Three major brand hard drive vendors - Seagate Technology, Maxtor and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies - have started recalling some of their 40GB and 80GB products sold in Taiwan due to similar defects identified in the products, Taiwanese channel distributors said.
About 12,000-15,000 defective hard drives are estimated to have entered Taiwan. It is unclear whether the same groups of products, with an estimated defect rate of 10%, have also been marketed in other parts of the world, sources said.
Local distributors said they began to see soaring return rates on the hard drives since late April. Most of the returned drives reportedly suffered from bad sectors or problems being formatted, and were found to have come from the same sources in China.
Among the top four hard drive vendors worldwide, Western Digital is the only one unaffected by the incident, as the company does not have products manufactured in China, sources said.
It is suspected that high defect rate was caused by the inexperience of certain manufacturers in China as they were transitioning to new production processes, sources said.
Local agents declined to confirm the report. While Maxtor agent Xander International denied seeing an unusual defect rate, Seagate agents Synnex Technology International and Taiwan Aries stressed that customers would be provided with complete warranty services if they were sold defective products. Comments from Hitachi were unavailable.
As everyone in the Open-Source world knows, Microsoft has tried FUD before. It has failed miserably, in part due to the overwhelming antagonism towards the Microsoft brand. Remember Halloween, anyone? While SCO, admittedly, is not doing much better, Microsoft wants to do what they can without proverbially 'getting their hands dirty'.
I believe the website you are referring to is this:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/defaul t.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/cas e/hotmail/default.asp
(Mozilla Firebird won't let me <a> it; the URI is too long)
As well...I am a 16-year-old script kiddie, you 1 |\| 5 3 |\| 5 1 7 1 \/ 3 ( |_ 0 |)
Unfortunately, Linux is sole rallying cry that can be heard outside the Open-Source world. Most people, upon hearing that Linux is 'Grey-area software', will not react too kindly to any other Open-Source of any kind.
You do, however, have a very good and logical point. We, the enlightened masses, understand perfectly that free software is a Good Thing(TM). (Heck, we're the ones who will probably continue to use GNU/Linux.) What, though, of those underpaid system admins who were brought up on 'dir *.bat/w'? Or worse 'Start-->Programs-->ICQ Netbomber'? It will be a bad day when the only free software left are Nimda, CodeRed, and whatever you can grab by searching Microsoft Google for 'Warez'.
Why not just spam their forums until they have to take them down temorarily? Or post the SCO E-mail addresses on the front page of Debian?
(I am neutral on the Firebird name dispute. This comment, in all seriousness, was intended to be funny, and not a troll/flamebait. Do not reply if you are going to make some unwitty half-assed barbed remark.)
I doubt anyone comfortable with alternative operating systems would have bothered enduring WinME in the first place...
For all of our sakes, let's hope you're right on this one.
I do believe that this mess will hurt both open-source projects. In fact, it already is. However, FirebirdSQL has a lot more to lose than Mozilla Firebird.
I am an open-source advocate. I do not favour one project over the other. However, I believe that, even if FirebirdSQL is morally correct, they are fighting an infinitely uphill battle.
More specifically, both projects share the Gecko rendering engine.
Mozilla is a browsing suite. Mozilla Firebird is a standalone web browser. The two differ in their approach to most issues; they even have different user-interface engines.
Firebird is not a stand-alone Mozilla browser. It is the Firebird browser.
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Microsoft owns a large portion of Apple. Why not call it simply...Microsoft OS? No more complaints from pesky apple-growers
Now it will be harder and harder to make "Legitimate Copies" of screenings I have already paid for. Now I'll have to wait for a mod-chip to come out for my video camera, or wait for someone to do the equivalent with only a memory stick
I'm sure many of you have probably heard of SYSLINUX? All we need is a very, very tiny Linux distro, signed by Microsoft, to boot up the X-Box. After that, we could have an 'Insert Disc' screen. Any software that could run using the Linux Kernel could then be run, as the security has been bypassed.
