Ranged from 2-20gb over it's life (2-6 for the 3600rpm)
although i will say they don't make drives like they used to.. i currently have an old Linux box running using a Seagate 50pin Wide 9.1 SCSI drive that is 5.25 wide monster.. the damn thing has a strip thermometer on the front so you can see if it's over heating.. but you know.. it still works
here is a good picture (not mine but of the same drive model)
i know this will sound funny but i use paypal for online and random stuff.
hear me out.
if you set up a biz account then you can get a debit card issued and tied to the paypal account.
paypal has zero fees for moving money from your bank account into their account.. If it is a verified account and you have had zero faults then when you go into paypal and transfer money it is instantly available to your paypal debit card (even if it isn't pulled from your back for a couple days)
any time i buy something online i go through the check out and get the total cost - i then go over and transfer that amount rounded up to the dolor (some times amazon's tax isn't right) might put in an extra 5 if it's a large number then i flip back and use my paypal card..
It works for me because the most i can lose is the amount that i was already expecting to spend - and the paypal card can't overdraft from my bank and if there is NSF in the paypal account there are no fees just the transaction fails..
I have had my card # stolen too - i make a purchase and the next week got a call from Office Depot to verify my card info for an order of 8 portable dvd players (why something like that doesn't get flagged i have no idea) anyways.. after 2 hours with Office depot i manged to get them to give me the shipping details and cancel the order then called the local Sherif's Office where it was going to be shipped (it was in Louisiana i live in NC - again why that didn't get flagged you got me) and gave them all the info i had..
i then called paypal and they canceled the card and issued me a new one and i had it within a week - because there was no money in the account no charges to try to get back.. Sure it takes extra effort BUT you know.. it works.
as for my day to day around town.. i have my bank issued check card - i keep a monthly allowance in it and all my other money in a money market that isn't accessible to that card.. if it ever does get ripped off i just have to skimp for a couple weeks - but i don't get flushed out.. banks don't charge for having more than 1 account - take advantage of that - separate your money.. cause god knows they don't care - and the companies the scammers go through don't give a shit either.
the worst part about that commercial is there are far too many people who have zero idea what it was trying to say.. they would just wonder why the hooters girl was carrying a sledge hammer
Ran win CE and had a PCMCIA slot and i used a Cisco Aironet card with it - in fact still have it on a shelf here.
it had the basic win CE office i could check e-mail it had craptastic version of IE (couldn't do much but i could do some things) it also had word processing and i could load an IRC client on it.
it had a very good 12-14h USABLE battery life so i could take notes all day (saved to the CF slot) and then do my home work on my desktop if i felt like..
i loved it - got into a wreck and the screen got damaged so i hunted down and bought another one - by that time HP had discontinued them. it was a precursor to the Netbook line
they would have to fire me then - i'm in a office in the back - i have the comfort of having 2 full racks in my office - i stop and always answer my phone (have the ring piped into the head phones)..
if i had to sit all day and listen to that noise on top of only getting ~5-15min of face to face interaction a day (spend a lot of time on the phone but I've had days where i came in worked and left and never actually spoke in person to someone else). Then i would just keep wearing them and they would have to fire me or move me to someplace else.
Personally i know that TestDrive taught me how to drive a manual transmission - and to under stand how gear ratios effect acceleration and engine breaking.
or they will move back to a world of bbs style places with seats and a quality of service in a small sub culture for their material - maybe still a bit torrent network run inside of a user provided mess network set up with tor style vpn clients.
people shared copies of mp3's for years before napster - it was when they made it so the random joe with no idea what he was doing could do it that they started pressing against it and calling afoul.
they don't care about the individual using Solaris - they care about the enterprise.. they now have it so you have to have a licence per machine and have to have at least the basic support contract on that machine to receive updates.
what they just did was give an ultimatum to the small and medium biz that where using Solaris and avoiding a service contract.. theses people are now forced to either pick up some type of support contract (a way for Oracle to get it's foot in the door) or to overhaul their systems and move away before the first major bug is released where they can't get the update.
it is a biz move my Oracle but it isn't to squeeze some OS licence fee out of people.. hell i bet they will throw that in if you just say hey i have a box and want support. what they want is a reoccurring revenue stream - and that is what support contracts are.
the small setup install base.. doesn't hurt them or help them much on the money side for it to be free, it's the larger installs they are going after.
