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Western Digital Announces 200 Gig Drives
twilightzero writes "Video capture fanatics and pr0n moguls, rejoice! Today marks the official release of the Western Digital 200 GB hard drive! Never again run out of space for your X-10 video stream of the neighbor's house! See the graphic, specs, and press release. This also marks the release of WD drives using fluid dynamic bearings rather than the old BB type." The glorious march of technology continues forward, and digital video fans rejoice. Update: 07/26 03:34 GMT by M : Headline corrected. Taco's at a conference, cut him a little slack.
Cmdr Taco was quoted as "being disappointed" with the decision, but was "looking forward" to spending more time at home with his computer.
In related news, OSDN has banned drugs, alcohol, controlled substances and Cowboy Neal from the Slashdot campus.
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My other first post is car post.
Never again run out of space for your X-10 video stream of the neighbor's house!
:P) So I never miss a chance to infuence people into computers. Kid said he played CS so I invited him to play on a station not being used.
You don't know how true of a statement that is.
A few weeks back I was having a lan party in my garage. Pretty hot, so the door was closed to about a foot. Halfway through playing the neighbors 16 yro ritilin hyped Add kid (aunt later told me this) kid crawled under the 1 foot gap in the garage.
I consider myself a computer philanthopist (yeah right, i'm unemployed
Well about 10 rounds later kid turns to me and asks, "Know where to get any dope?" I ask him his age, find out he's 16 and intruct him never to speak of that again in my house in order to maintain neighborhood harmony. After a few more minutes he takes off till about 8.
Now anyone that has ever been to a private lan party knows that after many straight hours of interactive gaming a break of non-interactivity is required. So we were sitting around watching funny pr0n when I looked over and the kid was back! He didn't announce himself or anything, he was just sitting there all quiet (creepy like)
Well, earlier that day I had fried the bios on a friends computer. So I payed him no mind and went back to searching the web for a fix when his mother and aunt came over. They both seemed pretty drunk and started flirting with my friends. I mean heavy flirting, like one of my buddies has japanese kanji characters tattood on his arm, and she was tracing the outline while running her fingers through his hair. These bitches were straight FREAKY DEEKS! No BS here, these middle age broads were down for some young cock!
Well, i'm still staring at my screen trying to not pay attention to whats going on when the kids mom started rubbing up on me. I got pissed (any true get gets pissed when someone breaks their concentration) so I thought I would make a smart ass remark to her..
"HEY TELL YOUR KID TO QUIT HITTIN MY FRIENDS UP FOR DOPE!!"
Everyone started laughing, she went up to her son, said his name in a whiny tone of voice NooooLAAAN and sorta hugged him. He sheepishly grinned and I thought that was that. I had told the kid no askin, and I had let the parent know what happened. I thought I had done my duty as a neighbor and went back to fixing that bios.
She went home, about 5 minutes later the kids stepdad comes out. NOLAN TOQER! COME HERE I WANNA TALK TO YOU! I told the guys to wait there, wasn't a big deal and i'd be back in a minute.
Well, I followed the guy out front, he got 6 inches in my face and started holding a fist, threatening to call the cops on me for delinquency to a minor, and was just being drunk and nasty (I could hella smell it on his breath)
"Hey if you want to come over here to get a point across thats cool, but getting 6 inches in my face isn't, now if you would just take a step back and a breath, maybe we can talk about this rationally" I took a step back while sayin that just in case, he started lurching forward so I started yelling "GET THE FUCK OFF MY PROPERTY!! GET THE FUCK OFF MY PROPERTY!!"
Well, by that time the clan had stood up, and his wife was over there pulling him back across the street apogizing the whole time.
Before people start dissin me, let me explain some known things about this cat.
1. He only bought his house 3 months ago
2. He's pissed every neighbor off by leaving his dog out front all day while he's at work so it wont shit in his backyard (guess where it goes?)
3. He's gotten into fights with 4 neighbors
4. nobody, and I mean nobody in the neighborhood likes this cat.
5. Oh and just today the mailman had to mace his dog, and told me he wont deliver mail to the neighborhood if his dog keeps getting left out.
