As other have pointed out, since you have a 40GB drive in there, pretty much any modern drive you buy will likely be ok as a replacement. The fun part then is actually replacing it. You'll either find it's easy, like most laptops from Acer, Toshiba, Dell. Or as hard as hell like anything from Apple (except the 15 inch TiBook).
Since it seems to be a sub-note, I wouldn't be surprised to find its the second one, but you might be lucky.
Generally, take off any panel on it which is only held on by 1-4 screws and look for something that looks like a laptop hard drive. Look also for little plastic tabs to pull on to remove it if there are covers on the side. Also, philips screws are a good sign for finding the hard drive. Torx bits are engineer's way of saying "here be dragons".
Yes, but Australia's polymer banknotes have been copied. I was working at a supermarket a few years ago when there were some fake $100's circulating. I saw one of them, and they were *very* good copies. Keep in mind, I was someone who delt with a lot of money every day, and also a banknote collector, so let's say I am *very* familiar with our banknotes. Joe public wouldn't have had a chance if the police hadn't publicised the serial numbers of them.
NT is weird though, outside of the two main cities, there aren't speed limits. Apparently Darwin to Alice Springs in a Diabolo is a nice way to spend an hour or two;)
I spent a bit of time living with reletives 20 minutes outside of London Ontario. Up until 2000, their neighbouring farms were on party-lines (anything but a fun party, I assure you;).
Apparently there was a "lack of lines" in the area. They pointed at the new cell tower down the road and Bell provided them with a private line if they didn't mention it to anyone else..
I've been reading slashdot since 1998. These two stories from michael today have got to be the lamest entries I've ever seen on here. I'm very disappointed. At least this one isn't as bad as the Nokia one.
Then it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to think about adding something like: "You may not work for the hard drive divisions of Toshiba, Hitatchi, IBM, Western Digital, Maxtor or ExcelStor"
Those drives are serious bad news, and you didn't have backups.
You should have been expecting them to fail ages ago. PAIR hosting threw out thousands of them. Do a search of the web on 75GXP and you'll find so many people having problems.
Lately I've been seeing no head screws, which have me baffled. They're screws that look a lot like a rivet. I'm at a loss to understand how they get them in there. Removing them is easy though, just a pair of hardened needlenose pliers and a steady hand.
The screws have a head which snaps off at a certain torque. You tighten the thing until the head breaks off, and presto, no head screws. From my understanding, they work a bit like these (but not for bones, obviously:)
In Japan, Airport is a trademark used by another company for wireless network access (not 802.11x, but still..). For this reason, Apple's wireless networking equipment is called AirMac instead of Airport there:) It was funny seeing AEBS's with "AirMac Extreme" on them:)
Gigabit Fibre only runs at 1000Mbit. It CANNOT clock down to a slower fibre ethernet speed. You'll also notice they specify a media converter so you can plug in the GigE UTP ports. This will also only run at 1000MBit.
Bill Biggart and Bill Biggart's Microdrive had the World Trade Center fall on them. The Microdrive was recoverable. Bill wasn't. This little story allayed any fears I had about Microdrives.
I'm an Australian who used to live in Canada.. the times I recall seeing the doctor, I didn't actually have to pay anything, and the doctor, upon hearing I didn't have a medication insurance plan gave me sufficient "free sample" packs of the medication to complete the dosage.
The downside was I had to wait about 45 minutes to see her in a darkened waiting room in some university basement, but you can't have everything I guess:)
DLT in all its' wacky fashions is used a lot in DVD mastering. SDLT320 would mean only a few tapes to hold a copy of an entire movie. It's not that far out:)
Given the ease of reversing the combination on the locks, I suspect that the TSA doesn't actually use a combination or keys to open them.
If *I* were making something like this, I'd use a series of magnets that when the correct polarity combination were applied would release the lock. This would mean no chance of your TSA key breaking in a lock, and no chance of the numeric combination leaking out..
Or, if I were really paranoid, you could fit a small chip in which stored a key pair in flash. When a 4 conductor connector (data -/+, 5VDC -/+) was connected and sent a hello message, the lock would send a challange which contains a response encrypted with the TSA's public key. The TSA device would then decrypt the payload and send it back to the lock. The lock would then compare to its stored value and if appropriate close gates which would supply current to an electromagnetic coil to open the lock.
Though admittedly the first method seems overly simple and the second overly complex...
I don't know if I agree with you about this.. I'm sure for an appropriate number of million bucks that Apple could buy Mark/Space, and I don't think it's entirely out of the question that they would too. It would fit in with iSync quite nicely.
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As other have pointed out, since you have a 40GB drive in there, pretty much any modern drive you buy will likely be ok as a replacement. The fun part then is actually replacing it. You'll either find it's easy, like most laptops from Acer, Toshiba, Dell. Or as hard as hell like anything from Apple (except the 15 inch TiBook).
Since it seems to be a sub-note, I wouldn't be surprised to find its the second one, but you might be lucky.
Generally, take off any panel on it which is only held on by 1-4 screws and look for something that looks like a laptop hard drive. Look also for little plastic tabs to pull on to remove it if there are covers on the side. Also, philips screws are a good sign for finding the hard drive. Torx bits are engineer's way of saying "here be dragons".
