That's the bet, lol! Will Robert EVER get his new cellphone (or this year, this century, lol)? That may be a bet I'd be willing to take!!

The Drobo looks spiffy, however, it needs a Firewire 800 or eSata connection. USB simply won't cut it.

Question 1: Patrick simply removed a drive in his demonstration, he didn't destroy anything, so why would it take 23 hours to restore? Shouldn't it just sync right back up?

Question 2: Is the Drobo Mac compatible?

GREAT show, I really like the Drobo. Tell them to look at my email about the Drobo, the subject was: DROBO QUESTION it was all caps. I think it is a great question for Thursdays show. Also lets get some more Folding@Home updates. Man we are rocking on that......

I finally got the show to stream. Excellent show guys! Great info on painting notebooks. I am seriously contemplating doing my notebook up now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCRDyWoT_90

Look its Robert long loss brother...

Yes, its true, its true!

Hey guys, I say everybody needs to pay their dues. I been doing helpdesk for a few years now and the amount of experience gained fixing stupid problems for a fortune 500 company will always be more important than certifications.
Arthur
Brooklyn, NY

Looking very spiffy Mr. Norton. Like the backward hat look. You should dress like this more often. Loungewear. Cool.

"with your fanny waving in the air"

I bet the UK viewers spit coke on their monitors when they heard that.

You can also filter the air into your computer case using nylon hosiery (dead ones from a female family member).

Also, what was the program Patrick was using to speed test the wireless connection?

can you recommend software to record streaming audio after the sound card ?

Drobo, I just wonder. What would happen if you take a really trashed drive that is out of order. Lots of dead sectors. Does drobo have hardware malfunction protection if a drive dies during running in drobo or if you insert a trashed drive?

GREAT show guys!

I really liked the idea of storing all the drives in one place (Just as Robert said), i just wish the eSata or Wirefire 800 version is out already so i get one :D

Can't wait till the next show to see what happens with Patrick's notebook!!

This drobo think is very interesting ..i am in an early thinking process of having those extra large storage capacity on my system and this seems to be the way to go. I use linux and i dont want my computer to manage my to-be hard drive and this will work nicely for me ..but the question follows?

1.does it work with linux? or more rather, does it work will linux native file systems like ext3
2.what file systems do they support, how do you format your hard drives? from the video, it looks like you manage it from windows, does it come with software to manage it?
3. can you have different drives formatted in different file systems? i dont see why anyone will want to do this but since i am in the question mood, why not? :-)

i hope whoever makes it reads this forum to answer some, if not all the questions i have asked

I have the same mug! love it!

Patrick...

Please no more wearing the baseball cap backwards!

For the love of God!

Thank you...

Does anyone know why the show is still using some sort of sheet metal for the background? Have they ever explained this on the show? I remember they built some set with a sheet-rock background, but then torn it down. Two things that make it hard for me to watch the show are the sheet metal background, and the fact that they are sitting down (the first few dozen shows they would stand up, like they did on the screensavers). Standing up has a less lazy look.

Great show! But what's the phone that Robert's waiting for? I'm just curios if it is Sony Ericsson W880? Or W660?

Kupe
Skopje, Macedonia

You can buy a drobo or you can buy

1 via epia with Gigabit Ethernet
1 RAM 512 MB
1 small USB thumbdrive
1 Antec Sonata
1 unRAID Server Basic (3 drives) Licence
3 250GB/320GB Hard Drive

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