Posts by Doctor Syntax 33024 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jun 2014
"For those people who did buy the extended warranty, what happens when they phone up in a couple of years to say it has stopped working?"
A very good question. The answer's probably buried deep in the T&Cs of the extended "warranty" denying all responsibility for failure of the vendor to supply the service. If they missed that trick and have to make good on all these warranties there's going to be business available for lawyers.
"ignoring, for the time being, that a 2nd disk failed after the fact, during the array rebuild and is not pertinent to the initial server death"
Not one of the downvoters but AFAICS the above statement is the problem. As I read the whole story there was no initial server death. It was the failure of the 2nd disk that was labelled as the death of the server.
Make sure you have old steel for the reinforcing rods. The Belfast C14 dating lab had the counter in a pit with a few concrete paving slabs (no reinforcing rods at all) sitting on top of old steel plates. Back then we had a shipyard just down the road so sourcing that from breakers was quite feasible. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
Who do you think "they" are?
The word "company" in business terms means the company of shareholders. Musk wasn't offering to buy them, he was offering to buy their shares. The reason they want him to go through with it is that they would then realise a good profit on their investment. Onve he's bought their shares they have no further interest in what he does.
"This is not an IT or tech issue, but a financial regulation issue."
But most of the points you then make are technical.
The point others have made that you ignore is that he waived due diligence so why is he making a fuss now other than to wriggle out of a bargain that he didn't just enter freely but insisted upon?
This isn't going to be like HP/Autonomy waived due diligence. In that case it was a US coumapny in US courts vs non-US and even then HP had to swallow their losses. This is one US company in US courts vs another.
The fall of Balwani, Holmes, and Theranos may look like comeuppance for Silicon Valley hucksterism and hubris, but the cryptocurrency industry's floundering effort to get people to trade fiat currency for speculative tokens governed by buggy code suggests nothing has changed.
Silicon Valley where nothing is ever too good to be true.
Those weren't really pets anyway. They were reliable long-lived work horses, reliably running businesses day in, day out, week in week out.
But the real problem with your comment is that the bulk of tit is the inversion the actuality. The virtue of Sysv init is its transparency. What it's doing is written down. It's written down where it matters. It's writen down unambiguously. It's written down in the init scripts. There can be no conflict between what might be written down in some ambiguous or out-dated document and what's running. If there's any perceived weirdness it's in the mind of the perceiver who can't grok shell scripts.
It doesn't serve the needs of this laptop. The arguments I seem to hear are that it's to serve the interests of admins who want to bring up servers quickly (presumably so quickly they aren't going to spend time doing memchecks?). That seems to be where I hear the defences coming from.
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