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by rkalla 15y ago
Fargren, Actually all SSDs have to do this. The failure rate on NAND memory is so high at the higher densities that are being used now, that it would be impossible to ship a drive that didn't do it. You can learn more about it here[1] - whi
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by rkalla 15y ago
After 1 year Crystal Reports is giving you a 67% health rating? That seems... not great. I don't know how full the drive is, but I imagine you'll be look at a failed drive by 1.5year mark. For $630 I'm having a hard time getting excited abo
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by rkalla 15y ago
jerf, the oddest part is that if you read through the de-duplication and redundancy designs of modern SSD controllers (like the SandForce SF-2k series) not only do the drives do automatic de-duplication and compression on the fly, the scatt
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USPTO inviting comments for software patent reform(politics.slashdot.org)
7 points by rkalla 15y ago|0 comments
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by rkalla 15y ago
Something to consider before going the SSD route: failure rates are high right now. The Intel X-25 series seem to be doing OK, but the Vertex2 and Vertex3 (brand new SandForce 2k-based drives) have really terrible failure rates. I've heard
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by rkalla 15y ago
Couldn't agree more. I thought I was an outlier when I signed up for VPS.net and for the first 4 days experienced and outage every day and eventually one that took the site down for 2 days. The support was garbage as well, constantly going
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by rkalla 15y ago
For folks more in-the-know than me on govt/corp history, does the power struggle between the people and controlling entities (wether it be the govt or the corps as we are seeing more recently) ebb and flow? Is this an ebb in out history whe
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by rkalla 15y ago
Not that it will change anyone's mind, but given that I'm more than half way through DNF on the PC, here are my thoughts: - Graphics on the PC are decent when maxed out on good hardware. - Load-times are unbearably long. 25-45seconds on a D
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by rkalla 15y ago
Matt, I feel for you, I absolutely do, but the painful truth is that your move home will cost you your energy. If not the dependence of your parents on your, then the negativity will. The drain of the area you are going to will also pull it
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by rkalla 15y ago
In other piracy discussions I've always viewed piracy as organic-marketing. Meaning if you wanted to nurture the piracy (e.g. no DRM, easier install paths, etc.) you would probably get your software in the hands of more people and just redi
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by rkalla 15y ago
Sharing this primarily in-light of the discussion in the latest Sony-hack story[1] on HN. Something being discussed was how common is shoddy enterprise security. Seeing a hack attempt against Nintendo fail by one of the same groups that hac
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Lulzsec Attempts Nintendo Hack - No Customer Information Lost(online.wsj.com)
42 points by rkalla 15y ago|12 comments
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by rkalla 15y ago
A non-sequitur. I assumed this was another "Joel on Software" blogpost, because of the name... I read the article, all seemed inline with something Joel would write, then got the end and though "Goddamn... the last 2 weeks at the gym have b
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by rkalla 15y ago
Max, thank you for the additions. I didn't actually know there had been a bit of back-and-forth before the big OtherOS-kill-off.
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by rkalla 15y ago
This is like Groupon for startups... a really natural fit. Company: "I need customers, I'm willing to give away product/services cheaply to entice early signups." Client: "I'm willing to try some unfamiliar product/service if I can get it f
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by rkalla 15y ago
More or less. 1. Sony removes "Install Other Operating Systems" option from the PS3 OS. 2. Out of frustration at corporate policy for REMOVING major features from hardware/device paid for and owned by millions, the hackers start working. 3.
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by rkalla 15y ago
At this point I'm curious if this is the result of any large company becoming the whipping boy of multiple hacking groups, or if this is just unique to Sony. For example, if Microsoft were focused on next... or Ford or GE or IBM, would the
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by rkalla 15y ago
Not having all the facts (knowing if the information you are reading is true) is one of the core reasons I find political debate with others totally useless. As for "masturbatorifying content", a fantastic term. You also hit on another grea
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by rkalla 15y ago
pavel, that's a fair point. Those were a bit too broad of brush-strokes I painted. What I was masking is my internal frustration with how fundamentally un-accepting we are of each other's differing opinions in popular culture/media now. I c
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by rkalla 15y ago
<aside> If you read reddit, Digg or any other social news site, the format for stories like these seems to always be: 1. Some "obviously" stupid decision. 2. Some bureaucrat that made it. 3. A critical article talking about how obvi
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by rkalla 15y ago
This is an excellent example of what I'll call "Resume 2.0" or "How to get a job in our new economy". It's always boiled down to an employer knowing if you can handle yourself and get the job done. The only facilities we had available to tr
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by rkalla 15y ago
As a good number of folks have pointed out, this article (helpful for sure) is basically nginx + PHP-FPM. nginx servers up static content (e.g. if you are using WP-SuperCache and it's generating those static cache files for you, JS, CSS,
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by rkalla 15y ago
Psyonic, thank you for the link. Reading it in chunks, about 1/4 way through it.
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by rkalla 15y ago
I am, thank you for that. Looked it up on Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumination_(psychology) ) and it sounds spot on. Originally I found the cow-cud-chewing article, and that sounded less spot on, but then I found the "menta
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by rkalla 15y ago
Perfect distinction between "satisfaction" and "happiness". I think both are important. Satisfaction is typically the result of accomplishment. Accomplishments give us confidence. Confidence (an amazing subject) gives us the strength to mol
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by rkalla 15y ago
Most welcome; you just made my day knowing you got a boost from it! 2 days made so far and it's not even noon :)
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by rkalla 15y ago
I don't know if this comment will get read, it'll be buried down at the bottom... let's pretend it's a pot of gold hidden at the end of the rainbow :) In short: I agree with this article (originally proposed in THIS article/video http://ww
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by rkalla 15y ago
Love these posts; even though the website is heavy on ads, I feel like the tradeoff is that you are opening up your ledger and letting us all glance at it. I have no problem with you wanting me to click an ad or two in the process. You are
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by rkalla 15y ago
I have a hard time with this topic. Of course the only thing that ever gets covered in main-stream tech media is the abuse by patent trolls suing Company X because they are using their "electronic key-input device" patent to type on their c
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by rkalla 15y ago
I see a lot of node.js work here... I'll be the super-uncool guy in the group and admit that so far I've only ever released Java libraries under Apache 2. I just released a CloudFront log parsing library: http://www.thebuzzmedia.com/softwa

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