My experience is that nearly everyone overestimates their PSU needs and it becomes a game of "who's is bigger?". This is a stupid way to pick hardware. My desktop runs a 650, my ESX server with 24+ bays runs an 850. If I had a way better video card in the desktop I might move to a 750 and I wouldn't run dual cards.
My HTPC with ion chipsets use 9-16 watts at the wall at 100% usage.
The design choices that manufacturers make in order to meet these levels of effeciency have other impacts. Active power management, cooling fans that only run when needed, and higher quality components are all good reasons to consider a higher effeciency rated PSU. My computers often run 24x7 for years on end so I tend to choose decent PSU.
Also, just as a data point, I have a 4U box running a Xeon, 32gig of RAM, many cooling fans, 3x SAS cards, an SSD, and at least 20x HDD. It has a gold rated PSU listed as 850watts. Oh yeah, integrated onboard video. Usage at the plug? With all drives spinning actively it uses right at 200watts! Less when unRAID spins drives down, none of the drives are "green". The number surprised me!
And are living with screwed up metadata too if that's the case. I start with CDDB and make corrections from there! I love it when disk one is labeled differently than Disk 2, or some other screwed up thing. Correcting metadata for one CD isn't hard, correcting it for 400+ after some asshat like you makes a mess sucks!
He's worried that his old drive, which has already seen a great deal of use, isn't going to survive long enough to finish. He might also be wanting to do this with more than one drive at once - I always do - which means he needs more drives...
It's by far the best tool I've found for fixing up metadata. Want to rename a folder full of music based on tags? No problem! Album art? Lots of sources to get it and many more added in his forums. This tool is awesome, sorry I don't think there's a version for Linux...
Yeah, except he, like me and others, has a collection of CDs that's over 400+. On top of that if you trust any completely automated process to choose metadata and artwork then you're as stupid as you are arrogant. He likely doesn't want this process to stretch out for ages and he wants to be able to feed his machine CDs at a fairly rapid pace with fast enough ripping that he's not twiddling thumbs in between waiting on it. I do this now with two drives in my system (one of which sucks for ripping) for friends with small collections. In the past when I ripped my collection I used two additional machines for a total of 6 drives just to speed things along. All I had to do was swap CDs like a monkey and check the album art and songs against the various album jackets. My office was a mess for maybe a week - not the 6 months you're silly process would take to rip a large volume of CDs like this.
Actually CDs do degrade. I've been buying them since they first came out and I can look at some of my CDs - stored in their cases inside a temp reasonable crate inside my home - and see the oxidation beginning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
CDs can also be very fragile depending upon the process that made them. Older CDs that have a very thing LABEL side are the worst. Drop one of those puppies and then shine it up the the light to see the pinpricks or light coming through the damaged areas. The label side is the most fragile side of a CD and some of them take very little effort to screw up.
Given a choice I prefer to keep my CDs around but also digitize them at very high bitrates. If nothing I can always source rips from someone else and use the physical media to prove ownership if it comes to it. I prefer my media online, not on fragile CDs.
As for ripping, I've still been using Lite On hardware without too much issue. I do find that BD drives SUCK for ripping but normal DVD writers work just fine. Lite On even used to have their hardware optimized for ripping but I believe they have begun to sell out and am all ears if there's another company out there making decent drives. Honestly I'd be surprised if there was with the kinds of crap most companies seem to make...
Honestly? I think this is a real shame! A month or so ago I took some friends tv shopping. After going through Costco and ogling the tvs we we t to a shop that was selling these Mistu sets, I'd been hoping to show them a good PJ honestly. I was stunned at how good these things looked and the cost of an 83inch unit was incredible compared to the 60 and 70 inch LCD we'd already looked at. They weren't all that thick and I was very surprised at how far to the side I could stand and still get a terrific picture! I specifically tested this having experienced problems with this with other DLP. In the end I was truly impressed but my friends just couldn't make up their mind and there was no sale made. Now that I'm hearing this I'm glad they waffled but I truly think that had others gotten a good look at these they would've sold better. Well that and less pushy sales guys, the one we had at The Big Screen Store was an ass...
Hrm, anyone using that service that can speak to it? Might be interesting as a secondary usenet service and I could probably gen up a single bitcoin a month easily enough:-) Mind you without indexing services like this one closing there might not be much point...
