thereallurch

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by thereallurch 14y ago
Picture this: You bought 10 of something, all identical items (minus some sn on the box). You throw away the packaging material for 8 or 9 of the 10 items (remember, it's all identical). You then have a device DOA/fail that isnt the EXACT p
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by thereallurch 14y ago
Likewise, I've spent thousands. Stopped buying with newegg when they sent me a defective HDD and told me to RMA it with Western Digital.
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by thereallurch 14y ago
From the graph it looks like there is no correlation. Does this count splits?
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by thereallurch 14y ago
<Satire Tag Needed>
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by thereallurch 14y ago
You're living in a pipe dream if you think a data analytics company will become the biggest company in the world.
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by thereallurch 14y ago
From OpenJDK: private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex) { if (fromIndex > toIndex) throw new IllegalArgumentException("fromIndex(" + fromIndex + ") > toInd
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by thereallurch 14y ago
"People always conveniently forget as well that when you store data at S3 or Rackspace they're doing 3 replica's. If you store 3TB's, its not just the cost of a single 3TB drive..its 3x. To do it at home you'd need to buy 3x3TB Drives @300$
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by thereallurch 14y ago
provider1=[d1,1][d1,2][d1,3] provider2=[d2,1][d2,2][d2,3] provider3=[d3,1][d3,2][d3,3] Each drive cost $x. You have 9$x = cost to store 1 drive of data, across 3 providers, who each store 3 copies. If drive prices halve, it's still 9$x.
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by thereallurch 14y ago
Wouldn't the next issue become bandwidth? Sure, you have cheap storage, but you still need to manipulate the data somehow. I know S3 only charges for outbound data. What about the other companies? Is bandwidth free and plenty?
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by thereallurch 14y ago
"In 2006 a 320 GB hard drive cost $120. Today (Thailand floods aside) that much money will snag you a 3 TB drive." Floods or not, the current price isn't $120 dollars. It's 50% higher than that. http://camelcamelcamel.com/Western-Digital-
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by thereallurch 14y ago
Surprised no one has mentioned OpLop for passwords. I keep a list of sites (containing a site nickname and a password hint). I then wrote a simple md5base64 perl script which combines the nickname and password (similar to OpLop..basically m
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IBM spends $2billion developing PureSystems, touting automation(informationweek.com)
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by thereallurch 14y ago
Sweet. They only expire in 3 years or so. Brilliant move on AOL's part.
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by thereallurch 15y ago
It'll be only a matter of time before it's rooted and running AdBlock. :)
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by thereallurch 15y ago
Best Buy's historical strategy has been to make profits from accessories like cables. But they have been doing it wrong in the past 5 years. They should be using these accessories to drive foot traffic. Best Buy can sell products or service
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by thereallurch 15y ago
A laser? They are used all day in fiber optics...and they are pretty fast. Without mention of the power required for the laser it's only speculation.
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by thereallurch 15y ago
Ouch, Charter only charges $82.99 a month (with modem rental) for 100Mbps. Around the same time they introduced 100Mbps service, they introduced bandwidth caps. (500 gb/month for 100mbit service). Bandwidth caps @charter are a 3 strike poli
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by thereallurch 15y ago
This is interesting. I am surprised that amazon spends only $55 extra a year on shipping per prime user. This past month alone I've received ~30 packages, all 2 day free shipping from amazon prime. This included some very large objects like
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by thereallurch 15y ago
At least someone found a use for all those old bitcoin mining rigs...
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by thereallurch 15y ago
Also, why is it assumed the "good day" couldnt have been during the filming of a movie? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monday_(date) would also suggest otherwise
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by thereallurch 15y ago
Any technologies exist that let you have multiple encrypted OS's on multiple keys? For example, 1 key could boot up one OS and another key could boot up a different OS. Seems like it'd be difficult to prove that you booted one or the other.
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by thereallurch 15y ago
I'm still not sure what DDOS'ing a government website will ultimately achieve. So you cant access justice.gov for a few days...how many of you visit that site daily? How does this affect the Justice department other than making some IT guy
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by thereallurch 15y ago
It's like HP decided one day to lose as many customers as possible. This must be part of that plan. Paul Rand is rolling over in his grave.
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by thereallurch 15y ago
"above average team player" vs "average team player" literally made me laugh out loud. This whole infographic just an advert for mixtent. No real data posted? Simply percentages and rankings? At a minimum they could have included the sample