Ebay has a hard on for Windows. They have an obvious disdain for Linux. They were emailing me auction updates with links that didn't work for Linux people using Kmail. Had to do with them embedding webbugs into the html email. An absolute pain in the ass. I complained about it in the ebay forums and was met with total silence. Another thing I complained about was their lack of a auction generator for Linux such as turbo lister. Again, more silence.
Ebay couldn't give two shits and half a fart about Linux people.
Back in the early 80's I called Tandy Tech support with question about the 6809 Color Computer. It was a question about machine language, I was writing some code (because that's what you did back then) and I was routed to a female tech. She KNEW her stuff by heart. She popped off answers like a machine gun. No way in hell she was reading from a cue card or looking stuff up in books or a terminal, her responses were *instant*..
I fell in love right there on the phone. I even asked her to marry me. She declined, she was already dating someone. I told her he's a lucky guy.
I LOVE smart women. I wish there were more smart women.
The other day I went to pick up a PC that a lady customer had changed the power supply out on, herself, it wouldn't boot.
I went and looked at it and everything looked right, she had replaced the power supply all by herself without any problems and put everything in properly. I was impressed. But it still wouldn't boot. I had forgotten my glasses at home and couldn't see the little details so I took the machine with me to work on it in my office. A few hours later she calls me to let me know that she just remembered that she had knocked a jumped off of the hard drive and put it back on. She wasn't sure if she had it right. I checked, that was it, she had it jumpered wrong. I changed the jumper back, returned the PC to her and told her "No charge.." I complemented her on her skills, she had done remarkably well. Unfortunately for me, she is married. Sigh...
I personally would like to see more women in the tech arena.
As for what you can do right now, ONE TB will run you about $500. Just 5 years ago that amount of storage capacity was SciFi movie stuff of the future. Now it's only $500 and 3 days UPS ground away from reality. And with HTPC here, 1TB isn't all that big of a deal. SERIOUS HTPC people will probably want 2-3TB..
As for notebooks/laptops, 2.5" drives are growing/shrinking too. I do not believe for a minute that NV memory drives will ever replace mag drives. I've seen these nonsense pie in the sky promises before. I have one of them right here. Read about it here --> http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17330 3&cid=14420399
It's regretable that you've had such bad luck with hard drives. It happens to some people.
I on the otherhand, have had extremely good luck with hard drives, I've had a few die on me but they were Western Digital. WD is CRAP. I've gone through a LOT of WD drives and I finally learned my lesson, I'll NEVER buy another WD, EVER.. I fried a few by putting the power cable on backwards with the PC running, but that was my dumb fault. As for Maxtor, people say they are crap but I've had no complaint with them at all. I guess I'm just luckier than most..
Newegg, Maxtor 300 GIGABYTE sata $125. Available NOW. Vapordeals, Mysterymem, 16GB(?) $90. Available ???
What's the R/W speed of these things? What's the R/W burnout on these? How many writes will they take before they fail?
Maxtor is claiming a 1 million MTBF / 5 year warranty on their 300gb drive. No way in hell flash or any other memory is every going to compete with that, not in price, performance, capacity or endurance.
Hard drives are so big and so cheap now that they are cheaper than blank DVD media. You're better off to archive to big drives then store them in fireproof safes than ANY other backup method. I have harddrives from the 80's that STILL have data on them that I can STILL retrieve and use, right now and I've made no serious effort to be overly protective of the drives. In other words, they've been kicking around the house in boxes on the floor. And they are still good. 20+ years later.
Flash memory may have an indefinite SHELF lifespan but you can only write to them X number of times before they fail and they are slow.
Someone is trying to sell the neophytes a bill of goods. When Vista releases there is going to be a rush to sell more silly crap to people. More upgrades.. Oh boy.. In the meantime, I'll make due with my current system and my Linux. And as hard drives continue to get bigger and faster and cheaper I'll just add em as I need em.
What's new about this? Back about 1985 or 86 I bought a NVRam card for my AT. I *think* it was called a "BatRam" or "BatDisk" or something like that. I also had one before that for my 8bit XT machine. I no longer have the 8bit card but I dug up the 16bit AT card out of my garage just now, it took me about 30 seconds to find it. Here's what it looks like, (please be gentle on my bandwidth!) http://www.systemrecycler.com/misc/dscn0773.jpg and http://www.systemrecycler.com/misc/dscn0774.jpg
At the time, this was revolutionary stuff. You could power down and all your stuff was right where it was before. I think these things were only about 2 or 4 megabytes (which was HUGE back then). IIRC, I was using mine as a ram disk. I could put LOTS of programs on 4 megs. This being in the day when most programs were still being written to run on 64k IBM PC's.