humm i was connecting to muds.. i don't know why you put porn as an issue.. (except for the ascii art at the start)... anyways.. the best porn came from bbs's
unrecoverable is relative to how much money you throw at getting it back - if all you do is break the platter up then the data is still there and using a scanning electron microscope you could retrieve the data off the pieces and then put it together.. not cheap but it would work.
i'd have to find the article but i remember reading that OnTrack managed to get 99.99% of the data off the drives on the most recent shuttle explosion. i'm willing to bet if they can get data off drives that went through reentry that they can get it off a drive that was shot.
if you hold it in the Z axis and add a low resistance lubricant then any motion energy along the z axis will bet transfered to the X & Y (EXCEPT motion that is perfectly along the Z axis and not at all against the X/Y - which is not your typical movement)
I'm willing to bet that while they are missing out on some energy - by constraining it on one axis they are making the generation along the other 2 more effecient and allowing some of the Z axis energy to be captured via deflection.
i am talking about mainframes and yea it isn't as big deal - for an enterprise - but for government. thats a whole different world
for a company to switch it is a money decision - and if it that decision was made it means that money is lost until that change happens - ie it goes quick and people do it or they lose their jobs.
in government - there is no incentive - if you don't like the policy just drag your feet make it look like you are doing something - give a very stupid costs X expensive reason to the not technical in charge and wait a couple years for the policy to change.
it is completely stupid how our governments infrastructure runs.. only the Arm'ed forces seem to be able to make large scale changes and do them right.. the rest of the government just doesn't give a shit.
Unions had their place in time and their need (the old coal mines) but now days they have gotten way over done - i have seen more people hurt in modern times by unions than not.
i personaly think NO company should be given special favors. sorry i know that when a data center or a manufacturing plant is being built that it will bring jobs to a community BUT having communities fight over them by giving tax breaks or cheap land is just wrong - if nothing your stealing jobs from another community. And it isn't fair at all to the smaller or mid sized companies that can't offer 1,000 jobs but rather 50.. the smaller ones end up paying a higher premium and there for it is harder to compete with the larger ones.
This scratch my back and i'll scratch yours shit has to stop or it will be the downfall.
no.. the Quote says that a Merchant is more loyal and care for the well being of whom they draw their profits - which isn't always where they housed them selves
his comment says that i the merchant is in our soil and is doing things that are bad for us we should kick them out - aka one that is more loyal to another nation - let them go there
i will admit the MS stack worked perfect for the limited profiles it supports - but i've never had problems with the Toshiba stack one both integrated and add on BT adapters. Makes me wonder if it was a version issue.. cause they have gone through 3-4 version in under 2 years each with major advancements in usability
alot of manufacturers don't want to pay licencing costs - and on top of that they don't want to deal with licencing a decent BT stack for the end-user to install.
Its easier for them to just make a really simple 27mhz frequency mouse/KB and make people plug in a dongle. not so bad now that they have actually gotten really damn small but still annoying.
It might help now that win 7 has some decent BT support and built in profiles in it's stack.. where as XP had basic serial and HID and that was it.
What BT failed with was allowing everyone and their brothers to make incompatible stacks.. the idea of profiles is good and should be all that is needed - it should be required for a stack to support an API and a device profile to accomplish it's task via the API.. with no half ass stack implementations.
Instead we have the mess we have now.. luckily my laptop came with the Toshiba Stack which is by far the most developed and compatible stack - and i use it to connect just about everything KB/Mouse/headphones/Phone/PDA it makes life easy when it works.. but i can't tell you the countless hours i have spent to get everything to work so that i didn't have to fiddle with it every-time i wanted to pair something.
now if only i could get Pandora's Player to listen to Windows Media controls i'd be set.
did i mention that i would pay for it IF they gave the option? no they aren't charing for it they are just restricting it to programs written for their platform.
the free part i don't give a shit about and is what is blurring your vision..
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It was a Quantum Bigfoot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bigfoot_(hard_drive)
Ranged from 2-20gb over it's life (2-6 for the 3600rpm)
although i will say they don't make drives like they used to.. i currently have an old Linux box running using a Seagate 50pin Wide 9.1 SCSI drive that is 5.25 wide monster.. the damn thing has a strip thermometer on the front so you can see if it's over heating.. but you know.. it still works
here is a good picture (not mine but of the same drive model)
http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pics/st410800n_overview.jpg
i know this will sound funny but i use paypal for online and random stuff.
hear me out.
if you set up a biz account then you can get a debit card issued and tied to the paypal account.
paypal has zero fees for moving money from your bank account into their account.. If it is a verified account and you have had zero faults then when you go into paypal and transfer money it is instantly available to your paypal debit card (even if it isn't pulled from your back for a couple days)
any time i buy something online i go through the check out and get the total cost - i then go over and transfer that amount rounded up to the dolor (some times amazon's tax isn't right) might put in an extra 5 if it's a large number then i flip back and use my paypal card..
