If you're running differntly-sized disks, well, then you're not the person hardware RAID is aimed at. Linux software RAID will handle different size disks and will handle online expansion. I'd still get the 3Ware card, and just use it as a fancy disk controller (you'll want more than 4 drives in your system, either way). The 3Ware controllers are faster, better supported, and generally nice devices. They've got a pretty decent web admin iterface too, IMHO, though I regularly forget what port the thing's listening on...
Actually, I'd get a bunch of single-dik firewire enclosures, hook them to Gentoo running on a PPC, and run LVM on top of a software RAID5. But that's because I need a giant drive array for bakcup purposes, and the throughput of firewire is adequate for my needs. Our database server is running a 3ware card with a pair of large drives under RAID-1, and one of our graphics guys is running a 3Ware card with 8 drives in a RAID5. The DB is using hardware to keep CPU time down, while the graphics guy is running hardware because 1) he needs more disk space than 4 IDE channels would allow and 2) maximizing available CPU time is important when rendering large 3D scenes / video effects.:)
I've had 0 problems with the 3Ware products I've used in the past, and that I'm using now. I wholeheartedly reccomend them.
Did you read that in a magazine, or actually work with a Mac?:) I've got an OS X machine behind me right now, and there are several more that I support in this building (well, the tables support them most of the time). Yeah, it's got eye candy. It's not configurable eye candy, though. Mac OS X is the OS designed by the same people that make web sites that depend on specific fonts and resolutions. It looks nice to some people, but gets in the way of just as many people. It's just a pain to get in and make some things behave the way you want, and then those changes mysteriously go away after "some" updates.
I dunno. It takes research to learn enough about any system to customize it so that it actually works the way I want. Some systems, such as Win32 (any of them) and Mac OS (any of them, though pre-10.3 are definately worse) are wastes of time to learn about, because they'll never give the flexibility that I'm looking for - and that I get in some of the modern X Window Managers. So, it's windowmaker (with Win2K running in a VMware instance, for those things that require windows) for me. I personally think that my desktop is plenty snazzy. 2 monitors, minor screen effects, pleasent colors and background images, virtual desktops, and really not much work at all to get it all set up. OS X is easier to set up, but harder to work with - or rather, work "around".
http://ftp.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/consumerdish. html
If you have an area in the residence that is used exclusively by you (or you and your roomate, etc), then you should be able to get a dish.
BTW, don't buy into Dish's "drop cable because they raise prices" BS, though. My Dish Network bill has gone up in Jan/Feb for each of the 4 years that I've had a dish. Granted, I get a few extra channels that I don't want now, but it still goes up (more than cable did, actually, bu my cable company dropped the package that I wanted, so they can kiss my ass).
1.5 words: multicast. Built-in to IPV6, available in localized areas already, likely to become more widely available when the great unwashed realize that they can get TV on that thar enternet... TV's already a broadcast-based medium. This isn't TV on demand - it's just a different medium for transporting the existing signal - much like cable TV has done for lots of years (using a single coaxial cable).
Heh.:) On a similar note, I changed O2 sensors in my car a few weeks ago. One wouldn't come out, so I decided to cut the top off and use a regular socket (I only had a short impact socket that would fit- no deep socket). After grinding on the stupid thing for nearly 10 minutes with a cut-off wheel, I finally figured out that it was going slowly because those things are *ceramic* inside. Doh! S'pose that does make sense, given the heat and all... A sharp blow with a hammer worked much more quickly than the cut-off wheel.
I drove a truck for about 1 year with no speedometer (because it broke). I didn't get pulled over once in that time frame - probably because I knew about what a safe speed was. I know people who've disconented their speedo for a while when they're planning to trade a car, so the odometer doesn't keep going up.:)
I've been puilled over and tried to get out of it with a "I just put in new rear-end gears" (which was true - going from a 2.73:1 to 3.46:1 is a big jump), but I got the same ticket I would've gotten if I'd just said "I don't know, how fast *was* I going?". I'm just glad that the cop didn't see me before the corner - when I'd just passed 3 cars in a row and had run up well into the 3-digit range (according to the tachometer - I knew damn well how fast I was going).
