I've had the similar experiences. Mine usually make it to just a month outside the warranty period. One had the distinct honor of only lasting 3 weeks. I was able to recover most of the data, but after that incident, like you, I've only bought non-WD drives. I've had 5 WD drives die. All my other drives have outlived the WD drives by a long shot.
I decided to go with the Drobo. It works as a JBOD raid, and you can mix and match disks and capacities. The drawback with the drobo is that it doesn't have a native networking capability. For that you need to buy a droboshare, or hook it up to a box & share it. And it has USB2, and 1394b, but not 1394a. So if you don't currently have firewire 800 capabilities, I recommend you get a card immediately if you choose to hook it up to a PC.
I ran a test on my home pc on speedtest.net, and noticed that on the same pc, that largely my download speeds were very similar but my upload speed had changed significantly from the ubuntu install vs. the vista install.
On Ubuntu (9.04): 19612kbps down; 6851kbps up On Vista: 19259kbps down; 18703kbps up
I have read law as a matter of fact. I will agree with you, that calling it English is a stretch, as far as interpreting goes, but I still stand by my argument that reading codified law would not be the same as reading source code.
For example this excerpt from Fair use act of 2007:
"The court shall remit statutory damages for secondary infringement, except in a case in which the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that the act or acts..."
Now consider this snippet of code: while (sgets(buf2, 256, sec_ptr))
And the way I would see it translated into English: while open parenthesis sgets open parenthesis buf2 comma 256 comma sec underscore ptr close parenthesis close parenthesis
To me, I'd rather have law read out to me, and I am more involved in coding than I am law. As for pork, I am with you 100%. I think bills should be written specifically on a 1:1 ratio. One Problem, one bill.
Just think: if you were working on a big software or documentation project, would you want your QA process to involve nothing but some guy standing up and reading the source code out loud? No way -- everyone would be asleep or bored to tears (well, unless it was Perl, then they'd probably be waiting for his face to just fall off).
Reading source code out loud is a whole different beast, and, in my opinion, not a good analogy. In source code, you have variables, case-sensitivity, quotes matter, etc. Reading the English language aloud is quite different.
Windows Home = $100~ Windows Pro = $130~ Windows Longhorn = Unknown
Makes sense to me.
Actually, you included the price of the game in the first estimate, but not the second. So, really, it would be: Windows Home = $100~$130(Pro) Game X = $40-50 Total =$150~($180)
Terrorists: Please leave this airspace. We will continue to flash this light at you until you leave.
I really see this as being somewhat similar to outlawing guns: only the law abiding citizens won't have them. Likewise, the law abiding pilot will probably leave the airspace, but someone with more malicious intent, probably isn't going to be scared off.
On the bright side, NVidia does have beta 64-bit drivers available, so you might luck out. Of course, considering the stability of final-release NVidia drivers, do you really want to use a beta?
Of course they're beta. Why would nvidia release final drivers for a beta product, when the possibility exists that x64 could change in a heartbeat, and render the drivers useless?
It won't be susceptible to the LAND attack, perhaps?
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He was the original, everyone knew him (and his problems, but that's another story) and most of the world was very happy when his son, Christopher, was chosen to carry on the legacy on the silver screen.
Not that this already hasn't been debunked or anything, but also the chances of that, even if he was really his dad, were pretty slim as George had killed himself almost 2 decades earlier.
Because if you notice the sampling in the post (rtfp?), it states:
The study was originally made by Acadys and Microcost and gathered data from 1.2M machines belonging to about one thousand companies over a period of one month in seven different countries."
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If you're not willing to make the hard calls when someone can't do something as simple as patching, you're doomed from the start.
Who's going to compromise the Linux kernel servers, and leave the linux kernel alone?
I'm pretty sure this is being done already.
I've had the similar experiences. Mine usually make it to just a month outside the warranty period. One had the distinct honor of only lasting 3 weeks. I was able to recover most of the data, but after that incident, like you, I've only bought non-WD drives. I've had 5 WD drives die. All my other drives have outlived the WD drives by a long shot.
Unfortunately that only changes the login for your router admin page. That has nothing to do with WEP/WPA/WPA2.
