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
Go into Device Manager and find the NIC, which likely will _NOT_ show up as a
yellow question mark, and uninstall it. Look under Network Adapters. If you
don't see something that you know is the NIC, uninstall everything under that
heading. Then reboot.
Fred Holmes
At 11:53 PM 9/9/2008,
Of course, if the NIC has simply failed (happens all the time), it
won't be showing up in Device Manager.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Fred Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Go into Device Manager and find the NIC, which likely will _NOT_ show up as a
yellow question mark, and uninstall it.
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasictax
I uninstalled them all and tried to reinstall them when the computer
found them upon reboot, but that installation failed. The monitor
refresh is sluggish, and the Ethernet port still doesn't work. Any
suggestions or is it time to give up. Can't figure out if it's
hardware or software or both at
that folds up
http://my.earthlink.net/article/tec?guid=20080910/48c74640_3ca6_1552620080910-884094760
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myEarthLink News
http://my.earthlink.net/channel/NEWS
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
RIM also is carrier independent. I think all of the major carriers
in the US carry their equipment.
Stewart
At 11:02 AM 9/10/2008, you wrote:
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
BTW, that article you posted was Q1 2007...
Crap, you are correct. It seems I pulled a Bloomberg (read about United
Airlines this AM for the reference). I have seen numbers quoted for 1Q 2008
of WM sales a 4.5 million and iPhone sales of 1.8 million.
There are dozens of WM smart phones,
I thought it was cute and a bit quirky. I especially liked the touch of
Gates showing his membership card to the shoe store too.
Tom can't admit to liking it - or even finding it mildly amusing -
because he's lifetime member of the I hate MS club. :-)
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From: Computer
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
Jeff Wright sez:
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.
--
Michael Lewis
Off Balance Productions
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Tom Piwowar wrote:
I uninstalled them all and tried to reinstall them when the computer
found them upon reboot, but that installation failed. The monitor
refresh is sluggish, and the Ethernet port still doesn't work. Any
suggestions or is it time to give up. Can't figure out if it's
hardware or
If you think that's nasty, you must have missed the name calling earlier.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Michael Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Jeff Wright sez:
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
I'm putting the argument in the parameters you set.
As to if you are acting or not, I won't guess. I'm still waiting for the
solution that improves on the old RAID technology..now we sit and wait for
you to tell us which HD's you were talking about when you claimed anyone
with a failed drive must
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 pathetic. Smart Blackberry users can't figure out how to lock their
keyboards. Flip phones are pointless. RIM is rolling down.
RIM keeps on rolling along. They think and anticipate and get into the right
items.
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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.
Ah, statistics! How many manufacturers'
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 have an ati radon 1200 with 256 meg of ram. run vista. both latest
upgrades. have a V7 22 wide screen monitor. cheap Acer with quad core.
installed ATI CCC(catalyst control center).
i set the display to 1440 x 900. all is fine.
when i shut down the computer and reboot, the display
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Jeff Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 give you a
little extra storage at the cost of fault tolerance for the drives.
Better to have
Are you sure your 22 LCD monitor isn't native 1680X1050? Unlike CRTs,
you want to set an LCD to it's exact resolution. Maybe the res you're
trying to enter is so far off it's getting rejected?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:07 PM, gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i have an ati radon 1200 with 256 meg
In many cases Betty Iphones have not been a corporate buy! I knew
one person who tried tog et one and they would not sell it as a
corporate phone.
Also note many folks who get a phone through work do not carry
another phone. They use what the company gets them. Many many smart
phones are
On behalf of the rest of us who are quite tired of this shouting match of the
deaf, thank you.
--- On Wed, 9/10/08, John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Replication (was Re: [CGUYS] Back ups on computer i
To:
The last 12 years, one bad RAID controller. Same time period, more then a
dozen bad HD's.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:57 PM, John DeCarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
RAID has some possible uses nowadays. Sure. Let's see if we can recap.
1. Those with just a little money or those with a lot
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 give you a
little extra storage at the cost of fault tolerance for the drives.
Better to have the best of both worlds, if you can swing it.
You ignore the ability of the
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
I'll go with that. Thank you.
However, did not one of the links posted here state that Google does not
use RAID, it uses replication, except in a few situations where they find
RAID is unavoidable.
In many cases Betty Iphones have not been a corporate buy! I knew
one person who tried tog et one and they would not sell it as a
corporate phone.
Old, obsolete news and an example of ATT being slow on the draw. The
consumer rollout consumed all their brain cells. Eventually they did
produce
John, I really think that you've been at Mitre for so long that you
don't have any idea of what conditions are like for smaller
organizations, especially in non-profits. I'm lucky to get the money
to replace desktops right now.
