Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: GNU

I am sure that our guards are getting testy too. I think that it must be a
hiring criterion. They were not even armed until recently.

We went to a family funeral in DC in September. We stayed with a friend in
Pittsburgh just before the G20 and then we were searched on the way into
Arlington cemetery. We got the full treatment, mirrors under the car, hood
up, poking through our things. We saw lots of security. We had been in
previous years without even being checked.
I am not sure where all of this security is headed, but it can't be fun.

New York is one of my favourite destinations. My daughter (20) fell in love
with it and wants to live there. She loves fashion and food, both of which
you have plenty of. I just love the culture. We went to all of the boroughs
except the Bronx and Brooklyn. Next time.

I would miss my trips to the States. We have friends and family there.
Crossing the border is our biggest problem. Not because we are doing
anything wrong. It just takes so much time and effort. I pity the folks who
do it daily because they work or go to school on the other side of the
border.

Much of the problem comes because the US cannot discriminate and must treat
both borders the same. But the northern one does not have the same problem
with people trying to get in illegally. At least not to the same extent and
for the same reason.

The effect of all of this is people stay home more. Passports cost money and
this adds to the cost of a family vacation. We used to cross just to shop.
That was good for us and for businesses in Niagara Falls. Many of the plates
in the parking lot were Ontario. Now you hardly see one. That's gotta hurt.

Yeah, I read that a Pakistani IOC member was held for thirty minutes. He
described it as a humiliation and ordeal. I am sure that it did not impress
them. That's got to suck even more, to lose to a violent overcrowded city
with poverty and now power failures. ;) Perhaps they will regret that
decision.

Roy

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2009/11/12 Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com>

>
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 05:22:02PM -0500, J wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 16:52, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com<scottro%40nyc.rr.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > >> OTOH, for low end, non-mission critical servers, a decent PCI raid
> > >> card that works is not terribly expensive either...
> > >>
> > >> http://www.google.com/products?q=linux+PCI+sata+raid+card&aq=f some
> > >> of those would probably work...
> > >
> > > Aren't those also host RAID? Why would they probably work?
> >
> > I think you're confusing two different things... HostRAID is an
> > Adaptec creature... think neutered RAID chipset soldered to the
> > motherboard, very similar to what happens to video cards on laptops,
> > or maybe even more apropos the difference between hardware modems and
> > software modems.
>
> Ok, I've always referred to them interchangeably, that is, a cheap RAID,
> whether MB or PCI, that relied on the O/S.
>
>
> >
> > The caveat though, is that
> > with most, if not all, onboard RAID devices, you get a subset of
> > functions, mostly you get RAID-0 and RAID-1 only... MAYBE you'll get
> > RAID-10, and MAYBE RAID-5 for the higher end devices...
>
> For these machines, simple RAID-1 is fine.
>
>
> >
> > Time to go home and give my wife her birthday surprise...
>
> Let us know how she liked it.
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
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