Number of things:
1.) Many of you found yourself trapped inthe spam filter. I guess with the new version of WP, that was bound to happen.
2.) Really lousy day today. Tried to do too much, and by 11:30 wished I was back home in bed. Shoulder is aching, and I took something for the pain for the first time in a week or so. Called the Doc to ask if it was normal for people to still experience pain three weeks after surgery, and was informed that I am an idiot and most people are in pain for eight weeks. Duly noted.
3.) I have been blocked by David Sirota, Joe Scarborough, and John Aravosis on twitter, which I find amusing. I think this is the offending tweet for the Joe Scarborough ban:
Not sure what brought on the Sirota ban, but I don’t know why I even followed him in the first place. Glutton for punishment, I guess. Aravosis banned me because I told him a tweet calling Democrats homophobes in the wak of Cheney’s BS yesterday deserved a #tcot (top conservatives on twitter):
I gotta admit, I didn’t see that coming. That is kind of weak.
4.) Can someone explain the difference between raid 0 and raid 1? Looking into purchasing a PC.
5.) With the retirement of Evan Bayh and with it looking like the Senate might even be in play, I gotta say- the suggestion to scrap HCR and starting over is turning out to be the quality advice I always thought it was in the first place.
6.) Don’t forget the Balloon Juice store is finally open! Look to the right for the link.
Bret
RAID 0 is striping – parts of data written across all disks. No redundancy, but much faster performance. If one disk dies, your whole array goes with it, losing all data.
RAID 1 is mirroring. Disks in pairs, identical copies of data written on each. Redundancy, slower speed, but if a disk eats it, you have a backup.
Penon
If you don’t know the difference (or the importance of the difference) between RAID 0 and 1, then you don’t need a PC with a RAID array on it.
nwithers
There are also Higher raid levels that provide different speed/redundancy balances as well
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
MikeJ
Raid 0 doesn’t copy data, just stripes it across the array to be faster. One disk dies, lose all your data.
Raid 1 is a mirror with no striping. Excellent backup, best case scenario the same speed as no raid.
Bret
I love that the first 4 comments here were about the computer question. Nerds.
John Cole
Raid 0 is what I have now for the speed, and what I will go with again.
CanadaGoose
Funny. It’s usually FOUR weeks after surgery that idiots start calling their doctors.
I had abdominal surgery years ago and at four weeks, I started calling the doc and whining that I thought I’d feel better and is it normal etc. That’s when I realized that if I got six weeks off work it was going to take a rock-bottom-minimum of six weeks to recover.
In fact, it was more like eight…
Molly
Proud, proud, proud.
Dr. Squid
I could have seen Aravosis banning you. He banned a whole bunch of people and deleted their comments protesting his being pictured with Katherine Harris.
Yes, THAT Katherine Harris.
Douche Baggins
RAID 0 is preferred by gamers when they need to be able to store lotsa data, fast. RAID 1 is for backup. RAID 5 is for people who get paid to archive bits.
Can’t say I blame Scarborough for banning Mr Cole, though. That was pretty tasteless.
freelancer
@Douche Baggins:
Can I just say, I am in awe of your handle?
Scott
Getting banned by Scarborough and Aravosis — that’s something worth putting in the Christmas newsletter… If I was on Twitter, I’d be trying for that kind of result 24/7…
4tehlulz
SSDs in Raid 0
John Cole
@freelancer: I concur.
Svensker
Mr. Cole, re your bannings — as someone once said, I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have me for a member.
Well done, sir.
Sux about your shoulder.
Pangloss
Why don’t Republicans have enemies lists anymore? Sure, they’re still breaking and entering into their opponents’ offices, but I guess long lists of enemies have gone the way of the mimeograph machine.
jeffreyw
Raid kills bugs, all I know. Let’s eat some Stroganoff!
Nick
I’m starting to believe what my friend on the Hill said last Spring that there was a coordinated effort within the Democratic Party to make Obama a one-term President as payback for beating Hillary.
freelancer
@John Cole:
Now if we can get one of the trolls to change his/her name to “Co-Baggins”.
Can cleek write a script for that?
demo woman
I’m jealous! Of course I have never read those tweets so guess I can’t get banned but I’m still jealous.
thejoz
Scarborough is a fucking tool. Every once in a while I find myself agreeing with stuff that he says, cause he’s not a total wingnut-batshit-insane-teabagging type…
But he’s still a conservative, and still very proud of that. So…
Besides, he’s done plenty of homage paying at the Altar of Harold Ford, so, yeah. That means he’s full of fail now.
redbeardjim
@Pangloss:
At this point, it’s much easier for them to maintain non-enemies lists, as they’re a lot shorter.
The Republic of Stupidity
Is this true? (… that you always thought it was quality advice in the first place?)
I hate to admit it, but I’ve literally gotten lost in the arguments at this point, and 1) I’m NOT stupid, and 2) I DO try to pay attention.
I’ve wondered all along w/ the Dems felt compelled to rush headlong into such a complicated piece of legislation. I personally feel that once the rationales and competing arguments get as complicated as they have here, you really have no choice but to drop it and start over, which might have been the point all along… getting nothing done while hoping to APPEAR to have tried.
