I agree, but don't agree with you. It's not necessarily about avoiding a tool that can help, but using the tool appropriately. It's potentially a problem with many of today's...

Some people can't be helped, or don't want to. The best thing in that thread, and in others, is to post one answer, then drop it. Don't chime in to...

Well put, although I don't know if we are training all cloud providers better than the average sysadmin. I'd...

Raid 5 has performed great for me in many applications. Many apps where we weren't pushing the envelope on IOPS, and we had much of the needed data in RAM.

The...

That's a good list, and whether they can actually answer all of them is debatable, but the way they answer will say something. If they look at #20 and go...

I think there's a limit whereby you are saturating channels, and it would depend on your workload. I think you want to minimize head movement if you have a busy...

Ah, so you can assign our a portion of your copyright. The authors retain copyright for their work published here, but they grant us perpetual publication (distribution) rights on this...

I wouldn't count out some SQL Injection or XSS...

I think reposting a copyrighted work without permission is still copyright. The copyright laws control distribution as a protected right.

The bigger problem is fair use. There's no provision in there...

I tend to agree with Jack. Win Auth is more secure and no passwords are stored in any config file. The only passwords are those stored in the services portion...

I'd second Gail's advice. R10 if you can, R1 for logs if you can't. R5 for data if you must, but keep a spare drive around, which in most cases...

Evil Kraig F (1/10/2012)

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There are a few sections in this bill that concern me, but I am not a lawyer, so I may not be seeing the whole picture that...

What do you mean? Log shipping? You need to be clear with your questions otherwise this becomes very hard...

True dat. It's one reason I think we ought to change the people in...

Many countries have laws requiring disclosure of items to the government. The government can do the same thing to your company. Granted, you can delay if you have the data,...