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The space seems miniscule if they are hoping to push these silent drives as suitable for HD DVRs etc.

I have no problems with increasing penalties for illegal gun posession. However it seems that even now, criminal possesion of a firearm is dealt with by a slap on the wrists by the Courts/Prosecutors. Let's enforce already existing laws, instead of just putting more on the books to make the...

Installed a Sun v490 into a rack today. Four Sparc processors, 32 * 1GB DIMMS. Quite a staggering dollar value, but I guess they want high density. Solaris being the OS of choice in this instance.

A semi-auto fires one round for each press of the trigger. A double-action revolver has the same effect. There are tens if not hundreds of millions of such semi-auto guns in the USA. If someone breaks into my house whilst I or my family are inside, they can expect a swift response from a 12...

True, the Zipcar only makes sense if you are ducking out for a couple of hours, for an extended trip then a normal rental place is better.

You may want to look at Zipcar if there's one parked around where you live. Seems very affordable, given you only pay when you use it, insurance and gas included.

Yup, that's why it pays to put in as much money as you can into your mortgage payments as paydown on the principal. Just a couple of hundred more each payment drops the duration of the loan subtantially. Here's a calculator to show the effect for your particular circumstances...

I need to learn UNIX/Linux for a new position I'm starting in a couple of weeks (same company). The enterprise backup system (NetBackup) runs on Solaris. I'll request that they pay for RHCE certification. They already want me to get certified in IBM System x/Blade hardware. There doesn't appear...

I don't want to divert the flow of this thread, but why particularly do you want to ban semi-autos? They are used in international shooting competitions. As for concealed carry, it isn't an available option in Illinois. However, almost all other States do allow concealed carry by appropriately...

I would have to second target shooting as a very relaxing sport. It hones the mind, and yet allows you to meet new people. You compete only with yourself. Several of my best friends were met thru the pistol club.

You may want to try some eye-drops Paugie, dunno how expensive they are over there tho.

How much are houses in the other Rochester? Right now I wouldn't recommend an ARM to most, but a person in your profession doesn't really have to worry about being laid off.

Details, pics. Who's the lucky bride to be?

I'm a somewhat fan of escrow, if only because taxes are so out of control in NY that I could never save the money seperately. The town/school tax bills are sent to Wells Fargo, they pay the bill, and we get the paid receipt. Also, you do get to keep the interest earned on an escrow account.

You can attach an external USB drive, no worries. The other differences are that the 60GB version also includes a memory card reader and wireless ethernet.

What are the taxes like on housing there? It must be a reasonable amount on an annual basis, which will have to be added on to the monthly payment as escrow. Of course to me, paying 4.5 Million on a house with a single car garage and neighbours so close next door is unacceptable, I would rather...

Currently with Wells Fargo at 5.75% fixed for 30 years. Screw those ARMs and interest only shenanigans, I want to know that my monthly payment will not increase.

IME if you are buying a reasonable quantity of servers, it pays to get a Dell phone rep involved in the order. They have given me (the company) 30% off list in the past. If you keep going back to him, he will take care of you.

With a SAN, you can generally get as big a box as you are willing to pay for, if you include expansion cabinets etc. With mid-level enterprise FC, the storage controllers seem to max out at around 20 enclosures, at which point you need more controllers.

I get about 35MB/sec out of the Oxford 911 based chipsets (Firewire). I also have an FW800 enclosure, never benched it to see, but I think it can do around 55MB/sec.

http://www.toshiba.com/taisnpd/products/index.html There are multiple DOCSIS standards, more recent specs being necessary when download speeds get into the higher ranges (30Mbit+). The PCX2200 is a reasonably recent model, and is certainly capable of anything in the 10-15Mbit/sec range. There...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Region_codes Looks like no worries. UK and Australia share the same Blu-Ray region.

IME the 360 is way too frigging loud to use as a media anything. The DVD drive itself is a loud piece of gear, but even without a disc in the drive, the fans make more noise that I can accept for anything that could playback movies etc. I won't accept a silent moment in a movie being compromised...

