I have always heard good things about Seagate, but have never had good luck with them. And whenever I say I prefer Hitachi, people usually try to tell me about the "5 year warranty" that Seagate's have. 5 year warranty doesn't mean crap to me when the drive dies. It's dead. I don't care about a warranty. I care about my information on it. And at the rate of growth of most data, 5 years is too long, and you need to upgrade after a couple of years.
"The approach we've taken with the design of this product, and with previous generation products, is that we've purposely relaxed the areal density. The previous generation [500GB] drive was 100GB per platter; and, it was possible to have up to 160GB per platter. About 250GB per platter is the next bump on the areal density curve, but we've backed off from doing that in order to achieve higher reliability at this time."
This is why I use Hitachi... they are more interested in reliability over disk space. My girlfriends Seagate in her Apple crashed after 4 months. I've replaced several other Segates with Hitachi's because of crashes. I've only seen one of the Hitachi's fail so far, but that was over 2 years of constant running. But it was on a RAID, so no loss in data.
You haven't dealt with a lot of small business then. Quite a few applications need Windows servers, which have given me quite a few troubles in using Linux. QuickBooks and ProSeries (which I have worked around), Sage Business Works (which I haven't worked around yet, but run locally and copies on log off), some program that uses an Access backend (on a server I refuse to support because of the mistakes of the previous IT person), EagleSoft (NO workarounds), etc. I want all my servers to run Linux, unfortunately, they can't all run it, not until vendors realize that there are better options out there. And soon to be for me, I will need to run a Windows server, for QuickBooks and I guess for some dev work that I have nothing to do with. I am however hoping for a free copy from MS.
I agree with Nintendo. Game companies need to be focusing more on gameplay and not graphics. I bought myself a GP2X to be able to play old SNES and Sega games because the games were so much better. They focused on the actual game, and not the detail of someones face.
But at the same time, take a company like Dell, or HP. If they weren't selling Windows at all, Microsoft would feel it. So at the same time, Microsoft is dependent on them.
What worries me about the Flash player update are the people who are downloading it:
THANK YOU A BILLION TIMES!!! OMG THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GREAT. FINALLY AN ALSA-FLASHPLAYER!!
still cant believe it =)
niiiiiiiiiiiice nicenicenicenicenicennice.!!
I just had a customer ask me yesterday if it is normal to pay $10,000 to have your address changed in your billing software. Apperently, another office that they deal with must have some custom software, and to get the address changed (that goes on every form they print), it is going to cost them that much. I told her that it was probably because it was a custom written program, and they no longer support it, and want to write another one. I don't think it would be a very good idea if the programmer made it that hard to change an address the first time around.
Trying new things? You mean like trying Durex instead of Trojans? College life is absurd. I wish I could have finished school in record time and get all the crap over with. I'm interested in getting to real life, not the "surreal" life.
I just set up a new Dell at a dentists office the other day, and during the Windows setup producedure, it was playing that awful music. Unfortunately, the mute or other volume buttons did NOT work because Windows hadn't finished booting to run the program that controls the all the extra buttons. Anyone know a way to kill that music?
All of this is moot when you are sitting through a hurricane and all you have a is a candle, and your computer with its ebook reader has no electricity to run. Or the battery runs out on a PDA because the power is out for a week. It's also cheaper to buy a book when you consider the cost of the computer and software. And that it is not very portable. And a PDA is useless... ever tried reading a book on a PDA? I did once when I first got a PDA... 2 minutes later, I put it down and did something else more meaningful. A real book can go with you in the middle of a huge field where you sit under a tree for hours reading it.
Most teenagers these days wouldn't know a alternator from a radiator. And with the large amount of electrical sensors under most hoods of new cars, you never know what you are unplugging.
Thank you! Malware is not impossible to get rid of. You just need to know where it hides. And just because you have to reboot a couple of times, doesn't mean the method is failing. And I completely agree on Symantec. It gives a significant speed boost. The reason most "shops" have a problem with removing it correctly is because they don't know what they are doing, like the Geek Squad or whatever it is at Best Buy. And reinstalling is not any quicker when you take backup and restore into the time, which a responsible tech should do.
There is no reason to just reinstall the operating system just because you got a little bit of spyware. Only about 1% of the machines that I have worked on because of spyware have I had to reinstall the operating system. The infection can always be completely gotten rid of. I've only had call backs about spyware that I missed about 3 times. And for all I know, it was because the user went and downloaded something again that put it on there (like Party Poker, etc). And it can all be done with just two a handful of tools (where AdAware is NOT included), and a little bit of creative thinking. For example, recently, I booted a computer into safe mode and used AVG Free to check for viruses. It picked up about 3000 "Trojan.Downloaders." Once it found them, I hit delete for all of them. It took about 30 seconds a file (you do the math). Well, I had two hours before the guy got on a plane. So I exported the list to CSV. Opened it in Excel, deleted all columns except the file names, and put a "del" column to the front. Save, rename to.bat or.cmd, and run. They were deleted in about 20 seconds.
Oh great, and then the guy with the laptop gets called a terrorist, and then we must dispose of our batteries before getting onto any domestic flight. They will sell power on the plane for AC adapters, and when we get off, they will sell us new batteries. It was a conspiracy between Dell and Sony and the plane companies, but the whole liquid thing threw them off, and decided to just do a recall instead.
My server room in my house is quite literally in a closet. You can see it here. I've only got three servers at the moment. The last one is on the floor. I need more shelving. I also need to clean up the wiring.