6. If this guy is worried about his stepson being around dope, he shouldn't go asking his neighbors himself where he can get it.
Well, i'm really not that much of a fighter. I'm 29, pack a day smoker since I was like 10, and I really REALLY am a pencil neck geek. So yeah, basically i'm scared because this house I bought and planned on living in for the next 30 years has some drunken fat surly construction worker living across the street wanting to kick my ass. What to do???
Well, MY GEEK POWERS COMBINED! I set up a video capture card and camera combo. I mounted the camera in an electrical box, and put tinted plexiglass over the front. It now points at my frontyard waiting to catch his dog shitting on my yard, or my neighbors yard. The camera goes into a MS WMS on a win2k server (If someone can point me to something open source i'll use it)
The trusted neighbors all know about the camera and connect to it over our cat5 fence network to watch it. Currently I can store 24 hours of low quality video on the crud equipment I have.
I guess this comment really doesn't have much to do with a 200gig hard drive, or the show cmdr taco is at, but that comment on x10 camera's just hit home, so I wanted to post this.
--toq
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My other first post is car post.
The page linked to in your sig really pisses me off. I don't understand how you can write such intelligent and insightful posts and also write the same old tired anti-Microsoft FUD that we see here everyday.
Perhaps because Microsoft deserves it.
Code Red was awful, yes... The reason it got so bad was because of clueless IIS admins who didn't follow security news.Absolutely. It's like driving while talking on your cellphone. You're not being a responsible Information Superhighway user, and are putting the systems of others at risk. Those people sharing the Internet with you, like those unfortunate enough to have to share a freeway with you, have every right to be angry with you.
Please don't blame Microsoft unless you can show me an open-source alernative whose history is free from security flaws.I don't expect anything to be free of security or other flaws. Millions of lines of code, one "greater than", when you meant "greater than or equal to", is all it takes to make a buffer overrun.
When "I'm Happy Joe Hubby Accountant On A Cable Modem And I Can Install Windows Without Calling A Professional" installs Windows and gets IIS by default (some configurations of Windows 2000 Professional, for example) and is running that security liability with no need and often no understanding of what he's doing, Microsoft's actions put me at risk.
No software company should be enabling network services by default. You should have to decide that you need it and be forced to manually install it. This would weed out probably 99% of the machines which attack *my* server and waste *my* bandwidth. Sure, it's not as user-friendly, but Microsoft doesn't own the Internet, and I think I have a right to be pissed off about the waste of *my* bandwidth that *their* cavalier attitude has directly caused.
Apache has them too, despite the fact that Slashdot does not publicize them as heavily as Microsoft's bugs. Let he who is without sin yadda yadda yadda.I've been subscribing to the CERT security newsletters since... oh, about 1995. In those seven years, I've seen a lot more bulletins for Windows and its services than for any other single operating system. Based on that, Microsoft's code seems to be sloppy. Why? Don't know. Some open-source stuff is disastrous, lots of closed-source stuff is excellent. The problem isn't a fundamental distribution and review model; it appears to be Microsoft.
Second, I do not deny the fact that IIS seems to have more problems, but I'm going to defend Microsoft again for a second and note that IIS 5 on Win2k includes a hell of a lot more functionality than a base Apache install.Sure! That's a great idea! Probably 5% of the people running Intranet and Internet websites on IIS will use those added features; for the rest, they're a liability - and to me too, as an Internet user victimized by the bugs inherent in more code being run.
IIS also tends to have to run with administrator rights in order to make use of this. Hack IIS, and you've rooted the box. Hack Apache, and you've got a user account with limited permissions. All to provide higher functionality by default to the 5% who will use it? I'm *so* glad that they weren't inconvenienced at the risk of security.
I know that gobs of functionality and tight system integration may offend your delicate Linux-asshole sensibilities, but there are millions of people who find them to be benefits of Microsoft's application platform.I agree. In fact, that's why I'm running Windows 2000 at the moment. It's still better as a desktop than anything under Linux. But for a server, it's negligent. Microsoft's philosophy still isn't sufficiently paranoid for their machines to be safe on a routable IP address.
