Yes, I've actually got a few of the 80GB and under Maxtor's that have done quite well. However, I've also seen a large run of more recent Maxtor drives, and I do tend quite a flock of machines in my personal, work (Support technician for a very large number of machines), and off-work-work (private clients).
One of the interesting things you might run across with a dead Maxtor of the newer variety is an audible error code... there's something in there that plays a tone somewhat akin to an old cellphone. Of course, I've seen worse... Fujitsu used to have a terrible track record where I previously worked, with about a 30-50% rate of failure... some within weeks of installation.
True enough, and desktops aren't likely to have a battery in them either in most cases (exempting the small lithium CMOS battery), so I suppose it's not so much an issue unless the hard-drive is near something else dangerous or flammable. It'd probably not a good idea to use Maxtor hard drives in mini-ITX projects, for example:-)
How about when your hard-drive is located near your battery. Hard drive starts small internal fire, heats battery (which might otherwise not be so prone to explosion, but it's still Li+ and no batteries like fire), and you get a big fire.
I'd say this is still something to worry about if it's widespread. However, there are lots of reasons a particular piece of electronics can go (including many environmental factors), be it battery, hard-drive, PSU, etc... so unless more hard-drives catch smoke I'd say it's just a freak occurance and to be wary but not paranoid in the future.
That being said, in my professional and personal usage for the last few years, I have very few good things to say about Maxtor. Many drives have died, and if you read the fine-print they'll replaced your burned-out-lost-data-POS drive with a "refurbished" unit if it's past the first period of warrantee... usually meaning your replacement will happily cack itself sometime in the near future as well.
I found this statement rather interesting, being that Canada just raised the age-of-consent. I don't particularly have an issue with it being where it is now (16, I believe), but it does seem to increase over time. I wonder if, 50 years from now, people will have a lifespan of 150, mental maturity will be held back in favour of older 'children', and the AOC will be 25?
I also had a big discussion with a friend over the issues of 'consent between minors' wherein both parties are of a young age, perhaps up to a few years apart. He has a daughter, and argued that the male would automatically be the one in power and thus victimizing the female (and should be charged with rape) regardless of his age. Not exactly my point of view, but I'd imagine it can get scary when the lawyers/politicians have their say in such cases, and/or when some case comes along when two people that had a previously-legal relationship had it suddenly outlawed.
But when you start running with dependencies etc it gets confusing. Of course, it might be the projects I've been tryin to work with (Ogre3d etc) which seem to base their documentation on the premise that it's better to start halfway through things and require that any new apps require libs from the samples...
On the other hand, if you're looking for simple web development, I've found that Quanta (KDE) works quite well, although depending on the version it can crash on ocasion.
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On mine (Sandisk Cruzer Mini) the strap loops into the drive itself, and has a clip which you can pop to free it without taking the strap off.
Of course, the problem I've had is that the little plastic clip on the USB drive itself is pretty flimsy, and the last one I used broke.
It seems to me that pre-modern societies were often violent by nature. Yes, there might have been less noted serial killers, rapists, etc, but then it also wasn't really notable when some lord cornered the young serving wench in a back room, and there was less time to go around killing your fellows when there were plenty of heathens out there to put to the sword or crucify, etc.
In the past, some of that sickness was simply commonplace.
a direct copy-and-paste quote from an earlier post made by the person I replied to
An early post not related to the article-at-hand.
Aside from that, you're talking about the 'rights of others' in reference to corporate ip holders, which insinuates that corporations are entitled to the same rights as private individuals.
But if you want to go back over old different-topic comments made... perhaps I can browse all recent flameish and offtopic moderations you've accumulated recently:
Sometime's a troll is just somebody who's natural inclination is to take an adversarial view or approach. That approach might be their opinion proper, because said person has a combative personality. Personally, if you're going to attack somebody on past comments in other subjects, perhaps you'd be better to send him/her an email rather than wasting our time.
Yeah, but last time I reprinted my pictures with Dom they were pretty washed out. On the other hand, last time I drank the ink it left a nasty stain on my chin and really didn't taste as good as the dom either. Why do people insist on comparing two completely different products in terms of price.
Why not compare quality+price of HP and competitor replacement inks instead?
Sorry, but these companies need online presence to offer the services they do. This implies a measured security risk, at which point your points of failure include:
Employees (or ex employees)
The software (and/or software creator)
The operating system (and/or OS creator)
and millions of points in-between. People want the convenience of credit cards and online access, unfortunately there is no foolproof security for this. For ever better vault, a better thief will emerge.
