I think people just go by whatever died first on them. I'm prejudiced against Maxtor and WD because I lost data from failures in the 90s, and I've avoided them both ever since. I've had a number of Seagates in the past decade that have started making scary noises that forced me to retire them, but I've never actually lost data on them so they still kind of sit in the "pretty good" category in my head.
I've had no problems at all with any of my Samsungs, though, so that is sad to see them go. I bought a pair of Hitachis last year for the first time, and I haven't had any troubles with them yet. Knock on wood.
Samsung's actually 'entering a partnership' with Seagate that will remove Samsung drives from the market. They're all going to be Seagates from now on.
I use a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH. I run OpenWRT on it, but IIRC DD-WRT is actually officially supported for it--though when I bought the router it was missing features. It has a fast CPU, plenty of RAM, plenty of flash, and GigE.
It lacks 5GHz 802.11n, though. There might be something new in the same line that has it, though, I guess.
If all you want to do is Blu-Ray and Netflix, than the PS3 is just fine. If you plan to do anything else home-theater-esque with it (even web browsing), you'd really be far, far, far better served by a cheap HTPC. There are things like PS3 Media Server that help serve video from your PC to PS3, but it's frequently more trouble than it's worth.
wicd, while not perfect, works just fine for me. It hiccups occasionally, but more or less smoothly switches between wifi access points, ethernet, etc. on my laptop.
They chased me off with KK. From 8.04 to 9.10 dist-upgrade always broke something crucial, and fresh installs would always break either sound/wifi/video/the desktop. And after that, they kept changing the UI for no reason. No thanks.
I'm not the typical user, I guess, but I went back to Slackware and have been much happier, overall.
I don't know--this seems really common with the last dozen kernel releases or so. Power regressions, file system regressions, graphics speed regressions, blah blah blah. With every new kernel release Phoronix reports some serious regressions in various subsystems.
Too lazy to look for it, but there was an article within the last few months about the cops phoning a computer manufacture to get the backdoor for the Full Disk Encryption for a drive he had. They gave it to them.
I'm on (I think) my fourth motherboard since late 2000. An early socket A (PC133), a late socket A(?) (DDR), a socket 939, and now an AM3. In the same time I had an 800MHz and 1.2GHz Athlon, an 1800XP+ or whatever, another faster processor on that board, an Athlon64 3000+, an Athlon64 3800+ X2, and now a Phenom II guy. So... I tend to do a CPU refresh at least once per motherboard+RAM cycle. I usually buy the CPUs used after whatever platform I'm on has been discontinued. Cheap bastard. All of the CPU upgrades were pretty significant, too. Gave me another year+ of gaming out of whatever system.
Hardware acceleration in FF4 just breaks cleartype and makes all of the text blurry, anyway. I don't understand how anyone can stand to leave it enabled.
Sorry: A lot of species will go extinct too, yes, as fragile ecosystems disintegrate. This has happened over and over throughout the Earth's history. I tend to like the animals we have, so I think that sucks. But, other animals (usually the ones we think of as nuisances) will surely flourish, and new species would eventually rise again (provided we don't clear-cut and kill everything).
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I think people just go by whatever died first on them. I'm prejudiced against Maxtor and WD because I lost data from failures in the 90s, and I've avoided them both ever since. I've had a number of Seagates in the past decade that have started making scary noises that forced me to retire them, but I've never actually lost data on them so they still kind of sit in the "pretty good" category in my head.
I've had no problems at all with any of my Samsungs, though, so that is sad to see them go. I bought a pair of Hitachis last year for the first time, and I haven't had any troubles with them yet. Knock on wood.
Samsung's actually 'entering a partnership' with Seagate that will remove Samsung drives from the market. They're all going to be Seagates from now on.
Kif, we have a conundrum.
I have a Huawei Android phone and... god. It's pretty terrible. I miss my Nokia.
I use a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH. I run OpenWRT on it, but IIRC DD-WRT is actually officially supported for it--though when I bought the router it was missing features. It has a fast CPU, plenty of RAM, plenty of flash, and GigE.
It lacks 5GHz 802.11n, though. There might be something new in the same line that has it, though, I guess.
If all you want to do is Blu-Ray and Netflix, than the PS3 is just fine. If you plan to do anything else home-theater-esque with it (even web browsing), you'd really be far, far, far better served by a cheap HTPC. There are things like PS3 Media Server that help serve video from your PC to PS3, but it's frequently more trouble than it's worth.
Geez, I think I just threw up a little.
wicd, while not perfect, works just fine for me. It hiccups occasionally, but more or less smoothly switches between wifi access points, ethernet, etc. on my laptop.
Hahaha, dammit. Alright, you got me.
Dude. This is his blog.
Obviously it means that Javascript will execute faster! Javascript is the alpha and the omega!
I imagine that people in the military will be horrified to learn that people look at porn.
Robots are cool.
Wandering the stacks and reading random books is fun.
Going to the location of a book and looking at the books around it for other options is a necessity.
For the current SCOTUS it goes: Corporations, States/Feds, "People". This is most akin to Corporation vs. people, so this ruling will be overturned.
They chased me off with KK. From 8.04 to 9.10 dist-upgrade always broke something crucial, and fresh installs would always break either sound/wifi/video/the desktop. And after that, they kept changing the UI for no reason. No thanks.
I'm not the typical user, I guess, but I went back to Slackware and have been much happier, overall.
The first law of thermodynamics is you don't talk about thermodynamics.
You can try the demo to see how it runs, of course, but my experience is that Magicka is perfectly playable these days.
I don't know--this seems really common with the last dozen kernel releases or so. Power regressions, file system regressions, graphics speed regressions, blah blah blah. With every new kernel release Phoronix reports some serious regressions in various subsystems.
Too lazy to look for it, but there was an article within the last few months about the cops phoning a computer manufacture to get the backdoor for the Full Disk Encryption for a drive he had. They gave it to them.
I'm on (I think) my fourth motherboard since late 2000. An early socket A (PC133), a late socket A(?) (DDR), a socket 939, and now an AM3. In the same time I had an 800MHz and 1.2GHz Athlon, an 1800XP+ or whatever, another faster processor on that board, an Athlon64 3000+, an Athlon64 3800+ X2, and now a Phenom II guy. So... I tend to do a CPU refresh at least once per motherboard+RAM cycle. I usually buy the CPUs used after whatever platform I'm on has been discontinued. Cheap bastard. All of the CPU upgrades were pretty significant, too. Gave me another year+ of gaming out of whatever system.
But IIRC, these Foxconn employees are doing it at work. What percentage of the US population suicides at work?
Hard to get other people to use PGP/GPG/whatever, though.
Is it because it makes you better than other people?
Hardware acceleration in FF4 just breaks cleartype and makes all of the text blurry, anyway. I don't understand how anyone can stand to leave it enabled.
Sorry: A lot of species will go extinct too, yes, as fragile ecosystems disintegrate. This has happened over and over throughout the Earth's history. I tend to like the animals we have, so I think that sucks. But, other animals (usually the ones we think of as nuisances) will surely flourish, and new species would eventually rise again (provided we don't clear-cut and kill everything).