Unless of course a stolen phone called YOU. Or perhaps the new owner of the phone didn't realize it was stolen. Lots of possibilities. I'll admit though that I'm also having a tough time finding a problem with this scenario...
In IE it doesn't clear anything but the cache that YOU can see. There are a number.DAT files (index.dat I think) that store your COMPLETE history. There are tools to recover this data and this is what this idiot used on her computer image. Firefox also has a database of browser history that I'm pretty sure is also NOT cleared just like IE. Chrome I'm least sure of but judging from the fact the other browsers may not clear history I wouldn't bet that it's any better - I'd be interested in hearing from someone that knows.
Also, the "secure" browsing that IE does? It caches things normally and then deletes them when you close the browser. It's far from "secure". In fact I'm not even sure it's a secure delete that's done. FireFox does this better, I assume Chrome does as well since of the three it handles security the best despite being based on WebKit.
What's so hard to understand about new evidence surfacing that throws doubt on her innocence? A forensic examiner apparently only pulled the browsing history for IE and failed to recognize that a second browser was installed. The browsing history for that browser has now been examined and on the day that this child disappeared there were searches regarding methods for killing someone. Why is importance of THAT so hard to understand?
We have to be very careful about being lazy when a new tool is introduced as it very well may NOT prove what we think it does. Investigation still has to be done by investigators that have a clue. Sadly it looks like they used an amateur for this investigation.
Frankly, the fact that they failed to recognize more than one browser was on this machine and in use is criminal in and of itself. Whoever did the forensic examination of this machine was an idiot and ought to be fired! they could easily have imaged the workstation, run the image, and explored it to figure out what was and wasn't in use. This could just as easily have been evidence to exonerate someone that was missed, this is disgusting!
Yes, went back and reread it and spotted what I'd missed - mentioned it below. The mention of the lighter threw me, I didn't understand why that was important. However since it was apparently being sold in that town around that time it was used as evidence that the person who commited the crime was likely local and thus supported the DNA requests.
No, the DNA on her body is ALSO mentioned. They mentioned the lighter up front though and I missed the part about DNA also matching on her body. Apparently the fact that the lighter was sold locally led them to believe that the person was a local who did this - hence the mass DNA gathering. It would have been helpful had they spelled that out a little more clearly IMO but they DID mention a DNA match on her body that I missed...
"The decision to launch the dna appeal came after De Vries in May broadcast information about a Playboy cigarette lighter found in Vaatstra's bag which contains dna traces that match the traces found on the schoolgirl's body."
I missed the last part. Why is the lighter even mentioned?
The DNA matched DNA found on a cigarette lighter found in her schoolbag - not DNA from the rape itself apparently. It's possible in my mind that the guy is innocent of rape\murder and guilty of selling a schoolgirl a lighter or her guilty of stealing it. More details need to come out, this isn't "solved" in my mind unless they have DNA evidence from the rape itself that matches.
He was WEARING the watch, it was NOT in his boots. The boots were oversized and had added insoles in them. Doesn't sound too bad right? The watch was modified and had fuses, wires, and switches added to it....
Sounds like they erred on the side of caution and while the summary sounds pretty outrageous I think a watch with all of that added to it sounds a bit odd too. Need more details, the dude definitely sounds a bit off...
They should have proposed this prior to the last presidential election? Or made a point to mention it during the debates? It's quite possible they might have swayed a few votes their way. Guess that was too risky?
Its not THAT picky if you do research. I've got a dirt cheap 1150? Board with an i7 on it that worked great including VT-d except I chose a 2600k back before folks realized it has VT-d disabled - grr! Oh, onboard NIC worked fine. Model number not handy but if anyone cares I can find it.
I have a Tyan Xeon board too. 3 NICS with one being iPMI/iKVM. Not super cheap but maxxed out what ESXi can run. Single socket 32gig ECC. This is what I graduated to:-)
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My experience is that nearly everyone overestimates their PSU needs and it becomes a game of "who's is bigger?". This is a stupid way to pick hardware. My desktop runs a 650, my ESX server with 24+ bays runs an 850. If I had a way better video card in the desktop I might move to a 750 and I wouldn't run dual cards.
