Posts by JC_

Poland & Estonia Have a Very Good Point.

It's to the annoyance of Poland and Estonia because bilateral energy deals with Russia are in direct contradiction of the requirement that EU negotiates as a single body. Putin's aim is to divide and conquer, and Gerhard Schroder has done his best to enable this. If middle & eastern European countries see that the western countries won't stand with them, then they'll be forced to cut the best deal they can with Russia; when this happens to all EU countries it leaves them all at a disadvantage.

When dealing with gangsters, you can either stick together or hang separately.

Godwin's Law on the First Post?

The evidence overwhelmingly supports AGW, that's just how it is. There's no need for holocaust comparisons - no one is victimising you for your opinion, however ill-judged it may be...

Good, But Not Perfect

You're absolutely right about that firmware problem, which was a pretty bad mis-step. Overall, though, they lead the table for reliability:

SSD failure rates

* Intel 0,59%

* Corsair 2,17%

* Crucial 2,25%

* Kingston 2,39%

* OCZ 2,93%

(source http://www.hardmac.com/news/2010/12/08/ssd-failure-rate-first-data-on-ssd-reliability)

@Jim 59

What were Santorum's views if not hatred? Savage's response was ridicule.

Get an SSD

Get an SSD and VS2010 is 10 times faster. I put one in my 4 year old dual-core laptop and it's now no problem, even when working on solutions containing 20+ projects.

Yeah, SSDs are expensive and small, but the time it saves you will well and truly justify the cost.

Not a Small Business

They've got at least 6,000 PCs, which at a conservative turn-around means 1,200 new PCs a year to configure, plus any repairs and upgrades. To spend 2 days on installing software on a case-by-case basis is absurd - define standard images and use them. Vendors like Dell will even pre-install custom software for orders above what, 30 machines?

Go Mechanical for Backups

Mechanical drives park their heads when they're powered-off, so the main problem with shocks (heads crashing into platters) isn't a problem.

Our office of 7 people has around 1.5TB of data that gets backed up every week from the NAS. 2TB eSATA drives do the job nicely.

If you're thinking of getting SSD drives, put them into the PCs. It'll make them faster and the size of your backup smaller!

Hard Keys Break

The 'menu' key on my year-old Desire is now a bit flakey and can take a few presses before it responds. Pressing it really hard isn't going to be good as eventually it'll need a stylus to work!

Also, when you're in bed it'd be nice to use your phone without clicky-noises annoying your partner.

Signature

You say the dentist signed his own name? That'd be interesting, but where is it stated?