patrickgzill

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by patrickgzill 17y ago
I don't think you understand how dedupe works for cases where it is a benefit. Imagine you have 10 VMware virtual machines, and all the VM files are stored on a ZFS server with dedupe support. Let's say that the base install image is 2GB in
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by patrickgzill 17y ago
What do you consider cheap for bandwidth? Is $3.99 per mbps with a minimum commit of 10Mbps expensive? A 10Mbps would give you approximately 1250GB of traffic in a real-world scenario. See: http://uberbandwidth.com/pricing.asp
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by patrickgzill 17y ago
The reason I chose 1850 to the present is that it was well past the chaos of the American Revolution and yet far enough away in time to show a trend. Further this time period covers the change from nearly all women working inside the home (
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by patrickgzill 17y ago
The reality is that states are going to be asserting their rights against Federal ability. This is happening in gun-related issues as well, with Montana and Ohio, at the least, considering the passage of laws that ignore the BATF if the gun
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by patrickgzill 17y ago
There is a lot wrong with this article, but I don't have the patience to go through all of the unstated assumptions; so I will just use one point as an example: "And everywhere, it is changing traditional family life by enabling women to wo
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by patrickgzill 17y ago
Spam from me (I know the author of this book) about a recent book on LW: http://www.amazon.com/Wittgenstein-Flies-Kite-Story-Models/d...
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by patrickgzill 17y ago
Next year the team that beats the Kobayashi Maru scenario wins... gah, I hate these kind of artificial competitions.
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by patrickgzill 17y ago
Be interesting to segment off the "bell curve" of IQ into the small lower and higher segments, and the large middle segment, and then be able to find the amount spent per student. My guess would be that spending on getting the lower-IQ into
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by patrickgzill 17y ago
Go to webhostingtalk.com and look around. There are places that will host 1U for $50 each including bandwidth and remote reboot support.
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by patrickgzill 17y ago
I agree with many of your points, however, there are many reasons not to use oil as a store of value. Oil can burn, evaporate, leak out of a tanker and be dispersed and not be able to be retrieved. Gold is far safer, being a noble metal tha
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by patrickgzill 17y ago
Isn't Sergey by most any measure an outlier however? Using him as anything more than anecdote about immigration isn't really clear thinking, is it?
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by patrickgzill 17y ago
That Apple has not yet done so is unexplained. My explanation is that filesystem performance on desktop and laptop systems is not that big a deal; while on larger servers like what ZFS is targeted for, filesystem performance in all facets i
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by patrickgzill 17y ago
You can always tell when a person is from Harvard, but you can't tell them much.
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by patrickgzill 17y ago
There is gold, however small, in most states, usually in one or two of the large rivers. Gold is often found alongside quartz - as water erodes the quartz, the gold is carried away by the water. Interesting links: Post on dry washing for go
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by patrickgzill 17y ago
RunRev is based on MetaCard, which was a cross-platform implementation of Apple's HyperCard that ran on Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, etc. They took the HyperCard-ish IDE and turned it into a more familiar IDE (from the standpoin
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by patrickgzill 17y ago
I don't blame de Icaza for being hired by MS; I blame him for all the bloat to be found in each of his projects. He could be pure as whitest snow and MS would still be happy with how what he puts out slows down the Linux desktop experience