My HTPC with ion chipsets use 9-16 watts at the wall at 100% usage.
The design choices that manufacturers make in order to meet these levels of effeciency have other impacts. Active power management, cooling fans that only run when needed, and higher quality components are all good reasons to consider a higher effeciency rated PSU. My computers often run 24x7 for years on end so I tend to choose decent PSU.
Also, just as a data point, I have a 4U box running a Xeon, 32gig of RAM, many cooling fans, 3x SAS cards, an SSD, and at least 20x HDD. It has a gold rated PSU listed as 850watts. Oh yeah, integrated onboard video. Usage at the plug? With all drives spinning actively it uses right at 200watts! Less when unRAID spins drives down, none of the drives are "green". The number surprised me!
And are living with screwed up metadata too if that's the case. I start with CDDB and make corrections from there! I love it when disk one is labeled differently than Disk 2, or some other screwed up thing. Correcting metadata for one CD isn't hard, correcting it for 400+ after some asshat like you makes a mess sucks!
He's worried that his old drive, which has already seen a great deal of use, isn't going to survive long enough to finish. He might also be wanting to do this with more than one drive at once - I always do - which means he needs more drives...
If you have access to a Windows box check out MP3Tag from http://www.mp3tag.de/en/
It's by far the best tool I've found for fixing up metadata. Want to rename a folder full of music based on tags? No problem! Album art? Lots of sources to get it and many more added in his forums. This tool is awesome, sorry I don't think there's a version for Linux...
Yeah, except he, like me and others, has a collection of CDs that's over 400+. On top of that if you trust any completely automated process to choose metadata and artwork then you're as stupid as you are arrogant. He likely doesn't want this process to stretch out for ages and he wants to be able to feed his machine CDs at a fairly rapid pace with fast enough ripping that he's not twiddling thumbs in between waiting on it. I do this now with two drives in my system (one of which sucks for ripping) for friends with small collections. In the past when I ripped my collection I used two additional machines for a total of 6 drives just to speed things along. All I had to do was swap CDs like a monkey and check the album art and songs against the various album jackets. My office was a mess for maybe a week - not the 6 months you're silly process would take to rip a large volume of CDs like this.
Actually CDs do degrade. I've been buying them since they first came out and I can look at some of my CDs - stored in their cases inside a temp reasonable crate inside my home - and see the oxidation beginning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
CDs can also be very fragile depending upon the process that made them. Older CDs that have a very thing LABEL side are the worst. Drop one of those puppies and then shine it up the the light to see the pinpricks or light coming through the damaged areas. The label side is the most fragile side of a CD and some of them take very little effort to screw up.
Given a choice I prefer to keep my CDs around but also digitize them at very high bitrates. If nothing I can always source rips from someone else and use the physical media to prove ownership if it comes to it. I prefer my media online, not on fragile CDs.
As for ripping, I've still been using Lite On hardware without too much issue. I do find that BD drives SUCK for ripping but normal DVD writers work just fine. Lite On even used to have their hardware optimized for ripping but I believe they have begun to sell out and am all ears if there's another company out there making decent drives. Honestly I'd be surprised if there was with the kinds of crap most companies seem to make...
Honestly? I think this is a real shame! A month or so ago I took some friends tv shopping. After going through Costco and ogling the tvs we we t to a shop that was selling these Mistu sets, I'd been hoping to show them a good PJ honestly. I was stunned at how good these things looked and the cost of an 83inch unit was incredible compared to the 60 and 70 inch LCD we'd already looked at. They weren't all that thick and I was very surprised at how far to the side I could stand and still get a terrific picture! I specifically tested this having experienced problems with this with other DLP. In the end I was truly impressed but my friends just couldn't make up their mind and there was no sale made. Now that I'm hearing this I'm glad they waffled but I truly think that had others gotten a good look at these they would've sold better. Well that and less pushy sales guys, the one we had at The Big Screen Store was an ass...
Hrm, anyone using that service that can speak to it? Might be interesting as a secondary usenet service and I could probably gen up a single bitcoin a month easily enough :-) Mind you without indexing services like this one closing there might not be much point...
Hosting most likely....
Unless of course a stolen phone called YOU. Or perhaps the new owner of the phone didn't realize it was stolen. Lots of possibilities. I'll admit though that I'm also having a tough time finding a problem with this scenario...
