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  1. Re:1 TB drives are affected as well on Seagate Hard Drive Fiasco Grows · · Score: 1

    Ya I'll post after they have responded on my blog for sure.

  2. 1 TB drives are affected as well on Seagate Hard Drive Fiasco Grows · · Score: 1

    Ever since I first read about this I was just glad I had the older 1 TB version but apparently my three drives are affected as well. I hadn't noticed any problems though. However, I do have mine in Linux Software RAID 5 and only access them over NFS so I wonder if that would mask any issues?

    Here they are as identified by the SeaTools software:
    http://cupcakecarnival.net/gallery/main.php/v/Computers/Seagate_ST31000340AS/SeaTools_freedos.jpg.html

    I have opened a ticket to get the new firwmare and am awaiting response.

  3. Re:smartctl anybody? on Seagate Hard Drive Fiasco Grows · · Score: 1

    damn I wish you would have posted this before I burned a CD with the SeaTools and rebooted my router/firewall with it...

    # smartctl -i /dev/sdb
    smartctl version 5.36 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
    Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

    Device: ATA ST31000340AS Version: AD14
    Serial number: 3QJ02K6F
    Device type: disk
    Local Time is: Sat Jan 17 00:23:14 2009 EST
    Device does not support SMART

  4. Re:Through them out on What To Do With All of My Gadget Chargers? · · Score: 1

    Yes, do you really need that many gadgets? I know that there is some overlap in those products and you definitely have two mobile phones and an "internet tablet."

  5. Re:Everyone signs up because.. on Inside MySpace.com · · Score: 1

    Yup, I was looking at hot LESBIAN girls so I had to signup

  6. www.dropline.net DOWN on Slackware Likely To Drop GNOME Support · · Score: 1

    sigh, I just installed Slackware 10.0 on my room mate's computer and I was going to download dropline gnome (Gnome 2.8) I even had the download page up with link and then Slashdot had to come along and slashdot the webserver:
    "This Account Has Been Suspended
    Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible."

    Doh!

    http://www.dropline.net/gnome/files/dropline-ins ta ller-2.4.9-i686-1dl.tgz
    ^^ doesn't work, but the ISO for "The complete Dropline GNOME binary and source distributions can be downloaded via a pair of ISO images for easy burning to CD-ROM. These images are currently only available at the following BitTorrent links:" does work: http://morva.dropline.net/~fflew/torrents/dlg-2.8. 0.iso.torrent

  7. Perfect Timing on PowerBook Upgrade and Repair Guides · · Score: 1

    My new 40 GB IBM/Hitachi 7200 RPM 2.5 inch hdd just came in this week. I'm upgrading my G3 iBook(http://john.brier.name/gallery/ibook) which had its 20 GB hdd die over summer. I opened up my iBook previously to try and fix it when the display started flickering and going off. Turns out the motherboard/logicboard and reed switch cable were bad. This problem occured about 1.5 yrs after I bought the computer. Apple wouldn't initially refund the price of the repair after I payed for it out of pocket when they first started the iBook iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program (http://www.apple.com/support/ibook/faq/). After broadening the iBooks it covered twice I was finally covered for cost of repair. I got my check from Apple a while ago. $402.11. I'm not sure I'll ever buy another Apple computer after the way they treated me on the phones. I had a superviser tell me that they couldn't cover the repairs when it wasn't initially covered because "Power book logic boards fail regularly, but we can't reimburse the price of those repairs if they're out of warranty just because." or something to that effect. She insisted that my problem which matched the symptoms described exactly on the program web page were not related to the problematic iBooks that were covered under the plan.

    terrible.

    Anyway I'll be glad to have it working again.

  8. Re:Blimey on More Diebold E-Voting Vulnerabilities · · Score: 2, Insightful

    SERIOUSLY! Could he be anymore naive? I was going to quote that part of the article where Diebold's spokesman says no one would do it because it's against the law, but you beat me. Wow.

    Here is my take on the whole electronic voting thing. Computer Scientists would generally like to promote the use of computers and technology to solve a problem, say like e-voting. Now if Computer Scientists are coming out in large numbers to say, WAIT! computers might not be the best way to tally votes, it's not secure, there's too much room for false votes, etc etc. Then you know there is something wrong with using electronic voting. It's crazy.