It works for me because the most i can lose is the amount that i was already expecting to spend - and the paypal card can't overdraft from my bank and if there is NSF in the paypal account there are no fees just the transaction fails..
I have had my card # stolen too - i make a purchase and the next week got a call from Office Depot to verify my card info for an order of 8 portable dvd players (why something like that doesn't get flagged i have no idea) anyways.. after 2 hours with Office depot i manged to get them to give me the shipping details and cancel the order then called the local Sherif's Office where it was going to be shipped (it was in Louisiana i live in NC - again why that didn't get flagged you got me) and gave them all the info i had..
i then called paypal and they canceled the card and issued me a new one and i had it within a week - because there was no money in the account no charges to try to get back.. Sure it takes extra effort BUT you know.. it works.
as for my day to day around town.. i have my bank issued check card - i keep a monthly allowance in it and all my other money in a money market that isn't accessible to that card.. if it ever does get ripped off i just have to skimp for a couple weeks - but i don't get flushed out.. banks don't charge for having more than 1 account - take advantage of that - separate your money.. cause god knows they don't care - and the companies the scammers go through don't give a shit either.
the worst part about that commercial is there are far too many people who have zero idea what it was trying to say.. they would just wonder why the hooters girl was carrying a sledge hammer
except for that whole high alt ash cloud.. that won't block out the stars any, nope
good question - i couldn't imagine trying to type anything more than a single line on it.
and from what i have read they made it a hell of alot of trouble to get files on and off it to work on them..
i went through most of my college years using a desktop and an HP Jornada 820
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/abouthp/histnfacts/museum/personalsystems/0038/0038threeqtr.html
Ran win CE and had a PCMCIA slot and i used a Cisco Aironet card with it - in fact still have it on a shelf here.
it had the basic win CE office i could check e-mail it had craptastic version of IE (couldn't do much but i could do some things) it also had word processing and i could load an IRC client on it.
it had a very good 12-14h USABLE battery life so i could take notes all day (saved to the CF slot) and then do my home work on my desktop if i felt like..
i loved it - got into a wreck and the screen got damaged so i hunted down and bought another one - by that time HP had discontinued them. it was a precursor to the Netbook line
they would have to fire me then - i'm in a office in the back - i have the comfort of having 2 full racks in my office - i stop and always answer my phone (have the ring piped into the head phones)..
if i had to sit all day and listen to that noise on top of only getting ~5-15min of face to face interaction a day (spend a lot of time on the phone but I've had days where i came in worked and left and never actually spoke in person to someone else). Then i would just keep wearing them and they would have to fire me or move me to someplace else.
Personally i know that TestDrive taught me how to drive a manual transmission - and to under stand how gear ratios effect acceleration and engine breaking.
actually that method would have a higher over all efficiency on the large scale than the small.
or they will move back to a world of bbs style places with seats and a quality of service in a small sub culture for their material - maybe still a bit torrent network run inside of a user provided mess network set up with tor style vpn clients.
people shared copies of mp3's for years before napster - it was when they made it so the random joe with no idea what he was doing could do it that they started pressing against it and calling afoul.
they don't care about the individual using Solaris - they care about the enterprise.. they now have it so you have to have a licence per machine and have to have at least the basic support contract on that machine to receive updates.
what they just did was give an ultimatum to the small and medium biz that where using Solaris and avoiding a service contract.. theses people are now forced to either pick up some type of support contract (a way for Oracle to get it's foot in the door) or to overhaul their systems and move away before the first major bug is released where they can't get the update.
it is a biz move my Oracle but it isn't to squeeze some OS licence fee out of people.. hell i bet they will throw that in if you just say hey i have a box and want support. what they want is a reoccurring revenue stream - and that is what support contracts are.
the small setup install base.. doesn't hurt them or help them much on the money side for it to be free, it's the larger installs they are going after.
humm i was connecting to muds.. i don't know why you put porn as an issue.. (except for the ascii art at the start)... anyways.. the best porn came from bbs's
i think you are missing the point of my post
use a wireless air card
Thanks... that made me feel old.. i remember high school and the filters - i also remember setting up my own proxies so i could log into some muds
unrecoverable is relative to how much money you throw at getting it back - if all you do is break the platter up then the data is still there and using a scanning electron microscope you could retrieve the data off the pieces and then put it together.. not cheap but it would work.
i'd have to find the article but i remember reading that OnTrack managed to get 99.99% of the data off the drives on the most recent shuttle explosion. i'm willing to bet if they can get data off drives that went through reentry that they can get it off a drive that was shot.
