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  1. Boston Gear on Where to Find Axles, Gears For Kinetic Sculpture? · · Score: 1
  2. Black on yellow (per Pickett slide rules) on What Font Color Is Best For Eyes? · · Score: 1

    Pickett who makes slide rules claims black on yellow. See http://www.sliderule.ca/pickett.htm and the visibility graph at http://www.sliderule.ca/piprom2.jpg

  3. Who made them? What country? What are HP QCs? on HP Admits Selling Infected Flash-Floppy Drives · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is notably left out is: Who made them and in what country? What are normal HP quality controls? What is HP planning on changing to prevent this in the future?

  4. Use one swap drive and Acronis Tru Image on Best Home Network NAS · · Score: 1

    Have office PC with SATA drives as follows: 1. Base operating system (xp) plus backup work files from Drive 2 2. Removable. Contains all work files. Frequently use MS addfiles to backup files in Drive 2 to partition in Drive 1 Periodically remove Drive 2 and use Acronis to copy Drive 1 to spare drive in Drive 2 removable slot. Remove that clone of Drive1 from Drive 2 and store elsewhere. If Drive 2 fails, all file copies have a backup in Drive 1 partion If Drive 1 fails, mount Acronis image stored copy in Drive 1