You bring up a good point, though. It's probably illegal to have no speedo in most places. It's not illegal anywhere in the US to replace a speedo, though. AFAIK.
Civilian GPS is only guaranteed within a few percent - which at 50MPH is 1-2 MPH (or more). Stick your car on a chassis dyno or have a friendly cop with radar verify your speedo. The chassis dyno time could be amusing anyway.
Speaking of using GPS to monitor speed, though, have you seen the new Stewart-Warner speedometers that do just that? Pretty cool (until wartime comes and the GPS system for civvies goes to "pretty close, but not really accurate" mode)... I'm running an Autometer electronic speedo that just requires pushing a button and driving a measured 2 miles to recalibrate, but never recalibrating for gear changes or different size tires would still be darned neat.
You can replace your engine management system with whatever you want. You can replace your gauges with whatever you want. You don't even need gauges to be road-legal, but you'll probably get busted for speeding more quickly if you don't have feedback on how fast you're going. The law requires a working odometer, but just so you don't misprepresent the mileage when selling. Once you go over 100K, odometer readings are ignored anyway.
Aside from the speedometer, what gauges do you think mean jack squat to law enforcement? Lots of cars don't come with oil pressure, temperature, or voltage gauges - but I consider them a minimum requirement because I care about whether or not my car's running properly. Most cars come with a fuel gauge, but it's certainly not illegal to run out of gas.
A modern computer could quite easily handle running a serial monitor in realtime - which is all you need to keep these gauges updating flawlessly. Just add a watchdog timer that auto-resets in the case of a software problem which will likely never happen with reliable components - I have linux systems that have run 24x7 for 7 years with more complicated programs than this running - which have only rebooted for power failures, and I have a linux machine in my car that starts up every time I start the car - it's been in there since 1998, an has also had no problems in tht time.
Meanwhile, I know several people who've had to replace the ECU in their cars. Embedded systems are not flawless.
If your gauge is inaccurate, it won't get you out of a ticket. It may get you an equipment violation, but trust me, having an inaccurate or non-functional speedometer won't help (having changed rear-end gears, tires, and broken speedo cables before)...
Normal auto gauges don't hold up in court, anyway. Unless you're driving a retired police car that says "certified" under the gauge, anyway.:)
Argh! "Authentification" is *not* a word, while "Authentication" is. It's not the act of Authentificating, it's the act of Authenticating. May as well throw an "ize" in there, too, and start saying "Authentificationization". "Authentification", indeed.
That annoyificates me enough to postifize. Feel free to replyify if you feelificate that it's needifyed, but I willificate not careifyizeicate.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=authent if icate
I think Dish'd competition is themselves. They keep saying "swith to us, because cable rates are constantlyrising", but then, every year, I've gotten a $2 or $3 increase letter from them.
"We're adding a bunch of shitty channels that you don't want, and so you'll be paying us more money again this year. Enjoy not being able to just keep what you have - here's a free pay-per-view movie coupon, valued at almost $2."
I know several poor people who don't drive new cars, and who wear Wal-Mart clothes. They're not saving money. I wear designer clothes, get a replacement car roughly yearly (not new, but cookie-cutter cars don't appeal to me), eat out often, and buy new toys for both the wife and myself. We're well within our means, despite the guess one might make about my pay as "computer guy" at a company that appears quite small, located in a small town.
Don't know their finances in deatil == don't know if they're saving money or not. Ass, you, me.:)
Oh - this is light-hearted. Don't take me too seriously. I'd be smiling and clearly just ribbing you if we were face to face - I get your point...
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If you're running differntly-sized disks, well, then you're not the person hardware RAID is aimed at. Linux software RAID will handle different size disks and will handle online expansion. I'd still get the 3Ware card, and just use it as a fancy disk controller (you'll want more than 4 drives in your system, either way). The 3Ware controllers are faster, better supported, and generally nice devices. They've got a pretty decent web admin iterface too, IMHO, though I regularly forget what port the thing's listening on...