Seriously, that is disgusting. The article is completely unrelated to filesharing, and focusses on poor security. It also overlooks that the "information wants to be free" zealot crowd aren't necessarily the same as those in the information-security crowd. Either crowd also tends to be happy when somebody is nailed for trying to sell copied articles.
Copyright won't protect your personal information in any way. So perhaps you should go troll an RIAA article now. Perhaps if there's an article about how a filesharer with 1000 copyrighted songs had his personal info distributed by a p2p virus you can happily troll away. In the meanwhile, I think your name of "BS artist" pretty much fits.
Not all information wants to be free. Wanting to have free (as in choice) software is different from wanting my personal credit info out in the wild, or having a glass-toilet in a glass-bathroom.
Guys from the IT Department stealing the bagels from the admin basket...
Seriously, while I doubt this was the case I know people in admin who were petty enough to try and snag free bagels, and people in lower departments who were petty and annoyed enough with admin that they might steal their bagels:-)
Hmmm. Now it may be able to get away with this safely, but why does Microsoft Product + wireless + sharing strike fear into my heart?
Sounds like a recipe for viruses and malware to me. How about people setting broadcast hotspots to spew advertisement at your device should it become popular?
With the exemption of DVD support (which is pretty darn easy to get in Linux nowadays... I prefer linux as my DVD player due to the ability to play many regions without hassle), what CODECs would the average user need that require payment? There are tons of free windows apps out there that use these codecs, and I daresay most people use the free ones, so I don't see why it would cost anything for the free 'nix apps.
In this case, he has to pay out 4.1 million, including the liquidation of his assets including planes, car, etc.
In the end, he might still have something left, but would it be worth the 6 years in the slammer?
I just hope this doesn't set a precedent for non-profitable infringements such as music/software downloads, or download sampling (download, and then either erase or buy).
If you switched over from a Dell because you ran out of marshmallows, or because you had some marshmallows left over after the last Dell caught fire, and wanted a PC to match it, your luck stinks, go buy an HP
I'm going to have to break out blender and come up with a render of somebody toasting marshmallows over some Sony batteries and/or Dell+Apple laptops.
I have been in that position, actually. I worked in schools, and the teachers etc were constantly getting me to add sites to the block-list. In the education world or the corporate one, the solution for viewing innappropriate sites should be the same: punish the offenders. If a kid is viewing naked pictures on deviantart (which are all of what, 2% of the content), it's not a reason to block the whole damn site and thus deprive actual artistic-minded students from using it. By the same token, if Bob in animal development spends 50% of his worktime on myspace and a dozen other sites, thus getting little work done, we should be dealing directly with Bob rather than trying to track down all the sites he visits and filter them.
The internet is constantly coming up with new ways to waste time or see inappropriate things, the answer is not so much filtering as it is dealing with the individuals waste time looking for said material (with some filter for the sites that regularly sneak through, banner-blocking, etc).
But if the companies of most of the posters on here were really that restrictive, they, well wouldn't be posting on here (I know some time zones are past work hours, but the majority aren't).
Because Microsoft will choke off compatability with XP (for those that are running it). No DirectX 10 for gamers, and no new office software, rapidly decreasing support for new hardware, etc etc.
To add to that, I wouldn't be surprised if a statement comes out to the effect of "due to issues with the security model in windows XP, we cannot supply this patch/update for you." After all, wasn't that their reasoning for DirectX10 being Vista only.
At this point my primary concern is how long it will take the abstraction programs such as Wine/Cedega to properly run common/popular Vista apps. They seem to be ramping up compatability with 2k/XP (albeit mostly for NVidia cards in the graphics realm).
I love how, whenever I go to my grandparents to fix their computer (after they've dealt with their ISP's tech support) the ethernet cable is always running straight to the PC and bypassing the router. It's hard enough to get average Joe to understand the usefulness of a hardware routing/firewall device, but when the ISP is actively having them bypass it I can see a software firewall being somewhat useful at times.
I don't remember much about this movie, although I'm pretty sure that I saw it sometime long ago. However, I do remember the rather cool video-game based cartoons that they used to have, including the Zelda flics on the Mario Bros show (which in itself sucked, but the Zelda cartoons were cool), Captain N, and some other cartoons along the same line.
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Yes, I've actually got a few of the 80GB and under Maxtor's that have done quite well. However, I've also seen a large run of more recent Maxtor drives, and I do tend quite a flock of machines in my personal, work (Support technician for a very large number of machines), and off-work-work (private clients).
