I paid $1200 for the Black MacBook in 2006. The "temporary" replacement laptop I got in 2015 was a $200 Dell laptop. Similar hardware specs even though different generations of hardware. Either laptop can run Windows 10 without issues.
Good PR is written in such a way that a news editor only needs to copy and paste the content into an article and readers will consume It without a second thought. Bad PR is where it gets past the news editor but fails the smell test with readers. This fine example stinks.
When Apple dropped support for 32-bit processor, everyone else did too. Which meant no more updated software for my vintage 2006 Black MacBook (first gen had 32-bit processors).
Writing 4kB is worse: I think you have to read 4kB from n disks then write 3 disks? but for reads, a RAID6 of n disks will deliver nearly the io/s of n - 2 disks.
Newer hard drives have 4kB sectors. It would make sense to read/write data in 4kB chunks.
It used to be an electronics enthusiast store which there is still probably a market for.
Back in the day when most electronics were fixable by the average person. I started taking electronic courses, saw the writing on the wall, and dropped electronics as a college major in the early 1990's. Best decision I ever made. Most of the electrical engineers I knew from back then are doing IT today. And they're pissed I'm making more money than they are because I got into IT ten years before they did.
Not exactly. Good assets got spun off into a "new" company while the bad assets sank with the "old" company in bankruptcy court. Those good assets weren't enough to save the new company from being bankrupted. Someone will buy the Radio Shack IP and try again in the future.
They didn't buy in gated community, or have private access roads, they bought in a neighborhood with "through streets", so the public (which pays for those roads btw) has a right to drive on them.
Because this was a poor minority neighborhood, government planners didn't think twice about running a freeway through it. Residents didn't "buy in" to having their neighborhood split in half. When the 1989 earthquake brought down the freeway, there was a huge public outcry to rebuilding the freeway as was before and re-routing the freeway through the rail yard reunited the neighborhood.
I do the same as you except it's on a normal bus because we don't have an express bus, and a good percentage of the ridership is homeless, and every few months one of them decides to start yelling at me for no reason.
But this is academic; by then you'd surely have shifted your data onto a newer drive anyway.
From RLL (20MB 5/25" full height) to EIDE (520MB 3.5" half height) to SCSI-2 (40GB 3.5") to Firewire (250GB 3.5" PATA internal) to SATA (1TB 3.5" or 2.5") drives. Been there, done that.
Nobody is going to trade crawling in a traffic jam for an hour (in their own car) to standing outside multiple times in the rain, jumping from one bus to another, dealing with smelly and loud people for 1.5 hours.
You obviously have never taken the express bus, which is an extra $70 per month, a larger, comfortable bus, and everyone on board are working class professionals. Most people on the early morning express bus are snoozing from getting up early, and the commute home is often quiet because people are snoozing from a long day at work. I spend my commute time reading The Wall Street Journal in the morning and an ebook in the afternoon because I'm paying someone else to drive.
So basically the city needs to spend ass loads of money because people are dickheads.
It's called social engineering. Want people to use light rail to get to work? Build mixed developments — stores and high density housing — around each light rail station, providing the incentives for people to live closer to a station and take the light rail to work.
Mass transport is going from where you aren't to where you don't need to be.
That's funny. Two local buses and an express bus gets me from my front door at 6AM to the front door of my job 30 miles away at 7AM. Best commute I ever had in 30 years of taking public transit.
In this case, "fixing" would be reducing the population by about 50%.
After the dot com bust in 2001, 2M+ people moved out of Silicon Valley and SF Bay Area. Traffic was wonderful until the economy started improving and people moved back in from the hinterlands.
The Cypress Street Viaduct (I-880) that ran through a West Oakland neighborhood. After the viaduct collapsed in the 1989 earthquake, the replacement structure went around the neighborhood through an unused rail yard.
This is the problem with maintaining your own hardware, and a really useful use case for cloud storage, so long as you can trust the provider to keep the hardware up to date while your files stay clean, private and available.
If you want to keep your data private, get it off the Internet. No cloud provider can guarantee your data will stay private, much less clean and available.
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2006? That's like a baby's toy. Upgrade or die
I paid $1200 for the Black MacBook in 2006. The "temporary" replacement laptop I got in 2015 was a $200 Dell laptop. Similar hardware specs even though different generations of hardware. Either laptop can run Windows 10 without issues.
I don't know anyone in IT who has a state license to be an engineer.
Good PR is written in such a way that a news editor only needs to copy and paste the content into an article and readers will consume It without a second thought. Bad PR is where it gets past the news editor but fails the smell test with readers. This fine example stinks.
If someone screws up, IT management can always blame the third-party service line.
>2006
>vintage
Apple regards anything older than five years as "vintage" hardware. However, my 11-year-old MacBook runs 32-bit Mint Linus just fine.
When Apple dropped support for 32-bit processor, everyone else did too. Which meant no more updated software for my vintage 2006 Black MacBook (first gen had 32-bit processors).
