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Re: Airgun Gear Show Reviews the Brocock Concept Elite S6

goblin072 . — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 21:47:47 -0000

I own one of the few USA 30ftlb Brocock concept elites.

You compared it to the maurader which to me is not even close. I had just purchased a Daystate Regal XL in 30 ft lb .22. And was looking for a gun for my son. I was going to get the Maurader but really did not care for the flimsy barrel and plastic stock. Plus its a bulky gun.

For just a little more money I purchased the Brocock Concept Elite and glad I did. Its closer to the quality of the 1,400 Daystate Regal than it is to the maurader.

It gets 70 shots from one charge. Thats 70 shots of 30ftlbs .22.

The 6 shot magaine is easier to load than my 10 shot daystate. Can do it one hand and it slides in the slot easier too.

The stock is walnut like the Daystates.

The balance is fantastic.

It was 850.00 I think so I would have to give it the best bang for the buck award in this price range.

Two things that are better on the Daystate are

1. Safty

2. Location of breach seal. Just means the Daystate can be dry fire with breach open which the brocock could blow the seal out of the barrel backwards. Other than that Its almost the same as the daystate. The maurader looks like trash in comparison.

Re: The world is running out of plasma TVs

goblin072 . — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:45:20 -0000

What a load of trash. This is a total lie. LCD has not outpaced
plasma at all. Plasma did not need to do anything its still the
best. The only reason is MONEY. They try to make people believe
LCDs are better, they are not. I own both and plasma is waaay better
for movies, color, speed etc. Plasmas are heavier, more expensive to
make and probably offer a lower PROFIT margin. Just tell us the truth
don't feed us this hogwash as it is not true at all. LEDs are still
LCDs just a different backlighting, same old technology same old crappy
blacks, and grey scale. Nothings changed but the spin doctors.

Re: The world is running out of plasma TVs

goblin072 . — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:48:45 -0000

OMG heat, electric bills. Don't buy a TV or Car, go horse and buggy. Just stop with your moronic justifications on inferior TVs. Plasma is better and I have a 2014 LED samsung and its not as good as my 2012 Plasma Samsung. Once they get rid of plasma people wont have anything to compare them to. Just LCD vs LCD.
I have some hope for OLED but they are new and only available in 55". So for now Plasma is still king.

Re: The world is running out of plasma TVs

goblin072 . — Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:53:04 -0000

Agree 100 percent. Plasmas are way better. I own both types and they are not old. Sad to see Plasmas die off to cater to the mindless masses.

Re: The world is running out of plasma TVs

goblin072 . — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 20:49:12 -0000

People buy more cheap cars over landrovers too. LEDs are cheaper to make and higher profit margin. Plus they look brighter in a store. But are not as good for sports, not as good at viewing angles, not as good at black levels. VHS won over beta and beta was better. The best does not mean it sells better. They cater to 80 percent of the drones that don't know better. LEDs are lighter too so savings in shipping. So there are many reasons from a manufacturer to make LEDs.

Re: The world is running out of plasma TVs

goblin072 . — Mon, 03 Nov 2014 10:27:00 -0000

You don't watch from the side because you can't I can easily watch NFL from 40 degrees side view while using my computer. No dimming of image. LCDs can't hang here. If I had a LCD I would not do that because I could not see the picture.

Re: The world is running out of plasma TVs

goblin072 . — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 00:04:57 -0000

Well, there is a sucker born every minute.

Re: The world is running out of plasma TVs

goblin072 . — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 12:33:19 -0000

I drive a Landrover maybe you take your yugo to kmart for your LED.

Re: The world is running out of plasma TVs

goblin072 . — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:16:43 -0000

Yes my next TV will probably be a OLED. RIght now they are too small. But some people that have purchased them really like them. One guy said they destroy LED/LCDs and even plasma. Good to know something decent is replacing Plasma. Before I read about them I was going to go out and buy another 64" Samsung PLasma but now I can wait it out.

Re: The world is running out of plasma TVs

goblin072 . — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:50:27 -0000

I bought one of the last 30" wide screen tubes in the mid 2000s. weighs a ton but it does have a nice picture. Don't think its any better than my plasma though they are pretty close.