I'm not trying to excuse security flaws, but I believe that one reason why IIS has had a greater densitity of incidents than Apache is because of the incredible pace at which Microsoft develops new technology. (And their customers like that.)I didn't pay for someone else's copy of IIS to be attacking my machine. I don't like that.
One of biggest failures of quality control, in any industry, occurs when the marketing department gets ahead of engineering.
Want to fly in a 747 that was built with developments at the "incredible pace" Microsoft accomplishes, or do you prefer Boeing's current model, one that is more conservative, refusing to release products until they're unlikely to get you killed? How would you feel if Boeing switched to The Microsoft Incredible Pace method and their planes were consistently crashing on your house, even though you've never bought a 747 on your American Express, and are therefore not their customer but are being very much affected by their flaws?
If you can't accept the fact that there are people with different -- not better or worse, just different -- opinions than yours, then you're no better than that dipshit Rob Malda.I don't know Rob, so I can't comment on him.
What I can say, though, is that you have yet to demonstrate that your opinion is even remotely technically on par with mine. Therefore, your opinion is, I'm sorry to say it, worse than mine. If your arguments weren't ill-considered and ill-guided, you would succeed in causing me to change my mind.
But you haven't, and therefore you remain wrong.
Third, and most importantly, IIS is used by a hell of a lot more people than Apache.Really? www.netcraft.com
Many of these people are not qualified to administrate an HTTP server, but we'll discuss that in a second."NEW FROM BOEING! A 747 SO EASY TO FLY, EVEN YOUR GRANDMOTHER CAN DO IT! WHILE TALKING ON A CELLPHONE! SEATS 400! PILOT'S LICENSE NOT REQUIRED AND YOU CAN RENT THIS AIRPLANE AT ANY THRIFTY'S AIRPLANE RENTAL!"
Is that a good idea, or would you be building underground too?
Before that, I want to remind you that Microsoft has always tried to keep these kind of people from running a web server without knowing it. WinNT4 Workstation does not come with IIS, and Win2k Pro does not install it by default.Hmmm... Windows 2000 Pro full install? That's interesting, I could swear that it did.
Even if not, you know that during installation, many people will choose Custom Install and manually click literally every single checkbox, without understanding what they're doing. Next time you're reinstalling Windows, why don't you go upstairs, get your dad out of his living room chair, invite him downstairs to your basement suite, and watch him follow the on-screen instructions.
The only potentially problematic situation is when a user upgrades from Win98 with Personal Web Server installed to Win2k Pro -- then IIS is automatically installed as a replacement. But even in that case, the user had to have known enough to install PWS on Win98.See my last reply.
As I was saying, the real reason that IIS is installed on so many machines is that Windows is popular. And the IIS graphical interface is much simpler for users who don't have time to learn the details of HTTP server administration."YOU TOO CAN FLY THIS 747, ALL WITHOUT HAVING TO LEARN HOW TO DRIVE A STICKSHIFT AUTOMOBILE, MUCH LESS LEARN HOW TO CALCULATE WIND SHEAR VECTORS!"
Two weeks later: "House for sale. 38 bedroom mansion, all the amenities. Only $44,000. (Right at the end of a runway)"
Yes, there is a good argument that such users shouldn't be running servers, but are you going to stop them? Who are you to decide who can and cannot run a web server?An Internet user who is incurring costs directly due to Microsoft putting chainsaws into the hands of high school children.
you can blame Microsoft for being bother popular and easy to use, you're nothing but an elitist who is bitter that what you once considered technical work can now be accomplished by "mere" businesspeople.Nope; if they weren't polluting and endangering the Internet though their tactics and incompetence, I'd salute Microsoft for being a very important part of getting web publishing into the hands of the masses.
And Mopar, when will you tire of your childish anti-IIS rants?I tired of them long ago. But the problem still isn't gone, so I will continue to be a voice until the problem is gone. It's called "advocacy". Unfortunately, it does take time. You know, like baking a potato before microwave ovens became popular. (You do know about that, right? Before we had microwave ovens, we had to actually wait 45 minutes to bake a potato well. Or, are you too young to know about patience? Ever downloaded a megabyte of Fidonet mail at 2400 baud? No? Then you won't understand the patience advocacy often requires.)