I don't want something so fragile (and expensive) in something I drop so much. I can't imagine a hard drive in a cell phone, one would not survive a week with my normal usage. Mine is always getting ripped of my belt by the seat belt or the dog lease or I knock it off the desk or what have you.
I think this is a really bad idea.
Besides, what's the point of having a hard drive in a cell phone anyway? I think it's dumb to use cell phones to listen to music, watch TV, take pictures or play games. I just need a phone that I can make and take calls on, I don't want all the extra bling-bling crap.
I was about to pop in and say just about the same thing and the very first thing I see is your post.
When I was a kid in the 60's they had a huge collection of stereoscopic slides at our local library.
I would go there everyday and spend hours and hours going back in time through that old wooden viewer and those old slides. Many of them were 1800's or near the turn of the century.
To me, those old slides WERE time travel. Where are those slides now? I suspect that most of them went in dumpsters in the 70's..
This one is no different. These people are too lazy and too immoral to earn an HONEST living so they leach off of the hard work of others. They are thieves and scum. Whale shit is a higher life form than these filthy parasites.
While I'm no fan of Google or it's mega-corporate adventures, I'm less of a fan of parasitical lawyers. Patent lawyers are bottom feeders and this guy is just one of many.
Patent lawyers should be classified as enemy combatants and hustled off to Gitmo in the middle of the night.
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I see you're new here...
Ebay has a hard on for Windows. They have an obvious disdain for Linux.
They were emailing me auction updates with links that didn't work for Linux people using Kmail. Had to do with them embedding webbugs into the html email.
An absolute pain in the ass.
I complained about it in the ebay forums and was met with total silence.
Another thing I complained about was their lack of a auction generator for Linux such as turbo lister. Again, more silence.
Ebay couldn't give two shits and half a fart about Linux people.
tickets to Heaven aren't for sale.
But keep trying anyway..
If you had READ what I wrote, you ignorant clod, I didn't have my FN glasses and couldn't SEE that the jumper was wrong.
Dumb asshole.
Back in the early 80's I called Tandy Tech support with question about the 6809 Color Computer. It was a question about machine language, I was writing some code (because that's what you did back then) and I was routed to a female tech.
She KNEW her stuff by heart. She popped off answers like a machine gun.
No way in hell she was reading from a cue card or looking stuff up in books or a terminal, her responses were *instant*..
I fell in love right there on the phone. I even asked her to marry me.
She declined, she was already dating someone. I told her he's a lucky guy.
I LOVE smart women. I wish there were more smart women.
The other day I went to pick up a PC that a lady customer had changed the power supply out on, herself, it wouldn't boot.
I went and looked at it and everything looked right, she had replaced the power supply all by herself without any problems and put everything in properly. I was impressed. But it still wouldn't boot.
I had forgotten my glasses at home and couldn't see the little details so I took the machine with me to work on it in my office. A few hours later she calls me to let me know that she just remembered that she had knocked a jumped off of the hard drive and put it back on. She wasn't sure if she had it right.
I checked, that was it, she had it jumpered wrong.
I changed the jumper back, returned the PC to her and told her "No charge.."
I complemented her on her skills, she had done remarkably well.
Unfortunately for me, she is married. Sigh...
I personally would like to see more women in the tech arena.
Could be. But considering that I live in the past anyway, I find the article particularly useful.
Vuja de rules!
Troll?? I see the humorless idiots are moderating today.
sucks.
They have hundreds of millions of people starving to death in the streets and they are going to throw away what little money they do have on this?
Yes indeed on all accounts.
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As for what you can do right now, ONE TB will run you about $500.
Just 5 years ago that amount of storage capacity was SciFi movie stuff of the future.
Now it's only $500 and 3 days UPS ground away from reality.
And with HTPC here, 1TB isn't all that big of a deal.
SERIOUS HTPC people will probably want 2-3TB..
As for notebooks/laptops, 2.5" drives are growing/shrinking too.
I do not believe for a minute that NV memory drives will ever replace mag drives.
I've seen these nonsense pie in the sky promises before.
I have one of them right here.
Read about it here --> http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1733
It's regretable that you've had such bad luck with hard drives.
It happens to some people.
I on the otherhand, have had extremely good luck with hard drives,
I've had a few die on me but they were Western Digital. WD is CRAP. I've
gone through a LOT of WD drives and I finally learned my lesson, I'll NEVER buy another WD, EVER..
I fried a few by putting the power cable on backwards with the PC running, but that was my dumb fault.