I kinda distrusted a 2,000 page bill right from the start. TWO THOUSAND pages? Put together how quickly? Sheesh… how did they expect people to react?
I’ve said it before, maybe not here, but other places… the only way you’re going to get meaningful HCR… cover more people at a price the country can afford, is to hammer the profit margins in the whole shebang… whether it’s the insurers, the providers… whoever…
It seems all along the Republicans were determined to protect those profits no matter what, and for too many Dems were afraid to offend those same interests, and there was simply no way HCR was really going to help the country as a whole until something effective was done to rein in costs.
I suppose SOMEONE here will now proceed to hammer me for being idealistic… or stupid…
jeffreyw
Some cardinals taken plumb out of context.
John Cole
@The Republic of Stupidity: I’m not sure you picked up the sarcasm there.
It was the quality advice I always thought it was. Really fucking bad.
Laura W
I don’t know that “finally” was required there but Ahab’s a total slacker*.
Sales have been brisk and traffic GREAT in our first nearly-48 hours! And there seems to be something for everyone since there is a huge diversity in items ordered and images chosen. New mug coming soon, sure to please many. As soon as John checks email.
*I kid, of course. He way rocks.
robertdsc
That Scarborough tweet is Tunchian in its meanness. Thumbs up, lol.
jakethesnake
RAID 0 = pointless, you don’t need twice the speed at the cost of twice the chance of loosing all your data.
RAID 1 = Good, keeps you running when one hard drive fails. No need to restore from backups, just replace the dead hard drive as soon as possible. Doesn’t replace backups, if you accidentally delete something, it’s still gone.
RAID 5,6 = No need now that drives are so cheap.
RAID 1+0 = Fast and keeps you running when a hard drive crashes, but needs 4 drives.
Go with RAID 1, or don’t do RAID at all. Either way, you still need to backup.
gnomedad
@4tehlulz:
Since you bring it up:
Samsung SSD Awesomeness
Zach
Forget RAID — if you don’t know the difference between 0 and 1 (and who could blame you), I think you’ll find the experience of trying to navigate all the options available to you rather frustrating, and I’d say you’re likely to wind up with a system that doesn’t really suit your needs. If you’re looking for a nice place to park lots and lots of bits with some degree of redundancy, you could do a lot worse than an external solution — Data Robotics make a lovely one called “Drobo.” You buy the enclosure and fill it with drives, and it arranges things so that all of your data are safe, even if one drive fails. Essentially no configuration required. I have one full of 1.5-TB drives for all my digital photos, and I love it.
Douche Baggins
I is not a troll!
But srsly, is it really necessary to bring up the freakin intern all the time? Doesn’t “You’re an asshole, Joe” do the trick?
someone
Remember John, with RAID 0 your chance of catastrophic disk failure is 2x greater than 1 disk. Really, RAID 0 has always been overhyped. You don’t see anywhere near the theoretical 2x performance in real world apps. If you want speed get an SSD which will be 4x faster than a RAID 0 setup. If you have 1 disk make sure you have backups. If you have RAID 0 make twice as sure you have backups (and can recover from them). Oh, and a good RAID controller should give you 2x read performance with RAID 1 so unless you’re doing something requiring lots of writes RAID 1 is safe and fast. Food for thought…
The Republic of Stupidity
@John Cole:
No I didn’t pick up the sarcasm.
I hadn’t seen you espouse anything like that all along, so I wasn’t sure what to make of it.
I’ve simply felt discouraged about this whole process for months. Like I said… once the Dems launched into such an enormous undertaking so quickly and produced a 2,000 page bill, and skipped over a simple solution liking expanding Medicare, I assumed this thing was going down, kinda like a cross between the Hindenberg and the Titanic. I really question just how many Dems ever wanted it to pass in the first place.
If, by some miracle, the current piece of legislation were to pass… why would this be good?
In simple language, please, and no name calling… if you don’t mind.
Nick
@Douche Baggins:
To a party that constantly accuses us of being traitors, terrorist-lovers, etc, no, maybe not.
Playing nice isn’t getting us anywhere, it’s time to slit their throats IMO.
Linkmeister
Open-threadiness: anybody got a used wireless access point they’re not using? The netbook 100 feet down the hall and around the corner is only getting a fair (2-bar) signal from my wireless router. The Dynex router brags a 400′ range, but that’s not justified in my experience.
Anachronym
John —
Consider RAID 10 (minimum 4 drives, consumes 2 for redundancy) which gives you both speed and data security. Or, RAID 5 (3 or more drives, consumes 1 for redundancy) which is what I currently use. In either case buy one additional identical drive ahead of time to use as a spare in case a drive dies (replacement drives generally must be identical).
Douche Baggins
@Nick: Maybe I need to get more educated on the whole “intern” thing. Maybe the vitriol against Scarborough is justified. Maybe I’m just a Pollyanna for thinking that the path out of this is to point out their retarded ideas, and not go on with the ad hominem attacks.
