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[The Real Adam 2.0] Due to my LaCie Firewire enclosure failing, I was sans iTunes for about six weeks there. Thus I was very relieved when simply replacing the enclosure...

Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[Not Quite a Blog 2.0] An example of what to do when Apple breaks things...: Adrift in this perfect storm of incompatibility was Brahms from NASA Ames, a multi-agent work-practice modeling and simulation tool that I am using in my Master's work. Brahms wouldn't launch due to this java incompatibility. Essentially, with my software tool no longer working, I had to code on a PC chained to the floor at SIMS in order to complete my master's work!

[Tech Dose Information] Hard disk From Tech Dose Information: It is important to note that hard drive manufacturers often use the metric definition of the prefixes "giga" and "mega." However, nearly all operating system utilities report capacities using binary definitions for the prefixes. This is largely historical, since when storage capacities started to exceed thousands of bytes, there were no standard binary prefixes (the IEC only standardized binary prefixes in 1999), so 210 (1024) bytes was called a kilobyte because 1024 is "close enough" to the metric prefix kilo, which is defined as 103 or 1000. This trend became habit and continued to be applied to the prefixes "mega," "giga," and even "tera." Obviously the discrepancy becomes much more noticeable in reported capacities in the multiple gigabyte range, and users will often notice that the volume capacity reported by their OS is significantly less than that advertised by the hard drive manufacturer. For example, a drive advertised as 200 GB can be expected to store close to 200 x 109, or 200 billion, bytes.

[Kates Journal] writing rather than thinking: Samsung 80GB SATA1 Hard disks X 3. Samsung makes the quietest hard drives by far, I nearly went for 160GB as the price difference was marginal but 160 GB total is more than enough for him. They will be set up as a single mirrored RAID pair for DATA on D and a C drive just for system and programs. This should allow stable upgrades of core OS by upgrading C and leaving D intact - I hope.

[ [Andy Merrett Online]] He hates the iPod”¦ big deal: How can it be sub-standard when it set the standard? I’m not saying there aren’t better devices, or different devices? Don’t knock the product. Most people with iPods don’t moan about them, they love them, and if they don’t like them, they get something else.

Kirk Allen Evans' Blog :: ... Will not be in the manifest for the assembly and thus not loaded into memory unless ... 1394 and USB Personal Storage drives are pre-formatted in FAT32. ...

The Far Corner of the EEC :: As we are chatting I do a google search on "hovercraft" and quickly come to Universal Hovercraft website. While much of what they have on the site looks pretty cool, the UH-18SPW provoked a bit of a conversation. Both dad and I quickly envisioned one of these going at the rated 50-70 mph and clipping a wing...either the wing would hold and you'd be subjected to the g forces of a very rapid turn or the wing would not hold and you'd be screwed (I feel justified using screwed here as it is also descriptive of what would be happening as the remaining wing continued to provide lift and forward motion dipped and continued). Needless to say, if Dad and I do end up tackling a hovercraft in the future, we'll probably stay away from this model (initially at least).

AlBlue's weblog: I'd used software RAID to mirror contents of drives, with the result that large data writes caused generic system inbalance. Obviously, I could have used a separate RAID card internally, but due to hardware support (and ability to come back up after a hardware failure), I decided that an external solution would be better for my requirements. In this case, if the computer I am using fails, I can just unplug the hard drives and put them into another system; if the RAID enclosure fails, I can just pull out the hard drive and use it in a single hard drive enclosure. So in any hardware failure, I can be up and running in a matter of seconds, rather than minutes.

The Dizwell Blog: March 2005: Anyone using White Box as a freebie clone of Red Hat Enterprise Server 3 as recommended by me in countless articles on this site might be tempted to download it. Well, I'll certainly be pleased to hear of your experiences if you do so (because on a dialup modem, there's fat chance of me laying my hands on it anytime soon!), but my Oracle installation instructions (and Laptop RAC and ASM ones, when they're finished) assume Respin 1, with O/S patches applied later once Oracle is working. Maybe those instructions will work for Oracle on Respin 2 without batting an eyelid, but I wouldn't bet my grandmother on it.