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"It turns out it's just regular old ADD, though persisting into adulthood, and with an extra dose of touch-sensitivity and sound-sensitivity." - by interiot (50685) on Thursday September 22, @09:06PM

You have problems. Mental/medical ones... but, that's not MY fault man! So don't ride me about that.

(No wonder you've given me hassles about the length of some of my postings, it makes sense now).

Again, I cannot help it if you have problems with longer posts then, that is something on YOUR end to get help with.

If my postings bother you, especially in YOUR particular case?

I strongly suggest you should not read them is all... as I have before. BUT, following me around here as you have, attempting to pester me as you have here:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157615&thre shold=-1&commentsort=0&tid=95&mode=thread&pid=1322 5084 [slashdot.org]

& here as well

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157615&cid= 13216924 [slashdot.org]

as well as here:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156306&cid= 13103631 [slashdot.org]

You only beat yourself into the ground here in front of others here with actions like those. Don't you understand that?

(Anyone is free to read those exchanges where you INSISTENTLY say you want to add me to your "foes" list for no good reason, got beaten with facts regarding Opera, etc. as well also (which on BOTH, again, YOU started the argument with myself) & I simply trashed you with facts on regarding Opera, etc. & more.)

That IS where you stated you'd 'chillout' on this childish hounding of myself by you. Including the picking on of my writing style &/or spelling or grammar which is the lamest of the lame once you're beaten with technical facts & a TYPICAL arstechnica/osy forums member antic when trashed by facts in discussions online.

That's right - It's TYPICAL Arstechnica/OSY b.s. & you're ALL known for it, e.g. here, where I didn't do the judging & study of yourselves, but others did:

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t= 2608 [storageforum.net]

You're a classic example of those points, guilty of just about ALL/EACH of them regarding your antics towards myself as evidenced in the URL's prior to that one, in fact.

You stated, in the first URL above iirc, that you would ceasefire against me... however, in even later/other threads here?

(Such as this one)

Well, you broke your 'truce' with me & word.... You just kept it up AGAIN in other posts (as well as your paperlined.org libel & innacurate errors about me... why on earth would you do that, anyways?)

You have problems man. Serious issues.

Above all - Can't you stick to your word, which you stated in that url above about steering clear of myself here?

Why develop this insane & highly inaccurate libellous profile you have about me on your paperlined.org site anyways also?? You had to have errors in it pointed out to you and you corrected them, but still do that... why?

What are you trying to prove or do in that, other than make yourself appear to be some sick, obsessed lunatic to others here??

(Doesn't look too good/in your favor now, does it? Facts after all, are facts & undeniable... mainly if they are, as I point out, YOUR own words & actions/activities regarding myself)

APK

P.S.=> Why keep a "profile" of me there @ paperlined.org then? Have you also been diagnosed for "obsessive/compulsive" type disorders as well?? That also, would explain much!

Your paperlined.org profile of myself?

Well, that's be

How on earth can you say that, since You don't even know me, and yet try to pester me as you do nearly non-stop... evidences thereof are below where you have done so, repeatedly here @ slashdot, & for no good reason.

Only to be destroyed by simple facts. Is this what bothers you. Beating yourself after you started trouble with myself?

Truly man, that's hilarious you try to judge me ontop of it.

"yet the unrelenting irrational and unstable aspects of your comments make it difficult to feel anything but annoyance." - by interiot (50685) on Wednesday September 21, @12:53PM

What irrational about pointing out that you & yours constantly start crap with me as is evidenced here:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157615&thre shold=-1&commentsort=0&tid=95&mode=thread&pid=1322 5084

& here as well

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157615&cid= 13216924

as well as here:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=156306&cid= 13103631

You only beat yourself into the ground here in front of others here with actions like those. Don't you understand that?

(Anyone is free to read those exchanges where you INSISTENTLY say you want to add me to your "foes" list for no good reason, got beaten with facts regarding Opera, etc. as well also (which on BOTH, again, YOU started the argument with myself) & I simply trashed you with facts on regarding Opera, etc. & more.)

That IS where you stated you'd 'chillout' on this childish hounding of myself by you. Including the picking on of my writing style &/or spelling or grammar which is the lamest of the lame once you're beaten with technical facts & a TYPICAL arstechnica/osy forums member antic when trashed by facts in discussions online.