But then what do I know, I’m just a douche!
Litlebritdifrnt
@jeffreyw:
Jeff – you know you can make an almost fat free, almost cholesterol free version of that right? (I make it for hubby, and serve it over a baked potato, he loves it).
me
@John Cole: If speed is what you want, get a fast SSD and forget RAID 0. Or any RAID for that matter.
JGabriel
John Cole:
If you can afford 3-5 drives, RAID 5 is worth considering — it gives you the increased performance, with backup if one of them dies so you don’t lose everything. Keep in mind that with a two-drive Raid 0 array, your chance of failure is double that of single drive.
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4tehlulz
@gnomedad: I wasn’t really impressed until I saw that run Crysis on very high settings.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Laura W:
Hey Laura my local Animal Adoption peeps contacted me today (CAPS) so rather than play favorites I split the baby, I divided up the coupons exactly, CAPS will get half and Charlie’s Angels will get half. I have to drop off the CAPS ones to Petsmart tomorrow and I will mail the rest to Evelyn tomorrow (PO closed today).
Hob
@The Republic of Stupidity: What’s this “rushing”, “quickly”, “2000 page bill” stuff? Do you live in an alternate universe where the House and Senate health-care bills appeared promptly instead of being picked over in their respective committees for months and months and months and months and months– and where major reform bills are normally known for their brevity? I think you may have been listening to too many Republican soundbites.
Litlebritdifrnt
@jeffreyw:
Okay give, how’d you do that? It is very weird but I like it.
jeffreyw
@Litlebritdifrnt: I asked Mrs J about her prefs-tater or pasta. She gave the pasta the nod.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Laura W:
Laura is there anyway we can get an update as to how Charlie’s Angels is benefitting from the store at some point? I think those who are buying stuff would like to see that.
ChrisB
@Laura W: No Presidents Day sale?
(I kid, I kid: I know it’s for a good cause.)
jeffreyw
@Litlebritdifrnt: I use the basic Windows image handling app “windows photo gallery”, it has a “fix” option in the menu bar that allows you to do simple tweaks-cropping, adjusting exposure and contrast, and some color tweaks-temperature, hue, saturation. I run the brightness up to 11, slide color temp one way for cardinals and the other way for blue jays, and run the saturation slider way up. In my stream there are a few more pics that got this treatment.
Litlebritdifrnt
Can I just restate that the US Healthcare systems sucks. After amassing enough co-pays, deductibles, etc., to choke a fucking horse with the heart attack, DH now has to have Gall bladder surgery, he did the phone registration today, they told him he has to show up with $125.00 co-pay or they won’t do the surgery because it is considered “elective” yeah right, its elective, he has gall stones, I would really like some tea-bagging fucking moron to tell me how the health care system in this country is “just fine” when hard working peeps like me and my DH are now drowning in debt thanks to his medical issues (and we both have health insurance) and co-pays and deductibles on DH’s now ESSENTIAL prescription meds, cause I would take this really nice baseball bat I keep in the hall closet and beat their fucking brains out. End of Rant.
cat48
@john cole
Follow you on twitter and you crack me up……but tell me more about Scarborough’s intern dying. I heard that, but no one seemed to know the tale.
You just go after everybody on twitter…Did Hayes ban you for asking him if he had found the WMD?
Feel better.
Nick
@Douche Baggins:
No, in a normal society, pointing out their retarded ideas wold be the way out of this, but people seem to like their retarded ideas, but if you create scandal, they respond.
The Republic of Stupidity
@Hob:
Thank you so much for feeling entitled to insult me…
I could have sworn I asked folks to refrain from personal attacks. Nice to see you can discuss such a complicated mess in calm, deliberate terms.
Last time I checked, the current HCR bill was about a year old… do I need to refine that observation for your sake? I’ve read repeatedly that at least one of the versions floating around clocked in at 2,000 pages. Is this true or was I misled?
And as for rushing in… the Dems tried to do this in less than a year?
Are YOU serious?
Litlebritdifrnt
@jeffreyw:
Got ya, I use Picasa (free) I never got used to photoshop, it was too much like rocket surgery for me. Picasa is nice and simple, I imagine the Windows app is probably the same.
freelancer
Fuck, not even this thread is safe.
geg6
Cole, that tweet you sent to Scarborough is the most awesome thing to ever hit Twitter. Seriously. I hate the entire idea of Twitter, but you, sir, have mastered whatever that shit is. I bow before your awesomeness. You are the master. He should have the death of that poor girl hung around his neck every.single.day.of.his.life.
Laura W
@Litlebritdifrnt: Oh absolutely! I think the one week anniversary (ie, next Sat. night) would be nice. What do you think? Since this is sort of wide open and ongoing, the hope is that sales will be steady and consistent across the months to provide them with a semi-steady income stream.
And BTW, it might not have been mentioned on BJ, but after 6 months we will shift charities and send profits to John’s favorite no-kill in WV. CP can’t split commissions monthly for us, so this seemed a fair resolution. Charlie’s benefits from the initial grand opening influx, and the other group will get the holiday shoppers. Thanks for coupons, too!
