Post #233,925
11/13/05 6:49:07 PM
11/14/05 1:35:07 AM
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The brotherly beret
Though not a computer professional the elder brother (he's 58) took his first programming course, in Fortran, forty years ago; used as a home computer 25 years ago a piece of kit from Digital Equipment ("a shrunken PDP11 running a flavor of v7 UNIX") with a 10MB drive; is comfy with Unix; was using a Silicon Graphics "Indigo" in the early nineties; has had a Windows box as the default home machine since v.3.1, has never been heard by me to refer to the Macintosh except in terms of genial dismissal. On Friday, probably after a bad week of malware infestation, he brought home a Mac Mini. Ths afternoon I have the following email from him: I hereby retract any and all disparaging comments I have at any time in the past made, or may have been deemed to have made, about Apple and its products of any type or description whatsoever and freely and without reservation state and declare that such products are manifestly superior to the competitive products known as "Wintel" in every respect. This now completes the conversion of my three full siblings since I first begain talking up the platform in 1984. Unfortunately it also means that I'm now dead last in terms of desktop studliness, behind the younger brother's dual-pump 1.8 G5, elder brother's 1.25 G4 Mini and sister'sr 700MHz iMac G4, all ranking ahead of my wheezing 400MHz G4 (a retrofit from a B&W G3). It ain't right, and as soon as we get off the post-wedding short rations I may just go for one of those final-generation G5 dual-pump/dual core jobbies after all. cordially, [edit: DEC detail] Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Edited by rcareaga
Nov. 14, 2005, 01:35:07 AM EST
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Post #233,963
11/13/05 9:52:29 PM
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I see where you got your speech pattern from.
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #233,968
11/14/05 12:45:26 AM
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hmmm, he writes very lawyerly....
though this missive seems a bit too consise. A Notary Public, perhaps?
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #233,970
11/14/05 1:32:11 AM
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Right you are
A lawyer (his third career, unless you count his seven year interlude as a PUC judge as a fourth) since the latter 1980s. And I did indeed spend my first thirteen years, until he left for college modeling my speech after his (although in the sample provided he is being deliberately arch and "lawyerly"—it's not really representative of his diction or mine).
I'm still quite pleased that he's come over to the Mac side: I'd never thought to see it, and it had been years since I pitched the cause to him. I guess I should shut up about his republicanism...
cordially,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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Post #233,969
11/14/05 1:28:35 AM
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Wait until MacWorld, at least.
It'd be proper annoying to spend all that lolly on an undoubtedly studly dual G5 just for Jobs to go and announce something studlier and cheaper in January.
Peter
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Post #233,972
11/14/05 1:33:09 AM
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Re: Wait until MacWorld, at least.
Nae fear. We'll be on short rations here longer than that.
cordially,
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
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Post #233,973
11/14/05 2:09:10 AM
8/21/07 5:53:31 AM
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Might as well for a bit - no high capacity/bandwidth storage
is available for the new machines.
I've come into a bit 'o coin with the sale of Denver house and have been wanting to do that record album I've been meaning to record for the past umpteen years. So I started looking for the core of a killer digital audio workstation with massive disk/size and speed.
So looking at the super duper quad with 8G of Ram, now I need something to feed it fast. The obvious high end solution is the xraid over fibre channel. However, at 5k for a half filled rack of disks adding up to a terrabyte of striped storage, its a mite pricey.
Hearing great things about sata II but the new macs have pci-express slots - 4x the throughput of the older pci-x - would try to find an 8 port card and load up a couple [link|http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?Category=2600|minig's] to do mirrored striping (for safety).
Anyhow, the pci-express cards are simply not there. Apart from xraid there doesn't seem to be any really high bandwidth redundant storage suitable for pro audio recording on these babies yet.
It's got me waiting to write the check. Were a solution available, I'd place an order today.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #233,979
11/14/05 6:30:26 AM
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Even older SATA is faster than FC for sequential
FC kills SATA on multi-user acesss random IO.
A 3ware raid card and a bunch of SATA disks will allow you to write at around 380MB per second (IIRC, I posted those numbers about a year ago). Site search should show them but I gotta run
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Post #234,044
11/14/05 12:51:18 PM
8/21/07 5:54:44 AM
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But is it pci-express?
that seems to be the issue, there are no mac compatible pci-express multiport sata raid cards on the market just yet.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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Post #234,046
11/14/05 1:01:03 PM
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Areca is PCI-E x8, but no Mac support
[link|http://www.areca.com.tw/products/html/pciE-sata.htm|http://www.areca.com...tml/pciE-sata.htm]
[link|http://www.tomshardware.com/storage/20051031/index.html|http://www.tomshardw...051031/index.html]
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Post #234,097
11/14/05 4:03:55 PM
8/21/07 5:55:52 AM
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Yep, heard of that one - they could sew up the mac market
if they'd hurry up and add support. All the pros are gonna want that.
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein
"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
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