and slinging that tired old BS nationalist rhetoric will get you.

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Living Room / Re: New "censorship" technique on Youtube

« Last post by 40hz on August 08, 2014, 05:03 PM »

oh yeah,
Miles! you've been hanging around with too many skinny models !!

-tomos (August 08, 2014, 08:01 AM)

Heh heh.  I must be gettin' old cuz Britney ain't lookin' too bad to me.  

-MilesAhead (August 08, 2014, 08:40 AM)

I'll still stick to Juliette Binoche   or Julia Ormond. If I want thin there's always Mila Jovovich. She's a passable "sorta pop" musician too. (I've heard worse music - some of which garnered major awards.)

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Living Room / Re: New "censorship" technique on Youtube

« Last post by 40hz on August 08, 2014, 04:02 PM »

The people doing game walkthru and review vids are complaining. Game music is getting caught by the same filters.