Craig wrote:
But what about the few cells an operating system writes over and over,
many times each day? How many bytes is that 100 GB of writes per day to,
the whole solid-state disk, or a smaller subset?
The O/S doesn't get to decide, it's handled by the drive's internal controller.
It's
Stop by and take a look in my garage...
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Max,
Charleston SC
Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net wrote:
How hard is a blown head gasket (aside from moving all the crap out of
the way)? Why did it blow out?
I went up to the bank this afternoon, and parked in front was a fairly
But what about the Queen's English? Do Y'all speak the Queen's English? Aye?
I can also speak perfect American AND Canadian English when and if
necessary and, as indicated, a few American Southernisms when
kidding around. ;))
Wilton
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But what about the few cells an operating system writes over and over,
many times each day? How many bytes is that 100 GB of writes per day
to,
the whole solid-state disk, or a smaller subset?
The 'drive' devices all supposedly contain wear-leveling mechanisms.
I'm unsure of the quality
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/09/audis-diesels-running-strong-at-road-atlanta/
--R
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Rich Thomas wrote:
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/09/audis-diesels-running-strong-at-road-atlanta/
532hp from 3.7L? That's the sort of HP/liter the Crazy Finns get in OM60x
powered road cars. Seems low for a modern direct injection prototype racer.
Mitch.
On Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:30 PM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net
wrote:
A company I worked for, for 'reliability', switched from rotating
media to flash media, on a BSD platform. No other changes were made.
The reliability went _way_ down! You need a filesystem, and possibly
Allan Streib wrote:
As a curious side effect, you cannot secure delete a file on an SSD by
overwriting its contents with random bits before deleting, as the won't be written in the
same place as the original!
On an individual file level, yes, but there's a Secure Erase function that wipes
On 29/09/2011 10:30 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
But what about the Queen's English? Do Y'all speak the Queen's
English? Aye?
I can also speak perfect American AND Canadian English when and if
necessary and, as indicated, a few American Southernisms when kidding
around. ;))
Wilton
Oh, come
I am getting to where I understand Gullah pretty well, but have minimal
ability to speak it.
--R
On 9/30/11 10:24 AM, Randy Bennell wrote:
On 29/09/2011 10:30 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
But what about the Queen's English? Do Y'all speak the Queen's
English? Aye?
I can also speak perfect
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca wrote:
On 29/09/2011 11:56 AM, Rich Thomas wrote:
So how is it docs make enough money up there to afford high-end cars, what
with gummint Canadacare and such?
...
Finally, I expect their education cost is a whole lot lower
I say! 'Probably could if I worked on it some, ole boy; 'always been pretty
good at foreign languages. ;))
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:30 PM
Subject: Re:
'Could even throw in un mot de Francais occasionally, n'est que pas?
Certainement.
Wilton
- Original Message -
From: Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] How can you tell I
Georgetown said about $200k, but who's counting...
--R
On 9/30/11 11:28 AM, Tim C wrote:
SWMBO looked into moving to Newfoundland for this reason, she'll be
going into med school in the next couple years. According to her
reading the -average- med school graduate in the US has $250K debt
Shifting sheet metal wouldn't be so reliable would it? If I put the shim in
backwards the pedal is low, if I put it in forward its high.
Hopefully Sunday I'll find time to see what upside down and upside
down/backward does.
-Curt
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:39:30 -0500
From: Randy Bennell
From the picture you sent I think the difference between the two rods is no
more than 1/8 and possibly less than that.
I need to play with the shim more, I'm still convinced its the cause of all my
problems. Otherwise I do have a brand new MC to swap in assuming that I somehow
damaged this one
We tried SLC drives here for drives in a database server, results were FAR LESS
robust than a spinning disk. Databases ruin SSDs by constant flipping of bits.
-Curt
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:45:45 -0600
From: Craig diese...@pisquared.net
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: SSD in
Me. Right now I'm helping a son, a grandson and a granddaughter in college.
Yes, I'm counting. 'Hard to realize that during my first 3-year tour at
NC State my total cost for EVERYTHING was $1000 per year - 1952-55. 'Bout
$16,000 to $17,000 per year now.
Wilton
- Original Message
Tickets: check
Easy Up: check
Camping Chairs: check
Still photography camera: check
Cow bell: check
Excited about my first in person race that doesnt involve county fair
grounds or a big circle?
CHECK CHECK CHECK
-Rolf
On 09/30/2011 09:44 AM, Rich Thomas wrote:
The engine is about 25 percent lighter than the V10 in the previous
car, and it makes less power too, just 532 horsepower. But it's
morefuel-efficient http://www.wired.com/autopia/tag/fuel-economy/. The
car's new six-speed transmission is controlled electronically, not
pneumatically, to save
Curt Raymond wrote:
From the picture you sent I think the difference between the
two rods is no more than 1/8 and possibly less than that.
Oh! Then there must be more than two choices.
The different between my short and long rod is at least 1/2
inch. As I recall, it's closer to 1 inch
That's med school, not undergraduate work. Add the undergrad costs to that and
$250k is cheap.
