20 cents per gallon on top of $3+ per gallon isn't even a 10% hike, so if you get 10% better mileage with the diesel than with a gasoline engine you're coming out ahead. Besides, the prices of gasoline and diesel fluctuate independently, sometimes diesel is cheaper.
Advice I've heard is that, especially during the holiday shipping rush, expect your package may take at least one 5' fall, as the fastest way to get a truck unpacked is to take a stack of boxes and spill it. We ship too much crap for them to have time to treat packages properly--and if we didn't ship so much, they'd still treat the packages quite briskly because we're too stingy to pay for proper handling.
You only think you're in the USA. In fact, the USA has been downsizing to reduce expenses for several years now. Pretty soon you'll be able to see all 4 coasts from your rooftop...
I would disagree -- the more years I spend programming the less I remember about system administration. I can do basic setup tasks, but fiddling with Active Directories and stuff like that is beyond what I care to learn and has been for what, a decade now?
At an Ancient Telecom company most folks don't have admin rights (and shouldn't) but there is an exception process developers follow, and otherwise the Company-approved packages don't need admin rights to install, plus the help desk has powers.
I had a power dip once, and none of my CyberPower or Best UPSs (or even the cheap no-name ones) had any trouble with it -- I didn't even see a surge in the lights, just that dip. Nonetheless, something started burning in my APC UPS and I had to trash it. Needless to say, no equipment was harmed other than the one piece which harmed itself.
So... umm, if Maxtor and Seagate are now the same, and WD is also on your crap list, and certainly we've had "Deathstar" issues on several models of IBM-now-Hitachi drives, who's left for you to buy from? Samsung?
There are so many compromises that only need account access, that if you give someone an account you may as well give them root if they're malicious. So "If you know what you're doing and you don't run as Administrator all the time, you don't need AV anyhow." doesn't cut it in my book.
Backing up a live database is tricky for you. It is easy as pie for a vaguely adequate database. It will dump the dataspace then the transaction logs, and on reload it will replay the transaction logs up to the last committed checkpoint.
Someone else pointed out that replicas don't protect you from malicious alterations of the master (and someone who can crack the master can crack the replicas too) but I like hot replication for failover purposes (and spreading high-CPU/low-cacheability OLTP loads) and actual external dumps that spool off to tapes that go offsite for protection against data corruption.
Amen to this -- at Fermilab we had a setup with lots of 8mm tapes, and we thought the MTBF was awfully high (several were failing each week), much more than the 30,000 hour MTBF specified...until we realized it was 30,000 hours with a 5% duty cycle, or 600 hours of use. 600 hours divided by even a dozen tapes is 50 hours, about 6 8-hour days and these were in use up to 24x6... The system also let us empirically confirm the single-bit error rate of DRAM, something on the order of 1 in 10^13 bits at the time.
Hot spare, hot swap, hot plug...that's how you gotta do it when you have so much hardware on hand that failures need to be planned for rather than prevented.
Microsoft fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a LAN war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never mention Hitler when flames are on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...
[Vizzini stops suddenly, and falls dead to the right]
MTBF only applies to failures at the bottom of the bathtub curve, i.e. after the initial DOA/burn-in and before the end of design life. So when we had 30,000 hour MTBF tape drives, with that MTBF reflecting a 5% duty cycle (i.e. 6,000 active hours per failure), and ran 25 of them 24/7, we had about one failure every 240 hours. (We also had enough ECC RAM running in that machine to validate the single bit error rate for the DRAM of the day...)
Also remember that a "300W" power supply, while it may need to consume significantly more than 300W to deliver 300W to the PC, needs a good margin for relatively high startup power required, and is normally asked to supply much less than that, esp. when the machine is idle (esp. when the CPU is issued an "idle" instruction, as Linux does or as the popular "rain" CPU cooling program did). So if you're running SETI@Home or Folding@Home or some other such program, it's best for the planet that you run it only on your faster/fastest computers, and it's best for your electric bill that you not run them at all.
MTBF only applies after the initial period and only for the duration of the designed lifespan, i.e. the bottom of the bathtub. And don't forget to divide by the duty cycle: 30,000 hours MTBF with only a 5% duty cycle means an average of one failure per 6,000 hours of actual device use.
As to the OP, however, given how long even an advance replacement takes and given how long drives last for me, a drive failure usually means it's time to buy a new pair of disks, mirror them, and make hand-me-downs or external drives out of the survivor and the replacement.
