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I used to be buried in spam because I get all the misdirected mail sent
to my company's domain. I now route all of that to GMail and it passes
the ham on to me. Now I only get a couple of spams a day. So I would
say
that GMail is especially good at spam filtering.
I'm seeing today that I didn't get several messages. I was wondering what
Constance was talking about, with the free images and all, until I realized
I never got the original post.
Grumble grumble Comcast grumble dipsticks mutter...
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I used to be buried in spam
Well, Netaxs is lying, either through ignorance or intentionally. They are
indeed using a realtime blackhole list, www.uceprtotect.net, and blocking
mail from Verizon mail servers. The UCEprotect methodology is here:
http://www.uceprotect.net/en/index.php?m=3s=0
Level 1, which your Verizon
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Thought I received message at end of May that AVG free was ending as of
June
1 and needed to upgrade to presumably paid version. Was away and
didn't do
anything, but still seems to be running as far as I can tell. Anyone
else
heard about this?
This is a common
To update on the piss-poor spam filtering that Comcast is using, it
continues with a new twist. I'm getting *some* messages on threads, but not
all at times. For instance, Tony's thread on SATA drivers, I only got 6 of
the 9 messages, which explained my confusion as to who Tony was replying to.
One problem I have noticed is that if you upgrade to v. 8 directly from v.
7.5, I've seen, twice now, desktops not loading as a result; you just sit
there with a background and no icons. Manually uninstalling 7.5 and then
installing 8 doesn't have this problem so far. I've had to do system
Yeah, I forget that Gmail has that. Thanks John.
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 10:57 AM, John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gmail support IMAP - you can use whatever email client you want.
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There's an 'expand all' button on the right.
Yeah, I know, but all that does is expand the thread.
Gmail still offers free POP or IMAP access, but why hang onto the past
like that? It's not too difficult for _this_ old dog to learn new
tricks. :)
I can do that
Good luck with Intel tech support. It's taken me months to get a solution
for warranty support from them. It's a slow motion ballet of email
messages.
I gotta say tho', this is really odd. I've installed XP with SATA drives on
probably a dozen different chipsets and never run into this in a
okay). It
really shouldn't be this difficult for a mainstream board like Intel.
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good luck with Intel tech support. It's taken me months to get a
solution
for warranty support from them. It's a slow motion ballet
I would say no, I like having the mail format. Going web-based, you have to
go to the site and open up the forum, find the thread and post a reply. Not
a burden, but with email, it's right here. KISS.
OTOH, going with a web-based solution eliminates the broken mess that is
email today and
] wrote:
Yes, just today, although I really don't want RAID, just AHCI. Setup
stops saying it can't find any hard drives (bios shows them okay). It
really shouldn't be this difficult for a mainstream board like Intel.
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote
I'd say it's about the same size as a Blackberry Curve, maybe a bit bigger.
Keep in mind that while the cost of the iPhone has finally come down to a
reasonable price (suck it up, early adopters), the cost of the 3G data plan
is higher.
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I found the iPhone very small
Sure. Buy Dells with a Vista license and Ghost them with XP installs. You
need to have a volume XP product key to do this.
Why? Because Vista doesn't have significant enough business value for me to
go through the hassle of upgrading all the desktops to Vista. XP works just
fine for us. I'm
Mozy. No fuss, no muss. 2 GB free.
www.mozy.com
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I have used Backup myPC software for windows machines for about 10 or
15 years and through 10 name changes and a half a dozen owners. it is
fast, easy, and ran on everything from windows 95 to xp. it was cheap.
Try SteadyState. You can turn on and off all sorts of things on accounts.
I'm using it on an XP public access station and it's pretty darn cool.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/sharedaccess/default.msp
x
TweakUI for XP supposedly works on Vista, but you need to run it as
I use it on my anti-spam server, which scans incoming mail for viri as well.
Works nicely and has a reasonably small footprint. $50/year.
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Someone just asked me anput F-PROT. Any opinions?
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Europeans aren't dealing with the same scale issues I am.
You must not be using a Piwowar projection map. The US is about the size of
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A private venture already investing in rural broadband, no guvmint handout
necessary, competing with cellular business models no less. Demand, meet
supply.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901
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Correct, to an extent. My town (Middleburg) leases to most of the
carriers on our two water towers. We prohibit private towers inside
town limits. No one wants the eye sore of private towers here.
It was a unanimous vote? *No one* wants rental income from the
Yes but mailboxes, street lights, lines for phones and cable, satellite
dishes, etc don't emit harmful waves that will let you cook an egg. :-
)
I heard it was the mailboxes that beam messages into your head.
