Back in the early 1990s, when the arrays began replacing those huge mainframe disks, they were considered "CHEAP!" In every sense of the word. Does anyone know what one of those washing machine- or refrigerator-sized disks cost 20 years ago???
300 Meg disk: About $50,000. Umm. excuse me, probably more!
I, as a somewhat scruffy-looking techie, used to go to IBM seminars and sales sessions back then, (Hey, the food'n'drinks were great!) and would ask occasionally when they were going to replace those huge monsters with perhaps an array of "PC-sized" disks. Guess what the answer always was. "Those cheap little things? Har-har, sonny! We are IBM! You wanna trust your data to those little things?" he would sneer, while all the suits in the room would then look disdainfully at me.
About 10 years later one of those "medium-sized" AS/400 disks (about the size of a breadbox by now) crapped out after perhaps two years' service.
The C.E. came in and replaced it with a unit of the same physical size. Of course I had to kibitz. Strangely however, the new disk-drive box was 5 times lighter, and was mostly... an empty box! When I peered into it, I noticed "Hitachi" written on the little disk-drive inside it. The CE joked "Shhh... you're not supposed to see that!" Management of course was always impressed with big boxes.
My, how times change. Well, IBM had to do SOMETHING with those warehouses full of unsold dinosaurs!
So, do you get it now?
It's INEXPENSIVE DISK! Whether it's a f---n redundant array or not.
BTW... where's the IBM disk division these days? Aren't they just down the road from Chrysler, GM and Ford plants? LOL!
What kind of train/bus requires all its passengers to use Photoshop
Cold ones! Where the transportation company has told the driver to turn off heat to conserve ($$$) energy. I have told all my fellow commuters that this laptop is a steal at the price! And try it with Photoshop! Fantastic!
If the probability of a "self-replicating" molecule to somehow spontaneously occur is, oh, let's say 10**112 (give or take five or six zeros or so), and the number of atoms in the Universe is 8*(10**88) (just a guess), then, hey, what's ten or twenty billion years between friends?
Sagan's "billions and billions" start to look an awful lot like SMALL numbers- even in these days of financial bailouts etc, not to mention the age of this or that particular universe- in years OR seconds...
He is in Verdana and the Sun is in Tahoma, you dolt!
And that, dear fellow, is why more people spend their winter vacations in Tahoma than in either Verdana or Trebuchet. (BTW, Trebuchet is a disgusting place- full of drunken skinheads and starving waifs- but I digress)
As a retired citizen of Canada, and as a self-described COBOL expert who even had a crush on Admiral Grace H., I am sure we can get those meanframes back on track! And maybe a green card for me.
But alas, it looks a lot like RubyObama on Rails will win out...
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They are INEXPENSIVE!
Back in the early 1990s, when the arrays began replacing those huge mainframe disks, they were considered "CHEAP!"
In every sense of the word.
Does anyone know what one of those washing machine- or refrigerator-sized disks cost 20 years ago???
300 Meg disk: About $50,000. Umm. excuse me, probably more!
I, as a somewhat scruffy-looking techie, used to go to IBM seminars and sales sessions back then, (Hey, the food'n'drinks were great!) and would ask occasionally when they were going to replace those huge monsters with perhaps an array of "PC-sized" disks.
Guess what the answer always was.
"Those cheap little things? Har-har, sonny! We are IBM! You wanna trust your data to those little things?" he would sneer, while all the suits in the room would then look disdainfully at me.
About 10 years later one of those "medium-sized" AS/400 disks (about the size of a breadbox by now) crapped out after perhaps two years' service.
The C.E. came in and replaced it with a unit of the same physical size.
Of course I had to kibitz.
Strangely however, the new disk-drive box was 5 times lighter, and was mostly... an empty box!
When I peered into it, I noticed "Hitachi" written on the little disk-drive inside it.
The CE joked "Shhh... you're not supposed to see that!"
Management of course was always impressed with big boxes.
My, how times change.
Well, IBM had to do SOMETHING with those warehouses full of unsold dinosaurs!
So, do you get it now?
It's INEXPENSIVE DISK! Whether it's a f---n redundant array or not.
BTW... where's the IBM disk division these days? Aren't they just down the road from Chrysler, GM and Ford plants? LOL!
