* Posts by A.P.Richelieu

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Assange™ makes fresh bid for FREEDOM from Scotland Yard's 'physical encirclement'

A.P.Richelieu

Re: Fees

There are international agreements on extradition in place between Sweden and U.K.

If someone is suspected of a crime in Sweden, which was committed in Sweden,

and then flees to the U.K., then Sweden can according to that agreement,

request extradition. The U.K. has in several courts found the Swedish request valid.

There are similar agreements in place between Sweden and the US.

Mr Assange is requesting that Sweden guarantees that Sweden does not abide by

this international agreements. That is not how things work.

The US has not asked for extradition. Personally, I do not see that the US has a case.

Why would a non-US Citizen be breaking the law if he publishes US confidential material

outside of the US. They have no jurisdiction, outside the US.

It would have been different, if Assange was a US Citizen.

If Russian pay a US Citizen visiting Russia for confidential information, they are not breaking

the US law.

I think that the US is quite happy to see Mr Assange continuing his life in freedom at the Ecuadoran Embassy.

As for the charge against Assange in Sweden. He was told that he had to use a condom,

and later at night he did it without the condom, and the girl only noticed afterwards.

Not his choice and illegal in Sweden.

The shit however hit the fan, when TWO girls found out that he's been doing them both.

Bet he regrets beeing a womanizer.

Achtung! Use maths to smash the German tank problem – and your rival

A.P.Richelieu

A friend working at Intel,once (1998) told me that "tomorrow there would be a press release

in all the morning newspapers", so I told him the subject of the press release.

He looked a little surprised, and asked why I believed this.

So I told him that it had to be something really special for the morning

newspapers to pick it up, and unless Intel was doing something completely

different from what they were doing, the only thing that would make the

morning newspapers, would be a highly integrated x86 processor.

Intel releasing a 2 x size flash memory, would not be interesting to the general public,

and would only make it into Electronics Magazines.

True enough, the next day the i386SL was released.

Recommendations for NAS-based home media set-up

A.P.Richelieu

Experience with FreeNAS

I have a homebuilt NAS running FreeNAS.

Asus E45M1 Deluxe (Hudson M1) MiniITX

16 GB RAM

4 x 3 TB WD Red

Chenbro NAS chassi

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The Chassi is real nice for a NAS, but was hard to get, so I imported from Germany.

Have found a couple of Points.

When you run FreeNAS and ZFS, people recommend that you use ECC memories.

If not, you risk losing Everything, if a bit error occurs.

This means that all desktop CPU/Motherboard combinations are unsuitable.

This leaves you with Xeons and the likes, and the latest Atom C2750.

Performancewise, I get around 40-50 MB per second, which is normally no problem.

I mostly use this for my recorded Movies converted to MPEG4 and the average bitrate

is only 1-2 Mbps.

The big problem is the scrubbing that occurs periodically. The CPU analyzes the complete disk

and fixes any soft errors found. This will take 10-12 hours, and during scrubbing, performance

is abyssmal. Moving to a Quad core low power Xeon should improve speed significantly.

Then you look at memory use. The recommendation is to have 1 GB RAM for each TB of Disk.

4 x 3 TB of disk, means at least 12 GB RAM so my 16 GB should be fine.

While the ASROCK MiniITX C2750 Motherboard support ECC memory

it only support UDIMM and not RDIMMs. RDIMMs are widely used, and it

is possible to get good deals on ECC RDIMMs. (Just bought 24 GB for 100€)

Buying the same amount of UDIMM, would mean 3-400€, so for cost reasons

this needs to be rejected.

Second problem, is that you need 6 SATA ports, which is quite unusual for a miniITX board.

Going full ATX may have to be the solution unless you can find a suitable case,

which allows adding a PCIe board (The Chenbro box wont).

Having a 4 disk system, is also not so efficient. With 12 TB of raw disk, I get approximately 5,4TB

effective storage space so you only use 45% of your raw diskspace.

It turns out that a 6 disk system is more efficient. If you have 12 TB arranged in 6 x 2TB,

then you get 7,3TB effective storage or 61% efficiency.

Getting a nice small NAS box for a six disk system is difficult,

if you want hotswapping. http://www.u-nas.com/ is one source,

but it is US based, and comes without a power supply.

A new nice chassi is ther Silverstone DS380, which supports 8 disks,

but needs an SFX Power supply, so it is going to be expensive.

It is also miniITX only, so you will have a cost problem due to expensive UDIMMs.

Since the current NAS is 99% filled, I have been looking for a low cost solution.

I finally managed to get my hands on a used Proliant ML330 G6 for 350€, and with

24 GB RDIMM ECC RAM, and an extra drive Cage added, it should perform well.

Only worry is noise and power consumption.

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You put up with CRAPPY iOS 7. You can put up with Obamacare too, says prez

A.P.Richelieu

Re: Smartphone users have more choices.

You also have a choice, If you dont like the US, move to another country :-)

Apple pays up for stealing design from Swiss Railways

A.P.Richelieu
Holmes

Re: Swiss Neutrality ?

Maybe you are not aware, that the Swiss are not neutral by their own choice.

The reason they are Neutral, is that the rest of Europe decided at the Vienna Congress

after the Naopleonic Wars, that noone was interested any longer having Swiss

Mercenaries romping all over the Battlefields of Europe.

The Swiss were simply told, that they were not allowed on the playing ground any longer.

A.P.Richelieu
Holmes

Re: Swiss Neutrality ?

The U.K. was trying to buy Optics from Germany for their Sniper Rifles.

It was eventually decided by Germany, that even though they needed the hard currency,

it was still a bad deal.

The German steel was likely made from iron imported from Sweden.

The important thing, is to keep out of war, and you wont do that if you irritate the 400 pound gorilla neighbour.

You can irritate up to a point, Not selling iron to Germany, would for sure had caused an invasion.

The Swedish iron was the main reason that both Churchill and Hitler invaded Norway.

On the other hand, if you bend to pressure, this will not be forgotten.

Sweden accepted German troops travelling by railway through Sweden during WWII

and that has been a stinker ever since. Much more so, than selling the iron,

which is funny, because that was much more important.

A.P.Richelieu
Holmes

Re: Swiss Neutrality ?

I think they were bound by contract.

Dad sues Apple for pushing cash-draining 'free' games at kids

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Flame

Re: >Do you have children?

Interesting, Was discussing this very issue with a woman I know today.

She was really pissed off by Apple, not allowing to give her a way

to let her children download free apps without risking her money.

Allowing children to download free apps with in-app purchases is evil.

Apple makes a lot of money so punitive damages should be awarded

accordingly. $5M is not high enough to really hurt them.

I think that it would be good, if Apple was to pay back every cent they made

on in-app purchases and then punitive damages on top of that.

Punitive damages should be awarded to some fund for the benefit of children.