:)
Actually, I'd get a bunch of single-dik firewire enclosures, hook them to Gentoo running on a PPC, and run LVM on top of a software RAID5. But that's because I need a giant drive array for bakcup purposes, and the throughput of firewire is adequate for my needs. Our database server is running a 3ware card with a pair of large drives under RAID-1, and one of our graphics guys is running a 3Ware card with 8 drives in a RAID5. The DB is using hardware to keep CPU time down, while the graphics guy is running hardware because 1) he needs more disk space than 4 IDE channels would allow and 2) maximizing available CPU time is important when rendering large 3D scenes / video effects.
I've had 0 problems with the 3Ware products I've used in the past, and that I'm using now. I wholeheartedly reccomend them.
Did you read that in a magazine, or actually work with a Mac? :) I've got an OS X machine behind me right now, and there are several more that I support in this building (well, the tables support them most of the time). Yeah, it's got eye candy. It's not configurable eye candy, though. Mac OS X is the OS designed by the same people that make web sites that depend on specific fonts and resolutions. It looks nice to some people, but gets in the way of just as many people. It's just a pain to get in and make some things behave the way you want, and then those changes mysteriously go away after "some" updates.
I dunno. It takes research to learn enough about any system to customize it so that it actually works the way I want. Some systems, such as Win32 (any of them) and Mac OS (any of them, though pre-10.3 are definately worse) are wastes of time to learn about, because they'll never give the flexibility that I'm looking for - and that I get in some of the modern X Window Managers. So, it's windowmaker (with Win2K running in a VMware instance, for those things that require windows) for me. I personally think that my desktop is plenty snazzy. 2 monitors, minor screen effects, pleasent colors and background images, virtual desktops, and really not much work at all to get it all set up. OS X is easier to set up, but harder to work with - or rather, work "around".
Redundant? Someone else posted that "the local cable company can kiss Cloudmaster's ass" before I did? That's weird.
http://ftp.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/consumerdish. html
If you have an area in the residence that is used exclusively by you (or you and your roomate, etc), then you should be able to get a dish.
BTW, don't buy into Dish's "drop cable because they raise prices" BS, though. My Dish Network bill has gone up in Jan/Feb for each of the 4 years that I've had a dish. Granted, I get a few extra channels that I don't want now, but it still goes up (more than cable did, actually, bu my cable company dropped the package that I wanted, so they can kiss my ass).
1.5 words: multicast. Built-in to IPV6, available in localized areas already, likely to become more widely available when the great unwashed realize that they can get TV on that thar enternet... TV's already a broadcast-based medium. This isn't TV on demand - it's just a different medium for transporting the existing signal - much like cable TV has done for lots of years (using a single coaxial cable).
Heh. :) On a similar note, I changed O2 sensors in my car a few weeks ago. One wouldn't come out, so I decided to cut the top off and use a regular socket (I only had a short impact socket that would fit- no deep socket). After grinding on the stupid thing for nearly 10 minutes with a cut-off wheel, I finally figured out that it was going slowly because those things are *ceramic* inside. Doh! S'pose that does make sense, given the heat and all... A sharp blow with a hammer worked much more quickly than the cut-off wheel.
Shocking that such an event would happen to someone who calls it a "puter"...
I drove a truck for about 1 year with no speedometer (because it broke). I didn't get pulled over once in that time frame - probably because I knew about what a safe speed was. I know people who've disconented their speedo for a while when they're planning to trade a car, so the odometer doesn't keep going up. :)
I've been puilled over and tried to get out of it with a "I just put in new rear-end gears" (which was true - going from a 2.73:1 to 3.46:1 is a big jump), but I got the same ticket I would've gotten if I'd just said "I don't know, how fast *was* I going?". I'm just glad that the cop didn't see me before the corner - when I'd just passed 3 cars in a row and had run up well into the 3-digit range (according to the tachometer - I knew damn well how fast I was going).
You bring up a good point, though. It's probably illegal to have no speedo in most places. It's not illegal anywhere in the US to replace a speedo, though. AFAIK.
Civilian GPS is only guaranteed within a few percent - which at 50MPH is 1-2 MPH (or more). Stick your car on a chassis dyno or have a friendly cop with radar verify your speedo. The chassis dyno time could be amusing anyway.
