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Another weekend, another terrible experience in attempting a migration with current VMware tools. You know it's shit when you're happy about a sub-120 minute boot time.

I believe the 20GB card is meant to act as high speed cache for motherboards with an optional mSATA slot using the z68 chipset.

MLC. It's an Intel 310. I understand that pretty much makes it an X25M with a weird connector. Haven't gotten around to installing it yet, though it is tiny.

One wonders how that will impact what are currently Hitachi products.

At a guess, run it out of RAM with animated wallpapers and widgets and crap?

I've seen people whine about issues that they blame on Android but not anyone whose opinion I'd consider remotely credible and usually in the context of advocacy for some other mobile OS. Which, honestly, is largely pretty stupid. I have a philosophical disagreement with Apple's closed...

I've never had my android phone lock up. I've seen some cheapass Android phones (e.g. the HTC Aria, most early Samsung phones) such that it wouldn't shock me that it might be a problem with some hardware.

The Incredibles and The Iron Giant are both awesome films. I respect the hell out of Brad Bird. But I'll be damned if I give Tom Cruise any money. The new Sherlock Holmes movie was entertaining though. I saw it this afternoon.

Fangirls need to be thrown the occasional homo-erotic bone. I wouldn't begrudge them that. There is a theory that I subscribe to, that most girls who are interested enough in science fiction and comic books and fantasy novels are at least bicurious if not more-than-curious. They're cool with...

That's going to be an ongoing thing, actually.

I haven't watched it yet, but I've been reading the comic book since issue #3. I knew someone in college who was active in Doctor Who fandom on a national level. Understand that this was 1994, during the long hiatus of the series. If you took all the worst possible stereotypes about science...

I'm not a big fan of police procedurals, but I like Nathan Fillion enough to sit through season 1 of Castle. It's unchallenging, by the numbers network TV fare that lets Nathan Fillion be Nathan Fillion and that's the appeal as far as I can tell. At some point I probably will watch the whole...

SuperMicro makes one, if you're willing to put up with LGA1366 and Xeon E5500-series CPUs. Supermicro SM/X8DTL.

I should have my Intel 310 miniPCIe SSD by the end of the week. The miniPCIe guys seem to be a bit of a dead end. Not many notebooks use them and the largest capacity I can find is 120GB. I bought an 80GB model. Hopefully it will be good enough for my purposes.

Wait. Burn Notice was good at some point? Basically I watch that because Bruce Campbell + regular doses of eye candy. There is no deeper level than that.

Well, the SFF8087 supports four drives per cable and 4 x 6 = 24 so I'm going with math fail on Intel's part.

A dual core Atom can transcode h.264 in real time, at least a single stream.

I managed to get through an episode and a half of Parks and Recreation. Which, granted, is about an entire episode more than I made it through either version of The Office. I quite enjoyed 30 Rock, which apparently hasn't started its new season yet. Shameless has a very entertaining first...

FreeNAS RAIDZ performance is definitely bound up by RAM. With a total of 20GB RAM, I'm seeing 130MB/sec writes over NFS with dual gigabit. This might be of some interest to folks who get here from Google, given my previous post on the matter.

ddrueding did. But a 4TB drive in an external enclosure with undoubtedly shitty power regulation just seems like a great way to lose 4TB of data.

Sure, but if your experience with tapes involves DC2120s or Travan, it's a completely different deal. Besides, we're talking about backups. Access times aren't normally relevant for that application.

Wall-E was excellent, especially for being so ambitious as to have a nonverbal main character and very little dialog in the first half of the movie.

LTO can fill a tape in a little over 10 minutes if the drive can be fed fast enough. I'd say that compares quite well to USB. Best I've seen from USB3 is around 80MB/sec.

I've had terrible luck with external drives. I don't mind using them with small customers but it really seems that > 1TB 3.5" externals are too delicate to be trusted for anything.