That's right - It's TYPICAL Arstechnica/OSY b.s. & you're ALL known for it, e.g. here, where I didn't do the judging & study of yourselves, but others did:

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t= 2608

You're a classic example of those points, guilty of just about ALL/EACH of them regarding your antics towards myself as evidenced in the URL's prior to that one, in fact.

You stated, in the first URL above iirc, that you would ceasefire against me... however, in even later/other threads here?

(Such as this one)

Well, you broke your 'truce' with me & word.... You just kept it up AGAIN in other posts (as well as your paperlined.org libel & innacurate errors about me... why on earth would you do that, anyways?)

You have problems man. Serious issues.

Above all - Can't you stick to your word, which you stated in that url above about steering clear of myself here?

Why develop this insane & highly inaccurate libellous profile you have about me on your paperlined.org site anyways also?? You had to have errors in it pointed out to you and you corrected them, but still do that... why?

What are you trying to prove or do in that, other than make yourself appear to be some sick, obsessed lunatic to others here??

(Doesn't look too good/in your favor now, does it? Facts after all, are facts & undeniable... mainly if they are, as I point out, YOUR own words & actions/activities regarding myself)

APK

P.S.=> NEWSFLASH: Normal people? Drop things.

You evidently are not a normal human being mentally... there's little question of that.

Now, I am doing the judging of you, but I base it on facts, & your own actions + activities here & elsewhere...

Wow, another arstechnica loser shows up and gets his butt beaten by apk again. Arstechnicans sure lose too many posts on technical issues these days and always do.

Don't kid now, Arstechnica loser. I'd bet if anyone looks at this url they'd have your number down pat and your arstechnica losing debates ways down pat also!

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t= 2608

That is an analysis about how losers from arstechnica operate like gossipping women rather than how men should from someone named Santilli and a totally accurate analysis of their women like ways when beaten in technical confrontations about this field as interiot was by apk here

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157615&cid= 13218667

Interiot, do kindly explain how apk got the better of you there with facts interiot and you backed off like a dog with his tail between his legs?

Interiot the poor little arstechnica loser with not even half of apk's experience in this field couldn't take the humiliation of losing to apk so he now lies after saying he would be cool to him and instead tries to attack him behind his back.

Interiot = lying whimp and coward with no honor.

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I have three of them. They rock. Best hardware I've purchased in years, since they let me junk shitty Asus boards (AFAIK Asus is the only company that ever fully implemented soundstorm to begin with) for Gigabyte and Soltek hardware that I'm much more comfortable with.

Here's a good summary of my experiences with the first card I got.

Seems that my last reply shut you up pretty handily, simply by citing your own mistakes here:

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157615&cid= 13216924

A.) Using your OWN words (saying you wanted to add me to your "foes list" because of my writing style: GROW UP! The resort of the lame used by you in grammar/spellchecks)

B.) Your own "skimming" & making assumptions about my role in this field, and being WAY wrong.

Oh, by the way Interiot - Do you have a PhD in English Writing or a related field?

NO??

(Didn't think so!)

After all: If you cannot grasp the meaning of someone's words via the context in which they are utilized, or merely grasp the technical detail?

Either don't read it, learn more about it, or just admit you may have somekind of problem like ADD, or dyslexia... but realize, it's YOUR problem.

Not mine.

Everyone else responded to & dealt with my post just fine & it even modded up 1 & 2 points.

(If you have problems like that, & why you tried to pick on my writing style? WELL, that's nothing to be ashamed of and can be overcome!)

----

(Arstechnica/Interiot - Once more, You're only embarassing yourselves, via your own words & motivations regarding myself, via your OWN words in the URL I cite above.)

Funny, how you ran away pretty fast after that URL above I cited... you blew it for yourself.

* :)

Just like your arstechnica pals have for years vs. myself online (following me around, I don't bother you & avoid you - there is nothing for me to learn in this field from the likes of you is why, to be blunt about it!)...

APK

P.S.=> For me? This was TOO easy!

Especially "nailing it right on the head" you are just another 'arstechnican' trying me again, lol, & failing... Failing vs. myself, just like all of arstechnica has here for a year straight now:

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=176

Jeremy Reimer (one of your own, probably you) says "Arstechnica is the greatest single collection of talent online in computing" or something along those lines?

For such a 'great assemblage of computing knowledge/talent', how come they cannot manage to dispute & disprove the points I made there then, with specific facts to do so?

