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1051.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
I have a ThinkPad T61 that I bought refurbished a couple of years ago. One thing that I really like about it is that it came with a clean Windows 7 installation. But now, there's no way in hell I'd buy a Lenovo. Trust is not easil
1052.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
Looking at my own history, it makes sense. As a kindergartner, I was playing a toy organ with play-by-number song books, and later in grade school I played clarinet. Big mistake: quitting in eight grade. As a side note, whenever I looked up
1053.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
To some extent, they already are. IMO, one of the most unfortunate side effects of today's tech is the proliferation of incompatible battery packs as a vendor lock-in tactic. Even when the cells inside are a standard design like the ub
1054.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
Indeed, I've tried several MGP-sourced ryes (knowing that they came from MGP), and found them to be good products. What bugs me, though, is the marketing BS that's thick enough to lay on with a trowel. The central problem, though,
1055.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
A Manhattan made with high-grade ingredients is sublime, but DIY is far more cost-effective than having someone else do it for you. Plus, there's lots of room for experimentation (maybe try different types/amounts of bitters, usin
1056.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
One notable change in today's market: Samsung flash memory cards are available at retail now under their own name.
1057.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
I had an eight-port switch whose wall wart PSU had failed. I thought, "Hey, why not go over to Radio Shack and get a PSU, instead of pitching what was otherwise a perfectly good switch?" Well, as it turned out, RS wanted as much f
1058.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
If you're in it for the long haul, then sock away money to either buy the property, or buy property elsewhere to relocate. That will go a long way towards preventing the "hey, I want a bigger cut of your action" scenario, and
1059.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
I get the feeling that the embargo will last until Fidel reaches room temperature. I do find it interesting that in recent years, Bacardi has been playing up its Cuban heritage. I suspect that they're itching to get back, but that whol
1060.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
I can't speak for Windows, but the setup where I work involves four drives (currently 2 TB each), with three running as a triple-mirror ZFS pool. For backup, I split a drive off the pool, pull it, slide in the previous backup, and resi
1061.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
It's still around in the Chicago area as well, though I've never used it.
1062.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
The article mentions Webvan, but didn't note that its early rival, Peapod, is still around. Peapod managed to survive by strategically retreating to the markets where it was working - a useful counterpoint to the ever-present "gro
1063.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
I've gone to Firefox+AdBlockPlus on my Android phones, after getting one too many Play Store popups. It makes browsing a lot less aggravating. No, I don't want to play Candy Crush. On PCs, I prefer using NoScript instead, but NoSc
1064.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
I like the commercial display idea as well. They probably could have saved some money by not bothering with a tuner, though. At least it isn't full of spy crap, and, being a commercial-grade display, ought to last a good long time. I h
1065.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
Indeed, when I first heard of "Healthkit" I misread it as "Heathkit" even though Apple is pretty much the antithesis of Heathkit.
1066.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
That's a classic "Tragedy of the Commons" scenario. The electric car benefits are great when only a few are on the road, but when everyone gets one it turns into a problem. That will become a problem in the US as well, since
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by flyinghamster 12y ago
Kudos to them for pointing that out, but brickbats to them for such a lousy web site. What is it that turns some web designers into such pretentious twits? Meanwhile, I'll stick with my DT770 Pros. As unfashionable as they may be, soun
1068.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
As I recall, DEC didn't like the idea of people formatting their own floppy disks, either, and didn't supply a FORMAT utility, even with the version of MS-DOS shipped with the Rainbow. The idea was that you were supposed to buy pr
1069.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
Some -11s (like the 11/20, 11/35, 11/45, and 11/70) had toggle switch front panels. The 11/34 had the octal keyboard, and some systems like the 11/44 didn't have much more than a power switch. My high scho
1070.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
A related issue is that there are still stocks of aged whiskey from distilleries that have closed long ago - and they get sold to independent bottlers and existing distillers alike.
1071.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
MGP has been an open secret in the whiskey business for a while now - but it's good that the story is finally getting some press. I've had a couple of known MGP ryes (Bulleit and Dickel) and they're good - but they're no
1072.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
One other thing about the "Internet of Things" movement that has really bugged me: all of these Internet-enabled Things tend to rely on (oh, no, there's that word again) the "cloud." I really don't like the ide
1073.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
Indeed, it's my favorite section of his blog. If I had to pick a favorite, it would be "Sand Won't Save You This Time". The sheer thought of something that can set sand on fire makes me LOL. edit: no hyperlinking? wtf?
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by flyinghamster 12y ago
Also note, if you're using an SAS HBA: the LSI 1068E-R based HBAs, when flashed with IT firmware, have a persistent drive mapping setting. When it is active, it will always give a specific physical disk the same device name, even if it
1075.
by flyinghamster 12y ago
Another gotcha: If you intend to physically move a pool of disks from one system to another, or even move them to different SATA or SAS ports on the same system (or different drive bays in a JBOD), you should EXPORT THE POOL FIRST. I came w