Now, why would Microsoft want to sign a piece of software that would allow WINE, ZSNES, or even ePSXe to run?
Even those, brought up on the somewhat more functionally elegant *nix have used the Disk Operating System. Whether it was the first time you typed dir to the first time you wrote a batch file, everyone has seen DOS.
On December 31, pause for a moment. Microsoft fans and enemies, unite for one second, for DOS is more than just another program...it is our history. C:\> , you will be remembered.
I was introduced to Open-Source less than a year ago, starting with Mozilla. I have since started dual-booting GNU/Linux on my primary computer, and learning about CDex, GAIM, and others along the way. I've even posted a comment or two on Bugzilla. But one thing still bothers me.
Open-Source is supposed to be, at least eventually, user-friendly. Right now, the top-level programmers are doing a good job, but it isn't enough. Open-source is agile, but it lacks the perceived solidity of closed-source. It would be extremely taxing, but perhaps not damaging, to instead have the top-level programmers make the core stable enough to withstand an indefinite period of time as everything is build atop this constant collection of code.
In this way, if we can get Grandma in on a forum, we can build her suggestions to a program. Then, if it's approved, a milestone build is put into the program. When it comes past half-distribution cycle, the installation UI developers can be sure that the install is straightforward. Perhaps the true geek in us will want the nightly, perhaps with no fancy graphical install, but it's great for the hobbyists.
Sure my suggestions are moves for less change, but in the fast paced world of computers, we don't have the time to rush. I'll be seeing you, grandma, when I build my own Linux 3.0 distro.
Slashdot Mirror
Ah...hehe...damn
Sorry about that
x.x
Three major brand hard drive vendors - Seagate Technology, Maxtor and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies - have started recalling some of their 40GB and 80GB products sold in Taiwan due to similar defects identified in the products, Taiwanese channel distributors said.
About 12,000-15,000 defective hard drives are estimated to have entered Taiwan. It is unclear whether the same groups of products, with an estimated defect rate of 10%, have also been marketed in other parts of the world, sources said.
Local distributors said they began to see soaring return rates on the hard drives since late April. Most of the returned drives reportedly suffered from bad sectors or problems being formatted, and were found to have come from the same sources in China.
Among the top four hard drive vendors worldwide, Western Digital is the only one unaffected by the incident, as the company does not have products manufactured in China, sources said.
It is suspected that high defect rate was caused by the inexperience of certain manufacturers in China as they were transitioning to new production processes, sources said.
Local agents declined to confirm the report. While Maxtor agent Xander International denied seeing an unusual defect rate, Seagate agents Synnex Technology International and Taiwan Aries stressed that customers would be provided with complete warranty services if they were sold defective products. Comments from Hitachi were unavailable.
Simple guided process:
^.^
As everyone in the Open-Source world knows, Microsoft has tried FUD before. It has failed miserably, in part due to the overwhelming antagonism towards the Microsoft brand. Remember Halloween, anyone? While SCO, admittedly, is not doing much better, Microsoft wants to do what they can without proverbially 'getting their hands dirty'.
My 1.5 cents
I believe the website you are referring to is this:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/defaul t.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/cas e/hotmail/default.asp
(Mozilla Firebird won't let me <a> it; the URI is too long)
As well...I am a 16-year-old script kiddie, you 1 |\| 5 3 |\| 5 1 7 1 \/ 3 ( |_ 0 |)
Unfortunately, Linux is sole rallying cry that can be heard outside the Open-Source world. Most people, upon hearing that Linux is 'Grey-area software', will not react too kindly to any other Open-Source of any kind.
You do, however, have a very good and logical point. We, the enlightened masses, understand perfectly that free software is a Good Thing(TM). (Heck, we're the ones who will probably continue to use GNU/Linux.) What, though, of those underpaid system admins who were brought up on 'dir *.bat /w'? Or worse 'Start-->Programs-->ICQ Netbomber'? It will be a bad day when the only free software left are Nimda, CodeRed, and whatever you can grab by searching Microsoft Google for 'Warez'.
