I once bought a spindle a cheap CD-Rs. About 10% of the disks didn't pass Nero's data verification test after the burning. They had one or more corrupted files right after burning. I first tought my burner was dying until I changed brands.
Once a year the tax agency sends me a letter which something like this.
"Yo. Last year you earned BLING BLING amount. We'll just assume you earn same this year. Here's your tax percentage, give it to your boss. If you think we can't count give your own estimate and we'll fix it. Peace"
I don't know. Maybe I could save something if I went through the tax legislation, but it would all probably go to medical expenses for high blood pressure. I'll just let the agency do all the work. I don't think I know anyone non-enterpreneur that goes through more trouble with his taxes.
I don't see why it would have to be a huge sweeping conversion. Just replace old diesel buses with natural gas buses when they get decommissioned. Adding few gas pumps next to old diesel ones shouldn't be a problem either.
Film is 24 only because it is the minimum required and using higher fps would have required more film and better equipment. Also motion blur helps with movies which computer games lack. The Two Towers was latest movie I've seen, and in it several of the pans made my eyes hurt. I say it is time to move to 50 fps for movies.
Once again I'm amazed how slashdotters bother to bicker about PCs and Macs or OSs or whatever. No true geek could be satisfied with only one architecture or operating system.
I'm running Windows and Linux on an x86 hardware just fine, but how could I be happy with only those.
I want more computers so I can add a *BSD or two. And I must get some new purdy Macs to drool over. Or maybe an old Sun to run as server. Wonder if I could salvage an old minimachine from some companys trashbin? Maybe I'll just kill a friend and take his SGI Indy.
Oh, forget it, I'll just wet my pants with dreams of EV78.
Hey, that's no problem at all with modern ide drives. You can configure the headcount to 16/128/256 yourself. Though I don't even hazard a guess what kind of alien technology they use to pull it of physically =)
How can they stop that. Just burn it to cd and unzip it to some folder you have writing access. I used to run mozilla on terminal servers at work. There's no way in hell I could install anything on those. I just unzipped mozilla to my work computer, mapped the c-drive in the terminal server and run it from there. Worked just fine. Opera didn't behave as well though. For some reason the memory usage keeped jerking between 30MB and several hundred (700MB IIRC). I hope no one noticed and it had nothing to do with the crashing of one the terminal servers ^^;
Have you tried disabling the harddrive in the bios. IIRC we did that with a friends linux server. We put the bios to "none" or some other setting that disabled autodetection to get past boot-up and then let Linux handle the harddrive.
I also noticed that the ACARD AEC-7726H model looked amazingly similar to the reviewed model =)
If you are looking for external solution, Promise's UltraTrak SX4000 could be what you are looking for. 4 drives in external raid enclosure that is connected through SCSI to the computer.
I run to this problem at work yesterday. A co-worker received requirements for a new computer. "an ISA slot for a TDAT card" WTF is a TDAT? Quick check found one MB with ISA. Socket 370 and VIA 694T chipset, doesn't look too good for future.
I would really like to see the cabling on one of those. I've been thinging about using these converters for some time because the cabling in my 7 HDD server is a real PITA. What annoys me most, is that I cannot use the 5.25" bays in my full tower case because cables from the IDE card don't reach them that well. Another solution would be putting the HDDs sideways on a separate case next to the server so they would be facing the IDE cards, but I would prefer using nice long SCSI cables.
I've been thinking quite a while of getting a gigabit nics for my mainmachine and server. A gigabit switch isn't really necessary because I don't have third machine that would need gigabit and the server could do the routing quite fine.
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I once bought a spindle a cheap CD-Rs. About 10% of the disks didn't pass Nero's data verification test after the burning. They had one or more corrupted files right after burning. I first tought my burner was dying until I changed brands.
Not to mention the 'rm -rf /' effect. RAID is not a backup.
Once a year the tax agency sends me a letter which something like this.
