GrandPapillon

the question remains, why should we be afraid of Russia news organization? if they are lying, and our news organizations are lying, how are they different? simply because it's Putin? so at the end Putin is right, it's all about marginalizing him and the Russians. And I think the Russians will remember for a long time our over-reactions for banning them from the financial system when they had nothing to do with the war as simple citizens.

12 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

That's a totally different issue, isn't it. My post was about banning journalists and your false equivalence is about banning a propaganda network from broadcasting in the country.

well, I am sure they are welcomed with open arms when they show up at press conference.

Just now, jacko45k said:

I disagree a little..... strict measures were beneficial in the early epidemic days, and I believe the efforts of say Oz saved lives from Delta, It is nigh on impossible to hold back Omicron, and better to let it happen and supply the herd immunity their poor vaccines cannot. 

they might have saved a few lives but at what costs? countries do not have problem to send their people to war and die, or let them die with poverty or lack of healthcare, and somehow, they worry about a few thousands more?

no, the real reason was that COVID was regarded as a "biological war" and that's how government leaders sold it to each other for going to extreme measures. They thought they were under attack. And maybe they were right.

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

South Korea has now joined Hong Kong in massive Omicron outbreaks and higher deaths than ever before in the previous 2 years

that's the problem with those countries that were overzealous with lockdowns and COVID protocols, it created a pockets of "contamination" just waiting to spread

there is also the possibility that a circulating virus gave "immunity" to a large population, and die naturally

this all comes to data ownership and the financial and technical costs associated with it,

RAID was a hot debate in the 90s and early 2000s, now it's a forgotten technology for cheap NAS solution like Synology

16 minutes ago, KhunHeineken said:

Ok.  I didn't know mirroring was given a RAID category, but you are correct.

 

One thing I don't quite understand is "parity."  You can have a 4 bay NAS, and somehow, on the the 4th HDD for example, the data of the other 3 HDD's is stored on it to rebuild a HDD should it go down.  

 

How can one HDD store the same data as the other 3 HDD's, or, have I got it wrong and the data of each HDD is spread over the other HDD's, so all of the other HDD's can rebuild the HDD that went down? 

 

In some of my research they talk about needing a HDD for parity, and I took this to mean one whole HDD will be used for nothing else but parity.   

yes, it comes from the legacy RAID5 now replaced with RAID0+1

first you should know that RAID1 and RAID5 storage is slower than RAID0, because you constantly need to "duplicate" and "checksum" data for the parity drive.

IMO, those RAID things are things of the past, and why RAID+ storage is dying a slow painful death since 2007. New storage techniques are far more efficient in the cloud storage space. This is just my opinion.

Why a parity drive for RAID0+1 or RAID5? data is stripped on all non-parity drives, and the last drive (drive 3 or 4 or 5) is there to calculate the "checksum" of the data stored in the non-parity drives. Which makes the whole process painfully slow, and why nobody is using this for fast "hot storage". Maybe for "cold storage" it could make sense, still it would be costly, so not worth it in my opinion. Clouding your data with a webapi is much faster in the long run.

again, you need to define the urgency and "alternatives" for storage before using RAID algos. I think only RAID0 make sense these days. RAID0+1 are too costly in technical terms and there are plenty of great alternatives to "secure" your data online and offline. Syncing your storage to AWS is much better and probably faster than RAID5 or RAID0+1

4 hours ago, webfact said:

He had only been out of prison for 5 months after being jailed for drugs' offences.

surprise surprise !!!

4 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Why would a Russian press outlet offer any view that was anything other than the Kremlin's or Putin's? They are under threat of arrest, or death. Do you really even consider the possibility that there is anything even bordering on free press in Russia? Ever, much less at this time? Really? Why allow a Kremlin party organ, specifically designed for disinformation, into the room?

that's being very simplistic, and the exact same playbook of Putin, oh the irony

despite our free press, we all know 'peer' pressure and self-censorship is rampant in the west, and lazy main stream journalists love to take the official "party" line to make a story. It's not news anymore, it's entertainment.

the only positive thing is that our free environment make it possible to have dissident views, even though they are often ridiculed or marginalized by the main press corps, simply because they didn't source it.

but what we are doing with Russia Today and other news organization from Russia is criminal and against all our "free press" principles.

otherwise we become no better than Putin himself,

why should we be afraid of Putin propaganda? aren't we capable of facing their views? well, apparently we can't, maybe some type of "truth" might be hurting us after all. Look how the press was "manipulating" the American public in 2003 to "sell a story with 911" for the illegal Iraq invasion. US journalists couldn't have been that "naive", they were complicit in the deception.

22 hours ago, ozimoron said:

not saying it didn't happen but without links...

have you paid attention recently to BBC etc...? Russia Today banned from the US, UK and the rest of Europe. Another news org from Russia, can't remember the name, also banned.