I wouldn't even mix different firmware revisions of the same drive on an array, if at all avoidable.

I can't see Vista replacing Server 2003 anytime soon. At work for NT machines we are trending towards Windows 2003 Enterprise Server, mostly for the clustering features etc.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2949&p=1 Impressive, the quietest and one of the coolest running drives they have ever tested.

Must .... resist....temptation....to....corrupt....Lunar.

I believe FemmeT from Tweakers.net has shown benchmarks in the 800MB/sec range using the newest Areca SATA RAID controllers. He also had a system with a combination of hardware and software RAID with very impressive numbers.

That only helps when the application is compiled with support for the flag. Relatively easy when coding your own, otherwise it's in the hands of the developers. When implemented properly, it allows a single process to access up to 3GB of virtual memory (as opposed to the normal 2GB). Still...

LOL. Good one!

Yes the 5160 is very highly priced by IBM (especially the second CPU). We'll probably start speccing out the quad cores once they've been out a little while longer. We don't want to be beta testing, any problems with the server hardware could lead to an early retirement of some poor sys admin...

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/09/18/8386187/index.htm?postversion=2006091409 A tale of two factories In two plants 7,000 miles apart, two workforces make the same products for the same company. But how they go about the business couldn't be more different. An...

:) The loads on the boxes don't neccessitate such a thing. Pricing of the quad core cpus are quite attractive tho, in comparison to the 5160. These boxes each have two 73GB 10K SAS 3.5" drives in RAID 1. We have some other 1U servers that were put in recently, with the 2.5" 10K drives. They are...

I agree, the 64 bit version is just snappy. Provided you can deal with the sometimes patchy 64 bit driver support issues, there's no reason not to go for the 64 bit version. 2003 server would be the other Windows OS of choice right now. I just installed some IBM x3650 servers at work, (2U rack...

I'm assuming your battery will run out long before you get to 4100 shots. It's still nice to remove limiting factors such as storage space.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/16/bofh_episode_10/ I can relate seeing how I currently work in a machine room. Never experienced a curry event fortunately.

Looks like the PS 3 client will be released shortly. Will be interesting to see how many points they give for the units. Certainly a good excuse to get one.

I think he's actually moving South a few miles. If he lives in Minneapolis now, he must be used to the cold.

Congrats! Big party scheduled?

So how did you go? Did you get your 1st choice?

From my limited understanding, whilst NIC teaming will give you a fatter pipe so to speak, it won't give you more performance for a single application (i.e. you want to copy a single large folder of images from one server to another, this will only use one gigabit connection, even if say four...

Does the GT class have the TCP off-load engine? I thought only the server breeds of the PRO/1000 had it?

I thought you were attached? Can't beat the motion of a waterbed.

http://www.ecrinternational.com/secure/upload/document/698.pdf 46 dB(A) at 3 feet, not bad at all. I know my furnace makes way more of a racket. http://www.climate-energy.com/ If the power ever went out, you could at least use this to run the furnace fan, and a couple of lights. Not enough to...

Yeah the patches didn't really work for the Calendering. Our advise was to print out your calender for the affected periods, manually change the times of any meetings you are having, and change the title of the meeting to include the time. Then double check each one after the clock moves forward.

Yeah, we have cogen at work. An absorption chiller can work with steam to produce chilled water (water and lithium bromide being the usual two liquids), but it's quite expensive compared to electric chillers, at least for capital costs. It can be used to reduce inlet air temperature, to improve...

Reminds me of the guy that died in England in the rain, along with two others, in his Mclaren road car. There wasn't much left of that one: http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/dishonour-before-death/2006/12/09/1165081199860.html?from=rss

This may be the next way to go: http://tech.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3624039&page=1 Once they cut the prices in half or so. Cogen in the house, gotta love it (if you have a natural gas hookup).

Hmm, Server version is $599. If they don't want free, pay up.

Sounds like you need something like this: http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/products/overview.jsp?pcid=1018&pvid=1601_1 http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/enterprise/fact_sheets/ent-backup_exec_system_recovery_05_2006.en-us.pdf You may need the beefier server version. No idea how much it...