The Swamp

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Turns out 1 hard drive in my array went bad...Lost quite a bit of stuff

No way to save the data, Believe me I tried

Now I guess I'll turn on Data Duplication. (I learned my lesson the hard way)

Matt

ugh, sorry to hear that. Anything of particular importance?

[mmettin]

ugh, sorry to hear that. Anything of particular importance?

Some music, & Movies...Luckily I backed up my server before Christmas, so I only lost a few months of stuff.

Some of my PC backups are also gone, however those aren't really that important

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opening day every year of my life:

[Lenny]

I just paid $3.97 for gas. Cost $59.90 to fill. Not happy

[zetachi]

I just paid $3.97 for gas. Cost $59.90 to fill. Not happy

Mini van or SUV?

[Lenny]

Mini van or SUV?

2000 Honda Odyssey. Get about 20 mpg typical driving. 25 straight highway. My Camry gets about 27 which is better but still not great.

[Brandito]

I just paid $3.97 for gas. Cost $59.90 to fill. Not happy

i've been paying 60 a tank for a long time.

19.7 gallon tank though, and that's small in truck terms.

[Lenny]

Both my cars have around 20 gal tanks. The total cost isn't really the point. It's the cost per gallon and the cost per trip to places like work, shopping, etc.

[Brandito]

Both my cars have around 20 gal tanks. The total cost isn't really the point. It's the cost per gallon and the cost per trip to places like work, shopping, etc.

just gonna have to buckle down and get used to it. i know once my truck is paid off i won't be looking for a new one till the wheels fall off, or i pay cash for one of them "foreign jobs" used!

for what i pay a month for my loan i could fill up my tank 10 times. i was a dumb idiot when i bought it :/

i doubt we're going to find significantly more million year old plants to burn, or at least it won't be easily extracted. there's a chance we could get prices to level off a bit by reducing demand and finding more efficient ways of producing and extracting it.

not going to happen with all the chicken littles afraid of building new nuke plants (which would be safer AND more efficient than the old busted plants we currently are forced to keep chugging along) because enough radiation drifted over the midwest to kill an amoeba (that was already dying of prostate cancer)

these high prices are just going to force innovation i think, people are getting fed up, and not only that, many just can't afford it. oh and we need to stop subsidizing corn to make that stupid e85 crap!

[Lenny]

I don't for a minute believe the rising cost has anything to do with real supply/availability of oil.

[Brandito]

I don't for a minute believe the rising cost has anything to do with real supply/availability of oil.

supply and demand.

when you're addicted to a substance, you don't get to tell your dealer what you want to pay.

gasoline is an american addiction, the sooner we admit we have a problem the sooner we can get through the 12 steps.

[Lenny]

supply and demand.

when you're addicted to a substance, you don't get to tell your dealer what you want to pay.

gasoline is an american addiction, the sooner we admit we have a problem the sooner we can get through the 12 steps.

I agree with that. It's just that there hasn't been any significant change in supply or demand to justify such a huge increase in the cost.

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I agree with that. It's just that there hasn't been any significant change in supply or demand to justify such a huge increase in the cost.

You think that, but its not true. Gas is a commodity, in that its value is very strongly ties with supply amd demand. Oil is used in so many facets of life, from plastic production to transportation. Any uptick in the economy increases oil consumption accordingly. This all happens out of sight of normal consumer

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I think the PSU is dead on my work-in-progress home server.. the thing is less than 9mo old (OCZ)

What a crappy week.. everything I've touched blows up. First the HDD on the PC hooked up to my instrument at work died (luckily all data is on the network). then a heating unit on a different instrument blew a fuse, but in so doing melted the plastic fuse housing, preventing it from being replaced. Of course, the instrument is made by an extremely unresponsive company in England.. and to replace the whole unit will cost probably 3-4,000$ because its designed for "pharmaceutical testing"

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top 3 movies of all time:

1) The Godfather
2) Fast Five
3) Shawshank


its getting hard to put movies on my Top 10 all time list when 5 of the slots are occupied by The Fast and The Furious movies