Use good old Norton Diskreet (DOS version) and automate it with a batch file running on a tired old PC set out to pasture. All supplies are available on Ebay.
In addition, use external USB / Firewire enclosures for the drives. This will not only allow you to easily swap the drives you are cleaning w/o opening the case and rebooting, but will also allow you to run modern large drives easily on the old hardware.
The more I think about it, Norton Diskreet, might very well have issues with USB mounted drives, but plenty of other drive cleaning software has been mentioned in this thread.
Gasoline or Diesel? Diesel contains ~11,000 Wh/l, while gasoline only has ~9,700 Wh/l. So a 55 mpg diesel engine is only as energy efficient as a 49 mpg gasoline one.
Still, that's nothing to laugh at, but we need to compare apples to apples.
My friend and I would very carefully park hundreds of cars, tight as sardines, and set them all off in a wonderful chain-reaction with one shot from the rocket launcher.
You had to be very careful when stacking cars together because one bump could cause the entire set to bounce apart - preventing the chain-reaction.
The bigger question is, do you want your insurance company to know early if you have Alzheimer's? Because they WILL know if you get tested. Forget about ever getting health insurance again if you switch jobs.
My Primary Care Physician has offered many tests to me "under the table" for that very reason.
I second this. I started running my own IMAP server on an old machine a year or so ago - and synced all my old mail archives to various folders.
My mailserver also solves another problem - multiple POP accounts. I have my IMAP server set up so that each one of my POP accounts gets automaticly tagged and sent to it's own folder.
A third common problem this solves is having multiple machines. Now my desktop's email client is always synced with my laptop's email client. Before I had run into problems when ever I traveled and fetched my email from the road.
You're a nerd, you have the papers to prove it, the empty sex-life to prove it, but you want another degree. What should it be? Hmmmm.
Women's Studies.
Learn to succeed where many a nerd before you has failed.
Re:Cut on the recorder?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Could you not just cut a hole in the SVHS tape rather than mess up a perfectly good DVHS recorder?
The article mentioned that drilling a hole into the SVHS tapes was considered a "bad idea" for fear of plastic shavings getting on the tape. It was also mentioned that using a soldering iron to melt a hole "didn't work" with the SCHS-->DVHS trick (though it did with the VHS-->SVHS trick. They didn't go into any detail on why it didn't work - I wish they had.
Re:Mod affects future products?
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After reading several mods which are simply a case of bypassing feature restrictions, I wonder if these mods will force manufacturers to forgo the quick-and-dirty upgrade (i.e. same model with features disabled/enabled) and go for the more expensive redesign route?
As long as the marketplace is as price-sensitive as it is currently, I think there is no reason to fear that manufacturers will do anything that will raise the price of their hardware.
If a discussion list you are subscribed to is constantly tripping Gmail's spam filter - there is a solution.
You simply need to go to settings - and create a filter. I have my filters set up to apply a label to matching email. Labels in Gmail work very much like folders in other email clients.
The link you provided to the "ELK-PD9 Power Distribution Module" is telling.
Do you understand why devices such as that are used?
A power distribution module such as that is used to power devices like remote video cameras, remote security sensors, and other remote monitoring devices.
Key word being remote.
Devices such as these use structured wiring with data (video) and power coming in to the device over one cable bundle. This is done for ease of installation to the remote site, and because the security camera on your neighborhood Target store being 100 feet from the nearest power outlet makes a wall-wart is unfeasible not unsightly.
What I like about the Gerber line over the Leatherman line is the pliers. Gerber's "flick-out" pliers can be used to apply spreading force as well as squeezing force. Leatherman's "unfolding" style pliers can only be used to apply squeezing force.
Do an ABX test (http://www.bostonaudiosociety.org/bas_speaker/abx _testing.htm) comparing a MP3 extracted with EAC and encoded with Lame 3.93 --alt preset standard and a wav file. Come back to me with the results. I think you will be suprised. 99% of the population can't tell a difference.
MP3s are not only smaller, they work on portables, and they have great metadata. Regardless of your decision regarding encoding or not - EAC is a must for a quality extraction!
If a burglar breaks into your house and steals all your stuff, then you install a better lock but get robbed again next week, do you get mad at the lock manufacturer? No thinking person does - they try to find the burglar and punish him.
If the burglar broke into my house through a flaw in the design of the lock - a flaw known by the manufacturer - a flaw the manufacturer found more profitable to ignore than fix - a flaw the manufacturer decided not to tell me about and trust me to make my own decisions on how best to secure my house - then HELL YEAH I'd get mad at the lock manufacturer!
Two things. 1 - Keyboards are cheap. Very cheap. There are many sub $20 keyboards out there that have better feel than any of the fancy "sealed" ones I have ever used.
2 - Standard keyboards are amazingly hard to kill.
BT could be set up as a kind of web-mirroring system, like Coral, only with BT as a back end.
People leave their bittorrent sessions running after downloading warez because they are rewarded for doing so. (High Up/Down ratio = higher status on tracker site= earlier downloads of new stuff)
Without a similar reward system for users, why should they seed after downloading the latest Microsoft service pack, for example? Without willing seeds, bittorrent is inefficient and a poor way to mirror anything.
Slashdot Mirror
Due to the death of Jhonn Balance (Coil), Trent is going to need some new talent for the inevitable re-mix album following "With Teeth"
In addition, use external USB / Firewire enclosures for the drives. This will not only allow you to easily swap the drives you are cleaning w/o opening the case and rebooting, but will also allow you to run modern large drives easily on the old hardware.
