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by glabifrons 14y ago
"It's not just notebooks that get stolen." Very good point. I guess I've been working in environments with datacenters too long. :) "I'm also considering the corporate or government espionage vector, where you have a reasonably skilled on-s
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by glabifrons 14y ago
Filesystem encryption is very handy for a notebook computer (I use it, myself), but in a datacenter it's value is a bit more questionable. Where do you store your encryption keys? If they're on a removable USB device (for example), you'd ha
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by glabifrons 14y ago
"How's zdb different from fsck?" That's answered very well in the article connected to this other currently active HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5460988 In short, fsck simply checks to see that the metadata makes sen
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by glabifrons 14y ago
I think Oracle's decision to not keep Solaris open source, at least the ZFS portions, is enormously shortsighted. The fact that there is a ZFS implementation (with so many of the original ZFS engineers behind it) still being developed in th
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by glabifrons 14y ago
As others have stated, if the current state has corruption, you roll it back. As I posted in response to another post above, this is as easy as "zpool clear -F $POOLNAME". The fact that the vast majority of other filesystems have no way to
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by glabifrons 14y ago
"How? ZFS refuses to mount/import a corrupt filesystem." zpool clear -F $POOLNAME http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/archives/6067-PSARC-2009479-zpool-re...
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by glabifrons 14y ago
"memory consumption is ginormous" Yes, it will use whatever memory you allow it to, but this is purely dynamic just as caching is in Linux. If you're not talking about the ARC, but about deduplication, of course it uses more memory - how wo
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by glabifrons 14y ago
I hate posting something like this without a link, but I read an article quite some time ago (supposedly) written by one of the core developers of Wave. To massively oversimplify the article, he blamed it on having way, way too many devel
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by glabifrons 14y ago
Try MyMedia out... it streams from your computer to the Roku and has a nice little "channel" too. http://netguy204.github.com/roku_media_server/ It runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux, and it's GPLed: http://rokumm.appspot.com/walkthrough
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by glabifrons 14y ago
http://zfsonlinux.org/ They no longer list the versions on the front page. Last I saw the page was only a few months ago (max) and you couldn't even create a filesystem yet (you could create a zpool and zvols). I remember reading on that
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by glabifrons 14y ago
This reminds me enormously of the simplest electronics project I ever put together: A Crystal Radio back in the '70s. If you're not familiar with them, they're not much more than a coil and a "cat's-whisker" (diode) and they are powered by
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by glabifrons 14y ago
I thought ZFS on OS X was read-only. Linux ZFS is still quite young, only supports a very early version of the fs, and can't be updated to the newest without serious reverse-engineering. As for ZFS on windows, I definitely would not hold my
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by glabifrons 14y ago
They've raised the postal rates for first-class mail (that normal humans all use) many, many times. Not a complaint, just an observation. Why not raise the rates for junk-mail? Sure, megacorps will scream and cry that it'll put them out of
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by glabifrons 14y ago
Strawberries suffered the same sad fate. I'm amazed at how huge, juicy, wonderful smelling, and almost completely flavorless strawberries have gotten over the decades. I still buy them a couple times a year, and am always disappointed.
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by glabifrons 14y ago
I agree completely... The ones that are ripened in the grocery store are bland and waxy tasting. I really miss the garden I grew up with in the '70s. There's no comparison to vine ripened tomatoes ( not to be confused with Vine Ripe brand,
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by glabifrons 14y ago
Previous discussion (same video, on hackaday): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4958875 Another: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3723943 And another: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3710054 All 3 are linked to different art
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by glabifrons 14y ago
I find this just as interesting and relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_saving This process is certainly not extinct. The Legality section has some tidbits that might actually be useful in this case.
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by glabifrons 14y ago
A "vague icky feeling" like anaphylaxis? http://www.businessweek.com/debateroom/archives/2007/12/gmo_... https://www.signaturemd.com/modern-poison-are-genetically-mo... Not one person I know who is against GMO foods is uneducated about
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by glabifrons 14y ago
Yes, what they have done is difficult, the process is what should be protected, not the product of the use of the product, nor the contamination caused by the product. 2. No, I'm not a farmer, but my ancestors were, and the family farm is s
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by glabifrons 14y ago
If a farmer used Roundup, his crop could not be considered organic.
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by glabifrons 14y ago
But in that case, they don't sell the bacteria, do they? (that would be foolish) They sell the insulin it produces. You cannot take the insulin and make more insulin with it, so no-one can take the product they bought and "let nature take i
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by glabifrons 14y ago
"Personally I believe that patenting genes in first place is overall a bad idea..." If they actually developed the genes themselves, I'd lean towards the thought that they should be patentable. However, in this case (and in every case that
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by glabifrons 14y ago
I find the US Air Force's Nuclear Flying Saucer much more interesting. It was originally published in November of 2000 by Popular Mechanics, but I am unable to locate the article on their site, so here's google's scan of the magazine in whi
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by glabifrons 14y ago
That's the interior of the car, which is effectively a greenhouse. You don't put the battery packs on the inside of the car any more than you'd put the fuel tank on the inside. Typical placements are underneath the vehicle, arguably the coo
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by glabifrons 14y ago
1. Improving dramatically with improvements in energy-density. The weight of a battery-pack capable of >140miles plus electric motor weighs less than the gasoline engine it replaces, not counting the weight of a full tank. (this is base
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by glabifrons 14y ago
Unfortunately, this is nothing new. I saw this all the time back in the '90s - it was a running joke where I worked (which really wasn't a joke at all) that to get a raise, you quit and come back. Seriously - people would quit, work for ano
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by glabifrons 14y ago
Apple is anything but small... they passed Exxon earlier in the year as the world's most valuable company. They ship more computers than nearly any other company (save maybe HP). So when do they start being big enough to be affected by this
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by glabifrons 14y ago
I must disagree. A coworker had problems with his Mercedes SUV, opposite end of the spectrum from a used Sunfire. He had it checked out and came back to the office in a very sour mood. I asked to look at the quote - they planned to replace
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by glabifrons 14y ago
They don't make their own fan belts. The dealer would simply switch to another brand. They are standardized, after all.
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by glabifrons 14y ago
I couldn't agree more. I've heard _very_ few flattering stories from coworkers and friends over the decades of their experiences with car dealerships and their service. When you factor in something unusual, like a Wankel engine, the experie

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