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by magila 11y ago
Reformatting a hard drive to a higher capacity would be akin to overclocking a CPU. The heads and platter might operate fine at the higher capacity, or they might not. Running the risk that your HDD might be quietly losing your data is not
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by magila 12y ago
Signed firmware is generally only featured on SAS drives. I image the NSA is much more interested in infecting the more common SATA drives which have no such protection.
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by magila 12y ago
There are no de jure ISP monopolies, but municipalities routinely demand franchise terms which only the incumbent provider could possibly satisfy (100% coverage, large up-front fees, etc).
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by magila 12y ago
I'm not going to defend the other points, but most variables being global is not at all unusual for code like this. These sorts of realtime embedded applications typically have no heap allocation, so the only way to define persistent s
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by magila 12y ago
Sure, it would be a huge amount of work to fix/replace TCP. Google is one of the few companies with the resources to even attempt it, so it's disappointing that they aren't making it a priority. The really frustrating thing i
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by magila 12y ago
HTTP2 is a layering violation because it implements a new layer of multiplexing and flow control on top of the existing layer of multiplexing and flow control. Rather than solving the problems with TCP they slapped a band-aid on top becau
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by magila 12y ago
It feels like HTTP2 is a classic case of "something must be done, this is something, therefor it must be done". Clearly there are shortcomings in HTTP 1.1 which would be nice to address. Google to their credit spent a lot of resou
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by magila 12y ago
This is one thing I wish C++ advocates would stop bringing up. While it's technically true that the page count of the C++ spec is comparable to that of C# and Java, not all pages are created equal. The C++ spec is incredibly dense, it&
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by magila 12y ago
Probably nothing. Creating the masks needed to mass produce chips is expensive so manufacturers will often use the same chip for multiple products. The M3 may be used by higher end products (i.e. enterprise drives) or it may just be the ves
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by magila 12y ago
Actually the bittorrent DHT has been extended to support storing arbitrary data[1]. This extension is supported by uTorrent and libtorrent-rasterbar which constitute a majority of the bittorrent DHT nodes. [1] http://www.libtorre
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by magila 12y ago
The fact that he thinks a federated wiki would be "simple" or "easy" leads me to believe he has not actually thought through the details of how it would work in practice.
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by magila 12y ago
Modern high-speed DRAM interfaces are very complex. Their initialization is dependent on the particular memory module in use, and some parameters are even determined at power-on via training. So there actually are no "sensible defaults
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by magila 12y ago
OpenWRT's OpenSSL package has been updated to 1.0.1g, so it's not vulnerable to Heartbleed. The default install doesn't use OpenSSL so there is no need to update the install images.
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by magila 12y ago
I also forgot about consumer routers which sometimes ship totally different hardware under the same model number.
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by magila 12y ago
At least in that case they only make changes in a new model year. In the electronics industry substitutions are often made while retaining the the exact same SKU. So even savvy consumers have no way of knowing exactly what they are going to
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by magila 12y ago
None of those require broadband (2 Mb or greater according to the FCC, IIRC) though. We're talking about fiber connections in the hundred to thousand megabit range here. Nobody is talking about cutting poorer neighborhoods off from the
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by magila 12y ago
Putting broadband internet on the same level as electricity and water seems absurd to me. By far the most common use cases for broadband are streaming video, gaming/DLC, and piracy. Is there really a point where it becomes reasonable t
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by magila 13y ago
Last time I messed around with MAME pretty much everything which was playable ran at full speed, even stuff like STV, Namco System 22, and Seattle based games. This was on my 2600K running at 4GHz, which isn't exactly the latest and gr
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by magila 13y ago
While the two are somewhat similar in external appearance, the STG44 and AK47 are very different rifles internally. Basically the only thing they have in common mechanically is that they both use a long stroke gas piston, along with many ot
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by magila 13y ago
http://abbottstore.com/jevity http://www.nestlenutritionstore.com/departments/therapeutic-...
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by magila 13y ago
But what does that really buy you? We already have to store such dates using a datetime struct to handle the common case where the user wants to deal in local time. In what context could you not handle UTC the same way as local time?
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by magila 13y ago
You can't know what the UNIX timestamp for Jan 1, 2023 00:00:00 is either. Is DST going to be in effect? What if the relevant governing body decides to change the offset of the time zone you are in?
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by magila 13y ago
While operating under the same corporate umbrella, the engineering divisions of WDC and HGST are being kept separate for now as part of an agreement with the Chinese to get their approval for the acquisition. The upshot of this is that HGST
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by magila 13y ago
This problem is nowhere near as widespread as most people claim. While bugs do happen and I can't speak for the SSD side of things, HDD manufactures test their cache behavior quite thoroughly. This includes pulling the power immediatel
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by magila 13y ago
That blog post is from 2005. There was a major rework of how the block layer handles flushes back around 2010 and I'm pretty sure the issue he was having with fsync not being reliable has been resolved.
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by magila 13y ago
Shingled writes require a special asymmetrical write head, you can't do it with current drives. Actual shingled write drives are not yet shipping AFAIK.
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by magila 13y ago
The latest generation of SAS enterprise drives do exactly this. All firmware is signed and there is extra hardware to ensure unsigned code is never run. They also disable the JTAG port before the drives leave the factory so there's no
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by magila 14y ago
Only to the extent that it uses the same techniques as VP8. Anything new (read: anything which might infringe on H.265 related patents) is still subject to threats from MPEG-LA.
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by magila 14y ago
Well yeah, that's because most people who are making minimum wage are... teenagers working part-time. At its current level the US minimum wage has very little impact on anything, positive or negative. Very few jobs are worth so little, and
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by magila 14y ago
You're mostly talking about reliability at the physical layer, which as you say is never going to be perfect. Csense is talking about reliability at the link layer and above, which is infinitely more attainable.

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