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Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE

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On 2016-04-13, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

> From Stephenson's The System of the World, Saturn (Peter Hoxton) &
> Daniel Waterhouse in Hockley in the Hole:
>
>     "Mechanic since I was a lad, clock-maker since I came to my
>     senses," said Saturn.  "The piece of information you are wanting,
>     Doctor, is this: this here is an old Hooke balance-spring watch,
>     this is. When the Master made it, why, it might've been the best
>     time-piece ever fashioned by human hands. But now there's a score
>     of proper horologists round Clerkenwell who can make ones that'll
>     keep better time. Technology ages, dunnit"?
>
>     Daniel pursed his lips to keep from laughing at the spectacle of
>     this new, five-guinea word, Technology, emerging from that head.
>
>     "It ages faster'n we do. It can be difficult for a bloke to keep
>     up."
>
>     "Is that your story, Saturn? You could not keep up, and so you
>     went bad"?
>
>     "I grew weary of keeping up, Doctor. That is my story, if you must
>     know. I grew weary of transitory knowledge, and decided to seek
>     knowledge of a more aeternal nature."

Beautiful.  Or, as I like to put it:

    Some people want to be timely.  I'd rather be timeless.

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HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-04-11 02:47 -0300
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-04-11 04:19 -0500
    Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-04-13 00:06 -0300
      Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-04-13 17:56 +0000
      Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-04-13 13:26 -0500
  Re: HD writes hog RAM with SATA HD replacing an IDE "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@invalid.es> - 2016-04-11 11:30 +0200

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