  9. Re:they are leading us into the prison society on NARAS vs. the RIAA · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    You are so wrong it's not even funny. More white people use drugs! Read this article Here is a relavent pasage:
    That's right: white high school students are seven times more likely than blacks to have used cocaine; eight times more likely to have smoked crack; ten times more likely to have used LSD and seven times more likely to have used heroin. In fact, there are more white high school students who have used crystal methamphetamine (the most addictive drug on the streets) than there are black students who smoke cigarettes.

    What's more, white youth ages 12-17 are more likely to sell drugs: 34% more likely, in fact than their black counterparts. And it is white youth who are twice as likely to binge drink, and nearly twice as likely as blacks to drive drunk. And white males are twice as likely to bring a weapon to school as are black males.


    Please keep your racism to yourself.
  10. Re:One minor correction... on Wireless Congestion · · Score: 1

    i found more links:
    http://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/wireles s/plan.h tml

  11. Re:One minor correction... on Wireless Congestion · · Score: 1

    no hams are actually allowed to use this band. hams can use an off the shelf WAP and modify it, say add way more than 1 watt, all we have to do is add our callsign into the data every 10 minutes. not a problem. but then looking at porn over this ham connection would probably be illegal. here is an example of some hams doing what i described http://www.abrn.org/default.asp?s=hs
    check this page for a howto too.
    KG4AKV, John Brier

  12. How/Where do you get Jaguar? on Quartz Extreme Demo Movie · · Score: 1

    I have seen many people say they have tried Jaguar, but I can't seem to find out where these people are getting it. I checked apple's developer site and it wasn't obvious. Do you have to pay for it, be a journalist who writes about computers or what?

  13. Re:Why Internet Radio? on Can Internet Radio Survive? · · Score: 1

    "You should live where I live , all they play is ghetto music shit. Sometimes I wonder if I should
    go buy a thick gold chain and learn to move my arms like an angry chimp when I talk."


    That comment was hillarious! Thanks!

  14. 802.1x NOT 802.11x on Researchers Claim to Crack 802.1x WiFi · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The articles states this clearly. There is a differnce in meaning, I believe.

  15. Re:Finally this reached a conclusion on Microsoft, DoJ Reach Tentative Settlement · · Score: 1, Troll

    forgot that a in "reched" lol. guess i should have clicked preview

  16. Finally this reched a conclusion on Microsoft, DoJ Reach Tentative Settlement · · Score: 0

    It seemed like they would never decide didn't it?
    I know it will never be fully resolved though...

  17. Re:People will soon not be needed! on Robots Go To War · · Score: 1

    I knew people had said this before. You probably knew that too. I was just getting the conversation started. :)

  18. People will soon not be needed! on Robots Go To War · · Score: 1

    Doesn't it seem that people will be replaced by many robots commanded by a few people in a hidden bunker somewhere. That is where it's going.

  19. Will HP support linux like Compaq has? on HP Buys Compaq · · Score: 1

    Let's hope so, that would be another huge computer company that is supporting linux!!

  20. Re:distance/legal on Long-Range Networking · · Score: 2

    Get a Technician Ham License and you can use lot's of power and be legal, 802.11b is in a ham band(2.4 Ghz I believe) please check this site as it has lot's of information for hams and people that aren't hams too concerning highspeed wireless data.http://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/wireless/ John KG4AKV

  21. Couldn't he use his skill more effectively? on Themes.org Cracked · · Score: 1

    Jeez, If you are smart enough to do something like that couldn't you find many better ways to apply yourself?

  22. Re:Seriously. on Technology vs. Cheating at the University of Virginia · · Score: 1

    this is funny!! Thanks for the good humor.

  23. Re:Its not needed on When The PCI Bus Departs · · Score: 1

    yea that's what I was thinking. Why change something when there isn't a need for it? Or is there a need?

  24. Re:Criminal applications? on $10 Paper Mobile Phone To Launch This Year · · Score: 1

    actually it is hard to find out the location of someone using a cell phone(I believe this is what they ment by "trace") you must find out what tower they are on then what frequency that they are actually transmitting on then use directional antennas to find out where they are. Not that easy, when you have a congested band and "reflections"(when a signal bounces off of a building or mountain and gives you a false reading.)

  25. DVD FAQ will answer all of your questions on Is Sony Turning Its Back On CD-Rs? · · Score: 1

    check this out for all you ever want to know about DVD. http://www.dvddemystified.com/dvdfaq.html