They do it in FLCL, too, but at least it's in small doses and not the last hour of the series. They also make fun of themselves for doing it ("Can we get back to regular anime?")
This argument has played out dozens of times, but given that IDE controllers are
proven - which is why they're used in high-availability, fault-tolerant servers the world over-- oh, wait. That's SCSI. Can you hot-swap IDE? Without voiding your warranty?
extremely fast - which is why the best-performing hard drives are IDE-- oh, wait, they're SCSI, too. For a fun experiment to do in your spare time, find me a 15k RPM IDE drive. Wait, no, find me just a 10k one. Oh, wait, no, find me simply a 7200 RPM IDE drive with 8MB of cache onboard.
and a dime a dozen - Okay, you've got me, there.
and IDE hardware can be had extremely cost effectively - It may be cheap, but is it cost-effective?
I'll stick with IDE thanks (despite the hip elusive performance promise of SCSI)
A promise which it makes good on. IDE fulfills the "cheap", and, sometimes the "good" of "cheap, good, and fast. Pick any two." SCSI fulfills "good" and "fast". You really do get what you pay for.
Actually, I also recommend 3ware cards if you have a lot of cheap IDE disks and can't afford to lose data. You can put together a terabyte of RAID 5 disk with 8 IDE drives and one 6810.
I also recommend backups. Lots and lots of backups.
Besides the "it's cool!" factor (which it really isn't anymore, since everyone's been there and done that by now), why on earth would anyone water-cool their system nowadays? The difference between an Athlong XP 1500 and an Athlon XP 1800 is $14, and even the fastest Pentium 4 CPUs are reasonably affordable (to say nothing of the absolute cheap asking price for the fastest Athlons.)
I guess what I'm getting at is this: why bother with any of this overclocking nonsense anymore? What on earth can it possibly buy you nowadays, other than a voided warranty and a fried CPU?
I'm so tired of anti-M$ cronies whining about how Xbox is an inferior system based on their mostly unfounded hatred of Microsoft. I don't think the PS2 is an entirely bad system, but for that same $300, you can get one hell of a better machine if you buy an Xbox instead.
Yes, and people base their purchase on how many pixels a machine can push. Ask the average consumer what a pixel is, and they'll stare at you like a confused golden retriever.
People buy consoles for the games, dimwit. People buy more PS2s than XBoxes because the PS2 has more and better games.
Also, you don't need to spend $30 for what is essentially a glorified dongle to enable the thing to play DVDs.
Firewall the ports you don't want it to use. If your firewall runs upsd, you're a moron, but you can still firewall those ports on whichever interface you want -- that's what a firewall does.
Now, let's ask ourselves: why would a program which can shut down your computer in the event of a power failure, and which listens on a serial port need root permissions to install???
The sticker's on the wrapper. The wrapper gets thrown away when you open the CD. Why wouldn't they believe you when you said your new CD had no sticker on it?
What happens when your second employer asks you, after your trip, why you not only left your first employer after only a year and three months, but then spent the next few months cavorting about before getting another job? What will you tell them?
"Well, I shafted my first employer, then went to Amsterdam and smoked pot for 8 weeks. It was a fuckin' blast!"
I can guarantee you that, unless you walk quickly, the door will hit your ass on the way out.
Sir, put down the crack pipe and step away slowly.
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It's called Ameritech's Arlington, VA NAP. If cross-country cross-network traffic doesn't go through there, it goes through one in Chicago or another one in Vienna, VA.
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They do it in FLCL, too, but at least it's in small doses and not the last hour of the series. They also make fun of themselves for doing it ("Can we get back to regular anime?")
- A.P.
You mean the part where they ran out of animation money and started scribbling on flash cards?
- A.P.
I'll stick with IDE thanks (despite the hip elusive performance promise of SCSI)
A promise which it makes good on. IDE fulfills the "cheap", and, sometimes the "good" of "cheap, good, and fast. Pick any two." SCSI fulfills "good" and "fast". You really do get what you pay for.
- A.P.
Actually, I also recommend 3ware cards if you have a lot of cheap IDE disks and can't afford to lose data. You can put together a terabyte of RAID 5 disk with 8 IDE drives and one 6810.
