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sybrfreq wrote:
When you plan on keeping your machine 20 years or more (which I do, I bought it to last and there is no reason for it not to) you have to expect something like this to eventually happen.


ok, unreal expectation. brrzzzt.

sadly, the truth of it is that there exist very few engineers of caliber necessary to produce the 'quality' everyone is ascribing to their favorite products. most are daily 9 to 5'ers on the job grind waiting for the weekend using reference designs as a crutch to meet your basic 'satisfactorily meets' performance review. from these meager beginnings the basis for the endgame of product quality emerges. if, in the event, the product manufacturing process yields an 'average product'' that the majority may base their biased opinions on, then that becomes to epitome of quality.

next, let's talk 'statistically significant sample'; ain't got it. end of discussion.

i love my apple products be cause, on average, they perform much better than the others.

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zmttoxics wrote:
Thats a good warranty. You can bet if you mac isn't playing well, someone somewhere is there to help and get it right, even if its minor hairline cracks in plastic. :)


i had my iphone replaced for cracked plastic, dust under the screen, and dead pixels. all within the original 1 year warranty. now is that a sign of good product engineering, or good product management?*

answer: latter, not the former. i love my phone, but i know what really makes it great.

*-some people think this is called customer service.

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bri3d wrote:
That's build quality.


that's random luck.

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i need leather! :)

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YES! ALL OF IT YESYESYES!!!

i really love that bag, but even for me it's way too expensive. even the $150 for just the iPad is just too much.

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sybrfreq wrote:
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$150 for just the iPad

holy shit. I have one of these:


but, yours is huge, cumbersome, and ugly.

the expensive stuff is awesome.

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sybrfreq wrote:
As far as backpacks go it is pretty small, and IMO that black and green man-purse you posted is pretty ugly. I would never be caught out in public with it; for tastes there are colors.


oh, admit it's just the green you can't stand. you can chose any color you want. their black leather is awesome.

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btw was there a work around for the y2K problem? i gave mine away before it would have become much of an issue (for me).
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Jim, the analysis of this so far
is potassium -- 35%, carbon -- 18%,
phosphorous -- 1.0, calcium -- 1.5.
Jim, the crew didn't leave.
- They're still here.
- What do you mean?
These white crystals -- that's what's left of the human body
when you take the water away,
which makes up 96% of our bodies.
Without water, we're all just 3 or 4 pounds of chemicals.


http://www.voyager.cz/tos/epizody/55omegaglorytrans.htm
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shadowless wrote: So what is between the nucleus and the electron shell? is it some other undiscovered matter?


it's just space.
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gone for six months and that's all you have to says?
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yes, it appears to be a form of frame buffer memory fault. does the pattern of missing bits change when you select a different set of screen dimensions, such as 1024x768? different refresh rate? frame buffer depth?

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tally ho! well put, old 'bean!

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there is a disturbing lack of italics.

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so, i ended up springing for windows 7 professional that supported Remote Desktop, and an RD app for the mac. works great.

with VNC i had so many crazy screen size translation problems... when they worked at all.

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yup, i bought an OEM version w/o having to buy any hardware either. i never considered it before, since i didn't really look into what it was they were actually selling.

as it is i have 4 copies, 2 more than i wanted. one for the HTPC, which i will be trying to hackintosh as soon as i have some time to waste, and the other will end up being virtualized on an OSX netbook.

thanks for all the help guys! i might not have saved some effort but it certainly reinforced my opinions :(

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toxygen wrote:
So, my question would be if anyone here has experience with similar setup. (9 x 1.5TB hdd)
Primary task for the array is shared storage for video files (20-30gb each).
So far, we have been using 7 x 1.5TB and ext3, which has become quite laggy over time (creating directory takes more than 20 seconds if the utilization of array is above 80%) . We used raw raid5+ext3, no lvm.


so i have a similar situation. ordinarily the raid5 with the large files is just fine, but small block writes just lost in the shuffle in the middle of large block transfers. not a great situation... raid10 will help reduce the number of operations for those directory creates, also the dual spindle fault problem bri3d notes.

incidentally, what is common practice in the video profession for this? seems like it's a problem with a known solution.

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@SAQ depending on the technology (disk type, make, model, year) you're looking at, the unrecoverable read error rate of media defects in late model drives have risen to the point of a statistically significant chance of encountering such an event during the course of a rebuild. this is why raid-6 has become a requirement in the high end lately.

this issue comes down to the increase in probability of encountering a previously undetected 2nd fault during an erasure. raid-10 would also have this problem, but at a reduced probability due to the restricted symbol space of the code word.

in a word: yup!

i suggested raid-10 for a reasonable balance between small block writes and large sequential r/w's. as a general recommendation it would be a good place to start, but as noted above take the time to optimize.

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hamei wrote:
You people are nuts, have no sense of priorities and get exactly the government and economy you deserve. "We need wealthy people to give jobs to poor people" haysoos h kristos. The place is doomed.


We need Janitor Man(tm)!