The west is following the playbook of the Pravda ????

quite cool actually, would be nice to see more horses in the streets

8 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Why hold a press conference if it's only going to be one sided....

the west seems be doing the same thing recently ????

they banned all Russian financed press corps, just in case they offer a different view or evidence of west propaganda ????

the first victim of war is truth, in particular in the west

11 hours ago, KhunHeineken said:

The logical solution was to look at a 2 bay NAS, and while they can't do a RAID configuration

Actually they do, RAID0 for stripping and RAID1 for mirroring.

You are probably referring to RAID0+1 that needs a minimum of 3 disks to be effective, as the last disk is used to "validate" the first two.

On 3/12/2022 at 5:25 AM, KannikaP said:

What am I doing wrong. All my data is on my One Drive which I can access via any of the PCs and phones on my Network.

If I want to share anything with someone else, I send them a link. 

that works fine for small NOMAD solutions and like Dropbox, it's fine for 99% of Windows users

using a NAS gives you more control and options for your storage needs,

5 minutes ago, Fortean1 said:

All of these had the HDMI cable

probably added by the store as a free bonus, not the manufacturer

HDMI cable are only 199 THB, not really a big value item

5 hours ago, EricTh said:

 

How come Aliexpress quotes in USD? Shoppee and Lazada both quotes in baht.

 

Is this coming from US? Do they accept COD?

 

 

 

they also quote in EUR and you can set the currency in your settings,

anyway, they seem more reliable than the nightmare stories with local Thais abusing the system, as usual

On 3/12/2022 at 7:30 AM, John Bird said:

Tell me you don't know how the internet works without telling me you don't know how the internet works... 

????

On 3/11/2022 at 11:19 PM, EricTh said:

 

How does AliExpress compare with Shoppee?

 

Ali is the real best in the world IMO, I don't know why you should bother with all those crappy copycats

1 hour ago, Fortean1 said:

A few months ago we bought a 65" television from Home Pro in Hua Hin.  We got it home and found w/o HDMI cable. 

perfectly normal, manufacturers never include cables, unless it's a special promo from the store

1 hour ago, Fortean1 said:

We bought an HDMI cable for almost 1,000 baht.

now you got scammed, could have bought one at TESCO for 199 THB, they are exactly the same

On 3/11/2022 at 1:31 AM, CharlieH said:

Agree ! I have had a few occasions where the item received was clearly just what they want to send or get rid of knowing in many instances people cant be bothered to jump hoops to return it, (especially if it a lower value item).

 

The worst one I came across a few days ago, they showed a picture of a box of 18, clearly marked,the price slightly cheaper than a normal 18 box, BUT in the small print of the description way down the page the sale was actually FOR ONE piece !! Total shameful scam, but technically correct.

 

Watch out for the descriptions guys ! 

why do you guys bother with Lazada? they are done

I find better service with AliExpress !!! everyone in Europe is using Ali these days, and with over 100 orders with them, had only 1 or 2 problems and got refunded and kept the items.

On 3/12/2022 at 2:36 AM, spidermike007 said:

Rather irresponsible to blame the current crisis on the Russians or lack thereof. This was many years in the making. Covid was a bad hit, but the extremely timid response to Covid has been far worse here. They have utterly decimated and sabotaged the tourism industry. Thank Anutin, Prayuth and Phiphat for taking away millions of jobs from the Thai people. 

 

All said, it does not seem fair to Russian citizens, to have locked up their funds. Surely, there could have been a more reasonable way to accomplish these objectives. 

amen to that, poor Russians, another victim of this conflict

3 minutes ago, ukrules said:

The rest is just virtue signalling by western companies pressured by the media. For example McDonalds who are a franchise have apparently announced they're ceasing operations in Russia. These are Russian owned and operated companies. The mind boggles.

indeed, and the closure is only temporary

yeah, it's all posturing and PR stunts, the west is caught naked and can't do anything with Ukraine invasion, so symbols and tokens is all there is left to feel good about yourself ????

6 hours ago, webfact said:

"You may fill up and drive your cars," he said after a meeting.

 

"But please use them wisely and economically". 

jesus christ, does this guy hear himself speak?

of course not ????

I wouldn't want to be an oil trader working in Russia or for a Russian trading firm right now ????

Just now, ukrules said:

Not just for Crypto, it will be for everything, be careful what you wish for because any rule changes to KYC/AML regulations will be applied to every investment you ever make going forward.

 

it's already happening, what the crypto guys are facing now, I have been facing it for the last 10 years.

It got so bad for the Futures and Commodities markets (to curb oil and commodities speculation), I had to stop trading some Futures contracts so the CFTC requirements could be waived.