A hundred bucks, huh? Guess I better treat my copy more nicely -- except that the damn thing's too big to fit on a normal bookshelf. (That's one advantage of the reprint.)
If you're really serious about crash recovery, take one of those drives and just keep it on the shelf.
I just had a serious PSU-related crash. Aside from frying the MB, memory, and one of the processors, it fried my drive electronics. The old Seagate Barracuda literally had a couple of chip leads vaporize. I had a spare of that model drive though, and swapping the electronics boards let me recover the data. Unfortunately I didn't have a spare of the WD800BB-32BSA0, so I'm still waiting to recover the data from that (aside from what I had backed up -- not enough); the current generation WD800BB is physically different and the boards aren't swappable.
Either that, or make sure the drives in your RAID set are on separate power supplies (which still won't help if a PSU failure drops 12 (or more) volts across a nominal 5V data line -- that's another advantage of fiber).
Certain lead salts taste sweet, hence the temptation for a kid to eat paint chips containing them. I don't think that's true of aluminum or copper. (Besides which, Al and Cu are less harmful if ingested, and houses already have all kinds of that stuff lying around -- wiring, coins, foil, cookware, etc...)
What the hell do they do if you get hit by a bus? Or just come down with food poisoning? Don't you have a backup?
I'm on call 24x7x182 -- alternate weeks -- my backup and I alternate. (And we're backup for the duty pager if whoever has it doesn't respond in 15 min, or if it's something he needs help with.)
Sure, you'd need the chain down the 15K rpm SCSI version,
Heh, reminds me of those reports of possible antigravity effects with spinning superconductor magnets. Do you suppose if you manage to write the right bit pattern to every sector on the drive you could get it to lift off?
I might also throw in the possibility that, since the end of the Cold War, there has been very little incentive for governments, etc, to back fundamental research that might (a decade later) lead to radically new technologies. Governments like the status quo, they like the future to be predictable. Fundamental research (except perhaps in really esoteric areas like cosmology or areas with practical benefits for them like medicine) scares the willies out of the people in power -- it might upset their apple cart.
You could detonate a 50 megaton nuke 5 feet off the surface of the moon and you might succeed in stirring up a small amount of lunar dust.
Oh, I guarantee you'd kick up more than a small amount of dust. Plasma wave from the material of the bomb itself trivially aside, the "buttload of gamma rays" will vaporize a buttload of lunar rock and soil, and you'll get a pretty nice fireball from that. And quite the crater.
DEC did have a Unix version called Ultrix at one point, yes. It was based on AT&T and BSD code, and predated OSF/1 by a few years. It was pre-alpha VAX (and microVAX) based.
This might cost them a couple billion dollars but that's a drop in the bucket for them and would do more to annoy Microsoft than simply ceding the PC business to some Chinese manufacturer.
Ah, but if they sell their PC business for a couple billion dollars first, then it doesn't cost them (net) anything. Assuming they switch the technology to PPC and Linux, they might as well sell off their Intel/Windows based hardware lines.
Mind, if I were contemplating buying the existing PC division, I'd probably want some non-compete verbage in the contract to ensure that IBM doesn't do that for a while. Although I'd love to see some non-Apple PPC laptop and desktop machines.
It's shaped like a pen, you hold it and write with it like a pen. It's a pen.
If you just say "marker", somebody might think you're talking about one of those short, thick things you hold like a piece of chalk. If you want to get pedantic, call it a "marking pen", to distinguish it from a fountain pen, a ball-point pen, or even a quill pen.
You're assuming that exit polling is an unbiased process; it isn't.
People don't have to talk to exit pollers, they can tell them to get stuffed. I imagine Republican voters are more likely to do that (perceiving the media -- especially PBS -- as left-leaning and not worth wasting their breath on) than Democrats.
People can also lie to exit pollers, too, for similar reasons, or to avoid (perceived) peer pressure (a Republican voting in a predominantly Democrat precinct, say). There are reasons that the balloting process is private -- exit polls violate that privacy. Sure, some people don't care, but you're not going to get an accurate exit poll from those that do.
Okay, call me clueless, but I can't figure out what the original song was. It's customary to put "to the tune of..." and at least in passing give props to the original author(s).
Could happen to anyone. I once installed a half-dozen transistors on a board backwards because I was lining them up with the silk-screened D-shape outline rather than paying attention to the EBC labels. Was it my fault they designed the transistors backward?;-)
(I figured it out when the oscilloscope showed the signal just dying at the first transistor...)
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A hundred bucks, huh? Guess I better treat my copy more nicely -- except that the damn thing's too big to fit on a normal bookshelf. (That's one advantage of the reprint.)
If you're really serious about crash recovery, take one of those drives and just keep it on the shelf.
I just had a serious PSU-related crash. Aside from frying the MB, memory, and one of the processors, it fried my drive electronics. The old Seagate Barracuda literally had a couple of chip leads vaporize. I had a spare of that model drive though, and swapping the electronics boards let me recover the data. Unfortunately I didn't have a spare of the WD800BB-32BSA0, so I'm still waiting to recover the data from that (aside from what I had backed up -- not enough); the current generation WD800BB is physically different and the boards aren't swappable.
