Wimminz – celebrating skank ho's everywhere

April 11, 2013

All bitches be crazy

Filed under: Wimminz — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — wimminz @ 11:45 am

Can’t really go into details, fuckbuddy and her bestie, her bestie is as usual in all kinds of shit, now bear in mind I have NEVER MET THE SKANK in question, so I sit there on the phone talking to the FB, saying “and then she did this” and “and then she accused the guy of this” and “and then the police did that“, basically a blow by blow account…. in very great detail…

Every last fucking thing was spot on, 100% success rate.

Now, either I am fucking psychic, or AWALT, you decide.

All I did was replay in my head what my own psycho skank ho ex did do, and would have done in those circumstances, it is a thing I do all the time, and it works all the time, so really, what are the chances my psycho skank ho ex, or the FB’s bestie, or any other skank ho out there, is a NAWALT?

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In other news I am umming an aahing about upgrading my NAS box and network…., technically I do not NEED to do this now, but on the other hand, there may not be a better time, so it is a subject that I sort of return to every week and look and and umm and ahhh and put off for another week…

Being in the UK, the offerings are basically Build-It-Yourself, and buy ready made.

For £343 from mini-itx.com I can get;

  • Jetway JNF99-525 Dual LAN 1.8GHz Fanless Long Life Expandable Mini-ITX Board £139
  • 2GB DDR3 1333 SODIMM for Selected Mini-ITX Boards £20
  • Chenbro ES34069 Mini-ITX Home Server/NAS Chassis 120W (UK Plug) £119
  • £8 carriage and £57.20 tax for the total of £343.20

Or I can go to the likes of Scan.co.uk, and their nearest cost 4 bay NAS

At this point note these are all excluding HD, which by choice would be WD Reds

So the two Qnaps have 256 and 512 meg of RAM, now sure, a lightweight headless server / NAS OS don’t need loads of headroom, but neither of these babies has anything left to buffer read/writes, and a lot of the cheaper or last years model commercial NAS boxes leave you stuck at a 2 Gig HD limit per bay… but it is all a bit “which mobile phone should I buy” where there are 999 very similar products and none of them even mention the features you actually want to know about.

http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/nas/nas-reviews isn’t a lot of help.

So, what the fuck is the difference between the qnap 412 for 245 quid, and the qnap 419 for 407 quid?

Going the mini-itx build it yourself route you can at least see exactly what you are getting, wanna say fuckit and put Windowsxx on your NAS box and make it a PC?

You can with the jetway / build it yourself route.

You can also see in any detail you want, the precise specs of any single area of the NAS you are building, want to put a card reader or external USB3 / esata port on your NAS box, at least the DIY route you can see what is doable.

I dunno, I have difficulty believing that the qnap 491 is going to be able to give me the claimed 100 megabyte/sec read / write speeds over gig-e LAN in the real world, sure, it might do it on a LAN consisting solely of the qnap and a single PC, and with the only traffic being 10 x 10 megabyte TIFFs, and this is even before I enable all the extra “features” that all have to share that measly 512 megs of onboard RAM.

Hell, my crappy goflex 3TB NAS will do 50 mbytes/sec under ideal conditions, I think I have seen that maybe three times for around 60 seconds a time in all the time I have owned it.

I *know* the goflex is a crappy wee home box and not a real NAS, but the fact is the bloody qnaps are not real NAS boxes, hell, my day job every day is looking at racks of Cisco / Juniper / Poweredge / Thecus / Synology etc and making it all talk to LAN/WAN etc

If you want to bring the goflex down to 100 kilobytes/sec, or less, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO is map network drive and try and write one folder full of small files, such as a website mirror, and read one folder of larger files, such as your mp3 collection… and frankly the 400 quid qnap won’t fare much better… despite being three times the price of the goflex.

In my REAL world of one main PC, two laptops, two mobiles and an occasionally turned on workshop PC and the odd customer PC, with scheduled backups and so on, the 400 quid qnap is NOT going to provide reliable fast access without serious slowdowns.

I know this for a fact, I have seen them in real life.

So in reality you could call both the 400 quid qnap and the cheapo 3TB goflex “NAS boxes”, in reality they are NAS boxes suitable for unattended backup and who cares how slow it is, not NAS boxes per se.

Enter the “pukka PC with dual atom” stuff like the jetway, chuck 2 or better still the full 4 gig of RAM at the bastards and they actually start working like a NAS.

I have a friend with one and he started to convert directories on the mapped NAS drives that contained thousands of small files, e.g. complete FTP mirrors of CMS websites, into rar archives, and the little bastard saturated his full duplex gig-e network.

More than this, it multitasked, the mp3 stream continued, and he was able to browse a photo directory… what’s more all of this shit was on the same disk on the home built NAS box.

He now has a mini ITX box that stores basically all his shit, grab it and a laptop and he is gone, with all his data intact.

and now we come to the true role of things like the qnap and goflex, they make a good, slow, unattended backup for the mini itx NAS, so there you go.

So now I just have to umm and ahh a bit more before splashing out the wonga for a £340 DIY NAS box.

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