While my post was made (somewhat) in jest, I have heard such a whine from a solid state component (not an SSD, thankfully). Capacitors can be notoriously bad in a number of noisy ways, and typically the point of failure.
Wow, I've been using SSDs since 2009... I've got a 60GB Vertex from that era still running a Linux media server 24/7 - the other of the pair I bought then did die, after 5 years of service. It's the ONLY casualty I've had, and I've got 12 SSDs of various ages and capacities in systems around my home. Compared to platter drives, I've had more success with SSDs.
It's not like they haven't been stress tested by numerous organizations... for all practical purposes, a typical SSD should last even an enthusiast user a decade or more. Probably longer than the life of those platter drive motors.
Consider how ubiquitous they are becoming in the "cloud" space these days. Platter drives are good for one thing these days... archival storage.
Given their reputation, I expect that about a week after I've loaded it full of irreplaceable data (and not-backed-up), it will inexplicably start making clicking noises, and all of my data will be corrupted when read... to die an ignoble death 2 days later with a "pop" and a loud, winding-down whine.
Wow, some idiot discovered there is a data channel to monitors... that has no practical "hacking" application. Said channel is frequently only used to transfer information about the monitor to the hosting device.
This isn't Hollywood, but expect some moron screenwriter to now use this in their plot.
Yeah, it will be a LONG time before I trust Seagate anything, after burning through every Seagate drive I've bought in the past 6 years. Every. Single. One. Not even heavy duty usage, some were just archival drives.
Utter trash. Ever since they bought Maxtor... they took a terrible turn for the worse.
I can't help but wonder if they saw an order for Backblaze... and said... gee guys, make sure QA sends only the most reliable bins to those guys.
Finally pulled the trigger with prices dropping as low as $199. Considering inflation, that's incredibly cheap for a current-gen game console compared to pricing on previous generations.
I'd much prefer to hear about the keyboards that did pass the test and encrypt transmissions. Logitech, easily as popular as Microsoft and more popular than ANY of the named brands, wasn't tested? Why not?
The reason for doing this should be obvious... many older games are broken when they are installed under Program Files "secure" folders. As I've been running SSDs for my system drives, my Steam libraries are usually hosted on my data drives, which solved the problem when it first cropped up.
Basically, it's a compatibility issue that arose from Microsoft tightening up security. Hard to blame Steam (or Microsoft) for this one.
I think the border agents would feel she fits a profile, and the journalist's denial of this seems a bit disingenuous.
Note that I didn't say it was right, just that I find what she said a bit illogical (in the face of border agent's desire to search her) and perhaps indicative that there is more to this story than she is letting on.
When she complains that "she doesn't fit the profile" but she's a journalist traveling from the middle east?
Sorry, something doesn't smell right with her story. I suspect there was some reason border agents detained and hassled her, though I do believe they regularly overstep their bounds in other cases.
That said, the powers our border agents and TSA have are truly frightening, nonetheless. I live in the 100 mile zone where agents could storm my house and seize all of my electronic devices "just because". They don't use this power, except in exceptional cases, but when the dam breaks and they start doing this, it will become more commonplace until they start doing it on behalf of corporations to protect "intellectual property" and use it to censor journalists.
Works in Detroit Metro. Works in my "RF noisy" home, with many BT devices, multiple WiFi routers (my own, but also a number of my neighbors), and rather complete cell coverage.
Is it LORAN causing interference? Do they still field these systems?
Bluetooth works fine, for my over-the-ear headphones AND vehicle.
Now I'm just hoping Apple gives me decent wireless charging and consistent connectivity to iTunes without having to plug in (this functionality seems spotty, at best)
Why GDDR5X? HBM2 triples the memory throughput. If they want a monster card that is overkill for today, it should at least incorporate the king of memory buses.
Probably one flash drive could have held the contents of his art and blog. Who doesn't keep the original sources, though? I create games, and the assets I create always have source in the form of Illustrator, Photoshop, Corel PhotoPaint or Corel Draw files - all religiously uploaded to several destinations as backups. House fire? I have cloud backups and off-site discs at another location. Cloud goes offline? I have several backup drives locally.
It's dumb and tempting fate to put all your eggs, as they say, in one basket.
...the DNC actually did due diligence to see how a donor scandal might affect their candidates? The horror!
I don't see how this is wrong. Show me documents that expose collusion with Hsu to hide illegal donations or some sort of menu detailing the amount of influence certain donations buy, and you might have my attention; otherwise, this is just retrieving somebody's used toilet paper and saying "look at this shit! How dare they take a shit!"
Read CajunArson's post above... your chart shows spikes, which are accounted for in the spec, not the average draw being above spec.