@ChrisB: er…I did think of that, actually, but it’s a tad too soon to start discounting. How about Mardi Gras?? We’ll get Evelyn to whip up a new Tunch With Beads graphic. Fat Tunchday?
soonergrunt
@Bret: Further to Brett’s post–
RAID 0–as Brett noted, if one disk eats it, you lose the whole array. Also to note, you double your failure rate, since you have two devices each a single point of failure. RAID 0 can be more than one disk, but the failure rate is inversely proportional to the number of disks.
MTBF(array)=MTBF(disk)/#ofdisks.
RAID 0 arrays are often slower tha single disks in the write operation, since the operation has to be split between drives by the controller.
RAID1–as Brett noted, two disks with mirroring. What’s written to disk A is written to disk B in real time. Again, this can lead to a slowdown during writes. Almost never found with anything more than two disks anymore. The failure rate for a RAID1 array is MTBF (array)=MTBF(disk)*#ofdisks.
Other RAID levels have various drawbacks and advantages, but the advantages really only come into play when you have a discrete hardware-based RAID controller with it’s own battery back up and memory. In other words, a shit-pot of money invested.
If you’re looking at a new desktop computer, may I recommend that you get a computer with a SSD drive as your primary (fast as hell) and a large standard hard drive as your back up?
My setup–
Corsair P128, $375
Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB, $79
danimal
@The Republic of Stupidity: I take your question seriously, so let me explain something in general. ANY time someone points to the number of pages in a bill as a reason to oppose it, they are full of BS. The number of pages in a bill and the complexity of the bill are totally separate things.
I work in the policy arena and read a fair amount of legislation. Legislative language is very different than normal English. It is filled with pages of boilerplate,
strikeouttext and “this page left intentionally blank” pages. With a topic that touches on so many fields, ANY health care reform is going to take a lot of pages.FYI–The Senate Finance version of HCR was under a hundred pages. The reason: They write the legislation in plain English.
MBunge
“But srsly, is it really necessary to bring up the freakin intern all the time?”
Yes and it doesn’t have anything to do with Scarborough’s politics. It is unbe-freaking-lievable that someone with THE UNSOLVED MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN in his past is allowed to be just another talking head in the public discourse. At least with Kennedy and Chappaquiddick, he had a-hole enemies who would bring it up all the time.
Mike
The Republic of Stupidity
@danimal:
I wasn’t exactly pointing to the number of pages as a reason to oppose it. I hadn’t heard that the Senate bill was only 100 pgs long… swear to Dog. When I KEPT hearing it was 2,000 pgs long, I did feel discouraged. Was that a talking point? If so, it sure got around a lot.
100 pgs, I’m FAAAAAAR more comfortable w/. I work as a bookkeeper/accountant and the folks I work w/ tell me I pretty good at it. I’ve read a fair number of contracts the last 10 years and have learned that w/ a 100 pg contract 95% of what you need to know is usually in the first 2 – 3 pgs and the rest is just legal ‘what ifs’.
I’ve been trying to keep up w/ this debate/slap fight, but my word… it’s been impossible.
I’ve noticed people here keep saying something to the effect “Pass this or lose it for 10 years”, which I understand, and agree w/ (the part about lose it for 10 years). Sadly I’ve given up on Republicans completely. They seem to have institutionalized themselves as the street thugs of our political process.
Question… do you REALLY think the current bill will make things better? And why?
And politely please… there’s no need to insult me here.
JenJen
@Laura W: I’m looking forward to being the proud owner of a Tunch “FEED” apron.
Awesome work on this project, doll!
burnspbesq
If you have a large volume of mission-critical data (like, f’rinstance, a 2,800 – album iTunes library or the complete archive of a highly popular blog), RAID 0 is abso-by-god-lutely not for you. You can get a two-disk, 4tB RAID 1 array from a variety of sources; I have a WD MyBook World Edition II, which you can probably buy for less than $500 if you shop carefully. It is plugged into the wireless router, so any computer that can access the network can access the music library, and it’s also available to my Sonos system.
Mayken
@The Republic of Stupidity: We’ve been trying to pass health care reform for over a generation now. None of the ideas in the Senate bill are really anything new. Most of them have been tried in one form or another in other countries. Or are adaptions of ideas that have been around for years. I would not call anything that has happened about this process “rushed.”
While I would have loved to see just Medicare/caid expanded pretty much everyone knew anything even slightly smelling of “government run health care” was a non-starter from day 1. I too wish they had started from that position rather than with the much more watered-down “public option” but that is no longer a relevant argument to this discussion. More’s the pity, but it is the truth.
Danimal has very kindly given you the “why the 2000 pages meme is silly” speech so I will refrain from any further comment on that.
