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Those are product lines. Losing Barracuda drives means losing 90% of what normal people will buy that says Seagate on it.

I don't have that. I've been on auto pilot for years.

From an Email I just got from Seagate's partner program: "For products purchased on or after January 3, 2009, the limited warranty period for consumer electronics, notebook and personal storage bare drives sold to Seagate Authorized Distributors will be changed from 5 to 3 years. Seagate...

Hope your WLAN hardware isn't Atheros based.

That PatchCache folder is really big. I suspect a lot of that space in your Windows folder is coming from the fact that you can uninstall patches whereas a slipstreamed install won't have that ability. Printer drivers, especially inkjet printers, are also criminally huge.

Yes. I make an updated disc pretty regularly; maybe every six weeks or so. My most recent one is a couple weeks old now. If anything, my windows install should be bigger as a result of that.

There's something to be said for the blantant way the Bush presidency manipulated the general public and the media. Authorizing torture, announcing terror alerts every time political rivals threatened to do anything positive during a news cycle (really, go back and look!), secretly wiretapping...

I have udaman on ignore and I don't read his posts, but since Fushigi quoted him, I shall respond: I made a statement that various SF members have absurd space requirements on their system drives. Other members suggested that the minimum size of a windows installation is much larger than I...

I really hope it's much more than half. It's been a long fucking time since I've felt anything but completely numb about life or the world around me.

To be fair, the guy has been under federal investigation for one thing or other almost since the day he took office. You didn't have to be psychic to know he was going to end up in jail sooner or later.

The Tyan setup plus one E5410 (4 x 2.33GHz) + 8GB worth of FBDIMMs comes to around $1500 as well. I could stick in four 500GB drives and still it my budgeted goal of $2000. P5, the Supermicro machines you listed all seem to indicate compatibility only with 5x00-series Xeons. I'm sure the...

As a note, I don't typically install all of Nero or all of Office 2003, since Outlook is against my religion and most people don't use Publisher, but this guy wanted the whole thing.

Ahem. This is a fresh Windows install from my basic prepared image. Fully updated XP SP3, Full install of Office 2003, Avast, TrueImage Home, Burnaware (rather than Nero, which would have used more space), Firefox etc. My lightly customized Windows XP SP3 install includes slipstreamed drivers...

As a warning, yes, Spacemonger crashes a lot. I'll build a system tonight and check my size on disk again. I swear that it's less than 5GB, though.

Here's the datasheet and here's the Newegg.. I'm not sure about that machine's hardware RAID, and it uses 5000-series Xeons rather than the less expensive 3000-series, and it uses FBDIMMs, but the Intel server boards I was looking at were $600 apiece and needed a lot more work to put together.

I've got a SLIGHTLY customized Windows install, but I don't think I prune off that much!

I am most concerned about RAM capacity, actually. 8GB seems limiting when building for five years in the future. I'm thinking 2xquad core CPUs won't be a limiting factor, and as long as I have at least SATA2 I'm probably good in terms of disk I/O, since that's what SSDs seem to be using. The...

Those Tyan units seem a bit limited for my needs. The price is right, but the features aren't there, particularly since that motherboard doesn't do hardware RAID or even registered ECC memory, and I was looking at 8GB as a minimum supported configuration, not maximum.

I'm sure it's just a research project, but I'm still intrigued by the idea that I could use a browser-based VM to run legacy applications and possibly not have to bugger around with something like VMware just to make some crufty old point of sale system work.

There's something wrong there. I can fit fully updated XP + Office 03 + Nero 7 + TrueImage + Foxit Reader + Firefox + my old-ass copy of ACDSee (2.something) + Picasa + 150MB of graphics card drives in about 4GB. 2.25GB as a sysprepped image. Even if I throw in a bunch of printer drivers I don't...

No one I'm dealing with has the kind of needs that would justify that cost at the moment. Looking at the workloads on the machines presently in place, none of them at present are even using 2GB of RAM and all of them have fairly short disk queues. These are machines that are handling limited...

I have been alive for 11688 days and I think pretty much all of them have sucked.

Since we all know how well Java cross platform compatibility really works, Google is apparently working on a native x86 run-time browser plug-in. I'm thinking this won't work very well on current mobile platforms but I'll bet it's neat on a desktop.

When I buy drives, I'm often buying in a quantity that results in direct shipment of manufacturer packaging. Seagate, Optiarc and Samsung drives all ship in cartons of 24, for example. In all cases the drives are packed in a Styrofoam container that is sized to fit perfectly in its shipping box...

