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I have never been to an Ikea. I think of Sweden as being one of the happiest and most socially liberal nations on Earth. Also, I remember the Swedish Exchange student we had at my high school, whose 1993 yearbook from Umeå had more bare breasts in it than the average issue of Playboy. Which was...

Hopefully, I'll be able to consolidate to two file servers rather than four. That means I need to at least triple storage density compared to what I have now when I consider my needs for long term expansion.

I didn't ask. ddrueding told me to put a bunch of shit in my desktop cases, which are most assuredly not 20-bay Norco monsters.

I already own four of those.

I have enough SATA ports for my needs but how much do you want for it?

No fsck, no dice.

No. I've only read a little about it. I'm not sure it's mature enough to merit serious consideration. ddrueding: I have a lot more disks and a lot more data than you. I'm not going to be happy or comfortable with anything else than two physical copies plus a copy on tape for every single bit...

Because that's horribly disorganized and part of my personal view is that my workstations should be entirely and instantly disposable if need be. I do have a few machines with several hard drives to facilitate data migrations from one array to another, but nothing I want to keep stays on a...

The i3-2100 is looking like a winner, though the pricing is a little steep.

I used to use SuSE quite a bit, but I retired my last Linux desktop a while back. I have distaste for Debian and derivatives that dates back to the mid 90s.

I've been upgrading the Red Hat distros on my file servers for a really long time. They're basically stock Centos 5 at this point, but they're old and crufty installations because I've been maintaining most of them for around 10 years. I'm worried that Centos isn't going to be around forever...

I'm about to start the process of updating my file server systems. My current rigs are older Core 2 Duo machines of one sort or other, each on full ATX motherboards. Most of them use a combination of onboard SATA and IDE port and 8 or 16 port SATA/SAS controllers. They mostly have power supplies...

One of your Aussies needs to go see Thor and tell me how awesome it is because in a complete reversal of everything that's normal and good, we don't get it for another two weeks here in the states.

We have a mobile theme?

You tried Dell's driver. Did you try Intel's most recent release?

Odd fact: In the Word of God canonically approved and published ship blueprints for the Enterprise D, there is one toilet for the whole crew complement.

The interesting and important thing is that they haven't left the market yet. Someone will presumably buy the business unit and will probably continue to operate it. Hey, all we'd have to do is raise a couple billion in financing and we could take a shot at running a disk manufacturer ourselves. :D

That's a really ridiculous set of circumstances, but on the other hand I don't imagine that it impacts all that many users. It would be nice to think that someone running OpenSolaris will sort the mess out and put together some kind of working package, but on a less popular platform I can...

OpenDNS fixes a lot of stuff for me, but I wish they had better a better reporting system in place.

I suspect an advanced telecommunication network based on baby-eating dingos and maladjusted wallabies.

Black Box pisses me off. They use proprietary cables and ship slowly.

I've had uneven luck with the 1TB Hitachis. Perhaps a 20% DOA rate. I blamed it on shipping damage, since all my orders have been for just a couple drives at a time. They're still vastly better than my luck with 1TB+ Seagate drives. I don't think I've had a 2TB Seagate drive last nine months.

NSFW if uou let it run.

I'd move the HEC Orion up a notch and I think I'd put all the Fotron/FSP group power supplies down on the bottom, at the very least. But yeah, that's a decent summary.

It's a lot easier for me to justify a $60 case with $3 in shipping than a $50 case with $20 in shipping. Those inexpensive Compucase chassis are just about the only thing I buy from Newegg at this point.

The way I read it, it only applies to keys that are presently unclaimed, and if the site said you got 10 keys, you still get 10 keys. I can verify that through another associated sub.

Based on the newest Retail Technet Pro subscription that I have, it appears that I'm limited to five product keys for products that allow for multiple downloads. Technet Standard keys get just two product keys. Using an Office 2007 Standard key provided through Technet, I was able to Activate...

I just bought a couple of these. 2U, 8 3.5" bays, and they accept a uATX board. That's good enough for me.

Amazon Prime is $4/item for overnight with Prime. Amazon still doesn't have everything Newegg does but it's better than nothing. I also notice that shipping on Newegg's cases is suddenly much more reasonable, but the price on each case is now about $10 higher.

Looks like Newegg has figured out that it needs to compete with Amazon Prime.

Any Thinkpad that's compatible with the Ultrabay, even going back as far as the T20, can have a SATA drive bay. Yes really. As I recall, there are still disk controller limitations, but the drives are at least detected in the BIOS. Lenovo also doesn't like to discuss the fact that the Ultrabay...

Samsung makes NAND Flash chips. It's not like they don't have an exit strategy. I have a feeling spinning disks are going to be around for a good long time. Perhaps not as a growth market, but one that nonetheless needs to be served. Samsung is weird though. It has very limited relationships...

Well, that WAS an off the cuff comment, not meant to be taken with precision. But truthfully, the phones that are being released right now are shipping with 1.2GHz dual-core CPUs, which is close enough to the start of things in 2Q 2001 that I'd be comfortable with that shorthand. They're not...

I've read speculation that Samsung would like to exit the magnetic disk business as well

The whole point is to have access when one is not near those things. Plus it's kind of nice to be able to reply to e-mail while taking a porcelain vacation.

I concur, but it's much easier when you have some kind of anchor to the many terabytes of data you would undoubtedly like to access.

Over 2000 individual Youtube users learned a voice part and contributed to this virtual choir.

It should be noted that there is a limited amount of Uranium in the world, that new sources are increasingly hard to obtain, and that obtaining them causes tremendous environmental damage on its own. Nuclear power, as much as I like and approve of it, isn't going to get us very far.

I would like to make the case that a machine with a 1GHz CPU and something north of 256MB RAM would have been a desktop machine worthy of drool just 10 years ago, and having that computer in an SMP configuration would have been godly, especially when it's tapped in to an always-on 2Mbps internet...

I don't actually have any SSDs doing anything important, now that I think about it. They're boot drives that connect to my local storage configuration, which is triple-redundant and spread out over dozens of drives, plus I have tapes.

I thought the standard was just to use mineral oil.

I shall henceforth refer to the collective Hitachi/WD as "Ass."

TotalFark. The guy I'm talking to is a BSD contributor and former EMC employee. Our conversations to date have suggest that he's done meaningful firmware work in the past on pretty serious storage products and kicked the tires on open source filesystem implementations. I wouldn't be surprised...

16GB is plenty for an install of XP, Office, a decent web browser and a meaningful amount of end-user data. My sysprep install for XP SP3 + Office 2003 and a ton of extra drivers clocks in at just a hair over 1.5GB, less the swap and hibernation files.

Turns out, I know a guy on another forum who actually does work on Intel SSD firmware. Given the exchanges I've had with him in the past year, I have no reason to think that he's lying or joking about it. He's very down on Intel MLC products. Very down. He's suggested without confirming that...

MMO fangirl.

This girl wants a 6800-series Radeon, actually.

Coug, I'd just like to point out that there are some pretty awesome things in this world that are pink and if you don't know what those things are I suggest watching more porn. Or, y'know, getting some special lady time. Either way. I need an all green case though, not mostly black with green...

Yes. Those are exactly the things I would not tell anyone to buy, ever.

USB speakers do.