I was really pissed off when I first noticed this story as for years I have found IBM drives to be really reliable and never considered any other drives at all.
At first, when reading the posts, I thought it was a bad batch of one model of drive, then I noticed the messages about how some people's drives had been packed! I always get my drives from dabs.com (I live in the UK). Even if you buy an OEM drive it comes in an anti-static bag inside one of those small cardboard boxes with the pre-cut foam inserts so the drive can't move and impacts are mostly absorbed by the foam. When in a PC the case/chassis absorbs a lot of the impact in day to day use, but I would not even install a drive which had been packed in some of the ways people describe- it will almost certainly fail eventually.
I think heat is less of a factor than people think, though. My drives are always in the shoddy old 3 1/2 inch bay section with something above and below them and I don't have a case fan.
You could think- so what- just one computer doesn't mean it's ok- but actually I run about 10 computers (a while since I counted) and they are all set up like this.
Power though- hmmm. I haven't trusted crappy brand power supplies since I discoved my Enlight 300W supply wouldn't run my PC133 ram with CAS2 despite it running fine with another (superior) power supply. The moral- the quality of the voltage supply is more important than the number of watts. If you haven't got enough power you'll soon know. (Step up electrical engineer X to correct me...)
"linux user since '91? I guess you haven't been laid in the last 10 years, either!"
I have only been a linux user since 1995 (maybe '96) and I haven't had sex since 1989. Big Fucking Deal. There's more to life than spunking your chunks up J. Random Chick.
Our father which art in Redmond, Bill be thy name.
Thy.NET come. Thy will be done, in earth, as it is in Redmond.
Give us this day our daily executable.
And forgive us our syntax errors, as we forgive thy crashes
And lead us not into subscription-based services, but deliver us from blue-screens: For thine is the marketplace, and the patents, and the shares, for ever, Amen.
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"if I had a time machine, I would enforce prefix or postfix notation, make operators on different languages standard and be careful not to overuse any symbol or operator."
Really? Well, if I had a time machine, I'd go back and fuck Brooke Shields when she was 15.
Did I post that out loud? Burn, Karma, burn!
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The word "lots" does not have an apostrophe in it, Mr. Taco, sir.
Can I take it that VI 6 doesn't have a punctuation checker then?
"Microsoft may claim a new version of Windows might be faster, but all know that it can't be true."
Actually, the networking in Windows 2000 WAS faster than before. I can't speak for XP because the MSDN download site is jammed solid.
I am just burning the 4.4 install CD of FreeBSD as I write this. (633 Meg over a single 56K dialup- yay me!)
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Another example of US fairness- they gave the Taliban $53Million in May this year despite the fact that they knew they were a bunch of anti-us terrorists. This made the US the biggest supporter of the Taliban.
Then they tell us that they will be punishing the countries that support these terrorrists. So the US is declaring war on... itself ?
Duh, the passport account will be tied to your (expensively-paid-for) MSDN subscription, so MS might "get it" when Mr. Smith of anonsoft, Texas seems to be downloading Windows, Office and Visual Studio every 5 minutes from 1000s of different IPs...
Also, you only get 10 activations per MSDN sub for things like Office and Windows XP, so nobody would use their real account. The only thing you could do is start a donation-based thing where 1000s of people give $1 each, you buy 1 MSDN sub, and just accept that you won't be able to use the XP range of software (which is the way everything is going anyway).
Our father which art in Redmond, Bill be thy name.
Thy.NET come. Thy will be done, in earth, as it is in Redmond.
Give us this day our daily executable.
And forgive us our syntax errors, as we forgive thy crashes
And lead us not into subscription-based services, but deliver us from blue-screens: For thine is the marketplace, and the patents, and the shares, for ever, Amen.
"I have always had terrible posture when typing at my computer. Considering the way I sit, and the fact that my keyboard is not an ergonomic keyboard, the fact that I do not have RSI leads me to believe that a lot of the problem is somewhat hysterical."
I have always run across the road without taking the time to look. Considering that I also wear a blindfold and the fact that I am not horribly crushed leads me to believe that many people who claim to have been horribly crushed by big trucks are just hysterical.
And another point, especially since you seem to be on some sort of HCI high, is that Windows' putting the menu on each app. instead of at the top left of the screen means less mouse movement in Windows.
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The video card's bandwidth would max out with two processors- if you have a good pc and a shit video card it might already be maxed out.
When will people realize they can't just install Windows on a beowulf cluster ?
graspee
I was really pissed off when I first noticed this story as for years I have found IBM drives to be really reliable and never considered any other drives at all.
At first, when reading the posts, I thought it was a bad batch of one model of drive, then I noticed the messages about how some people's drives had been packed! I always get my drives from dabs.com (I live in the UK). Even if you buy an OEM drive it comes in an anti-static bag inside one of those small cardboard boxes with the pre-cut foam inserts so the drive can't move and impacts are mostly absorbed by the foam. When in a PC the case/chassis absorbs a lot of the impact in day to day use, but I would not even install a drive which had been packed in some of the ways people describe- it will almost certainly fail eventually.
I think heat is less of a factor than people think, though. My drives are always in the shoddy old 3 1/2 inch bay section with something above and below them and I don't have a case fan.
You could think- so what- just one computer doesn't mean it's ok- but actually I run about 10 computers (a while since I counted) and they are all set up like this.
Power though- hmmm. I haven't trusted crappy brand power supplies since I discoved my Enlight 300W supply wouldn't run my PC133 ram with CAS2 despite it running fine with another (superior) power supply. The moral- the quality of the voltage supply is more important than the number of watts. If you haven't got enough power you'll soon know. (Step up electrical engineer X to correct me...)
graspee
"linux user since '91? I guess you haven't been laid in the last 10 years, either!"