In IE it doesn't clear anything but the cache that YOU can see. There are a number .DAT files (index.dat I think) that store your COMPLETE history. There are tools to recover this data and this is what this idiot used on her computer image. Firefox also has a database of browser history that I'm pretty sure is also NOT cleared just like IE. Chrome I'm least sure of but judging from the fact the other browsers may not clear history I wouldn't bet that it's any better - I'd be interested in hearing from someone that knows.
Also, the "secure" browsing that IE does? It caches things normally and then deletes them when you close the browser. It's far from "secure". In fact I'm not even sure it's a secure delete that's done. FireFox does this better, I assume Chrome does as well since of the three it handles security the best despite being based on WebKit.
What's so hard to understand about new evidence surfacing that throws doubt on her innocence? A forensic examiner apparently only pulled the browsing history for IE and failed to recognize that a second browser was installed. The browsing history for that browser has now been examined and on the day that this child disappeared there were searches regarding methods for killing someone. Why is importance of THAT so hard to understand?
DNA isn't the be all end all for a conviction either. It's quite possible to find DNA at a crime scene and NOT have it belong to a killer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn
We have to be very careful about being lazy when a new tool is introduced as it very well may NOT prove what we think it does. Investigation still has to be done by investigators that have a clue. Sadly it looks like they used an amateur for this investigation.
Frankly, the fact that they failed to recognize more than one browser was on this machine and in use is criminal in and of itself. Whoever did the forensic examination of this machine was an idiot and ought to be fired! they could easily have imaged the workstation, run the image, and explored it to figure out what was and wasn't in use. This could just as easily have been evidence to exonerate someone that was missed, this is disgusting!
Yes, went back and reread it and spotted what I'd missed - mentioned it below. The mention of the lighter threw me, I didn't understand why that was important. However since it was apparently being sold in that town around that time it was used as evidence that the person who commited the crime was likely local and thus supported the DNA requests.
Ever done a CAPTCHA? Yup, may of those support an OCR effort...
At this point, unless he has confessed, it appears that the DNA is the only linkage...
No, the DNA on her body is ALSO mentioned. They mentioned the lighter up front though and I missed the part about DNA also matching on her body. Apparently the fact that the lighter was sold locally led them to believe that the person was a local who did this - hence the mass DNA gathering. It would have been helpful had they spelled that out a little more clearly IMO but they DID mention a DNA match on her body that I missed...
Crap, you're right! :-(
"The decision to launch the dna appeal came after De Vries in May broadcast information about a Playboy cigarette lighter found in Vaatstra's bag which contains dna traces that match the traces found on the schoolgirl's body."
I missed the last part. Why is the lighter even mentioned?
Have you got a source for this? The article simply stated lighter or did I miss something?
The DNA matched DNA found on a cigarette lighter found in her schoolbag - not DNA from the rape itself apparently. It's possible in my mind that the guy is innocent of rape\murder and guilty of selling a schoolgirl a lighter or her guilty of stealing it. More details need to come out, this isn't "solved" in my mind unless they have DNA evidence from the rape itself that matches.
He was WEARING the watch, it was NOT in his boots. The boots were oversized and had added insoles in them. Doesn't sound too bad right? The watch was modified and had fuses, wires, and switches added to it....
Sounds like they erred on the side of caution and while the summary sounds pretty outrageous I think a watch with all of that added to it sounds a bit odd too. Need more details, the dude definitely sounds a bit off...
They should have proposed this prior to the last presidential election? Or made a point to mention it during the debates? It's quite possible they might have swayed a few votes their way. Guess that was too risky?
What add-on is this? I've seen Fusion for VMworkstation but nothing for vbox. Sounds like something to try out!
Its not THAT picky if you do research. I've got a dirt cheap 1150? Board with an i7 on it that worked great including VT-d except I chose a 2600k back before folks realized it has VT-d disabled - grr! Oh, onboard NIC worked fine. Model number not handy but if anyone cares I can find it.
I have a Tyan Xeon board too. 3 NICS with one being iPMI/iKVM. Not super cheap but maxxed out what ESXi can run. Single socket 32gig ECC. This is what I graduated to :-)