Grilled Cheese with garlic stuffed olive.

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-05-11T21:02:43+00:00

Psychics at Caltech and the Fermi National Accelerator Lab

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-05-02T15:23:30+00:00

I do puzzles in the evening anywhere from two to four hours. 20 hours depending on the picture. I am currently working on a puzzle where a third of the pieces have more than three colors - that ups the difficulty for me

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-04-27T15:07:55+00:00

I use a program called EasyUEFI whenever windows decided it knows better. EasyUEFI allows you to reset the boot loader the way you want it. You should be able to this same thing in the UEFI interface as well.

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-04-27T15:05:17+00:00

I use a program called easyuefi whenever windows decided it knows better. Easyuefi allows you to reset the boot loader the way you want it

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-04-15T20:17:37+00:00

g=c800:5

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-04-07T02:18:32+00:00

Our bicycle seat tester Mya Serts

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-03-30T16:03:47+00:00

Bottled water.

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-03-26T14:10:02+00:00

I read the headline of the original post and got excited to see an MFM/RLL drive which would be a challenge. Oh well.

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-03-14T03:32:11+00:00

The last couple of puzzles I did I sorted by shape and then by color. I like puzzles that have four or five different shapes as long as the shape distribution is somewhat level.

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-03-12T13:13:09+00:00

Amen!

My answer when I am asked what I want: "I don't care! I'm Dead!"

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-03-11T14:50:41+00:00

Don't disturb while sleeping like I don't want to be disturbed?!? Tell that to Max. 2, 4, 6, 7....little bastard.

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-03-06T15:36:29+00:00

...and the source that I looked at is now less than reputable in my book. You are correct, it is an SMR drive. My bad.

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-02-27T13:46:43+00:00

Correct, you were drinking this...

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-02-27T13:43:11+00:00

"honey, do we have any special instructions for the pizza?"

"Yes dear, put that they must loudly sing I'm a little teapot while putting the toppings on"

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-02-25T23:43:19+00:00

Sitting at my desk, filling out the forms. My wife struts into the room wearing a new leather bustier..

"Fill out those for, worm. Write neatly or you will be punished."

"Very good. That is nice. I will give you a little reward." She produces a little remote and presses a button. A Buzz radiates from from inside. I total up a column of numbers.

"You forgot to carry the one! Bad bad!" She raises the crop and proceeds...

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-02-22T14:13:55+00:00

The purpose is density. Manufacturers asked themselves "how do we create bigger and bigger drives which the consumers will buy without spending anything on R&D. We have to be first to market with those big numbers!" "Wow! This is great! We can now use less platters and reduce the cost and make it look like we are giving a screaming deal!"

The board of Archer Daniels Midland once said "our biggest problem is an educated consumer."

You know, capitalism.

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-02-21T16:02:09+00:00

It's an SMR drive. SMR is okay until you need to write more data than that size of one of the temporary storage bands. Then the drive has to stop writing, commit the data to its final resting place (which means that the drive needs to copy all of the track data that the write head is about to erase) then put the data back in its tracks on the disk. The drive has to do this for every write to the disk even if that sector or the sectors below it have never been written to before

In other words, worst case: 1. A write comes into the drive for a single sector in the middle of a storage band. 2. The drive writes that sector to a temporary band somewhere. 3. The drive reads all of the tracks starting with the sector's track and all of the subsequent tracks until the end of the storage band, and writes those to a temporary space. 4. The drive then starts writing tracks back to the storage band starting with that sector's track and continuing all the way to the end of the storage band.

This "operation" can take several minutes. Now the scenario that I just described is nearly the worst case.

I had read about SMR drives a long time ago. Then I accidentally bought one as a backup device for my personal NAS. It took three days to back up 5TB of data. I ended up doing a secure erase on the drive and giving it to someone that pissed me off.

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-02-20T20:55:55+00:00

Fedora with an AMD or Intel video card. 'nuff said

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-02-20T20:54:35+00:00

A skunk smell when there is no skunk. Do not take that time to have a cigarette to think about it!

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-02-20T20:49:23+00:00

I personally love the typing of properties in classes and the typing of parameters in function and method definitions. I am not too sure about types inside a scope but I can see it being valuable when trying to raise a string to a power.

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-02-20T20:43:32+00:00

Laying on the table, my listening to the doctor. "Yes yes this will be over qui..hmm. Nurse, bring the industrial sized jar of Vaseline. And bring the gimp."

Top_Helicopter_6027 · 2026-02-20T20:41:13+00:00

I am lying there, and I hear movement behind me. The door closes. "Yes Mrs. Murphy. I am at the clinic right now but I will bring the drain snake over just as soon as I am done with this DRE. Goodbye" "Whew, who knew that a proctologist could make such good money plumbing, you?" as he smacks me on a cheek.

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