In theory yes.. but not all the drives are used for the longest time they can be. Drives get replaced and tosed, they get moded to create ash trays, and otherse are just "lose" either by theift or misplacement. Like the other day.. I found my 80 meg Maxtor drive in a sock drive. And I know the last time I used it was around 96.
With Western Digital, I have the best luck. Every drive I own, never died under 5 years of age. I currently own about 12 drives, in functioning systems. Two of them are still under 500 meg. I really think they make a high quality drive. Back in 1998, I had one 1.6 gig drive that I coudl nto get working, and I really did not want to be without a drive. Tired using maxtor utils, fdisk/mbr, and even mounting under unix. Drive was fine but could nto boot to it. Use my 18" speaker, let it sit on it for about 5 minutes, formated it worked great... go figure.
Quantium - I delt with 4 of their drives before. One died after 4 years, 1 6.4 gig BIGFOOT died after a year (got a replacement within 2 weeks of call), and the other two (under 2 gigs) I am still using till today (both are SCSI from macintrash units).
IBM - I only had the pleasure of owning one. Bought an UltraStar 9.1 gig SCSI 80 pin drive and died after 3 months of usage. Got a replacement after two weeks but never really depend on it 100% after that. Worked fine now since 1998.. go figure.
DEC - Dec drives from DecStations are the best friggin SCSI drives. So abusive and do not want to die. I have 4 of them;2 one gigers and 2 500 megers. They are full height but are sweet.
Maxtor - Lets nto even go there. Peice of shit. Owned 10 gigier and a 40 giger, both died within 3 months and go replaced twice.
Seagate - My favorite. The only company that gladly still replaces your drives over the warrenty period. Deal with them alot. Let me tell you this one story. A few years ago, I bought 12 ~1.2 gig drives dirt cheap. One of them died, under warrenty, so I called them up and the sent me a repalcement unit of a 4 giger. I was surprised. Knowing that my 1.2 gigers would be unusable in a year and the warrenty was comign close, I did something pro-active. I removed them and paper-cliped* them all. Two weeks later, I got 9 four gig drives. I was happy!:)
*paper-cliped - a process to short curcuit a unit, in which you use a paper clip to touch various open circuity with each other. AKA you fry it:)
I hope they do not release this for the general public. It can only cause pontenial problems
What if a person drops it hard enough and the battery cracks open? Would it create a small dirty bomb spill?
If the batteries are consider to be safe (nuclear energy is low), but what if a naughty person used a few hundred of them strapped to a grenade? Again problems.
I just see many problems with this for general use. If this was to be released, it shoudl be controlled very well. Any input by anyone?
Agreed.... next time I will try to dress up as Little Orphan Annie and dance to the Star Trek theme music. This would be interesting, since I am about 6'3'' and 300 pounds with big, hairy, scotish legs =) Would that help?
Instead of usign the standard variable names like "foo", "bar", "blah", and "temp", can we expect new ones to take their place? Like "mohawk", "how", "red_skin" and "white_man_bad" ?
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Is it legal to take the email addresses from chat rooms and send non-fradualent email? I would assume so.
WTF... are you ferengue? Those ugly charators in star trek.... altho... hmmm could be nice to watch :)
You forgot about farting those juciey ones out!
In theory yes.. but not all the drives are used for the longest time they can be. Drives get replaced and tosed, they get moded to create ash trays, and otherse are just "lose" either by theift or misplacement. Like the other day.. I found my 80 meg Maxtor drive in a sock drive. And I know the last time I used it was around 96.
What registeration cards? Since when you get those on OEM drives? But I may be wrong.
With Western Digital, I have the best luck. Every drive I own, never died under 5 years of age. I currently own about 12 drives, in functioning systems. Two of them are still under 500 meg. I really think they make a high quality drive. Back in 1998, I had one 1.6 gig drive that I coudl nto get working, and I really did not want to be without a drive. Tired using maxtor utils, fdisk /mbr, and even mounting under unix. Drive was fine but could nto boot to it. Use my 18" speaker, let it sit on it for about 5 minutes, formated it worked great... go figure.
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Quantium - I delt with 4 of their drives before. One died after 4 years, 1 6.4 gig BIGFOOT died after a year (got a replacement within 2 weeks of call), and the other two (under 2 gigs) I am still using till today (both are SCSI from macintrash units).
IBM - I only had the pleasure of owning one. Bought an UltraStar 9.1 gig SCSI 80 pin drive and died after 3 months of usage. Got a replacement after two weeks but never really depend on it 100% after that. Worked fine now since 1998.. go figure.
DEC - Dec drives from DecStations are the best friggin SCSI drives. So abusive and do not want to die. I have 4 of them;2 one gigers and 2 500 megers. They are full height but are sweet.
Maxtor - Lets nto even go there. Peice of shit. Owned 10 gigier and a 40 giger, both died within 3 months and go replaced twice.
Seagate - My favorite. The only company that gladly still replaces your drives over the warrenty period. Deal with them alot. Let me tell you this one story. A few years ago, I bought 12 ~1.2 gig drives dirt cheap. One of them died, under warrenty, so I called them up and the sent me a repalcement unit of a 4 giger. I was surprised. Knowing that my 1.2 gigers would be unusable in a year and the warrenty was comign close, I did something pro-active. I removed them and paper-cliped* them all. Two weeks later, I got 9 four gig drives. I was happy!
*paper-cliped - a process to short curcuit a unit, in which you use a paper clip to touch various open circuity with each other. AKA you fry it
run low on power, just pull out a little tube, shove it up your ass
Sick very sick... but funny! HAHAH
I hope they do not release this for the general public. It can only cause pontenial problems
What if a person drops it hard enough and the battery cracks open? Would it create a small dirty bomb spill?
If the batteries are consider to be safe (nuclear energy is low), but what if a naughty person used a few hundred of them strapped to a grenade? Again problems.
I just see many problems with this for general use. If this was to be released, it shoudl be controlled very well. Any input by anyone?
Agreed.... next time I will try to dress up as Little Orphan Annie and dance to the Star Trek theme music. This would be interesting, since I am about 6'3'' and 300 pounds with big, hairy, scotish legs =) Would that help?
You did not get it. It was a joke.
Anyoen know if they actually started development of it? If so, do you think they would release the beta/code?
Pssss... Buddy.... Have a link to download the whole thing?
What is this book you speak of? I never heard of such a thing!
How to tell business users (i.e. your Boss) they cant have what they want because its not windows.
Trying to convince the users that Windows is to blame, and not Unix, for server issues.
Tell the users, you can wear just a tee-shirt because your not a business user.
And of course.... Root is god!!
Same, Build your own space shuttle in 24 hoursand How to pass Nuclear Physics in 24 hours
That is amazing. That is the same weight as 6, Mountain Dew drinking software engineers!
Your lucky, I still remember punch cards :( I wish I didn;t either... dam I am old!
It was hard before. Everyone would want to sneak at peak at you while viewing nudies.
So what are you saying, that we computer geeks now look like shit?
I think your silly. Everyone knows its the inside of my car 8-track player!
Amazingly, in picture #4, they are displaying my hot air toaster-ovens.
Hey, what the hell...? Are you calling me (and other female developers) ugly? Men! They can be just so mean! :(
Instead of usign the standard variable names like "foo", "bar", "blah", and "temp", can we expect new ones to take their place? Like "mohawk", "how", "red_skin" and "white_man_bad" ?
You forgot to mention the nuddie magazines, jolt, coke, and random ISA cards.
"..Robert Love and Patrick Mochel."
Is it just me or those names belong in a bad, gay nuddie movie?
I think I know you in person... Is your first name Alex?