Re: [OT] RAID

[Steve Abbott <steveabb+ukha@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not playing in the windows/linux room, but I have to say during
my 'away' time, I sold my HP servers (1 x SBS2003, 1 x Linux), my two
shuttle PCs (XP) and htpc (MCE).  I settled on an iMac for the kids
(they play with garageband) and a macbook for me, which has
parallels.  I can quite happily run xp and visual studio.net in a
virtual machine for work and use iphoto,etc for my personal
computing.  The Macs have definately brough the enjoyment back into
computing for me.  I even have a prebuilt ubuntu vm.

My work is Windows but my enjoyment is computing, whatever the OS.


On 24 Jul 2007, at 17:58, Phil Harris wrote:

> > >On 7/24/07, Ian Lowe <ianlowe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Linux in the home is for people who like shoving safety pins
> through
> > > their nipples - perfectly acceptable as a hobby, but rather
odd
> nonetheless.
> > >
> > > :D
> > >
> > > I.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf
> > Of Tim Hawes
> > Sent: 24 July 2007 16:39
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] RAID
> >
> > LOL!
> >
> > I'll be picking tuna sandwich out of my keyboard for weeks now.
> > The other people in the office already think I'm mad for
> sniggering at
> > my screen....
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tim.
>
> C'mon David, even you must have had a chuckle at that! :-D
>
> Not taking any sides in this dispute but still hurting from the
> several
> passes of re-ripping my DVD collection to my Linux server that kept
> trashing
> data drives irrecoverably over a period of time which turned out to
> be the
> crappy implementation of multiple hard disc support by firewire
> which still
> seems to exist to this day - I borrowed a Mac Mini and tried OSX as my
> "server" platform and never looked back. (Mainly because if
I did
> look back
> I might see the guy whose Mac Mini I still have shaking his fist at me
> wanting it back.) ;-)
>
> [Mind you, Windows also b*ggers up external firewire drives too so
> it can
> stop looking smug. ;-) ]
>
> Phil
>
>
>



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