I decided to go with the Drobo. It works as a JBOD raid, and you can mix and match disks and capacities. The drawback with the drobo is that it doesn't have a native networking capability. For that you need to buy a droboshare, or hook it up to a box & share it. And it has USB2, and 1394b, but not 1394a. So if you don't currently have firewire 800 capabilities, I recommend you get a card immediately if you choose to hook it up to a PC.
http://www.drobo.com/resources/drobocalculator.php
I ran a test on my home pc on speedtest.net, and noticed that on the same pc, that largely my download speeds were very similar but my upload speed had changed significantly from the ubuntu install vs. the vista install.
On Ubuntu (9.04): 19612kbps down; 6851kbps up
On Vista: 19259kbps down; 18703kbps up
My ISP is Verizon.
I've been doing this for a long time. I simply hold my hand in front of my eyes. Viola! Object remotely cloaked.
Well, with having downloaded 750GB from comcast on cable one month last year, I am certainly willing to help them find out if it's a viable goal.
Well I know it must be somewhere under 750GB for a month, because that's what got me cut off.
My god! I was wondering what had happend to Balki!
I have read law as a matter of fact. I will agree with you, that calling it English is a stretch, as far as interpreting goes, but I still stand by my argument that reading codified law would not be the same as reading source code.
For example this excerpt from Fair use act of 2007:
"The court shall remit statutory damages for secondary infringement, except in a case in which the copyright owner sustains the burden of proving, and the court finds, that the act or acts..."
Now consider this snippet of code:
while (sgets(buf2, 256, sec_ptr))
And the way I would see it translated into English:
while open parenthesis sgets open parenthesis buf2 comma 256 comma sec underscore ptr close parenthesis close parenthesis
To me, I'd rather have law read out to me, and I am more involved in coding than I am law. As for pork, I am with you 100%. I think bills should be written specifically on a 1:1 ratio. One Problem, one bill.
Just think: if you were working on a big software or documentation project, would you want your QA process to involve nothing but some guy standing up and reading the source code out loud? No way -- everyone would be asleep or bored to tears (well, unless it was Perl, then they'd probably be waiting for his face to just fall off).
Reading source code out loud is a whole different beast, and, in my opinion, not a good analogy. In source code, you have variables, case-sensitivity, quotes matter, etc. Reading the English language aloud is quite different.
If they call what I see some people doing on the roads on a daily basis skill, then I welcome our new automobile overlords.
If only they could make a car that forces someone to be considerate on the road, like move into the right lane when they should, for example.
They say: "Hahaha! Microsoft loses money! Everybody buy an xbox!"
You might want to tell your friends that an unsold xbox makes MS lose more money than a sold one.
Cedega = $44.95
Game X = $40-50
Total = $80-95
Windows Home = $100~
Windows Pro = $130~
Windows Longhorn = Unknown
Makes sense to me.
Actually, you included the price of the game in the first estimate, but not the second. So, really, it would be:
Windows Home = $100~$130(Pro)
Game X = $40-50
Total =$150~($180)
Terrorists: Please leave this airspace. We will continue to flash this light at you until you leave.
I really see this as being somewhat similar to outlawing guns: only the law abiding citizens won't have them. Likewise, the law abiding pilot will probably leave the airspace, but someone with more malicious intent, probably isn't going to be scared off.
Of course they're beta. Why would nvidia release final drivers for a beta product, when the possibility exists that x64 could change in a heartbeat, and render the drivers useless?
No wonder I had this overwhelming urge 16 years ago to find some livestock and hook it up to wagon! Damn Oregon Trail!
A quick fix is hitting Ctrl + and then Ctrl -
It won't be susceptible to the LAND attack, perhaps?
Not that this already hasn't been debunked or anything, but also the chances of that, even if he was really his dad, were pretty slim as George had killed himself almost 2 decades earlier.
Whoops.. my previous post was meant to be made in response to this comment:
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Because if you notice the sampling in the post (rtfp?), it states:
The study was originally made by Acadys and Microcost and gathered data from 1.2M machines belonging to about one thousand companies over a period of one month in seven different countries."
Emphasis mine.
because the users are just getting so much smarter!