I have a really important question here: If tape, drives and controller, enclosure etc. are so expensive, *why* are big corps still using tapes to do their backup ?

Is it that reliable? I mean... If I store a harddrive properly as I would have done with a tape, does the harddrive lose data quicker than the tape?

Why is there no "hard drive based robots" to change harddrives in an enclosure automatically as we have for LTO? It could be cheaper and as reliable isn't it?

Hope /. community will have some answer here ;)

or bookmyname.com (handled by free, one big french isp) for cheap tld's and gandi.net (the first concurrent of verisign in history) for weird tld's.

for most weird tld, eurodns, yes ;)

maybe because some people are living far away from Vegas, and that the trip to and from Vegas will cost them at least 3 times the ticket, (and I don't mention hotel and food...)

That's what we call the death of network neutrality :

What if you implement this "misbehavior control" in the network, and a few months later, someone create a protocol that will NEED this kind of behavior ? (I guess emule protocol is already behaving that way ...)

We don't need no tough control on the Internet ;)

(On Safari 4)

Step 1) Triple click to highlight
Step 2) Find the right click on this $($ë!!!@@ mouse
Step 3) Accidentally left click
Step 4) Go back to the article...
Step 5) Find the Right click on your mouse
Step 6) Select "Open Address in new tab"

Fixed this for you...

In France we have a (quite famous now) guy who told about it a few years ago : Benjamin Bayart told us how the "free (as in speech) Internet" may become a "Minitel 2.0" (he means 'a centralized information-&-entertainment-distribution network')

http://www.fdn.fr/Free-as-in-speech-Internet-or.html

Jet is often using locks to be sure that no one will overwrite the data you previously edited. Samba 3.0 has some code to manage the buggy Windows sharing protocol locking system.

You should really read man smb.conf and search for "lock" to learn a bit about it.

I'm pretty sure that your earlier problem was a locking one.

Samba has not changed a lot reagarding this locking issue, but you can tweak it perfectly, it just takes a little time to learn how to do it and what to do.

My experience with samba is that (on a big server of course) it can handle hundreds of connections with some Gbps throughoutput (we did it under linux with ethernet bonding and heavy kernel tunning of course...)

Problem two IS a real matter in many projects, it looks like you never had a project divided into smaller chunks...

very simple example : one folder for the code, one for the graphics, one with the html/css stuff and so on...

Thanks for this warning : for me this is a very strong argument against git !