I read the reviews at NewEgg before I bought this drive, and I was aware of the spin-down problem. I bought the 500gb model and use it as my MythTV store/tmp/work drive. I partitioned it/dev/sda and formatted it ext2. In over four months, I've had zero problems, and it gets used every day when MythTV records TV programs, flags the commercials, and prepares files to burn to DVD's. It gets warm, but not hot. Yes, I would feel better if it would spin-down when not in use, but so far, I wouldn't hesitate to buy another one. If someone is planning a class action lawsuit, I hope it's for graphics cards or wireless cards instead of FreeAgent drives.
Ooooh! Aaaaah! I love Linux, but $600 big ones for this? Get real. I read TFA. It's ugly, it's $600, and I'm flacid. And 24mb storage? Maybe as a Cingular give-a-way.
Video Professor for StarOffice, perhaps.
I thought A.C. was trying to be funny. When I read his post, I imagined a middle aged housewife who didn't know a Mac from an AWAC giving her testimonial: I popped in the Video Professor cd, and twenty minutes later I was rolling my own kernel and doing the ip chains thing!"
Oh, well. I cut my teeth on Slackware, and I still prefer it over all others. What I needed to know, I learned in man pages, README files, and Google/linux searches.
From the info at Nasa's page on Pioneer 10 "A plaque was mounted on the spacecraft body with drawings depicting a man, a woman, and the location of the sun and the earth in our galaxy."
The version I use is 0.99.19-1. I like it very much. You can find versions for Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake, Suse, Solaris, and FreeBSD here:
http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html
I agree. It isn't funny. It is offensive. Advocating the use of Linux while treating people with disdain will not convince many MS users to switch OS's. Linux is a superior OS, but a superior attitude will only impress people that perhaps they aren't smart enough to use it.
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I read the reviews at NewEgg before I bought this drive, and I was aware of the spin-down problem. I bought the 500gb model and use it as my MythTV store/tmp/work drive. I partitioned it /dev/sda and formatted it ext2. In over four months, I've had zero problems, and it gets used every day when MythTV records TV programs, flags the commercials, and prepares files to burn to DVD's. It gets warm, but not hot. Yes, I would feel better if it would spin-down when not in use, but so far, I wouldn't hesitate to buy another one. If someone is planning a class action lawsuit, I hope it's for graphics cards or wireless cards instead of FreeAgent drives.
Ooooh! Aaaaah! I love Linux, but $600 big ones for this? Get real. I read TFA. It's ugly, it's $600, and I'm flacid. And 24mb storage? Maybe as a Cingular give-a-way.
I don't have an Amiga, but I find it interesting that Mr. Van Dyke is such a fan (and advocate) of the platform. I wonder if he runs Linux.
Is there a Linux alternative?
My coworkers listen to internet radio stations on their WinXP pc's. They can listen to broadcasts in both MS media player and Realplayer formats.
I use RealPlayer 8 on my thinkpad running Redhat. I haven't found another player for Linux that let's me listen to internet radio.
I am grateful to Real for the Linux version, and don't understand a lot of the trash talking.
Video Professor for StarOffice, perhaps. I thought A.C. was trying to be funny. When I read his post, I imagined a middle aged housewife who didn't know a Mac from an AWAC giving her testimonial: I popped in the Video Professor cd, and twenty minutes later I was rolling my own kernel and doing the ip chains thing!" Oh, well. I cut my teeth on Slackware, and I still prefer it over all others. What I needed to know, I learned in man pages, README files, and Google/linux searches.
From the info at Nasa's page on Pioneer 10 "A plaque was mounted on the spacecraft body with drawings depicting a man, a woman, and the location of the sun and the earth in our galaxy."
The version I use is 0.99.19-1. I like it very much. You can find versions for Red Hat, Debian, Mandrake, Suse, Solaris, and FreeBSD here: http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix .html
Ymessenger for Linux is cool. Would Yahoo continue offering an IM program for Linux users if MS owned it?
I agree. It isn't funny. It is offensive.
Advocating the use of Linux while treating
people with disdain will not convince many
MS users to switch OS's. Linux is a
superior OS, but a superior attitude will
only impress people that perhaps they aren't
smart enough to use it.