Comments for Blog http://blog.bennett-scharf.com Personal and technical musings Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:17:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 Comment on The final voyage of the USNS H. H. Hess by Phil http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2011/02/25/the-final-voyage-of-the-usns-h-h-hess/#comment-16345 Phil Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:55:12 +0000 http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2011/02/25/the-final-voyage-of-the-usns-h-h-hess/#comment-16345 Hi, it's always sad to experience the end of something that meant so much. Obviously, the Hess meant a lot to you, as you went to the trouble of monitoring the Panama Canal web cam! I never knew the Hess, but I was on board the Michelson and the Dutton, two of the "triplets"! That was from 1970 to 74 when I left the Navy. Still have very fond memories of my times on board. Unforgettable. A friend and shipmate of mine put together a web site, you may know of it; www.tags-21.info. It has a lot of info on the ships, but not so much on the Hess. If you have pictures or sea stories to tell, this is the place to immortalize them! Or at least as long as the site is hosted! In any case you'll probably enjoy the site. Good luck! Phil Hi, it’s always sad to experience the end of something that meant so much. Obviously, the Hess meant a lot to you, as you went to the trouble of monitoring the Panama Canal web cam! I never knew the Hess, but I was on board the Michelson and the Dutton, two of the “triplets”! That was from 1970 to 74 when I left the Navy. Still have very fond memories of my times on board. Unforgettable. A friend and shipmate of mine put together a web site, you may know of it; www.tags-21.info. It has a lot of info on the ships, but not so much on the Hess. If you have pictures or sea stories to tell, this is the place to immortalize them! Or at least as long as the site is hosted! In any case you’ll probably enjoy the site. Good luck! Phil

]]> Comment on The final voyage of the USNS H. H. Hess by Scott Willey http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2011/02/25/the-final-voyage-of-the-usns-h-h-hess/#comment-16035 Scott Willey Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:26:19 +0000 http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2011/02/25/the-final-voyage-of-the-usns-h-h-hess/#comment-16035 This makes me sad! I served as a member of the crew from October of 1977 until I left the Navy in April 1979. I'll never forget the good times and friends I made from the west coast of the US to Hawaii to west pac and into the Bering Straits. This makes me sad! I served as a member of the crew from October of 1977 until I left the Navy in April 1979. I’ll never forget the good times and friends I made from the west coast of the US to Hawaii to west pac and into the Bering Straits.

]]> Comment on Using Diskpart to Align a Windows Disk Partition by Partition Expert http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2008/03/31/using-diskpart-to-align-a-windows-disk-partition/#comment-16000 Partition Expert Sat, 18 Jun 2011 05:21:54 +0000 http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2008/03/31/using-diskpart-to-align-a-windows-disk-partition/#comment-16000 There are quite a few ways to partition Windows, have a read of this thread http://www.techhelpcentre.com/showthread.php?t=835221. There are quite a few ways to partition Windows, have a read of this thread http://www.techhelpcentre.com/showthread.php?t=835221.

]]> Comment on PowerShell Script to Clean Up Old Files Based on Age by Karen http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2010/01/20/powershell-script-to-clean-up-old-files-based-on-age/#comment-12250 Karen Mon, 06 Dec 2010 19:09:20 +0000 http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2010/01/20/powershell-script-to-clean-up-old-files-based-on-age/#comment-12250 Thanks for the simple and helpful script. Thanks for the simple and helpful script.

]]> Comment on Using Diskpart to Align a Windows Disk Partition by Oliver Jones http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2008/03/31/using-diskpart-to-align-a-windows-disk-partition/#comment-11680 Oliver Jones Mon, 27 Sep 2010 06:31:25 +0000 http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2008/03/31/using-diskpart-to-align-a-windows-disk-partition/#comment-11680 Disk alignment DOES now make sense with single disks, when the disks use 4K sectors. Several of these drives are now available from the likes of Western Digital, and performance will suffer if Windows XP/2003 partitions are not aligned on these disks, because a whole 4K sector will be read/written for the sake of modifying one 512-byte block. (It's the RAID5 write hole, without the RAID.) Disk alignment DOES now make sense with single disks, when the disks use 4K sectors.

Several of these drives are now available from the likes of Western Digital, and performance will suffer if Windows XP/2003 partitions are not aligned on these disks, because a whole 4K sector will be read/written for the sake of modifying one 512-byte block. (It’s the RAID5 write hole, without the RAID.)

]]> Comment on PowerShell Script to Clean Up Old Files Based on Age by Joshua http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2010/01/20/powershell-script-to-clean-up-old-files-based-on-age/#comment-10309 Joshua Tue, 20 Apr 2010 01:38:48 +0000 http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2010/01/20/powershell-script-to-clean-up-old-files-based-on-age/#comment-10309 Great post... Could be used as a script using parameters real easy. Great post… Could be used as a script using parameters real easy.

]]> Comment on Using Diskpart to Align a Windows Disk Partition by Semion http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2008/03/31/using-diskpart-to-align-a-windows-disk-partition/#comment-10155 Semion Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:44:01 +0000 http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2008/03/31/using-diskpart-to-align-a-windows-disk-partition/#comment-10155 Michael , no , disk alignment only make sense with 2 or more disks . Michael , no , disk alignment only make sense with 2 or more disks .

]]> Comment on PowerShell Script to Clean Up Old Files Based on Age by JWest http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2010/01/20/powershell-script-to-clean-up-old-files-based-on-age/#comment-10004 JWest Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:36:30 +0000 http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2010/01/20/powershell-script-to-clean-up-old-files-based-on-age/#comment-10004 Nice and concise. Helped with a cleanup task I had. Nice and concise. Helped with a cleanup task I had.

]]> Comment on Using Diskpart to Align a Windows Disk Partition by Michael http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2008/03/31/using-diskpart-to-align-a-windows-disk-partition/#comment-9133 Michael Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:15:35 +0000 http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2008/03/31/using-diskpart-to-align-a-windows-disk-partition/#comment-9133 Can someone tell me if sector alignment is even possible on a single disk? If (hypothetically) I had a server 2003 server with one disk, no RAID of any type. Just one single disk. Would that benefit from sector alignment? The question comes up via NFS shares and virtualization. If the VMs are published over NFS, I do not see a need for GOS alignment. It is not block based storage and therefor there is nothing to align to. -M Can someone tell me if sector alignment is even possible on a single disk? If (hypothetically) I had a server 2003 server with one disk, no RAID of any type. Just one single disk. Would that benefit from sector alignment?

The question comes up via NFS shares and virtualization. If the VMs are published over NFS, I do not see a need for GOS alignment. It is not block based storage and therefor there is nothing to align to.

-M

]]> Comment on Earlier Postings by clep http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2007/02/11/hello-world/#comment-1717 clep Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:15:36 +0000 http://blog.bennett-scharf.com/2007/02/11/hello-world/#comment-1717 great tips. I enjoyed reading this great tips. I enjoyed reading this

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