I also recommend backups. Lots and lots of backups.
- A.P.
With 12 IDE ports, it has nearly as much capacity as my 2-channel SCSI card!
Hope you enjoy IRQ-sharing...
- A.P.
Not to nitpick, but Pinky was retarded.
- A.P.
Besides the "it's cool!" factor (which it really isn't anymore, since everyone's been there and done that by now), why on earth would anyone water-cool their system nowadays? The difference between an Athlong XP 1500 and an Athlon XP 1800 is $14, and even the fastest Pentium 4 CPUs are reasonably affordable (to say nothing of the absolute cheap asking price for the fastest Athlons.)
I guess what I'm getting at is this: why bother with any of this overclocking nonsense anymore? What on earth can it possibly buy you nowadays, other than a voided warranty and a fried CPU?
- A.P.
I'm so tired of anti-M$ cronies whining about how Xbox is an inferior system based on their mostly unfounded hatred of Microsoft. I don't think the PS2 is an entirely bad system, but for that same $300, you can get one hell of a better machine if you buy an Xbox instead.
Yes, and people base their purchase on how many pixels a machine can push. Ask the average consumer what a pixel is, and they'll stare at you like a confused golden retriever.
People buy consoles for the games, dimwit. People buy more PS2s than XBoxes because the PS2 has more and better games.
Also, you don't need to spend $30 for what is essentially a glorified dongle to enable the thing to play DVDs.
- A.P.
Um, only if you're stupid enough to continue the download and install the software.
- A.P.
For the people paying money to read an ad-free slashdot: do you feel that an entire day's outage is acceptable and worth paying for?
- A.P.
So, it'd sort of be a LAME for CIFS. Which seems particularly apt, when you think about it.
- A.P.
In addition to my previous comment to this post, I would also like to know why this matters.
- A.P.
Change the default password. It's easy and fun.
Firewall the ports you don't want it to use. If your firewall runs upsd, you're a moron, but you can still firewall those ports on whichever interface you want -- that's what a firewall does.
Now, let's ask ourselves: why would a program which can shut down your computer in the event of a power failure, and which listens on a serial port need root permissions to install???
Christ!
- A.P.
The Great Depression.
- A.P.
Care to explain why LAME is illegal? Care to explain why, then, commercial software companies see fit to use it in their products, too?
- A.P.
Actually, no. Why bother converting everything when I've got a perfectly good copy of LAME?
- A.P.
I want one to quiet down my neighbour's loud dogs.
.45 caliber machine which performs this job adequately...been around for years.
You know, they make a
- A.P.
The sticker's on the wrapper. The wrapper gets thrown away when you open the CD. Why wouldn't they believe you when you said your new CD had no sticker on it?
Posts like this should not get +5s.
- A.P.
A computer with good taste would eject the disk immediately, without even thinking about playing it.
...hopefully, it would do so at a high enough rate of speed (and the proper trajectory) to knock some sense into the user.
- A.P.
Linking to the kde.org ftp site before they've had a chance to mirror and announce it first is like bombing a hospital.
Unless there are people in desparate need of KDE (without it, they'll die!), this has got to be the stupidest analogy I've ever seen.
- A.P. (need my GNOME i.v. drip!)
What happens when your second employer asks you, after your trip, why you not only left your first employer after only a year and three months, but then spent the next few months cavorting about before getting another job? What will you tell them?
"Well, I shafted my first employer, then went to Amsterdam and smoked pot for 8 weeks. It was a fuckin' blast!"
I can guarantee you that, unless you walk quickly, the door will hit your ass on the way out.
- A.P.
Yes, because Microsoft and Unisys can't afford to buy two servers.
- A.P.
Be thankful it's not more fucking "post-911" Katz droppings.
- A.P.
Yes indeed, there are absolutely no NAS solutions out there that don't lock you into a Microsoft-centric solution.
How'd this get +4?
- A.P.
It's called Ameritech's Arlington, VA NAP. If cross-country cross-network traffic doesn't go through there, it goes through one in Chicago or another one in Vienna, VA.
Stop being so damned paranoid.
- A.P.