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<title>LiveUSB OpenBSD project at sourceforge  Author: JonR 
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<description>Sun Nov 15 15:30:40 2009&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;"And oh by the way the fixed write cycles of USB memory drives is largely a myth."  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;My heart leaped with joy at seeing this note.  It seems virtually every article (or forum post) touching on solid-state drives, including USB devices, perpetuates the misinformatiion that these things will wear out pretty quick.  (And the word "largely" is well chosen, too, because there is the _possibility_ of wearing out; but today's design and manufacture techniques have probably placed the possibility in the neighborhood of the always-present potential of a mechanical hard drive to self-destroy.)  More likely than wearing out, solid-state memory is apt to outlive the average spinning drive, and possibly by a factor of years.   &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;If people are educated to see that reputable manufacturers' solid-state drives are actually an improvement over mechanical ones, the price of them is bound to drop, as it must if they're going to get into truly widespread use.  I'd gladly replace my laptop drives with solid-state if I had several thousand dollars to play with. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;I'm going to try out the OpenBSD-to-go you describe here.  I did make a live CD of the current OpenBSD distro a couple of months ago but was disappointed by the difficulty of getting wireless set up.  I understand why the developers chose to do it that way; it's so virtually every chipset in existence will work with OpenBSD.  But I wasn't willing to go through all that for a live test-drive, and without wireless I wasn't going to connect to the Internet (via Ethernet cable) due to physical logistics where I live.  What I did see, I liked.  I use Linux exclusively except in emergencies or dead-end situations where I simply have no choice but to fall back on MS Windows.  I'd welcome a distro that's more nimble than the Linux ones are tending to be now with all the Gnome atrocities and other bloat that's dragging them down, sorry to say, steadily to the state of mediocrity -- or worse.

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<title>Chrome  Author: TonyLawrence 
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<description>Sat Nov 14 21:27:03 2009&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;I just d/l-ed a newer version from that site.   Aplawrence.com is SO broken in that version -  unusable. &lt;br /&gt;
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<title>Virtualbox for Mac  Author: TonyLawrence 
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<description>Sat Nov 14 12:22:22 2009&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;No, nothing to do with X.

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<title>Virtualbox for Mac  Author: anonymous 
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<description>Sat Nov 14 06:04:14 2009&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;did SCO OpenServer work without X installed and running ?

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<title>Why I love Unix  Author: TonyLawrence 
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<description>Fri Nov 13 16:29:01 2009&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;I know.  I went to look st a neighbors machine yesterday - he lets his grandchildren play with it.. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;Oh, well....

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<title>Why I love Unix  Author: BigDumbDinosaur 
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<description>Fri Nov 13 16:25:52 2009&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;Website: http://bcstechnology.net
&lt;br /&gt;Something in the article I didn't notice before&amp;#58;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Sure, Windows has gotten better. I haven't seen a real BSOD in years (though having to reboot is just as common).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you feel cheated from not having seen a BSOD stop in for your fix.  I've got two boxes in the shop that do that right after ISL.  They both belong to the same guy and by pure, and I mean pure, coincidence, his kid had used both of them to wander around the Internet.  Now, I wonder why these two Window$ machines are not feeling well...&lt;p&gt;BTW, one of the machines has all of this guy's business records.  I can't tell you how many times I have counseled him (and others) to keep the kids away from any PC used for anything important.  Geesh!

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<title>Granite Digital USB to SATA/IDE Adapter  Author: TonyLawrence 
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<description>Fri Nov 13 14:42:50 2009&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;The drive in the picture was IDE - but this was OS X, not Linux (Linux on the IDE, but accessing it through OS X in this case). &lt;br /&gt;
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<title>Google SideWiki  Author: TonyLawrence 
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<description>Fri Nov 13 14:38:47 2009&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;Google announced an API for fetching SideWiki's for a domain. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;So far, it doesn't work well. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;The docs say to use &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;http://www.google.com/sidewiki/feeds/entries/domainpath/http&amp;#037;3A&amp;#037;2F&amp;#037;2Faplawrence.com&amp;#037;2f/full?includeLessUseful=true &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;but actually that gets nothing. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;http://www.google.com/sidewiki/feeds/entries/domainpath/aplawrence.com&amp;#037;2f/full?includeLessUseful=true &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;almost works - it returns SOME of the SideWiki entries.   Interestingly, it also returns an entry I don't find when actually using SideWiki in a browser. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Also, I can't subscribe to this with Google Reader - so something is still broken! &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;

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<title>Granite Digital USB to SATA/IDE Adapter  Author: JoelRugullies 
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<description>Fri Nov 13 14:38:13 2009&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Subject: USB to IDE/SATA ADAPTER
&lt;br /&gt;Website: JoelRugullies@yahoo.com
&lt;br /&gt;Ya..it picks up a SATA drive connected to the adapter but not an IDE..does yours pick up IDE?  Maybe it's the manufacturer of my adapter.  

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<title>Basic DNS:;  PTR records and why you care Author: TonyLawrence 
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<description>Fri Nov 13 12:44:57 2009&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Subject: 
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&lt;br /&gt;You'll need to fix that problem &amp;#58;-)

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<title>Basic DNS:;  PTR records and why you care Author: anonymous 
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<description>Fri Nov 13 12:33:43 2009&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Subject: 
&lt;br /&gt;Website: 
&lt;br /&gt;Um, ok, but why on earth would I use a web browser when I can do a "dig -x" ??  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;I just accepted a new position and needed to check some records immediately.  As there were no linux boxes around from my predecessor, it can be handy to have web sites to do quick lookups. 

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<title>Granite Digital USB to SATA/IDE Adapter  Author: TonyLawrence 
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<description>Fri Nov 13 03:13:40 2009&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Subject: 
&lt;br /&gt;Website: 
&lt;br /&gt;You sure?  You'd be looking for a usb drive.

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<title>Verizon FIOS  Author: Chris 
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<description>Fri Nov 13 00:54:42 2009&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Subject: 
&lt;br /&gt;Website: http://www.directcommunications.us
&lt;br /&gt;I had a similar problem, however mine wasn't resolved until 6 phone calls into the company.  turns out it was my fault &amp;#58;)

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<title>Granite Digital USB to SATA/IDE Adapter  Author: anonymous 
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<description>Fri Nov 13 00:03:37 2009&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Subject: USB to IDE/SATA ADAPTER
&lt;br /&gt;Website: JoelRugullies@yahoo.com
&lt;br /&gt;Hi!!  I have a usb to ide/sata adapter that I would like to use with linux Fedora but the external hard drive connected to the adapter doesn't show up in linux as a drive.  Anyone have any help with this?

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<title>Is Linux the One True Religion?  Author: TonyLawrence 
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<description>Thu Nov 12 21:28:51 2009&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;Subject: 
&lt;br /&gt;Website: 
&lt;br /&gt;It was a pretty silly thing for the Professor to say.   If he is teaching a course in OS design and wanted them to muck with Plan 9 or something, fine.   But if it's anything else, I can't think of any reason why he'd say such nonsense.

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