Kayte appreciation thread
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kayte
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I don't understand these cats, whenever I vacuum this place the cats take off.
Hot water with ammonia and a old T-shirt does wonders for cleaning the refrigerator and kitchen stove.
I caught a bad case of Spring fever so I am cleaning this place like a white tornadoe, once it hits 70 Deg. F. I am outdoors.
Good afternoon {{{{{{Shagly}}}}}}
Hope you are having a super Saturday.
Yes those items would do wonders with a little elbow grease. I too am waiting for 70s. We had a bit of snow again last night.... Oh well most of it stayed to my south. Hope it is missing you too.
kayte
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comes by to say Hi & leave hugs-squeezes &
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{{{{{PJ}}}}}}
Hi sweetie. Leaving extra
es and snuzzles for you. No, I'm not out there demonstrating. Hope you are having a wonderful weekend.
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I want my clothes line back but mother nature says no.
Good morning {{{{{Shagly}}}}}
MN is dropping lots of snow on you guys. That would make hanging clothing out then more than difficult. Hope it has stopped accumulating.
That is a touching song. Hope you are feeling better today.
<<<<Kayte>>>> I am stuck indoors and trying to get the place cat hair free but for some reason it is early shedding season.
I am looking up some online recipes for various chili recipes, seems there lots of spicy ways to make that stuff.
Stay warm and maybe one fine day it will be Spring.
I am looking up some online recipes for various chili recipes, seems there lots of spicy ways to make that stuff.
Stay warm and maybe one fine day it will be Spring.
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<<<<Kayte>>>> I am stuck indoors and trying to get the place cat hair free but for some reason it is early shedding season.
I am looking up some online recipes for various chili recipes, seems there lots of spicy ways to make that stuff.
Stay warm and maybe one fine day it will be Spring.
Good afternoon {{{{{Shagly}}}}}
So, has the snow finally stopped for you? Of course if the shedding season started early it sounds like spring is just around the corner.
One Fine Day
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Hi Kayte
Droping by to wish you well Sweety
Droping by to wish you well Sweety
kayte
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Good afternoon {{{{{John}}}}
So nice of you to stop in.
Hope you are taking care as you are heading out to the desert! Have a terrific Tuesday.
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Darn viruses.
TGIF {{{{{Shagly}}}}}}
It is so nice to hear you are back. I'm sorry I couldn't talk the other night when you called. Since then I've been so busy I've hardly even posted. I will have to get ahold of you this weekend. Viruses are just nasty.
Will your garden have any Cockleshells?
kayte
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Thought I stop in, say Good Morning
TGIF {{{{{{PJ}}}}}}
Mmmm your kisses are delightful. Things have been going pretty well, thank you.
Hope you are having a fantastic day and have a wonderful weekend. Leaving extra
es, and all for you. 
TGIF {{{{{Shagly}}}}}}
It is so nice to hear you are back. I'm sorry I couldn't talk the other night when you called. Since then I've been so busy I've hardly even posted. I will have to get ahold of you this weekend. Viruses are just nasty.
Will your garden have any Cockleshells?
Only if they are edible.
kayte
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Then only if I go to the Atlantic shoreline.
It's been a while since I was in the ocean.
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I think we need to install a hot tub in here!
I think we need to install a hot tub in here!
That sounds good to me.
A Geeks work is never done.
What a strange way to start a new week.
After a virus took down one of my computers last Friday I had to spend 3 days getting the O.S. back up with all of the latest software drivers working for Windows 7 64 bit then This morning one of the internal harddrives died on me.
I have hardware RAID on the machine so I could do a cold reboot to it, normaly only servers use RAID but for redundency this Geek set up hardware RAID level 1.
The harddrive that died is 9 months old and made in China, Thanks Western Digital for outsourcing.
Reliability
If you ask an IT professional to list the reasons why he or she set up a RAID array, one of the answers likely to be mentioned is "increased reliability". They probably don't really mean it though. "reliability" is a vague word when it comes to redundant disk arrays. The answer of increased reliability is both true and not true at the same time.
The reliability of an individual component refers to how likely the component is to remain working with a failure being encountered, typically measured over some period of time. The reliability of a component is a combination of factors: general factors related to the design and manufacture of the particular make and model, and specific factors relevant to the way that particular component was built, shipped, installed and maintained.
