Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network
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>From: ron.l.johnson@cox.net
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network
>Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:00:05 -0500
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>>On 07/15/08 17:11, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>>> Ron Johnson wrote:
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>>>> Last Wednesday, I bought two WD6400AAKS drives from NewEgg.
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>>>> They were manufactured in Thailand only 21 days ago. They
>couldn't
>>>> have been sitting in NE's warehouse very long...
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>>> About $90 each. But 640GB each what a world are you going to store
>on
>>> them?
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>>Can't say. "Some organization" might sue me.
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>>> And also amazing is the cost/GB. I remember when at IBM a
>125MB
>>> disk was a super deal...
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>>Stunning, isn't it? At my first programming job, 40M was cavernous.
>> Many versions of source code and all sorts of data files barely
>>made a dent in it...
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>>- --
>>Ron Johnson, Jr.
>>Jefferson LA USA
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>>"Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New
>>York is doomed."
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And remember the original Winchesters were only 30M on a side (hence
the name)
Larry
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