IMHO, WD is STILL a good manufactuer. I've never had a problem with them. I sold a 640 MB drive to someone a few years ago, I believe it STILL works. I personally buy WD and Seagate now (I've always stayed away from Maxtor - I hope Seagate acquiring them improves the reliability of Maxtor drives, and doesn't affect Seagate drives at all). My MacBook Pro has a Hitachi drive (perpendicular, woot!). Anecdotal evidence doesn't say much, I've read good and bad things about pretty much any hard drive manufacturer (though Seagate doesn't seem to get much bad press at all).
The IBM Deskstar drives with the abnormally high failure rates were the 75GXP series (and I believe the 60GXP series to a lesser extent). I toasted a good deal of them, fortunately IBM was pretty good about replacing them. I had mine paired (Striped) wtih a Promise controller of some sort, and I think many other people did as well, and that pairing may have had an impact on the longevity of the drive. I'll personally never buy a Promise controller again (nor would I use the crappy onboard RAID controllers so common nowadays).
It's kind of funny you mention Hitachi - They bought IBM's hard disk division.
As much as I'm glad this Pogue guy can get paid writing this book, but goddamn, we're talking about an operating system that costs hundreds of dollars. Microsoft should be ashamed that their shiny new OS needs an 800+ page book for people to use it effectively.
Pogue has written similar manuals for Mac OS X - are you saying Apple should be ashamed that eachreleaseof theirshiny new OS needs an 800 page book for people to use it effectively?
btw, I just tested that solaris exploit on my sun box at work and it did NOT log me into root. not sure if my box was already patched (another group maintains it) but the exploit did not log me into root.
Can you login as non-root users? If you have the box configured to only allow root logins from console, the exploit doesn't exactly work. Non-root accounts still do, though.
I think the reason we feel there's more crappy music being released now is because we've forgotten about the crappy music from when we were younger. We naturally remember the stuff we liked.
The 80's were especially shitty though, I'm not sure why people recall them so fondly.
What're these "must-have" features in KDE? Any time I've used it, I've found a bunch of stupidly-named applications, and a big, bulky UI filled with toolbars. I'd rather use GNOME. Hell, I'd rather use Windows.
I like how you linked to an article on KDE 4, has anything of KDE 4 even been shown yet? All I recall seeing is some hand-drawn diagrams and some mock-ups. The Release Plan indicated they were aiming for a technical preview release in October, did that even happen?
I did find a screenshot, hardly looks like the revolutionary improvements shown in the mock-ups (linked site not in English, but if you scroll about half way down the page you can see the mock-ups).
Re:That "fairly stable api" didn't help Microsoft
on
Vista - iPod Killer?
·
· Score: 1
Vista isn't a "new" OS, it's an upgrade of an existing OS - anything that worked in Windows XP and no longer works in Vista is broken.
Microsoft had access to the new APIs before anybody, I'm sure, and they didn't add Zune support until January. I think its conceivable it could take Apple a couple weeks longer to get it out the door.
I know the search is there, but I hardly ever use it.
I think there's just a lot of things that could be combined, say for example Sharing and Network, or Appearance, Desktop & Screensaver, Dock, etc.. its not nearly as bad as XP, let alone Vista, though.
hate to reply to myself, but I see they actualy DON'T ship a disc with both binaries. You have to get Microsoft to send you a 64-bit disc (for a nominal fee, of course) if you want it.
but I hate having to use the "search" method in control panel to find the things that should be in the obvious spots.
Agreed. There are FAR too many applets in the Control Panel now. They need to merge some of the applets together. There also seems to be a mix of old-style and new-style applets, so some things feel really out of place.
I think the worst part has to be when I want to do something Networking-related - there's like 5 different applets to pick from, and I never seem to find the correct one.
I sometimes find myself hunting for the right Preference Pane in OS X even, yet the System Preferences are much better organized than the Vista Control Panel.
with separate 32-bit and 64-bit editions (apparently Apple's engineers are much smarter than Microsoft's since they've packaged it all in one version)?
