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DD, I am naive in many ways reg. these kinds of things :), so please nobody laugh (or do it quietly). Can you help me with these? Regarding your Synolgy box: a) What model is it? b) What Raid level are you running on it? c) Can a Windows 7 or Windows 8 Client access data on a Synology box...

After being sorely tempted, I think I'll stick with Win-7 for now. When Win 8.5 comes out, who knows.

Good suggestions; I'll check them out, thanks. I was thinking of the Synology DS1512+. 4TB x 5 = 20 TB max, but can add up to two extensions units that can each have 5 drives. This should more than cover his needs, since his present collection is 6TB, and Raid-6 with 4 drives will give him 8 TB...

Thanks guys. Chewy, Synology does not seem to support RaidZ2. I need to read up on Raid Z. For my friend, write speed is immaterial; he will be updating his collection from time to time, but the speed at which it is done is not material to the issue. Read speeds, of course, have to be enough to...

His reactions in the The ESD video looked staged to me.

I agree with DD. May be the result of being unused for a long period. I'd also suggest a power cycle and a re-look at the Smart data.

Marco Tempest: The magic of truth and lies (and iPods) Youtube video of a TED talk. Uses 3 synchronized IPODs to do his thing.

So guys, help me here with the front end. I know nothing about these. How about DD's suggestion? My earlier suggestion? Want to keep this simple. I don't foresee this guy using Blu-Ray at all.

+1 !

Thanks all for your suggestions. For the front end, wouldn't a simple XP or Win 7 machine suffice? The audio-out could be fed into his music system. The HDMI-out could be fed to his TV. Perhaps even a laptop? Am I taking gibberish? For the back end, he wants something unified. He currently has...

The friend, though he's in IT, is more of a sw guy, and hw is not his forte. He might be better off with a Synology, I'd guess. Of course, someone like Merc or Chewy can come along and suggest ZFS, of which I know zilch.

All right, SD, you know best.

Here.

A friend, who is into collecting eclectic music dating from the '40s onwards, much of it impromptu, live, one-off recordings, etc., has a 6TB digital collection. He's currently got it on multiple external drives and is constantly worried about them failing. Recently a 3TB external WD failed on...

Yes. Once aspect of GW often mentioned is reversal of climatic conditions - cold where it is warm, warm where it should be cold, rain where it should not, failed monsoons, etc. Some of these are happening with regularity - rain patterns, for instance.

Right. If you can get to the hashes, what's the point of this? Are you sure you can get to the hashes? Isn't the whole idea of this to get into the system in the first place?

Wrong thread?

That's utterly incomprehensible. Anyway, I'm glad GParted worked for you. Good to know.

To hazard an answer for Bozo's question, I think this is a proof of concept that hackers will love. Some hacker teams are pretty successful and have made a lot of money, and for them, this would be very juicy news indeed. What I see over and over is that pw length needs to be 14 chars plus to...

Wouldn't the mfr have a low-level format utility that will put it back to factory format?

ARS Technica doesn't seem to think much of FIPEL.

A Very Happy 2013 to all! We've put the Mayan calendar "catastrophe" behind, here's to wishing 2013 and later being productive, happy years for all.

25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6 hours Especially worrisome for Windows based machines which limit password length.

Start Folding!

There are strong rumors that a "fixed" version, 8.5, will be released before mid 2013. SO they may hold off on extending the discount period.

The ACs are on 365 days a year regardless of outside temperature every night in the two bedrooms. For 9 months of the year, the two living room ACs run for about 12 hours during the day. My electricity bill is not funny to look at. I am pretty much the highest payer in every apartment complex I...

That's a given in this town (seaside). RH Max of 91-92%. I bought a dry cabinet a long time ago to keep my Nikon D700 and two pro grade zoom lenses safe.

I'm on Windows. Sorry, didn't realize you were on Linux.

Interesting. My version of VLC (2.04) does not have the word "experimental" next to the GPU Acceleration option. It is also the very first option on the Input & Codecs settings page.

High: 84 F Low: 75 F :-D

See the news video in the link below. Due to the drought, corn crops in the Midwest were devastated. There is now not enough feed for livestock, so the livestock was sold off this fall. The corn that is left has been mandated to be made into ethanol to be added to gas for motor vehicles. The...

Just back after seeing Life of Pi 3D. Disappointing overall, doesn't live up to the hype. Only the storm that sinks the ship was good.

Thanks, all, for answering my question, and Tannin, for the detailed post!

+1 to Chewy's post.

I'd guess expensive too, though a lot of fun. Keep us posted, DD.

Merc! I'd take it off your hands if I was anywhere near! That stuff has high value; don't trade it for peanuts.

Saw Hobbit earlier today. We have only the 3D version available. Couldn't tell if it was the fast framerate version or not. I suspect it was the standard framerate. 3D was noticeable only in some scenes. I felt it was typical Jackson. They never made the guy do precis writing in school. 3...

Are there many things incompatible with Win8 that work with Win7? You guys tempt me with the performance improvement over Win7.

Amazing two billion pixel photo lets you zoom into the heart of Mount Everest. Do check out the base camp and the climbers!

Phonified Kill-a-watt Darpa's Robot Dog - pretty good. We're getting there. See the video.

I hope so too. Too many of these fancy things stay in the lab. Took me a few moments to eralize this threaded was started in 2004; I thought it was a new one! Wonder what happened to Infineon's work.

Correct. That's why I said badass.

Yeah, but they purposely lowball them with lousy screens, missing features, really old OS versions, etc., driving people to the higher end models that cost the consumer more and make more profit for the mfrs.

Totally Badass photography

Right. So for a person who primarily uses it as a phone, for maps and looks things up on the Internet, a single core 1GHz ought to be plenty.

I didn't do the math like you did :) I was excited about the concept, though. Imagine, no batteries to replace, no solar cells. For the poor in the third world, this would be a totally awesome device if it worked. I did find it strange that they pitched for donations at the end of the clip...

So you guys are saying there's no need to spend more for a phone with a faster processor?

This is amazing design! GravityLight - guess what force it uses for power? - from StuffTV

Probably. But are they high quality monitors or cheap business clerk level ones using TN panels??

38GB free on a 238 GB partition does not sound like a safe operating situation.