Either that, or make sure the drives in your RAID set are on separate power supplies (which still won't help if a PSU failure drops 12 (or more) volts across a nominal 5V data line -- that's another advantage of fiber).
Certain lead salts taste sweet, hence the temptation for a kid to eat paint chips containing them. I don't think that's true of aluminum or copper. (Besides which, Al and Cu are less harmful if ingested, and houses already have all kinds of that stuff lying around -- wiring, coins, foil, cookware, etc...)
Not everyone has testicles...you inconsiderate clod!
Maybe so, but on average everybody has one.
What the hell do they do if you get hit by a bus? Or just come down with food poisoning? Don't you have a backup?
I'm on call 24x7x182 -- alternate weeks -- my backup and I alternate. (And we're backup for the duty pager if whoever has it doesn't respond in 15 min, or if it's something he needs help with.)
I thought that was default behaviour of any Windows install....
That's the Solar System's biggest walnut.
In northern America humans lived for thousands of year without harming the environment.
Really? What happened to the mammoths? to the native american horses? to various other megafauna that were living until humans came to the Americas?
Sure, you'd need the chain down the 15K rpm SCSI version,
Heh, reminds me of those reports of possible antigravity effects with spinning superconductor magnets. Do you suppose if you manage to write the right bit pattern to every sector on the drive you could get it to lift off?
Mod that +1 insightful.
I might also throw in the possibility that, since the end of the Cold War, there has been very little incentive for governments, etc, to back fundamental research that might (a decade later) lead to radically new technologies. Governments like the status quo, they like the future to be predictable. Fundamental research (except perhaps in really esoteric areas like cosmology or areas with practical benefits for them like medicine) scares the willies out of the people in power -- it might upset their apple cart.
CH3NO2 - it's the only way to be sure.
Nitromethane? Sure of what?
Now, if you'd said CH3C6H2(NO2)3, you'd be talking.
What, you think a nuke fireball is a chemical reaction? It's too hot for that. Do you think the Sun is coal-fired, too?
Here's a hint: don't believe everything you hear on a director's commentary, particularly if it's something that makes the director look good.
You could detonate a 50 megaton nuke 5 feet off the surface of the moon and you might succeed in stirring up a small amount of lunar dust.
Oh, I guarantee you'd kick up more than a small amount of dust. Plasma wave from the material of the bomb itself trivially aside, the "buttload of gamma rays" will vaporize a buttload of lunar rock and soil, and you'll get a pretty nice fireball from that. And quite the crater.
DEC did have a Unix version called Ultrix at one point, yes. It was based on AT&T and BSD code, and predated OSF/1 by a few years. It was pre-alpha VAX (and microVAX) based.
but if one of the big three is selling AMDs then everyone is better off.
One of the big three is. HP sells both Intel and AMD based machines, including AMD Athlon 64 laptops.
This might cost them a couple billion dollars but that's a drop in the bucket for them and would do more to annoy Microsoft than simply ceding the PC business to some Chinese manufacturer.
Ah, but if they sell their PC business for a couple billion dollars first, then it doesn't cost them (net) anything. Assuming they switch the technology to PPC and Linux, they might as well sell off their Intel/Windows based hardware lines.
Mind, if I were contemplating buying the existing PC division, I'd probably want some non-compete verbage in the contract to ensure that IBM doesn't do that for a while. Although I'd love to see some non-Apple PPC laptop and desktop machines.
It's shaped like a pen, you hold it and write with it like a pen. It's a pen.
If you just say "marker", somebody might think you're talking about one of those short, thick things you hold like a piece of chalk. If you want to get pedantic, call it a "marking pen", to distinguish it from a fountain pen, a ball-point pen, or even a quill pen.
Technically, you can do that with punchcards, too
Well, maybe. Personally I'd rather eat one 25 GB Blu-ray corn disc than the 104,000 or so boxes of punch cards it'd take to hold the same data.
Hey, I've been blaming unreproducable bugs in my software on cosmic rays for years.
You're assuming that exit polling is an unbiased process; it isn't.
People don't have to talk to exit pollers, they can tell them to get stuffed. I imagine Republican voters are more likely to do that (perceiving the media -- especially PBS -- as left-leaning and not worth wasting their breath on) than Democrats.
People can also lie to exit pollers, too, for similar reasons, or to avoid (perceived) peer pressure (a Republican voting in a predominantly Democrat precinct, say). There are reasons that the balloting process is private -- exit polls violate that privacy. Sure, some people don't care, but you're not going to get an accurate exit poll from those that do.
Okay, call me clueless, but I can't figure out what the original song was. It's customary to put "to the tune of..." and at least in passing give props to the original author(s).
So, what was it?
Hey! Perl still adheres to the "one tool for one job" metaphor.
Really? I thought it was more like "six different tools for one job".
Could happen to anyone. I once installed a half-dozen transistors on a board backwards because I was lining them up with the silk-screened D-shape outline rather than paying attention to the EBC labels. Was it my fault they designed the transistors backward? ;-)
(I figured it out when the oscilloscope showed the signal just dying at the first transistor...)