Retail discs include both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries (OEM and VLK discs have separate discs, for some reason).
That's not so bad. Here in Canada we have this steaming pile of shit called the CBC that we pay for, yet they still show just as many ads as any other network.
I don't think I ever played SQ6, but SQ5 was kind of disappointing, as the "Two Guys From Andromeda (Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy)" became one. Mark Crowe handled SQ5, which had a noticeably different style of humour. SQ6 was developed by Scott Murphy and Josh Mandel (Josh worked with Al Lowe on Freddy Pharkas), so it might've been more like the first four games. I guess I should check it out someday:)
Apparently there were several attempts at a 7th game, but Sierra killed it, in true Vivendi fashion. I hadn't heard anything about a FPS - if that was the plan, it's probably not a bad thing that it got axed.
What do you do with something that's dead? You bury it. That's almost the same as being driven into the ground.
Besides, the last King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry (no Al Lowe? WTF were they thinking) games all sucked. They were driven into the ground, then tossed aside and forgotten by Vivendi.
King's Quest, Space Quest, Quest for Glory, Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest/SWAT, Gabriel Night, Earthsiege/Starsiege/Tribes, Front Page Sports, The Incredible Machine, Dr. Brain, Caesar, 3-D Ultra Pinball, Homeworld, Outpost, Freddy Pharkas, Betrayal at Krondor... Sierra practically defines this topic, and it's not even mentioned.
Slashdot Mirror
IMHO, WD is STILL a good manufactuer. I've never had a problem with them. I sold a 640 MB drive to someone a few years ago, I believe it STILL works. I personally buy WD and Seagate now (I've always stayed away from Maxtor - I hope Seagate acquiring them improves the reliability of Maxtor drives, and doesn't affect Seagate drives at all). My MacBook Pro has a Hitachi drive (perpendicular, woot!). Anecdotal evidence doesn't say much, I've read good and bad things about pretty much any hard drive manufacturer (though Seagate doesn't seem to get much bad press at all).
The IBM Deskstar drives with the abnormally high failure rates were the 75GXP series (and I believe the 60GXP series to a lesser extent). I toasted a good deal of them, fortunately IBM was pretty good about replacing them. I had mine paired (Striped) wtih a Promise controller of some sort, and I think many other people did as well, and that pairing may have had an impact on the longevity of the drive. I'll personally never buy a Promise controller again (nor would I use the crappy onboard RAID controllers so common nowadays).
It's kind of funny you mention Hitachi - They bought IBM's hard disk division.
Moms listen to Dr. Phil, and spend their money accordingly.
Off-topic, but I certainly hope this isn't true.
Your labeling of Maureen O'Gara as Mog is an insult to Moogles everywhere. Especially this one.
Don't think he won't kick your ass - they may look cute and cuddly, but Moogle's can kick ass when necessary.
As much as I'm glad this Pogue guy can get paid writing this book, but goddamn, we're talking about an operating system that costs hundreds of dollars. Microsoft should be ashamed that their shiny new OS needs an 800+ page book for people to use it effectively.
Pogue has written similar manuals for Mac OS X - are you saying Apple should be ashamed that each release of their shiny new OS needs an 800 page book for people to use it effectively?
btw, I just tested that solaris exploit on my sun box at work and it did NOT log me into root. not sure if my box was already patched (another group maintains it) but the exploit did not log me into root.
Can you login as non-root users? If you have the box configured to only allow root logins from console, the exploit doesn't exactly work. Non-root accounts still do, though.
I didn't say anything about Apple or OS X, so I'm not sure what your point is.
As for the iPhone, Jobs demoed a prototype, not a mock-up. Huge difference.
I think the reason we feel there's more crappy music being released now is because we've forgotten about the crappy music from when we were younger. We naturally remember the stuff we liked.
The 80's were especially shitty though, I'm not sure why people recall them so fondly.
What're these "must-have" features in KDE? Any time I've used it, I've found a bunch of stupidly-named applications, and a big, bulky UI filled with toolbars. I'd rather use GNOME. Hell, I'd rather use Windows.
