After years of hearing about their BS tactics, trying to sue all sorts of businesses, I don't even know what they do anymore. I'm partly joking, but you rarely hear anything about them beyond court cases. Usually, you hear about a company doing something dumb/stupid for a while, then you hear about some product they are releasing or something new they are doing; you know, like companies that provide a service or a product. Not with SCO. I just don't understand how any company like that could ever expect new customers or continued contracts with any dignity. I know they shot themselves in the foot so many times, but most companies I've seen do this in the past are at least worked on something substantial while lawsuits continue. end rant
A long time ago I created a user name for myself using only the right hand: polyomninym
I must say, after 7 years of use, it feels so right! Pun not intended. As a musician of many instruments, I really dig the rhythm of key-strokes for certain words.
I suggest using SpinRite on your hardrives. Watch the 2 videos on their website, very impressive software. I've been doing emergency data recovery for years and have many tools. I bought a copy and am very pleased, using it on drive I have. SpinRite can't fix everything, some hardrives are mechanically inaccessible and therefore must be recovered the expensive way. At least watch the videos, they are very informative.
Nice work. Thank you for the good insight. Very interesting to read, I may have learned something (gasp):) I guess I was getting off topic. Thanks again. Cheers!
I accept your call of bullshit. So you never felt oppressed there? Don't you think it is unjust for the government anywhere to limit your leisure activities, in this case not drug-related or pr0n-related. Secondly, do you think these 20 something year olds really represent the average status quo in China? I respect your insight, but why are you not still there if it's not so bad? Had to ask.
I think someone made this point a long time ago in a comment: If you were as oppressed in your daily life as the Chinese, you might spend a lot of your time where you can be "free" in some form of context, social, MMO, whatever. It's not always about escape, there is also immersion and just plain wanting interaction. We all know that anything can become physically addictive, and whether or not some term is coined for those things or not, it's simply human nature at work.
While training Wing-Tsun & Muay Thai, we were taught to do synovial fluid exercises before anything else, slowly rotating joints. Only at the end of a training session, when we were already warmed up, would we then stretch. Even then, the stretching was slow and well regulated, for instance, the Sun Salutation. I must say, that every time I've tried to stretch while not warm, has always hurt me. Bout time the mass populace figured this out.
I happen to have a bunch of retired/decommissioned PX-716A drives with the Plextools Pro software. I have been selling them locally on Craigslist and have had no complaints. If you would like to buy any from be, I would be happy to let any of them go for $15 per drive plus shipping probably about $8. I'm in Seattle, but I'll ship anywhere. BTW, I currently find them being sold new for around $150, which is way too much.
I'm not really trying to make any money on these drives, but more or less find good homes for them. They are in great shape and were used in a clean environment for less than a year. I have way too many probably around 20 or so still left. You can reach me here: drives at danwilsonart dot com.
CD's and DVD's have what's called a face or label. By storing on their side, I meant like in disc book or a case, on its spine. Optical media has stack-rings on the bottom, close to the hub. You can store like this as well, but from what I've read and seen, storing on their side (not the face or the data side) there would be less pressure on the discs. It's a nit-picky way to go and I doubt that the difference is a huge one. You can never be too picky about retaining important data, though. Happy archiving.
That's good to hear. If treated properly, they can last for a good long while. I've just seen too much shifting of management, ownership, and operations go on behind the scenes to suggest their consistency. It is a great product, and I do endorse it, but not as much as TY, simply out of experience.
Thank you for sharing this info with everyone. Nice clarification. I've heard the term "wobble" used to describe what those single-beam readers are referencing. I see that you are keen to mscience.com as well. Jerome Hartke was trying to sell his business to us and some of our associates a while back. Heh, I just don't have time to maintain something like that. It may still be up for grabs. Cheers.
Many companies buy mass qty's of TY and re-brand them. You can get great deals with (dsgi.com) we ship globally as well. If you are interested, make sure you pick the surface that your printer can handle. We have all of the edge to edge Everest print surfaced TY's and Inkjet printable surfaces. Happy burning:)
Interestingly enough, I work for the first company to ever produce and sell pre-formatted floppy discs. We're right down the street from M$ in Redmond, WA. I use many different brands for different uses and client needs. HA, I don't work for TY, and that's why I shamelessly promote them;) I also suggest using Verbatim, the dye and quality are very similar. In all of my experience, TY is the best. BTW, optical media manufacturers come see us as the perfect testing ground for end use because we do everything you can to optical media, down to print and packaging. (dsgi.com) Cheers!