The reality is that there apparently already are motherboards that have probably died because of AMD's egregious violation of the specs; there are probably PSUs that have also died because of these cards.
The motherboards and PSUs that died were likely within spec, but couldn't handle a PCIe card that was running out of spec. That's the bottom line here.
The card should have used an 8-pin connector, end-of-story. That ensures the card is getting its power supplied from an in-spec component, within the specifications rated. It NEVER should have drawn more than 75W from the motherboard (outside of the aforementioned spikes and transients), because that is clearly outside of the spec.
Now we have a bigger mess... the cards, running IN spec, don't perform the same as all the benchmarks that have been done. That's the unspoken part of this mess... basically, the performance claims are bogus until they are redone with the new drivers in "Compatibility mode" (i.e. in-spec mode, i.e. non-motherboard and PSU killing mode)
I can't trust AMD. Flaky marketing, hot GPUs... now this. I don't need the aggravation of building a system to hear a "snap" and smell burning electronics, with no clue that the video card caused the motherboard failure.
Obviously, syncing across multiple devices is important. "Pen and paper" answers are funny the first time it's posted, but not useful beyond that. Simple note taking or text editing answers also don't really help.
I just discovered EverNote, and I appreciate the ability to encrypt sections of a note. I'm also disappointed in their new restrictive terms, but I understand.
I like Tomboy, but it is horrible at synchronizing with a shared folder, and has no cross-device usage.
I haven't used OneNote but may look into it.
So basically, the summary is asking for a note taking app that can sync over multiple devices, presumably with no limitations on those devices (i.e. PC, Android, Apple, web, etc...). Can we try and post USEFUL answers to this question, for a change... or is that too much to ask of Slashdotters?
A mobile OS by itself isn't worth much... what makes smart phones so, well, "smart" is a rich ecosystem of apps (even if there is a lot of shovelware crap to slog through).
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While my post was made (somewhat) in jest, I have heard such a whine from a solid state component (not an SSD, thankfully). Capacitors can be notoriously bad in a number of noisy ways, and typically the point of failure.
Wow, I've been using SSDs since 2009... I've got a 60GB Vertex from that era still running a Linux media server 24/7 - the other of the pair I bought then did die, after 5 years of service. It's the ONLY casualty I've had, and I've got 12 SSDs of various ages and capacities in systems around my home. Compared to platter drives, I've had more success with SSDs.
It's not like they haven't been stress tested by numerous organizations... for all practical purposes, a typical SSD should last even an enthusiast user a decade or more. Probably longer than the life of those platter drive motors.
Consider how ubiquitous they are becoming in the "cloud" space these days. Platter drives are good for one thing these days... archival storage.
Given their reputation, I expect that about a week after I've loaded it full of irreplaceable data (and not-backed-up), it will inexplicably start making clicking noises, and all of my data will be corrupted when read... to die an ignoble death 2 days later with a "pop" and a loud, winding-down whine.
That's still not going to handle my porn, or more specifically, just the midget tranny porn part of my collection.
Wow, some idiot discovered there is a data channel to monitors... that has no practical "hacking" application. Said channel is frequently only used to transfer information about the monitor to the hosting device.
This isn't Hollywood, but expect some moron screenwriter to now use this in their plot.
We have the technology. Predator drones, heavily armed.
Take out the call centers and more importantly, take out the people who are behind these operations.
I have stated this before... this would be a far more useful application of the technology than how it is currently used.
Yeah, it will be a LONG time before I trust Seagate anything, after burning through every Seagate drive I've bought in the past 6 years. Every. Single. One. Not even heavy duty usage, some were just archival drives.
Utter trash. Ever since they bought Maxtor... they took a terrible turn for the worse.
I can't help but wonder if they saw an order for Backblaze... and said... gee guys, make sure QA sends only the most reliable bins to those guys.
Dropping prices for the Xbox One.
Finally pulled the trigger with prices dropping as low as $199. Considering inflation, that's incredibly cheap for a current-gen game console compared to pricing on previous generations.
To be fair, the last time I checked, my trees didn't come with a fuel hose that could fill my car's gas tank.
Not speaking to the merits of this technology, but if it does work, it would be slick.
You can install Windows 10 Threshold 2 images with Windows 7 and Windows 8.x keys. I bet they will continue to activate these installs.
I'd much prefer to hear about the keyboards that did pass the test and encrypt transmissions. Logitech, easily as popular as Microsoft and more popular than ANY of the named brands, wasn't tested? Why not?
