Everyone has a story about this drive mfg or that, which they then seem to base their opinions of another mfg drive on.
My first drive was a Brand Technologies 200Mb IDE. It died 3 weeks out of its 1 year warantee and as I was a newbie with PC's at the time, I did'nt realise that it having bad sectors at the time of purchase, viewable by the OS, was a very bad indication that it had a lot more than what chkdisk.exe was telling me.
So I purchased a Maxtor 340Mb IDE, 3 months later the spindle is whiring up and down and then after a few weeks it never span back up. So I'm thinking crap Maxtor! The shop replaced this drive with a Western Digital 340Mb Caviar. I was happy as it was faster than the Maxtor and had a good rep at the time. That drive is still going strong.
I've watched all the drive makes die. Quantum Fireballs are dying all around me here at work, and they had a great rep too.
You praise Fujitsu, yet they recently had a BIG batch (an entire model line up to a point) that had some serious corruption problems. I can't remember if this was fixed with a firmware download or drive replacement.
Whatever the case, all drive makes have had a bad story here and there... Seagate stiction? Stick it in the oven!
IDE can't switch between master and slave fast enough to allow the greatest performance increases when striping with RAID and swap. It has silly limits like 2 drives per channel. It does'nt support command re-ordering in hardware to allow the heads to move less during many access'. It is not multi-threaded... blah blah blah. If this is true, I have lost respect for WD. My Caviar 340Mb is still going strong and I loved their build quality. I know IDE is getting really fast now, and it's cheap, but for the server with really disk heavy applications, transfer rate it not the be all and end all. Neither is how fast the heads can move. SCSI is far better for server stuff. Damnit!
But in our quest to make people well, we are actually weakening them and strengthening the diseases. So in 10 years time, instead of it killing someone, it kills them, their wife, their mother and father, their children, the guy they sit next to at work, everyone in the bus that they sneezed in.....
Watch out for coffee dude. I abused it a little with about 4-6 cups a day. Which resulted in some pretty severe stomach spasms that prevented my getting any real sleep for more than 2 weeks.
Shortly after I got past this hurdle I had the "need" for some antibiotics (due to some dental work, bone drilling etc on the wisdoms), these REALLY fucked me up. I've been crapping mucous ever since. One doctor I went to prescribed another antibiotic which I now know CAUSES CANCER according to their web site!
I heard about some natural antibiotic which supposedly only targets the bad bacteria, Grapefruit Seed Extract. I got some, and what do you know, hey presto! The road to recovery. I don't know if it was a coincidence, psychosymatic or if it really does work. But one thing is for sure, western doctors are mixing people and drugs with too many unknowns.
Beef *does* kill. People that eat red meat often, usually are found to suffer bowel and colon cancer much more than vegetarians. And no, I'm not reading this from a Health Food Store catalog, every western doctor from GP's to hospital surgeons have also said this to me in reply to my 14 years being vegetarian.
I recently had some minor back surgery, and the doctors and nurses were shocked at the speed at which the wound healed. I also did not need any of the morphine shots that were set for me during recovery. I left the hospital the next day.
Of all the mammals on Earth, we are the only ones that not only continue to drink milk after being weened of it at a young age, but we drink the milk of another species! A practice that also harms our own young when we force it onto them. We consider ourselves to be pretty smart. Our arrogance far out weighs our knowledge, showing just how unintelligent we can be.
"2. We should be carefull that viri don't keep on evolving up to a level that we entirely loose control."
The big danger lies in accelerating the viruses evolution whilst weakening the humans immune system. Killing viruses with medicine is something new to us, so who knows what terrible long term side effects may come of it. We might start the ball rolling on something far beyond what we can handle.
Doctors have been giving women drugs for morning sickness and menopause, which have now been found to cause cancer. Where will it end?
Typically American to charge $50-100 for a single dose.
At that price I'll put up with the flu and save myself the future of a severely depleted immune system and the unforeseen cancer thanks to the drug.
