After reading quite a few hardware reviews of an IBM drive, I decided to go with what I thought was going to be the fastest drive. IBM seemed to be a reliable company, so I bought a 20 gig 7200rpm ATA/66 drive off eBay. Everything went well, very very fast drive... quiet also. About three months down the road, it started making spinning noises and clicking while trying to read data. Called IBM, amazingly they said the drive was still under warranty and proceeded to give me a RMA. Shipped the drive back, gave me a brand new drive of the same model, it dies about 6 months later. By this time they've implemented the online rma form and this drive is still under warranty. Ship that one back, they send me back a new 30gig 7200rpm ATA/100 drive, bigger and faster then the other two that died! It's been three months since then and the drive is running exceptionally strong. Hopefully when this one dies, it will still be warranted and I can repeat the process, constantly getting new hard drives! wish me luck!
I can't believe napster started such a spark! This is absolutely ludicrous. What's next, it will be illegal to record from the local radio station? I seriously hope this doesn't happen, at least not in this lifetime.
I wish domain names would become personal property even though they aren't exactly physical. What gets me is the people that play online games that buy/sell online items on eBay and such. I have a feeling a lawsuit will come up about such items and i'm interested in what the judge will say.
I was in a Software ETC. buying diablo 2 and got carded. The clerk told me a state, I believe it was Indiana, was trying to pass a law that went after the retailers selling mature rated games to persons under 18. The fine for the offense was 10,000$! This is absolutely insane...
Does this mean possibly xDSL access also? I would assume it wouldn't truly be DSL because of the lines and varying speeds when everyone in town is on. It would be nice to see it happen though, DSL needs to be more widespread and cheaper. Maybe AOL/Time Warner should get another backbone for dedicated xDSL customers that don't want cable? I think as big as a media/broadband company they are, they should provide some type of xDSL service. Sure cable is fast but what about the people who want to run servers and other things that require a lot of bandwidth? They forbid servers on current cable lines (at least my local @home does:)), and DSL would be a great way around it. Something to consider...
I sure hope this chip is better than the previous ones released by them. The non-clock lock seems like a brilliant idea for overclockers/tweakers. I'm still wondering if the front side bus speed is unlocked. It might be in there best interest to sell them multiplier/FSB unlocked and put a good core on the chip. It might even beat the celeron at overclockability! If only Crusoe was for the desktop::sigh:: =)
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After reading quite a few hardware reviews of an IBM drive, I decided to go with what I thought was going to be the fastest drive. IBM seemed to be a reliable company, so I bought a 20 gig 7200rpm ATA/66 drive off eBay. Everything went well, very very fast drive... quiet also. About three months down the road, it started making spinning noises and clicking while trying to read data. Called IBM, amazingly they said the drive was still under warranty and proceeded to give me a RMA. Shipped the drive back, gave me a brand new drive of the same model, it dies about 6 months later. By this time they've implemented the online rma form and this drive is still under warranty. Ship that one back, they send me back a new 30gig 7200rpm ATA/100 drive, bigger and faster then the other two that died! It's been three months since then and the drive is running exceptionally strong. Hopefully when this one dies, it will still be warranted and I can repeat the process, constantly getting new hard drives! wish me luck!
If you check the actual site, you will notice a file called "GET_A_CLUE_SLASHDOT.TXT" that says: Slackware 7.2 is NOT released.
I can't believe napster started such a spark! This is absolutely ludicrous. What's next, it will be illegal to record from the local radio station? I seriously hope this doesn't happen, at least not in this lifetime.
I wish domain names would become personal property even though they aren't exactly physical. What gets me is the people that play online games that buy/sell online items on eBay and such. I have a feeling a lawsuit will come up about such items and i'm interested in what the judge will say.
I was in a Software ETC. buying diablo 2 and got carded. The clerk told me a state, I believe it was Indiana, was trying to pass a law that went after the retailers selling mature rated games to persons under 18. The fine for the offense was 10,000$! This is absolutely insane...
Did you marry a geek chick??? =)
I guess i'm the hunter/killer doogie mouse now.
The only thing I care about is if my printer will work! It's not worth having the product if I can't print my work.
I wonder what they would call it.... Big Blue Hat?
43 Square Mile lab? This is crazy. 2 hour tour for a 43 mile lab and they're not hiding anything.. right.
Once we become more internet-based in cars and such, these could be what we see and use every day. Credit card firewalls!
What next, he can't even THINK about technology?
Does this mean possibly xDSL access also? I would assume it wouldn't truly be DSL because of the lines and varying speeds when everyone in town is on. It would be nice to see it happen though, DSL needs to be more widespread and cheaper. Maybe AOL/Time Warner should get another backbone for dedicated xDSL customers that don't want cable? I think as big as a media/broadband company they are, they should provide some type of xDSL service. Sure cable is fast but what about the people who want to run servers and other things that require a lot of bandwidth? They forbid servers on current cable lines (at least my local @home does :)), and DSL would be a great way around it. Something to consider...
I sure hope this chip is better than the previous ones released by them. The non-clock lock seems like a brilliant idea for overclockers/tweakers. I'm still wondering if the front side bus speed is unlocked. It might be in there best interest to sell them multiplier/FSB unlocked and put a good core on the chip. It might even beat the celeron at overclockability! If only Crusoe was for the desktop ::sigh:: =)