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i have a copy of irix 5.3 w/XFS that installed on every r4k/r3k i ever tried it on; indy, indigo 1&2, crimson, skywriter, PI/2x, 4d/xxx, etc...

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fwiw if you can use blender, it used to work fine. you could texture meshes with as many video streams as your machine can handle in real time, or print to film the rest.

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nifty!

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And so ends the Era of Italics Abuse. Thank God it's over.


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iPhone 4, (4) iMac, (1) Macbook Pro, (1) Macbook, (1) Macbook Air (1) Power Mac Quad G5, (4) iPad/3g, (1) Magic Trackpad, (1) Time Capsule, (1) Airport Extreme, (1) Airport Express, (4) Dell Mini 9 Hackintoshes, (1) Hp Mini 1000 Hackintosh

6 Cats!
old is new. the 70's verticulation is back!

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recondas wrote:
Looks like they also have a new <to me anyway> catch-phrase " Software.Hardware. Complete " <with red-lettering used to emphasize 'complete' part of the slogan.>



come to think of it SnOracle always caught my fancy.

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i'm still pleased as punch with it. my netbook, and imac have been sorely underutilized since the ipad came home. i'm disappointed in the turn-about by at&t on data plans, but i'm sticking with the unlimited plan as long as they allow me to keep it. i would have maintained a constant subscription regardless, but it's the [long laments found else where] of the thing.

i don't have a problem with people wanting to use my ipad, i suppose i've cultivated a air or discontent with sharing over time :)

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If the iPad is not to your liking! it's the aPad/iPed/oPud/uPid/weePoop at last!

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Pre-Orphaned!

http://chinagrabber.com/buy-m800-mid-apad-tablet-pc---7-touch-android-apad-m70003.aspx

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i would like auto- italics !!

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hamei wrote:
China will never be competitive at anything except cheap crap. You've been robbed of a society by your own people.


it's instructive to note that this was preciously the viewpoint everyone had of japan throughout the first 1/3 of the 1900's. japan managed to turn that situation around 180 degree's in the 60's. what should be feared is if china wakes up and manages to pull the same economic turn-around.

culturally, it's likely as not, to be impossible.

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hamei wrote:
But China and Japan and Taiwan and Korea have NEVER been the same. The claim is stupid on all levels.

this is why the royal we rely heavily upon disclaimers, such as the one supplied below

skywriter wrote:
culturally, it's likely as not, to be impossible.

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sybrfreq wrote:
... but a console shouldn't be too hard to build... it could exist already.


I use iSSH myself. Doesn't solve the direct connect to serial issue but it is a capable console app. I've done quite a bit of remote admin with it so far.


i also use iSSH for shelling to unix systems. presently suprised it was available, as well as my favorite IRC app Colloquy. stuff works; its GREAT!

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sybrfreq wrote:
What's really ironic about this thread is that the real Apple Ipad is also built in China. :P


the difference is where it's designed, not where it's build - although ultimately you can't pick either in a vacuum since it is... you know, china.

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i like the old styling. but everything must change. i'll get one next year if my current iphone wears out, or is too slow to enjoy.

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R-ten-K wrote:
I think it is the same museum, the packed up the one in Boston and moved it over to the West Coast.


most of the interesting stuff originated from DEC in the MR02 in Marlboro. I worked in MR01 and many a lunch time walked over to look at the stuff they had; pieces of Whirlwind, Acoustic Delay memory, etc.. lotta fun!

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Seriously, who cares? What does it mean to me that yet another person has my email address?

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nekonoko wrote:

Bwahaha I've never seen that done before :) friggin awesome!

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maxsleg wrote:
Was in Kamloops for one night, now in Banff, really enjoying the Rockies.


Zee burglar of Ban-F-F!

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eh, Robbin Harris is a well known boob. his treatment of the facts in this case is typical of the sensationalist journalism he's known for. for modern drives you ARE fine with RAID 6, now and going into the future until Unrecoverable Read Error Rates are revised in the next technology bump.

btw EVERYONE in the industry knew this 5-6 years ago. that's how long it takes to become 'general knowledge'.
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mila wrote:
Thats also why Sun started working on ZFS for 5-6 years ago since it takes along time to get a mature product, and a filesystem is really a mission critical thing you can't just replace it in a matter of hours it takes days!

/michael


no, sun did zfs to try to suck functionality out of the storage array in a storage business that they consistently failed at. the plan was to replace external 3rd party storage with thumper like boxes running zfs. it might have gained some share for some market segments that their servers played in, but not the high-end enterprise market which is where all the real money is. their storage division always failed spectacularly. xfs was too little too late. it's a niche-y non-product for sun die hards.

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sybrfreq wrote:
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xfs was too little too late. it's a niche-y non-product for sun die hards.

freudian slip?



Bwahaha! Yeah ZFS of course :)

I have new little kittes to distract me.

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Doubleplus boring.

And very superficial article too.

Plus lame comments on the anandtech site.

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