They are always ahead of their knowledge, causing more trouble than the sickness. Here's hoping that this new drug is better than the antibiotics that have almost killed me and have killed others who did'nt need them in the first place.
I have an Apple Message Pad 120 and I have used a few Palmpilots.
I have my MP120 set to printing as opposed to cursive recognition, and customized to my style. It works about 98% of the time, and when it fails I can just double click the word and usually choose the correct word from a pop up list.
The MP was hyped and marketed far far too soon, by apple. Well before it was usable. As a result, bad press and stories did far too much damage to what was to become probably the best PDA so far.
When I first saw it at an Apple launch, the Apple guy wrote "Hello, my name is Frank." and the MP converted this into "Hello any name is failure".:)
I hope they make a proper PDA without the alien writing in a box limits.
"who have had extensive Linux training in the US for about 10 years" Wow, this is impressive! So Linus DID'NT release Linux in 1991! The Indians knew of it in great detail before then! Or have they also developed time travel?
"Linux is a 32-bit multi-tasking, multi-user operating system" Whoops, better tell everyone using Linux on 286's and Alpha's that their computing lives do not actually exist. As Linux is a 32bit OS.
I support a local educational institute, can I set up all the classrooms (hundreds of PII 300's and up) to be a Beowulf cluster for the after hours? Can I get this kind of "computer guru" recognition after obtaining a Beowulf CD from Red Hat and installing it? And then sell a bunch of rack mount PC's for a crazy mark up? Will that make me an innovator like Bill Gates?
Get caught, and you'll spend the rest of your short sorry life taking it up the rear many times a day with Bubba and the boyz in the local state pen. Ever wanted a tattoo of Elle McPherson on your back?:)
To communicate requires at least two intelligent beings with knowledge and skills of the system being used.
DNA is not interpretted via intelligence for it's intended purpose. If DNA is being interpretted by intelligent life to create life, and not just used by non intelligent mechanisms to define individuality, then please point me to the interesting URL!
The ham bands that require passing electronics and morse code tests have some very intelligent people frequenting them.
Many scientists, doctors, and engineers how work for companies like NASA and the.au CSIRO. People who have made scientific discoveries. People that have a genuine love for science.
Whiney loosers? These are the types that gave you the internet and other technologies you probably take for granted.
I can't say for sure, but I would guess that morse code was the very first digital communications system. It punches through noise that analog voice comms could not.
The internet has not made ham radio obsolete, it has probably made the hams appreciate their medium even more! The internet has an unmeasurably low signal to noise ratio that even makes CB seem like it is populated with nuclear scientists.:)
Good night. You have provided much entertainment and enlightenment on my quest for knowledge on the little known Microsoft concepts of Servers and Workstations and the finer art of OS programming.
BTW, in reply to your first "I'm responsible for...", whilst at the Stock Exchange I was responsible for supporting approx 100 developers, thats more than 150 "workstation" PC's for 2 NT servers plus the networking equipment. Most of those workstations were powered off at night. Now I am working for an.edu.org supporting admin and teaching staff PC's, and also student PC's. Out of about 300 PC's, 3 are left on 24/7. Do I need to tell you those are the servers?
The NT staff server crapped itself last week with more than 200Mbytes of memory used and counting on a 128Mb machine.:)
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Stick 4 IDE's of "same speed" in a PC and configure for striping your data and swap partitions. Benchmark.
Now do the same with those "same speed" SCSI drives. Benchmark.
Are they still "same speed"?
Everyone has a story about this drive mfg or that, which they then seem to base their opinions of another mfg drive on.
My first drive was a Brand Technologies 200Mb IDE. It died 3 weeks out of its 1 year warantee and as I was a newbie with PC's at the time, I did'nt realise that it having bad sectors at the time of purchase, viewable by the OS, was a very bad indication that it had a lot more than what chkdisk.exe was telling me.
So I purchased a Maxtor 340Mb IDE, 3 months later the spindle is whiring up and down and then after a few weeks it never span back up. So I'm thinking crap Maxtor! The shop replaced this drive with a Western Digital 340Mb Caviar. I was happy as it was faster than the Maxtor and had a good rep at the time. That drive is still going strong.