I'm starting a petition to have these dangerous boxes removed.
Yeah, but they have to stand in long iPhone data plan lines to get it. Then
they have to go stand in the voice plan line. I don't even want to think
about the accessories line.
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I just read that iPhone service plans with unlimited data start at $24
USD in Hong Kong.
I agree, but the studies were for adults. I don't believe the safety
of rf
exposure to young children over time is settled science. Wouldn't you
be
loath to accept such exposure as a PZB member only to find out 20 years
down
the road those kids are sick from it ??
No, I would loathe to
Another possibility is that the CPU heat spreader has come loose. Not very
likely, but CPU overheating is the quickest way to initiate a shutdown on
many computers, after throttling the CPU down, which could explain the poor
performance.
BTW, I once had to completely disassemble an older HP
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I would expect Jeff to not get it. Many people have emotional
attachments
to things like pets or cars or tools. When a tool is empowering its
user,
its user gets a rush and some of that good feeling transfers to the
tool.
This is all freshman Psych 101 stuff.
One of my clients just pink slipped their IT team and brought in a new
team. I must say that this new team reinforces my long-held beliefs
about IT management.
Don't you mean *doesn't* reinforce my long-held beliefs about IT
management?
Otherwise, you've been lying to us all along, you sly
The IT departments I've worked with who have had bad attitudes have
usually gained those attitudes as a larger part of the structure of the
company/CEO they work for.
As they say: QFT.
Mismanagement starts at the top. One way or another.
Jkdefrag is a free defragger that is much better (and faster) than the
native defrag utility. I use it on my XP machines.
http://www.kessels.com/Jkdefrag/
Also, XP SP3 is said to have a 5%-10% performance improvement over SP2.
Defrag before applying the service pack.
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That depends on you (and the machine). There's nothing wrong with Vista
per se, it's a good OS, but it's biggest crime is just being underwhelming
for a 5-year effort. It can be frustrating at times to find where MS has
moved functionality, but as with any new design, you get used to it over
You can't transfer programs, but any thumb drive or external HD will handle
the data. You'll need to install the apps fresh on the new machine. They
may or may not work with Vista.
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ok, i'm sold. now, what are my choices to transfer programs and data
from a compaq
A recent DNS spoofing patch (KB951748) conflicts with ZA.
Story: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2325275,00.asp
Solution:
http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/pressReleases/2008/LossOfInternetAcce
ssIssue.html
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I was away for 3 weeks, and when yesterday
Keepass will securely store the passwords.
Inventory is another matter.
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I'm looking for a computer based software (or template/ plug-in to
other
software) for keeping a business's IT inventory, accounts, password,
setup information in a secure fashion.
Anyone
Also give Spiceworks a look. It will audit the network, creating a hardware
and software inventory. But, it doesn't do password mgmt.
Free! http://www.spiceworks.com/
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From what I know, quikbooks is an accounting software. Does it have
templates for recording
No idea about Phoenix, but I just got out from seeing it at the Uptown
Theater in DC. Non-Imax, but a HUGE, parabolic single screen.
It was f***ing awesome. (Here endeth the review)
I would kill to see it in Imax.
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I've been looking around our local imax theaters to
I also think that is a big reason that many steer clear
of Macs.
Only if they've never been on this list.
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I use it for my help desk and inventory software, replacing TrackIt after
many years of use. It's some pretty amazing software for free.
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Very interesting software. Thanks ... I'll give it a try... should
make
quick work of the inventorying.
db
Jeff Wright
You will also see lots of Macs used by scientists. If you watch science
programs like Nova or the occasional/rare news report about something
scientific you will commonly see that the person who just made a
scientific breakthrough did it with a Mac. Second choice is Xnix.
As I said before,
WFBs get so emotional as Microsoft slips into irrelevance. They would
play ostrich while significant changes are occurring in the computer
industry. I think it is much more useful to pay attention. This is all
so fascinating.
One must argue with you to be paying attention? Oh my. This level
Oh, and someone's gotta say it: with so many logins these days, trying
to use a spreadsheet and copying/pasting is just ridiculous. If you
can't afford to buy Roboform, try some sort of freeware like Keepass.
Or use the fabulous Bugmenot add-in.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Bugmenot doesn't store your personal
logins now, does it? I use it to log in to the odd site that still
demands logins just to read a blurb, but those have mostly disappeared
in the last couple years.
You are correct, but no these types of bozos haven't
Hmmm, I don't recall seeing that commercial. Are you sure you aren't
confusing it with the Microsoft Corp in your head?