Great judge HE is (NOT!) -

Funniest part about that URL from Windows IT Pro magazine is, that I gave your arstechnica crew there EVERY fair opportunity to get the better of me, & thru the pages there?

I cited many times you've tried this on me over the years & many forums... lol, ALWAYS failing.

Now, you know better than to try me on technical matters don't you? Apparently so, & now instead, tried your "english grammar" spellcheck on me ala arstechnica methods noted here:

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t= 2608

Do I have to cite all the times I "spanked you all" in front of everyone here on forums other than your own you followed me to (like Aryeh Holzer/Daisyman, or PeterB being absolutely DESTROYED by myself before for attempting this type of thing on me, for instance)?

Oh, I can bring those up again if you'd like... lol, but the one from Windows IT Pro will do for now.

That WindowsIT Pro article has most of them cited in its content pages thru them anyhow...

LOL, what I love is? It got a SUCH a rise outta ya there, BIG-Time.

I had such fun doing it.

I found out, You cannot beat facts. This is where I knock-the-chocolate out of your crowd everytime.

Facts.

E.G.-> Jeremy Reimer (one of your 'technical authors' @ arstechnnica no less) doesn't even have

Yes, it is OVER, now isn't it? LOL, it seems that my last reply shut you up pretty handily, simply by:

A.) Using your OWN words (saying you wanted to add me to your "foes list" because of my writing style: GROW UP! The resort of the lame used by you in grammar/spellchecks)

B.) Your own "skimming" & making assumptions about my role in this field, and being WAY wrong.

http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157615&cid= 13216924

Oh, by the way Interiot - Do you have a PhD in English Writing or a related field?

NO??

(Didn't think so!):

After all: If you cannot grasp the meaning of someone's words via the context in which they are utilized, or merely grasp the technical detail?

Either don't read it, learn more about it, or just admit you may have somekind of problem like ADD, or dyslexia...

(That's nothing to be ashamed of and can be overcome!)

* :)

(Arstechnica/Interiot - Once more, You're only embarassing yourselves, via your own words & motivations regarding myself, via your OWN words in the URL I cite above.)

Funny, how you ran away pretty fast after that URL above I cited...

APK

P.S.=> TOO easy! Especially "nailing it right on the head" you are just another 'arstechnican' trying me again, lol:

http://paperlined.org/apps/slashdot/anonymous_APK. html

Isn't that what you cited? Again - TOO easy! You make me look good. Thank-YOU!

All the edited arstechnica private playpen links you put up?

They're not here & the ones here can't be altered by you.

Here is what counts.

Not your edited/altered postings over @ arstechnica whom are known as, well, less than credible (see below) in this field worldwide.

And, anyone is free to see that I have not been to arstechnica since 2001, but searching "APK" there after that time? You turn up 5,000 or so posts about me... thanks for the flattery. You're only showing people I got to you.

LOL, you arstechnica people try me time & again online only to lose as per usual on technical issues it is not even FUNNY for me anymore, I actually pity you.

Above all - You don't know how good it is to have people of your IQ (or lack thereof) to tear apart...

I NEVER start with you, but the results showed who finished what here... Soooo, "C-YA"!

Hey Interiot? Instead of running?? Do something constructive:

WELL, How about disproving what I asked you arstechnica 'great technical people' to disprove here (for a year almost no less & you failed to) instead, @ the top of this page?

http://www.windowsitpro.com/articles/index.cfm?art icleid=41095&cpage=176

Everyone, you have to excuse the 'geek angst' of the arstechnica children like interiot here, lol...

This describes their 'tactics' for everyone & it's not even my OWN estimations of them:

http://www.storageforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t= 2608

Take a read of that? And know where "interiot" is coming from - arstechnica, who have tried this for years against me online, failing as usual... just like @ the WindowsITPro forums URL above.

Again, Ah... just TOO EASY!... apk

I *am* a Storagereview regular (I post there as Mercutio, the second non-admin user whose account was re-created after the crash).

The issue was *not* a disk crash, but the fact that SR's colocation facility wanted to charge $x more to run proper backups, and SR couldn't afford it. During a regular upgrade to either MySQL or phpBB (don't remember which), their DB got dumped on accident. Eugene, SR's admin, posted very early after the site came back up that he has a small stack of DDS and DAT drives sitting around his home that he would've loved to install, if only their ISP would've let them.