Careful with that "always". There was a Compaq box using a RAID-1 controller that I couldn't immediately recover; I think it reserved some space at the front and put the partition table after that, so I couldn't readily mount it or even fdisk -l....
If your IDE drives don't last a whole year on average, either don't get the absolutely cheapest piece of crud on the planet, or (more likely) pay a little attention to making sure your drives aren't cooking themselves. The smaller the case, the more likely cookage is a factor, especially if there's not much metal-to-metal contact pulling heat away from the drives. The drive should not feel so hot that you can't keep your finger on it; if the drive is hot, the mounting bracket should definitely feel warm.
The 250GB issue is more that, if you're a business that needs a big SCSI array, you have enough concurrent I/O demands that you need all the heads you can get. Every so often drive manufacturers have come out with models with two independent sets of drive heads in the same mechanism, but it's usually cheaper and easier to just buy two disks. I hear in the fancy high-end RAID arrays with the dual fiber channel controllers and all that they actually make the modules much smaller than they could, to keep the platter size and seek time down...
Well, for me it's the opposite, with plain old ping the www makes it *not* go to VeriSign:
dyheli:~> ping www.akruhgskdu.com ping: unknown host www.akruhgskdu.com dyheli:~> ping akruhgskdu.com PING akruhgskdu.com (64.94.110.11) 56(84) bytes of data. From 10.171.0.19 icmp_seq=38 Time to live exceeded From gar3-p360.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.9.65) icmp_seq=39 Time to live exceeded From gar3-p360.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.9.65) icmp_seq=40 Time to live exceeded From gar3-p360.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.9.65) icmp_seq=41 Time to live exceeded From gar3-p360.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.9.65) icmp_seq=42 Time to live exceeded From tbr1-p013301.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.11.169) icmp_seq=43 Time to live exceeded From tbr1-p013301.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.11.169) icmp_seq=44 Time to live exceeded From tbr1-p013301.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.11.169) icmp_seq=45 Time to live exceeded
To do printing, it installs cups. Unfortunately, it seems unwilling to recognize the "allow raw" option, even after restarting cups, even to the point that a printer configured with the "raw driver" doesn't take raw input. I haven't tried rebooting, but c'mon, this isn't Windows here;/etc/rc.d/init.d/cups restart should suffice!
Fortunately, the -oraw option mentioned in the comments does work.
I also have problems with drag-and-drop items hanging around, esp. trying to drag links into a Mozilla menu...
"Cogenitor" was disappointing, actually, I couldn't watch much of it. Maybe I missed what was worth watching about the side plots (Archer and that other captain playing around in the sun and the other two going "look at our cool stuff"), but the part with the "Cogenitor" was just like that Next Generation episode with the one who felt female after being around Riker, except only her femininity was persecuted, not her very personhood. Riker and Tripp both tried to interfere, to the same lack of result.
Prime time fictional TV in the U.S. is a really bad place for the differently sexed and-or gendered, from what I've seen. One episode of Ally McBeal, the trans-something (I forget the specifics) was killed at the end of the show. The other night on A&E(?) a Law and Order rerun had a pre-op male-to-female transsexual who was sentenced to 20 years in prison, then gang-raped shortly after arrival at Rikers. The aforementioned episode of Pepsi Trek had the alien who felt female brainwashed back to their society's norms. Wednesday night's third-sex alien commits suicide.
To be fair, another transsexual on Ally McBeal did okay for herself, and that short-lived Supreme Court show had a transsexual lawyer argue for asylum for an alleged transsexual who was, as it turned out, only a transvestite. But that's still four very bad outcomes out of six...
I have an original Optra E, still chugging many years later, though my page count is only 8358. No PostScript, but 600 dpi and a PCL version high enough to support that 600 dpi. I bought it to replace an original Epson Stylus (back when a black-and-white inkjet was $225!) because I didn't print often enough to not clog the $250 print head.
I've also got an Optra Color 40 (bought on clearance) that does decent PostScript. The "drill a hole" method for refilling the black didn't work for me (leak city!), but the "pop the top off" did great for refilling the color...
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20 cents per gallon on top of $3+ per gallon isn't even a 10% hike, so if you get 10% better mileage with the diesel than with a gasoline engine you're coming out ahead. Besides, the prices of gasoline and diesel fluctuate independently, sometimes diesel is cheaper.
Advice I've heard is that, especially during the holiday shipping rush, expect your package may take at least one 5' fall, as the fastest way to get a truck unpacked is to take a stack of boxes and spill it. We ship too much crap for them to have time to treat packages properly--and if we didn't ship so much, they'd still treat the packages quite briskly because we're too stingy to pay for proper handling.