I kind of love that Microsoft's expiry notice [microsoft.com] basically says if you're still running Vista you should probably buy a new computer.
Last year I replaced my nine-year-old Vista-compatible motherboard with a newer motherboard.
Writing 4kB is worse: I think you have to read 4kB from n disks then write 3 disks? but for reads, a RAID6 of n disks will deliver nearly the io/s of n - 2 disks.
Newer hard drives have 4kB sectors. It would make sense to read/write data in 4kB chunks.
It used to be an electronics enthusiast store which there is still probably a market for.
Back in the day when most electronics were fixable by the average person. I started taking electronic courses, saw the writing on the wall, and dropped electronics as a college major in the early 1990's. Best decision I ever made. Most of the electrical engineers I knew from back then are doing IT today. And they're pissed I'm making more money than they are because I got into IT ten years before they did.
Not exactly. Good assets got spun off into a "new" company while the bad assets sank with the "old" company in bankruptcy court. Those good assets weren't enough to save the new company from being bankrupted. Someone will buy the Radio Shack IP and try again in the future.
I get free shipping from Jameco for in stock items. Minimum online order is $10 USD. Resistors are typically 100 for $4.
http://www.jameco.com/Jameco/content/free-shipping-club-electronic-components.html?CID=HPFreeShippingClub
They didn't buy in gated community, or have private access roads, they bought in a neighborhood with "through streets", so the public (which pays for those roads btw) has a right to drive on them.
Because this was a poor minority neighborhood, government planners didn't think twice about running a freeway through it. Residents didn't "buy in" to having their neighborhood split in half. When the 1989 earthquake brought down the freeway, there was a huge public outcry to rebuilding the freeway as was before and re-routing the freeway through the rail yard reunited the neighborhood.
It's a team building exercise. Should be more coordinated with robots involved.
I do the same as you except it's on a normal bus because we don't have an express bus, and a good percentage of the ridership is homeless, and every few months one of them decides to start yelling at me for no reason.
That would Hotel 22 in Silicon Valley.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/opinion/hotel-22.html
What you mean like they already have with USB-C only on all new laptops?
You mean the replacement for Thunderbolt that Apple previous promoted as the next big thing?
But this is academic; by then you'd surely have shifted your data onto a newer drive anyway.
From RLL (20MB 5/25" full height) to EIDE (520MB 3.5" half height) to SCSI-2 (40GB 3.5") to Firewire (250GB 3.5" PATA internal) to SATA (1TB 3.5" or 2.5") drives. Been there, done that.
Nobody is going to trade crawling in a traffic jam for an hour (in their own car) to standing outside multiple times in the rain, jumping from one bus to another, dealing with smelly and loud people for 1.5 hours.
You obviously have never taken the express bus, which is an extra $70 per month, a larger, comfortable bus, and everyone on board are working class professionals. Most people on the early morning express bus are snoozing from getting up early, and the commute home is often quiet because people are snoozing from a long day at work. I spend my commute time reading The Wall Street Journal in the morning and an ebook in the afternoon because I'm paying someone else to drive.
So basically the city needs to spend ass loads of money because people are dickheads.
It's called social engineering. Want people to use light rail to get to work? Build mixed developments — stores and high density housing — around each light rail station, providing the incentives for people to live closer to a station and take the light rail to work.
Mass transport is going from where you aren't to where you don't need to be.
That's funny. Two local buses and an express bus gets me from my front door at 6AM to the front door of my job 30 miles away at 7AM. Best commute I ever had in 30 years of taking public transit.
In this case, "fixing" would be reducing the population by about 50%.
After the dot com bust in 2001, 2M+ people moved out of Silicon Valley and SF Bay Area. Traffic was wonderful until the economy started improving and people moved back in from the hinterlands.
The Cypress Street Viaduct (I-880) that ran through a West Oakland neighborhood. After the viaduct collapsed in the 1989 earthquake, the replacement structure went around the neighborhood through an unused rail yard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_Street_Viaduct
This is the problem with maintaining your own hardware, and a really useful use case for cloud storage, so long as you can trust the provider to keep the hardware up to date while your files stay clean, private and available.
If you want to keep your data private, get it off the Internet. No cloud provider can guarantee your data will stay private, much less clean and available.
You really need something like ZFS which puts a checksum on every file and verifies it, so if it does get an error it can resolve it.
ZFS also has its own flavors of RAID 1/5/6.
USB has been around 20 years, and it could be another 20 before we lose USB 2.0 / 3.0 compatibility.
Before that we had FireWire 400/800 and SCSI I/II/III. Won't be long before Apple obsoletes USB 1/2/3 for something with a much smaller connector.
Thank you for proving that the Bushes were not conservatives, but actually liberals.
Trump is neither Republican nor conservative, and, until a few short years ago, was a Clinton Democrat.