On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Gerald wrote:
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> Hi Orlando!
That's Orly. :)
> Thanks for enlightening me. Its my third hard disk to crash. Sadly, the
> Linux in this hard disk was only 2-3 weeks old! Say, i only need to do some
One of my friends got a 10GB Seagate U8 drive (those crappy Medalists..
hate 'em.. but they're cheap). Died the next day. One of my other friends
got a 10GB Maxtor DiamondMax Nova 7200rpm drive (supposedly higher-end, it
was 7200rpm). Died after two days. These two events both happened in the
last two months.
I've had two Quantum Bigfoot drives. Had a good experience with them. But
some of the people on this list absolutely hate Quantum. I now have a 28GB
Seagate Barracuda ATA. Looks pretty sturdy (compared to the U8 drives..)
and my experience with SCSI Barracudas is pretty good. NB the Barracuda
ATA was formerly known as the Medalist Pro.. came in both SCSI (Hawk) and
IDE versions.
> perl programming, so can i do perl programming using 1.44 floppies so
> that i won't need to reformat/repartition my other hard disk?
> Unfortunately, that means i won't be able to test the cgi program
> because i am not in a networked environment, and no gui based web
> browser to test it. It is really bad luck!
What I suggest is you get a Linux installation (such as Redhat 6.2) which
can run off an image file in a DOS partition. You can't do Perl on
floppies. Sure tomsbrt and similar floppy-only distros are amazing.. but
Perl is huge. Perl alone would take up an entire floppy.
Or you can get ActiveState Perl for Windoze. It's only about 10MB
download.
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