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stgagnon wrote: I feel like a mousetrap is going to snap if I take a nibble.
Here is what you do. Lie down on your back, grab the cheese and hold the steel in your hands as you do some bench presses 
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No, no...grab the cat by the balls and make it get the cheese. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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If it's the trial version, you can extend it by a few months.
Other than that, I think it periodically uploads your code to Microsoft so they can have a laugh.
All this cloud nonsense is getting very annoying.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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stgagnon wrote: What do I get for creating a "Visual Studio Online Account" ?
It's not a bad idea to create an account. You'll get a Visual Studio online account (eg, https://jeremyfalcon.visualstudio.com) and online TFS hosting for projects. Not that I'd never use it for personal projects, but it's nice to know if I get tired of Google Code or whatever, I always have access to another offsite code repo for code.
Edit: Keep in mind I'm only talking about the free parts.
Jeremy Falcon
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literally..........Death-chocolate-Factory-worker-meets-sweet-end-falling-vat-cocoa[^]
(yes know it is an old news article, but DeathByChocolates appearance below inspired this).
It's Friday though, so;
- how many puns can you come up with
- or if you were the editor of the Sun or the Sunday Sport or other red top, what would your newspaper headline be?
- or name a music track that would be appropriate
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Soft Centres
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I don't know about puns or headlines, but I can't help thinking of the Crunchy Frog skit by Monty Python.
Scott
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Music tracks is easy:
- "Don't Stop It Now"
- "Are You Getting Enough of What Makes You Happy"
- "I'm Losing You"
- Etc.[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I have in my hands a 6TB Seagate drive (I have 84 altogether but obviously not in my hands) that I've been tasked with testing.
Do you think anyone would notice if I 'lost' them?
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Probably, but I wouldn't bid anyway. Its not worth bothering with anything less than 12TB drives these days. 
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P0mpey3 wrote: Do you think anyone would notice if I 'lost' them?
For 20%, I'll confirm that you "lost" them.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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How do you test a 6TB drive?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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by downloading 5% of the cat pictures in the internet?
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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6TB is quite a lot. At first I thought you could stick the whole internet on it. But, if my sums are right (which they probably aren't) that's enough for *70 years* of back to back MP3 music.
So, perhaps you could fit all the music on the internet on it?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Close, based on 365Days per year and Constant Bit Rate of 128kbps my calculation and using 1024Bytes per KB etc.
70 years
= 25550 days
= 613200 hours
= 36792000 minutes
= 2207520000 seconds
Rip rate 128 kbps constant
= 282562560000 kbs
= 282562560000000 bits
= 35320320000000 bytes
= 34492500000 Kbytes
= 33684082.03 Mbytes
= 32894.61136 Gbytes
= 32.1236439 Tbytes
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Amazing how hard it is to really wrap your mind around REALLY BIG DATA. You can't exhaustively test the drive for any transient defect, can't even take time to test all of it with a single pass.
Dave.
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Wow hadn't thought of it like that before. We sell to Cray, meteorological centres etc people that need high storage density. The major plan is to be a major player in the Cloud. We are going to have systems with 84 of these in a box, controlled by two controllers. You can then have 7 of these systems in one rack. The Rack we use for testing has melted into the floor (and that was just with 4TB drives)
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We're testing it in one of our products[^]. Seagate(who now own my company) would have tested the drive itself, I'm just testing that our test software will cope with this drive inside our product and checking it accepts certain modepage settings and that it is happy with the FW we want to put on it.
We do do a CERT test which does write and read back data to random parts of the drive amongst other things. That use to last around 24hrs on 2TB drives but we're going to have modify it I think for this capacity.
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Being a Seagate, somebody might notice that not all drives that have been purchased had to be returned within a few months...that would look suspicious.
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I could say they broke? Or in I could start a fire?
Yeah I see what your saying...not going to work. 
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P0mpey3 wrote: 6TB Seagate drive
Depends on the speed of the drive? Also, is it in an array? Drives die, they dont always get returned to the vendor
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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