The main company doing the CGI work (Digital Domain Media Group) went under and was sold off. It was a quick sale, but no word if things are still on schedule.
If they are already getting monthly/yearly fees from customers, what's the incentive to produce good products? Now we get to vote by not buying that version and continuing to use an old one. With this new model they'll get money either way.
Their hard core users will probably pay, but many people are occasional users. Free and/or cheaper products will make out big on this. Word processing and spreadsheets aren't exactly cutting edge applications anymore.
Personally I have had one success swapping PCB's on a drive and getting the data off. Of course this requires that the PCB is bad and not the platters. Most bad drives don't sound good (platter issue) so I don't usually bother (ear to drive can tell you a lot).
I have tried the freezer method 3-4 times with no luck, though friends say they have had success.
Usually if the drive is semi-accessible you can use tools like Easy Recovery (OnTrack) or Recuva (Piriform) to get some data off.
Get nearly everyone to wear them and connect them live to the net. Then when anyone does anything "wrong", it will be captured by everyone around them and immediately routed to the authorities.
Thanks, Data Crow is new to me and looks fairly good (first impressions). I still have to figure out how easy it is to get data into it, and how good the export features are.
I've been in limbo since Collectorz destroyed their product by removing the web scraping features a couple years ago (they removed one of the best features and called it an "upgrade").
Of course once they slowly implement caps on bandwidth, then they'll exclude their own services to push out the competition. Oh, you use our pay services (VoIP, IP TV, IP PVR, etc), that doesn't count against your bandwidth.
Except it appears no one checked this fix out completely. So long as your account has privileges to that area the registry (which many do). AIM re-creates the key the next time you restart it. I've also tried breaking the key and AIM corrects this also.
Basically unless you run as a regular "User" or other restricted account in Windows, the AIM fix is only good for one session of AIM.
Satellite P25
(when the site isn't too busy)
Looks like a pretty ugly machine too, though its pretty hard to tell since they never post a REAL pictures on the web. I've emailed Toshiba about this before. What's wrong with a couple good 1024x768 images on a secondary screen for people who are interested?
1. Change the protocols to make it impossible to list all the files shared from one "site". This is a pretty minor feature anyhow and would change the target base completely.
2. Come out with a couple hundred new P2P programs every year and they'll need a staff of 1000's just to keep up.
3. Development of more anonymous P2P protocols will just be increased by this move.
My laptop generates a fair amount of electromagnetic noise being near a radio or such. A full tilt desktop would be even worse.
Cases also keep this noise out. Other devices generate quite a bit of electromagnetic noise and depending on the quality of the internal components (remember "cardboard case"), their stability may be reduced by being exposed to this.
I just had a good friend buy that exact chip (AMD Athlon MP 1.2GHz) and toasted it 3 weeks ago.
He calls me up afterwards all pissed off and explains that he wanted to see if it worked before putting the heatsink/fan on. So he powered up the machine and in less than 15 seconds it is smoking. By the time he is able to shut it off, it had trashed the board also.
After several minutes of trying not to laugh my butt off as he tells the story, I calmly explained how stupid that was and why.
Slashdot Mirror
The main company doing the CGI work (Digital Domain Media Group) went under and was sold off. It was a quick sale, but no word if things are still on schedule.
http://www.endersansible.com/2012/09/24/digital-domain-acquired-by-reliance-mediaworks-and-galloping-horses/
If they are already getting monthly/yearly fees from customers, what's the incentive to produce good products? Now we get to vote by not buying that version and continuing to use an old one. With this new model they'll get money either way.
Their hard core users will probably pay, but many people are occasional users. Free and/or cheaper products will make out big on this. Word processing and spreadsheets aren't exactly cutting edge applications anymore.
Personally I have had one success swapping PCB's on a drive and getting the data off. Of course this requires that the PCB is bad and not the platters. Most bad drives don't sound good (platter issue) so I don't usually bother (ear to drive can tell you a lot).
I have tried the freezer method 3-4 times with no luck, though friends say they have had success.
Usually if the drive is semi-accessible you can use tools like Easy Recovery (OnTrack) or Recuva (Piriform) to get some data off.
Get nearly everyone to wear them and connect them live to the net. Then when anyone does anything "wrong", it will be captured by everyone around them and immediately routed to the authorities.
Thanks, Data Crow is new to me and looks fairly good (first impressions). I still have to figure out how easy it is to get data into it, and how good the export features are.
I've been in limbo since Collectorz destroyed their product by removing the web scraping features a couple years ago (they removed one of the best features and called it an "upgrade").
Of course once they slowly implement caps on bandwidth, then they'll exclude their own services to push out the competition. Oh, you use our pay services (VoIP, IP TV, IP PVR, etc), that doesn't count against your bandwidth.
A company suing Consumer Reports over user feedback on a product?
A political candidate suing a survey company over his election ranking?
Bush suing CBS News over his presidential approval rating?
Except it appears no one checked this fix out completely. So long as your account has privileges to that area the registry (which many do). AIM re-creates the key the next time you restart it. I've also tried breaking the key and AIM corrects this also.
Basically unless you run as a regular "User" or other restricted account in Windows, the AIM fix is only good for one session of AIM.
Victor
Satellite P25 (when the site isn't too busy) Looks like a pretty ugly machine too, though its pretty hard to tell since they never post a REAL pictures on the web. I've emailed Toshiba about this before. What's wrong with a couple good 1024x768 images on a secondary screen for people who are interested?
1. Change the protocols to make it impossible to list all the files shared from one "site". This is a pretty minor feature anyhow and would change the target base completely.
2. Come out with a couple hundred new P2P programs every year and they'll need a staff of 1000's just to keep up.
3. Development of more anonymous P2P protocols will just be increased by this move.
Causemos
My laptop generates a fair amount of electromagnetic noise being near a radio or such. A full tilt desktop would be even worse.
Cases also keep this noise out. Other devices generate quite a bit of electromagnetic noise and depending on the quality of the internal components (remember "cardboard case"), their stability may be reduced by being exposed to this.
Cardboard case
I just had a good friend buy that exact chip (AMD Athlon MP 1.2GHz) and toasted it 3 weeks ago.
He calls me up afterwards all pissed off and explains that he wanted to see if it worked before putting the heatsink/fan on. So he powered up the machine and in less than 15 seconds it is smoking. By the time he is able to shut it off, it had trashed the board also.
After several minutes of trying not to laugh my butt off as he tells the story, I calmly explained how stupid that was and why.