Used to be Vanity Sizing only messed up the woman's clothing market. But now it's infected men's clothing as well. Phrases like "relaxed fit" are only the first clue. There are now all kinds of tricks to telling what the actual size will be. If you see any kind of adjustments or elastic you can be sure they will be super oversized to make men feel better about their growing girth.
All this makes it brutally hard to buy clothes that fit based on measurements!
The sad part is, I don't think we can turn back. Consumers love the idea of wearing a smaller size than their real measurement, so like the marching morons with their speedometers that lie, we keep buying the vanity sizing.
Now that Google+ Photos is discontinued, Google Apps admins received a message which informs them that Google Hangouts will only use Picasa Web Albums for photo sharing.
Just because you had some problems with Samsung means nothing about their general reliability.
A few specific models have had problems, such as the IBM "Deathstar" models, or the recent Seagate firmware problems, but there is no evidence that whole brands are less reliable.
Read the Google report on drive brands, there are no clear winners or losers across brand lines in their exhaustive real world tests.
A small flash drive may be preferable in an extra toy computer. For for those who use a netbook as a primary, 8GB (or less) is a joke.
I have the Lenovo with 160GB, and the harddrive is acceptably quick. In fact the whole machine feels faster than my top of the line Thinkpad from a few years before.
The only thing that really drags on the Lenovo S10 is the 1.6Ghz Atom processor. Given that the $199 AA battery machine uses a MUCH slower processor, I think it would be far less acceptable as a primary machine, even if it had the same 160GB harddrive.
And I do agree on AA batteries for cameras, I try to use them exclusively. But the power demands of a netbook make me less enthusiastic about them in that platform.
The $199 price does not include WinXP. The $250 Lenovo S10 price does. The $199 price does not include 1GB of ram (only 512mb). The $250 Lenovo S10 price does. The $199 price does not include 160GB harddrive (only small flash drive). The $250 Lenovo S10 price does. The $199 price does not include batteries (AA or otherwise). The $250 Lenovo S10 price does.
What does the $199 unit cost with a copy of WinXP Home, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB harddrive, and a supply of AA batteries? A lot closer to $250 than you imply.
(and you have the much slower CPU in the AA battery unit)
You can buy a Lenovo S10 with 1GB of ram, 1.6Ghz CPU and 160GB harddrive for $249, and that includes WinXP.
The AA batteries sounds interesting, but since all the netbooks come with a battery, and they are cheap enough to buy an entire new netbook with new battery when anything breaks or wears out.
If this unit was $150 or less, it's slow CPU and AA battery power might make sense. But at $199 it's not worth it.
The same thing is happening anywhere someone can be sued, not just the President.
Many companies (like Microsoft) are trying to keep email useful by making it company policy that email is not preserved.
Once you have something that could be preserved... the temptation is powerful to require people to preserve it, and thereby stifle it's use.
Imagine what will happen once all phone conversations could be preserved. With all calls going over VOIP systems on computers, it's only a matter of time before it happens.
> Do you make sure disk cache is empty when verifying files?
Err.... I don't have many machines with 1+ TB of memory it would take to cache the data!!
I don't do the compare as it copies, I do it after the entire copy is complete.
As for a good way to verify as it goes? No. Not that I have seen.
The only truely reliable way is to copy everything, reboot both machines, then compare everything.
Next best thing is to build a set of checksums (MD5 should be ok) on the source machine, and then occasionally verify the source and destination against the checksums.
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I wasted a few hours on this insanity this morning.
My final solution (tried many options) was to use some tools from Ratborus.
KMS Clean to remove my existing key, and then W10 Digital Activation with KMS38 option.
It now says:
Windows(R), Professional edition:
Volume activation will expire 1/18/2038
Now where do I send an Invoice to Microsoft for wasting my morning on this BS?
If you need a copy of KMS Tools Portable, it's here
https://www.solidfiles.com/fol...
The password is part of the filename, so for the latest version:
KMS_Tools_Portable_01.11.2018_password_1234567890987654321.7z
The password is 1234567890987654321
I do like WhatsApp, but it does NOT have a desktop client, and does NOT have a web client.
The pseudo desktop client actually links to your phone, so you must keep WhatsApp active on your phone to use the Desktop app.
Same with web client, it's just an echo of the phone app.
Also you cannot have more than one desktop/web client active at a time, frustrating.
The domain has changed, not tttthreads.com anymore, but still works fine:
https://threadreaderapp.com/
Not limited to 25 messages, not controlled by twitter.
MPC-BE is still under active development, you can see some minor updates from 15 hours ago (new version of libpng)
https://sourceforge.net/p/mpcb...
The Doom9 support thread is still active
https://forum.doom9.org/showth...
V0lt is still active on the MPC-BE support forum (need google translate unless you can read Russian):
http://mpc-be.org/forum/index....
Used to be Vanity Sizing only messed up the woman's clothing market. But now it's infected men's clothing as well.
Phrases like "relaxed fit" are only the first clue. There are now all kinds of tricks to telling what the actual size will be. If you see any kind of adjustments or elastic you can be sure they will be super oversized to make men feel better about their growing girth.
All this makes it brutally hard to buy clothes that fit based on measurements!
The sad part is, I don't think we can turn back. Consumers love the idea of wearing a smaller size than their real measurement, so like the marching morons with their speedometers that lie, we keep buying the vanity sizing.
4GB again, just like cheap Kindles.