I work with CD/DVD and related technology as a profession. I analyze, QC, and mass duplicate media by the thousands for extreme and critical field use, every day. My best advice to you is to use Taiyo-Yuden (TY) media, always. I've seen mixed results and bad burns from Mitsui and MAM-A gold, Kodak, and the like. The TY dye type has a proven longer longevity than any other so far. I also suggest burning all of your audio CD's at 16X, this affect what's called single-beam readers. Also, it insures higher integrity of the burn. Burn 16X DVD's at 8X to increase the write integrity.
What others say about is CDCheck is true, use it along with this advice. Use Plextools Pro on a PX-716 drive if you can find one. It seems to be more accurate than Nero tools. Use Plextools to check the C1, C2, and CU rates. If the graph is half-way to the top of the reading, back that disc up. As cheap as media is, I suggest burning more than one copy, storing the image on an external archive hardrive. When burning, don't use overburning. You lose some integrity for error correction.
Store your media in a cool dry place, on it's side. Avoid humidity, light, and heat when you can. Remember, the best analysis tools in the industry are very expensive for individuals. Take a look at CATs if you are interested in learning more about optical media testing. Best wishes!
If you are familiar with the musician, Momus, then you have probably heard this song. Please excuse my long post, but the lyrics really hit home for me and my friends:
Momus -
"The Age Of Information"
[ from the album "Ping Pong" (1997) ]
Lyrics
This is a public service announcement
Ladies and gentlemen, we are now entering
The age of information
It's perfectly safe
If we all take a few basic precautions
May I make some observations?
Axiom 1 for the world we've begun:
Your reputation used to depend on
What you concealed
Now it depends on what you reveal
The age of secretive mandarins who creep on heels of tact is dead:
We are all players now in the great game of fact instead
So since you can't keep your cards to your chest
I'd suggest you think a few moves ahead
As one does when playing a game of chess
Axiom 2 to make the world new:
Paranoia's simply a word for seeing things as they are
Act as you wish to be seen to act
Or leave for some other star
Somebody is prying through your files, probably
Somebody's hand is in your tin of Netscape magic cookies
But relax: if you're an interesting person
Morally good in your acts
You have nothing to fear from facts
Axiom 3 for transparency:
In the age of information the only way to hide facts
Is with interpretations, there is no way to stop the free exchange
Of idle speculations
In the days before communication privacy meant staying at home
Sitting in the dark with the curtains shut unsure whether to answer the phone
But these are different times, now the bottom line
Is that everyone should prepare to be known
Most of your friends will still like you fine
X said to Y what A said to B
B wrote an E-mail and sent it to me
I showed C and C wrote to A:
Flaming world war three
Cut, paste, forward, copy
CC, go with the flow
Our ambition should be to love what we finally know
Or, if it proves unloveable, simply to go
Axiom 4 for this world I adore:
Our loyalties should shift in view
According to what we know
And who we are speaking to
Once I was loyal to you, and prepared to be against information
Now I am loyal to information, maybe I'm disloyal to you
My loyalty becomes more complex and cubist with every new fact I learn
It depends who I'm speaking to
And who they speak to in turn
Axiom 5 for information workers who wish to stay alive:
Supply, never withhold, the information requested
With total disregard for interests
Personal and vested
Chinese whispers was an analogue game
Where the signal degraded between brain and brain
Digital whispers is the same in reverse
The word we spread gets better, not worse
Better, not worse
X said to Y what A said to B
B wrote an E-mail and sent it to me
I showed C and C wrote to A:
Flaming world war three
Cut, paste, forward, copy
CC, go with the flow
Our ambition should be to love what we finally know
Or, if it proves unloveable, simply to go
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Just imagine getting a pop-up window on your pop quiz. Pencil Enlargement!!!