Switching to Runlevel: 6
Why not just spam their forums until they have to take them down temorarily? Or post the SCO E-mail addresses on the front page of Debian?
(I am neutral on the Firebird name dispute. This comment, in all seriousness, was intended to be funny, and not a troll/flamebait. Do not reply if you are going to make some unwitty half-assed barbed remark.)
I doubt anyone comfortable with alternative operating systems would have bothered enduring WinME in the first place... For all of our sakes, let's hope you're right on this one.
Who has?
Publicity stunt or not, they have created a reputation. Not one I'd be proud of, personally, but YMMV.
I do believe that this mess will hurt both open-source projects. In fact, it already is. However, FirebirdSQL has a lot more to lose than Mozilla Firebird.
I am an open-source advocate. I do not favour one project over the other. However, I believe that, even if FirebirdSQL is morally correct, they are fighting an infinitely uphill battle.
More specifically, both projects share the Gecko rendering engine.
Mozilla is a browsing suite. Mozilla Firebird is a standalone web browser. The two differ in their approach to most issues; they even have different user-interface engines.
Firebird is not a stand-alone Mozilla browser. It is the Firebird browser.
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Microsoft owns a large portion of Apple. Why not call it simply...Microsoft OS? No more complaints from pesky apple-growers
You think, hence this is your opinion. I see you're very unbiased as well.
Im sure you'r apostrophe's and ",quotes", have good grammars
Now it will be harder and harder to make "Legitimate Copies" of screenings I have already paid for. Now I'll have to wait for a mod-chip to come out for my video camera, or wait for someone to do the equivalent with only a memory stick
Let us examine the situation:
Welcome to Firebird SQL: Where do you want to go today?
From the Bitstream website:
Font Previews for Bitstream Vera
From the various articles, it is said that 10 fonts will be donated in total. That seems to match.
But...what if I suddenly want to type in Serif Oblique? Umm...anyone?
dmoz.org?
Also provides content for the Google Directory.
All human-edited, of course, which was what Yahoo was once so proud of.
I'm sure many of you have probably heard of SYSLINUX? All we need is a very, very tiny Linux distro, signed by Microsoft, to boot up the X-Box. After that, we could have an 'Insert Disc' screen. Any software that could run using the Linux Kernel could then be run, as the security has been bypassed.
Now, why would Microsoft want to sign a piece of software that would allow WINE, ZSNES, or even ePSXe to run?
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Longest English Words
This ring...does it run Linux?
Does it run Linux?
Who does not have a favorite memory of DOS?
Even those, brought up on the somewhat more functionally elegant *nix have used the Disk Operating System. Whether it was the first time you typed dir to the first time you wrote a batch file, everyone has seen DOS.
On December 31, pause for a moment. Microsoft fans and enemies, unite for one second, for DOS is more than just another program...it is our history. C:\> , you will be remembered.
I was introduced to Open-Source less than a year ago, starting with Mozilla. I have since started dual-booting GNU/Linux on my primary computer, and learning about CDex, GAIM, and others along the way. I've even posted a comment or two on Bugzilla. But one thing still bothers me.
Open-Source is supposed to be, at least eventually, user-friendly. Right now, the top-level programmers are doing a good job, but it isn't enough. Open-source is agile, but it lacks the perceived solidity of closed-source. It would be extremely taxing, but perhaps not damaging, to instead have the top-level programmers make the core stable enough to withstand an indefinite period of time as everything is build atop this constant collection of code.
In this way, if we can get Grandma in on a forum, we can build her suggestions to a program. Then, if it's approved, a milestone build is put into the program. When it comes past half-distribution cycle, the installation UI developers can be sure that the install is straightforward. Perhaps the true geek in us will want the nightly, perhaps with no fancy graphical install, but it's great for the hobbyists.
Sure my suggestions are moves for less change, but in the fast paced world of computers, we don't have the time to rush. I'll be seeing you, grandma, when I build my own Linux 3.0 distro.