Re: The world is running out of plasma TVs

goblin072 . — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:52:48 -0000

A spelling Queen, only thing lower is if you start to pull out mom jokes.

Re: The world is running out of plasma TVs

goblin072 . — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 08:18:18 -0000

You sound mad. Nothing wrong with being a drone the world needs drones.

Re: Please use ZFS with ECC Memory

goblin072 . — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 05:13:53 -0000

You have a higher chance of someone stealing your nas than a non ecc memory issue taking it down for good. Start some more fear mongering about how you should buy a $10,000 security system for the home and maybe a security person to protect the nas.

Just stop already. Its a giant waste of money for home use. I have 5 NAS systems at home over 4 years old and ZERO data loss without ECC. I have ECC at work but I'm not sure how many times its saved anything. In theory ECC is better but in reality (not crunching hypothetical numbers and what ifs) Its more about you having piece of mind that you have ECC. But wait, is the ECC really working correctly? This can open another can of worms on fear mongering. Just stop it.

Re: Please use ZFS with ECC Memory

goblin072 . — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 19:12:18 -0000

I'm not saying ECC does not work and that there is no risk. I've run ECC since hmm the 1990s. And yes I chose not to use it in my small nas.

In huge systems the risk gets magnified and down time is factored in. Down time cost money so better to make everything solid. And I would take ECC system over non ECC if they were giving to me free. But if someone has a decent MB laying around at their home and don't use it for a small nas out of fear that it does not have ECC and will loose all their data due to a ram error. Well I think they need to think about the odds of other things happening too. Like if Lightening hits the house, or if someone steals the NAS, etc etc. Its easy to get lost and focus on one thing, ECC when one needs to step back and look at the big picture.

Re: Please use ZFS with ECC Memory

goblin072 . — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 20:30:34 -0000

I think you need to provide real world numbers of ECC vs Non ECC in a home nas. Without those its very difficult for anyone to make an informed choice. If ECC ram was so important why don't they have it in all consumer computers? If they did the prices of xeon MBs, ram etc would be dramatically lower. There is nothing special about the technology, scarcity keeps prices higher.

Please provide the numbers.

Re: Please use ZFS with ECC Memory

goblin072 . — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:40:24 -0000

ZFS + non ECC is safer than Non ECC standard raid. Not sure why people think ZFS makes it less stable. I have ZFS running no issues. If you run a ZFS raid 1 without ECC it does not become more unstable vs that same system with ZFS turned off.

There's nothing special about ZFS that requires/encourages the use of
ECC RAM more so than any other filesystem. If you use UFS, EXT, NTFS,
btrfs, etc without ECC RAM, you are just as much at risk as if you used
ZFS without ECC RAM. Actually, ZFS can mitigate this risk to some
degree if you enable the unsupported ZFS_DEBUG_MODIFY flag
(zfs_flags=0x10). This will checksum the data while at rest in memory,
and verify it before writing to disk, thus reducing the window of
vulnerability from a memory error.

The difference with other filesystems is that ZFS will notify you that
you have problems whilst getting the correct data, whereas other
filesystems won't notify you slowly thrashing all your data - because
they dont know themselves there was a problem, because they dont use
checksums. Hardware raid uses Parity calculations for restore crashed
disks, but not checksums for data corruption detection.

I won't argue that ECC is better (Price of MB,CPU, RAM aside) It is better for either system. But the reality is people with small systems and 1 stick of ram are not losing data on RAID 1 ZFS at the rates some people would have you believe. There is theory and there is reality. Reality is not matching with theory for small home systems. If it is point me to the data on it.

Re: Please use ZFS with ECC Memory

goblin072 . — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 11:47:24 -0000

I'm not trying to rain on your parade on ECC. I agree with most of it. In fact if one was starting from scratch to build a home NAS I think ECC is a good choice. If one looks at the prices of a cheap ECC MB,RAM, CPU it can be had for just a bit more than non ECC.

I wish they would make ECC the norm for all home PCs, but then that would drive the prices down in an area where they want to profit in. The business sector.

Re: Please use ZFS with ECC Memory

goblin072 . — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 13:08:27 -0000

ZFS does not do this. Your assumptions about what other FSs do is inaccurate.