Good luck.
Yes, but Australia's polymer banknotes have been copied. I was working at a supermarket a few years ago when there were some fake $100's circulating. I saw one of them, and they were *very* good copies. Keep in mind, I was someone who delt with a lot of money every day, and also a banknote collector, so let's say I am *very* familiar with our banknotes. Joe public wouldn't have had a chance if the police hadn't publicised the serial numbers of them.
NT is weird though, outside of the two main cities, there aren't speed limits. Apparently Darwin to Alice Springs in a Diabolo is a nice way to spend an hour or two ;)
Just for the record, Australia, or at least Western Australia, has mandatory helmet laws.. for bicycles!
REBEL
:)
Or migrate
Dell does consumer 64bit systems for that price? You're missing one of the big points of the G5.
;)
Sorry, you can't just price up from Dell now
I spent a bit of time living with reletives 20 minutes outside of London Ontario. Up until 2000, their neighbouring farms were on party-lines (anything but a fun party, I assure you ;).
Apparently there was a "lack of lines" in the area. They pointed at the new cell tower down the road and Bell provided them with a private line if they didn't mention it to anyone else..
I've been reading slashdot since 1998. These two stories from michael today have got to be the lamest entries I've ever seen on here. I'm very disappointed. At least this one isn't as bad as the Nokia one.
Then it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to think about adding something like: "You may not work for the hard drive divisions of Toshiba, Hitatchi, IBM, Western Digital, Maxtor or ExcelStor"
In soviet australia, money steals babies!
(or so I hear)
Those drives are serious bad news, and you didn't have backups.
You should have been expecting them to fail ages ago. PAIR hosting threw out thousands of them. Do a search of the web on 75GXP and you'll find so many people having problems.
So have they said when they are actually going to start selling iPod's yet?
Lately I've been seeing no head screws, which have me baffled. They're screws that look a lot like a rivet. I'm at a loss to understand how they get them in there. Removing them is easy though, just a pair of hardened needlenose pliers and a steady hand.
:)
The screws have a head which snaps off at a certain torque. You tighten the thing until the head breaks off, and presto, no head screws. From my understanding, they work a bit like these (but not for bones, obviously
I was only reading the first link, which is the 1999/2000 information this guy used :)
He's talking about a 1999 LJ article, and all the pages are last modified 1999 or 2000..
ie, 4 or 5 years ago.
In Japan, Airport is a trademark used by another company for wireless network access (not 802.11x, but still..). For this reason, Apple's wireless networking equipment is called AirMac instead of Airport there :) It was funny seeing AEBS's with "AirMac Extreme" on them :)
Gigabit Fibre only runs at 1000Mbit. It CANNOT clock down to a slower fibre ethernet speed. You'll also notice they specify a media converter so you can plug in the GigE UTP ports. This will also only run at 1000MBit.
With a GigE switch + MC you could plug one..
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0111/biggart_int ro.htm
Bill Biggart and Bill Biggart's Microdrive had the World Trade Center fall on them. The Microdrive was recoverable. Bill wasn't. This little story allayed any fears I had about Microdrives.
I'm an Australian who used to live in Canada.. the times I recall seeing the doctor, I didn't actually have to pay anything, and the doctor, upon hearing I didn't have a medication insurance plan gave me sufficient "free sample" packs of the medication to complete the dosage.
:)
The downside was I had to wait about 45 minutes to see her in a darkened waiting room in some university basement, but you can't have everything I guess
DLT in all its' wacky fashions is used a lot in DVD mastering. SDLT320 would mean only a few tapes to hold a copy of an entire movie. It's not that far out :)
Given the ease of reversing the combination on the locks, I suspect that the TSA doesn't actually use a combination or keys to open them.
If *I* were making something like this, I'd use a series of magnets that when the correct polarity combination were applied would release the lock. This would mean no chance of your TSA key breaking in a lock, and no chance of the numeric combination leaking out..
Or, if I were really paranoid, you could fit a small chip in which stored a key pair in flash. When a 4 conductor connector (data -/+, 5VDC -/+) was connected and sent a hello message, the lock would send a challange which contains a response encrypted with the TSA's public key. The TSA device would then decrypt the payload and send it back to the lock. The lock would then compare to its stored value and if appropriate close gates which would supply current to an electromagnetic coil to open the lock.
Though admittedly the first method seems overly simple and the second overly complex...
However those few exceptions include the B2 and F117A, combat aircraft which other nations would give an arm and a leg to have :)
Bill Biggart was shooting the World Trade Center collapse using a digital camera with a Microdrive.
He tragically did not survive, but the Microdrive did.
This particularlly grotesque example convinced many that Microdrives weren't anywhere near as fragile as some people thought
I don't know if I agree with you about this.. I'm sure for an appropriate number of million bucks that Apple could buy Mark/Space, and I don't think it's entirely out of the question that they would too. It would fit in with iSync quite nicely.
However it probably pays about 4-5c/mb for inbound network traffic.
-- Random Australian University System Admin