The reason for doing this should be obvious... many older games are broken when they are installed under Program Files "secure" folders. As I've been running SSDs for my system drives, my Steam libraries are usually hosted on my data drives, which solved the problem when it first cropped up.
Basically, it's a compatibility issue that arose from Microsoft tightening up security. Hard to blame Steam (or Microsoft) for this one.
I think the border agents would feel she fits a profile, and the journalist's denial of this seems a bit disingenuous.
Note that I didn't say it was right, just that I find what she said a bit illogical (in the face of border agent's desire to search her) and perhaps indicative that there is more to this story than she is letting on.
When she complains that "she doesn't fit the profile" but she's a journalist traveling from the middle east?
Sorry, something doesn't smell right with her story. I suspect there was some reason border agents detained and hassled her, though I do believe they regularly overstep their bounds in other cases.
That said, the powers our border agents and TSA have are truly frightening, nonetheless. I live in the 100 mile zone where agents could storm my house and seize all of my electronic devices "just because". They don't use this power, except in exceptional cases, but when the dam breaks and they start doing this, it will become more commonplace until they start doing it on behalf of corporations to protect "intellectual property" and use it to censor journalists.
Works in Detroit Metro. Works in my "RF noisy" home, with many BT devices, multiple WiFi routers (my own, but also a number of my neighbors), and rather complete cell coverage.
Is it LORAN causing interference? Do they still field these systems?
Bluetooth works fine, for my over-the-ear headphones AND vehicle.
Now I'm just hoping Apple gives me decent wireless charging and consistent connectivity to iTunes without having to plug in (this functionality seems spotty, at best)
Why GDDR5X? HBM2 triples the memory throughput. If they want a monster card that is overkill for today, it should at least incorporate the king of memory buses.
Probably one flash drive could have held the contents of his art and blog. Who doesn't keep the original sources, though? I create games, and the assets I create always have source in the form of Illustrator, Photoshop, Corel PhotoPaint or Corel Draw files - all religiously uploaded to several destinations as backups. House fire? I have cloud backups and off-site discs at another location. Cloud goes offline? I have several backup drives locally.
It's dumb and tempting fate to put all your eggs, as they say, in one basket.
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...the DNC actually did due diligence to see how a donor scandal might affect their candidates? The horror!
I don't see how this is wrong. Show me documents that expose collusion with Hsu to hide illegal donations or some sort of menu detailing the amount of influence certain donations buy, and you might have my attention; otherwise, this is just retrieving somebody's used toilet paper and saying "look at this shit! How dare they take a shit!"
I can't help but think there will soon be an Instagram posting of somebody capturing a Pokemon during a performance.
Read CajunArson's post above... your chart shows spikes, which are accounted for in the spec, not the average draw being above spec.
The reality is that there apparently already are motherboards that have probably died because of AMD's egregious violation of the specs; there are probably PSUs that have also died because of these cards.
The motherboards and PSUs that died were likely within spec, but couldn't handle a PCIe card that was running out of spec. That's the bottom line here.
The card should have used an 8-pin connector, end-of-story. That ensures the card is getting its power supplied from an in-spec component, within the specifications rated. It NEVER should have drawn more than 75W from the motherboard (outside of the aforementioned spikes and transients), because that is clearly outside of the spec.
Now we have a bigger mess... the cards, running IN spec, don't perform the same as all the benchmarks that have been done. That's the unspoken part of this mess... basically, the performance claims are bogus until they are redone with the new drivers in "Compatibility mode" (i.e. in-spec mode, i.e. non-motherboard and PSU killing mode)
I can't trust AMD. Flaky marketing, hot GPUs... now this. I don't need the aggravation of building a system to hear a "snap" and smell burning electronics, with no clue that the video card caused the motherboard failure.
Obviously, syncing across multiple devices is important. "Pen and paper" answers are funny the first time it's posted, but not useful beyond that. Simple note taking or text editing answers also don't really help.
I just discovered EverNote, and I appreciate the ability to encrypt sections of a note. I'm also disappointed in their new restrictive terms, but I understand.
I like Tomboy, but it is horrible at synchronizing with a shared folder, and has no cross-device usage.
I haven't used OneNote but may look into it.
So basically, the summary is asking for a note taking app that can sync over multiple devices, presumably with no limitations on those devices (i.e. PC, Android, Apple, web, etc...). Can we try and post USEFUL answers to this question, for a change... or is that too much to ask of Slashdotters?
PrivDog, Chomodo, hacks, and issuing certs to malware, Comodo is one company I'd steer clear from in any case.
A mobile OS by itself isn't worth much... what makes smart phones so, well, "smart" is a rich ecosystem of apps (even if there is a lot of shovelware crap to slog through).