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So basically, people are lazy? If that's the case, why do these people bother to contact me? They should see the asking price, see it's not what they want, and move on. I could deal with that. Instead I get exchanges like this: Them: How low will you go on this? Me: I'm asking $x. Do you...

Sounds like a good reason to constantly overcharge for labour....

I recently upgraded the motherboard on my main computer, which allows me to finally take advantage of the PowerNow feature on my Opterons. I have duly set the power scheme in Windows to "minimal power management," and now the AMD power monitor shows the processors going to the one and only...

This is starting to get competitive with 2.5" SAS drives for price. I'm a little skittish on that one year warranty.

Why doesn't anyone seem to know how to negotiate anymore? I listed up a bunch of stuff on Craiglist that I don't need, and I'm getting a lot of "what's your lowest price on this?" responses. At least the low-ballers have a position from which to haggle. I even state in some of the listings...

Trust me, bonus retirement money would make it better... just a lot later than right now.

You need more competition. Maybe you could bond 20 analog modems....

This is some kind of stupid American work ethic, right? I mean, if they don't pay for the work, it doesn't get done, and stuff explodes, how can you be to blame? All that's going to happen is that they expect more work for free. Isn't illegal to work for free?

Tell him to get an f'ing Blackberry like everyone else.

I still run 32GB disks. Mass storage is on the network. That's getting to be a tough row to hoe, tho'. They don't make 'em that small anymore!

So what's wrong with this is... they do not exist.

Maybe you can get a company bike instead. The really nice ones are pricey.

Just get DSL. AT&T has more less come out and said that P2P isn't worth worrying about. What they foresee eating most of their bandwidth is streaming media. And, I guess, they're building out their network to deal with it. Comcast is cutting corners.

And you can remember us when you're rich....

Well, you can be fifteen and compete. But you have to turn 16 the year of the competition. The problem with the Chinese gymnasts is that there's pretty good evidence that they're younger than their passports say. And, to be honest, when a little fudging of Chew Gum's age will get the whole...

That's NPR. You know, the people with the really smooth voices.

One might think that this would be easier to implement with SAS drives,since they're dual-ported. I'd be more worried about coherency, since it sounds to me like each server would mount the file system independently. Recipe for data disaster.

So, when the power supply fails, you screw both servers and everything goes down in flames.

Crap. How come my ten year-old Radioshack set has been working so well? Maybe they use buckytubes or something in them....

Whatever happened to PBS. Maybe I was the only one excited about the Click and Clack show....

Whatever happened to PBS. Maybe I was the only one excited about the Click and Clack show....

So, what's wrong with them?

In case you missed the cross-over: http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

Actually, the use of apostrophes in plurals is inappropriate. They're LCDs, TVs, and PhDs.

Honestly, who wasn't watching women's field hockey today? Raise your hands.

A pet "peeve" of mine: http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/

Were you getting a lot of kernel time? I might suggest that AHCI had something to do with it... but then again, this is storageforum, and storage seems the obvious choice for all problems and solutions.

Were you getting a lot of kernel time? I might suggest that AHCI had something to do with it... but then again, this is storageforum, and storage seems the obvious choice for all problems and solutions.

It's a bunch of bullshit, as far as I can tell. It's a distributed file system or network file system with certain attributes, i.e., nothing new. One could implement DFS or AFS, for example, but that seems awfully complicated for the sole purpose of making an apparently uniform interface...

The issue is: People Are Stupid(tm) When AT&T rolled out U-verse here, their regular prices were competitive with Comcast's promo rates. So Comcast lowered their promo rates and increased their regular rates. Folks get drawn in by the lower initial rate, but don't follow-up on it. Also...

Actually, that have a real monopoly on coverage. Bought and paid for from the IOC. There was a major problem with folks getting fed-up with the tape-delay crap, and watching stuff on the websites of broadcasters in other countries. But, obviously, you haven't been checking out the other five...

I can't speak for Time Warner, but the little text in the Comcast ads note that it's only for the first ten seconds of a download. Useful, I suspect, for starting a media steam; but, if you're downloading something big, it's just a slight bump up. The only reason that I went with the 6Mbs...

I think that's just for lower-end versions of Server. Enterprise will address up to 64GB, as I recall. Also, I'm pretty sure that all x86 versions of server enable PAE, which allows the operating system to use extensions to access the additional memory.

Redaction comes to mind. Showing 3D drawings. Archival work. LaTeX just isn't making it on the Internet these days....

Most of the turbines are in the Altamont Pass between the Vasco (Livermore) and Tracy stops. So, not really "in the middle of somewhere." Also, keep in mind that the last San Jose-bound ACE leaves 9:30a, and turns in San Jose as the first Stockton-bound train at 12:05p; you'd have to take...

One caveat with the discount coupon that I received is that I can't return the items individually. I have to return the entire ticket for any money back. Since I doubt that they'd take the lamps back after I opened the blister packs anyway, it's not much of a barrier for me.

nVidia seems to do a really poor job of handling things. Do they still do that stupid pricing crap?

I'm not sure that I'd be bragging about 498Kbps up. Are you folks actually using all of this bandwidth? I rarely use the 6Mbps allotted to me.

Well, regular phone wiring does not imply that it's not digital. Most systems allow you to plug the magical box right into your phone wall socket, making the phone available throughout the house. To be honest, it would be a bit silly for them to string another wire out to your house just for...

New, in shrinkwrap, retail, full version, etc., etc. $280 shipped in the US (sorry, I can't export it)

I received a 10% off coupon for Home Despot, so I got a couple of the n:vision floods for the new place, which is filled with cans. Annoying to say the least; but, with the discount, I basically got them tax free. I'm a bit miffed that "bright white" isn't much more than "not as yellow."...

I received a 10% off coupon for Home Despot, so I got a couple of the n:vision floods for the new place, which is filled with cans. Annoying to say the least; but, with the discount, I basically got them tax free. I'm a bit miffed that "bright white" isn't much more than "not as yellow."...

Where do smart people go wrong? Digital Unix->SunOS->Windows Unixware->OS/400->Windows

I went through there last month on the ACE train. There are places where they are putting up three different heights of windmills, stacked in front of one another to catch as much of the wind as possible. If it weren't land suitable for not much more than grazing, I'm sure someone would go...

The MacOS reminds me that it is really stupid to have the icons left-justify and the task bar default to the bottom.

Astound already offers digital phone service here. Is this something different?

I have Astound at my new place, and it's terrible. I really miss U-verse. I've had problems with random slow-downs at night. And I mean at night -- like 11p to 7a, not during prime time. I've seen the upload bandwidth shrink to bytes per second. Contacted them via e-mail and have gotten...

Use SAS cables. As if designed for actual use....

Awesome. So our tax dollars have created a gas-powered baby deer. What next? Artificial cattle for natural gas production?

Have you been through the Altamonte Pass? Holy crap, do they have windmills. And they're building more.