LTO5 tapes beat spinning disks in the cost per gigabyte for backups - BUT they require a 6-7k drive to use and are far slower than disks.
while for the enterprise that burns through tapes for backup s a autoloader and LTO drive/tapes is the best solution
for the small company (2-3Tb of data backed up weekly or monthly) a rotation of large drives works fine and isn't nearly as expensive
if you hold it in the Z axis and add a low resistance lubricant then any motion energy along the z axis will bet transfered to the X & Y (EXCEPT motion that is perfectly along the Z axis and not at all against the X/Y - which is not your typical movement)
I'm willing to bet that while they are missing out on some energy - by constraining it on one axis they are making the generation along the other 2 more effecient and allowing some of the Z axis energy to be captured via deflection.
i am talking about mainframes and yea it isn't as big deal - for an enterprise - but for government. thats a whole different world
for a company to switch it is a money decision - and if it that decision was made it means that money is lost until that change happens - ie it goes quick and people do it or they lose their jobs.
in government - there is no incentive - if you don't like the policy just drag your feet make it look like you are doing something - give a very stupid costs X expensive reason to the not technical in charge and wait a couple years for the policy to change.
it is completely stupid how our governments infrastructure runs.. only the Arm'ed forces seem to be able to make large scale changes and do them right.. the rest of the government just doesn't give a shit.
Unions had their place in time and their need (the old coal mines) but now days they have gotten way over done - i have seen more people hurt in modern times by unions than not.
i personaly think NO company should be given special favors. sorry i know that when a data center or a manufacturing plant is being built that it will bring jobs to a community BUT having communities fight over them by giving tax breaks or cheap land is just wrong - if nothing your stealing jobs from another community. And it isn't fair at all to the smaller or mid sized companies that can't offer 1,000 jobs but rather 50.. the smaller ones end up paying a higher premium and there for it is harder to compete with the larger ones.
This scratch my back and i'll scratch yours shit has to stop or it will be the downfall.
no.. the Quote says that a Merchant is more loyal and care for the well being of whom they draw their profits - which isn't always where they housed them selves
his comment says that i the merchant is in our soil and is doing things that are bad for us we should kick them out - aka one that is more loyal to another nation - let them go there
and hardware? sorry but IBM is the source for big iron.. and they aren't going to be able to walk away from that easily
i will admit the MS stack worked perfect for the limited profiles it supports - but i've never had problems with the Toshiba stack one both integrated and add on BT adapters. Makes me wonder if it was a version issue.. cause they have gone through 3-4 version in under 2 years each with major advancements in usability
i love Bluetooth when it works.
the key there is when it works.
alot of manufacturers don't want to pay licencing costs - and on top of that they don't want to deal with licencing a decent BT stack for the end-user to install.
Its easier for them to just make a really simple 27mhz frequency mouse/KB and make people plug in a dongle. not so bad now that they have actually gotten really damn small but still annoying.
It might help now that win 7 has some decent BT support and built in profiles in it's stack.. where as XP had basic serial and HID and that was it.
What BT failed with was allowing everyone and their brothers to make incompatible stacks.. the idea of profiles is good and should be all that is needed - it should be required for a stack to support an API and a device profile to accomplish it's task via the API.. with no half ass stack implementations.
Instead we have the mess we have now.. luckily my laptop came with the Toshiba Stack which is by far the most developed and compatible stack - and i use it to connect just about everything KB/Mouse/headphones/Phone/PDA it makes life easy when it works.. but i can't tell you the countless hours i have spent to get everything to work so that i didn't have to fiddle with it every-time i wanted to pair something.
now if only i could get Pandora's Player to listen to Windows Media controls i'd be set.
did i mention that i would pay for it IF they gave the option? no they aren't charing for it they are just restricting it to programs written for their platform.
the free part i don't give a shit about and is what is blurring your vision..