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Gary Stachelski 2021 wrote: "A Plea for Lean Software"
Written of course by someone who spent his entire life in academia.
Idealism is wonderful but loses its luster when the paychecks stops coming.
I suspect clean and elegant code probably is more possible when a company is making money and the CTO owns enough equity that he is on the board. And of course the CTO actually cares about the code as well.
Vast majority of software doesn't work like that though. Last two companies I have been at have 20 years of legacy code. Both companies have been through mergers and one with more than 10 mergers. Naturally this means numerous rounds of people applying 'fixes' to make the code 'better'. Which changes with the next round of new employees while the previous ones are long gone.
I have worked on systems that I designed from scratch. Sometimes I have even had the opportunity to make up my own business rules as I went along. Of course in those systems there is no need to worry about breaking existing functionality. Those solutions certainly seemed elegant. To me of course.
These days chatter of elegant code from a developer impresses not at all. While the ability to deliver working code that works with the enterprise (not just adhoc tests carried out on a developer box) again and again impresses me quite a bit.
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Hi,
Having worked on the "Big Iron" for a number of years....I would meet with various members of the IBM organization from time to time. Was in a meeting once (Virtual) and this comment was made by a higher level IBM VP (who hadn't remembered/ realized there were non-IBMer's present.
" Slow software sells fast hardware " There were a number of chuckles etc from the meeting invitee's. And that IBM VP moved on from there.
Cegarman
document code? If it's not intuitive, you're in the wrong field
Welcome to my Chaos and Confusion!
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I built a RAID 1 hard drive using a 2.5" enclosure.
after 10 years, one of the drives failed because that indicator light blackened. another hard drive seems good.
Now my PC workstation can not recognize this RAID 1 hard drive.
So my only way is to pull out the two hard drives and read them from an adapter.
any experience to share in this scenario?
diligent hands rule....
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Is it a hardware or software RAID?
Linux can mount a single drive of a mirror, been quite a while but I used mdadm to mount it.
>64
Itβs weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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it is hardware RAID. I initialized and use it on Windows 10.
diligent hands rule....
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the gold standard hxxps://www.ufsexplorer.com/ufs-explorer-raid-recovery/
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers β progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I will buy this software. thanks for this link
diligent hands rule....
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1) Replace the faulty disk and rebuild the RAID "array"
2) Yank out the faulty disk and change the connection from RAID to single disk
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my question is how to rebuild this array?
diligent hands rule....
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the info is great. thank you
diligent hands rule....
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The trickiest bit is figuring which drive is the dead one. With SSDs they don't whir anymore and they stopped putting lights on them so a dead one mimics a live one really well.
It's possible connecting a new drive exactly like the old one will trigger the array to rebuild itself on boot.
Pretty much replace the bad drive and fiddle with RAID in BIOS/controller though.
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thank you for the info!
diligent hands rule....
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Clean up after an accident is going to be a sh*t job normally ... Lorry carrying human poo overturns on A485[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Almost as much fun as this guy ... Vet work at Elephant Nature Park Expect the Unexpected! - ElephantNews - YouTube[^]
Seriously though, years ago I was living in Melbourne (Australia) and was away in Sydney over a weekend. My home was in a ground floor unit with 4 floors above me. Unbeknownst to me, that weekend, the sewerage system blocked and all of the raw sewerage from the 4 floors above me backed up and came out of my toilet. I arrived home late Sunday night, and there was a stench at the front door. When I opened it, all of the rooms, from my view point were flooded and the wall of stench that hit me was indescribable. I could not enter, even after it was professionally cleaned and all furniture and belongings were replaced. I had to move.
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Ouch, even water without the faeces can wreck a place good.
An uncle once had his house flooded because he didn't tie a bolt fast enough or some such.
The water came from the attic and left no floor untouched.
He had to strip his whole house after that, new floors, new wallpapers, new furniture, everything.
Of course after that it didn't smell so bad, but some of the damage can still be seen to this day (happened 10 years ago or some such).
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I used to live in a town that was on the (prone to spring flooding) Minnesota River. There was a restaurant situated right on the river. The upper dining level was generally above the flood line but the lower level which was mostly storage was often below flood level.
Every spring the owner would empty the basement and if the river flooded he would fill the basement with clean water to a foot or so above the flood level. This meant clean water seeped out of his basement which kept the dirty flood water out. It sounds crazy, but apparently his clean up costs were much less. Crazy like a fox I guess.
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The Netherlands had a huge flood in '53 (knows as "The Disaster").
The place I live in (a coastal island) was hit hard.
At some old houses, you can still see how high the water was (in many places, only the roof was safe since we live below sea level, next to the sea).
A friend of mine actually did not buy a house because of that reason, the walls were pretty porous from that time.
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He should've hired a plumber (but I expect he has since realised that!) π
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Yikes! What a nightmare.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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A few years ago about a dozen full portaloos came off the back of a truck near here, but your one definitely looks to be a bigger hazmat job.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I once saw some drunk teens push over a portable toilet just after their friend entered
Guy could've died from all the bacteria in there.
With "friends" like that you really don't need enemies.
Not sure what happened to them after that.
That venue never had a portable toilet again though.
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When my dad was a kid no one had running water so the bathroom was an outhouse. A common Halloween prank was to move someone's outhouse back off the pit. So if anyone tried to use it that night ...
Good fun until old man Cooper moved his before the pranksters got to it. As my dad told it, a couple of his friends fell in the pit when they went to move it.
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FreedMalloc wrote: moved his before the pranksters got to it. That's called helping Karma...
A cousind of my grandpa had a field with some fig trees along the road. Every year the trees got empty by the tourists when going downtown from the camping place.
He started inserting small hot chillies in the figs that were low enough to get caught by the people without big effords.
Was funny to see them get the figs, bite them and then start spitting, swearing and more...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Hmm, been cleaning up the Senedd no doubt.
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