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Steve, good point. I agree that getting someone to switch from one thing
to
another is generally
Or, like me, happy with what they have and see no need to go to another
platform.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Snyder, Mark (IT CIV) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
There are still Windows users who actually fear anything else.
iPhone sales up by a whopping 300% year over year.
And exactly how many years has the iPhone been selling? Tom has never
met a 2 data point, straight line trend that he didn't like.
Not bad during a major recession.
Sez who?
Two free applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and another
program
that costs only $4.99, make it possible to listen to live radio on the
iPhone from anywhere, including a moving car...
No, radio (and the NAB) will kill radio. Who cares what you can listen to
it on, the product is just
Should it be my problem that some folks have no sense of humor? Should we
all be required to dial down to low level gloom to accomodate the most
morose among us? Should we be denied a good laugh at the folly of the
ultra rich? I think not!
I thought the squirting commment was fairly droll for
I was telling someone about the story this morning and came to the same
conclusion. The city's IT dept looks to be managed by a bunch of idiots.
The netadmin was just protecting his loved ones.
No question about that. But someone had to hire the idiots in charge
in the first place.
You'd
When I have my speakers on, I periodically get a sound,
dum-dum-duh-duh-duh-dum-dum-duh-dum. Does anyone know what that is?
At first, I thought it is a
time signal at the start of an hour, but I hear it at other times.
Nearby Nextel phone. I've gotten it with a Treo too.
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ISP's are shutting off USENET because of Andrew Cuomo, Secretary of
State
for New York State.
Ah, the proud New York tradition of electing power mad, publicity whoring,
thuggish assholes as their Attorney General. (He is actually the AG, not
the SoS)
As opposed to power mad, publicity whoring thuggish assholes in the
White House?
No, in addition to that. Do you have trouble envisioning both, or just ones
with a (D) next to their name?
or in the Alabama or Mississippi state houses?
Mississippi has more problems than that. Like a state
In all this talk about the definition morality, I've always found it
interesting how groups use their own definition of it to justify their
cause.
This might not have made the national news but
Perpetrators must be stopped using whatever means necessary, and the
use of force is a
Apple's actual solution? Here is a nice, new, latest and greatest
MacBook Pro, 17 inch, 2.5 GHz, 2 gig of memory with a 250 gig hard
drive and a Super Drive for you. They are even sending my broken
machine back so that I can get data off the hard drive. An awesome
outcome is about all I
I have to pay the $310 flat-rate repair fee as I had already
agreed to do that in order to get back into my hands a working
computer. It is just that the computer I was expected to get back
was the one that had broken down, not a brand spanking new version of
my five year old one. Apple
Power Antivirus rogue antispyware - A friend has it, not sure how it
got installed, but will try to remove it tomorrow. Has anyone had any
first hand experience with removing this pest? i see several programs
that
claim to remove it, but i would rather use one that has best chance of
WFBs urging Apple to never lower prices or introduce exciting new
features. I guess they want Apple to act more like Microsoft.
Or...maybe, just maybe, they might not gouge their loyal following to begin
with. Na
What's the Apple equivalent of Battered Spouse Syndrome?
The iPhone is different, as are all new Mac products. There was nothing
wrong with the iPhone. It worked; it was unique, a conversation piece,
literally. A new version came out. Apple offered a $100 rebate. That's
better than most products. When you buy a new electronic toy,
guaranteed that a
This is not a technical article. It is an op ed by a WFB trying to spin
the issue in MS's favor. It is not worth the time to read. A waste.
Is that the best you got?
You must not be familiar with Peter B over at Ars. He recently recanted his
love for Windows and documented his turn to the
I'm starting to think Steve Jobs needs to start calling himself Steve
Jones.
For a second there, my mind inserted Tom's name instead of Steve's.
Tom as a Sex Pistol? Heh. Tommy Rotten? [giggle]
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Inertia is a big one. Many IT pros don't keep up with technology or
don't understand the reasons for using a particular technology. They
pick RAID because it is buzzword compliant.
We pros use it because of buzzwords like mature and reliable and
inexpensive. We use it for well documented
Romania238K
Greece 132K
Latvia 65K
Hong Kong1K
Macau .025K
All numbers are square kilometers, rounded up, total 436.025K.
A little bigger than California and on average much denser.
If all I had to do was give everyone in California broadband and
I had
The list, perhaps because it lacks any sort of rating system,
definitely has a high ratio of hecklers around. Every time someone
brings up a good point, 3 others jump in and opine, completely
obfuscating the issue. Then there are the 3-4 people who jump into
_every_ thread as if they know all
The megacorp is bearing the cost. We expect ROI. That is basic
capitalism. We know the government isn't going to help us do this.
