Re: [BLUG] Social Meeting

I vote for Upland. Although its up in the air whether I could make it
or not so my vote might not count.

What? Upland doesn't have a Bloomingpedia article yet? SOmeone would
have to make one. *hint* *hint* Oh wait, I guess it does have one:

http://www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/Upland_Brewery

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 06:23:10PM GMT, Scott Blaydes [sblaydes@sbce.org] said the following:
> It was proposed by someone who used to live in the Bloomington area that
> we start having some social meetings at a local resturant/pub. Does
> that sound good to anyone else? I was figuring we could get together
> about 7:30 this Thursday for a social meeting if others like the idea.
> So far I have been thinking of possibly giving Upland Brewing Company
> (http://www.uplandbeer.com) or Opie Taylors
> (http://www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/Opie_Taylors) a try for the venue,
> but I am open to other suggestions. According to the Upland website, it
> is family dining, so age of attendees is a non-issue. Both places have
> good food and good beer, so that requirement is fulfilled.
>
> So, 7:30pm on Aug 23rd at ?Upland? or ?Opies?. How does this sound to
> everyone?
>
> Thank you,
> Scott Blaydes
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[BLUG] Social Meeting

It was proposed by someone who used to live in the Bloomington area that
we start having some social meetings at a local resturant/pub. Does
that sound good to anyone else? I was figuring we could get together
about 7:30 this Thursday for a social meeting if others like the idea.
So far I have been thinking of possibly giving Upland Brewing Company
(http://www.uplandbeer.com) or Opie Taylors
(http://www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/Opie_Taylors) a try for the venue,
but I am open to other suggestions. According to the Upland website, it
is family dining, so age of attendees is a non-issue. Both places have
good food and good beer, so that requirement is fulfilled.

So, 7:30pm on Aug 23rd at ?Upland? or ?Opies?. How does this sound to
everyone?

Thank you,
Scott Blaydes
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[BLUG] [meetingrooms@monroe.lib.in.us: Room Reservation Request Submitted]

I've reserved the room for next month.

Cheers,
Steven Black

[BLUG] Re: BLUG digest, Vol 1 #687 - 7 msgs

Mark Krenz wrote:
> Ok, so what brands are people swearing by these days?
>
> I've used WD, Maxtor, Seagate, Hitachi and IBM over the past 10
> years, although the last two very little. I've just found WD to be
> much more realiable. I'm always regretting it when I choose a
> different brand.
The last three hard drives I bought were Western Digital, Seagate, and
Seagate, in that order. All are still running strong. Almost
everything I've heard about Maxtor has been bad, but they were bought
out by Seagate a couple years ago (as you probably know) so it's
possible their quality will change (or has changed already). For what
it's worth, if I buy a new drive in the near future it will probably be
a Seagate.

-Evan

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Re: [BLUG] Trying something new

Ok, I think with 15K drives you have to mount them specially. I
remember when Seagate released the first 15K drives years ago, they
released a whitepaper about how to mount them properly and it would
reduce the heat of the drives by something like 10 degrees. I bet you
could still get that information on their site.

From what I remember reading they had a best practice kind of thing
for mounting the drive to the case so that it would transfer the heat
and vibration to the case in an efficient way.

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 05:15:07PM GMT, adam [docpeppernuwer@yahoo.com] said the following:
>
> I've certainly had the least luck with WD drives
> (five fails before three years) in PC uses and swear
> by scsi as well. I'm pretty hard on drives and used
> to get them worryingly hot routinely until I started
> putting a little thermal paste on the sides when
> mounting them in a permanent home. It may just be
> superstition but it keeps even my 15K cheetah cool
> during hard swap times w/o the use of a specific hard
> drive fan. :D
>
>
>
> --- Simón Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8/11/07, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
> > > Its almost like clockwork on a server that good
> > drives only last 5
> > > years. Its also a wear thing not a time thing.
> > I've been able to boot
> > > up old Macs with IDE drives from the 80s 15 years
> > later after they were
> > > built so its not bit rot that is doing it.
> >
>
>
>
>
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Re: [BLUG] Trying something new

Yes, I think heat is doing in most of my drives that are failing. Of course,
you might hope that a laptop could take a little heat.
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Re: [BLUG] Trying something new

I've certainly had the least luck with WD drives
(five fails before three years) in PC uses and swear
by scsi as well. I'm pretty hard on drives and used
to get them worryingly hot routinely until I started
putting a little thermal paste on the sides when
mounting them in a permanent home. It may just be
superstition but it keeps even my 15K cheetah cool
during hard swap times w/o the use of a specific hard
drive fan. :D

--- Simón Ruiz <simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/11/07, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
> > Its almost like clockwork on a server that good
> drives only last 5
> > years. Its also a wear thing not a time thing.
> I've been able to boot
> > up old Macs with IDE drives from the 80s 15 years
> later after they were
> > built so its not bit rot that is doing it.
>

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