I have plenty of complaints about pro-Microsoft bigots, but at least they have a sense of perspective. I don't hear Bill Gates blasting UNIX because of the original Internet worm, do I?Probably for the same reason that Hyundai wouldn't dare to make fun of Mercedes because their first car had wooden wheels.
Are anti-Microsoft bigots really so starved for factual arguments that they will beat a dead horse until it is pulp and bones?Nope. IIS is my particular horse, and, while I keep on putting potassium cyanide into its feed trough, it still hasn't died yet.
I'm trying to do you a favor. Try to look at that IIS page with an objective eye. The logfile itself isn't the problem; it's your sneering, condescending attitude.I feel a right to be every bit as condescending in that page as I am with you right now.
Why's that? I get the occasional e-mail from people telling me that they followed my instructions and their computer stopped working. Apparently, I'm not condescending enough.
Besides, I own the domain name. I own the hardware it's running on, and I pay for the electricity and bandwidth it consumes. I believe, within the rules of slander, I am entitled to freedom of speech; therefore, I can say what I want. Don't like it? Go away. I don't care. I don't like children.
If your Linux/Apache platform were perfect, such arrogance might be justified, but it is not.When you sit in your grade 11 math class, do you feel justified in sneering when you've worked hard to do your homework, and get a 95%, but the guy who sits behind you and always pokes you with a pen because he's bored, gets a 52%?
It's just a different choice. There are advantages and disadvantages to all systems. That's why even though I run my personal website on the same Linux/Apache combination as yours, I don't look down on Windows or IIS as a platform.Really? Which of the Linux/Apache advantages made you choose that over Windows? It must have been really great for you to spend all that time learning about icky text files.
You're making yourself look stupid, and whatever truth there is in your open-source advocacy is lost when you promote open-source in such a disgusting manner.I would be well not to have my webserver attacked constantly by misconfigured machines outside of my control. Maybe if that happened, my attitude would change.
I suspect that most visitors to my website will see my open disgust and contempt for Microsoft's waste of my bandwidth; those who are too simple to understand it are unlikely to convert to the "complexities" of *NIX. ("What do you mean, there's no C drive! That's preposterous, do I look like I was born yesterday?")
You would do well to study the former Representative Traficant's case -- you both have poor attitudes that make it difficult for an audience to listen to your message.I think my message came through loud and clear. Judging from the number of people who bookmark it (favicon.ico, and grepping out Konqueror users which retrieve the icon by default), lots of users seem to have enjoyed the presentation enough to want to see it again.
Now, then... I found your post very Interesting and Informative. If I weren't a member of the Troll underclass, I would mod you up. Instead, I've crafted this post in the hope that it will make you think, and perhaps even improve your technical advocacy.Well, you're right about being a troll, anyway. And, besides consuming oxygen, I think the only other thing we have in common is a fondness for writing.
You may email me at trolltuesday@yahoo.com if you have any comments.I'll pass. If you want to read this, you're welcome to come back and read it. Otherwise, my reply shall remain such that you may be mocked in a public forum and this post may be spidered by search engines. The keywords "microsoft", "irresponsible" and "security" are repeated often enough and close enough together that a Google search for those words should find this tome pretty well.
You see, that's advocacy. Slow, tedious, and effective.
Oh yeah, I post at +2. Cleaning out your smegma on a daily basis might increase your IQ sufficiently for you to share that honor.
Fire and Meat. Yummy.
Why was that flamebait?
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
"YOu are a girl or a gay, ain't you? 80GB is hardly enough for any kind of pr0n collection."
So you're saying gay porn on the internet takes up less space? By that comment, I must assume you're still a young newbie that has yet to be surprised/shocked/horrified by the true multitude and diversity of things you can discover online.
Bork!
Because moderation is retarded and broken. Don't complain too much though, or they'll take away your mod priveledges altogether.
(-1, Offtopic), bitches!