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I'm still waiting to find something a desktop user does that actually needs 2GB of RAM for everything put together.

I think he's doing two graphics cards and a major league SATA controller.

Clocker has a kid and, given how long he's been at GM he's probably had to take on some extra work responsibilities if his employment hasn't had issues already. My guess is that the guy is probably too busy to keep up with computer hobbies.

I can't imagine what she's keeping on there that needs multiple runs of defrag to fix, at least not on an NTFS drive. Is she creating and erasing thousand of 1MB files or something? But I know DiskKeeper can be obnoxious so I guess that's not impossible. I usually just turn it off.

Source system is Server 2003. I'm copying from a three disk ICH10-based RAID0 to softRAID5s on each of Windows 2008 and Linux. They're all on the same 1Gbit switch and they're all using the same 1Gbit Intel PCIe NIC. Took 14 hours to copy the data to Server 2008 and 16.2 hours to the Centos...

I'm REALLY thinking that if my contracting ever picks up again I'm going to get an LTO4 changer. $4000 (including the tapes) isn't all that much to be able to keep all my stuff properly backed up, considering how much I've invested in everything so far.

I have customers that HATE to change/remove their external backup drives, but I don't think I can justify selling them $.50 a gigabyte per month to not have to do that.

Rough number, but copying 1.42TB of data to both Centos/Samba and Server 2008 with essentially identical hardware and softRAID 5 arrays, looks like Server 2008 about 12% faster. I'm rather surprised by that; Samba has always come up faster in my experience. I guess I should repeat the...

So today I found out that there's something wrong with my right eye; an optometrist says he can't see anything wrong with the eye itself, but my vision can't be corrected to 20:20, either. Which is a little bothersome. And then I tried to go to a doctor, because I have a skin infection...

200GB is easy enough to back up on a consumer-class external drive or two. If it's truly precious stuff I'd buy a couple of those - maybe a Lacie consumer NAS + a 2.5" external drive, along with a decent backup program like TrueImage. Mozy at $5 a month for home users isn't bad, but the...

In other news, Hitachi drives are now suspect. WD did buy in to an SSD firm, though. I can't decide if a WD drive with no moving parts might actually be reliable or not. For now I'm going with "not."

As long as they're all the same size you should be able to.

Despite the crappy manufacturer, 14 SATA ports is enough to make my pants feel funny.

Laptop screens don't normally work that way. In some cases the manufacturer might offer a few different options (glossy vs. non-glassy, UXGA vs. UXGA+ et al) but mostly that sort of thing only happens on nicer business models. I guess maybe you could find out that particular screen's pinout and...

Sounds like a great deal of money for something between very little and absolutely no subjective performance gain.

That's really a problem with the amazingly retarded way that Windows deals with home folders. As with so many other things, *nix does it better.

The problem with only changing the documents location, at least in Windows, is that there's a bunch of stuff, like Firefox bookmarks, your address book and local E-mail that does not go with that.

I synchronize my home folders on various machines with a network drive I can access in multiple different ways, but I also store my images and music collections separately. I used to make a real effort to move the user folders. Now I just don't care, 'cause everything has a central repository...

Awful British tabloid prints it, so it must be true: IT Geeks are the best lovers.

Creative, Cowan and iRiver players also support drag and drop, and have the distinct advantage of not being made by S*ny. Also, PS3s have ugly chassisy and seem to have poor graphics despite all the CPU horsepower they're supposed to have. And they're expensive. And they're made by S*ny. And...

I note you did not mention changing the graphics card itself.

This year, my computer classes for kids will be smaller. I'm going to have them build Shuttle boxes that we will be keeping for classroom use, but rather than getting a desktop and a monitor, apparently we'll be giving them Dell Inspiron 15s - Celeron 2.16GHz, 3GB RAM, 160GB hard disks, 15"...

It's really quite nice to be able to do that. The interesting thing is that Fark actually added that functionality after it was developed as part of a popular Firefox addon that was made for the express purpose of improving browsing on that site.

I'd guess he is a person with more important things on his mind just now.

