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:rotflmao: You crack me up with the 5.25 floppy drive. Might as well add in that 8" floppy drive you have in the closet! I have decided Spring of 2010 is the time for me to buy / Build a new Dell workstation for my home. Then it will fly by using SSD drives. Course for my work, I just got delivered an AMS500 array, single shelf with 15 1TB 10,000rpm sata drives. Will run it in a raid 6 state so really about 12TB of storage. Should be a blast to play with.
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Thank you People like you is who allowed Microsoft to grow and create millions of jobs that people are doing around the world. Microsoft has created more jobs than Linux, Unix, Solaris or Mac has ever created. Windows Rocks!
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:rotflmao: DF you and I will always agree to disagree about DELL. What do I have against Linux, Unix and Solaris you ask? last 20 years of working on them, the ever changing NON standards. The lack of any consistency among them. The harsh vague world of certification they have to get your products approved to work with their servers and OS. I started out with the best Unix company in the world, DIGITAL. Their down side was not the Awesome Engineering but their lack of Marketing and selling. That technology ended up at Compaq who bought them and grew the sales before messing up their own sales / marketing and then they got bought by HP. I used to be a big fan of Tru64, the Alpha, etc. yet every time those of us that tried to get the Unix world to come together to have a universal interface and set of commands, people would end up bitching about their version of Unix was better than everyone else. In the end, Unix stayed fragmented and windows started to grow. Then you had Linux come along and promise to do all that Unix had failed to do and long story short, we are fragmented again, Redhat, SuSE, Ubunto, etc. Sun came out talking about standards, easy to use interface, etc and instead they stayed proprietary and while their CLI is somewhat strong, their GUI sucks and worse yet, their is NO standards and so it becomes hell to get your hardware certified with them. Apple came out started and screwed over their fans in the late 70's who helped them grow and then again in the mid 80's as they pushed in to the Enterprise area only to pull back and leave companies with millions of dollars of unsupported hardware. They are now trying to push again into big business, but most who remember getting burned will NEVER let them in again. While Windows is not perfect and many will curse it, MSFT has at least kept the end user experiance consistant and allowed a world of people to grow, have jobs and be successful by keeping standards in place. yes things need to always improve and as long as my job requires me to program and test on windows, Linux, Solaris and Unix. I will do what is needed to keep my job, but my preference is windows. There will come a day when I will say screw em all I am out of here to a nice relaxing change of career, but for now this pays the bills well, my life style and other things. Windows Rocks, the rest are just Blocks and with that they have flowed out to sea to be lost. IMO you will never see Linux replace windows or Mac's in the home or school. It is not and has never been user friendly.
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Sadly not all of us fit in these small auto's and worse yet, they sit way too low to the ground. Reality check, as you get older it is not always easy to keep doing deep knee bends to get into a vehicle that sits on the ground. This is a major reason you see middle age people going with cross overs, the HHR is just too small, too low to the ground and over all just a kids car. NOT an adult or family car. My opinion and I am keeping to it.
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Spy Shots: Is this the next Opel Astra?
G. David Felt replied to Intrepidation's topic in Opel/Vauxhall
Nice auto for small people. Sadly I feel I am a dying breed of 6'6" tall people who really only are comfortable in full size sedans or trucks / SUV's. -
I saw in the news they just came out with a Trillion dollar bill for that country. I would think it was time to change the evaluation. That is crazy that they have a note that high and it is only worth a few USD.
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Mac's Suck, they screwed me in the early 80's and the piece of $h! CEO and his turd company will never again get a cent from me. Apple can die along with Linux, Solaris and Unix. DELL and HP both have sweet new notebooks that come out in April that are supposed to be thinner than the Mac Crap.
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Sweet Deal, I told everyone DELL was good for a Deal!
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Regeneration!
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Wall Street Journal - Auto Task Force set to back more Loans, but with Strings. "President Barack Obama last month handed his auto-industry team a seemingly impossible task: to engineer the most complicated industrial restructuring ever attempted by the federal government, and to do it fast. With almost no experience in the car business, the team's dozen core members have undergone a crash course in the myriad woes plaguing the U.S. auto industry. Within days, just over a month after setting to work, they'll begin announcing decisions. Interviews with task-force members indicate that the administration doesn't want to let General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC slip into bankruptcy protection, a course advocated by some critics of the industry. Instead, the task force is expected to say that it sees viable futures for both GM and Chrysler, but only if there are sacrifices from their managements, unions and GM's bondholders. The team will also lay out a firm timeline for action." Over all I am very pleased with what I read here in this story and it seems that the right things are being done. I am not thrilled with everything and some of these bean counters clearly only see numbers and lack the vision and the common sense to understand the passion that drives auto sales and the need for this passion, but at least it does help with eventually Keeping GM and Chrysler and the millions of other people working at companies that supply these two giants working. Your Thoughts?
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AIG makes me want to
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We'll some will agree with me and other will hate me, but this product does have a place here. As stated for those with poor credit, it can change their behavior and get them to be more responsible in making their payments. Some people need this type of leash to change and become better citizens, responsibility is not always common sense to people and to protect the products they sell and the value in the product, this helps the companies. Now for those of us that are responsible and have credit, this should not be used on the auto's and if it is on a auto, then it should be removed if the vehicle is fully paid for. Lucky for me and many of my fellow C&G members we probably have enough skill to remove these bastard items and have our car the way we want it. Live Free and Die hard driving all the way to hell is my Moto!
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This is as stupid as it comes, What about all the accidents that will be caused by the reflective windows???? Great we want to keep the heat out of the car so everyone gets their windows tinted with a reflective polarizing treatment and now you are blinded driving down the road by everyones windows. What a bunch of Idiots. Keep your f@#king hands off my choice of colors and window tints.
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Spy Shots: Cadillac CTS Coupe spotted undisguised
G. David Felt replied to Intrepidation's topic in Cadillac
Yea GMC Man is an Idiot, He has no Idea what Cadillac is about let alone the premium auto segment. Probably one of these blinded by the lights, love Asian only morons covering up his embarrasment of driving a Coffin on wheels fit in with everyone gutless wonder as gmc man. -
Something little I noticed about the '09 Astra
G. David Felt replied to saturnd00d's topic in Heritage Marques
GM is probably saving money by not shipping in the 09 versions. -
Linky is not working, can someone repost the video so I can see it. Sounds like a interesting view. Thanks in advance.
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Spy Shots: Cadillac CTS Coupe spotted undisguised
G. David Felt replied to Intrepidation's topic in Cadillac
Love it!!! This will be successful. -
Sorry but was that supposed to be funny? To me it was not, But to the Birthday boy, Happy B Day Again.