Did some benchmarking on the UFies.org box (see the system specs here) to see if the nice 18G Seagate Cheetah drive, with an 8meg cache, compares to 4 Maxtor 40G drives in a RAID5 configuration, each with a pretty decent speed itself? Does SCSI win? Whose drive reigns supreme? Sorry, slipped into Iron Chef mode […]
First of all, for all those Trading Spaces fans out there, I came across the the truth about the show in an article on salon. Interesting stuff. Today I met with Bev from Community Futures to talk about business names. As I said before, no one can spell or pronounce “Arcterex”, so having a company
Disclaimer: Ever notice how strange random thoughts appear, and even though they are really really wrong, they’re still good? Firefly came up with the first idea, in a round about way, which is to pretend to become a health nut to hide an affair. What better excuse for when you come home all sweaty and
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Been looking through the Atic site and have come up with a list of things I’d like to get for my wee little boxen someday. Some are pie in the sky, some are almost realistic. All are impractical. CPU In the realistic forum, we have a Duron 1.3ghz for a mere $60. Not bad eh?
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Slept wierd last night. Corny was at my feet, but to the left more than ususal so I was pushed towards the middle of the bed, and Zoon decided that she was going to sleep on my left as well, but up by my head (with her head hanging over the edge of the bed
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While I don’t want to divulge all the secrets that I learned this week in the SEP classes, I will share some insights on things that made me go “wow” in the next couple of days. These will include time management and goal setting and keeping. First thing that really made me take a second
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Sometimes, doing the right thing is, well, the right thing to do. Other times when the Wrong Thing is done when trying to do the Right Thing, then the Right Thing is clearly and deeply Wrong. Confused? I thought so. I will now use a clever real life example to show how Microsoft yet again
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Ever have one of those days (mornings) where you totally lose your rhythm? I’ve been out of work so long, or at least of out the sort of work that makes you get up in the morning on someone elses terms, that I have forgotten how to do it. I woke up and thought to
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Well, just doing a bit of surfing and found an Advertising Slogan Generator. Amusing to play with, and put in different words for. Today was more training. We went from marketting yesterday to advertising and accounting today. I’m learning lots, but I couldn’t help think back to my accounting classes at UCFV when they started
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