The reliability of a system is a function of the reliability of its components. The more components you put into a system, the worse the reliability is of the system as a whole. That's the reason why compex machines typically break down more frequently than simple ones. While oversimplified, the number used most often to express the reliability of many components, including hard disks, is mean time between failures (MTBF). If the MTBF values of the components in a system are designated as MTBF1, MTBF2, and so on up MTBFN, the reliability of the system can be calculated as follows:
System MTBF = 1 / ( 1/MTBF1 + 1/MTBF2 + ... + 1/MTBFN )
If the MTBF values of all the components are equal (i.e., MTBF1 = MTBF2 = ... = MTBFN) then the formula simplifies to:
System MTBF = Component MTBF / N
The implications of this are clear. If you create a RAID array with four drives, each of which has an MTBF figure of 500,000 hours, the MTBF of the array is only 125,000 hours! In fact, it's usually worse than that, because if you are using hardware RAID, you must also include the MTBF of the controller, which without the RAID functionality, wouldn't be needed. For sake of illustration, let's say the MTBF of the controller card is 300,000 hours. The MTBF of the storage subsystem then would be:
System MTBF = 1 / ( 1/MTBF1 + 1/MTBF2 + ... + 1/MTBFN )
= 1 / ( 1/500000 + 1/500000 + 1/500000 + 1/500000 + 1/300000)
= 88,235
So in creating our array, our "reliability" has actually decreased 82%. Is that right? Why then do people bother with RAID at all? Well, that's the other side of the reliability coin. While the reliability of the array hardware goes down, when you include redundancy information through mirroring or parity, you provide fault tolerance, the ability to withstand and recover from a failure. This allows the decreased reliability of the array to allow failures to occur without the array or its data being disrupted, and that's how RAID provides data protection. Fault tolerance is discussed here. The reason that most people say RAID improves reliability is that when they are using the term "reliability" they are including in that the fault tolerance of RAID; they are not really talking about the reliability of the hardware.
What happens if you don't include redundancy? Well, then you have a ticking time-bomb: and that's exactly what striping without parity, RAID 0, is. A striped array without redundancy has substantially lower reliability than a single drive and no fault tolerance. That's why I do not recommend its use unless its performance is absolutely required, and it is supplemented with very thorough backup procedures.
A Techies work is never done.
What a strange way to start a new week.
After a virus took down one of my computers last Friday I had to spend 3 days getting the O.S. back up with all of the latest software drivers working for Windows 7 64 bit then This morning one of the internal harddrives died on me.
I have hardware RAID on the machine so I could do a cold reboot to it, normaly only servers use RAID but for redundency this Geek set up hardware RAID level 1.
The harddrive that died is 9 months old and made in China, Thanks Western Digital for outsourcing.
Reliability
If you ask an IT professional to list the reasons why he or she set up a RAID array, one of the answers likely to be mentioned is "increased reliability". They probably don't really mean it though. "reliability" is a vague word when it comes to redundant disk arrays. The answer of increased reliability is both true and not true at the same time.
The reliability of an individual component refers to how likely the component is to remain working with a failure being encountered, typically measured over some period of time. The reliability of a component is a combination of factors: general factors related to the design and manufacture of the particular make and model, and specific factors relevant to the way that particular component was built, shipped, installed and maintained.
The reliability of a system is a function of the reliability of its components. The more components you put into a system, the worse the reliability is of the system as a whole. That's the reason why compex machines typically break down more frequently than simple ones. While oversimplified, the number used most often to express the reliability of many components, including hard disks, is mean time between failures (MTBF). If the MTBF values of the components in a system are designated as MTBF1, MTBF2, and so on up MTBFN, the reliability of the system can be calculated as follows:
System MTBF = 1 / ( 1/MTBF1 + 1/MTBF2 + ... + 1/MTBFN )
If the MTBF values of all the components are equal (i.e., MTBF1 = MTBF2 = ... = MTBFN) then the formula simplifies to:
System MTBF = Component MTBF / N
The implications of this are clear. If you create a RAID array with four drives, each of which has an MTBF figure of 500,000 hours, the MTBF of the array is only 125,000 hours! In fact, it's usually worse than that, because if you are using hardware RAID, you must also include the MTBF of the controller, which without the RAID functionality, wouldn't be needed. For sake of illustration, let's say the MTBF of the controller card is 300,000 hours. The MTBF of the storage subsystem then would be:
System MTBF = 1 / ( 1/MTBF1 + 1/MTBF2 + ... + 1/MTBFN )
= 1 / ( 1/500000 + 1/500000 + 1/500000 + 1/500000 + 1/300000)
= 88,235
So in creating our array, our "reliability" has actually decreased 82%. Is that right? Why then do people bother with RAID at all? Well, that's the other side of the reliability coin. While the reliability of the array hardware goes down, when you include redundancy information through mirroring or parity, you provide fault tolerance, the ability to withstand and recover from a failure. This allows the decreased reliability of the array to allow failures to occur without the array or its data being disrupted, and that's how RAID provides data protection. Fault tolerance is discussed here. The reason that most people say RAID improves reliability is that when they are using the term "reliability" they are including in that the fault tolerance of RAID; they are not really talking about the reliability of the hardware.
What happens if you don't include redundancy? Well, then you have a ticking time-bomb: and that's exactly what striping without parity, RAID 0, is. A striped array without redundancy has substantially lower reliability than a single drive and no fault tolerance. That's why I do not recommend its use unless its performance is absolutely required, and it is supplemented with very thorough backup procedures.
A Techies work is never done.
kayte
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Then only if I go to the Atlantic shoreline.
It's been a while since I was in the ocean.
Hi {{{{{{Shagly}}}}
Me too, and that was the ocean when we were visiting Pensacola FL decades ago, when I was a child.
