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Several months ago, Western Digi was apparently trying to acquire Fujitsu's hard drive business (enterprise and notebook) and failed to come up with the cash or satisfy Fujitsu. Now, for unknown reasons, the rumourmill has it that Toshiba is making a bid for Fujistu's hard drive business...

Ethernet cabling and transceivers is Layer 1 and ATA command set is Layer 2. You want to build VLANs for your AOE SAN for the same reasons you want zone you F-C SAN. Not really. F-C (loop and fabric protocols) are lossless, Ethernet in its present state is not lossless. But fear not...

You can get decent Inland (brand) DVI+USB KVMs for under US$200.

I sometimes jokingly refer to seagulls as "pigeons of the sea." Otherwise, seagulls definitely seem significantly smarter than typical park pigeons.

Little baby, you act too much like a grown-up. What's wrong with a little fun?

DD, you must either be joking or you're on Bill-n-Ballmer's payroll!!! Vista is conveniently incompatible, buggy as hell, unbelievably slow, and certainly quite evil. Upgrading to Vista forced me replace my hard drive with an even larger and harder hard drive, replace all my system RAM with...

Optical cabling kit is all dreadfully expensive -- a few hundred US$ for the cheap stuff, a few thousand for the typical stuff. You need special tools for cutting, polishing, and fusing. The thicker multi-mode optical cable is hard to deal with and the thinner single-mode variety (typically...

The highest quality external drive cases that I've ever encountered have been those made by CI Design. These are quality all-metal designs with excellent internal power supplies and cooling. http://www.cidesign.com/product_detail.jsp?productID=35

And on the fifth day, the grand exaulted chief muckity-muck of all technologies proclaimed: Thou shalt produce weekly/full and daily/incremental backups and keep a copy of these backups offsite in a secure place. And, by the way, billgates sux.

Burn_In was just the individual that was racing past more people than anyone else that week. He's sorta slowed down a bit since -- but not much. As for Inpharm, below is a picture of his famous racks. Incredibly, his servers are based on the "old" last-generation Dempsey Pentium4 Xeon...

The problem is the GPT (GUID Partition Table) that Vista is using. Older disc utilities understand the MBR structure, but don't understand the GPT structure. GPT is default with 64-bit installations of Windows XP, 2K3 Server, and Vista. 32-bit Win2K3/R2 also does GPT. GPT is a lot more...

Weird stuff; wolfchildren... http://www.feralchildren.com/en/showchild.php?ch=sanichar

http://www.nvidiaclassaction.org/

With all those skeletons in the closet, they could throw one hell of a Halloween party if they ever wanted to!

For what it's worth, some people I know (nobody from SF or SR, just a couple of local folk) that have been using Raptors since the first generation in custom-built workstations, tell me the first generation Raptor was easily the worst for reliability (not to mention heat, noise, etc), and that...