The more I think about it, Norton Diskreet, might very well have issues with USB mounted drives, but plenty of other drive cleaning software has been mentioned in this thread.
Gasoline or Diesel?
Diesel contains ~11,000 Wh/l, while gasoline only has ~9,700 Wh/l. So a 55 mpg diesel engine is only as energy efficient as a 49 mpg gasoline one.
Still, that's nothing to laugh at, but we need to compare apples to apples.
My friend and I would very carefully park hundreds of cars, tight as sardines, and set them all off in a wonderful chain-reaction with one shot from the rocket launcher.
You had to be very careful when stacking cars together because one bump could cause the entire set to bounce apart - preventing the chain-reaction.
My life will not be complete until they also are able to detect the all important A, B, Select, and Start thoughts.
up-up-down-down-left-right- left-right-B-A-select-start
My Primary Care Physician has offered many tests to me "under the table" for that very reason.
It's Saturday night, the server is Slashdotted before the first post. I assume almost no one has see the site, making discussion hard.
How about a game of cards?
Euchre anyone?
I second this.
I started running my own IMAP server on an old machine a year or so ago - and synced all my old mail archives to various folders.
My mailserver also solves another problem - multiple POP accounts. I have my IMAP server set up so that each one of my POP accounts gets automaticly tagged and sent to it's own folder.
A third common problem this solves is having multiple machines. Now my desktop's email client is always synced with my laptop's email client. Before I had run into problems when ever I traveled and fetched my email from the road.
They could all be used as alarmclocks!
You're a nerd, you have the papers to prove it, the empty sex-life to prove it, but you want another degree.
What should it be?
Hmmmm.
Women's Studies.
Learn to succeed where many a nerd before you has failed.
Could you not just cut a hole in the SVHS tape rather than mess up a perfectly good DVHS recorder?
The article mentioned that drilling a hole into the SVHS tapes was considered a "bad idea" for fear of plastic shavings getting on the tape. It was also mentioned that using a soldering iron to melt a hole "didn't work" with the SCHS-->DVHS trick (though it did with the VHS-->SVHS trick. They didn't go into any detail on why it didn't work - I wish they had.
As long as the marketplace is as price-sensitive as it is currently, I think there is no reason to fear that manufacturers will do anything that will raise the price of their hardware.
If a discussion list you are subscribed to is constantly tripping Gmail's spam filter - there is a solution.
You simply need to go to settings - and create a filter. I have my filters set up to apply a label to matching email. Labels in Gmail work very much like folders in other email clients.
I also agree.
If anything I would say that most phishing attempts seem to make it through Gmail's filters.
The only type of spam that seems to consistantly get tagged correctly is all the non-english spam I get.
The link you provided to the "ELK-PD9 Power Distribution Module" is telling.
Do you understand why devices such as that are used?
A power distribution module such as that is used to power devices like remote video cameras, remote security sensors, and other remote monitoring devices.
Key word being remote.
Devices such as these use structured wiring with data (video) and power coming in to the device over one cable bundle. This is done for ease of installation to the remote site, and because the security camera on your neighborhood Target store being 100 feet from the nearest power outlet makes a wall-wart is unfeasible not unsightly.
What I like about the Gerber line over the Leatherman line is the pliers. Gerber's "flick-out" pliers can be used to apply spreading force as well as squeezing force. Leatherman's "unfolding" style pliers can only be used to apply squeezing force.
That's not MS Windows' fault - that's HP for you.
My Epson drivers are less than two megs.
Crazy Driver Bloat is exactly why I _didn't_ buy an HP.
Could someone please explain to me "a quantity of light" having mass?
I am honestly confused. (and ignorant)
Do an ABX test (http://www.bostonaudiosociety.org/bas_speaker/abx _testing.htm) comparing a MP3 extracted with EAC and encoded with Lame 3.93 --alt preset standard and a wav file.
l oad&name=Elite_DAE&file=painless for an easy guide.
Come back to me with the results.
I think you will be suprised.
99% of the population can't tell a difference.
http://www.chrismyden.com/nuke/modules.php?op=mod
MP3s are not only smaller, they work on portables, and they have great metadata.
Regardless of your decision regarding encoding or not - EAC is a must for a quality extraction!
You really should be asking this over at Hydrogenaudio:
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php
The signal to noise ratio is much better there for this kind of question.
As in "No Stone Left Unturned" I assume.
If the burglar broke into my house through a flaw in the design of the lock - a flaw known by the manufacturer - a flaw the manufacturer found more profitable to ignore than fix - a flaw the manufacturer decided not to tell me about and trust me to make my own decisions on how best to secure my house - then HELL YEAH I'd get mad at the lock manufacturer!
Two things.
1 - Keyboards are cheap. Very cheap. There are many sub $20 keyboards out there that have better feel than any of the fancy "sealed" ones I have ever used.
2 - Standard keyboards are amazingly hard to kill.
People leave their bittorrent sessions running after downloading warez because they are rewarded for doing so. (High Up/Down ratio = higher status on tracker site= earlier downloads of new stuff)
Without a similar reward system for users, why should they seed after downloading the latest Microsoft service pack, for example? Without willing seeds, bittorrent is inefficient and a poor way to mirror anything.
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