But I digress.
WTF!!
$2000?
Shit, I had to send her $3000!
And all I'm getting back is $10,000,000 !
Just how the hell did you do it?
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As well, the obligatory and very mysterious word "modalities" is missing!
1. In Soviet Russia, bomb loses YOU!
2. I, for one, bow to our new Greenland Inuit overlords.
3. Profit!
(Okay, I realize #3 doesn't make any sense, but I try to squeeze in as many obligatories as I can)
He shouldn't even by a U.S. employee anymore with the tactics he uses.
That's easy! SOP: Make him a Canadian! ..
>> Previous bodily fluids are creepy.
Not as far as I'm concerned!
It's the "post" ones that I'm not looking forward to.
But I somehow suspect I won't notice them...
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What kind of train/bus requires all its passengers to use Photoshop
Cold ones! Where the transportation company has told the driver to turn off heat to conserve ($$$) energy.
I have told all my fellow commuters that this laptop is a steal at the price! And try it with Photoshop! Fantastic!
Apparently in Scotland, it's turning into diamonds all by itself ...
Well, at least with help from those nouveau riche in China and India.
That was YOU???!!!
I was with your parents that night!
They drank the tequila; and gave me the worm!
When they make diamonds with Pinoqachole, THEN I'll be pleasantly surprised!
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So. What are the odds against the existence of the FSM? (Flying Spaghetti Monster)
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And why has no one yet invoked him / her / it in this discussion?
(sigh) Must it ALWAYS be me?
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Surely, proof that those noodly appendages will eternally remain hidden from us!
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Non, monsieur-
2 + 2 = cat.
2 + 3 = SANK.
Comprenez-vous ?
I'm sorry- but I had to mod you "overrated"
(Just for old time's sake)
what happens if you just find a brown stain that....
Excuse me, but were we discussing Uranus? ... damn, this is getting repetitive!
But then, Americans have always had problems with European life-forms.
Read your Richard Dawkins.
If the probability of a "self-replicating" molecule to somehow spontaneously occur is, oh, let's say 10**112 (give or take five or six zeros or so), and the number of atoms in the Universe is 8*(10**88) (just a guess), then, hey, what's ten or twenty billion years between friends?
Sagan's "billions and billions" start to look an awful lot like SMALL numbers- even in these days of financial bailouts etc, not to mention the age of this or that particular universe- in years OR seconds...
He is in Verdana and the Sun is in Tahoma, you dolt!
And that, dear fellow, is why more people spend their winter vacations in Tahoma than in either Verdana or Trebuchet.
(BTW, Trebuchet is a disgusting place- full of drunken skinheads and starving waifs-
but I digress)
I, for one, welcome my nocturnal emissions.
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Gentlemen, gentlemen- PLEASE!
Let us have some decorum here!
Perhaps we need an arbiter.
I suggest the distinguished author of The Timecube!
Are we all agreed?
Now then, which one of us will contact him?
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Possibly the most grippingly magnetic thing I've seen in some time.
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I for one just visit /. occasionally, quickly browse down the page for headlines that seem interesting,
Well, /. is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't wanna live there.
LOL!
See my "WTF..." message elsewhere in this thread.
Mind you, I only have Vista Basic on a Celeron with 1 gig. But it does what I need it to.
I have Ubu 8.04 also on it, but need I say that I've set Grub to default to its "Longhorn" option? -
And (choke) on my Win2000 384-meg system as well! /.
But, ah.. this is
I enjoy rubbing their noses in Windows...
Hello. This is /.
Doesn't EVERYTHING mentioned here outperform Vista?
Migod, gentlemen! Move along!
Written with Vista SP1 and ONE gig of RAM (and 350+ meg of it free at the moment)
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FORTRAN???? Well, BAL doesn't seem too bad.
If it's McCain, then COBOL here we come!
As a retired citizen of Canada, and as a self-described COBOL expert who even had a crush on Admiral Grace H., I am sure we can get those meanframes back on track!
And maybe a green card for me.
But alas, it looks a lot like RubyObama on Rails will win out...
PHPs, PGPs, PHDs... bah!
How about QNX?
Somehow, this operating system never became popular on the desktop, although we did try it out back in the days of DOS and XENIX...
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Check out its entry on Wikipedia