Why dont they just start paying wardrivers?
Give us a free gps, datacable and software along with some gas money and junk food and I'm sure most of us would be happy to leave it running in the background while we do our thing.
Wardrivers often drive around cities erratically, we dont stick to main streets or anything so it seems like it would be ideal for their purposes.
I had a similar instance with motorola, their asp page was broken one day and gave away the filename to the include with their database passwords, which was readable via the web.
I called their tech support number after not being able to find any other way to contact them and explained it to a very slow lady. I guess it worked because the next afternoon it was fixed.
I had my phone in carry on and somehow it got turned on during the flight, didnt notice until we landed and i saw the battery was nearly dead (flight to europe + no nearby towers = higher transmit power = less battery life)
Anyways, the plane didnt crash;)
Thats only during take off and landing, laptops are also to be off then.
I got into a fight with a stewardess when she saw me resting my gps against the window during take off tho, she didnt seem too impressed with my arugment "Its not a cell phone though!"
I've used a couple ide based raid cards in the last few years, starting off with a motherboard that has a promise chip, then a promise card and finally a 3ware.
The onboard solution was full of problems simply due to the fact that bios updates for it were dependent on abit and they didnt keep up to date, the technology seemed fine so i went ahead and grabbed a 4 drive promise pci card.
The 4 drive promise card worked well, a few driver issues but all in all a good card for the price, i ran 4 maxtor 40 gigs in raid 0. One died of course and bingo, i'm fucked. Rma'ed it and ended up distributing the 4 drives around my house for various use.
My current raid is 6 of the seagate barracuda IV 80 gig's in raid 5 with a 3ware escalade 7810, I've been extremely happy with this card. Having dealt with mylex and adaptec scsi raid cards in workservers I was extremely pleased to use the card, the software is all web based which is nice for remote administration and is very minimal, no bloatware that you often see seeping into drivers these days. ( Here's copy of my raid details page from the other day when i was rebuilding after my system crashed due to a loose drive power cable ).
About 6 months ago my raid crashed and no matter what I couldnt seem to initialize it without having to delete it all and restart, I figured i might as well contact 3ware first, went to their site and used their support page, the next day first thing in the morning i got a call from Angie at 3ware, I talked to her and on her advice upgraded the bios and software versions to the latest which had apparently implemented some bug fixes, she also gave me her number so that in the event it didnt help she could send me some debug utilities to get more information about what happened and how they could solve it. The bios upgrade worked thankfully and I never had to return the call. Honestly, I didnt expect that level of customer support and hands down I would recommend a 3ware card to anyone, the performance is lower for writes but their support more then makes up for it imho.
FYI, I've also used my 3ware card in linux and freebsd and the management software worked just as well as in windows, props to the 3ware team for that.
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Why dont they just start paying wardrivers? Give us a free gps, datacable and software along with some gas money and junk food and I'm sure most of us would be happy to leave it running in the background while we do our thing. Wardrivers often drive around cities erratically, we dont stick to main streets or anything so it seems like it would be ideal for their purposes.
I had a similar instance with motorola, their asp page was broken one day and gave away the filename to the include with their database passwords, which was readable via the web.
I called their tech support number after not being able to find any other way to contact them and explained it to a very slow lady. I guess it worked because the next afternoon it was fixed.
I had my phone in carry on and somehow it got turned on during the flight, didnt notice until we landed and i saw the battery was nearly dead (flight to europe + no nearby towers = higher transmit power = less battery life) Anyways, the plane didnt crash ;)
Thats only during take off and landing, laptops are also to be off then. I got into a fight with a stewardess when she saw me resting my gps against the window during take off tho, she didnt seem too impressed with my arugment "Its not a cell phone though!"
I've used a couple ide based raid cards in the last few years, starting off with a motherboard that has a promise chip, then a promise card and finally a 3ware.
The onboard solution was full of problems simply due to the fact that bios updates for it were dependent on abit and they didnt keep up to date, the technology seemed fine so i went ahead and grabbed a 4 drive promise pci card.
The 4 drive promise card worked well, a few driver issues but all in all a good card for the price, i ran 4 maxtor 40 gigs in raid 0. One died of course and bingo, i'm fucked. Rma'ed it and ended up distributing the 4 drives around my house for various use.
My current raid is 6 of the seagate barracuda IV 80 gig's in raid 5 with a 3ware escalade 7810, I've been extremely happy with this card. Having dealt with mylex and adaptec scsi raid cards in workservers I was extremely pleased to use the card, the software is all web based which is nice for remote administration and is very minimal, no bloatware that you often see seeping into drivers these days. ( Here's copy of my raid details page from the other day when i was rebuilding after my system crashed due to a loose drive power cable ).
About 6 months ago my raid crashed and no matter what I couldnt seem to initialize it without having to delete it all and restart, I figured i might as well contact 3ware first, went to their site and used their support page, the next day first thing in the morning i got a call from Angie at 3ware, I talked to her and on her advice upgraded the bios and software versions to the latest which had apparently implemented some bug fixes, she also gave me her number so that in the event it didnt help she could send me some debug utilities to get more information about what happened and how they could solve it. The bios upgrade worked thankfully and I never had to return the call. Honestly, I didnt expect that level of customer support and hands down I would recommend a 3ware card to anyone, the performance is lower for writes but their support more then makes up for it imho.
FYI, I've also used my 3ware card in linux and freebsd and the management software worked just as well as in windows, props to the 3ware team for that.