Neowin IRC Chat gone FTW…
Posted by madLyfe
soooo... this morning i had an interesting chat with a neowin fellow by the name of carmatic... flawless... obv im the one in red...
<madLyfe> umm i only have the one red X and a warning and they are the same error/warnings as the popup...
<+vip> my pc is Napalm
<+vip> 
<carmatic> what does it say
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<carmatic> just something about hard disk about to fail>
<madLyfe> carmatic: the exact same thing as the errors..
<carmatic> ?
<madLyfe> word for word
<carmatic> hmm
<&The_Decryptor> Of course a few months ago I realised I could name them after the characters in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
<~Timan> thinking of calling mine TinkerBell
<carmatic> i bet that its just your raid array looking for the other hard disk
<madLyfe> carmatic, how do you turn off raid with out disrupting it?
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<madLyfe> carmatic, thats what im thinking... i mean ive never seen a hard disk error like that one before..
<carmatic> why did you set up the array anyway when you could hear the disk clicking?
<madLyfe> but if they are even going to pop up an error, youd think they could have said "disk removed, or disk missing, replace disk" or something..
<madLyfe> carmatic, i really couldnt.. i mean i had to put my ear to the two to see which one it was..
<carmatic> but you could hear a hard disk clicking the moment you powered on the computer, yes?
<madLyfe> plus the case is wide open, fans and what not are noisey... plus ive been to allot of concerts...
<madLyfe> no
<carmatic> hmm
<~Colin-uk> madLyfe is just hearing things >.>
<madLyfe> lol
<&The_Decryptor> The HD in my eMac makes a loud whining/grinding sound
<carmatic> well it could be as simple as going into your bios and turning the raid off or whatever and see if windows sees the hard disk
<&The_Decryptor> I should probably get that looked at
<madLyfe> ima plug the clicker back in and see what happens..
<carmatic> dont bother, a failer on the hard disk could corrupt the data on teh good hard disk
<madLyfe> true.. but its new and empty..
<madLyfe> freshly formatted..
<carmatic> seriously, you dont have to plug or unplug anything... just turn off the raid, and see if windows sees the hard disk
<carmatic> then theres no loss in reformatting it after you took off the raid then, is it?
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<madLyfe> no, but unplugging and plugging is an understatement...
<madLyfe> i should take a pic to show you...
<madLyfe> lol
<carmatic> just turn off the raid
<carmatic> even more reason to do just that
<madLyfe> ya id have to discon my monitor again, and the mouse, and keyboard.. yadda yadda yadda..
<carmatic> are you even listening?
<madLyfe> its a network server.. has no monitor or nothing.. i remote into it.. thus i cant see the boot up to get to all the raid stuff..
<carmatic> anyway raid 1 means that the hard disks should act as backups of each other, andthey should work independdently of raid... i think
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<madLyfe> damnit damnit damnit.. i hate RMAing shit
<madLyfe> why cant it just work...
<madLyfe> i mean you pay money for it to work... id go to the casino if i was gunna gamble on getting good drives or not..
<madLyfe> do they not simpley power up the drives before they ship them out of the plant?
<carmatic> maybe its just too noisy in the plant??
<carmatic> like you couldnt hear the clicking, either
<madLyfe> maybe the clicking didnt start till well into the boot up process, they are not always defective at first...
<madLyfe> ive gotten the click of death at all diff time periods...
<carmatic> or maybe you knocked it abit too hard when you were installing it >.>
<~Colin-uk> it was the postman!
<madLyfe> doubtful.. they are not even installed.. they are just sitting out side the case atm...
<carmatic> then how do you know one of them was DOA without installing them?
<carmatic> and how did you set up a raid array etc without installing them
<madLyfe> ill show you.. one sec
<carmatic> are they at least plugged in
<madLyfe> obv
<carmatic> dont bother with pictures, computers shouldnt be that complicated
<madLyfe> oh but they are....
<carmatic> thats cuz you made them that way
<carmatic> seriiously, if you could just unplug them straight away, why are you complaining about having to unplug them and all that
<madLyfe> http://www.imgftw.net/img/1057161384.JPG
<carmatic> and the fact that you have handled them means that the risk is on you, no matter how little you did
<madLyfe> you dont know the hell i live.. lol
<carmatic> who knows if you have set them down a little too hard or whatever
<carmatic> maybe if you keep on breaking hard disks, then hard disks arent really for you?