And here are a few of the Very Good Things in the Senate Bill:
Bans recission
College student covered for longer on parents’ policy
Bans discrimination based on gender, health history or occupation
Mandates limitations on premium increases due to age
Bans lifetime and yearly caps on coverage
Mandates limitations on out of pockets expenses
Mandates minimum coverage standards
Provides subsides for people up to 400% of poverty level (a little less than 90k/year for a family of 4)
Creates state-wide insurance exchanges (allowing small businesses and individuals to act as 1 large risk pool rather than myriad small ones)
Medicaid expanded to 133% of poverty level
No, it is not a perfect bill. But it is the realistic best bill.
Cheers
And Another Thing...
Re: the shoulder…the bad news: you did a whole lot of damage, and it’s going to hurt for more than 8 weeks. The good news: for the most part, ibuprofen will be enough med. The bad news: you’re going to learn that it’s not an old wives’ tale that the weather is gonna make it hurt. The good news: you’re doing the hard work of physical therapy so you’ll get your functioning back. A big part of managing the injury/recuperation is adjusting your expectations. Varied interests are important, useful distractions while putting in the healing time. And remember, use it or lose it. With any luck, you’ll be well enough to resume normal activities (walks w Lily, gardening, etc.) as spring breaks. You did a lot of damage to a very complicated joint system. It’s going to take time…and occasional bitchin’ abt it is therapeutic.
Sebastian
As a senior storage architect with 20 years xp I would like to point out:
If you do not know what track/partition alignment and fs cluster size to stripe element size shaping are …
Forget RAID 0, 10, 5, and 6. Your write penalty will offset any performance gains by striping.
Get a SSD.
Jill
That tweet to Scarborough is a thing of beauty.
Litlebritdifrnt
@Laura W:
It would be really nice if it could provide them a steady income stream. I hope I helped today with the coupons (I am sure the foster parents could use them), I am guessing that there will be an initial influx of income from everyone buying stuff and then it will taper off. I hope that it will maintain enough of a revenue stream that it will then benefit John’s fav no kill. It is all good.
Warren Terra
Why respond to Republic? Anyone complaining about the length of a bill rather than its contents, or the unseemly of hurry writing it in 9 months, should be left to grapple with their concerns.
And Another Thing...
@Mayken: Good post. The bill also includes limiting/eliminating pre-existing condition exclusions, and includes lots of flexibility to experiment in Medicare with to improve care and control costs. Personally, I think the idea that it will be 10 years before another attempt… I think that’s overly optimistic. If lots of dems lose in this cycle & politicians believe it’s because of HCR it could take a generation – until all the incumbents are gone. Not passing a reasonable HCR will have a profoundly chilling effect on passing anything of substance that’s remotely controversial. I’m fundamentally an optimist, but increasingly, I think that we’re in decline. We don’t seem to have the will, the institutions, or citizens who are willing to step out of narrow self-interest, to actually deal with our problems.
The Republic of Stupidity
@Mayken:
Out of curiosity, who’s “we”?
Yes… I know… various interests have been trying to pass HCR, in one form or another since Nixon, actually… no, make that Truman… no wait… better go back even farther…
What I was calling “rushed” was the way this current group of Dems went about it. I still feel it’s a valid observation. You’re talking about putting pretty massive legislation into place that supposed to function for decades to come. If the Dems (hypothetical here) had pushed something thru, quickly, that blew up in their faces, you would see another attempt a reform in about 2 or 3 decades, as opposed to 10 years.
Yes… danimal, and hob, and you are kind… you’re killing me w/ kindness. If only I had healthcare to cover it…
Now… as for your list of Good Things in the bill…
Believe it or not… for all the reading I do… and I do a lot… that is the first list I’ve seen that summarizes the bill in a way that I take take in directly. Really. Whne it’s explained that way, I don’t feel bad about it.
For all this has been debated, at all levels, the past few months, why the FFFFFFFFFF hasn’t anyone summarized it like that? I’ve given up on the MSM… they’re a joke. But even a lot of ‘libruls’ can’t explain the f-in’ bill very well and when I slog innto the endless slap-fights that take place here or elsewhere, I simply lose interest when folks start pissing on each other out of spite.
I have to say… ya’ll are self-important as Hell when someone
when someone asks a simple question, or two. Thank you all for condescending to answer my questions thru clinched teeth. Though I could barely understand the answers for all the hissing… ;-)
Mayken
@And Another Thing…: Yeah, I forgot to break that important piece out of the bans on certain types of discrimination in issuing/pricing policies.
And I agree: 10 years is optimistic. I think 20-25 years is more likely. I don’t think the Dems are going to lose as big as the media wants us to think (knock on wood) but until the American public finds a way to repudiate the Rs obstruction strategy we are going to be in a world of hurt!
The Republic of Stupidity
@Warren Terra:
I sincerely thank you for your informed, fact-filled, sensitive reply.
Ruckus
@Litlebritdifrnt:
rocket surgery
OK I’m stealing this. I may even give credit for stealing it, because it is so good.
Ming
@The Republic of Stupidity: because, once passed, it will save something at least 45,000 American citizens from dying due to lack of reasonably priced health insurance, while doing our economy, and our large and small businesses a huge favor.
Thanks to Mayken for the point by point.