Speaking of using GPS to monitor speed, though, have you seen the new Stewart-Warner speedometers that do just that? Pretty cool (until wartime comes and the GPS system for civvies goes to "pretty close, but not really accurate" mode)... I'm running an Autometer electronic speedo that just requires pushing a button and driving a measured 2 miles to recalibrate, but never recalibrating for gear changes or different size tires would still be darned neat.
The engine controller also records the speed, and the mileage. It's not *just* recorded on the odometer (which is also digital on many cars).
Plus, there haven't been any mechanical gauges in most cars for a decade.
I'm sure there must be a more useful forum for you to post your misinformed opinions.
You can replace your engine management system with whatever you want. You can replace your gauges with whatever you want. You don't even need gauges to be road-legal, but you'll probably get busted for speeding more quickly if you don't have feedback on how fast you're going. The law requires a working odometer, but just so you don't misprepresent the mileage when selling. Once you go over 100K, odometer readings are ignored anyway.
Aside from the speedometer, what gauges do you think mean jack squat to law enforcement? Lots of cars don't come with oil pressure, temperature, or voltage gauges - but I consider them a minimum requirement because I care about whether or not my car's running properly. Most cars come with a fuel gauge, but it's certainly not illegal to run out of gas.
A modern computer could quite easily handle running a serial monitor in realtime - which is all you need to keep these gauges updating flawlessly. Just add a watchdog timer that auto-resets in the case of a software problem which will likely never happen with reliable components - I have linux systems that have run 24x7 for 7 years with more complicated programs than this running - which have only rebooted for power failures, and I have a linux machine in my car that starts up every time I start the car - it's been in there since 1998, an has also had no problems in tht time.
Meanwhile, I know several people who've had to replace the ECU in their cars. Embedded systems are not flawless.
If your gauge is inaccurate, it won't get you out of a ticket. It may get you an equipment violation, but trust me, having an inaccurate or non-functional speedometer won't help (having changed rear-end gears, tires, and broken speedo cables before)...
:)
Normal auto gauges don't hold up in court, anyway. Unless you're driving a retired police car that says "certified" under the gauge, anyway.
I don't see any .gov links, or anything else that debunks the availability of cheap jeeps just after WWII. What links are you referring to?
That one's gay. :)
I'm rather surprisificated that cromulent made its way into the dictionary...
I'm surprised that the Nation-wide chain of Kroger stores don't sue this regional "Krogers" of yours on the basis of name similarity.
Argh! "Authentification" is *not* a word, while "Authentication" is. It's not the act of Authentificating, it's the act of Authenticating. May as well throw an "ize" in there, too, and start saying "Authentificationization". "Authentification", indeed.
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That annoyificates me enough to postifize. Feel free to replyify if you feelificate that it's needifyed, but I willificate not careifyizeicate.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=authen
You mean a magneto like this one? http://www.msdpromag.com/p5.htm
I think Dish'd competition is themselves. They keep saying "swith to us, because cable rates are constantlyrising", but then, every year, I've gotten a $2 or $3 increase letter from them.
"We're adding a bunch of shitty channels that you don't want, and so you'll be paying us more money again this year. Enjoy not being able to just keep what you have - here's a free pay-per-view movie coupon, valued at almost $2."
The new (devlopment, IIRC) TightVNCs can transfer files as well as doing the standard "view my desktop" thing.
I missed the space, actually. :)
pain free also doesn't work. Whee, this could go on all day! Or maybe you confused "www" with "images". ;)
Well, the Taurus appearently makes the Contour redundant... :)
Don't they know that MySQL is the one to use for web backends? :)
I know several poor people who don't drive new cars, and who wear Wal-Mart clothes. They're not saving money. I wear designer clothes, get a replacement car roughly yearly (not new, but cookie-cutter cars don't appeal to me), eat out often, and buy new toys for both the wife and myself. We're well within our means, despite the guess one might make about my pay as "computer guy" at a company that appears quite small, located in a small town.
:)
Don't know their finances in deatil == don't know if they're saving money or not. Ass, you, me.
Oh - this is light-hearted. Don't take me too seriously. I'd be smiling and clearly just ribbing you if we were face to face - I get your point...