One of the interesting things you might run across with a dead Maxtor of the newer variety is an audible error code... there's something in there that plays a tone somewhat akin to an old cellphone. Of course, I've seen worse... Fujitsu used to have a terrible track record where I previously worked, with about a 30-50% rate of failure... some within weeks of installation.
True enough, and desktops aren't likely to have a battery in them either in most cases (exempting the small lithium CMOS battery), so I suppose it's not so much an issue unless the hard-drive is near something else dangerous or flammable. It'd probably not a good idea to use Maxtor hard drives in mini-ITX projects, for example :-)
How about when your hard-drive is located near your battery. Hard drive starts small internal fire, heats battery (which might otherwise not be so prone to explosion, but it's still Li+ and no batteries like fire), and you get a big fire.
I'd say this is still something to worry about if it's widespread. However, there are lots of reasons a particular piece of electronics can go (including many environmental factors), be it battery, hard-drive, PSU, etc... so unless more hard-drives catch smoke I'd say it's just a freak occurance and to be wary but not paranoid in the future.
That being said, in my professional and personal usage for the last few years, I have very few good things to say about Maxtor. Many drives have died, and if you read the fine-print they'll replaced your burned-out-lost-data-POS drive with a "refurbished" unit if it's past the first period of warrantee... usually meaning your replacement will happily cack itself sometime in the near future as well.
Until it gets raised again, anyways.
I found this statement rather interesting, being that Canada just raised the age-of-consent. I don't particularly have an issue with it being where it is now (16, I believe), but it does seem to increase over time. I wonder if, 50 years from now, people will have a lifespan of 150, mental maturity will be held back in favour of older 'children', and the AOC will be 25?
I also had a big discussion with a friend over the issues of 'consent between minors' wherein both parties are of a young age, perhaps up to a few years apart. He has a daughter, and argued that the male would automatically be the one in power and thus victimizing the female (and should be charged with rape) regardless of his age. Not exactly my point of view, but I'd imagine it can get scary when the lawyers/politicians have their say in such cases, and/or when some case comes along when two people that had a previously-legal relationship had it suddenly outlawed.
But when you start running with dependencies etc it gets confusing. Of course, it might be the projects I've been tryin to work with (Ogre3d etc) which seem to base their documentation on the premise that it's better to start halfway through things and require that any new apps require libs from the samples...
On the other hand, if you're looking for simple web development, I've found that Quanta (KDE) works quite well, although depending on the version it can crash on ocasion.
On mine (Sandisk Cruzer Mini) the strap loops into the drive itself, and has a clip which you can pop to free it without taking the strap off.
Of course, the problem I've had is that the little plastic clip on the USB drive itself is pretty flimsy, and the last one I used broke.
It seems to me that pre-modern societies were often violent by nature. Yes, there might have been less noted serial killers, rapists, etc, but then it also wasn't really notable when some lord cornered the young serving wench in a back room, and there was less time to go around killing your fellows when there were plenty of heathens out there to put to the sword or crucify, etc.
In the past, some of that sickness was simply commonplace.
a direct copy-and-paste quote from an earlier post made by the person I replied to
An early post not related to the article-at-hand.
Aside from that, you're talking about the 'rights of others' in reference to corporate ip holders, which insinuates that corporations are entitled to the same rights as private individuals.
But if you want to go back over old different-topic comments made... perhaps I can browse all recent flameish and offtopic moderations you've accumulated recently:
Offtopic
Flamebait
Flamebait
Offtopic
Sometime's a troll is just somebody who's natural inclination is to take an adversarial view or approach. That approach might be their opinion proper, because said person has a combative personality. Personally, if you're going to attack somebody on past comments in other subjects, perhaps you'd be better to send him/her an email rather than wasting our time.
Yeah, but last time I reprinted my pictures with Dom they were pretty washed out. On the other hand, last time I drank the ink it left a nasty stain on my chin and really didn't taste as good as the dom either. Why do people insist on comparing two completely different products in terms of price.
Why not compare quality+price of HP and competitor replacement inks instead?
Sorry, but these companies need online presence to offer the services they do. This implies a measured security risk, at which point your points of failure include:
Employees (or ex employees)
The software (and/or software creator)
The operating system (and/or OS creator)
and millions of points in-between. People want the convenience of credit cards and online access, unfortunately there is no foolproof security for this. For ever better vault, a better thief will emerge.
