flea's rule for work: NEVER buy stuff for yourself. I mean, seriously. If they do not want to shell out for it, YOU do not need to make up the difference yourself, unless you are making Big Bank (in which case they usually shell out for stuff anyway.)
Look, Angel, I know you've been out of the loop for a while, but I'm still evil. I don't do errands...unless they're evil errands.
Lilah ,'Just Rewards (2)'
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flea - Jul 30, 2010 6:28:14 am PDT #14560 of 25501
information libertarian
§ ita § - Jul 30, 2010 6:45:27 am PDT #14561 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Isn't your husband buying his own computer?
Tom Scola - Jul 30, 2010 7:11:06 am PDT #14562 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
From one of our servers at work:
# uptime
12:10pm up 2000 day(s), 23:59, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.05, 0.05
flea - Jul 30, 2010 7:26:14 am PDT #14563 of 25501
information libertarian
ita, yes he is and I strenuously argued against that.
Typo Boy - Jul 30, 2010 8:02:58 am PDT #14564 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
12:10pm up 2000 day(s)
You have me curious
So there has been no occasion to reboot for 5.5 years? OS? Hardware? What kind of server? (i.e. shared hard disk, database? )
Tom Scola - Jul 30, 2010 8:11:29 am PDT #14565 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It's a Sun V100 running Solaris 8 acting as a secondary NIS server. Due to an oversight it was left out of our inventory list, and was not part of our regular OS patch cycle.
tommyrot - Jul 30, 2010 9:30:33 am PDT #14566 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Introducing the iCub: [link]
An airplane based on the classic Piper Cub, with an iPod used for display of instruments, navigation, etc.
Maria - Jul 31, 2010 2:27:13 pm PDT #14567 of 25501
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
I need a portable external HD for my laptop. I'm out of space. I picked up a WD My Passport Essential SE 1 TB at Costco this afternoon, but now I'm second-guessing the purchase. The Seagate Free Agent Go 1TB was also available, for the exact same price. ($109.99, if anyone wants to know.)
I chose the WD because it was significantly lighter, but after reading some reviews, I'm concerned about performance. Does anyone have experience with either (or both)? Should I go back to Costco tomorrow and get the Seagate instead?
Typo Boy - Jul 31, 2010 3:01:23 pm PDT #14568 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
My Brother needs an external drive for his computer - I think Terrabyte cause he is housebound with medical problems and needs to store photos, videos, sound files and so on. Don't think he needs networking. Any recs? XP computer, 300 Gig hard disk, 2 gig Ram. Don't know processor, but that should give an indication of quality. About 3 years old.
NoiseDesign - Jul 31, 2010 5:13:24 pm PDT #14569 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
I have had at least three of the WD external drives act up or go bad on me in the past 18 months. I only use them as scratch drives or when there is another layer of data redundancy involved. I have had better luck with Seagates but they are harder to get with the FW800 ports I use.