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  1. Re:Zip by Jaime+Herazo+B. · · Score: 1 · on Reliability of CD-RW Discs

    Well, have you heard about the click of death?

    Here's a link: Information on the click of death


    Iomega is digging it's own grave.


    "Now you can see that evil will triumph, because good is dumb!"

  2. Is this what Steve Gibson has been working up to? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on NSA backdoor creates security hole in Windows

    Steve Gibson, the guy who writes all his Win32 stuff in assembly language has got a crazy section on his web site where he hints at something like this. Check it out! http://www.grc.com/steve.htm#project-x best; gjvc

  3. I named my hard drive "Woz" a long time ago by stew1 · · Score: 1 · on Wozniak's Comments on "Pirates"

    Bill Gates has said that he's going to give away most of his fortune. $90 billion is a pretty good chunk of change and should be able to affect some change for the better in our world (NOT stuff like giving away Wintels to libraries; more like his donations to those immunization efforts).

    Still... It's hard to think of a high profile person who embodies the word "charitable" more than Woz. He's like the Giving Tree.

    Also, some people kind of pooh-pooh his technical innovations. Well, last year Microsoft unveiled an imaging technology that was supposed to increase the readability of text on LCD screens dramatically. Believe it or not, Woz invented the same technique just a few years before them. Read it and you will understand why Woz is a genuine wizard.

    http://grc.com/cleartype.htm


    Jon

  4. probably not a linux problem... by Shiska · · Score: 1 · on Linux 2.2 DoS Attack


    I had similar problems with 2 IOMEGA Jaz Drives. The fact is that a good number of IOMEGA Jaz/Zip drives are defective. One of the better known problems is discussed at this page.

    IOMEGA makes garbage hardware. It's a cryin' shame that they have established such a monopoly in the removable media industry.
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  5. Is this Legal? by Des+Herriott · · Score: 1 · on Gnome Canvas improves graphics.

    Yeah, where the hell does Microsoft get off stealing Apple's 20-year-old sub-pixel font rendering techniques?

    http://www.grc.com/cleartype.htm