We are doing this on our own. That is how America is supposed
to work.
Sounds like a viable business plan to me. I hope Verizon is successful and
wildly
But RAID is a specific technology. Having multiple, redundant drives
does not require using RAID. My understanding is that Google doesn't use
RAID technology for anything but that one project (Adwords). While for
their search indices and Gmail and the like they simply store multiple
copies
Legally yeah she is pretty much stuck. There are ways but they violate
the DMA. Search for what M$ said about converting plays for sure to non-
DRM they told you how to do it and the same applies to iTunes. To say
anything more will make Tom nervous.
This will teach her to buy non-DRM
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That dell wasn't bad for it's time, but the software was
horrid...almost as bad as soundstage is for sony.
It was a solid device; no scratches on it ever. I never used the awful
MusicMatch that came with it. Just the Explorer plug-in.
I've been using iTunes on
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You ever look into the stuff from NetApp?
Yes, I have, but I thought they were little pricey. Dell actually has a
less expensive series that I would like to get one of.
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Yes, I guess that is the point. You run less risk of losing your
backup data stored with a reliable online vendor than you do if you depend
on
your own RAID/ Drobo device.
If your budget can swing it, you should have the following for complete
protection:
1. Shadow copies
2. Disk-disk backup
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You keep saying this, but don't give examples of what better methods
there are.
Why educate when you can obfuscate?
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I think we should scale this back to the parameters of the original
question: given a limited budget and the need to protect about 1TB,
which of these technologies make sense? I woule go for DVDs *and* an
external
hard drive, but no RAID.
RAID vs. single drive boils down to the following
Good to see that you admit you were sleeping in class while the
government was doing good things for the public, instead of spying on
us.
The level of naiveté is rarely seen in nature, since as you approach such a
fact-free vacuum, subjects usually implode.
We must have both slept through
The public-private partnerships that created satellite communications
were necessary advancements that couldn't have been done at the time
[or now] by private corporations. Same for Arpanet and the Internet. Same
for the monopolies that exist in cable and telco broadband that allow
them to
The United States has the lowest corporate tax rates in the
industrialized world. That's effectively subsidizing just about all
corporations.
You are sadly mistaken if think that there is really any such thing as a
corporate tax. Go ahead, raise the corporate tax to 80%. Let us know how
much
Responding to the FCC's scolding, Comcasts' new regime will impose a
250GB cap, throttling of high-consumption users, usage-based billing,
and increased DMCA enforcement.
This is what happens when you get a complete train-wreck like Kevin Martin
and a witless ideologue like Michael Copps in
Enjoy the fruits of your government in action.
inaction
Don't expect any sympathy from me on either account. You voted for the guys
promising you a free pony, so suck it up.
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Yep they should have kicked Comcast in the cojones with a couple of
hundred million dollar fine.
In essence, this is what the FCC is doing. This is price controls by proxy.
Comcast is determined to shape the traffic on its network, for whatever the
reason, and the FCC is only too happy to
250gb/mo is at least realistic. The local phone company (Frontiernet)
is talking about 5gb/mo.
That is a fairly decent limit, I doubt I would ever blow through it, but I'm
still strongly considering FIOS. I'm paying $133/month just for cable and
Internet!
National security?? So little jonny can download more movies?
Let's just call it for what it is: IMD. Internets of Mass Destruction. If
you don't support the fight against it, then you must hate your country.
Keep throwing things! We have to see what sticks!
Following up on the national security angle, please read...
Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the US
nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html
Oh no! The CIA will have to start outsourcing their spies!
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This is what scares me about Vista. Of the half-dozen people I know
who are running it, every one of them are having problems. Most of them
are having trouble running Eudora on Vista.
This is Eudora's fault, not MS'. It's beholden on them to make sure their
software works on the OS. God
Mike--Don't sweat it. Tom is the grasshopper to the rest of us ants.
When, not if, our drives fail, the hive will reward us for our forward
thinking and employing fault tolerance for the hardware. Tom, OTOH, will be
sitting outside and crying into his thorax, cursing the exaggerated claims
of
But what the admins are really looking at is having the same data
replicated on multiple NAS. You can do a lot of that with a good SAN, but
interoperability issues and expense can limit you there. Also, hardly
any server runs its own local database. There are dedicated database
machines,
So, I search the same as I did in DOS, right? Isn't Vista supposed to
eliminate the need for command-line? In Windows 3.1 I could search any
file on the computer for content, and find exactly what I wanted--but
not Vista. My husband downloads things, forgets where he puts them and
asks me to
Vista is hardware agnostic- if the hardware meets the specs.
