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    Intel Pulls “Racially Insensitive” Ad

    27 Million slaves, right? I assume these south-east asians are blacks, right? Oh, they aren't? They are whites? Damn, that sucks for your argument. So, those are probably mostly white people, right? 2 million of them? Central and eastern europe, and north america? Mostly white, right...
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    Intel Pulls “Racially Insensitive” Ad

    No. Best friend in high school. Not just some random guy I knew. 4 years, together, side by side, he had my back, I had his. At his house twice a week, him at mine just as often. Comment wasn't asking my expertise, it was reaction to reading the newspaper, seeing TV, or just interacting with the...
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    Intel Pulls “Racially Insensitive” Ad

    BULL, FUCKING, SHIT. If this advertisement had a bunch of korean women working festidiously in front of sewing machines, or mexican's hanging drywall, or indians (I mean from india, not native americans) wearing doctors gown, or japanese people with camera's there wouldn't have been a...
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    What RAID card to use?

    Since it's just a file server, and not other things, I'd say the highpoint will be plenty fine for your needs. Gigabit networking at a theoretical maximum 100% efficiency (which doesn't exist..) , would afford you 120megs a second, and with (if I read you right) 2 seperate 6 drive raid 5s, there...
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    Seagate Barracuda 7200.10s plagued?

    Why can't you get it RMA'd? 7200.10 drives haven't even been in existence for 5 years, so, seagate's warranty should still be valid. FWIW, we have 300 quantity 7200.10 drives in deployment (for a year or so) and have had only 1 fail. I have had 8-14 of them in my own machine at any one...
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    raid 0 raptors or 1 raptor 1 750gb wd

    Where's your backup medium? :-) Every drive you add to a raid0 decreases the reliability of the raid0. 2 drives? You're twice as likely to lose data.. 4 drives? 4 times as likely.. see a pattern? I'd personally run the raid0+1 750's,, but that's me.
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    defragmenting a 5TB RAID5 array

    Raise your hand if you think a 5TB raid array is not something a 'small' business would be using. You, yes, you, in the back,, you only need to raise on hand. Listen to unhappy mage. :-) Although the defragmenting isn't going to be that necessary. How small are these files? 1 cluster...
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    seagate or western digital

    Never had that happen in my business. We -ALWAYS- get our warranties honored. The reason why Retail warranties are less for some manufacturers, is because they know that the people who buy retail harddrives, more often than not, don't know what the fuck they are doing, and are more likely to...
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    why no SATA dvdroms and cdroms?

    To elaborate.. Not until you get up to HDDVD or BlueRay, (100-150 megs a second) will you need to worry about pata vs sata, because even a 48X read speed DVD (if there existed such a thing) would only be ~60 megs a second, so you'd still be at 50% or 40% of the potential of the interface anyhow...
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    BBC Launches Free Internet TV

    Wow, you people make your lives so complex. There are so many ways to make your IP (and therefore, location) appear to be something other than it is. When I lived in las vegas, I would appear to be in lakeland, florida, to any online presence. FWIW, I think I'm currently tracing down to...
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    why no SATA dvdroms and cdroms?

    I posted "I've had them for over a year" then you asked "have you used them" Whose the a-hole in that equation? Who would bill engvall give a sign to? The second part, was because I had -already said- everything that the other guy was repeating, so I felt that nobody even bothered to...
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    BBC Launches Free Internet TV

    So, sign up with your address in england, and you are good to go :-) That's all I did.
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    seagate or western digital

    Or it could just be back luck. I usually run 8 to 16 drives in a system, and on my upgrade path from 300->400->500->750, I've only had to return -1- seagate (although the 500s were maxtor branded seagates) So, that means, We're talking about 1 out of 52 drives (12 300s, to 16 400s, 12 500s...
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    Realistic? 4x32GB SSD / Sata or Pata Drive

    This isn't about the speed. it's about the quiet, and the no moving parts. The heat output, and power consumption of a 32gb ssd drive is basically nil. Also, that iram raid will be 8gb, (assuming 2 irams), and will cost about the same as the 32gb ssd drive. The raptors are the bargain in this mix.
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    I'm not saying that it's not possible to accomplish what these devices can do with a moving parts solution, but some just don't want a moving parts solution. That 2500w is, btw, I'm sure, at full utilization, Sometimes a static device is preferable. You'll pay a premium for that.. Look at the...
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    why no SATA dvdroms and cdroms?

