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Just buy SATA moving forward. The Hitachi 7k400s are really nice drives. I think they're actually cooler than the 7k250s (either that, or I mounted mine better). Depending on how fast you buy new drives and how full your existing ones are, you might be able to pull two of the little guys for...

I have a couple of the Syba cheapies as well. They're a fine way to add storage without RAID. They use the same chip as the $60 adaptec card. I wouldn't say that's an endorsement of Syba's card, but rather that it might be a mark against a $60 Adaptec card.

All IM software is evil. Evil I tell you! Doesn't Yahoo have an equivalent to AIM Express? AIM is easily the most evil of all IM clients, but AIMexpress runs through a browser and can't do a damned thing but chat. No addons. No downloads. No voice or video chat. I am in no way saying anything...

One would hope that both Medicine and Nursing are professions where one needs to learn continuously. Although I know a lot of GPs don't bother... Real CS - the kind that isn't taught to undergrads - is more like applied philosophy than an actual science. That's an important thing to appreciate...

Damn, I have seen Anchorman too many times. Oh well, now I have started and I must continue, for this thread is "Something Random" and David reminds me of Ladies' man Brian Fantana. Brian Fantana: Time to musk up. Ron Burgundy: What cologne are you going to go with? London Gentleman? Black...

The dhclient.conf man page says the default time to rebroadcast a DHCP request is five minutes. Should be all magicky and just work.

I suspect that the deficiency in the subjects of rhetoric and composition has more to do with the "one size fits all" education that seems to have been implemented for Baby Boomers. My grandmother writes that way - long, flowing, almost poetic letters, as does my eldest aunt (born 1936). My...

Is there anything in /etc/dhclient.conf? Mine are blank and I can't ever recall putting anything in that file but it's the place to put DHCP client options...

Can you fed-ex me one of the ones you're done with?

Here he goes again...

If an interface is specified as controlled by DHCP, I believe it will continue to make requests until it receives an address. You could always ifconfig your DHCPless interface to something static and then do "ifconfig eth0 (or whatever) auto-dhcp" when your server is back up and running.

Lately I've been installing the IE skin for Firefox and changing the firefox icon to the blue E, then deleting all the IE shortcuts. Amazingly enough, absolutely no one has complained about it.

It's important to add that the opposite is also true. I can credit my ability to deal with non-techies with the three years I spent managing computer labs in Purdue's Liberal Arts building, but at the same time I don't think educated non-technical people should be excused from fundamental...

The couple Supermicro SATA racks that I have are both *very* loud. Server-room loud. Loud enough to be heard over a 20" box fan on the high speed setting. And unfortunately, they really aren't any fun unless you're going to get them close to full. Someone should make some 5400rpm 500GB drives...

My degree is in Computer Science. Not too much of a stretch from that to Engineering. Certainly a field of creditable difficulty. I went to one of "The" engineering schools in the US, and I saw what went on from day to day for four years. And what that was, was a lot of people who had no...

No, they're there to make sure Engineers are well-rounded human beings. Liberal Arts should be an important part of EVERYONE'S education.

Also, WRT adaware... Just today I ran into something that was detected by Adaware that was missed by Norton AV 2005, Housecall, Spybot, Microsoft Antispyware and Spyware Sweeper, all completely up to date. I believe the file was called "QoLogic Downloader", which Adaware called a trojan and...

As I recall, Tannin has a specific objection to the Downloads window. Personally, I can't understand why anyone who uses Opera would be complaining about something as positively vanilla as Firefox.

I've found that it makes a very big difference which update server you choose to get your updates from. I like Safer Networking (Europe) and SecurityWonks.net. If I don't pay attention and start grabbing the updates from EON (the Aussie site), I know I have a 20 minute wait ahead of me. Tannin...

To be fair, that model apparently supports SAS, so I'm guessing there's a slight premium in that... Also those Supermicro enclosures are really, really loud. Or rather the fan that fits on the back of the unit is.

Pradeep, I completely agree with your evaluation of that Promise RAID card. I think they suck too. I said that waaaay up at the top of this page. :)

Santilli, With the best possible equipment, a 100Mbit switched network should give you a hair about 12MB/sec. Note the big B vs. the little b there. In this case, it looks like Pradeep expected Gigabit speeds (as in, the Cat5 cable was connected to a Gbit switch and a Gbit NIC), but Cat5...