<madLyfe> i have 4 36gb raptors(yes thats old, from 03) that have been move over 100miles 10 times from moving, and they still work..
<madLyfe> lol
<carmatic> yeah they could be just lucky
<madLyfe> hard disk are def not for me.. and they def are not lucky...
<~Colin-uk> just get a new drive.
<~Colin-uk> lol
<madLyfe> most impressive conversation ever...
<madLyfe> im gunna blog it real quick so i never forget it..
<madLyfe> lol
<madLyfe> uhhh how do you highlight more than one page of text in mirc?
<carmatic> you could try to use SSD's because they are shockproof
<carmatic> but im sorry to say that you would probably kill them with static electricity instead
<madLyfe> lol
Best Day of the Year! 311 Day!
Posted by madLyfe
today is a very special day all over the world, its 311 day! 311 is going to have a 5 hour + show in las vegas this year... i will not be attending, and it makes me sad all day... anyways, everyone put on ur favorite 311 tunes!
IPHONE SDK 3.2 BETA 4 IS NOW OUT!
Posted by madLyfe
the iphone sdk 3.2 beta 4 has been released to the developers. it wont be much longer and 3.2 will be released to the public, i will post any new info on the release when i come across it...
2 weeks and counting…
Posted by madLyfe
so as the start of the day, 12:01 am, i have been smoke free for two weeks... it feels good to have not smoked this long and feels good that i could actually do it, but i don't know if i feel a whole bunch healthier tho... maybe that's week three?
Booze That Won’t Give You a Hangover?!?!
Posted by madLyfe
"Kwang-il Kwon and Hye Gwang Jeong of Chungnam National University have discovered that drinking alcohol with oxygen bubbles added leads to fewer hangovers and a shorter sobering up time. People drinking the bubbly booze sobered up 20-30 minutes faster and had less severe and fewer hangovers than people who drank the non-fizzy stuff. Kwon said: "The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage reduces plasma alcohol concentrations faster than a normal dissolved-oxygen alcohol beverage does. This could provide both clinical and real-life significance. The oxygen-enriched alcohol beverage would allow individuals to become sober faster, and reduce the side effects of acetaldehyde without a significant difference in alcohol's effects. Furthermore, the reduced time to a lower BAC may reduce alcohol-related accidents.""
as slashdot stated... would be soooo awesome...
Prunes… eh? not soo bad..
Posted by madLyfe
I wrote my last post because of what i was eating... prunes... because i cant shit.. someone told me that eating prunes would help get things moving... here is an excerpt from the wikipedia stating the facts, cuz wikis are the answer..
"Prune juice is made by softening prunes through steaming and then putting them through a pulper to create a watery puree. Prunes and their "juice" contain the natural laxativedihydrophenylisatin (related to isatin).[3] Faster results are obtained by heating the prune juice. Prunes also contain dietary fiber (about 6%, or 0.06 g per gram of prune). Prunes and prune juice are thus common home remedies for constipation. Prunes also have a high antioxidant content.[4] In China, the popular summer drink suanmeitang, made with sour prunes, is sometimes thought to have positive effects on acidity in the body."
results shall follow...
Nutrition Label Facts?!? wtf….?
Posted by madLyfe
why is it that things in life are overly complicated just for the sake of taking up space and being a filler...? check out a nutrition label on the back of a food product, is it really necessary to include nutritional facts and information about things that are not even in the product? wtf?
Google gets US approval to buy and sell energy
Posted by madLyfe
itworld.com:
"Google has received federal approval to buy and sell energy on the open market, giving it more options for the way it powers its data centers and opening the door to a potential move into the energy-trading business."
slashdot.org via itworld.com:
""The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Thursday granted Google the authority to buy and sell energy on a wholesale basis. Google applied for the authorization last December through a wholly owned subsidiary called Google Energy. 'We made this filing so we can have more flexibility in procuring power for Google's own operations, including our data centers,' Google spokeswoman Niki Fenwick said via e-mail. But the authorization also raises the prospect that Google may start to buy and sell energy as a business.""
quitting smoking for lent….
Posted by madLyfe
this is a picture of my last cigarette.. it didnt disappoint... yes its true.. i am going to be quitting smoking for lent.. it will not be easy but hopefully this will allow me to not only quit for lent but to quit for good... im guessing lots of nicotine gum and or chew are going to play a big part in this... good luck me...