Consider: you load data from ext4 into RAM, it gets corrupted. You change some bytes, then save it. Corrupted data is then written to the disk. Could be anything inside the allocation unit size, which is 4K generally - not insubstantial.

ZFS's worst case behavior is exactly the same: it can't protect you from corruption in RAM after checksum validation if you then ask it to save that data to disk.

There is no difference: if you do not have ECC RAM, you are vulnerable to bitflips corrupting your data - and they will have been.

ZFS won't corrupt data which gets altered in memory due to a bitflip but is only ever read. It can't - because in-memory bitflips can't be detected. Even if at some point during checksum validation there was a mismatch, the restore is done from checksum protected parity/mirror image data. And if the restore block were corrupted, the checksum won't match and ZFS will rebuild the block correctly next time.

If you do not have ECC RAM, every filesystem will potentially corrupt your data. ZFS is more resilient then pretty much all of them even in this case.

It's toast if you were running mdadm or RAID. It's toast if a file gets deleted and recovered by ext3/4 (good luck figuring out which chunk you're looking at in lost+found).

ZFS cannot protect you from bad RAM. No file system can. If data is corrupted in RAM, ZFS will checksum that and write it to disk. This is exactly what will happen with any other filesystem.

ZFS storage pools can recover from fairly dramatic failures. You can lose a disk out of a non-redundant stripe and still have complete metadata (just incomplete data, but checksums tell you exactly what you lost). Unimportable pools are not something that easily happens without severe damage - a corrupted uberblock can recovered by using the zpool import -T to rewind a txg and get back a verifiably complete copy of your data.

This idea that somehow the failure mode of other filesystems to faulty RAM is better is destructive fiction. You have no idea if your data is valid on disk. You have no way to verify if the data is valid in the first place. And the degree and number of failures required to wipe out a pool would also wipe out any other storage system. The idea that recovery tools will save you in a catastrophic failure (of what kind?) is laughable. This can be trivially explored by trying to recover a deleted file in ext4. Sure, it can technically be done. Good luck with doing it more then once.

Re: Please use ZFS with ECC Memory

goblin072 . — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:17:50 -0000

"The fact is that indeed with any file system, data integrity is compromised, but ZFS does not offer any additional protection over legacy file systems."

Just saying that running ZFS raid 1 with no ECC is not all that bad. I am not going to scramble to turn off ZFS in my NAS as its been fine for 3 years. I just won't go to Vegas, I think the odds of me losing all my money and my NAS is higher.

Re: 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time

goblin072 . — Sun, 24 May 2015 22:10:58 -0000

LOL, the title should say best video games in the writers lifetime not "all time" I wonder if he even realizes that there was atari 2600, coleco, Amiga, etc. And to leave M.U.L.E off the list (Which was always 1st or 2nd) in previous lists tells me the author did not do his/her homework. Shame!

Re: Best Bang For Buck Graphics Cards 2015 April 2nd

goblin072 . — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 01:04:15 -0000

Yes I noticed the same thing. They don't make sense recommending sli gtx 970.

Solo card at 1080P i think the gtx 970 is best. That is why I just bought one. I have had no issues with the 3.5 GB limit at 1080P. If it ever became an issue just have to run Gpu-z on 2nd lcd and watch ram then adjust game setting to stay under 3.5 so no biggie. Best solo card bang for the buck atm.

Re: The Greatest Atari Games of All Time

goblin072 . — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 05:18:33 -0000

The best 8 bit game of all time is 4 human player M.U.L.E. on a atari 800. Need 4 joystick ports for this classic. That game still plays great in 2015. No better in the same room 4 player game. Loads of fun.

Re: 2015 looks good for Stanford football

goblin072 . — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 06:59:28 -0000

Stanford is going no where with your crappy couch. He benches his best back Sanders for ? a rainy day? So they could loose the Rose Bowl to MSU buy benching him and trying to run it up the gut vs the best inside D in the country? Coach has rocks for brains.

Re: 8 Classic Nakamichi Cassette Decks

goblin072 . — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 07:11:31 -0000

I have a 505 and love it, but the Dragon should be on this list too.

Re: Jimmy Fallon Nearly Lost A Finger In Freak "Ring Avulsion" Accident

goblin072 . — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 23:39:15 -0000

So he is not in Johnny Carson league?