I've watched all the drive makes die. Quantum Fireballs are dying all around me here at work, and they had a great rep too.
You praise Fujitsu, yet they recently had a BIG batch (an entire model line up to a point) that had some serious corruption problems. I can't remember if this was fixed with a firmware download or drive replacement.
Whatever the case, all drive makes have had a bad story here and there... Seagate stiction? Stick it in the oven!
You better go tell Adaptec this then...
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http://www.adaptec.com/technology/benchmark/scs
IDE can't switch between master and slave fast enough to allow the greatest performance increases when striping with RAID and swap. It has silly limits like 2 drives per channel. It does'nt support command re-ordering in hardware to allow the heads to move less during many access'. It is not multi-threaded... blah blah blah. If this is true, I have lost respect for WD. My Caviar 340Mb is still going strong and I loved their build quality. I know IDE is getting really fast now, and it's cheap, but for the server with really disk heavy applications, transfer rate it not the be all and end all. Neither is how fast the heads can move. SCSI is far better for server stuff. Damnit!
Good point. One which I agreed with before my post but did'nt communicate. They are most definetely as abused necesity.
:)
Thanks for not being caustic in your reply. Quite a rarity around here.
But in our quest to make people well, we are actually weakening them and strengthening the diseases. So in 10 years time, instead of it killing someone, it kills them, their wife, their mother and father, their children, the guy they sit next to at work, everyone in the bus that they sneezed in.....
Watch out for coffee dude. I abused it a little with about 4-6 cups a day. Which resulted in some pretty severe stomach spasms that prevented my getting any real sleep for more than 2 weeks.
Shortly after I got past this hurdle I had the "need" for some antibiotics (due to some dental work, bone drilling etc on the wisdoms), these REALLY fucked me up. I've been crapping mucous ever since. One doctor I went to prescribed another antibiotic which I now know CAUSES CANCER according to their web site!
I heard about some natural antibiotic which supposedly only targets the bad bacteria, Grapefruit Seed Extract. I got some, and what do you know, hey presto! The road to recovery. I don't know if it was a coincidence, psychosymatic or if it really does work. But one thing is for sure, western doctors are mixing people and drugs with too many unknowns.
Beef *does* kill. People that eat red meat often, usually are found to suffer bowel and colon cancer much more than vegetarians. And no, I'm not reading this from a Health Food Store catalog, every western doctor from GP's to hospital surgeons have also said this to me in reply to my 14 years being vegetarian.
I recently had some minor back surgery, and the doctors and nurses were shocked at the speed at which the wound healed. I also did not need any of the morphine shots that were set for me during recovery. I left the hospital the next day.
Of all the mammals on Earth, we are the only ones that not only continue to drink milk after being weened of it at a young age, but we drink the milk of another species! A practice that also harms our own young when we force it onto them. We consider ourselves to be pretty smart. Our arrogance far out weighs our knowledge, showing just how unintelligent we can be.
What are you smoking? I've never had a 502 from /.
/., call it /dev/null perhaps?
Considering the user base, Slashdot is doing an incredible job.
Go make your own
"2. We should be carefull that viri don't keep on evolving up to a level that we entirely loose control."
The big danger lies in accelerating the viruses evolution whilst weakening the humans immune system. Killing viruses with medicine is something new to us, so who knows what terrible long term side effects may come of it. We might start the ball rolling on something far beyond what we can handle.
Doctors have been giving women drugs for morning sickness and menopause, which have now been found to cause cancer. Where will it end?
"Imagine the drug companies buying the mass production food companies and cutting costs so disease could spread. Sound profitable?"
This will be the point where I pick up my AK47 and start opening up some CEO heads.
Bad Mother%&@*er?
Typically American to charge $50-100 for a single dose.
At that price I'll put up with the flu and save myself the future of a severely depleted immune system and the unforeseen cancer thanks to the drug.
