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Nah on the old Sun Ultra 10's just give the HDD a good work out, it would then fail and it was vendor issue not mine....

just kidding..

but a well set up system should not page very often.

and if you have some redundancy then even easier.

was there for 36 hours straight once rebuilding an exchange server, got me a week off for that so score!

Wild pearls... not farmed pearls...

And no I don't wear pearls because they are cultured. I said I would only wear wild pearls if I wore them! (which won't happen because they are too rare lol)

wild pearls still involves killing them oysters/mussels no?

wild pearls still involves killing them oysters/mussels no?

Yes; I guess where I'm coming from is that wild pearls are a natural process, wheras when farmed the irritant is placed inside the oyster shell to create the pearl. But I guess any sort of pearl is cruel

well, cultured pearls are still based off a captive population of oysters/mussels collected from the wild.

They are given a safe haven to live and breed, with an irritant inserted that does not affect any biological functions. As a pearl takes ages to grow to marketable size, a lot of them live longer than they would in the wild, and all of them wouldn't even know the difference. Also, meat/shells are reuseable. Shells go into the production of lime, and meat is sold as food/animal feed.

So, its debatable as to wild or cultured is more cruel. How do they determine if a wild oyster has a peal in it anyway?

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not entirely true, you could find a pearl in an already dead mollusk. hadnt thought of that.

But mollusk and tree fall into the same category for me.

you could, but then they'd be blister pearls and aren't your usual spherical pearls. not really of much use to your jeweller.

was not aware of that. assumed pearl would be retained ok since... its a pearl.

get to pick out the pearl tomorrow. not sure if fresh or salt water :| first world problems.

if you're looking for chains, go to one of those asian jewellers @ springvale or something, they do cheaper chains. and a chain is just a chain.

remember paying 118 for a 18k white gold chain when i got my then girlf an overpriced piece of shit tiff n co key pendant.

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