You only think you're in the USA. In fact, the USA has been downsizing to reduce expenses for several years now. Pretty soon you'll be able to see all 4 coasts from your rooftop...
I would disagree -- the more years I spend programming the less I remember about system administration. I can do basic setup tasks, but fiddling with Active Directories and stuff like that is beyond what I care to learn and has been for what, a decade now?
At an Ancient Telecom company most folks don't have admin rights (and shouldn't) but there is an exception process developers follow, and otherwise the Company-approved packages don't need admin rights to install, plus the help desk has powers.
Better yet ... get two inexpensive USB disks, and swap them every day or two, maybe even have the inactive one in a separate location...
I had a power dip once, and none of my CyberPower or Best UPSs (or even the cheap no-name ones) had any trouble with it -- I didn't even see a surge in the lights, just that dip. Nonetheless, something started burning in my APC UPS and I had to trash it. Needless to say, no equipment was harmed other than the one piece which harmed itself.
So ... umm, if Maxtor and Seagate are now the same, and WD is also on your crap list, and certainly we've had "Deathstar" issues on several models of IBM-now-Hitachi drives, who's left for you to buy from? Samsung?
There are so many compromises that only need account access, that if you give someone an account you may as well give them root if they're malicious. So "If you know what you're doing and you don't run as Administrator all the time, you don't need AV anyhow." doesn't cut it in my book.
Backing up a live database is tricky for you. It is easy as pie for a vaguely adequate database. It will dump the dataspace then the transaction logs, and on reload it will replay the transaction logs up to the last committed checkpoint.
Someone else pointed out that replicas don't protect you from malicious alterations of the master (and someone who can crack the master can crack the replicas too) but I like hot replication for failover purposes (and spreading high-CPU/low-cacheability OLTP loads) and actual external dumps that spool off to tapes that go offsite for protection against data corruption.
Amen to this -- at Fermilab we had a setup with lots of 8mm tapes, and we thought the MTBF was awfully high (several were failing each week), much more than the 30,000 hour MTBF specified...until we realized it was 30,000 hours with a 5% duty cycle, or 600 hours of use. 600 hours divided by even a dozen tapes is 50 hours, about 6 8-hour days and these were in use up to 24x6... The system also let us empirically confirm the single-bit error rate of DRAM, something on the order of 1 in 10^13 bits at the time.
Hot spare, hot swap, hot plug...that's how you gotta do it when you have so much hardware on hand that failures need to be planned for rather than prevented.
Denatured alcohol is mostly isopropyl, with methanol added to make it undrinkable. So it could be 100% pure alcohols.
ym "heavy riffs". Unless you like vast separations in your music. HTH HAND
Microsoft fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a LAN war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never mention Hitler when flames are on the line! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...
[Vizzini stops suddenly, and falls dead to the right]
MTBF only applies to failures at the bottom of the bathtub curve, i.e. after the initial DOA/burn-in and before the end of design life. So when we had 30,000 hour MTBF tape drives, with that MTBF reflecting a 5% duty cycle (i.e. 6,000 active hours per failure), and ran 25 of them 24/7, we had about one failure every 240 hours. (We also had enough ECC RAM running in that machine to validate the single bit error rate for the DRAM of the day...)
Also remember that a "300W" power supply, while it may need to consume significantly more than 300W to deliver 300W to the PC, needs a good margin for relatively high startup power required, and is normally asked to supply much less than that, esp. when the machine is idle (esp. when the CPU is issued an "idle" instruction, as Linux does or as the popular "rain" CPU cooling program did). So if you're running SETI@Home or Folding@Home or some other such program, it's best for the planet that you run it only on your faster/fastest computers, and it's best for your electric bill that you not run them at all.
MTBF only applies after the initial period and only for the duration of the designed lifespan, i.e. the bottom of the bathtub. And don't forget to divide by the duty cycle: 30,000 hours MTBF with only a 5% duty cycle means an average of one failure per 6,000 hours of actual device use.
As to the OP, however, given how long even an advance replacement takes and given how long drives last for me, a drive failure usually means it's time to buy a new pair of disks, mirror them, and make hand-me-downs or external drives out of the survivor and the replacement.
My inexpensive dlink DI-524 wireless-G router has MAC filtering...and it was about $50 after rebate, a year ago...