A couple dozen cookbooks or graphics novels, and you are out of space.
It's not waterproof, so why not put in a MicroSD slot?
Now that Google+ Photos is discontinued, Google Apps admins received a message which informs them that Google Hangouts will only use Picasa Web Albums for photo sharing.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.c...
If the final shipping price for a unit with these specs is around $60, then it may sell.
I expect a year from now, the no name $60 smartphones with Android will have similar specs.
You can get a JIAYU G4S for around $180
It has 1.7Ghz 8 Core CPU
2GB of RAM
1280x720 Display
13 MP Camera
So $170 for something with the specs of a under $100 phone seems lame.
Is this legacy of a design taking too long to come to market?
Not going to melt in your mouth unless you have a high fever.
So it's going to be like chewing on chocolate flavored crayons.
That Accuraterip list is horribly outdated for new purchases.
Almost none of the models that do well in their stats are for sale anymore.
Most are IDE as well.
This is a discussion of offline backup (notice all the "use tape" responses), harddrive copies can be kept in a offsite location just like tapes.
Any kind of realtime multi-site or off-site backup involves mega bandwidth.
Drobo is a proprietary solution, single vendor, single source.
Just because you had some problems with Samsung means nothing about their general reliability.
A few specific models have had problems, such as the IBM "Deathstar" models, or the recent Seagate firmware problems, but there is no evidence that whole brands are less reliable.
Read the Google report on drive brands, there are no clear winners or losers across brand lines in their exhaustive real world tests.
As far as I can see, there are no internal Maxtor branded 2TB drives.
Isn't the Maxtor brand fading away?
I would use RAID6 not RAID5, since 2 drive failures means data loss with RAID5, while it takes 3 drive failures to loose data on RAID6.
Linux MDADM has supported RAID6 for years, it's stable.
I would mix and match drives, not buying all the same model from one maker. One Samsung, One WD, One Hitachi, One Seagate.
That gets you 4TB in 4 drives, and unlike a RAID1, any 2 drives can fail with no dataloss.
You can further ensure no dataloss by making a second copy using different brand drives for each clone.
Eight 2TB drives is around $1500. Not bad for a very safe 4TB backup.
A small flash drive may be preferable in an extra toy computer. For for those who use a netbook as a primary, 8GB (or less) is a joke.
I have the Lenovo with 160GB, and the harddrive is acceptably quick.
In fact the whole machine feels faster than my top of the line Thinkpad from a few years before.
The only thing that really drags on the Lenovo S10 is the 1.6Ghz Atom processor. Given that the $199 AA battery machine uses a MUCH slower processor, I think it would be far less acceptable as a primary machine, even if it had the same 160GB harddrive.
And I do agree on AA batteries for cameras, I try to use them exclusively. But the power demands of a netbook make me less enthusiastic about them in that platform.
Except four things:
The $199 price does not include WinXP. The $250 Lenovo S10 price does.
The $199 price does not include 1GB of ram (only 512mb). The $250 Lenovo S10 price does.
The $199 price does not include 160GB harddrive (only small flash drive). The $250 Lenovo S10 price does.
The $199 price does not include batteries (AA or otherwise). The $250 Lenovo S10 price does.
What does the $199 unit cost with a copy of WinXP Home, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB harddrive, and a supply of AA batteries?
A lot closer to $250 than you imply.
(and you have the much slower CPU in the AA battery unit)
You can buy a Lenovo S10 with 1GB of ram, 1.6Ghz CPU and 160GB harddrive for $249, and that includes WinXP.
The AA batteries sounds interesting, but since all the netbooks come with a battery, and they are cheap enough to buy an entire new netbook with new battery when anything breaks or wears out.
If this unit was $150 or less, it's slow CPU and AA battery power might make sense. But at $199 it's not worth it.
The same thing is happening anywhere someone can be sued, not just the President.
Many companies (like Microsoft) are trying to keep email useful by making it company policy that email is not preserved.
Once you have something that could be preserved... the temptation is powerful to require people to preserve it, and thereby stifle it's use.
Imagine what will happen once all phone conversations could be preserved. With all calls going over VOIP systems on computers, it's only a matter of time before it happens.
Or will everyone just give up on email since everything you ever say must be preserved forever to be used against you.
Will they all move to Instant Messaging?
Or maybe go back to handwritten paper mail as the only place to have a frank written conversation.
WalMart has the Toshiba HD A2 for $98.87 as of 8am on November 2nd 2007.
http://holiday.ri-walmart.com/?u1=433093-2-0-ARTICLE-0§ion=secret&utm_source=Walmartcom
I believe they may include the free 5 HD DVDs deal, which alone is worth $100.
I'd say that is breaking the price barrier holding back acceptance!!
(I know I'm buying two, one for us, and one for my inlaws for Christmas)
Bad idea to use USB drives for low power because they generally do not spin down when idle.
Same is true with most RAID adapters (Areca does support spin down).
The fullscreen controls added VLC are OSX only (read the update log).
> Do you make sure disk cache is empty when verifying files?
Err.... I don't have many machines with 1+ TB of memory it would take to cache the data!!
I don't do the compare as it copies, I do it after the entire copy is complete.
As for a good way to verify as it goes? No. Not that I have seen.
The only truely reliable way is to copy everything, reboot both machines, then compare everything.
Next best thing is to build a set of checksums (MD5 should be ok) on the source machine, and then occasionally verify the source and destination against the checksums.