Several of my customers are at a point where they need new server systems. Well, OK, maybe not need, but the machines in question are five and six years old and I would like to move them on to new hardware. None of them have particularly huge workloads. They might run a database system...

What are you putting on your boot drive that takes 60GB? Most of my systems at home I could probably install comfortably on an 8GB drive. Unless they use Vista. Which I don't.

I would prefer to give my students the opportunity to load OSes themselves. Like I said, it used to be simple and now it is not.

I use VMware to demo things on my classroom PCs, particularly old versions of Windows. This lets me show the progression of features from, say Windows NT to Vista. In Server 1.0, it's a very simple matter to import an image onto another machine and start it. On the new version, it took me 40...

Hitachi drives have never been problematic in my experience. Even my 75GXPs had a reasonably long life. WDs have never really been good in my experience. The one time I let my guard down, I got a bunch of shitty drives. I went a long time without using any Seagate drives. I was lured back to...

Have a nice marriage!

The new VMware software is very, very, very clunky, then.

The people I work with don't even have stuff. They take home the old lab PCs and chairs and crap when we're ready to get rid of them.

I was surprised how funny Forgetting Sarah Marshall was.

I don't think I like the new version of VMware Server. It's too damned much work to import a VM onto another host and I don't like that it's browser based, if only because browsers sometimes crash. The older software was a lot simpler.

My coworkers get pissed at me when I just bring in extra stuff from home. That's the only way I get anything fancy or even interesting.

Yes, but now you are going to have a bunch of data on Seagate drives. I would not exactly call that a positive.

My parents live in a very wealthy community, in a very wealthy neighborhood and they are in fact rather wealthy. The hospital is three blocks from their house. My neighborhood, I have no idea. I won't go to the doctor unless I'm sure I have something that's immediately life threatening. I've...

Six weeks I think. My brother had a 14 hour wait last spring for a compound-broken arm and some really bad abrasions after he got "bumped" by a car while he was riding his bike. Do people who go to the emergency room with anything less than gunshot wounds and cardiac arrest really get decent...

As far as "uploading" goes, you know you can map a drive letter to an FTP site in Windows, right? It sucks because it doesn't support Resume, but anything that will write to a file in Windows can be made to write to an FTP location.

I like UPS a lot better than FedEx. I think it depends more on your regular driver than anything else. But I've had FedEx do more stupid, irresponsible shit than UPS ever has. My mother managed to injure herself on Thursday (she broke her foot), so I wound up being largely responsible for...

I like UPS a lot better than FedEx. I think it depends more on your regular driver than anything else. But I've had FedEx do more stupid, irresponsible shit than UPS ever has. My mother managed to injure herself on Thursday (she broke her foot), so I wound up being largely responsible for...

ddrueding: There are better kinds of chick flicks. I happen to know that you have a substantial number of movies from Girlfriend Films, Abby Winters and Viv Thomas, all of which feature female characters acting in the most lovely and natural ways imaginable. You should watch those instead of the...

I have this discussion with my boss annually. The people I work with can't stand that I want to be at work and don't want to be on vacation. I think it makes them feel bad or something. I don't really feel like I have anything better to do than show up for work. I know exactly how lame that is...

I have three whole weeks of vacation I'm not taking this year.

I am in my office. Everyone else got to go home at noon. One of my shithead students scheduled a make-up class for 4 this afternoon. I am betting he will not show. I am sitting in my office and I am thinking of things that make me hate the world. Everyone else getting to go home at noon is on...

It's not perfect. That site tends to be overloaded at times. Fortunately there are five or six other places on the web that do the same thing. The people I work for really like embedding Youtube clips in Powerpoint. It's a new toy to them. There's another way to do it but you have to install an...

I know the point values keep changing but that 30k figure really leaps out at me. I guess we've made some progress since 2001!

Youtube's sound is mono-only, which is a bit of a rip-off. When I need to snag a youtube video, I grab it using the downloader at vixy.net, which will also convert it to a useful format at the same time. Once it's in a useful format, it's trivial to stick it on a DVD.

Fallout 3 has annoyed me. The original games were fun and had a lot of humor. Fallout 3 has basically five indoor tilesets and three outdoor tilesets (one of the outdoor ones is only used in one place). There are by my count 12 kinds of bad guys in the game, and with sub-types differentiated by...

MSRT actually does something useful, possibly for the first time in history.