Interesting article in the Atlantic (I think) yesterday about how colleges
actually penalize families who save up to pay for college, as the FAFSA takes
into account any cash or investments you have
Frightening to thing of what he'll be like at 2
http://imgur.com/gallery/WfcPJ
Dan
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I saw some small blurb that in all this economic and political turmoil
the subsidized Federal loans (you can borrow a certain amount at one
rate, and some more at a bit higher rate, then the rest is commercial)
are going away next year I think they said. I'm sorta thinking that of
anything to
Why the obsession?
i.e.:
Hold the light swithch for 2 sec., lights come on.
If you don't let go of the switch, you stay in the dark.
Called re-bounce (computer needs to verify the switch was actally actuated).
Windows: Press Exit and a window pops up: What do you wantto do? Exit or
Continue.
Are
Hans wrote:
Windows: Press Exit and a window pops up: What do you wantto do? Exit or
Continue.
Are we that stupid?
The collective we on this list. No
The collective we on the planet... Yes.
Rick
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The next problem in our kitchen remodel relates to an old washing machine
drain pipe that I want to remove. It is a short run of 2 galvanized pipe
and some 45 degree joints that goes into what is apparently an
old-fashioned, cast iron/lead plumbing joint.
In trying to remove the short, upper
That'l pass for here!
I say! 'Probably could if I worked on it some, ole boy; 'always
been pretty good at foreign languages. ;))
Wilton
- Original Message - From: Dieselhead 126die...@gmail.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011
Sorry Randy, I didn't mean that to pertain to Canada. I just meant
the Queen's english as being distinct from Canadian, American, OZ, or
Kiwi english.
On 29/09/2011 10:30 PM, Dieselhead wrote:
But what about the Queen's English? Do Y'all speak the Queen's English? Aye?
I can also speak
On my work PC, WIN 7 Enterprise version, when I select shutdown, no further
questions it just shuts down. I love it.
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Charleston SC
Hans Neureiter diese...@gmail.com wrote:
Why the obsession?
i.e.:
Hold the light swithch for 2 sec., lights come on.
If you don't let go of the switch,
I saw this on this old house. Use a hammer to break up and remove the cast
joint, replace if needed with modern material. Far faster/cheaper than trying
to save the cast piece.
--
Max,
Charleston SC
Craig diese...@pisquared.net wrote:
The next problem in our kitchen remodel relates to an
When they did them, they pounded some oakum in the joint then poured hot
lead over it to seal it up. I think there is some sort of replacement
for that now, probably some sort of epoxy or RTV kind of stuff or
something. I did a PVC to cast iron joint in my old Victorian when I
upgraded the
Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net writes:
When they did them, they pounded some oakum in the joint then poured
hot lead over it to seal it up. I think there is some sort of
replacement for that now, probably some sort of epoxy or RTV kind of
stuff or something.
Yeah I had to
No M116 (3.8lV8) engines there, but there was one 108 250S
with an OM617 in the engine bay.
-- Jim
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Go to a commercial plumbing supply house with pictures and a diagram.
There are all sorts of transitions and adapters for connecting up to cast iron
pipe.
I would consider suggesting that you try a big box store like Home Despot, but
it's a crapshoot as far as the advice you might get.
Dan
I'll ask the wife - she may know since she works for Sallie Mae (and is in
charge of some of their loan systems.)
Dan
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On Sep 30, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Rich Thomas richthomas79td...@constructivity.net
wrote:
I saw some small blurb that in all this economic and political
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 21:28:13 -0400 Max Dillon meadedil...@bellsouth.net
wrote:
I saw this on this old house. Use a hammer to break up and remove
the cast joint, replace if needed with modern material. Far
faster/cheaper than trying to save the cast piece.
Actually, the cast piece is in the
Yep, thats were conversions like that end up... destroys the value of the
car.
Jaime
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Jim Cathey j...@windwireless.net wrote:
No M116 (3.8lV8) engines there, but there was one 108 250S
with an OM617 in the engine bay.
-- Jim
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:44:38 -0400 Dan Penoff lwb...@yahoo.com wrote:
Go to a commercial plumbing supply house with pictures and a diagram.
There are all sorts of transitions and adapters for connecting up to
cast iron pipe.
Thank you for the info. That will mean an hour drive to Santa Fe.
Craig diese...@pisquared.net writes:
They are also in Santa Fe, but we do have a Do It Best hardware store
here in Los Alamos! Yeah, I know, I'll start planning a trip to Santa
Fe.
Sometimes those local stores have more than you realize, and also
sometimes the employees actually know what
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:28:58 -0400 Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu
wrote:
Craig diese...@pisquared.net writes:
They are also in Santa Fe, but we do have a Do It Best hardware store
here in Los Alamos! Yeah, I know, I'll start planning a trip to Santa
Fe.
Sometimes those local
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:44:38 -0400 Dan Penoff
I would consider suggesting that you try a big box store
like Home Despot, but it's a crapshoot as far as the advice
you might get.
Craig wrote:
They are also in Santa Fe, but we do have a Do It Best
hardware store here in Los Alamos!
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