Comment Re:What it will be used for... (Score 1) 178
Oops... That should be "your tax revenue", not "your're"... Can't believe I did that...
Oops... That should be "your tax revenue", not "your're"... Can't believe I did that...
As vehicles become more fuel efficient, the amount of tax you collect goes down. We are facing that problem in several states in the US, and said states are supposedly giving more thought to pay-as-you-drive taxes instead of more gas taxes (which, even if you do raise the taxes, as cars become more fuel efficient, you're tax revenue still declines).
Lies... All lies... Everybody knows there aren't any Girls on Slashdot (let alone the internet)...
When you have a single developer responsible for 47K apps, I always take app store numbers from any company with a pinch of salt.
That'd be all well and good, if we were talking about RIM/Blackberry, but the article you linked has *NOTHING* to do with the topic at hand...
Proof reading on the internet. goo luck wiv that.
I'm pretty sure you meant, "Ain't nobody got time for dat!"
That's just as easy as popping off the back of the HD removing a couple a screws and pulling out the platter.
You do that outside of a cleanroom and your data is gone forever.
False -- I've done it on a number of occasions (to drives I didn't care about), and was able to run the drives for months without their covers. I'd still be using the drives if I had need for drives as small as they were (somewhere in the 80GB range)...
Would I use a drive in this state for something critical? No, but saying you immediately lose the data if you pull a drive cover is just flat wrong.
I know I'll probably see negative moderation as a result of what I'm about to post (being as I'm about to talk up WHS2011 in a Linux related thread), however...
I stopped using RAID in any of my systems after I started using WHSv1. WHS2011 has the same feature -- live system backups. If a drive fails, I pop in a new one (of any type/size), boot a CD that came with WHS (essentially a WinPE environment with a recovery software baked in), select my backup (I save 7-10 days -- I forget what it's set to), and in about an hour my system is back to the state of the last backup. WHS is set to perform the system backups between 00:00 - 02:00 every night. The very first system backup is a 'full' backup, the rest are 'diffs'. I've had to use this feature on two of my systems, so far, and both were because of crappy WD drives (OOOOHhhh, I hate that brand soooo much). It came in really handy when I switched both my primary desktop and my laptop from mechanical HDD's to SSD's. I forced a backup, swapped the drives, and then restored...
This way, either my WHS storage pool (based on StableBit's DrivePool product) or my workstation HDD's can fail, and I can easily recover. It's automagic, manageable via a single UI, and because of DrivePool, I can easily increase the storage space at any time (without interrupting other users of the storage pool).
Route poisoning would like to have a word with you. He is waiting in Room 641A.
Are you sure?
Thanks, Balmer! I'll keep that in mind next time...
Mitt, is that you?
I should have mentioned -- I'm also paid via direct deposit. If my 'default' pay were via one of these crappy cards, I'd do *whatever* paperwork was needed to get a normal check or direct deposit...
As someone who gets paid once monthly -- it's not that bad, once you get your budget set up. I get paid on the last day of the month, unless that is a weekend, in which case I get paid the Friday before. I have *most* of my bills set to be due on the 5'th, so I get them all out of the way right up front. I have a few that are due around the 20'th, but since they are stable (IE: they don't change), it's easy to budget around them.
No.. No... It was chickens and cows.
In this scenario, there'd be no shared calendering, no contact management, and no remote web access (and those are just the items in Exchange that *I* use). Who knows what other functionality would be missing if people listened to this advice...
For me, voting Democrat came down to social issues and *where* the Democrats wish to 'spend spend spend' compared to the Republicans...
If that's the case, why vote Democrat instead of Republican?
I think there's a world market for about five computers. -- attr. Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board, IBM), 1943