Chromebooks are great for their target market, your parents. They work extremely well and boot up in seconds. You'll never receive another tech support call. Most cell phones today are worthless without connectivity. I'm sure you could go as far as using only the phone part and installing apps manually but what is the point? Different products are designed for different purposes and trying to use something for which it is not intended is being dumb. "Look I put Linux on a Chromebook, the wifi doesn't work and its command line only but who cares it boots!"
Every drive that has gone bad on me had early warning signs. Some showed SMART errors in the event log and others made the head recalibration noise while they were operating. But yeah I have been very lucky. My last drive to fail was a 1.5TB Seagate and it was nearly full.
I'm in need of more storage space but Seagate is garbage now and WD had such a bad reputation in the 90s that it still makes me hesitate.
You think the police respond quickly if you live in a bad neighborhood? They'll show up an hour after you get shot and fill out some paperwork and then leave.
I have yet to experience this DLL nightmare you speak of. I've had way more dependency hell on Linux than anything. Say you find a great program that does exactly what you need. Well the author based it off some obscure library that needs a dozen other dependencies. One of those said dozen fails to compile. I'm not a CS major so the story pretty much ends there.
The only DLL issue I've had was getting some of the cygwin tools. It needed some DLL and their site was useless for supplying it. I just need the one file, not their installer giving me the entire dev environment. In the end I searched for the filename and "index of" and found a copy that way.
I still don't understand how VMS can be compared to NT. They don't even seem remotely similar.
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You've just proven my point. Buy a linux friendly tablet then.
Now for the useful information. How many of the failed SSD's were they able to recover data? I suspect not many.
Chromebooks are great for their target market, your parents. They work extremely well and boot up in seconds. You'll never receive another tech support call. Most cell phones today are worthless without connectivity. I'm sure you could go as far as using only the phone part and installing apps manually but what is the point? Different products are designed for different purposes and trying to use something for which it is not intended is being dumb. "Look I put Linux on a Chromebook, the wifi doesn't work and its command line only but who cares it boots!"
Every drive that has gone bad on me had early warning signs. Some showed SMART errors in the event log and others made the head recalibration noise while they were operating. But yeah I have been very lucky. My last drive to fail was a 1.5TB Seagate and it was nearly full.
I'm in need of more storage space but Seagate is garbage now and WD had such a bad reputation in the 90s that it still makes me hesitate.
When flash drives fail they fail suddenly and catastrophically. I've always been able to recover data from platter drives.
So buy a new drive with the same rev boards and swap them out. Problem solved.
Check out what it takes to read a Cray disk pack from the 1980s. That is the challenge with digital formats. http://www.chrisfenton.com/cray-1-digital-archeology/
Why would they choose to backdoor such an obscure OS?
I'm sure all six of the fans who watch this race are shocked.
I'm pretty sure they have other ways of installing listening devices other than cutting the cable and splicing in a "T" fitting.
This won't stop until we see heads on pikes like the old days.
Oh the federal penn for streaming video. Totally felony worthy.
Obama is pushing to make streaming copyrighted material a FELONY. Have fun with your "hope and change".
Twitter could shut down tomorrow and I could give zero fucks about the loss.
The NRA has to be this way because giving a government an inch means they'll take a mile. That is why they flat out won't bargain.
You think the police respond quickly if you live in a bad neighborhood? They'll show up an hour after you get shot and fill out some paperwork and then leave.
I loathe all those Christmas specials. They are all basically the same story.
You couldn't have put it better. Lawyers in court are virtually speaking another language.
Why is this a problem? You are using their likeness to generate income without their consent or compensation.
Oh why didn't I think of that? Because a package was not available! Hence my need of compiling from source.
VMS=Virtual Memory System
WNT=Windows New Technology
Your point?
I have yet to experience this DLL nightmare you speak of. I've had way more dependency hell on Linux than anything. Say you find a great program that does exactly what you need. Well the author based it off some obscure library that needs a dozen other dependencies. One of those said dozen fails to compile. I'm not a CS major so the story pretty much ends there.
The only DLL issue I've had was getting some of the cygwin tools. It needed some DLL and their site was useless for supplying it. I just need the one file, not their installer giving me the entire dev environment. In the end I searched for the filename and "index of" and found a copy that way.
I still don't understand how VMS can be compared to NT. They don't even seem remotely similar.
Only because Apple made it work properly and added a GUI instead of text files that bomb with a misplaced comma or tab.
You'd be much more credible if you didn't use the word "sheeple".
Yeah don't fucking tell us or anything you tosser.
What happens if one of those letters shows up on Wikileaks and it can't be traced back to the recipient?