Posts by DuckieHo

Quote:Originally Posted by edgeofblade You mean I was pronouncing it correctly in kindergarten? I feel cheated Mrs. Kelso... The garden dwarf is pronounced as "nom". The GUI is pronounced as "ga-nom".

Quote:Originally Posted by kennyparker1337 I always said "catch" for cache because I keep thinking how it catches and holds stuff, like data in memory. I never understood what "cash" has anything to do with holding data. Cash is...

Quote:Originally Posted by edgeofblade Sure, and Linux is correctly pronounced "Lie-nux"... but we ignore that... Says who? Here's Linus Torvalds saying "Linux": http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/torvalds-says-linux.mp3

Quote:Originally Posted by .:hybrid:. Except pronunciation is a common agreement of the masses. If the majority called it GIF, then he is wrong. That's not true.... just because the masses believe something, it does not make them...

Quote:Originally Posted by RX7-2nr Sure, because cloud computing worked so well for Simcity. SimCity lied... they didn't use cloud computing. We knew they were lying before they even released the game. They use servers for...

If you have important data.... you should have at least two copies on separate machines. External HDDs are just desktop/laptop HDDs in an enclosure... nothing more. So reliability is hard know because we don't know failure rates.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/05/steven-spielberg-halo-xbox/Quote:Amidst all of the hullabaloo – and total gamer glee – surrounding today’s announcement of Microsoft’s new Xbox One came a special highlight for TV fans: the news...

Quote:Originally Posted by edalbkrad my corsair low-profile rams went up 60% at the store where i bought them a few months ago ram manufacturers are copying seagate and western digital's price fixing It's not price fixing... DRAM...

Quote:Originally Posted by jcrew3002 oh ok but why does the hard drive cache make it faster? It's DRAM. The HDD can take a small burst of data fast... but then slows down due to physical limitations of platter. Also note that...

Quote:Originally Posted by NameUnknown If you read on pfSense, Untangle, and FreeNAS you can install them onto Compact Flash cards normally and run them from those as well. Heck, FreeNAS recommends it so you dont use a drive for...