"Yo. Last year you earned BLING BLING amount. We'll just assume you earn same this year. Here's your tax percentage, give it to your boss. If you think we can't count give your own estimate and we'll fix it. Peace"
I don't know. Maybe I could save something if I went through the tax legislation, but it would all probably go to medical expenses for high blood pressure. I'll just let the agency do all the work. I don't think I know anyone non-enterpreneur that goes through more trouble with his taxes.
I don't see why it would have to be a huge sweeping conversion. Just replace old diesel buses with natural gas buses when they get decommissioned. Adding few gas pumps next to old diesel ones shouldn't be a problem either.
Film is 24 only because it is the minimum required and using higher fps would have required more film and better equipment. Also motion blur helps with movies which computer games lack. The Two Towers was latest movie I've seen, and in it several of the pans made my eyes hurt. I say it is time to move to 50 fps for movies.
Someone dropping a full chocolate bag would probably look suspicious. Once again, this doesn't make it foolproof, just a little bit harder.
Once again I'm amazed how slashdotters bother to bicker about PCs and Macs or OSs or whatever. No true geek could be satisfied with only one architecture or operating system.
I'm running Windows and Linux on an x86 hardware just fine, but how could I be happy with only those.
I want more computers so I can add a *BSD or two. And I must get some new purdy Macs to drool over. Or maybe an old Sun to run as server. Wonder if I could salvage an old minimachine from some companys trashbin? Maybe I'll just kill a friend and take his SGI Indy.
Oh, forget it, I'll just wet my pants with dreams of EV78.
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That's interesting what you say about ethernet, since in our building we use firewire to connect our Cisco switches to each other.
About the aliases. It's easy to disable an alias if it starts receiving more spam than valid mail.
This might need some bumping up, it's quite far down.
Hey, that's no problem at all with modern ide drives. You can configure the headcount to 16/128/256 yourself. Though I don't even hazard a guess what kind of alien technology they use to pull it of physically =)
That sounds like a howto material. Get to work and experience your very own slashdotting =)
I would think insurance companies would be willing to lower their fees for people using these systems.
I don't know, that just sounds so funny considering the recent article about XPde, a desktop environment that looks just like Windows XP =)
How can they stop that. Just burn it to cd and unzip it to some folder you have writing access. I used to run mozilla on terminal servers at work. There's no way in hell I could install anything on those. I just unzipped mozilla to my work computer, mapped the c-drive in the terminal server and run it from there. Worked just fine. Opera didn't behave as well though. For some reason the memory usage keeped jerking between 30MB and several hundred (700MB IIRC). I hope no one noticed and it had nothing to do with the crashing of one the terminal servers ^^;
AFAIK, this hasn't been the case since harddrives were about 1 GB in size.
Have you tried disabling the harddrive in the bios. IIRC we did that with a friends linux server. We put the bios to "none" or some other setting that disabled autodetection to get past boot-up and then let Linux handle the harddrive.
I also noticed that the ACARD AEC-7726H model looked amazingly similar to the reviewed model =)
Promise's UltraTrak series is what you are looking for.
That was a post about announcement, this was about a review of the converters. Biiigg difference.
If you are looking for external solution, Promise's UltraTrak SX4000 could be what you are looking for. 4 drives in external raid enclosure that is connected through SCSI to the computer.
The guy wanted to connect the IDE drive to his SGI indy. I doubt there are many firewire cards for them.
I run to this problem at work yesterday. A co-worker received requirements for a new computer. "an ISA slot for a TDAT card" WTF is a TDAT? Quick check found one MB with ISA. Socket 370 and VIA 694T chipset, doesn't look too good for future.
AFAIK, that was the case when harddrives were around the 1 GB mark but nowadays they are totally different.
I would really like to see the cabling on one of those. I've been thinging about using these converters for some time because the cabling in my 7 HDD server is a real PITA. What annoys me most, is that I cannot use the 5.25" bays in my full tower case because cables from the IDE card don't reach them that well. Another solution would be putting the HDDs sideways on a separate case next to the server so they would be facing the IDE cards, but I would prefer using nice long SCSI cables.
I've been thinking quite a while of getting a gigabit nics for my mainmachine and server. A gigabit switch isn't really necessary because I don't have third machine that would need gigabit and the server could do the routing quite fine.