ratter_of_the_shire

pico-PSU compatable and must support one half-height expansion slot and one 3.5" hard drive. No bigger than you really need to fit the hardware

found

http://www.minicase.net/product_E-N3.html

but no expansion slot

http://www.streacom.com/products/f7c-chassis/

fits the bill but I can't find it for sale anywhere and the cd slot is not needed.

I'm looking for some virtualiazation software for windows 7 that can run a Linux guest, can pass though a block device (hard disk) and has networking support.

End game is that I want to serve a disk (unpartitioned, formated to ext4) through samba/cifs back to the windows host, as this machine is dual-boot and I use Linux more than windows, so taking the performance hit of NTFS on linux isn't what I want for this drive. Also don't want a huge resource drain from the VM as it's just going to set in the background doing only the tasks I mentioned.

Now that I've reached level 7 my life is meaningless. Should I sell my account to a spammer and begin again?

What sort of games can a level seven play to keep life interesting?

Does achieving level 7 mean I had no life in the first place?

<more existential questions here>

3.5" drives are cheaper and higher capacity than 2.5" drives, and both are cheaper and higher capacity still than 1.8" drives. I would bet this is because you have more platter area to use (thus you can use less optimal (and less expensive) surfaces to get the same capacity, while controller/chip-set cost is about the same for each.

Does this not scale up or is there just not enough demand. most desktop I have seen have a spare 5.25 inch drive, so I don't think it is demand so much.

The only other explanation I can come up with the larger platers require stronger materials for the same rotational speeds, and this sets off any gains that might be made with a lager platter area. Does this imply the future or rotational media is 1" platters moving at 45,000 rpm?

I've wrote a script to convert a .mp3 into .spx, but the output of files are <filename>.mp3.spx, and I would prefer to get <filename>.spx, but I'm at a total loss of how to do it. (I'm aiming to convert around 2000 files)

I've looked a several bash scripting guides and can't figure out a way to do it. Here's the script

#!/bin/sh

for file in *.mp3

do madplay -q -m -R 16000 --output=raw:- $file | speexenc --16bit -w - ${file}.spx

done

Now I now I could run a separate command after to rename with regular expressions, but I was wondering if I could just change "${file}.spx" to something that would name the output how I wanted it, that would be great. If you tell me a little bit about how it works and why, that would be the greatest.

Given that taxation is compulsory, do you have any evidence that anyone supports the government voluntarily?