well it's not like anyone advertises that their drives fail after a year. they just do. anyone can warranty their drive for 5 years and it still gives up after 6 months!
Ok. It's nice to see new technologies getting out there for hooking drives up and making them lickety-split fast. But in the past year or two I've purchased 20something hard drives of various sizes from leading manufacturers and had AT LEAST one drive from each fail, if not two or more. This includes Quantum, IBM (who smartly got out of the business), Segate, Toshiba and others.
How about someone making a hard drive that isn't going to give up after a year? Or are these guys only in the business to sell me new hard drives after a year? Many are also reducing their warranties from 3 or 5 years to one year. Have they no faith in their own products?
this season is kicking behind? really? i must be missing it because i'm falling asleep. ok the last episode or two was good. but the first few were definately snoozers. buffy the guidance counselor? yawn. everyone in lust with some jacket? yawn. what's next? buffy goes food shopping? speaking of, last season we saw a lot of buffy working. where is she getting paid now? i thought i remember the school position didn't pay her anything at all..
i have to agree.. i wasn't very impressed with the show. none of the characters seemed too interesting and i didn't like the "wild west" at all. we've got ships that can travel between planets in days but they're duking it out with six shooters? unlikely. i think joss is losing his touch, buffy has seen better days and firefly left a lot to be desired. i hope his next venture does better (no. i didn't mention angel, i try not to think about that show..)
oh come on now.. you don't have a parent/friend/neighbor/relative you can take it over to and borrow their land-line for the few minutes it will take to upgrade the thing? it isn't like you're going to be upgrading it every night either (at least i hope not).
18 months ago and have had better than 20/20 vision since.
my advice is to very carefully research your doctor and the equipment he uses. you get what you pay for, cheap prices usually means cheap service. much of the equipment they use can be looked up on the web (my doctor used a system developed by B&L, i could look up the stats and success & failure rate on B&L's web site as well as the FDA).
the risk goes up even further if you're happily using an unencrypted wireless network at home, behind a firewall. anyone sitting outside your house can watch you telnet from box to box! even encrypted 802.11b transmissions can be broken with time.
the problem with telnetd is that user id's and passwords are sent in clear text. anyone with a sniffer on your network will be reading them as easily as reading the newspaper.
firewalled off or not why take the risk? ssh does everything telnet does and more (like X and port forwarding, file transfers with scp). everything that goes through is encrypted.
the risk goes up even further if you're happily using an unencrypted network at home, behind a firewall. anyone sitting outside your house can watch you telnet from box to box! even encrypted 802.11b transmissions can be broken with time.
why take any chances when protection is so simple? it's also good to simply practice safe computing.
but what promises you'll get satellite "radio" everywhere as well? at least with a cd playing mp3 player you can get several hours of music (or books or whatever) on a disc for those areas you are driving through that you can't pick up a station at.
in any case, some people are going to want music, some talk, some news, etc. go with what's best for you. and if you get a radio (of any kind) with some sort of aux port you can hook up pretty much anything else with little effort.
well my awia mp3 player (one of their original models) still comes with a radio. i can listen to all the news i want when i don't want to listen to mp3's.
i have to agree, invest in a good mp3 player, burn your own cdr/cdrw's and listen to the radio when you want to. my awia unit even has an AUX port for me to hook my ipod or anything else up to when i want.
ticket prices are constantly on the rise. so each new movie that comes out racks up a great weekend. but are more people really going to see each movie?
Not always the latest & greatest, but I can recommend looking at TigerDirect for cheap notebooks, especially their "web-only" specials. I recently picked up a 800mhz/10gHD/128M RAM/WiFi/13" new (not refurbished) IBM R30 ThinkPad for $800. Can't complain about that. Runs Linux just fine too.:-)
I also shopped around on eBay for a while but found used prices a lot higher than new or factory reburbished equipment.
I've known several people who worked for the gov't and from their stories I certainly wouldn't leave my job. I'm curious, what incentive would the gov't give private sector people to come work for them?
Why not? Think about it. Big businesses pay our politicians for laws. Why ever would they want a law enacted that would prohibit them from suing people who say negative things about them?
It's my guess they pay federal lawmakers to keep such laws off the books.
Just for the record, TiVo doesn't necessarily have more than 7 days out either. Most channels suppily information further out, quite a few don't, and I've quite often seen schedules a ways out change. I'm very glad TiVo updates their information (that's what we're paying for) but you can't set your TiVo up once a month to record shows for the whole month unles it's for regular things like series, etc. It will not get one-shot shows, specials, etc.