MAC OSX is pickier but yields a more consistent experience given the
limited number of platforms it runs on. Going MAC eliminates some of the
weirder PC problems even if you only run Vista on it.
This illustrates a very
A study by http://www.canalys.com/ said that in Q3 2007 and Q4 2007,
iphone
outsold all windows mobile in the US. Outside the US, Windows mobile
was
12% followed by Apple at 7%.
Mike
http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/12/17/against-odds-
I'm starting to agree with Tom. If I have to buy new software every
time MS decides it's time for a change, I might as well tackle the
learning
curve from Mac. If most businesses are refusing to use Vista, it's not
a very good recommend for those of us out here who just want a computer
You do realize that you don't have to buy a dedicated NAS, but can
build one yourself out of any old computer that can run Linux. Same for a
MySQL server.
Yes, of course. That however, is not a mistake I plan on repeating. I have
about 5 servers I built myself out of Intel OEM parts, built
That is the point that most people are dealing with today, and that Tom
keeps emphasizing.
If the likelihood of a computer failure is close to the likelihood of a disk
drive failure, how do you minimize the risk?
That's the thing. In my experience, the system will fail many, many
times less
I'm seeing power supply, motherboard, and memory failures at about the
same rate as I'm seeing drive failures.
I would suggest, then, that you stop buying your hardware from Toys R
Us. At least upgrade to FAO Schwartz.
Again, you are working with out of date ideas. Hardware costs are way
Not being argumentative ;) but I didn't post articles from mac
specific
sites on purpose...ars is a apple site? What about canalys?
I know, I wouldn't suggest otherwise. But, the site that Ars linked to with
the story on the canalys figures was a Mac site. I poked around a little
and
You would have me spend $10,000 to serve a 5-person office? That would
be an example of bad judgement.
No, that would be stupid, but I also wouldn't advise someone to get a SOHO
device for a 250 person network. Talk about bad judgment.
I would look at hosted solutions for a 5 person office
What is wrong with these people? Even I'm embarassed for them.
O-h-h-h-h-h, that's right, if it's not smarmy and smug and taking cheap
shots, then it Just. Isn't. Funny.
I thought it was rather amusing. I'm looking forward to the next one.
You asked this question a week ago. And the week before that...and the week
before that...Come to think about it, the weeks have all seemed very
similar.
Am I the only one who remembers this?
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So in a little over seven hours the Large Hadron Collider will be
Did you read any of the references that John so thoughtfully provided
you?
No, because I don't use MySql. I can do native SQL replication with SQL
Server 2005, which I have to use, but there is still that pesky issue of
vendors not wanting to give away their hardware for free. Funny that.
I
Everyone is scratching their heads about it, except for Gates who is
scratching his butt. It was the Zune of broadcast
advertising.
Everyone? As in, How could Nixon win, since everyone I know voted for
McGovern?
I'm not scratching my head, but then I'm not stuck in the creepy, minimalist
I don't care for the Pearl much, I prefer the full qwerty keyboard,
but this is a good idea. The OS is rock-solid, *never* crashing, as
is the hardware.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Stewart Marshall
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RIM keeps on rolling along. They think and
There are dozens of WM smart phones, compared to Apple's iPhone.
Which was exactly my original point. You seemed to have missed that.
You can either enjoy choice or being told what to do. I promise to
act surprised as to what decision you make.
Possible, but there is no good reason to do that. RAID is just a buzz
word to impress rubes. It would be more impressive to tell them you have
an LHC in the basement.
There's no possible, it is. I suppose someone would run their SAN/NAS
as a JBOD (just a bunch of disks), but all that does is
You can either enjoy choice or being told what to do. I promise to
act surprised as to what decision you make.
God, what a nasty person.
I didn't think I was being nasty at all; far less than Herr Doctor
usually is. It was a poke at Betty and what I know of her
predilections as to computers.
How many of those WM phones are the ones purchased by a company for
employees [telling them what to use], and what do those employees purchase
for their personal use?
Betty--It's a very simple concept I was commenting on: Microsoft
gives you a wide choice of devices and carriers from which to
I like John's postings... he's rational, and where his solution might
not work for everyone, he usually acknowledges that.
We must be reading different posts. John insists that anyone should be able
to do server replication, without knowing anything about their internal
environment or business
Maybe Jeff will want to take advantage of this.
I have far more than 2 cartons worth of stuff to get rid of. The thought of
doing on Apple's dime, however, does warm the cockles of my heart.
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