Seriously, that is disgusting. The article is completely unrelated to filesharing, and focusses on poor security. It also overlooks that the "information wants to be free" zealot crowd aren't necessarily the same as those in the information-security crowd. Either crowd also tends to be happy when somebody is nailed for trying to sell copied articles.
Copyright won't protect your personal information in any way. So perhaps you should go troll an RIAA article now. Perhaps if there's an article about how a filesharer with 1000 copyrighted songs had his personal info distributed by a p2p virus you can happily troll away. In the meanwhile, I think your name of "BS artist" pretty much fits.
Not all information wants to be free. Wanting to have free (as in choice) software is different from wanting my personal credit info out in the wild, or having a glass-toilet in a glass-bathroom.
And of course, if they miss scanning a few documents here and there.... well who would know?
Guys from the IT Department stealing the bagels from the admin basket...
:-)
Seriously, while I doubt this was the case I know people in admin who were petty enough to try and snag free bagels, and people in lower departments who were petty and annoyed enough with admin that they might steal their bagels
Hmmm. Now it may be able to get away with this safely, but why does Microsoft Product + wireless + sharing strike fear into my heart?
Sounds like a recipe for viruses and malware to me. How about people setting broadcast hotspots to spew advertisement at your device should it become popular?
It really depends on the hardware. Have you bought MS Wireless mice or similar items recently?
With the exemption of DVD support (which is pretty darn easy to get in Linux nowadays... I prefer linux as my DVD player due to the ability to play many regions without hassle), what CODECs would the average user need that require payment? There are tons of free windows apps out there that use these codecs, and I daresay most people use the free ones, so I don't see why it would cost anything for the free 'nix apps.
In this case, he has to pay out 4.1 million, including the liquidation of his assets including planes, car, etc.
In the end, he might still have something left, but would it be worth the 6 years in the slammer?
I just hope this doesn't set a precedent for non-profitable infringements such as music/software downloads, or download sampling (download, and then either erase or buy).
Stick in a drive from another machine that has no shared files on it. The drive shows indication of use, but no unusual deletions etc.
I did quite enjoy this blurb however:
If you switched over from a Dell because you ran out of marshmallows, or because you had some marshmallows left over after the last Dell caught fire, and wanted a PC to match it, your luck stinks, go buy an HP
I'm going to have to break out blender and come up with a render of somebody toasting marshmallows over some Sony batteries and/or Dell+Apple laptops.
I have been in that position, actually. I worked in schools, and the teachers etc were constantly getting me to add sites to the block-list. In the education world or the corporate one, the solution for viewing innappropriate sites should be the same: punish the offenders. If a kid is viewing naked pictures on deviantart (which are all of what, 2% of the content), it's not a reason to block the whole damn site and thus deprive actual artistic-minded students from using it. By the same token, if Bob in animal development spends 50% of his worktime on myspace and a dozen other sites, thus getting little work done, we should be dealing directly with Bob rather than trying to track down all the sites he visits and filter them.
The internet is constantly coming up with new ways to waste time or see inappropriate things, the answer is not so much filtering as it is dealing with the individuals waste time looking for said material (with some filter for the sites that regularly sneak through, banner-blocking, etc).
But if the companies of most of the posters on here were really that restrictive, they, well wouldn't be posting on here (I know some time zones are past work hours, but the majority aren't).
Because Microsoft will choke off compatability with XP (for those that are running it). No DirectX 10 for gamers, and no new office software, rapidly decreasing support for new hardware, etc etc.
To add to that, I wouldn't be surprised if a statement comes out to the effect of "due to issues with the security model in windows XP, we cannot supply this patch/update for you." After all, wasn't that their reasoning for DirectX10 being Vista only.
At this point my primary concern is how long it will take the abstraction programs such as Wine/Cedega to properly run common/popular Vista apps. They seem to be ramping up compatability with 2k/XP (albeit mostly for NVidia cards in the graphics realm).
Actually, this sounds like a death threat to me. Aren't there special punishments for things along those lines?
I love how, whenever I go to my grandparents to fix their computer (after they've dealt with their ISP's tech support) the ethernet cable is always running straight to the PC and bypassing the router. It's hard enough to get average Joe to understand the usefulness of a hardware routing/firewall device, but when the ISP is actively having them bypass it I can see a software firewall being somewhat useful at times.
I don't remember much about this movie, although I'm pretty sure that I saw it sometime long ago. However, I do remember the rather cool video-game based cartoons that they used to have, including the Zelda flics on the Mario Bros show (which in itself sucked, but the Zelda cartoons were cool), Captain N, and some other cartoons along the same line.