Incidently, Storage Review's self-reporting reliability database is back up and running now, if you'd like to participate, feel free, but I'm convinced that self-reported statistics are of fairly little value.

Also, a lot of SR's regulars, including myself, chose to create our own community, distinct from SR, in case Storage Review either shuts down or loses its database again. We can be found at Storage Forum. SR's general membership is not aware of our site - we don't advertise it there out of courtesy to SR's admins, but if you spent time on SR's forums and wonder where Tannin, Clocker, P5_133XL, JamesW, time and some of the other mainstays went, well, now you know.

AFAIK, Cendyne and Buslink are both shipping Lite-On drives at the moment.

A friend of mine had similar problems with an Optorite unit.

Hey, come visit all your old friends at StorageForum, too, Sivar. Lots of the old hands from SR congregate there.

Maxtor does rock. Put simply, after that down period about six years ago, they got their sh*t together and started making a quality product, and they haven't given up. The price is right, the performance excellent (good to see Maxtor picked up Quantum's tendency to make fast-seeking IDE units.

The other really good product right now is Western Digital. They're IDE only now, unfortunately, but it take a lot of balls to stand up and recall drives from consumers, to fix a manufacturing flaw. They did it, and they earned my respect.

Samsung drives also have a really strong reputation.

In comparison we have IBM, whose last 15k SCSI unit doesn't even best Maxtor's latest 10k Atlas, and whose 7200rpm ATA models are limited by either the "Deathstar" rep or the limitations of a specificied Powered On Hours of Service specification that no one else seems to be using.

We also have Seagate, which makes some fantastic and unique products (the last 50-pin 7200rpm SCSI drive) in SCSI, and has IDE products that, frankly, suck dick. U-series drives have lousy reliability and performance that's matched by two-year old drives that are 1000rpm SLOWER. Even worse, WD's recent 5400rpm products come to wit 2% of Seagate's amazingly quite 7200rpm Barracuda IV in most benchmarks.

Most of my knowledge comes from either Storagereview.com or from Storageforum.net

I'd *really* like to know where you heard that. I correspond from time to time with folks with @maxtor.com addresses and never heard that particular rumor.

Not that it doesn't make sense.

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Every hard disk on the market right now has some kind of distinguishing characteristic. Folks doing equipment purchasing may not be *aware* of the distinctions, but they are present nonetheless.

Want a high-performance 5400rpm ATA disk? Look at Western Digital's *AB-series drives. Quiet SCSI? Fujitsu has/had that market cornered. Performance at any cost? Seagate's X15-36LP.

I can't say any similar thing about true commodity items like RAM or floppy disk drives. --

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I've used the service for ten months. I live in the midwest, so transit time is usually pretty long, roughly six days per title, and sometimes longer, not the four customer service thinks it should be. Six day both ways == long turnaround between getting new titles, so I subscribe to the 8-movie at a time service (@ $40 a month). I usually manage to cycle through my rentals twice a month.

Netflix offers custom recommendations. I don't find them helpful - the choices were overwhelmingly weighted toward mainstream hollywood movies despite all the other cool stuff in their catalog.

Disappointing.

My mailman does not comprehend that what Netflix is mailing are DVDs. He may not know what DVDs are. I don't know. At any rate, He's been known to shove four or five titles in my tiny mailbox... fold them (snap!) when he's delivering magazines on the same day. Netflix must hate me. I know I've reported seven broken DVDs and I need to report another for the movie that just arrived yesterday.

For awhile the same title was "stuck" in my rent queue. Every time I sent it back, they would send it out again. Annoying, and it went on for a couple months despite mails to customer service.

Here's my main beef: Netflix dropped it's "Mature" title section. At one point they had a fairly large number of titles - Cinemax-style soft-porn (I happen to like that sort of thing. So does my fiance), Playboy's Girls of whatever, that sort of thing. That stuff vanished from the site in December. You can't search for it, you can't review it, the category isn't even there any more. They did this without any announcement or indication on their web site, despite the fact that I regularly receive e-mail indicating that they're tracking my preferences and they know I rent those titles. I emailed customer service about the matter several times. No response. I continue to receive those titles I already had in my queue, though.

Overall I have a number of minor gripes about the service. For most people I *am* sure it's worth more than a weekly trip to the video-rental place costs.

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