You could've gotten a proper tape drive for what those four disks cost.

Honestly, if you aren't at least watching the Pixar Studios movies, you're really missing out on some special films. Except the Cars movies. Those blow goats. But if you go look at the Toy Story movies, Finding Nemo, Up, the Incredibles, Ratatouille, Monsters Inc et al. on Rotten Tomatoes or...

A lot of projects are run by assholes. Maybe it's just part of the psychological make-up.

I didn't like the way Wladimir Palent usurped development of the original Adblock, but from a functional standpoint, building in the subscription updater is a big enough carrot to put up with one dickheaded developer. But recently ABP has incorporated or gotten commercial funding somehow and...

When drives get reasonable again, I'll buy an Intel RES2SV240 ($200) and stick it in a secondary chassis. That Expander is specifically compatible with the LSI9240/IBM M1505, supports 24 drives @ 6Gbps SAS and can be installed in a 2U enclosure. Though from what I've read, forecasts say that...

It's not as much as it sounds. My file servers were over capacity for months, so the excess was spread out to arrays on some of my desktops. The new arrays just gave me a place to centralize all my storage again and now that everything is copied back, I can see that 15TB arrays aren't really...

Russia has gone from one crushing autocracy to the next spanning back most of its history. It's part of the national character.

If you poke around on the site, they say one of their top priorities is to bring parity to the Chrome version of ABP. Though at the same time, ABP was an offshoot of the original Adblock. Hopefully someone else will fork a proper adblocker if these settings are not easily changed.

Granted, it's fixable, but most people won't know to change or know how to change ABP's settings to turn ads off, which is of course the proper and expected behavior of an ad blocker.

Right now it's two 15TB RAIDZs. I guess I'm going to have to add a SAS expander.

New fileserver is full. :(

Two drunken RIM executives terrorize a plane full of people. I particularly like the bit about chewing through their restraints.

I know the source drives are good. The destination drives might have have 300 power-on hours at this point. I suppose I'll be grabbing disk counters in the near future. I'll be damned if I can think where else there could be an issue.

It's doing the same thing. The VM has been "Applying Computer Settings" for an hour now.

I came home from the movie with a soda in a cup with a straw. My cat has never seen a straw before. He wants the straw SOOOOO bad. He's trying to stalk my drink.

With nothing better to do since my VM conversion was heading in to its 36th hour, I went to an 11AM showing of The Muppets today. Know what? It was a good movie, with real laughs and some good songs courtesy of Jerome Clement, the dark haired half of "Flight of the Conchords." It would have been...

I suspect I'll get the Czech equivalent next time my brother comes back for a visit.

I have a wool officer's trenchcoat that was Communist-era Czech Army surplus. Now I just need my furry hat.

Yes but it's covered in cheese curds and brown gravy, in the way of his people.

Beginning of the end. Sob.

Coug already displays better habits for English spelling and grammar than the overwhelming majority of Anglophones on the internet. Let he who is without occasional typo cast the first stone.

The only answer there is depends on your personal habits. I regularly exchange emails with 25kB walls of text and/or 2MB attachments but even at that I probably don't hit 250MB of SMTP-only traffic on my phone in any given month. Likewise, "limited browsing" means different things to different...

Honestly, I don't any more. I have a headset I use with my phone as infrequently as possible and that's about it. The bluetooth experience on Windows is just too damned inconsistent.

Conversion attempt #2: Heartened by ddrueding's now-transparent lies about performance, I take another shot at using the vCenter converter. 11 hours later, this machine, which has otherwise been completely idle, sitting at 2 - 5% CPU utilization, 20% RAM and > 2% of 1Gbps LAN for the whole time...

And well he should. id games are largely tech demos but it sucks that their next gen toolkit is built in that way. Coug, man, don't blame your monitor for what are clearly your desktop's failings. Kick the tower, not the screen. Also, switch to nice, thick Supermicro chassis. Since I use a...