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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> 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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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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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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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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>> Huh, you have a digital camcorder with no firewire socket?  Which one 
>> is it?
> 
> I couldn't tell you off the top of my head. I'll check when I get home...

Canon DC201.

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