Yes and yes.

Sony's management is clearly out of touch with the realities of the world as it exists today. They keep trying to market technologies that they want to keep in walled gardens, and they get pissed off every time someone breaks the walls down and allows content out into the world. In Sony's...

Lost is probably one of those filthy IE-using perverts.

These things happen when Lost6200 starts a topic. :)

That looks interesting. I'd actually rather have a drive bay for 2x 2.5" drives right now, though. I'd be telling my customers that they're "backup cartridges" or somesuch.

I'm fine with using the Y-cable. My gaming desktop system seems to be able to deliver enough power from one port, but notebooks as a rule don't seem to be able to. Lots of low-end business desktops have a problem doing that as well. Given that more systems than not need the Y-cable to be...

To put into perspective how quiet NSK3480s are, in a classroom full of them, powered on, with stock Intel cooling and 250GB Seagate or Samsung hard drives, the loudest thing is Pepsi vending machine that's 10m away in another room.

$6800 in damage from the initial estimate vs. a vehicle that's worth $12500. Apparently I am safe, and whatever the hell Honda Elements are made out of is stronger than it looks.

Mine are generic. I use these. I carry two in my tech bag and have another on my desk at work. They're OK but they need the 2x USB Y-cable for power.

Trek has consistently bad writing, more or less ignores human nature and, most importantly, features technology that always works and a total lack of dirt.

I strongly dislike the current form of Slashdot. It takes too damned long to make a post and it's almost impossible to tell what parts of a thread are new on subsequent visits. Fark has a really nice system for handling quotes that I miss on SF: you can highlight text, hit the "quote" button...

On another forum I visit, I like to argue the superiority of Star Wars to Star Trek, particularly as it relates to the horrible writing of the typical episode of Trek. There's a classic Internet Argument, though, about whether the Enterprise (in any form) could win in a battle against either the...

I haven't had many. I have more problems with using SATA optical drives in DOS than anything else. Well, it's another layer of error checking. If I'm not sure that what the manufacturer's tool is telling me is accurate, or is giving me results different from my observation, I'll put the drive...

My MtG collection is 1st and 2nd edition cards - including about 30 Moxes and 3 Black Lotuses - up to "the Dark." At one point shortly after the introduction of the 1st edition game I was the only person at my comic shop buying the cards, because I liked the art. I didn't even learn how to play...

I've found legacy mode SATA stuff is really flakey and bad. When I want to do low level stuff I keep a SATA-to-PATA converter on hand and use an IDE DVD drive.

Well, right, but if Greg took a collection of jpegs from a folder somewhere, that would make a big difference in his calculation.

I've got 70% of the drivable distance left on the warranty, and I can't find another of that model of Element within 500 miles of my house for less than what I paid for that one. I really hope they don't total it. Also there's the thing where I have no interest in going back to having a car...

It's going to depend on the size of the files being and how much the drive heads have to move around, too, at least in the case of Greg's data.

Because that's very close to the cost of the components. The units that are cheaper are probably Chinese companies trying to skip out on some licensing fees they should be paying.

... and of course I was out of AA batteries so the only pictures I have are from my phone... And the rest of the crappy pictures I took with my phone this morning.

I've got a pirate stream of it loading right now. It's Trek so I'm not paying to see it in a theater, but since I'm stuck here without a car and all my Netflix discs are at work, I might as well watch something.

At least they were thorough.

Last night it was raining sideways with thunder and lightning, and this sixty or seventy foot tall tree just fell across a half dozen cars in the parking lot. I couldn't see how bad it was until this morning. I have pictures of my car. For now it looks like it's all body/glass damage, but I...

I am fine. There's just no glass in my car and damage to every body panel.

A tree just crushed my car. :(

Any way I look at it, I don't see a compelling reason to use WHS. Either I can buy some kind of NAS device (e.g. a Buffalo Terastation) that does the same thing for about what WHS + a PC + a bunch of hard disks cost, and simplify my administrative duties to maybe a half-dozen mouse clicks, or if...