After years of hearing about their BS tactics, trying to sue all sorts of businesses, I don't even know what they do anymore. I'm partly joking, but you rarely hear anything about them beyond court cases. Usually, you hear about a company doing something dumb/stupid for a while, then you hear about some product they are releasing or something new they are doing; you know, like companies that provide a service or a product. Not with SCO. I just don't understand how any company like that could ever expect new customers or continued contracts with any dignity. I know they shot themselves in the foot so many times, but most companies I've seen do this in the past are at least worked on something substantial while lawsuits continue. end rant
I don't break into games writing. I lawfully gain access.
A long time ago I created a user name for myself using only the right hand: polyomninym
I must say, after 7 years of use, it feels so right! Pun not intended. As a musician of many instruments, I really dig the rhythm of key-strokes for certain words.
If coincidence were a sandwich, we'd all be at Subway right now. Now those are some serious acrostics, my friend. Major Kudos!
Subject says it all! See you an the playground, ladies ;) Oh don't forget Japan, either :)
I suggest using SpinRite on your hardrives. Watch the 2 videos on their website, very impressive software. I've been doing emergency data recovery for years and have many tools. I bought a copy and am very pleased, using it on drive I have. SpinRite can't fix everything, some hardrives are mechanically inaccessible and therefore must be recovered the expensive way. At least watch the videos, they are very informative.
Nice work. Thank you for the good insight. Very interesting to read, I may have learned something (gasp) :) I guess I was getting off topic. Thanks again. Cheers!
I accept your call of bullshit. So you never felt oppressed there? Don't you think it is unjust for the government anywhere to limit your leisure activities, in this case not drug-related or pr0n-related. Secondly, do you think these 20 something year olds really represent the average status quo in China? I respect your insight, but why are you not still there if it's not so bad? Had to ask.
I think someone made this point a long time ago in a comment: If you were as oppressed in your daily life as the Chinese, you might spend a lot of your time where you can be "free" in some form of context, social, MMO, whatever. It's not always about escape, there is also immersion and just plain wanting interaction. We all know that anything can become physically addictive, and whether or not some term is coined for those things or not, it's simply human nature at work.
Is that a Rolex?
No, it's an Anejo, you insensitive clod!
While training Wing-Tsun & Muay Thai, we were taught to do synovial fluid exercises before anything else, slowly rotating joints. Only at the end of a training session, when we were already warmed up, would we then stretch. Even then, the stretching was slow and well regulated, for instance, the Sun Salutation. I must say, that every time I've tried to stretch while not warm, has always hurt me. Bout time the mass populace figured this out.
I happen to have a bunch of retired/decommissioned PX-716A drives with the Plextools Pro software. I have been selling them locally on Craigslist and have had no complaints. If you would like to buy any from be, I would be happy to let any of them go for $15 per drive plus shipping probably about $8. I'm in Seattle, but I'll ship anywhere. BTW, I currently find them being sold new for around $150, which is way too much.
I'm not really trying to make any money on these drives, but more or less find good homes for them. They are in great shape and were used in a clean environment for less than a year. I have way too many probably around 20 or so still left. You can reach me here: drives at danwilsonart dot com.
CD's and DVD's have what's called a face or label. By storing on their side, I meant like in disc book or a case, on its spine. Optical media has stack-rings on the bottom, close to the hub. You can store like this as well, but from what I've read and seen, storing on their side (not the face or the data side) there would be less pressure on the discs. It's a nit-picky way to go and I doubt that the difference is a huge one. You can never be too picky about retaining important data, though. Happy archiving.
Now that's what I'm talkin' about! Great to hear about that. I regularly see their 32X burns have hardly any C1's at all. A+ all the way around.
That's good to hear. If treated properly, they can last for a good long while. I've just seen too much shifting of management, ownership, and operations go on behind the scenes to suggest their consistency. It is a great product, and I do endorse it, but not as much as TY, simply out of experience.
Thank you for sharing this info with everyone. Nice clarification. I've heard the term "wobble" used to describe what those single-beam readers are referencing. I see that you are keen to mscience.com as well. Jerome Hartke was trying to sell his business to us and some of our associates a while back. Heh, I just don't have time to maintain something like that. It may still be up for grabs. Cheers.
