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Well, I haven't fallen over dead of old age yet, so 30 can't be as bad as everyone makes out...

Crap, I knew I shouldn't have entered my birthdate into the system. :) Thanks guys... I was trying to keep this a low profile one - my girlfriend is laughing at me (she's 33).

I still reckon a polite e-mail is in order. I feel there's a world of difference between venting about personal problems and having an opinion (and then posting) on everything. Like I said elsewhere, at the moment any posting on SR effectively becomes a conversation with Jason.

It takes seven years of secondary education to learn to speak and (mostly) write Japanese. That's why anime for children has some characters with little characters written above - for those that know the character, fine, but there's also help for those that don't know it yet. Apparently you...

If Jason wants help with things, he should post to that effect (or e-mail someone). I don't see how cluttering up SR with news postings is theraputic.

... of course, in order for me to e-mail him, I need a valid e-mail address. Anyone have one? I suspect he doesn't read jehh1234@hotmail.com.

That's quite the case, Coug. I don't know anything about it, I wonder what the blue stuff on the front is made of?

I suggest some e-mails to him first, then a forum posting. It's the most polite way to proceed. I'll send him an e-mail now. Anyone else?

http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=1822

It hasn't translated into job opportunities yet though.

Telstra, iHUG and Austar offer satellite service. Telstra is only allowed to offer it in metropolitan areas. Austar is going broke. None of them are particularly fast (400K/s or less). DSL is a better deal if you can get it but it's still not cheap (~USD50/mo for 512/128 and 3GB).

People outside Australia don't appreciate how large the Pacific Ocean is. Stringing cables across it is monsterously expensive, plus US carriers charge us for traffic we send to them but don't credit us for traffic they send to us. Also, there only is one decent cable into Australia from the US...

I've heard good things about them too. In fact, I found out about them recently with a view to suggesting them a s a low-cost alternative for your shop's access pipe which you were talking about a few weeks ago. Seems you found them by yourself. :)

Ah, but - the longer AMD is around, the cheaper Intel has to make its CPUs...

I think it's a mighty fine piece of writing. The only thing I really have against it is its length! Tim, I'm not really decided on one side or the other of the "argument" - all I can do is rely on the experts. More thinking required, methinks.

I have an ECS K7S5A with an Athlon 1GHz in it, it cost me all of the equivalent of A$130 retail in Japan about 4 months ago. I got one with the onboard audio and LAN, I deactivated the audio portion but I do use the LAN port. It has been rock solid, some silliness with the drivers for my CMedia...

Tim, Yeah, thanks. I think that Mickey is the closest thing to a "man on the inside" we have - my guess is he works for Seagate but feel free to have your own guess. I think the key thing is what he said in response to you : I'll have a stab at a combined response tomorrow. (Ugh, I'm so far...

I see we're a pub and brewery now. :)

Yeah, that would be my attitude if I didn't have in the back of my mind : "some new guy is going to come along, read that, and get bad information."

Tim : http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?t=1484 I should try to contact Mickey privately and see if it's okay to use a mixture of his and your response, what do you think?

Don't worry Tony. I laid into Picard over his stupid assertion that RAID0 gives its greatest performance benefit in a desktop situation - and that anyone who thinks differently doesn't know what they're talking about. It seems that my reply pretty much killed the thread ...

Yeah. That Ritteri&Bubbles guy did much to make the SR forums unpleasant to visit.

Yes, that's true - although he also says that the new stuff, mostly to deal with high RPMs, goes into SCSI too. Mickey had a more definitive discussion of this point back in the old forum - alas, it is gone. Perhaps we could ask him his opinion directly?

Hmmm, a controversial one to start (thanks!). My current thinking on this issue is heavily influenced by Mickey on SR, who says the build quality is essentially no different. http://forums.storagereview.net/viewtopic.php?p=7934&highlight=#7934 I suspect that the cache is optimised more for...

Ugh, beer. :x

Like Scotch, Scot and Scottish?

Do I detect a low level of interest, or is it a high level of laziness? :) I swear, you'll all whine and complain about things if I write the answers myself. Better to skip the agony and start writing some responses yourselves. :mrgrn:

Coug, yes it is too much to ask for at that price. :) I'm pretty sure that D-Link makes such a box, although looking at their web page I can't find it. Alcatel makes one : http://www.alcatel.com/consumer/dsl/pdf/datasheet510.pdf although theirs only has a 10Mb switch (or hub, I forget which)...

Go with whatever feels best, I reckon.

I'd like something that actually supports SMP...

Site says the anthrax research is finished already. Hmmm. What's left?

Not the first, I might add.

Uh, most = post.

I remember answering this - phooey, the most must have got lost! My response was, basically, no. Log files should live on /var, which in turn is usually a seperate partition for this very reason. Hence my worry that Burst's setup allows such a thing to even occur.

I see it as being a web page, not a discussion area. It's not intended to pull traffic away from SR at all. Heck, they can host it if they like. My intention was to do most of the discussion here, given the participants here I feel that the discussion will be much more focussed and have less...

I believe that the Google spider must identify itself as such in the User-Agent field of the HTTP request (this is important to maintain accurate site usage stats, so that search engine spiders aren't counted as visitors). If a page does a test and asks the spider what browser it is, it gets a...

No, not a FAQ about the site - a FAQ covering some of the questions asked often in forums like this. Perhaps if people can contribute ideas and answers in this thread, then we can clear it all up and post it somewhere else, perhaps an HTML page posted on this site? I don't think a forum is the...

Twice, apparently.

And another gold, this time to that nice aerial skiing woman, whose name obviously escapes me at the moment.

Are you going to try bringing that back to Oz?

I thought it appropriate that the American's last name is "Ohno."

When / gets full on a Unix box, that's really, really bad. Time to investigate other hosts? There is probably an exit clause for non-provision of service. I don't know what is more of a concern - that Burst's setup allows someone to fill /, or that it is occuring...

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I think it's our first Winter Olympics medal better than a bronze. :) Yes, it's a great achievement and all that, but it's not exactly what you'd call the best way to win an Olympic medal - although it sure beats having to bribe the judges to give you one, I guess. :roll:

http://www.audiotron.net/audiotron.asp Essentially, it's a stereo component that will play MP3s off a network share. RJ45 plug on the back, optical and RCA out, plus a remote. It runs a lobotomised version of WinCE AFAIK (if one can even imagine a cut down version of WinCE!). Tom's did a...

What are you doing in the US, Pradeep? Is it competition or work related, or a social visit? More importantly, why couldn't you have bought my Audiotron back to Oz for me, so I could have avoided US$65 in shipping and A$101 in customs charges and GST? *grumble*

Working at a telco, everyone round here liked that one. We all wished fervently that there was such a line item would could add in... One person pointed out that there is effectively such a charge - we just don't break it out seperately. Some customers are paying more than list for certain...

They didn't really "prove" anything, did they? GMR has nothing to do with the failures, the technology is used by everyone and has been around for ages. I think the only useful bit of information is that apparently the failure occurs somewhere on the circuit board - but from there to it being...

A Geforce 2GTS has kept me happy... well, since its release, however long that is. Almost 18 months maybe? I reckon in technology it's always a good idea to buy one below the current top of the line. (This applies to CPUs, HDs, GPUs...) It's always significantly cheaper than the most advanced...

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