Careful with that "always". There was a Compaq box using a RAID-1 controller that I couldn't immediately recover; I think it reserved some space at the front and put the partition table after that, so I couldn't readily mount it or even fdisk -l....
You should've added more RAM. I cut my kernel rebuild time from 8 hours (overnight) to 4 or so by going from 4 to 8 megs...
If your IDE drives don't last a whole year on average, either don't get the absolutely cheapest piece of crud on the planet, or (more likely) pay a little attention to making sure your drives aren't cooking themselves. The smaller the case, the more likely cookage is a factor, especially if there's not much metal-to-metal contact pulling heat away from the drives. The drive should not feel so hot that you can't keep your finger on it; if the drive is hot, the mounting bracket should definitely feel warm.
The 250GB issue is more that, if you're a business that needs a big SCSI array, you have enough concurrent I/O demands that you need all the heads you can get. Every so often drive manufacturers have come out with models with two independent sets of drive heads in the same mechanism, but it's usually cheaper and easier to just buy two disks. I hear in the fancy high-end RAID arrays with the dual fiber channel controllers and all that they actually make the modules much smaller than they could, to keep the platter size and seek time down...
Well, for me it's the opposite, with plain old ping the www makes it *not* go to VeriSign:
dyheli:~> ping www.akruhgskdu.com
ping: unknown host www.akruhgskdu.com
dyheli:~> ping akruhgskdu.com
PING akruhgskdu.com (64.94.110.11) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 10.171.0.19 icmp_seq=38 Time to live exceeded
From gar3-p360.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.9.65) icmp_seq=39 Time to live exceeded
From gar3-p360.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.9.65) icmp_seq=40 Time to live exceeded
From gar3-p360.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.9.65) icmp_seq=41 Time to live exceeded
From gar3-p360.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.123.9.65) icmp_seq=42 Time to live exceeded
From tbr1-p013301.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.11.169) icmp_seq=43 Time to live exceeded
From tbr1-p013301.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.11.169) icmp_seq=44 Time to live exceeded
From tbr1-p013301.wswdc.ip.att.net (12.122.11.169) icmp_seq=45 Time to live exceeded
--- akruhgskdu.com ping statistics ---
76 packets transmitted, 0 received, +8 errors, 100% packet loss, time 75138ms
They stole all our servers!
(So why did they make mainframes so small again?)
To do printing, it installs cups. Unfortunately, it seems unwilling to recognize the "allow raw" option, even after restarting cups, even to the point that a printer configured with the "raw driver" doesn't take raw input. I haven't tried rebooting, but c'mon, this isn't Windows here; /etc/rc.d/init.d/cups restart should suffice!
Fortunately, the -oraw option mentioned in the comments does work.
I also have problems with drag-and-drop items hanging around, esp. trying to drag links into a Mozilla menu...
So why do HDTV tuners still cost $300-$500, and no HDTVs (which cost $2000+) come with HDTV tuners yet?
"Cogenitor" was disappointing, actually, I couldn't watch much of it. Maybe I missed what was worth watching about the side plots (Archer and that other captain playing around in the sun and the other two going "look at our cool stuff"), but the part with the "Cogenitor" was just like that Next Generation episode with the one who felt female after being around Riker, except only her femininity was persecuted, not her very personhood. Riker and Tripp both tried to interfere, to the same lack of result.
Prime time fictional TV in the U.S. is a really bad place for the differently sexed and-or gendered, from what I've seen. One episode of Ally McBeal, the trans-something (I forget the specifics) was killed at the end of the show. The other night on A&E(?) a Law and Order rerun had a pre-op male-to-female transsexual who was sentenced to 20 years in prison, then gang-raped shortly after arrival at Rikers. The aforementioned episode of Pepsi Trek had the alien who felt female brainwashed back to their society's norms. Wednesday night's third-sex alien commits suicide.
To be fair, another transsexual on Ally McBeal did okay for herself, and that short-lived Supreme Court show had a transsexual lawyer argue for asylum for an alleged transsexual who was, as it turned out, only a transvestite. But that's still four very bad outcomes out of six...
I have an original Optra E, still chugging many years later, though my page count is only 8358. No PostScript, but 600 dpi and a PCL version high enough to support that 600 dpi. I bought it to replace an original Epson Stylus (back when a black-and-white inkjet was $225!) because I didn't print often enough to not clog the $250 print head.
I've also got an Optra Color 40 (bought on clearance) that does decent PostScript. The "drill a hole" method for refilling the black didn't work for me (leak city!), but the "pop the top off" did great for refilling the color...