Does this mean someone might reprint the Amber books..? It's getting pretty hard to find them these days as well as some of his other early stuff. Bookstores list them as "out of print.":-(
Pretty sad but a lot of my favorites from my younger years seem to have gone "out of print." Wish the publishers would release them to the public or something.:-) Would love reading Amber on my PDA while commuting.
well consider yourself lucky. over the past 20 or so years i've had tons of "scsi voodoo" where devices wouldn't show for no apparent reason. chains that needed no, one or two terminators on them for strange reasons. two "identical" setups that didn't work the same.
both usb and firewire were supposed to be issue free yet there are many people who have strange problems with both. i know if i plug my harmon kardon usb speakers into my usb hub i lose my intellimouse and zip drive. some times. some times it works just fine. i can't plug my firewire hard drive into my cdrw and then into my powerbook, my cdrw has to be at the end of the chain. no idea why.
for what it's worth, there are no native firewire hard drives out there, they all are ide (or scsi) with bridge boards. doubt we'll ever see a native usb 2.0 drive. looks like the standards were very well accepted.:-( kudos for sony for at least starting a trend putting fire^H^H^H^Hi.link ports on their cameras
oh joy, yet another "standard"
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to compete with the firewire (and upcoming gigawire) "standard" and the usb 1.x and 2.x "standards". oh and we have ata/133/100/66 "standards". scsi 1/2/3/4/5/ultra/wide/thin/mega-super-fun "standards" too.
how come none of my "standard" devices talk to each other very well?
well three cheers for the latest "standard". by the time it's on everyone's hardware it will be superceeded a dozen times or so.
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well it's not like anyone advertises that their drives fail after a year. they just do. anyone can warranty their drive for 5 years and it still gives up after 6 months!
Ok. It's nice to see new technologies getting out there for hooking drives up and making them lickety-split fast. But in the past year or two I've purchased 20something hard drives of various sizes from leading manufacturers and had AT LEAST one drive from each fail, if not two or more. This includes Quantum, IBM (who smartly got out of the business), Segate, Toshiba and others.
How about someone making a hard drive that isn't going to give up after a year? Or are these guys only in the business to sell me new hard drives after a year? Many are also reducing their warranties from 3 or 5 years to one year. Have they no faith in their own products?
is it me? or does this "article" sound like a rant from someome who got his character "nerfed" and can't muster up the willpower to quit?
pay a penny if i skip an ad? do i have to pay a penny if i close my eyes? walk out of the room? change channels?
this season is kicking behind? really? i must be missing it because i'm falling asleep. ok the last episode or two was good. but the first few were definately snoozers. buffy the guidance counselor? yawn. everyone in lust with some jacket? yawn. what's next? buffy goes food shopping? speaking of, last season we saw a lot of buffy working. where is she getting paid now? i thought i remember the school position didn't pay her anything at all..
i have to agree.. i wasn't very impressed with the show. none of the characters seemed too interesting and i didn't like the "wild west" at all. we've got ships that can travel between planets in days but they're duking it out with six shooters? unlikely. i think joss is losing his touch, buffy has seen better days and firefly left a lot to be desired. i hope his next venture does better (no. i didn't mention angel, i try not to think about that show..)
$60 is too pricy? and you paid $5000 for your 40" plasma tv, $1000 for your surround-sound system and $60 for that ikea footrest?
okaaaaaay.
oh come on now.. you don't have a parent/friend/neighbor/relative you can take it over to and borrow their land-line for the few minutes it will take to upgrade the thing? it isn't like you're going to be upgrading it every night either (at least i hope not).