Jade Jordan
You are a twitter badass. Love the Scarborough twitt. We need to learn more about what happened to the intern and why he quit Congress so soon after her death!
mclaren
What Anachronym said. Raid 1+0 is the best way to go. If you lose one drive, you still lose no data. You get twice the read speed (which you would from Raid 1) but you also get twice the write speed, which Raid 1 won’t give you. Raid 1+0 is basically striping + mirroring on 4 drives. Cool stuff.
Jay in Oregon
@Dr. Squid:
Don’t forget the infamous “big girl” drama showcase which resulted in a whole host of people being banned and the thread deleted as well.
I was in that august company, and I wasn’t even attacking him! I got into a pissing match with one of his fanboys and was banned about 10 minutes after I stepped back and said something to the effect of “this is silly, at the end of the day I’d rather stand in your company than against you”.
I guess he didn’t feel the same way.
Jay in Oregon
John:
Those Scarborough and Aravosis tweets are 100% pure win.
DaBomb
The tweet to Joe was a thing of beauty, John.
It really brought a smile to my face and a tear of joy to my left eye.
bend
Hahaha.
Joe Scharborough obsessively checks his @s on Twitter. Last year he responded to some +5 tweet of mine with a suggestion that I overdose.
http://gawker.com/5342135/the-dreyfuss+scarborough-affair
The Republic of Stupidity
@Ming:
I actually agree w/ almost everything everyone has said here.
I am astonished at the way hardly anyone could answer w/out the snide, high-handed undertone. Very cool.
I still feel far too many Dems in the Congress don’t want this to pass. I, personally, would have preferred a more… ah… ‘radical’ bill… and now having heard some of this explained the way it was, in spite of the cheap, petty rudeness, I actually feel better about what is on the table.
I am constantly amazed at how poorly Dems present their ideas to the public and how they repeatedly let the Republicans control the framing. That HCR would be a boon for small businesses s/b so obvious. Why that hasn’t been touted more…
John Cole
@bend: Are you really the spawn of Richard Dreyfuss?
John Cole
@John Cole: IMDB says you are. And your mom is from WV, too!
A celebrity in our midst.
Hob
@The Republic of Stupidity: I did not insult you in any way. What are you talking about? I suggested that you might have been listening to too many Republican talking points, simply because that’s what that sounds like– I honestly have never heard a Democrat or a supporter of HCR claim that this bill was “rushed” or had too many pages, regardless of any other priblems they may have with it. My answers to those things have already been covered by other commenters here, so I’ll leave it at that; still don’t get the personal umbrage.
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@John Cole:
Indeed, I am. It’s my cross to bear.
Myy mom is from Charleston AND she has in the mail a Tunch Obey shirt!
The Republic of Stupidity
@Hob:
Hob… if you didn’t mean it that way, I’m sorry… but I believe you did make some comment about living in “an alternate reality”, which isn’t typically meant to be a compliment.
As far as “rushing”… since that seems to have jarred you a bit.
I’m not sure why that got the reaction it did.
***scratches head…***
It’s been my experience thru life that many good ideas flop because they’re timed wrong. I’ve seen some pretty good products that failed because the people pushing them didn’t have a good enough business plan and didn’t think all the steps thru carefully enough.
I’ve keep several businesses from going under the last few years simply because I can handle money as well as I did on the job. I simply feel for a piece of legislation this vast, that supposed to stay in place for decades to come, the Dems needed to present it to the public better. Perhaps it’s all the wingnut obfuscation (I CAN’T stand those guys…
people who know me better would be falling down laughing at the idea I’m deliberately spouting Republican talking points here…) but it just felt to ME that this wasn’t brought to the public well at all.
Perhaps I’ve just grown more… deliberate… and cautious… as I’ve grown older. really don’t see why that comment on my part should provoke the way it did.
Just… saying…
Mayken
@The Republic of Stupidity:
HCR has been a Dem party plank for decades so by we I mean Dems. And liberals/progressives. Many interest groups. Teddy Kennedy. Take your pick. It is, as you noted, not a new issue. Nor are the proposed solutions.
The focus on this bill has been a matter of months this time around but the process of getting to this bill is decades in the making. See the first part of this comment. Once again, much of it has been tried elsewhere (either other countries or in states/municipalities in our country) or has some pretty good research behind it. Many of the people who were part of putting the plans together have been working this issue for years, too, not months. Bringing it all together for this bill has been a shorter process but what more, really, do you want to see them do? Do you have a realistic belief that more debate or something (what?) would really make a better bill?
And if this does NOT pass, I guarantee we will lose HCR for another a couple of decades at least. We don’t get a second bite at the apple here. No matter how hard FDL and GOS think we do!
Meanwhile, thousand die, go bankrupt, lose coverage, see premiums rise etc while we dither about “rushed” legislation.
I appreciate the complement. I’m glad it makes you feel better about the bill. But I just broke out bill summaries I’ve seen on a bunch of different places, including Kff.org and WhiteHouse.gov. There is more to it of course but those were the big things I think make the bill most worthwhile.
