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Living Room / Re: What do you desire from your job?
« Last post by Renegade on August 04, 2012, 08:21 AM »l just wana let u know I had a BLAST reading that!
-nosh (August 04, 2012, 05:03 AM)
Mission accomplished~!
I aim, to entertain~! 
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l just wana let u know I had a BLAST reading that!-nosh (August 04, 2012, 05:03 AM)
I aim, to entertain~! Other manufacturers that I'd checked had mostly 1~1.5 MH MTBF (IIRC). I'd also read in several places about people having SSDs die suddenly within a year. Considering there are only 8,760 hours in a year, it really has to make you question things a bit. 1 year is about 0.5% of the rated life.-Renegade (August 03, 2012, 12:21 AM)
No, it makes perfect sense.
MTBF = Mean Time Between Failures
That means you need to start with at least one failure to have a time "between" failures - so you can be sure you have a useful SSD life of 1000000 hours before you need to get worried again.
-4wd (August 03, 2012, 03:50 AM)
Or 4 for mirrored raid? 
As a writer, I understand the theory of IP and why it exists... but the practice sucks!-wraith808 (August 03, 2012, 11:33 AM)
Don't forget gun freedom! They stuck gun control into that bill as well... Seriously. I'm not kidding.Yes, I know. I think I already pointed that out in two places:-Renegade (August 03, 2012, 04:51 AM)(My comment in each was "Huh?")
- this thread above - here.
- in the NRA thread that you started up in The Basement.
-IainB (August 03, 2012, 08:31 AM)
The Internet wins again!
Job Satisfaction works like a Canary Server!
"I was not humiliated at work today."
"I was not humiliated at work today."
"I was not humiliated at work today."
(Crickets)
-TaoPhoenix (August 03, 2012, 03:55 AM)
Then again, I'm not a power-hungry sociopath :-)-f0dder (August 02, 2012, 06:17 PM)
Errr... maybe. We'll see. Nope. Not interested in the least in this. It's just a total lie for picky or unhappy people. I take pride in pretty much everything I do, I'm really in very little danger of this ever being an issue. Even when I'm just going damage control, I'm working to get things as good as possible. Things might not be perfect, but I can certainly be happy with taking something from 1 star to 3 stars. Even easy stuff is good. Heck, you can just feel good about yourself because something was very easy for you. <3Also, a quick mention on SSDs... back up those things even more vigilantly than mechanical drives. Yes, in theory those flash cells should wear out gracefully, and even the MLC variants should last quite a bit longer under normal use than a mechanical disk. Funny thing is, though, that they don't. Or rather, the flash cells don't wear out, but either the firmware goes into retardo-mode (known to happen frequently with SandForce based drives), or other parts of the electronics just go frizzle. And then you're SOL. Really, bigtime SOL. At least with mechanical drives, you can send them off to data recovery services if the data was important enough... much less likely to be able to do that with SSDs, especially with the ones that have hardware encryption.
Me and a classmate had our Vertex2 SSDs die a few weeks apart, after... what, a month or so use? And my Intel X25-E (their ENTERPRISE SLC-based drive) died last month, after a few years of non-intensive use... I'm sure the SLC cells would have several years lifetime left, so it's probably some electronics that went fizzle. Scary that an enterprise drive dies like that :-(-f0dder (August 02, 2012, 03:12 PM)
Windows on the other hand is pure simplicity.
I have to disagree on that part. Windows 8 anyone?-mahesh2k (August 02, 2012, 06:16 PM)
That Said I personally found enlightenment the ugliest manager ever.-mahesh2k (August 02, 2012, 06:16 PM)
If speed and ease are important, and you don't want much of a learning curve, then often Windows is better.-Renegade (August 02, 2012, 11:23 AM)
But only if you ignore the fact that most people already have a significant amount of Windows learning under their belt whether they realize it or not.
One advantage Microsoft has being the desktop 'standard' is that millions get exposed to it early and often.
All operating systems and system tools need to be learned. You're not born knowing how to use a command line - or a GUI for that matter. You learn them. But when you're exposed to something as often as you are a Windows desktop and mouse, you forget just how much you've actually have learned over the years in order to use it effectively.
Since most people's Nix exposure often comes well after they've become proficient in Windows, they're more consciously aware they're learning something new. And occasionally they also find themselves needing to "unlearn" Windows conventions which they had previously assumed were the only "correct" way to do things on a computer. Small wonder Nix can seem "hard" to someone who's conceptual framework and workflow has been strongly shaped and influenced by Microsoft's vision of how to do things.