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I have always heard good things about Seagate, but have never had good luck with them. And whenever I say I prefer Hitachi, people usually try to tell me about the "5 year warranty" that Seagate's have. 5 year warranty doesn't mean crap to me when the drive dies. It's dead. I don't care about a warranty. I care about my information on it. And at the rate of growth of most data, 5 years is too long, and you need to upgrade after a couple of years.
This is why I use Hitachi... they are more interested in reliability over disk space. My girlfriends Seagate in her Apple crashed after 4 months. I've replaced several other Segates with Hitachi's because of crashes. I've only seen one of the Hitachi's fail so far, but that was over 2 years of constant running. But it was on a RAID, so no loss in data.
You haven't dealt with a lot of small business then. Quite a few applications need Windows servers, which have given me quite a few troubles in using Linux. QuickBooks and ProSeries (which I have worked around), Sage Business Works (which I haven't worked around yet, but run locally and copies on log off), some program that uses an Access backend (on a server I refuse to support because of the mistakes of the previous IT person), EagleSoft (NO workarounds), etc. I want all my servers to run Linux, unfortunately, they can't all run it, not until vendors realize that there are better options out there. And soon to be for me, I will need to run a Windows server, for QuickBooks and I guess for some dev work that I have nothing to do with. I am however hoping for a free copy from MS.
Give it to Google, let them index it, and then we can all work on it. They everyone will Myspace and blog it, and the world will know everything.
I agree with Nintendo. Game companies need to be focusing more on gameplay and not graphics. I bought myself a GP2X to be able to play old SNES and Sega games because the games were so much better. They focused on the actual game, and not the detail of someones face.
But at the same time, take a company like Dell, or HP. If they weren't selling Windows at all, Microsoft would feel it. So at the same time, Microsoft is dependent on them.
Or it crashed so badly, that sending a report just wasn't going to work anymore.
Most of the people who really push/develop DRM (Microsoft, Apple, RIAA) DON"T have problems making money. Before or after DRM.
I just had a customer ask me yesterday if it is normal to pay $10,000 to have your address changed in your billing software. Apperently, another office that they deal with must have some custom software, and to get the address changed (that goes on every form they print), it is going to cost them that much. I told her that it was probably because it was a custom written program, and they no longer support it, and want to write another one. I don't think it would be a very good idea if the programmer made it that hard to change an address the first time around.
I'm actually going to install my own RCA jacks under the stereo in my new Colorado so it will work with ANY MP3 player.
Trying new things? You mean like trying Durex instead of Trojans? College life is absurd. I wish I could have finished school in record time and get all the crap over with. I'm interested in getting to real life, not the "surreal" life.
I'd like to know more about the belly dancing.
This is before you can log in... its the OEM setup that you have to run through to set up users and networking and what not.
I just set up a new Dell at a dentists office the other day, and during the Windows setup producedure, it was playing that awful music. Unfortunately, the mute or other volume buttons did NOT work because Windows hadn't finished booting to run the program that controls the all the extra buttons. Anyone know a way to kill that music?
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Maybe they should ban clothing. Apparently, clothing can ignite.
All of this is moot when you are sitting through a hurricane and all you have a is a candle, and your computer with its ebook reader has no electricity to run. Or the battery runs out on a PDA because the power is out for a week. It's also cheaper to buy a book when you consider the cost of the computer and software. And that it is not very portable. And a PDA is useless... ever tried reading a book on a PDA? I did once when I first got a PDA... 2 minutes later, I put it down and did something else more meaningful. A real book can go with you in the middle of a huge field where you sit under a tree for hours reading it.
Most teenagers these days wouldn't know a alternator from a radiator. And with the large amount of electrical sensors under most hoods of new cars, you never know what you are unplugging.
Thank you! Malware is not impossible to get rid of. You just need to know where it hides. And just because you have to reboot a couple of times, doesn't mean the method is failing. And I completely agree on Symantec. It gives a significant speed boost. The reason most "shops" have a problem with removing it correctly is because they don't know what they are doing, like the Geek Squad or whatever it is at Best Buy. And reinstalling is not any quicker when you take backup and restore into the time, which a responsible tech should do.
There is no reason to just reinstall the operating system just because you got a little bit of spyware. Only about 1% of the machines that I have worked on because of spyware have I had to reinstall the operating system. The infection can always be completely gotten rid of. I've only had call backs about spyware that I missed about 3 times. And for all I know, it was because the user went and downloaded something again that put it on there (like Party Poker, etc). And it can all be done with just two a handful of tools (where AdAware is NOT included), and a little bit of creative thinking. For example, recently, I booted a computer into safe mode and used AVG Free to check for viruses. It picked up about 3000 "Trojan.Downloaders." Once it found them, I hit delete for all of them. It took about 30 seconds a file (you do the math). Well, I had two hours before the guy got on a plane. So I exported the list to CSV. Opened it in Excel, deleted all columns except the file names, and put a "del" column to the front. Save, rename to .bat or .cmd, and run. They were deleted in about 20 seconds.
NO outside guidance? Then how did the anthraquinone get on the copper? Someone put it there. That sounds like someone helping the process to me...
Oh great, and then the guy with the laptop gets called a terrorist, and then we must dispose of our batteries before getting onto any domestic flight. They will sell power on the plane for AC adapters, and when we get off, they will sell us new batteries. It was a conspiracy between Dell and Sony and the plane companies, but the whole liquid thing threw them off, and decided to just do a recall instead.
They'd go up in flames along with the building. Unless they keep their paperwork offsite and not their backups.
My server room in my house is quite literally in a closet. You can see it here. I've only got three servers at the moment. The last one is on the floor. I need more shelving. I also need to clean up the wiring.