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  1. Re:Reliability? on Hitachi to Release Half TB Drive Soon · · Score: 1

    Maybe you're just unlucky? I've never had a hard drive die in ANY of my computers, the earliest from '97.

  2. Re:Reliability tip - DON'T BUY IBM (Hitachi) DRIVE on Hitachi to Release Half TB Drive Soon · · Score: 1

    Seagates work for me, I have a 40 gig one in my box now, it has 7382 hours on it, still works. I like the WD (Caviar, haven't had a chance to use a Raptor) drives, haven't had any problems with them either (currently have a 120GB WD, with 3545 hours).

    And IIRC, it was only the 75GXP drives that were bad anyway, and the others were fine.

  3. Re:Drive arrays for consumers on Hitachi to Release Half TB Drive Soon · · Score: 1
    Because:
    • It is more expensive
    • You can't just swap out the affected platter and let it construct automatically
    • With RAID-5 you lose a lot of performance when a drive fails. You want to replace it straight away. In the case of RAID in individual platters, you have to throw out the whole drive, after copying the data over to another drive, at a slow speed. With hot-swap disks, you just pull out the old one, and put in a new one, and it reconstructs automatically. With hot-spare it switches to a spare drive, and you don't even need to switch a drive over yourself, it just slows down a bit (doesn't go down completely) while it reconstructs the array.
  4. Re:The Life of on Wired Interviews Bram Cohen, Creator of BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    No! I'm Brian!

  5. Re:Idiots**2 on Conspiring Against Your Employer? Watch What You Email · · Score: 1
    Anyone who uses the words "rock solid" to describe any sort of network, server, pc or device can't be trusted

    Unlessz of course it is make out of rock ;)
  6. Re:Content Search on In The Beginning Was The Command Line, Updated · · Score: 1

    If I were you I'd have a look at cscope, it works well for me

  7. Re:Desktop Search? on In The Beginning Was The Command Line, Updated · · Score: 1

    Hey I still dump all my files into /home/lachlan, and I can find all of them :)

  8. Re:YES on Joel Gives College Advice For Programmers · · Score: 1

    Perl, bash, and python, just to name a few...

  9. Re:The solution I used... on Windows OSS Only For Administrators? · · Score: 1

    It's all in an API call, which I can't remember, because I haven't touched Windows in about 4 months.

  10. Re:Horseshit on CRTs Still Beat Flat-Panel TVs · · Score: 1

    Given enough blur (CRT or BEER) you won't be able to see the acne so he/she will ber very good looking. Remove the googgles and you'll tell them to see a dermatologist. It's as simple as that.

    To be honest, I'd just try not to look at her face ;)

  11. Re:damnit on Indian Consortium To Offer 2 Mbps At $2.30/month · · Score: 1

    You're on the same plan as me, aren't you ;)

    Internode has a good mirror though, most of my big downloads just get pulled down for free off of their mirror. Which saves a fair bit of the paid bandwidth.

  12. Re:OGG support ... on More Linux Portable Media Players On The Way · · Score: 1

    I did, but it was only to get some streaming-audio
    program to work properly...it did not like mp3 ;)

  13. Re:How did FIC license wmv for Linux? on More Linux Portable Media Players On The Way · · Score: 1

    I wasn't aware that Microsoft was really a big
    competitor in the embedded market.

    They don't care what OS is on people's embedded
    processors, it's the desktop market that they are
    after.

  14. Re:damnit on Indian Consortium To Offer 2 Mbps At $2.30/month · · Score: 1

    Let me guess...metropolitan Australia, with an
    Optus 512k unlimited plan?

    Those terms seem familiar...

  15. Re:damnit on Indian Consortium To Offer 2 Mbps At $2.30/month · · Score: 1

    You lucky, lucky bastard.

    I pay $60 a month for 512k

  16. Re:Lego Mindstorms on Introducing Children to Computers? · · Score: 1

    You kidding? I'm 15, I did it at school. It just about drove me to suicide.

    Seriously, it is *VERY* hard to work with, I would have much preferred assembly.

  17. Re:high level is a bad thing? on Introducing Children to Computers? · · Score: 1

    Why not just give him Fluxbox or Enlightenment or another simple wm/desktop environment?

  18. Re:This is kind of stupid... on Sneak Peek At Microsoft Anti-Spyware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In a system where it is IMPOSSIBLE to remove the web browser? Methinks not ;)

  19. Re:This is kind of stupid... on Sneak Peek At Microsoft Anti-Spyware · · Score: 1

    Update distribution, online virus scanning....but
    I'd have to say the disadvantages would outweigh
    the benefits.

  20. Re:Ironic methinks. on Sneak Peek At Microsoft Anti-Spyware · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oops, my bad.

  21. Re:If Linux is ok.. on Low Cost VPN Solutions? · · Score: 1

    Well since he was talking about using VNC for admin stuff, and mapping network drives, I'd assume Windows support is required.

  22. Re:Ironic methinks. on Sneak Peek At Microsoft Anti-Spyware · · Score: 1

    I just wonder if someone will name a piece of spyware Sherman and watch it raze Atlanta again....


    Sherman own Kazaa :P

  23. Re:Beating MS Office != Trivial on Apple's Rumored Office Suite · · Score: 1

    Isn't Abiword intended to go with Gnumeric? There are other things for the rest of the suite, but I can't think of them right now.

  24. Re:cat /proc/cpuinfo on AMD Chip Fraud Delays Release of New Chipset · · Score: 2, Informative

    You may be able to see traces of work being done on the top of the CPU, in the L3 and L4 bridges.

    They are laser-cut at the amd factory to set the multiplier, and to be modified, the bridges which were cut would need to be filled in, and a conductive material painted on top.

    This it how it's done, only in this case it is the L1 bridges that are joined, so that any multiplier can be set on the motherboard. You could do it with the L3 and L4 bridges to change to a set multiplier, which is probably what they do.

    The bridges which were already joined but needed to be disconnected would be cut/drilled, I imagine that they wouldn't be using a laser like AMD do.

  25. Re:cat /proc/cpuinfo on AMD Chip Fraud Delays Release of New Chipset · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because AMD makes each chip the same, and just modifies the multiplier to change the speed, the chip just detects what speed it is running at and makes the text show up as the right one.