California's exchange is well capable of providing a mere 7 Million registrations and was not ever having problems while the Federal site was the subject of so much news controversy.

I am celebrating this event because This is the first time that Bruce Perens can get insurance coverage! I operate my own company and have previously only had access to insurance through my wife's employer. All of my family, my wife, my son, and I, have each individually been rejected by private insurers for what was esentially medical trivia. In my son's case, it was because he took a test they didn't like even though he passed it.

Not everyone understands the B.S. that private insurers were permitted to put people through.

Sony Ericsson P800 - released in 2002

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The real irony is that you've confused Iran and Israel.

Then why aren't you buying your own modem for less than $50 and saving yourself the money every month? I mean, I get it, I think Comcast is for the birds too but honestly bitching about something you can buy yourself and they'll absolutely allow you to take on all the risk for is not something to choose to complain about.

Yeah I know I'm flogging this horse, but I hope this helps. I got laughed at a bit for considering it, many jeers of "why bother? just get a ssd" but I'm happy, very happy.

If you've a spare 3.5 slot then consider investing in a Silverstone hddboost plus the largest ssd you can afford. Then make sure you keep the drive optimised with all system files to the start of the drive.

I can confirm that they seem to work reasonably well.

Further to this, the highpoint controller can either be configured to act as a caching only drive, which leaves your initial drive intact and only clones it. Or you can specify that it actively contains the ONLY copy of the indexed data. I believe this is called performance mode. I've not tested the latter as although I like the speed boost SSD's can give, I just don't trust them enough, given their usual/immediate mode of failure, whereas barring a catastrophic head crash you usually get a chance to notice a platter drive's problem and recover your data.

See my above post. The highpoint controller initially just indexes everything it can in the order it finds it on the drive (I wasn't able to determine if it was alphabetical or in order it was on the disk from start to end) and through a utility you can get the controller to only index specific directories and individual files that you deem worthy of caching.I definitely noticed a performance boost, not as good as it could be, but a lot better than it was with the drive by itself.

The hddboost unit on the other hand is pure mirroring of the platter drive until it hits the end of the SSD. Boot times are improved, as are general file accesses, but nowhere near as efficiently as if it was a pure SSD. I've not done a drive mirror comparison to see if that is an improvement again or not.

So they both do a similar job, just a little bit differently. I've happily kept both in my computer for over a year and I see no need to change this anytime in the near future.

I have my primary (1.5tb) drive connected to a 128gb ssd via a Silverstone "hddboost" unit. What this does is clone the first 128gb of your hard drive to the SSD. What you do then is to keep your hard drive defragmented with the OS and program files organised towards the beginning(cached) segment of the drive. When you do this make sure you put your page file to another drive so it and it's continual changes do not get cached to the drive. The bonus of this is that it is seamless, If I have the SSD die I can just replace it and off it goes and keeps working, if i decide I don't want it anymore then I just bypass it and the Windows install keeps working without missing a beat (I've confirmed that this is the case out of curiosity)

  Once you've got all your programs installed and have everything running it seems to keep ticking along quite nicely and provides a performance boost around midway between using a SSD and a platter drive by itself. Now this doesn't help you if you are one of those sorts that just cannot keep well enough alone and continually tinker with your system as changes will have to be re-cached and the boost will be negligible until it has gone and re-cached that first segment of the drive.

I've also got a slightly different system set up for my Steam games drive. Namely a Highpoint 1220 caching controller along with another 128gb SSD. I initially bought this second system to use for my boot drive but as it turned out to be such a massive pain in the ass to set up I ended up giving up and buying the Silverstone device and relegating this to caching my games drive to see how it would go performance wise. After some initial positive results many months ago I kept it on my system as it did improve things noticeably.

Oh and for those that care for such things, other specs for that system include 12gig of ram and an i5 3570, so I wasn't just upgrading one subsystem to the detriment of others.

Since I doubt that this sub-question will get through the editor, I'll give you my answer now. My objection was to the use of bitkeeper due to its license. This is not the same as being in favor of violating the license. What Tridge did (invoking the "HELP" command on a TCP stream connection to the bitkeeper server) was not a license violation.

It's up to the editor when they run the replies. But I promise to answer mine.

Yes, I will answer the interview questions as soon as the editor gets them together.

If you have a specific question, you can always reach me via email to bruce at perens dot com or phone 510-4PERENS. Email usually works better.

Next you are going to tell me that the Republicans want to push grandma off the cliff, take food from starving children, and ruin the environment.

Yes... What's your point?

And MH370 was spotted on the moon!