You were running the Linux Router on a magnetic drive? Sheesh!:) You can run those things off CF cards, or even floppy disks!
(Okay, I can't really call you out on that - at work we run a proxying Linux firewall/router on magnetic drives. No problems yet, after an uptime of 201 days, but I imagine something will happen some day. It's inevitable. Luckily, it's on a UPS.)
I've been researching the same thing this week. I've narrowed down my list to three potential commercial solutions; I could go with a home-brew one, but I need something with easy access so that I can insert a 2nd drive, copy the contents of the primary to the secondary, and then put the secondary in a safe deposit box.
The three I've narrowed it down to are the D-Link DNS-323, LinkSys NAS200, and QNAP TS-209.
Both the DNS-323 and QNAP TS-209 have an extra feature that I am intrigued by: They can also double as print servers.
The jury's still out on whether any of them will fit the above needs I specified (re: manual duplication), but I'll eventually check one of them out.:)
Because the customers are not the same, and their companies are marketing their family-friendly image as much as anything else (moreso Nintendo than Sorny).
Face it: The average American consumer is a frothy-mouthed puritan.
My cat doesn't have an eat mouse reflex - it's evolved into a "bat the mouse around for two hours until it dies of a heart attack, and then leave it somewhere that Food Bringing Slave can step on it!" reflex...
I think you should eliminate terrorism from your list of problems, given how the so-called War on Terrorism is being run.
In fact, I think the word "terrorism" should fall out of usage, and that such extremists should be revealed for what they are: criminals.
Pursuant to that, I also think that a multinational commission should be set up to investigate and punish those criminals. It shouldn't be up to one country to do it. I'm thinking the United Nations could help... it could be a United Nations Criminal Law Enforcement Commission.
If you're referring to my post, the parenthetical "insult" was a quote from the show Futurama, meant in jest. And the Belgians don't like it when outsiders register domains with them (understandably). They are somewhat more lax with their waffles and chocolate.
If you're referring to my website's ramblings, you'll have to be a bit more specific as to what you mean.
Ghost is very good - at least, the bootable Non-Windows version on the older Ghost CD I have is.
So far as I can tell, the Windows-based one is useless crap for recovery - or for cloning Linux partitions, which is (perhaps ironically) my one major use for it. And I don't even do it that way any more.
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You were running the Linux Router on a magnetic drive? Sheesh! :) You can run those things off CF cards, or even floppy disks!
(Okay, I can't really call you out on that - at work we run a proxying Linux firewall/router on magnetic drives. No problems yet, after an uptime of 201 days, but I imagine something will happen some day. It's inevitable. Luckily, it's on a UPS.)
Reports say that it does. As does the QNAP "TS" series, in particular the TS-209.
Sadly, the LinkSys NAS200 apparently does not.
I've been researching the same thing this week. I've narrowed down my list to three potential commercial solutions; I could go with a home-brew one, but I need something with easy access so that I can insert a 2nd drive, copy the contents of the primary to the secondary, and then put the secondary in a safe deposit box.
:)
The three I've narrowed it down to are the D-Link DNS-323, LinkSys NAS200, and QNAP TS-209.
Both the DNS-323 and QNAP TS-209 have an extra feature that I am intrigued by: They can also double as print servers.
The jury's still out on whether any of them will fit the above needs I specified (re: manual duplication), but I'll eventually check one of them out.
Oh, I'm sorry, just one moment. Is this a five minute argument or the full half hour?
You're just a contrarian. ;-)
Because the customers are not the same, and their companies are marketing their family-friendly image as much as anything else (moreso Nintendo than Sorny).
Face it: The average American consumer is a frothy-mouthed puritan.
Don't be so sure, Tim.
Have you the brain worms?!?
... :)
I guess they've possibly discovered how the "bad guy" in the movie Slither operates
A wise person once said,
"You're doing it wrong."
Deadly serious, Mr Kuryakin. Deadly serious.
My cat doesn't have an eat mouse reflex - it's evolved into a "bat the mouse around for two hours until it dies of a heart attack, and then leave it somewhere that Food Bringing Slave can step on it!" reflex ...
I think you should eliminate terrorism from your list of problems, given how the so-called War on Terrorism is being run.
... it could be a United Nations Criminal Law Enforcement Commission.
In fact, I think the word "terrorism" should fall out of usage, and that such extremists should be revealed for what they are: criminals.
Pursuant to that, I also think that a multinational commission should be set up to investigate and punish those criminals. It shouldn't be up to one country to do it. I'm thinking the United Nations could help
Or, to abbreviate it, The UNCLE Commission.
Sure thing, Noogie.
Fair enough. No offense intended.
I shall now return to watching cricket on the telly, and eating my belgian waffles.
(Note: I'm not actually doing either of those things)
I'm not sure what you mean.
If you're referring to my post, the parenthetical "insult" was a quote from the show Futurama, meant in jest. And the Belgians don't like it when outsiders register domains with them (understandably). They are somewhat more lax with their waffles and chocolate.
If you're referring to my website's ramblings, you'll have to be a bit more specific as to what you mean.
Diseases that cause people to forget to eat, or be unable to eat, don't kill overweight people?
Of course not.
They kill starved people.
What America needs is less Peter Principle, and more Dilbert Principle.
I looked into that, but sadly, Calcium wasn't toxic or metallic enough to use as my nickname (Bite my shiny metal ass!).
:)
And Belgium wanted nothing to do with me
In Space, no one can hear you scream Habeus Corpus. :)
Useful in the context of having experienced a failure, I meant.
:)
No one really needs an everything-is-OK alarm. It's silly if they didn't have a feature to be silent on success
~ EVERYTHING IS OK! EVERYTHING IS OK! BEEEEP BEEEP BEEEP!! ~
I've used that particular AMIBIOS. In my opinion, it is *NOT* easier to use than today's text only BIOS standards.
:)
The verbal POST sounds both amusing and useful, though
You know, just yesterday I tried upgrading Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog to Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, and it went so smoothly it was almost like nothing happened!
;-))
(Oh, wait - nothing DID happen. Silly lack of legacy support
Sounds like a pain in the nuts to me.
You're doing it wrong.
Ghost is very good - at least, the bootable Non-Windows version on the older Ghost CD I have is.
So far as I can tell, the Windows-based one is useless crap for recovery - or for cloning Linux partitions, which is (perhaps ironically) my one major use for it. And I don't even do it that way any more.
... You run Norton? Your nerd card should be revoked.
:)
Norton hasn't put out a good bit of software since Utilities for MS-DOS.