To paraphrase Franken, this is not a bumper sticker issue. Dems have been trying to pound the “no preexisting conditions” et al stuff into the heads of the public for a long time. But ,yes, the MSM is useless and has allowed the screaming of the paranoid fringe to dominate what has passed for debate in public. It’s disgusting.
Anyway, I’ve tried not to be dogmatic through this process but the chance is fast escaping us. We need to PTDB or we lose HCR for this generation. End of story.
Hob
@The Republic of Stupidity: Also, there’s been A LOT of discussion of the fine points of the bill here. But if you wanted a single easy-to-find list, you probably would’ve been better off looking elsewhere, like say Ezra Klein’s blog… I’ve seen half a dozen pretty good attempts, and I wasn’t really looking that hard, maybe I was just lucky though.
Don’t know why you’re so shocked to receive some snark from people here (not unlike the snark you’ve happily dished out before) when you’re basically jumping into a long-running argument and demanding that people re-justify their side from scratch because you haven’t really been paying attention.
Mayken
@Ming: Yes, this!
The Republic of Stupidity
@Hob:
But… you’re not trying to be insulting…
LOL…
I humbly apologize to my betters.
The fact that I asked for some simple clarification on an extremely complicated issue has CLEARLY offended some of you.
I don’t snark here more than anyone else, and I NEVER snark on the serious discussion threads. A lot of the time I just read ’em and don’t say anything. I’m not even sure why the snarking I occasionally do is germane to this converstation.
Again… I am astonished at the self-importance. Clearly I am dealing w/ intellects far superior to mind.
J. Michael Neal
From last night:
I just timed this shit. 4.5 minutes of biathlon, followed by 2.25 minutes of commercials, followed by 4.25 minutes of biathlon, followed by 2.5 minutes of commercials, followed by 4 minutes of Dick Button blathering, followed by 3 minutes of commercials, followed by 8 minutes of Up Close and Personal, followed by 2 minutes of commercials, followed by 5.5 minutes of Jimmy Roberts saying absolutely nothing, followed by 3 minutes of commercials, followed by 2.5 minutes of talking heads talking about luge, followed by 2 minutes of commercials, followed by 2.25 minutes of more talk about luge, and then, finally, 2.25 minutes of actual fucking luge. Then more commercials.
Now I have another question. What the fuck is this animation of Vikings doing Olympic sports, to narration by someone with a bad fake Scottish accent?* The stupidity of NBC knows no bounds.
*A good fake Scottish accent, or a real Scottish accent, is completely unintelligible to the rest of us.
Wile E. Quixote
John, as a backups and storage guy I say forget about using RAID within your PC. RAID has it’s uses, but not many of them in the home. The other problem with RAID is that it doesn’t protect you from data and filesystem corruption, with a RAID setup you just end up with multiple copies of the corrupted data. Rather than spend the money on RAID go out and purchase two backup drives for your system and once a week do a full backup to one of the drives and then disconnect them and keep them in a safe place. If your system dies a horrible death you’re missing at most one week of data.
I’ve got a RAID 1+0 setup at home, and multiple backup drives, but then again I do this for a living, and it would be damned embarrassing to lose data at home.
And Another Thing...
@J. Michael Neal: You called the times correctly…I DVR’d a show & avoided all news sources…then watched a 4 hour Olympics…in 2 hours. Do you think Bob Costas has been “refreshed” by surgery? He’s 58 this year.
J. Michael Neal
@And Another Thing…: I can watch mine in less than that, because I’d rather listen to Chris Collinsworth than watch figure skating.
Mayken
@The Republic of Stupidity: Sorry, dude, you spins the wheel, you takes yer chances. Anyway, it’s not really a BJ comment thread ’til the creative (or not so creative) insults fly!
RareSanity
@John Cole:
John, I’m a little late to the thread but seriously, there is no need for RAID array on a home computer.
Using RAID 0 doubles the chances of a catastrophic error and using the “consumer” level hard drives most people use, it is only a matter of time before you get bit, so to speak.
You will not experience much of a speed increase either, you’re probably using 5400 rpm drives, the increase would be negligible.
As for RAID 1, someone else pointed out that its main purpose is hardware redundancy, not data redundancy.
If you want a little better performance for your gaming, make sure you get a 7200 rpm drive, and pay a little extra for one that has a higher write count rating. Also, make sure it has S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring, it will tell you if a problem is on the horizon. Or, if you are really serious about performance and willing to pay the price, get an SSD drive.
Use something else for backup though, RAID 1 isn’t for backup.
J. Michael Neal
Now these fuckers have decided that they aren’t going to show the speed skating. Yeah, there were embarrassing ice problems, but that doesn’t actually stop them from SHOWING THE RACING THAT HAPPENED.
What a bunch of useless fuckers.
Wile E. Quixote
@Douche Baggins:
Yes, it’s necessary, and deserved, the wingers are still bringing up Chappaquiddick 40 years after it happened and after Ted Kennedy was buried. Fuck Joe Scarborough, he got away with murder.
