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  1. Re:Failure rate? on Itty Bitty SCSI Hard Drive Arrives · · Score: 1

    So, if I have one drive, I don't need to keep a spare? ...riiiiiight.

  2. Re:Lower Power? on Itty Bitty SCSI Hard Drive Arrives · · Score: 1

    Couldn't you just turn that around by reducing the total amount of rackspace used? 2/3 the rackspace used, same amount of storage, 92% of the power. Sounds like an overall win to me. So I don't get how "your lower power device has you using more power", unless you have some strange requirement to fill a rack no matter what. Or the cooling requirements for the higher-density storage mean you use up greater than that 8% in cooling it.

  3. Re:Failure rate? on Itty Bitty SCSI Hard Drive Arrives · · Score: 1

    So how does that work out for a group of two drives? I can expect to go ~80 years between replacing drives? I doubt it. At what point does MTBF actually count for anything?

  4. Re:So how does jabber work then? on IETF Publishes Jabber/XMPP RFCs · · Score: 2, Informative
  5. Re:So how does jabber work then? on IETF Publishes Jabber/XMPP RFCs · · Score: 5, Informative

    In a nutshell, it's pretty similar to e-mail, only without indirect routing between servers, and (partly therefore) less store-and-forward, and definitely less latency. It also includes presence information. See also http://www.jabber.org/oscon/2004/jabber-bootcamp.p pt
    and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabber

  6. "the IOS"? on Arrest in Cisco Code Theft · · Score: 1

    So, IOS stands for "the Internetwork Operating System"?

    I guess "Internet" must always be preceded by "the".

  7. Re:In fairness .... on George Lucas Speaks on Trilogy Changes · · Score: 1

    So, I take it you haven't seen many vaginas then...

  8. Re:I think no on Is IP Property? · · Score: 1

    Sounds more like social security to me.

  9. Re:Why not an Open initiative? on AOL-Yahoo-MSN Messaging Unified... in the Workplace Only · · Score: 1

    There's no reason that yahoo, aim, or msn couldn't simply set up a gateway to let jabber servers communicate with their network natively...they could just be (jabber addresses) david@aol.com, david@yahoo.com, or david@msn.com

  10. Re:Hmm on A Video Projector That Fits In Your Pocket · · Score: 1

    Umm, neither do projectors. Most of them last much more than 1000 hours. 2000-3000 is much more typical.
    Bulb cost is around $460 on average (Only checked out Infocus). Only the high-end projector lamps are on the range you're speaking of, and a low-end projector is plenty adequate for home use.

  11. Re:RAID 1 on Which RAID for a Personal Fileserver? · · Score: 1

    Actually, you're mistaken. Win2K can play nice with FAT32 partitions larger than 32GB, it just can't create them. Of course, you would have run into the same problem anyway since it can't play nice with partitions >128Gb (It starts scribbling at the beginning of the drive, even if it's a seperate partition, e.g. Linux) I recently ran into this problem when upgrading from a 120GB to a 200GB drive. Shortly fter recovering from that, I learned (the hard way, again) that Win2K doesn't play nice with hard drives (not partitions) larger than 137GB, without a patch (to enable 48-bit LBA). At least with that one it only screwed up the one partition that crossed the boundary, not the other ones. I've been reinstalling OS's a lot lately.

  12. Re:Question on Gmail Users Get A Storage Boost [updated] · · Score: 1

    But not possible to change the internal formatting of a file and still leave it so that it will play on a normal player. Changing associations wouldn't really change how it's detected by file, or presumably google/gmail.

  13. Re:time to ebay my account on Gmail Users Get A Storage Boost [updated] · · Score: 1

    "640K ought to be enough for everybody"

    Of course, if hard drive prices continue to fall, by the time people want/need more than 1TB for email it'll probably be somewhat reasonably priced.

  14. Re:I have an idea... on Build Your Own Wireless Beer Pitcher Monitoring System · · Score: 1

    Wow, does that override their applications in thermostats?

  15. Re:Nice, guys on Emotional Bonding with Space Probes · · Score: 1

    But the lightbulb is much less obtrusive, and does not try to replace help.

    It just sits there in the corner, like OO.o is saying "I have an idea, and if you want to know what it is, you can click on me." rather than "HEY PAY ATTENTION TO ME YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG YOU SHOULD BE DOING IT THIS WAY"

    And the actual useful help is still there when you press F1. The lightbulb does not pop up instead, offering to answer your questions with completely unrelated answers.

    Anthropomorphization for me.

  16. Re:Obvious question.. on AXA sues Google over AdWords · · Score: 1

    Why would tired investors help, and why would this lawsuit tire out potential Google investors?

  17. Re:No Ogg? Uh-oh... on AAC Chosen For DVD-ROM Section Of DVD Audio Discs · · Score: 1

    Apologies for replying to your sig, but I'd heard it was a superman cape. This would make more sense since superman can fly, whereas batmant cannot.

  18. Re:Bob just chose all the default selections on Debian Installer Beta 3 Usability Review · · Score: 1

    2. Debian's old keyboard selector was braindead, which I'm pleased to see they fixed in the new version. The program expected you to enter in the two-letter country code relating to your location, with no list of what country was what. Unfortunately, in Debian 'UK' relates to the Ukraine and 'GB' to the United Kingdom. Not that it told you.

    What, you don't have the ISO country codes memorized!?

  19. The Jabber Yahoo transport... on Yahoo Restored in Some IM Clients · · Score: 1

    ...also has a fix in CVS.