    Guess you missed where I said "I've had sata optical drives for over a year" I think my post wasn't even read, after the link :-) Pick which one makes sense to you? 1) SATA DVD-READER that can't burn anything $20, 2) Sata DVD-Reader that can burn CD's = $24 3) Sata 18X Dual Layer DVD Burner...
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    Right, 30K users with a bunch of traffic. We've got a few thousand hosting clients, and almost all of them have basic websites. I'm sure eve-online's monthly bandwidth is far higher than ours. Besides, a 30K user database with constant updates is a LOT more access intensive, even, than a...
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    Personal experience. Not a website link handy, but I'm sure one could be found :-) If true, then that's interesting. I could not find anything on the site you gave that confirmed that. Yes, I realize that. But if it's an "all internal" card and all the sata2 negotiation is happening...
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    The [H]ard Forum Storage Showoff Discussion Thread

    http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1030738548&postcount=23 Disqualified. Not over 1 terabyte.
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    seagate or western digital

    Warranty periods. Seagate = 5years vs WD = 3years. (or 1 year if the WD is retail boxed) You decide :-) What do you think I picked?
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    why no SATA dvdroms and cdroms?

    Because you are incorrect. Enjoy the plethora of devices. 18 items at newegg alone, from the lowly DVD-Reader (for $23.99) to the BlueRay/HD-DVD hybrids ($999) I've had sata optical drives for over a year. I'll assume you want to buy DVD burners, and aren't dumb enough to buy a dvd-read only...
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    Technically, it doesn't have ports, but .. your still "wrong" in that case... it's a Zero Channel scsi controller. You still have to plug the drives into your motherboard. This device co-opts the onboard scsi ports and they become pass-through. By your own statement, the other poster is...
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    Realistic? 4x32GB SSD / Sata or Pata Drive

    But those pumps and fans ... DO NOT ... need to be inside the computer.. No, there won't be a worklog, Tis not my way.
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    Realistic? 4x32GB SSD / Sata or Pata Drive

    "no internal moving parts" != no cooling :-) Water, LN2, .. THere are many options.... BTW, the reason I'm opting for SSD is because of the other thread I'm in in this subforum :-) i-Ram is too small...
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    You and unhappy_mage both misunderstand me. No, I haven't seen a single raid, or scsi controller that didn't have cables going to the harddrives. :-), so I don't know what the hell you are talking about. Please find me a raid controller, or scsi controller that has no DATA CABLE ports on...
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    Realistic? 4x32GB SSD / Sata or Pata Drive

    SuperTalent has a 32GB sata port equipped (and samsung has an IDE version) drive available. My question is, is there something about the design of these drives that make them unrealistic for a systems' SOLE drive? (other than the high cost per gigabyte). Additionally, is it a complete waste...
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    Doesn't matter, because unless you're raiding somehow, you aren't going to exceed the limis of the Sata interface anyhow. edit: I'm leaving my original statement so people understand why my statement was misunderstood. But, here's the edit Doesn't matter, because unless you are raiding...
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    Apple Falls on Initial iPhone Activation Numbers

    Sales #'s were being reported on the first day, wth are you talking about?
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    Lawsuit Seeks to Shut Down Facebook

    "The three founders of Connecticut-based ConnectU say Mark Zuckerberg agreed to finish computer code for their site, but repeatedly stalled and eventually created Facebook using their ideas." Zuckerberg, who is the facebook guy, worked for ConnectU. Imagine, you will, if you were a...
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    Lawsuit Seeks to Shut Down Facebook

    No, it's not. If Page & Brin were best buddies with yang & filo, and used to hang out together and exchange ideas, then it'd be the same. Reading comprehension, FTW.
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    Apple Falls on Initial iPhone Activation Numbers

    Wait.. so this article is about how apple isn't living up to the hype and expectations? Color me .. SHOCKED.. SHOCKED, I say! You mean the company that said they have the most powerful personal computer in the world, the first 64 bit PC, that g4's are faster than intel's product is...
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    Cybersquatter Loses Simpsons Movie Site Case

    I've never understood how this could be. How do they produce 24 episodes a season? Oh... Right.. they've got multiple teams working on it, ya think? A season of 24 x 22 minute episodes = 528 minutes of content. Simpsons movie = 87 minutes long.. Or ~"4 episodes worth" So, even if...
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    Cybersquatter Loses Simpsons Movie Site Case

    What about arbitration do you not understand?' You bring in an unrelated, unbiased, 3rd party.. An arbiter isn't someone who "tells you what to do" an arbiter is someone who makes BOTH parties come to an agreement. His right to decide is because THEY AGREED TO HAVE HIM ARBITRATE...
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    Lawsuit Seeks to Shut Down Facebook

    Because you don't sue when the company has no money. You wait till it's rolling in the dough, first.. Don't you know ANYTHING about I.P. (that'd be intellectual property, btw) prospecting? /sarcasm
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    FS: Uber PC: E6600, EVGA 680i, 2GB DDR 1066, 9 HDDs (~3 TB), 7950GT, Lian Li PC-V2000

    Man, this is like the twin sister of my main rig. Nice. I hope you get the asking price!
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