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Article discusses the basics of not changing (public) history: rebase your changes on the public branch, clean them up and never force-push.
Cleaning up my changes before publishing them is probably the biggest mind shift after moving to git. being able to reorder, combine and amend commits allows dirty, broken WiP commits to save your progress and provide rollback points (as well as allowing a simple backup by pushing to a remote private repository).
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With a little time and energy, it's possible to put together the right combination of hardware and software to provide a great SOHO server. For those without the inclination, though, a NAS box can provide a great alternative. NAS makers have done the hard work of building compact, energy efficient hardware, and putting an interface between you and the operating system that makes configuring the server a relative snap. What are you using for home or small-office network storage?
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NAS manufacturers charge way too much for boxes that are limited in terms of expandability. Building your own is a much better way to go, is cheaper, and easier than you think.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I've been looking at replacing my HP Mediasmart 470 WHSv1 box lately; and where NAS venders beat everyone else silly is on size. The mediasmart case, and those of Synology/Qnap/etc's 4 bay NASes are only slightly larger than the stack of disks that go into them. A mini ITX case with 4x3.5" is several times larger.
My media smart is: ~6 x 10 x 9"= 540 in^3 in size. A Lian Li PCQ-08[^] is ~13 x 8 x 11" = 1144 in^3; roughly twice as large. Other cases vary dimensions by an inch or so on one side or another; but without dropping to a case that only holds 2 drives or 2.5" drives net volume doesn't get much better.
Cost savings aren't that great either unless you're re purposing and old desktop. My i3 based candidate build is a bit over $400 in hardware. Granted the cpu will beat the arm/atom's in most consumer NAS boxes like a cheap drum on Christmas morning; but dropping down to an atom/E350 board doesn't save you all that much.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I can fit 9 3tb hard drives inside my NAS box. Yeah, the case is bigger than a manufactured NAS, but mine is a lot more expandable, and just for the cost of a new hard drive.
I have three 3TB drives right now.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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You're targeting much larger storage volumes than I am (DVD/Blueray rips?). My WHS box is currently at 1.7/2.7GB used; most of that a few years of system backups. The main reason I want a 4 drive enclosure instead of only 2 is to simplify capacity adding by being able to add extra capacity 1 drive at a time. By the time I have to do that thrice the older drives will probably be dated enough I want to retire them anyway, and small enough in capacity their loss won't matter much anyway.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Self explaining method names, fluent interfaces, DSLs, helpful frameworks... We are always looking for ways to make our code more readable. But in our quest, we seem to have forgotten something. The most effective way to make any code more readable. I wish to demonstrate this long lost secret. First, don't use Perl...
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I'm pretty sure I'm not alone to have lived this experience. It's long hours of trying to figure out what the old code is doing, mostly, and then fixing things with hopes of not breaking some undocumented behaviour someone was relying on, possibly in a completely unrelated part of the system. And most of the time you're not even fixing things, you're just keeping them up to date with changing rules. You're adding to the number of things that may fail, rather than improving it. I'm not sure what this has to do with Erlang, but it's an interesting read.
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When it comes to business-friendly webmail services, Gmail has been the go-to tool for as long as anyone can remember. Outlook? That was purely a desktop mail client. Hotmail? Most business users wouldn’t touch that with a 10-foot spam filter. But, now, here comes Outlook.com, Microsoft’s new webmail service. And you know what? It’s pretty good. So good, in fact, that it deserves a chance to challenge Gmail head-on. Call it the elephant in the room versus the 800-pound gorilla. Outlook.com needs to prove that it’s not just Hotmail with a fresh coat of paint.
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This is where any and all credibility they had went up in smoke:
Quote: Even the online Outlook’s ads look nicer, with thumbnail photos that pop up when you mouse over deals that catch your interest.
The mouse over popup is far more infuriating than conventional popup's or popover style ads; both of the latter are easy to make go away and get out of your way. Without using adblock, the only solution to the former is to move your cursor away from the text area so they don't fly up randomly as you scroll.
Even then they severely degrade the normal user experience since they make it nearly impossible to tell at a glance if the author has linked to anything useful in the article.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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