It can also be set on a per-program basis. Look at the properties on any given executable file.

How often are the feeds updated? Either the list ordering for the "All Forums" feed is way off or it's way behind the current state of things. Looks like most of the posts listed as new were made about 12 hours ago.

Awesome. Thank you. I <3 RSS feeds. Everyone else should, too.

Anyone seen Buck lately?

Found this while I was browsing a minute ago. I thought it was rather funny -------------------------------------- This morning there was a knock at my door. When I answered the door I found a well groomed, nicely dressed couple. The man spoke first: "Hi! I'm John, and this is Mary." Mary...

You forgot the important part: One digital standard and no DRM or copy protection.

As a general rule, XP runs about 85% of the entertainment software that has been made for Windows. Games are usually not the problem, especially since almost no games worth playing were made for Windows prior to the release of DirectX, and XP supports DirectX just fine. 16-bit games are the only...

I strongly prefer the Verbatim discs I get at Sam's Club. Usually $40 (but sometimes $30) for 50 16x +Rs. Some of the Walgreens drug stores in my area sell Vibrators - marketed as "back massagers". No, I'm not kidding. And yes, they have more than one model, as small as fingertip models up to...

We'll see. Of course, there are huge *'s next to all of this, since there's literally no way to have a control for any of this. I can't control what anyone else is doing with a torrent or what anyone else might be doing on my cable segment.

The dslreports thing says I've done the Speakeasy test too many times today. :(

In a way, that's not as offensive as some other places to put ads - a Pepsi machine in City of Heroes (CoH does have advertisements, for fictional companies like "Mighty Mart" and "City of Gyros", which are fun enough that when I first started playing I ran around looking for all of them) might...

OK, I just did a little bit of testing regarding BitComet the Bandwidth pig. I ifdown'd or disconnected all of the computers but the one I'm sitting in front of. I turned off all network activity on this machine as well. I ran a bandwidth test from Speakeasy's Seattle, WA servers using the...

Another funny thing about how google works: the responses that you get depend on how many servers responded to your search and what their responses were. Do a search for something pathetically common like the letter "e" a few different times and note the vastly different number of responses...

Sob. I remember the earliest days of the web, when even corporate web sites (e.g. sgi.com) had cool stuff on them, and even early portal sites like Netscape's cool site of the day and yahoo.com were utterly devoid of ads. Web sites were about content, and not presentation, and it was marvelous...

I made a post about Filterset G a few months ago in the Toolbox section, but I will repeat it here, for it is a godly and righteous thing. Step 1. Install Adblock. Step 2. Visit http://www.pierceive.com.nyud.net:8090/filtersetg/ (I always hit the Coral cache instead of the regular page, which...

How do you guys who don't have adblock live without it???

It's OK for me. Tried 1.07, 1.06 and the beta 1.51. I have lots and lots of extensions installed.

I really like BitComet's download manager. Love it, in fact. But I have noticed, as the obnoxious bandwidth whore at my day job, that only maybe a single 50k down/50k up hoses our 6/1Mbit internet connection to the point that the clerical types in my office start complaining that their Internet...

BitComet is a bandwidth pig like no other. Try running your torrents through BitTornado and see if your life becomes better.

This really has nothing much to do with XML but... I have need to access around 11TB of data (actually about 6.5TB, but you know, gotta build in some redundant storage and expansion capability). At present I use a variety of proprietary tools (Escient for CD/DVD catalog, homebrew LAMP for video...

Google gets its results by ranking not only the number of links to a given page, but also the number of visitors the linking pages are thought to have. Links off sites like msn.com or slashdot.org are given a high pagerank value and will therefore be closer to the top of an appropriate google...

I didn't. I thought you were talking about a girl. Or maybe a horse. I knew a horse named Lightning once. :P

Just exactly does CloneDVD2 measure temperature?!?

One of our rivals seems to like init as well.

I dunno. I guess it depends on whether or not she's cute.

I prefer 9300K as well, mubs. It's not just you.

The easiest thing to do is probably make a little script that you can place in the appropriate place under /etc/init.d somewhere.

Like getting OSX to run on a PC, having OS/2 stuff running on a Win2000 machine is great just for the novelty value.