I have only been a linux user since 1995 (maybe '96) and I haven't had sex since 1989. Big Fucking Deal. There's more to life than spunking your chunks up J. Random Chick.
graspee
Note to moderators- fuck you.
Our father which art in Redmond, Bill be thy name. .NET come. Thy will be done, in earth, as it is in Redmond.
Thy
Give us this day our daily executable.
And forgive us our syntax errors, as we forgive thy crashes
And lead us not into subscription-based services, but deliver us from blue-screens: For thine is the marketplace, and the patents, and the shares, for ever, Amen.
"if I had a time machine, I would enforce prefix or postfix notation, make operators on different languages standard and be careful not to overuse any symbol or operator."
Really? Well, if I had a time machine, I'd go back and fuck Brooke Shields when she was 15.
Did I post that out loud? Burn, Karma, burn!
graspee
The word "lots" does not have an apostrophe in it, Mr. Taco, sir.
Can I take it that VI 6 doesn't have a punctuation checker then?
graspee
"Microsoft may claim a new version of Windows might be faster, but all know that it can't be true."
Actually, the networking in Windows 2000 WAS faster than before. I can't speak for XP because the MSDN download site is jammed solid.
I am just burning the 4.4 install CD of FreeBSD as I write this. (633 Meg over a single 56K dialup- yay me!)
graspee
Another example of US fairness- they gave the Taliban $53Million in May this year despite the fact that they knew they were a bunch of anti-us terrorists. This made the US the biggest supporter of the Taliban.
... itself ?
Then they tell us that they will be punishing the countries that support these terrorrists. So the US is declaring war on
Help me please, my sanity is confusing me.
graspee
You missed this other borgism...
"Storage-irrelevance....
Location-irrelevance"
graspee
"We officially incorporated Q2 this year"
You should go with Q3- it has better graphics.
Like I always say:
WORA = "Write once, run away!"
Please note that this joke, like most of Dilbert quickly ceases to be funny when you realise how true it is...
graspee
Ah! An extra pair of parens !
/. post. Before I wake up, can someone bring on the Japanese schoolgirls ?)
Thank you!
Someone mod this frood up!
(Now I have learned something really useful from a
graspee
"C# is a language similar to java"
...with the one fundamental difference that it requires you to explicitly mark methods as "virtual" if you want to override them in subclasses.
For a) making methods not overridable by default
and b) overloading the word "virtual"
they shall die.
p.s. the 2 cool things c# does compared to java are:
1) (type-safe) function pointers (called "delegates")
2) the "X as Y" syntax which allows you to downcast in expressions, e.g.
Object x;
Lemur y;
x=y;
System.out.Writeln( (x as Lemur).numberofpaws );
In java you can downcast like this, but you have to temporarily assign x to a var of type Lemur first.
graspee
DISCLAIMER: I MAY BE COMPLETELY MISTAKEN AND DOWNRIGHT TALKING SHITE.
Duh, the passport account will be tied to your (expensively-paid-for) MSDN subscription, so MS might "get it" when Mr. Smith of anonsoft, Texas seems to be downloading Windows, Office and Visual Studio every 5 minutes from 1000s of different IPs...
Also, you only get 10 activations per MSDN sub for things like Office and Windows XP, so nobody would use their real account. The only thing you could do is start a donation-based thing where 1000s of people give $1 each, you buy 1 MSDN sub, and just accept that you won't be able to use the XP range of software (which is the way everything is going anyway).
So, no. Bad idea.
graspee
kiseki anime dvds are region 0 too, e.g. macross 2 and gunbuster
graspee
"How is it that there is a Netscape that runs on Linux? "
What, Netscape is supposed to run?
graspee
Our father which art in Redmond, Bill be thy name. .NET come. Thy will be done, in earth, as it is in Redmond.
Thy
Give us this day our daily executable.
And forgive us our syntax errors, as we forgive thy crashes
And lead us not into subscription-based services, but deliver us from blue-screens: For thine is the marketplace, and the patents, and the shares, for ever, Amen.
graspee
Fucking homonyms, coming over here, stealing our women...
graspee
it's similar to atheists putting "god" instead of "God" to make a point.
don't you know that lower-case is a unix thing and therefore automatically cool ?
graspee
"I have always had terrible posture when typing at my computer. Considering the way I sit, and the fact that my keyboard is not an ergonomic keyboard, the fact that I do not have RSI leads me to believe that a lot of the problem is somewhat hysterical."
I have always run across the road without taking the time to look. Considering that I also wear a blindfold and the fact that I am not horribly crushed leads me to believe that many people who claim to have been horribly crushed by big trucks are just hysterical.
OR YOU ARE JUST LUCKY!
graspee
And another point, especially since you seem to be on some sort of HCI high, is that Windows' putting the menu on each app. instead of at the top left of the screen means less mouse movement in Windows.
graspee
"Microsoft decided to put the Start button in the lower left, requiring the user to cramp his/her hand."
You can put the taskbar on any edge of the screen, meaning that the start button can be in any corner apart from the bottom right...
Power users use keyboard shortcuts anyway.
graspee
yeah, but can the c64 even start to emulate a low-end pentium?
Your point about clock speed is invalid in this context.
graspee
This should be moderated up, because it rather amusingly is a "crack" exploiting a weakness in the security of email address obfuscation.
I mean, if you really didn't like the person you could actually submit their email to spam lists...
graspee
Well, not quite, you can actually install via ftp- the entire package tree is up there, just not in a handy ISO.
Graspee (longtime Suse user)