Well sure, but it also meant Redundant Array... and hey presto, it still does. Redundant as opposed to just "hooked together and virtualized into appearing as a single drive". ISTM that RAID's always been about more than just making a big drive out of smaller drives.
The very definition of RAID has been argued over the years. The use of the term redundant leads many to split hairs over whether RAID 0 is "real" RAID.
I sound it out as "man-DREE-va", I guess because I always saw "Conectiva" as "con-ek-TEE-va", but for all I know that was wrong too.
I s'pose it doesn't matter what I think, which is good, because I've never been able to warm up to the name. It just seems too unhappily close to "drivel" and "trivia".
That's interesting WRT the charcoal. Around the beginning of spring, Albertsons had a good price on 20lb bags of Kingsford charcoal, so I grabbed one. The bag made a big deal out of the fact that all the briquettes were marked with a "K". Sure enough, it was kind of rough-looking, but there. I wonder if it's their way of saying "see, we make our own charcoal", or if they've just cut some kind of a deal with the big charcoal-making entity.
I use extra lighter fluid to overclock my charcoal. There, back on topic.
I haven't tried Shareaza, so I can't really compare, but aMule seems to be working pretty well, now that they've come out with 2.0.1 (2.0.0 kept freezing up and dying, in, apparently, a frenzied burst of CPU usage).
I see Shareaza in the client list sometimes, so I know they're speaking the same language to at least some degree. For all I know Shareaza has lots of yummy features that aMule does not, but at least there is no IE required.
You know, I had a feeling there had to be a post I couldn't see, and from the response you got, it appears such is the case (so now I don't have to bother changing the threshold to find out)... but I wonder if there isn't some way to avoid this kind of confusion, other than reading everything at -1.
There's always quoting, of course--sorry, I go for the cheap laughs sometimes.
Anyway, as one can tell by my ridiculously high ID number, I'm still learning to drive this thing, so there may be something I'm overlooking.
Tempest in a teacup, but interesting none the less.
However, there have been two (apparent) suicides in the wake of the whole SCO/Canopy goings-on, and PJ herself mentioned "predictions" of her own suicide by posters on the Yahoo (finance, SCOX[E] stock) message board. She took it seriously enough to point out on Groklaw that, should anything happen to her, it would most assuredly not be suicide.
This specific issue (MOG's nasty article and her subsequent removal from Sys-Con sites) could be fairly judged a "tempest in a teapot", I suppose, but zoom out a bit and I would have to say otherwise.
I have to agree with you about many users being too afraid to "break something" to do even simple tweaking. One person in a newsgroup I read has been urged by other readers several times to switch to a new profile in Outlook Express to solve some problem or other. (I'm not convinced it's going to help, but I don't use OE much, and not at all for Usenet, so I haven't butted in.) She keeps saying she's going to try it one day, but she's--wait for it--too afraid of breaking something.
I see it also with people I help/work with. They will follow my directions, but most of them are too afraid to just poke around and see what happens.
That brings back memories. A couple of friends of mine had [Timex] Sinclairs. My first computer was an Atari 400. It also had a (much larger) membrane "keyboard", jazzed up by little ridges which ringed each keyspot. But it was still murder trying to type. In fact, you really couldn't; you just mashed away. It truly sucked, especially since writing, and getting my touch-typing together, were among my goals at the time. Once I scored an Atari 800, with something resembling a real keyboard, I was much happier--although AFAICR the choice of word processing programs still sucked.
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But apparently this is an old bone of contention (not that I'm feeling too contentious about it). From the previously-mentioned Wikipedia article:
The very definition of RAID has been argued over the years. The use of the term redundant leads many to split hairs over whether RAID 0 is "real" RAID.
And in other news, yes, pronunciation is indeed a very fine word :O)
Gah! Mod points! Give me mod points!
I s'pose it doesn't matter what I think, which is good, because I've never been able to warm up to the name. It just seems too unhappily close to "drivel" and "trivia".
Heh. And here I was trying to figure out the oblique reference to absolute value you must have been making.
I use extra lighter fluid to overclock my charcoal. There, back on topic.
I couldn't agree more. Death to the monopoly, not necessarily to the company.
I see Shareaza in the client list sometimes, so I know they're speaking the same language to at least some degree. For all I know Shareaza has lots of yummy features that aMule does not, but at least there is no IE required.
There's always quoting, of course--sorry, I go for the cheap laughs sometimes.
Anyway, as one can tell by my ridiculously high ID number, I'm still learning to drive this thing, so there may be something I'm overlooking.
We have no control over the website; even the new one, which went live recently, is completely out of our control.
I have to admit I don't really understand it; what in the world is an "editor" who cannot edit?
There you go. Congratulations. I guess someone just had to prove you wrong. Does that make you happy or sad? ;O)
What a happy thought. In the meantime, I'll just have to make do with reading your post at Cheerios time.
Not only that, his symphonies are overrated :Op
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.sys.lapto ps/msg/66a9a845f6de6626?hl=en
If you're still not convinced, Google for "hard drive vent".
Oh. Never mind.
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http://www.speakeasy.net/main.php?error=404
Page not found: http://www.speakeasy.net/main.php
Mrr? :O(
However, there have been two (apparent) suicides in the wake of the whole SCO/Canopy goings-on, and PJ herself mentioned "predictions" of her own suicide by posters on the Yahoo (finance, SCOX[E] stock) message board. She took it seriously enough to point out on Groklaw that, should anything happen to her, it would most assuredly not be suicide.
This specific issue (MOG's nasty article and her subsequent removal from Sys-Con sites) could be fairly judged a "tempest in a teapot", I suppose, but zoom out a bit and I would have to say otherwise.
FidelCatsro, Cuban? Naw, he must be Cbuan.
I see it also with people I help/work with. They will follow my directions, but most of them are too afraid to just poke around and see what happens.
In Soviet Russia, the glass breaks YOU!
There you go then. Just start flaming all and sundry, and you'll become Mr. Insightful.
So that's what "I'm Batman" really means.
That's good, but one could make the case that this approach uses only one side of one's noggin.
That brings back memories. A couple of friends of mine had [Timex] Sinclairs. My first computer was an Atari 400. It also had a (much larger) membrane "keyboard", jazzed up by little ridges which ringed each keyspot. But it was still murder trying to type. In fact, you really couldn't; you just mashed away. It truly sucked, especially since writing, and getting my touch-typing together, were among my goals at the time. Once I scored an Atari 800, with something resembling a real keyboard, I was much happier--although AFAICR the choice of word processing programs still sucked.
I've had good results with the Download Edition.