Im trying to conjure up a mental image of where Jeff works. My
The last 12 years, one bad RAID controller. Same time period, more then a
dozen bad HD's.
I will accept that was true *12 years ago*. I will not accept that as the
case with currently sold drives. It has not been the case for the last
few years.
When did you get a picture of my office?
Stewart
At 05:04 PM 9/10/2008, you wrote:
Im trying to conjure up a mental image of where Jeff works. My crystal
ball reveals a snake pit worthy of Indiana Jones. Inch-thick coaxial
ethernet cables slither and sparks leap out from behind hulking
Betty--It's a very simple concept I was commenting on: Microsoft
gives you a wide choice of devices and carriers from which to choose.
Apple does not. Choice vs. dictates, and for now, in this scenario,
choice is ahead.
That is just a silly comparison. That is like asking someone to choose
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Tom Piwowar wrote:
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
I'll go with that. Thank you.
I like John's postings... he's rational, and where his solution might not
work for everyone, he usually acknowledges that.
However, did not one of the links posted here state that
I also know that she prefers Nokia phones, so it really had nothing to
do with phones choices per se. Nokia just signed on with Microsoft,
so that may change: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10037506-94.html
And Android too. So?
Tom can't admit to liking it - or even finding it mildly amusing -
because he's lifetime member of the I hate MS club. :-)
I work with people in the media industry, not computer geeks. The MS ad
has attracted attention and does produce laughter, but of the derisive
what the heck were they
But sadly no push! for the wannabe blackberry converts :(
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In many cases Betty Iphones have not been a corporate buy! I knew
one person who tried tog et one and they would not sell it as a
corporate phone.
Old, obsolete
At 9:51 AM -0700 9/10/08, Larry Sacks wrote:
I thought it was cute and a bit quirky. I especially liked the touch of
Gates showing his membership card to the shoe store too.
Did you catch that the picture on the membership card was his mug
shot from when he was busted for speeding in New
This is over the span of 12 years. A hard drive just failed a month ago at
one location...either a seagate or WD drive, not sure. Either way, the only
thing that at this point that kept his company running along was the RAID.
Had the whole box gone down, or the RAID controller we'd have rebuilt
Yeah I'm not sure of many small businesses that can afford a cluster at the
office.
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Vicky Staubly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Tom Piwowar wrote:
John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own
I'll go with that. Thank you.
I like John's postings...
You work in HOLLYWOOD!?!
Why didn't you say so in the first place??!
What's it like to get to hang with all those really, really, really
important people?
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Yes, but the question remains, Big Bang Breakfast Bar or The Restaurant
at the End of the Universe?
Heh. The CERN people say if it happens it (the black hole)
would be so small as to be completely unstable and would
not persist for more than an infinitesmal period of time.
They also argue
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, mike wrote:
Would we have to deal with Al Gore's company selling black hole offsets?
Or worse yet, Bush claiming that the black hole is a natural phenomenon,
so we don't need to do anything about it. :-)
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Eric S. Sande [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:09 PM, Vicky Staubly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, mike wrote:
Would we have to deal with Al Gore's company selling black hole offsets?
Or worse yet, Bush claiming that the black hole is a natural phenomenon,
so we don't need to do anything about
That's true, it's not like there aren't any other black holes in the
universe...
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Vicky Staubly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, mike wrote:
Would we have to deal with Al Gore's company selling black hole offsets?
Or worse yet, Bush claiming
Nobody really KNOWS what is going to happen, but that's the
whole point of the experiment.
Risk is computed as the product of (probability of occurrence) times (the
degree of horribleness of the event).
So probability of occurrence is a very small number.
What value for degree of horribleness
What value for degree of horribleness do you assign to total
destruction of the planet?
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If no one is here to measure it, is there any horribleness at all?
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What value for degree of horribleness do you assign to total
destruction of the planet?
Risk is computed as the product of (probability of occurrence) times (the
degree of horribleness of the event).
So probability of occurrence is a very small number.
What value for degree of horribleness do you assign to total
destruction of the planet?
Ah, I'm going to punt on that one.
If no one is here to measure it, is there any horribleness at all?
So how quickly does a mini-black hole eat all of creation? Do we watch
Europe vanish all at once or over a period of weeks? Does a weakened
earth start to break up into chunks? At what point does the atmosphere
evaporate?
At 11:07 PM 9/10/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote:
At what point does the atmosphere
evaporate?
It already is vapor! A Gas!
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At 09:44 PM 9/10/2008, Tom Piwowar wrote:
What value for degree of horribleness do you assign to total
destruction of the planet?
Zero?
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The issue is with Konsole. os.getlogin() does not work with it, this should be
fixed with the first update. Use os.getenv(USER) instead.
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