"excuse me, can i borrow your dialtone?"
well that depends on if any microsoft programmers redefined the word in the dictionary like so many other terms.. ;-)
18 months ago and have had better than 20/20 vision since.
my advice is to very carefully research your doctor and the equipment he uses. you get what you pay for, cheap prices usually means cheap service. much of the equipment they use can be looked up on the web (my doctor used a system developed by B&L, i could look up the stats and success & failure rate on B&L's web site as well as the FDA).
i'm very happy with having it done.
oh. i had it done at lasik plus.
i'm still unappreciated today!
correction! i should have said:
the risk goes up even further if you're happily using an unencrypted wireless network at home, behind a firewall. anyone sitting outside your house can watch you telnet from box to box! even encrypted 802.11b transmissions can be broken with time.
the problem with telnetd is that user id's and passwords are sent in clear text. anyone with a sniffer on your network will be reading them as easily as reading the newspaper.
firewalled off or not why take the risk? ssh does everything telnet does and more (like X and port forwarding, file transfers with scp). everything that goes through is encrypted.
the risk goes up even further if you're happily using an unencrypted network at home, behind a firewall. anyone sitting outside your house can watch you telnet from box to box! even encrypted 802.11b transmissions can be broken with time.
why take any chances when protection is so simple? it's also good to simply practice safe computing.
so we can 0wn them. ;-)
seriously, any unix admin worth their paycheck isn't using unsecure telnet or ftp.. i sure know i'm not. (and i don't get paid enough)
wish i could read it, but i get a 404.. sorry.
but what promises you'll get satellite "radio" everywhere as well? at least with a cd playing mp3 player you can get several hours of music (or books or whatever) on a disc for those areas you are driving through that you can't pick up a station at.
in any case, some people are going to want music, some talk, some news, etc. go with what's best for you. and if you get a radio (of any kind) with some sort of aux port you can hook up pretty much anything else with little effort.
well my awia mp3 player (one of their original models) still comes with a radio. i can listen to all the news i want when i don't want to listen to mp3's.
i have to agree, invest in a good mp3 player, burn your own cdr/cdrw's and listen to the radio when you want to. my awia unit even has an AUX port for me to hook my ipod or anything else up to when i want.
ticket prices are constantly on the rise. so each new movie that comes out racks up a great weekend. but are more people really going to see each movie?
Not always the latest & greatest, but I can recommend looking at TigerDirect for cheap notebooks, especially their "web-only" specials. I recently picked up a 800mhz/10gHD/128M RAM/WiFi/13" new (not refurbished) IBM R30 ThinkPad for $800. Can't complain about that. Runs Linux just fine too. :-)
I also shopped around on eBay for a while but found used prices a lot higher than new or factory reburbished equipment.
Shop around!
I've known several people who worked for the gov't and from their stories I certainly wouldn't leave my job. I'm curious, what incentive would the gov't give private sector people to come work for them?
Why not? Think about it. Big businesses pay our politicians for laws. Why ever would they want a law enacted that would prohibit them from suing people who say negative things about them?
It's my guess they pay federal lawmakers to keep such laws off the books.
Just for the record, TiVo doesn't necessarily have more than 7 days out either. Most channels suppily information further out, quite a few don't, and I've quite often seen schedules a ways out change. I'm very glad TiVo updates their information (that's what we're paying for) but you can't set your TiVo up once a month to record shows for the whole month unles it's for regular things like series, etc. It will not get one-shot shows, specials, etc.
Does this mean someone might reprint the Amber books..? It's getting pretty hard to find them these days as well as some of his other early stuff. Bookstores list them as "out of print." :-(
Pretty sad but a lot of my favorites from my younger years seem to have gone "out of print." Wish the publishers would release them to the public or something. :-) Would love reading Amber on my PDA while commuting.
well consider yourself lucky. over the past 20 or so years i've had tons of "scsi voodoo" where devices wouldn't show for no apparent reason. chains that needed no, one or two terminators on them for strange reasons. two "identical" setups that didn't work the same.
both usb and firewire were supposed to be issue free yet there are many people who have strange problems with both. i know if i plug my harmon kardon usb speakers into my usb hub i lose my intellimouse and zip drive. some times. some times it works just fine. i can't plug my firewire hard drive into my cdrw and then into my powerbook, my cdrw has to be at the end of the chain. no idea why.
for what it's worth, there are no native firewire hard drives out there, they all are ide (or scsi) with bridge boards. doubt we'll ever see a native usb 2.0 drive. looks like the standards were very well accepted. :-( kudos for sony for at least starting a trend putting fire^H^H^H^Hi.link ports on their cameras
to compete with the firewire (and upcoming gigawire) "standard" and the usb 1.x and 2.x "standards". oh and we have ata/133/100/66 "standards". scsi 1/2/3/4/5/ultra/wide/thin/mega-super-fun "standards" too.
how come none of my "standard" devices talk to each other very well?
well three cheers for the latest "standard". by the time it's on everyone's hardware it will be superceeded a dozen times or so.