Many companies buy mass qty's of TY and re-brand them. You can get great deals with (dsgi.com) we ship globally as well. If you are interested, make sure you pick the surface that your printer can handle. We have all of the edge to edge Everest print surfaced TY's and Inkjet printable surfaces. Happy burning :)
Interestingly enough, I work for the first company to ever produce and sell pre-formatted floppy discs. We're right down the street from M$ in Redmond, WA. I use many different brands for different uses and client needs. HA, I don't work for TY, and that's why I shamelessly promote them ;) I also suggest using Verbatim, the dye and quality are very similar. In all of my experience, TY is the best. BTW, optical media manufacturers come see us as the perfect testing ground for end use because we do everything you can to optical media, down to print and packaging. (dsgi.com) Cheers!
I work with CD/DVD and related technology as a profession. I analyze, QC, and mass duplicate media by the thousands for extreme and critical field use, every day. My best advice to you is to use Taiyo-Yuden (TY) media, always. I've seen mixed results and bad burns from Mitsui and MAM-A gold, Kodak, and the like. The TY dye type has a proven longer longevity than any other so far. I also suggest burning all of your audio CD's at 16X, this affect what's called single-beam readers. Also, it insures higher integrity of the burn. Burn 16X DVD's at 8X to increase the write integrity.
What others say about is CDCheck is true, use it along with this advice. Use Plextools Pro on a PX-716 drive if you can find one. It seems to be more accurate than Nero tools. Use Plextools to check the C1, C2, and CU rates. If the graph is half-way to the top of the reading, back that disc up. As cheap as media is, I suggest burning more than one copy, storing the image on an external archive hardrive. When burning, don't use overburning. You lose some integrity for error correction.
Store your media in a cool dry place, on it's side. Avoid humidity, light, and heat when you can. Remember, the best analysis tools in the industry are very expensive for individuals. Take a look at CATs if you are interested in learning more about optical media testing. Best wishes!
Dueling Brain-Stems??? Gotta love it! Anyone for "Devil Went Down to Thalamus"? Ok, I'll stop here.
If you are familiar with the musician, Momus, then you have probably heard this song. Please excuse my long post, but the lyrics really hit home for me and my friends: Momus - "The Age Of Information" [ from the album "Ping Pong" (1997) ] Lyrics This is a public service announcement Ladies and gentlemen, we are now entering The age of information It's perfectly safe If we all take a few basic precautions May I make some observations? Axiom 1 for the world we've begun: Your reputation used to depend on What you concealed Now it depends on what you reveal The age of secretive mandarins who creep on heels of tact is dead: We are all players now in the great game of fact instead So since you can't keep your cards to your chest I'd suggest you think a few moves ahead As one does when playing a game of chess Axiom 2 to make the world new: Paranoia's simply a word for seeing things as they are Act as you wish to be seen to act Or leave for some other star Somebody is prying through your files, probably Somebody's hand is in your tin of Netscape magic cookies But relax: if you're an interesting person Morally good in your acts You have nothing to fear from facts Axiom 3 for transparency: In the age of information the only way to hide facts Is with interpretations, there is no way to stop the free exchange Of idle speculations In the days before communication privacy meant staying at home Sitting in the dark with the curtains shut unsure whether to answer the phone But these are different times, now the bottom line Is that everyone should prepare to be known Most of your friends will still like you fine X said to Y what A said to B B wrote an E-mail and sent it to me I showed C and C wrote to A: Flaming world war three Cut, paste, forward, copy CC, go with the flow Our ambition should be to love what we finally know Or, if it proves unloveable, simply to go Axiom 4 for this world I adore: Our loyalties should shift in view According to what we know And who we are speaking to Once I was loyal to you, and prepared to be against information Now I am loyal to information, maybe I'm disloyal to you My loyalty becomes more complex and cubist with every new fact I learn It depends who I'm speaking to And who they speak to in turn Axiom 5 for information workers who wish to stay alive: Supply, never withhold, the information requested With total disregard for interests Personal and vested Chinese whispers was an analogue game Where the signal degraded between brain and brain Digital whispers is the same in reverse The word we spread gets better, not worse Better, not worse X said to Y what A said to B B wrote an E-mail and sent it to me I showed C and C wrote to A: Flaming world war three Cut, paste, forward, copy CC, go with the flow Our ambition should be to love what we finally know Or, if it proves unloveable, simply to go
It's so nice to have read all of the great news yesterday, and then see 3 positive articles in a row, today. :)) Happy Friday, indeed.
Let's all knock on wood while there's still some left.
I keep thinking of "Project Hoyven Maven" from The Simpsons ;)=