yay, I could use an ideal transformer to ramp up my smartphone's battery to 33000 V and send a tiny bit of energy down a catenary cable to a train to make it go about 2 millimeters down the track
@Bob so the Emperor in Return of the Jedi asked his midichlorians to set his Vegeta power level to "over 9000" microamperes -- at first very painful and eventually enough to kill had Vader not intervened. nice that he has such fine tuned control over his amperage
(and yes I wrapped about four memes into that one chat line)
@Bob AFAIK, death from electrocution occurs only if it crosses your heart and paralyzes the muscles for a long enough time to starve the blood of oxygen. Or severe burns.
In this example of RAID 5, you can see that restoring e.g. B3 after a failure of the fourth disk requires reading B1, B2, and Bp to determine what B3 is.
Which is why I remember reading about defribillators possibly causing more damage to heart attack victims. I tried finding the article though and couldn't. Couldn't remember where I read it.
> Rebuilding a RAID 5 array after a failure will add additional stress to all of the working drives, because every area on every disc marked as being "in use" must be read to rebuild the redundancy that has been lost. If drives are close to failure, the stress of rebuilding the array can be enough to cause another drive to fail before the rebuild has been finished, and even more so if the server is still accessing the drives to provide data to clients, users, applications, etc.
> Even without complete loss of an additional drive during rebuild, an unrecoverable read error (URE) is likely for large arrays which will typically lead to a failed rebuild.
> Thus, it is during this rebuild of the "missing" drive that the entire RAID 5 array is at risk of a catastrophic failure. The rebuild of an array on a busy and large system can take hours and sometimes days. Therefore, it is not surprising that, when systems need to be highly available and highly reliable or fault tolerant, other levels, including RAID 6 or RAID 10, are chosen.
i think my dedicated server with Hetzner has one brand new disk (when the server was originally brought online) and one disk with about 1000 hours of previous powered on time
@BenRichards especially when people don't understand how to use them and just take them out of the case and are like ... using it too much or when it isnt warranted
@allquixotic that was specifically in relation to some AirPort thing lacking a web admin interface and requiring a native program to configure it. which is stupid. it's a freaking access point/router - what if I wanted to use it with a phone only?
though I do hold that sentiment for Apple in general, at this point :P
I use a Synology Diskstation 1812+ or so NAS with a Macbook Pro and am quite happy. For it to be fast, you need to connect using SMB though: It supports AFS but is slow.
yeah. I want Apple to go away; I want Google to remember not to be evil; and I really want to love Microsoft, but they keep showing that "evil overlord" side often enough to remind me that, while they may have some pretty awesome engineers (hey, the guys who designed Surface, they're geniuses), they're still a greedy corp.
@Almo Isn't it based on BSD? Can't you disable mouse accel at a lower level? Or is it all handled by Darwin or something? (I admit to being clueless here :P)
O_O I just popped a piece of Trident gum out of its packaging and it went flying into the air like a home run baseball and came down like 5 seconds later
the plastic piece that bent to open the little pouch it was in must've acted like a catapult
-_- I'm helping a coworker with Microsoft Forms 2.0 UI design
he has Visual Studio 2010 installed on his computer
Hey, is there a way to add a program to like a "pre-approved list" of stuff that needs admin rights, but can always run without UAC and admin prompt everytime?
Like, we have a user, whom is a standard user, which we'd like for him to be able to run an admin program everytime he wants, but without us having to type a PW for him every time.
I have some programs running on start-up like Everything. UAC prompts every time the Windows starts. How can I set a program to make sure that no intervening prompt would appear during start-up?
@studiohack you could write an app that always starts when the user logs in, runs as SYSTEM, and accepts IPC commands or something to specify what child processes to start :P
Hey guys. Are you aware of incompatibilities between Soluto and Ninite?
I mean, "File not found" doesn't sound like a Soluto/Ninite incompatibility problem but Ninite through Soluto works and Ninite on its own goes "File not found."
@badp getting "File not found" for a failed UAC elevation is akin to driving your stolen car into the dealer for engine repair, and the dealer says, "What engine? This car doesn't have an engine. I have no idea what you're talking about."
Sorry is there anyone using W8 that could instruct how to get the normal desktop back? There was some shortcut but for some reason nothing seems to work...
I have some programs running on start-up like Everything. UAC prompts every time the Windows starts. How can I set a program to make sure that no intervening prompt would appear during start-up?
