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I'd just like to point out that this is probably the least typos in a Lost6200 post ever in the history of SF. Also, who the hell would ever go to Maxtor.com?

A 150,000rpm SATA drive would very likely be a hibachi drive! You wouldn't back up 24TB. You'd mirror 12TB. That's still a lot of space. The "no advantage to SCSI" thing referred to the reliability of the drive, Bozo.

300 is very stylized. It's not a slasher movie. Grindhouse will be out soon and looks like a lot of cheesy fun.

The fallout I see from that is a lot of vomit boxes suddenly having Maxtor branded cheapo-drives. I'll bet they move "Seagate" to a prestige branding.

Heroes picks up again in a week or two. So does the Sopranos. Recent TV Shows I have enjoyed watching: Dexter (1 season), Venture Bros. (2 seasons), The Boondocks (1 season), The Wire (4 seasons), Rome (2 Seasons), Big Love (1 Season), The Shield (5 seasons), The Sopranos (6 seasons), Carnivale...

Handruin, you kind of got fucked on your mortgage anyway. Did you ever sell that place or have you moved back? I am glad I do not own a house right now. Another few years and all the idiots who bought homes with whacked-out ARMs and interest only loans with be busting out of their mortgages...

I've heard that certain US retailers are dropping the SKU for the 20GB Playstation for some reason. If that's the case they may discount them to get them out of the supply chain. I guess the unit with the bigger drive is vastly more profitable and popular?

Because there really isn't any other hope for me to find real-life companionship, LM. There are 101 rants wrapped up in this, but it is very important to me to have that experience.

Not enough people have PM'd me. I am very disappointed in all of you.

I use RAID0 in preference to JBOD arrays when all I want is a larger-than-a-single-drive volume. But then I also mirror everything.

Bear McCreary's blog entry on the last episode of BSG.

Industry in the USA is fucked up. You guys who are deriding unions and what they do need to understand something: Big industrial-type companies will do anything and everything to anally rape the blue collar dopes who do their work. That's not hyperbole. The relationship between working stiffs...

Uh, spoiler stuff for BSG fans. All of you should be BSG fans. To that end, I will gladly point you to a high quality direct download of the first three hours of the show. PM me. All of you. I mean it. My theory is that Starbuck went through a wormhole in the eye of that storm and came...

Microsoft giveth and Microsoft taketh awayeth. Apparently, while Vista's "time remaining" counters for file move and copy operations are now much more accurate than they've ever been, there's a pretty serious Vista bug that makes it vastly slower for actually copying and moving files. Linkage...

Clocker, my issue with GM has a lot to do with what happened to Danville, Illinois after the parts plant there moved out. I know there's Flint, Michigan - the subject of "Roger and Me" - but it's the same thing. Grown men with no work. A lot of my family lived there, and some of them worked at...

Yes there is. And the music is only a transparent device if you've heard that song before. Which I hadn't. The Season 3 soundtrack will be released in August. I am looking forward to that.

Yes but Honda has, to the best of my knowledge, not devastated the economies of dozens of small midwestern towns that used to have some kind of auto plant. I'll give them some credit for that, Mr. GM Man. The Element really has been the right vehicle for me. Tons of interior space. Handles like...

24MBps has been known as a real world limit for USB2 bridge chips for some time. I know specs would indicate better performance, but it just isn't there. This limitation is a very good reason to look at Firewire products. ddrueding, your drives are only halfway across the country. And even...

Stupid nine month wait for new Battlestar Galactica episodes. :( My brother asked me to download all of "Dexter", which likewise did not disappoint. Dexter is a serial killer. And a sociopath. The whole show is a lighthearted romp through the mind of a killer. It's worth downloading or picking...

I like how my Element looks just fine. :P Psions, on the other hand, are hideous.

Er... you mean SAN, don't you? Cause SAS is just pretentious and expensive SATA.

No mystery meat. But my vegetable crispers were filled with something that was well on its way to being petroleum. Why is it that each and every time I visit a personals web site I feel like slitting my wrists?

For $360 I'd want something other than a Sil SATA controller and support for 8GB RAM. And the onboard sound was kinda weak. And you have to shell out for a high-end AMD chip on top of all that.