Linux is no harder to use (on the desktop level) than Windows. And beneath the hood, it's not really any harder to master either. (If you don't believe it, try tackling the Windows Registry, Group Policies and Objects, or Active Directory components before you say Linux is difficult to understand or work with. Especially when something goes wrong. Or when you start getting into serious shell scripting. ) Linux doesn't, however, hide its underpinnings and clockwork like Windows does. You can get into much deeper levels in Linux than Windows will allow. But that doesn't mean it's more complex. It just means the complexities are more accessible. Underneath the pretty GUI, Windows is every bit as complex - or possibly even more complex - than Linux is. But that's only to be expected. Operating systems are complex beasts. No getting around that. No matter who wrote it.
How deep into it you need to go, and how much complexity you need to deal with, will be determined by your individual interest and needs.
It's no different than anything else that's "technical" when you think about it.-40hz (August 02, 2012, 12:42 PM)
) Did I mention I tend to be just a tad on the cheap side..?-Stoic Joker (August 02, 2012, 06:45 AM)
(Generally, I find the cost of a hard drive is significantly less than the cost of disaster recovery and setting up a server again -- assuming the backups are for data, and not the system. I have a complete system backup on this desktop, but still wouldn't want to fart around with recovery.) we increasingly seem to be entering an age where functionality takes a very distance back seat to eye candy.-mouser (August 01, 2012, 01:35 PM)
For instance: Americans who win bronze will pay a $2 tax on the medal itself. But the bronze comes with a modest prize—$10,000 as an honorarium for devoting your entire life to being the third best athlete on the planet in your chosen discipline. And the IRS will take $3,500 of that, thank you very much.
There are also prizes that accompany each medal: $25,000 for gold, $15,000 for silver, and $10,000 for bronze.
Silver medalists will owe $5,385. You win a gold? Timothy Geithner will be standing there with his hand out for $8,986.
So basically you can now embed webcam and microphone support without Adobe Flash. Well at least the Register had a misleading article to match the misleading headline. That's worth something.-daddydave (August 01, 2012, 12:08 PM)
This tutorial introduces a new API, navigator.getUserMedia(), which allows web apps to access a user's camera and microphone.
Of course you mean that you will be requesting a Copyright License from me, right?-TaoPhoenix (July 29, 2012, 08:14 AM)
Ask agin' an' you'll be singing with the mermaids~! US Has Ignored New Zealand Court Order To Return Data It Seized From Megaupload
from the of-course dept
There are a bunch of moving pieces in the various Megaupload legal proceedings, but if you recall, in the ruling in late June from New Zealand's High Court, it was made clear that the New Zealand government and the US FBI broke the law in sending data from Megaupload's hard drives overseas, and ordered them returned. Megaupload's lawyer, Ira Rothken is out reminding the world that the US has failed to comply with the order to return the data that was illegally taken, and has shown no signs of planning to comply. Apparently, the Justice Department, who is supposed to be enforcing the rule of law, doesn't believe such rule of law applies to its own activities.
^ +1 Wot @Renegade said in the spoiler...-IainB (August 01, 2012, 02:58 AM)
you can add me to that list as well-tomos (August 01, 2012, 05:42 AM)
I'm trying to keep this clean~! Version 21 of the browser offers users the chance to allow Chrome to monitor their activities with a PC's camera and microphone.
On the international front, also from Techdirt, a thought-provoking piece about Canadian innovation: Canadian Cities Looking To Opt-Out Of CETA Rather Than Get Roped Into An ACTA-Like Situation
by Wendy Cockcroft, 2012-07-27.
Crafty Canucks. Worth a read.-IainB (July 31, 2012, 07:58 AM)
As every Olympic athlete knows, size matters. The London 2012 medals are the largest ever in terms of both weight and diameter – almost double the medals from Beijing. However, just as equally well-known is that quality beats quantity and that is where the current global austerity, coin-clipping, devaluation-fest begins. The 2012 gold is 92.5 percent silver, 6.16 copper and… 1.34 percent gold, with IOC rules specifying that it must contain 550 grams of high-quality silver and a whopping 6 grams of gold. The resulting medallion is worth about $500. For the silver medal, the gold is replaced with more copper, for a $260 bill of materials. The bronze medal is 97 percent copper, 2.5 percent zinc and 0.5 percent tin. Valued at about $3, you might be able to trade one for a bag of chips in Olympic park if you skip the fish.