As for Maxtor, people say they are crap but I've had no complaint with them at all.
I guess I'm just luckier than most..
Newegg, Maxtor 300 GIGABYTE sata $125. Available NOW.
Vapordeals, Mysterymem, 16GB(?) $90. Available ???
What's the R/W speed of these things? What's the R/W burnout on these?
How many writes will they take before they fail?
Maxtor is claiming a 1 million MTBF / 5 year warranty on their 300gb drive.
No way in hell flash or any other memory is every going to compete with that,
not in price, performance, capacity or endurance.
Hard drives are so big and so cheap now that they are cheaper than blank DVD media. You're better off to archive to big drives then store them in fireproof safes than ANY other backup method. I have harddrives from the 80's that STILL have data on them that I can STILL retrieve and use, right now and I've made no serious effort to be overly protective of the drives. In other words, they've been kicking around the house in boxes on the floor. And they are still good. 20+ years later.
Flash memory may have an indefinite SHELF lifespan but you can only write to them X number of times before they fail and they are slow.
Someone is trying to sell the neophytes a bill of goods.
When Vista releases there is going to be a rush to sell more silly crap to people. More upgrades.. Oh boy..
In the meantime, I'll make due with my current system and my Linux.
And as hard drives continue to get bigger and faster and cheaper I'll just add em as I need em.
I was looking for an excuse to buy a 120mm Hasselblad
The most awesome camera ever made.
Ah, everyone has to have a little dream..
I've been saying this for years. I saw this happening with my kids in the 90's and got them away from it.
And guess what? It's not just kids and "educational" programs,
the same thing applies to adults and movies/TV..
Think about it...
You know, that part about splashing Hubble into ocean?
Stupid bastards.
Hubble is the very best thing Nasa has ever put into orbit around Earth.
Leave it the f**k alone..
That's not fish, that's piss.. Mmmmmm...
I have ~150 +/- a few dozen. I have some of the fonkiest clunkers you've ever seen in your life.
I challenge Bill Gates to run Windows on an 8088 IBM PC XT.
I guarantee you that Linux WILL run on an 8088 IBM PC XT. Windows will NOT..
Case closed. See ya Billy boy.
What's new about this?
Back about 1985 or 86 I bought a NVRam card for my AT.
I *think* it was called a "BatRam" or "BatDisk" or something like that.
I also had one before that for my 8bit XT machine.
I no longer have the 8bit card but I dug up the 16bit AT card out
of my garage just now, it took me about 30 seconds to find it.
Here's what it looks like, (please be gentle on my bandwidth!)
http://www.systemrecycler.com/misc/dscn0773.jpg
and
http://www.systemrecycler.com/misc/dscn0774.jpg
At the time, this was revolutionary stuff. You could power down and
all your stuff was right where it was before. I think these things were
only about 2 or 4 megabytes (which was HUGE back then).
IIRC, I was using mine as a ram disk. I could put LOTS of programs
on 4 megs. This being in the day when most programs were still being written
to run on 64k IBM PC's.
It's scheduled to be included at the same time as Duke Nukem Forever is released..
I don't want something so fragile (and expensive) in something I drop so much.
I can't imagine a hard drive in a cell phone, one would not survive a week with my normal usage. Mine is always getting ripped of my belt by the seat belt or the dog lease or I knock it off the desk or what have you.
I think this is a really bad idea.
Besides, what's the point of having a hard drive in a cell phone anyway?
I think it's dumb to use cell phones to listen to music, watch TV, take pictures or play games. I just need a phone that I can make and take calls on, I don't want all the extra bling-bling crap.
I was about to pop in and say just about the same thing and the very first thing I see is your post.
When I was a kid in the 60's they had a huge collection of stereoscopic slides at our local library.
I would go there everyday and spend hours and hours going back in time through
that old wooden viewer and those old slides. Many of them were 1800's or near the turn of the century.
To me, those old slides WERE time travel. Where are those slides now?
I suspect that most of them went in dumpsters in the 70's..
History, lost forever.
That's better than paying illegal aliens half of minimum wage to do the same job.
I say this from an area where that sort of thing is a BIG problem.
Yeah, how long before Big Bother kills the goose that lays the golden egg?
This one is no different.
These people are too lazy and too immoral to earn an HONEST living so they leach off of the hard work of others. They are thieves and scum. Whale shit is a higher life form than these filthy parasites.
While I'm no fan of Google or it's mega-corporate adventures, I'm less of a fan of parasitical lawyers. Patent lawyers are bottom feeders and this guy is just one of many.
Patent lawyers should be classified as enemy combatants and hustled off to Gitmo in the middle of the night.