Actually I moved a lot of my porn collection out to tapes a few months ago. I got tired of not having any free space and moving my porn off my file servers freed up about 3TB (which is 6TB, since that's stuff that isn't mirrored any more, either). Now I have room for new porn!

S*ny is not allowed to have any of my money, ever. Plus I don't like console systems, even as a concept. And I don't Fold because Folding is a pain in the ass. Why was my name invoked here, again? I did briefly have an Xbox360, but having played the game for long enough to realize that I...

rsync?

Let's put it this way: I found a half gallon of milk with a September 2005 expiration date. It was pushed in the back of the fridge so it was completely frozen, so I didn't have to figure out exactly how spoiled it was. That's still pretty bad.

Speed tests are going to be variable, but moreso when you're testing from two different places that could be anywhere on earth. My understanding is that cable companies can flash modems on their network with firmware updates to control connection speeds. I've heard of folks hacking their modems...

I am cleaning out my fridge today. I have not done that for a while. I think I am going to entirely stop eating.

Gigabyte is not going to be consumed by a merger with Asus. It is a good thing.

Thank you for, uh, whatever that was, uda. 1. I don't consider my viewpoint extreme. In the US, it might be, but that's only because the US doesn't have a leftist political party. The Democrats would be a right-wing party in most of Europe. 2. "Libertarian" has, in recent years, become a...

Oh for chrissakes don't get him started on wines... Strawberry-flavored milk, kind sir.

Well, TrueImage exists as a Linux product. Or you could maybe look into Catus Software's Lone Tar, which I think is just a tar frontend.

Don't give Nits a hard time. She is awesome and also the only reason Pub doesn't smell like a locker room all the time. :)

I would hazard to guess that if Stereodude and I were in the same room, the only statements you could get us to agree on would involve the wetness of water and the direction one must face to watch the sun rise.

Wrong. Microsoft lost an antitrust case brought by Realplayer in the EU Supreme Court. Removing Media Player was part of the consent decree to resolve the suit. As I understand it, just today they were found in contempt in the EU again. I wish the US had actual consumer protection laws. It...

I believe it's $250 as a flat-fee, since they are taking time away from my busy training schedule.

Honestly? You're asking that? Moderate positions by-and-large end up seeming mushy and indecisive. By appealing to the middle, you end up being truly appealing to pretty much no one. Going to one extreme or the other makes you vastly more appealing to a smaller core audience, presumably one that...

I only have about 400 square feet that need vacuuming as it is!

Today I was asked if I would be willing to drive to a customer site to clean, as in scrub and dust, their servers. I thought they were maybe talking about fans and air filters, but, no, they just don't want to touch the computers in their rack and they are offended by the thin layer of dust on...

Sometimes folks get pissy about software licenses for one-off purchases if there isn't something physical to go along with it. Whenever possible I try to provide a nice, legal-looking installation disk, even if the disk never gets used for anything. Oddly enough, no one ever asks about Windows...

My first one lasted about two and a half years and then it stopped vacuuming. It still roamed around just fine, so I used it for a cat toy but eventually it quit working entirely. However, I just bought another one. Because there's at least five people I know who want woot to move on to a...

The guys who do trading in the pits - stocks, commodities, whatever - consume cocaine in staggering quantities. Not coincidently, commodities traders are pretty much the biggest assholes I've ever met, and I know a lot of lawyers.

When you buy a single OEM copy, you get a CD. Same with Kapersky and AVG.

There are people with whom one might disagree. And there are people who should be hunted for their waxy Republican pelt. I know better than to think anyone who is elected to national office in this country is anything other than a douchebag, but being a pro-torture, anti-gay, anti-environment...

Roombas are really cool, unless you have cats that have figured out how to flip one over.

US National Security Agency guidebooks to configuring security for a variety of desktop and server OSes. High quality and very comprehensive.

I am allergic to losing authenticated sessions as well, but I don't really see how one could do an in-place upgrade without a restart, either. This is why I go months without closing Firefox...

Normally I'd refer you to the top of the thread but... Woot sells one item per day, unless it is wooting off. If it is wooting, every time an item sells out, a new item goes up. My all time favorite woots are Ethernet-over-Powerline adapters and Harmony 659 remote controls.

Woot is wooting again. If Harmony remote controls come up again, they are absolutely worth $50.