Invisible wrote:
> It even claims to have RAID. (But I wouldn't trust 
> that as far as I could throw it!)

I want to know why every one of our three different types of servers at 
work (everything from a now-ancient PC to a cutting edge Dell Poweredge) 
has hot-swap drives, and every one of them requires you to boot into the 
BIOS at the console in order to change a drive. (Well, the Dells do. The 
others just need a power cycle.) Why bother making it "hot-swap" if you 
have to be physically present and out of the OS in order to swap it? 
What's "hot" about that?

BTW, does anyone know how to get into the remote console configuration 
on a Dell Poweredge 1950? :-)  At least then I wouldn't have to walk 
someone non-technical through "importing the foreign RAID configuration" 
when they put in a new disk for us.

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          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>> Right. Well to me, if the prices have different numbers of *digits* in 
>> them, they're pretty damn far apart! ;-)
> 
> That's why they sell stuff for $999 instead of $1000.

Wow. I thought only the Americans did that crap. :-)  I don't remember 
anything in Europe costing something other than a nice round number.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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> Wow. I thought only the Americans did that crap. :-)  I don't remember 
> anything in Europe costing something other than a nice round number.
> 

A supermarket around here celebrated its 5 years with an ad on the 
newspaper saying something like "happy 4.99 (uh, sorry, it's the habit)".

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>> I don't remember anything in Europe costing something other than a nice round
number.

Oh and *I* am not in Europe btw.

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Invisible wrote:
> Personally, I'm still annoyed that I can't link to my Zazzle gallery 
> from my blog. (Or rather, I can, but WordPress strips the star off the 
> end of the URL...)

In the "is it turned on, is it plugged in" category, did you %-escape 
the star?

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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scott wrote:
> 
> I have a 1.9 Astra at the moment and I hate it (I didn't have any choice 
> in the matter).  A) the turbo-lag is so bad that it's dangerous 
> sometimes, you put your foot down and nothing happens for at least 1 
> second, *then* it goes. 

Astra 1.9 DTi (the now-selling common rail engine) and a over second 
long turbo-lag? Sounds like something's seriously wrong - Saab 9-3SC 
with the same engine has one of the unnoticeable turbolags I've ever driven.

  > They are getting on for supercars, like Aston Martins, Porsches and
> Ferraris, certainly not family cars.  I'm talking about cars like a BMW 
> 320, Audi A4 etc, Mercedes C Class, all would be looked upon as a luxury 
> family car and cost about 25k (compared to say a basic Ford Mondeo or 
> Peugeot 407 which can be had for around 15000 pounds).  You can even get 
> a brand new Porsche for 33k.

Actually 407 sounds a lot more luxury than base-priced A4 (or can you 

(actually painful with little children, as the look-backwards 
-childseats can't fit behind 180cm driver), uncomfortable, slow, lousily 
equipped and it doesn't actually handle well. I've always wondered where 
the heck the hype of "French comfort" comes from - then I drove few 
VAG's (3 Golf Variant's, 4 Audi A4 Avant's)...

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Darren New wrote:
> 
> Wow. I thought only the Americans did that crap. :-)  I don't remember 
> anything in Europe costing something other than a nice round number.
> 

Next time you visit somewhere around here, feel free to open your eyes 
at the store (and even more preferably if you're driving... :p).

'bout every store at Finland does that.

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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> It even claims to have RAID. (But I wouldn't trust that as far as I 
>> could throw it!)
> 
> I want to know why every one of our three different types of servers at 
> work (everything from a now-ancient PC to a cutting edge Dell Poweredge) 
> has hot-swap drives, and every one of them requires you to boot into the 
> BIOS at the console in order to change a drive. (Well, the Dells do. The 
> others just need a power cycle.) Why bother making it "hot-swap" if you 
> have to be physically present and out of the OS in order to swap it? 
> What's "hot" about that?
> 
> BTW, does anyone know how to get into the remote console configuration 
> on a Dell Poweredge 1950? :-)  At least then I wouldn't have to walk 
> someone non-technical through "importing the foreign RAID configuration" 
> when they put in a new disk for us.

OK, that's pretty special...

(Our servers don't have hot-swap drives, so you gotta shut it down 
anyway. But you can *configure* it once Windoze has loaded back up. You 
don't *have* to configure it from the BIOS screen - although obviously 
you *can*...)

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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Personally, I'm still annoyed that I can't link to my Zazzle gallery 
>> from my blog. (Or rather, I can, but WordPress strips the star off the 
>> end of the URL...)
> 
> In the "is it turned on, is it plugged in" category, did you %-escape 
> the star?

Yes. This causes WordPress to leave it in, but confuses Zazzle.

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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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Darren New wrote:
> 
> I want to know why every one of our three different types of servers at 
> work (everything from a now-ancient PC to a cutting edge Dell Poweredge) 
> has hot-swap drives, and every one of them requires you to boot into the 
> BIOS at the console in order to change a drive. (Well, the Dells do. The 
> others just need a power cycle.) Why bother making it "hot-swap" if you 
> have to be physically present and out of the OS in order to swap it? 
> What's "hot" about that?

Nothing. Real hot-swap -HD's can be swapped just with taking the broken 
disk off and inserting a new one *without even touching the software*. 
Eg. HP Proliants support this. Actually, even couple of my personal 
machines at home support this :p.

> BTW, does anyone know how to get into the remote console configuration 
> on a Dell Poweredge 1950? :-)  At least then I wouldn't have to walk 
> someone non-technical through "importing the foreign RAID configuration" 
> when they put in a new disk for us.

Nope, but with Raritan Dominion you'd get full local console over the 
network (KVM-over-IP):
http://www.raritan.com/kvm/

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