That amplifier trick must have been a few decades ago. These days the preamp is inside the HDA because it has to be as close to the heads as possible. Microvolts at hundreds of Mhz with gnarly S/N requirements are not easy to handle.
It's often sufficient to gently knock the drive with e.g. a screwdriver handle. The stiction isn't very strong. You don't have a metal-to-metal weld. The disk surface is covered with an organic lubricant and the head just gets stuck on that. That's why heating the drive up also can help in this case.
That depends on where the drive stores its calibration data. Used to be that is was stored on an EEROM on the PCB, and in that case it's improbable that the HDA will work with calibration data from a different PCB. However, newer drives got rid of the EEROM for cost savings (that was in the late 90s for low cost drives; later for higher end drives) and store calibration data on the disk itself. So if the PCB doesn't store any state it's generic and should run with any HDA (of the same revision.)
Yup: To stay below 2C warming, we can afford to emit another 565 Gt of CO2, but five times as much is in proven gas, oil and coal reserves, the reserves that corporations lend money against and that states plan their budget around. Now who thinks that those reserves will remain buried? http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719 4 to 6 C, here we come. Good luck with that, next generations. Yeah I'm too old to see it.
Exactly. I generally refuse to deal with the standard helpdesk. I make sure the business people get me 3rd level support phone numbers and email addresses. Anything less is a waste of time. Where it gets interesting is when those people tell me after discussing the issue "I'll have to email my colleagues in Taiwan." Happens all the time at certain major server vendors.
Wine is being grown again in southern England, and it was 19C in southern Greenland recently so this makes perfect sense. But that the Greenlanders don't like it because all the meltwater is washing away their roads and bridges.
Insolation varies by about 0.15% between the minimum and maximum of the 11 year solar cycle. Global warming did not show one bit of slowing down during the recent deepest and longest solar minimum seen in centuries. So don't blame the sun, it makes you look stupid.
Just my thought. Now if we got multiplies or divides, we might click on them. But the true revolution in online marketing will be clickable logs, exponentials and radicals.
I noticed that you pretend not to know what 'global' means (or parroting some crap from a denier site.) Local temperature swings mean nothing. Only the global average temperate over at least 30 years is a valid indicator of climate change. And the fact that oil supply is stagnant in the face of attempted economic growth, which drives the price to a peak every couple of years and throttles economy has escaped you? Where is the magic replacement for oil? And if your answer is "tar sands", please do some research on its cost and maximum flow rates. Yes it's a replacement - once the demand has shrunk to about half.
That makes some sense although the droughts should put a damper on it. In fact, most Alaskans (red state) believe in climate change because it's obvious to them.
I've noticed recently that many people who have kids don't believe in climate change or Peak Everything. Of course, the idea that your kids or grandkids will have a much worse life than yourself is intolerable for many. Me, I have no children so I can think freely.
Yup. It's called planned obsolescence. Corporate IT will really love this idea. Not. The vast majority of our company still runs XP (except for the few who have upgraded to Linux) and there's little reason to upgrade as long as the hardware holds together. So: Ain't happening.
WTF? I don't detect any lag when I scroll with the mouse wheel or the scrollbar. Neither on my Xubuntu system (Bulldozer CPU, cheapo GT430 card) nor on 32-bin Windows XP on a 1.6GHz Pentium M laptop. Only when the old laptop runs out of memory and starts paging there's any delay.
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That amplifier trick must have been a few decades ago.
These days the preamp is inside the HDA because it has to be as close to the heads as possible. Microvolts at hundreds of Mhz with gnarly S/N requirements are not easy to handle.
It's often sufficient to gently knock the drive with e.g. a screwdriver handle. The stiction isn't very strong.
You don't have a metal-to-metal weld. The disk surface is covered with an organic lubricant and the head just gets stuck on that. That's why heating the drive up also can help in this case.
That depends on where the drive stores its calibration data. Used to be that is was stored on an EEROM on the PCB, and in that case it's improbable that the HDA will work with calibration data from a different PCB. However, newer drives got rid of the EEROM for cost savings (that was in the late 90s for low cost drives; later for higher end drives) and store calibration data on the disk itself. So if the PCB doesn't store any state it's generic and should run with any HDA (of the same revision.)
The hot corner doesn't work if you use Synergy to connect multiple systems; the cursor will move to the next screen if there's one on the left.
Can you spell L-O-C-K-I-N?
Yup: To stay below 2C warming, we can afford to emit another 565 Gt of CO2, but five times as much is in proven gas, oil and coal reserves, the reserves that corporations lend money against and that states plan their budget around. Now who thinks that those reserves will remain buried?
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719
4 to 6 C, here we come. Good luck with that, next generations. Yeah I'm too old to see it.
Exactly. I generally refuse to deal with the standard helpdesk. I make sure the business people get me 3rd level support phone numbers and email addresses. Anything less is a waste of time.
Where it gets interesting is when those people tell me after discussing the issue "I'll have to email my colleagues in Taiwan." Happens all the time at certain major server vendors.
OK let me try again:
There is *no* correlation whatsoever between solar cycle and either weather or climate.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-cycle-length.htm
If you say differently: Citation required.
-1, wrong on all counts.
Wine is being grown again in southern England, and it was 19C in southern Greenland recently so this makes perfect sense.
But that the Greenlanders don't like it because all the meltwater is washing away their roads and bridges.
Insolation varies by about 0.15% between the minimum and maximum of the 11 year solar cycle.
Global warming did not show one bit of slowing down during the recent deepest and longest solar minimum seen in centuries.
So don't blame the sun, it makes you look stupid.
Just my thought. Now if we got multiplies or divides, we might click on them. But the true revolution in online marketing will be clickable logs, exponentials and radicals.
Yes, we have to very carefully consider which wing of The Party we vote for.
The bankers wrote the laws so why would they have any reason to go outside them?
What's the alternative? The government can't say what would be best for the people: "Run!"
Many people have recognized this.
And many intellectuals have come to recognize Karl Marx as what he was: A great economist.
Yup, and they don't matter because any modern PHY is designed to support both interfaces.
I noticed that you pretend not to know what 'global' means (or parroting some crap from a denier site.)
Local temperature swings mean nothing. Only the global average temperate over at least 30 years is a valid indicator of climate change.
And the fact that oil supply is stagnant in the face of attempted economic growth, which drives the price to a peak every couple of years and throttles economy has escaped you? Where is the magic replacement for oil? And if your answer is "tar sands", please do some research on its cost and maximum flow rates. Yes it's a replacement - once the demand has shrunk to about half.
The convergence of tablet and smartphone: Just put a mic and a speaker in the right places on a tablet with a cell modem.
That makes some sense although the droughts should put a damper on it.
In fact, most Alaskans (red state) believe in climate change because it's obvious to them.
I've noticed recently that many people who have kids don't believe in climate change or Peak Everything.
Of course, the idea that your kids or grandkids will have a much worse life than yourself is intolerable for many.
Me, I have no children so I can think freely.
I already look forward to all the people who'll send docs in any newfangled format and get the reply "Sorry, I can't open that, could you resend?"
Yup. It's called planned obsolescence.
Corporate IT will really love this idea. Not.
The vast majority of our company still runs XP (except for the few who have upgraded to Linux) and there's little reason to upgrade as long as the hardware holds together.
So: Ain't happening.
Only if you use Unity.
WTF?
I don't detect any lag when I scroll with the mouse wheel or the scrollbar.
Neither on my Xubuntu system (Bulldozer CPU, cheapo GT430 card) nor on 32-bin Windows XP on a 1.6GHz Pentium M laptop.
Only when the old laptop runs out of memory and starts paging there's any delay.