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This one should work.

I had mangled the random and encoded settings on the wheels. Have at it!

(Model 1, reflector on "B")

Then this could happen

Similar to the cry of 2nd amendment people in the US.
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The Ribbon interface is basically not customizable.

Except that it is fully customizable.

I found some on AliExpress.

Actually, they didn't. They have a way for Visual Studio to control what you do in Azure, as the article says:

"developer services that run on Windows Azure, and extends the capabilities of Visual Studio"

Actually, they did. Although "full-fledged" is probably a stretch when one thinks about Visual Studio. And it was only released as a preview.

This is a screenshot of the in-browser editor, complete with IntelliSense, Solution Explorer etc.

Videos of the beast at Channel9.

> they copied the front style

Totally copied, indistinguishable, I say.

Also, Samsung never could have thought about such a design, of course. It's totally Apple's invention to have minimalistic cover design with only picture of product

> Other than being black, the two US-style power bricks are the same. You're just clutching at straws here.

Nope, there are still slight differences in shape. Also, what shape would you expect a power adapter to be, spheric? Clutching at straws is saying that Samsung (imprecisely) copied power adapter - what sense would it make? Confusing the customer? "I know this AC adapter, it surely must be iPad, I'm buying!"

Compare how much money is wasted on the "War on Terror" (The US is fighting an inanimate object?!?!)

US Federal Budget

2010 Version
http://www.mint.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/DAT2010mint.jpg

Previously posted 2009 version...
http://stepsandleaps.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/wallstatsdatlarge.jpg

2008 Version (sorry for long link, 2008 is hard to find)
https://o4eiha.bay.livefilestore.com/y1mFOjJMJ73p0LF5FzjuTQ-LENPDEtZo73oI4MS13TyLQD177PI7QT0YtsgYXm63SSiBJHSHlHDG_GVDdK2XNrSAX61-FklbOWvyKyKpoo2k6ckqSCJR7g2a_CkGv4HQcb2uZSqYL7SJDbSsZkfuRur2Q/wallstatsdatlarge_thumb%5B2%5D.jpg

Other interesting break-down...

Auto Industry Breakdown
http://www.mint.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/AutoIndustryFinal3.jpg

http://i1dfdg.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pAn67VGzcfnWYNkgHFkI4oJsqh5_61tXBSx0e_6SQNx3V2N-nJ53P94fhIYZuZRshSfLVhWUOyyTRpDBU-ivL652Ld_1N2qEB/UVB-76_Aug.23.2010_9.32amPST.mp3

http://public.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pUmePicNqIFp8RaGrID5DwhtJFsZAqWCa2OO_8Wa3YcDkJGl-nAXr0ib321V3NFdF3yzGOLvz8xRLpBrTEG4y6g/Mr.Jobs.jpg?psid=1

I would be soooo embarrassed if it was me who wrote that...

It has been suggested that WD might internally offset block addresses by 1 so that LBA 63 maps to LBA 64. This way, Windows XP partitions would not really be misaligned. I performed a test that demonstrates that WD has not done this

Or you could read the label on the drive: "Windows XP, single partition: set jumpers 7-8 prior to installation".

For /dev/sdd, I used fdisk to add a Linux (0x83) primary partition, taking up the whole disk, using fdisk defaults. By default, the partition starts at LBA 63.

So... you're a technical writer, you're blatantly ignoring WD's recommended practices, and you're still blaming all of Linux based on the intentional misuse of one single tool? The author might have had a point if fdisk was the only tool to create partitions. The reality is that I don't know a single graphical installer that uses fdisk. He even acknowledges this by mentioning Ubuntu, but apparently did not care enough to do a little research into other installers:
openSuSE: Yast partitioning
Fedora: anaconda (libparted?)
Debian: partman (libparted)
Slackware: cfdisk (?)

So, to sum up: most mainstream distros use a tool from this century. The only places where you might find fdisk is in text-mode installers, and those are mostly used by skilled technical people (but also by bad article writers, apparently). Of course, I'm not saying that the libparted-based installers perform any better in this respect, but neither is he. However, that would be an article worthy to write.

Since this is one large file, and it can be written linearly to the disk, I expected that we would see a very slight performance hit. I think this is something that itself should be investigated. There's no reason for long contiguous writes to get hit this hard, and it's something that the kernel developers need to look into and fix.

How does the author know that it's a contiguous write? How full was the destination partition? What filesystem was used (extents-based, journalled)? What cache writeback mode was used? -1 for suggesting a kernel bug without giving enough detail to support that accusation.

Timothy Miller is a Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University, specializing in Computer Architecture, and Artificial Intelligence

I'm not used to looking for a hidden agenda among technical people... but I wonder what his angle is here.

> I don't know, I'd be pretty impressed with a scientist that could describe mathematically how the universe was created in 7 days.

That's easy!

> Even more so if he could reproduce the results in a lab.

That's dangerous. I'll leave that to the LHC team...

Better pic here. Perhaps Lenovo should have used Red Flag Linux for this mission-critical application?

10 points to the first person to can say what went wrong :U