They are always ahead of their knowledge, causing more trouble than the sickness. Here's hoping that this new drug is better than the antibiotics that have almost killed me and have killed others who did'nt need them in the first place.
$125 CDN is pretty high, considering it's about $1 in parts.
As per usual, I'll do it myself.
I have an Apple Message Pad 120 and I have used a few Palmpilots.
:)
I have my MP120 set to printing as opposed to cursive recognition, and customized to my style. It works about 98% of the time, and when it fails I can just double click the word and usually choose the correct word from a pop up list.
The MP was hyped and marketed far far too soon, by apple. Well before it was usable. As a result, bad press and stories did far too much damage to what was to become probably the best PDA so far.
When I first saw it at an Apple launch, the Apple guy wrote "Hello, my name is Frank." and the MP converted this into "Hello any name is failure".
I hope they make a proper PDA without the alien writing in a box limits.
"developed in India"? *sigh*
"who have had extensive Linux training in the US for about 10 years" Wow, this is impressive! So Linus DID'NT release Linux in 1991! The Indians knew of it in great detail before then! Or have they also developed time travel?
"Linux is a 32-bit multi-tasking, multi-user operating system" Whoops, better tell everyone using Linux on 286's and Alpha's that their computing lives do not actually exist. As Linux is a 32bit OS.
I support a local educational institute, can I set up all the classrooms (hundreds of PII 300's and up) to be a Beowulf cluster for the after hours? Can I get this kind of "computer guru" recognition after obtaining a Beowulf CD from Red Hat and installing it? And then sell a bunch of rack mount PC's for a crazy mark up? Will that make me an innovator like Bill Gates?
sigh.
Get caught, and you'll spend the rest of your short sorry life taking it up the rear many times a day with Bubba and the boyz in the local state pen. Ever wanted a tattoo of Elle McPherson on your back? :)
The icon under the mouse is the largest and the icons on either side of that one get progressively smaller with distance from the mouse.
So the icons grow and shrink when the mouse is over them? Combined with the configurable icon sizes, this is pretty neat, eh?
I was thanked for my commenting on the "Sony Playstation"!
:)
Could I have started a "Sony Linuxstation" rumour?
Communications?
To communicate requires at least two intelligent beings with knowledge and skills of the system being used.
DNA is not interpretted via intelligence for it's intended purpose. If DNA is being interpretted by intelligent life to create life, and not just used by non intelligent mechanisms to define individuality, then please point me to the interesting URL!
The ham bands that require passing electronics and morse code tests have some very intelligent people frequenting them.
.au CSIRO. People who have made scientific discoveries. People that have a genuine love for science.
:)
Many scientists, doctors, and engineers how work for companies like NASA and the
Whiney loosers? These are the types that gave you the internet and other technologies you probably take for granted.
I can't say for sure, but I would guess that morse code was the very first digital communications system. It punches through noise that analog voice comms could not.
The internet has not made ham radio obsolete, it has probably made the hams appreciate their medium even more! The internet has an unmeasurably low signal to noise ratio that even makes CB seem like it is populated with nuclear scientists.
Good night. You have provided much entertainment and enlightenment on my quest for knowledge on the little known Microsoft concepts of Servers and Workstations and the finer art of OS programming.
I bow to your intellect.
Was that along the lines of the next lot of drivel to come from you?
Every Un*x guru knows that servers are dedicated workstations. Adolf Gates has tried to cover up this *FACT* the computer is the network reality.
Wake up to the real world lamer. You look stupid amongst us gurus.
BTW, in reply to your first "I'm responsible for...", whilst at the Stock Exchange I was responsible for supporting approx 100 developers, thats more than 150 "workstation" PC's for 2 NT servers plus the networking equipment. Most of those workstations were powered off at night. Now I am working for an
The NT staff server crapped itself last week with more than 200Mbytes of memory used and counting on a 128Mb machine.
I am by no means an M$ fan.
:)
Just how many AC's are pulling my chain here?