I like how you linked to an article on KDE 4, has anything of KDE 4 even been shown yet? All I recall seeing is some hand-drawn diagrams and some mock-ups. The Release Plan indicated they were aiming for a technical preview release in October, did that even happen?
I did find a screenshot, hardly looks like the revolutionary improvements shown in the mock-ups (linked site not in English, but if you scroll about half way down the page you can see the mock-ups).
Exactly, hasn't this been reported about 17 times already on Slashdot?
Off-topic, but I have to note what a great show Sports Night was.
Maybe I'll have to dig out my DVDs and watch it again. Is it just me, or does ABC do a great job of killing quality shows?
I say hand Jobs a shovel. Have Scully help him dig their collective grave.
Indeed. I mean, just look at how poorly the company has performed since his return.
Vista isn't a "new" OS, it's an upgrade of an existing OS - anything that worked in Windows XP and no longer works in Vista is broken.
Microsoft had access to the new APIs before anybody, I'm sure, and they didn't add Zune support until January. I think its conceivable it could take Apple a couple weeks longer to get it out the door.
You should've tried XPostFacto.
that'll teach me not to preview
Someone did.
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/boston-moon inite-fetching-5k-on-ebay-233161.php">Someone did.
har, thanks :)
I know the search is there, but I hardly ever use it.
I think there's just a lot of things that could be combined, say for example Sharing and Network, or Appearance, Desktop & Screensaver, Dock, etc.. its not nearly as bad as XP, let alone Vista, though.
hate to reply to myself, but I see they actualy DON'T ship a disc with both binaries. You have to get Microsoft to send you a 64-bit disc (for a nominal fee, of course) if you want it.
but I hate having to use the "search" method in control panel to find the things that should be in the obvious spots.
Agreed. There are FAR too many applets in the Control Panel now. They need to merge some of the applets together. There also seems to be a mix of old-style and new-style applets, so some things feel really out of place.
I think the worst part has to be when I want to do something Networking-related - there's like 5 different applets to pick from, and I never seem to find the correct one.
I sometimes find myself hunting for the right Preference Pane in OS X even, yet the System Preferences are much better organized than the Vista Control Panel.
with separate 32-bit and 64-bit editions (apparently Apple's engineers are much smarter than Microsoft's since they've packaged it all in one version)?
Retail discs include both 32-bit and 64-bit binaries (OEM and VLK discs have separate discs, for some reason).
That's not so bad. Here in Canada we have this steaming pile of shit called the CBC that we pay for, yet they still show just as many ads as any other network.
That's "Eh" you "douchebag"....
;)
That's "hoser",ya hoser
I don't think I ever played SQ6, but SQ5 was kind of disappointing, as the "Two Guys From Andromeda (Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy)" became one. Mark Crowe handled SQ5, which had a noticeably different style of humour. SQ6 was developed by Scott Murphy and Josh Mandel (Josh worked with Al Lowe on Freddy Pharkas), so it might've been more like the first four games. I guess I should check it out someday :)
Apparently there were several attempts at a 7th game, but Sierra killed it, in true Vivendi fashion. I hadn't heard anything about a FPS - if that was the plan, it's probably not a bad thing that it got axed.
Wow, I guess SWAT isn't dead. Seems an expansion to SWAT 4 came out last year.
:(
The Police Quest series is dead though
I dunno, isn't that basically the same thing?
What do you do with something that's dead? You bury it. That's almost the same as being driven into the ground.
Besides, the last King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry (no Al Lowe? WTF were they thinking) games all sucked. They were driven into the ground, then tossed aside and forgotten by Vivendi.
King's Quest, Space Quest, Quest for Glory, Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest/SWAT, Gabriel Night, Earthsiege/Starsiege/Tribes, Front Page Sports, The Incredible Machine, Dr. Brain, Caesar, 3-D Ultra Pinball, Homeworld, Outpost, Freddy Pharkas, Betrayal at Krondor... Sierra practically defines this topic, and it's not even mentioned.