Hob
@The Republic of Stupidity: Look, if you think “you weren’t paying attention” is an insult, I can’t help you. Plenty of perfectly nice people don’t pay attention. And to be clear, I didn’t get pissy because you asked a question — I got pissy (but still did not insult you personally) because you were asking for an explanation of one of the main things that everyone’s been talking about here for months — including plenty of front-page posts that were entirely about why they think the bill is worth passing — BUT ALSO because you combined your question with a couple of flat-out ridiculous Republican talking points which would only be mistaken for reality by someone who hasn’t been paying attention. It’s pretty much as if you said “Explain why you like this bill– isn’t it all full of death panels?”, or “This new-fangled idea of letting gays in the military, why are they rushing ahead with it like this?”
Anyway, so then after you get one extra-nice person who lays it all out for you, and a couple of people who are like “dude, what the hell?”, you’re still not trying to talk about the damn bill, you’re just going on about how rude everyone is here, and expecting to raise the level of discourse that way. How’s that working out for you? Anyway, bye.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
On my personal system the OS is on its own drive (no RAID), my games are on a RAID 0 array and I path/store everything of value on a RAID 1 array. I don’t store anything of value on either the OS or the RAID 0 drives. I get the gaming speed I need, the redundancy I need for my valuable data and if the OS drive dies I just load up a new drive with a regularly updated image. If the game array dies I just reload the new one from the game data backed up onto the RAID 1 side.
I use RAID 5 w/128 Mb of battery-backed cache (four drives) on my main and backup servers (both running Fedora Core 10) on which I store a backup of my RAID 1 data from my personal system. In six years and with two server upgrades I have lost one drive, which the system quickly rebuilt.
I have emails stored in my mail client that go back to 1997, documents that go back to the Win3.x days and all kinds of miscellaneous stuff collected over the years. I just don’t lose data though at times I almost wish I would…lol! You can accumulate a lot of shit in 20+ years of dealing with computers.
@mclaren:
A 1+0 using SSD would be a screamer. With seat belts!
Whatever RAID level(s) you use, periodic hardcopy backup of your data is essential. RAID is not a backup system and there are many things that can go wrong with any array.
@John Cole:
That is f’ing cool! Hey Ben, your dad is a fav of mine, I enjoy his work and always have. Your shot at Scarface was almost as good as John’s…lol!
usenetflamewars
@The Republic of Stupidity:
Er, and you would have us believe you’ve never seen a comment thread before? Whatever. You’re socially pathological, regardless of your political interests. It’s not like I follow threads obsessively, or anything, but damn, so you just fell into a thread on BJ and expected the *commenters* to give you a complete run-down on a huge subject in only the way that exactly suits you? And then you get passive aggressive when people fail to suit you exactly, by petting your head and whispering softly to you just as little Zoey did in grade school? Grow some thicker skin or study internet traditions or at least accept that miscommunication will happen if this is all so very foreign and strange and thick brambles of the comment thread surround you, your goat on the string has wandered into the bushes and tangled up its lead. What do you do? (If you know what I’m saying. )
Yeah, so this is a comment thread. On a partisan web site with spirited hecklers and Dramamine is not required or booze. Hell. But really, you’re on the internet. Have you heard of electrons?
asiangrrlMN
@And Another Thing…: I do the same thing. I fast-forward through the commercials, the heartwarming stories, the interviews, the replays, and pretty much anything that isn’t competition. I can cut those suckers down by two-thirds, and I do watch the figure skating.
@Hob: I just wanted to say, I like your style and your comments (not just from this thread, but over all). That’s all.
Cole, stop the stupid shit, ok? I don’t want to see you with TWO broken wings.
The Tim Channel
Health care won’t be ‘reformed’ until the excessive profits of the medical industrial complex are brought under control.
What good is the ability to purchase insurance for a preexisting condition if you can’t afford it anyway?
No profit health care is the only solution IMHO.
Enjoy.
Remember November
RAID 0- two or more drives striped together to span each drive for greater write bandwidth. RAID 1- Mirroring- some measure of data protection as the drives are mirrored to each other. Usually done for Boot OS drives.
wenchacha
John, I’m in love with the JoeScar tweet. I hope it raised his bp for at least an hour or so.
Regarding your surgery: be very very patient and do not expect too much too soon. Tell yourself you will feel much better in a year or so. It’ll be good before then, but it usually takes longer than you think it will. It would be different if you were 18 or so.
les
@The Republic of Stupidity:
Sorry, but the notion that the length of a bill says squat about quality sorta takes an opinion right out of consideration. The Senate Finance bill was crap, crafted to please repubs who had vowed to vote for nothing; it should have been zero pages. Legislation, especially in initial work ups, may have 5 or 6 lines on a page; many lines reference existing statutes to be amended, many show changes from the initial bill to the current draft, etc. etc. In the effort to change the way we handle 17% of US GDP, the notion that the fewest pages is the best is somewhere between too lazy to vote and too uninformed to have an opinion.
Janus Dainiels
Given the speed of modern drives, with the ease and reliability of even free backup options, I stopped using RAID years ago.
Does anyone have any use for it?